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Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new challenge aimed at developing mobile application technology to connect women of color to information and resources for preventing and treating certain cancers. The challenge, or competition, called "Reducing Cancer Among Women of Color App Challenge", encourages entrepreneurs, software developers, and others to develop this new technology, which will then be utilized to connect women of color to information and services to help them prevent and fight cancer.
According to the HHS Press Release, "More than 300,000 new cases of breast, cervical, uterine, and ovarian cancer are diagnosed each year." Additionally, "while the incidence and prevalence of these cancers are widespread, disparities in prevention, early treatment, quality of care, and outcomes result in a higher prevalence and mortality rates among minority and underserved women."
At the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH), we know this to be true of Latinas and cervical cancer. While mortality from cervical cancer is not as high compared to breast and other cancers (approximately 4-5,000 women die annually of cervical cancer compared to approximately 40,500 women from breast cancer), we know that Latinas make up a disproportionate share of women who are diagnosed with and die of cervical cancer. The reasons for this are many and complex (lack of health care insurance, lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate services, lack of immigration status) and point to larger injustices in who has access to preventive and other health care services.
The mobile applications will provide information "directly to women at a high risk of breast, cervical, uterine and ovarian cancers or women who already have been diagnosed with these cancers." According to HHS, the winning app will:
- Provide users with general, accessible information about preventive and screening services for breast and gynecologic cancers – in different languages and in culturally appropriate contexts;
- Communicate with patient health records or provider-sponsored patient portals in a secure way that protects patient privacy and that will provide specific reminders and trigger electronic health record-based clinical decision support about preventive services;
- Support the secure storage, viewing, and the exchange of complex patient care plans in a way that protects patient privacy while strengthening communications between a patient's care team that may be located across a large geographic area, such as a local clinician being able to work with a regional cancer center in a major metropolitan area; and
- Support patient engagement and caregiver support by helping patients and their caregivers keep track of complex care plans with a particular emphasis on connections to community health workers, such as promotores de salud.
The announcement was celebrated by the Congressional Tri-Caucus as it builds upon several months of advocacy by the Tri-Caucus to urge the Obama Administration to implement aspects of the Health Equity and Accountability Act (HEAA), a bill NLIRH supports which builds upon the foundation of the Affordable Care Act to eliminate disparities in health care access and health outcomes for communities of color and other intersecting communities. The Congressional Tri-Caucus- which consists of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus- introduced HEAA in the House of Representatives last fall, and was introduced in the Senate by Senator Akaka (D-HI) in April 2012.
Today's announcement is a step forward for Latinas, who suffer from cervical cancer at rates higher than all other ethnic and racial groups. The HHS announcement specifically mentions disparities in cervical cancer and the importance of providing information on prevention in linguistically and culturally appropriate ways. The announcement signals an acknowledgement of the role geographical challenges play in health disparities, the importance of securing privacy, and the importance of integrating community health workers and promotoras (who play a large role in connecting Latinas to health care information and services). And according to a recent Nielsen report, mobile technology is an increasingly important way Latinos access the internet, receive information, and connect to others.
We look forward to the implementation of the winning project and to connecting more Latinas to the information and services that will allow them to prevent cervical cancer. At the same time, NLIRH will also work to fight efforts to limit Latinas' access to reproductive and sexual health services, in places like Texas and Florida. We will urge state lawmakers to fully implement the Affordable Care Act, which will increase access to screenings through its support of Community Health Centers, expansion of the Medicaid program, and by eliminating co-pays for screening services in private plans. And NLIRH will work to advance a standard of care that provides all Latinas, including LGBTQ Latinas, will all the possible options for preventing cervical cancer, including screenings, the HPV vaccine, and accurate sexual health information.
For more information about Latinas and cervical cancer, please visit the resources on our website which includes our 2012 Cervical Cancer Prevention Policy Priorities.


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Two young bears showed up uninvited to a wedding west of Boulder on Saturday -- and left with non-lethal blows to the backside as party favors.
The bears, both thought to be about 3 years old and weighing roughly 350 pounds apiece, were spotted early Saturday afternoon on a ridge behind the Red Lion Inn, on Canyon Boulevard a little over a mile from Boulder's western city limit. Meanwhile, about 200 yards away, a couple was being married on the Red Lion's grassy outdoor event space.
"They were waiting for us to leave," said Boulder County sheriff's Deputy Phil Jarvis. "We were watching to see what they'd do."
At around 4:30, as the wedding crowd began to file out and Red Lion Inn workers started setting up for a second wedding, the bears made staggered advances.
"One of them stood up and started walking up the side of the ridge to come down to the parking lot," Jarvis said, adding that the bear was roughly 50 yards from the wedding group at that point. "So he stood nice and broadside for me, and I shot a bean bag at his hind rear quarter."
The first bear then ran off, and the second moved in.
"He gave me a nice broadside view, too, so I shot him with a bean bag," Jarvis said. "He went and joined the first bear and they took off running."
The deputy said it was for the bears' own good.
"When they're bold and getting too used to humans, we'll shoot them with a less lethal shotgun with the bean bags," Jarvis said. "Normally, they won't come back because they remember that.


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Posted on October 19, 2009
Or possibly just six reasons I'm glad you can't see me from your end of the telephone conversation.
1. We had a sale, and these are the leftovers. (I like leftovers, frankly. But someone else's leftovers? The leftover cheese sandwich I like is the one with my own toothprints in it.)
2. We had a couple of book dealers come in and buy what they wanted first. (I see: "We thought it was only fair to let these three bears have some of the porridge, but you can take what they leave.")
3. We had a little bit of a flood in the basement and…. (Stop right there, please. You have raised a point of semantics. How little can something be and still be a flood?)
4. We packed up all these cookbooks after the pressure cooker exploded and…. (Please don't even take the tape off the box. No, no, really: put those back in the basement and let them age another hundred years.)
5. The covers have all fallen off, but the pages are still readable. (So keep 'em and read 'em.)
6. I pulled these all out of the dumpster behind our school; I knew you wouldn't want them to go to waste. (You're right, of course. Next time your school throws away storage space, could you pick me up some of that, too.)
1. Grandpa took really good care of his books, but then some guy named Ernest Hemingway scribbled in all the margins.


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Today on Sesame Street it's Who Can Wear the Most Hats on Their Head Day! Elmo and Zoe are play against each other, while Chris and Alan help add more and more hats. The Hat Check Girl is also there to help count the total number of hats on each of Elmo and Zoe's heads. Elmo and Zoe are tied at the end of every round! They also have to complete challenges while wearing the hats on their heads such as saying the alphabet while standing on one leg and estimating the amount of hats they have. D
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While many of us were still enjoying our Holiday breaks, or heading back to work after Christmas, four local teams tipped off in a day-long opener at the 2013 Tiger Hoops Classic. The fourth-seeded Bucklin/Macon County teams, as well as the second-seeded Marceline teams were all in action.
While many of us were still enjoying our Holiday breaks, or heading back to work after Christmas, four local teams tipped off in a day-long opener at the 2013 Tiger Hoops Classic. The fourth-seeded Bucklin/Macon County teams, as well as the second-seeded Marceline teams were all in action.
The BMC Raiders played against Higbee in the opening game with local teams. The Tigers drained a free throw to open scoring, but the Raiders responded with a 4-0 run off of points from Alex Porter.
Toward the end of the frame, Higbee would take the lead on a 4-0 run. This ended with a free throw by Dakota Peterson to tie the game again. A hoop by Dillan Nolte would give BMC a 7-5 lead after one quarter.
In the first four minutes of the second quarter, Bucklin/Macon County would go on an 11-0 run to extend their lead. This run would feature five points from Daniel Hernandez.
BMC would play a lot of players in the frame, gaining them all varsity experience, and would take a 27-13 lead to the locker room at halftime.
The BMC Lady Raiders opened in the tournament against Bevier. The teams were even early on, with a three-pointer by Kailey Grinder closing an early deficit. A mid-frame basket by Savannah Jochem would be the final bucket of the opening quarter by either team. After one quarter, BMC led 6-4.
Jochem and Kelsey Almond put in the first two hoops for the Lady Raiders in the second quarter. For the majority of the second frame, the BMC girls held a four point lead, but got as high as six. At halftime, the Lady Raiders led 16-12.
Next, the second-seeded Marceline Tigers took on Brunswick in the next-to-last game of the opening round.
The Wildcats opened with a three-pointer, but Marceline responded with an 8-0 run to set the tempo. A pair of three-pointers by Brett McGlothlin and a basket from Frankie Herring composed this run.
McGlothlin and Daniel Haas would drain three's in the remainder of the opening frame to help the Tigers continue to build their lead. After one quarter, Marceline led 25-10.
The Tigers used this game as a chance to work center Brennen Floray back into the swing of things. While not his first game of the season, this was Floray's first action since the Monroe City Tournament.
"It's great to start off the tournament with a win," said Floray. "I would like to get some more playing time, but I'm just easing my way back into things."
The Tigers would outscore Brunswick in the first three minutes of the second quarter, with baskets coming from McGlothlin, Floray, and Chase Hilsabeck. Both teams would go cold offensively from here for two minutes, but a late 7-0 run from the Tigers would end the first half. At halftime, Marceline led 40-15.
In the final game of the opening round, the second-seeded Marceline Lady Tigers took on Brunswick. Madison and Morgan McCormick got Marceline started off on the right foot with a 7-0 run in the first 90 seconds. Brunswick would get on the board, but another run, this time 8-0, would help the Lady Tigers build a 17-4 lead after one quarter.
A putback by Morgan and a three-pointer by Kendra Gladbach would allow the Lady Tigers to open the second frame on a 5-0 run. Steals by Sydnee Brooks and Molly Shoop would lead Marceline defensively, as they embarked on a second run to extend their lead. At the half, the Lady Tigers led 34-14.


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Over three decades, Ian MacKaye has tested a few possibilities of what punk can mean. His first band to make a national impact, Minor Threat, was a clear outgrowth of the hardcore scene in his native Washington, D.C. His second act, Fugazi, was subtler: four musicians, all songwriters, infusing punk's energy with rhythms pulled from funk, reggae and even classic rock.
Today, MacKaye's main project is his family — which is to say he's in a band with his wife, Amy Farina. The Evens consists of MacKaye on baritone guitar and Farina on drums, singing in harmony and finding intensity in spareness. The duo has just released its third album, The Odds. Here, the musicians discuss their lives at home and on the road with NPR's Guy Raz.
Interview Highlights
On alcohol sales in the live music world
MacKaye: "Over the years playing in Fugazi, it had become increasingly clear to me the irony [that] this was my form of expression, and yet the only venues in which I was allowed to perform it were these venues where the economy is based largely on self-destruction. And I don't think it's evil; I don't think it should be shut down. I just thought was strange, when you think about all the arts, that music — rock music, especially — always gets shunted into the bar scene. Which is incredibly ironic considering just how important a role music plays in 16- and 17- and 18-year-old kids' lives. The idea that these people can't see these bands who are making this music, only because of the fact that they're not old enough to drink alcohol, shows you there's a very deep sickness in that system."
On their 4-year-old son
Farina: "It's hard to have a conversation when you have a loquacious 4-year-old. Especially when both of the parents are the band. It's not like one of us can stay with the kid while the other one goes to rehearsal or something like that. It's logistically very complicated, and we're really fortunate to have family nearby and a kid who's actually really easy to do things with. ... He does like our music; he's also not too shy to critique things."
On quiet shows in alternative spaces
MacKaye: "It's crazy the amount of money it costs to put a show on, so if you're trying to put a show on for a low ticket price, you're up against it. So we discussed finding a way to split off from that system, and one way to do it was just to turn down the volume. Turning down allowed us to play basically anywhere. ... It's so great to play in a barn, or a museum, or an art gallery, or a theater lobby. Quite often, when you put music into an unusual or untraditional space, in many cases, the music really steps up. It's not being filtered through the venue experience as much."
And if you're just tuning in, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. And it's time now for music and today, the evolution of a man known as the godfather of hardcore punk.
RAZ: Listen to Ian MacKaye's career through three phases of different bands. First, just after he finished high school, the unambiguous fury of Minor Threat.
RAZ: And then, in the mid-1980s, he started the more subtle and experimental band Fugazi.
RAZ: Both those bands are considered seminal in the history of American punk music. Now, with his latest project, Ian MacKaye has shifted once again. The do-it-yourself ethic is still there, but the sound, something entirely different. These are The Evens.
RAZ: But The Evens are just Ian MacKaye on a baritone guitar and his wife, Amy Farina, on drums. And don't be fooled by those harmonies. They often mask fierce lyrics. Their first album together in six years is called "The Odds." Amy says she and Ian started The Evens years into their business relationship at Ian's label called Dischord Records.
AMY FARINA: I was living in an apartment at the time, and I had my drum set. Fortunately, I was living next to a trumpet player...
RAZ: Oh, that's good. Yes. All right.
FARINA: ...which really made me feel a little more free to practice. But I did actually have my drum set, set up in my apartment. I think what had happened was he had offered for me to bring my set out and put it in the basement at Dischord House so I could actually, you know, have a proper practice. And then one day, we started to play together - and we actually rewrote a song the first, you know, within moments of sitting down there in the basement. And it was - I think both of us were pretty taken aback at how easily it came.
RAZ: I read that part of it came about in reaction to the way the alcohol industry seems to have taken over the music industry.
: The band didn't come as a reaction to that. However, the way we navigate where we play, I certainly - I think that we took that into account. When we started playing - I mean, one thing that had kind of come up is that over the years playing in Fugazi, I had found, you know, it's - it had become increasingly clear to me, like, this sort of irony. This is our form of expression - I mean, my form of expression - and yet the only venues in which I could - I was allowed to perform it was in these venues where the economy is based largely on self-destruction. You know, I mean, people may, you know, there might be some typical...
RAZ: Too much alcohol sales.
: Right. Of course. Right. Into the bar scene.
RAZ: And, in a sense, it shuts out anybody who's under 21.
: Of course. Right. Which is incredibly ironic, considering just how what an important role music plays in 16- and 17- and 18-year-old kids' lives. The idea that these people can't see these bands who are actually making this music, that shows you there's a deep sickness in that system.
And Amy and I talked a lot about it, and we were thinking we should try to find a way to elude that, because along with that, with those venues, the rock and roll economy, which is crazy. Crazy the amount of money it costs to put a show on. And so if you're trying to do a show for a low ticket price you're up against it. So what we discussed was this idea of, sort of finding a way to split off from that system. And one way to do was just to turn down the volume.
: By turning it down, it allowed us to just play basically anywhere. We've played so many weird places, and it's so great to play in a barn or to play in a museum. Or to play, you know, in an art gallery or a theater lobby or any - because music can be anywhere. And quite often, when you put music into an unusual, untraditional space, in many ways, the music really steps up.
RAZ: It seems like the song on this record "Competing with the Till" speaks to that. There's a line in there: Our audience is your clientele.
: Right.
: Amy, and I played a show at the Canterbury Arts College in England. It was a beautiful building, like, filled with these giant galleries, white wooden floors, perfect room for us. You know, our little PA was perfect.
But when we got there, the guy said, well, you're just going to play in the pub. And the pub was this little room, sort of, in a corner of the building.
: And there was, you know, a bar with the cash register, you know, ringing the till - ding, ding, ding, ding - and a pool table and tables and chairs and students having, you know, afternoon drinks whenever. You know, we said to the guy: Well, these other rooms are empty. Can't we use one of - there was empty rooms.
Like - I mean, we're talking about five feet away, there was giant, beautiful empty rooms. Like, can we just set up in here? He said: Oh, no, no. You have to play in the pub.
RAZ: Yeah.
: ...and should be treated as such and shouldn't be just dismissed as just a way to sell things. And now, it's not just limited to alcohol at this point, when you think about it, because now, what you're starting to see is music being suffused by advertising. And you're seeing giant corporations, car companies actually starting, like, labels and things like that.
So suddenly, it's become - once again, music has this very weird role as being just, you know, an introduction to a product. It's too bad.
RAZ: I'm speaking with Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina. Together, they are The Evens, and their new album is called "The Odds." Amy, the two of you are, of course, married. And I'm wondering to what extent the themes on this record kind of reflect or amplify the things that you talk about at home as a family.
FARINA: I think that there's not actually a whole lot of talking that's going on at home. It's hard to have a conversation when you have a...
RAZ: A small child...
FARINA: Yes. A loquacious 4-year-old.
RAZ: ...demanding all your attention. Does he like your music?
FARINA: He does like our music. He's also not shy to critique things.
RAZ: Tell you when he doesn't like it.
FARINA: Yeah. Yeah.
RAZ: What would rebellion mean for the son of Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina? I mean, what would he have to do? Like, listen to bad music or...
FARINA: Well, he wanted to be a police officer for Halloween.
RAZ: Oh, that'd be rebellion, think. OK.
FARINA: So...
: I don't think - we're - you know, people have asked that question, but I just don't think, you know, unless you self-destruct, that would be a form of rebellion. Unfortunately, it's one of the few forms of rebellion that our culture seems to permit. I remember being in high school and being struck by, like, the rebels. Like, the rebellious people were largely the people who were self-destructing. And I thought that...
RAZ: Doing drugs and...
: Yeah. And it seemed, like, what a shame. That's their only option in this culture, that you have to destroy yourself? And I thought, well, that's just ridiculous. But, honestly, I haven't really thought about - I mean, right now, like, what does our son have to do to rebel? He has to take 25 minutes to put his shoes on. That's a form of rebellion that will drive you crazy, you know?
RAZ: Fair enough. Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina are The Evens. Their new album is called "The Odds." You can hear a few tracks at our website, nprmusic.org. Ian, Amy, thank you very much for coming in.
: Thanks for having us.
FARINA: Thank you.
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Posts tagged 'mitochondrial'
DNA journey
I started down the DNA learning path several years ago. My Dad's father was adopted, & when I eventually found his birth certificate it contained no information about his father. An unusual middle name and circumstantial evidence suggested someone, but with no documentary evidence, DNA seemed a way to test my theory.
I found a grandson of this possible ancestor – son of a son, so a good candidate for y-chromosome DNA comparison with my father. I asked – if I paid for it, would he be willing to have his DNA tested to compare with my father's DNA? He said yes, but unfortunately the test proved that he and my father were not related. (DNA is often better at disproving rather than proving relationships.)
I used the company Family Tree DNA, which has the largest database for testing and comparison, and now that I am registered, I am advised when others match my Dad's DNA. I hope that one day I will find someone with the right DNA,who had an ancestor in the right place and at the right time.
Some time later, I had the opportunity to speak to Megan Smolenyak about my problem & confirm my method. I asked Megan for her advice about which company should I use to test my Mum's DNA.
Females don't have y-chromosomes so cannot have the y-DNA tests done. However humans have other DNA outside the cell nucleus, called mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Mothers pass mtDNA to all their children, but only their daughters pass it on. I wanted my Mum's DNA to be tested now and also stored for the future, for as-yet-undeveloped tests. Forensic scientists use mitochondrial DNA now, but for genealogists mtDNA is mostly only used for deep ancestry testing, not for finding 'recent' ancestors (those in a genealogical timeframe).
Megan suggested that I have my mother's DNA tested with the company 23andMe, as they were developing new tests and could offer more information about female ancestors. 23andMe tests give information about genetic health issues, in addition to genealogical ancestry matching – so I took that advice.
These 2 companies that I had used (23andMe & FamilyTreeDNA) offer very different information in their test results. Results from the FamilyTreeDNA tests are tables of numbers, indicating the DNA at specific genetic marker points. There is also a YSearch database for comparing results, and even people who have had their DNA tested with other companies can search this freely – you manually enter the numbers (alleles) at various marker locations and see if the results match anyone in the YSearch database.
The results from 23andMe gave information about genetic health risks and tendencies and general DNA groupings – it required a bit more delving to actually find the numbers that correspond to the (mitochondrial) DNA markers.
Around a year ago, both these companies announced new tests involving autosomal DNA. 23andMe call this 'Relative Finder' – FamilyTreeDNA call it 'Family Finder'. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes in every cell nucleus – 22 pairs of autosomes and also another pair, the 'sex chromosomes' (XX for females, XY for males). The autosomes contain bits of DNA inherited from all your ancestors, not just from all-male or all-female lines. You share larger pieces of DNA in common with close relatives, and smaller bits of autosomal DNA with relatives less closely related.
Both males and females have this autosomal DNA, so now you can find relationships with anyone sharing any common ancestor, not just the all-paternal or all-maternal lines. This new autosomal DNA test has thrown up some new possibilities and new candidates in the search for my father's father's heritage. (We already have found a close relative with interesting possibilities.)
However, back to the initial subject. The company 23andMe is offering a special price for the next few days, and some Facebook friends decided to take advantage of it. I agonised whether I should join them, given that I already have tested my father's DNA as well as my mother's mitochondrial DNA.
In terms of autosomal DNA, although the test is new, I suspect that the company FamilyTreeDNA is likely to have a bigger database for comparisons. (For me the main value of DNA tests is looking to match with others, and so larger databases are better.)
But 23andMe gives other information – about genetic related diseases – in addition to the study of ancestry. I have decided that both companies' tests are of interest to me. So now I too have taken advantage of the current special price, and will get my own DNA tested.
Of course there are many other testing companies, and websites with information about DNA. I give talks about 'DNA for Genealogists' (my handout can be found on my website). The handout contains information about various testing companies and their information pages, as well as other sites with DNA tutorials, mailing lists and even a DNA Wiki.
For now though, I have joined the ranks of those waiting for a test tube to be posted to me, so I can take the next step in this DNA journey.


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TBG Holdings launches new shortline holding companyWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
TBG Holdings Corp. acquired Monkey Rock (MKRO) and will work to transform MKRO shortline and regional railroad holding company. As part of the transition, the company will be renamed Continental Rail Corp.
Additionally, MKRO CEO John Dent, who assisted in the transition, has resigned.
The newly-appointed president of Continental Rail Corp. will be Wayne August, a 22-year veteran of the rail industry. August is an executive who has coordinated several mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions during his career. Most recently, he was employed by Patriot Rail Corp. as vice president of corporate development. At Patriot, he led the acquisition efforts that resulted in the company's growth. Prior to that, he was with RailAmerica for 10 years where his last position was vice president corporate strategy. He started his rail career in 1991 as a management trainee with CSX Corp. He has senior management experience in several areas, including M&A, financial planning, investor relations and strategic planning.
Alongside August will be newly-appointed Chief Financial Officer Tim Hart. Hart has more than 30 years of accounting and finance experience, including 10 years with KPMG, an international public accounting firm. He has worked with companies, such as RailAmerica and Patriot Rail Corp. during the past 25 years.
Neil Swartz, chairman and CEO of Continental, said, "We are pleased to have Wayne join Continental Rail Corp. and lead our efforts to acquire shortline freight railroads and rail-related businesses. He has a proven track record and the experience to get the job done. Combined with Tim's financial expertise, we have the beginnings of a great management team. I am confident that this transition of MKRO to the fast-growing rail industry will be a positive one for all shareholders."


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Finally got around to a little project I mentioned a while back.
Placing a gnome door at the base of a tree in an area where a pedestrian will see it. Ultimately I'll place one where it won't be easy for a person to investigate, like on the side of a road near a traffic light, so the driver or passenger will see it briefly as they pass.
Bean found the perfect tree along the side of a trail in Bucks County, PA yesterday.
Gnomes have awesome homes (though I'm thinking dog-sized spiders would be a downer).
Sunday, September 18, 2011
The Gnome Home Project
Finally got around to a little project I mentioned a while back.
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- crudedoodle.com said...
this is pretty funny.
- September 18, 2011 at 9:41 AM
- wicKED said...
I love it! So simple and thought provoking.
- September 18, 2011 at 9:51 AM
- PumpkinAbbey said...
I love it!
- September 18, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Colleen said...
very cute! Love it!
- September 18, 2011 at 10:52 AM
- Der Krampus said...
Nice one Rot! Reminds me of this beautifully illustrated book about gnome I seem to recall from the late 1970's, can't remember the title or author though...
- September 18, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- Pam Morris said...
love it!
- September 18, 2011 at 11:27 AM
- Jay's Shadow said...
Thats a riot!
Would love to watch the people who would find it and watch their reaction....
- September 18, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- Marrow said...
Looks pretty sweet. A cool little nature project.
Now, do you think Gnomes are capable of Yard Haunting? :)
- September 18, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- Rot said...
: )
I found some bird bones in the corner of my yard. I should do another door, but a lot rougher than this one, and pile the bones up outside of the door.
- September 18, 2011 at 4:40 PM
- Autumnforest said...
Being from Nordic decent, I do so appreciate those who accommodate the little gnomes, trolls as well. I'm equal opportunity.
- September 18, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Sara said...
Have you two seen the wooden toys they make for little kids nowadays? Gnome doors, Fairy doors, little furniture for them, etc. I love that they don't actually provide the gnomes or fairies. It is all up to the kids to make believe and they are encouraged to do what you just did. Place them at the base of trees, etc...
- September 18, 2011 at 6:55 PM
- Bob said...
Need to know where this is!
- September 18, 2011 at 8:23 PM
- Rot said...
I have seen those little doors. I think they're somewhere on this blog even.
I ain't tellin'
- September 18, 2011 at 9:01 PM
- Brian said...
Cool Rot! I would love to find one of those in the woods in my area. Very Brian Froud-esq.
- September 18, 2011 at 9:49 PM
- Anonymous said...
That's great! I love messing with people.
- September 19, 2011 at 2:10 AM
- NoahFentz said...
Knock! Knock!
Who's there?
Gnome who?
Gnome Sweet Gnome.
- September 19, 2011 at 8:38 AM
- Addicted to Halloween said...
Dog-sized spiders. Well, there's my nightmare for tonight. Thanks. 8-O
- September 19, 2011 at 9:04 AM
- Anonymous said...
Awesome! You gotta give us a little hint, Bucks County is a big place riddled with trails.
- September 19, 2011 at 9:34 AM
- Rot said...
Somewhere in Tyler State Park.
- September 19, 2011 at 9:43 AM
- Jon said...
I would put these on the sides of port-a-potties.
- September 19, 2011 at 1:14 PM
- Wes and Tracy said...
I LOVE this! When I was a child, I had a vivid imagination. Seeing one of these Gnome doors would have given me a thrill that would have lasted me a lifetime.
- September 19, 2011 at 2:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
Oh good, a nice small park.
Should be no trouble to find....
- September 19, 2011 at 3:47 PM
- Anonymous said...
That is soooo cute!!!! I LOVE IT!!!
- September 19, 2011 at 4:30 PM
- Patrick Nottingham said...
Bucks County? The Village ain't up behind that over some wall that only blind chicks can climb over is it?
- September 19, 2011 at 6:09 PM
- Mantan Calaveras said...
Tragically, many gnomes, all over the woodland, do not have homes to call their own.
So please, support the gnome home project today. We work to provide safe, comfortable homes for many of the gnomes living out on the trails without shelter or warmth.
- September 19, 2011 at 7:10 PM
- Anonymous said...
Awesome. I put a gnome door up in my yard. It was a great addition to our yard and the kids loved it. Until the dog got to it of course. I guess she doesn't like gnomes.
- September 20, 2011 at 1:26 PM
- K.O. said...
- September 21, 2011 at 1:00 AM
- Legally Brunette said...
this is a great idea. curious to see what happens.
- September 21, 2011 at 2:38 PM
- delores delruby said...
someone does this to a few trees in my neighborhood. i walk the dog and see little gnome doors and toadstools at the bases of 2 or 3 trees. i like it when i see it. reminds me to stay imaginative.
- September 22, 2011 at 2:34 PM
- Heather said...
oooo...with your amazing talent you could make a door out of bird bones!!
Even more spooky! :D
- September 24, 2011 at 12:56 PM


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Turner said records show that in the 2008 presidential election, 112,604 Boulder County voters had completed voting by the Friday night before that year's Election Day. That represented about 60.5 percent of the total active voters.
This year's tally includes 94,356 mail ballots the county had gotten back from Boulder County voters, as well as 17,973 people who cast ballots in person at early-voting polling places.
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In Weld County, 72,428 voters had returned their mail ballots or had early-voted in person, according to the Secretary of State's Office.
Secretary of State Scott Gessler said Saturday that time is running out for voters using the mail-ballot option in this year's election -- as many as 700,000 such voters, his staff said -- to get those ballots back to their county clerks. The ballots have to be in the clerk's possession by 7 p.m. Tuesday. Officials advise that it's too late for voters to send their ballots back by mail.
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FREEPORT — Rockford Lutheran may have made things harder than they needed to be, but the Crusaders still left Freeport with their third straight regional crown.
After squandering a six-point lead in the final 17 seconds of regulation, Lutheran (27-3) finally fended off Belvidere in overtime, 71-67, to win Friday's Class 3A Freeport Regional championship.
"In overtime we focused and made our free throws," said Lutheran senior Thomas Kopelman, who scored a game-high 24 points. "In the fourth quarter that's definitely what hurt us (was free throws). We feel like we outplayed them in the fourth quarter but we kept giving them chances to get back into the game and that's not what we wanted to do."
The Crusaders had a great chance to put the Bucs (21-10) away in regulation, but 5 of 14 shooting from the line in the fourth quarter left the door open for the hard-fighting Bucs, who didn't want to see their season come to an end. And after Joseph Kellen missed a pair of free throws that would've put the game out of reach with 7.6 seconds left, Belvidere senior Joe Byers made the Crusaders pay by draining a game-tying 3-pointer as time expired to send the game to overtime.
"We had our chance to put them away at the line and it's tough shooting free throws," Lutheran junior Nate Wieding (17 points, 10 rebounds) said. "But we came back and that's what good teams do."
After Byers (team-high 23 points) nailed another 3 early in the OT to give his team a one-point lead, the Crusaders scored the next eight points to seize control for good. And they hit all four of their foul shots in the final 30 seconds to secure the victory and the title.
"This is our third year in a row winning a regional and that was our goal," Kopelman said. "I'm best friends with Joe Byers and my goal was I'm not going to let him beat me. It feels great now to move on to sectionals and hopefully we can pull that out too."
It's the second straight year that the Bucs have seen their season come to an end at the hands of Lutheran in the regional finals. But unlike in last year's 25-point loss, the Crusaders had much more of a battle on their hands this time around.
"We studied this team and coach told us to be prepared for this game because they were going to come out ready," said Belvidere senior Maurice Jackson, who had 13 points and nine rebounds. "We accepted that challenge and we competed with them. We gave it our all."
The Bucs, who are still searching for the first regional title since 1990, came back from down eight points early and the nine-point deficit they faced entering the fourth quarter.
"We all told each other we need to keep this up to try to get what we need to do done to try and achieve our goal of winning a regional," Jackson said. "We tried our hardest."


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hypnosec writes "With Linux enthusiasts and distro publishers eagerly waiting for a solution to Microsoft's UEFI SecureBoot, there are those who have already looked at the viability of Linux on Microsoft Surface tablet. Matthew Garrett, a.k.a. UEFI-guru, has revealed that those who are keeping their fingers crossed and hoping to find run Linux on Microsoft's tablet are on an uphill walk and it doesn't seem to be an easy one. So why is this? The answer is in the manner in which Microsoft has restricted the Surface from loading non-signed software / binaries by implementing UEFI SecureBoot. Microsoft has loaded on the ARM based tablet its private key instead of the 'Microsoft Windows UEFI Driver Publisher' key, which is needed to sign non-Microsoft software like Linux distributions or loaders. So, no publisher key = no signed non-Microsoft binary = no Linux."


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Ultimate 747 gambit
Apologetic Counter-Arguments
The conclusion does not follow from the premises
"At most, all that follows is that we should not infer God's existence on the basis of the appearance of design in the universe. But that conclusion is quite compatible with God's existence and even with our justifiably believing in God's existence. Maybe we should believe in God on the basis of the cosmological argument or the ontological argument or the moral argument. Maybe our belief in God isn't based on arguments at all but is grounded in religious experience or in divine revelation. Maybe God wants us to believe in Him simply by faith. The point is that rejecting design arguments for God's existence does nothing to prove that God does not exist or even that belief in God is unjustified. Indeed, many Christian theologians have rejected arguments for the existence of God without thereby committing themselves to atheism." – William Lane Craig
Response: The appearance of design requires an explanation but invoking a more complex being is simply a tactic employed to hide the problem. An ultimately complex God is, by the design argument, ultimately improbable. If the theist holds the design argument's premise then the ultimate 747 gambit would disprove his existence. To avoid this problem, the design argument must be rejected. God would be a somewhat adequate explanation if he evolved from simplicity.
Argument from Evolution against God (god cannot evolve):
Attribution to StrongAtheism.net [1]
There is a popular belief that science can never prove or disprove the existence of a god, because science only concerns itself with the material. Of course, this has not stopped many Christians, even theologians, from boasting that science makes theism credible.
Both arguments are very weak. If a god does exist, this fact must have some implication for the nature of the universe. After all, this immaterial intelligence is said to have created the entire universe! If that was the case, we should expect, for instance, to observe that time and space pertain to different things. After all, a Creator of all can hardly exist in space, and yet must act in time. But we know from physics that this is not the case. Christian Creationism suffers from another problem: we do not observe lifeforms popping out of nothing, and yet this is what they claim happened for all "kinds", including man.
The argument I will discuss here is similar to the latter, in that it mounts an inductive argument based on evolution. It is not, however, an argument against Creationism but against the notion of an intelligent, uncaused (and therefore non-evolved) being. The fact is that we do observe uncaused things, but they are all quantum events. We have never observed something macroscopic, let alone something as complex as an intelligence, pop out of nothing.
Yet this is what we are to believe about a "god": that an infinitely powerful intelligence popped out of nothing, uncaused. Given the infinite improbability of such an event, we have to regard is as an absurd fable at best. If we accept the scientific fact that evolution is the only means to obtain intelligence, then the existence of a god is impossible.
Of course, the Christian might reply that his god did not pop out of nothing, but always was. This may very well be the case – but if that is his position, then he also has to accept the strong-atheistic position, that the universe always was, as being even more credible given the complexities involved. But more importantly, the strong-atheistic position does not involve intelligence being uncaused, but rather intelligence arising from evolution. This is a luxury that the theist cannot afford.
The Argument from Evolution, formalized by Kyle J. Gerkin in his article 'A Counterclockwise Paley', consists of the following syllogism:
1.Organized complexity is the product of conscious design or natural selection.
2.Intelligence is an example of organized complexity.
3.Thus, intelligence is the product of conscious design or natural selection.
4.Intelligent beings are capable of designing intelligence (i.e. computer artificial intelligence programmed by humans).
5.However, only one mechanism has been discovered that can produce intelligence without requiring the existence of a prior intelligence. That mechanism is evolution through natural selection.
6.Thus, the first intelligence evolved.
7.Evolution requires:
a.Self replication (heredity) with slightly imperfect copying fidelity (mutation).
b.An environment that can favor one replicator over another (competition).
c.Time for (a) and (b) to manifest themselves.
8.None of the conditions in (7) were present before the existence of the universe.
9.Thus, intelligence did not exist prior to the universe.
10.Therefore, the universe did not have an intelligent creator.
Most of these premises are rather uncontroversial, at least to most rational people. It is fairly obvious that we have not observed any other means to produce organized complexity, and the strong-atheistic position does not contravene to (1) since the initial state of the universe was not complex, at least as we know it so far.
A hypothetical question can be raised against (5) and (8) – could not another mechanism be found to account for organized complexity or intelligence specifically? Gerkin himself answers this question in two parts. First, any mechanism that we would find in the future would have to be natural, and therefore could not exist before the universe. Secondly, even if we posit that some mechanism can exist in the "supernatural realm", this mechanism and that realm would itself require a Creator. The only viable solution for the theist is to claim that intelligence can pop out of nothing, which goes against our scientific knowledge.
An objection has been raised in that line by William Kesatie in 'Trimming the Wrong Hedge'. Keasatie argues that the argument only applies to material entities, because God was uncaused. This is a lame objection, and he must be aware of that: whatever position one has, one has to uphold an uncaused entity, material or not. In this view, Kesatie only highlights the absurdity of the theistic position in assuming the existence of an uncaused intelligence.
Basically, the Argument from Evolution demands that the theist accounts for the intelligence of this god. In this he is caught in a Catch-22. If he claims that intelligence is a very mundane thing to exist, then the existence of the universe and material intelligence is a much more mundane thing. If he claims that intelligence requires design, then he cannot claim that his god is intelligent.
The only possibility left at this point would be to take an impersonal view of "god" – that it is simply a principle or law. But this escape drains all meaning to our worship and reverence of "god", and reduces it to a natural phenomena and some bastard form of pantheism.
Gerkin's argument does something that few atheological arguments have ever done, putting into question the intelligence of the god-concept, and using a purely scientific argument that is so simple as to be available to the common reader. This is a very powerful argument that I think deserves to be known and used.
In emailing Gerkin, he has told me that another objection has been used against his argument – the idea that the Argument from Evolution does not apply to divine intelligence because it is simple. Now, it is unclear how we can make sense of any such statement as applied to a supernatural "thing".We cannot say anything about a "supernatural intelligence" unless we know what it means.
Let's go a little further and assume that "supernatural intelligence" is coherent. In this case, what evidence can we rely on? Inductive arguments point to the direction of infinite complexity. Indeed, all non-designed intelligences around us become more complex as they are more flexible and powerful. The sole conclusion we can draw is that the intelligence of a god must be extremely, or infinitely, complex.
Explanations of Explanations
A complete explanation of an God is not required in order to recognise God's existence as a valid explanation of the evidence. Dawkins demands an explanation for God (3) - in other words an explanation for the explanation. If we required explanations of explanations, we'd end up in an infinite regress and we could never explain anything. Science and history in particular would be taken as invalid, because we recognise that there are always open questions.
"If archaeologists digging in the earth were to discover things looking like arrowheads and hatchet heads and pottery shards, they would be justified in inferring that these artifacts are not the chance result of sedimentation and metamorphosis, but products of some unknown group of people, even though they had no explanation of who these people were or where they came from. Similarly, if astronauts were to come upon a pile of machinery on the back side of the moon, they would be justified in inferring that it was the product of intelligent, extra-terrestrial agents, even if they had no idea whatsoever who these extra-terrestrial agents were or how they got there. In order to recognize an explanation as the best, one needn't be able to explain the explanation." – William Lane Craig
Craig misses the point. Dawkins' objection is not about a missing "explanation of an explanation"; it is about the explanatory power of the design explanation. The argument from design iterates and therefore preserves the problem: why are there complex things? The designer has intelligence, intentions, and the incredible ability to create universes. He does complex things intentionally and is therefore himself a complex thing since his thoughts have to be at least as complex as his designs. Ergo, he is in need of the explanation he was supposed to provide in the first place. In fact, the designer explanation solves nothing at all and it actually worsens it by raising additional problems. Craig assigns God the property of timelessness but this is mere wordplay; God is supposedly involved in human temporal concepts: he decides, he intends, he designs, he constructs. Intention and design are human concepts dependent on a temporal framework which cannot be applied to a timeless being. In the end, the design argument boils down to the God of the gaps: We don't know enough therefore God did it with magic! See: turtles all the way down
Craig's straw-man arguments must be illustrated more properly. He makes the obvious 'dodge' from the gambit by ignoring its salient statement that 'we cannot explain a mystery with the same mystery'.
Let the unexplained phenomenon be denoted by P; the explanation of P be denoted by A. Let false propositions be F and "equivalent to" be ~=.
{P->A}; in this case, this conditional represents design.
The gambit states:
F{P->A} if {A~=P}.
The design argument states:
1) Whatever is complex/ perfectly ordered requires a designer.
2) The universe is complex/ perfectly ordered.
3) Hence, The universe is designed.
Ultimate 747 Gambit states:
1) Whatever is complex/ perfectly ordered requires a designer.
2) God's mind is complex/perfcetly ordered and organized.
3) Hence, God is designed.
The Argument from Complexity:
1. Complex hypotheses/explanations are less preferable than simple hypotheses/explanations (by the principle of Occam's razor).
2. The complexity of the god explanation is weighed by the complexity of god's nature (premise).
3. God is suggested to be omniscient.
4. Omniscience entails the infinitely complex order of true thoughts, which is inexplicable to the human mind (analytic truth).
5. God's nature is infinitely complex [from 3 and 4].
6. The god explanation is infinitely complex [from 2 and 5].
7. The god explanation must be rejected when any other explanation- which is not infinitely complex- is posed [from 1 and 6].
Regarding Craig's counter-examples:
Archaelogy: Craig makes the same mistake as Paley; if fish fossils were found, no one would argue human design. We know that arrowheads are product of human design because of our observational experience and former knowledge, however we don't have another universe to compare with our one in order to notice design.
Dawkins also responds: The theologians, he writes, demanded that there must be a first cause, which can be given the name God. Dawkins responds that it must have been a simple cause, and he contends that God is not an appropriate name for it, unless God is divested of its normal associations. Dawkins wants the first cause to be a "self-bootstrapping crane" that slowly lifts the world to its current complexity. He says that he doesn't require a narrowly scientific explanation, but what any honest theory that accounts for the complex phenomena of the natural world requires is a crane and not a skyhook.
God is simple
"According to much classical theology (Thomas Aquinas, for example) God is simple, and simple in a very strong sense, so that in him there is no distinction of thing and property, actuality and potentiality, essence and existence, and the like. Some of the discussions of divine simplicity get pretty complicated, not to say arcane. (It isn't only Catholic theology that declares God simple; according to the Belgic Confession, a splendid expression of Reformed Christianity, God is "a single and simple spiritual being.") So first, according to classical theology, God is simple, not complex "– Plantinga
Response: Dawkins writes that he didn't get the impression that those employing this "evasive" defence were being "wilfully dishonest," but were "defining themselves into an epistemological Safe Zone where rational argument could not reach them because they had declared by fiat that it could not."
"More remarkable, perhaps, is that according to Dawkins' own definition of complexity, God is not complex. According to his definition (set out in The Blind Watchmaker), something is complex if it has parts that are "arranged in a way that is unlikely to have arisen by chance alone." But of course God is a spirit, not a material object at all, and hence has no parts. A fortiori (as philosophers like to say) God doesn't have parts arranged in ways unlikely to have arisen by chance. Therefore, given the definition of complexity Dawkins himself proposes, God is not complex. " – Plantinga
Response: Dawkin's definition of complexity can be applied to God's intelligence. God is the set of the most complex ideas that are arranged in the most organized way that is unlikely to have arisen by chance alone. Plantinga is also explaining away Dawkin's definition in biological and physical terms. It is also known in biology that there is a meaningful correlation between structure and function. A being with no structure has no function. It is important to note that there are two kinds of complexity: physical and functional. It can be granted that God is nonphysical. However, functional complexity is measured by the level of intelligence/conciousness and abilities. An omnipotent and omniscient being is thus ultimately functionally complex. Thinking, rationality, consciousness, and volition are complex processes that could not, by any means, arise by chance. The brain is a simple structure but its function is extraordinarily complex.


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ROCKFORD — With the Rockford IceHogs dealing with their first losing streak of the season, one of the last teams you want to face is the Grand Rapids Griffins.
The defending Calder Cup champs came into Sunday's matinee having won four straight and riding a 10-0-1-1 road streak. Not only that, but they seem to always score first against the 'Hogs.
All those factors came into play as the Griffins continued their trends in a 3-1 victory in front of a BMO Harris Bank Center crowd of 3,033.
Grand Rapids struck twice late in the second period in what had been an evenly played scoreless contest. That meant they tallied first for the eighth time in the two team's last nine meetings. The Griffins thus ran their winning streak to five, their road streak to 11-0-1-1 counting playoffs and saddled Rockford with its third straight setback.
And guess what? Rockford's next game is also against the Griffins — at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Grand Rapids. Perhaps there is hope for the 'Hogs (7-5-1-0) in that Grand Rapids (7-2-1-1) is 1-4 in its past five home dates.
"We'll look at the lineup, make a few tweaks," Rockford head coach Ted Dent said. "We're missing a couple of defensemen (Viktor Svedberg and Theo Peckham), and that's catching up to us.
"We're also not finding ways to score with our high-end forwards who are supposed to be scoring goals. We've got to work harder, compete harder and be more desperate."
Stop falling behind two goals, obviously, would help. Sunday was the ninth time this season that's happened.
"We should have buried a few in the second period," Dent said. "We had 15 shots and didn't capitalize.
"Then we make two turnovers on their tape. They shoot the puck at the net and get rewarded."
Dent also bemoaned lack of production when his team had five of the game's first six power plays.
"I don't think we got more than two shots," Dent said. "It killed us tonight, for sure. We got our five best offensive guys on the power play and couldn't come through."
Klas Dahlbeck did manage Rockford's goal on a power-play blast at 8:41 of the third to make it 2-1. But Landon Ferraro beat goalie Antti Raanta at 18:36 to close the scoring at a time Rockford was trying to gain possession to be able to pull Raanta for an extra attacker.
"Today's game was a different game," Dahlbeck said. "We usually have kind of a bad start. We're awful the first 10 minutes, let in some goals, then take a timeout and come back.
"I think we're on the right path, even though we were down two goals after the first two periods."
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As the political dialogue on video game violence continues in the wake of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, state representatives are starting to propose and draft legislation that would place restrictions on the game industry. One proposal would tax violent video games, while a drafted House bill would ban the sale of Adults Only or Mature-rated games to minors.
The AP (via Joystiq) reports that Representative Diane Franklin (R-MO) is proposing a 1% sales tax on violent video games, the proceeds of which would then be put towards law enforcement. This is similar to an Oklahoma bill that was defeated in a state house subcommittee last year.
Meanwhile, a new bill from Jim Matheson (D-UT), HR-287 (PDF), would require ratings labels on games, and restrict retailers from selling AO or M-rated games below their respective age recommendations of 18 or 17. Failure to comply with any part of the law would result in a fine up to $5,000 per violation. While the ESRB already exists to voluntarily rates games as a bit of self-regulation for the industry, the bill would make it a legal requirement.
If this all sounds incredibly familiar, it's because the Supreme Court struck down a similar state law from California in 2011. The state law would have imposed its own standards for what qualified as a violent game, so HR-287 wouldn't have that problem. But the SCOTUS' ruling was couched in the First Amendment, stating outright that "the basic principles of freedom of speech do not vary" based on the medium. So if this bill passes into law, it would likely be challenged in court.
To some extent the game industry is battling public perception. A NBC/WSJ News Poll (PDF) released last night showed 62% of respondents claiming violent media like movies and video games hold at least "a good amount" of responsibility for shootings like the ones in Tuscon and Newtown. By comparison, availability of guns and other weapons in general was only believed to be responsible at 53%, and availability of assault firearms was at 59%. This echoes Vice President Biden's recent comments that public opinion may be against the game industry.


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The year is coming to an end in a few days so, of course, it is time for "best of" lists!
This is my top ten list of graphic novels which I read during the past year. They may or may not have been published in 2012.
All of these works can be checked out from LFPL. Some have more than one volume but I just list the series as a whole when this is the case. If only a particular volume of a series is available at this time, it is annotated by an asterisk.
Due to the difficulty of ranking such varied stories, the following titles are listed in alphabetical order rather than in order of preference.
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Allison Bechdel
"Are You My Mother?" is a companion piece to Bechdels Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which centered on her father.
Batwoman: Hydrology, Volume 1 by J.H. Williams III & W. Haden Blackman*
Chew by John Layman
Echo: The Complete Edition by Terry Moore
For a previous review of this work on the Readers Corner, click here.
Grifter, Volume One: Most Wanted by Nathan Edmondson*
iZombie by Chris Roberson and Mike Allred
Scarlet by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev*
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire
The Unwritten by Mike Carey and Peter Gross
If you are interested in discussing these titles or other works of sequential art, please join LFPLs Graphic Novel Discussion Group. Meetings are held at the Main Library on the second Monday of every month, starting at 7:00 PM.
The next two meetings will take place on the following dates:
January 14, 2013 We will be discussing digital and web comics.
February 11, 2013 We will be discussing the role of African-Americans in comics and the comics industry.
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The Innocents, directed by Jack Clayton and starring Deborah Kerr, is a 1961 film adaptation of Henry James ghost tale novella The Turn of the Screw. The film is over a half-century old yet still has the ability to unnerve its audience through an innovative opening, carefully crafted performances, and unreliable narrative.
The film opens with a black screen and only the haunting sound of a girl singing. We do not see an image for several seconds, we just listen, and right from the start the movie has us on edge. Soon we meet Kerr as Mrs. Giddens, a governess who accepts her first job caring for two young children, and who soon becomes convinced that something otherworldly is wrong with them.
Mrs. Giddens demeanor is a shade too dramatic but she might just be resolute in her concern for the childrens safety. Similarly, the children Miles and Flora, portrayed by Martin Stephens and Pamela Franklin, respectively, may be possessed by evil spirits or perhaps merely seen askew as such by Mrs. Giddens. As the movie ends, we are left wondering what is real and what is not, and whether anyone at all is really an innocent party.
It is a brilliant movie, and one everyone should check out from our library.
You might also be interested in a direct adaptation of Turn of the Screw. This version was originally produced for Masterpiece Theatre. It stars Jodhi May, Grace Robinson, and Joe Sowerbutts.
Our guest reviewer, Alex Goodman, has worked for LFPL for nine years, and for the past three at the Middletown branch. He has been a film buff for much longer than that.
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Ive been meaning to read this book for two years and just got to it. I regret that it took me so long. Having been a fan of Patti Smiths music for decades, I am now a fan of her writing. These memoirs have the ease of her speaking voice. At once both soothing and painful, it is one of those books that I cant put down. She has been through a lot of personal grief, but is able to use her wisdom and the teachings of other wise people to pull through.
But as much as Ive been into Patti and her music, I knew nothing about Robert Mapplethorpe, her lifelong soul mate, except that he was an artist. Just Kids is a good starting place for information about him and his tragic death. I must admit that this part of the book made me cry.
The more I read about Patti, the more I like her. She likes all the stuff that I like: poetry, Brian Jones, Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, Rimbaud, Jim Morrison, Jim Carroll, Janis Joplin, The Beats, The Velvet Underground, and Sam Shepard.
Even before she was a singer/songwriter, she was in love with music. She lived in NYC in the late 60s/early 70s. She lived in the Chelsea Hotel for a time, and at a wonderful time to be at both The Chelsea and in NYC. This book makes me lonesome for New York.
This book has many stories and they weave through time like a history lesson that is both personal and universal. Her honesty is remarkable. Just Kids is a must read!
The library has a lot of her music which you can find by clicking here.
The library also owns a great DVD on her called Dream of Life.
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When a former United States Poet Laureate (2004-2006) and Pulitzer Prize for poetry winner (2005) sets their pen to writing for children, its hard not to be curious of the outcome. The House Held Up by Trees, published by Candlewick Press in 2012, is the second picture book by the acclaimed poet Ted Kooser. Jon Klassen adds digitally edited watercolor visuals and brings illustrator-of-the-moment status to the project. Klassen is also the author and illustrator of the brilliantly deadpan I Want My Hat Back as well as the companion title This is Not My Hat.
The main character in The House Held Up By Trees seemed familiar to me and then I realized that I have lived next door to this man more than once. Once where the neighbors cut their grass three times for each one of my lazy mowings and currently where the man adjacent is so fastidious with the upkeep of his yard that I have witnessed him using a leaf blower during a rainstorm. Much like them, the owner of the small country house at the center of this picture book world meticulously and deeply cares for the appearance of his lawn. He ritually manicures it as his young children watch from the outskirts of the neat green clearing.
Helicopter like seeds of maple rivet down to earth and take root but at the first sign of growth the father appears to pull them individually from his immaculate rectangle. Many seasons of careful maintenance pass and the daughter and son who have watched their fathers devotion to order are now of an age for moving from their childhood home. Retirement comes for the man which only increases his drive to tame nature. More time passes and eventually he is unable to keep up and he begins to long for living close to his children once more. And so he does and the house is put up for sale.
As it happened, nobody wanted to buy the house. Nobody could explain why, but it just didnt seem like a house where anybody wanted to live. That happens sometimes.
Without the propertys caretaker, seedlings that were once carefully plucked from the ground are now allowed to grow. Years go by and the seeds become trees and the once new and well cared for house has become dilapidated. Glass from the windows has been broken and shingles fallen away from the roof and then we can see that oddly enough trees have begun to grow from the interior.
Considering the general picture book audience, disintegration and the passing of time may not pop out as go-to themes. But why not devote some time to pondering such matters? Children will come to see that things that were once new eventually break and that nature will have its way with us be it in the end or points in between. These concepts are simple enough to grasp and yet theres no fear here of exposing an elementary aged reader to morbidity; instead here lies an opportunity to introduce the concept of acceptance. There's also a quietness and sense of awe aimed at the natural world both of which could always bare cultivation. This picture book does nothing to overstimulate the reader and is compelling enough for those who have come to rely on such.
And very gradually, the growing trees began to lift the house off its foundation. First there was a crack of light beneath it, and then in a few more years, you could see all the way across the top of the foundation.
Because who wouldn't be intrigued by the idea of a clump of trees that raise a house from up off the ground? I know I am.
Watch an interview with Kooser and see the actual house that inspired the story.
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There are myriad behaviors shared among all humankind that tie each person to the next. Over time, these behaviors form recognizable and predictable trends. Among these is the seemingly innate desire by some to organize society or select groups in the attempt to maximize happiness and achieve some level of worldly perfection. From the Essenes of Ancient Judea to the Transcendentalists of Nineteenth Century America, people have endeavored for thousands of years to build a utopia.
Earlier this year, Lauren Groff published her second novel entitled Arcadia. It follows a fictional group of Americans in the 1970s which forms a commune sequestered in rural New York on the land surrounding an old, decaying house known as the Arcadia House. There they wish to live what is - in their minds - a righteous life of free love, strict vegetarianism, shared work, and the prohibition of the keeping of pets (considered by them to be animal slavery).
With the narration being a mixture of omniscient voice and the internal musings of the son of one of the founding couples, Ridley Sorrel Stone (but referred to almost exclusively as Bit), the reader follows this ragtag band of merry pranksters in their journey from traveling caravan to Arcadia and beyond. As a spectrum of characters is introduced throughout, the reader is constantly engaged with their personal quirks and life stories.
Despite the best efforts by many, the fruit that results from these idealistic labors is bittersweet, and through it all, Bit remains a steadfast observer. He witnesses the happenings and consequences of the wishful dreams of gentle people who wanted nothing more than to live in peace and harmony. However, the realities of modern life cannot be avoided forever, and the world that was being eschewed nevertheless came to Arcadia, sans invitation.
Framing the story is Ms. Groffs wonderful writing. Her descriptions of nature, people, and events bring the reader directly to that Arcadia. The reader feels surrounded by the characters, sharing in their everyday joys, sorrows, hopes, and triumphs.
But this morning, Bit wakes alone, heart racing. The icicles in the window are shot with such red light of dawn that Bit goes barefoot over the snow to pull one with his hand. Inside again, he licks it down to nothing, eating winter itself, the captured woodsmoke and sleepy hush and aching cleanness of ice.
Ms. Groff is also the author of the novel The Monsters of Templeton (2008) and a collection of short stories, Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories (2009).
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ADRIAN — A jury should decide who is telling the truth, a judge said Wednesday in
revoking a plea bargain for an Adrian man who said he was about to be sentenced for child sex abuse he did not commit.
Two boys made false allegations of sex abuse after he caught them stealing from his home, Aaron Shane Carter told a judge during his sentencing for assault with intent to
commit second-degree criminal sexual conduct. He pleaded no contest to the reduced charge on Dec. 18 as a jury trial was about to begin on charges carrying a mandatory 25-year minimum prison term.
Carter, 34, was expected to receive a one-year county jail sentence and probation before the plea bargain was canceled by Judge Margaret M.S. Noe.
"I wasn't there. We'll hear from people who were and then we'll make a decision," Noe said.
A pre-trial hearing was scheduled for next week.
Parents of the two boys who reported being sexually abused gave emotional statements about how the case has affected their families. They said they disagreed with the plea bargain given Carter last month and asked the court for a maximum sentence to protect other boys from being abused.
Avoiding a trial was the easiest thing for her son, one of the mothers told the court.
"I don't want what's easiest for Mr. Carter," she said. "Our lives have been totally turned upside down."
Defense attorney John Baker of Adrian said Carter has no criminal history of any kind. The acts of sexual abuse described by the boys, he said, "are horrible, and we understand that, but we ask the court to sentence appropriately."
Carter then told the court he has been the victim of harassment in the six months since was charged with the crimes and denied being guilty of abusing the two boys.
"If I did something like this to the victims, why would they continue to talk to me?" Carter told the court. He said the boys made false accusations after he discovered they were stealing items from his home.
During a discussion earlier on sentencing guidelines, a prosecutor argued Carter engaged in predatory behavior. He befriended the two boys to gain their trust, then abused them as they slept during overnight stays at his home, said Scott Baker, assistant Lenawee County prosecutor.
Carter's attorney had argued against using a predatory conduct claim in calculating sentence guidelines. There had been a relationship for years before the few alleged incidents, argued John Baker.
Noe read reports of the boys' description of Carter acting as a big brother to them, then being shocked at awakening to him performing sexual acts. She agreed with the prosecution that the behavior they described was predatory.
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Well. Now that the season is over. Lets start looking at the draft and free agency!
What are your top needs, and who do you want us to pick. It looks like we will be picking either at either 21, 22 or 23 (3 way tie between us Indy and the loser of the GB/Philly game, usu decided by a coin toss).
My top needs:
1. Elite FS
- By far the biggest weakness on our team. Berry will make a great SS. He has the skills to cover zone and man, and is great at coming up against the run. Other than him, we are horrible at safety. It may be better to get someone from free agency. Berry could use some experience to mentor him. (supposedly Champ Bailey wants out of Denver and wants to play FS to prolong his career).
2. OG and/or OC prospect.
-Our interior is getting old. Waters is still playing well, but is one injury away from retiring. Asamoah will likely be really good soon, but Weigmann is getting old, too. Id love to see our 3rd round pick used here.
- This will open up our offense immensely. Bowe is constantly double teamed. If he is one-on-one, he will get open. If they double him, then Moeaki, the #2 guy, and the run game will open up. I say draft someone in the 2nd round.
- Vrabel is getting old, isnt getting to the QB and is not the best cover man because he has lost a step. We need someone who is good in coverage, not just a rush guy. Our LBs couldnt keep up with the Ravens' TEs. This could probably be found in either the draft or in FA.
- We dont have a true NT. Our DL is good, but Edwards is old and doesnt have the strength to hold up to 2x teams. We need a big beast in the middle. Not sure if there are any great NTs in the draft, or FA.
6. Backup QB
- I think we all agree that Brokie Croyle has lost most of his supporters. I say FA or a low round draft pick.
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March 18 –"Researching Your Polish Ancestors" will be 1-2 p.m. The Polish Genealogy event is for
Researchers interested in their Polish roots are faced with a unique set of challenges, from the language to the infinite spelling variations and the shifting boundaries on the map. This program will explore these challenges, important American sources, both print and online, and research strategies that can shed light on your ancestral town in Poland.
Location: Meeting Room A.
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For more information, or to view the March Madness brochure.
March 19 – "French-Canadian Research at the Genealogy Center" will be 2-3 p.m.
March 20 – "The Riches of First Nations Heritage: Beginning Native American Genealogical Research" from 2-3 p.m.
March 21 – Learn about Revolutionary War Service in "It Was Everybody's War," from 2-3 p.m.
March 22 – Locate those "Shadowed Roots: Antebellum Era Records for African-American Research," from 10-11 a.m.
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Aggies Go 0-for-2 In Nebraska
OMAHA, Neb. - The North Carolina A&T women's basketball team dropped their second straight game, falling to Omaha 58-44 at the Sapp Fieldhouse on Monday evening.
"I thought we took several steps back when you look at how we came out and played against Nebraska. Honestly, I thought we took this team for granted and they took advantage of that," said A&T head coach Tarrell Robinson.
The Aggies (0-2) struggled again in getting inside the paint and scoring. Robinson said that the Aggies weren't aggressive enough in driving to the basket during the game, and that made it difficult for A&T to get their offense rolling.
"I just told them [the Aggies] that this was the last thing I would have thought going into this game that I would be worried about us not being aggressive. We settled for outside shots. We actually attempted more shots than they did and attempted more threes. That's not the brand of basketball I was trying to play," he said.
A&T shot just 19 percent in the second half, making just 6 of 31 shot attempts, which was a significant drop-off from the 48 percent the Aggies shot in the first half.
The Aggies were unable to defend the lead they created in the first half thanks to their shooting. The Aggies pulled ahead to a 15-8 lead after a pair of three-pointers from sophomores Jessica Lyons and Adriana Nazario. But the Mavericks tied the game at 19 with a pair of free throws from Paige Frauendorfer, taking advantage of A&T shot clock violations and missed shots to climb back into the game. Free throws from Jamie Nash gave Omaha a 23-21 lead. The Mavericks went on an 8-5 run to close out the first half and take a 31-26 lead into the break.
"I thought that we knew that they weren't going to be able to handle pressure so we picked up our pressure a little bit in the second half going in," Robinson said. The Aggies forced 11 Omaha turnovers, but struggled to score off their opportunities.
A 3-pointer from junior Tracy King pulled Aggies within three at 43-40, with 10:24 left to play. A 3-pointer by Ericka House put the Mavericks ahead 48-40 with 7:43 remaining. The Aggies worked to come back, pulling within eight on a three-pointer from Berry with 4:54 left. But House made it an 11-point game with a 3-pointer with just over three minutes left.
"We forced some turnovers that we weren't able to capitalize on and we ended up taking quick and bad shots and they ended up capitalizing at the other end," Robinson said. "They were going at the basket and we were settling."
Preseason All-MEAC senior guard JaQuayla Berry led the Aggies in scoring and on the boards with 12 points and nine rebounds, along with two steals in the contest. Preseason All-Summit League player Frauendorfer finished the game with a team-best 15 points for Omaha.
The Aggies will take on Iona in their home opener at 6 p.m., at Corbett Sports Center on Friday.


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BNSF recognizes 2012 Employees of the YearWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
BNSF honored the accomplishments of employees from across its network at an awards ceremony recently in Fort Worth, Texas.
The event recognized BNSF's Safety Employees of the Year, Achievement Award winners and "Best of the Best" leaders of teams who showed outstanding safety performance in 2012.
"The success of BNSF is dependent upon every person who works here," said Matthew Rose, BNSF chairman and chief executive officer. "The 2012 Employee of the Year awards honor the employees who best demonstrate BNSF's vision and values through their commitment, leadership and focus on working safely and efficiently to meet our customers' expectations."
Seven BNSF employees were honored as Safety Employees of the Year for outstanding contributions in support of an injury- and accident-free workplace: Carey Dotson, intermodal equipment operator, from Memphis, Tenn.; George Gross, telecommunications associate foreman, from Fort Worth, Texas; Lee Johnson, yardmaster, from Spokane, Wash.; Doug Peterson, track inspector, from Glendive, Mont.; Bruce Remz, switchman, from Barstow, Calif.; Devon Smoot, locomotive engineer, from Thayer, Mo. and Darryl Woods, carman, from Kansas City, Kan.
BNSF presented more than 500 Achievement Awards in 2012. Of those, 17 outstanding individual and team achievements were honored with Employee of the Year awards for accomplishments ranging from life-saving CPR to initiatives for improving customer service.
BNSF also recognized 41 leaders who were named "Best of the Best" for their outstanding safety leadership in 2012, with work teams that achieved exceptional safety performance in 2012. Each work group was injury-free.


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