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As I said earlier in the blog, I visited Green Discovery in Luang Prabang to see what I could do with them in Pakse. I then visited them in Pakse to see if there were open bookings for some activities. This is low season in Laos right now because of all the rain that is pouring on us... So there's not much planned ! The thing is, with Green Discovery, you can go on a trip with them on your own, but it's very expensive. So I gave him some options of trips I'd like to take, saying I would not go if he couldn't find at least two other people.
The good news is... He called me the same evening to say he had found two other people for the Tree Top Experience (www.treetoplaos.com). I said I'd go for it. Departure planned Wednesday morning. What to take with you miss ? Clothes to get wet, clothes to be dry in the evening, lamp, mosquito repellent, sunscreen. Check, check, check.
On Wednesday morning, a very cute young man picks me up from my now favorite breakfast place (Bolaven Cafe). His name is Home and he'll be our tour leader for three days. He's 23 and he's going to prove himself absolutely fantastic throughout the trip. Home, you are the man !
We meet the rest of the people at Green Discovery. Three people are joining the trip : a young Dutch couple (Jasper and Anna) and a Polish guy, Piotr. There is also Phan (pronounce Pan) who is a trainee guide and who will prove equally adorable as Home, although, of course, less experienced.
At around 9 am, we hit the road. There is a one hour drive on the main asphalt road followed by a 40-minute dirt road to the village. When we get there we meet our tree top local guides from the village : Ton and Zom (whom I will soon rename Bruce Lee and I am afraid this new nickname will stay with him for ever and ever now...)
They give us our equipment : harness, pulley, the stuff that I don't know the name of (carabiner linked to big elastic ropes, attached to the harness) and explain to us how to wear it. And off we go. It's around 11:00 am.
The first stage is smooth : a nice 30 minute hike in the countryside from the village to reach the jungle. There is no brutal transition : the coffee plantations slowly become more crowded with other kinds of trees and suddenly the jungle is here or let's rather say we are in it. As soon as we departed, they warned us about leeches. They do not have water leeches but land ones, small leeches but quick and tenacious :-) I don't bother too much and start walking. Hahaha. Poor me.
After we reach the jungle, we begin trekking in it, for more or less an hour. Here the difficulties start - a bit - for me. It's not a smooth mostly flat walk through the plantations anymore. Now we are talking steep, wet and narrow paths inside the jungle, going above fallen trees, avoiding roots and branches (we wear a helmet and very soon I knew why...).
Then we stop for lunch by a lovely river and around an open area. Lovely. I take out my sandals because both my sandals and my feet are already full of mud and... HAAAAAA ! I have three leeches on me. Two on my right foot (including a HUGE one, even the guides go "wow, big one !") and one on my left leg, a bit above the ankle. YUK ! The immediate reflex is to take them out with your hands but then you think and remember you shouldn't do that... Home takes mosquito repellent and sprays them. Immediately they let go, fall down (and die) and loads of blood start to pour from the wound. I am not joking : loads of blood. And it won't stop dripping for two hours (on the big one). Indeed, leeches inject an anti-coagulant chemical into you so that the blood doesn't stop running... Yummy. Have a nice lunch now everyone :-) I still cannot believe that you actually feel NOTHING. Not when they jump on you, not when they bite and not when they eat you alive. You feel absolutely nothing ! Not even an itch. Oh well. Leeches will soon be the least of my concerns.
Indeed, right after lunch we start walking again. Another two hour hike through the jungle maze and, when I am already starting to suffer (just a bit), I can see our local guides walking in poor condition "converse" shoes and jump all over like I am walking a Paris street, while we, foreigners, have those anti-slippery shoes with which we still slip... Yeah, I know, they were born here, but still !!
After that nice afternoon walk (!!!) - keep in mind I am as fit as a bear in captivity after hibernation, maybe even less - we reach our first zipline (tyrolienne). There I think : "Nadege, why the hell did you pick this trip ? Are you crazy ??". Even though the first zipline is tiny (20 meters long), I am shitting myself. Basically you attach your pulley to the cable and throw yourself into the air. Then you zip along the cable to the other platform... I know those cable are super solid, I know the pulley and your harness are designed to carry up to 3 tons. But still. It's the same kind of stupid thing as bungee jumping or skydiving that I said I would never never ever do, even if you paid me... So why am I here ? Don't ask me, I don't know. I didn't think forward when I booked. That's it.
First zipline then. I am letting everyone go before me... I am the last to leave, before the last guide, Home, who is here to reassure me and tell me how easy and fun it is. And you know what ? It actually is. Went like a dream.
Second zipline right after, 80m. Great. Third, fourth, fifth, sixth ! 250m ! Wow ! And you don't know what we zip through : in front of giant and magnificent waterfalls surrounded by the amazing jungle, view of the Mekong far away. Wow, wow, wow ! Not even in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would be so excited, smiling, HAPPY to be in such a wet, tough environment and loving every second of it ! I am doing all of this for the first time in my life and it is fantastic !
Oh. Did I mention the abseiling (descente en rappel) ? No, I didn't think so. Indeed, some of the platforms are high up in the trees and we need to get down with abseiling... Scaryyyyyyy ! That's the scariest part for me, even though it's in no way real abseiling since they basically get you down there. They handle the ropes not you. Two guides down and two up with you. They do abseiling, not you :-) but it is still scary to know you are going down 30 meters along a rope and you control nothing.
After 8 ziplines we reach camp. Now wow again. The camp is located near this huge waterfall (from which they get electricity), everything is built in the trees, from the trees. A bit of furniture and a FRIDGE have been brought by the same guys who are accompanying us, by foot. Yes. Now you understand the price of the trip better (I paid 240 USD for three days. It's worth every dime). In the middle of the main building, a fireplace. Along the main building, the waterfall view. Wow. I am thrilled. They show us our tree houses. Yes. We sleep in tree houses, like Tarzan. And you know what ? There are TOILETS in the houses. And you know something else ? You cannot climb in the tree, you take a small zipline to get there :-)))) The showers are in another location, shared by everyone.
We are all as dirty as it gets so we take showers, only for me to notice that my trousers are full of blood at thigh level on the right leg... Yup, a leech managed to reach my upper thigh and had a fest on my blood without me noticing. When it had enough, it left and I bled, again without noticing, my trousers already being wet with mud and water... Welcome to the jungle ! :-)
Water is cold in the showers... It comes directly from the waterfall ! But it feels great and I am feeling a bit sore, a bit everywhere... Oh well.
We all end up around the fire, commenting this first day and soon after our dinner is ready. We have a delicious meal. The surroundings are magic : a big waterfall very close to us which creates not only noise but also a constant cloud of moist, the fire in the middle of the room, some lights and therefore the visit of all kinds of insects :-))) ooh, now I see the faces of some of you... Yes, spiders, giant night butterflies, crickets, millipedes, you name it !
At around 9 pm, we all go to bed, slightly tired. I share a treehouse with Piotr. We have a simple mattress (but quite Ok actually !) on the floor, a sleeping bag (you need it, it's not that hot close to the waterfall...) and a mosquito net (you also need it... And not so much for the mosquitoes... Many other insects like to visit, including some very nice meaty spiders). We fall asleep quite rapidly...
In the morning, the first thing I notice is... My body hurts everywhere !! Ouch ! How am I going to hike and zipline today ?? And then the first thing I need to do is actually jump into my harness to zipline to camp... Oh my god. I can tell you that doing this first thing in the morning is not that obvious. I remember clearly saying "I am way too old for that shit !!"... But I still did it.
Good breakfast and off we go, despite my muscles screaming. I was offered the relax option for the day, which I took, unlike my three other friends. They went for the full Monty : three hours of additional trekking when I would rather relax by another waterfall. I am glad I did. The day was difficult for me. And this is an understatement : it was VERY difficult. We walked for an hour in the jungle (meaning ups and downs all the time) before we reached the first zipline. Then a second, if I remember well and... The biggest zipline in South East Asia : 450 meters ! It was awesome !!! After all this, when my friends went hiking up and down in the jungle again, I headed for the waterfall, which was still at least half an hour away. Bear in mind it did not stop raining for the whole day ! By that stage, I was completely soaked. When we reached the waterfall, we took cover under a huge rock and waited... Waited... Waited. I couldn't even go swimming because the waterfall was too strong, way too strong !
We had lunch there... Oh yes, I loved this : when Phan asked me if we should eat, I saw the guys were just freezing cold and hungry (it was 20 something so obviously very cold for Lao people, hehehe). So when I said yes (I was not hungry at all...), he said something to Bruce Lee who got up and headed for the jungle. Before i could realize what he was going to do, I saw him pick up some big banana leaves ! Yes ! He was actually picking up the tablecloth :-))) during that picnic I managed to taste this edible furnace that I had seen on the markets in Laos. It's excellent ! I had seen Bruce Lee pick some up I the jungle on one of my numerous breaks to catch my breath... I had no idea this was going to be part of our lunch :-)
After an hour or so, we begin our way back to the camp. And there, honestly, I was completely exhausted. It took us two and a half hours to get back. At some stage I sat down in the jungle and started crying : I could not go any further. My two Lao guys were looking at me with such sad faces ! They knew I did what I could, they knew I was completely dead and there was nothing they could do for me. And there it hit me : what am I going to do ? Sleep here ? No Nadege, you don't have a choice... You need to get back to camp ! THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE. Wow. So i got up. One step after the other. Again. One more. I am screaming inside myself : IT IS RIDICULOUS HOW UNFIT YOU ARE ! SHAME ON YOU ! I was furious after myself. I could not believe that I was actually suffering that much and at the same time I could not believe that I was still walking. At that stage, every step was painful. Painful for my body first, clearly, I could not feel my legs, they were shaking with exhaustion, I was soaked, the rain would not stop. But also so painful for my mind. An internal fight was going on. A part of me was shouting at the other, insulting it, telling it how ridiculous I was, how ashamed of myself I should be, how much of a wake up call that was, how all this physical condition needed to change. And it went on like this, step after step, shaking like a leaf, soaking wet.
I reached camp, changed my clothes and sat by the fire. At that stage, seating and getting up is excruciating. Walking brings tears to my eyes, lifting my arms is impossible and my lower back hurts like hell. After a good shower, an equally good dinner and a cigarette, I go to bed at ... 7 pm !! Taking this last zipline to go to the treehouse and the action of getting into my sleeping bag actually makes me cry it hurts so much. Now I am really worried. The thing is, I don't know if I will be able to WALK the next day... And the problem is... There is no other way out of this jungle than by walking. And the program of the next day is quite heavy. I try and sleep. And I do. Until 8 the next morning... The only thing is I woke up around 20 times in the night : every time I moved, the pain of the movement woke me up...
The next morning, getting out of bed makes me believe I am in hell. I can barely walk. Getting on the zipline hurts my back, my legs and my arms. When I reach camp for breakfast, I am walking like a zombie. Despite this, I can still walk and therefore I am less in a panic than the night before. I get dressed, in my dirty clothes I have been already wearing for two days and which are barely dry from the day before... Imagine the smell :-)
At around 10, we leave. My guides, who are really feeling sorry for me, carry my backpack ! And there we go again : one hour of hiking up in the steep path in the jungle. My legs start shaking again after 5 minutes. I have to stop every 2 minutes to let them relax a bit. Bruce Lee and Phan are so patient, so lovely, so smiling and supportive, it's amazing. How many times did i hear "Nanou ? You want to relax for a minute ? Take your time !". How many times did i actually say : "Kop Tchai lay lay" (thank you very much) for their help only to hear back, with a beautiful smile "Bo peniang !". They held my hands to help me every step of the way. Honestly, had this been in Vietnam, they would have left me there or just laughed at me. In Laos, those people are the nicest I have met so far. Absolutely adorable, genuinely caring. Amazing.
After this steep walk, we get to... the Via Ferrata. Check google to find out what is is. So yes, I climbed against that huge rock, going up around 30 meters, shit scared but managing... Once up there, I fell into tears. Tears of exhaustion. Tears of joy too : I did it !! I know i still have another three hours of walking to do but this was my biggest fear. Slowly, little by little, step by step, I eventually made it back to the village where the minivan was waiting for us. I arrived last, about 10 minutes after the main group and they welcomed me with applause. Jasper told me that he was equally worried the night before, afraid I might not be able to do it, considering the state of fatigue I was in.
In the minivan I fell asleep nearly immediately. My body was pain personified. I was exhausted but happy, so happy ! I still cannot believe I did it ! Again, this would be, for some of you, a nice activity for three days, not suffering much. For me, it was the most difficult expedition of my life.
Wake up call. I have to get fit. I have to do some sports and lose some weight. No more excuses... I went beyond my limits, fighting my perverse mind which was feeding me with discouragement all the way. The fact that I couldn't go back or just give up was key to succeeding this. Honestly, if I could have stopped, I would have. But now I am so happy I did it...
And again, I am so grateful towards the whole Lao team. These people are amazing. Sweet as it gets, always smiling, making sure you are having a great time. When i ran out of cigarettes, one of them actually gave me a pack. He wouldn't hear anything about money... He looked even a bit vexed that I asked him how much it was ! I am going to miss these people.
I booked myself into a very nice hotel where I could get a hot bath. I went to bed early, appreciating the soft sheets, the comfort of the room. Wow. What an experience. Next is the purchase of real hiking shoes and looking for nice treks to do in Thailand. Thanks to Kami I have some leads... More soon !
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wouaouhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!! Bravo ma belle, tu connais la célèbre phrase "ce qui compte c'est de faire un pas, encore un pas ..." et bien tu l'as vécu !!
Pour ma part, le vivre par procuration à travers toi me suffit AMPLEMENT !!!!
Beurk,beurk,beurk !!!! c'est peut-être grandiose, sublime, renversant, inoubliable ...but not for me !!!
Savais tu qu'on a très longtemps utilisé les sangsues en médecine en France ... et qu'il semblerait qu'on y revienne !!!
Tu ne parles pas de serpents ???? n'y en avait-il pas ou bien me ménages-tu (j'ai déjà eu bien des sueurs froides en te lisant !)
En tous les cas BRAVO TU AS ETE AU BOUT DE TOI MEME ET MEME AU DELA !!!!!
@ Ludo : yup ! My own "only-three-day" Dakar :-) so proud of myself !!
@ MC : oui, je comprends ma Cot Cot. Clairement pas pour toi :-) ni pour beaucoup de mes amis d'ailleurs !! Pas de serpents vraiment... Anna en a vu un mais tu sais, les animaux ne viennent pas à notre rencontre... Ils préfèrent nous fuir, just in case ! Et tant mieux ! Home m'en a montré un minuscule (genre même pas 10 cm) sur le chemin du retour dans les plantations de café. Il est mortel... Donc c'est vraiment pas les plus gros qui sont les plus dangereux ! Et encore oui pour les sangsues : au Laos aussi, quand ils se coupent, ils mettent une sangsue sur la plaie et elle la nettoie. Cela permet de cicatriser beaucoup plus vite ! Comme quoi, au final, je prefere les sangsues aux moustiques. Au moins celles-ci sont utiles parfois ! Et enfin oui, le un pas, encore un pas, est exactement ce que j'ai vécu. Je suis, avec mon bouquin, en quête du moment présent. Ceci faisait partie des travaux pratiques ! Je mets au défi quiconque, dans mon état de fatigue, de penser à autre chose qu'à l'instant. Penser à autre chose dans ces moments-là est juste dangereux ! Ton attention doit être là où tu poses ton pied et ce que tu commandes à ton muscle. Les réflexes n'existent plus, ou plutôt, disons qu'ils ne sont plus dignes de confiance... Dur dur ! Mais ultra fière de moi !
Juste un mot : BRAVO. Sois sure que cette expérience t'apportera un gros plus dans tes prochaines fonctions, mais je plains tes futurs subordonnés qui ne seront pas capables (ou pas envie) de se dépasser pour atteindre un objectif. Méfies toi, aller à ses limites et les dépasser n'est pas à la portée de n"importe qui. C'est aussi pour cela que je t'aime et t'admire. Bisous.


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text: I am trying to find info on what rounds would be best for me to carry that would fit two categories 1. being extremley lightweight and 2. being effective. I cannot find anything on the internet and I am new to Concealed carry. Any information would help. I carry a XD 45 ACP 4inch.


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When Weaver Ants Cut
Joy Harjo is a poet and performer who has
written seven books of poetry, including How
We Became Human and She Had Some Horses.
She is known for drawing together the brutalities
of contemporary reservation life with the beauty
and sensibility of Native American culture
and mythology.
I love the dance of every one helping.
Each ant chews and chews a bit of juicyleaf
and stands on his back four legs to raise
the leaf shape up high above his head.
The congo line—a honey shimmer of bodies
rushing to bring the cut leaf home. For twelve
years, the ruler of Garwara, India was a jackal.
All the laughing in that town cannot
compare to what you have brought
into my home: a filament of light inside
a dark jellyfish bell. It's this dance of ants
down a tree, around a stubborn frog—I want
to dance with you—how brave the line,
how tiny the step, a hundred green valentines.
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Looking to upgrade my sound system and I've been doing the Big 3 upgrade (upgrade engine ground, battery ground, and alternator power wire). I've been following this DIY made for a VR6, and I got the 2 ground wires done.. but I'm wondering where the bolt for the alternator is at.
I found this from looking at the top of the engine, is this what I want?
Thanks a bunch.


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LaHood: Avoid Across-the-Board Cuts after Supercommittee Failure
The congressional supercommittee officially tossed in the towel on Monday afternoon. That's after the six Democrats and six Republicans failed to get close to any agreement on how to achieve at least $1.2 trillion in debt reduction over the next ten years.
Now Washington confronts what's known as the "sequester": $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts that take effect January 2013. Half the cuts come from defense, and hawkish lawmakers are already pledging to undo those. But the other half come from across-the-board cuts to discretionary programs, including transportation. On Monday evening, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood issued the following statement:
"When times are tough, Americans have always come together to accomplish big things. It's disappointing that some in Congress haven't been willing to do the same. Because the supercommittee failed to reach an agreement, we now face across-the-board cuts to programs that are critical to rebuilding our crumbling transportation infrastructure and putting Americans back to work."
President Obama pledged Monday to veto any attempt by Congress to undo the cuts, absent a broader deal on the debt.
Another casualty of the supercommittee failure was President Obama's jobs package. Democrats had hoped to attach significant infrastructure spending to the committee's end product. LaHood had this to say in his statement:
"The American people want common sense, bipartisan solutions that take a balanced approach to reducing the deficit while protecting critical transportation investments that create jobs and allow our economy to grow. When Congress comes back next month, I urge them to set aside politics and get to work on a bipartisan plan that will allow us to live within our means, while also meeting our responsibility to rebuild America's critical transportation infrastructure."
A White House official said Monday evening that Democrats would have a "laser" focus on enacting parts of the president's jobs plan between now and the end of the year. Presumably that will mean a return to infrastructure policy and attacking Republicans over their unwillingness to pass more stimulus.
House Republicans have unveiled their own 5-year transportation bill, funding the Highway Trust Fund to the tune of $130 billion and making streamlining reforms to infrastructure grants and loans. House Speaker John Boehner says he would like to see the bill pass before the end of the year.


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At the end of August I had a breast reduction on one breast because they were a couple cup sizes difference. Its almost January now and they are still uneven to the point i still have to wear a silicone cup in my bra.. are they ever going to even out? do i have to get another surgery because it was so painful.
Had a Breast Reduction and Theyre Still Uneven?
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Breast Reduction and Asymmetry?
Thank you for the question.
Based on your description and the level of concern you have with the existing breast asymmetry, revisionary surgery will likely be necessary. You may find that this procedure is less extensive and "painful" then the initial breast reduction surgery.
Best wishes.
Web reference: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_breastreduction.htm
Asymmetry after reduction
Likely, you are looking at the final size your breasts will be. To acheive symmetry, it sounds as though you may need a revision of your breast reduction (some more tissue removed). This can sometimes be done in an office setting using liposuction if there is not a considerable difference.
Breast asymmetry
Without seeing photos it is hard to say, but if you had a reduction on one side only and you feel that they are still uneven, you may need to wait a bit longer to see how they compare. They most likely will never be exactly the same. Sometimes a touch-up with liposuction may be done to adjust the volume difference.
Web reference: http://www.stevenwallachmd.com
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Breast reduction
This is a tough problem . Absolute symmetry is very difficult to achieve. If your surgery was in August, I would assume that most of the swelling is gone, and your result is close to what it will be over the long term. The corrective options vary with the degree of assymetry. If you post a pic, it would help with advice. Sometimes, something as simple as liposuction will lead to better symmetry. Other times, surgery is required.
Good luck!!
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space weather
If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, look up at the sky tonight for a spectacular light show. Two coronal mass ejections from the Sun on March 15 hit the Earth Tuesday, generating a severe geomagnetic storm. The storm has caused an Aurora Borealis, or the northern lights, but also threatens to disrupt GPS satellites and electrical grids. Continue reading
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Poll: No clear "Pope Francis effect" among U.S. Catholics
In the United States, home to the world's fourth-largest Catholic population, the pope appears to be well-liked by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, rated favorably by 79% of Catholics and 58% of the general public.
But has the pope's popularity produced a Catholic resurgence in the U.S., where 10% of adults are former Catholics? Not so far, at least in terms of the share of Americans who identify as such, or the share of those who report attending Mass weekly.MassAttendance
A new analysis of pooled Pew Research surveys conducted between Francis' election in March and the end of October this year finds that the percentage of Americans who identify as Catholics has remained the same – 22% — as it was during the corresponding seven-month period in 2012. In fact, our polls going back to 2007 show Catholic identification in the U.S. has held stable, fluctuating only between 22% and 23%.
So they aren't going socialist and soft on Islam? Good.
Akzed on November 27, 2013 at 6:14 PM
What things would that be? A resurgence of stoning practices? ;-)SauerKraut537 on November 27, 2013 at 4:50 PM
I don't recall the church ever stoning people, even centuries ago. But recall your coreligionists were herding people into slave labor camps in living memory.
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"Sarah Edgington" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
st: Heckprob estimation question
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:53:54 -0800
Hello all,
I am trying to estimate probit models with heckman selection using the
heckprob command (using Stata/SE 10.1 for windows). I first noticed a
problem when I ran the same model twice and noted that Stata performed a
different number of iterations when fitting the models. Since then I've run
the models a number of times with the trace and showstep options on and
confirmed that the iterations are slightly different each time. In general,
the resulting coefficient and standard error estimates all seem to be
approximately the same for each run (differences are in the fourth decimal
place when there are differences). The fact that I'm not getting precisely
the same results each time is disconcerting but I would be less worried
about it were it not for the fact that sometimes the models do not converge
at all within a reasonable time frame. The iterations for the first three
estimations steps--fitting probit model, fitting selection model, and
fitting starting values--are always the same. It's when it gets to fitting
the full model that the runs start to diverge.
I do have some independent variables that I am including in the main model
but not the selection model because they are only observed for the selected
population. However, I've read a number of examples of the probit model
with heckman selection that don't include the same set of covariates in the
selection model leading me to believe that this strategy is not inherently
flawed. Moreover, I seem to have the same estimation problem even if I
leave out entirely the explanatory variables that are only observed for the
selected population (thus running a model where the only variable that
differs between the selection model and the main model is the variable we're
using to identify the selection model).
I tried setting the seed but this doesn't seem to change the behavior.
Running the same model with the same seed set still results in different
iterations. I'm now really worried since this suggests a) I have no way of
perfectly replicating my own results and b) there is something fundamental
about the way these models work that I clearly do not understand.
Has anyone seen this before? Is this a sign of some underlying problem with
the data or the model? If so, does anyone have any thoughts on how to
pinpoint what exactly is causing the problem?
-Sarah Edgington
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Modern Woodmen Park to host L.L. Registration
River Bandits will also offer exclusive deal on 2013 Kids Club memberships for youth 14 and under
By Marco LaNave / Quad Cities River Bandits | February 7, 2013 5:06 AM ET
For the fifth consecutive year, the Quad Cities River Bandits will host Davenport Little League baseball and softball registration indoors at Modern Woodmen Park. On Saturday, Feb. 16, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Little Leaguers from throughout the Davenport area will visit the ballpark to register for their upcoming season.
By centralizing the registration at Modern Woodmen Park, this event incorporates all the Davenport Little Leagues, regardless of age or level, into one central location and has greatly assisted organizers in streamlining the registration process the last four years.
"The Modern Woodmen Park experience is all about families having a great time and creating memories that last a lifetime," said River Bandits owner Dave Heller. "Both the kids and parents have loved incorporating Modern Woodmen Park and professional baseball into the Davenport Little Leagues, and as we continue our support of the Little League programs and all youth sports in the Quad Cities community, we welcome these young athletes and their families."
All the local leagues - including the North, Northwest, East, Southeast, West Softball, Emeis, East Softball, and Challenger Leagues - will hold registration on Feb. 16. Registration is required even if the child has previously played. At least one parent or legal guardian must be present with proof of residence and an original or state-certified copy of the child's birth certificate, which will be returned at the registration. Also, the leagues require a completed registration form, medical release form, and the fee for registration.
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Questions about the Feb. 16 registration can be directed to Shane Huff in the River Bandits front office at 563-324-3000.
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The men of the Alamo claim seats of honor in the hall of Texas heroes. If Texans respect the memory of Dickinson and Bonham, they revere those of Travis, Crockett, and Bowie. Indeed, the Alamo and its defenders have passed into American folklore, assuming the role of a cultural archetype. All who even remotely connected with the epic battle have basked in its glory.
All, it seems, except Lieutenant Colonel James Clinton Neill. When remembered at all, historians have tended to judge him harshly. A picture emerges of a commander overwhelmed by circumstance and events, a nobody dominated by giants, a nonentity more to be pitied than condemned. Jack Patton and John Rosenfield Jr.'s Texas History Movies has Neill asking to be relieved and shows his caricature proclaiming in disgust: "I'm leaving. We can't hold off the Mexicans with this outfit."With smug condescension, popular writer Walter Lord labeled Neill, "conscientious but unimaginative" and a "good second-rater." Professor Ben Procter supported that view by simply parroting Lord. Travis biographer Martha Anne Turner, also citing Lord as her source, wrote "for all of his limitations" the Alamo defenders were sorry to see Neill leave the command to Travis. She fails to indicate, however, just what those limitations were. Historian Tom W. Gläser intoned that Neill felt "overshadowed," inferring that once Travis Crockett, and Bowie arrived on the scene, the weak and indifferent Neill invented an excuse to leave his command to "strong characters." Neill is thus depicted as an amateur of trifling importance and modest ability, who at the first opportunity surrendered his post to "abler, more imaginative leaders."
Contemporaries had a vastly different opinion of the man. D. C. Barrett, a neighbor, considered Neill "very suitable, and [in] every way qualified" for field rank in the Texian army. "He is a gentleman," he continued, "high in the esteem of his fellow citizensbrave and patrioticHe responded to the first call of his country, when danger & invasion threatened us." John Holland Jenkins, a young soldier who served under him, testified that Neill's "bravery and experience won him a hearty welcome in our midst." Praising Neill's diversionary attack during the storming of Béxar, General Edward Burleson reported it had been "effected to my entire satisfaction." One of Neill's officers clearly valued his commander's praise. "Colo[.] Neill," he boasted to his family, "thinks a great deal of my judgment and consults me about a number of the proceedings before he issues an order." Obviously, if he had not admired Neill he would not have considered his approval noteworthy. Early Texas historians were also kinder. Henry Stuart Foote wrote of the "gallant Colonel Neill." When the views of modern historians and those who actually knew the man are at such variance, one is forced to reappraise his career.
Even before the shooting began, his associates considered Neill a community stalwart. In 1831 he had traveled from Alabama with his wife and three children, to sink his roots in the fertile soil of present Milam County. By 1833 his neighbors held him in sufficient esteem to elect him to the convention meeting in San Felipe called to discuss grievances against the Mexican government. By 1834 he had taken up residence in Mina (modern Bastrop), a rough-hewn frontier settlement on the banks of the Colorado River. He had seen extensive service against the Redstick faction of the Creek tribe during the War of 1812. He enlisted on September 20, 1814, and service records indicate he mustered out on April 10, 1815. During that period he commanded a company in Major William Woodfolk's Battalion of Tennessee Militia Infantry. John Henry Brown, Texas historian and fellow ranger, identified Neill as "a tired old soldier of the Indian wars of the United States." Jenkins asserted Neill "already bore the scars of wounds received in service under General [Andrew] Jackson in 1812he was wounded in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend." Although he commanded a company of militia infantry, he apparently gained some understanding of cannon, for on September 28, 1835, Neill entered the Texian militia as an artillery captain.
When the centralist troops of Antonio López de Santa Anna entered the province in summer of 1835, Neill stood ready to oppose them. Conflict escalated to combat when a detachment of centralist dragoons attempted to retrieve an old Spanish six-pound cannon from the Anglo-Celtic settlers of Gonzales. Texians determined not to hand over the field piece and summoned help from the surrounding settlements. Local militiamen flocked to the aid of their beleaguered neighbors. Predictably, J. C. Neill was among them. On October 2, 1835, John H. Moore led a force of some 160 Texians in an attack on the dragoons. Lieutenant Francisco de Castañeda, the commander of the centralist contingent, withdrew to a nearby rise and requested a parley. Moore and Castañeda met between the lines, but it soon became apparent that the time for talk had passed. A make-shift rebel banner succinctly expressed prevailing sentiment: the contested cannon perched above a defiant challenge to "COME AND TAKE IT." As Moore returned to his lines, he shouted the command to fire.
Neill discharged the same cannon the dragoons had hoped to acquire. That shot ignited the Texas Revolution. At least two sources confirm that Neill personally touched off the "Come and Take It" cannon. "It is not recorded," stated John Holland Jenkins, "but it is nevertheless a fact the Colonel Neill fired the first gun for Texas at the beginning of the revolutionthe famous little brass cannon at Gonzales." Extolling Neill's performance at Gonzales, D. C. Barrett wrote Sam Houston: "He was the first in camp whose experience was sufficient to mount & point a cannon at the enemies of Texas, and of liberty in our land."
Neill and the cannon joined General Stephen F. Austin's "Army of the People" on its march from Gonzales to San Antonio de Béxar. To position himself between the centralist garrison of General Mart'n Perfecto de Cos and reinforcements from the Mexican interior, Austin ordered a sweep south of the town. He then drove up the San Antonio River from his headquarters at Mission Espada. On October 28, 1835, a Texian reconnaissance led by James Bowie and James W. Fannin, Jr. defeated a superior enemy force near the Mission Concepci—n. After methodically picking off its gunners, Texians captured an isolated centralist field piece. Neill could now oversee a battery of two rebel cannon. Soon afterward, a detachment of New Orleans Grays arrived with two pieces of ordnance, which were placed in battery west of the old Alamo mission, which the centralists used for a cavalry post. Lack of ammunition was a constant frustration for Neill's gunners, but they retrieved the round shot the enemy fired at them, loaded it in their own artillery, and returned it with their compliments. Despite their efforts, the artillery fire accomplished "little more than the trouble and expense of making a great noise." Cannon alone could not root Cos's troops out of Béxar. That would require an infantry assault.
Neill realized that the Texians needed carefully planned artillery support to storm Béxar. But planningcareful or otherwisewas not a Texian trait. Confusion was. Edward Burleson had replaced General Austin, who had been recalled to serve as an agent to the United States. Burleson, a veteran frontiersman and Indian fighter, wished to assault the town, but was overruled by the unanimous vote of his officers. Nothing remained but to order a withdrawal. Colonel Ben Milam, disgusted with the decision to abandon the siege, appealed directly to the soldiers. "Who will go with old Ben Milam in to San Antonio?" he challenged. Some three hundred rebels responded. Milam understood that if his infantrymen were to achieve the necessary surprise, they would have to distract the centralists.
He called on Neill and his artillerymen. In the early morning darkness of December 5, 1835, Captain Neill took one gun and its crew across the San Antonio River. Just before dawn, the artillerymen opened fire on the Alamo. Columns under Milam and Colonel Frank Johnson huddled in the cold awaiting the sound of Neill's cannonthe signal to attack. One of those waiting was German-born Hermann Ehrenberg, who recalled that the noise of the cannon "encouraged us," since the "din and confusion" provided a "better chance of slipping into the city unnoticed." Ehrenberg continued:
Indeed they had. While the centralists focused their attention on the Alamo, rebel infantrymen stealthily slipped into Béxar. By taking a position west of the San Antonio River, however, Neill had dangerously exposed himself and his team. Had Cos hurled a squadron of cavalrymen against the lone artillery piece, they could have easily captured it and slaughtered its crew. No person was more aware of that than Neill. Consequently, once he knew that the assault force had successfully breached the town's defenses, he quickly led his men back to camp across the river. All agreed that casualties would have been far heavier but for Neill's initial diversion. In Burleson's official post-battle report he affirmed that Neill had executed his ruse to the general's "entire satisfaction."
The hollow roar of our cannon was followed by the brisk rattling of [the enemy's] drums and the shrill blast of the bugles. Summons, cries, the sudden trampling of feet, the metallic click of weapons mingled in the distance with the heavy rumbling of artillery. Our friends had done the trick.
Once inside Béxar, the Texian assault troops engaged in bitter house-to-house fighting. They pushed back Cos's stubborn defenders yard by painful yard. On the third day Milam fell, shot through the head. Running out of places to retreat, Cos implemented a daring plan to reduce the pressure on his crumbling defenses. With so many rebels committed to the assault, the Texian camp must be vulnerable. If a sortie could capture the Texian logistical base, Johnson's men would have no alternative but to abandon the town. The plan was a gamble, but the centralists had few alternatives left.
On the afternoon of December 8, day four of the assault, the centralists sallied out of Béxar with one column of cavalry and another of infantry. Burleson stood ready for such an attempt. The enemy horsemen approached from the west side of the river, the infantry from the east; apparently they planned to engulf the Texian camp in a pincer movement. With bugles blaring and pennants flying, the cavalrymen provided Burleson's men with a rare spectacle. Rebel Henry B. Dance was impressed:
Neill and his gun crews, their ordnance packed with canister, watched the enemy's advance. When the combined force approached "within good cannon shot distance," the insurgent artillery unleashed a hailstorm of flying metal. "The enimy [sic]being surprised to find our encampment strong and protected by a park of artillery," reported William T. Austin, "declined making the intended attack & suddenly drew off & retired within his walls." Ehrenberg told much the same story:
It appeared we were to be swept of[f] by a general charge by the Cavilry [sic], infantry, and lancers, playing more music than I ever heard. They were in a great stir, Sallying and charging. Had the centralists been able to overwhelm the federalist camp, those storm troops inside Béxar would have had no choice but to abandon the assault. The steady behavior of Neill and his gunners was decisive. Quite simply, they saved the Texian army.
About three o'clock in the afternoon we saw and heard for the first time the fanfare of a Mexican assault. A unit of the blue coats numbering about five hundred or six hundred came streaming forth from inside the walls of the Alamo.... After the enemy had paraded around a while in all his splendor, but at a respectable distance from us, and after he had taken a few loads from our cannons, he marched very quietly and without fanfare back into the Alamo. He saw that his ruse had not worked. [English translation courtesy of Louis E. Brister.]
The fall of Béxar brought recognition for Neill and a windfall of centralist artillery. As chief of Texian ordnance, he found himself with an arsenal of more than twenty field pieces. With Cos and his army on the march to the Rio Grande, the thoughts of most Texians turned to hearth and home. General Burleson left Frank Johnson in command of a skeleton garrison, then departed himself. On December 17, 1835, Johnson sent the General Council a list of officers whom he considered deserving of commissions in the Texas regular army. The politicos in San Felipe accepted his recommendations. Commensurate with his new responsibilities, they commissioned Neill lieutenant colonel of artillery. At the same time the Council appointed Neill's staff: artillery captains Almeron Dickinson and T. K. Pearson, with W. R. Carey as first lieutenant. Béxar was the proper duty station for the fledgling ordnance service; it possessed the greatest concentration of cannon north of the Rio Grande and west of the Mississippi River.
With all centralist forces removed from Texas soil, the focus of the war effort shifted away from Béxar. Even before Cos surrendered, Scotsman James W. Grant had been agitating for an expedition against Matamoros. Following the fall of San Antonio most old settlers were content to let the centralistas leave in peace. The newly arrived volunteers from the United States, however, had come to Texas for high adventure and quick wealth. Having found little of either around Béxar, they fell easy prey to extravagant tales of plentiful pesos and brown-eyed beauties in Matamoros.
There were a few Texas leaders, however, that considered a thrust on the Mexican interior sheer madness. Over the objection of wiser heads, Johnson wrote the Council that he had "ordered an expedition against Matamoros of Five hundred and thirty men, Volunteers of Texas and from the United Statesby whom I have been appointed to the command." In the same letter of January 3, 1836, he explained the arrangements he had made for the defense of Béxar:
Johnson had placed Neill in an almost impossible position. What Cos had been unable to achieve with twelve hundred men, Johnson now expected him to accomplish with one hundred. The two Texian commanders were aware that such a meager compliment could not maintain both the fort and the town. Cos's attempt to hold both had in large measure been his undoing. The rebels, perforce, chose to concentrate the garrison behind the thick adobe walls of the Alamo.
I have left in garrison at Bexar 100 men under Command of Lieut Col Neill. This force I consider to be barely sufficient to hold the post and it will require at least Fifty additional troops to place it in a strong defensive position. I have ordered all the guns from the town into the alamo [sic] and the fortification in the town to be destroyed.
The captured ordnance proved a mixed blessing. Cos had abandoned more than twenty cannon, but some were not mounted on carriages. Neill brought about twenty-one of the best guns into the fort, an impressive array by frontier standards. The actual number was irrelevant as long as the tight-fisted Council in San Felipe was unable to raise funds for gunpowder and ammunition. Neill, nevertheless, was the chief of artillery; he considered it his duty to remain with his guns.
Neill resolutely set about the task assigned to him, but labored under no illusions. On January 6 he wrote the Council praising his soldiers "who acted so gallantly in the ten week open-field campaign, and then won an unparalleled victory in the five days siege of this place." He complained that such men deserved better treatment from comrades-in-arms:
Neill further explained that he needed at least three hundred men to repair and improve the Alamo's dilapidated defenses. Following that, the vast compound would require two hundred men just to man the perimeter.
We have 104 men and two distinct fortresses to garrison, and about twenty-four pieces of artillery. You, doubtless have learned that we have no provisions or clothing since Johnson and Grant left. If there has ever been a dollar here, I have no knowledge of it. The clothing sent here by the aid and patriotic exertion of the honorable council was taken from us by the arbitrary measures of Johnson and Grant, taken from men who endured all the hardships of winter and who were not even sufficiently clad for summer, many of them having but one blanket and one shirt, and what was intended for them given away to men, some of whom had not been in the army more than four days, and many not exceeding two weeks. If a divide had been made of them, the most needy of my men could have been made comfortable by the stock of clothing and provisions taken from here.
In addition to these official responsibilities, Neill also acted as unofficial liaison between the Comanches and the ad hoc Texian government in San Felipe. On January 8 an "Embassdor [sic] from the Comache [sic] nation" informed Neill that his tribe was "in an attitude of hostilities" toward the Texians. The envoy suggested, however, the two peoples could avoid war if they drafted a "Treaty of Amity, Commerce & Limits." Neill deferred to the experience of bexareños Francisco Ruiz and Gaspar Flores, who were "familiar with the Camancha [sic] character, and have acted in the capacity of negociators [sic] to that nation." Extant records do not reveal the terms they offered, but the Comanches must have found them satisfactory, for there were no raids near Béxar that year. By their foresight and diplomacy, Neill, Ruiz, and Flores had averted what could have proved a nightmare scenario for Texasa two front war against the centralistas and the Comanches.
That diplomatic achievement was but one of the fruits of a warm working relationship Neill enjoyed with the San Antonio community. He well understood that the garrison must rely upon the bexareños for sustenance and was careful to nurture their good will. A number of federalist tejanos had seen action during the siege and storming of Béxar; now they once again joined their Anglo-Celtic comrades in a common cause. "We can rely on great aid from the citizens of this town in case of an attack," Neill assured. "They have no money here, but Don Gasper [sic] Flores and Louisiano [sic] Navaro [sic] have offered us all their goods, Groceries, and Beeves, for the use and support of the army." Despite Neill's assertion that the local civilians had no cash, some evidence exists that the ayuntamiento approved a loan of five hundred pesos "to Col. Neill to pay for Texas troops."
The Alamo commander fired off constant letters requesting reinforcements, supplies, and pay for his men. For all of his impassioned pleas, no aid came from the disunited Council, because it had none to send and took no action to acquire any. Perhaps the commanding general would be more responsive. In a desperate but determined dispatch to Sam Houston, Neill explained his plight:
Moved by Neill's heartfelt appealand in an attempt to consolidate his own power baseGeneral Houston made plans to evacuate the Alamo garrison, at which point it would fall under his direct command. On January 17 he informed Governor Henry Smith that he had dispatched James Bowie to blow up the Alamo and assist Neill's withdrawal. With that letter, Houston wrote the first page of what has become the most consistently misunderstood (and misrepresented) chapters of the Alamo story. Since this traditionally misconstrued incident bears directly on Neill's character, leadership, and the question of his (alleged) insubordination, it becomes necessary to examine it in some detail.
The men under my command have been in the field for the last four months. They are almost naked, and this day they were to have received pay for the first month of their last enlistment, and almost every one of them speaks of going home, and not less than twenty will leave tomorrow, and leave here only about eighty efficient men under my command.... We are in a torpid, defenseless condition, and have not and cannot get from the citizens here horses enough to send out a patrol or spy company.... I hope we will be reinforced in eight days, or we will be overrun by the enemy, but, if I have only 100 men, I will fight 1,000 as long as I can and then not surrender.
The canard has gained acceptance through sheer repetition: Houston wisely ordered the Alamo blown up; if the defenders had only obeyed his directive, they might have averted needless tragedy; through their obstinate insubordination, the Alamo commanders were the agents of their own destruction. This assessment made its way into several Texas history survey texts. In Texas: A History, for example, Professor Seymour V. Connor made this pronouncement: "[Houston] sent orders by Bowie to Colonel Neill in San Antonio to destroy the fortifications there and draw back to Gonzales with all the military supplies he could move." As Dr. Connor explained it:
One must admire Dr. Connor's consistency. Everything he has to say regarding Houston alleged orders to abandon the Alamo is wrong. As we shall see, Houston did not send "orders by Bowie to Colonel Neill to destroy the fortifications." Consequently, Neill could not have disobeyed the "order to withdraw." Finally, Smith did not order Travis to San Antonio "to take command."
Neill disobeyed the order to withdraw, and when he took a leave to visit his family, Bowie also refused to instigate the retreat. Governor Smith ordered William Barret Travis to San Antonio to take command, apparently intending the city's evacuation, but Travis too became enamored of the idea of defending the ancient capital "so dearly won," by the fighting in December.
Still, it would be unfair to single out Dr. Connor. Nearly everyone who has ever written on the Alamo has misrepresented this incident. Each authority provides his own reason for this willful disobedience. Lon Tinkle, for example, concluded: "It was Jim Bowie's extensive holdings in Texas land that caused him to disobey Sam Houston's order to blow up the Alamothat and his essential independence." Writer Walter Lord took up the cant. In trying to answer the question why Bowie "couldn't bring himself to carry out Houston's wishes," he sounds more like a Freudian psychoanalyst than a historian:
Professor Ben H. Procter seeks metaphysical explanations. "[T]he Alamo had an intangible, almost mystical effect upon the men, a definite transformation taking place once they were inside its walls." Colorado writer Jeff Long, also employs "psycho babble" to explain the insubordination of the "War Dogs" inside the Alamo:
Somehow he couldn't bring himself to carry out Houston's wishes. Was it the placethis dramatic outpost, standing alone between the colonists and the Mexicans? Was it the Alamo's twenty fine guns, probably the strongest collection between Mexico City and New Orleans? Was it the "frontier" in himthe pioneer's refusal to be shoved around? Bowie had plenty of that. As Long views it, the decision to hold the Alamo all came down to Bowie's hunger for attention. As in other questions regarding the Alamo, Mr. Long's understanding is imperfect. Bowie did not assume command upon his arrival in Béxar. The Alamo already had a commander and his name was J. C. Neill.
[R]ather than ready the Alamo for demolition, Bowie added his voice to Neill's in calling for reinforcements, money, and food. One thing Bowie was not candid about was how a remote command, like the Alamo, meant both prestige and autonomy. Above all, the Alamo command meant limelight, for it was positioned upon the bowhead of the Anglo-American warship. It stood clean and separate from the hurly-burly.
How curious this is. Most of the "authorities" based their conclusions upon their reading of character and personality, always an inexact methodology. In addition, most view Bowie as the key player and relegate Neill's role to that of a minor figure. Others, relying on inaccurate interpretations, fall into lock step and simply repeat earlier errors. Although it obviously is at times, history at its best is not determined by preconceived assumption nor "gut feelings." It is time to reexamine the source materials.
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The Hudl will be a new entrant into the £100-£200 tablet price range, which includes offerings from Google (the £199 Nexus 7) and Amazon (the £159 Kindle Fire HD), both of which have higher technical specifications.
However, Tesco is hoping that the tablet will drive sales of digital media and online shopping, with the user interface including a discrete "T" button in the bottom left-hand corner that takes users directly to the retailer's online stores.
The Hudl offers a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, a 7-inch display with 1,440x990 pixels, 16GB of internal memory (as well as a microSD card slot expandable up to 48GB), and a reported nine hours of battery life. However, the tablet doesn't have 3G connectivity and can only access the internet via Wi-Fi.
Tesco's strategy with launching the Hudl appears similar to Amazon's approach with the Kindle and Kindle Fire – the retailers sell the hardware as cheaply as possible in order to encourage customers to purchase digital content.
In 20011 Tesco acquired an 80 per cent stake in Blinkbox, a UK-based video-on-demand service that competes with the likes of Netflix and Lovefilm. The retailer recently launched a multi-million pound campaign to promote the service, which offers clubcard points to users that rent or buy from its library of more than 10,000 films and TV shows.
News of the launch also confirms the tablet's position in the modern household as an accessible and non-specialised media device. Industry analysts IDC have predicted that holiday purchasing at the end of 2013 will drive tablet sales above PCs for the first time ever, although PC sales are expected to outperform tablets on an annual basis until 2015.
The Hudl will go on sale from 30 September and can be purchased partly with clubcard points, with Tesco offering the device in four different colours alongside a clutch of accessories including cases, chargers and headphones.
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Brightwell, Graham and Trotter, William T. (2002) A combinatorial approach to correlation inequalities. Discrete Mathematics, 257 (2-3). pp. 311-327. ISSN 0012-365X
In this paper, we initiate a combinatorial approach to proving correlation inequalities for finite partially ordered sets. A new proof is provided for the strong form of the XYZ theorem, due to Fishburn. We also use our method to give a new proof of a related correlation result of Shepp involving two sets of relations. Our arguments are entirely combinatorial in the sense that they do not make use of the Ahlswede/Daykin theorem or any of its relatives.
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We will pick you up from your hotel in Sharm el sheikh, and then we will drive to St. Catherine to visit St. Catherine monastery 220 km northwest Sharm el Sheikh and located between the St. Catherine's mounts and Moses Mount which is the oldest monastery of Christianity it is an Orthodox Greek monastery within its imposing walls rests a citadel like no other, incredibly rich in important religious and historical structures. Among its treasures is a library of ancient manuscripts and icons second only to the Vatican's itself, and a 6th century church reputed to lie directly on the site of the Burning Bush. Quite simply, the monastery is a defining feature of the Holy Land. From there to Dahab the Flower Power City in the Red Sea for a city tour and shopping tours in Dahab then you will have lunch at local restaurant then we will drive you back to your hotel in Sharm El Sheikh.
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DFI will have a couple of new LanParty boards out in the near future as well as cheaper versions of the two Infinity range boards. One of the boards will be for the upcoming socket 939 Athlon 64 and the other for the socket 775 Pentium 4. I managed to get a snap of the socket 775 reference board that DFI was showing, but this is not the final design.
DFI's Socket 775 reference board was on show.
DFI will be entering the SFF market soon as well with its new MINI Pal, although judging from the sample on the show it won't be anything out of the ordinary.
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Chesapeake Energy Battles CEO Compensation Furorby
Oil and gas producer Chesapeake Energy (CHK) is one of the 100 best U.S. companies to work for, according to Fortune magazine. If you are Chesapeake CEO Aubrey K. McClendon, that's certainly the case.
On Apr. 21, the Oklahoma City-based company disclosed what may turn out to be the largest CEO pay package of 2008. In a year when Chesapeake shareholders saw their stock fall nearly 60% and the company's profits drop by 50%, McClendon's pay soared fivefold to $100 million. And as they say in late-night TV commercials, that's not all. The company also agreed to purchase McClendon's personal art collection—vintage maps that had been hanging in Chesapeake's corporate office—for $12.1 million. In addition, the company's proxy filing notes that Chesapeake paid $4.6 million to sponsor the Oklahoma City Thunder, a National Basketball Assn. team in which McClendon owns a 19% stake. The filing says the company received TV air time and other sponsorships in return.
McClendon, 49, ran into financial trouble last October with the market's steep slide. He had borrowed money to buy Chesapeake's once high-flying stock and had become the company's largest individual shareholder. With Chesapeake's shares tumbling along with commodity prices, McClendon received margin calls and was forced to sell nearly all of his shares over three days. A stake that was worth $1.9 billion just a few months earlier vanished almost overnight, and McClendon said in an Oct. 10 press release that he was "very disappointed" by having to sell. But McClendon's board supported him and in December offered him a new pay package. According to public filings, the company designed his new plan to keep McClendon from leaving and to reward him for four large deals he negotiated last year. Chesapeake sold interests in four of its fields to BP (BP), StatoilHydro ASA (STO), and Plains Exploration and Production (PXP) in transactions that raised $10.3 billion.
Still, Chesapeake's largesse in these tough times turns off some on Wall Street, especially given the 58% plunge in company shares last year, to 16. (The stock is now just below 20.) "Will Chesapeake's Board please stand up?" Alliance Bernstein (AB) analyst Ben P. Dell titled an Apr. 23 report on the company. "Following last year's disastrous performance for shareholders, Chesapeake awarded its CEO a generous pay package, unparalleled in the industry," Dell wrote.
a most "shameful document"
Investor Jeffrey Bronchick, whose Los Angeles-based asset management firm Reed, Conner & Birdwell owns 1.18 million shares of Chesapeake, told Chesapeake directors in an Apr. 23 letter that the company's proxy statement shocked him. "I sat in silence for ten minutes contemplating my 25-year career in the investment management business," Bronchick wrote. "I have never seen a more shameful document." Bronchick added that he plans to vote against all the directors up for election at the company's June 12 annual meeting.
Chesapeake declined to comment on the compensation controversy and said McClendon and other officials were not available for comment. In response to an e-mail, McClendon said "Our [SEC filing] speaks for itself we believe."
McClendon's pay has already dragged the company into court. In March the Louisiana Police Employee Retirement System, which owns 85,000 Chesapeake shares, filed a lawsuit in state District Court to acquire all company documents regarding McClendon's compensation. That filing—an initial effort to gather information—also says the Louisiana investors may file a shareholder lawsuit alleging that the board breached its fiduciary duty to shareholders by signing a lucrative new employment contract with McClendon when his old contract hadn't yet expired. The art purchases simply add fuel to the fire, says attorney Marc I. Gross, who represents the police pension fund. "There's no purpose served by an oil company buying art," Gross says. "It's not a museum."
In an Apr. 16 response to the police pension fund suit, the company asked the judge to deny the investor's request for documents. The court filing said that McClendon's employment agreement was "the product of a carefully crafted exercise of business judgment that could not possibly support any inference of probable wrongdoing."
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McClendon and former partner Tom L. Ward founded Chesapeake in 1989. Through canny acquisitions and a big bet that new reserves could be found under thick shale deposits, the pair turned Chesapeake into the nation's largest producer of natural gas. Ward has since left the company, but McClendon continues to be part of an unusual arrangement Chesapeake calls the Founder Well Participation Program. McClendon is allowed to invest his personal money for an up-to-2.5% interest in any wells the company drills. That program was a big part of McClendon's compensation package last year. Rather than have him pay out of his own pocket, Chesapeake paid $75 million to cover McClendon's share of the well investments.
Chesapeake's three-member compensation committee includes former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. (His son and daughter-in-law also work for Chesapeake, each earning just under $140,000 a year.) The company says in public filings that its compensation committee members qualify as independent directors, according to New York Stock Exchange guidelines. Keating was traveling outside of the country Apr. 28 and could not be reached for comment.
Corporate art collections are always a prickly topic for investors. Shareholder lawsuits prompted Occidental Petroleum (OXY) to eventually wean itself from a Los Angeles art museum sponsored by former chairman Armand Hammer. Casino magnate Steve Wynn leases his personal collection to his company Wynn Resorts (WYNN) for $1 a year, although the company pays for insurance and security. As for Chesapeake, its public filing says that it got a deal. A private appraiser figures the collection is worth $8 million more than what the company paid.


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Dear all,
I have a big problem in dealing with my data set and really need your contribution.
My data set includes variables such as ID number (subjects), date, gender, and some other clinical measurements like fbs, tc, ha1c and sb.
Total number of observations are 30000.
The problem is that I have some repeated measurements for clinical variables but they are listed below each other in the data files with the same ID.
I should do all my analysis in stata 11. So, data form is "long" in stata that should reshape to "wide" form.
By "duplicates" commands I found that max number of repeated is 7 in about 2000 observation in total.
I know I should use the reshape command but I have problem in using i & j. Should I generate a variable before using the command?
How should I write codes for converting my data?
Can anyone help me to resolve this problem.
Your contribution be appreciated in advance.
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Brothers David and Michael Hussey pulled Australia to a series-levelling six-wicket win over New Zealand and sent the Chappell Hadlee series to a decider at Brisbane on Friday.
Requiring 245 to win, Australia had 10 balls to spare after New Zealand's bowlers were unable to defend an inadequate total.
The Husseys added a run-a-ball 115 for the fourth wicket before David Hussey, his place on the line going into the match, was bowled for 79, 29 short of the winning mark.
Michael Hussey hit the winning runs, a six off Kyle Mills, finishing on 75.
For New Zealand, the critical moment came earlier when Michael Hussey, on 40, pulled Grant Elliott low to deep mid-wicket where Craig Cumming grassed the low chance.
Had it been caught New Zealand would have been right in the contest, with the key batsmen, captain Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke, already out and questions lingering over a dicey Australian middle order.
New Zealand were encouraged when Ponting played a wretched shot at Tim Southee which went straight up.
Then opener Brad Haddin's wicket was thrown away when David Hussey sold him dead on a second run. Haddin, sent back, had no chance.
At 101 for three it was wide open, but once the Husseys settled in and the test-playing brother had his reprieve, they pushed on relentlessly.
Having left out offspinner Jeetan Patel for Cumming to strengthen the batting, New Zealand had the bare five bowlers to rely on.
All needed to be bang on the job, but captain Dan Vettori, bowling with a minor hamstring twinge, went for 54 from his 10 overs and Southee and Iain O'Brien were also expensive.
New Zealand simply didn't have enough runs to get away with any bowler having an off night.
New Zealand went against type at the start of the match.
Win the toss, bowl first has become a familiar ODI refrain for New Zealand.
But having decided to shake things up by doing what Australia didn't expect, the batsmen failed to cash in, and had it not been for a strong contribution of 76 from 71 balls by in-form Ross Taylor, with late help from Kyle Mills, New Zealand would have been scratching to reach 220.
The first six wickets were all partially wrapped for Australia, with strokes ranging from ambitious to plain dumb.
The pitch held no demons - this is Adelaide, the perennial batsman's friend - and while Australia bowled with persistence, New Zealand's return was well short of what would have been sought.
The atmosphere at Adelaide Oval was subdued, the ground half full, hearts and minds on the tragedy of the Victorian bushfires.
New Zealand's players made a donation from their match fees - New Zealand Cricket contributed an undisclosed amount - and signed shirts for auction, and buckets taken around the 16,342 crowd, with other assorted takings on the day, raised over A$158,000.
Brendon McCullum's damaged right shoulder was deemed okay to play, but clearly he wasn't himself, battling 55 balls without a single boundary.
But from the time Martin Guptill carefully steered a Mitchell Johnson bouncer straight to the fielder at fine leg it was a collection of strokemaking cockups.
Peter Fulton, McCullum, Elliott - after again looking in good touch - Cumming and Neil Broom all at least partly contributed to their dismissals.
When Cumming departed for a six-ball duck to an awful shot, the innings was a rapidly deflating tyre, going nowhere fast. Cumming's 421 State Shield runs for Otago were all at No 4. While Taylor has a lock on that spot, Cumming is a top, rather than middle order batsman. He may have been better served going in at No 3, where Fulton is labouring.
Taylor maintained a fine run this year. He has scored 378 runs at 63 since the start of January.
New Zealand
B McCullum b Clarke 33
M Guptill c Bracken b Johnson 45
P Fulton c Bracken b Hopes 5
R Taylor c Haddin b Johnson 76
G Elliott c D Hussey b Johnson 26
C Cumming c Johnson b Hopes 0
N Broom c Hopes b Hilfenhaus 11
K Mills b Bracken 23
D Vettori not out 6
T Southee not out 7
Extras (2lb, 10w) 12
Total (for 8 wkts, 50 overs) 244
Fall: 69 (Guptill), 83 (Fulton), 86 (McCullum), 141 (Elliott), 141 (Cumming), 173 (Broom), 226 (Taylor), 235 (Mills).
Bowling: N Bracken 10-0-51-1 (6w), B Hilfenhaus 10-0-56-1 (3w), M Johnson 10-0-51-3 (1w), J Hopes 10-1-37-2, M Clarke 8-0-23-1, C White 2-0-24-0.
B Haddin run out 43
M Clarke c Fulton b O'Brien 14
R Ponting c Guptill b Southee 15
D Hussey b O'Brien 79
M Hussey not out 75
C Ferguson not out 13
Extras (1lb, 6w, 1nb) 8
Total (for 4 wkts, 48.2 overs) 247
Fall: 29 (Clarke), 57 (Ponting), 101 (Haddin), 216 (D Hussey).
Bowling: K Mills 9.2-2-30-0 (1w), T Southee 10-0-61-1 (1w, 1nb), I O'Brien 10-0-54-2, D Vettori 10-0-54-0, G Elliott 9-0-47-0 (4w).
Result: Australia won by 6 wickets, five-match series level 2-2.


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