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Sophomore Jevon Tarantino led the No. 17-ranked Tennessee men's swimming and diving team Thursday with a sixth-place finish on the 1-meter board at the 2005 NCAA championships in Minneapolis, Minn.
Tennessee is currently tied for 16th-place with 19 points. Auburn leads the competition with 172 points.
"I am really proud of Jevon Tarantino's score on 1-meter tonight," UT head coach John Trembley said. "We are going to come out tomorrow fighting hard."
Tarantino finished sixth with 332.20 points. He was in eighth heading into the finals with 313.55. Joona Puhakka of Arizona State won the event with 421.05. Tarantino was the defending champion on the 1-meter board. Puhakka finished runner-up to Tarantino a year ago.
"Jevon was a little off his game tonight, but he fought real hard all day long," UT diving coach Dave Parrington said. "Jevon's 1-meter hasn't been great since his appendectomy earlier in the season, and he was just a touch off tonight. He fought and scrapped hard though."
The 400-yard medley relay team of Brad Boswell, Bryan Goldberg, Octavio Alesi and Tyler Gustafson finished 14th in 3:16.68.
The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Alesi, Gustafson, Goldberg and Boswell was disqualified for misfiring on the start during the consolation final.
The preliminary session each day begins at 1 p.m. while the finals sessions start at 8 p.m. The competition runs through Saturday. The NCAA championships will be broadcast on ESPN2 on April 1 at 1:30 p.m.
The No. 17-ranked Tennessee men's swimming and diving team has two relay teams set to score in the finals tonight at 8 p.m. at the 2005 NCAA Championships in Minneapolis.
"Thursday was a fantastic morning for a small team of Tennessee Volunteers," UT head coach John Trembley said. "This team has really suffered through adversity, including but not limited to losing four team members who should be here today with us. If you put those four guys who are injured or taking a hiatus with us, then we are pushing for a top-six or -seven team place at this meet."
Sophomore Jevon Tarantino, the only Vol representative on the boards, heads into the finals this evening in eighth-place with 313.55 points.
Leading the way in the swimming lanes is the 200-yard freestyle relay team of freshman Octavio Alesi, junior Tyler Gustafson, junior Bryan Goldberg and sophomore Brad Boswell. The foursome finished in 12th-place Thursday morning in 1:19.61. The time is the best this season for the Vols.
"These guys are smiling and truly enjoying being here," Trembley added. "While we have much to do over the next two and a half days, our guys are hungry for next season already."
The 400-yard medley relay team of the same foursome finished in 15th in a time of 3:16.49, and are in position to score going into tonight's final.
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"Pavlos C. Symeou" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Dependent continuous variable with bounded range
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:19:41 +0100
Dear Nick,
thank you for this. I have tried your suggestion below (to confirm, for the option "link" I use "logit" and for the option "family" I use "binomial"). However, I found no statistical significance in any of the coefficients and after a series of various permutations, it looked to me that the model could not fit the data sufficiently. I therefore returned back to my original random-effects OLS regression whose use you suggest for simplicity reasons. The OLS model's results are also consistent with my theoretical arguments. But still, I need to check whether the predicted values will lie in [0,10]. I have used the command - predict, xb - to save the fitted values in a new variable. The fitted values range from 5.58 to 6.93. The range of values for my observed variable is (2.95 - 8.32). Would this suggest that my model does not suffer from the limitations you note below?
Yours truly,
Nick Cox wrote:
The numeric result for skewness doesn't quite match the fact that the mean
is nearer the maximum than the minimum, not that that need that be the case.
You possibly have a bit of a tail of fairly lousy firms, but otherwise this distribution looks quite healthy to me. How about
gen repute = reputation / 10 xtgee repute ..., link(logit) family(<continuous>)
P.S. for "likert" read "Likert" (Rensis Likert, fl.C20)
Pavlos C. Symeou
Dear Nick, Anders, and Jay,
thank you very much for your responses. First, I need to agree with you that this problem can not be handled with interval regression. But as Anders recommends, I need to give further information about my variable in question, "reputation". The variable is a construct consisted of three other variables. These three variables take discrete values that range from 0-10 on a 11-point likert scale, namely 0,1,2,3...,10. These are responses to a survey questionnaire. These three variables' values are first added together and divided by 3 to yield my focal variable "reputation" (unfortunately I only have access to the final variable and not its components). Values for "reputation" closer to 0 suggest lower firm reputation. Values closer to 10 suggest higher firm reputation. A histogram shows a relatively normal distribution as you can see from its Skewness below. I also provide you with statistics on max and min values to respond to Anders' inquiry.
Nick advised that I transform my response so that is unbounded using a link function e.g. logit on response/10. (I am not sure how I can do this) Yet, Jay's suggestion is that this might not be that beneficial. Can you please advise on how to proceed?
Min 2.95 Max 8.32
Mean 6.267978
Variance .5091705
Skewness -.057921
Kurtosis 3.642905
Yours truly,
I find both Nick Cox's and Jay Verkuilen's comments very reasonable.
But Pavlos does not mention how the variable "reputation" is created.
How would reputation get a value of, say, "9.6"? Where does the
boundary 0-10 come from, e.g., from the sample's population or from a
? Is reputation a scored variable or does it represent
original data?
Anders Alexandersson
Nick Cox outlined several strategies, to which I will add just a bit:
(1) How close to the boundaries are your observations? If the distribution looks reasonably symmetric, you probably won't gain much from using a specialized model that "knows" about the boundaries. If you have some skew due to the ceiling or floor but not a truly L- or J-shaped distribution, the logit transformation will probably normalize your errors enough to do ordinary panel regression models. If the distribution is truly L- or J-shaped, no transformation will fix things up.
(2) -betafit- (by Nick, Maarten, et al) with clustered robust SEs is a viable alternative that uses the linking strategy. This uses the beta distribution as an error model. It won't adjust for the autoregressive nature of panel data, though, but maybe that'll work well enough.
(3) If you want to use the GLM approach and are willing to move to different software (SAS or winBUGS), I can give you examples to do random effects and AR-adjusted beta regression. (One of these days, I want to port a random effects and GEE betareg over to Stata; no time right now.)
This does not sound like an interval regression problem to me. Interval
regression is for when at least some individual values are known as intervals not
points. Here values are known but must lie in a prescribed interval.
Divide by 10 and the problem has exactly the same form as that often met
There are correspondingly various options:
1. Go ahead regardless. The advantage is simplicity. The disadvantage is
that there is no guarantee that predicted values will lie in [0,10] certainly for some
values of the predictors
and possibly for your observed data. Arguably that is quite wrong in
principle and it may be a real
nuisance for your project. There are implications all the way downstream
in terms of assessing fit.
2. Transform your response so that is unbounded. Model in terms of that
and then back-transform.
3. A variant of 2, and in many ways preferable, to use a link function
e.g. logit on response/10.
4. No doubt others.
Anders Alexandersson
See -help xtintreg-. It does random-effects interval data regression
Pavlos C. Symeou <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
I have panel data for 100 firms for five years and I want to examinethe
effects of various variables on "reputation". My variable"reputation"
takes continuous values in the range of 0-10. Namely, it can takevariable
values of 1,2,3 but also of 2.5, 9.6, etc. The values that the
"reputation" takes in my sample range between 2.6 - 8.3. Can youplease
advise if I can still use panel OLS estimation for panel data orshould
I use a different model? In essence, my main concern is thelimitations
of the bounded range of my variable.
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This is wonderful. I was stressing out trying to make those HST's come out even. Love this technique. Going to try it for my swap blocks.
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This is wonderful. I was stressing out trying to make those HST's come out even. Love this technique. Going to try it for my swap blocks.
Rhonda thanks for sharing your expertise. I dread cutting out HST or anything weird. I can never match the points or the corners etc. Your tutorial looks like I shall be able to do squares etc. ciao
Great tute Rhonda
Thank you Thank you I love this! This comes under the category of "why didn't I think of that!"
You're all welcome! I hope this makes the process easier and more stress free.
thanks so much for the tutorial, i have been wanting to do a quilt with tons of HST for a long time, but have been putting it off, dreading drawing all those lines and squaring up all those blocks. this will certainly make it a lot easier... :) thanks!
I've just been playing with this with both the strips sewn up each side and swatches, using my scraps. All blue and white and I'm doing stars of different sizes, think it will be a table runner. It's fun and sew easy peasy!
this method is the back bone of our work. Dorothy does these by the thousands for me. I seperate into 6 basic colors and she cuts one color both lights and darks into piles and then sews the piles together and then cuts. she does about 40 each of each fabric so I get 40 HSTS of the same two fabrics. I like to have at least 8 differant sets. So when she works she ends up giving me several hundred to a couple thousand HSTs of that one color way. One time I counted them because her DGS thought it looked like at least 1000 and there was over 3000.Quote:
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Oh my! Well I haven't made quite THAT many! LOL
But there is a pattern of baskets - know the one I mean? And I love it but have been put off by all the tiny HSTs needed...not any more!
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For me, this may be one of our most difficult calls yet. I've already said nice things about both of these games. They're two of my favorites. Maybe I just enjoy time travel and scientists of questionable skill?
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Day of the TentacleCurrently not doing so hot in our poll. Revolves around a nerd, a mad scientist, a bizarre young woman, and a proto-Jack-Black-ish slob in their attempts to get a diamond to power the time machine that will send them back in the past one day in order to prevent the evil Purple Tentacle from carrying out his nefarious plans. Things go awry, the US flag is reimagined as a windsock, George Washington gets his teeth replaced, you nuke a hamster at some point - it's all quite entertaining.
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Poorly chicken, help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A couple of days ago we had a chicken die after her not eating, becoming really weak, not laying, having runny yellow poos and a pale comb..
Her sister (miss cluckington) who was in the hen house with her has now started showing the same symptoms and Im worried she'll die too..
I found her sitting on a load of eggs earlier in a shrub so we thought maybe she was broody but we're not sure..
She is a ISA brown hen, who we love dearly!
can someone please help, I dont want her dying or passing it on to our silver dorkins!!
Anya, concerned chicken lover
#2 Mon 19 Oct 09 1:07am
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Re: Poorly chicken, help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time to ring your vet!
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Re: Poorly chicken, help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think you should ring the vet, sound like time to get professional help.
Good luck I hope she is ok.


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There is something I have not mentioned as of yet. The bugs had a feast with my body. I have bites all over, some small and some enormous! There is every kind that you can think of and some I never have seen or heard of before. The first rule of living here that I learned was never, and I mean never walk around the house without shoes or something on your feet. Well in the middle of the night last night I had to get up and go to the bathroom. Well I stepped on one and had to get in the shower to wash off my foot. After that I could not get back to sleep.
I will be up early tomorrow and will not get home until way after dark. It is good to go right to sleep after a long day. The nights are almost as hot and muggy as the days are. The hottest month is coming up in Oct. CAN NOT WAIT > LOL! Cannot wait until it cools down just a little. I am sweating up a storm and have to change my clothes twice a day. Well that's all for now. Well that is it for now!
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The poverty and culture is something I can not even begin to explain.
I went to a rest home and truly went away asking God WHY. Why them and why not me. God has given me so much and that is something I needed to see. Probably this is why I was sent here. Never again will I ask God why I have to go through the things he put's me though. MY path is so much more than most. I guess what I am trying to say is not only is there a lot of poverty, There is no family unit or love like I have or very little. That is the biggest thing that has changed my heart.
where did champs picutre go ?
Steven when we post a new comment on this only your picture comes up in the window? Is there something I am doing wrong ? Glad to see your fan is helping some in your room. talk soon love ya
jon & champ
Saturday 9/13/08 Hiking
This is going to be the most difficult entry so far. I just don't know how I am going to express my true feeling?
I woke up early and the weather was already hot and muggy. We are going into the hottest month of the year. The humidity can be as high as au hundred percent. I had my backpack already to go, packing it the night before. This was my first hike by myself. It took about half an hour to get down the hill and out of town. My goal was to walk up to this national park that is about three or four miles out of town. It was early and the walk was just what I needed to settle my brain. There were four of us on this hike. It may be hard to understand but there was myself, my Angel, Anna (my niece who past away at birth) and Steven Michael (my nephew Who also has past away). I get into long conversations with them. I know they are only there in spirit, but I can truly feel their presence.
By the time I reached the park I was sweating though all my pours. For some reason it did not bother me in the least. Once I entered the park is was all up hill from there. The sun was hot but every ten or fifteen steps their was shade from the trees. There were three different hikes to choose from, I choose the hardest one. It takes about forty-five minutes to reach the top. It was very slow going but I was enjoying every step of the way. Once we reach the top I just sat on this rock and gaze out to the ocean. I started praying and talking out loud about what I was feeling. The joy in my heart is something I cannot even begin to describe. I could truly feel Anna, Steven Michael. I could feel them sitting right there next to me. And there I sat for over an hour, actually at peace.
I started down the hill when all of a sudden I heard these voices from a far distance. The further I descended the louder the voices could be heard. It was about seventy people singing gospel music. My God what a sound! Those sounds made my heart feel so warm. I was walking on cloud nine. When I finally walk past the group, they were just sitting under a tree singing their hearts out. What a sound and spiritual experience. This one-day has made my time on Dominica so much better. Sometimes I ask my self what hell have I gotten my self into. But this is truly something I would not have gone through if I were not here. So today I held onto my faith with warmth in my heart and keep repeating to my self, " Let go and let God"
Hey Steve,
Thanks for sharing your hike. Give all you can, but take advantage of your time to connect with nature. You're in a magical place ...
My day at the prison
Brother Mike and I went to the prison to have church service for the prisoners on Sunday morning. When we arrived we went through the front gates and into the visiting room. As soon as we entered the visiting room I felt a change in my feelings. I was nerves and didn't know what to expect. It was a room no larger than your average bedroom. It just had a row of tables and chairs. The guard was friendly and motioned us to go head through. As soon as we enter the main prison we saw a small chapel. It was only about two hundred feet from the main gate. The chapel looked like one you would see in the TV show Little House on the Prairie. We entered the chapel and first open all the windows. The air in side was musty and had a sour smell to it. About ten minutes after we arrived the prisoners starting coming down the hill to the chapel. About fifteen prisoners came in all and took a seat for the service. Brother Mike started the service with a song and to my surprises all the men started to sing and sing loud. The service took about 45 minutes. Right after the service one of the prisoners went right up to Brother Mike and started to cry. He was a foreigner from St Marteen. He had been in prison for a year and still had half a year to go. He had no money to call home and was homesick. I new exactly what that feeling was like, being homesick that is. They talked for about ten minutes and he express concern about what he was going to do when he did get out. With no money or way of getting home once he was released. You see when they let you out of prison they just open the door and let you go. No help or no money. It was so sad to see the concern on his face.
After that we walk over to the main guardhouse. The man in charge was just getting six new prisoners sent over from the city of Roseau. Brother Mike asked one of the men how long was his sentence and he replied forty years. I just stood there and could not stop looking at him. The sadness and fear on his face is something you just cannot describe.
After about 5 minutes were we then lead across this open area to where the prisoners in solidarity confinement are held. MY GOD! Human being treat animals better than theses prisoners were being treated. They had no running water, no lights, and no toilets in a room no bigger than seven feet by twelve feet. All they had was a bucket to go to the bathroom in. There were ten men in this part of the prison. The filth was unbelievable! I walk up to the first cell door and you could not see anything but their faces because it was so dark. All the men just put their hands in between the bars so they could just touch another human being. One asked if he could just hold my hand for a minute or two. I was blown away. Tyrone was one that had been in solidarity confinement for five years and still had five to go. Now, yes he did kill someone but no human being should be treated like this. People do horrible things but God did not make humans to treat other humans this way. This to me was worse than killing someone. Don't get me wrong; someone who kills should get a punishment but not this. We were in there for about forty-five minutes.
It took me all day just to settle my brain down. The anger and frustration I was feeling is something I have never felt before. I just kept asking myself how could a human treat another human that way and live with him or herself.
This happen on Sunday but I just could not start to write about it for a couple of days. I am not in Kansas City any more!
Whew, I could feel the heaviness in your words as you described your experience. I definitely see a book being written in the near future. :-) God continues to bless you and all to whom you touch, even through the bars of a cell door...
September 18, 2008
My experience so far on Dominica has been one of truth seeking for myself. It has been an emotional change on how I view the world. I don't know any other way to express myself. The people I have meet and the place's I have been, will forever change who I am and how I look at life. There is so much poverty, hunger, desire, rejection and very little hope, particularly among the young of this nation. On the other hand I have never seen a country with so much faith in their God. It is just the opposite in the United States. Our two cultures seem to me to be just the opposite of each other. In one senses they have what we need more of, the love of God. And what we have, we don't realize how lucky we are to have it. To go to bed hungry, with no hope for the future, so little of us could not even comprehend it. I do understand there are some even in the United States that do go to bed hungry and with no hope. But the magnitude of the need of this country is just disturbing. This view of the world makes me stop and appreciate what God has given me. Something I will never again take for granted. I ask all that read this take a moment and just look around and smell the roses that God has put at your table. Dominica is a country full of beauty and faith but at the same time which such needs.
My homesickness comes and goes. I miss the love from Champ that I took for granted. But I truly understand what I am going through is because of what I have. I have so many people in my life and much more than most. So I must remember sometimes God gives us pain, but pain I would not exchange with anyone. It is what I say to Jon "This is good pain"
Just needed to put on paper what I was thinking.
Sunday morning getting ready to go to church
The humidity has gone
I have waited so long
Now I can sing my song
So to church I will be
To get some faith in me
For the lord is there for us to see
I will sit very still
On top of the hill
My heart is so filled
My friends are on my mind
All of the time
But I should not wine
I can talk to them on line
That's a great poem! Here is mine...
'It's Monday
What a fun day!!' NOT!!
but on the other hand I'm laughing. Take care and keep the pictures coming! They're what make me laugh! By the way where is the pig? I haven't seen his/her picture yet.
I have 6 turkeys(not the human kind)in my neighborhood, and an egret, you only have 1 cow! Who is living in the wilderness? Me or you?
Love, P
p.s. are you a vegan yet??
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I do have pigs for neighbors, but on the other side of some bushes so can not see them but I differently can hear and smell them! You should be here around five in the morning and five in the evening. You can hear and smell them for miles. My back yard is about two hundred feet away from there pin. So I think I am the more in the wilderness than you are! LOL
Cool Poem
I love your poem, Steve. Very cool. I also had a laugh about the pigs next door. Could be worse, I guess ...
My morning thought
There are people in your life that you have an unspoken connection too. Even though there is not even a word for it. They are the people that you have known forever, who know you in away that other people can't because they have seen you change. They have let you change. But at times we forget they are there for us. They let us find our inner self by just pointing the way down our own path. Not even asking for a thank you! But for me, now at this time in my life I just want to say thank you! You know who you are. My life is on a path because of you.
Even though sometimes I feel just like a kid who need's to be told what, where and how my life should be lived. You just point and push me in the right direction. I may fall but in my heart I know you will be there to help me. You are both family and my friends!
I am learning that not every one in life gets those unspoken connections. Some must find their own path with out direction, compassion, friendship or love. They do have the love of God but I myself don't know how I could stay on my path without my connections. I am not as strong as others, nor could I have gone so far down my path without you.
My God watch over and help guide you down your own path. I too will be there to help, when I can and if I can.
Today I ask you to keep two boys in your prayers. They are young, lost and in such need of help. They have no love in their life. They just need help to find their path. For I am afraid if they don't find it soon, they could possibly never want to find it. Their names are Wesley and Ricky! I so believe in the power of pray and they could us some help!
May God Bless and Your Family's
Potatoes Are Mush
Here I sit worrying about the turkey being undercooked or the boiled potatoes being overcooked and you're out there asking for prayers, not for yourself, but for those that have lost the will to continue. That my dearest of friends is my reality check - I stopped thinking of potatoes and turkey, and I prayed for Wesley and Ricky and for all of those that you have witnessed to and touched with your love. Remember as you walk this journey your 'Footsteps In The Sand' extend beyond the beach to the dirt roads and byways of Dominica, to the prison, to the nursing home, and to the classroom and beyond. You are never alone in your walk. God is with you as all of us are here. We not only pray for the Wesleys and Rickys in life but we're praying for you as well. As I look out my window and see desert and blowing sand I can now think of you looking out your kitchen window eye to eye with cows. BTW, have ya ever heard of 'cow tipping?' LOL We all love you Steve and we're so proud of you. You're enlightening those in Dominica and you're enlightening us here at home. Thank you Steve. God's speed. Love, Ed and Jay
September 25, 2008
I retreat to my bed around eight every evening. I turn on my fan and then slip under my netting. I always make sure the netting is tucked in under my sheets so the bugs don't get in. I lie there and watch all the fireflies in my room light up. Some of you have never seen or even know what a firefly is.
The first couple of weeks I would lie there and think, what am I doing here. Have I made the biggest mistake by coming to Dominica? Should I or even more importantly can I stay. Can I handle the humidity, poverty, environment, and homesickness for not only my friends and family but for my dog Champ? I would say to myself, take it one day at a time. Don't over analyze the situation.
Last night was different. I went to bed and could not stop thinking about the boy's that attend school at Call's. I cannot even imagine what their situation must be like at home. Some are full of anger while others just come to school with food on their mind. You see they get a lunch and it's the only thing that motivates them to come to school in the first place. While there is some that truly want to learn. They are the one's that truly still have a dream or desirer to achieve something in their life's.
Kids like Ricky are almost out of hope. Yesterday I pulled him aside and I tried to teach him some addition and subtraction. Just simple second grade math. Something every sixteen-year-old boy should know. After about ten minutes he just gave up and would not continue. He just would not respond. You see in Dominica, the school system is broken and kids just go from one grade to the next without ever needing to learn. My educated guess is about 20% turn seventeen and cannot read, write or do simple math. They all have an equal opportunity to fail.
These are boys with names like Sedrique, Mahalia, Panard, Stefan, Wesley and Ricky. Real human beings with very little hope of a future.
I wonder why the system and there families failed them. What is in their future or are they predestine to a life with no opportunities.
Sorry this went on and on but when I awake at four in the morning, my mind is full with these thoughts, I just have to get them out. I will try to just show them some kind compassion and let them know someone does care. Will it make a difference, I truly don't know. But someone has to try. But this place and time in my life is changing me. Not for the good or the bad, it just is!
Can I make it a full year? I still cannot begin to answer that question. I am just going to take it a day at a time!
God Bless all of my Family and Friends
My weekend September 27, 2008
Well it was an interesting weekend for me. I started out Saturday morning with a five-mile hike. I first walk down to the center of town to where they have the open market. Not a market you would see in the United States. Next time I am down there on a Saturday morning I will take a picture or two. From there I started to walk out of town towards Roseau. I walk for about three hours and then pick up a van that was going all the way to Roseau. I arrived in Roseau around one and went right to a hotel call Fort Young's Resort Hotel. It is the most expensive hotel on the island. On the fifth floor they have a bar, just like one you would find in the U.S. I order a hamburger with all the toppings, and of course a gray goose screwdriver. Ok I had two drinks and just sat at the bar and watched a soccer game. There was a couple from London sitting next to me. I enjoyed our conversation and their company. I felt like I was back in the States. Then back to Portsmouth I went. It was hot and humid but my body is slowly getting use to the weather here.
I went to bed real early. It was around six o'clock.
I got up around my usual time of four A.M. Checked my e-mails and then Brother Mike and myself were off to Roseau to visit the prison around seven. We had to be there by eight to say Mass for the prisoners. This normally run's around an hour. Then we talked to them for another half an hour. After that we went into the cellblock, which holds the prisoners in solitary confinement. The first time I visited the prisoners in solitary confinement I was very nerves and did not know what to except. That first day I walk up to the first cell and a man had his hand reached out of the cell bars and wanted to hold my hand. I was in a daze and was not thinking clearly. The first words out of my mouth were " How is your week going" Tyrone just took one look at my face and started to laugh. I was devastated by what I had said. He could tell by the look on my face. Well this week I walked right up to his cell and the first words out of his mouth was " How was your week". We both started to laugh and so did a couple of other prisoners that over heard our conversation, Tyrone must have told them the story about our original conversation. It broke the ice for both of us and we went on to talk for over ten-minutes. We talked about many different things including Obama and McCain.
I cannot even begin to explain what the conditions are like in solitary confinement. But trust me when I say no human should be put through what these men go through. I know some of them are killers and should be punished for what they have done but not treated less than animals. You see, I too have been a victim of a violent crime. I have never talk about it before to anyone until now. I was stabbed twice, once in the stomach and once in the back of my head, when I was twenty-two years of age. Did it change me, yes! Not the way you my think. I think of that young man all the time, I feel sorry for all the pain it has caused him. I don't know how anyone could go through life knowing that they had stabbed another human being. Is he sorry for what he did, I don't know and don't think it is important. He still has to live the rest of his life with what he did. That in it self must be a sentence of punishment I would and could not live with myself.
We were in the cell block for around one-hour. When I was leaving my mind started to race with all these thoughts. Anger and rage are the first that comes to mind. I was leaving and some of these men have been in solitary confinement for over five years. I know I could not survive, I don't understand how they are.
I had to get my mind off the prison. Brother Mike was going into Roseau to visit a friend for lunch and would be there for two or three hours. I mentioned to Brother Mike that I would prefer not to go to lunch, but would rather start walking home on the side of the road just to easy my mind. So that is what I did. I started to walk towards Portsmouth. I told Brother Mike to pick me up on his way home and I would just walk as far as I could. By the time Brother Mike picked me up I had walked close to ten miles.
I was about an hour into my walk when it started to pour. I found a large tree to stand under and waited out the rain. You see when it rains here it does not last more than five or ten minutes. The rain not only cleared the air and washed the roads, it cleared my mine. By the time we arrived home I was ready to have a sandwich and go to bed. And that is exactly what I did. I slept for more than eleven hours.
I got up Monday morning feeling a little sore but ready for another week on this journey.
After arriving at school I decided that I would volunteer one hour each day to go down to the child care center and play with the children. I thought it would give me a break from teaching the sixteen year olds, to be around kids that are four or five years of age. Little humans give me such joy and fill my heart with love. The moment I was around them that was exactly what happened.
There are time in my life I ask God why he did not make me a father? I remember the first time I held my nieces and nephews. Each one was different and a memory I will never forget. It truly is amazing how my heart changed the moment they were put into my arms. Each time it was different and is etched in my mind forever. Don't know how I got off on that subject! But that is what was going though my mind when I was hugging the kids in the care center.
Well I think that is enough out of me for one day. I will end this with something that they recite every morning at the beginning of school. It is what I was thinking about on my walk home from Roseau.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred, let me show love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
Where there is sadness, joy
Oh divine master, grant that I my not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Septumber 30, 2008
Today had it's ups and downs. I meet Wesley's father in the morning. I had a brief conversation with him about how well Wesley was doing in school. The smile on his face was worth all the time I had spent with his son. Wesley truly does want something for himself. I told him about two week's ago, if he truly had a dream of going to the United States he could make it happen. I also told him that he is only fourteen years old and if he work hard over the next four years, his dream could possibly come true! The first thing I told him he could do was read a book. If he read a book from cover to cover, that would be the first step. It would be a small step but it would be a beginning. He came to school with a book today and informed me that he had already read ten pages. I was just amazed that first he heard what I said and that he is following through with it. I ask him how many pages would he want to read in the next week to accomplish a goal for him self. He decided to read thirty pages. Wow!!
At twelve-noon we broke for lunch. Brother Mike, Ryan, and myself were leaving the school to go and have lunch. When we exited the school we saw a man down the street holding Denrick by the arms, yelling at him. Denrick was crying and yelling at this person. We went over and asking what was happening. The man identified himself as Denrick's relative. Crewinton came up to me and told me that the guy was smacking Denrick all around. Brother Mike informed the gentleman to let go of Denrick or he would call the police. The gentleman let go and Denrick ran across the street and pick up a large rock to throw at his relative. Dominique and Alexander stop him from doing it. Poor Denrick was crying, but more humiliated than anything that he was slapped around in front of all his friends. His relative said he had the right because he was family. Brother Mike ask him if he thought he accomplished anything by his actions. There was no response coming back from him. I ask him if he had any idea how it would he feel if he was fourteen years old and someone hit him in front of all his friends. I then said I felt that he owed Denrick a apology. He just walks away down the street. Ms Douglas took Denrick back into the school.
This country has big problems when it comes to the family unit. There are kids that have no Fathers or they have one but are not even involved in the raising of their child. There are even Mothers that don't care about what there children are doing. I just don't understand sometimes.
Then at the end of the day I was informed by Ms Prince, she heard on the radio that someone at the State Prison had committed suicide. The man was twenty-four years of age and he was in prison for rape. I don't know if I knew him or not. Will not find out until I go back to the prison.
What a day!
Re: Septumber 30, 2008
Steve that is a heart wrenching story about the young boy and his family member. Just remember Steve, you will not change the customs of an entire country. Be careful when stepping between two family members. Think of our family. We, at times, can be very harsh on each other, though not in a physical way, but heaven help the outsider that that attempts to pick a fight with a member of our family. That rock could find it's way to you when you least expect it. They would think nothing of it. Please be careful. Love ya, Will


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The committee's first challenge was to write a uniform policy for the Division. The policy was completed and approved by the committee before being sent on to management for final approval. The policy covered several areas, including type of uniform and number of outfits received each year. The committee made policy recommendations on whether legal or informal names should appear on uniform shirts, and whether shorts should be provided for the summer months. The committee recommended the prohibition of slogans, logos, or advertisement of any kind on uniforms, but allowed the American flag, and service award or union pins and belt buckles. The policy is reviewed annually and any suggested changes are sent to management for final approval.
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By Brendan DeMelle • Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 19:39
350.org and CREDO Mobile are testing a new tactic to turn up the heat on polluter-friendly politicians who receive large campaign contributions from dirty energy interests and then turn around and vote against public health and the environment. Kinda like the Senators who recently voted to gut the Clean Air Act, like Scott Brown (R-MA) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), for example.
Making phone calls and signing petitions to Congress are tried and true grassroots organizing tactics, but there are other tools that might have an even greater impact. That's why 350 and CREDO are experimenting with crowd-sourcing - asking a few Senators' constituents to crowd-fund ads connecting the dots between their Senator's vote to gut the Clean Air Act and their campaign contributions from polluters.
The first ad push is seeking to bring a bipartisan smackdown to two dirty-moneyed Senators named Brown - Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Democrat Sherrod Brown of Ohio. The Browns are both big takers of dirty polluter money - Scott to the tune of $1,907,988 and Sherrod a whopping $3,464,689.
350 and CREDO are trying to raise $12,000 in the next week to put up the ads in both Ohio and Massachusetts. The groups are a little iffy about the plan, noting the weak economy and the ease of "clicktivism" which might discourage people to participate in an effort that actually requires forking over a few bucks.
350's Jamie Henn says:"We hope to show them that corporations aren't the only ones who can team up and buy some ads. With the right tools and a bit of motivation, citizens can make an impact too."
What do you think? Does this tactic stand a chance of success? Let's see some clicktivists weigh in below in the comments section.
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anonymous replied on Permalink
How sad
Useing impressionable children to promote porpaganda and lies.
This is as shameful now as it was in the 1930 when Hitler abused children with the Hitler youth movement.
And over such an obvious scam.
Be kind to trees
Target 1000 ppm!!!
franklin southe... replied on Permalink
Crowd Funded Ad campaign
Traditional method would be a signature campaign but the one your proposing may also work but will really need the cooperation of alot of people since some financials is involved.
Shame on these politicians! After getting elected, they forget that their duty is to uphold the rights of their constituents, of the American people. And now, they just work only to fill their pockets.
Earthling replied on Permalink
Here's the joke. Atmospheric
Here's the joke.
Atmospheric CO2 stood at 349.57ppm in 1986.
25 years later, it's around 394.35ppm (Mauna Loa) and rising at an ever accelerating rate.
Does Bill McKibben have the faintest idea how long it would take to get back to 350ppm if human CO2 emissions stopped completely, tomorrow?
Ten years, 50, 100, 400 or never?
I'd be inclined to change 350.org to 450.org, quickly.


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Q: I think I once heard you say that you used to collect your
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Cowboys were the only team of five I played for that I recall charging
me via payroll deduction for my helmet. I believe it was $200. I was
told that Jerry Jones looks at equipment as team property, and if a
player wants it, he has to purchase it. I'm a business owner, so on
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the Cowboys make. They also were the only team that deducted money for
lunch every week during the season, which was even more astonishing to
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#1 Mon 27 Dec 10 11:28pm
New Year's Eve: recipe for Dutch oliebollen
Hi everyone,
It is a Dutch tradition to eat 'oliebollen' (some sort of deep fried fluffy bread filled with raisins and apple in the shape of balls) on New Year's Eve. In recent years I developed my own recipe for oliebollen. I am the only one who makes it in the family and they are looking forward to it every year (so am I ). So I would like to share this recipe with you. So here it goes:
Recipe for 35 oliebollen (enough for about 7-10 persons):
Mix 1kg strong white flour with 20g of salt, zest of 2 lemons, and 2 teaspoons of sugar in a large bowl. Add 14g of dried yeast and mix. Make a hole in the flour mixture and add 2 eggs (at room temperature), 50g melted butter (not too hot) and 800ml of lukewarm water. Mix thoroughly with a spoon into a batter. After that 'knead' the batter with a mixer at the highest speed during 4 minutes in order to develop the gluten (very important to make the oliebollen airy).
After 'kneading' add 450g of raisins (let them first absorp some water in a bowl for some hours), 150g of small cubes of fresh apple (do not use sweet apples, but apples that are a little sourish) and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon. Mix well with a spoon. Cover the bowl with a moist towel and place the bowl in a warm area for about 1 hour.
Preheat sunflour oil in your deep frier to a temperature of 180 degree Celsius. Beat the batter slightly with a spoon. Now it is time to make the final 'oliebollen'. Get a spoon that you use to make nice balls of ice cream or use two spoons. Use these to form a ball of some of the batter. Put the ball directly into the the hot oil and bake for about 6-7 minutes (help them turn around in the oil, if they do not turn around themselves). Get the oliebollen out of the oil and let them drain for a while on kitchen paper. Consume them warm or cold with some icing sugar sprinkled on top. Delicious!
some tips:
- put the 2 spoons into the hot oil before forming some of the batter into a ball, this prevents sticking
- you can bake about 6 'oliebollen' every 6-7 minutes depending on the size of your deep frier.
- you can reheat the oliebollen again in a few seconds in the microwave
#2 Tue 28 Dec 10 12:18am
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Re: New Year's Eve: recipe for Dutch oliebollen
How utterly yum!
Thankyou Khun!
#3 Tue 28 Dec 10 5:23am
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Re: New Year's Eve: recipe for Dutch oliebollen
Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or a cook. { cowboy saying}
#4 Tue 28 Dec 10 2:26pm
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Re: New Year's Eve: recipe for Dutch oliebollen
If you have a Greek deli near you it may be possible to find a premix for Loukoumades which are basically the same thing.
Recipe below if anybody fancies this version:
http://www.food.com/recipe/loukoumades- … ings-59467
Loukoumades (Greek Honey Dumplings)
Prep Time: 2 hrs
Total Time: 2 1/2 hrs
Servings: 10
2 cups lukewarm water
1 cup lukewarm milk
2 packages dry yeast
4 cups flour ( or enough until a thick, pancake-like batter consistency is reached)
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons oil
oil ( for frying)
1 cup honey ( Greek thyme honey is best, and authentic)
1/4 cup water
finely chopped walnuts (optional)
sesame seeds, toasted (optional)
Dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm water.
Put it along with the remaining dough ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix well until a smooth batter is obtained.
Cover and let the batter rise in a warm place until it is approximately three times its previous bulk, (1-2 hours).
Heat the oil for frying in a saucepan on the stove until very hot.
Dip a teaspoon into oil to coat and spoon out some dough into the hot oil.
#5 Tue 28 Dec 10 8:16pm
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Re: New Year's Eve: recipe for Dutch oliebollen
Khun, very good recipe, pasted and saved, thankyou very much and happy new year.
#6 Wed 29 Dec 10 3:30am
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Re: New Year's Eve: recipe for Dutch oliebollen
Ooo Falconcy I love those too!
#7 Mon 17 Dec 12 12:11pm
Re: New Year's Eve: recipe for Dutch oliebollen
Hi everyone,
In a few weeks time it's almost New Years Eve again!
It's Dutch tradition to eat 'Oliebollen' on New Years Eve and Day. I shared a recipe 2 years ago and thought to bump this thread up again so you can get all ingredients and such in time for having a nice New Years Eve. I still make them as described in the recipe and hope to make a record this time: 100 oliebollen.
#8 Tue 18 Dec 12 2:14am
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Re: New Year's Eve: recipe for Dutch oliebollen
I don't speak Dutch, but "oliebollen" looks to me like it means "oily balls".
Am I right?
#9 Tue 18 Dec 12 10:28am
Re: New Year's Eve: recipe for Dutch oliebollen
hippytea wrote:
I don't speak Dutch, but "oliebollen" looks to me like it means "oily balls".
Am I right?
Haha, yes, that's exactly what it means!
They are called that way because they are quickly shaped as balls (the size of a snowball actually) and than deepfried in oil. When done well, these balls are not fat/ oily at all.
There are still many bakers/ supermarkets who still don't get what it takes to make a nice oliebol. Those sold in the supermarkets are 9 months old I mean why even eat those? And there are still lots of bakers around who still mess their oliebollen up: baking them in old oil or baking in oil of too low temperature making the oliebollen absorb all the oil.
Making them yourself is the best: the ones I make every year are still the best I ever tasted.
#10 Tue 18 Dec 12 6:42pm
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Re: New Year's Eve: recipe for Dutch oliebollen
Love your Oily Balls!
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