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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Senior Karisma Chapman led the UAB women's basketball with a double-double in the win against West Florida on Saturday night. The Blazers won 61-46 in the final exhibition game before beginning the 2013-14 season next week.
"As I told the team, I thought this couldn't have been scripted any better for an exhibition game," said head coach Randy Norton. "We got tested a little bit. They cut that game to three points, but I thought our girls dug in. We got some stops on defense and played with a lot of poise."
It was a close game between the two teams. The Blazers were able to pull away from the Argonauts several times, but West Florida kept fighting back and eventually cut the lead to three, 49-46 with 7:25 remaining in the game. The Blazers didn't panic though, as they quickly swung the momentum back in their direction.
The next trip down the floor, Chapman found sophomore Chelsee Black who drained her first three-pointer of the night to extend UAB's lead to 54-46. Shortly after that, Chapman got a steal and again found Black alone on the wing where she sunk her second-straight three.
The Blazers didn't stop pressuring, as Chapman grabbed another steal on West Florida's next possession and took it all the way down the court for a layup to push the lead to 59-46 at the 5:03 mark. From there, UAB remained in control of the game and held the Argonauts scoreless in the final seven minutes of the game.
Four players scored in double-figures for the Blazers in the win over West Florida. Chapman led the way with 19, freshman Janeka Williams added 16, senior Ashley Grimes had 13 and Black finished with 11. Overall, UAB shot 29.4 percent from the field but was able to knock down the shots when it counted.
"It was a night where we only shot 29 percent from the field, 24 percent from the three-point line, and 62 percent from the free-throw line," remarked Norton. "You're going to have nights like that. It was good for our girls to see that even when you have a night like that, if you'll just keep playing hard and dig in on defense and get stops, good things are going to happen. So I am pleased. It wasn't perfect, but I thought our girls showed a lot of poise and we did what we needed to do to win."
It was a great night defensively for UAB as the team out-rebounded UWF 51-38. Chapman and sophomore Dy'man Webb led the Green and Gold on the boards with 15 and 12 rebounds, respectively. The Blazers also turned up the defensive pressure, causing 30 turnovers and grabbing 16 steals on the night. Chapman came close to a triple-double as she led all players with seven steals.
The Blazers will open the 2013-14 season at the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic in Corpus Christi, Texas. In the first game, UAB will play Fairfield on Friday, Nov. 8 at 2 p.m. CT.
For the latest news on Blazer sports, follow the UAB Athletics Twitter account: @UABathletics. For women's basketball news, follow @UAB_WBB.


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Gettin' Vizzy
This is a television. Not a mirror or a window.
With a nice TV like one of these VIZIOs, the picture can appear so clear that you might think you're looking at a mirror or out a window. That can be confusing, but don't worry! We're here to help Here's how to tell what you're looking at/out:
Discern what you see on the screen. If you see yourself, it's probably a mirror, unless you're a television actor. In that case, look down at your shirt. Is it the same as you see in the screen? Then you're probably looking at a mirror. If it's not the same, and when you look back up, you're not on the screen anymore, that's a TV.
But what if it's not you or any person on the screen? What if it's a landscape? Then it's more complicated. You can rule out that it's a mirror (unless you have a really landscape-y face, but let's not consider that right now), which means it's probably either a window or a VIZIO TV. So, you have to listen. Do you hear narration? If so, it's probably a TV. If there's no narration, then watch. Does the landscape fade into an office building where a clumsy young woman is working her way up the corporate ladder? THen it's probably a TV. If it stays exactly the same and there's no narration, then you're looking out a window. Or maybe watching a really, really bad television show.
Now, the toughest to figure out is when something on the "screen" explodes. Most likely, you're watching a television. Still, that's kind of a big risk to take, right? That's why we say whenever you see something blow up in front of you, even if you're 99.9% sure it's on a television, you should run and hide under a bed, just in case.

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"The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion"
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"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."


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Botha meets five fight novice in New Zealand
By Ron Jackson
Former IBF heavyweight champion the 44-year-old Francois Botha faces a novice in 21-year-old Joseph Parker from New Zealand over eight rounds at the Trusts Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand on Thursday night. On paper this is more like a circus event rather a boxing match as Botha who has been fighting as a professional for more than 22 years, made his pro debut before Parker was born.
Parker has only had five fights as a professional against Dean Garmonsway (2-1), Terry Tuteru (0-9-1), Richard Tutaki (20-22-1), Dontay Pati (0-1) and Brice Ritani-Coe (pts 6), winning four of the five inside the distance.
I doubt if there are many boxing fans out there who have ever heard of the aforementioned opponents. Botha made his pro debut on February 11, 1990 against Johan van Zyl and won on a first round knockout. In an illustrious career Botha who has a record of 48-9-3-1nc; 28 has been with some of the best heavyweights in the world.
Even though he has only won one of his last six fights since April 2010 and is well past his best he still has enough skills to survive in the ring and knows all the tricks of the trade.
Botha has power in his right hand and staying power as he showed against the super fit All Black rugby player Sonny Bill Williams in February this year when he had Williams holding to survive in the tenth and final round.
It has been reported that Parker was a good amateur but there is a vast difference professional boxing and amateur boxing.
Botha has gone through 360 rounds in the pro ring whereas Parker has only 13, and the only thing in his favour will be his youth.
Before Botha gloves up he will be watching his son Marcel who is making his pro debut taking on Australian welterweight Jeremy Sebastian 0-1 over 4 rounds in the first fight of the night.


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Over the last few days I've been reading the posts in this thread and I've found them very motivating. So many of you have been coming close to your goal and accomplishing them, and everyone is so supportive! I'd really like to join in this thread as well.
A little about myself: I've been using fitday on and off for a while, mostly to track nutrition goals but also to monitor weight changes. I have not been very faithful to the latter. I am thirty years old, and have been healthy weights during my adult life. I attribute this to my decision to go vegetarian and then vegan during my teenage years, which ultimately lead to me being very careful about food choices for health reasons later on. As a child I was on the larger side, but healthy and strong. As puberty approached I gained a lot of weight and I continued to struggle with it until I was about 17. Since I was about 18, I've consistently been about 15-20 pounds lighter than I was at the age of 12 if that provides any sort of insight.
I'd really like to lose ten pounds. Over the last few years I keep creeping back up around 125, which although is deemed a healthy weight for 5'4, seems a little large on my frame. I've always been more comfortable, lean, and energetic around 110. I've managed to lose a few pounds in the last couple weeks (120.8 this morning!), but I feel I could use the extra support with holiday dinners approaching and my desire to stop yo-yo-ing after so many years. I definitely noticed it being harder to lose weight as I was approaching thirty, and now that I'm here, I'd like to be fairly steady in weight because I don't think weight loss will get any easier as time goes on! That being said, I have absolutely admired the motivation and progress I've seen in the posts here by women of many ages, and I know it can be done at any time!
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Sixty-six congressional candidates and 24 national organizations are opposing any more funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, no matter what unrelated measures are packaged into the same bill, and no matter whether the bill appears likely to pass or not. This position contrasts strongly with that of most incumbent congress members who "oppose" and "criticize" the wars. The new Coalition Against War Spending is inviting more candidates, including all incumbents, and national organizations to join. The 66 candidates who have already signed on are from 25 different states, and include 22 Greens, 19 Democrats, 19 Libertarians, 3 Independents, 1 Republican, 1 Socialist, and 1 Peace and Freedom Party member (and more may be added to the website by the time you read this). Fifty-six are candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, and 10 for the Senate.
The U.S. Senate passed $33.5 billion to escalate the war in Afghanistan on Thursday, and the House is likely to take up the same bill in some form following next week's recess.
Members of the Coalition Against War Spending do not all agree with each other on many topics, including their reasons for opposing war spending. But they all back this short statement:
"The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost Americans over $1 trillion in direct costs, and over $3 trillion altogether. At a time when our national debt exceeds $13 trillion, we can no longer afford these wars. It's time for Congress to reject any funding except to bring all our troops safely home."
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Historic Parent Trigger Approved in California by Adelanto School Board
It's official. For the first time ever in the United States, a California school district has approved a Parent Trigger, which allows parents to make changes to a failing school.
The landmark decision by the Adelanto School District to allow Desert Trails Elementary School in the Mojave Desert to convert to a charter school didn't come without a 18-month struggle and a lawsuit, but last night school district board members gave the go-ahead.
"In working together with the parents and the charter school operator to arrive at this decision," said Desert Trails Parent Union lead coordinator Cynthia Ramirez in a press statement, "the school board has set an example for other parents and districts across the country on how to use Parent Trigger legislation to transform otherwise failing public schools."
The first attempt to pull a Parent Trigger, a California law that allows parents of children who attend a failing school to essentially take it over, took place in Compton in 2010. That ran into a dead end when the Compton Unified School District successfully refused to approve the trigger based on a technicality.
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In October the inaugural Bay of Islands Walking Weekend is happening. Here are some of the best walks on offer.
1. An historic walk around Kororareka (the Maori name for Russell). As our first capital city it's steeped in all 200 years of history. You'll walk past the oldest wooden church in New Zealand, with musket holes in the walls. Stop for a pint at the Duke of Marlborough hotel, the first licensed pub. See the Catholic Mission printing press where they produced English and Maori bibles bound in leather.
2. Take a kiwi night walk up Flagstaff Hill. Just on dusk the day birds come home to roost and the nocturnal ones get ready to go out for the night. Up here there are at least two known pairs of kiwi and lots of weka. In fact such a good job of keeping pests away has seen a boost in weka numbers and now you're likely to see them digging in gardens.
3. Sail out to Motuarohia and Moturua islands with a picnic. You'll get the chance to sail in a yacht or tall masted ship to these idyllic islands from Russell. Motuarohia, or Roberton Island, is where Captain Cook first landed and has a skullduggerous history.
Then on to Moturua for a two-hour walk up and over, touching four different bays and admiring the breathtaking views.
4. Cape Brett lighthouse to Deep Water Cove. It's a segment of the two-day walk out to the DOC lighthouse and back that will include a boat ride out to the Cape just across from the hole in the rock. It'll require a good level of fitness as it's a steep climb up to the lighthouse then down into Deep Water Cove where you'll be picked up. And look out for dolphins on the way.
5. Okiato to Russell is a four a half hour walk that includes stopping at the oyster farm and Omata Estate. It's also dog friendly and will include a bus ride to the start before steep steps to begin, then a boardwalk through the mangroves to Orongo Bay. Bring shopping money for a snack or wine stop!
The Bay of Islands Walking Weekend is coming up on October 4th, 5th and 6th.
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Stage collapse at Indiana State Fair
Found out that a friend of mines friend's family member was right up front when the stage collapsed. Luckily they were unhurt.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A stage collapsed during a powerful storm at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday, sending steel scaffolding into the terrified crowd and killing at least four people awaiting a performance by the country band Sugarland.
The collapse came moments after an announcer warned of the advancing storm and gave instructions on what to do in event of an evacuation. Witnesses said a wall of dirt, dust and rain blew up quickly like a dust bowl and a burst of high wind toppled the rigging. People ran, screaming and shouting, desperate to get out of the way.
There was a similar collapse in Ottawa recently as well, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/18/bluesfest-stage-collapse.html.
Luckily no one was killed though. I heard Cheap Trick is suing. I wonder what the heck is going on? Unqualified workers and cutting corners?
Death toll is up to five now.
Storm winds can be extremely powerful, I have my doubts it was unqualified individuals who build the deck, any structure subjected to enough force will collapse.
It was a very strange occurance. It apparently was a gustnado that was out in front of storm front.
The radar showed that at the time it hit, there was nothing showing except the oncoming storm front the was west of the fairgrounds. Since it was relatively clear with no moisture or debris, it could not show up on radar until there was something in the air. It apparently is like a "down-burst" storm that is a rapidly occurring storm that requires ground and damage analysis to determine if it was a tornado (circular winds) of a downburst (outward flow of winds).
We had a major league baseball game start delayed about 15 minutes before the scheduled start by the stadium meteorologist when there was a clear sky, no visible clouds, but just right conditions. After a quick wind storm, the main storm front came through and it was possible to predict at what time the game would be started and let the 40,0000 people back into their seats.
Those odd storms can be very unpredictable and damaging, so I guess that is why they have warnings and watches in advance. They are not predictable like hurricanes where you know well ahead of time.
Here are some pictures for those with a facebook account. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...00001021352237
I'm sorry ,but I just don't trust federal,or state. And in this case, this was a state fair and I'm sure the governor was the overseer for the whole affair. If President Obama was to give a speech that night, or some big name politician, the gathering of thousands of people would have been canceled. But there's badly needed money at stake here, and I'm sure the police had up to date information on the weather front, but did nothing, although their job is to protect and serve. I say ,don't find excuses for the ones in power, I say get to the bottom of it, and get people fired who thought of their overtime first. Does anybody know if they had lateral guy wires ,like at the big radio station towers? Like at Pearl Harbor, I want confirmation !
From my friend, who was there.
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Welcome from Missouri....North from you. You have come to the right place to learn more. This is a great place for exchange of information, tactics weapons issues, and even humor.
Taking the class and getting the permit is just the beginning....If you haven't read some of Massad Ayoob's books (especially In Gravest Extreme and Truth About Self Protection here: Armor of New Hampshire: Author: Massad Ayoob - Books) I highly recommend them.
Also Concealed Carry and Home Defense Fundamentals by Michael Martin from Key House Press. I believe it can be gotten on Amazon or Key House is a sponsor of this forum. This one is a great read.


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Back again. I know I left a comment yesterday but it is so awesome, I had to come back and see it again.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Back again. I know I left a comment yesterday but it is so awesome, I had to come back and see it again.
I'd love to see some kind of crystals in the center of the flowers you've quilted. Otherwise leave it alone, it's gorgeous.
That is an amazing quilt. I love the wonderful jewel colors and the quilting is so fitting for the quilt. Thanks for sharing.
Your quilting is spectacular. If you can find some crystals to embellish your art that would set it off. Placed randomly to show the movement as viewers move around....I can almost see it all. With your artistic talent, I am sure you will make the correct decision to make your work more spectacular.
That quilt certainly show cases your quilting. That is amazing! Maybe I can be that good when I grow up!
Wow love it! Thanks for the close-up of the quilting and detail.
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You are amazing. What beautiful quilting. Love the use of colors.
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"Boecking, Benjamin" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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Dear colleagues,
I am currently analysing a longitudinal dataset (n = 62, up to 14
measurement occasions per person) using Mixed Models in STATA 10 (as the
n turned out to be too small to use other models and/or programs).
(1) I have a dependent variable A1 (outcome), and an independent
variable A2 (predictor), and control thorughout for time.
(2) Moreover, I lag the dependent variable with various offsets to see
(a) whether I can predict changes in the DV by "previous" predictors and
(b) which "lag" predicts best.
Outcome_lag1 -> Predictor || Outcome_lag2 -> Predictor || Outcome_lag3
-> Predictor.
(3) Once I have calculated these models, I switch the positions of the
DV and IV and do everything again to maybe get a hint at the
directionality in which these influences work.
Now here are my problems:
(1) When I compare two different models (e.g. M_lag -> Y vs. Y_lag->M)
it happens that - although the beta for one model is smaller - the
corresponding z-value is higher AND the model fit is BETTER (i.e.
(1.1) Also, it happens that the model fits the better, the higher the
lag is (although the predictive power decreases of course). However, I
suppose this is mostly due to the decreased number of observations
(depending on the respective lag OR the change of IV and DV), and NOT to
a better model fit as with each lag, betas decrease.
- So how can I get a "true" model fit, that takes the strength of the
prediction into account? (Keep in mind that a lagged DV and a lagged IV
inevitably produce changed patterns of "deleted" obeservations)
- Is there a way of comparing model fits of different models to make a
comparative statement about the "goodness of fit"?
- And if not - is there any other way of reasonably comparing the
various lagged models?
(2) I'd like to compare the A1->A2 and the switched-around A2->A1
models. Yet again, as different sets of observations are deleted each
time (i.e. the empty obervations in the dependent variable with the
longestlag which is included in the model), I cannot compare the model
fit indices.
- Is there any test around which tests beta coefficients (of DIFFERENT
models) against each other?
I apologize to all of my colleagues who think this to be a stupid
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I finished this quilt tonight. I made it to donate to a local hospital. After doing the friendship star BOM, I thought it would make a perfect baby quilt.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I finished this quilt tonight. I made it to donate to a local hospital. After doing the friendship star BOM, I thought it would make a perfect baby quilt.
WOW!! I've made several Friendship Star quilts--but I've never seen one with that awesome shading to make another star in the background. So cool! Thanks for sharing!!
I also have never seen the shading. It adds a whole new dimension. Great job. :D :D :D
How wonderful!!! I love that you're donating it to your local hospital! A very lucky baby and mommy will cherish it! Its very pretty and my favorite colors to boot! :thumbup: Great job all around!
What a beautiful quilt! I, too, haven't seen the shaded star and I love it! Nice job!
Love your baby quilt. This is a style that I've been wanting to do and haven't got around to yet. Your quilt is reminding me that I need to get with it and make one of these. Beautiful job!!!
There is going to be one lucky baby with the quilt. I love the way you did the shading. I have a baby shower at the end of this month, and would love to copy your idea.
Did you get the pattern with the BOM from this board. Which month was it, I keep on looking and can not find it. MUST need new glasses, either that or I am getting blinded with all the snow that has fallen this morning. We first got freezing rain, which is a good inch thick. Hubby just went out to brush off the car and the whole car is covered with a sheet of ice.
A good quilting day.
SO, if any one can help me out with finding this pattern, I sure would appreciate it.
The friendship star pattern can be found at http://www.quilterscache.com/F/FriendshipStarBlock.html it was the BOM for December 1, 2007; it is on the second page in the BOM section. Happy quilting
Thank you. I see you are from Wisconsin. R U Getting the snow ? Just spoke to my son down in Beloit, and they are getting pouring rain. Yucky.
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One way that black religious communities in Florida empower their members is by transporting them from services straight to voting booths through the "Get Your Souls to the Polls" program, the Sunday before Election Day. But Florida Governor Rick Scott may eliminate that option. Along with other new voter laws being passed in that state, as well as others, the rules would require that precincts be closed on the Sunday before Election Day. The new rules would also require people who moved counties to file provisional ballots, allow counties to adjust voter precinct hours and reduce the number of early voting days and counties may reduce the hours their respective voting precincts are open for early voting from 96 hours per week to as few as 48.
In an article written by Jonathon Alter, an American author and journalist and contributor for NBC, Alter states,
"The Republican effort to restrict voting isn't just anti-Democrat, it's anti-democratic. No fair-minded person believes the tall tales of voters pretending they were someone else, which have been debunked by the Brennan Center for Justice and others. What fool would risk prison or deportation to cast a single vote?
This isn't about stopping vote-stealing and other corruption, for which there are already plenty of laws. It's about rigging the system to keep power
The big GOP victory in 2010 was essential to the Voter Suppression Project. With the help of ALEC, a conservative lobbying outfit that spreads cookie-cutter bills to state legislatures, Republicans moved with lightning speed to implement their scheme. Since 2011, 18 states have enacted voter-suppression bills, with similar ones pending in 12 more."
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Lets talk about pressure and stress in training.For the purposes of this thread I am going to define stressors as anything ranging from physical pain, environmental pressure (slippy floor, pool of water, loud noises), to handler corrections.
The fad in dog training these days is compulsion free training. You commonly hear statements like "I train without force, fear or pain" insert satisfied expression and a back pat.
Moving beyond the emotional nature (obviously intentional) of that statement, lets drill down on the truth.
I ask is this truly a viable or realistic outlook on training? What do pain and fear really mean? It could be different things to different dogs. Are we really doing our dogs a favour by not exposing them to these stimuli?
Pain and fear can be ellicited in just about every species of animal including humans by stimuli that trigger chemical processes creating the physical and mental stimulation we identify as "pain and fear".
Why do humans and animals have these reactions? Obviously to facilitate learning that contributes to an individuals chances of survival and success.
A mother dog will physically discipline her pups elliciting pain for socially unacceptable behavior. The pups feels the pain, ceases the behavior and is less likely to do it again as it fears the consequence of pain for the negative behaviors.
Thus the pups are more likely to avoid the socially unnaceptable behavior and are more likely to be successful in a pack environment thus increasing their chances of survival.
Lets take it further:
Human mother sees her child playing in the road, she grabs the child, scolds her and sends her to her room. The child who can make a clear connection between her actions and the punishment she recieved for them (scolding and timeout). She is less likely to repeat the behavior as she FEARs the loss of her freedom. In addition she fears another scolding from her mother as it causes her emotional distress.
Lets translate this to training.
Every trainer has different goals, reliable pet obedience, sport competition, LEO work, PPD type training etc.
The importance of reliable and accurate task completion varies from life or death to losing a point for a crooked sit.
Im going to assume everyone on here knows and has an opinion about how effective or non effective punishers are to the training process be it in the learning or proofing process.
What I am going to put out there is an opinion that is held by certain trainers that stress and pressure in training administered fairly and clearly not only create a more reliable dog but an overall stronger dog.
Stronger because:
-The dog is more confident in his work as he fully understands the task and expectations surrounding its completion.
-The dog has encountered stress in the training process ranging in intensity. The dog has learned to overcome the stress (whatever it may be) and complete the desired task thus removing the stressor and achieving the reward.
-The dog is better able to handle the stressors it encounters in daily life and continue to function effectively even if they are dissimilar to stress the dog was exposed to in the training process. This is because he is somewhat desensitized to the chemical processes that stress induces. The added effect being stimuli that used to create stress such as low intensity pain or loud harsh noises no longer have any meaningful effect on the dog or his work.
-The dog is more forgiving of handler error or induced stress and will be able to function effectively through it.
-In the context of real work greater levels of stress will weed out lackluster candidates and improve the gene pool and end product (see KNPV)
-The bond between handler and dog is strengthened through the learning process and trust is developed through overcoming barriers be they physical or mental.
Ill use another analogy. When we train for competitive sports (hockey, football, MMA) we expose ourselves to stress, pain and often as a byproduct fear to varying degrees.
When soldiers or LEOs are trained there is mental, physical and emotional stress throughout the training process.
In both groups despite radically different end goals overcoming stress creates mental and physical toughness and derives a stronger sense of self confidence. As individuals they become effective in the completion of their target tasks.
In relation to working or sport dogs, we want our dogs to be king kong, save lives, protect your home, fight the man, overcome environmental pressure etc. How do you square not exposing the dog to stress during training and development while maintaining the above expectations?
Obviously how much pressure or stress a dog is exposed to during training will depend on the dog itself, the desired outcome of the training and the handlers skill as a trainer.
I am not saying that all stress and pressure is GOOD nor is it all BAD but to ignore its value to the teaching and development process ignores evolution and what is inherrent in all intelligent creatures.
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A sincere plea to Sonny and Romeo: Please don't embarrass Georgia again.
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A parent's worst nightmare came out of Africa last week with the news that a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, Cathrine "Kate" Puzey, had been murdered. Formerly of Cumming, Kate received a sociology degree from William and Mary in 2006, joined the Peace Corps and had been teaching English in a small village in Benin since July 2007. Her two-year hitch in West Africa was almost up.
Over the past year or so, there has been one question about politics that I hear more often than any other: "Is Roy going to run?"
When somebody thinks you're somebody that you're not, it can either be really good or really bad.
I have years of experience in this field. In 1970, I had gone to visit an aunt in Jacksonville, Fla.
Last week saw our first crescendo of legislating, as we passed the crossover mark of the session. We worked through 112 bills and resolutions. For the next few weeks, we'll be reviewing bills sent over from the Senate as we approach the end of the session.
A number of the measures we considered are worth mention. HB 23 would prohibit provisional driver's license holders under 18 from using cell phones and similar electronic communications devices. Young drivers generally don't have sufficiently solid driving skills to handle a car at the same time as talking on a phone ...
The legislature reached a significant landmark in the 2009 session on March 12, which was the 30th legislative day. That means that it was the turning point for all Senate legislation to be passed and transferred to the House in order to continue through the legislative process. Likewise, members of the House of Representatives worked diligently to send their legislation to the Senate for a chance at final passage. Several important pieces of legislation were voted on this week, but perhaps most significant was the FY 2009 supplemental budget.
Thanks to a cooperative spirit between both the Senate and House ...
Why is it the older you get the more you begin to notice things you really never paid much attention to before? Simple things. Quiet things. Natural things.
It's been that way for me, for instance, with flowers. When I was growing up in Moreland, my Aunt Jessie's yard was the flower capital of the county. People drove from as far away as Grantville, Corinth and Smith City to gaze at the color show Aunt Jessie's yard put on each spring.
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100 best NYC songs: Nos. 60–51
Watch music videos for iconic NYC songs by Run-DMC, Steely Dan, the Magnetic Fields and more.
60. Run-D.M.C., "Christmas in Hollis" (1987)
This track epitomizes that elusive rarity: an NYC hip-hop classic that also functions as a mood-setter. Over a horn-heavy strut that Rick Rubin lifted from Clarence Carter's suggestive "Back Door Santa," the affable old-school heroes spin a Queens-set holiday yarn featuring a rich Santa Claus, an "ill reindeer" and a soul-food banquet. Local color is scarcer than you'd think, but Run-D.M.C.'s shout-out to the titular 'hood adds the perfect shot of giddy specificity.—Hank Shteamer
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59. Steely Dan, "Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More" (1975)
Few songs illustrate the quicksand-like pull of the New York demimonde better than this wailing, super-polished blues-rock cut. It's one of the few Becker-Fagen numbers to actually namecheck the city, despite their shared area upbringing. Our narrator is an incorrigible slimeball, swearing that his hustling days are behind him and betraying himself with each denial. A stripper-pole grooves throbs in the background—a reminder that for the shadily inclined, NYC's tendency to never sleep is more curse than blessing.—Hank Shteamer
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58. Kool G Rap and DJ Polo, "Streets of New York" (1990)
The godfather of mafioso rap, New York's Kool G Rap can spin crime yarns with the vividness of a Scorsese film. The Corona, Queens, native details a crack-era NYC that's so gritty ("Dope fiends are leaning for morphine/The TV screens follow the homicide scenes"), it's unrecognizable to anyone whose introduction to the city came after Giuliani.—Jesse Serwer
57. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, "New York City Serenade" (1973)
Few of the songs the New Jersey workingman's bard penned about New York City are this diffuse—directness would come much, much later. But Springsteen's cinematically epic thunder, which would flower two years later on Born to Run, is evident in this wordy, string-enriched ballad from his early Waits-ish troubadour period. "Serenade" is part of an album filled with NYC nods, improbably issued on September 11.—Steve Smith
Play "New York City Serenade" on Spotify
56. Laura Nyro, "New York Tendaberry" (1969)
On the stark title track of Nyro's third album, the singer-songwriter offers a dark hymn of urban self-renewal. Accompanying herself on piano, she begins in a bleak space ("the past is a blue note inside me"), but builds to an impassioned swell: "Sidewalk and pigeon/You look like a city/But you feel like religion to me."—Adam Feldman
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Run D.M.C.'s Raising Hell tops our list of he essential New York album
Video: Watch Steely Dan playing The Royal Scam at the Beacon Theatre
55. Nina Hagen, "New York/N.Y." (1983)
With her glistening sheen of new-wave war paint and her fluorescent Tesla-coil mane—not to mention that voice, which could veer from a guttural growl to a faux-Wagnerian shriek in a heartbeat—the East Germany--born Nina Hagen's '80s output was probably a bit more pop-goth than pop-Gotham. But in 1983, this postdisco ode to NYC's downtown nightlife (sample lyric: "Shaking our hair to the disco rap/AM/PM, Pyramid, Roxy, Mudd Club, Danceteria") was close to inescapable on the city's underground dance floors.—Bruce Tantum
Play "New York/N.Y." on Spotify
54. Boogie Down Productions, "South Bronx" (1986)
MC Shan's "The Bridge" (see No. 53) irked KRS-One so much that he made two classic responses to it on Boogie Down Productions' debut album, Criminal Minded: "The Bridge Is Over" and "South Bronx." The latter, with its unforgettable call-and-response hook ("The South Bronx, the South-South Bronx!"), still stands as one of the borough's signature anthems more than a quarter of a century later.—Jesse Serwer
Play "South Bronx" on Spotify
53. MC Shan and Marley Marl, "The Bridge" (1986)
When MC Shan told the story of "how it all got started way back when," the Queensbridge rapper fired the opening salvo in what's known in hip-hop lore as the "Bridge Wars." After Boogie Down Productions leader KRS-One misinterpreted the song's sentiment as an affront to the Bronx's hip-hop sovereignty, a years-long volley of battle raps between BDP and Shan's Juice Crew followed. But no dis track could subdue the raw power of Shan's distorted delivery and Marley Marl's monstrous beat.—Jesse Serwer
52. The Magnetic Fields, "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" (1999)
This swinging love song by Stephin Merritt is about an ugly dude who has some fugly wheels—but hey, at least he's got wheels. The tone is pure Magnetic Fields: sweet tempo, self-deprecation and a dash of nervy wit that is unique to Merritt. He may have left us for Los Angeles, but the attitude on this track is all Gotham.—Sharon Steel
Play "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" on Spotify
51. Andrew W.K., "I Love NYC" (2001)
Look past the fist-pumping refrain and E Street Band--goes-techno overture and what you've got is a pop puzzler that could have sprung only from the mind of Andrew Wilkes Krier. One listen to that guitar-synth blast, and it's clear that W.K.'s love for his adopted hometown borders on religious zeal.—Hank Shteamer
Play "I Love NYC" on Spotify
Live photos: South Bronx Production's KRS-One and friends at S.O.B.'s
Download a mix of Marley Marl deejaying at Sutra
The Magnetic Fields's Stephin Merritt discusses working at TONY
Video: Andrew W.K. answers your questions (and shreds brains)
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Note: Pluto was demoted in 2006 from a Planet to Dwarf Planet.
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The Sun is the center of our solar system and celestial bodies such as the planets, their moons, the asteroid belt, comets and other objects revolve around the Sun (gravitationally bound to it). The Sun contains around 98% of all the material in the Solar System.
The boundaries of the solar system's known planets fit within a sphere 50 AU in radius. Beyond that is the Oort Cloud which extends to a distance of 100,000 AU. Beyond that, the nearest star system is Alpha Centauri.
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What is a Planet?
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) said that the definition for a planet is now officially known as "a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit." At the same time, new moons are also being discovered, both around existing planets and within these mysterious new worlds. Once the existence of a moon is confirmed and its orbit determined, the moon is given a final name by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the organization that assumed this task since 1919.
The planets all revolve around the Sun. Six of the eight planets are orbited by natural satellites (moons) after Earth's Moon and each of the outer planets is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles. All the planets except Earth are named after gods and goddesses from Greco-Roman mythology. The three dwarf planets are Pluto, the largest known Kuiper belt object; Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt and Eris, which lies in the scattered disc.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Thousands of donations for wildfire victims will soon find a new home in their yards.
A Pueblo nursery donated a mix of native grasses and perennial plants to victims of the Waldo Canyon and Black Forest fires Saturday.
Volunteers at Woodmen Valley Chapel helped hand them out.
Jim Rottenborn was among those picking up plants. He lost his home in the Waldo Canyon blaze last summer and said the new plants will help immensely.
"Since the fire, I've been drawing ideas of what the landscape would look like on dozens of sheets of paper and napkins," Rottenborn said. "This is a big step forward to realizing my landscaping plans."
Southwest Farms donated 6,000 plants. The owners said they were unable to continue providing water for them.
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Pomsets for message sequence charts
Katoen, J.P. and Lambert, L. (1998) Pomsets for message sequence charts. In: Formale Beschreibungstechniken fuer verteilte Systeme, 8. GI/ITG-Fachgespraech, 4. und 5. Juni 1998, Cottbus, Germany (pp. pp. 197-207).
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behaviour that is widely used by industry. Various extensions to MSCs have recently been standardised by the
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MSCs. In particular, we propose a linear-time partial-order semantics for this extension that is based on the notion
of partial-order multi-sets (pomsets, for short). We provide a compositional denotational semantics for hierarchical
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Have you introduced a major process change like one of the agile methods—e.g., Scrum, XP, etc.? Have you spent any time thinking about the existing rules and other structures in your organization that may need changing?
If not, you may run into trouble when agile teams bump into existing processes such as:
- Separate build and deployment processes
- Formal audit or compliance processes
- Other development teams using more traditional methods
- Centralized teams and their architecture, infrastructure, design, etc.
- Human resources-related policies and processes like career tracks, evaluation criteria, and more
Agile Is a Change for More than Just the Development Team
Agile methods are described as software development methods. Most introductory material, like the Agile Manifesto, describe how agile teams are organized and act but don't describe some of the things that happen outside the development teams.
When your teams start using new methods, they will act in a drastically different way from the norm, especially in an organization that has not otherwise changed. There is bound to be some conflict.
When you bump into existing processes or rules that seem to get in the way of your agile teams, you will have an important choice to make: ignore the rule, follow the rule, or try to change it.
Option 1: Ignoring the Rules—I Hope You Have Good Air Cover
This is perhaps the simplest option but one I do not generally recommend. If you have sufficient leadership support, you can be exempt from following the rules. Though this will allow you to make progress in the short term, it may cause big problems in the long term, such as:
- Breeding distrust between development teams and other groups or teams when they are excluded and ignored
- Making it easy to say that agile is just for [insert your generalization here—small, collocated, simple, unregulated, etc.] projects and doesn't scale
- Deferring big problems, potentially allowing them to fester and build up resistance to agile in the organization
- Not utilizing the greatest source for change potential—people!
Option 2: Following the Rules—Proliferating Local Optimization
The organization created rules and processes—surely for a good reason. Shouldn't we be good corporate citizens and follow them? In doing so, other groups and teams will take agile teams more seriously and will allow your teams to slip in alongside teams using other methods, nearly unnoticed. Depending on the rule we are dealing with, just following may be the right approach for the time being. However, before you choose to go along with the existing process or rule, consider the shortcomings of this approach:
- It introduces a high potential for local optimization—improving one part of the process while leaving other parts of the process in place. Though your teams may get more stuff done, delays will still exist in other parts of the process, possibly resulting in little or no overall improvement to the organization.
- It increases work for your teams to meet the requirements of the existing process or rule. You might find yourself creating artifacts or taking steps that don't add value or reduce risk just to follow the process or rule. (See the example below, which focuses on an existing audit process.)
- It gives the impression that agile is only about the development teams and has no implications for the rest of the organization.


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I am sick and tired Of seeing this everytime some one posts a photo on a thread. This site is not Ipad friendly by even the stretch of the imagination! Ever since they switched to the "new format" about as good as the New Flickr design. Please fix it! and No I will not use the app for the I pad it sucks more then my shop vac.
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Does the same thing on my laptop sometimes.
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Me too.
I can't even visit this site with my smartphone - half the stuff isn't visible. The "apps" suck too, I'd rather not read the site than suffer through using those.
If on a computer - user Chrome/Firefox and install Adblock to make those ads go away. That doesn't help me on my phone or tablet though.
We gotta get rid of the photos, 'n blog advertisement,..
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My adblock fixes the rest of the crap Yer seein',...
Everybody is Asked to post pictures, yet when they do, 'bout 1/2 of the text Disappears,....
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Well there are only two possibilities after this being screwed up for months. They (1)either don't know how to fix it or (2) they just don't care.
Whichever it is, it's killing this forum. The number of posters seems to be way down from before. It's a shame, because the mods do a great job here. And catch all the flack.
I quit two forums because of the ad screen movements, just saw one here- today. Seems like this site is getting worse..... why did you sell, Nathan.... lol. When I read, I don't expect to have to see movement in other areas, I watch television for that... or go outside. Gary
In my personal opinion, I think the admins are in over their heads. I think they bought this forum and are not well versed in the software. I am just an old floor installer and understand much of the software on the forum that I run. It isn't that difficult. Of course, the people who own the forum are a couple of techs who understand all of it. As I posted before, the owners of my forum gave posters the option of hiding all the ads on the right side 1/3 of the forum and the forum expanded back to full size. They say that hiding the ads does not affect the income from those ads. I don't understand why that option is not offered here.
It does the same on Chrome on my Google Nexus 7 tablet. There is something definitely screwed up with the CSS.
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Re: st: RE: kdensity with few (/aggregated) data points
Amy <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: RE: kdensity with few (/aggregated) data points
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:12:43 -0700 (PDT)
Thank you very much for your reply. To be sure I understand, -kdensity- and -twoway kdensity- only store the density for those 10 points and while the graphical display is different the stored values are the same so Stata considers them the same estimate even if they look different. If only 10 values are stored in either case, directly from the 10 points I have, there is no easy way, then, to sample from the density estimate so that I have imputed values for the 4th percentile, 6th percentile, etc.? It seems I cannot evaluate the density function at more points than I have in my sample. I realize that it would require a lot of strong assumptions to use a density function taken from so few points, but I believe this is regularly done in some (very narrow) areas.
Thank you very much.
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Nick Cox <email@example.com> wrote:
> From: Nick Cox <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> Subject: st: RE: kdensity with few (/aggregated) data points
> To: firstname.lastname@example.com
> Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 12:29 PM
> I wouldn't read anything of
> statistical substance into the differences.
> It looks as if -kdensity- and -twoway kdensity- have
> different graphical
> defaults for drawing the estimated density, one using
> connected lines
> and the other something smoother, in essence a cubic
> spline.
> I agree with your implied puzzlement: it's not obvious why
> that should
> be so, but the difference is in any case a matter of
> presentation.
> It's a real stretch to get a decent density function
> estimate out of any
> sample of the order of 10 observations, and no statistical
> magic (white
> or otherwise) can help much there. I think there is a
> marginal advantage
> to using -kdensity- directly and ignoring a histogram.
> Binning of about
> 10 points can hardly be anything but capricious and when
> you have that
> few there is no reason not to show all the raw data in
> addition to any
> density estimate.
> Nick
> firstname.lastname@example.com
> Amy
> I just thought to re-phrase my question. I've noticed that
> if I have
> very few data points (e.g. 10) then kdensity gives me
> something jagged
> even if I specify a Gaussian kernel (regardless of the
> bandwidth). If
> the reason I have so few data points is because I have
> aggregate data,
> e.g. data for each decile of a population, is there any way
> to make this
> smoother? Why is it that histogram X, bin(10) kdensity
> kdenopts(gauss)
> will give me something that looks smoother?
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Posted by Aurora University on July 17, 2014
Since 1962, Phillips Library has served Aurora University students with their research and educational needs. According to Amy Schlumpf Manion, Information Services Librarian, steps taken in previous years have enabled the library to better connect students to necessary information.
ŌĆ£We have an online chat system that weŌĆÖve been using for several years now thatŌĆÖs grown tremendously in popularity,ŌĆØ said Manion. ŌĆ£We help a lot of students that way.ŌĆØ
The feature is available on the Aurora University website and within the online classroom portal. For traditional and online students, direct help from a librarian is available with the simple click of a button.
ŌĆ£The Ask-a-Librarian service from Phillips Library is so helpful,ŌĆØ says Alyssia Evans, a senior with a major in special education. "With just a click you can be connected to a librarian who can answer questions and even help with in-depth research. I used the live chat the last time I was working on a paper and the librarian who was online helped me determine the best keywords to use and showed me how to use the databases. As a result I was able to locate the best sources on my topic for my paper.ŌĆØ
However, the service is more than an online chat. Thanks to an integrated program, librarians are able to supplement the chat with helpful visuals. ŌĆ£When weŌĆÖre helping students with the chat, in addition to just typing in answers to them or suggestions about where they could find appropriate research, we can actually take a screen capture of a pageŌĆöwhat weŌĆÖre looking at on our screens,ŌĆØ said Manion. ŌĆ£On the fly we can draw on it with arrows and boxes, highlight things and put messages, and then send that back to the student.ŌĆØ
Students are often asked to watch a short tutorial video at the start of the chat to help them learn how to research topics efficiently. These One Minute Mentor videos demonstrate how to locate a scholarly journal or topic.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖll say ŌĆśWatch this short video tutorial. While youŌĆÖre doing that IŌĆÖll do a sample search and share a screen cast of my results with you,ŌĆÖŌĆØ said Manion. ŌĆ£The thing we like about sharing the screen casts with students rather than just linking them up with the results is because weŌĆÖre trying to teach students how to do the research, not to do the research for them.ŌĆØ
Between the five librarians, the online chat function is active 81 hours a week. When it is not online, students can submit questions offline and browse previous questions and answers.
The chat feature has quickly grown in popularity. From May 2013 to March 2014, 1,520 unique chats have taken place on the system. Including phone calls and face-to-face questions, approximately 24 percent of total requests at Phillips Library arrive via the online chat feature.
It has even become a replacement for some face-to-face conversations. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs funny because weŌĆÖll occasionally have students chatting with us [online] and we realize that they are actually in the library chatting with us,ŌĆØ said Manion. ŌĆ£TheyŌĆÖre in another part of the library and theyŌĆÖd rather chat with us from the computer than come up to the desk.ŌĆØ
Regardless of the studentŌĆÖs location, the assistance students receive is appreciated.
ŌĆ£They tend to be so grateful for the help,ŌĆØ said Manion. ŌĆ£I laugh sometimes at how much gratitude they express to me that you would think is more deserving to people in other professions. I have students say to me ŌĆśOh my gosh, you saved my life,ŌĆÖ and I laugh because IŌĆÖm not literally saving their lives. I really enjoy helping them.ŌĆØ
All students are able to receive personalized help even if they are not asking a question relevant to the library. In some cases, students are looking for writing assistance or have questions about transfer credits. Similar to transferring a phone call, the librarian can transfer the student to the appropriate center.
While Phillips Library has taken several steps to enhance available resources to students, Manion mentioned that the library is looking into other improvements. One of those options is the ability to instruct students in a web conference environment. Additionally, since librarians are unable to see the studentŌĆÖs screen in an online chat, a program could be used to view and possibly control a studentŌĆÖs computer in order to guide them through the research process.
In the meantime, the library is preparing to add materials to its collection. It has announced plans to purchase the PBS Video Collection, a database of 440 titles, to improve its selection of media resources. Currently, the library has seven databases that provide nearly 2,000 hours of academic streaming digital video. Students also have access to more than 114,000 ebooks and more than 35,000 academic journal titles.
All of these resources combine to be particularly helpful for online students across the country without physical access to Phillips Library. Since the beginning of 2013, Aurora University Online has been offering many of its traditional programs as online degree options, with 14 total undergraduate and graduate programs.
For Manion, the resources assist her in what she loves most about her position. ŌĆ£I love working one-on-one with students,ŌĆØ said Manion. ŌĆ£ThatŌĆÖs my favorite thing to do.ŌĆØ