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I might be the only one looking at this post. I did not have any errors when installing this firmware. Nortek is unlikely to answer any questions until the final release of 3.1 occurs. I'm assuming since it was pulled, it wasn't meant to be posted on the website yet.
Are you still at 3.0.1 or 3.0.2? Or did it actually install 3.1 and still give you this error?


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I have something I need to tell you.
This blog. This blog that I've used as a therapy tool for the last few years is going to move.
I know many of you read my darling older sister's blog in which she has told you a bit about the merging of our blogs and then the un-merging. What can I say, Rechelle, she changes her mind......a lot. Refer to this post for validation. Also, she thinks I'm too bossy, to which I told her she needs to keep her hair dark, stop dinking with the hutch and start following some garsh darn rules already! Does that sound bossy? Do you all think I'm the older sister? Most people do. I'M THE BABY! Got it? Did you know I even have a sister?
Anyway, not merging our blogs was a huge relief to me, I was starting to think my therapeutic hobby was going to turn into a stress inducing task that would cause me to suffer major migraines and hide from my sister forever.
Rechelle is going to launch her new blog sometime today and on that blog she has had her designer put some very cute links and one of those links is to my new blog, which isn't quite finished. Kinda like I fixed the front of my hair, but left a roller or two in the back. Rechelle gave me the option of taking down the link, but I told her to go ahead and leave it, cuz I'll get around to moving someday.......maybe.
I don't like to move. I mean, yes, I just moved hundreds of miles a year and a half ago to our new home and that was wonderful, but I don't ever, ever, ever want to move again. Which is why my butt is large and in charge. So, moving this blog is painful and time consuming and mind draining.......but a little exciting. Did you know these..... are the best way to express a pause in your writing? Yes, it's true.....I know.....I'm a professional blogger.
er, anyway......
You see, blogging is my hobby, not my job. Although, one time, when I was feeling like a professional blogger, I told the young girl that was cutting my hair, "I do a little freelance writing." What? What did I just say? I know. I'm an idiot. Because then I had to tell her I was a blogger. Idiot. Eeeedeeeeaaaht! I just don't want to pour more of myself into this hobby than I already do, because I fear I would start to dread coming here, it would be a chore. I hate chores. Well, some chores.
Blahhh. Okay, so all that to say, there will be a new sight coming soon, April Showers will still be home base for awhile and I think all of you that take the time out of your day to leave me a comment or stop by and read my dribble are strangely wonderful.
I'll reveal what our new house guest is later, one of you guessed correctly.
I'm still trying to get ready to leave town tomorrow. My four nephews are coming to stay at my house with my parents while I'm gone, so I'm trying to be a nice daughter and fix some meals, stock the fridge, do the laundry, leave instructions for the animals, give a detailed itenerary for each child and make life as easy as possible for them so they will offer to watch my kids again someday when I want to take a four month vacation to Europe. Har har, ha ha, hooooooo! Hey! I can dream!


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Sketch 301 Wednesdays 7-10pm
Sketch 301: Writing a Sketch Show
|Completion of Sketch 201 within previous two years
|Wednesdays 7-10pm
|Start Date
|Jan 2, 2019, 7:00pm
|Class Size
|8 students
|8 sessions, 3 hours each
|Tech Rehearsal
|Feb 23, 2019, 10:30am - 12:30pm
|Feb 24, 2019, 5:45pm
Students will be expected to devote time to writing and rewriting material outside of class. Students will also get the experience of rehearsing, blocking, and producing sketches for the stage.
The culmination of Sketch 301 will be the performance of a sketch show comprised of student-generated material.
PLEASE NOTE: Students will be writing for a predetermined cast, not for themselves. The focus of the class is on writing, rewriting and producing sketches for the stage.
Sketch 301 also includes a mandatory Tech Rehearsal before the final performance. Students must be available to attend the Tech Rehearsal
in order to participate in the show and pass the course. Please check to make sure that you available for the tech rehearsal before signing up for the course.
Students must bring a sketch to the FIRST session of class. This sketch should be written for the stage and no longer than four pages. This first sketch should be written utilizing the concept of the "Game of the Scene," taught in Sketch 101 and Sketch 201. Students should be prepared to devote time outside of class to completing new writing assignments for every session.
Students will be required to see two scripted shows at the UCB Theatre before the end of the course.
Class Size: 8 Students
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Today is #GivingTuesday and what better way to give than to give a gift that keeps giving.
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I was given the opportunity to receive one of the beautiful gifts from the 2015 World Vision Catalog and with this being my birth month, I chose a lovely Turquoise Jewelry set that includes a necklace, bracelet, and earrings. Also, one lucky Parenting with Purpose reader can win the exact set. Just enter here.
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Tom Joscelyn notes that on Sunday, the New York Times published two op-eds by former Guantanamo detainees claiming they were wrongly detained innocents who were abused and tortured. Tom writes in an email message that the Times might have overlooked a few relevant facts: "Apparently, the Times didn't realize that one of the two has previously claimed he was tortured more at Gitmo under the Obama administration than the Bush administration. So either the Obama administration is pro-torture, or the ex-Gitmo detainee is lying. As I explain in a lengthy Weekly Standard piece, there are plenty of reasons to doubt every word both ex-detainees say." Analysts at Gitmo deemed both of the Times op-ed contributors "high" risks to the U.S. and its allies and recommended that they remain in the Defense Department's custody.
Tom's Weekly Standard piece makes the case that the Times has made itself the vehicle for disinformation fabricated by — oh, let's come right out and say it — terrorist operatives. It's not an airtight case; you have to use common sense to draw the necessary inferences, which is what the Joint Task Force Guantanamo did. According to Tom, JTF-GTMO deemed both of the Times op-ed contributors "high" risks to the United States and its allies and recommended that they remain in the Defense Department's custody.
Tom's piece is "The stories ex-Gitmo detainees tell." Tom leaves a question hanging that is implicit in his piece: Why would the Times make itself the vehicle for terrorist disinformation?
I should add that the Times has done worse, but still…


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Dual-sided, transparent, flip-capable iPhone Nano?
El Jobso and Co. might just be exploring the possibility according to a recent patent filing unearthed, as usual, by the folks at Apple Insider.
Some of the juicy details include:
"capacitive array element [that] may be a dual-sided panel that is capable of sensing touch from either side and sending signals indicative of the touches to a host device (e.g., a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a digital music player or a mobile telephone unit)."
Of course, many Apple patent filing simply disappear into the dim, dank vaults of 1 Infinite Loop while others show up in ways or products we never could have guessed -- but that certainly doesn't mean we shouldn't try!
I'll admit, the idea doesn't hold much appeal to me, or to those still waiting for their big-apps iTablet Safari Pad, but I've learned never to underestimate Johnny Ive and Cupertino's finest. If anyone could make this little miracle as functional as it is "lick-able", it's them.
What do you think? Does this give us any hard insight into a next-gen iPhone? How does the idea of a translucent touch screen grab you? Is a flip phone a great idea or just another point of failure in the waiting?


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Fish IdentificationLearn more about the various fish species that inhabit North America. Click on a fish's name below to learn more about that species.
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From Childhood Taunts to Finish Line Cheers
IRONMAN Louisville athlete Dan Hyatt survived relentless jabs as an overweight child and adult. Now, he's relentlessly pursuing his first IRONMAN.
by Jessica Elliott
In January of 2012, reliability engineer Dan Hyatt found himself desperately struggling to get to the top of a silo for his work. He could hardly breathe from the effort. At 6 feet tall and topping the scale at 350 pounds, Hyatt knew something had to change. He had struggled with weight loss followed by weight gain—and endless taunts—his entire life.
"As a child, I was called names and harassed about my weight by adults and children alike," says the upcoming IRONMAN Louisville competitor, who will be raising money there through the IRONMAN Foundation. "It is no way to live life."
Now 45, the Ottawa, Illinois resident wanted to set a seemingly impossible goal that would change his life and make him stick with his convictions. His vow? To complete an IRONMAN race within five years.
Several days after his personal promise, Hyatt took his daughter Alora to the pool, swam 10 laps, and was exhausted. The next day, he snuck out of his house at 5:30 a.m., in the frost of winter, and headed back for more. He became a pool regular, swimming farther each visit, and dropped 20 pounds.
"Just to cross that finish line … you can't take that away from me."
Two months later, he took up running, and joined a Couch-to-5K program. "It was with a bunch of women, and they were running by me saying, 'Are you OK?' I was practically standing still," he says. His weight began to plummet, and he started cycling. "That was really fun—I hadn't ridden a bike since I was 15," he says. "I was flipping over the top of handlebars. It was classic. I had never used clipless pedals." Members of the cycling club he rode with that day later told him they thought he'd never return. They weren't the only ones who didn't think he would stick with the training. He says he's sure people doubted him, which only helped fuel the fire.
Hyatt cranked up his running mileage and completed several races. Then he tackled his first sprint triathlon in September of 2012, and his first marathon two months later. Now, he has completed multiple 5Ks, two 10Ks, two half-marathons, four marathons, three sprint triathlons, an Olympic triathlon and two IRONMAN 70.3 races. Through the process, he's dropped 120 pounds.
The road hasn't been easy, however. During Hyatt's first attempt at an Olympic triathlon, a claustrophobic feeling in his wetsuit caused him to have to dog-paddle back to shore halfway through the swim. During another long-course race, he used a new brand of sunscreen and had an allergic reaction that caused him to get sick at mile seven on the run. But he finished.
Through all of the trials and error, Hyatt has kept his sights firmly set on IRONMAN Louisville. A Louisville native, he wanted to complete the race in his hometown, with family and friends waiting for him at the finish line. He began to set aside funds for the entry fee.
In November last year, Hyatt was featured on CNN in a story titled "From Fatman to IRONMAN: Dad Loses 135 Pounds on His Way to the Finish Line." When the story ran, numerous readers offered to pay his way. Instead, Hyatt opted to raise money for the Alliance for A Healthier Generation, which was established by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation to improve childhood obesity rates through such efforts as in-school programs. He has now raised $2,145.
Between planning healthy meals and caring for his family—he has three daughters ages 10 to 17 with wife Shelley—working full time, and getting up for long brick workouts, it often means Hyatt has to roll out of bed at 3 a.m. But he revels in pushing himself: "It's amazing what the human body is capable of," he says. "I'm an endurance junkie now."
Though his daughters don't quite share his fitness passions—"they deal with me," he says— they do enjoy the dinners he cooks each night, often before he heads out for another run or ride. And they are always there for support. His 17-year-old daughter, Moira, designed a logo for the tri top he'll wear in the race, which will be imprinted with the names of everyone who helped donate to his cause.
And of course they'll be cheering him on at the end of the race, along with more than 50 family members and friends (some are even flying in for the event). That's when all of the insults of his past will be replaced by cheers. "Just to cross that finish line … you can't take that away from me."
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Variable Scope
Often, you want to be able to access variables from an enclosing method or class in a lambda expression. Consider this example:
public static void repeatMessage(String text, int count) { Runnable r = () -> { for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) { System.out.println(text); Thread.yield(); } }; new Thread(r).start(); }
Consider a call:
repeatMessage("Hello", 1000); // Prints Hello 1,000 times in a separate thread
Now look at the variables
count and
text inside the lambda expression. Note that these variables are not defined in the lambda expression. Instead, these are parameter variables of the
repeatMessage method.
If you think about it, something not obvious is going on here. The code of the lambda expression may run long after the call to
repeatMessagehas returned and the parameter variables are gone. How do the
text and
count variables stay around?
To understand what is happening, we need to refine our understanding of a lambda expression. A lambda expression has three ingredients:
- A block of code
- Parameters
- Values for the free variables; that is, the variables that are not parameters and not defined inside the code
In our example, the lambda expression has two free variables,
text and
count. The data structure representing the lambda expression must store the values for these variables, in our case,
"Hello" and
1000. We say that these values have been captured by the lambda expression. (It's an implementation detail how that is done. For example, one can translate a lambda expression into an object with a single method, so that the values of the free variables are copied into instance variables of that object.)
The technical term for a block of code together with the values of the free variables is a closure. If someone gloats that their language has closures, rest assured that Java has them as well. In Java, lambda expressions are closures. In fact, inner classes have been closures all along. Java 8 gives us closures with an attractive syntax.
As you have seen, a lambda expression can capture the value of a variable in the enclosing scope. In Java, to ensure that the captured value is well defined, there is an important restriction. In a lambda expression, you can only reference variables whose value doesn't change. For example, the following is illegal:
public static void repeatMessage(String text, int count) { Runnable r = () -> { while (count > 0) { count--; // Error: Can't mutate captured variable System.out.println(text); Thread.yield(); } }; new Thread(r).start(); }
There is a reason for this restriction. Mutating variables in a lambda expression is not thread-safe. Consider a sequence of concurrent tasks, each updating a shared counter.
int matches = 0; for (Path p : files) new Thread(() -> { if (p has some property) matches++; }).start(); // Illegal to mutate matches
If this code were legal, it would be very, very bad. The increment
matches++ is not atomic, and there is no way of knowing what would happen if multiple threads execute that increment concurrently.
Inner classes can also capture values from an enclosing scope. Before Java 8, inner classes were allowed to access only final local variables. This rule has now been relaxed to match that for lambda expressions. An inner class can access any effectively final local variable; that is, any variable whose value does not change.
Don't count on the compiler to catch all concurrent access errors. The prohibition against mutation holds only for local variables. If
matchesis an instance or static variable of an enclosing class, then no error is reported, even though the result is just as undefined.
Also, it's perfectly legal to mutate a shared object, even though it is unsound. For example,
List<Path> matches = new ArrayList<>(); for (Path p : files) new Thread(() -> { if (p has some property) matches.add(p); }).start(); // Legal to mutate matches, but unsafe
Note that the variable
matches is effectively final. (An effectively final variable is a variable that is never assigned a new value after it has been initialized.) In our case,
matches always refers to the same
ArrayList object. However, the object is mutated, and that is not thread-safe. If multiple threads call
add, the result is unpredictable.
There are safe mechanisms for counting and collecting values concurrently. You may want to use streams to collect values with certain properties. In other situations, you may want to use thread-safe counters and collections.
As with inner classes, there is an escape hatch that lets a lambda expression update a counter in an enclosing local scope. Use an array of length 1, like this:
int[] counter = new int[1]; button.setOnAction(event -> counter[0]++);
Of course, code like this is not thread-safe. For a button callback, that doesn't matter, but in general, you should think twice before using this trick.
The body of a lambda expression has the same scope as a nested block. The same rules for name conflicts and shadowing apply. It is illegal to declare a parameter or a local variable in the lambda that has the same name as a local variable.
Path first = Paths.get("/usr/bin"); Comparator<String> comp = (first, second) -> Integer.compare(first.length(), second.length()); // Error: Variable first already defined
Inside a method, you can't have two local variables with the same name. Therefore, you can't introduce such variables in a lambda expression either. When you use the
this keyword in a lambda expression, you refer to the
this parameter of the method that creates the lambda. For example, consider
public class Application() { public void doWork() { Runnable runner = () -> { ...; System.out.println(this.toString()); ... }; ... } }
The expression
this.toString() calls the
toString method of the
Application object, not the
Runnable instance. There is nothing special about the use of
this in a lambda expression. The scope of the lambda expression is nested inside the
doWork method, and
this has the same meaning anywhere in that method.
Default Methods
Many programming languages integrate function expressions with their collections library. This often leads to code that is shorter and easier to understand than the loop equivalent. For example, consider a loop:
for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) System.out.println(list.get(i));
There is a better way. The library designers can supply a
forEach method that applies a function to each element. Then you can simply call
That's fine if the collections library has been designed from the ground up. But the Java collections library was designed many years ago, and there is a problem. If the
Collection interface gets new methods, such as
forEach, then every program that defines its own class implementing
Collection will break until it, too, implements that method. That is simply unacceptable in Java.
The Java designers decided to solve this problem once and for all by allowing interface methods with concrete implementations (called default methods). Those methods can be safely added to existing interfaces. In this section, we'll look at default methods in detail. In Java 8, the
forEach method has been added to the
Iterable interface, a superinterface of
Collection, using the mechanism that I will describe here.
Consider this interface:
interface Person { long getId(); default String getName() { return "John Q. Public"; } }
The interface has two methods:
getId, which is an abstract method, and the default method
getName. A concrete class that implements the
Person interface must, of course, provide an implementation of
getId, but it can choose to keep the implementation of
getName or to override it.
Default methods put an end to the classic pattern of providing an interface and an abstract class that implements most or all of its methods, such as
Collection/AbstractCollection or
WindowListener/WindowAdapter. Now, you can just implement the methods in the interface.
What happens if the exact same method is defined as a default method in one interface and then again as a method of a superclass or another interface? Languages such as Scala and C++ have complex rules for resolving such ambiguities. Fortunately, the rules in Java are much simpler. They are:
- Superclasses win. If a superclass provides a concrete method, default methods with the same name and parameter types are simply ignored.
- Interfaces clash. If a super interface provides a default method, and another interface supplies a method with the same name and parameter types (default or not), then you must resolve the conflict by overriding that method.
Let's look at the second rule. Consider another interface with a
getName method:
interface Named { default String getName() { return getClass().getName() + "_" + hashCode(); } }
What happens if you form a class that implements both of them?
class Student implements Person, Named { ... }
The class inherits two inconsistent
getName methods provided by the
Person and
Named interfaces. Rather than choosing one over the other, the Java compiler reports an error and leaves it up to the programmer to resolve the ambiguity. Simply provide a
getName method in the
Student class. In that method, you can choose one of the two conflicting methods, like this:
class Student implements Person, Named { public String getName() { returnPerson.super.getName(); } ... }
Now assume that the
Named interface does not provide a default implementation for
interface Named { String getName(); }
Can the
Student class inherit the default method from the
Person interface? This might be reasonable, but the Java designers decided in favor of uniformity. It doesn't matter how two interfaces conflict. If at least one interface provides an implementation, the compiler reports an error, and the programmer must resolve the ambiguity.
If neither interface provides a default for a shared method, then we are in the pre-Java 8 situation and there is no conflict. An implementing class has two choices: implement the method, or leave it unimplemented. In the latter case, the class is itself abstract.
I just discussed name clashes between two interfaces. Now consider a class that extends a superclass and implements an interface, inheriting the same method from both. For example, suppose that
Person is a class and
Student is defined as:
class Student extends Person implements Named { ... }
In that case, only the superclass method matters, and any default method from the interface is simply ignored. In our example,
Student inherits the
getName method from
Person, and it doesn't make any difference whether the
Named interface provides a default for
getName or not. This is the "class wins" rule. The "class wins" rule ensures compatibility with Java 7. If you add default methods to an interface, it has no effect on code that worked before there were default methods. But be warned: You can never make a default method that redefines one of the methods in the
Object class. For example, you can't define a default method for
toString or
equals, even though that might be attractive for interfaces such as
List. As a consequence of the "classes win" rule, such a method could never win against
Object.toString or
Static Methods in Interfaces
As of Java 8, you are allowed to add static methods to interfaces. There was never a technical reason why this should be outlawed: It simply seemed to be against the spirit of interfaces as abstract specifications.
Until now, it has been common to place static methods in companion classes. You find pairs of interfaces and utility classes such as
Collection/Collections or
Path/Paths in the standard library.
Have a look at the
Paths class. It has only a couple of factory methods. You can construct a path from a sequence of strings, such as
Paths.get("jdk1.8.0", "jre", "bin"). In Java 8, you can add this method to the
Path interface:
public interface Path { public static Path get(String first, String... more) { return FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(first, more); } ... }
Then the
Paths class is no longer necessary.
When you look at the
Collections class, you will find two kinds of methods. A method such as:
public static void shuffle(List<?> list)
would work well as a default method of the
List interface:
public default void shuffle()
You could then simply call
list.shuffle() on any list.
For a factory method, that doesn't work because you don't have an object on which to invoke the method. That is where static interface methods come in. For example,
public static <T> List<T> nCopies(int n, T o) // Constructs a list of n instances of o
could be a static method of the
List interface. Then you would call
List.nCopies(10, "Fred") instead of
Collections.nCopies(10, "Fred") and it would be clear to the reader that the result is a
It is unlikely that the Java collections library will be refactored in this way, but when you implement your own interfaces, there is no longer a reason to provide a separate companion class for utility methods.
In Java 8, static methods have been added to quite a few interfaces. For example, the
Comparator interface has a very useful static comparing method that accepts a "key extraction" function and yields a comparator that compares the extracted keys. To compare
Person objects by name, use
In this article, I compared strings by length with the lambda expression
(first, second) -> Integer.compare(first.length(), second.length()). But with the static
compare method, we can do much better and simply use
Comparator.compare(String::length). This is a fitting way of closing this article because it demonstrates the power of working with functions. The
compare method turns a function (the key extractor) into a more complex function (the key-based comparator). Such "higher-order functions" are discussed in more detail in my book, as well as in various online resources for Java 8.
Cay S. Horstmann is is a professor of computer science at San Jose State University, a Java Champion, and a frequent speaker at computer industry conferences. He is the author of Java SE 8 For the Really Impatient, published by Addison-Wesley, from which this article is adapted.


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The unofficial rule of not bringing up a bill for a vote in the U.S. House unless a majority of the majority party supports it -- the so-called Hastert rule -- has pushed to the fore recently as a coterie of Republicans say they want the tradition invoked concerning any immigration reform legislation.
And House Speaker John Boehner last week reassured his caucus he would stick to the rule on immigration reform and not schedule a vote without support of a majority of his caucus.
"I don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't have a majority support of Republicans," Boehner told reporters last week after a non-public House GOP conference meeting.
Earlier in June, however, Boehner indicated on ABC's "Good Morning America," he might bring immigration reform to the floor even if it lacked the support of a majority of Republicans.
"What I'm committed to is a fair and open process on the floor of the House, so that all members have an opportunity," Boehner said. "It's not about what I want. It's about what the House wants. And my job is, as speaker, is to ensure that all members on both sides have a fair shot at their ideas."
Conservatives have been vocal in their desire to have Boehner on record as adhering to the unwritten rule named for former Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., that requires support of the "majority of the majority" before any bill is brought to the floor for consideration by the full House.
One GOP member who attended the meeting told The Hill Boehner had argued against the Hastert rule but assured his caucus he'd honor it on immigration, further complicating an already complicated issue.
In the Senate, immigration reform advocates have expressed optimism that the Democratic-led chamber's bipartisan bill will pass by the July 4 recess and think a strong majority -- read: more than 60 votes -- could provide the juice the measure needs to pass the Republican-controlled House.
But many GOP House (and Senate) members object to provisions that would provide a pathway to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants already in the country and want tougher border security provisions.
Enter discussions about the Hastert rule, which basically says no bill should pass the House on the backs of the minority party, or Democrats.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., has suggested Boehner be removed as speaker if he brings an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't carry the support of a majority of Republicans.
"I would consider that a betrayal of the Republican members of the House and a betrayal of Republicans throughout the country," Rohrabacher told WorldNetDaily in an interview published online. "If Speaker Boehner moves forward and permits this to come to a vote even though a majority of Republicans in the House oppose whatever is coming to a vote, he should be removed as speaker."
Boehner caught flak for allowing passage of the fiscal cliff vote on New Year's Day, when less than 40 percent of House Republicans supported the legislation, and the relief bill for states devastated in October by Hurricane Sandy, which passed in mid-January with fewer than 50 Republican votes. Several months later, the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization also passed sans support by a majority of Republicans.
The rule's namesake jumped on Boehner soon after the fiscal cliff and Hurricane Sandy legislation passed, warning Boehner that if he persists relying on Democratic votes to pass legislation, "you're not in power anymore."
"Maybe you can do it once, maybe you can do it twice, but when you start cutting deals where you have to get Democrats to pass the legislation, you're not in power anymore," Hastert said on Fox News Radio a couple of days after the fiscal cliff measure passed.
"When you start passing stuff that your members aren't in line with, all of a sudden your ability to lead is in jeopardy," Hastert said. "Because somebody else is making decisions. The president is making decisions, [House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi] is making decisions, or they are making the decisions in the Senate. All tax bills and all spending bills, under the Constitution, start in the House. When you give up that responsibility you really give up your ability to govern, and that is the problem."
(Hastert, who was speaker from 1999 to 2007, broke his own rule in 2002 to pass the campaign finance reform bill, a bipartisan Senate measure co-sponsored by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russ Feingold, a Democrat representing Wisconsin during his tenure.)
Freshman Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., a conservative, began circulating more than a month ago a petition on the matter, hoping to collect the required 50 signatures to force a vote in a special Republican Conference meeting on the matter. As recently as a couple of weeks ago, petition supporters haven't said how many signatures they've picked up, The Washington Post reported.
Boehner has publicly dismissed the effort and GOP aides privately told the Post they don't think a majority of House Republicans want to further hem in a leadership team already having fits corralling its caucus.
Republican aides said Salmon's provision would set up a system that would allow an internal vote before moving any legislation to the floor if at least 25 Republicans signed a letter requesting the internal gate-keeping tally. Legislation failing to pick up majority support in the internal vote won't be allowed to reach the floor.
"Codifying the Hastert Rule reinforces our resolve to consider legislation that doesn't grow government and doesn't cede legislative power to the minority party," Salmon said in a statement. "I believe this will actually strengthen the hands of our Republican leadership by fostering a unified voice among our conference."
His effort comes after leaders of conservative outside groups, including the heads of the Club for Growth and Heritage Action, sent a letter to Republican members asking them to codify the informal rule, Roll Call said.
"We are writing you today to encourage you to boldly use your majority not only to present a positive conservative vision, but also as the last backstop against the worst excesses of liberalism and Washington deal-making," they wrote. "Liberal Democrats control the White House and the Senate. We should not help their cause by handing them the keys to the House as well."
Hours after Boehner announced his intention not to bring the bill to the floor if it lacked support from a majority of Republicans, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., questioned the House speaker's commitment to immigration overhaul, Roll Call said.
"It is amazing and alarming that Speaker Boehner would allow a minority of House members -- who will never, ever support immigration reform -- to dictate the fate of bipartisan, comprehensive reform that an overwhelming majority of the American people want," said Menendez, a member of the bipartisan Senate "Gang of Eight," which negotiated the bipartisan overhaul. "You have to question the Republican leader's seriousness about real immigration reform if he is willing to put Tea Party politics ahead of the will of the American people. That's not in our national interest and it's certainly not about fixing our broken immigration system."
In his comments to reporters, Boehner took a shot at Democrats and the White House:
"I am increasingly concerned that the White House and Senate Democrats are -- would rather have this as an issue in the 2014 election, rather than to resolve it. It was the president who said that he wanted a robust vote coming out of the Senate, to help move this process along. And yet here's the president, and the Senate Democrats working to limit the number of Republican votes that this immigration bill is likely to get. I think that's unfortunate."
He later said: "I just think the White House and Senate Democrats are going to get very serious. We know that border security is absolutely essential. ... And I frankly think the Senate bill is weak on border security, I think the internal enforcement mechanisms are weak, and the triggers are almost laughable."
"And so if they're serious about getting an immigration bill finished, I think the president and Senate Democrats ought to reach out to their ... Republican colleagues, to build broad bipartisan support for the bill."


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Mark / Mr. Mayor said:gee jun, what a non-sequitur. Thought this post was about tv ratings and professional tennis coverage, please keep the comments relevant.
Say that again? Ratings have to do with the popularity of the sport and the current absence of American heroes has nothing to do with that?
thank you dean. this is really not about TV but it should be about what can you contribute to promote the sport. this site is a perfect example. you get to discuss and disagree on tennis issues. but at the end of the day, it's what you can do to help grow the game.
and mayor, even though you and i do disagree on some things, we can always do something we both enjoy. play the game!!
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- Explain first aid for injuries or illnesses that could occur while motorboating, including hypothermia, heat reactions, dehydration, motion sickness, bugbites, and blisters.
- Identify the conditions that must exist before performing CPR on a person, and explain how such conditions are recognized. Demonstrate proper technique for performing CPR using a training device approved by your counselor.
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- Before doing requirements 3 through 6, successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.
- Name the different types of personal floatation devices (PFDs), and explain when each type should be use. Show how to choose and properly fit a PFD.
- Do the following:
- Explain inboard, outboard, and inboard/outboard motors and the uses and advantages of each. Discuss the special features of a bass boat and a ski boat.
- Explain the safety procedures and precautions involving handling fuel and engine servicing, and equipment storage and placement.
- Explain how to winterize a boat motor and tell why this procedure is necessary.
- Explain the safety procedures and precautions involving swimmers and skiers in the water, passenger positions under way, and boat wakes.
- Show you know safety laws for motorboating by doing the following:
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- Explain the rules or laws that apply to recreational boating in your area or state.
- Discuss how the hazards of weather and heavy water conditions can affect both safety and performance in motorboating.
- Promise that you will follow BSA Safety Afloat guidelines. Explain the meaning of each point.
- Discuss with your counselor the nautical rules of the road and describe the national and your state's aids to navigation.
- Explain and show the correct use of equipment required by both state and federal regulations to be carried aboard a motorboat.
- Explain federal and state rules for a ventilation system, and tell why these rules are required.
- Demonstrate proper boat-handling procedures and skills by doing the following:
- Board and assist others in boarding
- Fuel the boat and complete a safety check.
- Get under way from dockside or from a beach launch.
- Run a course for at least a mile, showing procedures for overtaking and passing slower craft, yielding right-of-way, passing oncoming traffic, making turns, reversing direction, and using navigation aids.
- Stop an secure the boat in position on the open water using anchors; get under way.
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Working in physics: Scientists in the melting pot
Each year the NESTA Crucible programme brings 30 scientists from all fields together for three weekends of thinking "outside the box". David Jenkins explains what he took from the experience.
It is rare to go away for a weekend with almost no idea of what to expect when you get there, but that was very much the case when I arrived in Edinburgh in April last year. I had just flown in from running an experiment at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US, and had five minutes to introduce myself to 30 strangers. With my brain still somewhere halfway across the Atlantic, I fell back on a humorous account of my efforts to promote an Einstein Year event at the University of York where I work. The photographers from the local press had decided to take pictures of me lying face down looking up at some water rockets as they were launched. By the time they got the perfect shot, I was completely soaked and all dignity was lost. The picture looked so dramatic, or ridiculous, that it appeared in several Yorkshire papers. As the assembled group fell about laughing, I knew I was in good company.
I was attending the first of three weekends that made up the 2006 NESTA Crucible programme for early-career researchers. NESTA (the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) has a £300m endowment from the National Lottery to support talent, innovation and creativity in the UK. Being financially and politically independent, NESTA can take some risks in choosing its activities, and Crucible, which aims to enhance the creativity of early-career scientists, is a key part of its mission. The 30 Crucible "fellows" were mostly young scientists drawn from all branches of academia, with a few from industry and government labs. We had applied and been selected largely on the basis of our being receptive to new ways of thinking, and most of us shared a passion for transmitting our enthusiasm for our subjects to the wider public.
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It is hard to explain exactly what the objectives of the Crucible programme were. Indeed, the organizers asked us several times what we as participants wanted to get out of it and some of us in the group wondered whether the NESTA representatives actually knew what they wanted to achieve themselves! From my own perspective, the free-form nature of the programme was one of its more enjoyable aspects, but not knowing what was coming next did not always seem to suit some of the more rational scientists in our group.
Our first weekend in Edinburgh passed at breakneck speed, led by the colourful science writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry. First, we found ourselves up on the crags of Arthur's Seat, as an expert explained how James Hutton, the father of modern geology, had examined these very rocks and shown that the Earth must be very old. We were later taken to the Botanic Gardens, where we were encouraged to assemble models of well-known molecules from plastic sticks and balls. A NESTA fellow had designed this event and was delivering it as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival. He gamely presented the same introductory talk he would have given to 10 year olds, perhaps not the most advisable approach given the large number of research chemists in the group.
After dinner, we returned to the Botanic Gardens for the privilege of a nocturnal tour, where we were forced to fall back on our night vision and sense of smell to experience the same plants and flowers that we had enjoyed earlier in the day. As well as learning about science communication through participation and discussion, we were given time to reflect on our own career paths with advice from "careers doctor" Sara Shinton.
The second weekend saw us begin in a Cambridge college and finish in Westminster. On the way, we learned how science policy is developed in the UK, through talks by MPs who are interested in science and presentations by organizations such as the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. Easily the most restful weekend of the three was the final one held in the beautiful surroundings of Dartington College in Devon. We had asked for – and were given – more space in the programme, being encouraged to dream and look at different ways of working. One of the more popular ideas we came up with was establishing a retreat for young scientists where they could meet likeminded people and spend time on problems away from the daily grind.
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In our everyday lives, we are constantly pushed for results, yet it would be hard for me to point to concrete outcomes from my participation in the Crucible programme. In a broader sense, however, the benefits are too many, subtle and varied to list. The Crucible programme was put together with care and imagination, and pushed us to think in new ways. It was an amazing opportunity to meet very active young scientists from a wide range of different backgrounds and disciplines.
In academic life, it is a rare treat to be able to spend so much time sharing ideas with people from different areas of the sciences. Indeed, we enjoyed the experience so much that we decided to organize a fourth weekend ourselves, after applying to NESTA for additional funding. I acted as the host for the event, held in March this year at the University of York, which nearly all of the other fellows were able to attend. The weekend focused on issues that we were passionate about, such as public engagement, science education and career paths for young researchers. To keep our identity going, we styled ourselves "The Invisible College" and we are now working on projects including collaborations between scientists and artists, and a leaflet that gives advice about organizing outreach events.
It has been a great privilege to participate in the Crucible programme and I would greatly encourage any young scientists who want to broaden their horizons to apply.
Crucible programme
The NESTA Crucible programme aims to encourage innovation by bringing together bright thinkers from a broad range of scientific disciplines. Each year 30 early-career researchers are selected as "fellows", spending three weekends together participating in seminars, skill sessions, guest lectures and discussions designed to help them see their work in the broader context of society, politics and the media. Applications for the 2007 NESTA Crucible programme have now closed, but more details of the scheme are available at www.nesta.org.uk/programmes/crucible.
About the author
David Jenkins is an experimental nuclear physicist at the University of York, UK. He is actively involved in public engagement with science and organizes an evening lecture programme in York for the local branch of the Institute of Physics.
This article originally appeared in the July 2007 issue of Physics World
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A tightly coordinated effort by outside Republican groups, spearheaded by Karl Rove and fueled by tens of millions of dollars in contributions from Wall Street hedge fund moguls and other wealthy donors, helped secure big GOP midterm victories Tuesday, according to campaign spending figures and Republican fundraising insiders.
Leading the GOP spending pack was a pair of groups — American Crossroads and its affiliate, Crossroads GPS — both of which were co-founded by two former aides in the George W. Bush White House: Rove, and Ed Gillespie.
Together, the groups — which are not formally part of the Republican Party — spent more than $38 million on attack ads and campaign mailings against Democrats, according to figures compiled by the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign spending in congressional races.
A substantial portion of Crossroads GPS' money came from a small circle of extremely wealthy Wall Street hedge fund and private equity moguls, according to GOP fundraising sources who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity. These donors have been bitterly opposed to a proposal by congressional Democrats — and endorsed by the Obama administration — to increase the tax rates on compensation that hedge funds pay their partners, the sources said.
A scorecard compiled by NBC News shows the ad barrage appeared to mostly pay off: Republican candidates won nine of the 12 Senate races and 14 of 22 House races where American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS spent money.
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That had the groups' leaders gloating Wednesday about what they described as their pivotal role in the election results.
'A decisive blow for freedom'
"Thank you, America!" read the banner headline on a blog posting by Steve Law, president of American Crossroads, on the group's website. The posting proclaimed that the organizations' team had "struck a decisive blow for freedom" with the election results. "Together we not only retired House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, we also achieved the largest House seat switch since 1938!" Law wrote.
While it is hard to calculate exactly how much of an impact the Crossroads groups had in an election that was tilting Republican for a variety of reasons, their efforts helped fuel an substantial overall spending advantage by outside GOP groups. Overall, outside Republican groups outspent outside Democratic groups, $245 million to $191 million — a $54 million edge.
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House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
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The Crossroads affiliates and similar groups were formed after a controversial Supreme Court ruling in January that permitted outside political groups to collect unlimited contributions from corporations, labor unions and other wealthy donors and use them directly on campaign ads. In addition, groups that were organized as nonprofit "advocacy" organizations (such as Crossroads GPS) did not have to disclose the identity of their donors.
As a result, the airwaves this campaign season were flooded with millions of dollars in attack ads, paid for by secret donors. Out of nearly $300 million spent on congressional campaigns ads by both parties, 42 percent were funded by undisclosed donors, according to a study by the Center for Responsive Politics.Video: President Obama humbled by voters (on this page)
Just behind the Crossroads groups in outside spending on the GOP-side were the Chamber of Commerce ($31 million) and the American Action Network ($14 million), according to Sunlight Foundation figures. Neither disclosed the identity of its donors.
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House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
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While outside Democratic groups belatedly tried to mimic the GOP efforts, they fell short. America's Families First Action Fund, a group founded by a number of former Democratic strategists that operated much like American Crossroads, wasn't organized until last summer and spent just $5.5 million — $1 million of which came from a non-disclosing nonprofit affiliate, according to the Sunlight Foundation. The big outside spenders on the Democratic side were labor unions such as AFSME ($10.7 million) and the SEIU ($10 million.)
See scorecard for Democrat-leaning outside groups
Groups coordinated spending, insiders say
In addition to the spending advantage, outside GOP groups like the Crossroads groups, Americans for Prosperity and Club for Growth coordinated their efforts, divvying up which groups would spend in which races at which times. The groups' leaders would meet and talk regularly in sessions often led by Rove or one of his associates, according to the two GOP fundraising sources familiar with how the organizations worked.
The coordination could be seen in spending patterns in key Senate races.
In Illinois, for example, GOP winner Mark Kirk benefited from $5.5 million in attack ads from the Crossroads groups targeting his Democratic opponent, Alexi Giannoulias.
In Wisconsin, meanwhile, the Crossroads groups didn't spend any money, but the Chamber of Commerce spent $748,000 on attack ads that helped defeat Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold. (Feingold, ironically, was co-author of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law whose restrictions on advertisements by outside groups was overturned by the Supreme Court ruling earlier this year, paving the way for the creation of groups such as American Crossroads.)
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The long term impact of the spending by the outside groups during this election will be to lay the groundwork for an even bigger effort during the presidential campaign two years from now. That will substantially diminish the role of the two political parties, according to campaign finance experts.Video: GOP to launch 'transition team' (on this page)
Other than running primaries, "who needs (political parties)?" asked Brett Kappel, a Washington lawyer who specializes in campaign finance laws. Contributions to the parties remain "heavily regulated," under strict limits and must be publicly disclosed, he noted.
"After this election," Kappel said, "all of that can be outsourced to unregulated entities that don't have to disclose their donors."
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA--Three members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's track and field team have been honored by the Little East Conference.
Junior Krista Chauvin (Seekonk, MA/Seekonk HS/Stonehill) was named LEC Women's Field Athlete of the Week, senior Jillian Van Ness (Agawam, MA/Agawam HS) was named LEC Women's Track Athlete of the Week, and Junior Brett Croteau (Dighton, MA/Dighton-Rehoboth HS) was named LEC Men's Field Athlete of the Week.
At last week's Minuteman Invitational, hosted by the University of Massachusetts, Chauvin broke the school record in the hammer with a toss of 181 feet, nine inches, and was also fifth in the discus at 132-7. Van Ness was a member of the 4 x 400 meter relay team finished sixth in a school record time of 4:05.23. Van Ness also set a school record when she finished fourth at 400 meters in 58.62 seconds. Croteau finished first in his event, winning the javelin with a throw of 193 feet, two inches.
"Krista continues to improve as the weather becomes more spring-like," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner, "Her throw at UMass Amherst was her all-time best, and is the second best throw in the country to date. She is on a mission, and her work ethic is leading the way. It's good to see Jillian putting things together as we get to the end of her college career. She overcame injuries to have a good season indoors, and we are looking forward to the championship meets coming up in the near future. Brett is Mr. Consistency, he has placed in all four of his competitions this spring, he's currently ranked 12th in the country."
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"The Big Bang Theory" star Kaley Cuoco led the cast and crew of her hit CBS show in a flash mob during the Oct. 23 live taping, surprising showrunners Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady and Steve Molaro.
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A moment from the World Cup final to remember? Maybe there was nothing quite as crazy as the infamous Zidane head-butt on Materazzi in 2006, but the kung fu kick the Netherlands' Nigel De Jong landed on the chest of Spain's Xabi Alonso came close.
One blogger likened it to the famous kick that Charlie Murphy put on Rick James. Only this one was real.
Otherwise, outside of Barcelona, the South African cup will be remembered for a couple things. One is those infernal vuvuzelas, a beautiful word for an ugly sound.
Long saddled with announcers who know little about the game, American fans got a treat in witty British commentator Martin Tyler. I nearly fell over when, late in a scoreless final, he said "It's even getting late for the Spanish," a reference to the infamous dinner hour in Madrid. But fear not–a tasty morsel of a goal showed up just before the midnight hour arrived, just like the tapas.
Paul the Octopus made himself such a national hero in Spain that recipes for paella will have to be changed. (Getty Images)
Speaking of tapa ingredients, the hero of the cup was really Paul the Octopus, who called all seven of Germany's matches correctly and then also musseled in on the final, giving him one correct prediction for every leg. His aquarium keepers in Germany on Monday presented him with a replica World Cup, but also say the seer sucker will be retiring, to groans from bettors everywhere.
It seems incredible that people would take the predictions of a mollusk seriously. I mean, what does someone who lives in a tank know about soccer? Now if it were water polo…


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Iowa City, IA 52242
BS, Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, Wisconsin
PhD, Human Cancer Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madision, Wisconsin
Post Doctorate, Department of Radiation Oncology, Arizona Cancer Center, The University of Arizona
Post Doctorate, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, , The University of Arizona, Arizona Cancer Center
Education/Training Program Affiliations
Department of Pathology Graduate Program
Free Radical and Radiation Biology Graduate Program
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Toxicology
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Translational Biomedicine
Medical Scientist Training Program
Research Summary
My laboratory focuses on the transcriptional regulation of cancer related genes including oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Specifically, we are studying the molecular mechanisms by which aberrant cytosine methylation of CpG dinucleotides affects gene expression during the development of cancer. We have focused primarily on the tumor suppressor gene SOD2 that encodes the antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase. We have determined that site specific DNA methylation of the SOD2 gene promoter can suppress its transcriptional activation. Thus, cytosine methylation of genetic regulatory elements within this important tumor suppressor gene can mediate its inactivation. We are also studying transcription factor AP-2 and its interactions with the SOD2 promoter. Interestingly, these interactions are affected by DNA methylation. We are also assessing chromatin accessibility in the region of the SOD2 promoter in cells that differentially express the gene. Our future research directions will be aimed at elucidating the role of cytosine methylation as a mechanism for inactivation of other genes involved in protection against oxidative damage as well as other classical tumor suppressor genes, and to elucidate the mechanism(s) by which CpG methylation can bring about these changes in gene expression. We have recently become interested in cancer therapy using the human sodium iodide symporter. When expression of this gene is activated, either by gene transfer of epigenetic reactivation, tumor cells acquire the thyroid-like phenotype of iodide concentration. This activity can be exploited as a tool for imaging gene delivery and expression in humans in clinical translational trials of gene therapy; or as a means to deliver therapy itself depnding on which radioisotope of iodine is used.
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Cancer and Aging Program
Center for Gene Therapy of Cystic Fibrosis and other Genetic Diseases
Environmental Health Sciences Research Center
Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
Iowa Initiative in Human Genetics
Selected Publications
Nelson M, Domann F, Bowden G, Hooser S, Fernando Q, Carter D. Effects of acute and sub-chronic exposure of topically applied fullerene extracts on the mouse skin. Toxicol. Ind. Health. 1993. 9(4):623-630.
Clifton K, Domann F, Groch K. On the cells of origin of radiogenic thyroid cancer: New studies based on an old idea.. J. Radiat. Res. 1991. 32:143-155.
Domann F, Mitchen J, Clifton K. Restoration of thyroid function following total thyroidectomy and quantitative thyroid cell transplantation. Endocrinology. 1990. 127(6):2673-2678.
Seed T, Kaspar L, Domann F, Niiro G, LeBuis D. Developmental and radiobiologic characteristics of canine multinucleated, osteoclast-like cells generated in vitro from canine bone marrow. Scanning Microsc. 1988. 2(3):1599-1611.
Watanabe H, Tanner M, Domann F, Gould M, Clifton K. Inhibition of carcinoma formation and of vascular invasion in grafts of radiation-initiated thyroid clonogens by unirradiated thyroid cells. Carcinogenesis. 1988. 9(8):1329-1335.


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For those who think I've already broken my resolution, you're wrong. I haven't posted much for several days as I've been adding in the Golesworthy data sent to me by a member of another branch of my husband's family.
Like my father, he has also spent over 40 years researching his family, and has got back to the 1700's. So here's a screenshot of the family tree of Walter Golesworthy, my husband's grandfather.
To view full size – click the image, and then click the size link (1361 x 481) just above the new image.
I still have some data to add, and some dates to try and track down if I can, but I've certainly been given a great present!


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LM: The teacher says there are twelve different shapes!
CW: That may be so, but I don't believe it.
LF: If joined together properly there are twelve - she said so.
CW: Have you found them?
CW: NO. You have not! I don't think you have anywhere near twelve solutions. You pair never work systematically at anything.
LM: We do have seven though Chi Wing.
CW: Listen just what were you asked to do? Little Fung you explain...
LF: Each 'animal' is made up of five squares.
LM: Always five squares!
CW: Little Ming shush, Little Fung carry on please..
LF: The squares have to be joined in a special way...
CW: Before, you said ONLY edge to edge, that is right isn't it?
LM: Yes, not corner to corner or ....
CW: Little Ming quiet - you never listen to the whole story..
LF: The edges must be completely touching each other.
CW: Show me please..explain..
( With squares of paper CW is shown....)
LM: But not like this ..
CW: So if we move them around systematically we should be able to find the twelve different ones.
LF: Yes...but we can only find seven..
LM: Perhaps we should have sketched out those we have already found.
LF: I think we should start again ..
CW: Yes let us start at the beginning ...with all the squares in a line..
LM: Let us begin by moving one square at a time..
CW: So which square shall we start with?
LF: Does it matter?
LM: Yes, if we are to be systematic like Chi Wing always is, and find all twelve..
CW: So instead of bickering - which square shall we start with?
In the meantime, complete the silhouettes of Chi Wing studying the problem, then working systematically. There are more activities in the notes , and the story continues in World of Tan 26 - Old Chestnut .


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I'm hoping to be lugging my kites around quite a bit, and if and when I travel, I'll need a good case to safely transport all the hardware. I could rent a case when I travel, but it dawned on me that I have something already in my house that may do the trick. An electric guitar case...
I've had this guitar for probably 10 years, but I'm not that good, I hardly ever play it, and the guitar pretty much sits on a stand as much for decoration as anything else. The case sits empty. But looking at it, it seems to be about the right size to fit Rev spars, and whatever else I can get in there.
So, I opened it up, and pried out the styrofoam form that the guitar sits in, leaving an empty bare shell. The case itself is not all that sturdy without the inside form that comes together when the case is closed, so I needed to find a material that was similar. I went to the hardware store, and found this...
It's a rigid foam insulation. It's 3/4 inch thick, and a 4' x 8' sheet cost less than $10. Measuring the depth of the case, 3 layers of this insulation will fill the bottom half, and 2 layers will fill the upper, almost perfectly. And I could get all 5 pieces from 1 sheet.
So I cut 5 pieces to fit the case, and placed them inside. Then, I made cutouts in the topmost layer of the bottom half to fit in the spars.
I made separate slots to fit the center spar with ferrules for both the Rev 1 and 1.5, and for the rest of the spars of each. I made them large enough to hold 3 full sets for each kite.
I also figured I would see how much of my other hardware I could make space for in there. As you can see, I've accommodated quite a lot:
6 sets of spars,
2 sets of handles,
a multitool with knife, pliers, etc,
a stake (I've got room to add a second),
a 120', 75' and 25' lineset (last one not cut in yet),
a spool of thin gauge wire for threading sleeving if necessary,
and a whole batch of IKE cards!
And if I want to carry the sails in there, I can remove one of the insulation layers in the lid, and have room to lay them in there too.
I think it's going to be convenient enough that I may just carry the stuff in there on a regular basis.
Rev Travel Case
The result of our kite making adventures
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Sweet set up Jeff . You might want to apply for the patent now
I really like the cut out for the IKE cards!
I really like the cut out for the IKE cards!
It's a great satisfaction knowing that for a brief point in time you made a difference.
Re: Rev Travel Case
wow, that's really pretty nice...
Chris (aka Babbman)
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety...
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Chris (aka Babbman)
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety...
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Re: Rev Travel Case
That is sooooo dang cool.
Re: Rev Travel Case
very nice travel case you should sell them
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brownssl wrote:very nice travel case you should sell them
Thanks, but I'm not sure how I'll recoup the $$ for each guitar.
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Very nice Jeff. Will we see it at Kite Party? Are you coming? How's the new job going?
Go Fly Together! Share the Joy, Share the Fun
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WOW, the best Kite case ever... and since you don't use the guitar, maybe you want to sell it? PM me, if you do, that will bring a little change for your trip to California.
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Its a Beauty, think it might be a KEEPER!! That is till that kite collection really starts to grow.
May Ol Ma Nature never hold her
breath on you.
breath on you.
Re: Rev Travel Case
Jim Foster wrote:Very nice Jeff. Will we see it at Kite Party? Are you coming?
I'm going to bring it up with management tomorrow...
Re: Rev Travel Case
Very impressive! You really have been pulled into the dark side.
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Zac Efron and Marcia Gay Harden are joining Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver in the cast of "Parkland," the producers announced on Wednesday.
Based on the epic book "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy," by the author and former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, the adapted screenplay is written by journalist and novelist Peter Landesman, who also will make his directorial debut here.
The book recounts the true story of the chaotic events that occurred at Parkland Hospital in Dallas on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
The film, to be shot in Austin, Tex., is destined for a 2013 U.S. theatrical release around the 50th anniversary of the assassination.
It will be produced by Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman and Exclusive Media, who will also be financing.
"Zac Efron continues to impress us with his recent shift into more dramatic roles which showcase his exceptional acting skills, and Marcia Gay Harden is an unparalleled actress who gives tour de force performances in every film she appears," said Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, Exclusive Media's co-chairmen, in a statement. "We look forward to seeing their combined talent in Peter Landesman's powerful and mesmerizing story alongside the excellent cast already attached to this film."


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