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Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Chisel's eventual breakup in 1997 came after their critically acclaimed sophomore full-length, Set You Free. The band's reputation seemed to flourish after their breakup, however, and even though the retro trends in indie rock would eventually gain enough popularity to inspire the likes of mod underground sweethearts like the Mooney Suzuki and the Delta 72, the influence of Chisel goes largely unnoticed. Leo went on to a variety of musical endeavors, including two years of on-again, off-again touring as a guitarist with the Spinanes, and a short-lived project called the Sin Eaters that he founded with his brother, Danny Leo, on drums and former Van Pelt bassist Sean Greene. The Sin Eaters' progressive, politically charged, punk-fused rock and local all-star lineup took the New York underground by storm between 1997 and 1998, until Danny Leo left the band to work on his own material and eventually founded the Holy Childhood.
When the Sin Eaters disbanded without a recorded legacy in 1998, Ted Leo was left without a band and began his career as a solo artist. He remained active by wearing the hat of producer for the Secret Stars' debut record, Geneologies, and touring alone on the East Coast and through the Midwest. He eventually recorded a self-titled full-length on his homestead, Gern Blandsten Records, in 1999 with a new band, the Pharmacists, that included various friends and affiliates of the Secret Stars, including Jodi Buonanno. This record marked a notable change in Leo's sound, which, mostly due to his performance practices, was more and more rooted in songwriting legends like Billy Bragg and Alex Chilton. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists released a split with the One AM Radio later that year as a collaborative effort of both Gern Blansten and Garbage Czar.
In the spring of 2000, Leo's sophomore effort, Treble in Trouble, was released on New Jersey-based Ace Fu Records, displaying a more aggressive and romantic bent to Leo's writing. In the early summer of 2001, Leo released a polished studio effort, The Tyranny of Distance, on Lookout Records. A strong contender for record of the year, it was followed by the equally strong Hearts of Oak in 2003. Shake the Sheets. which appeared in 2004, would prove to be his last for then-troubled Lookout, as Leo signed with Chicago-based indie Touch and Go in February 2006. A tour followed in March, on which he was supported by the Duke Spirit and Les Aus. He continued touring throughout 2006, festivals such as Coachella and headlining dates alike, as new material was worked on as well. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists eventually returned in March 2007 with full-length number five, Living with the Living. In 2009 Leo signed with Matador, and the following year he released his first record with them, The Brutalist Bricks. ~ Nate Cavalieri
Selected Discography
Track List: Brutalist Bricks
Track List: Rapid Response
Track List: Living With The Living (With 'Mo' Living' Ep)
Track List: Living With The Living
Track List: Shake The Sheets
Track List: Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead
Track List: Hearts Of Oak
Track List: The Tyranny Of Distance
Track List: Treble in Trouble
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Brian Hayes
Flocks of starlings, herds of zebra, schools of mackerel, traffic jams, a nuclear chain reaction, an ant colony, fairy rings of fungi, the spinning electrons of a ferromagnet, a forest fire spreading from tree to tree, the spiral arms of a galaxy, epidemic disease. What golden thread ties together the items on this motley list? They are all phenomena that emerge from the interactions of many individual things. Multiplicity is essential here: One zebra does not make a herd, nor one car a traffic jam. But there is unity too: The herd, the traffic jam, the magnet and the galaxy have an existence of their own, with properties different from those of their constituents. After all, a flock can't flap its wings, and a bird can't split itself in two to fly around an obstacle.
Computer simulation offers an attractive way to explore these curious, one-from-many systems. A simulation can be built from the bottom up, starting with the rules that govern the individual actors—birds, stars, cars, ants and so on. If these "microscopic" laws are correct, the "macroscopic" behavior of the higher-level system should emerge automatically, just as it does in nature. You don't have to teach a herd of zebra how to stay together; you only have to tell the individual zebras how to get along with their nearest neighbors.
A programming system called StarLogo is designed for building simulations of just this kind. StarLogo is the creation of Mitchel Resnick of the Epistemology and Learning Group in the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Resnick describes the system and explains the ideas behind it in his 1994 book Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds. StarLogo software is freely distributed over the Internet; for more information see the note at the end of this article.
StarLogo is an offspring of Logo, the programming language devised in the 1960s by Seymour Papert of MIT and Wallace Feurzeig of Bolt, Baranek and Newman. The best-known feature of Logo is turtle graphics, a scheme for drawing pictures by issuing commands to a "turtle" that carries a pen over a plane. The first turtles, which actually predated Logo by two decades, were mechanical devices that crawled on the floor or a tabletop. Today most Logo systems provide a "virtual turtle" on a computer display screen.
StarLogo extends the turtle-graphics metaphor in three ways. First, it accommodates thousands of turtles rather than just one or a few. Second, the turtles can interact with one another and with their environment; for example, one turtle might deposit a chemical, which would then be sensed by other turtles. Third, the environment itself becomes more than a passive background for the simulation. The landscape where the turtles live and move is made up of "patches," which can be assigned various properties. In effect, the turtles wander over a two-dimensional cellular automaton, which would be a powerful computing device even without the turtles.
Here is the Logo idiom for drawing a circle:
to logo-circle
repeat 360 [forward 1 left 1]
The turtle repeatedly moves one step forward and turns one degree left until it comes back to its starting point. The same procedure would work without alteration in StarLogo, but other approaches to circle drawing make better use of StarLogo's distinctive facilities. The emphasis in StarLogo is less on pens and drawing and more on creating patterns with the turtles themselves. Here is one way to create a circle in StarLogo:
to starlogo-circle
create-turtles 2000
setheading random 360
forward 40
The idea is to spawn a large number of turtles, all initially at the origin of the plane, and then send them marching 40 steps in random directions. The result is a ring of turtles with a radius of 40 units.
The first version of StarLogo was written for the Connection Machine, the fine-grained parallel computer created by Danny Hillis. The Connection Machine was particularly well suited to the task because its thousands of processors allowed each turtle to run its own independent program. But not everyone has a Connection Machine in the basement. Current versions of StarLogo run on the Macintosh computer, where parallel execution has to be simulated on a single processor. Even so, programs with several thousand turtles run with acceptable speed.
Papert developed Logo as "a language for learning," and in particular as a language that would help to acquaint children with the enchantments of computer programming. Resnick also has an interest in pedagogical matters, but he suggests the ideal audience for StarLogo is somewhat older than that for Logo Classic: He gives the language a PG-13 rating. Many interesting StarLogo programs have been written by high school students, and I have found that even adults can pick up the basic principles with only a little effort.
The archetype of all StarLogo simulations is a model of cellular slime molds, such as Dictyostelium discoideum, creatures balanced on the borderline between protozoa and multicellular organisms. For most of its life, a slime mold is a single-celled amoeba, grazing in the soil or leaf litter for bacteria. But when food runs short, the slime mold undergoes a remarkable transformation. Thousands of cells stream toward gathering points, where they clump together to form a roving animal called a slug (though it is unrelated to the molluscan slugs); then the cells differentiate further into a more plantlike stalk structure, which finally emits spores that disperse and produce a new generation of amoebas.
It is the aggregation stage in this life cycle that lends itself to study by StarLogo simulation. The slime molds are summoned to the family reunion by a chemical cue, which in Dictyostelium is cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP). An early hypothesis was that a few "founder" cells secrete the cAMP, becoming beacons for the assembly of the slug. But later experiments showed that all the cells secrete cAMP. It took some time to understand how the cells could assemble without leaders to rally around, but a StarLogo model readily reproduces the behavior.
In the model, the amoeboid cells are represented by turtles, which secrete cAMP into the underlying patches. The cAMP then diffuses into neighboring patches, and it also gradually loses its potency over time. The cells' movements are governed by a gradient-following rule: Each cell examines its immediate surroundings and generally moves toward the neighboring patch that has the highest concentration of cAMP, although there is a little randomness in the motion.
That's all there is to the model. The program includes no mechanism to decide where the cells will congregate, and there are no designated leaders or founders; all of the cells obey exactly the same rules. Nevertheless, cells scattered at random over the landscape soon clump together in colonies of 50 or 100. If the simulation is allowed to continue, some of these groups eventually coalesce into still larger aggregations. After many thousands of time steps, most of the amoebas are inside a few large and stable clusters.
Watching the model in action, it's easy to understand what's happening. Each cell exudes a halo of cAMP, which diffuses through the underlying patches and attracts other cells that happen to pass nearby. If two or three cells are close together, their pooled secretions produce a stronger chemical signal, which tends to hold the cells together and also attracts more passersby. Positive feedback keeps the process going: The more cells gather in a region, the more cAMP accumulates there to attract other cells.
Of course a model this simple can't capture all the details of slime-mold biology. For example, real slime-mold amoebas gather in waves or pulses, which have no counterpart in the simulation. But the computer model has an advantage when it comes to exploring hypothetical changes in the cells' behavior. Consider the gradient-following algorithm, which the program deliberately makes imperfect by adding a random "wiggle" to the cells' direction-finding procedure. A biological experiment to study this effect would be difficult to engineer, but in the computer model it's a matter of changing a couple of numbers. Adding more wiggle breaks up the clusters, which is not surprising since randomly wandering cells cannot respond reliably to a cAMP gradient. But what happens when you eliminate the randomness? I thought I knew the answer. I thought the random noise was needed to break out of local optima, and that without it the cells would get stuck in small clusters that never grew into big ones. The actual result is more interesting. With perfect gradient following you see not only stationary, disk-shaped clumps but also long trains of cells that march across the landscape as coherently moving clusters, maintaining their identity even when they collide and pass through one another. I'm not sure what to make of this observation. When I mentioned it to Resnick, he responded that it might possibly reveal something about the biology of slime molds, but it could also very well be an artifact of the StarLogo system.
Bird flocks are another classic application of StarLogo modeling. Starlings and several other bird species assemble in large cluster flocks that perform synchronized, balletic flights, wheeling and swooping over autumn fields. People have long wondered both why and how they do it. For a time the "how" question was considered a problem in animal communication: How can the birds signal their intentions quickly enough to coordinate the group's sudden movements? There was even a suggestion (by Edmund Selous, in a bizarre but charming book published in 1931) that flocking birds must rely on some form of "thought transference" or "collective thinking" for synchronization. It was only in the 1980s that another kind of explanation came into favor. That new idea was inspired in part by computer simulations.
In discussing the history of ideas about bird flocks, Frank Heppner of the University of Rhode Island has written that "a zeitgeist was at large" in the mid-1980s, when several workers independently devised similar theories. Heppner himself was one of the theorists; he "suggested that flocking might be an emergent property arising out of simple rules of movement followed by individuals in the flock." At about the same time Craig W. Reynolds, then at Symbolics Inc., produced a computer simulation of flocking "boids" that relied entirely on local interactions between near neighbors. (The boids attracted attention not only among biologists and computer scientists but also in Hollywood; Reynolds recently received an Academy Award for his work on this and several other animations.)
Reynolds's boids obeyed three main rules: 1) Avoid collisions. 2) Try to match the speed and direction of nearby boids. 3) Move toward the "center of gravity," or the mean position, of the nearby boids. An even simpler flock simulation is included among the sample programs shipped with the StarLogo software. At each time step, each bird finds its nearest neighbor among all its flockmates. (If there are multiple nearest neighbors, all at the same distance, one is chosen arbitrarily.) If the chosen neighbor is closer than a predetermined threshold distance, the bird flies in the opposite direction; if the neighbor is farther than the threshold, the bird flies toward it; if the distance is just right, the bird matches the neighbor's heading. Thus each bird interacts with only one neighbor at a time. This rudimentary model will not win any Oscars, but it creates flocks that do seem recognizably avian.
Traffic jams are a particularly intriguing topic for StarLogo models because we experience them from the inside. We may never know exactly what motivates an amoeba or a bird, but we have a very good idea of how a driver thinks and acts on the freeway at rush hour.
Resnick tells the story of writing a traffic simulation with some high school students. They programmed the cars to obey a follow-the-leader rule: If you're too close to the car in front, slow down; otherwise accelerate to the speed limit and maintain that speed. The students also created a roadside radar trap, where cars would momentarily brake; they predicted that this disturbance would cause a traffic jam. The prediction was correct. But then the students removed the radar trap and were surprised to find that traffic still bogged down, without any apparent cause.
Highway engineers are certainly familiar with this phenomenon—and so are drivers. You toil slowly through a mile of bumper-to-bumper traffic, expecting to find an accident or repair work obstructing the roadway, but when you get to the head of the queue, there's nothing to be seen. The congestion develops and dissipates spontaneously. Macroscopic explanations of this effect often invoke analogies with fluid dynamics or with the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena. For example, a spontaneous jam might be compared with a shock wave propagating backward through the moving stream of traffic.
The StarLogo simulation offers a more intimate, driver's eye view of what goes on inside a traffic jam. The two rules that drivers obey are enough on their own, without any external trigger, to make the flow of traffic unstable. If a random fluctuation in speed or position brings you close to the car ahead, the rules require you to slow down. Thereafter the car behind you may also have to slow, and the car behind that one too. On the far side of the congested segment, cars leave the jam one by one. When it is your turn, you suddenly find the road ahead clear, and you can accelerate to maximum speed again. Indeed, the jam has the interesting effect of regulating the spacing of cars on the downstream side, so that traffic flows more smoothly than it would have without the jam. In the little world of StarLogo, however, the highway is actually a loop, and cars that exit at the right edge re-enter at the left; hence the traffic jam you've just escaped is one you will soon encounter again.
The StarLogo model I have found most provocative is one that Resnick presents as a fable about frogs and turtles living together in a pond. Initially the two species occupy lily pads in a checkerboard pattern, so that each animal's eight neighbors include an equal number of frogs and turtles. Then one night a storm overturns all the lily pads, and in the morning the animals find themselves randomly rearranged. Frogs and turtles are tolerant of each other, but neither wants to be entirely isolated from their own species. So the unhappy frogs—those that happen to have too few frog neighbors—abandon their lily pads and choose a new home at random. The unhappy turtles do the same. After this migration, there may still be unhappy animals, and so the procedure is repeated until all find an acceptable neighborhood.
The social implications of this model are easier to see than the zoological ones. And the most interesting observation to come out of it is that even a moderate preference for living among your own kind can give rise to a dramatic pattern of segregation. What starts out as a salt-and-pepper mixture gradually evolves, over a few hundred iterations, into large blobs of almost uniform composition. Even though none of the individuals insist on racial purity, most of them wind up living with a very high percentage of neighbors like themselves.
It's an intriguing result, but as I watched the model evolving, with the frogs and turtles slowly withdrawing into their own territories, I began to have misgivings. In the first place, the patterns looked suspiciously familiar. I had seen them before in models that depict the onset of magnetization in ferromagnets and the separation of oil and water. What these latter processes have in common is that they tend to minimize surface area (or the area of interface between phases). It's not implausible that racial segregation also shares this tendency, and the discovery of a connection between a social process and certain physical systems would be illuminating. On the other hand, seeing the frogs-and-turtles model in that context turns it into a more generic bit of mathematics. The gears and levers of the underlying differential equations are showing through.
The model has some other curious features as well. As the desired fraction of like neighbors increases from 30 to 60 percent, the pattern of segregation grows more extreme, as one might expect. But what happens in a population of more radical segregationists, who won't be content unless at least 80 percent of their neighbors are of their own kind? Paradoxically, the system remains thoroughly integrated. Except at low population density, the proportion of like neighbors seldom departs far from 50 percent. The reason, of course, is that everybody is unhappy. Very few of the participants ever achieve their 80-percent target, and so most of the population is randomly rearranged on every trial. I think this is an unlikely outcome in a city of bigots.
StarLogo is one of the most beautiful computer toys I've ever encountered. It is ingenious in concept and brilliantly executed. Writing StarLogo programs is a delight. The language offers high leverage: A few lines of code can yield deep results. The implementations work smoothly and reliably. There's an active community of StarLogo enthusiasts. The sample projects distributed with the software cover an amazing range of topics.
But StarLogo is not a Model of Everything. One limitation is that it's strictly two-dimensional. These turtles crawl; they don't swim or dive. The programmer also has no choice about the geometry or the boundary conditions of the StarLogo world. On the screen it is a square or rectangular place; topologically it is a torus, where right meets left and up meets down.
Another constraint on StarLogo models is the emphasis on local interactions. StarLogo lends itself most naturally to situations where signals pass between nearest neighbors, as in the slime mold model. In effect, the turtles have acute senses of touch and smell, but their hearing and vision are weak. Long-range interactions and global knowledge are hard to fit into StarLogo programs. This may partly explain the breakdown of the race-relations model. In a real city, residents know more about racial distribution than just the identity of their immediate neighbors, and someone seeking a homogeneous environment would not have to choose a new home at random.
Of course Resnick makes no claim that StarLogo is the universal key to understanding the world, but he does suggest some analogies and connections that may not stand up to scrutiny. In his book and other writings he speaks of the "decentralized mindset." Centralized leadership and control are being replaced by self-organizing structures and systems, he argues. He cites among his examples the collapse of centrally planned economies in Eastern Europe and the triumph of free-market capitalism. He also mentions a shift in corporate organization away from a hierarchical chain of command toward decentralized management, and the trend in computing to replace central computers with distributed processing. It's easy to see a resemblance between these developments and the kinds of models constructed with StarLogo, but I'm not convinced the connection runs very deep. In particular, economic activity is not constrained to local interactions, which makes StarLogo models of markets and businesses seem rather artificial. On the other hand, a weakness of some other simulation systems is that they totally ignore spatial factors, so perhaps this is a needed correction. In any event, StarLogo is a magnificent tool for thinking about decentralized systems.
The MIT StarLogo system runs on Macintosh computers. Download it from http://www.media.mit.edu/starlogo. At Tufts University the Connected Mathematics project (led by Uri Wilensky) has created an extended language called StarLogoT, which also runs on the Macintosh; the URL is http://www.ccl.tufts.edu/cm/starlogoT. Larry Latour and his colleagues at the University of Maine have done preliminary work on porting StarLogo to the Microsoft Windows environment. A Java version is also in preparation.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/e-pluribus-unum/1
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

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text: I want to see that record broken. The Lakers fanbase is one of the most arrogant, self centred, repugnant, bandwagon and petty of them all. I cannot think of a less deserving group of people, and put them right up next to Manchester United bandwagoners. They feel like they are owed success.


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This is a renovated nice and elegant 30 sqm (one room) apartment on the first floor of a nice old art nouveau building with elevator. Very quiet accommodation, suitable for 2 people.
The Bakats apartment is facing the yard. This is a fully equipped and furnished apartment with bathroom and kitchen. There is a big double bed in the living room, two armchairs and a table, small table with 2 chairs in the kitchen.
As amenities it has to offer free wireless internet access, free tea and coffee during your stay, microwave, coffee machine, electric kettle, toaster, fridge, dishes, cutleries, TV with cable channels, safe, hair dryer, fan, clean bed clothes and towels.
One of the nicest and most lively pedestrian street of Budapest, the Ráday str. is just next to the building. The Ráday street is full of with cafes, pubs, bars and restaurants with tables outside in the street. There are many galleries as well, sometimes free concerts in the cafes and on the street. Here is one Michelin star restaurant, the Costes.
The river Danube and Nehru park is only a few minutes walking distance, Kálvin square and National Museum is 10 minutes' walk. There are two big supermarkets at this apartment: CBA is just at the corner, and the other (Reál) is at the corner of Ferenc krt. The M3 (blue) metro line stops (Ferenc krt. and Kálvin sq. stops) are just 5-10 minute walk, the 4and 6 tram line is 5 minute walk.
Szabad az Á Club, Zappa Café, IF Café, Budapest Jazz Club and Costes Michelin star restaurant are very close to Bakáts 1 apartment.
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It was a really nice time in this wounderful apartment! The way to the center of the city is really short and you can get wherever you want without having a long way. In the street near the apartment you can find many restaurants and cafes and if you walk a few minutes you can see the Donau before your eyes. It was simple and fast so we could really enjoy our time in Budapest! Thanks to Andras and his collegue for making this possible!
Good service/security. A lot of towels. Not so good pressure in the shower.Easy to get in contact with Andras by sms.
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I'm so glad that we chose this apartment this spring. There were everything we needed: wi-fi, microwave, fridge, cooker, hairdryer, a good bed, suitable for two people (perfect for a couple), a pile of clean towels, etc. The apartment is clean, furniture is comfortable and mostly comparatively new. The apartment is in an old house, so it has old windows and old door, but for us it wasn't problem. Windows face the courtyard of the house.
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Note: It's not easy to find exact location of the apartment. If you couldn't do it at your arrival, just call Andras. So, it is better to keep his phone number and have opportunity to call.
We had really great days at the apartment. It was perfect :) The apartment is simple but you have everything you need need and it's in such a fantastic house and it's possible to walk everywhere.
Thank you for the great time Andreas. We will come back:)
Nice and cozy appartment, in a decent neighborhood with everything you need (shops, atm, public transport, restaurants) within walking distance. Museum of Applied Arts and the Hungarian National Museum are also very close by.
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Re: st: comparing 25th percentile survival time between two race groups
Steve Samuels <email@example.com>
Re: st: comparing 25th percentile survival time between two race groups
Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:50:40 -0400
I should clarify. When survival in one group is "better" that might not mean at all percentiles. Think of two survival curves are similar up to 80% survival (i.e. 20-th percentile for failure) and then one curve is higher than the other thereafter.
About -ranksum- :
1. It is not for use with censored survival data, so you should not have
used it. I apologize for not catching this mistake earlier.
2. The corresponding test for censored survival data is: -sts test- with
a "wilcoxon option". (The full name for the original rank sum test is
"Wilcoxon two-sample rank sum test")
3. I previously said that a rank-sum test "tests for any difference
where survival in one group is better, not just differences in medians."
That means that if one distribution is shifted to the right relative to
another, all percentiles, including 10th, 25th 40th, etc. will also be
shifted. There is no specific test for a 25th percentile. You will see
that the formulas for the Wilcoxon test for censored or
uncensored data do not single out a specific percentile.
4. You appear unfamiliar with elementary survival concepts. Before
going any further, I suggest that you consult the Cleves
book that I referenced earlier or another introductory text.
On Sep 28, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Haena Lee wrote:
Thank you Steve, That's really good point to look at the graph
especially for the failures.
According to ranksum, I was not able to find an option for 25th percentiles.
When I was comparing the differences of median survival time between
African American and White across 10 different regions in US, I used
this following command;
. sort UNOS
. by UNOS: ranksum d_enrollment, by(race_all)
In this case, I didn't need to let Stata know it is median survival
time because I guess median was default. However my question is how I
can particularly tell Stata that it is to test 25th percentiles this
time. Any help? Thanks much.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Steve Samuels <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Dear Haena:
>> On Sep 28, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Haena Lee wrote:
>> Hi Listers,
>> I have tried to produce the median survival time and its 95% CI with
>> renal transplant data. "Stci" command, however, did not produce any
>> median values. So I generated the graph of median survival time by
>> race (African American vs. White) and the graph showed it only reached
>> to the length of 25% in the course of follow-up, indicating both of
>> groups have died not even near 50% (median), but mostly near the
>> length of 25% tile in the course of follow-up.
> What you observe can be better phrased as saying that followup was not
> long enough to observe 50% of failures.
>> 1. Given this, I attempted to produce 25th percentile survival time.
>> However I am struggling with comparing the difference of 25th
>> percentile survival time between African American and White across 10
>> regions in US. The command that I used:
>> sort UNOS
>> by UNOS: stci , by(race_all) p(25)
>> I was trying to use "ranksum" but it doesn't have an option for
>> testing differences of other percentiles besides median. Which command
>> should I use?
> That's a correct command. It tests for any difference where survival
> in one group is better, not just differences in medians.
>> 2. In comparing the median to the 25 percentile, there are some
>> regions where the length to 25% tile is significantly longer than
>> median. In this case, what would you guys do? If you would choose to
>> use median survival time, then what else could I do in order not only
>> to produce the median survival time and 95% CI, but to test the
>> difference of median survival time between groups instead stci (since
>> it didn't produce in previous analysis)?
> Your observation is impossible in theory; to persuade us, you'd need to
> follow the advice in Statalist FAQ (3.3) and show us the commands and
> results that lead you to this observation.
> If I had to guess, I'd say that you looked at the Kaplan-Meier survival
> curve, not at -stci- results. A survival curve shows the proportion of
> people who haven't had the event at a time, not the proportion who have
> failed. Thus the point corresponding to the 25% mark on the y axis is where
> 25% of people haven't failed and 75% have. In other words it is the 75th
> percentile for failure. To see the failure time percentiles, the command
> is:
> *******************
> sts graph, failure
> *******************
> You might benefit from reading a good text on survival data, e.g. Cleves
> et al. (2010).
> Reference: Cleves, Mario, William Gould, Roberto Gutierrez, and Yulia
> Marchenko. 2010. An Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata, Third
> Edition. College Station, Tex: Stata Press.
> Steve
>> Thank you so much!
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Jeb Brovsky (pictured) who spent his rookie year with the Vancouver Whitecaps was picked by the expansion Impact. Joining Brovsky will be fellow Colorado Rush alum Collen Warner (Real Salt Lake). Another Rush alum with Colorado ties, Bobby Burling from Rush Pikes Peak is also headed to the Impact. Burling had previously played for San Jose Earthquakes.
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San Diego Chargers Draft Needs 2009
Although widely regarded as one of the most talented teams in pro football, the San Diego Chargers still have positions on the roster where improvement is needed. Whether adding quality depth behind an existing player or looking to upgrade over an incumbent starter, the Chargers will turn to the NFL Draft to address their team needs.
The college bowl and all-star games have come and gone. The Scouting Combine is now behind us, and Pro Day workouts are just about completed. The dust has begun to settle and teams are beginning to assemble their draft boards. As players are being get shuffled around, stocks rising and falling, NFL clubs are keying in on their draft day targets. With the 2009 NFL Draft less than a month away, the San Diego Chargers are reviewing their needs and formulating their plans.
According to BoltHype.com, the San Diego Chargers' top draft needs in 2009 are:
1. Safety / Cornerback (Strong Need, 1st-3rd round)
It is clear that the Chargers desperately need to upgrade their safety position opposite Eric Weddle. Clinton Hart has no business starting for an NFL team, especially not one competing for a championship. A liability in run support, Hart also struggles in coverage where he is too often late with over-the-top help. Hart gets abused by tight ends and approaches ball carriers with trepidation.
It should be noted that I have listed Defensive Back as a need. If the Chargers decide they like Paul Oliver or Antonie Cason as a safety, then that Changes the safety need to cornerback. Antonio Cromartie is auditioning for his job this season and unless he improves his effort, he wont be resigned. Quentin Jammer is quietly aging and the secondary all but fell apart against the Steelers when Jammer was forced to the sidelines with an injury.
The Chargers have shown that they are not shy about spending top draft picks on secondary help, and they may go to that well again this year.
2. Offensive Tackle (Strong Need, 1st-2nd round)
The right side of the Chargers offensive line was suspect last season. AJ Smith is placing a priority on improving the run game, and he very well may bring in help via the draft. The Chargers left right offensive guard walk in free agency, and have signed right tackle Jeromey Clary to only a one year deal. Clary is in a make or break year, and as a former 6th round pick playing on a one year contract, there are no guarantees that he has a long-term future in San Diego. Personally, I like Clary and think he is a decent starter. That being said, he struggled last year and even if he improves this season, the Chargers lack depth at the position and will have to bring in help.
Adding a top right tackle could move Clary into guard or force him into a back-up role. The Chargers need to make major improvements in the running game if they hope to play well in December and January, and a quality offensive tackle could be the key.
3. Defensive Tackle / Defensive End (Medium Need, 2nd-4th round)
The departure of former starting DE Igor Olshansky brings to focus the lack of depth along the defensive line. The Chargers like rotating in Ryon Bingham and Jacques Cesaire at defensive end, and they get real production out of the duo. Combined, Bingham and Cesaire produced 47 tackles and 3.5 sacks, which is quite good. The impact of losing of Olshansky is softened by the fact the Ron Rivera had already all but stopped using Olshansky in the second half of last season. Rivera wanted a little more athleticism from his line and increasingly played Bingham and Cesaire over Olshansky.
While the Chargers figure to be okay at Defensive End, they would still need another body there to compete for a starting job. Additionally, they continue to roll the dice each year hoping Jamal Williams holds up for the entire season. He is as dominant as ever, but Williams is 32 years old and takes a beating down there in the trenches. Having played in 147 games in his 11 year career, Williams has more wear and tear on his body than anyone on the Chargers. The team would be smart to take the pressure off Williams by bringing in a Defensive Tackle to play the "Zero."
4. Tailback / Fullback (Medium Need, 3nd-5th round)
Ladianian Tomlinson and Darren Sproles are in the fold for 2009, but will they remain in San Diego in 2010? There is some discussion that Sproles might be traded come draft day, the Chargers could very well move him to recoup a second round draft pick. Word is Tomlinson could get north of 300 carries next season, but how will his body hold up to such an intense load, and how much longer can he be such a workhorse?
Jacob Hester's role is also in question; is he a tailback or a fullback? If the coaching staff thinks he fits better as a ball carrier, the they could try to draft a true fullback on day-two. The running game suffered without Lorenzo Neal, and the Chargers could try to pair LT with another bruising fullback via the draft.
5. Best Player Available / Wild Cards
A. Inside Linebacker
With the addition of Kevin Burnett and the retention of Matt Wilhelm, it looks as if the San Diego Chargers are prepared to head into 2009 with inside linebackers Burnett, Wilhelm, Cooper, Dobbins, and Siler. Cooper is solid at inside linebacker, but the Chargers are still evaluating their options opposite him. All signs are pointing to Burnett earning the job, but Brandon Siler is an emerging player who is also one of the hardest hitting players on the team. Siler has proved to be a crucial goalline and special teams player, and it's only a matter of time before he sees more action on defense.
The Chargers don't have a pressing need at inside linebacker, but Rey Maualuga would be a player who they could not pass up. Aside from Maualuga, I don't expect the Chargers to spend a significant pick on an inside linebacker.
B. Tight End
Tight End is interesting because besides Antonio Gates, who else do the Chargers have? Gates is coming up on the end of his contract, and while the Chargers will do every thing they can to extend him, the team is also trying to sign QB Philip Rivers and OT Marcus McNeill. If the Chargers can only afford two out of the three, Gates is likely the odd man out.
Blocking specialist Brandon Manumaleuna is in the last year of his contract and Scott Chandler has been injured every year he's been on the Chargers. Chandler needs a productive year to keep his job, but if he emerges the Chargers might be more willing to let Manumaleuna leave in free agency. The Chargers could potentially draft a tight end as depth, someone who blocks well and can catch-and-run with the football.
C. Wide Receiver
Vincent Jackson has developed into an impressive player who can stretch the defense and fight for the ball in traffic. He has produced the first 1000 yard season by a receiver since Curtis Conway in 2001. But Jackson is coming up on the end of his rookie contract and with mulitple DUIs on his record, he has lost some trust among the front office.
Chris Chambers had an off year last season, partly due to nagging injuries, and partly due to Norv Turner's desire to get Vincent Jackson the ball downfield. In my mind, Chambers was playing out of position as the X, but he is a far more polished route runner than Jackson and could more effectively handle the "Out" routes while Jackson could focus on running basic "Go's" and "Curls." I think Chambers is a find wide receiver and the Chargers are better with him than without.
Craig 'Buster' Davis on the other hand, has a mountain to climb in order to justify his lofty draft status as former first rounder. Davis has done essentially nothing in the NFL and needs to prove he is tough enough to play in the NFL. When AJ Smith said certain players were on notice, he almost certainly was talking about Davis.
While the Chargers figure to solid at receiver in 09, they may decide to draft a player who can bring value as a return man.
March 31, 2009at 12:30 AM Posted by Rob Zepeda
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i agree with your ranking of our needs coming into the season. Improving our secondary is vital for defense to keep our opponents points to a minimum. Our defensive line is very thin in depth especially with Igor gone, Jamal getting old and battered, and Castillo who seems to be made out of glass. Our linebacker core and our makeshift defensive line will allow us to bend and not break as long as our secondary is shored up.
There are no big names in the secondary in this years draft, so we may be able to draft a safety in the later rounds. In the first round i think we should aim for a D-tackle/end like tyson jackson from LSU.. or go for an OT like michael oher.. (if hes still available at 16). As much as I would love to see Rey Maualuga in bolts.. he is not our most pressing need.. but if Jackson and Oher arn't there.. i believe we should get maualuga.. It'd also be interesting if we drafted beanie wells.. LT's days are almost over.. which is unfortunate..
"We need another Donnie Edwards type player in this years draft." Deffinately OL too. Would like to see them pick up a great safty two!
- bryce hiker said... Mar 31, 2009, 7:11:00 PM
Scott Chandler is not a blocking TE: He is not a replacement for Brandon Manumaleuna
They are happy with Mike Tolbert and won't be spending a high pick on Fullback. Besides Turner doesn't run alot of 2 back sets.
Yes Cason or Oliver may be moved to Strong Safety.
The 1st round pick will be a back if Moreno or Wells are still on the board. If not they will draft the Best OL or DT available.
We need a inside linebacker with some umph. If we could get a great middle linebacker it would help with the pass rush, coverage and relieve the pressure on Williams to stop the inside run. Besides can you imagine Lights Out and Phillips on the outside and Maualuga onthe inside. But, Rey Maualuga is gone then we need a running back. Tomlinson won't be around for ever, and I LOVE Sproles but we need youth. The secondary wil be better with Rivera coaching a full year and lights out being back.
Denver really screwed up.
Maualuga might slip to us as most teams are in need of an OLB (Cushing, Maybin, Matthews, Orakpo, Brown) and Denver might as well go for B.J. Raji as it is their most pressing need, or possibly a QB now ?
Great article: my take is that with Merriman back (if he's the same old Merriman) will increase our run and passing defense (quicker to the qb, more quick throws, more penetration, more success for db's). If he's not, we need severe help on D-Line first, then secondary with all of them on notice to be very aggresive (Hart, Cromartie), Middle Linebacker is my second concern behind d-line...out is Wilhelm, in is ?. So D.Line first, then middle linebacker, then backfield. On offense, first O.Line, then a running back. We're more potent on offense then we were potent on defense. Need the penetration first to hurry up any offense, if we do, the db's don't look so bad.
I doubt we are going to see a DB as first choice 2 years in a row. I would think consideration should be made for moving Jammer to safety. He has developed into a pretty darn good hitter and I think he has the mentality to play it. Put Cason in his CB spot. A backup for these guys can be found in the later rounds.
I think Def & Off line should be the priority. The Off line struggled greatly because the right side was really weak. I'm not sold on Clary at all. Maybe he could be a guard but he's overwhelmed at the tackle spot. They need a dozer to plow the road for LT at the right side and need it now. Like others have said, Jamaal isn't going to last that much longer. Father-time always wins.
If by some miracle Maualuga is there I'd take him. That's just too much talent and ferocity to pass up.
I think the Bolts really need to trade down badly. Jackson looks like a good 5-Tech DE, but I think a lot of what soured Rivera on Igor is that Rivera isn't Wade P, and an Igor clone isn't the fix. Maualuga looks like he'll rock, but I think that Siler and Burnett will be a pretty solid Moe committee going forward, so a first-rounder ILB isn't necessarily the best option. A RT would be nice, but they might be able to get a fine one in the second round. I think they should try to get their own 2nd-round pick back from the Patriots. NE has picks 34 and 47; on the draft value chart, that's 990 points, as opposed to 1000 for #16. NE would still have their own 2nd-rounder, and would be able to move up 7 spots from their current first pick without actually burning their first-round pick, and SD would get as-good-as-any shots at their RT and SS of the future.
Your grammar is so bad that it hurts to read this article
AJ will pick the best guys available and sign some undrafted guy who will become an all-pro
Go Chargers!!! Miami here we come
We need playmakers on defense. I'm hoping for R. Maulauga from USC. I hope I spelled his name right. He is better than Keith Rivers and Keith Rivers was having a solid rookie season till he had his jaw broken so I believe Maulauga will be a playmaker in the NFL, however, there is just one thing I'm worried about - his 40 yard time is a little slow. These NFL players are not as fast as I thought. I was nothing more than a street player but I am not that much slower than these guys. Maulauga and Merriman with Phillips on the outside will create a formidable defense and Maulauga is known to be the hardest hitter in the draft. He and Merriman will intimidate.
- Jordan Xavier B said... Apr 5, 2009, 11:57:00 AM
great article and opinions. I dont think people realize how HUGE Lorenzo Neal was and whoever said tolbert is doing ok is wrong. He stopped playing at the end of the season because he couldn't produce. We need another Mack Truck like Lo Neal. Our line has struggled the last 2 years, but it was more evident last year because neal was gone.
With that... In AJ smith I believe. Lets go Bolts!
Tony Fiammetta FB could be a possibility in the later rounds and lets not hope for another Hester move by AJ
Rob - You pretty much got it right except I would put inside linebacker as #4 and put RB at the bottom - no way do they trade Sproles and his lofty salary has nothing to do with it! LT will be ready + the Sproles combo is potentially mind boggling. We have a big need at ILB opposite Cooper, who is great - I am sick of seeing Wilhelm chase ball carriers around the field. How is this guy still on the team?
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When you dial the Disney Channel headquarters in Burbank and ask to be transferred, the operator, before connecting you, will cheerily instruct you to have a "magical day." It happens every time you call, and, if you listen closely and ignore the crisp, upbeat tone of the receptionist's voice, sometimes you can detect the smallest shred of soul-killing acquiescence.
It wouldn't take much convincing, though, to get even the most cynical of Disney-haters to admit that there is at least one aspect of the company that truly is magical: its golden synergistic touch. That touch has been in blitzkrieg mode the past few weeks, as Disney prepares to release the sequel to the enormously popular High School Musical, a Disney Channel made-for-TV movie about Troy Bolton, a handsome jock, and Gabriella Montez, a brainy cutie, who co-star in a student play. The first HSM took in nearly 8 million viewers when it debuted on the Disney Channel, and more than 170 million international viewers have seen it since. The soundtrack was the best-selling album of 2006. High School Musical has spawned plays (musicals, natch), apparel, and new careers for its original cast.
Now, Disney's brilliantly executed marketing and publicity campaigns guarantee that High School Musical 2 — which will, like its predecessor, debut on the Disney Channel (August 17 at 8 pm) — is hyped nonstop on all of the company's myriad properties: during commercial breaks for the Disney Channel's hit series Hannah Montana; featured on the cable network's corresponding XD Web site; pitched on Disney Radio; introduced on Good Morning America (ABC's parent company is Disney). The list goes on. If it's owned by Disney, it's pimping HSM 2. Resistance is futile.
Disney has been working overtime to reshape itself, with the Disney Channel now one of the most important extensions of the overall brand. While Disney once reigned supreme for the commercially triumphant feature-length animations (they haven't had a notable hit in that arena since 1999's Tarzan, despite Disney CEO Robert Iger's purchase of Pixar and a string of 3-D animation releases), "tween"-targeted live-action programming and calculated merchandise branding have become the company's new lifeblood. Their secret weapon is targeting an age group that's as passionate about trends as it is inexplicably fickle about the ones it's loyal to. Tapping into that X-factor is the Disney Channel's main survival skill, and the folks there are ridiculously good at it.
"In pulling in 'tweens,' to use an odious phrase, we've made Disney hip and on the radar to a bunch of kids that, in the past, had already outgrown it, or been too young to be nostalgic about it," says Michael Healy, the senior VP of Original Movies at the Disney Channel.
Indeed, once HSM proved its paydirt potential, Disney began developing it as a long-term brand so it could be sufficiently milked for everything it was worth. The HSM plot will continue through HSM 3 (slated to debut in theaters, not on TV, in 2008). And there is no end to the different HSM-themed products on which tween fans — or more accurately, their parents — can spend their money. From HSM bedroom sets, iPod lockers, and dolls to HSM DVDs (Encore, Remix, Boardgame, The Concert, Collector's Edition), books (High School Musical 2: The Junior Novel), and video games, if a potential tie-in existed, Disney churned it out, stuck an HSM logo on it, and put it on sale.
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Air was humid, so bees were slow to cap the honey. Removed two deeps and a medium of honey about a month ago. Not capped to 80% and I am waiting delivery of a refractometer(got back ordered) and will deal with the honey or feed it.
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Jane was a solitary sort of girl. She didn't like boys. Didn't want them bothering her. They'd approach sometimes, but she knew the right signals. A little shake here, a certain way of standing—most boys could tell she wasn't interested.
Of course, one day she'd want a family. "Won't be too hard to come by," she thought. "I'll just put on some perfume and wait. The boys'll show up—guaranteed."
A few days back, some hot-blooded stud thought he could just barge into her life. Fat chance. Without a second thought, Jane killed and ate her would-be suitor.
Jane is not a psychopath or a character from a Stephen King novel. In fact, she's just like all the other desert spiders her age. This stereotypical spider personality presents a puzzle for animal behaviorists. How does a male spider know when a female spider is, to put it bluntly, in the mood? A mistake in the male's judgment doesn't mean a night on the couch—it may mean his last night on earth.
The long-standing consensus among investigators was that would-be mates communicate their intentions through vibratory and visual signals. Spiders use this form of communication everywhere in their lives. If they want to talk through their web or scare rivals from their territory, spiders use vibrations and visual displays. Surely, the researchers assumed, mating is no exception.
Observations seemed to support this hypothesis. Before mating, both male and female desert spiders engage in complex courtship rituals. The male's ritual involves 21 unique leg-waving, abdomen-swinging, web-plucking steps evolutionarily proven to win him the heart of his favorite arthropod.
Susan Riechert of the University of Tennessee, and Mirjam Papke and Stefan Schulz, both with the Technische Universität Braunschweig, disagreed with this speculation. Research they presented in the May issue of Animal Behaviour claims that, when it comes to mating, the type of desert spider they studied primarily communicates with chemicals. When a female desert spider is ready to mate she secretes a pheromone, 8-methyl-2-nonanone, that drives male spiders wild.
In the investigators' experiments, whenever male desert spiders were presented with a pheromone-soaked paper disk, male desert spiders waggled, vibrated and preened. The males quickly initiated and performed most of the steps in their complex mating ritual. But when males were placed before a paper disk lacking any pheromone, they did not waggle or vibrate—they weren't the least bit aroused.
But how extensive is the pheromone's role? Male spiders near a pheromone-soaked disk also spent a significant amount of time trying to locate the female spider—never engaging in a subset of the courtship ritual steps (lunge and retreat). Only when a pheromone-producing, virgin female spider was placed on a dry paper disk did the male perform his courtship ritual with all its nuances—a performance that was reciprocated and well received. The research team concluded that the pheromone helps male spiders locate the female and stimulates most of the courtship sequence.
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Detail of Ivan Lapper painting of the Tower of London in 1547 showing the old storehouses, location of the Horse Armoury in 1661.
Greenwich armour for field and tournament. (II.40)
Boy's armour. (II.126)
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Carved wooden head of Henry VII. English, about 1689-91 (XVII.40)
William (Willem) Schellinks visited the Tower of London and in his Journal has left one of the earliest descriptions of the display later called the Horse Armoury or Line of Kings:
'Next follows a long room, in which behind a rail the body armour of several Kings and their horses' armour are lined up in a row, of very ancient and uncommon fashion, but all well looked after and kept polished. According to the keeper, there is the armour of Prince Henry, King Henry VIII, King Henry VII, Edward III, Charles I, Edward IV, Henry VI, the Duke of Gloucester (ie the Earl of Leicester), Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and that of William the Conqueror'.
Schellinks was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, etcher and poet who had been born in Amsterdam in 1623. He arrived in England in July 1661 with the merchant ship-owner Jacques Thierry (1604-77) and his son Jacobus Thierry (1648-1709). Schellinks was about to accompany the thirteen year old boy on a Grand Tour, taking him from England to France, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Germany and Switzerland. They did not return to the Netherlands until August 1665.
Schellinks and his travelling companions had arrived in London on 14 August 1661, staying in lodgings at Tower Street. He took the boy on a walk to London Bridge, and then to look at the outside of the Tower of London. On the following day they returned to see inside the Tower. After viewing the animals in the menagerie, they were shown around the site and then entered the armoury. Amongst the many exhibits which he noted in his Journal, Schellinks describes several which can be clearly identified in the Royal Armouries collection today, including:
'…two suits of body armour, one a present from the Great Mogul to the present king, the other the cuirass which the King wore in his youth in the battles between his father Charles I and parliament'.
The armoury buildings in which Schellinks and Jacobus Thierry saw the displays no longer survive. However his comment that '… through a window we looked into the Tower Chapel, in which a service is held every Sunday' confirms that they were in the Long Storehouse, which was demolished in 1688, next to the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula.
Having not yet satisfied their curiosity, the travellers returned to the Tower twice more before they finally left England on 18 April 1663. On 20 March 1662 Schellinks recorded: '…then went to the Tower to look at all that was to be seen, and then went into the Mint, where I struck a silver halfcrown as a keepsake'. Finally, on 28 March 1663 they '…went to the Tower to see the new money mint of the French mint master Blondeau … (and)…then went to see the lions and the leopards, eagles etc'.
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(Nov. 5, 2008)--Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, will present the keynote address for the UTSA College of Business Signature Speaker Series Thursday, Nov. 13 at the Westin Riverwalk hotel in downtown San Antonio.
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The series is a forum where students, faculty and alumni can come together and hear from some of the brightest business leaders of our time. Wachovia is the presenting sponsor, and all proceeds from the event will benefit student scholarships and programs in the College of Business.
"The Signature Speaker Series provides a first-class opportunity for the San Antonio community to hear from nationally recognized business leaders and to showcase UTSA and the College of Business," said College of Business Dean Lynda de la Viña.
Ford joined the board of directors of Ford Motor Company in 1988 and has been its chairman since January 1999. He serves as chairman of the board's finance committee and as a member of the Environmental and Public Policy Committee. He also served as chief executive officer of the company from October 2001 to September 2006, when he was named executive chairman.
A lifelong environmentalist, Ford is committed to increasing shareholder value by developing products that please customers and benefit society. Ford championed the Ford Escape Hybrid, the world's first hybrid-electric sports utility vehicle. He has a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University and a master of science degree in management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The event is led by an Alumni Host Committee comprised of Iñigo Arzac, '05, Merrill Lynch & Co.; Carlos Barbosa, '94, Wells Fargo & Company; Denise Bendele, '87, Padgett, Stratemann & Co.; Abigail Erwin, E.M.B.A., '99, Deacon Recruiting; Susan Filyk, M.B.A., '95, U.S. Global Investors; Brent Given, '85, The Bank of San Antonio; Tracy Jackson, '93, Tesoro; Kathleen Martinez, '94, Wachovia; Andrew Ozuna, '91, Regions Bank; and Al Tomita, M.B.A., '01, Sushi Zushi.
In addition to Ford's remarks, the UTSA College of Business will honor Cindy Jorgensen, E.M.B.A., '00, chief financial officer of Southwest Business Corporation, with the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. April Ancira, M.B.A., '03, vice president of Ancira Chrysler Jeep Nissan/SMART, is the recipient of the Young Alumni Achievement Award.
The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with a general reception and the program and dinner follow at 7 p.m. Tickets are $75 per person and table sponsorship opportunities are available.
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Term: High priest
Hierophant: One of the trumps of the Major Arcana of the tarot. Numbered V. In the system of Eliphas Levi, it corresponds to the Hebrew letter Heh. In the system of the Golden Dawn, The Hierophant corresponds to the Hebrew letter Vav and the astrological sign of Taurus.
Hierophant: An officer of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. When the temple is set up for Neophytes, the Hierophant (Greek for "initiating priest") sits in the East, represents the dawning Light, and is the main ritual officer. When a woman holds this office she is called the Hierophatria or Hieropantissa.
High Priest:
A male Witch who, often with a High Priestess, is the leader of a coven. In traditional covens, to achieve this level requires extensive training and experience. In covens that have a three-degree system, a High Priest will have been initiated into the third degree. It is often abbreviated as HP.
The 5th Major Arcanum of the Tarot
Image: Pope or other major religious leader
Hebrew letter: Vav
Divinatory meaning: Authority, Wisdom, Spirituality
Path on the Tree of Life: 16th path connecting Yesod to Tiphareth.
Qabalistic Description. The 5th Key, the 16th Path. Magus of the Eternal Gods. This Path connects Chesed (Mercy) with Chokmah (Wisdom). The primary function of the Hierophant is to tie together the Great Above to that which is Below. The Hierophant is also the Great Teacher of the Mysteries, bringing understanding as the link between sensory experience and inner illumination. Vav means the nail, binding things together.
Card Description. The Hierophant as High Priest is the counterpart of the High Priestess. As Aries is the house of Mars and the exaltation of the Sun, so Taurus is the house of Venus and the exaltation of the Moon. He is the reflective or mystical aspect of the masculine. He is the thinker as the Emperor is the doer.
His colors unlike those of the Emperor vary considerably. Red, orange, maroon, deep brown, and chestnut brown, suggest veiled thought, interior power, endurance, contemplation and reconciliation. This card frequently indicates the hidden guardianship of the Masters.
Interpretation. Divine wisdom, occult wisdom, manifestation, explanation, teaching. The Hierophant differs from, though resembling in some respects, the meaning of The Magician, The Prophet, and The Lovers.
Psychological Value. You may use this Arcanum when you are eager to act, but have not yet figured out what your true heart's desire is, or when you are wasting your efforts on things you don't need, instead of focusing on your truest desires. It helps you develop generosity, sincerity, justice, tact, courtesy and refinement, as well as your sense of order and organization. It can help you to understand how to best present yourself socially. (According to the Divine Arcana of the Aurum Solis—Divinity: Zeus; Greek Letter: Upsilon.)
source: Llewellyn's Complete Book of Psychic Empowerment, by Carl Llewellyn Weschcke & Joe H. Slate (Llewellyn Publications) - Carl Llewellyn Weschcke
Also See: Pope, High Priest, Jupiter
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Through its involvement with regions south of the United States, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, recognizes the profound interconnections that exist between areas formally distinguished as "Latin America" and "North America." Through research and teaching, faculty work with students to explore the many ways in which old regional barriers are dissolving, leading to new integrations of populations, cultures, and economies. To this end, the range of study on Latin America and the Caribbean is broad, covering politics, economics, languages, cultures, literatures, and the natural environment.
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) in New Brunswick offers a major and minor in Latin American studies, which provide students with enriching educations in language, culture, politics, and history. CLAS faculty teach in a wide range of departments, allowing them to bring multiple perspectives into the classroom. The Center for Latino Arts and Culture (CLAC) strives to expand the knowledge and interest of Latin culture. Programs and projects every year enhance the program and inspire leadership and awareness. Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies (LHCS) faculty study the cultures and societies of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. LHCS offers a major and minor, and offers courses such as Cuban History, Latino Politics in the US, and African Belief Systems and the Latino Community. These centers and department enjoy close working relationships with one another in order to provide a thorough and comprehensive student education and experience.
On the Rutgers–Camden campus there is also a Latin American Studies Program. It was created for students who intend to travel, work, or study in the Latin American region. Students interested in any and all areas and cultures, which span from the Mexican border to the bottom tip of Argentina, can receive a minor that prepares students for a profession in teaching.
Rutgers provides students with a wide range of international experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its students now study in a range of countries, from the Dominican Republic to Argentina and Brazil. In addition, Rutgers is a pioneer in international service learning, with annual programs in Bolivia and Mexico, where students learn about Latin American life as they direct their energies to creating positive transformations in the lives of the people with whom they study. More recently, these efforts have been strengthened by collaborative efforts with graduate faculty. One such initiative at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) prepares students who participate in the Language Education program in Teaching English to Language Learners (TELL) to teach and/or tutor English Language learners in Limón, Costa Rica.
Faculty from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) conduct research and enrich Rutgers educational opportunities through active partnerships throughout Latin America. Research topics range from the intersections of race, slavery, and environment in Trinidad and Tobago (Human Ecology) and the study of nuclear winter in Cuba (Environmental Sciences) to population genetics in Argentina (Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources). Extensive research conducted by SEBS faculty in South America include exploration of evolutionary biology and the biodiversity of tropical plants (Plant Sciences and Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources) and the study of soil-plant-atmosphere interactions (Environmental Sciences).
One strong area of focus is the multiple connections between Mexico and the United States. Globalization and ongoing migration between these two neighbors is producing increasing hemispheric integration, which Rutgers faculty and students are dedicated to understanding. Rutgers is on its way to becoming the leading public research university dedicated to the study of Mexico and the transnational integration of North America on the eastern seaboard of the United States.
In 2010, the GSE initiated an agreement to begin a scholarly exchange of students, faculty, and research activities with Universidad de Centro Educativo Latinomericano (UCEL) in Rosario, Argentina. As part of this exciting relationship with UCEL, the Graduate School of Education conducts an annual study tour, conference, and a variety of collaborations and digital-distance educational activities. The Argentina Study Tour is led by faculty member Nydia Flores. Her research focuses on Spanish language and its use in society and Spanish language education. Students who participate in this program take seminars related to language, culture, and education. As part of the full immersion experience, students engage in service learning in an elementary school and live with host families.
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Rutgers faculty active in research on the Caribbean come from a range of departments and academic centers, including anthropology, sociology, history, comparative literature, English, French, human ecology, Spanish and Portuguese, and women's and gender studies. Their research covers diverse issues, among them housing, gender, race, health, literature, and migration. Scholars of the Caribbean, in the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS), the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy (BSPPP), and other divisions mentor and lead graduate students with interest in the region.
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The program described below is no longer accepting new students. New students are encouraged to apply for the College's new major in elementary teacher education.
For students looking to become the next generation of first to grade 6 school teachers, the major in elementary education prepares each student to have a strong understanding of elementary education content, the ability to recognize and assess the differences in learning and the educational needs of elementary-aged students. Students are also given the tools to engage and educate their future students to become creative and critical thinkers.
We offer a middle school approval that meets all State of Illinois requirements for students who are planning to teach at the middle-school level. All elementary education majors must complete a minor or second major in addition to the education requirements for the major. Courses being applied to the minor must earn grades of C or higher.
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