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No Mr. Ryan, you can't "lead our nation†by lying to it and failing to take responsibility for problems that you helped create. Liars don't lead, they mislead.
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A leader is defined as a person who manages the process of social influence in which she or he honestly enlists the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task. A liar is a person who intentionally delivers a false statement to another person in order to deceive that person. Liars don't lead, they mislead.
"Leadership" was a common theme articulated throughout the Republican National Convention. Republicans contend that President Obama lacks the leadership necessary to move the country beyond the current economic crisis and does not possess the leadership skills necessary to navigate the treacherous international waters going forward. Republicans contend that former governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan (D-WI) possess the leadership qualities to effectively manage the economy and strengthen America's position on the global stage.
There continues to be honest and fact based debate between President Obama's supporters and detractors alike regarding his leadership tactics and negotiating skills. Many question his dealing with Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans on issues such as the Bush-era tax cuts, the debt ceiling, and the assassination of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The difference between these debates and what was presented at the Republican convention is the utter lack of factual content by too many Republicans presenters. They were not misstatements, exaggerations, mistakes, or errors. They were false statements intentionally delivered in order to deceive the listener.
During his acceptance speech, Rep. Ryan falsely accused President Obama of "raiding" Medicare by $716 billion. Ryan falsely attacked President Obama for failing to keep open a Janesville, WI GM plant that actually closed under Bush in 2008 before Obama was sworn into office. He castigated the president for walking away from the Simpson Bowles commission's deficit-cutting recommendations when Ryan himself, a commission member, voted against those recommendations and never made reference to the fact that he was on the commission.
Ryan also lied by blaming Obama for a budget deficit mostly created by programs Ryan himself voted for. According to the New York Times, Ryan "lamented the nation's credit rating — which was downgraded after a debt-ceiling standoff that he and other House Republicans helped instigate."
During his acceptance speech, Ryan said, "I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity…" No Mr. Ryan, you can't "lead our nation" by lying to it and failing to take responsibility for problems that you helped create. Liars don't lead, they mislead.
Former Secretary of State Rice spoke on behalf of the Romney campaign telling America that we "can't lead from behind." Well, suffice it to say, she's been lying a long time and her lies are well documented. Go to Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-CA) report Iraq on the Record: the Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq. According to the report, "Between September 8, 2002, and September 28, 2003, National Security Advisor Rice made 29 misleading statements (lies) about the threat posed by Iraq in 16 separate public appearances…Ms. Rice made significantly more statements that were false — 8 — than any of the other four officials (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, or Powell)… "
Finally, at the top to ticket the truth is just as hard to find.
Romney said, "Unlike President Obama, I won't raise taxes on the middle class of America." According to the Tax Policy Center, his tax plan lowers taxes on the top 2% of earners and raises taxes on everyone else; taxes on the middle class would go up by about $2,000 to pay for Romney's tax cut for the wealthy. Romney also stated "And unlike the president, I have a plan to create 12 million new jobs."
The truth is, President Obama proposed the American Jobs Act, and it was killed by congressional Republicans. According to PoliticusUSA "The second part of Romney's lie was a bit more devious. Romney promised to create 12 million new jobs, (knowing) that economic forecasts show that if nothing is done, the economy will create 11.8 on it's own..."
Another lie that Romney told during his speech was, "I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour.
President Obama began with an apology tour apology tour ..." As The Washington Post's Fact Checker put it, "The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context." In other words, Romney's proclamation is a lie.
In his speech Romney said about Ryan, "…I saw in Paul Ryan - a strong and caring leader who is down to earth and confident in the challenge this moment demands." Ryan's not down to earth. He's a man who has willingly constructed a narrative to create artificial distinctions between President Obama and himself. He's not a leader, he's a liar.
Romney said about himself, "Americans have a choice. A decision. To make that choice, you need to know more about me and about where I will lead our country." Well, Romney will lead America back to the polices of Bush 43 and VP Dick Cheney but they were conspicuously absent at the convention, not invited.
Romney/Ryan can't lead America down the right path with lies and deceit. We saw that movie with their Republican predecessor with the help of Ms. Susan Rice.
Romney pollster Neil Newhouse stated, "Fact checkers come to this with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs, and we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers…" In a representative democracy facts do matter and checking the facts is how we hold our representatives accountable. Romney and Ryan have based their campaign on "smoke and mirrors," "slight of hand," political prestidigitation, lies and deceit.
Liars don't lead, they mislead.
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During a summer tour with her musical duo She & Him, Zooey Deschanel has performed songs about tortured love and broken hearts. Since she wrote the songs with her partner, M. Ward, and she's recently gone through a divorce herself, she's obviously using her musical career to purge some emotions, right?
Wrong, says Deschanel.
"That is not what I do," said Deschanel.
"I think that lovelorn is a more interesting emotion; I tend to be interested in that emotion more than I tend to be interested in the emotion of happy content love, so my big influences have always been a lot of different things," said the singer-actress, who is taking a break from her hit sitcom "The New Girl" to focus on She & Him, which recently released their fourth album, "Volume 3."
Deschanel says she doesn't draw from her personal life when she creates, and instead relies on her own healthy imagination.
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Q How do you find the time to write music?
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Q Is it important for you to be able to merge singing and acting, with Jess bursting into song in "New Girl," and singing the theme tune?
A You know what's funny? I think I have only done that in like three episodes. The theme song, that was (show creator) Liz Merriweather's idea. I wrote the chorus production and the melody but I didn't write the lyrics to that. I find writing melodies much easier than writing lyrics. Lyrics are the hardest. But with "New Girl," I am a producer on the show and I wanted the theme song to be a certain way; I am picky about theme songs. I got involved in the writing of it.
Q Do you think that "New Girl" has increased the exposure of She & Him?
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Police Chief Roland Woelkers stressed that no arrests have been made yet related to the March 31 break-in at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church. Between $40,000 and $50,000 was stolen from a safe in the church.
The chief did acknowledge that police plan to execute search warrants at unspecified locations, but he declined to discuss the case in detail pending the results of those searches. He said the investigation is ongoing.
Asked if an arrest is forthcoming, Woelkers replied: 'We're hopeful.'
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VANCOUVER - A Vancouver hospital ward once so stigmatized it was only referred to by code name has been transformed from an AIDS-dedicated centre now the illness has been "virtually controlled" in the province.
St. Paul's Hospital in the city's core is repurposing the floor that nursing staff would only identify as "10C," because of a near-elimination of AIDS cases in British Columbia and the associated drop in need for high-maintenance HIV care.
But Dr. Julio Montaner, a longtime crusader and champion of the AIDS/HIV treatment-as-prevention program, said Ottawa's failure to take greater action has hindered progress in wiping out the disease nationwide.
"If every province was doing what B.C. has done, we would have a country that would be celebrating together the same thing," said Montaner, who helms the BC Centre for Excellent in HIV/AIDS.
"We are not, because they have not. And unfortunately the lack of federal leadership in this regard is an impediment for us to move forward."
Montaner joined Premier Christy Clark and other officials on Tuesday in lauding the ward's metamorphosis as a sign that the illness is almost under control in the province.
"Virtually AIDS disappeared, but it didn't really disappear until the very end, when treatment-as-prevention became the reality," Montaner said, holding up a graph depicting a dramatic plummet in cases.
"We did it and everybody else can do it."
The ward opened during the peak of Vancouver's HIV/AIDS epidemic in February 1997, when approximately one person was dying each day.
As of 2013, only 40 people in B.C. were identified as living with the disease that can develop from the HIV virus without medical care, according to the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
There was an estimated 11,972 cases of people infected with HIV in 2012 in B.C., with more than half getting active treatment.
Expanded treatment coverage in the province is credited for an 80 per cent drop in both AIDS cases and HIV-related deaths since 1996, and a 66 per cent decline in new HIV diagnoses.
But that contrasts with the "worst epidemic" of HIV/AIDS yet to be tackled in Canada, said Montaner. Some 70 per cent of new cases in Saskatchewan and 40 per cent of new cases in Manitoba are among First Nations people, who rely heavily on the federal government, he said.
A spokeswoman for Health Minister Rona Ambrose said there's been "strong federal leadership on the file."
Over the coming year, Ottawa will invest $86.7 million on two initiatives addressing domestic HIV/AIDS, including a vaccine program. The government has also invested more than half a billion dollars on research.
The lowest number of newly-diagnosed HIV infections was reported to the Public Health Agency of Canada in 2012, said a statement. On its website, the agency says the HIV/AIDS pandemic "remains an enormous challenge in Canada and around the world."
The St. Paul's ward will continue to provide HIV/AIDS treatment, but will expand its focus to include various bacterial and viral infections like chronic hepatitis.
Patients are no longer being admitted with the expectation of death, instead they're attending to be treated for a chronic, manageable, long-term illness, said Clark.
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Bishops Cleeves "sister" village is Woodmancote. Woodmancote shares many facilities of Bishops Cleeve but also has its own shop, village hall and wonderful bistro/public house, The Apple Tree. Woodmancote has a Primary School on Station Road.
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Eggnog Martini
Spreading good cheer is easy -- greet guests with brandied eggnog.
- Servings: 8
Source: Everyday Food, December 2008
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin-pie spice, plus more for garnish
- 8 cups whole milk
- 6 large egg yolks
- 3 cups brandy
Set a large fine-mesh sieve over a large bowl. Place bottom of bowl in an ice bath; set aside. Off heat, in a medium saucepan, whisk together sugar, cornstarch, nutmeg, and pumpkin-pie spice. Gradually whisk in 4 cups milk, taking care to incorporate the cornstarch. Whisk in egg yolks.
Whisking constantly, cook over medium heat until the first large bubble sputters, 10 to 12 minutes. Reduce heat to low; cook, whisking constantly, 1 minute more. Remove from heat; immediately pour through sieve into bowl. Stir in remaining 4 cups milk. Let cool completely in bowl still set in ice bath.
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Michelle Little
posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 6:31 am
I have a few (basic) questions about modelling curves in MPLUS.
First, I modelled a curve with an intercept, linear and quadratic slope as presented in the MPLUS manual. Observing my data means showed that my sample shows a combination of linear decline (timepoints 2-3) and quadratic decline 1-2 and 3-4.
I see that the quadratic and linear slope is modelled together. I would like to compare the relative fit of a quadratic versus linear fit. Can I do this in MPLUS and then retain a quadratic fit if it a better overall fit? My concern is that I will be adding several covariates in subsequent analyses and I'd like to protect parsimony.
Second, am I correct in thinking that the default is to include both a linear slope and a quadratic slope factor because some individuals might show more of a linear trend while others show a quadratic shape in change over time?
Third, I have previously tested constant slopes in AMOS by restraining the variance and covariance (I - S) to 0 and comparing the model fit to an unrestrained model.
I can't figure out how to restrain a variance to 0 in mplus?
Also, while it is clear to me how one would compare models for a Multiple Group analaysis in MPLUS, I'm not clear on how to get a chi-square difference result (using maximum likelihood) with a single group analyses. Does M-plus provide this? The output I have seen so far does not provide the chi-square difference comparison when you have constrained parameters in a model.
Any help would be appreciated,
Michelle Little
posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 6:33 am
And one more question...
In a model in which there is a decline over four time points, and you test both a quadratic slope and a linear slope- why would one growth factor be negative (slope) and the other positive(quadratic).
posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 9:01 am
There is no default growth shape in Mplus - you can specify either a linear or a quadratic curve. You can check if adding the quadratic growth factor significantly improves the fit by looking at the significance of the quadratic factor mean.
To constrain the variance of a variable - say "s" - in Mplus, you simply say "
Chi-square differences are obtained by doing 2 analyses and comparing the chi-squares (or the log likelihood values).
Regarding your additional question about a neg linear slope and a positive quadratic slope, this simply means that the decline is not as rapid at the end as it is in the beginning - check out the plot that Mplus provides.
Sylvana Robbers
posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 - 5:44 am
I am doing growth curve analysis with 2 groups and I like to test if the development over time is different for the 2 groups. First I estimate an unconstrained model. Then, should I constrain s and q simultaniously, like:
[s] (1);
[q] (2);
Or should I first test the lin slope and then the quad slope, so separately?
(I do chi-square difference testing)
Thanks in advance for your time.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 - 7:02 am
You should first see if the same growth model fits well in each group separately. If not, it does not make sense to compare the parameters of the growth factors across groups. I would test them separately.
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Join ARTBOOK @ MoMA PS1 for a panel discussion and book signing for Photographs Not Taken, a fascinating collection of photographers' essays about failed attempts to make a picture. Editor Will Steacy asked more than 60 photographers to abandon the conventional tools needed to make a photograph and instead make one using words. In each essay, the photograph has been stripped down to its barest and most primitive form: the idea behind it. Panelists include contributors Nina Berman, Gregory Halpern, Amy Stein, and editor Will Steacy, and the event is moderated by Daylight Publishing cofounders Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff.
Launch of Paper Monument's Draw it With Your Eyes Closed
Join us for a participatory program of art assignments, plus readings and revelry in celebration of this "mischievous and nourishing" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times) new book. Paper Monument is pleased to announce the publication of Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment, a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over 100 contributors including: John Baldessari, William Pope.L, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Bob Nickas, Chris Kraus, Liam Gillick, Amy Sillman, James Benning, and Michelle Grabner.
Every Sunday between February 5 and May 13, 2012, the MoMA PS1 Performance Dome will house Sunday Sessions, featuring an amalgam of artistic programming—from light, sound, and music installations to lectures by world-renowned scholars and special performances. Various other galleries and rooms inside of the former schoolhouse will also be activated during these weekly sessions.
Sunday Sessions is supported in part by The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art.


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Jeff S. necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 137 diseños de 49 diseñadores freelance.
brokeboard.com is a completely new take on selling your stuff when your Broke and need money. You will be able to post a text ad in a variety of sub catagories from surf boards to computers, houses to furniture for free. If you want to sell your stuff with pictures or even video it will cost $10 for an entire year. Every has a time when they need to come up with some extra cash and this will allow them to respectfully find someone who can't afford to pay a new retail price. Looking for a fun, laid back person, creature, animal. Not looking for "bling" or "gold" but the feel of a friend around the corner.
The Target audence will be broad, someone from the ages of 20-70 who wants to get a "deal" but is smart and doesn't want to get ripped off. This web page will be gender, race, ethenticy, sexuallity neutral. They will want to feel hip and in control but smart enough not to believe the sticker price is worth it. They will be people down but not out. This page will gear to help connect people locally and nationally to sell the perfectly good stuff they no longer need.
Final winning version will need to be in eps, gif, jpg and png formats and availible to be registered with the US Trademark office under our name. For the competition we would like to see no more the 4 colors used in a Icon and Name format. brokeboard.com should be lowercase. The colors used should be easily gray scaled for black white print. A Horizontal format usually works better in web applications but feel free to play with other configuations as long as the "block" of space is nicely utilized. A Icon that easily becomes of Cartoon is a plus. Have Fun and please don't be affraid to submit original thought. Please think of "broke" =out of money and "board" as a chalk, stylized, announcement, pin type board.
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Jobs recovery spreading to more industries
Although job growth is far from robust, it is steadily improving and having a ripple effect.
The jobs recovery is broadening as the housing revival and rising consumer wealth begin to lift an array of industries, from mortgage lending to charities.
The spread of employment gains to previously lagging industries makes for a more sustainable recovery that's less vulnerable to unforeseen events that could hobble certain sectors, says Wells Fargo economist Mark Vitner.
The development also helps reduce long-term unemployment by providing spots to long-idled workers in beleaguered industries, such as construction, says economist Chris Lafakis of Moody's Analytics. The share of unemployed Americans out of work at least six months was still high in January at 38.1%, but it was down from 43% a year earlier.
Job growth is still not booming. It has accelerated the past two years, but hasn't been strong enough to quickly bring down the 7.9% unemployment rate, which has been stuck near 8% since August. Economists estimate the Labor Department will report Friday that employers added 160,000 jobs in February and that the unemployment rate remained 7.9%.
Still, the housing upturn is expected to help offset $85 billion in federal budget cuts that could slow economic growth this year and reduce job gains by about 400,000.
Housing starts are expected to approach 1 million this year, up from 781,000 in 2012 and 612,000 in 2011, IHS Global Insight says. Existing home sales also have risen sharply.
The turnaround has helped boost construction payrolls by about 200,000 the past two years, but it's also rippling to sectors that benefit directly from an improved housing market. Kitchen cabinet and other wood product manufacturers, for example, increased payrolls by 9,000 the past year to 344,000 after years of layoffs.
Employment at sawmills similarly rose. Weyerhaeuser, the giant forest products company, added several hundred workers at its sawmills in late 2012 for the first time in several years amid the pickup in housing construction.
Staffing at furniture stores climbed last year for the first time since 2006. The Badcock furniture chain last year opened 12 new corporate-owned stores in the Southeast that employ 60 workers, its first significant expansion since the housing crash.
"We want to be positioned to capture the upside," says company Chairman Wogan Badcock III, noting that new homeowners typically spend about $10,000 on furnishings and other products.
Architectural firms and mortgage brokerages also saw job gains in 2012 after years of stagnation. After cutting its staff from 30 to six after the downturn, Urban Studio Architects of Tampa hired an architect and a marketing employee the past 18 months to handle new multifamily construction, says owner Mickey Jacob.
And the 400-employee Premier Nationwide Lending of Flower Mound, Texas, hired 50 workers last year and plans to add another 50 to 100 in 2013. Low interest rates, stronger job growth and rising home values are prompting more home sales, says area manager John Hudson.
Other lagging industries have just started to grow or, according to Moody's, are expected to the next few years:
• Rising consumer wealth lifted payrolls at charities and foundations last year for the first time since 2009. Their staffs are projected to increase another 13.8% by 2015.
• Higher office employment is poised to jump-start hiring in a variety of sectors, from janitorial services to call centers.
• A better advertising market should fuel solid job gains at TV and radio stations.


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Cookies, Cakes and Pies are basically the holy trinity of baked goods.
Separately, each is wonderful in its own way. Cookies and milk after school. Birthday cake. Pie at Thanksgiving.
But what if--just what if--all of this awesome could be combined into one singular sensation?
It's time to break out a seriously sweet triple play: the Cookie Cake Pie.
I wish I had a more clever moniker for you, but really, the name does say it all: it's a cookie and a cake within a pie. This treat embraces the idea that if some is good, more is wonderful; it weighs more than any I've ever held in my arms, and it packs much more of a sugary punch. Excessive? Perhaps. But everyone who tried it all but licked the plate clean.
Want one of your very own? Here's what you need to do.
Cookie Cake Pie
- A batch of cookie dough
- A single batch of cake batter (I'll be honest--I used Rainbow Chip)
- A single pie crust
- Enough frosting for a birthday cake
First, prepare one batch of chocolate chip cookie dough. You can leave this in the fridge or to the side while you prepare the rest.
Next, prepare a single pie crust and line it into a pie plate. I considered blind-baking it, but ultimately did not, and I thought it turned out fine.
Place the cookie dough inside of the pie crust and using your fingers or a spoon, spread it so that it evenly coats the bottom of the crust. Mine was about an inch thick; I had enough cookie dough leftover to make about three big cookies, or one massive cookie dough snack.
At this point, you might want to pre-heat the oven. I considered each of the three recipes (pie, cookie and cake) and chose an average of 350 degrees.
Let the cookie-filled pie crust rest for a bit while you mix up some birthday cake. If I'm to be completely honest here, I used Rainbow Chip cake. Yes, from a mix. It just felt right, and it added such a nice color contrast. Don't judge me.
Pour cake batter directly on top of the cookie dough til the pie crust is about 2/3 filled. The cake will rise, so you want to leave room for it. You will probably have leftover cake batter; why not make some cupcakes?
Put this monster in the oven and check after about 25 minutes. I kept on checking every 5 minutes and think it ended up baking for about 30-40 minutes total. I took it out when the cake was golden around the edges. As an update, I have tried it again with other mixes and sometimes it takes up to 55 minutes.
Let cool, and frost generously with buttercream frosting (mine was approximately an inch thick--this is not the time for moderation). Garnish as desired; I thought sprinkles were festive and pretty.


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Bike Raising necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 109 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
Name: Bike Raising - Slogan: race. give. love.
Bike Raising is a grassroots non-profit that raises money through bike races (bicycles). Our funds go directly to partner organizations that are changing lives all around the globe. We have a passion for cycling and loving people so when we mashed those two together this is what we got. We are looking for an energetic and catchy logo because we believe that our company image is an important aspect of attracting people to what we do. It is our sincere desire to connect our athletes to the lives they're changing by participating in our events. We'll be paying attention to your designs and providing regular feedback. Please look at the comments we've posted prior to starting your design.
Bike Raising works with a broad range of people. Our regular participants will be competitive athletes however we have events that all ages and experience levels can participate in. Our audience is very logo oriented. We plaster our cars, bikes, jerseys and bodies with logos of bike industry leaders whom we find cool and top-knotch. We want our logo to have that effect.
Be creative and innovative, we are open to any artistic design. The logo needs to have our company name and slogan together. We like a black backdrop with white and bright neon blue or green colors for the lettering and other graphics. We are looking for a fast looking logo, something that emulates speed and competition. Graphics of cyclists, open or giving hands and heart are encouraged but not required. Road or ADA signs were something that came up during brainstorming but again are not required. We want the logo to be simple yet catching.
- Energy
- Name and slogan in same logo and separate
- Bright neon green or blue colors with dark backdrop
- Fast looking design
- Simple
Open To:
- A bike being integrated in the lettering
- Road or ADA signage type graphics
Don't Want:
- cartoons
- clip art
- any similarities with other bike industry logos
- motorcycles
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DENVER — John Mitchell is 28 and a Canadian, which means he is excused for never having heard of another famous John Mitchell — the late, former U.S. attorney general in the Nixon Administration who served 19 months in prison for his role in the Watergate affair of the early 1970s.
"Sorry, before my time," said Mitchell, who plays left wing on the Avalanche's third line.
Mitchell is making a good name for himself with the Avs. Sacrificed to the free-agent market by the New York Rangers after last season, Mitchell has been quite a find. Entering Sunday's game against the San Jose Sharks, he has eight goals and 12 points in 22 games and a plus-8 rating. In 63 games with the Rangers last season, he had five goals, 16 points and a plus-10 rating.
What gives with all the new offense? If this were an 82-game season, Mitchell would be on pace for about 22 goals.
"I suppose I'm a little bit surprised, because I only had five last year," Mitchell said after Avalanche's practice Saturday. "To have eight (goals) in the midpoint of a short season, it's certainly nice. Hopefully it can keep going. If I would get to 22 or 24 goals in a full season, that would be a very nice number for me. I would definitely like that."
Mitchell is a natural center, which lends to the surprising nature of his offensive output. While he occasionally played on the wing during his time with the Rangers and, before that, with the Toronto Maple Leafs, he has played center most of his hockey life.
That life began in the hockey-all-the-time atmosphere of Oakville, Ontario.
Mitchell's father, also named John, was a hockey player but never made it to the professional ranks. Mitchell showed promise as a skater and became a big scorer on his youth teams.
"He saw promise in me and put me in hockey camps and power-skating lessons and things like that," Mitchell said of his dad. "Any Canadian father who saw the same things would do that. It's a hotbed of hockey. I played for the Waterloo (Ontario) Wolves in minor hockey and played some in Hamilton, which is kind of near Toronto. "
Mitchell became a fifth-round draft pick of the Maple Leafs in 2003, which was a dream come true for him. He played parts of three seasons for Toronto from 2008-10, scoring a career-high 12 goals in 2008-09. But he was traded to the Rangers organization and after some time for their American Hockey League team in Harford, Conn., he played a fourth-line center role for coach John Tortorella's Eastern Conference finals team last season.


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Hats off to Robert Pigott, religious affairs correspondent of the BBC, who takes on the ambitious question of how God has fared during the first decade of the 21st century. The series title of "What Have the Noughties Done for God?" may be too precious by half, but I cannot dismiss it as being forgettable. Pigott's introductory piece is 14 minutes, which in TV land qualifies as in-depth reporting. Pigott selects various events to illustrate trends -- Muslim extremism here, the irreverence of Jerry Springer: The Opera there; newly muscular atheism here, calm Anglican responses there. There are inevitable generalizations about tensions between religious institutions and a surrounding secular culture, and of how some believers adapt their faith to withstand challenges from nonbelievers.
For maximum effect, watch Pigott's big-picture report and then supplement it with individual interview segments featuring the series' talking heads: Sister Wendy Beckett, Reform Rabbi Lionel Blue, Anglican priest and journalist Richard Coles, scientist and celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins, Anglican vicar Rose Hudson-Wilkin, journalist and social critic Simon Jenkins, Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan, actor David Soul and Anglican priest and conservative activist Rod Thomas.
It's especially amusing to see David Soul, former costar of Starsky & Hutch, complaining about people who picketed Jerry Springer: The Opera without first attending a performance. (Soul played the talk-show host.) There's something vaguely ridiculous about a beefcake actor showing righteous indignation because some people do not wish to see a performance in which Jesus appears wearing only a diaper.
Pigott's series is a respectable attempt to make sense of broad ideas during a decade of frequent turmoil. I'm not sure if it qualifies as the first draft of history about the Noughties, but it's a good preview of the first draft.


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Loopy quantums reveal successive universes
Big Bang was Big Bounce
So it turns out that the universe didn't begin with a big bang, after all. No. It was a big boing, the result of a previous universe contracting before bouncing back out to become ours. This is the latest news from the mutantly clever quantum cosmologists at Penn State university.
Spreading through a bounce: A state that initially has small
fluctuations (left) bounces and develops larger fluctuations (right).
Time proceeds along the horizontal axis, with the volume plotted
vertically. Credit: Martin Bojawald, Penn State
The boffins have have used a piece of mathematical trickery called Quantum Loop Theory to go where no one has gone before: into the singularity that classical cosmology says preceded the Big Bang. What they found was that the singularity actually wasn't.
Using quantum loop theory, they traced time backwards to its beginning. Where Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts a singularity, quantum loop theory does not. The universe, they say, did not spring forth from a place where infinite density and energy inhabited zero volume.
"Einstein's Theory of General Relativity does not include the quantum physics that you must have in order to describe the extremely high energies that dominated our universe during its very early evolution," explains Martin Bojowald, lead author and assistant professor of physics at Penn State."But we now have Loop Quantum Gravity, a theory that does include the necessary quantum physics."
He explains that the theory's equations continue to produce valid mathematical results past the point of the classical Big Bang, giving scientists a window into the time before the Big Bounce, and into the previous universe.
In order to explore the physics of the other universe, Bojowald developed a "more precise model" within quantum loop gravity. This revealed that some parameters in the equation are complimentary, making it impossible to learn too much about the earlier universe using this model.
His revised calculations also showed that some parameters that exist in the previous universe do not exist in ours, meaning this previous universe would not have been identical to our own.
He said: "The eternal recurrence of absolutely identical universes would seem to be prevented by the apparent existence of an intrinsic cosmic forgetfulness". ®
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