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Bathroom Furniture and Decor
One of the least-mentioned but most important rooms in the home, decorating your bathroom to your exact taste and style is a must. Essentially, this is the room that gets your day off on the right foot every morning, the room where you bathe your children and perhaps even the room where you take in a good book. Choose different bath accessories, furniture and decor to let your personal tastes shine through and to give your bathroom a complete, updated look.
Bath Linens
From bath towels to bath mats, having the best and most comfortable bath linens can always start your day off right. Choose from bath towels with a high grain count for the ultimate in softness and comfort, feeling like a cloud as you dry yourself off after a long shower. Choose styles, colors and patterns that perfectly complement the existing palette of your bathroom. Opt for muted beiges and off-whites, or add a splash of color with orange, teal or yellow. Consider bath mats and rugs that are comfortable and soft under the feet. Add a monogram to a bath mat for complete personalization.
Bath Accessories
Having the right type of bath accessories in your bathroom not only lends a classic look, but also organizes your space, making your morning routine more seamless. Opt for accessories done in a classic glass style, with a soap dish, lotion dispenser, cup and other sink-top items. Or, opt for an accessory set with a solid white ceramic construction, bound to complement any decor. Beyond cups and soap dispensers, organize your bathroom space with Pottery Barn bathroom organizers, keeping jewelry, makeup applicators and other items separate and organized. Mix and match accessories, such as a vanity station, toilet paper holder or magazine rack to give your bathroom a comfortable, updated vibe.
Furniture and Mirrors
A small bathroom may not have a lot of extra room for furniture and mirrors, but the best furniture actually lets you organize and compact space, giving you more room. Consider a single or double sink console to install around your existing sink, or a small dresser with storage to store your personal items and toiletries, keeping them in easy reach. Add a wall mirror to your bathroom, complementing your existing style and allowing you to get ready quickly and easily in the morning.
Lighting and Fixtures
It's incredibly important to be able to see well in the bathroom, and with the right fixtures, you can illuminate the room in style. Choose from different sconces and flush mounts to add just the right look to your bathroom wall or ceiling, offering you the light you need. Update your sink and bathtub fixtures with modern, contemporary and classic styles in brass, silver and steel for a look that is completely your own.


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Make a Commitment
The study format we have chosen is small groups of ten people including a mentor who will guide the group discussions and answer questions. Because there is limited space in these study groups we are asking that anyone who applies to participate is willing to make a commitment to the following:
1) Read Mastering Genealogical Proof and complete all of the practice exercises.
2) Commit to discussing each chapter with your group members and mentor. For groups that meet at a designated time each week this would mean attending ALL the discussions for eight weeks (or every other week for 16 weeks).
Chapter 1 -- Genealogy's Proof Standard
Chapter 2 -- Concepts Fundamental to the GPS
Chapter 3 -- GPS Element 1: Thorough Research
Chapter 4 -- GPS Element 2: Source Citations
Chapter 5 -- GPS Element 3: Analysis and Correlation
Chapter 6 -- GPS Element 4: Resolving Conflicts and Assembling Evidence
Chapter 7 -- GPS Element 5: The Written Conclusion
Chapters 8 & 9 -- Using the GPS and Conclusion
Chapter 2 -- Concepts Fundamental to the GPS
Chapter 3 -- GPS Element 1: Thorough Research
Chapter 4 -- GPS Element 2: Source Citations
Chapter 5 -- GPS Element 3: Analysis and Correlation
Chapter 6 -- GPS Element 4: Resolving Conflicts and Assembling Evidence
Chapter 7 -- GPS Element 5: The Written Conclusion
Chapters 8 & 9 -- Using the GPS and Conclusion
If you are traveling, have major commitments this summer, or do not have at least five hours per week to dedicate to studying Mastering Genealogical Proof, then please wait until you have the time to sign up to participate.
Formats and Scheduling
Each of the mentors that will study in the first group with Tom Jones is evaluating their schedule and deciding upon a study group format and start date for their group. A list of the Gen Proof mentors will be posted in May. As the format and time are the choice of the mentor there will be some variety in the options available.
- Video chat on a certain day/time each week via Google Hangout
- Text chat on a certain day/time each week via Basecamp private chat room
- Ongoing discussions boards sharing questions and thoughts via a private Google + community page. Participants can post thoughts and questions on an ongoing basis on the chapter being studied during week and the mentor and group members will posts their thoughts and responses.
Meeting times:
- Some groups will meet and study one chapter every week for 8 weeks, and others will meet every other week for 16 weeks
- There will be a variety of start dates beginning in June, July and August
Those on the waiting list will be able to choose a study group time and format that works best for them on a first come first serve basis. There is only room for ten people in each group, so if all the groups fill quickly then more groups will be scheduled in the fall.
Registration Process
1) To join the Gen Proof study group waiting list send an email to genproofstudy at gmail.com
2) We will email an application form to those on the waiting list which will include the name of each mentor with their study group start date and format. Participants will reply with a commitment to participate and indicate their first and second choice for study groups.
3) Once we have those on the waiting list divided into study groups your mentor will contact you and give you access to the private Google + community or Basecamp website where you will participate in your group discussions.
4) Have fun studying this wonderful new book with a great group of genealogists!
Questions can be asked on the Mastering Genealogical Proof Google + Community page or via email at genproofstudy at gmail.com
Alternative Program
Alternative Program
If you would like to study the book Mastering Genealogical Proof, but do not want to participate in the in-depth small group discussions in this Gen Proof study program, then you may like to follow along with others studying the book in Dear Myrtle's MPG Study Group by watching a panel discuss each chapter via Google Hangouts on Air or YouTube.

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LEBANON, Maine — Maine State Police say they have no public updates they are releasing at this time in an investigation of a so-called home invasion with shooting at a residence on 2nd Street Tuesday afternoon.
Lt. Brian McDonough said authorities continue to follow up on the case with the victim's vehicle recovered in Rochester and items of evidence still needing to be processed by the state crime lab.
"Those will be transported to the crime lab and will be processed and examined up there," he said. "We are continuing to do as much follow-up on the victim as we can — interviewing co-workers, family, friends, associates and all that … We're making progress but other than that, I really can't speak to any specifics."
On Tuesday at about 1:30 p.m., the gunshot victim, Richard Potorski, 41, of 11 2nd Street, stopped home on a lunch break and found an intruder in his home. Authorities say it is unclear what happened next but they believe the suspect shot Potorski in the shoulder and fled the scene in Potorski's black Ford Explorer. The vehicle was later abandoned behind the Big Lots retail store in Rochester on a loading dock. Potorski's wife returned home a short while later and placed an emergency call reporting her husband's injuries. He was flown to Maine Medical Center by LifeFlight helicopter in serious condition.
On Thursday, McDonough said officials were still waiting to interview the victim who was heavily sedated and while hospitalized, relaying thirdhand information to authorities through family members. McDonough said police will continue to conduct a "victimology" study, where they will try to determine why Potorski was targeted. They say it is still unknown if Potorski knew the shooter.
The Portland Press Herald reports according to the state Bureau of Identification, Potorski was sentenced in York County Superior Court in 2011 to 364 days in jail, with all but 60 days suspended, for a drug trafficking charge. Asked if this crime may have been drug-related, McDonough said officials "haven't ruled anything out" at this time.
"It's really too premature to say. My understanding is he does have a minor drug conviction," he said, noting drug trafficking is a Class B misdemeanor charge, "…but we don't know. We need an opportunity to speak with him."


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I've decided to devote today's column to one of the most annoying, perplexing, upsetting issues in the entire modern automotive industry.
Just to be clear, I am not referring to those people who install European license plates on the front of their cars. I never make fun of those people, because I'm worried that I might piss them off, and then one morning I'll wake up to discover they've vandalized my car by adding a European front license plate that reads "ÜBER KÜHL."
Instead, I've decided to cover a topic of even greater annoyance, namely the fact sometimes, when you're shopping for a new car and you want, for example, a backup camera, you must have approximately the same overall budget as the United States Department of Agriculture.
The reason for this great annoyance is something called option packaging, which is what happens when several well-meaning automotive industry employees get together in a well-meaning brainstorming session entitled: "How can we screw our customers out of even more money?" These meetings have led to many profitable ideas such as, for example, the check engine light. ("Let's make it turn on when people haven't screwed in their GAS CAP… and then charge them EIGHTY BUCKS to figure it out! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!")
If you're not familiar with option packaging, here's how it works. Let's say you really badly want one item, such as, for example, heated seats. Well, the automaker knows you want heated seats. In fact, they know you want heated seats so badly that you can't live without them. You'll do anything for heated seats. You'll pay thousands of dollars just to have your butt warmed.
So what they do is, they add heated seats to an option package that includes a bunch of other stuff, stuff you'll never use in a million years, stuff like a chilled glovebox, or that "speed limiter" function that beeps when you hit a certain speed, or – if we're talking about a BMW – turn signals. (Ba-dum tshhh!)
The result is they've now got you paying maybe $2,800 for an option package, when all you really wanted was heated seats, which cost something like $300. Unfortunately, this strategy – which seems like it was devised solely to screw customers out of their hard-earned money – is employed by several of today's automakers. I'm not going to name names because I don't want to embarrass anybody, but one of them is Infiniti.
Now, before I go into a long rant about Infiniti option packaging – which I think we all know is coming – I'd like to stop and take a moment to thank Infiniti. Yes, that's right. You see, I've been doing this for about a year now, and I can safely say that no automaker has provided me with more joke fodder than Infiniti. I mean, seriously: these people took the G37, split it into two models, renamed them both, redesigned only one of them, gave the smaller one the larger number, and then, after all that, they resurrected they old model. Oh, and they renamed that too. It's almost like they want to be teased, presumably because it's the only way they can get any press.
So anyway, I really appreciate Infiniti. But what I don't appreciate is their options packages.
To illustrate my point, I turn to the depressing case of Amy, a 36-year-old stay-at-home mom who I just made up. Amy has three children, named Hayden, Aiden, and Braden – names that are so modern and politically correct that even she has trouble remembering if they're boys or girls.
Now, because Amy has to cart around her kids to all their activities, she chooses the Infiniti QX60, a three-row crossover that's named "QX60" even though it's larger than both the QX50 and the QX70. But Amy doesn't care about the QX60's name. She wants the QX60 because a) it comes highly recommended by Consumer Reports, and it has an excellent drivetrain, and a roomy interior, and an intuitive infotainment system, and tons of modern safety features, and it's very highly regarded, and b) her friend Jessica likes the color.
The QX60 is also highly affordable for a luxury SUV, given its starting price of just over $43,000. But there's a problem: Amy needs a lane departure warning system. Amy is constantly departing her lane, given her complex daily routine that involves balancing both a Starbucks drink and a cell phone. So Amy checks the "lane departure warning" system on the options box.
And that's when all hell breaks loose.
You see, adding "lane departure warning" to your Infiniti QX60 means that you have to spring for the rest of the Technology Package, which costs $2,800. That wouldn't be so bad, except that you also have to add the Premium Package for $1,550. And the Premium Plus Package, for $3,000. And the Deluxe Touring Package, for $3,550. The next thing you know, your $43,000 QX60 turns into a fifty-four thousand dollar SUV – all with the addition of one single option. Plus, you're stuck with all sorts of stuff you don't want, including something Infiniti calls a "Plasmacluster air purifier," which – I swear this is true – "senses and suppresses unpleasant interior odors."
Of course, all of these add-ons and requirements make Amy very flustered, and she brings Braden to hockey practice even though it turns out that Braden is a girl. The mistakes continue when she brings Aidan, who is a boy, to ballet practice. Finally, she sits down with Hayden, and they both do a line of coke.
The lesson here is simple: option packages are annoying. They're expensive. They're anti-consumer. And, more importantly, they will turn you to drugs. Fortunately, the doctors say Amy will make a full recovery, but they note that she currently spends most of her days in a padded room mumbling something about how it makes no sense to call it the QX60 when both the QX50 and the QX70 have more horsepower.
@DougDeMuro is the author of Plays With Cars. He owned an E63 AMG wagon and once tried to evade police at the Tail of the Dragon using a pontoon boat. (It didn't work.) He worked as a manager for Porsche Cars North America before quitting to become a writer, largely because it meant he no longer had to wear pants. Also, he wrote this entire bio himself in the third person.


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Story highlights
- The migrants came from as far away as Nepal and as nearby as Guatemala
- Mexican authorities say X-ray equipment detected 94 migrants hidden in a truck
- They showed symptoms of asphyxiation, authorities say
- The migrants had paid thousands of dollars to travel to the United States
Mexican authorities say they've rescued 94 migrants who were crammed into the back of a hauling truck in "subhuman conditions."
They came from as far away as Nepal and as nearby as Guatemala, paying thousands of dollars to get to the United States, authorities said. Seven of them were minors. They showed symptoms of asphyxiation and serious lesions on their hands and feet when they were rescued, Mexico's National Migration Institute said.
X-ray equipment detected the migrants at a checkpoint in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas early Tuesday morning.
The driver of the truck has been turned over to prosecutors on suspicion of human trafficking, and the migrants are receiving medical, psychological and legal assistance, Chiapas state prosecutors said in a statement.
Photos released by local police show migrants sitting on the ground as an official toting a stethoscope tends to them. It was not immediately clear where the migrants would go.
The group included 45 Guatemalans, 23 Salvadorans, 10 Nepalese and 9 Bangladeshis and 7 Hondurans, authorities said.
"The migrants had paid different amounts for the transport, according to their nationality," the migration institute said. "In the case of the Central Americas, the tariff was between $4,000 and $5,000, and the Asians from $6,000 to $8,000."
Last week, Mexican authorities rescued 81 migrants they said were held captive in the border city of Reynosa.
And in June, authorities said they rescued 165 migrants who were kidnapped as they tried to cross into the United States.
Experts say many migrants passing through Mexico on their way to the United States are victims of violence along the Mexico-U.S. border, but the journey is perilous from the moment it begins. And the danger has grown as Mexico's drug gangs expand their reach.


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Luger Erin Hamlin Will Carry US Flag Into Opening Ceremony
By Bill Galluccio
February 8, 2018
Erin Hamlin was voted by members of Team USA to carry the American flag during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea on Friday.
Hamlin, who has announced this will be her last Olympics, is excited for the chance to carry the flag and represent America. According to USA Today, she said being recognized by her teammates "means a ton:"
"Winning a medal is the effort you put in and the time and the work and sacrifice to succeed and achieve something," Hamlin said. "That's all on me. That's something I've done. Getting this honor is different because its people looking at the work you've put in and acknowledging that. It's my fellow Team USA athletes who gave me this. That means a ton."
Hamlin burst onto the scene when she pulled off an improbable upset at the Sochi Olympics in 2014. She earned a bronze medal in the luge, becoming the first non-German or Austrian woman to medal in 20 years. Since 1964, only five women not from German or Austria have medaled in the event.
Hamlin said she is nervous about representing Team USA on such a grand stage.
"The nerves will be flying for sure," Hamlin said. "I slide that's what I do. Put me at the top of a track; that's my happy place. Walking out in front of a lot of people and even more people watching from home ... that's going to be way more nerve wracking."
The opening ceremonies start on Friday, February 9 at 6 am ET and will be broadcast live on NBC. They will also be streamed live and on-demand at NBCOlympics.com.


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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/1 ... ign=bufferIn the broader of the two studies, researchers with the National Cancer Institute, Harvard University and other institutions gathered and pooled data about people's exercise habits from six large, ongoing health surveys, winding up with information about more than 661,000 adults, most of them middle-aged.
Using this data, the researchers stratified the adults by their weekly exercise time, from those who did not exercise at all to those who worked out for 10 times the current recommendations or more (meaning that they exercised moderately for 25 hours per week or more).
Then they compared 14 years' worth of death records for the group.
They found that, unsurprisingly, the people who did not exercise at all were at the highest risk of early death.
But those who exercised a little, not meeting the recommendations but doing something, lowered their risk of premature death by 20 percent.
Those who met the guidelines precisely, completing 150 minutes per week of moderate exercise, enjoyed greater longevity benefits and 31 percent less risk of dying during the 14-year period compared with those who never exercised.
The sweet spot for exercise benefits, however, came among those who tripled the recommended level of exercise, working out moderately, mostly by walking, for 450 minutes per week, or a little more than an hour per day. Those people were 39 percent less likely to die prematurely than people who never exercised.
At that point, the benefits plateaued, the researchers found, but they never significantly declined. Those few individuals engaging in 10 times or more the recommended exercise dose gained about the same reduction in mortality risk as people who simply met the guidelines.
So, sitting 18 hours a day behind a keyboard is not life enhancing, especially when your diet is TV dinners and pizza. I *did* tell IQ I would outlive him Proof positive now


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Utica Six Sheet OpenFriday-Sunday, November 15-17, 2019
Limited to 24 teams
Participants must be 21 or older
Chairs: Sue & Tim Hansen, Bernadette DiMeo, Jen Turner
An open-format bonspiel with a 4-game guarantee and six final events. Teams may be composed of any mix of men or women, shooting in any order. To give this event a unique twist, games will be played with the "Fredericton Rule" used in the Everest Challenge: any stone completely covering the pin is scored as 2 points. So put on a different strategy hat, and have a fun weekend of curling at Utica!
2019 Results
Previous Winners
Information and Entry FormEntry deadline November 8, 2019
2019 information
2019 event entry form
Participant release form
ScheduleAssumes 24 team event (subject to change depending on the number of entries)
- Pool A: Friday noon and 5:30 PM; Saturday 8:30 AM and 1:30 PM
- Pool B: Friday 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM; Saturday 11:00 AM and 4:00 PM
- Finals: Sunday 9:30 AM
Entry fee of $360 per rink includes light dinner Friday, Saturday night dinner (no jeans and t-shirts, please), snack after each draw, continental breakfast Saturday and Sunday, and hearty snacks after the finals on Sunday.
RulesThis event will be run as a modified Schenkel/Swiss system: winners play winners, losers play losers. A team shootout will be done after the first game to determine tiebreaks for pairings each round. Four preliminary games will determine placement and pairings in the championship finals (six events). Games will be 8 ends, except (1) any stone completely covering the pin is scored as 2 points; (2) in the event of a tie after 8 ends, the winner will be determined by a draw-to-the-button.
LodgingHampton Inn and Suites (5 min from club)
201 Woods Park Drive
Clinton, NY 13323
$109, includes breakfast, king studio or queen double
Reservations (book by Oct 25): reserve online, or call 315-793-1600 and mention Utica Six Sheet
TownePlace Suites
4760 Middle Settlement Road
Whitesboro, NY 13492
$80 Studio King
$114 Double Queen
Includes breakfast (5 minutes from club)


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October 4, 1949 - September 10, 2013
Newburgh, NY
Michael T. "Pierre" Turturro of Newburgh, an Environmental Protection Assistant with the US Army Garrison in West Point, entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital, Newburgh. He was 63 years old.
The son of the late Thomas and Myrtle (Decker) Turturro, Michael was born on October 4, 1949. He was married to his loving wife of 16 years, Bonnie Turturro, at home.
Michael had a great love for cooking and entertaining and was an avid golfer. He loved his family dearly and had a heart of gold.
In addition to his wife, Bonnie, Michael is survived by his children: Michelle Turturro, of Virginia Beach, VA, Todd Fador and his wife, Jennifer of Connecticut and Tara Lea and her husband, David, also of Connecticut; grandchildren: Zachary Fador, Devin Jacobs, Jadin Robinson and Camrin Turturro Brown; great-grandchildren: Thomas J and Aiden J; a brother, Edward Rice and his wife, Shearan of Georgia and two sisters: Sally Boyd of Florida and Noreen Davis and her husband, William of Newburgh, and several nieces, nephews and friends.
Visitation for Michael will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, September 12th, at Brooks Funeral Home, 481 Gidney Ave., Newburgh.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made in Michael's name to American Cancer Society, PO Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK, 73123-1718.
To send a personal condolence or for further information, please visit BrooksFH.com or call 845-561-8300.


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Dylan As Text, Sub-Text, Ur-Text in 'Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown'
This is Bob Dylan as shifting text, not just layered like pages, back or front, or over-laid like a palimpsest, but cross-wise and motile as a termite.
Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown is my kind of Dylan book: fun, funny, learned as hell as well as plain smart, and subjective in the best possible sense. Author David Yaffe clearly takes his Dylans to heart, and I say his Dylans because there's more than one and everyone has their own.
Dylan Studies is a Never Ending Tour, to be cute about it, the critical gift that keeps on giving. Yaffe mentions the "hunger there [is] from the genre of writing Dylan arguably inspired as much as anyone -- even the Beatles", and the most recent Dylan releases alone attest to that hunger. They could fill a few shelves, or gigs or whatever, so I won't list them here, but this genre includes and/or combines new- or old-fangled biography, lit. crit. academicism, cultural and philosophical discourse, and stylish critical prose.
Touching a bit on all these, Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown is a scholar's personal appreciation, minus the arduous jargon and voluminous footnotes. Yaffe is not out to propose conclusions about Dylan; rather he works four approaches or angles, all of them interesting and contestable: Dylan's singing, Dylan's relation to race, Dylan cinema and Dylan's so-called plagiarism.
Dylan's voice has long been maligned, misconstrued, abhorred, un-adored, hated, berated… you get the picture. Yaffe characterizes Dylan's vocal delivery as "adenoidal", which is what some people get hung up on (the word itself whines). As Yaffe points out, "The biggest misconception about Dylan, among unbelievers, is that his cawing derision is somehow an impediment to appreciation."
I know a lot of people who can't get around that voice, and it is unfortunate, similar to someone dismissing a Jackson Pollock painting as just a big mess. It is a big mess, but not just one.
Similarly, those who "can't listen to Dylan" because of his annoying voice are missing the point, or number of points: first, there are many distinct voices; second, each discrete voice contains nuances and subtle inflections and emphases that may be missed on first listen; and third, linked to both of these is the willed aspect of each. Dylan's voice didn't change because he was going through puberty. He willfully manipulated it to reflect his musical trajectory.
This vocal shape-shifting was also one way of staying out of the whole "voice of a generation" bag. What generation would want to lay claim to the Kermit-the-Frog-in-the-throat of "Lay, Lady, Lay"?
Yaffe focuses on some of Dylan's key voices -- the early "affected Oakie" as it segued into the druggy "adenoidal stream-of-consciousness vitriol" of the mid-'60s, the later affected gospel singer, the "swami making you an offer you couldn't understand", on into the recent wizened "ancient croak [of] the new millennium" -- then delves into each and comes up with some shrewd assessments on specific songs and general eras:
"Blowin' in the Wind" is "the song that would forever transfigure the way we would comprehend air and velocity".
"'Visions of Johanna' would get naked emotion when [Dylan] could deliver it, and adenoidal mannerisms when he couldn't. But when there was no barrier between himself and the audience…each peak [was] a plea made with what Keats called full-throated-ease, although there was nothing easy about the material or the performance".
"If it was a blues number with allegory vaguely inspired by Moby-Dick, Dylan would dig deep into Howlin' Wolf and Herman Melville, emerging a blues-based obsessive literature reader on amphetamines and brilliance. The mind is ever present in the voice…".
It's unfortunate that so many people are turned off by Dylan's Christian era because his melodiousness, and his sense of phrasing and attack are particularly strong. As Yaffe says, Dylan was "sonically gospelized, immersed in the diction of his African American backup singers [and] pushing his voice further than it should be pushed."
Indeed, "When He Returns" from Slow Train Coming (1979) is as much a tour de force as the later oft-acknowledged bootleg gem "Blind Willie McTell", with Dylan pushing his range way past the rafters toward heaven, if it's up there. It's as if he's pleading and wheedling for the Second Coming.
Yaffe continues: "His response was to keep pushing, and before the end of the 1980s, he will have lost an octave […] listening to Dylan in the three decades that followed Saved (1980) is to witness, bit by bit, how he could still summon his greatest powers, not only while he was losing range in his voice but because of it".
In his chapter on Dylan cinema, Yaffe is at times as summarily astute on filmmakers as he is on Dylan.
On Martin Scorsese and The Last Waltz (1978): "With his units of cameras operated by the best in the business, an artfully lit opera set, and hot Italian blood, Scorsese could make it rain".
On Scorsese's orchestration, as opposed to strict directing, of No Direction Home (2005): "As he did in The Last Waltz, Scorsese takes what is normally in the background and makes it explode with fury and demand attention until it becomes foreground -- yet it only enhances the narrative. He has a knack for pumping up the volume in a way that feeds the action".
Yaffe also draws some fine correlations between Todd Haynes' methods in the Dylan-as-"Sybil" bio-pic I'm Not There (2007) and those of Dylan himself: "Like Dylan, who especially in his later work clipped everything from Ovid to Bing Crosby […] realiz[ing] Walter Benjamin's model of quotation as discourse, Haynes realized that rather than inventing dialogue for a realist Dylan, he could be freed by pastiche and come closer to his subject […] The idea is liberation, impersonation as freedom."
Masked and Anonymous (2003), directed by Larry Charles and co-written by Charles and Dylan, is infuriatingly inscrutable to the uninitiated, and hilariously cryptic to those in the know. A piece of self-reflexive counter-mythologizing, somewhat spiritually akin to Orson Welles' late work The Other Side of the Wind, with Rock Star replacing Movie Director, the film is also a weird re-historicizing in which Yaffe sees Dylan "unearthing America's sins to a carnival audience […] Something's happening here and we're not sure what it is, but it includes a well-turned irony. Dylan uncovers everything in America, even the ugliest history set to the catchiest tune."
Masked And Anonymous's many racial allusions and explicit images of blackface minstrelsy are just partial evidence of Dylan's long fascination with race and African American heritage. Of course, in popular music especially, he's not alone. As Yaffe states, "Rock and roll is filled with white imitators of black style, but none had contextualized the appropriation of black culture so inimitably".
From his early race-politic songs, such as "Only a Pawn in Their Game", where wisely Dylan "stuck to Okie affectations" over the "racial affectations" so fully embraced by later rockers such as Mick Jagger, on through the inverted minstrelsy of his Rolling Thunder whiteface (Yaffe: "[R]eversing the poles of significance and showing the artificiality of the social constructs"), through his conversion into a full-blown yet slant-wise gospelizer, Dylan has always had a streak of blackness in his blues, so to speak.


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By Karin Calloway
Turkey and Wild Rice Soup
If the holidays have left you with a stash of cooked turkey in the freezer, this recipe for warm and hearty Turkey and Wild Rice Soup will make good use of it. While I use leftover turkey here, feel free to substitute cooked, diced chicken. Leftover roast beef also can be used. Simply replace the chicken broth called for with canned low sodium beef broth.
With this warm winter soup as the centerpiece, all you'll need is some good bread and a tossed salad to complete your meal. Try tossing mixed greens with diced apple, toasted walnut halves, crumbled blue cheese and raspberry vinaigrette for one of my favorite winter salads.
Makes 4 to 6 servings.


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A visit to the Howard Jarvis website: Web Link (excerpts below) led me to suggest the following to my fellow advocates for taxpayers:
"Might not an initiative petition assault on ALL parcel taxes be cost effective, and help build a constituency?"
Within a few years after the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, some local governments began imposing a new species of property tax that was not based on the assessed value of a parcel. The tax amount imposed per parcel was generally the same and was imposed without regard to parcel value. Structuring a tax in this manner enabled local governments to get around the property tax rate prohibitions of Proposition 13 and impose additional property taxes for operating expenses. These taxes have become known as parcel taxes.
In 1996, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 218 (known as the "Right to Vote on Taxes Act"), an initiative constitutional amendment sponsored by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Besides giving voters the constitutional right to vote on local government tax increases, Proposition 218 also included provisions (Section 3 of Article XIIIC of the California Constitution) allowing local voters to use the initiative process to reduce or repeal local government taxes. This includes local parcel taxes.
Under Proposition 218, local tax initiatives are generally subject to a reduced signature gathering requirement which is set at 5% of the local votes for all candidates for Governor at the last gubernatorial election. This number is approximately equal to 3% of the registered voters.
If a local parcel tax passes by a very close margin, or if local taxpayers are otherwise unhappy with an existing parcel tax, then a local tax reduction or repeal initiative can be pursued under the provisions of Proposition 218. Such local initiatives are generally the only tool taxpayers have to reduce the tax burden within their community since it is rare for local elected officials to voluntarily reduce or repeal taxes once they have been imposed.
Local initiative procedures are generally set forth in the California Elections Code. Elections Code sections can be viewed online at the website of the California Legislature at: Web Link. Charter cities often have their own separate procedures for the exercise of the local initiative power.
The proponents of a tax reduction or repeal initiative must follow all procedures applicable to the exercise of the local initiative power without deviation. Failure to follow all procedures can result in a measure not being placed on the ballot, even if a sufficient number of signatures have been obtained. Once placed on the ballot, local tax reduction or repeal initiatives are subject to majority vote approval.


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Are We Entering the Age of Inherited Wealth?
The release of the latest Forbes 400 List of Americans is, once again, being billed as a triumph of self-made wealth.
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Larry Ellison – all self-made – topped the list, once again. And Forbes heralds that fact that "a record 70% of the Forbes listers are self-made."
Yet their announcement obscures the fact that half of the top 10 on the Forbes list have inherited all or some of their wealth, making America's billboard chart of opportunity look increasingly like the the lucky sperm club.
The Walton Family fortune towers over all others on the list. Christy Walton has a listed worth of $24.5 billion, Jim Walton has a listed worth of $21.1 billion, Alice Walton has a listed worth of $20.9 billion, and Robson Walton has a listed worth of $20.5 billion.
Yet if the Waltons were counted as a single family fortune – like many others on the list – they would have $87 billion, making them the richest family in America. They would easily surpass Bill Gates at the top of the list, with $59 billion. As he and Mr. Buffett give away more of their fortunes to charity, the individual Waltons could well wind up cracking the top five.
Along with the Waltons, we have the Koch brothers. They inherited the predecessor to Koch Industries from their dad. To their credit, they grew their fortune into much larger businesses, while lots of people inherit businesses and ruin them. Still, it would be a stretch to say the Koch brothers are entirely "self made."
The rise of the heirs on the Forbes list signals a larger worry, however. America may not be able to create new wealth the way it has for the past 20 years. All of the forces that drove billionaire creation – strong economic growth, a 20-year-bull market, huge technological change and investment – are weakening. We will still create new billionaires, with the occasional Zuckerbergs keeping the flame alive.
Yet preserved family wealth may well start eclipsing earned new wealth. It's possible that we could be heading into a period like the 1930s, 40s and 50s, when most of the large wealth in America came from one of two places – oil and trust funds.
I hope I'm wrong.
Do you think inherited wealth will outshine earned wealth on the Forbes list?
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Compressed Air Energy Storage Makes a Comeback
IEEE Spectrum
September 12, 2013
The last time a compressed air energy storage (CAES) plant was commissioned was in 1991. This week, SustainX is bringing the technology back to the U.S. electricity grid, albeit in a vastly different form.
The startup, based in Seabrook, New Hampshire, began operating a full-scale demonstration system that stores energy as compressed air in pipes and supplies 1.65 megawatts of power. The company will use the machine to gather data on performance and and to show off the technology to potential investors and customers. The project was funded by $5.4 million from the Department of Energy and at least that much from SustainX, according to a representative.
Conventional compressed-air energy storage uses a compressor to pressurize air and pump it into underground geological formations. The two plants of this type currently in operation—one in McIntosh, Alabama, and the other in Huntorf, Germany—use salt caverns as storage tanks, pumping compressed air in at night, when energy demand is lowest. During the day, the air is released, heated with natural gas, and forced through a turbine to generate power. The appeal of this technology is that it's relatively low cost and can store many kilowatt-hours of energy.
SustainX takes a different tack: it uses compressed air as the energy storage medium, but holds the air in large pipes, the same used in natural gas pipelines. That means utilities or even commercial customers could place a storage device in a range of industrial locations, rather than only where there's an underground formation available.


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Good luck Gia Bautista @ the National Spelling Bee
SALISBURY, MD- (May 23, 2014) - Gia Bautista, winner of the 2014 Maryland Eastern Shore Regional Spelling Bee, got a big send-off during lunch today at Wicomico Middle School, where classmates wished her well at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
The seventh-grader will be joined at next week's competition just outside Washington, D.C. by 280 other competitors from the 50 states and U.S. territories, Department of Defense Schools in Europe as well as the Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan and South Korea.
Gia "demonstrates true leadership and dedication through her academic successes and all she does in the community," Principal Kelley Morris-Springston said. "We are beyond excited and look forward to seeing Gia represent Wicomico Middle School in the national spelling bee!"
Gia spent four hours daily going over study guides and practicing from word lists since winning the regional bee March 1 at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. UMES is one of 17 colleges and universities and the lone historically black institution sponsoring a regional winner at the 86th national bee.
The 12-year-old would like to visit the White House while in Washington and informed spelling bee organizers she hopes to "catch a glimpse of the president."
Gia is among 90 first-time competitors, and 142 girls, in the event that tends to attract repeat winners in their respective regions. Five spellers will be appearing in the national bee for the fourth time. Gia competed in the inaugural Maryland Eastern Shore bee in 2013 but did not win.
The competition gets under way May 27 with a computer-based vocabulary test that gauges competitors' knowledge of the thousands of words they have been studying this spring in preparation.
Each of the 281 regional winners also will be given two words to spell during preliminary rounds May 28. A misspelled word leads to immediate elimination. Competitors who spell both their words correctly will then be ranked according to their computer test scores.
The top 40-to-50 spellers qualify for the semi-finals May 29, which will be aired during the afternoon on ESPN2. The finals will be broadcast on ESPN the night of May 29.
In her profile she submitted to national bee organizers, Gia said she prepares for spelling competitions by eating a breakfast of pancakes, an omelet, a banana and a glass of milk.
She plays the flute in her school's band as well as the piano at home and in recitals. In addition to being the Lower Shore's top speller, she was named to the All-Shore Band this spring.
Traveling to cultural sites is also a favorite activity and some day she hopes to visit the Louvre in Paris to see the Mona Lisa.
Bill Robinson, director, Office of Public Relations, (410) 621-2355


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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Alisal is for Authors
The Alisal Guest Ranch is ten thousand acres of wide-open spaces that has been in use for more than a hundred years. A working cattle ranch and luxury retreat, the Alisal started welcoming guests in 1946. If you time it right, you can live out your City Slicker fantasies during the spring cattle drive. That is if you aren't already exhausted from all of the golf, tennis, archery, fishing, boating, hiking, spa treatments and other activities the ranch has to offer.
Most of us that live here never get to see much beyond the resort entrance since you need to stay overnight at the ranch to participate in the activities. And with rooms starting at $500/night in the off season, you can understand why we locals tend to sleep in our own beds.
But this past Saturday we got to join some friends on an all day adventure that started at 7:30 a.m. As soon as we arrived, we climbed on horses for a one-hour ride out to the Historic Old Adobe. My daughter loves to ride horses and has been actively riding for more than a year. My son, well…when the wranglers asked about each of our riding abilities, my son wanted to know if there was something lower than beginner. He even asked if he could ride one of the miniature ponies. "Less distance to fall," he reasoned.
Fortunately, the lure of an amazing Cowboy Breakfast at the end of the ride convinced him that mounting the horse was worth it. After eating all the eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, biscuits, gravy, fruit, cereal, coffee, hot cocoa, oj and quesadillas we could fit in our stomachs, we rode back to the stables and got on a shuttle that took us out to the Alisal's private lake. While the men jumped in a bass boat to go fishing, my friend and I got into paddle boats with our kids. We spent the afternoon cruising the lake and learning how to shoot air rifles as well as bows and arrows. What a blast! My middle finger is still numb and the bruises haven't quite faded, but I think a compound bow and a target range might be on my Christmas list :)
As the sun set behind the mountains, we loaded into the hay truck to go back to our cars. Another family got in with us and the mother started talking about books with my daughter and her friend. They talked about The Wish Giver and the woman mentioned that she had written a book called The Wish Stealers.
My ears perked up. "Wait, did you say you wrote that book? It's actually in the basket by my bed, in my to-read pile!"
Yep, I was sitting across from Tracy Trivas, her husband and two adorable daughters. We chatted for the rest of the ride about children's literature, SCBWI and the writing retreat I had just attended. And I was reminded once again of just how small the world really is.
As we drove home, my son said, "It feels like we were on vacation for a day." So true. A vacation practically in our own back yard.
16 comments:
- Laura Pauling said...
So cool! We got a chance to go on a trail ride in Colorado this past summer - I'll never forget it! though no author on the horse next to me. :)
- October 5, 2011 at 4:07 AM
- Unknown said...
I love your son's comment: something lower than beginners. :D
This is something my daughter would love to do. The horses part. I'd be the one excited to meet an author.
- October 5, 2011 at 4:13 AM
- Bish Denham said...
It's wonderful that you got to spend a day at a dude ranch! And meeting an author of a book you have...like the cherry on top of the banana split.
- October 5, 2011 at 4:31 AM
- Kristan Hoffman said...
"He even asked if he could ride one of the miniature ponies. "Less distance to fall," he reasoned."
LOL. Smart kid.
What a small world indeed! Fun coincidence, and it sounds like a lovely day. :)
- October 5, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- Kelly Polark said...
What a beautiful day to share with your family, Sherrie! And a bonus to ride with a fellow author!
- October 5, 2011 at 6:28 AM
- Susan R. Mills said...
That's awesome! Fun day...and met an author to boot!
- October 5, 2011 at 8:52 AM
- Matthew MacNish said...
That ranch looks like such an awesome experience!
- October 5, 2011 at 8:52 AM
- Krispy said...
What an amazing time! I'm not too much of an outdoorsy person, but this sounds so, so fun! How cool that it's so close to you. Always wanted to try archery, and I miss horseback riding!
Of course, also very cool that you bumped into a fellow kidlit author. Small world indeed.
- October 5, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Becky Levine said...
Day vacations are the best--complete recharge. Although I'm with your son on the horse--too high for me to be happy, with something that strong in control! :)
- October 5, 2011 at 11:07 AM
- Sherrie Petersen said...
Laura: I love riding horses. My son was just happy to make it back without falling :) It was definitely an unforgettable day!
Stina: My son definitely has a dry sense of humor :) But the great thing was that the day had something wonderful for each of us!
Bish: It was like the cherry on top! Great comparison :)
Kristan: Yeah, my son is a smart cookie :) It was pretty amazing to run into an children's author like that. Made the day all the more exciting.
Kelly: I'm so glad we all got to experience it together. It was a great day.
Susan: Amazing who you can run into on a hay bale, isn't it? :D
Matthew: That ranch is an AMAZING place to visit. I hope I can go back some day!
Krispy: Maybe when you visit you can ride in the morning and get a massage in the afternoon. That would be a nice balance of indoor/outdoor activity :)
- October 5, 2011 at 11:27 AM
- Shannon O'Donnell said...
Love this! And so cool that you got to visit with Tracy! :-)
- October 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM
- Sherrie Petersen said...
Becky: I can't think of any other day vacation I've done like this one. We had such a good time. Now my daughter and I are trying to figure out a way to get her brother back on a horse :)
Shannon: Isn't it amazing that we would run into someone like that? Now my daughter wants to read the book since she met her :)
- October 6, 2011 at 9:19 PM
- kathrynjankowski said...
Sounds like a fun day!
- October 7, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- Angela said...
That must have been awesome, meeting Tracy Trivas. I like the book cover too. So pretty.
- October 7, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Tricia J. O'Brien said...
What a glorious day that must have been. Sometimes the wonders are right in our backyard waiting to be discovered. :)
- October 7, 2011 at 11:49 AM
What an amazing time, surrounded by nature and meeting a fellow writer.
I haven't had the pleasure of going horseback riding yet, but I'll go one of these days.
- October 12, 2011 at 12:07 AM


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Jamie Foxx takes heat for calling Obama "our Lord and savior"
Jamie Foxx is drawing criticism for calling President Barack Obama "our Lord and savior" at the recent Soul Train Music Awards in Las Vegas.
In the pre-recorded program that was broadcast Sunday night on BET, Foxx urges the audience to "first of all, give an honor to God -- and our Lord and savior, Barack Obama!"
The audience responds with cheers as Foxx shouts the president's name again and urges them to "stand up."
On the Human Events blog, John Hayward writes, "Practicing Christians are not amused by the portrayal of modern secular politicians as replacements for Jesus. But presumably their feelings don't count, because they won't burn anything down in outrage."
Catholic League President Bill Donohue notes that last December, Foxx said he didn't know what God meant to him. On the League's website, Donohue says Mr. Obama has apparently convinced "Jamie Foxx, and no doubt legions of others, that God exists."


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Family from Norway that would like to go electrical with Model X
Family from Norway that would like to go electrical with Model X
Hi Thomas,
At Model X was on display at the Geneva Motor Show. My brother and I both went together by road (it was a long drive) to Geneva to see the Model X in person (+ all the other cars on display at the Geneva Motor Show). I did not measure the space inside the car, but I can tell you that there's a lot of space in there. Elon Musk compared the Model X with the Audi Q7. He said that in the Model X you can seat 7 adults AND still have a lot of space for luggage. And that is true. I personally think that the Dual-Motor All-Wheel-Drive option is the single best reason to choose the Model X instead of the Model S. But that's personal, you know.
If you're ordering now, and don't want to spend the money for a Signature, you should prepare yourself for 2015.
I've got European reservation #453, and realistically I'm expecting a delivery late 2015.
If you've seen the launch video you get a general idea of how many bags they were able to fit. Remember, there is no petrol tank, exhaust, transmission, etc, so the trunk is very deep. And then you have the frunk in addition.
The Norwegian Tesla S forum's got a price comparison between a regular Toyota and a Tesla. The eight-year accrued cost goes in the Tesla's favor by a considerable margin.
Hi there,
How about importing the model X from the US when it comes out there, instead of waiting til 2015 in Norway? Is there any complications in doing that?
Because it won't be available in the US until 2015?
I'd be surprised if any MX made it to the road in Norway before 2016, late 2015 maybe (Signatures).
With established infrastructure in Norway and EU and an established routine for EU-modifications I do not see why Tesla could not choose to introduce the Model X simultaneously in Europe.
I see your point Notre. Especially now that they have worked out the connection and other details on the S. There really isn't a reason why not. I still think they'll do just the US signatures in late 2014 though.
Shipping and other logistics still a bit of a hurdle!
I don't see any hurdles. What Tesla choose to do is another matter. They may have to take into account deadlines for EV incentives.
Shipping slows delivery a few weeks. My MS took five weeks from Production Complete to delivery. How does that compare to the US?
Often down to under 5 weeks.
You don't say.
Notre: Actually some people have gotten vehicles very quickly (days) if they happen to order a car with colors/extras that happen to correspond to a car already produced/in production that someone has to delay taking because of travel plans/financing issues or completely walk away from for various reasons.
Thanks admjr@. Sure there are some logistics involved, but there's nothing stopping Tesla from (almost) simultaneously serving both the US and the markets overseas. Actually Tesla states "delivery starts late 2014" in Norwegian on their Norwegian Model X home page. That may be a direct translation of the US-page, but the corresponding Model S page says: "Delivery starts summer 2013".
At some point in the next year, I expect work on another production line to start. I think WW demand for S & X will rather quickly overwhelm 3-shift capacity on their single line!
The X will get to Europe faster than the S, but definitely not simultaneously. Tesla will still be a relatively small company and there are only so many man hours available to the staff.
The S took a year. I would expect the X to take four to six months to cross the pond, starting almost certainly in Norway.
Norwegian authorities are likely to increase car taxes sharply in 2017 or when total 50,000 electiske cars on the road (approx. 15,000 per day). So Tesla, speed up development and production and you will sell a lot of TMX in Norway :)
I couldn't wait for TMX, so my Model S P85 is soon approaching my garage :) :)
"approx. 15,000 per day" What does that mean?
sorry .... today it's approximate 15.000 electrical cars on Norwegian roads ... when passing 50.000, the autorities may change the tax regime on el-cars


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Does Ellen Brown secretly work for the FED?
Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
January 10, 2011
The following statements of Ellen Brown surely must have some alternate meaning:
"Of course the oligarchy is the problem, but that doesn't mean we can't steer the Fed. Bernanke drives a Ford Falcon. I think he's one of us!" — Ellen Brown to Zahir Ebrahim Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:30 PM
"the U.S. is the last holdout, and the Fed is what's holding us out. Bernanke is standing up to the Gnomes of Zurich and BAsel" — Ellen Brown to Zahir Ebrahim Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Featured in Bill Still's new video documentary on banking reform: "The Secret of Oz", the author of the famous book and website: Web of Debt – How Banks And The Federal Reserve Are Bankrupting The Planet, and prolific generator of erudite articles on banking reform, Ellen Brown JD now suggests that the Federal Reserve System, and its Chairman Ben Bernanke, are the good guys!!
Read it for yourself in the email correspondence reproduced below. And harken back to the epoch between 1910 to 1913 when, under the guise of banking reform, the banksters' own agenda was diabolically introduced in the name of reform. That's how the Federal Reserve System was born. Through deception.
In that overarching context of banksters' shenanigans, I got so perturbed by the bizarre statements Ellen Brown made to me in our email communication during December 2010, that after much deliberation and consultation with comrades, I have decided to make them public. Those interested in this topic, and valuing her immense academic contributions to the domain of monetary reform, may ask her for explanation if they care.
In my view, the entire monetary reform agenda evidently has been cleverly hijacked by an over-abundance of expert talkers, and relegated to publishing erudite books, writing imposing articles, making excellent video documentaries, attending major conferences and making slick presentations, all in the proverbial dissent space. There is of course hardly any mention of significant monetary reform in the establishment's mainstream press. So alternate press and dissent domain is where all the monetary reform conversations transpire, where they have become exclusively dominated by platitudinous sloganeering like "this system has got to go", "no more national debt". etc., amidst much regurgitation of material that is centuries old on what reforms to introduce. And un-remarkably, monetary reform is absolutely the lame horse entered into the Kentucky Derby – in the absence of a practicable HOW plan!
See the compilation of my many analyses on the indispensability of the practicable HOW, and its remarkable absence in all talk of monetary reform, in Re-visiting Money as Debt and Monetary Reform. Especially, see Letter to Bill Still – Director of The Secret of Oz – How? and The Missing Link of Monetary Reform: HOW?.
The HOW problem cannot be underestimated. It transcends all the solution spaces from state owned banks, to people's power, to community currency to voting the right leaders into office who will enact the right set of laws and banish the money changers, to federalizing the issue of interest-free money, et. al.
The banksters are "that" close to completing their control of earth and its peoples; this is also the reason why they permitted the publication of Tragedy and Hope. It is perhaps also why all these academic conversations about monetary reform are permitted to exist unhindered, so long as no practicable method is pursued regarding the HOW to implement any of them.
Almost all people mobilization functions which used to exist in Western society, like America's very powerful labor unions for instance, grass-roots political parties, etc., have already been eliminated. Now, people power is at best only mob power, and the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team is already stationed just outside of Mainstreet USA to deal with that eventuality after the calculated repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act.
As noted in Of Ostriches and Rebels on The Hard Road to World Order, matters are now close to fait accompli, if not already so.
The global and national state of affairs, going from crisis to crisis, is all cohesively linked-up in an interconnected convoluted chain, and monetary reform, while being the principal lever to break the anaconda-like grip of that web of enslavement, is very closely guarded by the golem to prevent any practicable movement towards meaningful reform which could be inimical to the interests of the banksters. Evidently, that also includes using "cognitive infiltration" techniques of gaining trust by having their own assets and agents write imposing works of scholarship and geewhiz. I.e., the crafting of the proverbial Trojan Horse, in the guise of monetary reform dissent-experts, dare I suggest people like Ellen Brown based on the prima facie evidence of her own statements unless there is some alternate explanation for her bizarre outpouring of love for the Fed, to ensure that the public keep focussing on the minutiae, and the red herrings, instead of the HOW.
I hope I am mistaken about Ellen Brown…. she was a great teacher and I found her articles and book to be informative, until, I got tired of bringing to her attention that she was not focussing on the HOW, and eventually gave up. I only thought of writing her again when she sent me yet another announcement of yet another article, more of the same, she'd written in December 2010.
Perhaps the good scholar can provide the public with some evidence for her new found faith that the FED is good for America – a faith suddenly acquired right when most of the American public, losing their shirts and their skirts to the banksters, is finally beginning to see the light that the FED is indeed the core problem and should be abolished!
I am sure the public, and especially her fans might like to learn what secrets Ellen Brown has learnt so that all Americans can together anoint the FED, just as the Nobel committee had previously anointed President Obama, as the new savior of the American Republic! Perhaps she could begin by explaining the following:
Celente: Federal Reserve Gave $14 Trillion To Prop Up Fortune 500 Companies
Bernie Sanders: 'Will You Tell The American People Which Banks Got $2.2 Trillion Of Their Dollars?' Bernanke: 'No'
The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed – Are The Federal Reserve's Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?
Federal Reserve Works To Strip A Key Mortgage Protection For Homeowners Against Predatory Lending
Brilliant Clip- Bernanke Gets Annihilated – Chris Whalen With Dylan Ratigan: "The Fed Let The Real Economy Go To Hell"
You Won't Believe What Bernanke Said About Bailouts At His 2005 Confirmation Hearings
No, The Big Banks Have Not "Paid Back" Government Bailouts and Subsidies
VIDEO – Greenspan Admits To Rampant Fraud & Illegal Activity In U.S. Banking System While Sharing Jekyll Island Stage With Bernanke
Is Ben Bernanke driving the QEII or the Titanic?
Martin Armstrong Writes On The Real Story Behind Bernanke, Warren Buffett & Goldman Sachs – From Prison
Keiser Report from Stupidville: Bernanke, retire!
Bernanke's Bailout – Following The Money Trail
Bernanke Is STILL Withholding Collateral Data For $885 Billion In Financial Crisis Loans
Watch Jon Stewart Expose Bernanke's Lies From 60 Minutes – Fed Chairman Strung Up By His OWN Words
The VERY Tiny Benefit of QE2 for Mortgage Holders
Adding Fuel to the Financial Fire. Deepening Crisis. Bogus Economic Statistics Used as a Coverup
Bernanke On 60 Minutes: "We're NOT Printing Money"
No Recovery Under Rule of Bankers
Nobel Prize Winning Economist Milton Friedman On Bernanke: "My Preference Would Be To Abolish The Federal Reserve"
Economist Dr. Ed Yardeni on Bernanke: "QE2 is like throwing gasoline on a fire that's already burning."
Gerald Celente Slams Bernanke And MSM
Ron Paul: "Bernanke Is The Greatest Counterfeiter In The History Of The World"
CHART SHOCK: Bernanke's Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Grows To Record Size
A Real Jaw Dropper at the Federal Reserve
Reproduced below is one of the most surreal of email conversations. It is in the format one gets when using Gmail's Forward All button to forward the entire conversation. It is unedited, and complete. No email in the communication thread is left out, and no context is dropped.
The full source of each email and its original header are archived as PDF at URL: http://humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/email-conversation-with-ellen-brown-original-source.pdf
Email conversation with Ellen Brown, December 18 to 27, 2010
Forwarded conversation
Subject: new article — Central Banking 101: What the Fed Can Do as "Lender of Last Resort"
From: Ellen Brown <email@example.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:07 PM
To: Ellen Brown <email@example.com>
Hi, here is my latest article, posted on Huffington Post –
"Central Banking 101: What the Fed Can Do as 'Lender of Last Resort'"
Season's greetings,
Ellen Brown
To unsubscribe, click reply and write unsubscribe in the subject line.
From: Project Humanbeingsfirst.org <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:22 PM
To: Ellen Brown <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Dear Ellen,
while I applaud your insights into the mechanisms of the fed, and I
think of you as my teacher by way of writing an excellent book which I
have read and learnt from, I deplore your lack of understanding of the
fed. You keep writing articles after articles suggesting how the
mechanisms of banking that we have today can be fixed – as if that
knowledge, worthy of many Ph.D. thesis I am sure, is relevent to the
issues at hand. I am puzzled by your emphasis on the minutae, and
missing out on the big picture. I am really getting tired of pointing
it out repeatedly to the thunderous silence. Fed isn't the problem –
and you know it better than I. The oligarchy which controls the Fed,
in all G-7, people legally endowed with carte-blanche to do as they
please, are the problem. The more you critique the 'effect', the more
you show how to fix these 'effect's, the more you distract attention
from the 'cause'. That is such commonsense that it confuses me. Have
you ever read anything I have ever written? Or do you only read
brand-names? Commonsense does not come packaged with 'expert' tatooed
on their forehead.
best wishes, and also seasons greetings,
From: Ellen Brown <email@example.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 5:30 PM
To: "Project Humanbeingsfirst.org" <email@example.com>
I read — I just don't agree! Of course the oligarchy is the problem, but that doesn't mean we can't steer the Fed. Bernanke drives a Ford Falcon. I think he's one of us!
From: Project Humanbeingsfirst.org <email@example.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:26 AM
To: Ellen Brown <firstname.lastname@example.com>
"I think he's one of us!" — not persuaded.
Are you aware that the oligarchy is creating world government? That
the interlinked nature of the myriad crises make any changes next to
impossible given the impetus to world government?
From: Ellen Brown <email@example.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:38 AM
To: "Project Humanbeingsfirst.org" <email@example.com>
I'm aware of that, and the head of the beast is in Basel. I think, counterintuitive as it may seem, that the U.S. is the last holdout, and the Fed is what's holding us out. Bernanke is standing up to the Gnomes of Zurich and BAsel.
From: Project Humanbeingsfirst.org <email@example.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:52 PM
To: Ellen Brown <firstname.lastname@example.com>
But the heart of the golem is not Basle. Are you friends with
Bernanke? Your statement is like Ariel Sharon is holding out to the
Rothschilds as the last bastian before they resettle Palestine,
entirely absurd! Bernanke is nothing but a front man who does exactly
as he is ordered to do. You make it seem like frontmen have any
substance of their own in the face of trillionaires who comprise the
From: Ellen Brown <email@example.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:02 AM
To: "Project Humanbeingsfirst.org" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
How do you know that? You presume. That's called prejudice.
From: Project Humanbeingsfirst.org <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:02 AM
To: Ellen Brown <email@example.com>
I know it by the act of ben bernanke being the fed chair. I am sorry
but you sound more and more irrational to me. thanks.
From: Ellen Brown <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:09 AM
To: "Project Humanbeingsfirst.org" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Ha! The feeling is mutual. But thanks for writing. Ellen
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text: More and more we have been hearing about superfoods and that we should eat more of them. The idea of a superfood may seem over the top, but Julie Morris, in her book Superfood Cuisine, does a magnificent job of explaining the benefits and efficiency of these nutrient-dense foods in an accessible way. Julie is a natural foods chef and healthy life advocate. Some of the foods we already eat (like berries and kale, for example) are considered to be a part of this group and some things, for me at least, I had never really heard of until I dug in...like lucuma powder; its derived from a deliciously sweet South American fruit that is high in beta-carotene, niacin and iron.


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Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
Hear the voice of gladness, O women; for I have trodden down rebellious Hades, and raised the world from corruption. Wherefore, hasten ye and proclaim the glad tidings to My beloved; for I desire that joy shall break forth thence upon My creation, whence first came forth sorrow.
—Orthros of the Feast, Tone 2
On this day, the third Sunday of Pascha, we celebrate the feast of the holy Myrrh-bearing women. And we also make commemoration of Joseph of Arimathea, who was a secret disciple, and Nicodemus, who was a disciple by night.
The women disciples bring myrrh unto Christ;
And I bring a hymn as it were myrrh unto them.
The women went to Christ's tomb on Holy Pascha to anoint His body, only to discover it empty. We know the names of only seven of these women: Mary Magdalene; Mary the Mother of James and Joses; Joanna the wife of Chuza; Salome the mother of the sons of Zebedee; Susanna; and Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus. Joseph was a rich and noble man, and a member of the Privy Council of Jerusalem. He dared to ask Pilate for the undefiled body of our Savior, which he took and buried in his own tomb. Accompanying Joseph to the sepulcher was Nicodemus, a Jerusalemite who was one of the leaders of the Pharisees. Nicodemus brought 100 pounds of myrrh and aloes to scent and embalm the body of Christ.
By the intercessions of the holy Myrrh-bearers, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, O God, have mercy on us. Amen.
When Thou didst cry, Rejoice, unto the Myrrh-bearers, Thou didst make the lamentation of Eve the first mother to cease by Thy Resurrection, O Christ God. And Thou didst bid Thine Apostles to preach: The Savior is risen from the grave.
As the Myrrh-bearers went to Thy tomb, O Savior, they were perplexed in mind and said to themselves: Who will roll the stone away from the sepulcher for us? And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled away. They were awestruck by the form of the Angel and his raiment. They were taken with trembling and thought to flee; and the youth cried to them: Be not afraid; He Whom ye seek is risen; come, behold the place where the body of Jesus lay, and go quickly, proclaim unto the Disciples: The Savior is risen from the grave.
Kontakion and Oikos of the Feast


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George and Amarilla settle in at Pine River. George helps out the settlers before the county was organized in 1897. He is given credit under the Cass County Commissioners for his assistance.
Source: Cass County Heritage, Cass County Historical Society, Taylor Publishing, 1999.
pg. 23 – Cass County Commissioners – "Before the organization of Cass County in 1897, we were under the governance of a number of different counties. Prior to 1897 there were a number of men that intervened for the early settlers of Cass County, Charles Ahrens 1872-1875, George N. Bardwell 1872-1875, George A. Morrison 1872-1875, George A. Barclay 1875-1876, Reuben Gray etc."
UPDATE: In the Cass County Courthouse in the Bond Book A pg. 2 we find two entries: 1) Certificate of Election, Filed January 22, 1875 @ 11 O'clock in which George A. Barclay receives the highest votes and is therefore elected County Commissioner for the ensuing term. 2) Oath of Office in which George promises to "faithfully and impartially discharge the duties…" Dated at West Brainerd this 4th day of January A.D. 1875…"
George also took on the role of postmaster for Pine River
Source: Record of Appointment of Postmasters, #M841, Roll 63 NARA, Minnesota Counties Aitkin-Faribault Co., Target 14, Cass County, Vol. 39, ca 1871-81, Vol. 57 ca. 1881-1892, Vol. 84 ca. 1892-1930.
George A. Barclay was appointed the postmaster for Pine River in 1877 and continued till his death in 1898. After him came Edward Coyle 5 Jan. 1899, James R. Kinler May 4, 1899, Eddie J. Holman Mar. 21, 1906, W. P. Stervant 24, Apr. 1914, Elmer Dahl, Irvin Lembke, Dec 2, 1924, Oliver Dahl Oct. 16, 1924 to 1930.
A little over a year after his marriage to Amarilla, George obtains another patent for land. It is interesting that George states he is from Hennepin Co. and not Cass Co.
3. Patent from BML – Cass County – 9/23/1879 – St. Cloud #7946
#7946 Patent: George A. Barclay of Hennepin County, Minnesota, ….St. Cloud, Minnesota..whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said George A. Barclay… and the acts supplemental thereto, for the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section six in township one hundred and thirty-seven of range twenty-nine in the district of lands subject to sale at Saint Cloud, Minnesota containing forty-one acres, and twenty-one hundredths of an acre. In testimony whereof., I R. B. Hayes… 23 of September 1879, etc…
The Deed Mapper software does not do 21/100ths so what you see is an approximation of the patent of 41 and 21/100ths of an acre. We are now carving out the town of Pine River as George adds to his land holdings.
So far we have about 233+ acres of land totalled for George A. Barclay at this time. We still have more to go and we have not addressed deeds.


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It's Sepia Saturday time, and for our inspiration and interest Alan has posted a 1961 photo of a nurse getting ready to hop in her car go off on her rounds. My mum was a nurse in 1961 but I don't have any pictures of her in uniform. I do however have some little treasures stashed away…
Mum trained at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh when it was located in the city centre, and was presented with her badge at the end of her training. It's enamel on silver and is engraved on the back with her name and her number.
She was very proud of this badge as it represented many years of hard work leading up to her qualifying. BUT the Big and Much Coveted One was presented to her after her first year of working as a nurse – her "Pelican".
She enjoyed working as a nurse and particularly loved the excitement of the Accident and Emergency Department and her time in Midwifery at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion.
I found a blog by a group collecting oral histories from current and retired Royal Infirmary nurses, inspired by a collection of over 3000 historical nursing badges. Earlier this year they held a Bring a Badge day where nurses who had trained in Edinburgh travelled back to meet up and show their badges. I wonder how many of mum's friends were there. Reading about the badges I found out that the pelican was chosen to represent the nurses' hard work and dedication as pelicans were known to feed their young on their own blood when food was scarce. There's more to read about Pelican Symbolism. Somehow, I've managed to make the leap from a health visitor to religious symbolism – how did that happen? 🙂
See what everyone else is up to with their diverse and interesting Sepia Saturday posts.


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Groundbreaking or Definitive? Journals Need to Pick One
Do our top journals need to rethink their missions of publishing research that is both groundbreaking and definitive? And as a part of that, do they — and we scientists — need to reconsider how we engage with the press and the public?
2011 was bookended by two extraordinary events for social and personality psychologists — events that have produced a lot of uncomfortable scrutiny from both within and without the field. The year began with a paper on parapsychology (Bem, 2011) that presented what many scientists think are impossible results. And it ended with a high-profile case of a researcher, Diederik Stapel, who fabricated data and published perhaps dozens of fraudulent articles in peer-reviewed journals. Both of these incidents have led to a great deal of reflection and reevaluation of how we do science. This ongoing conversation has been taking place both online (for example Crocker, 2011; Roberts, 2011; Yarkoni, 2011) and in traditional journals (Simmons, Nelson, & Simonsohn, 2011). This has been an important discussion, and many of these proposals have focused on how researchers can improve their methods, or how editors and reviewers can better distinguish good and bad work.
But it is also vital to go beyond the practices of individual scientists and look critically at how we have structured our institutions. The institution I am particularly concerned about is journals. Journal publishers control the single largest incentive for most academic researchers and the major avenue for disseminating research to other scientists and to the broader public. As a result, they play a substantial role in how science gets done and ought to be the subject of continuing and close scrutiny.[1]
My concern here is with what I see as the impossible missions of some of our top journals. High-profile journals like Science, Nature, and Psychological Science try to be both groundbreaking and definitive. For example, Science, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, describes its mission as publishing findings that are both "novel" and "significantly advance scientific understanding" (AAAS, 2011). Psychological Science, published by the Association of Psychological Science, describes itself as both "cutting-edge" and publishing articles with interdisciplinary relevance and "general theoretical interest" (APS, 2011). I think it is worth reflecting on whether groundbreaking and definitive are compatible goals.
Groundbreaking means original, novel, new. Just like a literal groundbreaking means putting your shovel into as-yet undisturbed soil, groundbreaking research is work that presents ideas or findings that nobody has presented before. From the investigator's perspective, groundbreaking research is a first finding of its kind, something that is unprecedented. And from an audience's perspective, it is research that makes you say "wow.
But that is a long way from definitive. In fact, in some key ways groundbreaking is the opposite of definitive. There is a lot of hard work to be done between scooping that first shovelful of dirt and completing a stable foundation. And the same goes for science (with the crucial difference that in science, you're much more likely to discover along the way that you've started digging on a site that's impossible to build on). "Definitive" means that there is a sufficient body of evidence to accept some conclusion with a high degree of confidence. And by the time that body of evidence builds up, the idea is no longer groundbreaking.
How do we get from groundbreaking to definitive? The key phrase is independent replication across multiple methods. (I for one would be very happy if this phrase eclipsed "correlation does not imply causation" in popularity, but that's an argument for another time.) It is worth taking that phrase apart. Replication means that the study has been run again to determine whether the findings can be reproduced. Independent means that the replication has been conducted by a different set of researchers, who are less likely to share the biases, incentives, or errors of the original researchers. Multiple methods means that researchers reach the same underlying conclusion when they test it in different ways. (For example, if the conclusion is "suppressing emotion-expressive behavior causes difficulties getting close to others," it should be possible to obtain supporting evidence in both laboratory experiments and longitudinal field studies.)
So more and more, I have been coming to the view that groundbreaking and definitive are incompatible. Popular depictions of science in movies and journalism often conflate them into a "eureka" moment when the scientist (usually wearing a white lab coat and surrounded by test tubes) makes a big discovery that changes everything. In this stock narrative the only hard work after that first discovery moment — if there is any hard work at all — is to convince the world of the brilliant idea. In the real world, that first discovery is just the beginning (and more often than not it is the beginning of a road to a dead end). A single study reported in a single paper cannot be both the start and the finish of an idea. A journal could, in principle, publish a mix of both kinds of papers– some groundbreaking new findings, some conclusive reviews of bodies of evidence. But that's not what is usually happening. The way the high-profile journals carry out their missions, they expect most articles to do both.
None of this is to say that we don't need journals for brand-new, groundbreaking findings. Nor does it contradict the many good ideas that have been floated recently about how scientists and journals could improve rigor and reporting. But some part of the tension between groundbreaking and definitive is irreducible. As long as a journal pursues a strategy of publishing "wow" studies, it will inevitably contain more unreplicable findings and unsupportable conclusions than equally rigorous but more "boring" journals. Groundbreaking will always be higher-risk. And definitive will be the territory of journals that publish meta-analyses and reviews, like Psychological Bulletin, or to a lesser extent (because definitive is a matter of degree) long-form journals that publish multi-study investigations.
So back to the question that I posed at the top: should our journals — and we scientists — stop telling the world about our newest discoveries?
At the very least, findings that are new and exciting to specialists should not yet be presented to scientists in other disciplines or the broader public as settled facts. Most conclusions, even those in peer-reviewed papers in rigorous journals, should be regarded as tentative at best; but press releases and other public communication rarely convey that. Some journalists are catching on and becoming more critical of science journals, but in the new media landscape we cannot count on a few skeptical science journalists to be gatekeepers. We as individual scientists need to remain skeptical of our journals, and to communicate that skepticism better. Our standard response to a paper in Science, Nature, or Psychological Science should be "wow, that'll be really interesting if it replicates." And in our teaching and our engagement with the press and public, we need to make clear why that is the most enthusiastic response we can justify.
But beyond individual efforts, our institutions, especially our journal publishers and the professional associations that sponsor them, have a lot of power to change the conversation: by clarifying their missions, by tempering their messages, and perhaps by bringing science to the press with less frequency but greater confidence. In the short term, the incentives work against them doing that. Who wants to be the publisher of the Journal of Things that Might Be True? But if 2011 has shown us anything, it is that in science, the facts eventually catch up with us. If we want to keep the trust of the public and of each other, we need to be mindful of that.
[1] Along these lines, I have argued elsewhere that journals and electronic databases need to do a better job of removing retracted articles from circulation, and that after a journal publishes a study it should be required to publish and track direct replication attempts, both to encourage such studies and to hold journals more responsible for what they publish.
American Association for the Advancement of Science. (2011). General information for authors. Retrieved from http://www.sciencemag.org/site/feature/contribinfo/prep/gen_info.xhtml.
Association for Psychological Science. (2011). Submission guidelines. Retrieved from http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/journals/psychological_science/ps-submissions.
Bem, D. J. (2011). Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 407-425.
Crocker, J. (2011). The fraud among us, or within us? Personality and Social Psychology Connections. Retrieved from https://spsptalks.wordpress.com.
Roberts, B. W. (2011). Personality psychology has a serious problem (and so do many other areas of psychology). P: The Online Newsletter for Personality Science. Retrieved from http://www.personality-arp.org/newsletter06/problem.html.
Simmons, J. P., Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological Science, 22, 1359-1366.
Yarkoni, T. (2011). The psychology of parapsychology, or why good researchers publishing good articles in good journals can still get it totally wrong. [citation needed]. Retrieved from http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2011/01/10/the-psychology-of-parapsychology-or-why-good-researchers-publishing-good-articles-in-good-journals-can-still-get-it-totally-wrong/.
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DOVER — The St. Thomas Aquinas High School boys hockey team was a 3-1 winner over Londonderry (7-3) in Division I action Saturday at the Dover Arena.
Glenn Wiswell scored twice to lead the Saints (6-4-1). Niall Foster scored and Ty Turgeon and T.J. Boulanger each recorded an assist. Zane Angelopoulos made 29 saves in net.
St. Thomas is at Manchester Memorial on Wednesday afternoon. Saturday's game raised $3,000 for cancer awareness, according to coach Andrew Leach.
Merrimack 6, Spaulding 3
ROCHESTER — The Spaulding boys hockey team suffered its first loss of the season, falling 6-3 to undefeated Merrimack (10-0) on Saturday night at Rochester Arena.
Justin Jewell, Zander Allen and Brent Phillips each scored for Spaulding (9-1-1). Derek Scott made 25 saves.
Spaulding hosts rival Dover on Wednesday night.
Noble/Wells 7, Sacopee Valley 1
ROCHESTER — The Noble/Wells hockey team was a 7-1 winner over Sacopee Valley on Saturday night in Western Maine Class A action at the Rochester Arena.
Ryer Smith recorded a hat trick and Connor Pease notched five assists to lead Noble/Wells, which is at Kennebunk on Wednesday.
Bow 8, Somersworth/Coe-Brown 2
CONCORD — The Somersworth/Coe-Brown boys hockey team fell 8-2 at Bow (5-3-2) on Saturday night at Everett Arena.
Colby Siering scored twice for Somersworth/Coe-Brown (1-8), which visits Windham/Pelham on Monday.
St. Thomas/Dover 7, Souhegan 0
DOVER — The St. Thomas/Dover girls hockey team was a 7-0 winner over Souhegan (1-10) on Saturday.
Abbey Raiche scored a pair of goals for STA/Dover while Gabbi Dodier, Sarah White, Danielle Ceppetelli, Jillian Holden and Riley Kane each scored a goal.
STA/Dover (6-5-1) is at Hanover on Tuesday.
Oyster River 3, Lebanon 3 (OT)
DURHAM —The Oyster River girls hockey team skated to a 3-3 tie against Lebanon (8-2-1) on Saturday at Jackson's Landing.
Sarah Lessard scored a pair of goals for the Bobcats (7-3-1) while Hannah Herz-Khan scored a goal and an assist. Goalie Emily Croot made 23 saves, including a penalty shot.
Oyster River hosts Souhegan on Monday at Jackson's Landing.
Old Orchard Beach 61, Traip 39
KITTERY, Maine — The Traip boys basketball team fell 61-39 to Old Orchard Beach on Saturday night in Western Maine Class C action. OOB improved to 9-4.
Chris Czachor scored 10 points for Traip (5-9), which visits York on Tuesday.
Marshwood wins regional title
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — The Marshwood High School cheerleading team won the Western Maine Class A championship on Saturday.
The Hawks finished first in the 15-team field with 155.6 points. Rival Noble was third with 138.1 points.
In Western Maine Class C, Traip Academy finished sixth.
Traip 64, Hebron 17
HEBRON, Maine — The Traip Academy girls basketball team was a 64-17 winner at Hebron Academy (3-7) in Western Maine Class C action on Saturday night.
The Rangers got 12 points apiece from Jessica Segura, Kendra Kagiliery and Alli Barrett.
Traip (5-9) is at York on Tuesday night.
Coe-Brown 55, Merrimack Valley 48
NORTHWOOD — The Coe-Brown Northwood Academy girls basketball team was a 55-48 winner over Merrimack Valley (5-6) in Division II action on Friday night.
Jenny Schlim scored 20 to lead the Bears (6-5). This week's Foster's Sunday Snapshot featured athlete, Liz Peabody (see Page C2), scored 12.
Coe-Brown is at Lebanon on Friday.
Marshwood sweeps
BRIDGTON, Maine — The Marshwood girls alpine ski team took first place Friday night in the giant slalom course at Shawnee Peak. Scoring for Marshwood were Sophia Syrene, Riley Wilber, Brittany Bossi and Maggie Dowd.
On the boys side, Marshwood was first in the giant slalom race. Scoring for Marshwood were Dakota Greenblatt, Jason Beland, Hayden Pearson and James Driver.
High school roundup: St. Thomas hockey gets key Div. I win
DOVER — The St. Thomas Aquinas High School boys hockey team was a 3-1 winner over Londonderry (7-3) in Division I action Saturday at the Dover Arena.