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A health overhaul bill that doesn't include a new public insurance plan won't pass the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a Thursday press conference. "There's no way I can pass a b i l l i n t h e Ho u s e o f Representatives without a public option," she said after a round-table meeting with community members and faithbas ed l eade rs in a San Francisco church. Pelosi has said repeatedly that health care legislation in the House would have a public plan but he r c omment s Thursday left no room for doubt. The White House is facing a liberal backlash for indicating openness to leaving a public plan out of the final bill. Liberals insist a new public insurance plan is essential, but Republicans almost uniformly oppose it. President Barack Obama also sought to reassure listeners in an interview Thursday with a Philadelphia-based radio talk show host that he sees nothing wrong with having a public option as one of the coverage choices available. But he added that no one would be obligated to go into a public plan. As Democratic House members fan out across the country to hear from constituents on the issue, some have faced raucous opposition. In San Francisco, Pelosi found a uniformly supportive audience who frequently interrupted her with applause as she hammered home her message: The bill must meet the fourfold goal of reducing costs, improving quality, expanding coverage and retaining choice. "What would you want to give up? Would you have fewer people covered? Less quality care?" She asked the crowd. "The priorities have to be addressed if you're going to have real change."


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"But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country." – President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, January 27, 2010.
Among talk of jobs, TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), bank bailouts, health care reform, two wars and repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" – President Obama called for the expansion of nuclear power.
This is a call the clean energy community has been sounding for years, and one an ever-increasing number in the environmental community is rallying around.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama reached the same conclusion many reputable environmental organizations, community groups, religious institutions and elected officials have; that nuclear power is one of the cleanest forms of reliable energy. Not only is nuclear power a greenhouse gas-free, but it also supplies energy around the clock, not only when the sun shines or the wind blows.
Here in New York, a line of thought is that turning off the lights on the Indian Point Energy Center, whose licenses expire in 2013 and 2015, can be replaced by renewable sources like wind, solar and hydro-power. Although there is room for these clean sources, the fate of communities of color, small businesses and neighborhoods overrun with high asthma rates and an abundance of dirty air power plants, relies upon sources that do not emit the dangerous greenhouse gases that contribute to growing asthma rates in New York's minority communities.
Those who say that New York City, with our growing population can be powered reliably with wind, solar and hydropower power are ambitious, but their plan falls short. In 2008, an official with the American Wind Energy Association stated: "There are good wind resources in the Northeast, including New York. But there is just not enough space to build on the scale of the wind energy projects like Texas." Vincent Cozzolino, the CEO of New York's Solar Energy Consortium, an organization committed to attracting solar energy companies to New York, said: "You can put all of the solar mirrors you want to in the desert, like they do in California. But where are you going to put something like that in New York?"
There are those who recklessly advocate for discontinuing the use of nuclear power in New York without concern for the the consequences. These harmful voices can be heard not only in New York but nationwide; and they are not aligned with our President's mission. These are the same people who feel that Three Mile Island happened yesterday and advances in technology, medical science, and agriculture never occurred.
Back in the 1970's our cars had 8-track players, our televisions were equipped with rabbit ears and the New York Mets stunk. Today, cars have GPS, radio signals come from satellites and hundreds of channels are beamed into our homes. OK, the Mets are still terrible, but the fact remains, innovation, ingenuity and progress are traits woven into the fabric of America. To think that this change hasn't occurred within the nuclear power industry is to deny the very essence of our country.
New Yorkers collectively spend about $13.4 billion on energy, which is responsible for roughly 80% of local global-warming emissions and more than 40% of all locally generated air pollution. Our state already has the second highest energy prices in the nation, and asthma rates in minority neighborhoods like Harlem, Crown Heights and the South Bronx far outpace the rest of the nation. With rising electricity prices and adverse health problems affecting countless minority children and seniors, the time has come to embrace nuclear power. As our President asked in his State of the Union address: "How long should we wait?
Craig Wilson is the Executive Director of Safe, Healthy, Affordable and Reliable Energy, an organization committed to ensuring clean and affordable power.
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"4 kids. 1 dog. 1 car leaking gas broken down on the side of the road= not a great road trip," Spelling tweeted Wednesday.
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Motivation Measures/Scales
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This document began with a summary of measures of motivation prepared by John D. Mayer & Kimberly Phillips with Great Thanks to the SPSP Listserv Responders. If you have another measure of motivation to add or comments about one of these specific measures, feel free to add it to this document.
The Nature of the Responses and Our Approach to the Original Summary
The scope of the e-mails we received varied from simple nominations of scales (or theories) to fact-filled, 1-3 paragraph descriptions of measures in the field, and the purpose, historical role, and merit of those measures.
Nominees generally suggested scales they liked or thought were important. With a few exceptions, most nominated scales were not mentioned more than once or twice, and it was sometimes unclear whether a test's mention was a recommendation or in the context of a comparison or contrast. The nature of the responses provided an excellent basis on which to list scales of various types, but little basis on which to compare the scale's relative significance. Additional information in the e-mails was useful to understanding how to group or classify scales; we may review some of that in the review article on which we are working, but it is not summarized here.
Our summary of responses here, rather, focuses on assembling (what we hope is) a complete list of the nominated scales. This involved, in some cases, tracking down sources for some scales beyond what was contained in the e-mails.
We believe this list is fairly exhaustive and accurate, but it is possible that, in compiling the list and adding references, we may have inadvertently omitted a scale, paired a scale with a less-than-optimal reference, or made other errors. If so, we regret it.
We hope that, even with those reservations, the overall list we now provide will be very helpful and thought-provoking to those interested in measures of motivation.
Here, then, is the list…
The List of Nominated Motivation and Motivation-Related Scales
Avoidance measures of Test Anxiety
(Mandler, George; Sarason, Seymour B. 1952). A study of anxiety and learning. Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology, 47(2), 166-173.
Behavioral Inhibition System / Behavioral Approach System
(Carver, C. S., & White, T. L. 1994). Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, and affective responses to impending reward and punishment: The BIS/BAS scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 319-333.
Circumplex Scales of Interpersonal Values
(Horowitz, Leonard M.; Wilson, Kelly R.; Turan, Bulent 2006). How interpersonal motives clarify the meaning of interpersonal behavior: A revised circumplex model. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10(1), 67-86.
(Locke, K.D. 2000). Circumplex scales of interpersonal values: Reliability, validity, and applicability to interpersonal problems and personality disorders. Journal of Personality Assessment, 75, 249-267.
Current Concerns/ Concern Dimensions Questionnaire
(Please see Personal Concerns Inventory)
Desirability of Control Scale
(Burger, Jerry M.; Cooper, Harris M. 1979). The desirability of control. Motivation and Emotion, 3(4), 381-393.
(DeNeve, Kristina M.; Cooper, Harris 1998). The happy personality: A meta-analysis of 137 personality traits and subjective well-being. Psychological Bulletin, 124(2), 197- 229.
Edwards Personal Preference Schedule
(Edwards, Allen L. 1964). The assessment of human motives by means of personality scales. Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 12,135-162.
Experience Sampling of Motivation
(Weitz, Barton A.; Sujan, Harish; Sujan, Mita 1986). Knowledge, motivation, and adaptive behavior: A framework for improving selling effectiveness. Journal of Marketing, 50(4), 174-191.
Fear of Social Rejection
(Mehrabian, Albert 1994). Evidence bearing on the Affiliative Tendency (MAFF) and Sensitivity to Rejection (MSR) scales. Current Psychology: Developmental, Learning, Personality, Social, 13(2), 97-116.
General Causality Orientations Scale and Self-Regulation Questionnaires
See this website: www.selfdeterminationtheory.org
(Deci, E.L., & Ryan, R.M. 1985). The general causality orientations scale: Self-determination in personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 19, 109-134.
(Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. 2000). The "what" and "why" of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 227-268.
(Deci, Edward L.; Moller, Arlen C 2005). The Concept of Competence: A Starting Place for Understanding Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determined Extrinsic Motivation. In Handbook of competence and motivation. Elliot, Andrew J.; Dweck, Carol S.; New York, NY, US: Guilford Publications, 579-597.
(Ryan, R.M., & Connell, J.P. 1989). Perceived locus of causality and internalization: Examining reasons for acting in two domains. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 749-761.
(Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. 2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55, 68- 78.
(Sheldon, K. 2004) Optimal Human Being: An Integrated, Multi-level Perspective. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Implicit Attitudes Scale and Other Implicit Measures (e.g., the Emotion Stroop)
(Greenwald, Anthony G.; Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Rudman, Laurie A. 2002); A unified theory of implicit attitudes, stereotypes, self-esteem, and self-concept. Psychological Review, Vol 109(1), Jan 2002. pp. 3-25.
(Williams, J. Mark G.; Mathews, Andrew; MacLeod, Colin, 1996). The emotional Stroop task and psychopathology. Psychological Bulletin, 120(1), 3-24.
(Olson, Michael A.; Fazio, Russell H. 2004). Reducing the Influence of Extrapersonal Associations on the Implicit Association Test: Personalizing the IAT. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86(5), 653-667.
(Greenwald, A. G., McGhee, D. E., & Schwartz, J. L. K. 1998). Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The Implicit Association Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1464–1480.
Intrinsic & Extrinsic Motivational Scale in Education
(Rousseau, François L.; Vallerand, R. 2000) Does motivation mediate influence of social factors on educational consequences? Robert J.; Psychological Reports, Vol 87(3, Pt 1), Dec 2000. pp. 812-814.
Items from The Inner American (i.e., "What would you most like to overhear about yourself?")
(Veroff, J., Douvan, E., Kulka, R.A. 1981). The inner American: a self-portrait from 1957 to 1976 (pp. 560-562). New York: Basic Books.
Motivational Influences of the Individual versus Collective Self
(Gaertner, Lowell; Sedikides, Constantine; Graetz, Kenneth 1999). In search of self- definition: Motivational primacy of the individual self, motivational primacy of the collective self, or contextual primacy? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76(1), 5-18.
(Gaertner, Lowell; Sedikides, Constantine; Vivea, Jack; Iuzzini, Jonathan 2002). The "I", the "We", and the "When": A Meta-Analysis of Motivational Primacy in Self- Definition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(3), 574-591.
(Sedikides, C., Skowronski, J.J., Gaertner, L. 2004). Self-enhancement and self- protection motivation: From the laboratory to an evolutionary context. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 2, 61-79.
Multi-Motive Grid
(Sokolowski, K., Schmalt, H., Langens, T. A., & Puca, R. M. 2000). Assessing achievement, affiliation, and power motives all at once: The multi-motive grid (MMG). Journal of Personality Assessment, 74(1), 126-145.
Need for Closure
(Webster, Donna M.; Kruglanski, Arie W. 1994). Individual differences in need for cognitive closure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67(6), 1049-1062.
Need for Cognition
(Cacioppo, John T.; Petty, Richard E.; Feinstein, Jeffrey A. 1996). Dispositional differences in cognitive motivation: The life and times of individuals varying in need for cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 119(2), 197-253.
Need for Structure
(Moskowitz, Gordon B. 1993). Individual differences in social categorization: The influence of personal need for structure on spontaneous trait inferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(1), 132-142
(Neuberg, Steven L.; Newsom, Jason T. 1993). Personal need for structure: Individual differences in the desire for simpler structure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(1), 113-131.
(Kemmelmeier, Markus; Burnstein, Eugene; Krumov, Krum 2003). Individualism, collectivism, and authoritarianism in seven societies. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 34(3), 304-322.
(Sorrentino, Richard M.; Holmes, John G.; Hanna, Steven E. 1995). Uncertainty orientation and trust in close relationships: Individual differences in cognitive styles. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 68(2), 314-327.
Need for Uniqueness/Independence
(Singelis, Theodore M.; Bond, Michael H.; Sharkey, William F. 1999). Unpackaging culture's influence on self-esteem and embarrassability: The role of construals. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 30(3), 315-341.
Need to Control Prejudice
(Dunton, B.C., & Fazio, R.H. 1997). An individual difference measure of motivation to control prejudiced reactions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 316-326.
(Fazio, Russell H.; Olson, Michael A. 2003). Implicit measures in social cognition research: Their meaning and uses. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 297-327.
(Plant, E.A., & Devine, P.G. 1998). Internal and external motivation to respond without prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 811-832.
Performance and Mastery Orientations
(Elliot, Andrew J.; Church, Marcy A. 1997). A hierarchical model of approach and avoidance achievement motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72(1), 218-232.
(Elliot, Andrew J.; Sheldon, Kennon M.; Church, Marcy A. 1997). Avoidance personal goals and subjective well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23(9), 915- 927.
(Tice, Dianne M.; Wallace, Harry M. 2003). The reflected self: Creating yourself as (you think) others see you. In Handbook of self and identity. Leary, Mark R.; Tangney, June Price; New York, NY, US: Guilford Press, 91-105.
Personal Concerns Inventory (and Concern Dimensions Questionnaire, Motivational Structure Questionnaire)
(Cox, W. M., Heinemann, A. W., Miranti, S. V., Schmidt, M., Klinger, E., & Blount, J. 2003). Outcomes of Systematic Motivational Counseling for substance use following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Addictive Diseases, 22, 93-110.
(Cox, W. Miles; Klinger, Eric 2004). Handbook of motivational counseling: Concepts, approaches, and assessment. New York, NY, US: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
(Klinger, Eric; Barta, Steven G.; Maxeiner, Madeline E. 1980). Motivational correlates of thought content frequency and commitment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39(6), 1222-1237.
(Roberson, L., Houston, J. M., & Diddams, M. 1989). Identifying valued work outcomes through a content analysis of personal goals. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 35(1), 30-45.
(Sellen, J. L., McMurran, M., Cox, W. M., Theodosi, E., & Klinger, E. 2006). The Personal Concerns Inventory (Offender Adaptation): Measuring and enhancing motivation to change. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 50, 294-305.
Personal Projects Analysis
(Little, Brian R. 1983). Personal projects: A rationale and method for investigation. Environment and Behavior, 15(3), 273-309.
Personal Strivings Assessment
(Emmons, Robert A. 1986). Personal strivings: An approach to personality and subjective well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(5), 1058-1068.
Personality Research Form
(Jackson, D.N. 1974). Personality Research Form Manual (Rev. ed.). Port Huron, Mich.: Research Psychologists Press.
Picture-story exercises
(Brunstein, Joachim C.; Schultheiss, Oliver C.; Grässman, Ruth 1998). Personal goals and emotional well-being: The moderating role of motive dispositions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75(2), 494-508.
(Heckhausen, Heinz; Gollwitzer, Peter M. 1987). Thought contents and cognitive functioning in motivational versus volitional states of mind. Motivation and Emotion, 11(2), 101-120.
More information also can be found at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~oschult/index.htm
Regulatory Focus Questionnaire
(Cesario, Joseph; Grant, Heidi; Higgins, E. Tory 2004). Regulatory Fit and Persuasion: Transfer From 'Feeling Right.' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86(3), 388- 404.
(Higgins, E. Tory; Friedman, Ronald S.; Harlow, Robert E. 2001). Achievement orientations from subjective histories of success: Promotion pride versus prevention pride. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31(1), 3-23.
Schwartz Value Survey; Portrait Values Questionnaire
(Schwartz, Shalom H.; Bilsky, Wolfgang 1990). Toward a theory of the universal content and structure of values: Extensions and cross-cultural replications. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58(5), 878-891.
Self-Determination Scales
(Please look under General Causality Orientation Scale)
(Gangestad, Steven W.; Snyder, Mark 2000). Self-monitoring: Appraisal and reappraisal. Psychological Bulletin, 126(4), 530-555.
(Snyder, Mark 1974). Self-monitoring of expressive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30(4), 526-537.
Thematic Apperception Test
(Murray, H. A. 1943). Thematic Apperception Test Manual. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
(McClelland, David C. 1985). How motives, skills, and values determine what people do. American Psychologist, 40(7), 812-825.
(McClelland, David C.; Atkinson, John W.; Clark, Russell A. 1953). Arousing the achievement motive and obtaining imaginative stories. In The achievement motive. McClelland, David C.; Atkinson, John W.; Clark, Russell A.; Lowell, Edgar L.; East Norwalk, CT: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
C.P. Smith, J.W. Atkinson, & D.C. McClelland (Eds.), Motivation and Personality: The Handbook of Thematic Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press.
(Winter, David G. 1973). The power motive. New York, NY, US: Free Press.


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Honor Student's Accomplishments are Truly Extraordinary
May. 7, 2013
A gifted soprano who excels at opera, Webster University senior Julie McGinnity graduated with a long list of accomplishments to her name.
- Magna cum laude.
- Not one, but two bachelor's degrees: one in music with an emphasis in vocal performance and another in German.
- Departmental honors in both music and international languages and cultures.
- Tutoring Webster University students who take German classes.
- Teaching German to nine- and 10-year-olds on Saturdays.
That's impressive for any student. But for Julie, the accomplishments are extraordinary.
That's because Julie has been blind since birth.
And that meant she had to learn how to read Braille-style sheet music in order to succeed, a skill she learned at Webster. "I've always loved to sing, and at age 10, my mom put me in voice lessons," she said.
By age 16, Julie auditioned for and was accepted into Opera Theatre of St. Louis's highly selective Artists-in-Training program for high school students. Through the program, Julie received weekly voice lessons and the opportunity to work with guest artists who are professional opera singers.
Webster University was a natural choice for Julie, who was interested in attending a school that was close to her home and church and offered an excellent music program.
Julie has read Braille since age six, but it wasn't until she came to Webster that she learned to read music in Braille using music transcription software for the blind called "Dancing Dots."
"Carol Gaspar, who is director of Vocal Studies, and my vocal coach Nancy Mayo influenced me to start reading music," Julie said. "They convinced me that to be successful, I needed to be able to read music in Braille."
By learning to read the music instead of just memorizing it "by ear," Julie could read the notations, get a better idea of the timing and the key changes, and gain a better understanding of what the original composer may have been trying to do with the music. This allowed her to bring her own interpretation to pieces instead of relying on the musical translations of others.
Over the past four years, Julie and her guide dog, Brie, a yellow Lab, have become a familiar duo on the Webster campus and an integral part of the University community. By excelling in her studies, Julie has become a trusted mentor and tutor to other students at Webster.
She plans to continue with her studies after graduation. In the fall, Julie will attend Mizzou to study for a master's degree in vocal performance. Her career goal is to work in a college setting, teaching voice and performance skills to opera and musical theatre students.
"The work Julie and I were able to do together to find resources for the Dancing Dots music software, training on this software and the embossing equipment has enabled her to participate more fully in her music courses," said Cindy Yamnitz, assistive technology coordinator for Webster. "Additionally, Julie has a great vision for a world without barriers and I believe our work in the ARC has helped her to develop that vision. Julie is well prepared to leave Webster and take on the world."
On Saturday, May 11, 2013 Julie, with Brie by her side, attended Webster's 94th commencement at the Muny in Forest Park and walked the aisle to her seat.


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Wisdom and Love Need Each Other
User's Guide to Sunday, Oct. 14
Sunday, Oct. 14, is the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Wisdom 7:7-11, Psalm 90:12-17, Hebrews 4:12-13, Mark 10:17-30 or 10:17-27
Our Take
Today's readings tell the tale of what becomes of wisdom without love.
The Book of Wisdom gives a wonderful portrait of a noble soul, but the first reading is also a prelude to a tragedy.
"The spirit of wisdom came to me," King Solomon says. "I … deemed riches nothing in comparison with her, nor did I liken any priceless gem to her; because all gold, in view of her, is a little sand, and, before her, silver is to be accounted mire."
King Solomon was the wisest man who ever lived, says Scripture. But it wasn't enough to save him. He died an apostate, surrounded by his riches and surrendered to a life of sin.
The Gospel tells another tale of tragedy. In it, Jesus meets another wise man. This man says he has "observed [the Ten Commandments] from my youth," and Jesus seems to agree. But then Jesus says, "You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."
When this wise man hears those words, his face falls, and he goes away, "for he had many possessions."
What was the "one thing" the young man was lacking? It was the same thing Solomon was lacking: love.
"Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality," writes Pope Benedict XVI in his 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth). "Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions; the word 'love' is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite."
St. Jerome was the famed scholar who translated the Bible. But he took more than a year away from his important work to serve refugees when a natural disaster flooded his region. "Today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds," he said. "Instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them."
Many Catholics today have acquired a lot of wisdom and can defend the truths of the Catholic faith; Catholics need to study the faith by reading good books or by watching EWTN or by listening to apologetics CDs.
But real Christianity doesn't just know the faith — it acts on it.
And we can't be too attached to worldly goods. King Solomon and the young man were both rich, and they showed how riches can often prevent people from being able to follow Jesus.
As Pope Benedict explains in Caritas in Veritate, riches can choke off love: "Reduced to the mere accumulation of wealth, humanity loses the courage to be at the service of higher goods, at the service of the great and disinterested initiatives called forth by universal charity."
Be detached from worldly things, know your faith, and live it. It's not just a prerequisite for salvation — it's the key to happiness.
Tom and April Hoopes write from Atchison, Kansas,
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The basic premise of the paper is the following: variation in effect size across contexts is higher than the variation within. Variation across contexts is more or less defined as variation in well-identified effect sizes (ES), while variation within is the difference between a not well-identified estimate and the well-identified one within the same context. In other words, if you ran an OLS of vouchers on student performance using the baseline data in your experiment that provided vouchers and compared the biased ES with the experimental one, that would be your within variation. If you compared the experimental ES in Colombia with one from Tanzania, that would be your across variation.
The authors look at studies of class size effects, private/public school effects, and Mincerian returns to education to find that the across variation dwarves the within one. This leads the authors to suggest that you're better off choosing biased estimates from your own context (whatever that exact context is and provided that the study exists) than a well-identified estimate from another context. You'll have to read the paper yourselves to decide whether you're convinced by the evidence provided here, but here are four possible objections:
- Some of this is based on findings of large across variation due to one study that found an effect of 3.5 SD (not a typo) for a reduction of 10 students in class size!
- Some of the within variation is OLS vs. OLS with controls/FE (rather than OLS vs. RCT). You have to also start worrying about publication bias here, which the authors mention.
- Your structural model of effect sizes specifies that the effects are on standard deviations of test scores (rather than, say, absolute changes) without any conditioning for baseline levels.
- Your structural model also specifies that the effect of reducing class size from 60 to 50 is the same as 40 to 30.
Pritchett and Sandefur build a simple structure where a simple correlation consists of two components: a causal one and a selection bias component. They then argue that if I have two different biased estimates from two different contexts and I get another well-identified ES from a third context that falls between the first two, it is logically incoherent for this to happen if I think that the third ES from a different context matters even an iota in changing my priors about the true relationship (this is because the true effect implies different signs of selection bias in the first two contexts – see page 8). The only incoherence that I see here is that the selection bias should work in one direction only: it doesn't and the authors give a perfectly good example of why not when they discuss the evidence from Cox and Jimenez (1991) on the returns to private/public schooling (page 19). Students who could not get into public secondary schools 'negatively' selected into private schools in Tanzania, while students from richer families 'positively' selected into elite private schools in Colombia. My first impact evaluation was about school autonomy in Nicaragua, where a set of schools was initially selected for the reforms: the selection could be positive if the administrators wanted a positive demonstration effect; negative if they targeted the worst performing schools.
So, we circle back to the same old, and by now feeling somewhat tired, 'external validity' debate: the context is never the same between any two programs (perfectly evidenced by two separate papers by each of the authors Bold et al. (2013), Pritchett et al. (2012)). At the extreme, any finding today is irrelevant for a project being designed for tomorrow. Soooo on and sooooo forth…
The authors claim that they are not building a straw man to then knock down. I was happy to see this statement at the outset of the paper, but then was ultimately disappointed. When the chips are down, are people really making policy by taking the only experimental finding from Dunedin, Te Wai Pounamu, Aotearoa and using it in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada – completely ignoring the local conditions and the less than perfect evidence from closer, more similar settings? Perhaps, the authors are reacting to this paper by Banerjee and He that they discuss at some length. So, some people may have gotten carried away with certain recommendations; maybe, some overly enthusiastic young researcher was guilty of uttering a careless claim at a conference or in a donor meeting about RCTs being the best and everything else being garbage. Is this really evidence of a big problem in our field? Annoying? Sure. Problem? Yeah, nah. I have been an employee of the World Bank for more than 12 years and I am not aware of anyone who advocated blindly reducing class sizes everywhere due to one finding from Israel or because of calls from, arguably influential, figures like Abhijit Banerjee. Lant had an even longer tenure at the WB than me – perhaps he has good reasons to think otherwise…
Ultimately, the pitfalls assigned to RCTs are more or less the same for non-RCTs. Experimental site was chosen for researcher convenience; non-experimental one was chosen for data availability in that particular district. We know exactly how that small experiment was run, which may be different than the one at scale; you can barely describe the implementation of large government program that you studied non-experimentally. The sample of that experiment is selected and not representative; by the time you finished your nearest-neighbor matching exercise and tossing out the non-overlapping support to obtain a 'good match,' your sample lost its representativeness. Marginal experiments are being published in good journals; important null results are more likely to not get published (Brodeur et al. 2012). I could keep going…
I find it more useful to think about what I can do with RCTs that is harder to do using other methods. I can design exactly the ideal experiment to answer a question of interest (if the question is not interesting, the funders won't give me the money). I can control implementation, which allows me to not only describe the program exactly, but also to oversee implementation integrity. I can design the data collection modules. I can think of efficacy vs. effectiveness. Most importantly, I can generate random variation in things that are extremely unlikely to be found naturally: handing a voucher for contraceptives to a wife vs. a husband; to vary the intensity of citizens encouraged to vote within the exact network of interest to study spillovers.
What do I then do with the findings from an experiment I designed and ran? I try to be responsible: I don't run to policymakers in Indonesia who may or may not have asked me about what I think of CCT design in their country and regurgitate proven effects of conditionality. I try to stay humble: make it clear that I know little about the background in Indonesia; I tell them what we found in Malawi, make the necessary caveats, a summary of the remainder of the literature, and perhaps some suggestions on what kind of data to look at for some back of the envelope calculations in their context. Most importantly, I try to touch on the interesting things that we learned: the surprising findings that made us think harder about theory or the complex findings that revealed something that we suspected before but for which we didn't have evidence.
That's the reason I like experiments: they allow us answers to questions that are hard to examine otherwise. This is the flip side of the criticism that you normally hear about RCTs: that many questions of interest cannot be examined this way. There is no logical incoherence in this tradeoff. And, there is within-researcher variance: for our last funding proposal, we toyed around with a simple diff-in-diff methodology with which we would have been perfectly fine had we found pre-baseline data on the outcome variable justifying the common trends assumption.
Pritchett and Sandefur conclude their paper by advising governments, NGOs, etc. to make use of RCTs in a more nimble way to test, evaluate, and refine their practices. I fully agree. They also warn against systematic reviews, presumably of the kind that is restricted to RCTs only, and advise against a quest for a set of universally true parameters. I agree with this as well. But, having recently completed a meta-analysis of cash transfer programs, I have to say that I see straw men here as well. We included all studies that attempted to provide causal identification – there was never a thought that the eligibility criteria would rule out non-RCT studies. And, the bottom line from this systematic review, on one of the most studied topics in development economics, confirms that we should get used to living without external validity – regardless of the causal identification method used: even though all schooling effects of cash transfer programs are positive (no controversy there), if you asked me the confidence interval implied by our random effects model for a policymaker who is considering designing a new program tomorrow, I'd have to tell you that it encompasses zero. That's because of the heterogeneity of ES across studies is large and many of the usual suspects that you think would explain the heterogeneity were not helpful.
At this point, I do sincerely believe that there is no substitute for experimenting on your own. Let studies from elsewhere and previous studies from your own setting be good guides, provide great food for thought, and a starting point. Think hard about the problem and scrutinize the details of the extant evidence carefully. Then, start experimenting. I hope that Lant and Justin agree…
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A nice piece, made all the more so by the beautiful "yeah-nah" hyperlink. Once the Flying Nun references start hitting the blog then we'll really know you've really gone tribal.
The Pritchett and Sandefur paper is itself a bit of a straw man: the authors have obviously produced a rushed piece of work to try and get ahead of others doing more careful analysis. It's a weak and basically ignorable contribution so let's focus on the real issues.
In your reply you say that the debate on external validity is "same old, and by now feeling somewhat tired". Last I checked that debate hasn't actually happened. Did I miss the Mostly Harmless Econometrics section on that?
"at the extreme, any finding today is irrelevant for a project being designed for tomorrow. Soooo on and sooooo forth…". So your response is basically to yawn at the problem? What happened to 'rigor'? Or is that only for internal validity?
The basic fact is that you don't know how to rigorously obtain policy lessons. Isn't it about time you said so?
Thanks for taking the time to comment. On the issue of the debate on external validity, and whether it's getting tiring discussing it only in the context of RCTs (or the new empirical development economics), we can set aside all the stuff from the past two years (including repeatedly on this blog) and see this symposium from the EPW, which includes contributions from Banerjee, Bardhan, Basu, Kanbur, and Mookherjee: http://www.arts.cornell.edu/poverty/kanbur/NewDirectionsDevEcon.pdf
That I wrote a 1,500-plus word blog post isn't indicative of a yawn, but rather the disappointment of hearing the same arguments on external validity, almost exclusively made as a criticism of experiments in economics (glad to say that the paper covered above is not one of them). The more serious work addressing some of the important issues surrounding external validity (three of the papers cited above and some, like Aronow and Samii, cited within the Pritchett/Sandefur paper) is suggesting so far that there is nothing simple about external validity for policy making.
I believe rigor, and not the lack of it, is what makes (or should make) us humble about the limits to which we can give policy advice based on the extant evidence. Development practiced as cookie cutter advice to policymakers is potentially the worst kind. The evidence doesn't tell you what you should do, but rather gives you the frame within which you should consider your problem and the potential solutions.
We'll be looking for your contribution that is neither weak nor ignorable: perhaps it can even be a new entry into the next edition of Mostly Harmless Econometrics...
This debate seems to ignore what seems to me the most important application of RCTs. That is, comparing different policy options available to an organization/government in achieving a specific goal before rolling out programs. The issue of external validity should be far smaller when the RCT is designed with a specific domestic policy set within the population of interest. I am surprised this is not the direction development program RCTs are going. Or is it?
You're right in both that the issue is less binding and that it is the direction in which we're evolving (or trying to). The latter is one of the main recommendations of the paper reviewed above.


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His Eminence Metropolitan John (Yazigi) heads the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Western and Central Europe headquartered in Paris, France. Before his election and enthronement as Metropolitan, he had been titular bishop of Pyrgou (al-Hosn), Syria. He was also formerly the dean of the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology (Tripoli, Lebanon), the patriarchal seminary attached to the University of Balamand.
His Eminence has a Degree in Theology from the Balamand seminary (1978), a Diploma in Byzantine Music from the Byzantine Music Conservatory in Thessalonica (1981), and a PhD. in Theology with a specialization in Liturgics from the University of Thessalonica (1983). While at the Balamand, he served as Professor of Liturgics (1981-2008), as well as in the abbacy of St. George Al-Humayrah Patriarchal Monastery (1993-2005) and the Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand (2001-2005).
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- 1955 Born Lattakia, Syria.
- 1978 Graduated from University of Balamand, Lebanon, with Bachelor of Theology degree.
- 1979 Ordained deacon by Metropolitan John (Mansour) of Lattakia.
- 1981-2008 Professor of Liturgics, Institute of Theology, Balamand.
- 1981 Diploma in Byzantine Music from the Conservatory of Byzantine Music, Thessalonica, Greece.
- 1983 Ordained priest by Met John of Lattakia.
- 1983 Doctoral Degree in Liturgics from University of Thessalonica, Greece. Thesis: "Service of Holy Baptism: An Historical, Theological, and Liturgical Study" (in Greek).
- 1988-1991 Dean, Institute of Theology, Balamand.
- 1993-2005 Abbot of St. George Al Humayrah Patriarchal Monastery, Syria.
- 1995 Consecrated Bishop.
- 1995-2008 Bishop of Pyrgou (Al-Hosn), Syria.
- 2001-2005 Dean, Institute of Theology, Balamand.
- 2001-2005 Abbot of the Our Lady of Balamand Patriarchal Monastery, Lebanon.
- 2008-present Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe (Antiochian) and member of the Holy Synod of Antioch.
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1st Gear: What's The Deal With Ray DeGiorgio?
Let's assume for the moment that GM isn't evil. That the people there didn't callously let people die. How do we explain what happened?
Human error? Systematic issues? Maybe both?
We've written a lot about this GM recall, and that's because so many people died and we still have so few answers. Yesterday, Raymond DeGiorgio, the engineer who signed off on a change to the ignition switch at the center of all of this, spoke to Congressional investigators. The New York Times has some information from that long session and it's worth reading.
"He came across as if he was just overburdened and just missed it," said the staff member, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. Mr. DeGiorgio's comments, during 10 hours of questioning on May 19, offer a glimpse into how the switch was secretly changed eight years ago, but no recall was issued for vehicles equipped with the defective switches until this February.
Mr. DeGiorgio did not give any information that indicated that the new chief executive of G.M., Mary T. Barra, knew anything about the problem before she took her job early this year. He did not seek to implicate any of his superiors, the people familiar with the questioning said.
He also went on to say that he didn't knowingly lie in testimony about the switch recall in a former case, but simply forgot he'd signed off on the change to strengthen the part.
I don't know who is telling the truth here, or what the truth is, which is why this story will persist. But I'm open to the possibility that GM was tragically ill prepared to deal with issues, that communication within the automaker was poor, and that one person was responsible for so many important decisions over the course of his career and that, rather than being part of a conspiracy to cover up those decisions, he simply didn't remember.
It's a different and less interesting picture, of course, but it's a possibility we need to consider.
2nd Gear: Honda Accord Hybrid Not As Efficient As Promised?
Consumer Reports has this trick where they go out and buy hybrids, test them, and determine that the promised mileage doesn't quite match up to the real mileage. They've done it with the Ford hybrids and now they're sticking it to the Accord.
But the magazine's testers caution that Accord hybrid "buyers expecting their car to get the Environmental Protection Agency's figure of 47 m.p.g. might be disappointed. We've found that the EPA tests often exaggerate the fuel-economy of hybrids," said Jake Fisher, director of automotive testing at Consumer Reports.
None of this is surprising, as the EPA test is fairly generous and it's often in the hands of automakers to self-test and report — which has led to some notorious problems.
Still, newer cars are more efficient than the ones they replace, even if you have to have a pretty easy commute to hit numbers in the high 40s. I drove a Accord Hybrid and didn't mind it.
3rd Gear: BMW Will Tesla-Ize China With Charging Stations
Electric cars and plug-in hybrids are expected to be popular in China as the government pushes people into the cars, which is why it's no surprise BMW is investing money into seeing up 50 charging stations with Shanghai's electric company.
Speaking at an event in Shanghai on Wednesday, Karsten Engel, chief executive for BMW's China operation, said BMW would sell a maximum of 1,000 i3 and i8 cars in the country this year. BMW i series will go on sale in China in September, but sales will be limited to around a dozen dealers in four cities due to a supply shortage and concerns over insufficient charging infrastructure.
I have this feeling that's a problem that'll get resolved.
4th Gear: Good Brakes
Auto-braking systems that sense when you're about to crash and either slow or, at least, significantly reduce your speed are apparently getting better according to an IIHS report. Of the 24 vehicles tested, 21 were considered way above average.
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Automakers are resisting any calls to make this technology mandatory, but it'll eventually get cheap enough that many cars will have them.
5th Gear: Bad Brakes
The Porsche Macan is barely on the market and Reuters is reporting that they're already looking into 2,500 models to check to see if some brake booster units may have been damaged during the assembly.
Two things to note here:
1. Reuters called the Macans "off-road vehicles," which is hilarious.
2. This is the second major Porsche production issue (see flaming cars) as they go from being a small producer of cars to a mass volume luxury sports brand.
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Arcturus Descending wrote:Some Guy in History wrote:If life ever makes nonsense, then know that the truest sense has already been made and it still didn't make sense without the nonsense.
I imagine that what you mean by "truest sense" is meaningfulness. If that is the case, this is also true for me too. How can we "know" something without it's opposite to compare it to ~~ if that made any sense to you.
If you could be anyone in history, who might it be?
NO, by truest sense; I meant the truest sense that could be made, as when they took it all apart and put it back together it all made sense except for the parts that made no sense. They even amped up being in the moment and made sense out of what a lot of nonsense was made out of accidentally, but no, they couldn't quite piece it all together to make sense beyond that until they purposefully began creating nonsense themselves.
Also, luckily, reality can only get so random. It's hard-lining 'make sense, motherfucker, make fucking sense.'
Also, unsurprisingly, when they took it (reality) all apart and put it back together, they were pretty sure they put it back together exactly as it came apart, but somehow wound up with extra parts. But, who hasn't had that happen?


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Dassault Falcon Announces Sale of Two Falcon 900 Business Jets to Wallan Aviation
12 Dec, 2012, 14:31 GMT
DUBAI, UAE, December 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Dassault Falcon announced this morning the sale of two business jets to Wallan Aviation, the prominent Middle East general aviation company.
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A pre-owned Falcon 900EX EASy II will be delivered by the end of the 2012 and a new Falcon 900LX in the second quarter of 2013. Wallan Aviation will operate both aircraft for the company's own use with the option of offering one or both aircraft to the charter market. The sale marks Wallan Aviation's entry into the Dassault Falcon range and large cabin segment.
The tri-engine Falcon 900LX is the most efficient airplane in its class, with a fuel burn up to 40% lower than other comparable aircraft. The Falcon 900LX flies 4,750 nm non-stop and can connect Dubai with Beijing, Jeddah to Cape Town, Riyadh to Chengdou, or Dammam to Singapore.
Wallan Aviation has been operating in the Middle East for 20 years and has also expanded to other services in the aviation field, including charter, jet maintenance and a flight academy to train the next generation of pilots. Wallan was awarded the prestigious Certificate of Appreciation by the United States Department of Commerce for strengthening American-Saudi ties. The company employs more than 800 staff, with a team of 35 dedicated specifically to aviation.
Saad Wallan, Chairman of Wallan Aviation and a Board member of MEBAA and the Saudi Aviation Club, a passionate aviator and type rated pilot since 1992, commented: "We chose the Falcon 900LX because of its advanced technology and efficient performance and range, its go anywhere flexibility and its resale value. For example, the Falcon 900's range connects Riyadh or Dubai directly with Shannon airport in Ireland, where passengers can clear customs immigration for the whole of the US. Falcons are increasingly proving themselves with operators in the region and this helps develop experience and build confidence in the Falcon range, which also has attractive emissions and environmental credentials."
Dassault already plans to deliver six Falcons to Middle East customers over the next 18 months, growing its fleet by 10%. More than 60 Falcon business jets currently operate in the region.
Commenting on the Wallan Aviation sale announcement, Gilles Gautier, VP Sales for Dassault Falcon, said: "We are delighted to announce this Falcon sale to Wallan Aviation, which is a well established and highly respected general aviation company in the Middle East. It represents the confidence that is returning to the regional market and underlines the commitment we continue to make to the Middle East, where we have invested to expand our infrastructure and support team."
Dassault Falcon continues to expand its Middle East sales and support network. In addition to the Dubai office, the network includes Authorized Service Centers in Dubai and Jeddah, a spares distribution center in Dubai and a technical office in Jeddah. "Falcons are well-suited to the demands of our Middle East customers, offering long range and large, roomy cabins which are ideal for work or rest," added Gilles Gautier. "Falcons burn 20-40% less fuel and offer up to 50% lower operating costs than some aircraft in their class."
About the Falcon 900LX
The 4,750 nm Falcon 900LX flies 4,750 nm non-stop. It can connect Dubai with Beijing, Jeddah to Cape Town, Riyadh to Chengdou. Built on the successful Falcon 900EX platform, the Falcon 900LX features a pair of High-Mach blended winglets that help reduce aircraft drag as much as 5%. The winglets help make the Falcon 900LX the most efficient airplane in its class, with a fuel burn up to 40% lower than other aircraft in its class. They also reduce climb to cruise time - at Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW), the Falcon 900LX can reach FL390 (39,000 feet) in just 20 minutes, - and contribute to short-field performance.
In March 2012, the aircraft received FAA approval for steep approaches, allowing it to operate with approach angles of up to 6 degrees, instead of the 3 degrees used most commonly. This approval made the Falcon 900LX, like other Falcons, both FAA and EASA compliant for operations at London City Airport, one of the most challenging for steep approach.
The Falcon 900LX is equipped with Dassault Falcon's second-generation EASy II flight deck, which was approved for the aircraft in June 2011. EASy II brings a number of cutting-edge options to the cockpit, including synthetic vision, automatic descent mode, XM graphical Weather and ADS-B Out. It also includes two novel communications features, FANS 1A and CPDLC, compliant with Europe's new data link mandate.
The Falcon 900LX is powered by the same ultra-efficient and economical Honeywell TFE731-60 engines as the 900EX.
About Dassault Falcon
Dassault Falcon is responsible for selling and supporting Falcon business jets throughout the world. It is part of Dassault Aviation, a leading aerospace company with a presence in over 70 countries across five continents. Dassault Aviation produces the Rafale fighter jet as well as the complete line of Falcon business jets. The company has assembly and production plants in both France and the United States and service facilities on multiple continents. It employs a total workforce of over 12,000. Since the rollout of the first Falcon 20 in 1963, over 2,200 Falcon jets have been delivered to 80 countries worldwide. The family of Falcon jets currently in production includes the tri-jets-the Falcon 900LX, and the 7X-as well as the twin-engine 2000LX, 2000LXS and Falcon 2000S.
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Press Contacts
Dassault Aviation (Saint-Cloud, France)
Vadim Feldzer Tel. +33-1-47-11-44-13
Marie-Alexandrine Fouillard Tel. +33-1-47-11-64-23
SOURCE Dassault Falcon


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Just a quickie question for anyone who can spare the time for a newbie:
How does one go about taking the long returned by System.currentTimeMillis() and assigning it to a Date object?
I tried using:
slzDate = (Date)System.currentTimeMillis();
but got an error stating "inconvertible types."
Any help to nip this one in the bud? Thanks a ton, I do appreciate it.


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I've setup lockout examiner.
logon event auditing is enabled on my 3 DCs.
logon event auditing is enabled on the client PC i'm working with.
In settings>managed objects it's set to All DCs, I have an enabled status and an ok connection in the monitored DCs list, all green.
When I intentionally lock an account from the client and run a report I see a list of invalid logons for the relevant PC but there's no triangular click down arrow giving more details.
If i run rsop.msc on the client loggin is def enabled.
if I check the security log on the DC the logs show event 675 0x18 which is correct for a bad password.
I don't know why these details aren't appearing on the examiner report. It wa working yesterday but suddenly seems to have stopped.
Many Thanks


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Seven o'clock in the morning
And the rays from the sun wakes me
I'm stretchin' and yawnin'
In a bed that don't belong to me
And a voice yells, "Good morning, darlinâ€, from the bathroom
Then she comes out and kisses me
And to my surprise, she ain't you
Now I've got this dumb look on my face
Like, what have I done?
How could I be so stupid to be have laid here til the morning sun?
Lost the track of time
Oh, what was on my mind?
From the club, went to her home
Didn't plan to stay that long
Here I am, quickly tryin' to put on my clothes
Searching for my car keys
Tryin' to get on up out the door
Then she streched her hands in front of it
Said, "You can't go this wayâ€
Looked at her, like she was crazy
Said, "Woman move out my wayâ€
Said, "I got a wife at homeâ€
She said, "Please don't go out thereâ€
"Lady, I've got to get homeâ€
She said, her husband was comin' up the stairs
"Shh, shh, quiet
Hurry up and get in the closetâ€
She said, "Don't you make a sound
Or some shit is going downâ€
I said, "Why don't I just go out the window?â€
"Yes, except for one thing, we on the 5th floorâ€
"Shit think, shit think, shit quick, put me in the closetâ€
And now I'm in this darkest closet, tryin' to figure out
Just how I'm gonna get my crazy ass up out this house
Then he walks in and yells, "I'm homeâ€
She says, "Honey, I'm in the roomâ€
Walks in there with a smile on his face
Sayin', "Honey, I've been missin' youâ€
She hops all over him
And says, "I've cooked and ran your bath waterâ€
I'm tellin' you now, this girl's so good that she deserves an Oscar
throws her in the bed
And start to snatchin' her clothes off
I'm in the closet, like man, what the f**k is going on?
You're not gonna believe it
But things get deeper as the story goes on
Next thing you know, a call comes through on my cell phone
I tried my best to quickly put it on vibrate
But from the way he act, I could tell it was too late
He hopped up and said, "There's a mystery going on
And I'm gonna solve itâ€
And I'm like, "God please, don't let this man open this closetâ€
He walks in the bathroom
And looks behind the door
She says, "Baby, come back to bedâ€
He says, "Bitch say no moreâ€
He pulls back the shower curtain
While she's biting her nails
Then he walks back to the room
Right now, I'm sweating like hell
Checks under the bed
Then under the dresser
He looks at the closet
I pull out my Baretta
He walks up to the closet
He goes up to the closet
Now he's at the closet
Damn he's opening the closet…
Now he's staring at me like
As if he was starin in a mirror
She yells honey let me explain
He says you don't have to go no further
I can clearly see what's goin on
Behind my back, in my bed, in my home
Then I said wait a minute now hold on
I said mister we can work this out
She said honey don't lose control
Tried to get him to calm down
He said hoe I should've known
That you would go and do some bogus shit up in my house
But the Christian in me gave you the benefit of the doubt
I said we need to resolve this
Then he stepped to me, I'm like whoa
There's a reason I'm in this closet
He says, yeah like what, are you talkin clothes
I met this girl at the Plagis club
And she told me she didn't have a man
Then he said man please,
I'd kill you if you didn't have that gun in ya hand
And I said but yo chick chose me
He said don't give me that mack shit please
His phone goes off and then things get a little more interesting
He steps a little closer
I point my gun and says I'm not the one you after
He says son I bet you didn't know my man
Did she tell you that I was a pastor
I said well good that's betta right
Why can't we handle this Christian- like
And I started to put the gun down
Til I saw his face still had that frown
She started cryin, sayin baby I'm sorry
Then he said baby not as sorry as you're gonna be
I started inchin out
He says no I want you to see this
Said I gotta get out this house
He said not til I reveal my secret
I'm like what is goin on inside his head
Then he takes his phone and calls somebody up and says
Hello, Baby, turn the car around
Listen I just need for you to get right back here now (Click)
He looks at me and says well since we're all comin out the closet
I'm not about to be the only one that's broken hearted
She said what do you mean
And he said just wait and see
I said somebody betta talk to me
And then his phone rings
He picks up and somebody says sweetheart I'm downstairs
And he's like I'll buzz you up
I'm on the fifth floor, hurry take the stairs
And I'm like who is this mystery lady that you're talking to
He says in time you both will know the shockin truth
Baby this is something I been wanting to get off my chest for a long, long time
Then I said nigga Imma shoot you both if you don't say what's on ya mind
He said wait I hear somebody comin up the stairs
And I'm lookin at the door
He says I think you betta sit down in the chair
I says I'm gonna count to four
1, he says mister wait
2, she says please don't shoot
3, he says don't shoot me
4, she screams
Then a knock at the door, the guns in my hands
He opens the door, I'can't believe it it's a man
Well,here we are the four of us,
in total shock me and her,
I close my mouth,and swollow spit,
as I'm thinking to myself this is some deep shit,
then I said so your gonna tell me he's the one
you've been talking to,
he says yes, I says no, he says yes, I says no,
he says it's the truth,
I yell all of ya'll asses crazy,
let me up out this door, cause this is way
more than I bargoned for,
and then she says wait,
I'm sure we can all fix this, then I said i'm late,
'cause I ain't got a damn thing to do with this.....
Then she said wouldn't you like to know
just how it all begin,
then I thought to myself and said quick you got 3 minutes,
then it got real quite,
I said somebody start talkin,then she said
And then she said My God Ruphus, I got just one question,
he looked at her and said bitch please you got
yo nerve, with all yo club hoppin'
lying sayin' you was shoppin',
and now here you are in
our home, and you calling
me wrong, she said ok you busted me,
and that much I agree,
you caught me cheating,
but this is a little extreme,
he said you are my wife,
sleeping behind my back,
and now I come home and you got him in the closet,
how extreme is that?......
She says but she's a he,
then he says please you can't judge me,
she says Ruphus this is crazy,
and I said stop aguing,
I did not stay here to hear yall chew
each other out, so get to the point,
or I swear I'm out, excuse me please,
but I think I can explain what's going in
here, my name is Chuck, and I've been
knowin' Ruphus for bout a year,
at midnight creeping around with him it's been a living hell,
sneaking in and out of hotels,
I said brother spare me
the details, then Ruphus said Chuck please,
don't say nothin' else, then she screams Ruphus
you son of a bitch,
and he says Cathy go to hell,
I said I thought you name was Mary,
that's what you said at the party,
man this is getting scary,
I'm gonna shoot somebody......
Then Ruphus starts yellin' and screaming
saying Cathy this is all yo fault,
she throws a pillow at him
and says you was creepin' too the only difference
is you didn't get caught,
Chuck screams out we're in love
Cathy says love my ass
Ruphus say they gettin' married
then I shoot one in the air,
then I say not another one of
you sons of bitches say a word,
cause all of this shit I'm going through
is unheard, grab my celluar,
sayin' this is so wrong,
call up my home,
and a man picks up the phone......................
Now I'm dashin home
Doin 85
Swervin lane to lane
Wit fire in my eyes
I got a million thoughts
goin through my mind
I'm thinkin about what imma do and who I'm gonna do it to when I get home
How could I have been so blind
And then I look in my rear view
I cannot believe this
(Whoo whoo whoo)
Damn, here comes a police man
He drove right up on me and flashed his light
Then I pulled over without thinkin twice
He hopped out the car and walked over to me
And said license and registration please
I looked up at him and said
Officer, is there somethin wrong
He said no, except for you was doin 85 in a 60 mile zone
Then I said officer
Let me explain please
Ya see the truth of the matter is
Is that I got an emergency
He said no excuses
And no exceptions
He flicks his cigarette and then gives me the ticket
Said have a nice day and walked away
I said yeah right and drove away
Then I turned my radio on
And did 55 all the way home
I pulled up in the driveway
Hopped out and slammed the car door
Then go around the back
Bust up in the house pull back the shower door and she screamin
Whats all that for
Then I'm like woman I called this house
And a man picked up my phone
Then she said calm down
Did you forget
My brother Twan came home
And thats all I could say was oh
Wit a stupid look on my face
Said I forgot he came home today
And she said thats okay
Because honey I understand
She said you dont have to explain
Then I took her by the hand
I kissed her and then we went to the room
Then I turned some music on
Apologized one more time
Then went down and start gettin it on
And she started bitin her lip
Grabbing me and makin noise
Now we makin love and she's my ear whisperin
It's all yours
I said I love you
And she said I love ya, too
Then a tear fell up out my eye
Then I called her my sunshine
And then she looked at me
And said baby go deeper please
And thats when I start goin crazy
Like I was tryin to give her a baby
The room feel like its spinnin
We keep turnin and turnin
As if we were in a whirlwind
The way our toes are curlin
The next thing ya know, she starts goin real wild
And screamin my name
Then I said baby, we must slow down
Before I bust a vessel in my brain
And she said please no dont stop
And I said I caught a cramp
And she said please keep on goin
I said my leg is about to crack
Then she cries out
Oh my goodness, I'm about to climax
And I said cool
Just let go of my leg
She says you're the perfect lover
I said I cant go no futher
Then I flip back the cover
Oh my God, a rubber...
And now, I'm like
Well, well, well
What the f**k is this
A condom in my bed
Ya better start talkin, bitch
'Fore I take a match and
Burn this muthaf**ka down
I said you better start talkin
And start talkin right god damn now
Then she said baby
I'm so speechless
Then I said my baby
You gone be breathless
If ya dont start talkin quick
Woman, I'm gone have a fit
You dont know what ya f**kin wit
Girl ya better cut the bullshit
Now its obvious somebody has been all up in my home
In my bed, and plus I smell cigarettes
Now and sniffin and lookin around
Suspicious like someone's here
Then I looked in her eyes and in her eyes
There was so much fear
Pull out my gun said is he still here
She shook her head and said no
I'm checkin behind every door
She cried out he left right after you called
I said what the f**k was you thinking
You thought that I wouldnt find this out
Then I said you must be crazy or on crack to have somebody off up in my muthaf**kin house
She hopped up and said thats enough
She said I cant take no more
And then she said you made your point
But now its time to even the score
She said I know all about last night
And where you went when you left the club
Said thats right, nigga I was there
Wit this guy in the back of the club
I said I thought you was wit yo girls
She said I thought you was wit yo guys
She said you was at that bitches house
And dont even try to act suprised
Said bab, she said shut up
Dont you say a word
It aint nothin you can say
That I aint already heard
Then I said woman, dont you try to turn it all around
Cause the fact still remains that someone else was in my house
Then she said you're right about that
Somethin did go down, but I dont have to turn it around
Cause what goes around comes back around
I'm movin a little closer to her
She's trippin over the furniture
She said wait first, just let me explain
I said no need to, just give me his name
And then she said uh...uh
I say uh what
She said please sit down in a chair
And I say no, I'm standin up
And she cries out I'm so scared to tell you because of what ya might do
And I screamed look girl you better give me this man's name and I'm not playin wit you
She says okay, wipes her nose and asks me about a girl named Tina
I thought to myself, said it sound familiar
I said I probably know her if I seen her
Then I say anyway girl, what the hell does that got to do with this man
She said he know my girl Roxanne
I said who the hell is Roxanne
Then she says Roxanne's a friend of mine who know with this guy named Chuck
Chuck's cool wit this guy name Rufus
And I'm sittin here like what the f**k
Then she says Rufus wife, Cathy
We both went to high school
She introduced me to
The policeman that stopped you


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New App - BoSTT Bone and Soft Tissue Tumours - Case Studies
Bone and soft tissue tumours - case studies (BoSTT) is a mobile source of musculoskeletal tumour cases provided by experts at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) NHS Trust, Stanmore, Greater London, UK.
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The app is designed for healthcare professional working in the field of musculoskeletal medicine, including radiologists, pathologists, orthopaedic surgeons, oncologists, nurse specialists and physiotherapists. It can also be used by medical students, trainee doctors, residents and specialist fellows for their continuing medical education.
The RNOH is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and is regarded as a leader in the field of orthopaedics and sarcoma care both in the UK and worldwide.
This App was financed by RNOH's Innovation Fund with the support of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.


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