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Police are investigating whether food served to West Geauga's football team was poisoned after nearly 75 people became sick Thursday night following a team dinner, Athletic Director John Cardiero said.
The team gathered for a meal Thursday night at the high school, along with support staff, cheerleaders and parents. The meal was prepared by Ramble Inn in Newbury Township. Later that night, several people began feeling sick, Cardiero said.
"From what I've heard, it's close to 75 people who got sick," said Cardiero, who attended the banquet but did not eat dinner.
About 60 players became ill with vomiting and diarrhea symptoms Thursday night and Friday morning following the meal, which included prime rib and mashed potatoes, Cardiero said.
Principal Dave Toth alerted police when they arrived at the high school for Friday's game against Perry, and an investigation began, Cardiero said.
"There were some rumors going around that possibly it could have been spite," Cardiero said. "They decided to investigate what happened. We're waiting to hear back."
One of the player's parents picked the meal up from Ramble Inn and brought the food to the high school, Cardiero said.
The illness did not keep anyone from playing Friday night against Perry, a game West Geauga lost, 21-11. But Cardiero believes the food poisoning played a role.
"Being up all night and not sleeping, being de-hydrated, I'm sure a couple kids were weak but they still played hard," he said. "I'm not sure how many kids were 100 percent going into the game. It's an unfortunate thing. Of course it's a concern."


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The Hawks and SF are stealing each others' practice players to as to cull intel. FAT CHANCE HARBAUGH. It reminds me of the eighties when SF and Dallas signed a lot of each others' big fas.
Speculative: All the air missing from Tom Brady's deflated balls now inflates KAM CHANCELLOR's growing ego.
SoulfishHawk wrote:No way, another thread that has to do with the Niners??
twisted_steel2 wrote:SoulfishHawk wrote:No way, another thread that has to do with the Niners??
Waiting for a niner fan to show up to the board... check for any niner threads or comments... register... then comment asking why we're obsessed with them.

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Tom Cruise's case of the cinematic cooties may be over.
Viacom chief Sumner Redstone, who famously cut ties with Cruise after his career-capsizing bout of couch-jumping and presciption med-bashing in 2006, had a high-profile dinner with the actor Thursday night.
Redstone tells the Wall Street Journal that the two "agreed the past is the past and we would put it behind us and renew our relationship."
The entertainment chief, who controls Paramount, told Vanity Fair in late 2006 that Cruise "was embarrassing the studio" with his antics, which the very public avowal of love for Katie Holmes, a face-off with the "Today" show's Matt Lauer over anti-depressants and a mini-feud with Brooke Shields, who wrote a book about post-partum depression.
Reports indicate that it's Cruise who has been seeking a reconciliation. Paramount has the rights to Cruise's "Mission: Impossible" series, and Cruise needs a surefire blockbuster.


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Friends of the Slidell Library are presenting a silent auction of 63 'Biography' items. The silent auction is under way now, and will end at 6 p.m. on Dec. 27.
Bids must be placed in person at the Slidell Library, 555 Robert Blvd. Important auction guidelines are posted on the bid book, available at the library circulation desk. High-bidders will be notified and must pick up items within seven days. Questions may be submitted to email@example.com.
The items are as follows (with minimum bids in parenthesis):
"The Affair of the Necklace" DVD ($3), "Against All Odds," ($4), "Alexander Hamilton" ($4), "Amazing Men" ($4), "American Hostage" ($4), "American Soldier" ($7), "And Furthermore" ($6), "Audition" ($5), "Benjamin Franklin" ($4), "The Bodyguard's Story" ($4), "Boots on the Ground by Dusk" ($4), "Catch A Fire" ($6), "Catherine the Great" ($6), "Coco Chanel" ($7), "Considering Doris Day" ($4), "The Courage to Survive" ($7).
"The Day John Died" ($4), "The Death of Sigmund Freud" ($7), "Dreaming Out Loud" ($4), "The Edwardian Lady" ($5), "The Everything Da Vinci Book" ($4), "FDR" ($4), "Fergie" ($4), "Flight" ($4), "The Grace to Race" ($4).
"Home Team: Coaching the Saints & New Orleans Back to Life" ($4), "Hometown Appetites" ($4), "Howard Hughes" ($7), "Huey Long" ($5), "Jack's Life" ($3), "Jerry Lewis In Person" ($4), "John Adams" ($4), "Kate Remembered" ($4), "Life & Distinguished Services of Hon. Wm. McKinley & the Great Issues of 1896" ($100).
"Lincoln" ($5), "Lost Highways" ($7), "Louis Riel" ($5), "The Making of a Chef" ($5), "The Man Called CASH" ($4), "The Man Who Loved China" ($6), "Marie Curie" ($4), "Marilyn" ($5), "Me & Lee" ($8), "The Name Above the Title" ($4), "One Drop" ($4), "Open" ($4), "Papa" ($4), "The Path to Power" ($4), "Portrait of Picasso As a Young Man" ($5), "Queen of the Conqueror" ($6).
"The Life of Rembrandt van Rijn" ($8), "Reba" ($4), "Roosevelt" ($4), "The Royal Family" ($5), "'Shakespeare' By Another Name" ($4), "Terrible Terry Allen" ($5), "The Titled Americans" ($5), "Truman" ($4), "Westmoreland" ($8), "Will Rogers" ($9), "William Shakespeare" ($5), "The Wizard of Menlo Park" ($6), "The Worlds of Lincoln Kirsten" ($5).
Friends membership update
All Friends of the Slidell Library memberships expire Dec. 31. Join or renew now to avoid the rush at the Jan. 25 used book sale. The January Second Saturday Special Sale will focus on the 'Mystery' genre.


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Bust out your crochet tops ONTD! It's a Coachella fashion post.
The Coachella festival not only draws in hipsters from all over the continent (and the globe), it's also a draw for celebrities. Every year in early April, crowds of fans and famous people alike hit the California desert for the Coachella Music Festival. And though it's the headliners who take center stage, the style set seen around the grounds always grab our attention.
Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine was another head-turner. She arrived Sunday in a sheer flowing hippy gown, carrying a Dolce & Gabbana 'Dolce' handbag and Spring 2012 runway sandals.
Azealia Banks- A little over-the-top for any other occasion sure, but this rap star fits right in at the festival with her pink tunic and knee-high boots.
Emma Watson and Lily Collins- The adorable duo wore boho-inspired, printed pieces by Mulberry, perfectly fit for listening to music under the sun.
Emma and Boyfriend Will
Kate Bosworth- The effortlessly stylish uniform of Coachella: a Mulberry scoop-neck tee, belted short shorts and ankle books, topped off with the perfect pair of shades.
Katy Perry- Purple-haired Katy Perry made headlines for her Friday night Gothic get up at Detail's Midnight Coachella bash wearing what she tweeted as an ode to Nev Campbell in The Craft, Garbage, No Doubt, Ty from Clueless and Lori Petty in Tank Girl. And let's not overlook Perry's House of Holland's Polly's limited edition Bones tights, which we are sure Marilyn Manson will want to borrow.
Fergie- Usually a fan of over-the-top garb, this musician chose a long, loose ensemble that felt like the epitome of festival style
Leah Michelle/Lauren Conrad- The two bubbly TV stars were pool party ready -- Lea in espadrilles and a long button-down, Lauren in a tank and colorful striped skirt. Lea is in bright Lacoste.
Paris Hilton- Paris Hilton was spotted at the fest wearing huge dark shades and beaded flowers in her hair with a heavy turquoise necklace, a white bra and a colorful striped skirt.
Rihanna- Rihanna was spotted in head-to-toe denim, including a denim newsboy cap. But when she performed at British house producer Calvin Harris' set at the Sahara Tent on Sunday night, she wore very short, tight, sharp studded denim cutoffs and a 'Peace' Tshirt
Lindsay Lohan- Lindsay Lohan showed up at the festival. She wore a wide-brimmed black felt hat, a blue tank top and scarf, skin-tight black leather pants with black platform boots. Yawn.
Vanessa Hudgens- The former Disney star was spotted out and about during Coachella all weekend, but nailed the peace sign throwing look on day three of Coachella - floral headband and all.
Building around the Coachella festival staple, the denim cut-off shorts, Vanessa added a bevy of hippie style clothing to balance the Coachella-perfect look.
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Nina Dobrev- With boyfriend Ian Somerhalder
Ontd what would you wear to Coachella?


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The newlyweds are spending their honeymoon in Hawaii.
The bride is a daughter of Michele and Mark Acerra of Eltingville. The bridegroom is a son of Rosalie Pepe of Grasmere and the late Peter Pepe.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride chose Elizabeth Erraji as the matron of honor and her twin sister, Cynthia Acerra, as the maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Lisa DeAngelo, Danielle Pepe and Kathleen Gloskey. The junior bridesmaid was Julia Pepe, and the flower girl was Sophia Pepe.
Ralph Pepe was the best man for his brother. The ushers were Gregory Acerra, Alexander Acerra, Michael Santoro, Brian Haley and Thomas Primiano. The junior groomsman was Christopher Delgado, and the ringbearer was Ralph Pepe Jr.
Mrs. Pepe is a graduate of Tottenville High School. She earned a bachelor of arts degree, cum laude, in English literature from the College of Staten Island, where she earned a master of science degree in adolescent education. She is an English teacher at New Dorp High School.
Mr. Pepe is a graduate of Monsignor Farrell High School, Oakwood. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in music education from Wagner College and a master of arts degree in music composition from New York University, Manhattan. He is a music teacher at New Dorp High School.


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A judge today convicted a Detroit man in a March 25 armed robbery in Jackson.
Circuit Judge John McBain found Harold Cargill guilty of two counts of armed robbery and one count of felony firearms.
He faces up to life in prison at sentencing March 13. A co-defendant, Brack Rucker, also will be sentenced that day.
Rucker pleaded guilty to armed robbery last week and testified at Cargill's bench trial on Monday. Another cohort, Keenan King, was found guilty of armed robbery last year and is serving 20-40 years in prison. He also testified for the prosecution.
McBain said evidence was clear that Cargill, 25, broke into a home on W. Mason Street that night with at least two other men and robbed a man and woman at gunpoint.
For more on this story, visit mlive.com/citpat Wednesday or pick up Wednesday's Jackson Citizen Patriot.


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Yes, good possibility that you have a bacterial overgrowth in your gut. Potatoes, corn, others and I am burning up. Sweet potatoes don't seem to bother me as long as I don't go crazy with them.
Yes, good possibility that you have a bacterial overgrowth in your gut. Potatoes, corn, others and I am burning up. Sweet potatoes don't seem to bother me as long as I don't go crazy with them.
I haven't had any issues the very few times I've had starches since going primal. Sugar and wheat did give me giant rush and headache though.
Other than unsoaked brown rice and wheat, nope.
The whole concept of a macronutrient, like that of a calorie, is determining our language game in such a way that the conversation is not making sense." - Dr. Kurt Harris
GAPS diet - the diet for helping with learning disabilities, psychiatric disorders and physical problems, such as autism, hyperactivity and attention deficit, dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disoYour patient needs to carry on completely avoiding starches and sugar for two years at least.
This, as has already been said in this thread, is thought to be connected with bacterial overgrowth—and actual damage to the gut, which in such cases needs repair. There's a fair bit of evidence to suggest that's right. Avoiding starchy foods, sugar, and some other foodstuffs, and taking some therapeutic measures, such as taking a good probiotic seems to resolve the problem for many people in time.
They don't seem to cause me issues other than more cravings. Is that bacteria? I so lots of other posts where they are more problematic.
More cravings would be due to blood sugar fluctuations. There are some AI disorders which show great improvement for many with the avoidance of starches, Ankylosing Spondylitis and some arthritis forms. Others probably do as well. AS specifically is due to klebsiella p. overgrowth, C. pneumoniae is responsible for others. If you want to read more about it check out Kickas.org. I'm not saying you have AS, but the site offers insight to the mechanisms behind what's going on.
Wheat and sugar (not potatoes) send me into binge mode.
Nope, quite the opposite.


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RICHFIELD TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- The neighborhood just got a little bigger around Richfield Landfill.
State Rep. Ted Hammon, D-Burton, has joined a small army of county officials and homeowners trying to impact plans to control contamination leaking from the site before its owners are allowed to expand the facility later this year.
Neighbors of the 300-acre landfill on Mt. Morris Road near Henderson Road learned in 2006 that inorganic contaminants were leaching from old storage cells into the surrounding groundwater.
The contamination has now reached Holloway Reservoir Regional Park, where the 2,000-acre lake is both a valued sport fishery and the backup water supply for the city of Flint.
"One cell they know is leaking and they're worried about the second. ... That tells me we should worry about 30 years from now, too," said Genesee County Parks Commission president Joe Krapohl.
The troubled landfill closed in 1991 after lengthy legal problems. Richfield Equities bought and reopened the operation in 2002, promising to bring the facility up to current standards and remedy any historical contamination.
The state Department of Environmental Quality must approve the company's plan to control that historical contamination before it's allowed to expand.
That needs to happen fast, said Richfield Equities attorney Tom Toppin: the owners want to start construction on a third cell this summer.
According to the DEQ, about 130,000 cubic yards of space remain in Cell 2. At the current rate, the landfill will be full sometime between mid-October and the end of November.
But the landfill's neighbors -- including the county parks and drain commissions -- are less than satisfied with the plan as it is.
Many are upset that a containment barrier around the leaking cell won't be built for several years. They also want better assurances that Richfield will set aside enough money to pay for the remediation's predicted $4.8 million in construction and $4.3 million for longterm maintenance.
County officials also want to see written guarantees that the DEQ orders can actually be enforced by shutting down the landfill if the owners don't comply.
Based on the huge backlash of complaints and concerns lodged at a public hearing earlier this month, the DEQ and Richfield Equities agreed to extend the approval deadline until Wednesday.
"The DEQ and I both want to make sure there's sufficient transparency in the process so everybody is aware and has an opportunity to ask questions and get responses," said Toppin.
As part of that, Richfield Equities has agreed to allow a group of officials to tour the site, including Hammon, Parks Director Amy McMillan, Drain Commissioner Jeff Wright and Holloway Lake Association representatives.
"We think it's important they have an opportunity to look at what has been accomplished at the landfill," said Toppin.
"Our representatives will explain exactly what our plans are and be able to show them on a firsthand basis what hopefully the final product will be once the plan has been completed."
Will it help? That's anybody's guess.
"Our hope is to have a clearer understanding of what's happening on the site and how to best work with them to manage both the surface and underground water resource," said McMillan. "Whatever else might come of it, I don't know. But our time to have any impact on this issue is running out."


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MAC Fabulous Felines: Overall Review & Recommendations
OVERALL, Fabulous Felines has a lot of tones and shades perfect for autumn and certainly a plethora of products to choose from. Despite some of the darker and deeper tones, the collection feels rather sheer, muted, and tame. It doesn't feel like a bold, rich mix of colors once you actually start to swatch through some of the products. Burmese Beauty is a set of products that easily work for both cooler and warmer skin tones, while Palace Pedigreed complements cooler skin tones best and Leopard Luxe for warmer skin tones. Keep in mind that this doesn't mean you can't wear cooler-toned products on your warmer skin!Read Full Review
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"I've been on it just about every day," said Muncey, whose home is next to the new trail. "A lot of people are already using it."
He was one of a handful of people who braved chilly weather Friday afternoon for a ribbon-cutting to signify that the Bradford Creek Greenway is officially open for walkers, joggers, runners, cyclists and, of course, dogs, and even horses.
Despite the weather, Mike Potter and his dog, Toby, were enjoying their time on the trail, which stretches three-quarters of a mile from Palmer Road across from Palmer Park to Mill Road. It is the first part of Phase One of the 2-mile long project.
Mayor Paul Finley called the new greenway "fabulous" and credited the vision of Madison leaders more than a decade ago for the idea of trails and greenways connecting many parts of the city.
He said the No. 1 request from residents for the Madison City Growth Plan was for "greenways and green space. A lot of folks have been involved in making something so positive for our community."
The $1.5 million project will eventually provide a path from Liberty Middle School on Dock Murphy Drive, with an ingress and egress to County Line Road, all the way to I-565, said City Engineer Gary Chynoweth.
He said the second part of the first phase, which will run from Mill Road to Heritage Elementary School, should be complete by this summer.
The final phase of the project north of Mill Road has encountered opposition from the landowner, Tamara Powers, who boards and trains horses on her property, Sunshine Oaks, and gives riding lessons to children with disabilities.
Powers gave the city permission to survey her land for the greenway, believing it would cross over the back part of her property. She changed her mind after learning it would run through the middle, preventing her horses from reaching the creek. But federal grant specifications can't be changed once made or the city will lose the grant, said Chynoweth.
"It's a federally funded project and we have to back off and let them resolve the issue," said Chynoweth. "I feel bad for her, but there's nothing that can be done now."
Chain-link fences with gates for horses will be built along the greenway through Powers' property, said Chynoweth. But at a City Council meeting, Powers said, "Horses don't know how to open gates."
Parks and Recreation Director Kory Alfred said he hopes some day the Bradford Greenway will connect to the Mill Creek Greenway, but he said that's "a long-term project."
In addition to Bradford Creek Greenway on the western side of the city, Madison residents have access to Indian Creek Greenway on the eastern side, Mill Creek Greenway in the central area, and Rainbow Mountain Preserve in the northern section for a total of more than six miles of trails.


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HALIFAX (CP) — Nova Scotia's largest health authority says it has scheduled meetings with about 150 unionized registered nurses to discuss their part in a recent illegal strike.
The Nova Scotia Labour Board issued a cease-and-desist order April 1 after some nurses did not report for their shifts, forcing the cancellation of dozens of surgeries as tensions rose ahead of a legal strike that was ended by essential-services legislation.
Capital Health spokesman John Gillis says following the meetings, hospital officials will review the facts to determine whether discipline is warranted.
He says in an email the health authority warned the union ahead of time that there would be consequences if the collective agreement was broken.
In the legislature, interim NDP leader Maureen MacDonald said the authority shouldn't act in a way that will worsen morale and damage work relations with its nurses after the contract dispute.
Premier Stephen McNeil said the issue is between the workers and their employer, which has the right to act against illegal action.


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The Best Pumpkin Beers Taste Test
We have embarked on a taste test tour of supermarket foods. We nibble, we score, and we share the results to help you avoid the paralysis of Brand Choice Overload. Today's topic: pumpkin beer.
Alongside bifocals, baseball, the airplane, and the Internet, pumpkin ale is an all-American invention. According to Garrett Oliver's The Oxford Companion to Beer, the seasonal brew that features fall's most iconic fruit was conceived by colonists in the 18th century, more out of necessity than anything else. Now, pumpkin beers are a seasonal bellwether brewed in all sorts of ways–using raw, roasted, macerated, or juiced pumpkins, and sometimes with pumpkin extract or flavoring added post-production. But how do they taste?
With a short season and lots of breweries to choose from, we sampled 11 pumpkin beers from stores around our offices in New York City. Some went way too heavy on the pumpkin pie spice (rather than the subtle squash-y flavors), others had an artificial taste that put us off. But some tasted just like autumn. Here are our top three picks:
1.Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale
Cost: $10.99 for a six-pack at Whole Foods and D'Agostinos in NYC
Blind tasting notes: "Hoppiness and floral notes with slight pumpkin warmth" and a "light spice."
2. Brooklyn Post Road Pumpkin Ale
Cost: $10.99 for a six-pack at Whole Foods and D'Agostinos in NYC
Blind tasting notes: "Very straightforward, balanced flavor" with a "hint of bitterness."
3. Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale
Cost: $11.99 for a six-pack at Whole Foods and D'Agostinos in NYC
Blind tasting notes: "Light-bodied" with a "heady almond flavor" and "good spice." Had a great overall pumpkin flavor and "tastes like the holidays."


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With college football fans nationwide focused on New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Friday seized on the upcoming match-up between the LSU Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide to kick off the city's next big bash. Presiding over the annual Kings Day party at Gallier Hall, Landrieu opened the 2012 Mardi Gras season — which culminates with Fat Tuesday on Feb. 21 — by presenting the athletics directors of each school with a king cake sparkling with purple, green and gold icing.
"You're going to see grown men dancing, laughing and crying — with lots of feathers on," Landrieu said.
Mardi Gras, he added, "is the thing that transmits to the nation the authenticity of New Orleans and the future of New Orleans."
Flanked by Carnival royalty and city and state leaders, Landrieu emphasized the cultural and economic importance of Carnival to a city that just six years ago was struggling to recover from the largest exodus in American history.
"Nobody had anything to do" in the months after Hurricane Katrina, Landrieu said.
"That," he said, "has changed," referring as much to the upcoming seven-week Carnival season as to this weekend's sports bonanza, headlined by tonight's play-off match-up and Monday's college national championship game.
Landrieu this week said crowds visiting the city over the 10-day period ending Monday are expected to deliver an economic impact of $500 million — more than a typical Super Bowl.
Carnival will ring local cash registers too. A recent study by Tulane University economics professor Toni Weiss placed the direct economic impact of last year's revelry at $144.1 million and an indirect impact of $300.7 million, including the recognition that Mardi Gras brings New Orleans throughout the year.
The study also found that spending on a variety of items — from hotel rooms and groceries to throws and masked balls — provided City Hall with nearly $8.50 in tax revenue for every $1 the city spent on services directly tied to Carnival, such as police and fire protection and trash pickup.
"This is entrepreneurism. This is small business at its best," said John Charbonnet, a spokesman for the Carnival Krewes Civic Foundation, which commissioned the report. "Every dollar the city spends, we get $8.50 return. How many guys would like to run a business where we get an $8.50 profit?"
A similar study by Weiss and Paul Spindt of Tulane found that the 2009 Carnival season had a slightly greater economic impact, with an overall effect of about $322 million.
According to Weiss, local spending last year on parade paraphernalia, food, alcohol and other items was greater compared with 2009, and the late date of Mardi Gras, March 8, made for a longer king cake season. It also allowed local shoppers to focus on Valentine's Day, which often is overlooked amid Carnival.
However, those factors were "not enough to offset the influence that the national economy (had) on tourist expenditures," she wrote.
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By Kathryn Chiu , The China Post
April 2, 2014, 12:01 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Local financial regulators on Tuesday approbated the first batch of renminbi (RMB)-denominated life insurance policies, setting a new milestone for Taiwan to diversify its inshore RMB financial products.
The Central News Agency (CNA) reported yesterday that Taiwan's top financial watchdog, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), had approved the first six RMB-denominated insurance policies worth NT$24.6 billion in insurance coverage quotas.
Those six policies were filed by TransGlobe Life (全球人壽), Shin Kong Life Insurance (新光人壽), China Life (中國人壽), Fubon Life (富邦人壽), CTBC Life (中國信託人壽) and Cathay Life (國泰人壽), according to the FSC.
TransGlobe Life will lead over peers in launching the first RMB-denominated insurance plan in mid-April. According to the FSC, the first-year quota for TransGlobe Life's RMB-denominated insurance coverage amounts to NT$120 million.
TransGlobe Life told local media that its first RMB-denominated insurance product will be a NT$200,000-worth old-age insurance policy.
In a bid to build Taiwan as a RMB offshore center, local governments are speeding up the relaxation of financial regulations. Simultaneously, as Taiwan further eases financial restrictions, Chinese currency deposits in Taiwan are likely to surge to 250 billion by year-end.


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Dark-staining body in the nuclei of female mammals that contains a condensed, inactive X chromosome.
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Failure of homologous chromosomes or daughter chromosomes to separate during meiosis I and meiosis II, respectively.
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Allele that occurs on the sex chromosomes but may control a trait having nothing to do with the sexual characteristics of an individual.
Group of symptoms that appear together and tend to indicate the presence of a particular disorder.
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Whidbey Island library customers will be able to check out electricity monitors for one week at a time at the Freeland and Coupeville Sno-Isle branches starting this week.
Puget Sound Energy is providing the devices on loan as part of a year-long energy-efficiency pilot program.
"This is a great collaboration between two entities serving the Whidbey community," said Walt Blackford, PSE Whidbey Island community services supervisor. "By making the monitors available, we hope to help Sno-Isle customers better understand their energy usage and ultimately lower their energy use and save money on their energy bills."
To help introduce the pilot program and also help PSE customers get ready for storm season, PSE and Sno-Isle Libraries are also offering free energy-related workshops at the following locations:
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PSE staff will be on hand to introduce the power monitors as well as provide information on PSE's home energy assessment rebate, do-it-yourself weatherization strategies, and how to select and safely install a back-up generator.
The Coupeville and Freeland libraries will each have two PowerCost Monitors and one Kill-A-Watt EZ monitor. The monitors work differently.
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Journal of Youth Studies, vol.13, 2010, p. 317-333
The policy commitment to raise the school leaving age in England to 17 from 2013 and 18 from 2015 brings with it responsibility for ensuring that education and training are available, accessible and relevant to all young people, including those who leave school at 16 and enter jobs without training. In recent years the needs of this group have been ignored as the policy focus has been on engaging with young people not in education, employment or training. Consequently, there is little understanding of their transition into the labour market or their aspirations. This article seeks to fill this gap drawing on the findings of two studies: first a qualitative study of young people in jobs without training, their parents and employers in two local labour markets; and second an evaluation of the Learning Agreement Pilots, which was the first policy initiative in England targeted on this group.
R. Garner
The Independent, May 13th 2010, p. 22
According to the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education's (NIACE) annual survey, the economic climate is prompting thousands of adults to return to the classroom to learn new skills. The rise among those in disadvantaged groups is unprecedented - up six percentage points to 30 per cent - and is the highest figure in 20 years.
N. Rowntree
Children and Young People Now, May 11th-17th 2010, p. 16-17
Introduces a programme run by the charity Futurversity to help prepare young people to enter the world of work. After years of compulsory schooling, many young people do not know how to write a CV, dress smartly or sell themselves at interview. The programme trains them in interpersonal skills, basic literacy and IT, CV writing and interview techniques.
R. Lawy, J. Quinn and K. Diment
Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 13, 2010, p. 335-352
Little has been written about young people who leave school at 16 without formal qualifications and enter the labour market. Although they are in work these young people are regarded as 'dead end kids in dead end jobs', with low levels of functional literacy and numeracy, and a paucity of life and vocational skills. This research explored the experiences of this group of marginalised youth as they moved into and out of work over the period of a year. Results showed that these young people had had negative experiences at school but were not averse to learning 'on-the-job' skills in the workplace. They valued advice and support but saw services such as Connexions as invasive and redolent of school. They were not ready to benefit from the support available at the age of 16, but needed routes back into education and training at and beyond 19.


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SPRINGFIELD – James Garnes was sentenced Thursday to three to five years in state prison after pleading guilty to motor vehicle homicide while under the influence of alcohol.
In the courtroom were the family of Toni M. Bushey, 21, the passenger in Garnes's car who died in the crash shortly after 1 a.m. on Jan. 19, 2010, on Parker Street.
Garnes, 23, of 160 Louis Road, had a blood alcohol level of .23, while the legal limit is .08, Assistant District Attorney James M. Forsyth said.
Forsyth said Garnes, his friend Erin Fett, and Bushey, of Chicopee, left a party in Ludlow and when they were on Parker Street Garnes's Saturn Ion left the road and struck a tree, losing the rear axle and disconnecting the battery, which caused the speedometer to stick at between 80 and 85 miles per hour.
After hitting the tree the car traveled 165 feet striking several other cars. Bushey, who was sitting in the back seat, was thrown from the car.
Hampden Superior Court Judge Tina S. Page accepted the sentence of three to five years recommended by Forsyth and defense lawyer Dale E. Bass. Bass said Garnes, who has been free while the case has progressed, is "prepared to pay his debt to society."
Members of Bushey's family told Page they had wanted to have Garnes serve a five year term.
Crystal Bushey, twin sister to Toni Bushey, said in a victim impact statement, "It's been a year now since Toni has been gone and not a day has gone by that I haven't felt like I'm in a nightmare; and everyday I feel my heart break again and again."
"For a year I've seen him (Garnes) update his Facebook (page) with excitement of his next show or a "happy birthday" to him and all I can do is post memories to my sister's page of how much I love and miss her. It's not fair," she said, saying Garnes plays in a band and posts about that on Facebook.
In her victim impact statement Brenda Bushey, Toni's mother, said her daughter was a "sweet, wonderful, little girl" who had turned into a beautiful young woman.
Toni Bushey studied auto body at Putnam High School and worked in that field until she became manager of a chain fast food restaurant, she said.
"It has been very hard for me and my family since Toni was killed. The pain is so hard that its hard to explain," Brenda Bushey said. "I have had to watch my family deteriorate into depression."
Henry Bushey, Toni's father, told Page Toni was his best friend and he is in a living prison "trapped inside the sickness that is in my heart."
"Make this boy pay for what he's done to my family," Bushey, who said his daughter was sober with a blood alcohol level of .02 after the crash, said.
Page told Toni Bushey's family members Toni seemed, from what they said, "to be a real dynamo."
Page said from the way the family had described Toni, she believes Toni would not want them to be living in such sadness.


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The sample application in the Zip file demonstrates all of the features of Snaps. You will cover this application in detail later, but for now install it to verify that you have a working Snaps install. Start the server up and check the output it produces contains the following:
<DE0004I> Starting plan 'org.eclipse.virgo.snaps' version '3.0.0'. <DE0004I> Starting bundle 'org.eclipse.virgo.snaps.api' version '3.6.1.RELEASE'. <DE0005I> Started bundle 'org.eclipse.virgo.snaps.api' version '3.6.1.RELEASE'. <DE0004I> Starting bundle 'org.eclipse.virgo.snaps.core' version '3.6.1.RELEASE'. <DE0005I> Started bundle 'org.eclipse.virgo.snaps.core' version '3.6.1.RELEASE'. <DE0005I> Started plan 'org.eclipse.virgo.snaps' version '3.0.0'.
Open up the Virgo Admin Console by navigating to
http://localhost:8080/admin and then go
to the artifacts tab to deploy some new bundles. The first bundle to deploy is located at
/sample/org.eclipse.virgo.snaps.sample.animal-3.6.1.RELEASE.jar, select it in the browser and
upload. In the terminal window you started the Virgo Tomcat Server in you should see the usual messages about the
bundle starting and this message:
<SN0000I> Host created for path '/animal-menu-bar'
This shows that the host has been registered and is ready for Snaps to attach to it. To view the application take
your browser to
http://localhost:8080/animal-menu-bar/. You should be presented with a green looking
page that has a menu bar with two links on it. One will take you to the page you are currently on while the other goes
back to the admin page.
This is all very nice, but it's time to deploy another snap that will dynamicaly add some extra content to the app. The next bundle
to deploy is located at
/sample/org.eclipse.virgo.snaps.sample.dog-3.6.1.RELEASE.jar. Deploy it the same way
as the last one using the admin console and check the messages to verify it has been bound to the host:
<SN0010I> Snap bound to path '/animal-menu-bar/dog'
In your browser, go back to the application and refresh the page and a new menu item should now be present. If you click it a new page will load with content from the newly installed snap. In this case a picture of a dog.
You have now verified that your install is working and can continue on to learn how Snaps works and how you can use it to break up your web applications.


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September 16, 2009By: Mary Winston Nicklin
Kids Spa Menu at Mount Nelson Hotel, South Africa
Hot Chocolate Mousse Wrap, Balancing Facials and Anti-Stress Back Treatments for teens... It even gets better than that. Little ones under the age of 12 can get pampered with the Lavender and Aloe Cinderella Facial and Sparkle Mini Manicure at the Librisa Spa at Cape Town's Mount Nelson Hotel. The Orient-Express property has debuted a Kids Spa Menu, along with treatments for teens. While parents luxuriate in the sparkling spa, housed in three original late Victorian buildings, their kids can also partake in the fun. They'll get special Kiddies Spa Treats, too. We recently reported on this growing trend at luxury hotels and Cape Town's fine urban sanctuary gets props for innovative spa treatments.
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2016-17 program off to record start
The 2016-17 MUAA Mentor Program kicked off Oct. 8 in unprecedented fashion with an all-time high of alumni mentor-student mentee matches. Alumni residing in approximately 20 states mentor students in several colleges, including arts and sciences, communication, engineering and health sciences.
Questions With...
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(Tara Giery, Arts '17, mentee)
1. You've completed your first year in the MUAA Mentor Program. What
have you found to be the most rewarding experience working with your mentee,
Tara Giery?
The most rewarding experience was simply to be with someone who was so excited to start the next chapter in her life.
2. What suggestions do you have for mentees?
Be open to change directions as you meet with your mentor. We found that as we got to know each other and "dug a little deeper", tangential goals developed and were pursued.
3. What's your favorite Marquette memory?
Being a GDL (Group Discussion Leader) for Freshman Orientation Week my junior and senior years. Too many stories to tell you about. We actually have our own Facebook page where we reminisce constantly!
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(Corbin Dewey, Eng '18, mentee)
1. You've mentored students at Northwestern and Vanderbilt and now here at Marquette, where you received your undergraduate degree. Why are you serving in the MUAA Mentor Program?
I want to give back to the university and the students who mean the most to me.
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Be assertive and seek out your own opportunities.
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Attending Saturday evening Mass at Gesu before Marquette basketball home games at the Mecca.
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Faith, family and then work.
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Nothing. My co-op experience at General Motors was the perfect preparation for my career.
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Introduction to Web Services Management
With the boom in distributed computing, the Internet world is heading towards Services Oriented Technologies. Web Services have become the buzzword of today. Web Services offer easy and standardized communication for loosely coupled and dynamically discovered software components over the Internet. Enterprises have started experimenting with Web Services at their corporate intranets before actually going live to their customers over the Web.
Being distributed and dynamic in nature, Web Services need to be managed with care.
In the forthcoming articles, we will discuss each one of the components of WSM in detail and propose implementation architectures for them.
What Are Web Services?
Even if the technologies such as CORBA and COM introduced the services-oriented distributed concepts, they could never become the universal choice of enterprises and developers. In search of standardization and simplicity, e-business technologists and customers looked forward for a loosely coupled and dynamically discovered services technology, which is known as Web Services. These services are software components developed by their vendors to solve some business problems. These services can reside on different systems and can be implemented by vastly different technologies, but they are packaged and transported using standard Web protocols, such as XML and HTTP, thus making them easily accessible by any user on the Web. Web Services Technology has become a key to the Service Oriented Internet World in a very short time period because it promises the interaction of unknown and unrelated applications on the Internet in a more standardized and simpler way than any other approach ever claimed.
Why Manage Web Services?
After understanding the nature of Web Services, we can see their deployment scenarios where the following four players have vital roles to play:
- Web Services Provider (WSP)—This is the entity (for example, a business organization) that designs and develops Web Services.
- Web Services Infrastructure Provider (WSIP)—This entity provides the infrastructure services to deploy Web Services at its premises.
- Web Services Broker (WSB)—Broker has the information of Web Services hosted by WSIP or WSP in the Web Services registries.
- Web Services Client (WSC)—Clients are actual consumers (or, end-users or applications) of Web Services.
Web Services can be deployed in various fashions and on different platforms. This strongly urges a need to manage them in a centralized sphere of control depicted by Figure 1:
Figure 1: Web Services Management—Control Sphere
Note: The direction of the arrows shown in Figure 1 is the direction of the flow of requests initiated by Web Service Clients. Consider an example of this flow: WSC requests WSB to provide the information of a registered Web Service. After getting the response, WSC invokes the Web Service provided by WSP and hosted by WSIP. This flow depends on the design and deployment of Web Services in a business scenario.
The previously-discussed four players (shown in Figure 1) may or may not play a role in the control sphere. Their participation depends upon the Web Services deployment configuration/fashion. This control sphere is also referred as the heart of the Web Services Management Platform (referred to as WSMP hereafter).
Digging into the complexity of business in the present world, there are many development and deployment scenarios possible for Web Services. These scenarios, when needed to interoperate, create more complicated systems. If these systems are not operated carefully, they may hinder the advantages of Web Services. To have control over the above-mentioned complexity of the heart of WSMP, we must have a wrapper of management services over it. This wrapper is responsible for managing Web Services and the four players, which are operating in the heart of WSMP.
The primary goal of enterprises that are currently using Web Services is to derive a business sense out of this technology and drive their strategies based on that. This can only be done when they have proper control over Web Services offered to their customers. This control can be visualized by some infrastructure services in the above-mentioned Control Sphere. There are many core requirements for Web Services to work in a commercialized world where they can help enterprises get returns for their investments.
When we translate the above-discussed needs into the components of the wrapper over the heart of WSMP, we see these core modules:
- Access Mechanism (Authentication and Authorization)
- Web Services Provisioning (Subscription, SLA, and License (Contract) Management, Monitoring, Metering, and Billing)
- Secure Communications
- Service Virtualization and Workflow Management, and so forth
Web Services Management Sphere
Having discussed the need of various infrastructure components of the WSM Sphere, we will now see that our Sphere looks like this:
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Figure 2: Web Services Management Sphere—Core Infrastructure Components
Note: The components shown in the WSM sphere are the core functionality modules identified. Different vendors of the WSM platform may identify more advanced pieces in their WSM sphere.
Now, let us briefly discuss each one of the infrastructure components.
These tools aim to assist:
- Web Services Providers develop their Web Services.
- Web Services Infrastructure Providers deploy the Web Services.
- Web Services Brokers provide Web Services information.
- Web Services Clients invoke Web Services.
Access Control
The WSM infrastructure should be able to authenticate and authorize Web Services Clients. When a client logs in, a session is created and maintained until he/she logs out of the system. Sessions are used in various other components of WSM as well.
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By using the same technology that helped Jenson Button to win the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on Sunday, the NHS is on the verge of a breakthrough that could revolutionise healthcare and cut millions off the health budget.
NHS Surrey spends £40-100 million a year on its 6,000 most expensive patients. By employing the technology pioneered at the McLaren factory near Woking for Button's car, its conservative estimate is that it will save £10-20 million. McLaren hope that, having conquered Surrey, the scheme can go nationwide.
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Hello everybody,
I'm new at the forum and a newbee with OpenMx and SEM modelling, so my excuses if there may be some stupid questions I gonna ask :-)
Here comes my Problem: I try to write a script that automatically searches the best free parameter and fits it until all significant parameters are fittet. Just like the OU AM option of LISREL. However, it takes quite a while over it, and with more complex models its probably going to take days...
What I'm currently doing is in words and pseudo-code
1. compute the log-likelihood of a null-model:
LLnull = mxEval(objective, mxRun(nullModel))
2. compute the log-likelihood of all possible alternative models. That are those models, that have exactly one extra parameter freed compared to the null-model. The positions of allowed to-be-freed parameters come in an extra matrix.
for (all positions that are allowed to be freed) {
altModel@matrices$A@free[position] = TRUE
LLalt[position] = mxEval(objective, mxRun(altModel)) }
3. compare LL's of null- and alternative- model, chose the parameter that gives the greatest change in LL and make this the next null-model
4. start from beginning (until no significant changes left)
As you can imagine this takes a while. However, it must be possible to fasten it up by not having openMx computing the whole model, but just the one extra parameter! Does anybody know if there is an option to do this? Of course other ideas are welcome as well!!
Thanks a lot!
I'm moving the MI discuss a bit further down the page: Drupal is trying to see how small it can make a text box in the previous thread.
I used mdewey's attached file on the latest source build. The model runs without moving the parameters (YAY) and calculates a new hessian and gradient (YAY), but I get a very very odd result. The gradient for the new added parameter is near zero while the gradient for the previously converged parameters (in the A matrix) are now very high. I'll keep playing with it to see if I can spot the issue.
> fit2@output$gradient
lambda11 lambda12 lambda13 lambda14 lambda15 lambda16
4.180000e+02 5.600000e+02 0.000000e+00 4.180000e+02 5.380000e+02 3.000000e+02
lambda17 theta1 theta2 theta3 theta4 theta45
2.200000e+01 0.000000e+00 2.125607e-314 4.940656e-324 2.299209e-314 4.940656e-324
theta5 theta6 theta7 phi
2.299459e-314 4.940656e-324 2.125377e-314 4.940656e-324
> round(fit2@output$gradient, 10)
lambda11 lambda12 lambda13 lambda14 lambda15 lambda16 lambda17 theta1 theta2 theta3
418 560 0 418 538 300 22 0 0 0
theta4 theta45 theta5 theta6 theta7 phi
0 0 0 0 0 0
Hi, thanks for the replies! Gives me some direction to go on, but I'll need some time to understand.. ;-)
Btw. the maths behind the Lisrel's modification index is described in Sörbom (1989) Model Modification. Psychometrika, vol. 54, 371-384. Just if anybody else is interested.
Thanks for the reference. Implementing some estimation of modification indices looks like a future feature, and I'll put in a feature request on your behalf.
Modification indices are estimated changes in chi-square rather than actual changes. They're based on the vector of first derivatives (gradient) and matrix of second derivatives (hessian) of the likelihood function with respect to the estimated free parameters. While we'll work on a full version of an OpenMx MI function, you can do at least part of the work yourself. In each of your individual models, set the iteration limit to 1 so you get the gradient and hessian for the model with the extra parameter at the final minimum, get the necessary parameters out of the output and plug it into Equation 8 of your citation. It might look something like this, though you will definitely need to check this:
grad <- yourFittedModel@output$gradient hess <- yourFittedModel@output$gradient select <- names(grad)=="yourParam" g1 <- grad[select] k <- hess[select, select] d <- hess[!select, select] e <- hess[!select, !select] mi <- .5 * g1^2 / (k-t(d) %*% solve(e) %*% d) Collect 'mi' for every model and you're good to go. ryne
thanks for the code and info!
However, the values I get for the modification index (MI) are extremely small and I am not sure why this is the case.
What I did now was to make a submodel with the parameter for which I want a MI (as mspiegel suggested) set free. This is the code
modelGenerator <- function(position, inputModel) {
outputModel <- mxModel(inputModel, independent = TRUE)
outputModel = mxOption(outputModel,'CI Max Iterations',1)
outputModel <- mxRename(outputModel, omxUntitledName())
outputModel$A@free[position] <- TRUE
Now I runned the model and used your code on it. this is the funcition
getMIs = function(containerFit, positions, subModelNr) {
grad = containerFit@submodels[[subModelNr]]@output$gradient
hess = containerFit@submodels[[subModelNr]]@output$calculatedHessian
nameParameter = containerFit@submodels[[subModelNr]]@matrices$A@labels[positions[subModelNr]]
select <- names(grad)==nameParameter
g1 <- grad[select]
k <- hess[select, select]
d <- hess[!select, select]
e <- hess[!select, !select]
mi <- .5 * g1^2 / (k - t(d) %*% solve(e) %*% d)
However, the values in the A matrix of the estimated model are the same as when running the model with 1000 Iterations. This means a changing of the parameter would not increase model fit very much so it is logical that the MI is very small. I am a bit irritated, because changing the 'CI Max Iterations' does not seem to have any effect! I can even say mxOption(outputModel,'CI Max Iterations', "bla") and there is no error or anything. Is this the right way to change the iteration limit? I did not find any other way...
May this indeed be the problem? Or am I on the wrong track? In the case that I am not: how is it possible to change get the gradient and hessian with having the A-matrix value of the parameter = 0??
Short version: do what Mike says.
Longer version: letting the model run will run the gradient for the parameter you care about to as close to zero as possible (because it has to for convergence), leading to exceedingly small MI values. Fix the options for the iteration limit in the top model to make sure it only runs a single iteration.
I am not entirely following your workflow. However, this information may be relevant to what you are doing: setting mxOptions() on a submodel has no effect on model execution. Currently, only the mxOptions() on the top-most model are used. Probably this behavior needs to be revised in the future. Perhaps the correct solution is to use the options of a child model, if the child model is an independent model.
hmm the "CI Max Iterations" = 1 does have no effect even in the top-most model.
just to make it clear: with the command
container = mxOption(container,"CI Max Iterations",1) ##container is the top-most model
the iteration is set to 1? And with iteration set to 1 the parameter value should be the initial value which is zero? Correct?
Because I get a different value. And this value is independent of the CI Max Iteration value.
What happens if you set "Major iterations" instead?
aahh! now it starts to look nicer :-) Setting "Major iterations" = 0 in the submodels has some effect. The value of the new parameter now is 0.1 (always). I additionally set the value of the ubound-matrix to zero, and now it works!
However, the now computed MI values are quite different to the LISREL MI values. If I get any news (or, and this is more likely, questions) on that I will let you know.
thanks a lot for the help!!
Hmm. The optimizer is still moving the parameter. 0.1 means it is likely only going for one iteration, but that's still not what we want. However, it looks like the minimum number of major iterations is still 1. Ideally, what we really want is no major iterations, and just the minor iterations required to estimate the gradient and hessian before we start. Using the bounds to keep the parameter from moving is very clever, but might be affecting the gradient estimation and leading to the divergence of this method from the LISREL spec.
Long term, this is going to have to be something we do in the back end. Any information you can share (especially code and your comparisons to the LISREL MI) would be very helpful in developing this feature for future releases.
In the OpenMx pre-release r1609 there is a new argument to mxRun() "useOptimizer = TRUE". Setting this argument to FALSE will calculate the likelihood values at the current parameter estimates but not move the parameter estimates. I don't remember if the gradient and hessian values are calculated when useOptimizer = FALSE.
That does not seem to work here. I downloaded the latest pre-release this morning and ran the attached file which purports to fit the models needed to replicate one of the models in Sorbom's paper. The data is from his Table 4. First I fit a model with the paths known to be in the model then I fit a second one adding the path which he selects as the one with the highest modification index. However when I do that the parameter estimates for all the paths are unchanged except for the estimate for the new path which has been changed from zero (the start value I selected) to 0.1. Running my code to implement Ryne's algorithm (not shown) leads to a small value for the modification index.
Perhaps I am doing something wrong but this does not seem to be what you imagined would happen.
Oops. We forgot to turn off jiggling of free parameters that have starting values of 0.0 when the 'useOptimizer' argument is FALSE. I checked in a patch to the svn repository that has fixed this bug. Now the script produces the following:
> identical(omxGetParameters(fit2), omxGetParameters(model2)) [1] TRUE
You can compile OpenMx from the source repository in the meantime if you'd like to try it out before the next binary pre-release.
This is the problem. "CI Max Iterations" are for confidence intervals, "Major iterations" are for the main optimization. Thanks for catching this!
I would have thought some economy of effort might be obtained by plagiarising some code from John Fox's sem package which has a function mod.indices which seems to do what the original poster wanted. Since JF is mentioned as a consultant to OpenMx I am sure he would not mind.
I see Ryne has left it as an exercise for the reader which of the three objects with Hessian in their name is to be used. I can see that hessianCholesky is redundant but which of estimatedHessian or calculatedHessian should we choose? I cannot find any documentation on them.
Oops! The calcualted Hessian is the one to use. Estimated hessian is less accurate, and the Cholesky is a decomposition that you don't need for this.
Umm, I don't quite understand what the algorithm is supposed to do. But, I do see a for-loop that runs a model at each iteration, and each iteration appears to be independent of the previous iteration. I would rewrite that expression with independent submodels. Then use either the snowfall package or the swift package to execute those models in parallel. Something like this:
modelGenerator <- function(position, inputModel) { outputModel <- mxModel(inputModel, independent = TRUE) # all the submodels need unique names outputModel <- mxRename(outputModel, omxUntitledName()) outputModel$A@free[position] <- TRUE return(outputModel) } newmodels <- lapply(positions, modelGenerator, inputModel) container <- mxModel("container", newmodels) containerFit <- mxRun(container)
See here for help using snowfall.
See here for help using swift.
Modification indices don't actually refit the model; they use some variation on a Lagrange multiplier to estimate which fixed parameters would have the biggest effect. While this is still somewhat slow, it should be somewhat faster than refitting all possible improvements to the model. Supposedly, the some part of the LISREL manual (Joreskog and Sorbom, 1984) has info on the math, but I don't have it.
As with any automatic model search, be aware of multiple testing issues. Criterion values of 5 to 10 have been suggested instead of the standard chi-square cut-off of 3.84 (df=1, p=0.05), or more specific multiple testing criteria can be used.


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The Oak Harbor High School soccer team ended the 2013 season with a 1-0 loss at Stanwood Wednesday, Oct. 30, but the Wildcats displayed improvement this fall.
Oak Harbor's 4-11-1 record doesn't shout success; however, compared to recent campaigns, it's on the upswing.
The four-match win total equals the total of the last five seasons combined, and the Wildcats surrendered only 38 goals this year as compared to 70 last year, according to coach Mike Lonborg.
He said, "Even though we didn't score as much as we wanted (eight goals), we almost doubled the two previous years combined goal total."
"We started changing the culture this year and started to learn how to compete, which hopefully will turn into learning how to win," Lonborg said. "The foundation was laid this year for the future and we have some great young ladies that will be back to carry on the rebuilding process next year."
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Laurion Mineral Exploration Inc. (TSXV:LME,OTCQX:LMEFF) has announced the results of grab assays from a new exposure on the River Zone, of its 100%-owned Sturgeon River Property.
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- Reported drilling had intersected values ranging for 0.45% to 8.89% Cu over widths ranging from 0.305 m to 3.66 m.
- Cursory prospecting along the north bank led to the discovery of further copper mineralization in limited bedrock exposure approximately 100m northeast of the sampled occurrence.
- Trend direction was previously intersected by a drill hole 300m to the southwest (88-22) with an intersection of 10.37 m grading 1.22% Cu, 13.6 g/t Ag and 0.20 g/t Au on strike with the bedrock exposure.


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Verizon And Amazon Partnering Up To Provide Another Ecosystem On Android, DROID DNA Is First
One of the best parts of Android is the fact that it's so open, and Verizon Wireless has decided to take full advantage of that. Along with the announcement of HTC's DROID DNA, Verizon has announced that they will be partnering with Amazon to provide their whole ecosystem in phones, starting with the DROID DNA. That's right, a whole extra ecosystem on Verizon's phones from the get-go.
Open first seeing this, I thought that it's just another way for both Amazon and Verizon to scam even more money out of people. Upon further thought, I realized that this just gives more options to Verizon customers, something that no one should be complaining about.
A single app will be preloaded on the DROID DNA and future phones, providing all of Amazon's services including books, movies, music and apps. It's another one stop shop much like Google Play, adding to the convenience. We'll have a DROID DNA in coming days, so keep an eye out for our full review of Amazon's new app.


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Dexter (Not Dexter's Lab)
Sherlock (BBC Series)
Robot Chicken
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Samurai Champloo
Parks & Recreation
Party Down
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2. Tokyo Police Club
3. The Wombats
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Students at Morris Intermediate School, Brighton Heights, and Markham Intermediate School, Graniteville, like a lot of color in their meals. That's part of the impetus behind a project where they transformed school lunchroom tables into colorful works of public art that are now on display in two North Shore parks.
Morris Intermediate students illustrated a table that shows the negative impact of drugs and the positive effects of being sober, clean, drug-free and healthy. It's titled "It's All in the Eyes."
Their inspiration came from a meeting with guest artist Chuck Close, an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. A catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, though he continued to paint and produce work afterward.
"Chuck Close inspired us to be the best we can be. He brought out the best in our class, and showed us we can overcome any problems if we put our minds to it. He was disabled, so it gave him a reason to work harder and make his dreams come true," said eighth-grader Samantha Ouyegonzalez.
The table is displayed in Silver Lake Park, near the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) building, behind the dog run, near the park entrance at Victory Boulevard and Eddy Street.
The table created by Markham Intermediate students is titled "You Promise Me the World, But What Happens if There's Nothing Left?" It is located near the playground entrance of Clove Lakes Park, along Clove Road, between Cheshire Place and Bard Avenue, West Brighton.
The table depicts themes of environmentalism and conservation; it is designed to represent the Earth and how students see the world.
"We want the people who see the table to feel their connection with the world, and take care of it before it's gone," said Markham eighth-grader Gabriela Ortiz.
These tables, along with eight others were installed last month in 10 community parks across the five boroughs. They are part of an initiative titled "A View from the Lunchroom: Students Bringing Issues to the Table," a summer exhibition launched in Manhattan's Union Square Park on April 29.
Developed by the midtown Manhattan-based, non-profit Learning through Expanded Arts Program (LeAp), the second-annual citywide exhibit seeks to empower young people and to give them a voice in their communities to speak out on issues such as gangs, violence, the environment, drug abuse, and cultural diversity. The goal? Preparing students to become catalysts for social change through art.
Through LeAp's Public Art Program, students also met with internationally-known artists such as Christo, Tom Otterness, Emma Amos, and Dennis Oppenheim.
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If you haven't already purchased tickets to see "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," — the newest and final film in the series — when it opens at 12:01 a.m. Friday, you may be out of luck — for a few hours, at least.
All midnight showings at the Carousel Center and ShoppingTown Mall theaters are sold out. Carousel added showings at 3 a.m. to accommodate opening-night crowds.
Tickets were still available late Wednesday for midnight showings at Great Northern Mall, the Auburn Movieplex, Fingerlakes Mall and Oswego Cinema but managers at each said they anticipated sell-outs later today.
To enjoy the thrills of "Harry Potter" outside, all three of Central New York's drive-ins — Auburn, Minetto and West Rome — are also showing midnight screenings. Arrive early and bring your bug stuff!
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- By Christy Lemire, AP Movie Critic
"If last year's first half of the finale marked the beginning of the end with a gripping feeling of doom and gloom, this wraps things up once and for all on a note of melancholy. Oh, it's dramatic, to be sure: gorgeous, somber and startling as the young wizard faces his destiny and fights the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). But the end of this staggeringly successful movie franchise, an epic fantasy saga spanning eight films over the past decade, provides a necessary emotional catharsis for Harry and for us. Even those who aren't ardent Potterphiles might find themselves getting unexpectedly choked up a couple of times. That's always been the real magic of the series, based on J.K. Rowling's novels: that mixture of the exotic and the everyday, the otherworldly and the utterly relatable. No longer the innocent children they were when they entered Hogwarts, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) are growing up and moving on, and so must we. That the future of the wizard world hangs in the balance in this final installment is only part of the tale. Still, director David Yates has accomplished the difficult task of bringing it all to a close in satisfying fashion. PG-13 for some sequence of intense action violence and frightening images. 130 minutes. Three and a half stars out of four."
- By Mike Scott, The Times-Picayune
"Stars: 4 out of 4... Visually stunning and emotionally stirring, it is a fitting finale, and one that does the popular franchise justice." (Read more)
» Read more reviews by Rotten Tomatoes, Daily Mail,The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, The Telegraph, and The Sun
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AVON, Ohio – On a street called Just Imagine, silver shovels dug into the wet earth Thursday as the first step toward a $17 million Residence Inn hotel and 10,000 square-foot conference and event center.
The Residence Inn by Marriott and Emerald Event Center is expected to open for business in April 2015, next door to the Cleveland Clinic Richard E. Jacobs Health Center and down the street from the ShurTech Company, the makers of Duck brand duct tape. The area, nothing but farmer's fields a few years ago, is rapidly turning into the new commercial hot spot of the city since this year's opening of the Nagel Road exit of Interstate 90.
Jim Gerish, president of the Emerald Hospitality Associates, said the city of Avon "could not have been more welcoming," when the hotel was proposed.
"This is more than just a box," he said. "This is the next generation of Residence Inns with state-of-the-art design elements, a unique lobby, 116 guest rooms, a conference center and many other amenities. It will also offer 40 to 50 good jobs once it opens besides the construction jobs right now."
Heavy machinery sat in the rain-drenched field beyond the makeshift tent where local Avon officials and businessmen involved in the project gathered for the ceremony. The work has already begun, the field has been scraped and mounds of dirt shoved to one side, making way for the five-story structure to be built.
"There has been a need for a hotel out here," said Avon Mayor Bryan Jensen. "Now businessmen visiting ShurTech, or people going to the Clinic or one of the other businesses in the area will be able to stay close by instead of driving miles to get to a hotel. I could not have planned it better."
It was ShurTech founder Jack Kahl who named the street "Just Imagine" in 1996 when he bought 210 acres of farmland on a gravel road and moved the duct tape business there. He asked the city to allow him to give the street the name because he believed that business is only limited by imagination.
At the groundbreaking Thursday, Avon Planning Director Jim Piazza said the street is living up to its name.
"I look around at the hotel's four-acre plus site and I am happy, then I look further and see a lot of other four-acre sites that could be used for even more development," he said.
Gerish said he looks forward to a long relationship with The Cleveland Clinic facility, which will add a 100- to 120-bed addition by 2016.
"We plan to set aside some rooms for people getting treatment at the Clinic, or who have been discharged from the Clinic and not yet ready to return home," he said. "These rooms will be specially equipped to handle their needs."
The rooms of the new hotel will include fully equipped kitchens, a 24-hour "market" with free grocery delivery to guests, a heated pool, a fitness center, and an outdoor barbecue, fire pit and sports court.
The 10,000-square-foot attached Emerald Event Center will include a 6,700-square-foot ballroom which can be divided into four meeting areas; a ballroom able to seat 400 people at round tables. Gerish said they could offer Easter and Mother's Day buffets and a New Year's Eve celebration.


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Elizabethtown High School students got to explore up to three different careers Friday for Career Day.
Representatives of 31 local career industries stopped by the school and gave presentations about what they do for a living.
Elizabethtown High School has built a strong reputation for its academics and athletics, but it accomplished a new feat and added to its long and storied history.
Elizabethtown Community & Technical College physical sciences professor Kevin Parrett was one of 28 Phi Theta Kappa chapter advisors selected to serve as a 2015 Faculty Scholar.
East Hardin Middle School will dedicate its gym to Brent Wagoner tonight between the seventh- and eighth-grade boys' basketball games against Stuart Pepper Middle School.
With their words, clothes and young voices, students at Woodland Elementary School honored all military veterans Friday afternoon in a musical assembly.
Six Central Hardin High School seniors made history for the school's program Oct. 28-31 at the National FFA Convention and Expo.
Rebecca Mackey, Kathryn Goodman, Madeline Boyd, Erin Masterson, Leslie Langley and Hannah Sharp finished third in the nation for their presentation on an agricultural issue.
Two full tanks of gas, two or three outfits or one or two family-size meals at Stone Hearth Restaurant. One hundred dollars doesn't typically last very long in today's economy.
Three Central Hardin High School Vex Robotics teams competed in Danville last weekend for the 2014 Tech Rebel VEX Robotics Tournament. This event was a qualifier for the 2015 Kentucky State VEX Robotics Championship, which is April 15-18 in Louisville.
Hardin Memorial Hospital and McKendree University have announced a partnership to provide on-site classes toward a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree for HMH nursing staff members.
During a signing ceremony held at the hospital Oct. 27, HMH and McKendree representatives praised the agreement as a step toward advancing professional growth for nurses.
Hardin County Schools won't be seeing a change in its board following this year after Charlie Wise, 64, and Mike Kinney, 67, were re-elected to their division seats.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - Whoops.
After an early rumor that Tiger Woods would play in the Masters' annual Par-3 Contest on Wednesday, the golfer's spokesman said Woods had left for the day after playing nine holes with Mark O'Meara and would not be returning to Augusta National.
The club released a sheet with Woods' name on the player list, but the sheet is made up of players who are eligible to play in the Par 3. Players must sign up for tee times in the tournament office. Sometimes they simply show up on the first tee.
The idea that Woods might rejoin the laid-back event for the first time since 2005 seemed like a natural step for him in his effort to be a more fan-friendly player.
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LOS ANGELES – Devils rookie Adam Henrique, who scored the winning goal in Game 4, shaved off his goatee after the Devils lost the first three games. He left the mustache, he said, as a nod to Ryan Carter and his 'stache.
The mustache must have played a role in Henrique's heroics.
"I think so," Carter said. "It got him going."
Then again, Henrique has been coming up with big goals throughout the postseason.
"That's true," Carter admitted.
David Clarkson, whose pass set up Henrique's winner, shaved off his beard.
"The beard was a little annoying," Clarkson explained. "We were down three so I just changed it up."
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In his first game since returning from blood clots in his left leg, defenseman Henrik Tallinder had 29 shifts for 19:21 of ice time paired with Marek Zidlicky.
Tallinder, who last played on Jan. 17, replaced Peter Harrold.
"Peter Harrold played great and gave us some real good minutes," coach Pete DeBoer said. "The reality is Tallinder was a top two defenseman for us. He was all year. He's been out for a long time.This is the first time in the last four or five days where we felt in practice that he was up to game speed and a legitimate option.
"We considered it after Game 2, but our group I thought had played such a good game that we didn't want to change it then. Now it (seemed) appropriate."
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Petr Sykora played his first game since Game 3 of the conference finals against the Rangers. Jacob Josefson came out.
"First couple of shifts I tried to keep it simple," Sykora said. "It's always good when you get the puck twice in the first period and you make a good play. I was happy about that. To be honest, I felt pretty good out there."
He had a scoring chance in the first but Jonathan Quick made a glove save.
"I got handcuffed on that shot," Sykora said. "I couldn't really get a lot on that shot but he made a good save. Maybe if I had a little more confidence at that time I'd take a little more time to make sure I put it upstairs. I'm just happy we won a game and we keep playing. We still have a chance."


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It's been a while that I had a brush in my hand. Or blogged here. I have overused my arms at both home, painting, and at work, typing and handling stacks and stacks of paper. So, I have been taking it easy during the past few weeks, and will need to continue to do so.
Yesterday was the first time I did a watercolor sketch again in a long time (it felt rather wobbly).
Here it is, with the corresponding recipe!
30 August 2015
19 June 2015
Every once in a while, I just like to get out there and sketch what is right in front of me while birds are chirping all over and the rain is still dripping off the leaves.
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02 June 2015
Hello folks, it's been a while! I've been neglecting this blog. In fact, I might continue to do so.
In the meantime, here's a sketch:
In the meantime, here's a sketch:
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08 February 2015
Sketching at the museum
Every first Saturday of the month (as we happily found out), the admission to the Museum zu Allerheiligen in SH is free. Perfect for a monthly sketchout in these icy cold temperatures!
At the Manora restaurant, waiting for the museum to open.
The ideal female form according to people from Oaxaca, Mexico, 1st cent. BC - 2nd cent. AD.
Urn from Colombia, 10-15th cent. BC.
We then proceeded to the next kebab & falafel take out for something warm.
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I've been busy.
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07 September 2014
This is a hazel tree/shrub. There are hazelnuts in the project I am currently working on, so it was nice to sketch something related to it.
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'Homeland' doubles up with Director Guild nominations
"Homeland" received two Directors Guild Award nominations this week, the only show to double-dip in the guild's list of annual honors.
On the drama side, Michael Cuesta's "The Choice" episode and Lesli Linka Glatter's "Q&A" episode will represent for "Homeland." They'll go up against installments of "Breaking Bad" (Rian Johnson's "Fifty-One") and "Mad Men" (Jennifer Getzinger's "A Little Kiss") and Greg Mottola's "We Just Decided To" episode of "Newsroom."
"Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston is up for his first DGA award for his directing of the "Election Day" episode of "Modern Family." He's up against director-stars Louis C.K. (for the "New Year's Eve" episode of "Louie") and Lena Dunham (for the "Girls" pilot), as well as "The Big Bang Theory" veteran Mark Cendrowski (for the "The Date Night Variable" episode) and eight-time nominee Beth McCarthy-Miller for the "30 Rock" live episode.
Predictably, HBO leads the Movies for Television and Mini-Series category, with nominations for Philip Kaufman ("Hemingway & Gellhorn") and Jay Roach ("Game Change"). They're up against Kevin Reynolds ("Hatfields & McCoys"), Greg Berlanti ("Political Animals") and Michael Rymer ("American Horror Story: Asylum," the "Dark Cousin" episode).
The DGA Awards will be presented on Saturday, February 2.
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