samuel clemens

Beasts of the East...Still

Why is it that the New England Patriots have, what one could consider, one of the easiest schedules in the NFL? 7-9, 4-12, and 1-15. That would be the 2007 records of our division rivals Buffalo, New York, and Miami. In 2007, we handed our AFC East rivals a handy 0-6 with the closest game, believe it or not, being a paltry 10 point win over the Jets in Game 14. 2 AFC East teams have STILL not decided on a quarterback: the Jets and the Dolphins. Can you imagine that kind of instability a read

OBT: George Carlin!

This is a huge chunk of childhood, and formative years, and personal thought processing, and just a part of my being gone . . . Comedian George Carlin dies at 71 Anti-Establishment icon gained fame with his ‘Seven Dirty Words’ routine BREAKING NEWS, updated 48 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71. Carlin, who had a read

Biology Never Was The Same: Mark Borrello [Greg Laden's Blog]

Continuing with our discussion of the Evolution 2008 conference, I'd like to relate at least the essence, as I saw it, of an excellent talk by Mark Borrello. I've seen Mark speak at least three times including yesterday, and soon after his talk we continued on the topic in a conversation over lunch and beers, so my comments here are less a summary of Mark's talk at the Evolution 2008 conference than a more general reaction to what I believe to be his main points. Everyone knows that history read

The Wishing Tag

The Wishing Tag I picked this tag up from Arv from ...on the Wall The rules are simple, all you have to do is to thoughtfully consider the following, and choose one item for each of the categories below. (Be sure to describe your reasons for choosing) 1) One religious work from a non-familiar tradition you’ll read? I have to confess that the Tao Te Ching has been on my book shelf for years... and I have never read it in it's entirety.... maybe someday I'll do that! 2) One song that you li read

Somebody Stop Me…Please

On Vogue’s accessories closet, fashion faux pas, another closed indie bookstore, crazier addictions and even crazier promises to stop, and a great pile of books: There’s a scene in an episode of “Sex in the City” where Carrie Bradshaw is given access to Vogue’s accessories closet. Held in a room the size of a normal person’s living room are accessories on loan from every high fashion designer in the industry; some of the items most people never get to see unless they have a bank account of li read

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Olympic Trials - Swimming

Olympic Trials - Swimming June 29th, 2008 8:35 pm by Muddle of Pudd (Mainly dealing with Michael Phelps) It’s that time of year again where I expound on my ever increasing love of Michael Phelps. I know that this is actually breaking my rule of “not crushing on athletes anymore sole for Sidney Crosby” but Mike has been my guy since I was 13. I made the law without factoring this in so now I decided to add an amendment. (This is why monarchies failed). So now it’s Sid and Mike. Phelps was sp read

Michael Phelps Entered in 9 Events at US Trials

OMAHA, Neb. — Michael Phelps is entered in nine events at next week's U.S. Olympic swimming trials. The six-time Olympic gold medalist plans an ambitious schedule for the eight-day trials, which begin June 29. Phelps is entered in the 100- and 200-meter freestyles, the 200 and 400 individual medleys, the 100 and 200 backstrokes, the 100 and 200 butterflys and the 400 free. Katie Hoff will be nearly as busy. She is entered in seven events in an attempt to make her second Olympic team. The tri read

Fietsam's death hits home at Lutheran South

ERICA BURRUS PHOTO/ The widow of Keith Fietsam, Katie Fietsam, holds a plaque honoring her late husband. The inaugural Keith Fietsam Award was presented to the Lutheran South junior varsity baseball team, which finished with an ABC Conference-best 16-2 record. Pictured are, front row from left: Quinten Biggs, Gus Reinitz, Monica Pirlie, Katie Fietsam, Steve Schmidt and Steven Streckfuss. Back row: Brad Vogelsmeier, Dan Weber, John Auble, Billy Horton, Matthew Davidson, Kyle Hoff and Eddie Sterl read

Trucos para Grand Theft Auto San Andreas para PC

Aqui te dejo los trucos que podras usar para Grand Theft Auto - San andreas, solo escribe los codigos que te daremos a continuación: LXGIWYL: Armas tipo 1. KJKSZPJ: Armas tipo 2. UZUMYMW: Armas tipo 3. SPEEDFREAK: Todos los coches con nitro. MUNASEF: Activarás el modo adrenalina. ASNAEB: Para quitarte las estrellas. MROEMZH: Todas las calles plagadas de bandas. HESOYAM: Salud y armadura al tope, además de 250.000 dólares de más. FOOOXFT: Toda la gente irá armada. CPKTNWT: Para que exp read

WOD: 04JUN08

Warm-Up: 500 (50K/50 Swim), choice Tech: Freestyle Flip Turns Steps 1-5: 10 Minutes Main: Katie Hoff (set actually courtesy of Bill Sweetenham) 4*100 IM; 2*200 IM 1*400 IM; [swim as continuous 100IM+100IM+100IM+100IM] 1*400 IM; [swim as continuous 200IM+200IM] 1*400 IM; [swim regular] count strokes/length for each stroke and record time on 1st 100. Hold stks/length and time for all subsequent items (100’s, 200’s and 400’s); take as much rest as you need to hold stks and times and post the s read

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EVOLUTION: Building the Tree of Life Genome by Genome

Via: Science Phylogenetic studies have gone 'omic. Whereas researchers used to be satisfied comparing one gene, or a few, to sort out the branching of the tree of life, the push now among those building phylogenies is to consider whole genomes--at the very least, dozens of genes and thousands of DNA bases--in establishing kinships among flora and fauna. In this way, evolutionary biology is joining the bandwagon of data-intensive studies pioneered by genomics. Thanks to one such phylogenomic an read

So where did birds come from - and where are they going?

There’s an interesting article doing the rounds at the moment that looks at the early history of bird evolution and speciation by studying avian genetics. Simply put (which is the only way most of us CAN put it, I suspect) geneticists have analysed the make-up of specific slices of DNA from 169 species and then compared the slices with each other. They have then recorded how closely the components that make up the slices match each other (or differ from each other) and have drawn some (or, ‘dra read

The future is now: Encouraging younger genealogists

Some of today's most well-known genealogists got hooked on family history research as young students in elementary or junior high school. They have translated this passion and acquired skill into contemporary research that in many cases has benefited international researchers.Very young when they caught the genealogy bug, people like Steve Morse (One Step fame), Bennett Greenspan (Family Tree DNA read

Genea-Jamboree: Day 1

BURBANK, Calif.--The 39th Annual Southern California Genealogical Jamboree got underway this morning at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel. The Jamboree began with a class on "Beginning Genealogy," which for reasons I noted last night I did not attend. More about what I did instead later. I went downstairs about 12:15 PM and spotted Randy Seaver at the check-in desk. We chatted for a few minutes, and then went off in different directions. We would meet up again later. The hotel is under recon read

Revising HIV's History

Via: Science The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) responsible for most of the AIDS cases in the world infected people approximately 100 years ago, more than 20 years earlier than previously believed, according to findings presented here this week at the Evolution 2008 meeting. Its lesser known cousin, HIV-2, jumped into humans decades later, from a monkey species that carried the virus for just a couple of hundred years, not the millions of years researchers had assumed, according to othe read