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* Utah State is now 13-5 at home on the season and has won 76 of its last 90 home games. Overall, USU is now 237-27 at home under head coach Stew Morrill, including a 132-17 record in conference games.
* Utah State is now 55-26 during the month of March under Morrill, including a 21-5 home record.
* Utah State is now 2-10 on the season when trailing at the half.
* Utah State is now 14-7 on the season when it out-rebounds its opponent as it had a 47-27 advantage tonight. Overall, its 20-rebound advantage on the boards is tied for its third-most this year and USU has now had a double-digit rebound advantage in 14 games this year. USU's 47 rebounds are also its third-most in a game this year.
* Utah State had double-digit offensive rebounds (12) for the 20th time this year and is 14-6 in those games.
* Utah State's 13 team fouls are tied for its second-fewest in a game this season trailing its 11 against Boise State (2/8/14).
* Utah State's eight turnovers are tied for its fifth-fewest this year. Overall, it is the 12th time this year that USU has committed single digit turnovers in a game.
* Utah State had six blocks in the game, marking the 13th time this season it has had at least five blocks in a game.
* Utah State is 7-0 this year and has won 127 of its last 133 games when allowing less than 60 points. Overall, USU is now 192-16 under Morrill when allowing less than 60 points in a game.
* Utah State shot just 28.6 percent from three-point range (4-14), marking just the sixth time this year that USU has shot less than 30 percent from behind the arc. Overall, USU is now 2-4 on the season when shooting less than 30 percent from three-point range.
* Utah State held Wyoming to just 36.2 percent field goal shooting (21-58), marking the 11th time this year that USU has held an opponent to less than 40 percent field goal shooting.
* Utah State held Wyoming to just 20.8 percent shooting from three-point range (5-24), marking the 14th time this year that USU has held an opponent to less than 30 percent shooting from three.
* Utah State's bench out-scored Wyoming's bench, 18-0, marking the 16th time this season that USU's bench has out-scored its opponent's bench as USU is now 12-4 in those 16 games. Furthermore, the zero points scored by Wyoming's bench are a season-low by an Aggie opponent.
* Wyoming's three turnovers are tied for a season-low by an Aggie opponent. Overall, USU has now had 20 opponents commit less than 10 turnovers in a game this year.
* Wyoming's seven assists are tied for the fewest by an Aggie opponent this year (Troy).
Player Notes
* Sophomore forward Kyle Davis scored in double-figures for the 14th time this year with his 11 points and added 14 rebounds for his seventh double-double of the season, and his eighth double-figure rebounding game this year. Davis also tied his career-high with three blocked shots.
* Senior center Jarred Shaw scored in double-figures for the 19th time this year and 45th time in his career with his 14 points. Shaw also had 10 rebounds for his eighth double-double of the season and 17th of his career. Shaw also had two blocked shots giving him 61 in his career to rank 11th all-time in school history.
* Senior guard/forward Spencer Butterfield scored in double-figures for the 24th time this year and 43rd time in his career with his 12 points.
* Senior guard TeNale Roland scored in double-figures for the fifth time this year and 12th time in his career with his 10 points.
* Senior forward Sean Harris had career-highs in points (4), rebounds (3), assists (2), steals (1) and minutes played (11).
* Senior guard Preston Medlin played in his 105th career game to rank 19th all-time in school history. Medlin was also 1-of-4 from three-point range giving him 210 career made three-pointers moving him ahead of Jay Goodman (1991-93) and into fourth-place all-time at USU.
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The Food Standards Agency scrapped its initial recommendations after industry said they could not be met.
The group, including Heinz, Sainsbury's, and Tesco said there were technical and consumer taste issues.
But the group Consensus Action on Salt and Health criticised the FSA for bowing to pressure from industry.
The British Meat Processors Association, Kraft and Unilever also complained about the FSA's proposals.
An FSA document shows the proposed salt level in ham and other cured meats was raised from 1.9g per 100g of food to 2.5g per 100g following discussion with the industry.
A target of 0.5g per 100g of dried soup was increased to 0.7g per 100g after the industry said the old target "would not pass consumer acceptability".
The industry also said a target of 1.5g of salt per 100g of tomato ketchup "would not be achievable", despite some reduced salt ketchups already being at that level.
High salt intake has been linked to an increased risk of high blood pressure, which leads to strokes and heart disease.
CASH said research had shown that 70,000 strokes and heart attacks, more than half of which are fatal, would be prevented if the average salt intake was reduced to six grams per day.
Professor Graham MacGregor, from the Blood Pressure Unit at St George's Hospital, Tooting in London, and chairman of CASH, said: "It's not surprising that if you ask the food industry to do something they are not keen to do, they are going to say, 'We can do a bit, but not very much'.
"It seems the FSA are just accepting that. Where's the evidence that you can't reduce the salt any further ?"
He said levels of salt could be reduced over a number of years and people's salt receptors would adjust along the way.
"It's nonsense for the industry to say it's not possible to do it. Public acceptability will be fine provided it is done slowly."
A spokeswoman for the FSA said a consultation exercise was under way and it hoped to find ways to meet the government's target of reducing the average salt intake to 6g per day by 2010.
"Industry have claimed, either due to technical feasibility or consumer acceptability, that they cannot reach some of the original target levels suggested.
"We have an important and challenging target to reduce average population salt intakes to six grams a day by 2010 and we need the co-operation of all sectors, but particularly the industry, to achieve this."
Martin Paterson, deputy director general of industry body the Food and Drink Federation, said: "The food industry is committed to continuing to reduce levels of salt in products and providing lower salt options where technologically possible, safe and acceptable to consumers.
"We will continue to work with the FSA and the Department of Health to help achieve sodium reductions in our diets and to increase consumer choice."

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-You think so? | I said as a prelude to giving up.
-The focus of your arguments has changed from defending your ideas to trying to
understand mine, which is doing the right thing for the right reason as an act of faith that
voluntarily sets your ego aside. Doing this opened the door to Spirit shifting your perceptions to
a new level of learning that most people would have dismissed as mental tricks, or run from; you
embraced them as valid experiences, regardless that you couldn't explain them. | She held up a
hand to stifle my protest. -What you thought you were doing with me doesn't matter. You acted
as if these were signs of awakening knowledge, and at the risk of your life as you know it you've
been gathering energy to assess your inventory. Every day for months now, I've presented you
with the piffling dares and resulting brutality of men's bravado, and you're still here. This is an
extraordinary achievement at the end of a crushing journey. | She smiled as though at an injured
-You have no idea how often or how close I came to leaving, and you really can't believe
I'll quit writing my book my way. It's all I have. |
Bonnie's look of mystification reminded me of the Canadian ambassador's wife at an
embassy dinner in Brasilia, when LeBlanc farted at a pitch that betrayed a hundred percent
humidity, as asked her to pass the bread.
-Quit? | she said, when she remembered to breath. -It's key. |
-To what? |
| Yes or no, | she said, inspecting me for signs of self-awareness, -you've covered flood,
famine, drought, earthquake, war?"
-Probably. |
"There's no probably about it, you've seen the end unfolding. | A ribbon grin crimped her
lips. -Picture your string map, | she said, using her fork as a conductor's baton to move my
thoughts through the signs of the apocalypse.
-Getting fucked up made me special? | I said as that deception suddenly warmed me.
-Those experiences encompass how we create and react to circumstances that ultimately
contribute to humankind's most extreme behaviors. In a profound way, you're a crowd that has
been conformed to embrace apocalyptic beliefs. |
-What do beliefs have to do with earthquakes? | I said, groping for a sense of balance—of
-Unrestrained nuclear testing, sapping the earth of its tectonic lubricant, leveling forests
that clean the air and keep the earth in place, draining marshlands that filter water. Shall I go
on? |
-Why choose me? | I tried to say as a demand, but it warbled.
-Give me a moment; Saa-ra is here. |
I had time enough only to wet my dry mouth with ice water, before Bonnie's eerie gaze of
fire and steel welded my ass to the chair.
-Unrecognized and unchecked, | she said, flatly, -generations of mankind have condensed
and assimilated their capacity for malice and horror to the degree that a man born in the grace of
infinite love, and raised with boundless clemency, blithely participated in the madness. You
chose this path to become a great grandchild of the Somme, a grandson of Normandy, and a
child of Vietnam, to maul your beautiful spirit in the chaos of your times. You have seen the end
and you have become it. Now, as nations lead their children down the path of ruin the
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Belding, Greenville have some new league foes
It took three tries, but the O-K Conference will realign for the 2012-2013 school year.
The members of the conference voted 38-12 to realign the divisions, adding a Bronze division to the current lineup.
The realignment was made necessary with the addition of Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian as a member.
"I think it's just a relief more than anything," said Greenville athletic dirctor Brian Zdanowski. "It's the first of the year and we don't have any league schedules. It was a burden on all league ADs. So relief is probably a one-word answer for that."
"It's been a long journey, but we're kind of glad to be drawing to the end of the journey," Belding athletic director Joel Wilker said. "Now we can go forward with our scheduling and planning for next year."
Greenville will be moving to the Bronze Conference, joining Grand Rapids Northview, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Eastern, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern, Cedar Springs and Grand Rapids West Catholic.
"Across the board it will be maybe more competitive with some and not so with others, but that was the way it was in the White," Zdanowski said. " I don't think it's going to be one-sided in any way."
Belding will stay in the Blue Conference with Sparta, Comstock Park and Coopersville, but will now have Allendale, Grand Rapids Creston, Woming Park and Wyoming Rogers with them.
"We feel like it's pretty fair," Wilker said. "We feel like it's one of those things that we're excited to be in an eight-team conference instead of a seven-team conference because of those weird byes. We've been in a conference with Rogers and Park but we never had one with Creston. We're in with schools that are in our size range, so that part is really fair."
Some of the schools that voted no were Lowell, East Grand Rapids, Rockford and both Zeeland schools.
"It's one of those things where you have 50-some schools, some are going to like things better than others," Wilker said. "It's never going to be perfect when you have that many schools."
Now both Zdanowski and Wilker can get to scheduling when school returns after the Christmas break.
"We'll probably still have some sort of relationship with Lowell because of the proximity to us,"
Zdanowski said. "East and Christian, they are looking to play schools close to them. We're glad to keep a relationship with Northview. I'd like to continue in some capacity playing Creston in sports."
"It's hard to be in a waiting mode," Wilker said. "It put us a little bit behind in scheduling for next year. Hopefully it will get us going in the new year."
Zdanowski noted the Bronze Conference will have a meeting in January to look at scheduling conference games in each sport, then the ADs of the Bronze can schedule their non-conference games around that.
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Tabcorp Holdings yesterday cleared the decks at the headquarters of its fallen victim, TAB Ltd, rushing through a new board and management team and hinting at further redundancies as it looks to squeeze savings from the acquisition.
Within 24 hours of Tabcorp declaring its $2.2 billion bid for TAB unconditional - it now has 57 per cent of acceptances - the entire TAB board and several key managers walked out of the wagering group.
The sudden departures are expected to make the integration process more difficult, but that didn't stop Tabcorp chief executive and managing director Matthew Slatter from declaring that "a new era in Australian wagering history" had begun.
"This is the winning trifecta. Shareholders, punters and the wagering codes will all benefit," he said. "We are creating a top 30 listed company, ranked alongside Qantas, PBL and Amcor; and Tabcorp will be the fifth-largest gambling and entertainment group in the world."
Mr Slatter said Tabcorp's immediate objective was to conduct a four to six-week operational review of TAB to test its integration model, which includes the creation of a $9 billion wagering pool.
The initial process will also assess the savings available from shifting the combined wagering headquarters to Sydney and cutting down on head office costs.
These are expected to be the two main areas in which redundancies will be offered, although Mr Slatter baulked at queries about the final numbers.
"It's premature at this stage, to put a number on it in terms of the amalgamation of roles."
But he said the sheer size of the new company would create further job opportunities.
"Those people who want a job, we'll do our best to make sure they have one."
Mr Slatter said it could take two to three years to integrate all the systems within Tabcorp and to bed down the "multiple cultures operating in the group".
Tabcorp has said previously that it aims to extract at least $62.5 million in synergies in the third full year after the takeover.
Tabcorp's chief executive of wagering, Michael Piggott, takes on the chief executive role at TAB, which will retain its name.
In all, five Tabcorp executives have been appointed to the new TAB board, including Mr Slatter.
On the continuing dispute between Sky Channel and the Sydney racing industry, Mr Slatter said the new board was "confident of reaching a sensible commercial outcome".
"We've had some good discussions . . . Tabcorp is very keen to get the pictures from the two (Sydney) clubs back on Sky; we think it's in everyone's interest."
Tabcorp shares finished 12¢ lower at $14.16 yesterday, while TAB shares finished 1¢ down at $4.93. TAB's close is the same price as the implied value of the Tabcorp deal.
Mr Slatter said the company might have to extend its deadline on acceptances beyond the present July 21.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's restored Tabcorp to its BBB+ rating yesterday, from "creditwatch negative", due to its bid becoming unconditional.


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New Zealand is keen to see international action to help rebuild East Timor following the release of a new United Nations report on the troubled country.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has recommended that a programme of international assistance to East Timor be set up as part of his report on progress towards settling grievances from widespread killings in the country in 1999.
Between 1200 and 1500 East Timorese were killed in violent struggles which preceded the 1999 referendum for independence from Indonesia. Both countries have since taken part in several commissions and investigations aimed reconciling Indonesia and its former territory.
"The New Zealand Government is keen to see the UN make some decisions about the shape of its future programme for East Timor," Prime Minister Helen Clark said through a spokesman. "We're keen to see what they have in mind."
The report signals a renewed interest and commitment to East Timor from the United Nations, which had been on the brink of closing its offices in Dili when rioting broke out in May.
Mr Annan said Indonesia and East Timor needed to make further efforts in bringing people who committed serious crimes in 1999 to justice.
"The United Nations, for its part, will remain available to consider any future requests for assistance to that end," Mr Annan said.
He called on the Security Council to endorse the establishment of a new UN programme of international assistance for East Timor, which would include a solidarity fund made up from voluntary contributions from member nations.
The UN would also promote programmes of community restoration and of justice.
Mr Annan said much good work had already been done to obtain justice for the victims of crimes committed in 1999, but more needed to be done. Indictments had only been issued for around 40 per cent of the killings committed in 1999.
A special UN commission investigating the May violence arrived in the East Timor capital of Dili at the weekend. Troops from several countries, including New Zealand, were rushed to East Timor to help to restore law and order.
Helen Clark said those countries were carrying a big load and New Zealand was keen to see further UN involvement in East Timor.
"For the size of our country we do have a significant aid programme there, alongside the commitment we are now making with our troops there," the Prime Minister said.
"We're very committed to East Timor ... we're looking forward to seeing what the UN has in mind."
Green Party Foreign Affairs spokesman Keith Locke welcomed the report and the UN's continued commitment to East Timor.
"New Zealand should support Kofi Annan's statement.
"The UN has a very significant and important role to play and it just can't be left to the East Timorese working out relationships for themselves."


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The Lodi Flames girls water polo team reached the quarterfinals of the Western States Tournament with two wins on Friday in Oakdale.
Lodi opened with a 13-2 win over Turlock. Taylor Gums and Lauren Plunkett each had four goals and Molly Bria added three. Tori Dettloff and Jessica Camper each scored once.


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Urban Legend About Central Landfall Being Higher Than Jerimoth Hill
The Jamestown Press reports on the urban that the Central Landfill is higher than Jerimoth Hill (it's not)
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New Jerimoth Hill Rhode Island Owners Permit Access Every Weekend!
Highpointers.org reports Jeff & Debbie Mosley, the new owners of Jerimoth Hill, have dramatically changed the access rules — they are permitting highpointers to visit any weekend 52 weeks a year!
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I just stumbled upon this site and my only hope is that someone reads this before they do business with Frank Ficazzola Sea Bright Solar Aka SI Solar- i contracted Sea Bright Solar in 2/13, they promised to install my solar system that i was Super Excited to Get, in 3-4 months. They gave me a pretty good deal and decided to go with frank and brian because i thought they were honest and knowledgeable people. I signed a contract and agreed to give them the project. BOY WAS THAT A MISTAKE!!!!!! Ive had nothing but aggrevation and broken promises since the day we did the deal. I have been waiting over a year and they are just getting done with the permitting process. They have 15,000 dollars of my money for over a year and all they have so far is a permit???? Frank is impossible to get a hold of, always voice mail. When i do get a hold of him its lie after lie, and get this, he has an attitude with me. Like hes doing me a favor!!!! The girls n the office either take a msg or give us a bunch of BS. I've already given them a deadline of 7/1 to have me installed or i will be going to my attorney, THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!!! Oh and more thing, Due to the number of complaints i just found out sea bright is also operating under a new name SI SOLAR. Well i got news for you, SEA BRIGHT SOLAR and SI SOLAR, DIFFERENT NAME, SAME BAD COMPANY!!!
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This report was created by a competitor in order to defame my good reputation. After I explained the difference between how I do business and my competitor's practices, to a prospect, this competitor retaliated by writing this fictitious report. I have never had a customer by the name of Palladino.
I have never taken anyone's money without first giving them what I promised. My reputation is impeccable and I challenge whoever wrote this to reveal themselves and their contact information so that anyone reading this report may contact them to learn the truth. The reality is they will not do that because the whole story is completely made up.
The internet is a great tool for communication, unfortunately it also allows unethical people to write these sorts of reports without penalty because they can hide behind some phony email address. Feel free to reach out to us at 844-747-6527 if you are reading this report and have any doubt about doing business with SI Solar. We can provide you with as many satisfied customers as you would like, as references. They will testify that I am an honest business person who respects his customers and looks out for their best interests.
A few other misrepresentations in this fictitious report that require clarification: I did not begin working with Sea Bright Solar until March of 2013. I started doing business as SI Solar in 2014. SI Solar and Sea Bright Solar currently have no business relationship. I was with Sea Bright Solar, as a sales consultant, where I provided solar energy systems for many satisfied customers.
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Sex: A Natural History. Joann Ellison Rodgers. xxviii + 515 pp. W. H. Freeman, 2001. $32.50.
The Science of Romance: Secrets of the Sexual Brain. Nigel Barber. 293 pp. Prometheus Books, 2002. $26.
Perhaps one of the real joys of sex is to understand it. If that's your goal, you'll want to read Sex: A Natural History and The Science of Romance. Both books are excellent: Accurate, entertaining and thought-provoking, they are also sturdy, important additions to the body of literature explaining why sex evolved and what evolutionary forces underlie current forms of sexual expression. As preparation for writing Sex, journalist Joann Ellison Rodgers spent five years immersing herself in the literature of evolutionary psychology. Nigel Barber, the author of The Science of Romance, is an evolutionary psychologist.
The relatively new intellectual framework of sociobiology, which underpins both books, represents an exceedingly important paradigm shift. Unfortunately, this discipline still has a long way to go before achieving full acceptance. One impediment to its progress has been the influence of Sigmund Freud.
Rodgers mentions Freud in order to dismiss him, writing of the "damage done to human sexual inquiry by the Freudian century." I think she is correct in being so harsh, but it is worth reminding ourselves how difficult it has been—and still is—to apply evolutionary insights to sexual behavior. Charles Darwin published The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex in 1871, when Freud was 15. As a mature thinker Freud certainly must have read it. If he had been born 50 years later, perhaps he would have become a pioneer evolutionary psychologist. His first publication was on the evolution of the spinal cord, and he wrote several other papers on the evolution of the nervous system. But instead of building on these anatomical contributions to Darwinian evolution by adding insights from animal behavior, Freud created a house of cards literally built on dreams.
Did the sexually constrained world of Vienna in the 1890s make it impossible to accept that studies of animal behavior could contribute to an understanding of our own sexuality? Or was it that the modern contributions of entomologists, ornithologists and primatologists were unavailable to Freud? Whatever the reason, it took a long time to apply evolutionary findings to sexuality.
Fortunately, the insights that evolutionary psychology has produced are finally reaching a wide audience. In Freud's day, people spoke at cocktail parties of men with big egos; today, the term alpha male has entered everyday vocabulary. This change is more than a mere alteration in fashion: The term ego is only a label, whereas alpha male carries with it an explanatory element. Male competition exists because that is the way evolution works, just as hydrogen and oxygen join to make water because that is the way atomic nuclei and electron orbitals work.
In The Descent of Man, Darwin pointed out that reproductive competition results in males and females having distinct sexual agendas. The differences are especially marked in mammals, because mammalian females invest much more in reproduction than do males. Males compete for access to females; females compete for access to resources. Much of what Rodgers and Barber are writing about grows out of this simple but important principle.
I suspect that if Rodgers (a woman) and Barber (a man) ever met, they would agree that their approaches to the topic were influenced by gender. The arguments they put forward do not conflict, but their emphases often diverge, perhaps because men and women do indeed see the world differently. Both books ask—and to a large extent answer—these questions: Why is sex so compelling yet paradoxical, wonderful yet painful, intimate yet shameful? Why do we seek it so avidly, yet make so many mistakes?
Sex: A Natural History is 500 pages long and packed with details; unfortunately, no references are provided, only a bibliography of the many studies consulted. Rodgers stresses the psychological aspects of sex, pointing out that the brain is far more important than reproductive organs for how sex roles are played out. Her concluding chapter is particularly valuable, emphasizing the creative compromises characteristic of heterosexual relationships and pointing out that the sexes cooperate more than they battle.
The Science of Romance covers the same ground as Sex in half the pages and uses some well-chosen photographs; detailed references are provided for each chapter. Barber takes a problem-solving approach. He is especially interesting when exploring how the ratio of eligible men and women in the marriage market helps determine divorce rates, and when explaining patterns of childbearing in African-American communities. He delves more deeply into the aggressive side of sex than does Rodgers.
I teach an undergraduate course on human sexuality. The glossy university textbooks I've seen on the subject are nearly all politically correct works of social constructionism, insisting that males and females are guided by their cultures into their respective roles and behaviors. In some of them, Darwin doesn't even appear in the index. I'm afraid that academic sociologists and anthropologists have been slower to accept evolutionary psychology than have nonacademicians who read and watch public television. In a recent review of another book on evolutionary psychology, one social scientist wrote that she and her colleagues "will go about their business with a happy indifference" to this new perspective.
Such intellectual inertia perhaps explains why it has taken a hundred years for Freud's misinterpretations to begin to disappear. Will it take another century for the oversimplification of social constructionism to be replaced by a richer, more challenging synthesis that combines inherited predispositions and cultural influences? Not if books as good as these two continue to be published.—Malcolm Potts, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/supplanting-freud
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Bukit Lawang is a small village on the edge of the Gunung Leuser National Park. It is home to approximately 7000 orangutans, as well as many other animals. Neither of us felt particularly ready for another jungle experience as Dean had only just started to feel normal again after our trek in Borneo. Since the incident with the tick, he had been feeling lethargic, nauseous and had been suffering from headaches and a loss of appetite. When we were last in the jungle, Tracey had developed a fungal infection on her toenails, which was in the process of growing out, and she was reluctant to make it worse. However, we both really wanted to see orangutans so we decided to brave it. As orangutans are now only native to Borneo and Sumatra, this would be our only chance to see them in the wild.
Our driver dropped us off in the village where we met with our trekking guide, Muhdi (renamed Mowgli by Dean) at the Eco Lodge to discuss the plans for the trek which was to start the following morning. We had booked a room at the nicest guesthouse in the village, the Jungle Inn, which we discovered was a twenty minute hike upriver. It was pretty hard going as we had to walk with our full backpacks uphill and it was very humid. We arrived at the guesthouse dripping with sweat, only to be told by the owner that he had given our room away! He then informed us that he only had one room left which was their most expensive one and was twice the price of the room we had booked. We were absolutely livid and Dean demanded that he let us have the room for the same price. After some hard negotiating, he finally agreed that we could pay just $5 extra. It was well worth the extra money as the room was extremely stylish with an outdoor tropical bathroom and a balcony with a hammock overlooking the jungle and the river. The owner then proceeded to try and sell us a jungle trek. When we told him that we had already booked a guide for the following morning, he was most unhappy and refused to store our backpacks for us while we were away trekking, despite the fact that we were booked in to stay there for another night when we returned. We were less than impressed with his attitude so we checked out the following morning and lugged our backpacks all the way back to the Eco Lodge where we were meeting Muhdi and his colleague.
We set off for the trek along with Christian, a German guy doing an internship in Medan, and Hannah, a Scottish girl who is almost at the end of a six month stint of travelling around Asia. It turned out that Hannah was sitting behind us on the ferry from Lake Toba and was also booked on the same flight as we were to Banda Aceh.
After only a few minutes of entering the jungle, we were dripping with sweat due to the extreme humidity. Within fifteen minutes, we saw our first orangutans – a female swinging around on some vines with her baby close by on top of a tree. As the orangutans are protected in the Park from poachers, they are not under any threat from humans so are very relaxed with people observing them and taking photographs. It was fascinating to watch them. After about twenty minutes, they swung away from us and we continued our trek deeper into the jungle. The trails were extremely muddy and slippery, paved with gnarly tree roots and rocks. Our guides were very good and managed to spot two more orangutans, gibbons, Thomas Leaf monkeys and long-tailed macaques who were completely fearless and surrounded us looking for food.
At lunchtime, we stopped in a clearing and our guides started unpacking the food they had prepared. Tracey took the opportunity to have a pee behind a large tree. While she was pulling up her trousers, she spotted a large orangutan out of the corner of her eye heading towards us at some speed. She quickly alerted the others and everyone got their cameras ready. However, as the orangutan had suddenly become a little too close for comfort, our guides told us to quickly pick up our bags and get moving into the forest, while they hurriedly packed up all the food. Although orangutans are gentle creatures they can become aggressive when searching for food, so we didn't need to be asked twice.
After we had eaten lunch, we continued the trek for another couple of hours to the place where we would be camping for the night. The trek involved a lot of clambering up steep muddy banks using rocks and tree roots for support and then sliding down slippery trails, often with precipitous drops to the side. As we were climbing up a particularly steep verge, Tracey slipped and fell. Luckily Dean was right behind her and, ever the hero, caught her and managed to prop her up by her bottom to prevent her from sliding down the bank any further whilst she frantically tried to find something to hold onto and regain her footing. This trek was much harder than the one in Borneo, as the terrain there had been mainly flat. Thankfully, however, this time there were no leeches, ticks or sweat bees to contend with.
As relieved as we were to reach the camp, we were somewhat dismayed to find that the accommodation was even more basic than Prison Camp 5 in Borneo. The campsite itself was in a beautiful spot, set in a clearing beside the river. The sleeping area for the six of us was basically a large sheet of thin plastic secured to some bamboo poles with a sheet of tarpaulin on the stony ground. Our beds were very thin mats that must have been slept on by hundreds of people before us as they were so worn and compressed that it was like sleeping on wafers. There was a second sleeping area set up for another group and a small cooking area in the middle. The toilet was wherever you could find a bush and the shower was the river. It was the most basic accommodation either of us had ever experienced. Completely the opposite of "Glamping", this was "Tramping" at its finest. However, it was blissful to jump into the river to swim and wash after the intense humidity of the trek and the water was very clean. The other group turned up shortly after us and consisted of two English guys in their twenties, a Spanish couple and their two guides. It appeared that the Spanish woman was under the impression that she was being filmed for "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here", as she spent the entire time wandering around the campsite wearing nothing but a very skimpy bikini teamed with a pair of hiking boots. This attire was completely inappropriate for the jungle, firstly because there are loads of bitey insects around and secondly, Sumatra is a Muslim country and our guides were Muslim. On the other hand, if you have had to pay for your breasts then you may as well show them off to all and sundry and get your money's worth. The following morning over breakfast, Tracey especially was most amused to discover that she was covered from head to toe in mosquito bites and took great delight in muttering "I told you so" under her breath.
While we were waiting for dinner to be served, a monitor lizard appeared in the campsite searching for food. Monitor lizards are huge and can grow up to 6ft in length, although this one was probably half that size. Our four guides produced a delicious spread for the eight of us, quite some feat given the very limited facilities available. After dinner, we were looking forward to an evening of sitting around the camp fire exchanging stories, but literally as soon as the plates had been cleared away, there was a clap of thunder, a flash of lightening and it started to pour with rain. We had to run to our "tents" for cover. As there were only a couple of candles for light, there was nothing else to do but go to bed and it was only 7.15pm. Neither of us felt even remotely tired and our mats were extremely uncomfortable. Tracey finally managed to drift off to sleep at around midnight only to be awoken by a frog using her as a springboard who then lodged itself directly above her head. The rain lashed down noisily on the plastic sheeting above our heads all night long and we had to remain in the tent until around 7am the next morning. Twelve hours of lying on a bed of rocks resulted in very stiff necks and sore backs. Tracey was also parched with thirst as she had avoided drinking any water throughout the night so that she wouldn't have to venture out alone into the rainy jungle for a pee.
Thankfully, by breakfast time, it finally stopped raining. The plan for that morning was to trek back into the jungle again for another three hours before returning to the campsite for lunch. Given the heavy rainfall the previous night and also our lack of sleep, we decided that another three hours of slipping and sliding around in the mud was not for us and we decided to give it a miss. The Spanish couple had also decided not to bother and to hang around the campsite instead until the others returned. Thankfully Miss Barcelona 1989 had decided to cover up by this time. The other four trekkers went off with the guides until lunchtime. When they returned, they reported that all they had seen was one very large butterfly and a poisonous centipede, so we were rather relieved that we hadn't bothered to go with them.
We had paid extra to "raft" back to the village rather than trek back. This involved sitting in the middle of some inflated truck inner tubes tied together with rope. The journey downriver through the Sungai Bohorok rapids lasted for around thirty minutes and was a much more enjoyable experience than the actual trekking. When we arrived back, we took a room at the Eco Lodge for the night. Although it was pretty shabby and basic with no air-con and a cold water shower, after a night in the jungle, it felt like The Ritz.
Although it had been amazing to get so close to orangutans in the wild, we both vowed that this would be our last ever jungle trek. The jungle is just not designed for man. It doesn't want us there and makes that sentiment felt at every available opportunity.


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The changes also include a redesign that brings social networking elements to the fore and an Android app.
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The new version of Flickr site also now supports video, up to a full three minutes of 1080p high-definition quality.
In a bid to enhance the social networking side of the site, the new user interface includes an Activity Feed that combines friends' recent uploads with activity on the members' own photos.
Flickr has also launched an Android app, available through the Google Play store, having previously released a new iPhone app last December.
As of now, Yahoo! will no longer sell Flickr Pro accounts, which previously cost $US24.95 a year for unlimited storage and no advertising, with options for three-month and two-year subscriptions as well. Existing Flickr Pro accounts will continue without change for the term of the current subscription and can be renewed before the expiry date but if the Pro account lapses, users won't be able to get it back.
Instead, Flickr is introducing two paid products, Ad Free and Doublr. The Ad Free version provides the benefits of the free account, without advertising, for $US49.99 a year. The Doublr account offers two terabytes of storage, does carry advertising, and costs a whopping $US499.99 a year.
The free version of Flickr already carried advertising, so this is not a change.
As of April 2013, Flickr had 1.2 million unique users and 40 million page views on desktop in Australia alone. For the iPhone app, Flickr had 19,000 unique users and 2.2 million page views in Australia.
Yahoo! has drawn criticism in the past for not doing a good job of integrating its acquisitions into the business operations and strategy, and Flickr has long been regarded as a neglected jewel in the crown.
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However, Flickr has enjoyed a resurgence of interest since Facebook bought Instagram last April, particularly since December when the company tried to update the site's privacy policy to allow use of members' photos in advertising, prompting a huge backlash by consumers and a partial reversal of the policy.
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I can't speak for some alternative software that you are invoking here, but -egen, rank()- will rank your variables, after which partial correlations can be calculated in the usual way. Perhaps there is special theory you have in mind here according to which {partial correlations} with ranks are not just partial {correlations with ranks}. Nick email@example.com Xavi Barber > I saw an old mail which talk about partial correlations with > spearman, but > I'd like to know if exits, as same as SAS, a command to compute The > Spearman partial rank correlations * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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Hotel Mediterraneo Club Benessere
About the Hotel
Property Location
With a stay at Hotel Mediterraneo Club Benessere in Bellaria-Igea Marina, you'll be minutes from Solaria Beach and Afrika Beach. This family-friendly hotel is within close proximity of Bagno 76 Eden and Parco del Gelso.
Make yourself at home in one of the 70 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and minibars. Flat-screen televisions with digital programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected. Private bathrooms with showers feature bidets and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. After a day at the private beach, you can enjoy other recreational amenities including a health club and an indoor pool. Additional features at this Mediterranean hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting/childcare, and a television in a common area.
Enjoy a meal at a restaurant or in a coffee shop/café. Or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a business center, express check-in, and express check-out. Free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Number of floors - 5
- Children's club (free)
- Elevator/lift
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Private beach nearby
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Total number of rooms - 70
- Spa services on site
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- Multilingual staff
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Full-service spa
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Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Allen, Brian Taylor Author's Email Address firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-11092004-140538 Title Hydroclimatic and Circulation Anomalies Associated with the North Atlantic Subtropical High Degree Master of Science (M.S.) Department Geography & Anthropology Advisory Committee
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- sea surface temperatures
- north atlantic oscillation
- subtropical high
- precipitation
Date of Defense 2004-11-03 Availability unrestricted AbstractHydroclimatic and circulation variability in regions around the Atlantic sector are linked to the intensity, location, and areal extent of the North Atlantic subtropical high (STH). Few analyses focus directly on the influence of the STH on climatic variability. Using sea level pressure (SLP) data from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis dataset, a time series of the STH was produced using principal components analysis (PCA) to describe the temporal variability of the STH from January 1948 to December 2001. A simple area average of SLP across the PCA domain is shown to describe the same phenomena (the dominant mode of the STH variability) with r2=0.828. Given the ability of a simple areal-average to reproduce PCA results, the areally-averaged subtropical North Atlantic SLP (STHTS) is used to define STH variability in all of the analyses and is correlated with global moisture and circulation variables.
Spectral analyses were performed on STHTS to detect cyclic behavior for all months and for each of the four seasons: winter (DJF), spring (MAM), summer (JJA), and autumn (SON). Results indicate a 4.5 year peak for the all-month STHTS, while the seasonal power spectra indicate significant peaks around 2.6-2.8 years for DJF, 3.6-3.8 years for MAM, 2.8-3.0 and approximately 7 years for JJA, but no significant peaks at the 90 percent confidence level during SON.
Three-month seasonal means were calculated from January 1948 to December 2001 using hydroclimatic and circulation variables and correlated with STHTS. Effects of the STH's variability around the Atlantic sector and for specific regions (Brazil, Sahel/Guinea, East Africa, North America, and the Great Plains low-level jet region) are described. Results are generally consistent with published research but with some interesting exceptions and implications. Increased (decreased) precipitation and atmospheric moisture content were found throughout much of the year over Brazil (Sahel/Guinea), and during DJF over East Africa with a more intense STH. Over North America and the Great Plains LLJ region, the large spatial scale for which data were available, the heterogeneity of the terrain and extremes of climate from the warm to cool seasons prevent a consistent analysis, but results for other regions are consistent.
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|Role of Lattice Distortions in the Oxygen Storage Capacity of Divalently Doped CeO2
|Aoife B. Kehoe, David O. Scanlon, and Graeme W. Watson, 2011
|The doping of ceria (CeO2) with divalent noble metal ions has been shown to improve the reducibility and enhance the oxygen storage capacity (OSC), although the reasons for this are not well understood. We have examined the interaction of a range of divalent dopants with CeO2 using density functional theory, and found that the dopant preferentially adopts the coordination of its own oxide, instead of the cubic coordination of Ce(IV) in ceria. Depending on the electronic structure of the dopants, the different coordinations can create weakly- or under-coordinated oxygen ions that are more easily removed than in pure CeO2. We have used these insights to identify dopants which will increase the reducability of CeO2, while being economically more viable than the presently used noble metals, and we outline guidelines for the design of improved oxide catalysts.
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|Optimizing the Oxygen Storage Capacity of Ce1-xMxO2 (M = Noble Metal)
|Chem. Mater., 2011, 23 (20), pp 4464–4468
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Wind Turbine Syndrome with Dr Nina Pierpont
March 18, 2010 , 12:49 PM by Steve Martin
When it comes to wind farm protests the hottest topic for the last couple of years has been Wind Turbine Syndrome. That's the name given to the range of symptoms described by some people who live close to wind farms. At this stage illness caused by wind farms is a medical and scientific theory, but people affected are adamant that it is the power generators making them sick.
Yesterday there were newspaper reports that the state's Chief Health Officer, Dr John Carnie, had reiterated the DHS stance that there is nothing in the health claims. At the Morning Show we invited Dr Carnie onto the programme to explain why that is the stance, but we were told by a spokesman he was unavailable for us for the rest of the week.
We did however manage to get in touch with Dr Nina Pierpont. Dr Pierpont is a Medical Doctor who has investigated and written about members of her local community who believe they have suffered health consequences from wind farms. Nina Pierpont is the doctor who coined the phrase Wind Turbine Syndrome.
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Thank you Dr. Pierpont for having the courage to follow through on this issue. Dr. Pierpont has suffered much condemnation and vilification by the wind industry when clearly all she wants is for people to be protected. This is something the wind industry keeps from the public's focus and instead of investigating the problem, they have bought people out of their homes and gagged them from saying anything.
I worry very much about how my possible complaints over noise will be viewed now that wind turbines are a part of my environment (but not yet generating). Here in Ontario, Canada, residents don't even have a proper proceedure to follow in order to have recourse all because the ministry responsible doesn't even have a scientific methodology to determine if noise is out of compliance. As residents all that we hear from developers and govt' officials is that the industry is meeting the requirements for the protection of the public and environment. How can that be when the requirements can't even be measured. This kind of thinking has truly shown me that many are willing to sacrifice the few, all in the name of an ideology.
Posted by: Colette McLean | March 19, 2010 at 02:04 PM
It about time te ABC Ballarat gave the groups opposed to inappriate wind farm development a fair good. Well done to Steve MArtin for finally getting a proper perspective on this issue rather than the usual spin from foreign devlopers like Acciona, who's Waubra wf is a basket case.
If Joe No Helper doesn't take notice now he'll be tossed in a big way in Nov.
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Posted by: Jon Peters | March 21, 2010 at 10:14 AM
Our State's Chief medical Officer, Dr Carnie, has been far too quick out of the blocks to deny the problems of the Waubra Disease (the Australian fornm of Wind Turbine Syndrome) No doubt that has pleased Madden and Brumby; and the Developers, Acciona,who built Waubra,Pac Hydro, Origin and AGL who are in the process of gaining approval for,or proceeding with, wind projects in Western Victoria. Dr Nina knows far more than all of them together, and she says be cautious:2 km setbacks on flat ground and 2 miles otherwise. Which of these people:the Health Officer, the Politicians mentioned, or the directors of the developers, are liable for scandalously risking the health of residents? Or does building dangerous wind projects automatically do away with duties of care and all other duties and liabilities?
Posted by: Peter Mitchell | March 21, 2010 at 03:57 PM
I lived close to The Waubra Windfarm up until October 2009 and I never felt even the slightest headache. I worked for a farmer who had two huge turbines on his property and has had no ill effects. I would like to suggest that the people who do suffer could be seeing psychosomatic symptoms.I live and work in maryborough now and feel less well being away from the clear air.
Posted by: Paul Nugent | June 12, 2011 at 11:51 PM
The Evil Wind of Wind Turbines
Static electricity is the evil of Wind Turbines
Wind Turbines are gigantic negative ion generators causing ill-health
The health problem will be the same as along high voltage power lines where child cancer is only one of the highly disputed issue.
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When it comes to underage consumption of drugs and alcohol, Monroe County has some of the highest statistics in the state.
As the 2012 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey makes clear, Monroe youth are near the top of the heap in nearly every category and in use of all types of drugs.
Help is on the way, however, local nonprofit leaders say.
The Monroe County Coalition for a Safe and Drug Free Community recently received a $125,000 grant to bring anti-drug and alcohol programs to the Florida Keys.
It was the second consecutive year the coalition has been awarded funds by the Drug-Free Communities Support Program, which is administered by the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
According to Executive Director Frank Sauer, the coalition is getting ready to expand its reach in hope of spreading the message about the personal and social costs of underage drinking and drug use.
"The first year of the grant was mainly putting together the resources to capture the proper data that we needed," Sauer said. "Year two is going to be more implementation. Three of us in the coalition have been through three one-week sessions at the National Coalition Academy, located in Iowa."
Sauer said, "Now, what we're looking for is cultural change. We need to get the word out that there is too much parental tolerance of underage drug use here, and that what we as a community are doing needs to change because it's not working. The numbers prove this."
Sauer, who recently retired from the Key West Police Department after 30 years of service, has been the coalition's director since the end of November. In the coming months, Sauer said he'd like to see his organization extend its reach through increased contact and partnerships with other like-minded groups.
"We hope to be working more with the Department of Health, Womankind, the Guidance/Care Center, the Key West Police Department, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Human Service Associates, the Boys & Girls Club, the Department of Children and Families, and others," Sauer said. "We're constantly reaching out to partner with other organizations."
Sauer said, "In the past, we haven't been branded very much, and that's something else we're trying to change."
Along with his nine-member board of directors, and sector leaders up and down the Keys, Sauer plans to conduct more workshops, school discussions and identification card-check campaigns.
The coalition has had some success in getting vendors to stop selling candy-flavored tobacco and continues to sponsor the DUI patrols of both the Sheriff's Office and the Key West Police Department.
But mostly, Sauer said, the focus has to be spreading awareness of the problems associated with underage drinking.
"If a student comes to school hung over, how well are they going to be able to absorb what they're learning, and focus in class?" Sauer asked. "Not very well. These are the kinds of things we need to make clear to parents who tolerate, or even facilitate alcohol abuse amongst their kids. What we need is a cultural change."
Chris Tittel, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County, welcomed the grant funding.
"Our recently published almanac includes some very interesting figures on the use and consumption of alcohol and illegal substances," Tittel said. "As far as binge drinking, 4.9 percent of Monroe County middle schoolers, and 26.5 percent of high schoolers had engaged in binge drinking in the previous 30 days. The statewide averages were 4.7 and 16.4, respectively."
The health department defines binge drinking as four of more drinks for a woman, or five or more drinks for a man.
"Because we're more focused on population-based health these days, we're happy to partner with the Monroe County Coalition, and any other organization out there that wants to help improve these figures for our youth," Tittel said.
On the marijuana front, Tittel added, use by high school students in the county is almost 13 percent higher than the state average.
Coalition board member John Dick, who is also on the Monroe County School Board, said that although the coalition has suffered some "growing pains" in the form of budget cutbacks, but he sees the organization as a vital force in the fight against underage intoxication.
"The state cutbacks have taken their toll," Dick said. "But we have had success with bringing preventative literature to convenience stores, or gas stations, where they sell alcohol and tobacco, and for the most part they've been cooperative."
One thing is certain, Sauer said:
"We're not going to be able to arrest our way out of this problem. That's the position of the Office of National Drug Policy, and it's the position of the Monroe County Coalition. Policy needs to be worked on at the state level, to correct the situation we have today."
The Monroe County Coalition for a Safe and Drug Free Community meets at 3 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month at the Florida Department of Children and Families, 1111 12th St., Suite 310.
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Date of Stay: June, 2010
After spending the previous night at Beatty RV Park, we were going to just barrel on through to Valley of Fire. But, on the way out of Beatty, we came across this very new park and decided to stay a night, and were glad we did. This park has EVERYTHING and is affiliated with the new hotel/motel next door. Probably the best thing is that the park is located within the town's 25 MPH limit, and so, big rig noise is barely audible. Add to that, a site chosen to the park's rear and you have a peaceful night's rest, after relaxing in the pool and spa. This park is so new that it doesn't have a website. It's address is 300 South Hwy 95, Beatty, NV 89003 and is located at the very south end of town on the west side of the highway. If you happen to drive past, then realize it, there is a long 50' wide, level and clear dirt/gravel shoulder where you can pull over, then make a u-turn (you're still in the 25 MPH zone, so its not too scary).
Date of Stay: June, 2010
This park is one of Nevada's "hidden" gems. Superb doesn't do it justice. The Atlatl site (main campground) has 3 distinct areas: RV with water plus 30 and 50 amp electric, RV/tent with water only and tent only with common area water. If you're a Nevada Senior, get a Nevada State Park Senior Pass ($15 cost and good for 12 months) and wave the park fee of $20. That's right: it's only $10 a night!
Date of Stay: June, 2010
This was our first stay at this park. The Manager was friendly and helpful (even came out of the park office to greet us as we drove in). It appears this park has seen a recent upgrade/remodel. All sites are gravel, level and pull through. Most are FHU with 30 and 50 amp service. There is no cable TV and no off-air reception. We were in site #1 and WiFi was "2 bars" and too slow to stream. Two remodeled shower-toilets were spotlessly CLEAN and attractive. But, the park is located right on Hwy 95 in a 70 MPH zone, on a slight upgrade and you might as well have been at the end of an LAX runway, listening to the airliners landing, all, night, long. Its too bad, but we won't stay here again.
Date of Stay: July, 2009
This is a typical city-center trailer park with short-term RV access an afterthought. Park is located in seedy area, but is walled and gated. Restroom/shower is dated but clean, as is pool area. This park is minimally acceptable, but, I'll try something else before staying here again.


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Reliability and Validity of a Modified Colorado Symptom Index in a National Homeless Sample
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This study examined the reliability and construct validity of a modified version of the Colorado Symptom Index (MCSI), a brief, self-report measure of psychological symptomatology, in a study of interventions to prevent homelessness. Eight projects in a national, cooperative study collected new data at baseline, 6, and 12 months using a set of common measures as well as site-specific instruments. The pooled sample consisted of 1,381 persons in treatment for mental illness or substance abuse (or both), of which 84% had a history of homelessness. The analyses employed classical and Rasch methods to examine the MCSI's content validity, internal consistency and item quality, test/retest reliability, dimensionality, appropriateness for the sample, construct validity, and responsiveness to change. This 14-item scale was found to be a reliable and valid measure of psychological symptoms in this sample. Its content was consistent with other symptom measures, its high internal consistency and test-retest coefficients supported its reliability, its relationships to other measures indicated that it had good construct validity, and it was responsive to change. We conclude that the MCSI performed similarly to longer, more widely used measures of psychological symptomatology and could be useful in other studies targeting homeless adults with severe mental illness, substance use disorders, or both.


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