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Documentary Editions and Publications
Collected Papers Editions
Boyd, Julian P., et al, eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Vols. 1-. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950- LC Call Number: E 302 .J442 1950a
Ford, Paul Leicester, ed. The Works of Thomas Jefferson. 12 vols. New York; London: G.P. Putnam's Sons and The Knickerbocker Press, 1904. LC Call Number: E302 .J472
Peterson, Merrill, ed. Thomas Jefferson. Writings. New York: The Library of America, 1984. LC Call Number: E302 .J442 1984
Peterson, Merrill, ed. The Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, c1993. LC Call Number: E302 .J442 1993c
Peterson, Merrill, ed. Thomas Jefferson. Public and Private Papers. New York: The Library of America, 1990. LC Call Number: E302 .J442 1990
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson , ed. The Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 4 vols. London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829; Charlottesville: F. Carr, and Co., 1829. LC Call Number: E302 .J46
Special Editions
Adams, Dickinson W., and Ruth W. Lester, eds. Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels: "The Philosophy of Jesus" and "The Life and Morals of Jesus". The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. LC Call Number: BS2549 .J5 J43 1983
Bear, James A., Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds. Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. 2 Vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, with Commentary and Relevant Extracts from Other Writings. c1953; Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976. LC Call Number: S451 .V8 J4 1976
Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, 1766-1824. With Relevant Extracts from His Other Writings. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1944. LC Call Number: SB479 .J4
Cappon, Lester J., ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1988. LC Call Number: E322 .A4 1988
Chinard, Gilbert, ed. The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1926. LC Call Number: E302 .J442 1997
Howell, Wilbur Samuel, ed. Jefferson's Parliamentary Writings: "Parliamentary Pocket-Book" and A Manual of Parliamentary Practice. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. LC Call Number: KF4982 .J44 1988
McLaughlin, Jack, ed. To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Letters to a President. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. LC Call Number: E332.86 1991
Peden, William, ed. Thomas Jefferson. Notes on Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1955. LC Call Number: F230 .J5102 1955
Randolph, Sarah N. The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences by Sarah N. Randolph. c1871; Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978. LC Call Number: E332.25 .R2 1978
Sawvel, Franklin B., ed. The Anas of Thomas Jefferson. 1903; New York: Da Capo Press, 1970. LC Call Number: E310 .J45 1970
Smith, James Morton, ed. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826. 3 Vols. c1994; New York: Norton, 1995. LC Call Number: E332.88 .M33 1995
Wilson, Douglas L. , ed. Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. LC Call Number: E332.9 .C6 J44 1989
Wilson, Douglas L., ed. Jefferson's Legal Commonplace Book. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming.
Wilson, Douglas L, and Lucia C. Stanton, eds. Jefferson Abroad. Modern Library Edition. New York: Modern Library, 1999. LC Call Number: E332.45 .J44 1999
Biographies and Essays
Albro, Sylvia R. and Holly H. Krueger. "The History, Examination and Conservation Treatment of the Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London." Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the Institute of Paper Conservation, 6-9 April 1997, Jane Eagan, ed.. London: IPC, 1998
Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson, Statesman of Science. New York: Macmillan, 1990. LC Call Number: E332.2 .B37 1990
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson. With a new preface. c1948; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1993. LC Call Number: B878 .B6 1993
Brodie, Fawn. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. New York: Norton, 1974. LC Call Number: E332 .B787
Bush, Alfred L. The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, Virginia: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1987. LC Call Number: 1962 Edition, N7628.J4 V58
Burstein, Andrew. The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. LC Call Number: E332 .B96 1996
Cunningham, Noble E. The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye: Portraits for the People, 1800-1809. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981. LC Call Number: N7628 .J4 C86
Cunningham, Noble E. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1987. LC Call Number: E332 .C95 1987
Dos Passos, John. The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson. Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. LC Call Number: E332 .D6
Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. LC Call Number: E332.2 .E45 1997
Ellis, Joseph J. "American Sphinx: The Contradictions of Thomas Jefferson." Civlization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress. November-December, 1997. LC Call Number: AS30 .C48
Hellenbrand, Harold. The Unfinished Revolution: Education and Politics in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson. Newark: University of Delaware Press ; London: Associated University Presses, c1990. LC Call Number: E332.2 .H45 1990
McKitrick, Eric. "The View from Jefferson's Camp,"The New York Review of Books, December 17, 1970. LC Call Number: AP2 .N6552
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time. 6 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1948-1981. LC Call Number: E332 .M25
Miller, John Chester. The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, Published with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, c1991. LC Call Number: E332.2 .M54 1991
Onuf, Peter S., ed. Jeffersonian Legacies. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993. Contents:
- The Religious Pilgrimage of Thomas Jefferson, by Paul K. Conkin
- Jefferson and the Republic of Letters, by Douglas L. Wilson
- 'The Blessings of Domestic Society': Thomas Jefferson's Family and the Transformation of American Politics, by Jan Lewis
- 'Those Who Labor for My Happiness': Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves, by Lucia C. Stanton
- Jefferson and Slavery: 'Treason Against the Hopes of the World,' by Paul Finkelman
- The Intellectual Reconstruction of Virginia in the Age of Jefferson, by Jack P. Greene
- Putting Rights Talk in Its Place: The Summary View Revisited, by Stephen A. Conrad
- 'The Earth Belongs in Usufruct to the Living,' by Herbert Sloan
- Thomas Jefferson and the American Democratic Experience: The Origins of the Partisan Press, Popular Political Parties, and Public Opinion, by Michael Lienesch
- Jefferson's Union and the Problem of Internal Improvements, by John Lauritz Larson
- Jefferson and American Foreign Policy, by Walter Lafeber
- The Trials and Tribulations of Thomas Jefferson, by Gordon S. Wood
- The Strange Career of Thomas Jefferson: Race and Slavery in American Memory, 1943-1993, by Scot A. French and Edward L. Ayers
Onuf, Peter S. "The Scholars' Jefferson," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, L:4 (October 1993), 671-699. LC Call Number: F221 .W71
Peterson, Merrill. The Jefferson Image in the American Mind. c1960; Charlotteville: University Press of Virginia, 1998 LC Call Number: E332.2 .P4 1998
Peterson, Merrill. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. LC Call Number: E332 .P45
Peterson, Merrill. Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986. LC Call Number: E 332 .T43 1986
Randall, Henry S. The Life of Thomas Jefferson. 3 vols. New York: Derby and Jackson, 1858; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1888. LC Call Number: E332 .R19
Sheldon, Garrett Ward. The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. LC Call Number: E332.2 .S54 1991
Sloan, Herbert E. Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. LC Call Number: HJ8032.A2 S55 1995
Stuart, Reginald C. The Half-Way Pacifist: Thomas Jefferson's View of War. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c1978. LC Call Number: E332.2 .S87
Wallace, Anthony F. C. Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. LC Call Number: E93 .W18 1999
Wilson, Douglas L. Jefferson's Books. Monticello Monograph Series. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1986. LC Call Number: Z997 .J48 1996
Wilson, Douglas L. "Thomas Jefferson and the Character Issue," The Atlantic Monthly, 270:5 (November 1992), 57-74. LC Call Number: AP2 .A8
Bear, James A., ed. Jefferson at Monticello. Containing "Memoirs of a Monticello Slave," as Dictated to Charles Campbell by Isaac. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1967. LC Call Number: E332.15 .B4
Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. LC Call Number: E332.2 .G67 1997
Langhorne, Elizabeth Coles. Monticello, a Family Story. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987. LC Call Number: E332.74 .L36 1987
Lewis, Jan, and Peter S. Onuf, eds. Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. LC Call Number: E332.2 .S24 1999
McLaughlin, Jack. Jefferson and Monticello, the Biography of a Builder. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. LC Call Number: E332.2 .M43 1988
Peterson, Merrill, ed. Visitors to Monticello. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989. LC Call Number: E332.74 .V57 1989
Stanton, Lucia. Slavery at Monticello. Monticello Monograph Series. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1996. LC Call Number: E332.2 S73 1996
Stein, Susan R. The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. New York: H.N. Abrams, in association with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation,1993. LC Call Number: E332.2 .S84 1993
Books for Young Readers
Barrett, Marvin. Meet Thomas Jefferson. New York: Random House, 1989. LC Call Number: E332.79 .B3 1989
Bober, Natalie S. Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain. New York: Atheneum, 1988. LC Call Number: E332.79 .B63 1988
Stefoff, Rebecca. Thomas Jefferson: Third President of the United States. Ada, Oklahoma: Garrett Educational Corporation, 1988. LC Call Number: E332.79 .S73 1988
The Colonial Period
Dewey, Frank L. Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. LC Call Number: KF363.J4 D48 1986
Kimball, Marie. Jefferson: The Road to Glory, 1743 to 1776. c1943; New York: Greenwood Press, 1977. LC Call Number: E332 .K5 1977
McColley, Robert. Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia. c1964; Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. LC Call Number: E445 .V8 M12 1973
The American Revolution
Selby, John E. The Revolution in Virginia. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Charlottesville: Distributed by University Press of Virginia, c1988. LC Call Number: E263.V8 S45 1988
The Declaration of Independence
Boyd, Julian. The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of a Text. Ed. by Gerard W. Gawalt. Rev. ed. Charlottesville, Va.: International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello in Association with the Library of Congress, 1999. LC Call Number: E221 .B69 1999.
Fliegelman, Jay. Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. LC Call Number: E332.2 .F55 1993
Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Knopf, 1997. LC Call Number: E221 .M24 1997
Wills, Garry. Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978. LC Call Number: E221 .W64
The Early Republic
Adams, William Howard. The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1997. LC Call Number: E332.45 .A32 1997
Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. LC Call Number: E99. O3 A46 1996
Bailyn, Bernard. "Thomas Jefferson: No American Should Come to Europe under 30 Years of Age." In Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence. New York: Knopf, 1990. LC Call Number: E208 .B2 1990
Banning, Lance. The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. LC Call Number: E302.1 .B2
Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power: Party Operations, 1801-1809. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1963. LC Call Number: JK 2316 .C82
Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. The Process of Government under Jefferson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. LC Call Number: JK180 .C86
Elkins, Stanley, and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. LC Call Number: E310 .E45 1993
Ellis, Richard E. The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. LC Call Number: KF5130 .E44
Johnstone, Robert M., Jr. Jefferson and the Presidency, Leadership in the Young Republic. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. LC Call Number: E331 .J69
Kaplan, Lawrence S. Jefferson and France: An Essay on Politics and Political Ideas. c1967; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980. LC Call Number: E332.45 .K3 1980
Koch, Adrienne. Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration. c1950; Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 1986. LC Call Number: E332.2 .K63 1986
Levy, Leonard Williams. Jefferson & Civil Liberties: The Darker Side. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, c1963; Reprint, Chicago: I. R. Dee, 1989. LC Call Number: KF4749 .L484 1989
McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c1976. LC Call Number: E331 .M32
Matthews, Richard K. The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson: A Revisionist View. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c1984. LC Call Number: E332.2 .M37 1984
Mayer, David N. The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. LC Call Number: E332.2 .M38 1994
Miller, Charles A. Jefferson and Nature: An Interpretation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. LC Call Number: E 332.2 .M53 1988
Rice, Howard C. L'Hotel de Langeac, Jefferson's Paris Residence. Monticello: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1947. LC Call Number: NA7348 .P2 R5 1948
Sheehan, Bernard W. Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1973. LC Call Number: E93 .S54
Spivak, Burton. Jefferson's English Crisis: Commerce, Embargo, and the Republican Revolution. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. LC Call Number: E331 .S68
Tucker, Robert W., and David C. Hendrickson. Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. LC Call Number: E332.45 .T83 1990
Sisson, Dan. The American Revolution of 1800. New York, Knopf, 1974. LC Call Number: E310 .S57 1974
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Jamestown Rediscovery, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Monticello: The Home of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University
Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive, University of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, [manuscript], [1781-1784], Massachusetts Historical Society


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WHI Observational Study Suggests Increased Physical Activity Reduces Breast Cancer Risk
Women trying to lose weight can benefit as much from a
moderate physical activity as from an intense workout,
according to a new study supported by the National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
Prior studies had focused on short-term weight loss. Data
were lacking about the optimal degree and amount of
physical activity for long-term weight loss.
The study — "Effect of Exercise Dose and Intensity on
Weight Loss in Overweight, Sedentary Women: A Randomized
Trial" — appears in the September 10, 2003, issue of "The
Journal of the American Medical Association" (JAMA).
The same issue of "JAMA" also includes an article on
recreational physical activity and breast cancer risk. The
study, based on data from the Women's Health Initiative's
Observational Study, found that increased physical activity
was associated with a reduced risk for breast cancer in
postmenopausal women. Longer duration physical activity
gave the most benefit but the physical activity did not
need to be strenuous to reduce breast cancer risk.
The exercise dose and intensity trial involved 201
overweight but otherwise healthy women ages 21-45. All
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randomly assigned to one of four physical activity
regimens, which varied by intensity and duration. The
regimens consisted of either a moderate- or vigorous-
intensity physical activity performed for either a shorter
(2? to 3? hours per week) or longer (3? to 5 hours per
week) duration. The physical activity consisted primarily
of brisk walking, and the regimens used about 1,000 or
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Women in all four groups lost a significant amount of
weight — about 13 to 20 pounds — and maintained their
weight loss for a year. They also improved their
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Tlusty scores twice in Hurricanes' win over Islanders
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Jiri Tlusty scored his first two goals of the season, and Cam Ward made 22 saves as the Carolina Hurricanes held on for a 4-3 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday night.
Tlusty netted his first goal 1:05 into the second, jamming a loose puck past Evgeni Nabokov. Jordan Staal added his first with a wrist shot from the left circle at 6:36, and Jeff Skinner made it 3-0 at 13:37 with his third. He leads the Hurricanes (4-2-3) with nine points.
Matt Moulson broke through for the Islanders with his third of the season on the power play with 1:07 left in the second. John Tavares assisted, giving him a seven-game point streak. The Islanders captain has four goals and six assists during the streak.
Tlusty scored his second of the game 11:06 into the third, finishing a 2-on-1 break with Alexander Semin.
New York's Frans Nielsen scored his fourth on a power play at 13:19 of the third before Kyle Okposo made it 4-3 with 1:01 left.
The Islanders (3-3-2) sustained their first regulation loss in five home games. New York had posted two wins and two shootout losses at Nassau Coliseum.
Carolina won all three meetings last season from the Islanders, who are now their division rival. The Hurricanes are 21-5-5 in their last 31 games against New York and 10-1-2 in their past 13 visits to Long Island.
The Islanders were forced to play with five defensemen after veteran Lubomir Visnovsky was knocked out of the game with five minutes left in the first period. The team said he sustained a concussion after absorbing a hard hit.
The Islanders had another scare with just over nine minutes left the second when Nabokov collided with sliding teammate Matt Carkner in the crease. Nabokov was face down for several minutes, and was attended to by a trainer before he slowly got to his feet and stayed in the game.
NOTES: Hurricanes defenseman Ron Hainsey played his 600th NHL game. ... Carolina was without injured goalie Anton Khudobin (lower body), forward Elias Lindholm (upper body) and defensemen Tim Gleason (concussion) and Joni Pitkanen (heel surgery). ... Long Island native Mike Komisarek played his second game for the Hurricanes. The 31-year-old defenseman previously played for Montreal and Toronto.


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Rates of cancer screening and provider counseling are currently below the Healthy People (HP) 2020 targets, according to a study published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Preventing Chronic Disease.
Martin L. Brown, Ph.D., from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues examined national performance toward HP 2020 targets for cancer screenings, provider counseling, and health care access for the overall population and specific sociodemographic subgroups. Data from the 2008 and 2010 National Health Interview Surveys were assessed and compared with HP 2020 targets.
The researchers found that there were slight declines in the rates of breast and cervical cancer screening, and a 7 percent increase in colorectal cancer screening rates from 2008 to 2010. Cancer screening and provider counseling rates were below HP targets.
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For subgroups with low income, no health insurance, or no usual source of care, meeting HP targets seems less likely. An 18 percent increase in health insurance coverage for under-65-year-olds and a 10 percent increase in the proportion of 18- to 64-year-olds with a usual source of care would be required to meet HP targets for access to health services.
"Whether HP objectives for cancer screening and health care access are met may depend on implementation of health care reform measures that improve access to and coordination of care," the authors write.


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Bloomfire has created a tool that gives LinkedIn users more collaboration capabilities, including creation, publishing and sharing of multimedia content, when participating in the site's discussion groups, Bloomfire said on Tuesday.
The add-on, called Bloomfire for LinkedIn Groups, is free and also makes it possible for group members to post and share text documents like PDFs, in addition to images, videos, slide presentations and screencasts.
When a member posts content using Bloomfire, the LinkedIn group's administrator has the option to block use of the application, a Bloomfire spokesman said. Administrators can also introduce Bloomfire for their LinkedIn groups and promote the use of the app among their group members.
According to LinkedIn, there are more than 1 million discussion groups on the professional networking site, which has about 175 million members worldwide. About 75,000 third-party developers have used LinkedIn APIs (application programming interfaces) to build add-on applications and tools for the site.
Bloomfire built the application using LinkedIn's API for its Groups section. Bloomfire also markets a fee-based version of its cloud-based workplace collaboration and learning application that works in a stand-alone fashion.
However, it plans to release more versions like the one for LinkedIn that are tailored for integration with third-party sites and applications, according to the company.
Juan Carlos Perez covers enterprise communication/collaboration suites, operating systems, browsers and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Juan on Twitter at @JuanCPerezIDG.


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Study: Suicide No. 1 Cause of Death Among College Students
Lack of Faith in God Cause for Depression?
The leading cause of death among college students does not come as a surprise to Juli Slattery, family psychologist with Focus on the Family. More college students die from suicide than from drinking, a new study shows.
More and more young adults are feeling "an absence of a purpose for living," she said.
A study released by the American Public Health Association shows that among the college students surveyed in 157 schools, for every 100,000 students, there were 6 suicides, and less than 5 fatalities due to alcohol. There were only 3 alcohol-related traffic fatalities for every 100,000 students. The study, which surveyed students ages 18-24, was the first to look at student mortality rates in more than 70 years, The Washington Post reported.
Student depression and other mental issues are critical issues that campuses need to address, James C. Turner, the author of the study, told the Post. Turner said alcohol abuse is another important factor.
However, while Turner, who served as president at the American College Health Association, stressed the need for more tracking, the suicide rate is more concerning to Slattery.
"These kids … have no one to put their confidence in," because they don't have the hope of Christ, she said.
Slattery said often young adults can't handle rough situations.
"They don't have the knowledge that God works through the tough times. He's in control," Slattery said.
"I mean, if you are 20-years-old and you have no sense that God is in control, you see no motivation," Slattery said.
"We need to teach our kids the 'Who' – who is in control, God? Instead of just asking 'Why'?" she said.


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I recently had the opportunity to photograph the IFSC Climbing World Cup Boulder Competition held at Gravity Climbing Gym.
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"Chapter 5: The Blessings of Unity," Teachings of Presidents of the Church: David O. McKay (2011), 38–48
"Chapter 5," Teachings: David O. McKay, 38–48
Chapter 5
The Blessings of Unity
Unity and its synonyms—harmony, goodwill, peace, concord, mutual understanding—express a condition for which the human heart constantly yearns.1
From October 1934 to April 1951, Presidents J. Reuben Clark Jr. and David O. McKay served together as counselors in the First Presidency, first to President Heber J. Grant and then to President George Albert Smith. Throughout this time, President Clark served as first counselor and President McKay served as second counselor.
On 9 April 1951, five days after President Smith's death, Latter-day Saints met for general conference and sustained President David O. McKay as President of the Church. There they learned that President Clark, who had served faithfully as first counselor for almost 17 years, had been called to serve as second counselor. President Stephen L Richards had been called as first counselor.
Sensing that Church members would question this change, President McKay took time in general conference to explain the calling of his two counselors. He said that President Richards had been called as first counselor because he had served longer than President Clark in the apostleship. Emphasizing that this practice was not an "established policy," President McKay simply said that "it seemed advisable" in the callings of Presidents Richards and Clark.
As President McKay continued with his address, he spoke of the unity he felt with his counselors: "We do not want any member in this Church, nor any man or woman listening in to harbor the thought for a moment that there has been any rift between the two counselors who sustained President Smith in the Quorum of the First Presidency, and President Grant for the years that we were together with that inspired leader. Neither should you feel that there is any demotion. President Clark is a wonderful servant. …
"You should understand further, that in the counselorship of the Quorum of the First Presidency these two men are coordinate in authority, in love, and confidence, in freedom to make suggestions, and recommendations, and in their responsibility not only to the Quorum but also to the Lord Jesus Christ and to the people generally.
"They are two great men. I love them both, and say God bless them, and give you the assurance that there will be harmony and love and confidence in the Quorum of the First Presidency as you have sustained them today."2
Shortly after President McKay made this statement, President Clark spoke to the Saints, expressing his desire to work harmoniously with his fellow servants: "In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one takes the place to which one is duly called, which place one neither seeks nor declines. I pledge to President McKay and to President Richards the full loyal devoted service to the tasks that may come to me to the full measure of my strength and my abilities, and so far as they will enable me to perform them, however inadequate I may be."3
In a general conference three years later, President McKay again spoke of the unity he enjoyed with other Church leaders: "I wish that all within the sound of my voice at this moment, all who have any prejudice in their hearts, might have glimpsed the General Authorities in the House of the Lord last Thursday morning, when they met in fasting and prayer to prepare themselves spiritually for the responsibilities awaiting them in this great conference. You would have glimpsed the unity of the First Presidency and through this transmission of heart to heart, soul to soul, you would have known the love I bear for [my] two counselors, for their clear vision and sound judgment and their patience with their leader when necessary. You would have glimpsed the unity and love of these twelve men [the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles], of … the Seventy, … and the Presiding Bishopric. We pray that the love and unity in that meeting may extend to every stake presidency, mission presidency, every bishopric, every priesthood quorum and auxiliary throughout the Church. With such unity and love there is no power on earth which can stop the progress of this, the work of God."4
Teachings of David O. McKay
The Lord desires unity among His followers.
"Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." (John 17:11, 20–21.)
Thus in one of the most sublime prayers ever offered among men, Jesus makes unity pre-eminent among his followers.
Unity and its synonyms—harmony, goodwill, peace, concord, mutual understanding—express a condition for which the human heart constantly yearns. Its opposites are discord, contention, strife, confusion. …
May the appeal of our Lord in his intercessory prayer for unity be realized in our homes, our wards and stakes, and in our support of the basic principles of freedom.5
Unity of purpose, with all working in harmony, is needed to accomplish God's work. In a revelation given to the Prophet Joseph Smith about one year after the Church was organized, the Lord in a broad sense makes known why his great work, to be accomplished, has been restored for the benefit of mankind and to prepare the way for his second coming. Said he:
"And even so I have sent mine everlasting covenant into the world, to be a light to the world, and to be a standard for my people, and for the Gentiles to seek to it, and to be a messenger before my face to prepare the way before me." (D&C 45:9.)
Herein we learn of the great obligations placed upon this people to assist the Lord in bringing these things to pass among men. It requires unity and dedication to its purposes. Concerning this need, the Lord has given this warning:
"… Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand." (Matt. 12:25.)6
We must avoid attitudes and actions that lead to disunity.
One of the first conditions that will bring about disunity will be selfishness; another will be envy: "Brother So-and-so passed me by and said nothing to me about the matter." "The bishopric chose Sister So-and-so to be organist, and she can't play half as well as I." "I'm not going to priesthood meeting any more because the bishopric appointed a certain man to act as adviser of the priests." "The Sunday School chose So-and-so as a teacher." … "The presidency of the stake has never recognized me, and I feel offended." "The General Authorities do not always see eye to eye." Oh! a hundred and one little things like that may come up—little things, insignificant in themselves when we compare them with the greater and more real things of life. And yet, I know from experience that the adversary can so magnify them that they become mountains in our lives, and we are offended, and our spirituality starves because we entertain those feelings.
There is another element—fault-finding—associated with that spirit of envy. We find fault with a neighbor. We speak ill of each other. When that feeling comes, it is a good thing just to sing that simple little [Church] hymn, "Nay, Speak No Ill."
"Nay, speak no ill; a kindly word
Can never leave a sting behind;
And, oh, to breathe each tale we've heard
Is far beneath a noble mind.
Full oft a better seed is sown
By choosing thus the kinder plan,
For, if but little good is known,
Still let us speak the best we can.
"Then speak no ill, but lenient be
To other's failings as your own.
If you're the first a fault to see,
Be not the first to make it known,
For life is but a passing day;
No lip may tell how brief its span;
Then, O the little time we stay,
Let's speak of all the best we can."
[Hymns, no. 233.]7
May we go forth with greater resolution to defend one another in righteous living, to defend the Church, not to speak against our neighbors, nor against authorities of the Church, local, stake, or general. Let us avoid evil speaking; let us avoid slander and gossip. These are poisons to the soul to those who indulge. Evil speaking injures the reviler more than the reviled.8
There are destructive termites of homes, as well as of houses, and some of these are backbiting, evil-speaking, faultfinding on the part either of parents or of children. Slander is poison to the soul. "Slanderers are like flies that pass all over a man's good parts to light only on his sores." In the ideal home, there is no slanderous gossip about … schoolteachers, about public officials, or Church officials. I am more grateful now, as years have come and gone, to my father, who with hands lifted said, "Now, no faultfinding about your teacher or anybody else."9
Family unity makes the home a place of refuge and protection.
A child has the right to feel that in his home he has a place of refuge, a place of protection from the dangers and evils of the outside world. Family unity and integrity are necessary to supply this need.10
I can imagine few, if any, things more objectionable in the home than the absence of unity and harmony. On the other hand, I know that a home in which unity, mutual helpfulness, and love abide is just a bit of heaven on earth. I surmise that nearly all of you can testify to the sweetness of life in a home in which these virtues predominate. Most gratefully and humbly I cherish the remembrance that never once as a lad in the home of my youth did I ever see one instance of discord between father and mother, and that goodwill and mutual understanding has been the uniting bond that has held together a fortunate group of brothers and sisters. Unity, harmony, goodwill are virtues to be fostered and cherished in every home.11
Very frequently discords arise in the home because husbands desire to save their own dignity and have their own way, have their own wishes carried out. Wives desire the same. Some exercise their prerogative to have the last word. Husbands are sometimes even more eager to have it than wives. Each really is trying to save himself or herself, and instead of having harmony and peace in the home there arises discord. Instead of saving the life of harmony in the home, you lose it, merely because you are seeking to save your own selfish life, or have your own selfish way. Better to lose that desire. Say nothing, and in losing your desire and that feeling of enmity, of ruling, of governing, you say nothing, and you gain your life in the home.12
May God bless you all, and may he guide and help you that righteousness, harmony, and love for one another may dwell in each home.13
Unity in the Church leads to progress and spirituality.
The mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to establish peace. The Living Christ is its head. Under him tens of thousands of men in the Church are divinely authorized to represent him in variously assigned positions. It is the duty of these representatives to manifest brotherly love, first toward one another, then toward all mankind; to seek unity, harmony, and peace in organizations within the Church, and then by precept and example extend these virtues throughout the world.14
In branches and wards of the Church, there is no virtue more conducive to progress and spirituality than the presence of this principle. When jealousy, backbiting, [and] evil-speaking supplant mutual confidence, unity, and harmony, the progress of the organization is stifled. …
Inner weakness is more dangerous and more fatal than outward opposition. The Church is little if at all injured by persecution and calumnies [or false charges] from ignorant, misinformed, or malicious enemies; a greater hindrance to its progress comes from faultfinders, shirkers, commandment-breakers, and apostate cliques within.15
It is the principle of unity that has enabled the wards, stakes, branches, and missions of the Church to progress and to accomplish the purposes for which the Church was established. It could not have been done by dissension and hatred. There have been difficulties. Each member of the Church has his own ideas. Sometimes they are not the same as those of the bishopric, and not the same as those of the presidency of the stake, and not the same as the Presidency of the Church; but each has had to submerge his own ideas to the good of the whole, and in that united purpose we have achieved something that is wonderful.
As I think of the future of this Church and of the welfare of the young men and women, as well as of the mothers and fathers, I feel impressed that there is no more important message to give than "to be one," and avoid things that may cause a rift among members. I know that the adversary has no stronger weapon against any group of men or women in this Church than the weapon of thrusting in a wedge of disunity, doubt, and enmity. …
The challenge is before us; we cannot fail in the divine commitments given to us as a people. Unity of purpose, with all working in harmony within the structure of Church organization as revealed by the Lord, is to be our objective. Let each member, teacher, and leader feel the importance of the position that each one holds. All are important to the successful accomplishment of God's work, which is our work.16
The greatest safeguard we have for unity and strength in the Church is found in the priesthood, by honoring and respecting it. Oh, my brethren—presidents of stakes, bishops of wards, and all who hold the priesthood—God bless you in your leadership, in your responsibility to guide, to bless, to comfort the people whom you have been appointed to preside over and to visit. Guide them to go to the Lord and seek inspiration so to live that they may rise above the low and the mean, and live in the spiritual realm.
Recognize those who preside over you and, when necessary, seek their advice.17
May the [organizations in] the Church be blessed with the spirit of unity and harmony. May there be banished from their hearts the spirit of enmity, backbiting, and evil speaking, and may they keep in their hearts the truth expressed by Jesus when he said, "… if ye are not one ye are not mine." (D&C 38:27.)18
Let that spirit of unity and oneness for which our Lord and Savior prayed on the night of his betrayal, be characteristic of this his Church: Father, keep them one, as thou and I are one [see John 17:11].19
Commitment to gospel ideals is the surest way to unity.
A leading writer … [has expressed]: "The world has many good people in it today, more who are ready to believe than ever before, but these people possess no unifying ideals, no organic principles, no coherent view of life, no synthetic program of action. Society is coming to self-consciousness, and is beginning to take note of its troubles and needs, but it has no clear sense of direction, no organizing impulse, no all-inclusive ideals, no mighty impulsion. … Is there anything by which our nature can gain its unity; our race acknowledge its brotherhood, our humanity order its affairs as a whole?"
We answer, yes—such a uniting force, such an ideal is the Gospel of Jesus Christ as restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. It explains man's life and its purpose, and has within it the vital saving elements, noble ideals, and spiritual uplift for which the heart of man today is yearning.20
"Good tidings of great joy" [Luke 2:10]—The Gospel of Jesus Christ is that good tidings. The term "Gospel" means, literally, "good news," and such is the news that emanates from above. … There have always been, in every dispensation, opportunities for men to receive that good news, and these prophets who were in tune with the Infinite and who heard first and directly that good news, have had imposed upon them the responsibility to convey that good news to others of their fellow-men, that they who are concerned with the things of the world might receive the glad message and be brought back into the environment of peace, harmony, and good will.21
Whether in the islands of the sea, in Japan, in Syria, in the Scandinavian countries, in England, Germany, France, Holland—wherever one meets a group of Latter-day Saints whose faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ is unwavering, there one finds the spirit of oneness, the spirit of love, the spirit of willing sacrifice for the good of humanity. God bless the Latter-day Saints all over the world that they may continue in that same spirit.22
Suggestions for Study and Discussion
How are God the Father and Jesus Christ one? What are some specific ways in which we can be united as a Church? as families? as members of the community? (See pages 44–46.) What benefits can come through such unity?
What are some attitudes and actions that bring disharmony into our homes and wards? (See pages 42–46.) What can we do to increase harmony and unity? How can we apply President Clark's statement ("In the service of the Lord, it is not where you serve but how") as we strive to increase unity in our homes and wards?
How might children be influenced when their parents speak unkindly of leaders and teachers? Why does evil speaking injure "the reviler more than the reviled"? (See page 43.)
In what ways can the gospel fulfill people's yearning for unity and harmony? (See pages 46–47.) Why is unity required to bring to pass the Lord's eternal purposes on earth?
Related Scriptures: 1 Corinthians 1:9–10; Mosiah 18:21; 3 Nephi 11:29–30; 4 Nephi 1:2, 15–17; D&C 38:23–27; 105:3–5; Moses 7:18


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Dooregeest, Engel Arendszoon van (1645-1706)
Engel Arendszoon van Dooregeest, was born 26 December 1645 at Dooregeest, a polder near Uitgeest, Dutch province of North Holland. At the age of about 30 he was ordained Mennonite minister at De Rijp, serving there until his death on 16 August 1706. At the same time he seems to have been a physician. He belonged to the more orthodox Zonists, but in his book Onderwijzinge in de Christelyke Leere na de Belijdenissen der Doopsgezinden (Amsterdam, 1692) he differs from Menno Simons' position with regard to original sin, ban, and communion, and he did not consider feetwashing a sign of the covenant.
When Professor Spanheim of the University of Leiden accused him of various heresies in his book Selectarum de religione Controversiarum elenchus (1687), van Dooregeest showed himself a real champion of Mennonitism in his reply, Brief aan den Heere Fredericus Spanhemius (Amsterdam, 1694). This publication was translated into German in 1694, and in its third edition in 1700 was combined with a Brief aen den Eerw. Heer Hermanus Schyn, Leeraar der Doopsgezinden (Amsterdam, 1700) in order to defend the good name of the Mennonites the better. In it van Dooregeest opposed Galenus Abrahamsz de Haan, who, as he thought, had deviated rather far from the old doctrines in his Körte Grondstellingen.
When the Frisian preacher Jan Klaasz van Grouw seemed in his writings to have unitarian and socinian views, Dooregeest again came to the defense of the ancient orthodox doctrine with his Verantwoordinge Voor de Leere der Doopsgezinden (Amsterdam, 1704); he likewise made an attack on the Reformed preacher at De Rijp in his Verdeediging van de Leere der Doopsgezinden, tot Wederlegginge van de twee Tractaaten, tegen dezelve uitgegeeven door Henricus Schevenhuisen, Predicant der Gereformeerden tot Rijp (Amsterdam, 1705).
The conference of the Zonist Societeit in June 1697 commissioned him together with Herman Schijn and Pieter Beets to draw up a Kort Onderwijs des Christelijke Geloofs, . . . geschickt na de Belijdenissen der Doopsgezinden (Amsterdam, 1697); its fifth reprint was issued in 1740. It is evident that van Dooregeest, though not formally educated, was a man of understanding, intelligence, and was highly respected. Though a Waterlander, who usually were more liberal, and serving a Waterlander congregation, he was an ardent adherent of the conservative Zonist principles. He was a coauthor of the booklet Grondtsteen van Vreede en Verdraegsaemheyt (1674), which invited the congregations to join the Zonist Conference. He was often the moderator of the Zonist Conference meetings. In 1684-1685, when efforts were made to reunite the separated groups of Zonists and Lamists, van Dooregeest was one of the representatives of the Zonist branch.
With C. A. Posjager, the minister of the neighboring Noordeinde van Graft, he also wrote De Ryper Zeepostil, bestaande in XXII Predicatien, toegepast op de Zeevaart (Amsterdam, 1699), to which he added a brief account of the rise of Holland, a description of Waterland (a district of the Dutch province of North Holland) and the origin of fishing for herring and whales. He also wrote a foreword for a new edition (1686) of the Belijdenis des Christelyken Geloofs by Hans de Ries and Lubbert Gerritsz.
Cate, Steven Blaupot ten. Geschiedenis der Doopsgezinden in Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht en Gelderland, 2 vols. Amsterdam: P.N. van Kampen, 1847: I, Nos. 293-296, 903-926.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1897): 87; (1898): 60, 78-99 passim; (1917): 40-46.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. I, 466.
Meihuizen, H. W. Galenus Abrahamsz, 1622-1706: strijder voor een onbeperkte verdgraagzaamheid en verdediger van het Doperse spiritualisme. Haarlem : H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1954: passim, see index.
Molhuysen, P. C. and P. J. Blok. Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, 10 vols. Leiden, 1911-1937: I, 518.
Schijn-Maatschoen. Uitvoeriger Verhandeling van de Geschiedenisse der Mennoniten II. Amsterdam, 1744: 157 ff., 548-573.
Visscher, H. and L. A. van Langeraad. Biographisch Woordenboek von Protestantsche Godgeleerden in Nederland. The Hague, 1903- : II, 548-550.
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Loosjes, Jacob. "Dooregeest, Engel Arendszoon van (1645-1706)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 29 Sep 2023. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Dooregeest,_Engel_Arendszoon_van_(1645-1706)&oldid=144968.
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Sir Alan Hodgkin
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Sir Alan Hodgkin, in full Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, (born February 5, 1914, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England—died December 20, 1998, Cambridge), English physiologist and biophysicist, who received (with Andrew Fielding Huxley and Sir John Eccles) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the chemical processes responsible for the passage of impulses along individual nerve fibres.
Hodgkin was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. After conducting radar research (1939–45) for the British Air Ministry, he joined the faculty at Cambridge, where he worked (1945–52) with Huxley on measuring the electrical and chemical behaviour of individual nerve fibres. By inserting microelectrodes into the giant nerve fibres of the squid Loligo forbesi, they were able to show that the electrical potential of a fibre during conduction of an impulse exceeds the potential of the fibre at rest, contrary to the accepted theory, which postulated a breakdown of the nerve membrane during impulse conduction.
They knew that the activity of a nerve fibre depends on the fact that a large concentration of potassium ions is maintained inside the fibre, while a large concentration of sodium ions is found in the surrounding solution. Their experimental results (1947) indicated that the nerve membrane allows only potassium to enter the fibre during the resting phase but allows sodium to penetrate when the fibre is excited. (See also action potential.)
Hodgkin served as a research professor for the Royal Society (1952–69), professor of biophysics at Cambridge (from 1970), chancellor of the University of Leicester (1971–84), and master of Trinity College (1978–85). He was knighted in 1972 and admitted into the Order of Merit in 1973. Publications by Hodgkin include Conduction of the Nervous Impulse (1964) and his autobiography, Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War (1992).


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Ryan Chittum points us toward a piece written by Bloomberg's Max Abelson in which he recounts many inadvertently funny quotes from the 1 percent, bemoaning the fact that they get no respect:
Today, Abelson has one of his best yet, reporting on how some of the super-elite are on the attack against the 1 percent meme.
What makes this story very good is that Abelson has found some of the least self-aware people you can imagine and got them on the record, either himself or via others' interviews. Take Blackstone multibillionaire Stephen Schwarzman, whom he quotes from Bloomberg TV bemoaning the fact that poor and lower-income people don't pay federal income tax (almost all of them do federal payroll taxes and the like). That was in response to a question about whether he, who Abelson points out surely pays just a 15 percent tax rate on much or most of his income, should pay more taxes.
The quotes alone make this piece worthwhile, but Abelson's attention to detail makes it even better. He sits down with Ayn Rand-loving former BB&T CEO John Allison, who has co-founded something called the Job Creators Alliance that gets lots of airtime on Fox News and Fox Business, and who is aggrieved by the provision of Dodd Frank that requires companies to disclose its CEO-to-median-employee pay ratio. He calls something that could be done with an Excel spreadsheet and an hour or two "incredibly wasteful." The point, of course, is that forcing such disclosure might help keep executive paydays, which are incredibly wasteful to shareholders (the owners of capital), down.
Abelson is also good to track down Leon Cooperman, the hedge fund manager who wrote the open letter to President Obama about how his feelings were hurt or something:
Cooperman, 68, said in an interview that he can't walk through the dining room of St. Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida, without being thanked for speaking up. At least four people expressed their gratitude on Dec. 5 while he was eating an egg-white omelet, he said.
Then there's Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone, speaking forthrightly from his Manhattan dressing room:
"I am a fat cat, I'm not ashamed," he said last week in a telephone interview from a dressing room in his Upper East Side home. "If you mean by fat cat that I've succeeded, yeah, then I'm a fat cat. I stand guilty of being a fat cat."
And the billionaire founder of Paychex Incorporated with his thirty-something ex-tennis star (Monica Seles) girlfriend who wants to vomit when he hears about paying his "fair share" is fun stuff.


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mumsie has blocked most of our early childhood out because it was so traumatic (she is not a baby person!) but i think she would like a little reminder now that we are grown up. poor thing had a brief window of enjoying us between the ages of 8 and 12 (when you can dress yourselves and are interested in learning and can hold a conversation) and then we became sulky teens and it was all over for her again! she assures me that she will enjoy her grandbabies a lot more as she can offload them when having tantrums!
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What a wonderful memory. And Huck sleeping with those globes in his chubby hands is. the. sweetest. thing. ever. Good stuff!ReplyDelete
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Totally agree. Finally people here making some sense!Originally Posted by SteelSD
Totally agree. Finally people here making some sense!Originally Posted by SteelSD
You're obviously new.Originally Posted by archiebunker
pay close attention to SteelSD, Raisor, WOY, M2 and a few others. Me? I usually just nod in agreement when they post. I have learned more in the last year about the sport I have followed the last 25 from these guys.
they know their stuff. I'm still learning.
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Here's my listOriginally Posted by TRF
C.C. Sabathia
Josh Beckett
Jeremy Bonderman
Jason Marquis
Kerry Wood
It's Your Opinion Steels but I don't see how you come up with 157 runs will make the team only 81-81......I think this team will be better then 81-81 and I don't think they will have to score 157 more runs to do it......
LOL, I didnt mean it literally...but for the short time Ive been here Ive seen some interesting comments to say the least. Like showing all of Adam Dunns homeruns were not solo because people get on Dunn for that, and I merely pointed out his flaw is his strikeout totals and his homeruns are fine. I got interesting reponses to that.Originally Posted by TRF
All of them, with the exception of Marquis, or perhaps Bonderman, I admit I dont know that much about him, I find more valuable the pitchers than the chance of an Arod (one in million, even more rare of an athlete than the high school pitcher) or more likely a Nomar/ Renteria/ Cabrera mold.Originally Posted by westofyou
Pythagorean RecordOriginally Posted by LetsGoReds11
I didn't comment on that. The rest you and I disagree on. It's my opinion based on the same info you're looking at. I'm not as crazy about Freel as others are and am not gonna fuss about a little over $2M for an upgrade. Now if the Reds can move Jimenez for even more pitching help, there's Freel at the ready.TR name the last 5 HS pitcher drafted in the first round to make a significant impact in the Major Leagues.
I also am not in the habit of finding something to hate about every thing the Reds do.
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For some reason, a lot of SS are signed as amateur FA. but a quick look gives me 4 pretty good SS'sOriginally Posted by westofyou
I win. with those four alone I win. With Larkin and ARod alone I win. All first round picks are crapshoots. Heck all picks period are. but woy knows as well as anyone that HS pitchers are the biggest crapshoot of all.
Dubito Ergo Cogito Ergo Sum.
Oh yeah, and I forgot when I mentioned the Padres were interested in Dunn a couple of years ago in exchange for Oliver Perez, people here had heart attacks. There would be your 200+ K pitcher with a 3 or below ERA, easily could be the Red's ace. And if the Padres threw in Jason Bay(roookie of the year2004) with it, there would be Dunn's replacement. I know its a thing of the past but I thought more people would like this idea.Originally Posted by TRF
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Read the strikeout equal to any other out thread. not to hijack or anything, but it was clearly proven that the K's don't matter as long as his OBP and SLG are the monster forces they have been.Originally Posted by archiebunker
Welcome to the board.
Dubito Ergo Cogito Ergo Sum.
Oh, it's happened. And rather recently at that:Originally Posted by Puffy
2001 Anaheim Angels
Runs Scored- 691
Runs Allowed- 730
2002 Anaheim Angels
Runs Scored- 851 (+160)
Runs Allowed- 644 (-86)
Run Differential Swing- 246
I've done some research on that in the past, and what happened in Anaheim in 2002 is truly historical.
But alas, where the Angels needed a swing of only 39 Runs to get to the .500 mark, the Reds need 157. To get to the playoffs? Well, let's just say that betting on a second lightning strike is generally a bad wager.
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch thats over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.
--Ted Williams
My sentiments exactly. It took them awhile to bang some sense into my head, but I'm still learning.Originally Posted by TRF
I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast. Eddie Bane
We know we're better than this ... but we can't prove it. Tony Gwynn
Krusty, what board are you reading?
Seems to me most posters love the moves DanO's made.
My takes on the various moves:
Wilson - Shouldn't have been re-signed. Has done all he can to be a below average pitcher the past four years and could be on the verge of a slide (there's some strong evidence for that in fact).
Ortiz - Never was that good a pitcher and already has hit his slide. Best case scenario, IMO, is he pitches like Cory Lidle last season -- lots of innings, lots of runs.
Bullpen - Historically the Reds have collected younger power arms for bullpen duty. DanO clearly prefers older control pitchers, or at least that's what he's brought in. Mercker doesn't throw a lot of innings. We'll have to see if Weber's healthy. Glom's the key acquisition. Looks like a mediocre unit unless kids like Ryan Wagner and Todd Coffey step up and have big seasons.
Randa - Glove helps, bat hurts.
Milton - The Reds are paying him like he's something a whole lot better than what he is. I was hoping other clubs, the Yankees for instance, would be foolish enough to throw gobs of money at this guy. In fact, back in October I figured he'd make a pretty good desperation yardstick, that he was one of the offseason's booby prizes, that you could assume any team that signed him had more cash than brains. Not going to change that opinion just because the Reds wound up being the team that landed him.
Doesn't look like it adds up to very good team to me. Though I'm in a distinct minority on that.
MLB free agent
I'm with you M2.
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Early last century, Texas rancher W.T. Waggoner drilled for water. Much to his disgust, he struck oil instead. His disappointment was simple. It was survival. W.T. came of age in the 1880s and had endured one of the darkest eras in ranching history, the drought of 1885-86. Tens of thousands of cattle perished. Hundreds of thousands more were sold at a loss. Comanches could be fought or dodged, rustlers could be caught and hanged, but drought? It had to be endured.
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Newswise — A multicellular green alga, Volvox carteri, may have finally unlocked the secrets behind the evolution of different sexes. A team led by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has shown that the genetic region that determines sex in Volvox has changed dramatically relative to that of the closely related unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Their findings, which will be published in the April 16th issue of the journal Science, provide the first empirical support for a model of the evolution of two different sexes whereby expansion of a sex-determining region creates genetic diversity followed by genes taking on new functions related to the production of male and female reproductive cells termed gametes.
"Until now, sex-determining chromosomes had generally been viewed as regions of decay, steadily losing genes that are not involved in sexual reproduction," explains James Umen, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute, who led the team conducting the study. "Our study shows the opposite-that such regions can expand and generate new genetic material much more rapidly than the rest of the genome."
Most multicellular organisms such as plants and animals have two distinct sexes with females producing large immotile eggs and males producing small motile sperm. While unicellular organisms can also reproduce sexually, the two sexes of single-celled species are typically indistinguishable from each other and are thought to represent an ancestral or early evolutionary state. However, the large distances that separate plants or animals from their closest unicellular relatives have precluded understanding the evolutionary transition to male-female dimorphism.
"In unicellular organisms like Chlamydomonas, the gametes look the same. In contrast, multicellular organisms, including Volvox, produce eggs and sperm-they are distinctly male and female. Yet no one really has any idea how the evolution of males and females occurs or what genetic changes were required to achieve it," explains Umen.
Although the genomes of Chlamydomonas and Volvox are similar in most ways, there is one glaring exception that provided the Salk researchers with an entrée into the origin of male and female sexes-the so-called mating locus that functions in much the same way as human X and Y chromosomes to determine gender.
When Umen and his colleagues examined the mating locus genes in Chlamydomonas and Volvox they found that they shared some of the same genes, as you would expect from closely related species. However, Volvox also now possessed a surprising variety of new genes that were added to its expanded mating locus, and expression of many of these genes had come under the control of the male or female differentiation programs.
"We found that the Volvox mating locus is about five times bigger than that of Chlamydomonas," says postdoctoral researcher and co-first author Patrick Ferris, Ph.D. "We wanted to understand the evolutionary basis of this. How did it happen? And where did these new genes come from?"
To trace the origin of the added genes, the team looked to see if they could also find them in Chlamydomonas. "We found that although some of the mating locus genes in Volvox are completely new, many of them have counterparts in Chlamydomonas that are near the mating locus," explains co-first author Bradley Olson, Ph.D. "So Volvox has taken these genes that initially had nothing to do with sex, incorporated them into its mating locus, and started using some of them in its sexual reproductive cycle."
The team is now studying these new mating locus genes to understand their individual roles in sex determination and sexual development.
They have already identified a Volvox mating locus gene named MAT3 that appears to have evolved a new role in sexual differentiation. MAT3 is related to a human gene called the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor that controls cell division and is frequently mutated in cancer cells. In Volvox, MAT3 probably has a role in controlling cell division as it does in animals and plants, but has also acquired intriguing gender-specific differences in its sequence and expression pattern that correlate with differences in male/female reproductive development. Umen's laboratory is following up on this finding to determine the newly evolved role of MAT3 in Volvox gender specification.
"This study shows that Volvox and its relatives are a powerful model in which to study the evolution of sex," says Umen. "It provides us with a system in which we can retrace evolutionary history to ask questions about the origin of gender and other traits that are difficult to approach in groups such as plants and animals."
The team is also working with collaborators to examine the mating locus of an evolutionary intermediate between Chlamydomonas and Volvox called Gonium, which has between four and 16 cells. "Gonium allows us to look at the evolutionary steps between Chlamydomonas and Volvox to better understand how the evolutionary process happened," says Ferris.
In addition to Ferris, Olson and Umen, contributors to this work were Peter L. De Hoff, Ph.D., and Sa Geng, Ph.D. at the Salk Institute; Stephen Douglass, David Casero and Matteo Pellegrini at UCLA; Simon Prochnik at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Rhitu Rai at the Salk Institute and the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi; Jane Grimwood and Jeremy Schmutz at Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology, Alabama; Ichiro Nishii at Nara Women's University, Nara, Japan; and Takashi Hamaji and Hisayoshi Nozaki at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies:The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probe fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.
Faculty achievements have been recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1960 by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, M.D., the Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark.
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From sea to shining seaPermanent link
Cawker City, Kan. claims the world's biggest ball of twine. Kenosha, Wisc. is home to an actual cheese castle. And in Leicester, Vt., you'll spot a statue of a giant gorilla holding a Volkswagen Beetle.
Only in America.
My grandmother, who immigrated to the States from Russia as a little girl, once told me that before she came to this country, she had envisioned America as a land paved with gold. Not sure these quirky landmarks are quite what she had in mind, but I'm sure if she'd lived to see the Beetle-wielding gorilla, it would have made her smile.
So many of our grandparents sought to find a better life in the United States where they could live freely and practice Judaism without fear of persecution. And that's just what they found.
Now, I'm no Pollyanna. I recognize that the United States has a truckload of problems, but I thank God every day that I get to call America my hometown, where I am free to live as a Jewish American.
Today, 350 years after the first Jews settled in America, we encounter Jewish language, culture, food, humor, and sensibility at every turn.
The very words that have greeted generations of immigrants, like my grandma, to the shores of this country, displayed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, were written by the Sephardic Jewish American poet Emma Lazarus. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
It was composer Irving Berlin, a Belarussian Jewish immigrant, who wrote the iconic American song, "God Bless America."
And the list goes on and on.
From sea to shining sea, Jews have helped shape this country of hope and promise.
Our ubiquity was front and center at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May, when Arvind Mahankali, a Queens, N.Y. Indian-American eighth grader, won the bee after spelling correctly the word "knaidel,"—the Yiddish term for matzoh ball. He may as well have spelled "apple pie" because there's something so American about an Indian-American boy spelling a Yiddish word—and correctly! (Or at least according to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, the spelling is correct.)
As we celebrate our country's birthday this month, let's also celebrate living Jewishly in the USA. Let's hit the road and take a tour of five American cities, some a bit off the beaten path, where you'll encounter both tourist hot spots and lesser-known Jewish destinations.
1. Charleston, South Carolina
If you're in the area, swing by Fort Sumter, a sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, S.C., best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, launching the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1861.
While you're in Charleston, visit Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, the fourth-oldest Jewish synagogue in the continental United States, founded in 1749.
2. Seattle, Washington
If you make your way to the Pacific Northwest, Pike's Place Market in Seattle is a must-see. This farmers market, also home to the first-ever Starbucks, serves up produce, cheese, flowers and, of course, fish (famously tossed by the fishmongers) all year round.
While Pike's Place is well known, most people don't know that the market has a rich relationship with Seattle's large Sephardic community, as many of the early peddlers and fishmongers transferred their skills from Greece and Turkey to the Seattle market.
Fun fact: Just outside the University of Washington, the city boasts the only kosher Einstein Bros. Bagels in the country.
3. Jackson, Mississippi
Visit African-American civil rights activist Medgar Evers' home. Evers, who was assassinated in 1963, fought to overturn segregation at the University of Miss.
Then, drop by the Museum of Southern Jewish Experience, founded by Macy B. Hart. Growing up in Winona, Miss., Hart was a member of the only Jewish family in town. Early on Sunday mornings, his father would drive Hart and his siblings 160 miles to the nearest Hebrew School. When Hart grew up, he created his Museum located in Jackson. For more than two decades, the museum—which later expanded into the Goldring Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life—has documented and preserved the historical legacy of Southern Jews.
4. Los Angeles, California
While in La La Land, stroll down the Hollywood Walk of Fame to gaze at the stars—including oh so many Jewish members of the tribe in Hollywood.
Then, head for a bite at The Milky Way, the kosher dairy restaurant run by movie mogul Steven Spielberg's mother, Leah Adler, a lovable ball of energy.
5. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia's Independence Hall is home to the Liberty Bell, one of the most iconic symbols of our American freedom. The famed bell, which would alert citizens and politicians of announcements, originally cracked when first rung after its arrival to the city.
Just across Independence Mall, visit the new National Museum of American Jewish History, which offers experiences that explore and celebrate the history of Jews in America. The museum strives to connect Jews more closely to their heritage and inspire people of all backgrounds with an appreciation of the American Jewish experience.
Visit chasingdreamsbaseball.tumblr.com to learn how to contribute memorabilia to an upcoming baseball exhibition at the museum.
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