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Switzerland can be an expensive place to ski. Yet, while certain resorts such as St Moritz and Gstaad appear exclusively populated by "Made in Chelsea" Hugos and Prada-clad Natalias, writing off the land of Toblerone as a playground solely for the rich would be a shame.
The Swiss Alps are the most beautiful in Europe, less crowded than the French and with more reliable snow than Italy or Austria (let alone slush-fest Slovenia). It's also the easiest of all the Alpine countries to get around thanks to a fabulously efficient rail system, now conveniently linked to Eurostar's ski train. Swiss tourism bosses have also finally realized that not everyone has a wallet stuffed with francs have cooked up a range of winter deals from discounted ski passes to two-for-one packages.
So with dozens of resorts, running from A (Andermatt) to Z (Zermatt), where to begin? Here's three that might be your cup of glüwein.
All photos by Switzerland Tourism
V is for Verbier
For the younger crowd it's hard to beat Verbier, Switzerland's answer to France's Trois Vallées, though without the same amount of Brits on the piste. You'll find a staggering 410km of red, blue and black runs in the surrounding 4 Vallées area, plus plenty of fresh powder to explore with a guide. With snug little bars and regular guest DJs, Verbier has the best après-ski in the country, while events feature everything from ski dating to snowboard film festivals; be sure to visit in March for the annual Freeride world tour. For a budget lunch between black runs (and "budget" means under £20 in Verbier) try La Vache (The Cow), a mountain restaurant dreamt up by celeb trio James Blunt, Lawrence Dallaglio and Carl Fogerty. Staying in Verbier itself will take a large bite out of your budget (for last-minute chalet deals try Verbinet). Nendaz, in the next valley north, is more affordable and part of the same ski area.
J is for Jungfrau
Known for its high-altitude railway and the classic silhouette of the Eiger, the Jungfrau region packs in four resorts – Grindelwald, Wengen, Lauterbrunnen and Mürren. As well as some of the most dramatic scenery in Switzerland, you'll find a wide range of terrain from gentle nursery slopes to slightly unhinged black runs. Every January Wengen becomes the focal point for flag-waving, cow-bell clinking ski fans when World Cup racing hits town. The highlight of the competition is the butt-clenching 150km/h Lauberhorn Run, the longest downhill course in the world. Boarders will love the White Elements SnowPark, a perfectly groomed series of jumps and rails (just check your travel insurance before taking this on!). This winter the Jungfrau region is offering 20 percent off ski passes and two-for-one deals.
E is for Engelberg
This monastery town (it translates as "Angel Mountain") sits in the geographical heart of Switzerland and offers some of Europe's finest backcountry powder (Swedes and Norwegians discovered this decades ago and come here in their hundreds). Thanks to the glacier-capped Mount Titlis (accessed by the world's first revolving cable car) the season here lasts all the way from October to May. Engelberg also hosts the annual Ski Jumping World Cup. Whether or not you have fond memories of Eddie the Eagle in action (see below), viewing this sport close-up is a jaw-dropping experience and attracts a good mix of Swiss fans and tourists. Check out engelberg.ch for last-minute offers and "White Weeks" package deals including seven nights accommodation and a six-day ski pass.

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iPad 3 to have 8 megapixel camera and more tapered design?
Apple Daily, a news publication based out of Taiwan, have posted what they claim are images of the upcoming iPad 3, acquired through "inside sources". One alleged shot shows the next-gen iPad from a side/rear overview perspective, and another has all three iterations of the iPad side-by-side. From the latter, the iPad 3 appears slightly more tapered around the edges than the iPad 2, and the camera lens is noticeably bigger. Speaking of which, Apple Daily says that the rear camera will be 8 megapixels, up from the 1 megapixel in resolution of the iPad 2. Other specs they claim the iPad 3 to have are the retina display and quad-core A6 chip, as well as a release date of March 7th. These are in line with a previous Bloomberg report that states production had already begun as of mid-January, and a March launch date had been targeted by Apple.
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Tevye Can't Touch THIS Tradition
I know what you're thinking, dear readers, and let me assure you: yes, indeed I did just make a Fiddler on the Roof reference.
That's because, as I write this, Major League pitchers and catchers are reporting to their respective training camps; and after a long, cold, hard winter of Brad Lidge, Milton Bradley and Kyle Farnsworth bashing, we can all finally relax knowing our hallowed game is springing back to life.
A year ago this week, my cynical and oft busy-body colleague Mr. Allen Krause, and I took to the streets of Chicago to proclaim our undying crush on the game of baseball. Luckily for you there was a film crew following us, not to mention an ebullient David Archuleta, who lent us his tunes, to make a point.
And as we hope will be a long and prosperous tradition of ringing in the new baseball season, we (re)present to you the definitive RSBS tradition:
Hell yes, we love our baseball and no, we aren't afraid to show it.
Now, aren't ya glad I didn't write that Evan Bayh piece I was workin' on?
Nah. You can't hate me today. 'Cuz you know I'm right.


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Wow. [member=1214]Aeolus[/member] wrote many many words and managed to be right about... basically nothing. Very unusual for him and also kind of impressive. Having seen the first two episodes myself finally, I really think that if he had just spouted off several paragraphs of text blind, without having watched anything, he might have done better than he did having just "watched" (and I use that term loosely) the first episode.As for my own impressions:[spoiler]I was very impressed with both the spectacle of the 2 episodes, as well as the "twist" at the end of them: that both episodes were all backstory and the show proper will begin with episode 3. Most other shows would start with what we'll get in 3 and slowly, over the course of a season or a few episodes, reveal the events that we got to see in totality in Episodes 1 and 2. A very neat storytelling idea, and it meant they got to frontload their budget a bit.Regarding the actual plot itself, I'm not sure yet. It *is* a bit heavy-handed with the politics, but that doesn't mean it won't build its own identity as it goes. And the characters (those we've met, at least) are pretty strong. I already miss Captain Georgiou already, though.But the Klingons are terrible and overdone and there's no getting around it. During literally everything involving them I just couldn't stop this one thoughtfrom cropping up over and over: "Man, how cool would this be if these aliens looked like Klingons?"[/spoiler]Hopefully I'll be watching Episode 3 in a matter of hours.
The real problem is that the setup of the first episode is basically the 'prior' to the start of Discovery's voyage, and the main crew sans the current(ly doomed) Captain are going to transfer to the bigger, better and bestest ship of the Starfleet, with the current first officer (and very much the main character of the show) getting promoted to Captain of this proud vessel.
The whole first season of TNG was pretty much not good.
Quote from: Starmongoose on October 05, 2017, 06:04:28 PMThe whole first season of TNG was pretty much not good. That is why growing the beard is a trope. :p
And I enjoy Tilly so far, especially since a lot of the other characters seem like total jerks.
I guess I might check out the Orville given that I'm hearing some good things about it, but I have to admit there's a part of me that really thinks some of the buzz is from obnoxious people talking about how great it is as an indirect way of complaining about Discovery (btw this isn't directed at you Aeolus- you know how the internet can be). Part of that also stems from me really not liking most of Seth MacFarlane's work.
Quote from: Starmongoose on October 05, 2017, 06:04:28 PMThe whole first season of TNG was pretty much not good. Hell, I'd say the same for season 2. I think there's a grand total of like 2 good episodes in the first two seasons (Measure of a Man and Pen Pals are the ones that come to mind for me).
I liked The Orville fine, but after Ep 2 deemed it "not worth paying extra for" so I'll be dropping it until it comes out on Netflix/Prime.
Dunno if you've seen Episode 3 Arvis, but I'd recommend you check it out if you haven't.


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I keep running into LXDE derivatives. Not physically of course, but it could be an unintended side effect of being on the lookout for distros to try on the Mebius.
For example, I mentioned the Lubuntu spinoff Peppermint about a few months ago, adding my own warning that little time would elapse before it too morphed into something else. I was right (of course); here is Peppermint Ice.
Peppermint rips out a lot of what Lubuntu throws in by default; if you can imagine, Peppermint Ice seems to go a step further by ripping out more of what was in Peppermint, leaving an almost-purely Internet-reliant operating system.
Naturally there are stipulations to be made with that, but it's more-or-less true: Short of a calculator, file manager or terminal emulator, almost everything here will require a solid, speedy Internet connection to use.
In that sense it might be a completely online desktop system. Whether or not you like that is going to depend on your personal proclivities; myself, I'm not a huge fan of the cloud, so Peppermint Ice does not entice. (Ha! I made a kind of pun! 🙄 )
My prediction: The next step in the Peppermint evolution is of course Peppermint Icicle, which will boot directly from the Internet, no on-disk system at all. It can be done.
So is it faster? is it lighter than its progenitor? You tell me.
Here's Linux Mint LXDE, which is another LXDE adventure.
Green and black is good. Mint fans seem to love the fact that they get codecs, etc., from the word go, so this is about what I expected. Applications are the standard LXDE-driven fare, which I don't begrudge anyone at all.
And it's quite a bit "fuller" than its Peppermint cousins Tools and programs you might prefer, as a regular user of a desktop Linux, are on hand in Mint LXDE and I see almost no Web-only applications.
So is it lighter? is it faster than its competition? You tell me.
Masonux is something I looked at a long time ago, then felt sorry I never mentioned because the developer called it quits. For old time's sake, here is what it looked like (notice the past tense) in the 9.04 version.
Masonux's call to glory — or claim to fame — may have been its early adoption of the LXDE tool set; before it was cool to have an LXDE spinoff, Masonux had dedicated itself to That Ideal. earthpigg said himself (herself?) a few months ago that the niche no longer existed, and perhaps he was right.
In any case, since it's Ubuntu-driven there's nothing stopping you from installing the last version and updating manually. As you can see, it's functional and clean — and exceptionally slim. The ISO was only +/- 325Mb, and your choice of software on startup is quite thin. And that's a good, because it gives you a solid starting point. Build up from there.
So is it faster? is it lighter than the newcomers? You tell me.
WattOS is something I have a hard time putting in a box mentally. I see that it's supposed to be somehow more power-conscious, which in turn probably suggests it is more energy-efficient, which in turn is somehow better for the planet.
For what I've seen though, there is only one tool in particular that really sets it apart from any other distro: an amalgamated power control panel. I read somewhere that it's not accessible until you install the system, but I am a sneaky person so I managed to get it on screen from the live environment.
I understand WattOS's goal — even linux-mag.com fawns over it for its power-conscientiousness. As far as I can tell though, by skimming through
dpkg -l and poking around elsewhere, it seems to be using a standard Ubuntu kernel, standard applications (Abiword, Gnumeric, et al.) and quite a few Gnome underpinnings. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
No matter. You gotta have a gimmick these days, if you want to stick out in the crowd. An original power monitor is enough to draw a few eyes.
So is it lighter? is it faster? Is it more energy-efficient? You tell me.
I could go on and list quite a few more. Ubuntu seems to be the grandfather of most of these (and Debian the great-grandfather), and there are in-house versions of LXDE desktops in almost every major distro. And where there isn't, you can usually put together your own rendition.
It's a good thing. LXDE reinforces the idea that you don't need a quad-core with 12Gb of memory to run a Linux desktop, no matter what the Gnome or KDE camps tell you. It also, in a roundabout way, reminds people that older machines are still viable.
Of course, everything I've shown you here still requires far more muscle and power than the Mebius has on hand. It might be that they are all better solutions for older machines … just not really, really old ones.
So in that sense, are they lighter? are they faster? Are they better than full-blown desktop environments? You tell me.


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When you're playing a hardcore first-person shooter on the PS3 using the new Move controllers, you want to feel like you're in on the action. But what sort of solder is holding a couple of wands? A real soldier has guns. The new Playstation Move Submachine Gun from CTA Digital aims to make your gaming a little more realistic.
Sure, it still has the glowing blue ball on the tip of the gun, but that's necessary for it to work. Otherwise, it looks to be a relatively authentic weapon, at least when compared to the alternative. It'll be available for $30 in November.
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The cost of attending Dartmouth College will increase by 3.8 percent for the next academic year, bringing the total for tuition, room, board and mandatory fees to just over $60,000.
The increase approved by the school's board of trustees is the smallest percentage increase in overall charges since 2001.
The college meets 100 percent of demonstrated need in financial aid. It offers free tuition for students whose family income is less than $100,000 per year and has increased its scholarship awards by more than 50 percent since 2007.


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March 2014 – Present (5 months) New York City Area
Advice and help implement innovations in ad units and editorial advertisements. Using best practices along with stable cutting edge specs - help develop ad units that break from the normal expectations.
Work with team members in including creative directors, editorial, project managers, and programmers to figure out ways to improve upon ideas with feasible yet forward thinking tech deliverables. Work to create Flash banner ads and HTML5 ad units with backends to stream in new content, bring in social media, and link into live client systems for clients including Adobe, Cunard, Capital One, Tennis Channel, and Zurich. Spec out future ad potentials with advance interaction and media integration for long term goals.
Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry
January 2003 – Present (11 years 7 months)
Instruct classes in: Digital Design & Illustrator; Photoshop Basics; 3D modeling Fundamentals
Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Broadcast Media industry
May 2002 – Present (12 years 3 months) Greater New York City Area
Work annually for Disney/ABC as a graphics engineer & motion graphics artist, Twitter API app developer, for the live Upfront marketing event.
January 2000 – Present (14 years 7 months)
Instruct classes in: 3D modeling and animation (Maya, Max, & Mudbox) ; Digital design and interactivity (Photoshop, Dreamweaver & Flash).
July 2013 – March 2014 (9 months)
Developing interactive strategies and user experience (UI) for build out of micro live streaming broadcast centers and the development of mobile games for Android, iOS, and Windows.
Consultant with clients and lead on internal projects. Provide functional recommendations as well as supervise the development of game interface & story.
Implement prototypes and refine functionality using frameworks, including, starling, feathers, and away3D. Work with programming languages of AS3, JQuery, PHP, and HTML5. Development tools include the Adobe CC suite (Flash Builder, Flash Pro, Gaming SDK, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Edge Animator, and Illustrator).
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; DIS; Entertainment industry
May 2002 – January 2014 (11 years 9 months) New York
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; WPPGY; Marketing and Advertising industry
February 2013 – July 2013 (6 months) New York, New York
Worked on various campaigns including Canon, E*trade, & Marriot. Took rough storyboards from Illustrator and Photoshop compositions and other assets and refined animation concepts and artwork for delivery across ad networks. Created various one-of a kind AS2 & AS3 engines/simulations to use in banner ads, such as wind and emulating camera moves with flat art. Also responsible for implementing various social media components to a campaign, such as, e-newsletters, art for Facebook, and flicker community banners.
November 2012 – February 2013 (4 months) New York
Work at a 3D pop up store in Manhattan providing information, demonstrations, body scanning, and design services.
* Designed 3D art toy for education and retail (http://statigr.am/tinyroboti).
* Taught children's workshop on how to design 3D objects.
* Informed the general public on the concept and use of 3D printers and connected services.
* Created micro-production facility to produce 3D printed art objects.
* Helped clients work their ideas into next-step action plans for development.
* Talked with visitors to provide assistance in selecting services, retail products, equipment, abd more understanding of the technology.
February 2011 – February 2013 (2 years 1 month) New York
Worked with clients and internal team to define visions, resources, and implementation strategies for projects. Provided management and support for application prototyping projects, web development, and motion graphic projects. Designed wireframes, site flow charts, UX, and comp sketches for interactive development. Transformed Photoshop & Illustrator files into functional site designs. Created motion graphics for clients using Maya, AfterEffects and other 3D and 2D tools.
August 2009 – February 2011 (1 year 7 months)
Developed a 2 million dollar outdoor dynamic urban park space screen for arts and entertainment used for Kimpton Hotel Eventi in Manhattan. Help oversee operations and manage the project's annual operating budget.
•Strategized on developing content exchanges.
•Developed relationships with organizations.
•Worked with marketers to review pitches and create opportunities for selling branded screen time and innovative experiences that brought in advertising dollars.
•Managed production and acquisition staff including research assignments, daily tasks, long term goals, hiring, training, and hour tracking.
•Created workflow for the processing and display of content.
•Worked to provide better audiences experiences through the community of social nodes and community based interest.
•Oversaw the development of content delivery system as well as standards and practices for acquiring, filtering, and ingesting content.
•Met with LodgeNet, Time Warner, and conduit installers to secure and test content aggregation within the venue.
July 2006 – August 2009 (3 years 2 months)
Created interactive experiences, websites, motion graphics, and reports for a wide range of clients. Clients included: Adobe, BBDO, Bloomberg, Canon, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Ogilvy & Mathers, Posner Advertising, Syfy Channel, United Nations, and Waterfront Media.
implementing site that confirm with U.N.'s methods and policies and technological practices.
January 2001 – August 2004 (3 years 8 months)
Worked on various interactive and media strategy projects for client accounts including: Large Animal, Kumon, Fuji Electric, Showtime, ADP, and SmileTrain.
•Lead front and back end development, hiring and managing temporary workers to fulfill project needs.
•Defined and refined project goals with clients.
•Built of corporate presentations; digital video conversion.
•Involved with the creation of digital strategies for emerging companies
•Lead the conceptualization and development of distant learning software beta-tested at The New School and at Columbia University.
March 1999 – January 2001 (1 year 11 months) New York
Lead interactive team within branding and design agency. Developed business and entertainment web sites, presentations, and interactive products.
•Managed team members, client relations, and developed sites frameworks.
•Created all phases of soft documentation, including: RFPs, SOWs, project roadmaps, client sign-offs, and technical documentations.
•Created technical visualizations of project workflows including wireframes and site maps.
•Programmed websites and entertainment experiences with PHP, HTML, CSS, FLASH, & ASP.
•Kept track of budgets, time resources of full-time interactive staff and temporary workers.
•Met with clients for pitch meetings and idea refinement and project capabilities meetings.
•Accounts included: New Balance, PC EXPO, On Demand Digital Print & Publishing EXPO, TimeWarner Pay-Per-View, And Senesco Bio Technologies.
March 1998 – March 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Worked on start-up site for a video community.
•Created wireframes, prototypes, web interfaces, and database structures. Designed and programmed in: Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS, PHP, & Actionscript.
•Worked with team to help define the parameters of the community, including user experiences and legal issues.
•Conceptualized and rebranded parent broadcast company's identity (to BNNtv).
•Prepared presentations and presented with team to venture capitalist during investment rounds.
February 1996 – March 1998 (2 years 2 months)
Managed the design, creation and production of book covers for the professional book division of McGraw-Hill including business, construction and computing imprints.
•Worked with art directors, editors, marketer and production staff to fulfill schedule for book jacket and marketing collateral creation.
•Managed freelance artists.
•Produced and retouched designs with Photoshop & Illustrator.
•Created mechanicals boards (traditionally and digitally)
•Worked with editorial to verify contractual fulfillment within designs.
•Checked proofs for accuracy and defects.
•Digitalized and automated forms that flowed into routing and the status system.
September 1995 – May 1997 (1 year 9 months)
Instructed classes in: 3D Max modeling and animation.
September 1994 – February 1996 (1 year 6 months)
Worked with Silicon Alley media company in the production of CD-ROMs and websites for entertainment and corporations.
•Coded new media experiences using Adobe Director; Flash, C++, HTML.
•Wrote press releases, game documentations, and client pitch material.
January 1992 – September 1994 (2 years 9 months)
Created computer 3D animated simulations and 2D digital stills to support the various projects of architectural and civil engineering firm. Projects included:
•EZ Pass signage and simulation.
•Wet lands restoration.
•Reclaiming of pedestrian areas along the West Side Highway.
•Route 21 in New Jersey Highway expansion.
•Subway flow simulations.
•Worked with architects and in-house graphics department to develop presentations and RFPs.
•Lead visualization department and managed project creations and resources.
•Researched and integrated emerging hardware and software into visualization pipeline.
•Animated using 3D Max, AutoCad & Adobe Premiere
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As Tories gleefully claim that we're out of a recession unemployedhack takes a look at the Tory Attacks Chart to see the hottest releases featuring assaults on the most vulnerable in society.
Children, disabled people, unemployed workers, young people, pensioners … everyone except the rich get a kicking from this Coalition government propped up by lickspittle lackey Lid Dems.
Straight in at #1: Ian Duncan Smith arrogantly concludes in a speech that domestic violence, drug addiction and family breakdown are solely working class experiences and uses benefit reforms and cuts for his warped social experiment. The rich, meanwhile, are not penalised for these issues because they have wealth.
Down one place to #2: Victorian window tax-style policy sees Tories with numerous homes punish those in social housing for having a spare room … and it will hurt disabled tenants
Down a spot: Almost five million British workers are paid less than a living wage
Non-mover. Homeless people lose local government support from November 9 when they'll face eligibility tests to be told they have to tolerate unsuitable private accommodation
Down a spot to #2: Pensioners work till they drop as those surviving on state pensions are told to work or volunteer or not get paid
Non-mover: Children of low-income families won't be able to leave home when not entitled to housing benefits
Hot release: Benefits are destructive says top Tory – and the number of children benefit claimants can have could be capped leaving them "freed from" the decision of whether they can afford to
Still vying for that #1 spot: Disabled plunged into poverty as benefits are cut for the most vulnerable leaving many suicidal
An unsurprising entry: Universities face a funding black hole as higher education is privatised and Tories/Lib Dems are seen to have fudged the figures
New entry: Cutting funding for Sure Start and children's services will damage lives of underprivileged children ruining their chances before they're even out of nappies
Ironic non-mover: Unemployed forced to work unpaid for benefits – taking jobs from the unemployed
Terrifying long stint in the charts: NHS cuts continue despite Tory pledge to defend the service A&E and wards face closures
Offensive non-mover: More cuts to child support for jobless parents added to those for low-income earners
Sickening entry: Foodbank charity Trussell Trust reveals that three foodbanks are opening every week as Tories claim we're out of a recession
Moralistic non-mover: The country's 1.9 million single parents are forced onto Jobseekers' Allowance – as Sure Start centres close and Workfare takes paid jobs
Surprise entry: Thatcher's Tory government included a paedophile – and Jimmy Savile spent his Christmases at Chequers
Pop summary: Tories – and their Lib Dem sidekicks – are a cruel, wealthy, self-centred axis of Eton attacking the vulnerable and defending the indefensible.
- Also, Still think the Tories – and Labour – need to make cuts and are not just looking for excuses to reduce the State?


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Here's a rundown of what we loved about having lived in Korea for the past two years. We left in April and miss a lot of great things. We want to get this down finish this blog so we can move on to our Turkish blog.
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Shopping in Korea can takes a little getting used to, but quickly became on of our favorite activities. We loved the outdoor street markets, especially the one in front of our home. We loved the varieties of cute merchandise in the Stationary Stores, the great customer service everywhere, and eating out was always an adventure and usually a treat. Here is a video of the outdoor market on our block. We loved this little market and miss it every time we go to a big grocery store.
Korea, for its being tiny – half the size of Minnesota – and highly populated, has an abundance of parks, mountains, rivers, islands, and coastlines. There are eighteen national parks, tens of thousands of islands with countless ferries between them, and well maintained hiking trails on every local mountain. If you're into hiking, this is the place to be. There were 3 small mountains within a 30 minute walk of our front door, and even the lesser known one offered a terrific view of the city after 20 minutes of uphill strolling. Also, Mokpo is surrounded on two sides by Shinan-gun, a county made up of 1,004 islands. We could take a bus, ferry, or our car and go poke around the islands for hours. (Quite the treat for a prairie girl!)
You can walk pretty much anywhere, any time, and feel safe here. Akasha has wandered Seoul after 11 looking for hotels and felt no fear at all. You can drink till the wee hours and hail a cab with little wait to whisk you home, usually for around five dollars. And if all that revelry puts you under the weather, the hospitals can get you back on your feet for a few dollars.
Korean Food
We've been home for almost 4 months and would love some dolsat bibimbap, mul nang mien, Gamjiatang from the Yim's across the street, and kim bap. Or any of the dollar ramiens from the Family Mart. Or hoduk pancakes from the street vendor. Mandu dumplings. Pat Bing Su The list goes on and on… I watched this feature on L.A.'sKorea Town last night and was drooling over the sundubu and bbq
Every village in Jeolla Province, and around Korea, has their claim to fame. Bamboo in Damyang, Bibimbap in Jeonju, lotus flowers in Muan. And for a week each year, every village gets to strut their stuff during their festival. Like county fairs that bloom in late summer of Minnesota, the festival season brings the flowers of local pride to light all across the peninsula. All the vendors come out and sell their version of the specialties, and you get to sample the local hospitality.
Internet Gadgets
Korea has lived up to its reputation as a gadget-friendly nation. Everywhere you go there's some kind of free wi-fi, but even if you don't know the password, the 3G is plentiful and fast, even on the tops of remote mountains. We've Skyped from our cellphones, listened to streaming audio while in the middle of a mountain tunnel, played poo-based smartphone games, and downloaded gigabytes of entertainment in minutes, rendering Netflix barely missed at all. For electronic toys, Korea is an A+ nation.
Great adventures!
Insert plug for our friend, Pedro. We miss Pedro's Lonely Korea tours. Pedro is an amazing entrepreneur who started a great travel company in Gwangju (city 45 minutes north of Mokpo.) We miss our Pedro adventures. He took us on great explorations, we went to the first Buddhist temple in Korea, to a sea water spa, and river rafting. I missed a million great trips with him to Jeju, caving, fishing, jet skiing, festivals… the guy plans great trips. He thinks of every little detail, and shows a new side of Korea to you. He has just opened a guest house in Gwangju, Pedro's Guest House. Go, stay there, say hi to Pedro for us.
I'm sure we're missing some things. The bus system, for instance. Or the weather, which was mostly great. And the people, who were always friendly and helpful. Sunrises and sunsets, or the glow of neon on magic street that we could see from our window at night.
We're moving on to Turkey now and have just put together a new blog. Thank you for following us for the last two years, and we'd be honored if you kept up with us in the future.


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Solipsy wrote:Yes, Father Jerome, this is in fact a Pastalm. If you wouldn't mind copy-pasting over to that thread, I'd be most greatful. (It's also very funny.) You should peruse the content ideas behind the various other threads. I think you'd enjoy some of the LAW I've written. I believe you'd have a gift for adding to it.
After my aimless wanderings through this forum, in search of the correct spot where I might post my Pastalm, you, friend Solipsy, mercifully offered this newly-converted pastafarian your guiding hand.
My former boss indeed turned out to be the jealous god who wouldst have no Greater Noodle before him (exactly as he had carved into stone). When I asked myself the question: where shall I post this pastalm? he deliberately misled me: "Put it here--no, put it there--no, put it where it doesn't at all belong; make a fool of yourself….†Now it is where it should've been in the first place-- Darn it! where in the wide, wide world of Raviolis did I post it…?
But, may the Great Noodle reward you for your guidance with many pounds of spaghetti and gallons of sauce and heaps of meat-sa-balls. Thank you for your suggestions; and I pledge to continue making my generous offerings--to The Only True FSM--in form of songs, proverbs, and general silliness.
May He bless you and keep you in His Noodly sustenance forever--or at least thrice a week.
Yours in Oodles of Noodles,
Father Jerome
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Gulf Salt Marsh Snake
Scientific name: Nerodia clarkii clarkii (BAIRD & GIRARD 1853)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Regina clarkii – BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Tropidonotus clarkii – COPE 1861
- Natrix clarki – ALLEN 1932
- Natrix sipedon clarki – CONANT 1958
- Natrix fasciata clarki – CONANT 1975
- Nerodia clarkii clarkii – CONANT & COLLINS 1991
Average adult size is 15-20 inches (38-51 cm), record is 36 inches (91.4 cm). Adults are grayish with four dark longitudinal stripes on their body, two on each side. The belly is reddish-brown to gray with 1 or 3 rows of light spots. The scales are keeled, and there are 21-23 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The pupil is round. Juvenile coloration is similar to adults.
A. Top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are typically divided
D. Front (face view) of the head
E. Side of the head
F. Keeled scales
Range: In Florida, the Gulf Salt Marsh Snake is found along the Gulf coast from central Florida northwest to the tip of the panhandle. Outside of Florida, it is found along the Gulf coast from Florida west to southern Texas.
Habitat: Commonly found along the coast in brackish and saltwater estuaries, salt marshes, and tidal mud flats.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous). The Gulf Salt Marsh Snake is active mainly at night, though its activity patterns may be affected by tidal patterns and seasons. Since it does not have salt glands to help it get rid of the salt it ingests from its estuarine habitat, in order to survive it must obtain freshwater, such as from rain, shifting tides, or body fluids of their prey.
It can be found hiding in tidal wrack along the shore and sometimes is seen inhabiting crab burrows in the sand or mud. It feeds on small fishes, crabs, shrimp, and other invertebrates trapped in isolated pools of water by the falling tide.
It gives birth to live young that around 7-9 inches (17.7-22.8 cm) long.
Comparison with other species: The Striped Crayfish Snake (Regina alleni) has a uniform light-colored belly. The Queen Snake (Regina septemvittata) is much thinner and has only 2 light-colored stripes on its body.
It should not happen often, but some people might confuse a Salt Marsh Snake with a venomous Cottonmouth. However, it is easy to distinguish between Cottonmouths and Salt Marsh Snakes and other Water Snakes.


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Transylvania Jones: Drac, Frank swing into action
The movie hog stuck his head in a theater and saw Van Helsing, which means four more months of summer movies.
On the premise that nothing succeeds like excess, Universal let that infernal showoff Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, The Mummy Returns) raid their vault with a license to steal. The result is awful, but not in an entirely bad way.
If in the 1930s Universal had had scads of money instead of James Whale's imagination, they might have produced Van Helsing then instead of their classic horror films. Audiences of the day would have been entertained in great numbers, but it's doubtful the film would be remembered as a classic generations later.
With all its flash and glitz, Van Helsing could be the first horror film to be turned into a Las Vegas show. Except that it's not a horror film; it's an action-adventure built around characters from horror films. Imagine a supernatural Indiana Jones movie without the slow parts.
A black-and-white opening sequence recreates the birth of Frankenstein's Monster (Shuler Hensley), not quite as faithfully as Mel Brooks did in Young Frankenstein. This is where Sommers starts taking liberties, because Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) is in the house, which is actually his castle. His plans for the Monster will be revealed soon.
Then we meet Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman), a monster hunter who is working for a secret order of the Catholic Church to eradicate evil creatures– vampires, werewolves, same-sex couples who wish to marry... (I just threw in that last part.) A cardinal sends him to Transylvania to protect the last surviving members of the Valerious family, which Dracula has been trying to wipe out for over 400 years.
In a scene right out of a James Bond movie (perhaps Jackman, mentioned as a candidate, is campaigning to take over the role?) Van Helsing is equipped with the latest gadgets by Carl (David Wenham), whose status as a friar, not a monk, allows him a lot of leeway. Our hero brings Carl along for comic relief, and he provides plenty of it. Not that you ever want for laughs during Van Helsing, but it's hard to tell whether many of them are intentional.
Van Helsing is too late to save Velkan Valerious (Will Kemp) from being bitten by a werewolf and turning into one himself. Our hero gets off to a bad start with Velkan's sister Anna (Kate Beckinsale) by trying to kill her brother in his lupine form. Jackman and Beckinsale make a hot couple– from their first scene together you can imagine them competing for Sexiest Couple at next year's MTV Movie Awards– but Sommers, with his prepubescent mentality, doesn't give them much chance to act on it.
Dracula has been saving his three wives' eggs for centuries and has thousands of them he can't hatch without electrical wires attached to Frankenstein's Monster. (Please don't ask me to explain anything in that sentence, but it's the basis of the plot.)
Sommers makes some interesting connections between characters, and answers some questions you may have had about them, but sense and logic are not his strong suits. If werewolves only become wolves during a full moon, how is a main character bitten by one three days before the next full moon? And there's no point to all the shape shifting during the climactic fight except that the effects budget allowed it.
The over-the-top nature of everything else is matched by Alan Silvestri's music. Only Bruce Broughton might have gone even further with it.
I can't say Van Helsing is good, let alone great, but it's absurdly exciting– more absurd than exciting– and gives you your money's worth if this is what you choose to spend it on.


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GlaxoSmithKline received £1.35 billion for the divestiture of its Ribena and Lucozade beverage brands.
GlaxoSmithKline chose to divest two iconic consumer drink brands because the company was increasingly focusing its core health operations on emerging markets in which the two brands were relatively weak. The divestiture also helped streamline the company's late-stage pipeline of pharmaceuticals and vaccines.
In April 2013, after a strategic review of its corporate portfolio, UK-based GlaxoSmithKline announced that it would divest two of its best-known consumer drink brands. Lucozade, a brand of sports and energy drinks, and Ribena, a fruit-based drink concentrate, no longer fit in with company goals, including growth in emerging markets and expanding the company's portfolio of vaccines and pharmaceuticals.
We love these brands, and we think we've done a terrific job, but there are other potential owners able to generate greater value with a better distribution footprint.
The company asked BCG to help craft a sound business plan for the two beverage brands. The plan had to demonstrate the brands' successful turnarounds in their home markets and provide an attractive growth story that outlined opportunities in new markets. The company also had to clearly communicate the commercial viability of the assets' stand-alone operations.
The team spent ten weeks conducting commercial vendor due diligence. It also performed upside assessments that reviewed market opportunities for Ribena and Lucozade outside of their heritage home markets—including Africa, for which almost no external market data was available.
BCG helped GlaxoSmithKline develop and quantify the impact of operational improvements, such as optimizing the supply chain and manufacturing footprint. It also supported the company during presentations and Q&A sessions with strategic bidders.
In December 2013, the company completed the divestiture to Japanese soft drink manufacturer Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd. for £1.35 billion.
GlaxoSmithKline received £1.35 billion for the divestiture of its Ribena and Lucozade beverage brands.


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WASHINGTON — White House officials refused to comment Friday on a Los Angeles Times report that CIA operatives and U.S. special operations troops have been secretly training Syrian rebels with anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons since late last year, saying only that the U.S. had increased its assistance to the rebellion.
The covert U.S. training at bases in Jordan and Turkey began months before President Obama approved plans to begin directly arming the opposition to Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to U.S. officials and rebel commanders.
"We have stepped up our assistance, but I cannot inventory for you all the elements of that assistance," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. "We have provided and will continue to provide substantial assistance to the Syrian opposition, as well as the Supreme Military Council."
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Until the glorious day when my whole desk is an induction charging slab, I'll take any help I can get in my daily battle with power strips, chargers, cables, and cords. The gadget-charging T'Light lamp looks like a powerful ally.
The metal lamp has a 3 watt LED light and comes in 8 different colors. OK, great. But the real business is down below, in the base—it includes an iPhone dock, a USB port, and a jack for powering laptops, though unfortunately there's no MacBook adapter.
Sadly, I think we're still a ways off from winning the war on cables. But at least we have the T'Light, which is available now for $90, to keep our morale up in the meantime. [T'light via Wired]


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Here's the best part:
So kids, ask mommie before coming here. Oops, I said "coming."
Maybe I'll just talk about tummies and bandaids. Boo-boos, I suppose, are out. Depending on punctuation.
Wherein a surgeon tells some stories, shares some thoughts, and occasionally shoots off his mouth. Like a surgeon.
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so funny it kills me. note i didn't use the descriptive dead, so you don't have to edit this out. just to show i care. (the word care might even improve you rating. who knows)
Good to see that I'm not the only one in the NC-17 club..all because I think my bf is "sexy." :)
Such is life. :)
Cursed with a PG-13. Darned poop.
Hey, Sid, at least you have a rating. I had a guy tell me he printed out my blog and used it to line his bird's cage.
LOL...your stories about procedures and such (perhaps it was that colectomy that got you the NC-17) are too interesting to pay any particular attention to some "rating system". The excessive sensitivity of that system doesn't understand the at times intimate connection between knives and surgeons, after all. Keep it coming, Doc!
Love your blog, but hate that when reading your older posts, if I click on your links, I'm always brought back to your most recent post, & then have to scroll down, click on older posts & repeat. Any way to fix that?
anon: hmmm. I randomly checked the links in some of my older posts and didn't have the problem you describe, if I understood you correctly. Don't know what to make of it.


text: Siddle (front) finished the match with figures of nine wickets for 104 as Australia won first Test in Hobart [GETTY]Seamers Peter Siddle and Mitchell Starc skittled Sri Lanka's last six wickets in a dramatic final session to give Australia a 137-run victory in the last hour of the first Test on Tuesday.Siddle, who finished the match with figures of 9-104, and left-armer Starc, who took 5-63 in the second innings, caughtfire after tea to bowl the tourists out for 255. Having been stymied in similar circumstances by a brilliant rearguard action from South Africa in Adelaide last month, Australia were desperate not to repeat the experience in Hobart.However, it looked like it might be a case of deja vu at tea after some resilient Sri Lankan batting and a couple of rain breaks frustrated the hosts for two sessions. Captain Michael Clarke, whose team will take a 1-0 lead to Melbourne for the second match in the three-Test series, said he never doubted his bowlers. "If everyone's got the heart that (Siddle) has, we'll get back to being number one in the world no doubt" Australia captain Michael Clarke "We knew we had to be patient," said Clarke, who was confident he would be fit for the second Test despite a hamstring injury."No doubt I was confident that if we could bowl the balls in the right area for a long period of time that we would have success."It was going to be day's work to get so many good batsmen out but take nothing away from the bowlers, they had to execute their plans and their skills."If everyone's got the heart that (Siddle) has, we'll get back to being number one in the world no doubt."Siddle had already taken the key wickets of captain Mahela Jayawardene (19) and ICC Cricketer of the Year Kumar Sangakkara (63) around lunch but the tourists reached tea on 186 with six wickets still in hand.In a sign of Australia's growing desperation, wicketkeeper Matthew Wade shed his pads and gloves to bowl the final over before the break and claimed a maiden in his first spell in senior cricket.Sri Lanka, set a victory target of 393, could still conceivably have won the match but a paltry return of 42 runs in the second session clearly indicated they were batting for a draw rather than a first win in Australia."Disappointed that we lost the game," said skipper Jayawardene. "It was a tough Test match in the sense that we were chasing the game probably after the third or fourth day but we kept fighting."Today we knew we had to bat through a couple of sessions sensibly, see what happens, and up until tea we were on target." Aussie Star-cThe Australian bowling unit, a man down after local quick Ben Hilfenhaus suffered a side strain, never gave up, even if Siddle looked like the only man who might break through for much of the day.The 28-year-old struck again on the first ball of his second over after tea to dismiss all rounder Angelo Mathews for 19 and then removed the last of the Sri Lankan top order with a sizzling delivery which trapped Thilan Samaraweera lbw for 49.With Sri Lanka reduced to 218-6, Siddle took a rest but left-arm quick Starc picked up the baton and had soon removed Prasanna Jayawardene for 21.A fullish inswinger nearly took the wickekeeper's hand off and the ball flew off his glove to Mike Hussey at second slip to leave just three tailend wickets standing with around 90 minutes of play remaining. "I said the other day that I got lucky and got the results and someone else would get it in the second innings and Starcydid today" Man of the Match Peter Siddle Another peach of a delivery from Starc sent Nuwan Kulasekara back to the pavilion for nine and a perfectly delivered yorker soon afterwards removed Rangana Herath for eight.With Siddle now bowling from the other end, it was a straight fight between the two for who would take the five wicket haul and win the match for Australia.Starc took the honours when he had Shaminda Eranga caught behind for six, sparking huge celebrations among his team mates and the disappointingly small crowd of some 2,000."As a group, I think we've been outstanding since lunch on the second day and we got our rewards," said Siddle. "I said the other day that I got lucky and got the results and someone else would get it in the second innings and Starcy did today." Siddle was named Man of the Match but was also at the centre of a ball-tampering row after a picture of the bowler apparently picking at the seam in Sri Lanka's first innings circulated on social media. The Sri Lankan team had not made an official complaint but spoke to match referee Chris Broad. The ICC later said no charges would be laid."Why would I jeopardise that when we can go out and win in the spirit of the game?" a surprised Siddle said. SOURCE: Reuters Sport Cricket Australia South Africa Sri Lanka


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A group of rowdy prisoners at a Kentucky jail set their prison ablaze Friday and had to be subdued by dozens of officers toting tear gas and weapons until the melee stopped.
Rioting inmates started lighting trash can fires and setting prison property on fire around 6:30 p.m. at the Northpoint Training Center south of Lexington, the Associated Press reported.
The jail's medical building, kitchen and several other buildings were damaged in the massive blaze, which could be seen from miles away and still burned into early Saturday morning.
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Hi, all
I am trying to make a program in Visual Basic.net, and I am having serious issues with the lack of information geared towards beginners.
I have found a number of videos that were quite helpful, if I wanted to follow a step-by-step guide to do something that I really don't care about doing.
I've looked around MSDN, but the expected base of knowledge there is so high that I haven't been able to make sense of much of any of it.
I bought a textbook (Visual Basic 2012 in 24 hours), but it was like the videos. Long on follow-the-leader type programming, but it never really EXPLAINED why it did what it did, or branched out.
I started programming using AutoHotKey (please, no laughing), and found the help files with that were VERY useful.
It had a list of different commands and functions. Each command and function had its own page, with a quick description of the syntax, then an explanation of what each piece of syntax did, then a couple of code examples with a description of what the code did.
I'm looking for something similar in VB.net, as nothing I have found so far has been able to do more than throw a bunch of chaff in the air, and not really describe HOW a program fits together. Also, the complete lack of syntax explanations so far mean I am almost always hunting for a scrap of code I can copy and paste in, because I don't understand HOW I can alter much of anything.
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In 1484, the Earl of Paunchley, the tyrannical noble who lorded over the village of Poppleton, England, decided to hold a Jousting tournament on the grounds of his castle. Shortly before it was set to begin, Edmund Gaddlegate, a young boy he had ordered to hang pennants and banners, fell out of a tree and broke his leg. Putting him to bed, Mrs Gaddlegate sent word to the Earl that her son would not be able to watch the match, which he had mandated all Poppleton residents attend.[1]
The Earl dispatched four burly henchman to bring Mrs Gaddlegate and her son to the castle. He told her that as punishment, her son would be tied to a horse and forced to joust against him in the Tournament, as well as against all the knights who had come to take part in the competition. When the knights found out that the Earl expected them to joust against an injured boy, they left in disgust, and the Earl announced he alone would challenge Edmund.[1]
As the Earl charged at Edmund, Hannah Cockleford, a witch in the crowd, cast a Shield Charm between them. Edmund was saved, and the Earl ended up under his horse, causing him to think he was a donkey named Hairy Cyril for the rest of his life.[1]
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http://home.bt.com/news/science-news/scientists-are-watching-a-new-species-of-bird-evolve-in-real-time-11364231781601Scientists are watching a new species of bird evolve in real time
A new finch species has been observed evolving in the space of just two generations, challenging the general consensus that evolution is a slow process involving hundreds of thousands of years.
For the first time, scientists have observed the rise of a completely new species in the wild after tracking Darwin's finches living on Daphne Major – a remote island in the Galapagos archipelago.
The new species, which the Grants named the Big Bird, came into existence after a resident female medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) mated with an island newcomer known as the large cactus finch (Geospiza conirostris).
Their mating initiated the so-called new "Big Bird lineage" which now consists of roughly 30 individuals.
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Hi Linda and/or Bengt,
I have conducted a confirmatory factor analysis the neuroticism scale from the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire which is made up of binary items. One of our aims is to estimate coefficient omega_hieararchical - an index first identified by Rod McDonald and that I have published some work on recently (Zinbarg et al., 2005, Psychometrika, 70, 123-133; Zinbarg et al., 2006, Applied Psychological Measurement, 30, 121 – 144). To estimate omega_h, one sums the unstandardized factor loadings on a general factor, squares this sum (to sum the reproduced covariance matrix that is reproduced on the basis of the general factor) and then divides the sum by the observed variance in the total scores obtained by summing all the items on the scale. This yields an estimate of the proportion of variance in total scores that is attributable to the general factor running through the item set. When we do this with the factor loadings from the CFA we ran in Mplus specifying all the items as being categorical, we get a nonsensical value for omega_h (> 1). I suspect that the reason is that the loadings in the analysis of categorical items have at least a somewhat different meaning than the loadings in the analysis of continuous items. Any thoughts you might have on the appropriate way to estimate omega_h for categorical items would be greatly appreciated.
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Richard E. Zinbarg
posted on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 6:35 am
as a follow-up to my question, I had an idea that I was hoping to check out with you. In principle, an alternative way to estimate omega_h would be to predict each participant's total score on the basis of his/her standing on the general factor, obtain the variance in these predicted scores and divide it by the observed variance in the actual total scores. Using CFA with categorical items, is the way that I would estimate each participant's response to each item reproduced on the basis of his/her standing on the general factor be to save factor scores for the participant's, multiply each person's factor score on the general factor by the item's loading on the general factor and if this product exceeds the item's threshold then set the person's response on that item equal to 1 and otherwise to 0? If so, I could estimate each person's item level responses and then simply sum them to predict his/her total score on the basis of the general factor. Thanks!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 6:47 pm
If you want the proportion of the variance in the sum of say binary items that is accounted for by a general factor, it seems that you would have to take into account that the general factor has a non-linear influence on this sum via the probit regression. It would seem feasible to generalize to this binary (or polytomous) case, and preferable to do so without going via estimated factor scores.
Richard E. Zinbarg
posted on Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 10:54 pm
thanks - I am not sure how to take the non-linear influence into account. Any insights you could share would be most appreciated. /
P.S. As others have expressed before, thanks for thid awesome discussion board!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 11, 2006 - 5:22 pm
I wrote a paper for my dissertation which gives some hints in that direction - if you are interested, send me an email and I can send you the paper.
Richard E. Zinbarg
posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 10:07 am
Hi Bengt and Linda,
I had another idea. To estimate omega_h with categorical items, what if one added a variable to the model corresponding to the total score of the scale? I know that Raykov does this - adding a phantom variable corresponding to the total score - into CFA models to estimate factor analytically based reliability estimates. One could then estimate the correlation between the total score and the general factor in a hierarchical or higher-order CFA. In principle this seems to me like it should work (and then one could simply square the correlation to get omega_h) but when I try doing this with some simulated continuous data sets I have created (either by creating a total score in SPSS and adding this variable as another observed in my data file or by creating a "factor" that is loaded on by all items with all the loadings constrained to equal 1) I run into problems. I get warnings such as the PSI matrix is not positive definite (when I create a "factor" coresponding to the total score) or the sample covariance of the independent variables is singular (when the total score is an observed variable in my data file and I try to estimate its regression with the general factor)
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 5:09 pm
You may want to email directly with Raykov about this given his extensive work in the area.
Richard E. Zinbarg
posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 8:04 pm
good idea, thanks.
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Demonstrations may determine its future, two and half years after people power toppled Mubarak
Mass demonstrations across Egypt on Sunday may determine its future, two and half years after people power toppled a dictator they called Pharaoh and ushered in a democracy crippled by bitter divisions.
The protesters' goal again is to unseat a president, this time their first freely elected leader, the Islamist Mohamed Mursi. Liberal leaders say nearly half the voting population - 22 million people - have signed a petition calling for change.
But with the long dominant, US-funded army waiting in the wings, and world powers fearing violence may unhinge an already troubled Middle East, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood and militant allies pledge to defend what they say is the legitimate order.
Several people have been killed, including an American student, and hundreds were wounded in days of street fighting.
Mursi calls opponents bad losers backed by "thugs" from the rule of Hosni Mubarak. He is banking on the "Tamarud - Rebel!" coalition fizzling out, as other challenges in the streets have done since he took power a year ago on Sunday.
An economic crisis deepened by unrest and political deadlock may spur many less partisan Egyptians to join the rallies, due to start in the afternoon in Cairo. But many, too, are weary of turmoil and are sceptical that the opposition's demand to reset the rules of the new democracy is better than soldiering on.
U.S President Barack Obama called on Egyptians to focus on dialogue. His ambassador to Egypt has anered the opposition by suggesting protests are not helping the economy.
Liberal leaders, fractious and defeated in a series of ballots last year, hope that by putting millions on the streets they can force Mursi to relent and hand over to a technocratic administration that can organise new elections.
"We all feel we're walking on a dead-end road and that the country will collapse," said Mohamed ElBaradei, former UN official, Nobel laureate and liberal party leader. "All Egypt must go out tomorrow to say we want to return to the ballot box, and build the foundations of the house we will all live in."
Religious authorities have warned of "civil war". The army has said it will step in if violence gets out of control but insists it will respect the "will of the people".
Mursi, who on Saturday met the head of the military he appointed last year, interprets that to mean army support for election results. Opponents believe that the army may heed the popular will as expressed on the streets, as it did in early 2011 when the generals decided Mubarak's time was up.
That would depend on a massive turnout, which is uncertain. Islamists suspect that agents of the old order are intent on shedding blood to trigger a military intervention.
In Cairo, thousands of people gathered on Tahrir Square, the seat of the Jan. 25 uprising of 2011, some saying they will camp out until Mursi goes. Others gathered outside the presidential palace several miles away, which was under heavy guard.
In a nearby suburban neighbourhood, the Muslim Brotherhood and allies who include former militant organisations, have set up camp outside a mosque. Guarded by baton-wielding civilians in protective clothing, the Islamists say they will defend Mursi.
Both sides say they want to avoid violence but that has not prevented incidents in which the Brotherhood says several of its offices around the country have been attacked and at least five of its supporters killed in the past week.
"It will be imperative for peaceful protesters to clearly separate themselves from the thugs that use them as cover," an aide to Mursi said. "And it will be more important for the leaders calling for these protests to back away from the language of violence and demonisation."
On Saturday evening, Mursi hosted representatives of the Islamist political parties that have been backing him on the streets for a meeting on the "current internal situation," a statement from the presidency said.
Mursi stressed the role of state institutions in protecting citizens and public and private facilities, it said.
Attendees from all of the major Islamist political forces in the country affirmed their adherence to "legitimacy," the statement read, echoing the word used by many Islamists in their recent rallies in support of the elected president.
The United States has evacuated non-essential diplomatic staff and families and Obama said protecting US missions was a priority. He was criticised at home when the ambassador to Libya was killed last year in an attack on the consulate in Benghazi.
The Egyptian army, half a million strong and financed by Washington since it backed a peace treaty with Israel three decades ago, says it has deployed to protect key installations.
Among these is the Suez Canal. Cities along the vital global waterway are bastions of anti-government sentiment. A bomb killed a protester in Port Said on Friday. Beyond the canal, in the Sinai peninsula which borders Israel and the Gaza Strip, a police general was gunned down in an ambush on Saturday.
Visiting the other end of Africa, Obama said in Pretoria: "Every party has to denounce violence ... We'd like to see the opposition and President Mursi engage in a more constructive conversation about how they move their country forward because nobody is benefiting from the current stalemate."
Mursi renewed an offer last week to include opponents in a new panel to review a controversial new constitution and has complained of a media campaign of vilification. The authorities have taken legal action against journalists and owners.
Opponents cite that among evidence that the Brotherhood, suppressed for decades under Mubarak, aims to use its organised, vote-winning power to entrench itself and its Islamic agenda deep in the state, in much the same way as the ousted leader.
Observers note similarities with protests in Turkey this month, where an Islamist prime minister with a strong electoral mandate has been confronted in the streets by angry secularists.
With much of the Arab world in turmoil after the uprisings that also brought sectarian civil war to Syria, the fate of its biggest nation may be determined by events in the coming days.


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PRINCESS ANNE, MD - (Dec. 4, 2013) - Add halls of justice to the pastures, barns and broiler houses where UMES is working to fulfill its public-service mission as a land-grant institution and counselor-in-the-field to agriculture interests.
Professors Henry Brooks, Jurgen Schwarz, Stephan Tubene and Dean Moses Kairo of the School of Agriculture and Natural Sciences represent the university in a new outreach venture, the Maryland Agriculture Law Education Initiative. They are partnering with colleagues from University System of Maryland campuses in College Park and Baltimore "to assess the legal needs" of the state's farm families and identify the best ways to help address their needs.
The initiative launched a year ago with a $250,000 legislative appropriation, a response to a 2010 lawsuit where an environmental group unsuccessfully sued a Berlin farmer it accused of polluting the Pocomoke River and subsequently the Chesapeake Bay. A federal judge ruled in the farmer's favor in December 2012.
The legal action pitted environmentalists against Maryland's agriculture community and focused attention on issues the state's 12,800 farmers confront, including regulatory compliance, right-to-farm laws and estate planning.
"The assessment process has been enlightening for all of us," said Teresa LaMaster, an associate dean at the University of Maryland's law school in Baltimore.
Researchers met with stakeholders and government officials; initiated a survey of 109 Maryland Extension Service members; and coordinated production of material explaining right-to-farm laws and estate planning.
While the initiative is state-wide in scope, Schwarz said the initial focus is on the Eastern Shore, where farmers are often viewed as a source of environmental problems.
"The laws and regulations are often very complex," Schwarz said. "That was one area of concern we heard from stakeholders."
"We put an emphasis on understanding their needs," he said.
Workshops on leasing, crop insurance and how to pass the family business on to descendants are in the works as is a website to provide access to national resources and the research group's findings. Changes in training extension educators also are being considered.
Few attorneys specialize in agriculture law, another dilemma for farmers who find themselves needing legal advice.
The UM law school is looking to put more emphasis on agriculture law in its curriculum, and a Baltimore law firm recently announced it would assign attorneys to specialize in the subject. UMES also will be exploring ways it can broaden students' exposure to legal issues they might encounter after graduation, Kairo said.
"Providing support to family farms is at the core of our mission as a land-grant institution and UMES is bringing its expertise to the table, which we think will be beneficial," Kairo said.
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My eyes are dry. I refuse to shed tears for a man who said he hated them. Such was the screen power of India's only bone fide Superstar. When his character in the otherwise uninspiring movie titled, "Amar Prem"' uttered that sardonic line ("Pushpa... I hate tears!"), several swooning women across India promptly stopped crying! Yes, his romantic sweep over female hearts was that over whelming, that emotionally charged.For all that mass hysteria and adulation, Rajesh Khanna was no looker – Dharmendra ( Garam Dharam, if you please) was far better in that department. He was a pretty lousy dancer - producers roped in Jumping Jack Jeetendra for that. And he wasn't such a fantastic an actor, either ( newbie Amitabh Bachchan effortlessly stole the show in Ánand'). And yet, when Rajesh Khanna did rule Bollywood, he reigned supreme, an unchallenged monarch with zero competition .What was it about this shortish, crinkly-eyed, pimply-faced, very average guy, who grew up in the crowded gullis of Thakurdwar in Central Mumbai and shot to the top, when no one was looking ? Disparagingly referred to as The Gurkha ( because of his eyes and short stature), nobody gave him much of a chance initially. He certainly did not pose a threat to the established heroes of the day.Significantly, he did not come from a filmi background. Without a Godfather to promote him, Rajesh Khanna's meteoric rise was entirely based on the fact that his audiences adored him..... had fallen for him instantly. His love affair with his fans began the moment he appeared on the scene. As a chocolate box leading man, Rajesh Khanna posed zero threat to the husbands and boyfriends of his predominantly female fans. Interestingly, the women who swore undying love and devotion to The Phenomenon (as Stardust had dubbed him), did not belong to a specific age group. From ditzy teens, and their 'mod'moms, to grey haired naanis and daadis, Rajesh Khanna was worshipped as the Ultimate Lover Boy. His brand of romanticism was unique – a compelling mix of tragedy and longing. His intrinsic vulnerability combined with a little-boy-lost sex appeal, made women across the board feel protective towards him. From that first time he tilted his head, crinkled those already crinkled eyes, looked deep into the camera lens and smiled .... ooof!... nothing more was required.... India had collectively turned to mush..
Yes, Rajesh Khanna was a megalomaniac.It was his absolute refusal to face reality once the decline in his career set in, that led to his eventual isolation from the film industry. An isolation so profound, that the few well-wishers still hanging around, watched helplessly as the lonely, depressed , bitter man continued to cling on to his delusions, trashing contemporaries and silencing anybody who dared to correct him. His decline was self-inflicted. His alienation, of his own doing. Always a complex creature, battling deep feelings of persecution, Rajesh Khanna cut a pathetic figure later in life when he deigned to show up at Awards'functions. Unable to cope with failure and oblivion once his glory days were behind him, Rajesh chose the bottle. Such a huge pity, given the wonderful ladies in his life, who continued to care for him long after he had pushed them away. His biggest champion in the media of the time, was the late Devyani Chaubal, who loudly and repeatedly took credit for having created Rajesh Khanna's! Rubbish. His incredible success was his own. Devi and Kaka shared an intense love-hate relationship, and she died taking several of his best guarded secrets with her. But as one of the few constants in his turbulent and troubled life, Devi was perhaps the only woman he tolerated for several years as a part of his inner circle. That Devi and Anju Mahendru ( his long time girl friend) shared less than a cordial relationship, eventually led to Devi's ouster from his sprawling seaside bungalow, sentimentally christened Aashirwad. By then, of course, Rajesh had dramatically married the alarmingly young and startlingly beautiful Dimple Kapadia in a midnight ceremony that caught the press sleeping.
There was however, another lady love ( she shall go nameless), who understood the essential Jatin ( Rajesh Khanna's real name) when she shared his life and home. She was a stunning, sexy actress at the time. And much younger, too. In her company, Rajesh Khanna apparently discovered long suppressed aspects of himself and she claimed she freed him from the countless hang-ups he'd harboured as a diffident young man. During a conversation, she spoke candidly about introducing this insecure, uptight, self-conscious superstar to the abundant pleasures of skinny dipping and enjoying the sun on their naked bodies on a foreign beach . " I liberated Kaka from all his inhibitions," she laughed fondly at the memory. Were they truly in love? She smiled and shook her head, " Kaka was incapable of loving anyone. He was only in love with himself!"
What does it matter now? Gone is the man who gave Indian fashion the ever popular Guru Shirt...and so much more.At a time when film publicity was handled by oily chaps who'd show up with grainy movie stills, it was Rajesh Khanna who effortlessly dominated Bollywood and captured hearts like no other hero before or after him. That is some feat when one realises he achieved this minus the push provided by the well-oiled P.R. machinery of today. And that too, in a way and on a scale that cannot be imagined – no, not even by the canniest celebrity managers working tirelessly to manipulate and calibrate their client's every public smile, sigh and stare. The fans who stood outside Aashirwad for hours on end just to catch a glimpse of their film God, were not hired by canny publicists. The women who slashed their wrists each time he was linked to a co-star ( Mumtaz, Sharmila Tagore) or wrote him letters in their own blood when his film was a hit, were not staging stunts for Breaking News. Perhaps, Rajesh Khanna himself could not comprehend the extent of his power over the lives of people who worshipped him.Which is why there is a satisfying sense of closure now that he is no more. For the one thing nobody can ever deny Kaka is this - Rajesh Khanna did it his way. In life as in death.
This appeared in Bombay Times.....
The Doc and the Dhak Dhak Girl...
Gosh!! Thank God the dishy Dr.Sriram Nene has proved critics wrong by doing what he is so eminently trained to do – offered his services to the KEM Dean, Sanjay Oak.As a highly qualified cardio-thoracic surgeon who specialised in Mitral Valve repair surgery, Dr.Nene, who has relocated to Mumbai from Denver along with the family , had been increasingly spotted attending Bollywood events along with Madhuri Dixit,his beautiful wife. There was a great deal of media speculation that the handsome doc with movie star good looks himself ( a desi version of Richard Gere), may have been flirting with the idea of turning his back on doctorgiri permanently and joining his wife's trade. Not as a hero ( though, whyever not?) but as a full time manager and business partner in the lady's several ventures. Media sources insisted he had taken complete charge of her contracts and was cracking great deals on wifey's behalf . Particularly, juicy endorsements for basmati rice and other products. He was also supposed to be steering her brand new television career in which she is making much more money than all her old hit films put together. Plus, there is the production house the duo is launching, for which they have already invested a huge amount by way of a sprawling office. As if all this is not enough, there was talk that Madhuri had asked for a plot of land for a dance academy ( which she subsequently denied). Also, there is land gifted to her ages ago, being developed in West Bengal. To say nothing about the Maharashtra Government's request to get Madhuri on board as Brand Ambassador for the State (allegedly, she asked for an astronomical amount). That's a lot of work for poor ole Madhuri to handle by herself!
Given her crazy schedule what with playing Judge Sahiba on a dance reality show, and her hectic travel plans ( she posted a rather strange picture of herself in disguise in front of the Taj Mahal), her loving husband must have decided to keep surgery and the scalpel on hold, till his wife's biz affairs were set in order. Why not? It's a little ironic, though, that when the two met and married in 1999, it was claimed the U.S. –raised Nene had never heard of an Indian superstar called Madhuri Dixit! On her part, Madhuri too had played down her extraordinary status in the imagination of her countless fans, and quietly started a new life as a suburban wife of a doctor whose practice had yet to take off. Two children later, she is back to reclaim some of the past glory and re-introduce herself to a new generation of fans. Nobody remembers her dud comeback film (Äaja Nach Le'). Today's admirers are gushing over her dancing queen image on the small screen. And Madhuri is busy re-positioning herself as a Diva ( slightly difficult, unless she sacks her stylist).But it is Dr. Nene who is the real surprise package, as he gamely poses next to his glam wife, dressed in typical Bollywood –ishtyle designer gear . For over a year, Dr.Nene assessed the local hospital scene. It's good to know he has opted to sign on with a BMC-run public hospital like KEM in an honorary post. But that can only happen after he registers himself with the Maharashtra Medical Council. KEM, which has a waiting list of 600 patients for various heart surgeries, could certainly do with the expertise of someone like Dr.Nene. And, if his gorgeous wife was to occasionally stop by and meet patients in the ward, their hearts would definitely heal that much faster!


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John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors
Gauguin's Paradise Lost
As the nineteenth century drew to a close two restless and disappointed artists left Paris to investigate strange societies which had survived from a distant past, and which were to die out in a few years. John Singer Sargent began his regular visits to England in 1886 and before long he settled there as the principal painter of a group of blue-blooded and plutocratic clans whose way of life seems almost stranger to us today than that of the Tahitians who greeted Paul Gauguin when he first set foot in the South Sea islands in 1891. The pictures that resulted from the pilgrimages of the two artists are—however different in quality and approach—the fullest artistic records that we have of these societies, one in which the "noble savage" was not yet a meaningless concept and the other in which the English rich still gloried ostentatiously in their wealth. Now that both savage and rich have been tamed into conformity these pictures have acquired an exoticism even greater than that with which their authors intentionally invested them.
Born within eight years of each other, Gauguin and Sargent shared somewhat similar artistic backgrounds. In Paris both were closely associated with the Impressionists; both were attracted by the folklore of Brittany; and both hankered after the more colorful and primitive scenes that they had known at firsthand in South America and North Africa. They never met, however, and their comments on each other's ideals are as cool as we would expect. Sargent was prepared to admit that Gauguin was admirable for his "rich and rare color"—but for that alone. Gauguin had nothing to say about Sargent, but he frequently wrote with considerable bitterness about Sargent's teacher Carolus Duran in words that would have been equally appropriate to the pupil. His most considered judgment on the differences between them was, however, wryly melancholy rather than hostile: "I don't admire the picture, but I admire the man. He so sure of himself, so calm. Me so uncertain, so anxious."
Certainly once they had left Paris their careers so sharply diverged that their fates seemed to exemplify, almost as in some morality play, the two extremes likely to await artists during the height of the Belle Epoque. Sargent was lionized and overwhelmed with commissions, and died a rich and honored man. Gauguin dragged out his self-imposed exile in pain and misery, wracked with syphilis and virtually unknown except to a small circle of friends. And then, of course, came the inevitable reversal of fortune—the moment when Cinderella marries her prince and the Ugly Sisters are discomfited, except that, as we are dealing with life rather than with fairy stories, the timing went wrong, and it was not until after their deaths that it became generally accepted that Sargent was a worthless hack and Gauguin one of the martyrs and founding fathers of the modern movement.
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Cream Cheese Pumpkin Bars
It would be hard to imagine the span between Halloween and the New Year without pumpkin. The Jack-O-Lanterns of Halloween, pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, and pumpkin trifle or cheesecake on my holiday buffet, all signal the culmination of another year.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine gingerbread mix, melted butter and 1 egg in a large bowl. Press into the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch glass baking dish and set aside.
Place the cream cheese in a stand mixer or mixing bowl and beat until fluffy. Add the sweetened condensed milk, pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spice and salt. Blend well and pour over the gingerbread crust. Sprinkle with the chopped nuts, if desired, and bake for 40 to 50 minutes, until set. Cool bars at room temperature, then cover and refrigerate.
Makes 12 servings.