This is an RSS file. It is intended to be read by a software program called a "feed reader". Search on Google for more details. <![CDATA[mshook's Feed]]> http://www.simpy.com/user/mshook http://www.simpy.com/ http://www.simpy.com/img/simpy-icon-16x16.png Simpy http://www.simpy.com/user/mshook 1440 <![CDATA[...Miss Harriet, who could not always extinguish a ready spark of the original sin of humor, laughed aloud. | http://tinyurl.com]]> Tagged by mshook under quote, soj, maine, good, shortstory, story, bible, genisis, humor, ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:35:00 -0500 <![CDATA[http://mitokine.com/]]>

Mitokine Bioscience was founded in Down East Maine in 2006 to develop a critical new treatment for diabetes. This year - 2009 - Mitokine’s treatment will be tested at Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine in companion dogs that are insulin dependent, a natural diabetes model. A larger canine study to meet requirements for FDA approval for a veterinary pharmaceutical product will follow. In the mean time, research at Mitokine continues to develop a similar treatment for human diabetes.

Tagged by mshook under biology, maine, business, hancock, medical, mti, test, ]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:21:00 -0500 <![CDATA[The Flight of Betsy Lane by Sarah Orne Jewett - a great story - I read it to Susan a few days ago | http://tinyurl.com/yjwhdzk]]>
  • http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/now/betsey.htm
  • I like it because:
    • It includes a trip to a worlds fair by train, including hitching a ride
    • I know it's 1876
    • The principals are like some wonderful women I know
    • Reference to Maine's marine/trade heritage
  • Spoiler alert:
    • Betsy gets a bit of cash from a vistor. She sallies forth, walking to the station but before she get there she hitches a ride on a frieght. At the Philadelphia Centennial she befriends everyone, buys gifts for here friends and comes home.
  • This looks like a great site for all things Sarah Orne Jewett
    • Tagged by mshook under 23, july, 2009, a, shortstory, maine, pdafriendly, good, railroad, train, rail, poverty, 1876, philadelphia, saved, sarahornejewett, novel, iowa, academic, ]]>     Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:00:00 -0400     <![CDATA[George Gekas designed Long Pond house | http://tinyurl.com/mklnjq]]> Written by Mark Good    Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 11:18 am

    A building site always influences the design of a home. But rarely does the location pose as many challenges as did the small waterfront cottage on Long Pond designed by architect George Gekas for a couple from Boston.

    Tagged by mshook under photo, local, maine, mdi, lake, george, house, architecture, design, site, ]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:54:00 -0400 <![CDATA[I know Bob. The book should be good: Do You Know What I Mean?—Discovering Your Personal Communication Style | http://communicati]]>
    Learning styles theory is at the base of the communication styles approach. The fundamental question Bob asked many years ago was this: How are learning styles reflected in interpersonal communication? Thinking in words, images, or feelings reflects some of the common, inherent differences that drive individual communication styles. It also helps explain the confusion and communication breakdowns that so readily occur. When you solve the communication style conflicts in relationships, you increase collaboration and give clearer definition to other personal and relational issues. Tagged by mshook under bob, friend, local, maine, communication, book, interpersonal, relationship, interesting, ]]>     Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:54:00 -0400     <![CDATA[Bike Monkey Magazine | http://www.bikemonkey.net/]]> Josh Snead, originally from Maine.

    Bike Monkey Magazine is a new niche cycling organization that publishes a quarterly magazine ... We produce ... cycling events including mountain bike, road bike, and cyclocross races that stretch to support the hard work that our local non-profit cycling advocacy organizations put into making cycling easier and more accessible to everyone.

    Tagged by mshook under bicycle, swcycle, magazine, maine, race, culture, activism, eben, ]]>     Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:56:00 -0400     <![CDATA[Courting Olympia Snowe - Healthcare debate - Time - http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1925829-1,00.html]]>

    Quiz time: Which of the following provisions has been tucked into the most closely watched health-care bill on Capitol Hill thanks to Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine? Is it a) an annual checkup for every Medicare beneficiary, b) a special health-insurance marketplace in every state that would cater to the needs of small businesses or c) new tax credits to help modest-size firms buy coverage for their workers?

    Tagged by mshook under debate, maine, olympia, senator, time, dirigo, september, 2009, insurance, medical, ]]>     Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:28:00 -0400     <![CDATA[Someone besides me enjoys the fancy cars on Clark Point Road | http://tinyurl.com/lo5gwt http://www.flickr.com/photos/mshook/tag]]> Tagged by mshook under photo, auto, swh, southwestharbor, maine, ferrari, weather, 2006, ]]> Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:06:00 -0400 <![CDATA[All my Google Notebooks in small screen, mobile & pda friendly format | http://www.google.com/notebook/m]]> Mobile notes Bookmarks Zigbee Powerhouse Dynamics/eMonitor/Sig & Anna/Blue Hill Trac Sam Felton Processing & Data Visualization AVR Microprocessor Microsoft hohm IBM Key Punches, RPG, SGML, DITA, RSS & Ruby! IBM 3740 & 3741 Custom Jeans / Denim Phantom Power Paper Ubuntu Linux jackd & PulseAudio ZX 80, 81 & Spectrum Z80 Bob's Netbook Medicare BasicDSP scripts SSDI - Ticket to Work WiFi Microwave LNA modulation tab dump del.icio.us gnb clips 01 Anne of Green Gables Where I am in what I'm reading John R. Pierce Books in Minerva (Maine) Important Inaugural Addresses - 1865 & 1933 Filter Comparison - Analog/Digital - Butterworth/Chebyshev DSL Filter Goolge Notebook Atom feeds in JSON Minerva - books of interest del.icio.us gnb clips WAMIT My Notebook Offshore Maine Wind Power & AeroHydro Anathem notes Hyperbaric DVDs DTMF - Dual Tone Multiple Frequency | gnb clips Cloud Grid EC2 Amazon Notebooks 1 - ? of 78 Tagged by mshook under gnb, pdafriendly, mobile, notebook, snippet, palm, palmos, eclectic, august, 2009, ]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:36:00 -0400 <![CDATA[A B&B in Brewer Maine! Vegetarian breakfast, $89/night | http://www.fiddleheadinn.com/]]> Tagged by mshook under brewer, bangor, maine, b&b, hotel, via, dad, ]]> Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:32:00 -0400 <![CDATA[A surprisingly quirky & interesting collection of links at Maine's Pine Tree Legal Assistance | http://www.ptla.org/ptlasite/coo]]> 
    Video
Wabanaki Legal News
Americans Who Tell The Truth
Wayback Machine
edubunda
Rosetta Stone
Getting Free
Ode
Happy News
Google News
CutePDF
Food Stamp Estimator
USA Language Map
Toby Hollander
Data Wizards
Earned Income Credit Maps
On-line Tax Returns
COMPASS: One-Stop Shop
Low-Wage America
Yucky
Report Internet Fraud
Get Food Stamps?
Healthy Living
Clean Clothes
PBS Kids
Community Web
Interactive Worksheet
Lawyer Humor
Search HelpMeLaw
Digital Divide Network
Tour Poverty USA
Visit NASA
Benefits Checkup
    Tagged by mshook under cool, eclectic, interesting, maine, law, activism, nasa, pbs, health, money, poverty, language, taxes, swhpl, ]]>     Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:27:00 -0400     <![CDATA[A New Yorker writer reads his Kindle outside LL Bean and is not impressed (my Palm T|X works just fine) | http://tinyurl.com/ndq]]>

    ...Amazon’s “See a Kindle in Your City” promotion. Her Kindle was in her purse; she’d crocheted a cover for it out of green yarn. In the past, she said, she’d taken books out of the library, but some of them smelled of smoke—a Kindle book is a smoke-free environment. I thanked her and bought some digestive biscuits and a teapot, and then I went next door to Sherman’s Books and Stationery. I asked Josh Christie, who worked there, to recommend a truly gut-churningly suspenseful novel. I was going to do a comparison between the paperback and the Kindle 2 version. Christie suggested “The Bourne Identity” and a book by Michael Connelly, “The Lincoln Lawyer”—one of his colleagues at the shop swore by it. I bought them both.

    Outside, I sat on a bench near L. L. Bean, eating an ice cream, and tried to order “The Bourne Identity” wirelessly from the Kindle Store. But no—there is no Kindle version of “The Bourne Identity.” What?

    Tagged by mshook under maine, llbean, book, amazon, ebook, kindle, nyer, review, critique, palm, touch, iphone, swhpl, ]]>     Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:03:00 -0400     <![CDATA[Late 1800s stereo photos of Mount Desert Island, Maine at the New York Public Library | http://tinyurl.com/msyth4]]> 
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    Tagged by mshook under photo, mdi, maine, local, 1800s, 1880s, 1890s, antique, library, swhpl, stereo, ]]>     Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:57:00 -0400     <![CDATA[The Microdyne call center in Orono is part of L-3, a big (2008 sales $14B) mostly government contractor]]> Tagged by mshook under call, center, callcenter, maine, orono, government, contractor, military, ]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:41:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Dena had a booth opposite Jayne at the Thomaston 4th of July craft fair. Susan says they're good books | http://tinyurl.com/p8d]]> Welcome to Dena's Barefoot Book Nook! Here you'll find high quality, beautiful books that spark the imagination and celebrate the cultural and natural diversity around us. You'll also find puppets, puzzles, music, art and more for the children in your life!

    I hope you enjoy exploring our new website and that you'll come back soon!

    Please contact me if you'd like to learn more about hosting a Book Party and earning FREE books, having a Barefoot fundraiser for your school or organization, or starting your own Barefoot business.
    Tagged by mshook under mlm, thomaston, maine, book, books, jayne, july, 2009, parade, fair, children, susan, ]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:45:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Patient Centered Medical Home Dirigo Health Agency’s Maine Quality Forum Progress Report | http://tinyurl.com/lr4kv7]]> Health systems in other countries and pilot projects in the United States have demonstrated that effective primary patient care that is comprehensive and accessible has the potential to improve health outcomes and lower costs. Primary care does this by ensuring that patients receive effective care measures for prevention and for management of chronic illness, by coordinating the use of testing and specialist evaluation and treatment, and by providing a comprehensive array of medical services in one clinic or office. Avoidance of duplicative care, unnecessary hospitalizations, and emergency room visits results in reduced health care costs. However, the necessary infrastructure and human resources to provide comprehensive and effective primary care are generally not adequately reimbursed to practitioners by payers. For this reason, it is difficult for primary care practices to supply services that are recognized as effective. Tagged by mshook under maine, medical, dirigo, healthcare, insurance, pdf, ]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:53:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Arduino assembler Hello World! (blink the LED) - looks good - many comments + avrdude hex file upload command | http://tinyurl]]> 
    .nolist			; We don't want to actually include defs in our listing file.
.include "m168def.inc"	; m168def.inc defines all the pins on the Mega168 so we can
			; use them by their names rather than addresses (not fun).

.list			; We DO want to include the following code in our listing ;D

	rjmp	main 	; You usually place these two lines after all your
main:			; directives. They make sure that resets work correctly.

	ldi	r16,0xFF ; LoaD Immediate. This sets r16 = 0xFF (255)
	out	DDRB,r16 ; Out writes to SRAM, which is one way of accessing
			 ; pins. DDRB controls PORTB's in/out state.

	ldi	r16,0x00 ; r16 is where we'll store current LED state
			 ; 0x00 means all off. This is preserved over loops.
    ... Tagged by mshook under avr, arduino, minimal, blink, assembler, howto, example, code, asm, linux, good, ]]>     Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:50:00 -0400     <![CDATA[Bangor Hydro meter data via account number | http://www.bhe.com/residential/ami/amr_SearchForm.cfm]]> Tagged by mshook under emon, electricity, energy, power, maine, bangor, meter, graph, usage, ]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:37:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Verso paper - mills in Bucksport & Jay Maine, Michigan, and Wisconsin | http://www.versopaper.com/content3.aspx?id=532]]> Recommended Applications: Influence®: High End Catalogs and Magazines Catalog and Magazine Covers Commercial Print Applications Custom Publishing Direct Mail Features and Benefits Influence®: Enhanced optical properties product truer, more vibrant image reproduction. Excellent surface gloss and smoothness deliver outstanding ink holdout, ink lay, ink gloss and surface consistency. Exceptional printability down to a 45 lb. gloss offering. Unparalleled pressroom performance. Consistent quality across all finishes and basis weights. Available in multiple finishes. Tagged by mshook under paper, maine, local, mill, factory, ]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:08:00 -0400 <![CDATA[New Dirigo Health Funding Plan Draws Fire From Business Leaders | http://tinyurl.com/l25u7y]]> June 9, 2009 Reported By: Josie Huang Governor John Baldacci plans to sign a bill tomorrow that's aimed at giving the state's DirigoChoice health insurance program much-needed financial stability. To pay for Dirigo, the state charges health insurers a fee each year, which invariably leads to fights over how much the fee should be. Dirigo supporters say the bill to keep the fee fixed from year to year will avoid the expensive legal battles and bad blood. "The Number one thing that it does is it makes the funding source predictable and stable," says David Farmer, spokesman for the governor. Farmer tried to reassure the 9,000 people getting insurance through Dirigo, which is priced on ability to pay, and another 5,500 people who get Medicaid through the use of Dirigo dollars. Tagged by mshook under dirigo, maine, health, medical, healthcare, insurance, june, 2009, law, ]]> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:25:00 -0400