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Free skating exhibition Saturday at Dover Ice Arena DOVER - Join Great Bay Skating Club's Learn to Skate program Saturdays at the Dover Ice Arena. Sign up now for only $72 for 4 weeks. All beginner skaters start at 9:20 a.m. Advanced skaters and adults begin at 8:25am. Experienced, certified skating instructors run the classes. Qualified volunteer junior coaches offer one on one support. Sessions are 55 minutes long. Helmets and gloves are required for young skaters. A one time, annual registration fee applies. Stop by Saturday, Nov. 3, at 9 a.m. for a free exhibition by some of the skating club's higher-level skaters. Performers include UNH presidential scholar Victoria Ward, 13-year-old Olivia Cama and 11-year-old Anastasia Marchuk, both medalists in national skating competitions and both students at Dover Middle School. For questions or more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com. Dover Recreation Basketball programs
DOVER — Dover Recreation would like to announce that sign-ups are on-going at the McConnell Center (door # 3) for all of our basketball programs. Programs are offered for grades K – 12, as well as sign-ups for Men's Leagues. Early sign-ups help us plan and can help you save! Our youth programs offer a discount for early sign-ups! For more information on all of our programs, please call 603-516-6401 or log onto www.dover.nh.gov/rechome.htm.
Rochester Sports Hall of Fame nominations
ROCHESTER — The Rochester Elks Sports Hall of Fame Committee is currently seeking nominations for the 23rd Hall of Fame event to be held in May, 2013. Nominations are being accepted for athletes and contributors who are at least 21 years old. Forms are available on the website at www.rochestershof.com or at the Rochester Elks Lodge and may be submitted online or mailed to PO Box 385, Rochester, NH 03866. Nominations must be received before January 1, 2013 to be considered for the 2013 class.
Spartans basketball tryouts
PORTSMOUTH — The Spartans travel basketball tryouts will be held Nov. 2 at New Heights Gym, 100 Campus Ave., Portsmouth.
Tryouts on Nov. 2 for girls in grades 3 to 8, 6 to 7 p.m.; and tryouts for boys in grades 3 to 8, 7 to 8 p.m.
Roger N. Allen Baseball meeting
ROCHESTER — Roger N. Allen Baseball will hold its end-of-the-year meeting on Nov. 3, 11 a.m., in the Rochester Community Center's Conference Room 1.
Parents, coaches, league officials and the general public are invited.
Marshwood Memorial Cup Fall Classic
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — On Sunday, Nov. 4, the Marshwood Wrestling and Marshwood Hockey Boosters will be coming together to hold the first Memorial Cup Fall Classic golf tournament to be held at the Links at Outlook in South Berwick, Maine. The proceeds from this event will help offset some of the expenses for these two booster clubs for the upcoming season.
The cost is only $95 per golfer, which includes green fees,cart,T-shirt and a meal after your round. This will be open to the first 128 golfers (32 foursomes)who sign up. This will be a scramble format with an 8:30 am. shotgun start. Dinner tickets and sponsorship opportunities are also available. For a players application or for more information on how you can participate in this event call Ralph Hyson, tournament director, at 1-207-252-3152 or e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Newmarket has coaching openings
NEWMARKET — Newmarket Jr. / Sr. High School has the following anticipated openings for the 2012-2013 coaching season: Junior high girls basketball, JV boys basketball, JV girls basketball, varsity indoor track & field, junior high baseball, varsity outdoor track & field. All interested applicants should send a letter of interest, resume, and three letters of recommendations to Kristin Krantz at the following address: Kristin Krantz, Athletic Director, 213 South Main St., Newmarket, NH 03857.
Fall basketball clinic
NORTHWOOD — There will be a Fall Basketball Clinic for boys in 5th-8th grade on Nov. 3 and 17 at Coe-Brown Northwood Academy. The clinic will run from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Smith Hall Gym on both days. There is a $25 registration fee that covers the cost of a T-shirt and both days of the clinic. The current varsity basketball team will be helping players further refine their basketball skills as well as learn new techniques to enhance their overall abilities. Please contact Andrew Langdon at firstname.lastname@example.com for the clinic brochure and registration form, or with any questions.
Men's 50-plus basketball league
DOVER — Registration for the Dover Men's 50-plus Basketball League's 2012-13 season will be held until Nov. 5. The registration fee is $135.
The program is designed for individuals who are 50 years old or older as of Feb. 28, 2013. Games are generally played at the McConnell Center Gym on Wednesday nights from Nov. 28 to March 27.
Registration forms can be picked up at the McConnell Center. Registration forms, along with payment, can be dropped off at the McConnell Center or mailed c/o Steve Towne, 124 Court Street, Dover, NH 03820.
For more information, please contact Steve Towne at 742-6815, or Ron Anderson at 767-9353.
Hoop It Up Girls Basketball Clinic
SOMERSWORTH — The Hoop It Up Middle School Girls Basketball Clinic will be held Nov. 17-18, 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Somersworth Middle School.
The cost is $45 and the camp directors are Gordond Hilliard and Cecelia DeMarco.
Send application and check to Gordon Hilliard, 1 Indigo Hill Road, Somersworth, NH 03878. Make checks payable to SMS Basketball.
For more info call Hilliard at 603-692-2594.
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Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I adore the holidays. I love the music, the good will and the happy spirits. I like to plan and deliver the gifts that I give to my children. I participate in toy drives with a loving heart and I always try to remember what the season truly is about.
Last year however my medication and all its adjustments got in the way of all of that for me. It was a rotten holiday season and a truly rotten Christmas. I prayed that I would never experience a time like that again. It affected my children, my husband and myself and robbed us of precious memories and the joy of one of the most delightful times of the year.
This year I am so happy to be able to finally realize that I can keep Christmas on track. It's not the HIV or advanced symptoms of AIDS or the drugs that can rob me of my pleasures, it's me. Little old me. If I control my stress levels and really monitor my exposures to stress in all areas of my life then I allow myself to find the moments that bring me not only peace and joy and hope and love, but calmness and tranquility as well. This in turn helps my immune system to fight harder against my virus. It helps me to stay more healthy and helps me to slowly battle the disease that slowly is trying to kill me. If I can control my stress, I know I will win.
I figured this out this year as I became a warrior in my own way. You see, I swear I have been tested, prodded, poked, scanned, examined, scoped, scraped, biopsied, magnetized and evaluated in every orifice in the last 21 years. Each time for the most part, although I have specific symptoms causing distress and upset, the real nasty urchins that cause alarms and emergencies are never found. My physicians are often left as confused and befuddled as I, the patient, am. As I learned how important controlling stress is for me, I can see that I can keep the nasty buggers just at bay -- just over the horizon where they can cause a trickle of alarm but are not strong enough to knock me down for good and count me out. That's the sign of a true warrior. I have learned this year -- yes 21 years too late, or maybe 21 years too early, who am I to really say -- to wear that badge with honor.
So this holiday season, I will be joyous, happy, laughing, smiling, sharing peace and love and harmony. I'll look toward 2014 with a few new goals -- that alone shows me that I am on a path to wellness; and last year and the six months prior to that are distant memories which thankfully my dementia will completely erase soon. This time there's no race against the clock to save them; HIV has my permission to vanquish those memories forever.
I hope that all of you share in the love, peace and joy in the holiday season that you celebrate. I wish you well on your own warrior journeys, for I know that times are tough; and when we falter, it's the getting back up part and the courage to try again and again and again that must be heard in our hearts and in our souls and in our brains. Celebrate those moments. It's those wins that matter most.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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The U.S. Ryder Cup team is jetting into Chicago with its clothes, equipment and accessories packed neatly in Club Glove travel bags that you too can buy for your golf vacations.
For their sticks, the Ryder Cup players are using the Last Bag XL club bag. The Last Bag XL is the No. 1 golf travel bag brand at all PGA Tour and Champions Tour events, says Club Glove, and it is complemented by the Stiff Arm Device, a fully adjustable, three-piece telescoping crutch that is slightly longer than the longest club in the bag, protecting clubs and shafts while nearly eliminating all risk of breakage.
The Last Bag XL weighs in at 11.2 pounds and stands 55 inches tall, 22 inches wide and 19 inches deep to accomodate nearly any golf bag and up to a 48-inch driver plus room for gear and accessories. Its single-piece, burst-proof Invista Cordura 1000 D water-resistant nylon is up to three times stronger than standard polyester and lasts up to five times longer than standard polyester. It also contains in-line skate wheels and bearings for smooth and quiet transport, an over-the-top zipper for easy loading, and two exterior shoe/storage pockets with nylon shoe bags.
It comes in 16 different colors, carries a suggested retail price of $329, and can be customized with a name or initials for an additional $20.
For their clothes, the players are using the TRS Ballistic Check-in XL, which features five packing modules to help keep its content wrinkle-free and organized. Extremely functional and durable, the bag is woven with military-spec Invista Cordura 1050 denier Ballistic nylon fabric that offers up to twice the abrasion resistance and up to four times the tear resistance of other premium brands. It stands 31 inches tall, 15 inches wide and 12 inches deep, and weighs 13.8 pounds.
The Check-in XL retails for $799, and is part of a multi-piece TRS Ballistic line that also includes the Backpack ($349), Shoulder Bag ($349), Carry-on ($699) and Check-in ($750).
This marks the eighth time that Club Glove has in some capacity outfitted the U.S. team for the Ryder Cup. The company – whose travel gear is used by more than 90 percent of PGA Tour players, according to the Darrell Survey -- created custom, personalized versions of its bags for each Ryder Cup player.
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The 2013 Pirates include (front row l-r) Jackson Fletcher, Hunter Brown, Ryan Hyde, Kole Adams, Chase Ryan, Dustin Hammond, Chandler Brazel, (back row l-r) head coach Don Hanson, coach Chris Watts, coach John Hanson, Kurt Cox, C.J. Ballard, Jeffrey Garner, Tristen English, Andy Marshall, Carson Grant, Josh Patten, Tyler Gregory, coach Tim Zellner, coach Travis McDaniel and coach Brian Crow. [Photo by Southern Digital Advertising]
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Bend mortgage broker sentenced to prison.
A Bend mortgage broker who took advantage of the anything-goes real estate bubble to get millions of dollars through shady loan applications was sentenced Tuesday to almost five years in prison.
Peter Wilkinson, 44, earlier pleaded guilty to bank fraud and conspiracy to commit loan application fraud, wire fraud and bank fraud. He was sentenced to a 57-month prison term in an appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Eugene.
Six other people who allegedly took part in the scheme also have pleaded guilty to similar charges or soon will. The government is seeking prison terms for all six and restitution totaling more than $15.5 million, with almost $10 million of that from Wilkinson alone.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken took the restitution amount for Wilkinson under advisement and will issue a decision later. Wilkinson was given 90 days to report to federal prison authorities to begin serving his sentence.
The case provided a window into the abuses that helped inflate the national real estate market and sent the national economy into its worst recession in generations when the bubble burst.
It involved more than 50 loans on 34 Deschutes County properties, loans that a prosecutor said used false income statements, inflated bank accounts, straw borrowers, hidden liabilities and other tricks to secure financing that borrowers could not repay.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Bradley said Wilkinson, as the mortgage broker who submitted the fraudulent loan applications, was the heart of the scheme; he encouraged borrowers to lie about their income, loaned them money to make them appear wealthier than they were and knowingly used made-up numbers to help them get loans.
Bradley called Wilkinson a "master manipulator" who, over the course of three years, enriched himself without regard to the consequences.
"He was rolling in the money," Bradley said. "He was motivated by greed."
Wilkinson made an impassioned plea for leniency, saying he was deeply sorry for the role he played in the financial meltdown and accepting responsibility for his acts.
But he denied that he was acting out of greed and said he has lost everything but his family as a result of the charges and the government's five-year investigation and prosecution.
"I am beyond sorry for the conduct I've committed," he said.
Wilkinson's wife also made a tearful appeal for a shorter sentence, saying her husband is a man of good character who simply got caught up in the heated market through his strong desire to help others. She said he let his exuberance for helping people achieve their financial dreams bypass his judgment.
But Aiken told Wilkinson he knew better. She said he was the one who should have known not to submit loan applications he knew were bogus and who helped others take advantage of a mortgage system where checks and balances were almost absent.
"There's no doubt that in the scheme of things, you are the person at the top of the heap," she said.
Aiken acknowledged that lenders also were at fault, but she accepted the prosecution's argument that cheating to take advantage of lax lending standards was akin to stealing from a neighbor just because the door was left unlocked. The fact that Wilkinson was a small fish in the financial meltdown didn't absolve him of his acts, she said.
"I think all of us wish there were bigger fish in the courtroom today to accept responsibility," Aiken said. "They're not here.
"Maybe someday they will be."
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Oh come on, people. An 8-year-old foster child in Harlem opened a donated Christmas present to find a baby bear. And also a real pistol, which she thought was awesome, and started waving it around and showing everyone. It was inoperable, thankfully, but good lord who is putting guns in little kids' presents??
Sheeba Anderson, a 42-year-old foster mother, received two bags full of wrapped presents from St. Anthony's Church on December 20th. The presents were a big hit, until Natasha Brunson reached into the bear's box and found the pistol. The gun had its firing pin removed, and its serial numbers scratched out. There were no bullets found, either.
New York City's Administration for Children's Services told the NY Post that it was "concerned". Which, well, obviously. The gifts were given anonymously, so it will be hard to track down who is behind this. But the simple fact that a real gun found its way into an 8-year-old's Christmas present would seem to imply that security practices could probably stand to be improved. Alternatively, you psychos out there could just stop doing crap like this. [NY Post]


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Dagur Kari's 'The Good Heart'
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In today's Culture show, Eve Jackson speaks to Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kari about his latest film, 'The Good Heart'. Kari began his career the way most film school students dream about: his graduate film, 'Lost Weekend', won 11 international prizes. Also in this edition, a new Parisian exhibition called 'Turner and the Masters' is opening at the Grand Palais.


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Juggle Work And Infanthood
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While pregnant with my first daughter, I was fortunate to start my first work-at-home job. Still in college at the time, I relished the ability to be home, in between classes and checking my baby registry (someone bought the high chair, honey!) and making a real income for my growing family.
I knew that time of easy work on my computer, plopped down on the couch and occasionally fetching my laptop off of the floor when my daughter would kick it off of my stomach (true story), was limited, so I enjoyed it. But I also knew that having experienced the fun of working home, I could never go back.
And, of course, I was right.
Now as a mother of soon-to-be four young children, I have been working at home in some capacity for over seven years, so I am well-acquainted with the ups and downs of the WAHM lifestyle. And through the years, along with some of my favorite work-at-home mothers, I've found that there are a few essentials to make it all work.
A semi-schedule
I put this one first, because it's the key to my survival as a work-at-home mom. I hold a very flexible schedule for every day in my mind and I make no excuses for turning down play dates or other commitments to keep to the schedule that allows me to pursue what I love while being there for my children. Our daily schedule goes a little something like this: breakfast, cleaning and chores, our morning "fun" activity, lunch, then nap or quiet time (for older kids), which is always, unabashedly, Mama's work time. Obviously, things come up and there are days I try to take off to do some kind of outing with the kids, but keeping to a schedule helps me stay sane and has taught my kids that Mama's work time is part of a normal day, which has been key.
Ear plugs
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Ear plugs, or some kind of noise-cancelling ear bud, come highly recommended to me from fellow writers Tara of The Young Mommy Life and Lori of Mommyfriend. Although I haven't tried this particular brand of work-at-home cleverness, I have to say that come this fall, when I will have a newborn baby at home and hopefully an in-home babysitter every now and then, I may have to give it a try. Because there's nothing worse than trying to sit down and work and hearing little voices ask, "Mama?" You may as well just put up a sign that says, "I love Mommy guilt!" (Amazon, $43).
Quiet time
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Nap time is a work-at-home mother's best friend, but what happens when that dreaded day arrives and your kid gives up naps? It's all about the quiet time, says Paula of Beauty Through Imperfection. "If I have to work, I'll play with them with zero distractions for 10-15 minutes and then work. If they have just played with me then they are usually more willing to let me work for a bit without crawling all over me." Paula also finds that getting out of the house on a weekly basis, if only for a few hours, helps her churn out more work to keep her at-home time more focused on her kids.
A portable office
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Devan of byDevan is what I consider to be a super mom. She is a prolific writer for several media outlets, a mother of four, including a baby, and she homeschools all her children. Phew! I'm tired just thinking about it, but the key to her success? A portable office. "I work wherever my kids are," explains Devan. "Whether it be outside, the basement, the living room, etc. I know that may sound counterintuitive, but for me it's what works. My older three kids are homeschooled, so while they're independently working on school, they see me working hard as well."
A baby carrier
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Any work-at-home mother will tell you that a good quality baby carrier is invaluable to getting anything accomplished with an infant at home. "For my youngest, who is now 6 months old, I use a baby carrier a lot with him so I can work and hold him at the same time," says Devan. Photographer Jacquelyn of j&j brusie photography also relies on a baby carrier (which her daughter loves) to get at-home editing work done. And as for me? Oh my gosh, I couldn't have lived without a baby carrier when my third child came onto the scene. He was not what you would call a dainty baby, weighing in at over 9 pounds at birth, but I put him in a hiking backpack as he grew and stood in my kitchen with him on my back to write. You do what you got to do. (Moby Wrap, $49).
Tell us: What's your best tip for working at home with young children?
More on working at home
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: A main purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of intellectual capital and intellectual capital complementarity on a firm's global initiatives. Sample was selected with a type of purposive sampling. The selection criteria were that companies had to locate in Taiwan, but competing globally. Altogether 324 firms took part in the study. Structural Equation Modelling technique was used in the data analysis. Based on the analyses results, some implications are provided. Firstly, the importance of intellectual capital is again highlighted. It is confirmed that intellectual capital does enhance a firm's global initiatives. Secondly, some moderating effects of business environment are found between intellectual capital and global initiatives. Thirdly, the important role of intellectual capital complementarity is identified. It is found that intellectual capital complementarity has positive effect on global initiatives in both high dynamic and low dynamic contexts. As a result, the value of intellectual capital components can mostly be actualized only in terms of their dynamic interrelationships and conjoint interaction.
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The new-look 10,000 Birds may not be so new anymore but there are still plenty of fun features to explore. I'm particularly enamored of our comments section, or at least with its potential. You see, some of us get cool postage stamp portraits next to our comments…
…while most others get a faceless image…
Seems elitist, right? Yet nothing could be farther from the truth. In our meritocratic microcosm, everyone can have a unique signifying portrait by his or her name. If you want one, all you have to do is get your gravatar on!
What is a gravatar?
A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
Why not indeed? Why settle for a generic graphic when your every witty insight can be accompanied by your personal gravatar, building your brand from blog to blog? Join us in our effort to further beautify the blogosphere by creating your own free gravatar.
Could this be any easier? Don't put this off any longer. Not only will all your new comments be beauteous but your graphic will populate every comment you've ever made on a gravatar-enabled blog as long as they're linked to the signifying e-mail address. So whether you're a prolific commenter on 10,000 Birds or aspire to be one, go get that gravatar now!
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Thanks for the instructions . . . I *thought* I'd signed up correctly. Hopefully, I have now. 🙂
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Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention. Definitely spruces up the comments section.
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I can attest that Corey looks exactly like his Gravatar. Ok I'll sign up for one ASAP.
I yam what I yam…
This is why I love this blog – I learn about birds one day, I learn about the 'net the next, and on top of it all I can now quote Fernando Lamas (as played by Billy Crystal), "You look… mahvelous!"
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I have to say this gravatar thing is really very cool. Personally though I really love the dynamic header images (at the top of the page) which link through to stacks of archived posts – I don't know how it works, but I love that it does!
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This is a test of gravitar functionality. I used an image of Steve Howell and me enjoying a cold beer in the Gulf Stream.
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After joing the Pioneer coaching staff in December of 2009, Scott McDougall begins his tenth season as and assistant coach at SHU. McDougall joined the staff just as the Pioneers began a program-record setting 12-game unbeaten streak. Before coming to SHU, McDougall spent two years on the coaching staff at Wesleyan as both an assistant and graduate assistant coach. McDougall's duties at Sacred Heart primarily consist of working with the team's forwards and recruiting.
McDougall is a 2007 graduate of the University of Connecticut, where he was a four-year member of the men's ice hockey team. McDougall registered 22 goals and 21 assists for 43 career points while playing in 89 contests as a forward for Huskies. He has also been active as a camp and club team counselor, instructor, and coach over the last seven years. McDougall has worked with the Massachusetts Player Development Camp handling 13-15 year olds and the Connecticut Hockey Experience with 13-18 year-old players. Before joining the Pioneers, McDougall was the head coach of the Neponset Valley River Rats Under-18 team of the Massachusetts Select League for 5 seasons.


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NHL Tournament of Logos: Round 8/
Icethetics is going back to its roots. This site was founded in 2007 as the NHL Tournament of Logos blog where a series of polls were held to determine the best mark in big league hockey. Here we are again seven years later going bigger!
Results: Round 1-1 | Round 1-2 | Round 2-1 | Round 2-2 |
Round 3-1 | Round 3-2 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Round 7
As of now the Chicago Blackhawks logo is the only one undefeated so far. It awaits the winner of the losers' bracket in our double-elimination tournament. Scroll down to the bottom of this page to see the full bracket.
Results are hidden until the poll closes on Tuesday night. Happy voting!
Bracket Seeded by Readers
With this tournament, we're going bigger. First, the seeds were selected by you (after being random in previous tourneys). An album containing all 30 NHL logos was posted to the Icethetics Facebook page. More "likes" earned logos a higher seed.
Double Elimination Format
Also different from past tournaments is the double-elimination format — meaning each logo will have to lose two polls before it's eliminated from the competition. It ensures we don't lose a great logo in the early rounds due to an unlucky match-up.
Double elimination makes the bracket is a little too complex for the format I've displayed in other recent tournaments. Instead, I'm using the online bracket framework built by Challonge and embedding it below.
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I finally finished my husband's fishing quilt and also a small rag quilt I made for my great grandson. He is two and so I put some animal prints on it to help him learn words. I wasn't sure I liked it until it was finished and now I am happy with it. I haven't taken a picture of it yet so I can't post it but I will. Bob loves his quilt and it's very warm and soft. I used fleece on the back of it and also used Warm and White batting in it. It was a bit heavier to finish it but it really doesn't feel exceptionally heavy but feels wonderful. Right now Chloe (our Bichon) is sleeping on it. Bob laid it on the floor for her to lay on. She isn't feeling well. She started acting not like herself around 5 last evening. She didn't eat her dinner, just laid around all night. She woke me around 2:30 to go outside and when we came back in she headed to the living room and the quilt. I gave her a dose of the anti inflammatory her vet prescribed and I am hoping she will start to feel better. It's been pretty cold and damp here the last week and that kind of bothers her arthritis.
I am planning to go to our Christmas Fair at our Fairgrounds today. It's the largest one in Southern Oregon and usually there are plenty of things I find interesting. I just hope I can find some gifts there for Christmas and not just things I want for me.
Last night we watched the Oregon Ducks play against UCLA and I am starting to really get into football. I hate to admit that since there are already football games on in our house whenever one is televised. I usually just watch the Super Bowl but I do enjoy watching the Ducks play. I was in the process of fixing dinner (pork chops) when the game started. I had forgotten the game was last night. I mentioned that if I had remembered the game we could have just had pizza so we wouldn't have to miss anything. That's all I needed to say. The Ducks were ahead in the second quarter and Bob left to go pick up a pizza at Domino's. We live farther away than they will deliver to us so we have to go pick it up. Not really great diet food but all I had was two pieces and they were small because it was a medium pizza. Sounds like I am trying to justify here doesn't it? I didn't lose any weight this week but I am still going to the gym 5 days and week and this week I had some really great workouts.
Well, I am up way too early so I am heading back to bed now for a few more hours of sleep before I go to the craft fair. Have a good day all..
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Finished Two Quilts
Posted by Kathy at 4:11 AM
6 comments:
- I'm mostly known as 'MA' said...
you have been busy. The quilt is beautiful. I like the colors.
- December 3, 2011 at 4:31 AM
- Jody V said...
Your quilt is absolutely beautiful! What a wonderful job you did with it!
Sounds like all is well with you and Bob. Enjoy the fair!
- December 3, 2011 at 8:16 AM
- Sheila Y said...
Love the quilt, so pretty. Poor Chloe, I hope she is feeling better. I hope you found lots of good things at the Christmas fair. Take care, Sheila
- December 3, 2011 at 5:38 PM
- Sam said...
That quilt s beautiful :o)
- December 4, 2011 at 2:03 AM
- Diann said...
LOVE that quilt! You did a gorgeous job making it!
- December 8, 2011 at 12:22 PM
- Barb said...
I am so impressed with the gorgeous quilt you made for your husband. I've never tried quilting, was told it is very hard and quite complicated, so I stuck to other things like trying new recipes, writing stories, making encouraging tapes for family and friends.
Took a quick stroll through your blog and love it! Will definitely visit again. Have an awesome week.
- December 14, 2011 at 5:58 PM


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I often am in the situation of having data sets consisting of an independent variable, a dependent variable, and a factor with multiple levels - for instance, calibration curves for an instrument measured on different days. I would like to know whether the data are best described by a single fit line or by a different fit line for each factor level; i.e., whether the data are best described by a single calibration curve based on all of the data, or whether there are significant differences in the individual curves for each day.
From what I understand, ANCOVA will tell me separately whether the factor interacts with the slope and then whether it interacts with the intercept. What I want to know is whether the factor has a significant effect on the slope and the intercept of the line.
An example in R:
require(reshape) # for melt()
#Set up some data
x <- seq(from=0, to=2, length.out=50)
y1 <- x + rnorm(length(x)) + 0.3
y2 <- 1.2*x + rnorm(length(x))
d <- data.frame(x=x, day1=y1, day2=y2)#, day3=y3, day4=y4)
dm <- melt(d, id.vars="x")
ggplot(dm, aes(x=x, y=value, colour=variable)) + geom_point() + geom_smooth(method="lm", se=T)
m <- lm(value ~ x*variable, data=dm)
Here, the effect of the factor and the interaction of the factor with the independent variable are each marginally significant - at alpha = 0.05 we would fail to reject the hypothesis that the factor has an effect on slope or intercept. However, taken together, perhaps they matter. Is there a good way to assess this?


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Let's now turn to radioactive clocks. There are quite a lot of them to choose from, and, as I said, they blessedly cover the gamut from centuries to thousands of millions of years. Each one has its own margin of error, which is usually about 1 per cent. So if you want to date a rock which is billions of years old, you must be satisfied with an error of plus or minus tens of millions of years. If you want to date a rock hundreds of millions of years old, you must be satisfied with an error of millions. To date a rock that is only tens of millions of years old, you must allow for an error of plus or minus hundreds of thousands of years.
To understand how radioactive clocks work, we first need to understand what is meant by a radioactive isotope. All matter is made up of elements, which are usually chemically combined with other elements. There are about 100 elements, slightly more if you count elements that are only ever detected in laboratories, slightly fewer if you count only those elements that are found in nature. Examples of elements are carbon, iron, nitrogen, aluminium, magnesium, fluorine, argon, chlorine, sodium, uranium, lead, oxygen, potassium and tin. The atomic theory, which I think everybody accepts, even creationists, tells us that each element has its own characteristic atom, which is the smallest particle into which you can divide an element without it ceasing to be that element. What does an atom look like, say an atom of lead, or copper, or carbon? Well, it certainly looks nothing like lead or copper or carbon. It doesn't look like anything, because it is too small to form any kind of image on your retina, even with an ultra-powerful microscope. We can use analogies or models to help us visualize an atom. The most famous model was proposed by the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr. The Bohr model, which is now rather out of date, is a miniature solar system. The role of the sun is played by the nucleus, and around it orbit the electrons, which play the role of planets. As with the solar system, almost all the mass of the atom is contained in the nucleus ('sun'), and almost all the volume is contained in the empty space that separates the electrons ('planets') from the nucleus. Each electron is tiny compared with the nucleus, and the space between them and the nucleus is huge compared with the size of either. A favourite analogy portrays the nucleus as a fly in the middle of a sports stadium. The nearest neighbouring nucleus is another fly, in the middle of an adjacent stadium. The electrons of each atom are buzzing about in orbit around their respective flies, smaller than the tiniest gnats, too small to be seen on the same scale as the flies. When we look at a solid lump of iron or rock, we are 'really' looking at what is almost entirely empty space. It looks and feels solid and opaque because our sensory systems and brains find it convenient to treat it as solid and opaque. It is convenient for the brain to represent a rock as solid because we can't walk through it. 'Solid' is our way of experiencing things that we can't walk through or fall through, because of the electromagnetic forces between atoms. 'Opaque' is the experience we have when light bounces off the surface of an object, and none of it goes through.
Three kinds of particle enter into the makeup of an atom, at least as envisaged in the Bohr model. Electrons we have already met. The other two, vastly larger than electrons but still tiny compared with anything we can imagine or experience with our senses, are called protons and neutrons, and they are found in the nucleus. They are almost the same size as each other. The number of protons is fixed for any given element and equal to the number of electrons. This number is called the atomic number. It is uniquely characteristic of an element, and there are no gaps in the list of atomic numbers - the famous periodic table.* Every number in the sequence corresponds to exactly one, and only one, element. The element with 1 for its atomic number is hydrogen, 2 is helium, 3 lithium, 4 beryllium, 5 boron, 6 carbon, 7 nitrogen, 8 oxygen, and so on up to high numbers like 92, which is the atomic number of uranium.
Protons and electrons carry an electric charge, of opposite sign - we call one of them positive and the other negative by arbitrary convention. These charges are important when elements form chemical compounds with each other, mostly mediated by electrons. The neutrons in an atom are bound into the nucleus together with the protons. Unlike protons they carry no charge, and they play no role in chemical reactions. The protons, neutrons and electrons in any one element are exactly the same as those in every other element. There is no such thing as a gold-flavoured proton or a copper-flavoured electron or a potassium-flavoured neutron. A proton is a proton is a proton, and what makes a copper atom copper is that there are exactly 29 protons (and exactly 29 electrons). What we ordinarily think of as the nature of copper is a matter of chemistry. Chemistry is a dance of electrons. It is all about the interactions of atoms via their electrons. Chemical bonds are easily broken and remade, because only electrons are detached or exchanged in chemical reactions. The forces of attraction within atomic nuclei are much harder to break. That's why 'splitting the atom' has such a menacing ring to it - but it can happen, in 'nuclear' as opposed to chemical reactions, and radioactive clocks depend upon it.
Electrons have negligible mass, so the total mass of an atom, its 'mass number', is equal to the combined number of protons and neutrons. It is usually rather more than double the atomic number, because there are usually a few more neutrons than protons in a nucleus. Unlike the number of protons, the number of neutrons in an atom is not diagnostic of an element. Atoms of any given element can come in different versions called isotopes, which have differing numbers of neutrons, but always the same number of protons. Some elements, such as fluorine, have only one naturally occurring isotope. The atomic number of fluorine is 9 and its mass number is 19, from which you can deduce that it has 9 protons and 10 neutrons. Other elements have lots of isotopes. Lead has five commonly occurring isotopes. All have the same number of protons (and electrons), namely 82, which is the atomic number of lead, but the mass numbers range between 202 and 208. Carbon has three naturally occurring isotopes. Carbon-12 is the common one, with the same number of neutrons as protons: 6. There's also carbon-13, which is too shortlived to bother with, and carbon-14 which is rare but not too rare to be useful for dating relatively young organic samples, as we shall see.
Now for the next important background fact. Some isotopes are stable, others unstable. Lead-202 is an unstable isotope; lead-204, lead-206, lead-207 and lead-208 are stable isotopes. 'Unstable' means that the atoms spontaneously decay into something else, at a predictable rate, though not at predictable moments. The predictability of the rate of decay is the key to all radiometric clocks. Another word for 'unstable' is 'radioactive'. There are several kinds of radioactive decay, which offer possibilities for useful clocks. For our purposes it isn't important to understand them, but I explain them here to show the magnificent level of detail that physicists have achieved in working out such things. Such detail casts a sardonic light on the desperate attempts of creationists to explain away the evidence of radioactive dating, and keep the Earth young like Peter Pan.
All these kinds of instability involve neutrons. In one kind, a neutron turns into a proton. This means that the mass number stays the same (since protons and neutrons have the same mass) but the atomic number goes up by one, so the atom becomes a different element, one step higher in the periodic table. For example, sodium-24 turns itself into magnesium-24. In another kind of radioactive decay, exactly the reverse happens. A proton turns into a neutron. Again, the mass number stays the same, but this time the atomic number decreases by one, and the atom changes into the next element down in the periodic table. A third kind of radioactive decay has the same result. A stray neutron happens to hit a nucleus and knocks out one proton, taking its place. Again, there's no change in mass number; again, the atomic number goes down by one, and the atom turns into the next element down in the periodic table. There's also a more complicated kind of decay in which an atom ejects a so-called alpha particle. An alpha particle consists of two protons and two neutrons stuck together. This means that the mass number goes down by four and the atomic number goes down by two. The atom changes to whichever element is two below it in the periodic table. An example of alpha decay is the change of the very radioactive isotope uranium-238 (with 92 protons and 146 neutrons) to thorium-234 (with 90 protons and 144 neutrons).
Now we approach the nub of the whole matter. Every unstable or radioactive isotope decays at its own characteristic rate which is precisely known. Moreover, some of these rates are vastly slower than others. In all cases the decay is exponential. Exponential means that if you start with, say, 100 grams of a radioactive isotope, it is not the case that a fixed amount, say 10 grams, turns into another element in a given time. Rather, a fixed proportion of whatever is left turns into the second element. The favoured measure of decay rate is the 'half-life'. The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the time taken for half of its atoms to decay. The half-life is the same, no matter how many atoms have already decayed - that is what exponential decay means. You will appreciate that, with such successive halvings, we never really know when there is none left. However, we can say that after a sufficient time has elapsed - say ten half-lives - the number of atoms that remains is so small that, for practical purposes, it has all gone. For example, the half-life of carbon-14 is between 5,000 and 6,000 years. For specimens older than about 50,000-60,000 years, carbon dating is useless, and we need to turn to a slower clock.
The half-life of rubidium-87 is 49 billion years. The half-life of fermium-244 is 3.3 milliseconds. Such startling extremes serve to illustrate the stupendous range of clocks available. Although carbon-15's halflife of 2.4 seconds is too short for settling evolutionary questions, carbon-14's half-life of 5,730 years is just right for dating on the archaeological timescale, and we'll come to it presently. An isotope much used on the evolutionary timescale is potassium-40, with its half-life of 1.26 billion years, and I'm going to use it as my example, to explain the whole idea of a radioactive clock. It is often called the potassium argon clock, because argon-40 (one lower in the periodic table) is one of the elements to which potassium-40 decays (the other, resulting from a different kind of radioactive decay, is calcium-40, one higher in the periodic table). If you start with some quantity of potassium-40, after 1.26 billion years half of the potassium-40 will have decayed to argon-40. That's what half-life means. After another 1.26 billion years, half of what remains (a quarter of the original) will have decayed, and so on. After a shorter time than 1.26 billion years, a proportionately smaller quantity of the original potassium will have decayed. So, imagine that you start with some quantity of potassium-40 in an enclosed space with no argon-40. After a few hundreds of millions of years have elapsed, a scientist comes upon the same enclosed space and measures the relative proportions of potassium-40 and argon-40. From this proportion - regardless of the absolute quantities involved - knowing the half-life of potassium-40's decay and assuming there was no argon to begin with, one can estimate the time that has elapsed since the process started - since the clock was 'zeroed', in other words. Notice that we must know the ratio of parent (potassium-40) to daughter (argon-40) isotopes. Moreover, as we saw earlier in the chapter, it is necessary that our clock has the facility to be zeroed. But what does it mean to speak of a radioactive clock's being 'zeroed'? The process of crystallization gives it meaning.
Like all the radioactive clocks used by geologists, potassium/ argon timing works only with so-called igneous rocks. Named after the Latin for fire, igneous rocks are solidified from molten rock -underground magma in the case of granite, lava from volcanoes in the case of basalt. When molten rock solidifies to form granite or basalt, it does so in the form of crystals. These are normally not big, transparent crystals like those of quartz, but crystals that are too small to look like crystals to the naked eye. The crystals are of various types, and several of these, such as some micas, contain potassium atoms. Among these are atoms of the radioactive isotope potassium-40. When a crystal is newly formed, at the moment when molten rock solidifies, there is potassium-40 but no argon. The clock is 'zeroed' in the sense that there are no argon atoms in the crystal. As the millions of years go by, the potassium-40 slowly decays and, one by one, atoms of argon-40 replace potassium-40 atoms in the crystal. The accumulating quantity of argon-40 is a measure of the time that has elapsed since the rock was formed. But, for the reason I have just explained, this quantity is meaningful only if expressed as the ratio of potassium-40 to argon-40. When the clock was zeroed, the ratio was 100 per cent in favour of potassium-40. After 1.26 billion years, the ratio will be 50-50. After another 1.26 billion years, half of the remaining potassium-40 will have been converted to argon-40, and so on. Intermediate proportions signify intermediate times since the crystal clock was zeroed. So geologists, by measuring the ratio between potassium-40 and argon-40 in a piece of igneous rock that they pick up today, can tell how long ago the rock first crystallized out of its molten state. Igneous rocks typically contain many different radioactive isotopes, not just potassium-40. A fortunate aspect of the way igneous rocks solidify is that they do so suddenly - so that all the clocks in a given piece of rock are zeroed simultaneously.
Only igneous rocks provide radioactive clocks, but fossils are almost never found in igneous rock. Fossils are formed in sedimentary rocks like limestone and sandstone, which are not solidified lava. They are layers of mud or silt or sand, gradually laid down on the floor of a sea or lake or estuary. The sand or mud becomes compacted over the ages and hardens as rock. Corpses that are trapped in the mud have a chance of fossilizing. Even though only a small proportion of corpses actually do fossilize, sedimentary rocks are the only rocks that contain any fossils worth speaking of.
Sedimentary rocks unfortunately cannot be dated by radioactivity. Presumably the individual particles of silt or sand that go to make sedimentary rocks contain potassium-40 and other radioactive isotopes, and therefore could be said to contain radioactive clocks; but unfortunately these clocks are no use to us because they are not properly zeroed, or are zeroed at different times from each other. The particles of sand that are compacted to make sandstone may originally have been ground down from igneous rocks, but the igneous rocks from which they were ground all solidified at different times. Every grain of sand has a clock zeroed at its own time, and that time was probably long before the sedimentary rock formed and entombed the fossil we are trying to date. So, from a timekeeping point of view, sedimentary rock is a mess. It can't be used. The best we can do - and it is a pretty good best - is to use the dates of igneous rocks that are found near sedimentary rock, or embedded in it.
To date a fossil, you don't literally need to find it sandwiched between two slabs of igneous rock, although that is a neat way to illustrate the principle. The actual method used is more refined than that. Recognizably similar layers of sedimentary rock occur all over the world. Long before radioactive dating was discovered, these layers had been identified and given names: names like Cambrian, Ordovician, Devonian, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene. Devonian sediments are recognizably Devonian, not only in Devon (the county in south-west England that gave them their name) but in other parts of the world. They are recognizably similar to each other, and they contain similar lists of fossils. Geologists have long known the order in which these named sediments were laid down. It's just that, before the advent of radioactive clocks, we didn't know when they were laid down. We could arrange them in order because - obviously - older sediments tend to lie beneath younger sediments. Devonian sediments, for example, are older than Carboniferous (named after the coal which is frequently found in Carboniferous layers) and we know this because, in those parts of the world where the two layers coincide, the Devonian layer lies underneath the Carboniferous layer (the exceptions to this rule occur in places where we can tell, from other evidence, that the rocks have been tilted aslant, or even turned upside down). We aren't usually fortunate enough to find a complete run of layers, all the way from Cambrian at the bottom up to Recent at the top. But because the layers are so recognizable, you can work out their relative ages by daisychaining and jigsawing your way around the world.
So, long before we knew how old fossils were, we knew the order in which they were laid down, or at least the order in which the named sediments were laid down. We knew that Cambrian fossils, the world over, were older than Ordovician ones, which were older than Silurian; then came Devonian, then Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and so on. And within these major named layers, geologists also distinguish sub-regions: upper Jurassic, middle Jurassic, lower Jurassic, and so on.
The named strata are usually identified by the fossils they contain. And we are going to use the ordering of the fossils as evidence for evolution! Is that in danger of turning into a circular argument? Certainly not. Think about it. Cambrian fossils are a characteristic assemblage, unmistakably recognizable as Cambrian. For the moment we are using a characteristic assemblage of fossils simply as labels for Cambrian rocks - indicator species - wherever we may find them. This, indeed, is why oil companies employ fossil experts to identify particular strata of rocks, usually by microfossils, tiny creatures called foraminifera, for example, or radiolaria.
A characteristic list of fossils is used to recognize Ordovician rocks, Devonian rocks, and so on. So far, all we are using these fossil assemblages for is to identify whether a slab of rock is, say, Permian or Silurian. Now we move on to use the order in which the named strata were laid down, helped by daisychaining around the world, as evidence of which strata are older or younger than which. Having established these two sets of information, we can then look at the fossils in successively younger strata, to see whether they constitute a sensible evolutionary sequence when compared with each other in sequence. Do they progress in a sensible direction? Do certain kinds of fossils, for example mammals, appear only after a given date, never before? The answer to all such questions is yes. Always yes. No exceptions. That is powerful evidence for evolution, for it was never a necessary fact, never something that had to follow from our method of identifying strata and our method of obtaining a temporal sequence.
It is a fact that literally nothing that you could remotely call a mammal has ever been found in Devonian rock or in any older stratum. They are not just statistically rarer in Devonian than in later rocks. They literally never occur in rocks older than a certain date. But this didn't have to be so. It could have been the case that, as we dug down lower and lower from the Devonian, through the Silurian and then even older, through the Ordovician, we suddenly found that the Cambrian era - older than any of them -teemed with mammals. That is in fact not what we find, but the possibility demonstrates that you can't accuse the argument of being circular: at any moment somebody might dig up a mammal in Cambrian rocks, and the theory of evolution would be instantly blown apart if they did. Evolution, in other words, is a falsifiable, and therefore scientific, theory. I shall return to this point in Chapter 6.
Creationist attempts to explain such findings often achieve high comedy. Noah's flood, we are told, is the key to understanding the order in which we find fossils of the major animal groups. Here's a direct quotation from a prizewinning creationist website.
Fossil sequence in geological strata shows:
(i) INVERTEBRATES (slow moving marine animals) would perish first followed by the more mobile fishes who would be overwhelmed by the flood silt
(ii) AMPHIBIA (close to the sea) would perish next as the waters rose.
(iii) REPTILES (slow moving land animals) next to die.
(iv) MAMMALS could flee from rising water, the larger, faster ones surviving the longest.
(v) MAN would exercise most ingenuity - clinging to logs, etc. to escape the flood.
This sequence is a perfectly satisfactory explanation of the order in which the various fossils are found in the strata. It is NOT the order in which they evolved but the order in which they were inundated at the time of Noah's flood.
Quite apart from all the other reasons to object to this remarkable explanation, there could only ever be a statistical tendency for mammals, for example, to be on average better at escaping the rising waters than reptiles. Instead, as we should expect on the evolution theory, there literally are no mammals in the lower strata of the geological record. The 'head for the hills' theory would be on more solid ground if there were a statistical tailing off of mammals as you move down through the rocks. There are literally no trilobites above Permian strata, literally no dinosaurs (except birds) above Cretaceous strata. Once again, the 'head for the hills' theory would predict a statistical tailing off.
Back to dating, and radioactive clocks. Because the relative ordering of the named sedimentary strata is well known, and the same order is found all over the world, we can use igneous rocks that overlie or underlie sedimentary strata, or are embedded in them, to date those named sedimentary strata, and hence the fossils within them. By a refinement of the method, we can date fossils that lie near the top of, say, the Carboniferous or the Cretaceous, as more recent than fossils that lie slightly lower in the same stratum. We don't need to find an igneous rock in the vicinity of any particular fossil we want to date. We can tell that our fossil is, say, late Devonian, from its position in a Devonian stratum. And we know, from the radioactive dating of igneous rocks found in association with Devonian strata all around the world, that the Devonian ended about 360 million years ago.
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After the holidays, and not running consistently during break, my last couple of runs have not been easy. During summer running camp one of Gaigai's coaches said to always go out with the mindset of running the entire route. This morning I channelled my inner Gaigai, headed out with the mindset of running the entire run and had an awesome run! I also had a ton to get done before work, so no time to walk. :)
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Nebraska State Senator Upsets Rivals for G.O.P. Nomination
Nebraska State Senator Upsets Rivals for G.O.P. Nomination
Discussion: Power Line, Outside the Beltway, The Maddow Blog, Business Insider, Ballot Box and Public Policy Polling
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line: An upset in Nebraska — In Nebraska, State Senator Deb Fischer …
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: GOP establishment pick fails in Nebraska
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: This Insurgent Republican Capped An Incredible Upset With A Comeback Victory In The Nebraska Senate Primary
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling: Close race in Nebraska
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Super PAC 'Super-O-Rama' for President Obama — Strapped for cash and facing a tidal wave of big-money Republican attack ads, Democratic super PACs are putting an unlikely plan in motion: the Super-O-Rama. — The kitschy name is for a massive fundraising push at the national convention in Charlotte …
Discussion: nation.foxnews.com, Hot Air and Capital New York
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Obama/DNC fundraising drops $10 million from March to April
Reid Pillifant / Capital New York: Obama super PAC doubles down on the Bain ad
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Crossroads matches Obama $25 million buy, airs tough new spot — Alex reported yesterday that Crossroads GPS was starting to buy time in a number of states, and this morning the group announced an $8 million buy beginning Thursday - part of a larger, $25 million effort that will go up over a month.
Discussion: Wake up America
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Campaign Announces Raising $43.6 Million in April
Obama Campaign Announces Raising $43.6 Million in April
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots and Prairie Weather
Karl Rove Super PAC Matches Obama Campaign Ad Spending
Karl Rove Super PAC Matches Obama Campaign Ad Spending
Discussion: The Caucus, The Moderate Voice, The Lonely Conservative, The Daily Caller, CNN, GOP 12, No More Mister Nice Blog and Orlando Sentinel
Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus: Presidential Ad Wars Kick Into Full Swing
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller: Obama's donations shrink in April
Christian Heinze / GOP 12: Rove's Super PAC set to launch $25 million campaign
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Obama, Dems raise $43.6 million in April
Obama, Dems raise $43.6 million in April
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog: Panic in Obamaville?
Autopsy results show Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles — SANFORD, Fla. — WFTV has confirmed that autopsy results show 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles when he died. — The information could support George Zimmerman's claim that Martin beat him up before Zimmerman shot and killed him.
Discussion: Daily Mail, BREITBART.COM, Los Angeles Times, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, NY Daily News, ABCNEWS, The Gateway Pundit, JustOneMinute, Right Wing News, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, The Camp Of The Saints, protein wisdom and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Daily Mail: Medical report shows George Zimmerman was treated for a broken nose and cuts on his head after shooting Trayvon Martin
Richard Fausset / Los Angeles Times: Trayvon Martin case: Details on Zimmerman injuries, but no answers
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: George Zimmerman Medical Records Reveal Broken Nose, Lacerations
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine: George Zimmerman Medical Report Details Wounds From Fight With Trayvon Martin
Philip Caulfield / NY Daily News: Trayvon Martin case: Feds weighing hate crime charges against George Zimmerman: report
Matt Gutman / ABCNEWS: ABC News Exclusive: Zimmerman Medical Report Shows Broken Nose, Lacerations After Trayvon Martin Shooting
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Autopsy Reveals Trayvon Martin Had Bloody Knuckles When He Died (Video)
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: Zimmerman Medical Evidence
William Teach / Right Wing News: Zimmerman Had Broken Nose, Martin Had Damaged Knuckles
Scared Monkeys: Autopsy Shows Trayvon Martin Had Injuries to his Knuckles When He Died ... Court Records Show …
Taylor Marsh: ABC Report: George Zimmerman Injuries Described, Prescription Drugs Also Cited in Weeks Prior to Shooting
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Reports: George Zimmerman Treated For Broken Nose and Head Injuries and Trayvon Martin Had Bruised Knuckiles
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller: George Zimmerman had a broken nose and Trayvon Martin had bloody knuckles
Abby Rogers / Business Insider: A Broken Nose And Two Black Eyes Will Be Critical To George Zimmerman's Defense
Bobbelvedere / The Camp Of The Saints: Obviously, These Reports Are Raaaaacist!
Lateef Mungin / CNN:
Sources: Medical report says Zimmerman had broken nose, other injuries after fight — (CNN) — A medical report by George Zimmerman's family doctor shows the neighborhood watch volunteer was diagnosed with a fractured nose, two black eyes and two lacerations on the back of the head after his fatal confrontation with Trayvon Martin.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway, National Review and Simply Left BehindThe …
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway: Trayvon Martin Autopsy Shows Injuries to Knuckles
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review: Trayvon Martin's Family's Attorney Concedes That There Was Likely a Fight
Tim Mak / Politico:
Romney-Christie ticket a loser in N.J., poll finds — Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) would not be able to deliver the Garden State if he were chosen as Mitt Romney's vice presidential pick, a new survey shows. — Without running mates, Romney gets 39 percent to the president's 49 percent in New Jersey …
Discussion: ABCNEWS, CNN, Outside the Beltway, Indecision Forever and Hotline On Call
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway: Even if Christie is VP, Obama Wins New Jersey
Dennis DiClaudio / Indecision Forever: Chris Christie Will Not Deliver New Jersey to Mitt Romney
Stephanie Palla / Hotline On Call: Q Poll: Menendez Leads Kyrillos By Ten
Why Mitt Romney should tap Bobby Jindal
Why Mitt Romney should tap Bobby Jindal
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Washington Post, Associated Press, Yahoo! Politics!, Yahoo! News, CNN and The Hill
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post: Grover Norquist makes the case for Bobby Jindal for veep
Chris Wilson / Associated Press: Vote now: Can George W. Bush's tepid Romney endorsement finally unseat Daniels?
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News: Tony Perkins on veepstakes: Mitt Romney 'is going to need help' wooing social conservatives
Bill Clinton / CNN: Romney jabs Obama-Clinton relationship
Ezra Klein:
Wonkbook: Of course Boehner wants another debt-ceiling showdown — "We shouldn't dread the debt limit," said Speaker John Boehner at the Peter G. Peterson Fiscal Summit. "We should welcome it. It's an action-forcing event in a town that has become infamous for inaction."
Discussion: The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, The Hill, The Agonist and Mother Jones
Peter S. Goodman / The Huffington Post: Republicans Keep Pandering On Taxes
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post: Boehner threatens another debt-ceiling fight
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Get Ready For Another Debt Ceiling Showdown
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill: GOP plans fast track for tax overhaul
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones: BREAKING: Congress Passes a Bill
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Boehner attacks Obama's courage
Boehner attacks Obama's courage
Discussion: nation.foxnews.com
Jonathan Allen / Politico: Earmarks still have friends in high places
Wall Street Journal:
As Bank Withdrawals Surge, Athens Relies More on ECB — Greek depositors withdrew €700 million ($898 million) from the country's banks on Monday, fueling fears of a bank run amid the growing political disarray. — With deposits falling, Greek banks become even more dependent …
Discussion: FT Alphaville, New York Times, BBC, Ezra Klein, Via Meadia, Harry's Place and National Review
Joseph Cotterill / FT Alphaville: Shifting ECB liquidity to ELA, Greek bank recap edition
Eduardo Porter / New York Times: Economic Scene: Leaving the Euro May Be Better Than the Alternative
Paul Mason / BBC: Watch deposit flight, not the eurocrats
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia: Greece's Bank Jog Turns Into A Run: Is Viral Panic Next?
Andrew Stuttaford / National Review: Keep Watching the Banks (2)
Joseph Cotterill / FT Alphaville:
Plug-pulling in Athens
Plug-pulling in Athens
Discussion: Bloomberg, Guardian and Paul Krugman
Alastair Jamieson / msnbc.com:
Greeks withdraw $894 million in a day: Is this beginning of a run on banks?
Greeks withdraw $894 million in a day: Is this beginning of a run on banks?
Discussion: BBC, The Other McCain and americanthinker.com
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Bank Run in Greece = DJIA Rises?
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Barack Obama , George Bush, Mitt Romney, Social Security, Barack Obama 2012 , Economy, Health Care, Video, Great Recession, AP, Debt, Mitt Romney Debt Inferno, Mitt Romney 2012, Spending, Politics News
Discussion: New York Magazine, The Daily Dish, Addicting Info, The Stranger … and The Satirical Political Report
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: Romney's Budget Fairy Tale
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: "Simply Orthogonal To Facts"
Paul Constant / The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper: Pants on Prairie Fire
Don Davis / The Satirical Political Report: Romney Vows To Put Out 'Prairie Fire Debt' With 'Prairie Dogs'
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Coming This Summer: For $24.95, George W. Bush Will Share His 'Strategies For Economic Growth'
Coming This Summer: For $24.95, George W. Bush Will Share His 'Strategies For Economic Growth'
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post: George W. Bush endorses Mitt Romney
Peter Baker / New York Times: George W. Bush Briefly Visits Washington
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Team Mitt 'physically' blocks journos — Tweets from the campaign trail: … The Romney campaign did not return a request for comment or explanation (obviously).
Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Maddow Blog and Washington Post
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: Mitt's Miami vice
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
National Mood a Drag on Obama's Re-Election Prospects — U.S. satisfaction and economic ratings low compared with years incumbents won — PRINCETON, NJ — Some six months before voters head to the polls to choose the next president of the United States, Gallup finds several indicators …
Discussion: Business Insider, The Monkey Cage, The Enterprise Blog, Politico and American Power
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: If History Is A Guide, Obama Is Heading For A Loss In November
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog: The 3 economic charts that could crash Obama's reelection hopes
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Peter Peterson Spent Nearly Half A Billion In Washington Targeting Social Security, Medicare … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Bill Clinton, John Boehner, Social Security, Health Care, Paul Ryan, Taxes , Video, David Walker, Pete Peterson, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Peter Peterson …
Discussion: ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Taylor Marsh
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Pete Peterson's crusade of a lifetime
Pete Peterson's crusade of a lifetime
Discussion: ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A 30,000-Foot View on the Presidential Race — We are beginning to see more national surveys now, including this week's New York Times/CBS News poll, which show Mitt Romney with a slight lead over Barack Obama in the general election matchup. To be sure, there are also a number of polls that put Mr. Obama slightly ahead.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Shakesville, A plain blog about politics, CNN, The Raw Story, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, GOP 12 and Guardian
Jonathan Bernstein / A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You Should — Happy Birthday to Jonathan Richman, 61.
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story: Romney suggests Obama has 'beef' with Bill Clinton
Scared Monkeys: Mitt Romney Leads Barack Obama in a CBS/NY Times Poll 46% - 43% ... Yes, that is Correct in a CBS/NY Times Poll
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Quotes of the day — Fifty-six percent of Americans …
Christian Heinze / GOP 12: CBS/NYT poll: Romney up 3%
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Van Jones Cops a Plea — A sharp-eyed Power Line reader directed us to this C-SPAN video featuring Van Jones, President Obama's short-lived "green jobs" czar, admitting around the 19:14 mark what is plain to anyone who pays attention, namely, that the environmental movement is basically an adjunct of the Democratic Party:
Discussion: The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Stable Hand / The Jawa Report: Van Jones Admits He And Fellow Environmentalists Kept Quiet During Gulf Oil Spill Because Obama Was President
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Van Jones Admits He And Fellow Environmentalists Kept Quiet During Gulf Oil Spill Because Obama Was President...
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Van Jones: A Communist's Confessional
The First Amendment Applies to Foreign Service Officers, Too — Today, the ACLU told the State Department that public employees don't give up their First Amendment rights in exchange for a job with the government. We sent a letter to the State Department on behalf of Peter Van Buren …
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- University at Buffalo biophysicists who are testing a protein found in tarantula venom as a potential therapy for muscular dystrophy have received foundation support for their work.
The Children's Guild Foundation has given $125,000 to Frederick Sachs, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and UB Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, and his team, which is seeking to advance the peptide -- called GsMTx4 -- to clinical trials and ultimately to gain FDA approval for use of the drug in humans.
The FDA has already approved it as an orphan drug for muscular dystrophy.
The team discovered the peptide -- which is protected by a U.S. patent awarded to UB -- about 15 years ago. The Sachs lab is also exploring the peptide's application to several other conditions, including the cardiac arrhythmias commonly associated with dystrophy, neuropathic pain, Parkinson's disease and sickle cell anemia, all diseases that affect cell mechanics.
"Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a far too common and fatal genetic disease that affects thousands of children and devastates families," said James A. Bourne, board chair of the Children's Guild Foundation. "Finding a treatment for MD is an effort that the foundation supports wholeheartedly."
Recent testing on GsMTx4 in dystrophic laboratory mice showed that the drug increases muscle strength without causing mortality, morbidity or toxicity. Sachs said it is the only known drug to act specifically on mechanosensitive ion channels.
More information about the work is available at http://www.sachslab.buffalo.edu, and on Facebook under Rosie's Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy.
The Children's Guild Foundation is a non-profit, private organization that advocates and funds rehabilitative health care, research, education and therapeutic recreation programs for special needs children.
The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, a flagship institution in the State University of New York system and its largest and most comprehensive campus. UB's more than 28,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Founded in 1846, the University at Buffalo is a member of the Association of American Universities.


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A big part of why this group was started was give those trapped in the SDA closet an outlet. One of the problems than many face is the fear of their spouses divorcing them and taking the kids if things were to become known.
That is a very difficult position to be in, one that I am fortunate to have not dealt with. By the looks of it we now have people in the group at all points of the process, single and out of the church, married with kids and stuck, and the hole family leaving the church. What advise would those who managed to make the exit a family affair have for those who are trapped in the closet?
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i think having a loving relationship to begin with is key, if you don't get along with your family then, you announcing your change of heart will magnify those problems...when your family knows that you are still the same loving 'christ-like' person, that you haven't started eating babies or worshiping the anti-christ (by going to catholic church, lol), when they can see that from the time you stopped becoming a believer and up until this point as an atheist, your morals and character have in no way decreased and in many ways have increased (i strangely enough became vegetarian after i left the church) then that will make things a bit easier to swallow...i think letting them approach you is the best way too because some family members know but would prefer to pretend that you are still christian so just let them think that
i am personally out to my sisters and mother who are all pretty liberal and don't really care...i talk to my dad on the phone and he always says he's praying for me, i want to talk to him about it but i'm going to wait until i get to visit him in a few months and have a heart-to-heart, i don't think it's a skype-type of convo, i feel like i owe it to him to open up, he is an elder and is very well 'educated' in adventist doctrine, could give a bible study off the top of his head, i went to adventist academy k-12 and adventist university too, i was supposed to become an elder and a leader in my church, i'm not quite sure how he's going to react, i hope he's positive and respects me now as a 36 year-old man whose rational can no longer lie to him, i hope that the idea that we both still are holding true to the principle of truth is enough to maintain our relationship
my well-wishes to everyone out there who is also still struggling with it all
We've 'come out' to a few of our friends and it didn't go well at all. We even framed it as a doctrinal disagreement- (and these are people who are not well-versed in their doctrine, even though they've been partaking of it since babyhood)- and yeah. No go.
So, I'm cautious. We have other friends in our neighborhood who are mostly evangelicals of varying stripe. Also stressful. Feel we have to keep the peace and keep quiet.
My husband and I are basically on the same page. He leans a bit more to the Sam Harris view of moderates in religion- while I am always delighted to find someone moderate enough to not have a cow when I explain myself to them.
So, mostly in the closet I stay- except to my husband and a few friends I've made on this journey.
Outing myself to my mom would be... awful. I just know it.
The closet is simultaneously a haven of refuge and an intolerable prison.
I was never in the closet as an atheist. My transition to being an atheist has been open.
My experience in being in the gay closet is another matter. It is living the life of a lie. It is the wrestling with one's very identity. It is fear of exposure. For some, it ends in death.
I attend a small PFLAG chapter in Walla Walla, WA. I don't know all of the PFLAG protocols on how to deal with the closet and how and when to come out.
But one thing I have learned, as far as gay kids coming out is concerned, is to advise them to NOT come out until they are for certain that they have a support mechanism ready for them. It cannot be predicted with any certainty ahead of the coming out if the person will still be accepted, or severed from all connection. There are incidents of parents/family expelling the coming-out person, ripping up the birth certificate, dis-inheriting, prohibiting contact again with the family. It can lead to loss of employment. Being black-balled. Ostracized. The coming-out person must have a pre-arranged place of support and safety in the event of those kinds of hazards.
With atheists being a hated minority, it is not unlike the hated gay minority, and to be both gay and atheist is one difficult set of circumstances.
To come out frequently means a total change in one's activities of daily living, the location of habitation (typically moving to a larger setting with a known community of like-persons), and frequently a change to one's means of support.
For individuals married (gay and/or atheist), it frequently means the end of the marriage. And the process can be bitter. It may mean the loss of custody or even contact with children. It may mean total separation. It is like a death where the parties don't have the decency to die.
For some, it is the burning of all bridges to the past. A past that can never be regained.
It can be a horrible decision.
If it is a decision of choice, that is one thing. To be "outed" as an atheist is quite another. Frequently, the lies have to be intensified to maintain one's very existence.
Sam Harris is right. Even moderate religion can have evil consequences.
When I listen to the experiences and stories told by gay people who have come out of the closet, all most without exception, it is a story of pain but eventual triumph. Frequently, there does come a reconciliation. What seemed like a living hell at the time, in time, became healed.
As a popular initiative proclaims, "It Gets Better."
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Food processors make our lives in the kitchen easier by chopping, mincing, dicing and shredding foods in a fraction of the time it would take to do so by hand. But did you know that this wonder gadget can do even more than save our hands and knives the trouble of cutting?
Try these five unexpected uses for your food processor to save time, money and to impress your friends with your savvy culinary shortcuts!
If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that pizza is delicious. But why is it so hard to make the perfect pie at home? The success or failure of your homemade pizza comes down to the dough. Most recipes call for extensive kneading, either by hand or in a stand mixer. With this method, the risk of ending up with a sub par crust is huge because too much dough is exposed to air.
By combining your ingredients and pulsing for 30 seconds to a minute in a food processor, your dough is formed and flash-kneaded with the appliance's blades, all while reducing the amount of air exposure. This method lets the gluten form bonds without drying out, leading to a tender crust.This method can also be adapted for easy no-knead ciabatta sandwiches and French bread.
Instead of buying expensive artisan butter or churning away until your arms ache, you can use your food processor for easy, inexpensive homemade butter. First, fit your appliance with the standard chopping blades and then add heavy cream. Once the cream appears curdled, pour it into a cheesecloth-lined strainer to remove the excess water. Then, place the solid butter back into the food processor, add cold water, pulse lightly and drain. You can also add herbs or spices for flavored butter that is sure to wow your dining companions.
Store-bought mayo always gets a bad rap. It's typically regarded as the blah of condiments. However, making your own mayonnaise at home must be a tedious process, right? Wrong! Your food processor can replace the arm-numbing whisking that is necessary to emulsify the ingredients.The blades of a food processor can emulsify the egg yolks, mustard, lemon juice and spices in olive oil in under five minutes. Take that, boring store-bought mayo!
Buying ground meat at the grocery store can be expensive. And you might not be sure where the meat comes from. By choosing your own cuts of meat and grinding them at home with your food processor, you will know exactly what is going into your burgers, tacos or chili. Here's how to do it:
- Cut your meat into two-inch chunks
- Freeze just until the edges begin to harden
- Add to your food processor and pulse lightly
Making peanut, almond or cashew butter is incredibly easy with a food processor, and knowing exactly what it's made of will give you peace of mind. To make homemade nut butter you will need:
- 1 lb roasted peanuts, almonds or cashews
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon honey (to taste)
Place nuts and salt in food processor and blend for three minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then slowly drizzle in honey while processor is running. Blend two more minutes then use immediately or store in an airtight container.
Grind stale bread in a food processor to make breadcrumbs, which have endless uses: coat fish filets before frying, bulk up meatloaf or sprinkle on top of your favorite casserole before baking.


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I'm happy to pass along word that the date is set and venue reserved for the 15th New England Code Camp, a free, full day of knowledge sharing and networking! (What is a Code Camp?)
New England Code Camp 15
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
201 Jones Road, 6th floor
Waltham, MA
Registration and the Calls for Speakers and Sponsors will be coming later, but in the meantime, mark your calendar and get ready to join hundreds of your fellow developers for this great community event!
Special thanks to Patrick Hynds for volunteering to lead organization of NECC15 (as he did for NECC14)!
Save Another Date! Code Camp Hartford 4
Thanks to fantastic developer community support, Code Camps have spread to many states and countries. In the northeast, we have Code Camps beyond Massachusetts, in CT, NH, NY, and VT.
After NECC15, the next area Code Camp will be Code Camp Hartford 4, to be held in Bloomfield, CT on Saturday, June 18th. Keep an eye on the CT .NET Developers Group site for updates.
Of course, I'll post details on other area Code Camps as they emerge!
Looking forward to another great Code Camping season.