Merrimackvalley Rotary Club Jimmy Buffett Breakfast

Come join us at : MVRotary@gmail.com.

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Walk of Surenden Farms in Groton MA to plan trails

Today we walked through briers and all sorts of underbrush trying to find and plan trails.

Our path is as shown below:

Boating in the Basin Casco Bay Maine

Saturday was spent on the Auriga with friends eating lobster among other activities

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Moving a Selene 47 passagemaker from RI to MA

I helped some friends move their passagemaker from thier dock in RI to one nearer their home in Onset to get ready for a trip downeast.

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An early morning start

The boat and owners

Food for the party

The party in full force

A child dancer from the Nutcracker and the prima ballerina

Sailing in Boothbay Maine

Jim and I sailed from South Freeport Me to Boothbay Harbor. Below are pictures and a couple of YouTube videos of the trip.

Jim at the wheel

A great meal for hungry sailors

Below are two Youtube videos from the trip
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Passing through the Southport swing bridge

Boothbay harbor Yatch Club


A tribute to Snoopy sailed by

RNA - the secret of current Life and its origin

This week I had the pleasure of hearing a talk by Craig Mello about his work in the exciting field of RNAi which this year won the Nobel Prize in medicine. It seems to be at the center of our development and the control of our biochemistry. -RNA in general may also be the chemical that provided the transition between non-living chemicals and the earliest forms of life. It can carry genetic information like DNA and catalyze chemical reaction like proteins. It is the missing link that solves the chicken and egg problem of which came first, DNA or protein. The answer is neither, it was RNA.

The following link provides a background on RNAi:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3210/02.html

This link covers RNA and the origin of life.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3210/02.html

http://www.panspermia.org/rnaworld.htm