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Two-Factor Theory
Spearman's proposal that intelligence was made up of both a general and a set of different specific components was known as two-factor theory. His conclusions had considerable impact on ideas about the nature of intelligence, but they were also very important from a statistical viewpoint because it established the concept of modelling test scores as being composed of number of independent contributions, determined by statistically unrelated or orthogonal factors (orthogonally literally means at right angles).
We can look at the whole idea in more depth using graphs. Consider the case of a scatterplot of individuals' scores on two positively correlated variables, X and Y (e.g. vocabulary level and analogical reasoning). The graph would look something like the one shown in Figure 2.1.
Figure 2.1
Scatterplot of Individual's Scores on Two Variables
From the material we covered on regression in Module 4, you should be familiar with the idea of trying to find the straight line equation in X (i.e. Y = a + bX) that best describes a set of observed data, using the least squares technique (in other words, finding the line that fits the observations with the smallest squared deviations between the actual observed values of Y and the line). As we saw then, this line has, as a corollary, the characteristic of accounting for or explaining the greatest amount of variance in the observed values of Y of any possible line that could be drawn through those observed values, since by definition the deviations are the smallest that they can possibly be.
It is possible to describe what factor analysis does in analogous terms i.e. as an attempt to fit factors which explain the greatest amount of covariance (i.e. shared variance) between X and Y (there is no dependent-predictor relationship between variables in factor analysis), and thus the overall variance in each. This can be done by rotating the axes of the graph to the point of best fit, as shown in Figure 2.2.
Figure 2.2
Scatterplot of individuals' socres on two variables, with axes rotated to point of best fit
There is a number of points to note about this.
Firstly, the principal axis (labelled I for Factor I) is fitted along the direction of maximum joint variance, and 'explains' a high percentage of the covariance between X and Y. In other words, in the case of our example, individuals' scores on vocabulary level and their related scores on analogical reasoning are largely accounted for in terms of their position on this common, underlying factor, which might perhaps be interpreted as representing general verbal knowledge.
Secondly, the secondary axis (labelled II for Factor II) accounts for the residual covariance (that left over) after Factor I has been considered (which is necessarily a smaller amount). This might be interpreted as representing some more specific characteristic that is common to performance on vocabulary tests and tests of analogical reasoning, such as ability to mentally retrieve words.
Note that Factor II is independent of (uncorrelated with) Factor I since it is orthogonal (at right angles) to it: whatever position or value an individual has on the secondary axis makes no difference to their position or value on the principal axis. It therefore becomes possible to consider individual X,Y coordinates (i.e., in our example, a pair of scores on a vocabulary test and a test of analogical reasoning) as determined by the combined influence of the position of the person generating those scores on Factor I (general verbal knowledge) and Factor II (ability to retrieve words), as shown in Figure 2.3. Note also that this corresponds exactly with the description provided by Spearman's two factor theory under the conditions where X and Y share both g and a specific component.
Figure 2.3
Diagram showing how an individual's scores on X and Y are determined by that individual's position on Factors I and II
Finally, in terms of our initial data reduction question about describing scores using a smaller number of dimensions, this solution is trivial, because there are still two factors: all that's happened is that the axes have been rotated to find a better fit to the data (though this might have some value in terms of pinpointing the underlying influences which determine the more specific scores).
However, with 3 or more variables or dimensions (i.e. k=3 or k>3 where k represents the number of variables), it may be possible to find a factor structure which explains a high amount of variance (i.e. which therefore fits in this sense) with fewer than k dimensions; in other words, meeting our initial criterion for a solution.
Spearman made one further adjustment to his factor model to account for his observed pattern of correlations between test scores still more accurately. This adjustment proposed that, rather than different tests all measuring g to same extent, the influence of g was weighted differently for different tests i.e. g did not contribute the same amount to the observed variance for each test:
- measurement a 1-n = (weight a x g 1-n) + specific component a 1-n + error
- measurement b 1-n = (weight b x g 1-n) + specific component b 1-n + error
This model carries a number of important implications for the correlation between test scores. Firstly, the weighting of g (in this example) for each test can be defined as the correlation of that test with g, that is:
weight a = r ag
It follows from this that if g is the only common factor, the correlation between two tests is simply the product of these weightings:
r ab = r ag x r bg = weight a x weight b
The practical upshot of this was that it allowed variation in the correlations between tests to be modelled more precisely, in terms of differences in the extent to which they tapped into or were influenced by the underlying factor, g. The statistical upshot was the concept of factor loadings: consistent, indexed variations in extent to which a factor influenced each particular score in a set of variables.
One further step brings us up to the basics of modern techniques of factor analysis. This step is simply that of extending the concept of weightings or factor loadings to the specific component in Spearman's model – and at same time allowing that there may be more than 2 factors in a particular solution (up to k, the number of variables, potentially, although as we've seen, a solution with fewer than k variables is required to meet the objective of increasing parsimony in the description of a set of scores).
In essence then, what the basic version of factor analysis does is:
- extract factors by rotating the axes of the k-dimensional space describing the relationship among the k variables, to find the fit that explains the maximum amount of variance (this will always be 100% if all k dimensions are used)
- determine the optimal solution i.e. attempt to reduce the number of factors to the minimum needed to adequately explain the data (we will come back to the question of what 'adequate' might mean a little later)
- calculate the factor loadings which, given this factor solution, are necessary to account for the observed correlations between the k variables.
You can see that the implied mathematics is complex, and the procedure is in fact iterative, i.e. it progresses through a sequence involving making an initial estimate of the parameters, recalculation to improve these, re-checking of the new estimate, and so on till acceptable criteria for convergence between the solution and the data have been met.
However, we can look at the solution from a relatively simple example, based on data from four tests, to see a little of how things work out. Table 2.2 presents a two-factor solution which perfectly explains the observed correlations between these four tests.
Table 2.2
Example of a factor analysis solution for scores on four tests
Observed r
Factor Loadings
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Note that the relationship between the factor loadings and the correlations between a particular pair of tests is simply as follows:
$$r_{ij}=\sum_{F=1 to K}(LF_i \times LF_j) $$
where rij is the correlation between tests i and j, Fi is the loading of test i on factor F, Fj is the loading of test j on factor F, and the summation sign indicates this calculation is repeated and totalled across factors (F) from 1 to k, the number of dimensions (those which have been included in the solution, of course).
What this means in practice is that the correlation between a pair of tests is the sum of the products of the loadings of each test on each factor in turn (cf. the correlation between two tests with only g in common, as mentioned earlier).
For instance: the correlation in Table 2.2 between test 1 and test 2, r 12 = .63
= (loading of test 1 on factor I x loading of test 2 on factor I) + (loading of test 1 on factor II x loading of test 2 on factor II)
= (LI1 x LI2) + (LII1 x LII2)
= (.9 x .7) + (.0 x .2)
= .63 + 0
Note also that h2 or the communality (the total variance in the scores on a given test explained by the common factors) is similarly the sum of the square of the loadings of that test on each factor in turn. For example, for test 1:
$$h^2_1 = 0.81 = (LI_1)^2+(LII_1)^2 = 0.9^2 + .0^2 = 0.81 + 0$$
Conceptually speaking, the communality values are those we would want to put on the diagonal of the correlation matrix: i.e. the value for the explained covariance of the test score or other variable with itself – hence the brackets in Table 2.2. The remainder is that which is attributable to error, or which is in some other respect unique, and so not further explicable.
Task 4
Write out the steps in the derivation of the correlation between tests 3 and 4 in Table 1.3 from the loadings of these tests on factors I and II. Similarly, write out the steps in the computation of the communality value for test 3.
Note finally that the implied decomposition of the variance on a test score into that which is explained by common factors and that which is unique allows a linear equation for that variance to be constructed, e.g.:
$$var(test1)=(LI_1)^2+(LII_1)^2 + error$$
$$var(test2)=(LI_2)^2+(LII_2)^2 + error$$
Conversely, a linear equation for the factor based on the loadings for each test can also be constructed in the form of a standard regression equation, e.g.:
As we'll see a little later, equations of this form can be used to generate factor scores. A factor score is a composite score across a set of variables which summarises the values obtained by an individual on those variables in such a way as to reflect the relative influence of a given factor on each variable; in other words, it is a form of weighted total. You should be able to see that factor scores arguably represent the most appropriate way of collapsing or combining scores across a series of variables or items.


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Annapolis, Md. (November 17, 2011) ─ The Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) would like to remind hunters that State and federal regulations allow waterfowl hunting on agriculture fields only if they have been properly harvested or left in their natural state.
"This year's tropical storms and hurricanes have resulted in some agricultural crops not being harvested. These fields cannot be hunted legally if the un-harvested crops have been manipulated ─ mowed, knocked down, etc.," said Col. George F. Johnson IV. "The un-harvested fields can only be hunted if the crops remain in their natural state, only affected by the weather. Manipulated, un-harvested fields must be disked or plowed under, so that the grain is not accessible to the waterfowl for a period of 10 days prior to hunting."
It is also unlawful to hunt waterfowl in areas where small grains have been top sown or broadcast on top of the soil, leaving the grain available to feeding birds. Before hunting can occur in these areas, all seeds must be germinated and growing, entirely covered by soil, or completely removed, at least 10 days prior to hunting. These situations are commonly referred to as waterfowl baiting.
Baiting also includes distributing grain on the land or water to entice waterfowl into hunting situations. It is not necessary for a hunter to know that an area is baited to be in violation of Maryland's migratory bird baiting regulation, which is considered a strict liability offense. It is the hunter's responsibility to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the hunting area is not or has not been baited. NRP recommends the following:
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The custom pan burners that we produce are just that, custom. Therefore do not require UL, CSA and or any other agency listings as these are custom. The parts that we use to build these pans are UL, CSA listed as they should be. We would never use any "Third World Country" or any unlisted, untested parts to build any products and or parts to endanger any product performance what so ever.We use 25,000 btu's per linear foot when calculate customs for 10~12" flame. For standard burners we actually hook to meter and measure at 800' elevation.
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This large fire fit required a 4 in 1 manifold, four 304 grade stainless steel quad rings along with a LP/propane HWI 2 pound system with 60" lead. We can't wait to get the final pictures with the media installed.
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A real one-of-a-kind pan, our client had his custom pan Copper cladded. Turned out great with a nice contrasting Azurlite Base Glass FireGlass for filler. You'll also notice the amount of reflection coming from the back, that's because the back of the pan had a chrome finish which casted a back-lit effect.
What's so nice about Copper metal, is that it rust so nicely, very classy!
This custom pan was specifically designed to be placed in a rectangular housing structure.
Ty Havas didn't want an ordinary Propane pan for his fireplace. He wanted a pan that would be more than functional. So after some sketches and discussions we began making a cardboard mock up.
He would ultimately receive a Stainless Steel pan with angled legs and a 2 inch depth. Here the cardboard mock-up along with his fireplace measurements (which you can see denoted on the cardboard piece below the mock-up) assure that we attain the correct size and appropriate design.
The stainless steel pan below has a 3/4" lip on top and it sits on 4" round brushed front legs.
The fire pit below was build by Mike Phillips ( a customer). First he ran a propane line to the fire pit area and then blocked his fire pit into shape. We use a FPPK (fire pit propane kit) in an aluminum pan 24" x 24" with a double 18" double stainless steel ring.The glass that was used was Gray Base Glass with a Gray Reflective Base Glass on top to add sparkle. Below you can see the placement of the thermocouple and safety pilot light used for propane. Below on the right side the controls were installed in the bricks.
You can see the front plate that was painted to match which is removable if and when necessary to change the batteries. The legs were 4 1/2" and the pan was 2" tall. The removable front metal curtain was 6 1/2" tall.
The pan below was created by John Webber of San Diego. He made a cardboard mock up of what he wanted in his fireplace and we duplicated it in stainless steel. Here is John's fireplace now, our pan and we will posts pictures of the finished fireplace with our pan when John sends them to us. The glass that was installed in this pictures of the pan is Pink Rosa Base Glass.
John ultimately decided on Starfire Base Glass FireGlass.
Here is the custom burner pan installed.
The propane pan below has a brushed finish on the front metal shield. This is a two part shield, one to retain the fireplace glass and second to conceal the controls. This is part of the fireplace design that was asked for. The first pictures shows the front completely up.
The picture below shows the complete front dropped down to access the controls.
The burner below is a propane ribbon burner with all stainless steel construction.
The pan and all around was filled with glass hiding/ concealing all of the workings. A ribbon burner will mold all of the flames together making it look like a ribbon of fire.
Below you will see how simple it is to convert/ install a propane into your table: This is our FPPK box with controls and air mixer calibrated to the burner we are using.
The burner on the top side with the thermocouple, pilot light and battery operated ignitor exposed. Pour the filler lava / FireGlass? and drink beer! Put a fork in it, You're done!
The next few pictures are from New York by Jai Crandall for Tom Morgan. We can hep transform an eye soar to a place of enjoyment. Just watch!
November 10, 2009Hello Ed, my name is Jai Crandall and I live in central NY. I have a good friend (Tom Morgan) that has a patio that he generally uses wood to throw some heat for his quests when he entertains. Unfortunately, as I'm sure you know, the smoke can really get to you after a while. This is a very high end home and he entertains for some very important people. He would like to eliminate the wood a replace them with some propane inserts. It doesn't have to look like a fireplace, but most importantly, it needs to throw some intense heat. Pictures 1,2 and 3 are the front views of the fire pits and as you will notice they are not square ( each picture is labeled with the dimensions), they don't need to stay like they are, so if you want to make them square you can. Just go by the front measurement. Hopefully you can design something that will fit there needs. I am sure that they are going to want electric ignition, and you can try to place the control valves in the front. Also, with the good New York weather, you want want to have covers for each unit. Thank You so much for your time and I look forward to working with you to complete this project.Jai CrandallJuly 3, 2010 Now here are the finished pictures on the property. Very nice!Hey Ed, Here are some pictures of the burners that I installed. They look great and they are very happy with their performance. Also, I believe that I may have a few more people interested in something similar to what I did for Tom Morgan. Have a great forth weekend and I will talk to you soon.Jai
Here is what was fabricated to replace those old ugly grills.
Jai came up with the Stainless Steel hollow base design and we went to work. This is a happy ending! Our propane burners were set to 100,000 btu's each for maximum heat. The glass that we used was Bronze Rust Copper Base Glass.
The next pan (pans burners and baskets) is a ventless conversion. We cut the pan with a 1/2" front and a 2" back. We bent the front to be removable but also hide the controls. We Build to your needs and imagination! Be sure to see our Metal Page!
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The Westhoff Archive housed at the Boone County Historical Society has an enormous collection of glass plate negatives, film negatives, and photographs covering Columbia and Boone County from before 1910 to 1970. Photographs in the archive were taken by many different photographers; the images presented here were taken by Joe Douglass, Henry Holborn, and Wesley Blackmore. The subject matter includes formal portraits, clubs, athletic teams, social gatherings, local buildings and businesses. Some of the more atypical works include "Scenics" of old Boone County, Victorian-era household interiors, and a survey of area churches. Blackmore's work includes many images taken for area school yearbooks, including a large number of University of Missouri Savitar photos.
The Collection
This collection contains over 700 photographs from glass plate negatives taken from before 1910 to 1936, selected from the Westhoff Archive. These photographs provide a unique glimpse into the people and culture of Columbia, Boone County and Missouri in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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The images contained in this collection are intended for research and educational use only. Duplication of any of these images for commercial use, without prior written consent, is expressly prohibited. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.


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The funny part? This so called "casuals" that you talk about... don't post anywhere.
Yeah, the OP cares way too much about what everyone else is doing. My question to him is why does it matter? Find people in the game that sync with your abilities, interests and time requirements and ignore everyone and everything else. I'm not insecure about anything. What does it say about yourself that you worry about this enough to start a thread about it?
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dude i can kill heroics i'm just in a less progressed guild that is clearing normal. I have to start somewhere, I just came back from a long back at patch 5.3 lol, give me a break... If you used your brain the reason I said remove heroic was because normal should be "heroic"
If you play holy paladin, I bet i'd out perform you easily lol
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March 16, 2013
Charles Rex Pennington
DURHAM - Mr. Charles Rex Pennington, 64, of Durham died on Friday, March 15, 2013. He was the son of the late Herman Pennington and Hazel Lantz Pennington. He was a plumber with Brown Brothers Plumbing Co. He was a member of Shady Grove Freewill Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Bobbie Jean Pennington; son, Robert G. Pennington (Holly); grandson, Alex Pennington; brother, Joe Pennington (Patricia); nieces, Jackie Keith, Sylvia Wiggs; nephew, Dennis Pridgen.
Funeral services will be held on Monday at 11 a.m. at Shady Grove Freewill Baptist Church. Rev. Frank Rice and Rev. Jonathan Sexton will officiate. Active pallbearers will be Gaither Anderson, Richard Buchanan, Terry Ketner, Derek Ketner, Jim Lynn, Doug Morgan, Ken Ferrell and James Johnson.
The family will receive friends on Sunday from 7 – 9 p.m. at Hudson Funeral Home and other times at the home. Flowers are acceptable or donations may also be made to Shady Grove Freewill Baptist Church, 3805 Carpenter Pond Road, Durham, NC 27703. Online condolences can be made at www.hudsonfuneralhome.com.
Margaret Markham Pickett
DURHAM — Mrs. Margaret Markham Pickett, age 94, died Friday morning at her home.
Born November 23, 1918 in Chatham County, Mrs. Pickett was the daughter of the late Thalius J. and Dillie Mae Williams Markham. She was employed with Montaldo's as a buyer for many years. Mrs. Pickett was an active member of Yates Baptist Church, where she had been a Sunday School teacher. An avid reader and an accomplished artist, she had traveled extensively with her husband, Murray McDonald Pickett, who preceded her in death.
Surviving are her son, Michael J. Pickett and wife, Diane of Durham; her daughter-in-law, Trish Pickett of Luray, Virginia; her brother, Jack Markham and wife, Rea of Greensboro; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Her husband died January 30, 2000. She was also preceded in death by a son, Mark C. Pickett.
Funeral services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. in the Howerton & Bryan Funeral Chapel, the Rev. John Frederick officiating. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery.
Flowers are acceptable, or memorials may be made to Duke Homecare and Hospice, 4321 Medical Park Drive, Suite 101, Durham, North Carolina 27704, or to Yates Baptist Church, 2819 Chapel Hill Road, Durham, North Carolina 27707.
The family will receive friends at Howerton & Bryan Funeral Home Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m.
Online condolences may be submitted to http://www.howertonbryan.com/, select obituaries.
James Michael "Jim" Schmidt
DURHAM — James Michael "Jim" Schmidt, 69, died Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at his residence. Born on Sept. 24, 1943 in Louisville, KY he was the son of the late Albert Michael Schmidt and Helen Catherine Dieckman.
Jim graduated from Trinity High School in Louisville, KY in 1961, and Bellarmine University, also in Louisville, in 1972. He continued his education at Duke University School of Medicine in the 8th class of the Physician Assistant Program graduating in 1974. He practiced as a certified Physician Assistant at Duke University Medical Center for 33 years, and retired in 2007. Jim had a lifelong love of botany and plant life and enjoyed many hours in the yard at home. He was an avid reader, enjoyed photography and Duke Basketball.
Jim is survived by his wife, Margaret C. Schmidt; his nieces, Laurie Ann Doyle, Lisa Marie Scheid, Jamie Michelle Valkovci; his nephew, Ronald Scott Smith, all of Louisville, KY. He is also survived by his K-9 companion & friend, Sugar.
He was preceded in death by his sister, Sharon Schmidt Smith.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 11 a.m. Monday, March 18, 2013 from St. Matthew Catholic Church with Fr. Thanh N. Nguyen and Fr. Tom Tully presiding. Burial will follow with military honors in St. Matthew Catholic Cemetery.
Friends may visit Sunday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at Hall-Wynne Funeral Service in Durham.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. Matthew Catholic Church, 1001 Mason Road, Durham NC 27712; Duke Cancer Center, 512 South Mangum Street, Suite 400, Durham, NC 27701; or Corpsman Memorial Foundation, P.O. Box 1264, Jacksonville, NC 28546.
On-line memorials: www.hallwynne.com. Select obituaries.
William "Bill" Albany Truesdell
DURHAM — Mr. William "Bill" Albany Truesdell, 89, of Durham, died on Wednesday, March 13, 2013.
Mr. Truesdell was born in Dothan, Ala., to the late Crandell Truesdell and Shelly Allums Truesdell. He retired from the U.S. Army and was a veteran of WWII and the Korean War. He was a member of Liberty Baptist Church and the VFW Post 2740. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Truesdell; brother, C.S. Truesdell Jr.; and sisters, Jessie Anderson and Mattie Hayes.
He is survived by his daughters, Joy Casper and Cathy Truesdell, both of Roxboro; step-daughter, Ann Perkins of Durham; stepson, Jim Rochelle of Durham; brother, James Truesdell of Georgia; grandchildren, Jennifer Smith, Christina Crabtree, Jamie Warren, Sara Garrison; great-grandchildren, Julian, Boyes, Holden Kipp, Vindan Kipp, Addisyn Smith, Casey Crabtree, Owen Crabtree and Alyssa Crabtree, Christian Smith, Karson, Smith, Paisley Warren, Carter Garrison and Oliver Garrison. Blessed with several nieces and nephews for whom he cared for deeply.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday at 2 p.m. at Liberty Baptist Church, officiated by the Rev. Jack Cox. Burial with military honors will be in the Woodlawn Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends today from 6 to 8 p.m. at Hudson Funeral Home and other times at the home. Online condolences can be made at www.hudsonfuneralhome.com.
Catherine Strickland Adcock
OXFORD — Catherine Strickland Adcock died March 15, 2013. She was preceded in death by her husband, David L. Adcock Sr.
Funeral services will be conducted March 17, 2013 at 3 p.m. in the Oxford United Methodist Church. Burial will be in the Adcock Family Cemetery in Berea.
Surviving is a son, two daughters, a brother, 10 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Would like to know if any of the ATX crowd heard of this.
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I'm not doing this for you Sirc. Your approval mean less than nothing to me. Your opinions, your missconceptions, and your idiocy have no bearing on my goals or my measure of success.
Goals that I move closer to every day. No matter how much that confounds you or pisses you off. I'm making genuine gains in strength and fat loss doing things you claim don't work.
Those rewards are mine to enjoy. I enjoy them in spite of you. I would do so even if you didn't exist, which AFA my life is concerned, you don't. Not in any material, or relevant way. You are just a few lines of text on a computer screen. Other than that, you might as well be vapor. That is how little you mean to the people you obsess over.
Slow down their Freud. I never said you needed my approval. I'm just saying, this kind of mental exercise circle jerking is stupid because it's not like this information is new. Every athlete ever to have existed has known exactly how to do this and yet there are BILLIONS and BILLIONS of people who are like you. Out-of-shape and just likes to ruminate about how they're totally going to lose all of that fat.
I seriously doubt you will. If you do, fantastic, you are going towards exactly what I want everyone on this forum to. Getting better and doing things instead of just dicking around making the same "HEY EVERYONE, CHECK OUT HOW MUCH WING CHUN SUCKS!" thread over and over again.
If you did know me you wouldn't be running your bitch mouth. Believe that.
You can "doubt" that I'll become and olympic medalist. You can "doubt" that I'll become an astronaught.
"Doubting" that I'll lose some fat is fucking retarted. I already have, and I continue to do so.
Disputing such a thing simply re-enforces the fact the you're a fucking ignorant tool.
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The big events Bath Hospital Radio was witness to in 1964
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1. Top of the Pops first airs on BBC TV.
2. The film Zulu released.
3. The British and French governments agree a deal for the construction of a Channel Tunnel. The twin-tunneled rail link is expected to take five years to build.
4. Pirate radio station Radio Caroline begins broadcasting.
5. Violent disturbances between Mods and Rockers at Clacton beach.
6. Liverpool win the Football League First Division for the sixth time in their history.
7. Forth Road Bridge opens over the Firth of Forth, linking Fife and Edinburgh.
8. Malta obtains independence from the UK.
9. ITV soap opera Crossroads airs for the first time.
10. The Beatles gain the Christmas number one for the second year running with I Feel Fine, which has topped the singles charts for the third week running. The Beatles have now had six number ones in the United Kingdom alone


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ISC Introduces New Roster & Team Registration Process
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
ISC Introduces New Roster & Team Registration Process
In a continuing effort to streamline our overall operation and at the same time, reduce both expense and volunteer requirements for tournament hosts, beginning in 2007 the ISC will implement a new team roster and team registration process at the World Tournament and ISC II Tournament of Champions.
The former 3-part roster form is being eliminated and replaced with a single copy form that is available on line or will be email attached to those requesting it. The new form is currently displayed at www.iscfastpitch.com. Click on Rules & Forms in the left margin of front page. You can save this form, to your computer, from the web site display.
For both World Tournament and ISC II teams, the roster form must be submitted three times per season; May 1, July 15 and the Monday preceding the start of the ISC World Tournament. In 2007, this final date is August 6.
The May 1 date is a "preliminary" roster and a mandatory PRAWN declaration date for those teams having PRAWN players. May 1 will also continue being the due date for Out of Region (formerly Out of Area) player forms.
July 15 is the deadline for rosters to be in the hands of the championship tournaments host for use in the printed tournament program.
August 6 will be the final deadline for rosters used in the 2007 World Tournament and ISC II Tournament of Champions.
All rosters are to be emailed to the appropriate Statisticians whose addresses appear on the roster form itself.
The overall process involves each team "saving" their first roster on their computer. Then as subsequent due dates arrive, only changes need to be made to the saved form.
This process will eliminate the need for the former Team Registration ordeal on the Friday morning preceding the start of the World Tournament. The mandatory team manager meeting will still be held at 12 noon on the beginning Friday. Outside the manager meeting room, tables will be set up for distribution of materials for each team. Player and immediate family member tournament passes will be distributed based on the August 6 roster submission. This distribution process will begin around 10 AM and continue until after the manager meeting concludes. ISC personnel, Umpires, Hall of Fame inductees and others requiring credentials will also pick up outside the manager meeting room.
The Statisticians will also be available during this distribution process, to make any last minute roster changes.
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New Mexico Lobos Football --- at Pittsburgh Panthers
When/Where: 10 a.m. (MT), Saturday – Pittsburgh – Heinz Field
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By Richard Stevens – Senior Writer/GoLobos.com
This isn't exactly stop-the-presses type of news but here is what the Lobos will be facing Saturday in Pittsburgh.
A Panthers' team that lost on ESPN 41-13 to nationally-ranked Florida State and wants to do better.
A team that needs and wants the first win of the season.
A team that had an off week to prepare for the University of New Mexico's pistol offense.
For sure, the Panthers will be motivated for the Lobos – prepared, too.
"Our guys competed, but we've got to be and do more than that," Pitt Coach Paul Chryst told the Post-Gazette after the loss to FSU.
The Panthers probably are looking at the Lobos as a team that Pitt can do more against. The Lobos are in the second year of rebuilding under Coach Bob Davie and the Lobo coach has never sidestepped the state of his program or his team. The Lobos are well coached, improving, but there are some needs.
One need was answered in UNM's 42-35 overtime win at UTEP this past Saturday. The Lobos found a way to win.
It's reasonable to think that the Panthers eye the Lobos as their path to evening out their season record at 1-1. That's how football players/athletes think. The Lobos aren't going East thinking about a loss.
One thing is for sure: the Panthers can't allow the Lobos and Kasey Carrier to run up and down Heinz Field. The Lobos' running game makes them a dangerous visitor.
It's also reasonable to expect that the Panthers will have some sort of defensive scheme mapped out for the Lobos' running game that rocked the UTEP Miners for 395 yards on the ground in UNM's dramatic 42-35 OT win in El Paso. The Panthers, coming off a bye week, will have had two weeks to prepare for that UNM option.
The Lobos can run it. They didn't come into the Sun Bowl with any mystery shrouding their "pistol" attack and handed off the ball to Kasey Carrier 41 times. Carrier ran for 291 yards. The combination of the Lobo offensive line and the Miners' defense made Carrier look NFL.
The Panthers' defense made a Seminole freshman look NFL two weeks ago.
Pitt has only three 0-2 starts in the past 30 seasons. They are 0-1 because the Florida State Seminoles are very good and because the Panthers are still in a rebuilding swing under second-year coach Paul Chryst. But Pitt isn't bad.
Pitt went to a bowl game in 2012 behind Chryst – just barely. He actually left his alma mater (Wisconsin) to become a Panther, but the jump from offensive coordinator to head man is understandable. Wisconsin might come calling down the road. Chryst has a reputation as an offensive guru – but not yet at Pitt.
The Panthers won their final six regular-season games in 2012 to slip into the Compass Bowl. Pitt beat two Top 25 opponents last year and the Panthers didn't schedule the Lobos to go 0-2. This is a game that Pitt and Panther fans expect to win. But they need to play better on both sides of the ball.
The Seminoles' QB Jameis Winston blistered a good Panthers' secondary for 356 yards and four TDs completing 93 percent of his passes – 25-of-27. The Panthers might be thankful that the Lobos prefer to run.
Pitt, in its debut in the Atlantic Coast Conference, simply couldn't keep up with the Seminole athletes. FSU had 533 total yards by adding a respectable 156 yards on the ground. Pitt had 201 yards passing and only 96 rushing for its 297 total. Pitts was solid on special teams and was called for only four penalties worth 26 yards. They were 2-of-8 on third down conversions.
One of the best Panthers vs. Florida State was senior Matt Yoklic. The Lobos hope to see him often. He is Pitt's punter. He averaged 54.3 yards on three boots vs. Florida State.
The Panthers played a lot of pups vs. the Seminoles – 11 true and seven redshirt freshmen. One of those first-year Panthers played well. Tyler Boyd had a game-high 151 all-purpose yards. He ran for 54 on three end-arounds. He is dangerous with the ball.
The Panthers have a top-notch receiver in Devin Street, who hauled in six passes for a career-high 141 yards.
The Panthers lost a good quarterback in 2012 in Tino Sunseri, who passed for 3,288 yards. They go into the 2013 season pulling Tom Savage out of Sunseri's shadow and looking to groom him into a winner. Savage has bounced around. The senior played two years at Rutgers and one year at Arizona before coming back East to Pittsburgh.
Savage went 15-of-28 against a quick and athletic FSU team and managed to throw one touchdown against two interceptions. Lobo Coach Bob Davie said he expects the Panthers to throw the ball more than UTEP did against the young Lobo secondary. Street will test that secondary. He had 73 grabs in 2012.
The Panthers surely will go aerial on the Lobos. They probably want to use the Lobos to establish some confidence in their running game, too. Pitt threw out three first-time starters on the offensive line vs. Florida State.
The Panthers had a solid defense in 2012 allowing 330.5 yards per game which was good enough to earn the No. 17th spot nationally. After Florida State, they are around 200 yards behind that pace. In 2013, that unit is led by defensive tackle Aaron Donald, who has 19.5 career sacks, and safety Jason Hendricks, who led Pitt in tackles (90) in 2012.
Hendricks anchors a secondary which also returns K'Waun Williams and Lafayette Pitts. That trio had 11 picks in 2012 – none vs. Florida State.
Editor's Note: Richard Stevens is a former award-winning Sports Columnist and Associate Sports Editor at The Albuquerque Tribune. You can reach him at email@example.com.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Gangs have become a growing problem across North Carolina.
According to the Governor's Crime Commission, there are more than 10,600 gang members in North Carolina, a slight increase from previous years.
Guilford County is ranked second in the state for its number of gangs with 90. Forsyth County is ranked fourth with 57.
High Point Police Officer David Inthisane has seen gang members as young as 9-years-old.
"The dangerous part of them [gang members] being younger, is they are immature. They are willing to do anything to prove themselves, so it's getting more dangerous," explains Officer Inthisane explained.
Gang initiation often depends on the type of gang or the gang's "mood." Requirements can be anything from robberies, shootings, or even some men and women can be "sexted" in.
"Performing sexual acts with other gang members to be initiated into the gang," explained Mark Bridgeman, with the N.C. Gang Investigators Association.
High Point officers typically see what they call "neighborhood gangs," which are gangs trying to associate with national gangs.
"Whether it's the Bloods or the Crips or Folk Nation or People Nation they will try to align themselves somehow with the national gang," explained Inthisane.
According to the Governor's Crime Commission there are 982 gangs in North Carolina, up from 963 from the previous year.


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Library to kick off Comics Project
The Durham County Library is inviting members of the Durham community of all ages to tell their stories using the visual medium of comics. The yearlong Durham Comics Project will begin Saturday as part of the library's third annual Comics Fest.
Amy Godfrey, a comics artist and the children's librarian at Southwest Regional Library, compares the project to "a comics version of StoryCorps," the NPR project that records the stories of Americans. She would like the project to capture "moments of Durham. … I would like this to reflect the diversity of the Durham community – stories from as many different people as we can."
For the next year, Godfrey will be teaching workshops in different locations in Durham, "and trying to engage as many different folks in many age groups in comics," she said. The results will be posted on the project website (DurhamComicsProject.org), and an anthology will be released at the 2014 Comics Fest, Godfrey said.
Participating in the project does not require visual art expertise or talent, Godfrey said. She emphasizes that comics are another medium for telling stories, and it's the story, not the quality of visual art, that counts. "There are professional comics where the main characters are dots: You can be very abstract in how you choose your characters," she said.
Comics have gained more respect as a form of storytelling, and the Comics Fest offers newcomers "a good place to start if you're hoping to broaden your notion of what comics are," Godfrey said.
Modern comics have diversified beyond newspaper strips and the Marvel and DC superhero series. The line between comics and graphic novels has blurred. Many of the comics artists who will give workshops and presentations Saturday are illustrators and storytellers, as well as comics artists.
Raina Telgemeier, Eisner Award winner, will be giving workshops. She is the author of the books "Smile" (about a sixth-grader's anxieties about braces) and "Drama" (about a middle school student's traumas as the set designer for a middle school play) and the "Baby-Sitters Club" series of graphic novels. Hugo Award winner Ursula Vernon is the author of the "Dragonbreath" series, which alternates between graphic novel format and text, and "Digger," featuring a wombat caught in a one-way tunnel.
Other workshop presenters will be Harvey Award winner Scott Hampton ("Batman," "The Books of Magic"), Eisner nominee Ben Towle ("Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean"), and Jan Burger ("Uitke and the Magic Penny").
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The Daily Telegraph (Aus) – November 6th 2011
Isabel Lucas moves back to Australia after making new movie Immortals
WHILE many Aussie actors head for Hollywood seeking fame and fortune, former Home and Away star Isabel Lucas is bucking the trend.
Instead the 26-year-old is homeward bound.
After three years of living in Los Angeles, Lucas tells Insider: "I'm really excited about moving back to Melbourne. I prefer living in Australia. That's where I feel most comfortable.
"In LA you need to develop a good bullshit radar. It's rough here. There's a real harshness to living in LA and I find I have to put on my hard skin and let things slide like water off a duck's back."
Securing the much-coveted role of the goddess Athena in the $75 million, upcoming special effects-laden film Immortals has helped to establish the 26-year-old's career. It has also afforded her the opportunity to live where she chooses.
She can just as easily be Hollywood's next Aussie star-on-the-rise, living in Melbourne as the US.
"I don't know about that (title) because it's all very subjective and fleeting, but I do feel really lucky that now it's not necessary for me to be based in LA anymore. I can commute back and forth for work for a month here and there when I need to," she says.
Does this change of heart have anything to do with her Aussie-based boyfriend, musician Angus Stone?
"Maybe a little bit," she laughs.
The blonde beauty has been photographed all over the globe including California's Coachella Music Festival holding hands with Stone, half of the duo Angus and Julia Stone.
Like many young starlets, she's been romantically linked to many of her co-stars some of whom include Adrien Grenier, Shia LeBeouf and Jake Gyllenhaal, as well as Aussie actors Chris Hemsworth and Joel Edgerton.
A little frustrated, she says: "I have a good amount of male friends who are just like big brothers. I'm grateful for that but it saddens me that they are pigeonholed.
"Hollywood doesn't believe that platonic male/female relationships can exist."
Wearing a fire-engine red, figure-hugging Gucci dress, black ballet slippers and a hint of mascara, this natural beauty is in Beverly Hills to promote the 3D-action adventure.
A testament to her growing status, Lucas was handed the role and didn't have to battle it out in audition.
"It was great. I was sent the script and it was offered to me straight away," she says. "It was pretty amazing."
Her journey to success has come in spurts. She got the role in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen relatively quickly after landing in Hollywood.
Admirably, she didn't grab everything that was on offer.
"I turned down roles," she says, referring to the typical route to stardom via cheesy horror movies. Although her background was in television, she was adamant she wanted to become a film actress.
"I consciously chose not to do TV here. After doing Home And Away, I wanted to do a different medium."
She went onto star in Daybreakers opposite Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe, and The Waiting City, with Edgerton and Radha Mitchell.
Endowed with an ethereal beauty, unlike the generic cookie-cutter Hollywood types, she was perfectly cast as an otherworldly creature.
Directed by Tarsem Singh (The Fall, The Cell) and from the producers of the mega-hit 300 (grossing US$450 million worldwide), Immortals is expected to do big business.
An epic tale of treachery and violence, it stars Mickey Rourke as the megalomaniacal King Hyperion whose goal is to obtain a weapon that can destroy ancient Greece and all humanity. Henry Cavill (Count of Monte Cristo) plays Theseus, a heroic villager chosen by Zeus to rise up against the king.
It also stars John Hurt, Frieda Pinto, and Stephen Dorff.
Like all such period pieces, the costumes are an integral component of the film's authenticity.
"I loved my costumes. One of them was a golden corset. It was really tight and very uncomfortable. It had a chain skirt full of necklaces and weighed about 20kg so it was really heavy to wear, but looked beautiful," she says.
In her own life, Lucas has become a fashion leader due to her "Boho-chic" style and she can often be seen splashed across the fashion pages.
"I like wearing what's comfortable and I dress how I feel. Sometimes that's feminine and I might wear a lacy dress, and sometimes it's more tomboyish and I'll wear shorts and a vintage T-shirt.
Lucas will next be seen in Red Dawn, and two Aussie productions, A Heartbeat Away and The Wedding Party.
An active animal rights advocate, she's fighting to preserve Australia's Coral Sea by having it declared a protected marine mark.
"I'm the ambassador of the Coral Sea Campaign and I recently recorded a PSA (public service announcement) with Angus," she says.
"We filmed on a Super 8 video and Julia wrote the song for us – which we hope will inspire people."


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Fall Campaign Is a Clash of Ideas
Phil Angelides, the Democratic candidate for governor, is going to have to run a much better campaign in the fall than he did in the primary if he hopes to send Arnold Schwarzenegger back to Hollywood.

Angelides, a former legislative aide, real estate developer and one-time chairman of the California Democratic Party who has been state treasurer for the past seven years, limped out of his party's primary a wounded nominee.

His campaign treasury is empty. His favorability ratings are far worse than the governor's. He has major problems in the Central Valley outside his hometown of Sacramento.

And worst of all, the cornerstone idea of his candidacy — raising taxes on the rich — was handed a smashing defeat when voters overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 82, a proposal to raise taxes to pay for universal preschool for 4-year-olds.

The other notion that defines his persona — that he is the one Democrat who stood up to Schwarzenegger from the beginning — might not be so attractive now that Angelides will be trying to win over independent voters, many of whom prefer a more bipartisan approach to government.

He is the Democratic nominee in a solidly Democratic state. President Bush, for whom Schwarzenegger campaigned in 2004, is about as unpopular here as Richard Nixon was at his worst, and Angelides will try to link the governor and the president as friends and political partners.

But if he is to win in the fall, Angelides will have to be more than the "anti-Arnold." He will have to offer a positive vision for California's future.

He is capable of doing so. He did it in stump speeches and in interviews during the primary campaign.

He and his team, for some reason, never wanted to put that version of Angelides front and center in his campaign for the nomination. Instead, they introduced voters to a snarling, mean-spirited party hack who managed to wrestle his less experienced opponent to the ground, roll around for several weeks and finally pin him, leaving both candidates exhausted.

Steve Westly, the former eBay executive and state controller, had the risumi, he had the aura of the Silicon Valley and he had a personal fortune to spend on his campaign. What he did not have was a story, a reason for running other than simply wanting the governor's job as the next rung on the political ladder he was set on climbing.

Westly never offered any serious policy proposals that were very different from those the governor was already pursuing. His ideas on the education budget were essentially the same as Schwarzenegger's, except for a proposal to tweak the lottery that was so weak as to be laughable. He said he would raise taxes only as a "last resort" and tried to get people to believe that he could find billions of dollars for the budget by tracking down tax cheats.

Westly's demeanor, on the stump and even in his own television ads, was off-putting. He always seemed to be trying too hard, a Stanford Business School approach to politicking that did not appear genuine. Though voters generally viewed him favorably, Westly never established any kind of emotional connection with the electorate.

Now Schwarzenegger is off and running for re-election, touring the north state by bus, holding events his staff says will be unstaged and open to all comers. And his story — he cut taxes, brought the state back from the brink of bankruptcy and now is laying the groundwork to rebuild California's infrastructure for the 21st century — is compelling.

Angelides will complain about education budgets, but Schwarzenegger's current proposal would complete an $8 billion, 17 percent increase in school spending over two years. The Democrat will hit him on the environment, but the governor is an enthusiastic supporter of alternative energy and backs a plan to put California in the lead among states fighting global warming.

Angelides can try to attack Schwarzenegger as a tool of the special interests, but the treasurer is a favorite of the state's most powerful interest group — the public employee labor unions — and in the primary he was the beneficiary of an unprecedented $8 million campaign by Sacramento developer Angelo Tsakopoulos and his family.

In the end, this will be a campaign offering two distinct choices.

The governor will vow to continue on his centrist path, one of holding down taxes while allowing government to grow with the economy, protecting the environment while not ignoring the needs of business, celebrating diversity while not defining people by the groups to which they belong.

Angelides will offer a much more expansive, ambitious government that taxes more, spends more and plays a greater role in regulating business, one that seeks not just to create equal opportunity but tries to create more equal results for people born on the wrong side of the tracks or the other side of the border.

Daniel Weintraub writes for the Sacramento Bee.
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