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Tez Morris is the true elder statesman of the Pitt secondary, both in terms of games played and the quality of his experience and performance...starter at free safety the last three years...has played in every game during his three active seasons (38) and owns 35 career starts, the most of any Pitt player heading into the 2005 campaign...will be a key leader not only for the secondary but also for the entire defense..."Tez is playing and acting like a senior," defensive coordinator and secondary coach Paul Rhoads said. "He worked very hard this spring to pick up some of the new elements of our system. His experience and knowledge alone will make him an important mainstay."...can deliver a knockout blow and seems to thrive on jarring contact...a well-conditioned athlete who displays an exemplary work ethic in the weight room.
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Intricate cellular components are often cited as evidence of intelligent design. They couldn't have evolved, I.D. proponents say, because they can't be broken down into smaller, simpler functional parts. They are irreducibly complex, so they must have been intentionally designed, as is, by an intelligent entity.
But new research comparing mitochondria, which provide energy to animal cells, with their bacterial relatives, shows that the necessary pieces for one particular cellular machine — exactly the sort of structure that's supposed to prove intelligent design — were lying around long ago. It was simply a matter of time before they came together into a more complex entity.
The pieces "were involved in some other, different function. They were recruited and acquired a new function," said Sebastian Poggio, a postdoctoral cell biologist at Yale University and co-author of the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mitochondria are descended from free-living bacteria, which several billion years ago were swallowed by complex cells. The mitochondria soon became central to the cells' function.
Mitochondria couldn't have lasted in their new home without the help of a protein machine called TIM23, which delivers other proteins harvested from the cell's body. Bacteria don't possess TIM23, suggesting that it evolved in mitochondria. This seems to pose a cellular chicken-and-egg question: How could protein transport evolve when it was necessary to survive in the first place?
The essential paradox applies to other protein-transporting cell systems, providing disbelievers of evolution with a key part of their critique. As articulated by intelligent design proponent Michael Behe, "This constant, regulated traffic flow in the cell comprises another remarkably complex, irreducible system. All parts must function or the system breaks down."
According to evolutionary theory, however, cellular complexity is reducible. It requires only that existing components be repurposed, with inevitable mutations providing extra ingredients as needed. Flagella, the hairlike propellers used by bacteria to move, are one example of this. Their component parts are found throughout cells, performing other tasks.
Intelligent design mavens once cited flagella as evidence of their theory. Scientific fact dispelled that illusion. The mitochondria study does the same for protein transport.
"This analysis of protein transport provides a blueprint for the evolution of cellular machinery in general," write the researchers, led by molecular biologist Trevor Lithgow at Australia's Monash University. "The complexity of these machines is not irreducible."
When they analyzed the genomes of proteobacteria, the family that spawned the ancestors of mitochondria, Lithgow's team found two of the protein parts used in mitochondria to make TIM23.
The parts are located on bacterial cell membranes, making them ideally positioned for TIM23's eventual protein-delivering role. Only one other part, a molecule called LivH, would make a rudimentary protein-transporting machine — and LivH is commonly found in proteobacteria.
The process by which parts accumulate until they're ready to snap together is called preadaptation. It's a form of "neutral evolution," in which the buildup of the parts provides no immediate advantage or disadvantage. Neutral evolution falls outside the descriptions of Charles Darwin. But once the pieces gather, mutation and natural selection can take care of the rest, ultimately resulting in the now-complex form of TIM23.
"It hasn't been possible up until this point to trace any of those proteins back to a bacterial ancestor," said Dalhousie University cell biologist Michael Gray, one of the researchers who originally described the origins of mitochondria, but was not involved in the new study. "These three proteins don't perform precisely the same function in proteobacteria, but with a simple mutation could be transformed into a simple protein transport machine that could start the whole thing off."
"You look at cellular machines and say, why on earth would biology do anything like this? It's too bizarre," he said. "But when you think about it in a neutral evolutionary fashion, in which these machineries emerge before there's a need for them, then it makes sense."
Citation: "The reducible complexity of a mitochondrial molecular machine." By Abigail Clements,1, Dejan Bursac, Xenia Gatsos, Andrew J. Perry, Srgjan Civciristova, Nermin Celik, Vladimir A. Likic, Sebastian Poggio, Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Richard A. Strugnell, and Trevor Lithgow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 106 No. 33, August 25, 2009.
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Jerash, Um Qais, and Amman (again) - All in a Day!
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Well, we made it to Amman and had good night's sleep. Whew! After taking in breakfast (included in the room price), we headed out to Jerash around 9:00. It was a nice day for a drive (honestly, there aren't many bad days in the Middle East at this time of year) and we made it within 50 minutes. Considering Jordan is only some 400 kilometers long, it wasn't hard!
From the outside, Jerash looked a bit disappointing, but considering that looks aren't everything, we moved into the craft stalls and tourist shopping area which led to the ticket booth. I was looking to buy a Hi-8 video tape as our only tape hit the end of the reel on the way to Jordan. "How much for the tape?" I asked
Looking in my Lonely Planet(TM) Jordan guidebook, I saw that admission to Jerash was only JD 2.500. Wow, pretty cheap. As we came up to the entrance, I saw how things had changed. I guess in three years prices do rise, politicians do philander, and... but I digress (check out Baz Luhrman's hit song, Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)). It cost us not 10 JD (2.5 x 4) but THIRTY-TWO JD to get in. 32 JD! Holy smokes; that's over $50.00 Cdn! In the end, though, it was to prove well worth it.
After borrowing some money from the Bank of James (thanks for having the foresight to go get more money changed at the border so you could loan it to us!), I paid up and we were on our way
There in front of us were three ticket agents, and inside the Hippodrome music was beginning to play as a few stray people filtered in. We walked over to check it out. The action turned out to be the Jerash Gladiator and Chariot show, where you saw the Roman Legionaries, experienced the thrill of gladiators fighting, and witnessed 3 chariots race around the sand track in a desperate battle to finish first. "Tickets are only 10 JD," the lady said. "10 JD? What about kids?" Dawn asked. "Your son is half price at 5 JD," was her response. We sat around hemming and hawing. I was tapped out after my James' Bank loan and didn't want to have to borrow more.
As we sat talking about how we didn't have money and how expensive it would be (35 JD for the four of us - or more than the entry to Jerash itself), the man stepped forward and eyed us suspiciously. "Are you from the JTB?" he queried? "JTB?" I foolishly echoed, looking very confused
We sat on the sun-kissed stone seats as we watched a Roman "Legion" parade in drill, practice man oeuvres, and saw how they formed a "turtle" so that a sapper could mine under walls. After that came the gladiator fights - all of the above accompanied by a monologue from a Jordanian gent in a toga describing the action in a British accent. We were asked to give thumbs up or sideways on the gladiators as to whether or not they would live or die, which was kind of neat. The show finished with the chariot races which were sort of exciting too. At the end, we got to go down on the sand (unstained by any blood, etc) and take photos with the soldiers, charioteers and gladiators.
After that was over, we headed down to Jerash proper. We handed our tickets in at the entrance and began snapping photos
Boy he was good. After showing us how he could plead with tourists to buy their postcards in eleven languages (sure to amuse his grandchildren one day), he took us to see how the stone columns in the Temple of Zeus rocked and moved a stick. From there he took us to the ruins of the cathedral and then on to the Temple of Artemis. Very cool. Walking away form the temple, I thought I would help the kid out. I waited until they had gone ahead and pulled of 5 JD from my wallet. After he showed us yet another moving stick and columns that made gonging sounds when you smacked them, I hauled out the 5 JD to give him. "Mr, that is not enough," he said, looking up at me with big dark sad eyes. "I need more." "Ummm...this is a gift. You know, a gift?"
"No mister, this isn't enough
"Ok. Just give me back the 5 JD and we'll be on our way then. There was NO deal. This was a gift. A GIFT." Then Dawn said, "But I have some riyals, dear. He can have some of them." LOL The kid looked like a starving dog given a big juicy bone. "Give me some riyals to remember you by mrs.," he said (as if the riyals would be in his hands longer than it took to give to the moneychanger or his parents). Finally, we gave him the 5 JD and 10 riyals and went off on our way. "I can see you owning your own business one day," I told him as we said goodbye. I think he liked hearing that. Then again, these guys bring in money that helps to feed their families. Jordan is not a rich country by any stretch of the imagination.
Right after that we departed Jerash, stopped to have a picnic beside the highway, and, thanks to the BoJ, a fill up on gas before heading to Um Qais, right next to the Jordan/Israel (formerly Syria) border
Um Qais itself was known as Gadara and is mentioned in The Bible. Apparently Jesus came to preach there, but the people were frightened and locked the gates, so he went away. It was hit by an earthquake in the 6th century and never recovered. It was interesting to walk around and see the excavations. One tree we stood by was about 7 feet above our heads - the bottom of the tree where it met the ground! This is because over time soil had accumulated and covered much of the Um Qais site.
From there we made our way back to Amman, had dinner and hit the hay, ready to drive to the Dead Sea the next morning.


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Within seconds after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, or ALS, Aimee Chamernik turned to her husband, Jim, and
offered a playful smirk.
"See? I'm always right," she told him jokingly.
This knee-jerk exchange on Sept. 8, 2004, has epitomized her
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"ALS keeps me present in a way I perhaps wouldn't be if I were
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She began noticing her first symptoms with slurred speech and
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trouble with muscle control, a weakening wrist, and stumbling when
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"I grew more and more convinced that the best match for my
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Her doctors, though, suggested otherwise after months of tests,
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"For months, we clung to that one statement whenever we started
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"I was crying into the wee hours of the morning at the thought
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She pondered her kids' lives without her there, and all the
daily activities and memorable milestones she would miss. School
events, weekend outings, high school graduations, college degrees,
wedding celebrations, grandchildren, the list went on and on.
"I thought of the questions I wouldn't be there to answer, the
victories I wouldn't be there to celebrate, and the pain I wouldn't
be there to comfort," she says.
Plus, after all her mothering to other children through the
years as a babysitter, nanny and Sunday school teacher, she
wouldn't be able to mother her own children, she feared.
In time, she was rescued from her anxieties by her own children:
Nick, now 16, Emily, who's 14, and 10-year-old Zack.
"The kids are what brought me out of that dark period,"
Chamernik says. "Specifically, one little girl's obsession with
having her favorite dinner of tacos, beans and our special homemade
For months, Emily begged her mother to make tacos, but Chamernik
simply wasn't up to it emotionally. One day after preschool,
Chamernik replied to her daughter, "Yes, because a little girl I
love very much has been asking."
"That's me! That's me!" Emily yelled while bouncing up and down
in her car seat.
Chamernik saw that smile and those bright eyes and she knew
right then she wanted to spend as much time with her kids,
regardless of how long it would last.
"I realized that while ALS would claim my life, I didn't need to
let it claim my life today," she explains. "I also realized I could
find great joy in something as ordinary as making my daughter happy
by making tacos for dinner."
Over the next few months and years, whenever Chamernik didn't
feel up to doing something, she reminded herself of her new
mantra-life is making tacos-compelling her to push through.
"The kids were, and still are, my primary focus when it comes to
the impact of ALS on our family," she says.
ALS typically steals a person's life in less than five years,
one muscle at a time, one movement at a time, one breath at a
"I've seen it affect too many families," says Laurie Fieldman,
director of social services at the Les Turner ALS Foundation in
Fieldman has known the Chamernik family for nearly a decade
through the foundation, which funds in-home medical professionals,
support group meetings and equipment banks.
"Through the years, Aimee is the most determined ALS parent I've
ever seen, especially as an active parent in her children's lives,"
Fieldman says. "She's right there every day as their mom despite
her physical limitations."
"It's really tough when you can't get up and help your kids or
cater to their daily needs, but she somehow pulls it off," she
adds. "She is simply amazing from everyone's perspective."
Like many terminal illnesses, ALS effectively reveals, not
shapes, someone's character. This holds true for Chamernik, who is
an anchor in the Chicago-area ALS community, Fieldman says.
"She has certainly taught me a few lessons," she says.
Chamernik has shown how to persevere through example, like
continuing to play wiffle ball with her kids by sitting in a chair
and pitching. Or by playing board games instead of hide-and-seek.
Or by cooking dinner with the kids being her arms and legs.
"I soon realized they cared less about what we were doing and
more about the fact I was doing something with them," she says.
The most painful question for any ALS parent from their child,
"Are you going to die?" is one that must be answered honestly yet
tactfully, Fieldman says.
Chamernik's kids know its ultimate outcome. Nick once told her
he hopes to be a doctor to help find a cure for ALS if-not when-she
was still alive.
Chamernik uses one of Fieldman's counseling strategies, focusing
on the present with her kids.
"I do my best to remind them of all the activities I can still
do at the moment, even as that list of activities is shrinking,"
Chamernik says. "We also talk a lot about how I am still the same
person on the inside."
Still, the parent-child role has become reversed in many ways.
She doesn't help them with daily tasks, they help her. When she
falls down, they help her up.
"One of the worst feelings is when Zack gets hurt and I can't
run to him and scoop him up to comfort him," Chamernik says.
Instead, Emily scoops up Zack and brings him to their
"When I can't help, nurture, comfort, teach or take care of my
kids, I feel like less of a mother," Chamernik admits.
However, she makes up for it in other ways, such as fighting
through adversity in the face of dire circumstances. When she falls
down, they watch her drag herself to the stairs, strain to lift one
knee to the bottom step while mashing her face into the carpet, and
with every muscle that's still working, push and pull her way back
to her feet.
They also watch her bake cookies, make props for school plays,
and volunteer for causes she cares about even as she has problems
eating, walking and speaking.
Nick noted to his mother, "How often do you have a few bad
moments and then do a 180 and put on a brave face? I've never met
anyone emotionally stronger than you."
Some of her emotional strength comes from ALS support groups,
especially one for younger parents and their unique challenges with
raising a family. There, she could laugh, cry and rage against the
vicious machinations of the disease.
"We talked about ways to keep things as normal as possible for
our kids, even as we knew there was nothing normal about watching a
parent slowly waste away before their eyes," Chamernik says.
Similar to ALS sufferers, that group eventually atrophied, one
member at a time, leaving Chamernik with survivor's guilt for being
the last one standing, so to speak.
Through it all, Chamernik's husband, Jim, has been her one-man
support group.
They became fast friends as college freshmen at Illinois
Wesleyan University, though didn't begin dating until their junior
year. The next fall, she spent a semester studying in Paris and he
wrote her nearly every day along with sending her remixed music
tapes and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
She knew such an attentive and caring boyfriend would make a
wonderful husband. He hasn't let her down.
"The qualities that make a successful parent don't change just
because the parent is disabled or ill," he says.
In many ways, Chamernik views her ALS as a gift, not a
"It's harder to take time with my kids for granted when I feel
the constant awareness of that time being limited," she says. "So
we talk. And talk. And talk."
They talk even as they adjust to her disease's slower-than-usual
progression. They talk even as her kids grow into sometimes moody
ALS, Chamernik notes, is a constant reminder to not forget the
fleeting joys of even the most mundane moments, such as riding to
school, watching a gymnastics class or just hanging out at
"Or making tacos," she says playfully.
Jerry Davich is a freelance writer and father of two living in the Chicago area.
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Intan Suci Nurhati '05 is part of the first team to drill for coral samples in Singaporean waters. Intan, who studied Earth & Environmental science and economics at Wesleyan, earned her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Postdoctoral Associate Intan Suci Nurhati '05 and others from the Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) are the first team to drill for coral samples in Singapore waters.
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For what it's worth, both the Romanians and Hungarians have built excellent versions of the original Russian models. Your deal sounds like a great deal to me.
It sounds like a good deal to me. Even if it's a cheap WASR, those were worth about $300 6 months ago. Hopefully it's not a single stack, that would be less desirable, but probably still worth what he's asking.
The more 30 rounds mags, the better.
The ammo is worth about over $100 on it's own, so I'd say it's a good deal. As long as the gun is in decent shape, I think you should go for it.
When you get it, you'll need to do several things. First, replace the crappy Tapco furniture for some proper AK furniture, either of the wood or polymer variety. Second, ditch the red dot. Third, buy ammo and ammo like the won't be around tomorrow. If you plan to use this AK for anything serious (home defense, etc.), I'd invest in a sling and training, too.
I voted yes, but I would research a little (and would have made a post just like you did).
I have neither, but have never really wanted a Garand, and would want the AK, so it was easy to say yes. Then again, I have a .44 Mag revolver and .44 Mag Marlin desire that I would place before even a good deal on an AK.
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On nearly every corner in Saigon you'll find a street cart selling banh mi, or Vietnamese sandwiches. While these are delicious and cheap, sometimes you might hanker after something similar but of a higher quality. While you'll find a big jump in prices when visiting most sandwich shops in the city, Le Banh Mi offers a higher quality sandwich without the sticker shock.
Right on the busy, one-way street of Le Thanh Ton, Le Banh Mi looks fairly basic. A small restaurant, tucked into the underside of a bigger building, seating is limited to just three tables which means that if things are busy, you'll have to cosy up with other patrons. The restaurant is also open-aired, cooled only by a few fans and the shade of its overhang, but its streetside location stays relatively breezy throughout the day and offers a nice view of bustling street life.
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The New York Daily News has taken on the task of correcting the educational ills of New York City schools by using daily editorials to squarely place the blame for the problems in the schools on the teacher contract. Under the guise of protecting the children of this city from the excesses of the UFT contract, the editorialists at the News have swallowed the BloomKlein line hook, lie and sinker.
Now, anyone who has been working under this golden contract finds these harangues almost laughable, if only things weren't so serious, as indicated in this recent email I received: "…after all the abuse that I've been through over my past 13 years or so of NYC teaching I've decided to resign. My husband makes a decent salary, (certainly not rich, but decent) and I will be starting a course for a new career. The working conditions in my school have become so deplorable, that I just can't take it anymore."
But the Daily News is telling us on a daily basis just how good the working conditions in the schools are for teachers, considering the wonderful contract. Yet, almost everyone I speak to complains about the working conditions.
At one school, the first year principal, a graduate of the Klein/Welch School of Ogreship, has so alienated the staff that many veteran teachers want to transfer. As they started to line up jobs at other schools they discovered that they are not so free to move. There is a limit on how many teachers may transfer from any one school (someone quoted a number of 5%) and all those teachers who had basically been thinking they were al-al-ready gone – to quote an Eagles song – are finding out the wonderful contract they have makes them indentured servants. They will have to wait some time before singing the Eagles anthem. I got an email from a teacher who received a disciplinary letter because he was absent for 11 days. The UFT contract allows 10 days and going one over triggers threatening letters. If the UFT contract said "3 days" they would get a letter for being absent a 4th day. (Hmmm. Maybe the News is right about a wonderful contract.) This is apparently due to pressure from the House of Tweed since it is occurring all over the city.
For people with children who get sick sometimes and need someone to be home with them and the illnesses one often gets in schools (especially new teachers who are most susceptible but after a few years of teaching become immune even to Ebola virus) it is possible that one could go over the limit without being a goldbrick. As with everything else, the DOE policy is a blanket one – teachers who are taking excessive days off should be spoken to. But when teachers who have cancer and need some extra days off are treated like criminals, there is something seriously wrong.
An AP on the other side of the coin: We've been profiling good administrators in the NYC school system as we run across them. Laurie Nearon is the Assistant Principal for Science at Aviation HS in Queens and has pushed the barriers of science education with her dedication and hard work. This year she got the school involved in the First Robotics Competition, where 50- 70 students built and programmed a robot, in addition to creating presentations, web sites, handling publicity, etc. This effort was an amazing collaboration between Laurie, students, and their teacher/advisors Samantha Gian and Michael Koumoullos.
Hanging out in Laurie's office, where during the intense six-week period of robot building she could be found as late as 9 .pm., is always illuminating, as teachers, students and administrator mix so easily.
The kids involved in the robotics program have been absolutely wonderful. I spent some time with a bunch of student volunteers from Aviation at the FRC competition in NYC at Riverbank State Park a week after they competed in the Long Island tournament. We worked traffic control together and they totally took charge, leaving me little to do but watch in appreciation. Having worked mostly with elementary students, the experience made me consider doing some subbing in high schools. Wellllll, maybe I'll think a little more about that idea. To celebrate the achievements of students in Region 4's middle school robotics programs, a Robotics Pentathlon will be held at Aviation High School located at 45-30 36th Street and Queens Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens on May 21st.
Stephen Shapinsky, Region 4's robotics staff developer, wrote in a recent press release, "Region 4's intermediate school students have designed, constructed, and programmed their own robots. Such an experience makes invaluable connections for students in the world of math, science, and engineering. It also enables them to develop and strengthen their problem solving abilities. In the hangar of Aviation High School, amidst airplanes and helicopters, these robots will compete in five events designed to showcase the skills and abilities our students have developed. The event will also be an opportunity for younger students and the community to see some of the great programs and facilities at Aviation High School, including their own award-winning robot, the Quantum Samurai, and the amazing team that built it."
Stephen and I spent a day recently in the hanger building the courses for the Pentathlon amidst the vintage planes – truly a unique experience.
Make fear, not love: As the teachers were leaving a Rockaway school at the end of the day, the principal and Region 5 Superintendent Cashin were at the door. A number of teachers came up to the principal to say goodbye. The principal told Cashin, " See, my teachers like me." Cashin was heard to retort, "You are here to be feared by teachers, not to be liked." The principal was out of there not long after and replaced by someone who is feared, hated and a total incompetent to boot. Nice work!
JFK high school Assistant Principal changes English Regent Test scores: English teachers at John F. Kennedy high school in the Bronx were outraged to learn that the Assistant Principal in charge of programming took it upon himself to change at least 15 failing scores of the English regents given last January to passing without notifying the teachers, many of whom had marked the exams originally. They found out when children they thought had failed informed the teachers they were passing. The fact that the AP is not even the English AP emphasized the fact that the decision to change the grades was all about making the passing and graduation rates at JFK look better than they were.
JFK is one of the largest high schools in the city and has been put through the squeezing-of-space-cataclysm-by-small-school-invasion, even losing their automotive vocational program despite a valiant fight.
Teacher wins 100-minute lottery: A teacher was called out of the much despised bi-weekly Monday extravaganza known as the 100-minute professional development – where teachers get to stay late to hear pearls of wisdom on how to improve their skills – to assist some visitors and was told he did not have to return. One would think he had won the lottery as he practically leaped for joy over his good fortune. He was last seen working happily with a group of students (taboo during the 100-minutes) who had stayed after school to prepare for a test.
I know we're not in Kansas anymore: I've been reporting on the evolution/intelligent design controversy going in Pennsylvania and particularly, in Kansas. Now it is all creeping into NY. The pharyngula.org website reports: Assembly Bill 8036, introduced on May 3, 2005 and referred to the Committee on Education, would require that "all pupils in grades kindergarten through twelve in all public schools in the state ... receive instruction in both theories of intelligent design and evolution." It also charges New York's commissioner of education to assist in developing curricula and local boards of education to provide "appropriate training and curriculum materials ... to ensure that all aspects of the theories, along with any supportive data, are fully examined through such course of study." A08036, if enacted, would take effect immediately. Richard Firenze, who teaches biology at Broome Community College, remarked, "This bill is completely absurd. Those of us in New York who are concerned about our children's science education should sit up and take notice: it's not just in places like Georgia and Kansas that creationists are trying to sabotage biology education." The bill's sole sponsor, Daniel L. Hooker (R), represents Assembly District 127, encompassing parts of Greene, Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie, Ulster, Columbia, and Chenango counties.
We close this week's festivities with the words of Nineteenth-century English social scientist Herbert Spencer: "Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution as not adequately supported by facts seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all."


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15-year-old solo sailor Laura Dekker has been overwhelmed by the number of people who have made donations in the past two weeks to help her achieve her wish to become the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe alone.
As well as her father acknowledging it in the media in Holland, Laura has repeatedly thanked both her sponsors and those who have contributed.
Her father Dick Dekker made an appeal for extra funds at Christmas, so that his 15-year-old daughter could 'sail on with worrying about finances'. The project was not actually in danger, but there was no financial room for extras, like a visit at Christmas by her father.
The solo sailor had hoped to sell filming rights to a television company, but the company pulled out at the last minute. The voyage was the subject of controversy due to the young age of Laura, and it is unknown whether the negative publicity that accompanied the rescue of fellow teenager Abby Sunderland from the South Indian Ocean was any influence on their decision.
When she first announced her plans to sail around the world at the age of 13, the Dutch child welfare authorities refused to give her permission to take time off school and eventually she was made a ward of court. Nevertheless, a judge lifted the wardship last July.
Laura Dekker is currently on the island of St Maarten, doing what all cruisers do, repairing and polishing her boat, and restowing it for the next leg. She will set sail for the Panama Canal sometime this month.
'Youngest' sailing records are a grey area, particularly since both the World Speed Sailing Record Council (WSSRC) and the Guinness Book of Records have ceased to recognise the 'youngest' sailor. This means that all records are unofficial. Jesse Martin still holds the official record for sailing non-stop and unassisted according to the WSSRC rules. Jessica Watson, the Australian sailor who completed a circumnavigation last year was younger than Jesse but did not sail the distance according to those rules. Laura has never intended to complete her journey non-stop and unassisted, but she will be sailing a distance comparable to Jesse Martin.
Does anyone care? Not that you would notice. Jessica won rapturous admiration from Australians when she completed her journey just before her 17th birthday, and no doubt Laura will too, whether or not she completes it before she turns 17, which will be on 20th September 2012.
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st: RE: RE: Re: adjusted r square
"Schaffer, Mark E" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
st: RE: RE: Re: adjusted r square
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:00:14 -0000
Returning to Ranjita's original question, I just noticed something odd
about the adjusted R-square reported by xtreg,fe.
Background: to get the "right" error variance for a fixed effects
regression, a degrees-of-freedom adjustment is needed that incorporates
the number of fixed effects. Whereas the usual formula applied to an FE
regression would be SSR/(NT-K), the right formula is SSR/(N(T-1)-K).
See e.g. Wooldridge's 2002 textbook, p. 271. The idea is that the FEs
are incidental parameters that eat up degrees of freedom and this needs
to be recognized.
The standard defnition of the adjusted R-sq is 1-(1-R2)((N-1)/(N-K)).
xtreg,fe seems to be using 1-(1-R2)((NT-1)/(NT-K)).
But arguably it should follow the same logic as that behind the formula
for the "right" error variance and use 1-(1-R2)((N(T-1)-1)/(N(T-1)-K)).
Or should it?
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> Subject: st: RE: Re: adjusted r square
> Uli raises some good questions, which have often been
> answered in the literature -- but the answers disagree.
> Some of the concerns here are pointed up by considering
> perfect models that interpolate the data. The idea of a 1:1
> map appears as a literary conceit in Lewis Carroll, Jorge
> Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, etc. It underlines that the perfect
> model is just as difficult to understand as the original
> data. Worse, it is less likely than a simpler model to
> transfer well to other datasets. A overfitted model pays too
> much attention to quirks of the dataset by "capitalising on chance".
> What is immediate is that modelling is a trade-off problem
> between goodness of fit and parsimony or simplicity. However,
> people can not agree on how to quantify the trade-off. It is
> far from self-evident even that the number of adjustable
> parameters is the best metric for complexity.
> Adjusting R-square I think goes back further than other
> criteria such as AIC and BIC, but each criterion proposed has
> its few years of fame before another becomes more
> fashionable. I regularly read advice such as that AIC is
> widely agreed to give the wrong answer, to which the reaction
> has to be, How do they know?
> Nick
> email@example.com
> Ulrich Kohler
> > However, as an aside: I do not find the arguments for the
> > adjusted R2 very
> > convincing. It is sometimes said that you have to be punished
> > for including
> > additional variables in a model. But why? Because the R2
> > increases? Why do I
> > need to be punished for this? It is just a simple fact that I
> > can explain
> > more variance with an additional variable. Punishment and
> > especially the
> > amount of punishment is pure metaphysics. The set of control
> > variables should
> > be compiled on theoretical reasons alone. If your model
> contains some
> > variables that should be excluded on theortical reasons,
> > exclude them (or you
> > will get punished by your reviewer). Likewise, if your model
> > does not include
> > a variable in the model that should be there on theortical
> > reasons, include
> > it (or your reviewer will punish you as well).
> >
> > Needless to say that it might happen that your reviewer might
> > punish you for not using the adjusted R2. ;-)
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New Furnace & Plenum Install Question
I recently removed an old (25 yrs) gas up-flow single stage furnace. The furnace sat on a very firm plenum base with a side opening return and this base raised the unit about 24 inches from the ground. There was an evaporator coil mounted in the standard top of furnace position. The plenum base set-up seem to be moderately lacking some efficiency and filtering in its design.
Will it make much of a difference if I install the new furnace on the floor and place a 24 inch plenum to connect the evaporator coil to the new furnaces heat exchanger top opening? I am basically eliminating the old furnace base type install and substituting a plenum on top to make up the distance. I am not in a position to move the coil and I really did not want to go back to the plenum base design.
Suggestions / Opinions please...
I would normally say yes as long as the bottom is not connected into the cold air return.
Knowing size of home and and a pic of the furnace would help a lot.
Is the furnace in a garage? If so the furnace has to be kept raised off the floor.
The home is about 1200-1500 sq ft. The furnace location is a hall closet and it will be similar to this type of standard model. http://www.alpinehomeair.com/partner...1204_640_0.jpg I suppose I could sit the furnace on the plenum I have. It was custom done buy a company here in Atlanta but the weight of a furnace seems a bit much to me for it's design. I would much rather sit the lighter coil assembly on top.
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I laughed a lot. Why don't just hitchhiked the travel back to Victoria? Any "camioneta" or small truck could carry your bicycle.
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My wish was simple: to return to whence I had came, back to Victoria, the other side of the rivers and marshes, to continue my journey East. I arrived at the bus station around two o�clock to catch a bus over the no-bicycles-allowed road and possibly even have time to chomp my way through a few miles at the other end, if I was lucky
So that's the two o'clock bus out then. I receive a similar response from the two thirty and three o'clock bus companies, so I approach the three thirty company. It was these guys who carried my bike from Victoria on Tuesday, the very same place where I am trying to return to today - how could they refuse? The desk was manned by a young guy with a silly haircut. Yep, he refused, and even refused when I waved Tuesday's ticket in his face, deliberately kept to hand in case of just such an eventuality. "So you are telling me that you carry bikes from Victoria to Rosario but not from Rosario to Victoria?" "Correct." "That doesn�t make sense. Let me see your supervisor." "No, sorry, I am the next Damien Hirst, as yet undiscovered, forced into this wageslave job while I struggle for the recognition I deserve, and am therefore going to be as unhelpful as I can. Goodbye." I am tempted to scratchbitepullridiculouslyfashionedhair, but mindful of my manners, I retreat a few steps before swearing in a polite, English manner. It barely does justice to my livid fury.
Now what do I do? That's all the companies out, and if you think I can just adjust my route over a different road, forget it, the next crossings both south and north are about two day's ride away. I found some sort of office of some sort of regulator, up several flights of narrow stairs, and when I eventually managed to rouse attention at the top, the man explained my rights, which unfortunately did indeed not extend to carrying my bike on a bus. He was saying something else, too, but it was littered with vocabulary outside my modest range. Thank goodness (blessing of the day number 1), there was some lady there filling out a form who intervened to interpret. Apparently, I had to send my bike separately. A solution! Not a particularly satisfactory solution, but a solution nevertheless.
So I went to the place to send it. "Can I send my bike to Victoria please, none of the coach companies will let me take it." "No, it has to be in a box." "Of course, how stupid of me, how could you possibly take it the short one-hour journey without a box, let me just pop round the corner to the bike-sized box shop and pick one up, I'll be back before you can say Jack Robinson."
So off I go to find a box. Remarkably (blessing of the day number 2), a nearby newsagent did have a couple of small boxes that I would be able to cut up in such a way as to show willing. I went back to the sending place and made a very ostentatious show of spending ages and ages wrapping yard after yard of selltape around my bike, which wasn't so much 'in' a 'box', as sandwiched between a couple of sheets of old cardboard, with the handlebars, pedals, saddle and back wheel poking out. But I knew the guy couldn't turn me away when I had spent so long to satisfy his whim.
By this time it was about five o'clock, so I took myself and my luggage, almost impossible to carry around without a bike to hang it off, to put myself on a bus. An hour and a half later, I arrived in Victoria, and going to get my luggage from the coach hold, noticed my bike was there with it. Yep - I had gone to all that stress and hassle, with considerable expense of both time and money, simply in order to get my bike where it could have gone anyway: in the hold of the coach. Now people say that the UK is rule-bound, and I been getting used to Argentina's more relaxed approach to life, but today has changed my impression somewhat. Craziness - just the sort of uptight bureaucratic nonsense that forces me to pollute my blog entries with ranting and raving.


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Gerald J. "Jerry" Featherstone, 69, of Tiverton, husband of Linda (Camara) Featherstone, died Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013.
He was an Army veteran of the Vietnam War, a 32-year employee of United Parcel Service, and a member of the Knights of Columbus, Tiverton.
Besides his wife of 43 years, he leaves two children, Amy Lester and her husband Clint and Andrew J. Featherstone, all of Tiverton; grandchildren, Ethan Lester and Alexzander Featherstone; a brother, Daniel Featherstone and his wife Pauline of Tiverton, and nieces and nephews. He was the son of the late John and Thelma (Trenholme) Featherstone.
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Khloe has yet to publicly explain what made her marriage to Lamar implode, and he's hoping she never will. But if she does decide to 'murder him in the media,' Lamar is prepared to declare war on his soon-to-be-ex-wife, a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY.
Khloe Kardashian has shared so much of her personal life with her fans, but the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star has been keeping relatively mum about the demise of her four-year marriage to Lamar Odom. And his friends say Khloe better keep it that way — or else there will be hell to pay, HollywoodLife.com is EXCLUSIVELY reporting.
Will Lamar Odom & Khloe Kardashian Fight Over Split? — He Threatens 'War'
Lamar, 34, is "working really hard" to repair his image and return to the NBA, and he doesn't want Khloe, 29, spilling the beans to the media about the reasons behind their impending divorce, sources close to him tell HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY.
"Lamar's not going to sit back and let her murder him in the media," the source reveals. "He's not looking for war but if Khloe brings it, then he's preparing to battle."
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Why Lamar Odom Thinks Khloe Kardashian Will Talk About Their Failed Marriage
Unfortunately, we're told Lamar is convinced that Khloe will eventually talk about their failed marriage.
"He can't stop her from talking to the media and in all honesty, he already knows she will," the source continues. "That's how their whole family rolls. They can't keep a secret or keep anything private. It's all for show. It's all for money."
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By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
If you have blue eyes, you may be related to every other blue-eyed person in the world.
Researchers in Denmark have found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one "founder," an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before then, everyone had brown eyes.
Lead scientist Hans Eiberg, a geneticist at Copenhagen University, began in 1973 to study a Danish father with 17 children who carried the gene for both blue and brown eyes. Over time, researchers were able to trace the blue-eyed trait to one specific area near a gene called OCA2. The paper appears in the journal Human Genetics.
Eiberg's team then tested 155 blue-eyed people from Scandinavia, Turkey, Jordan and India, looking to see whether they, too, had similar DNA sequences on that gene. To their amazement, they found that each individual had identical DNA sequences in that region of that gene, an indication that the original mutation happened recently enough that it hasn't had time to change.
Everyone has two genes for eye color, one from their father and one from their mother. Brown eyes are dominant, so even if someone has one blue and one brown-eye gene, he'll still have brown eyes.
That means that the recessive genes for blue eyes can be invisible for generations, with blue-eyed children popping up only when both parents carry at least one blue-eye gene, Eiberg says.
Blue eyes are actually what happens when the human default — brown eyes — is turned off. Brown eyes are caused by the pigment melanin, which also gives color to hair and skin, building up in the eyes. It's why many light-skinned babies are born with blue eyes but gradually develop brown eyes as their body produces melanin in their irises. The blue-eye mutation turned off the gene that produces melanin in the eyes.
When the original mutation occurred, the person who carried it would still have had brown eyes, says Eiberg. But in the generations that followed, a man and a woman who each had one blue-eye gene mated, producing the world's first blue-eyed baby.
Imagine what a surprise that was, Eiberg notes. "If the child was the only one to have blue eye color and everyone else has brown, it could have been very interesting."
That one mutation now exists in an estimated 300 million people, Eiberg says. Why it has become so common in some populations is unknown. It has been suggested that blue eyes and the lighter coloring that often accompanies them might have given an advantage to people in colder climates because they could absorb more vitamin D from the sun. Others have suggested it's simply a roll of the historical dice, with the original group that had the blue-eye genes coming through a genetic bottleneck.
"Maybe the population almost went extinct. If just a few individuals survived at some point and they were blue-eyed," then it could have happened much more recently, says Klaus Kjaer, a geneticist at the University of Copenhagen who also worked on the paper.
Blue eyes, though somewhat rare in the USA, are common in countries near the mutation epicenter, which previous researchers have pinpointed as probably somewhere in the Balkans or near the Black Sea.
In Estonia, 99% of people have blue eyes, Eiberg says. In Denmark 30 years ago, only 8% of the population had brown eyes, though through immigration, today that number is about 11%. In Germany, about 75% have blue eyes.
Because the research shows that all blue-eyed people are related, Kjaer notes it's "interesting" that his blue-eyed wife is therefore related to Brad Pitt.
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So my rex is in the shop (lady back up on me while car was parked). And I am now sporting a red corolla.
Yesterday I went to get gas and I was kinda toying around with the car. Not doing anything illegal, just taking off fast from stoplights and reminiscing the power that I had
Anyway. I stop at this light and this guy in an RX8 stops next to me. Me and my roommate are in the car and my roommate is like "rev, rev, rev" instigate something....I didn't do it. I sat there until the light turned green.
Green! I got of the line quicker....Corolla has more torque than RX8 off the line... Next thing I know he pulls next to me and swings into my lane, gettign really close to my car, he had the dumbest look on his face, the "don't efe with me in my car". He then slams second and passes me, cutting me off and keeps going.
At this point I am thinking that I am going to keep going just to see who is crazier. You know who has the bigger cojones always wins , but and I mean, this was sent by God, a Z4 sees us and it comes to my rescue. The BMW chased down the RX8 and slaughtered him. We were laughing so hard. I just can't wait to see this guy again in my REX of course..it will be even worse....2 weeks, 2 weeks and I will start looking for him.....
CN: Car is in the shop, got a corolla. Douche in RX8 acts like an idiot while racing me. He wins but BMW Z4 comes to my rescue and slaughters the mazda.


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So. Although I already have a few, I decided I need some more Stars posters in my life. However, some of the ones I like the most are sold out! :( crys 4evr.
Does anyone know if they plan on restocking these, or somewhere else I could find them? It's just so hard to find Stars things on most search engines.


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PF flyers... HAH!
This is a discussion on what do you remember from when you were a kid? within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Buying a carton of cigarettes for my father with money from my paper route (remember those...) for $3.20 12 cent comics. 25 for the double ...
Buying a carton of cigarettes for my father with money from my paper route (remember those...) for $3.20
12 cent comics. 25 for the double ones
Records. Many kids have never even seen one
PF Flyers
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PF flyers... HAH!
It could be worse!
I suppose
Atari pong
Little Wax coke bottles with some form of sugar water
President Nixon getting impeached
Pictures of Vietnam on the nightly news
Oh yes, the good old days, when everything was simpler. I remember growing up with internet that took up a second phone line, cable television with only 70 or so channels on projection TVs, and video game systems that ran off CDs. My drivers ed car was a brand new Pontiac G6 pushing 240 horsepower. I guess only being 22, not a whole lot has changed.
My first day of driver's ed was very memorable though. Each instructor was assigned 2 people and one person would drive for half the time and the other for the second half. The first day I was with an Asian girl that I went to school with. The instructor had us practicing making corners in an empty parking lot at my high school. He instructed her to slow down before the turn, go through the turn and accelerate out. She slowed down, but halfway through the turn she pretty much put it to the floor and with 240 horsepower, got the tires spinning. She was supposed to make a right turn and by the end of it we were facing left behind where she started the turn. At the end of class class he told me he would get my assigned with someone else and she needs both hours of instruction.
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The smell of freshly mown grass;
The sound of a 16 oz glass bottle, ice cold Coca-Cola as it opened;
First color TV;
Kick the Can in the summer evenings;
The UFO scares in New Mexico in the summer;
My dad leaving the trunk key in the lock all of the time;
The Birds scared the tar outta me..........
My first rifle - Remington Bolt-action single shot;
First shotgun 12 GA SXS........
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I remember setting up my telescope in the middle of a cow pasture about 30 minutes walk from my house and not having to worry about light polution. These days I am unable to find a place within a couple of hours drive where light polution is not a problem. Dang people multiply like rabbits! On top of that, NO WAY I would let my kids out after dark these days like my parents did when I was a kid.
I Shoot Birds With A Canon.
Records! :) Happypuppy that brought me back! I remember when I found my dad's pile of 45's in the basement with the record player down there and I spent hours playing them checking out all his "old" music . It was the 80's so my friends thought I was weird because I loved Sinatra and the Beatles from then on. I still have 2 of my dad's old Beatles albums - my kids don't even know what records are, I have a record player but it hasn't had a needle since before the kids were born! Shoot, I don't think they know what a cassette even is!
We used to set up a telescope at the Manassas Battlefield. I'm fortunate where I live now is out in the sticks, I love sitting out back and star gazing, still remember quite a few constellations we used to find while at the Battlefield.
The topic of my demonstration speech in English class was how to clean my Winchester Model 1912 20 gauge. Yep, brought it to school. Walked right down the hall past the principal's office. Sounds like another world now, doesn't it?
It's all part of the big picture.
Watching "the blob" at a drive in Movie Theater, my mom said she had a hard time sitting in an indoor theater after watching that movie
Howdy doody and the peanut gallery
Going to an Orioles game with my dad and the whole thing costing ten bucks.
Having to set the dwell before the advance.
Air raid sirens being tested.
A trip to McDonalds was special.
Infowars- Proving David Hannum right on a daily basis
...catching lightening bugs and putting them in jars on summer nights. Riding our bikes all over town all day (just be back by suppertime) and fueling ourselves with penny candy!
"Good decisions come from experience;
experience comes from bad decisions"
i was born in 1980
the 15 foot snow hill they would plow down to the end of the cul de sac for us to sled on.
spending all day down by the railroad tracks with a wrist rocket.
bottle rocket dodge.
riding my bike all over town and not worrying about it.
playing in the abandoned door factory.
50 cent candy bars.
25 cent sodas
taking my pocket knife to school everyday and not getting arrested.
My metal band: Born under Sirius
Glock 23, mic holster, clipdraw, abdominal carry.
Riding around on a Big Wheel or tricycle
Sled riding in the back yard
Little league games and Big League Chew
Shooting my BB gun for hours while imagining I was saving the world from the Russian invasion
Catching lightning bugs
Playing Mario Brothers on the original Nintendo Entertainment System
Grandma putting 1/2 cup of sugar on my Rice Crispies!
"... advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill." -J.R.R. Tolkien
Wow... this one got me going. I'm a guy whose memories go back to just before my 2nd birthday... but I don't want to jam the bandwidth.
-I grew up in NJ, lower Hudson Valley. In the early 50's in my then-rural town there were plenty of thick Dutch accents around.
-The 20 wooded acres next to my family's place got cut/bulldozed/burned clear when I was 3 for farmland.
-The farmer down the street sent his hired man and team of dappled-gray draft horses to plow that parcel every year until about 1960. I could hear the shod hooves and the clanking of the plow coming down the road 15 minutes before they arrived. They plowed at one speed.
-The smell of fresh-plowed ground wasn't especially pleasant but it was memorable.
-In early June, my older brother and sister and I went through the back fields picking blackberries. It was a couple of miles to that same farmer's "store" but we sold the berries for a nickel a pint, we'd get ice cream (at 8 in the morning!) with our profits, then walk back home feeling like big-time entrepreneurs.
- My family vacationed on Cape Cod. I remember frequent sonic booms from the fighters based at Otis AFB, and one time when a pair of fighters flew over Nauset Beach at just a couple hundred feet, then banked and went supersonic. Awesome!!!
-I remember no dials on the telephones. You picked up the phone and an operator said "number, please." If it was a local number, you just said the last 4 digits. This was long before area codes. And if you wanted to make a long distance call (like to Florida from New Jersey), you called the operator, let her know your intentions, then she'd call you back when a line was open.
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About MeI am interested in new ideas, would love to do art photography, pin up, lingerie, body paint, sports, and whatever your imagination comes up with. I'm open minded and interested in what your ideas are..send them to me and let's make them happen.
Interested in paid gigs. I reserve the right to bring an escort. Please contact me for rates and info. I have a business manager who books all of my work for me.
I have no problem with traveling as long as my expenses are covered as well as my escort. Best way to contact me is by email, email@example.com
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