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S.C. Retirement Systems executive director Peggy Boykin was terminated for her opposition to a controversial investment scheme that would have funneled state investments into a new "private company" with no transparency or accountability, sources tell FITS.
Meanwhile, the appointment of Boykin's replacement – retired CPA William Blume – suggests that a deal has been struck between S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and powerful Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman regarding this controversial plan.
Boykin's termination – announced last week by S.C. Budget and Control Board (B&CB) executive director Eleanor Kitzman – has unleashed a torrent of heated exchanges among the state's political leaders.
(Click here and here for more on that).
But what's the story behind the story? Specifically – what did Boykin's termination have to do with an ill-conceived pension fund takeover that was rejected several months ago by a more "liberal" version of the Budget and Control Board?
Masterminded by the state's high-rolling investment czar Robert L. "Bob" Borden, FITS broke the story of this proposed pension fund takeover last fall. After the mainstream media picked up on it, the rats started scurrying from the idea. Eventually, the S.C. Budget and Control Board (B&CB) put the kibosh on the idea … although Borden and his fellow schemers at the S.C. Retirement System Investment Commission (RSIC) have reportedly been plotting other ways to get their hands on these investments.
In fact, as we exclusively reported earlier this month, state lawmakers have proposed giving Borden an extra $5.5 million this year – on top of the $5.8 million his agency already receives. This new money – slated to come from the mysterious "other funds" section of the state budget – will go exclusively toward hiring, we're told. It will also ensure that Borden continues to roll like a rock star.
Borden's original plan was for state government to create a new investment corporation that would manage up to $9 billion in retirement assets – including investments in South Carolina companies.
The new company – dubbed "NewCo" – would have employed 50 people and operated on an annual budget of $29 million, which ostensibly would have been paid for out of "savings" in investment fees. "NewCo" would have managed up to $6 billion in retirement assets almost immediately – while eventually managing up to $8.7 billion of the state's $25 billion pension fund.
Needless to say, the creation of this new entity was fraught with all sorts of ethical problems – most notably a complete lack of transparency and accountability at any step of the process. Basically, public employees' savings would have been spent/ invested under the plan without their input … and with no oversight from either the legislative or executive branches of government.
Sources tell FITS that Boykin opposed this scheme – or any iteration of it.
So do we.
Decisions regarding these investments should be left to the shareholders – i.e. the state employees whose money is being invested. They should have an up-or-down vote regarding any changes to the current model, or better yet they should be given the option of investing this money on their own.
Obviously we have no problem with the administrators of the state pension fund seeking alternative investment models aimed at maximizing its rate of return. However, those investment decisions must be approved by the people who's money is being invested – and they must be made exclusively with profit in mind, not politics. Speaking of, since when did "South Carolina companies" (or companies that would "relocate their facilities" to the state) constitute the best possible investment of the equity portion of this fund?
It's not difficult to see how the "S.C. investment" portion of the proposed pension fund takeover could open the door to a whole new world of backroom favor-trading at the S.C. State House – dramatically expanding government's ability to pick winners and losers in the marketplace while subjecting the pension fund to investments that may not necessarily provide the best rate of return.
Is this sort of thing really what Haley stands for? We know that Leatherman is fully supportive of such command economic schemes – but Haley is supposed to be the Tea Party darling, right? She was supposed to "take government back" from precisely this sort of nonsense, wasn't she?
On a more fundamental level, regardless of how the pension fund is invested state government needs to stop doling out such lavish benefits to taxpayer-funded employees as this practice is clearly no longer sustainable.
In fact, we've outlined several specific reforms aimed at doing that – switching South Carolina's retirement fund to a "defined contribution" system, moving the retirement window back to thirty years and doing away with the costly Teacher and Employee Retention Incentive (TERI) program, which permits "retired" state employees to double dip in new positions while drawing pensions from their old positions.
This stuff is simple, people – or at least it should be.
Government should limit itself to core functions, pay employees a fair salary and reasonable benefits to perform those functions and then manage any assets related to those tasks in such a way as to maximize efficiency.
Sadly our state is failing on all fronts – and it's beginning to appear as though Haley is part of the problem, not part of the solution.


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IOWA CITY — It was a beautiful day for a walk Tuesday in Iowa City. Good thing it was, too, because it took a couple of Hawkeyes with ACL injuries a little longer to make their way to practice.
Iowa running back Barkley Hill is the headliner. He suffered a torn ACL Aug. 18 and is out for the season. It was big news because Iowa is thin at running back. Tuesday, Hill had his left leg heavily wrapped and he was still on crutches. Also, safety Ruben Lile limped into the Hawkeyes football complex. He tore his ACL early in camp.
In the spring, sophomore running back Jordan Canzeri tore an ACL practicing at Kinnick Stadium. Last November, defensive end Dominic Alvis suffered the same injury simply running down field on a "punt safe." Former Iowa running back Jewel Hampton suffered two torn ACLs during his two seasons at Iowa, with one coming on a grass field at Arizona.
Looking for a commonality? Stop.
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz brought up some iPad reading he's done lately. Steelers' quarterback Ben Roethlisberger recently said FieldTurf should be banned from football, saying players can't get their feet off the surface. Conversely, Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher prefers FieldTurf over natural because it allows fast teams to play fast.
"I think a lot of it is just luck and fate," Ferentz said. "I really believe that."
Three Iowa running backs suffered torn ACLs in 2004.
"How would you like to be a woman's basketball coach?" Ferentz said. "They happen in all sports. A lot of them are non-contact, some are contact. Our medical staff is pretty good. If there was anything to be deducted, they'd lead the charge."
The ACL thing was an active topic during Ferentz's Tuesday news conference. No major discoveries were uncovered.
"If you learn something, let me know," Ferentz said. "Please, don't keep it a secret. I don't any of you will, but please don't keep it a secret."


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Top Vancouver Rental 2011-2016! Unique Coach House, Heritage Suite and Studio(30 Reviews)
The owner has been emailed.
To book this property, you need to complete your booking through checkout on the VRBO website. We can't protect your payment if we don't know you've booked through us. Learn more
- Minimum stay:2 nights
- Sleeps:7
- Bedrooms:2
- Bathrooms:1
- Property type:Apartment
- Internet:Yes
- Pets considered:Yes
- Wheel chair accessible:N/A
About the Property
Two Separate 2 bedroom units + studio, can be combined to sleep up to 15
Avalon Guest Suite and Coach house are located on a quiet tree lined street in Kitsilano but just steps from shops, restaurants and easy direct transportation links to downtown Vancouver and UBC. There are over 30 different restaurants and cafes located within 2 blocks of the accommodation! We are also within easy walking distance to several beautiful beaches.
We have 2 units on our property, each comprising of 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom.
Each unit can be rented separately or together to accommodate larger groups.
The Avalon Suite is located at ground level in the beautifully restored and fully updated main house. The unit has 2 bedrooms with queen beds in each room and a queen sofa bed in the living room and can sleep up to 6 guests and a small child in a crib.
In addition we can offer our newly built 2 bedroom Coach House, located on the rear of our property (just across the garden from the suite), offering luxury accommodation on 2 levels for up to 7 guests. This new Coach house is fully self contained and built to the highest standard using eco friendly materials.
Each unit has a private outdoor patio with grill.
Avalon Guest Suite has been awarded a rating of 98% by WalkScore - a walker's paradise!
Here is what some of our guests have to say...: Great Find!
'We visited Vancouver for four days with our two sons, aged one and four, and wanted a comfortable place in a great neighbourhood. The Avalon Guest Suite was perfect. The apartment is comfortable and clean, and the location is great. It is located on a charming, tree-lined street with a short walk from the shops on Broadway.' ~DA
'Loved this bright, beautifully decorated suite. It's in a great safe neighbourhood, within walking distance to everything you would ever need...and more. We were there in October and the maple trees were turning their gorgeous colours.
The suite is very well equipped for preparing your own meals. Grocery stores are close by. You don't really need a car.
Thanks to the O'Dwyer family for a lovely stay. We will be back next year...' ~HappyTrails
Our neighbourhood....: Kitsilano, colloquially knows as "Kits" is one of Vancouver's premiere Neighbourhoods and is located on the city's west side. It is bordered to the North by two beaches, Kitsilano and Jericho beach and is home to two distinct commercial areas. The first located along Broadway between Larch and Blenheim streets, only steps from Avalon Guest Suite, while the other is along 4th Ave between Balsam and Burrard streets.
Kitsilano is a great neighbourhood to explore on foot, with its many wonderful shops and restaurants as well as parks and beaches.
When you're ready to book, here are some tips to keep in mind.
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Member since: 2011
Property Type
- Apartment
- 1000 sq. ft.
House Rules
- Max. occupancy 7
- Children Welcome
- Non Smoking Only
- Pets Considered
Accommodation Type
- Vacation Rental
- Guests Provide Their Own Meals
Onsite Services
- Housekeeper Optional
- Massage
- Private Chef
- Low Allergen Environment
- Alternative Lifestyle
Bedrooms: 2 Bedrooms, Sleeps 7
- Bedroom 2: 1 queen, 1 baby crib
- Bedroom 1: 1 queen, 1 twin/ single, 1 baby crib
- 2 bedroom/1 bathroom Avalon Guest Suite sleeps up to 6 adults and 1 baby on 2 queen beds and a double pull out sofa bed (+baby crib) Avalon Coach House, 2 bedroom, 1 bathrom sleeps up to 7 adults and 1 baby on 2 queen beds, on single fold out bed, a double pull out sofa bed (+baby crib)...moreless
Bathrooms: 1 Bathroom
- Books
- Books For Adults
- Books For Kids
- CD Player
- DVD Player
- Games For Kids
- Radio
Satellite / Cable:
42' flat screen with DVD player in living room 26' flat screen TV in master bedroom...moreless
- Stereo
- Television
- Toys
- Family
- Arboretum
- Autumn Foliage
- Bay/Sound
- Botanical Garden
- Churches
- Cinemas
- Forests
- Health/Beauty Spa
- Library
- Live Theater
- Marina
- Museums
- Nude Beach
- Playground
- Pond
- Rain Forests
- Recreation Center
- Restaurants
- Synagogues
- Theme Parks
- Water Parks
Local Services & Businesses
- ATM/Bank
- Babysitter
- Fitness Center
- Groceries
- Hospital
- Massage Therapist
- Medical Services
Leisure Activities
- Antiquing
- Beachcombing
- Bird Watching
- Boating
- Eco Tourism
- Gambling Casinos
- Horseback Riding
- Outlet Shopping
- Scenic Drives
- Shopping
- Sight Seeing
- Sledding
- Walking
- Whale Watching
- Wildlife Viewing
Location Type
- Beach
- Downtown
- Town
Sports & Adventure Activities
- Basketball Court
- Cross Country Skiing
- Cycling
- Deepsea Fishing
- Equestrian Events
- Fishing
- Fly Fishing
- Golf
- Hiking
- Hot Air Ballooning
- Hunting
- Ice Skating
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Mountain Biking
- Mountain Climbing
- Mountaineering
- Parasailing
- Pier Fishing
- Racquetball
- Rafting
- Rock Climbing
- Roller Blading
- Sailing
- Scuba Diving Or Snorkeling
- Skiing
- Snorkeling
- Snorkeling/Diving
- Snowboarding
- Sound/Bay Fishing
- Surf Fishing
- Surfing
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Water Skiing
- Water Tubing
- Whitewater Rafting
- Wind-Surfing
- Child's Highchair
- Dining Area
- Seating for 6 people
- Activities Guide
- Alarm Clock
- Basic Soaps
- Broadband Access:
- Clothes Dryer:
- Fireplace:
- Hair Dryer
- Heating
- Internet:
- Iron & Board
- Laundry Soap
- Linens Provided
- Living Room
- Local Maps
- Local Restaurant Guide
- Paper Towels
- Parking
Parking Off Street:
Parking for 1 vehicle is available right next to the Coach House, additional parking available on street...moreless
- Parking On Street
- Security System
- Shampoo
- Sofa Bed
- Telephone:
- Toilet Paper
Towels Provided:
all towels provided. beach towels available upon request....moreless
- Washing Machine:
- Wireless Internet:
- 4 Ring Stove
- Coffee Grinder
- Coffee Maker
- Cooking Utensils
- Dishes & Utensils
- Dishwasher:
- Freezer
fully equipped kitchen with range, oven, dishwasher, microwave, fridge, freezer, toaster, coffee maker, kettle and blender...moreless
- Kitchenette
- Microwave
- Mini Refrigerator
- Oven
- Pantry Items
- Refrigerator
- Stove
- Stove
- Toaster
- Boat With Paddles
- Child's Swing
- Deck / Patio
- Lawn / Garden
- Outdoor Grill
- Patio
- Sand Box
- Screen Porch / Veranda
Building Type
- House
House Cleaning
- Housekeeper Optional
RatesCurrency Conversion
|Weekend Night
|Monthly *
High Season
May 1 - Sep 30, 2017
2 night min stay
Rates are based on 4 guests; add $37 per night, per additional guest
Low season
Oct 1 - Dec 14, 2017
2 night min stay
High season
Dec 15 - Jan 3, 2018
2 night min stay
low season
Jan 4 - Apr 30, 2018
2 night min stay
My Standard Rate
2 night min stay
Additional information about rental rates
- additional child $18.29 + tax
- additional adult $36.59 + tax
- Pet Fee $73.18
- Cleaning fee $58.54 + tax
- Tax Rate 5%
Please enquiry before making online booking!
Rental of the Avalon Suite is based on 2 adults during low season. Additional adults are $50 per night, additional children $25 per night up to a maximum rental amount of $350.
Rental of the Avalon Suite during high season is based on 2 adults and 2 children.
Coach House rental is based on 2 adults and 2 children in low season (nightly rental amount $250) up to a maximum rental amount of $400.
Owner's cancellation policy:
50% refund for cancellations more than 30 days before check-in date.
100% refund for cancellations more than 60 days before check-in date.
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Kitsilano is Vancouver's premier neighbourhood, located just ourside the downtown core.
Characterised by its leafy tree-lined streets and miles of beautiful sandy beaches, it is the ideal location from which to explore Vancouver and its surroundings.
Our vacation home is located in the centre of Kitsilano, on a quiet street, yet within steps of cafes, restaurants and shops and direct bus links to downtown Vancouver and UBC (the University of British Columbia).
Walk through a vibrant neighbouthood, sip your coffee on an outdoor patio and enjoy sunset on the beach in Kitsilano!
Owner info
Year Purchased: 2004
About the owner: We are an international family from Ireland and Germany and have been living with our 4 children in Vancouver since 1999. We are excited about our chosen city and are looking forward to sharing information and tips with you on your stay!
Why the Owner Chose Kitsilano (Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC, Canada):
We live on the premises of our vacation rental and are always available in case our guests have any wishes or needs.
Contact us
Send email
- Primary: +1 6048089067
- Tertiary: +1 6047343630 Home phone, please call Mon-Fri 9-7 pacific time
Links to more information:
- Click Here to see All My Rental Listings
Open kitchen dining area with a mix of eclectic furnishings
Avalon Guest Suite is located in this fully renovated Kitsilano heritage house
New coach house open plan living room/kitchen
Living room with 36' TV, DVD, Iphone charger and double sofa bed
Double pull out sofa bed
View of stairs to the 2 bedrooms and bathroom upstairs
Avalon Guest Suite with new gas fire place
We welcome all our guests with fruit, fresh baked goods and flowers!
Eating area
Comfortable beds with luxury bedding
Master bedroom and bathroom
Outside seating are for our Avalon Suite guests
Open plan living room captured through the double french doors to the patio
New Coach House located on rear of property (completed 2011)
Double french doors opening unto private patio
Romantic bedroom 1
2 bedroom space can sleep up to 7 adults
Coach House private patio and double french doors to living area
Avalon Guest Suite new kitchen
Avalon Suite with cozy fireplace
bright, spacious living room with pull out sofa bed and flatscreen TV/DVD
Bedroom 2 with luxury down duvet covers
Newly renovated bathroom
This listing was first published here in 2011.
Date last modified - Friday, May 26, 2017
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Hello all! I'm trying to knit my own lace wedding veil. I am fairly new at knitting but I'm not having trouble following the pattern I am using, which is a small circular table cloth pattern. My only problem is that the lace is too dense. I am using size 1 needles and tatting thread because I thought this would make the lace very fine and make it so that my face is not obscured by the design. Should I use bigger needles? Should I keep going and hope to block this lace into shape? Or should I try a different pattern? (the one I am using now http://www.yarnover.net/patterns/doilies/kunststrik/storrund.html)Thank you so much for your help in advanceAshley:mrgreen:
The size of the stitch is a factor of needle size and tension. The larger the needle the larger the loop/stitch.
I would try and go up a needle size or two for a more open look. This is one advantage of a test swatch, try the pattern using different needle sizes as part of the same swatch. Once you find the needle size you like go for it.
Yes, use a larger needle to make the fabric less dense.
I would do a sample swatch with different size needles. Once you get a fabric you like then use that size needle.
So cool! When you get done, make sure you post a picture.
Hi! :waving:
First, let me congratulate you on your decision to knit your wedding veil! That's superb!!! And also offer you best wishes for a happy married life!
About the pattern you posted...I've done lots of crochet over the years and I can readily see that the pattern you're working from is, indeed, very dense. I don't think you'll ever get the "fineness" you'd want for a wedding veil using this pattern.
However, there are some awesome shawl patterns around that would make a stunning wedding veil. Check out Ravelry if you're a member or maybe some folks on here will have suggestions for a delicate, romantic shawl/veil.
Whatever your decision, best of luck with it. And please keep us posted on the project!
Happy Knitting, :knitting:
Ruthie :clink:
What size tatting thread areyou using. I ask because I have seen some fine examples of knitting done w/ 80 or 100 tatting thread and 0000 needles :passedout: But a size 5 Perl Cotton or size 20 thead may notbe as fine as you'd like......I tat some InTatters.com may have some info on what size you might try too....off hand though I'd say to try a 70 or 80 maybe
If the lace pattern is densely knit, then going up a needle size or 3 will make it more open, so that would be the way to go.
All my Armenian relatives tatted, the men as well as the women, as a cottage industry. InTatters.com does have some lovely items you might like to consider as veils, and you can always play with the density as you go.
Also (I talked to mom the tatter last night) a full size veil in 10 or 20 thread will probably be awful heavy. Mom suggested to look at a 40 or 70 and was leaning toward 70. What brand of thread are you using? I can give you suggestions on where to buy smaller if you want
I am currently doing stor rund dug in a laceweight wool, using size 6 needles. it's coming along quite nicely!


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Calvin College graduates the Class of 2016
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan—Calvin College has announced its spring 2016 graduates. Nearly 900 students participated in the spring Commencement ceremony at the end of May.
Established in 1876, Calvin operated first as a prep school and then as a junior college before conferring its first four-year degrees in 1921.
Today, Calvin is one of the largest Christian colleges in North America and is internationally recognized as a center for faith-anchored liberal arts teaching and scholarship where students are challenged to think deeply, act justly and live wholeheartedly. The college's 2015-2016 enrollment of 3,990 students represented nearly every U.S. state, many Canadian provinces and 55 other countries around the globe.
The college's 400-acre campus is located just a few miles from vibrant downtown Grand Rapids and has state-of-the art academic spaces and athletic facilities, spacious residence halls, collaborative research spaces, and a more recently re-envisioned Covenant Fine Arts Center, which enhances the study of the humanities and fine arts at Calvin.
During 2015-16, students studied on six different continents and in more than 30 different countries, exploring everything from justice studies in Honduras to engineering in Germany to the arts in Indonesia. The most recent Open Doors Report, which is published by the Institute of International Education, ranked Calvin second nationally among all baccalaureate institutions for the total number of students who participate in a study abroad experience.
This past academic year the college collaborated with two local universities to open an innovative rehab clinic that offers speech, physical and occupational therapies all under one roof and provides great training for students from various disciplines. The college also launched the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing, which provides more leadership and publishing opportunities for students in the humanities.
Calvin's high-quality education is consistently praised in prestigious rankings guides, including U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and Fiske Guide to Colleges, to name a few. Calvin graduates have high placement rates to graduate schools, medical schools and law schools. In a survey of 2015 grads, 99 percent of respondents reported having either secured a job or begun graduate school within nine months of graduation.
For photos and more information on Commencement, visit www.calvin.edu/commencement.
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Huskers Look for Big Ten Tourney Title
The Nebraska basketball team continues its quest for its first NCAA Tournament bid since 1998 this weekend, as the Huskers travel to Indianapolis for the 2014 Big Ten Basketball Tournament.
Tournament action begins Thursday, but the Huskers will take the court at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Friday after earning one of four first-round byes. Nebraska, the No. 4 seed, will play either fifth-seeded Ohio State or No. 12 seed Purdue.
Tipoff is set for approximately 1:30 p.m. Pre-game coverage on News Radio 1110 KFAB starting at 12Noon with Kent Pavelka and Matt Davison. The Huskers (19-11, 11-7 Big Ten) head to Indianapolis full of momentum, winning eight of their final nine games, culminating in a 77-68 win over ninth-ranked Wisconsin on Sunday. In that game, the Huskers shot 52 percent from the field and got 26 points each from Terran Petteway and Shavon Shields in picking up a victory crucial to the Huskers' postseason hopes.
Nebraska enjoyed one of the most remarkable turnarounds in two seasons under Tim Miles, who was named Big Ten Coach of the Year on Monday. Nebraska went from 5-13 to 11-7 in the Big Ten, earning its first top-four conference finish since the 1997-98 season. Nebraska's 11 Big Ten wins was the program's highest conference win total since 1966, as the Huskers have relied on a talented sophomore class and a stout defense during the second half of the season. Petteway, Shields and Walter Pitchford combined for 67 of Nebraska's 77 points in Sunday's win over the Badgers.
During the conference season, the Huskers split with both Ohio State and Purdue, dropping the first matchup with both teams before rebounding to win the second matchup. The win over Ohio State on Jan. 20 marked Nebraska's first win against a top-25 team under Miles, while the 19-point win over Purdue on Feb. 23 capped a five-game conference win streak - the longest at Nebraska since 1998-99.
With a win on Friday, the Huskers will advance to the conference semifinals for the first time since 2006.
Last Time Out
The Nebraska basketball team overcame the No. 9 Wisconsin Badgers on Sunday evening as the Huskers posted a 77-68 victory in front of a school record 15,998 fans at Pinnacle Bank Arena.
Nebraska's Conference Tournament History
While this marks Nebraska's third Big Ten Tournament appearance, the Huskers are 17-36 all-time in conference tournaments dating back to the start of the Big Eight Conference tournament in 1977. NU's only conference tournament title came in 1994, when the Huskers beat Oklahoma, No. 3 Missouri and No. 23 Oklahoma State en route to the Big Eight title.
- Nebraska's last semifinal appearance came in the 2006 Big 12 Tournament when the Huskers defeated Missouri and Oklahoma before falling to eventual tournament winner Kansas.
- The Huskers' last first-round win came in 2013, when the 10th-seeded Huskers topped seventh-seeded Purdue, 57-55, at the United Center in Chicago.
- Michigan State in 1998 is the only four seed to win the tournament, while three four seeds have been runner up, most recently Wisconsin in 2013.
- If Nebraska plays Purdue on Friday, it will be the third straight year the Huskers have squared off with the Boilermakers, the first time Nebraska has done that in tournament play.
- In 2013, Tim Miles became the first Husker coach to win a conference tournament game in his first season.
Miles Wins No. 300 vs. WIU
Nebraska Coach Tim Miles collected his 300th career victory on Nov. 12 against Western Illinois. Miles, who is in his 19th season as a college head coach with stops at Mayville State, Southwest Minnesota State, North Dakota State and Colorado State before taking the Nebraska job in March of 2012. Ironically enough, his 200th win came against current Husker assistant Craig Smith when Miles was at North Dakota State and Smith was the head coach at Mayville State.


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I just discovered this site and saw that Kelly Sennholz has been reported for a previous rip-off, so I thought I woukld add my own experience with this despicable person. I am a Realtor and sold her her house which she turned into a spa-treatment center on 920 Ckarkson St in Denver, CO. I also had the listing contract to list and sell her condo nearby, at a discount. I also sold her several items of furniture and rugs I used to stage the home. She refused to pay for my furnishings, over $500, which I took her to collections over, and still refused to pay in full. On the condo deal, she negotiated a private deal behind my back to avoid paying my commission and did a deal directly with the Buyer's Broker. I received no commission as a result of this unethical and illegal transaction. In response to my protest, she was kind enough to file a complain with the Real Estate Commission, alledging fraud on MY part, the victim of her lying and stealing! (I was investigated by the REC and nothing was done because they found no wrongdoing of course) and I had to pay further in attorney fees to defend myself against this contemptible b***h. Then a few years after this whole fiasco, she renovated and rented a portion of the house in violation of city codes, then actually had an attorney call me and threaten me with a lawsuit over loss of income unless I paid her thousands of dollars!!!!! Run from her as fast as you can, she has no conscience and no soul.
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Wherefore This Life - Poem by amanyu t thulasi
Wherefore This Life
1, September,2008
We knew the time had come,
And the time had come, we knew,
For the grievous lords had called on us
Before on the lea had set the dew.
And I didst espy the other men go
Passing my hut and Charles' farm too.
Through the haunts of snakes and beasts,
I watched them as they quietly did move.
'Wherefore do ye walk' I asked one
To be answer'd by chilly silence.
So like any other man, I from my house sprang,
And made towards the jungle dense.
We walked and walked for many days;
Still not a stain of strain dud we feel.
We passed cold nights still trudging way,
Fain forgetting our own weal.
We passed the tall thickets profound,
Where at morn beasts wild prowl.
We trod our way o'er courage and faith;
Boldly under the ogre's growl.
Nests of dainty birds passed us,
On top of the redwoods' high boughs;
Or rather we passed them,
In this place which no one loves.
We passed the moors and lakes immense,
And passed the birds under heaven's eye.
We passed some blissful beasts and plants;
Thither- somewhere where one must die.
And all through my way I found,
But vain, melancholy and grief;
And then was it that I fathomed my way-
Towards a battlefield… that of life.
The battle began- the battle of life.
With no weapons, the halcyon war.
I fought bravely under depths of grief;
Till I knew I from death was not far.
And I felt myself by an arrow hit hard;
Of love which no witchcraft can erase,
The eternity whereof I've felt aye in my life
And now I am with death face to face.
Now I feel myself on the thorns of life,
And I bleed upon this evil time.
And then goes my soul and my life an' my corpse;
Languidly into the hanging blue rime.
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NXP 77GHz Transceiver Enables Postage Stamp-Sized Radar Sensors
January 4, 2016 by John Day
Filed under News, Product News
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) announced what it described as the world's smallest single-chip 77GHz radar transceiver (7.5×7.5 mm) with very high resolution performance.
Radar is a core technology in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), as it provides precise data about the surrounding driving environment, ultimately making life safer for drivers and consumers on the road. Working prototypes of the RFCMOS IC are in the hands of NXP's lead customers; they are also currently being field tested by Google engineers working on the self-driving cars project.
Micron Launches XTRMFlash™ NOR Flash Memory to Power Next-Generation Instant-On Applications
Winbond Signs Second-Source License Agreement to Develop XTRMFlash-Compatible Memory Devices
Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) announced XTRMFlash, a NOR Flash device that the company said will revolutionize the way the electronics industry develops systems and applications to help satisfy the insatiable need for "instant-on" performance and fast system responsiveness.
Utilizing its new, low pin-count XTRMBus™ interface that uses as little as 11 active signals, Micron said its XTRMFlash outperforms other industry NOR Flash while drastically reducing pin counts from those found in the fastest Parallel NOR Flash on the market today.
Freescale Introduces Highly Integrated, Dedicated Analog ICs for Motorcycle Anti-Lock Braking Systems
October 6, 2015 by John Day
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New ICs eliminate the need for a heat sink, paving the way for smaller, lighter and more cost-effective braking control systems for motorcycles and scooters
Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) introduced the SB0400 and SB0401 which, according to the company, are the industry's first highly integrated, dedicated circuits (ICs) specifically engineered for motorcycle and scooter applications.
By incorporating the 7 x 7 millimeter devices into their designs, manufacturers of electronic control units (ECUs) no longer have to rely on much larger ABS ICs developed for automobiles. Instead, they can realize dramatic savings in cost, weight and space with advanced analog parts designed specifically for motorcycles and scooters.
Freescale Adds a Controller for 14V Li-ion Battery Packs
September 16, 2015 by John Day
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Li-ion battery packs replacing traditional automotive lead-acid batteries
Freescale Semiconductor introduced the MC33772 3- to 6-cell lithium-ion battery cell controller, expanding its portfolio of highly integrated solutions for reducing BOM cost, increasing operating robustness, and meeting stringent functional safety requirements for automotive and industrial battery systems.
Together with its previously announced MC33771 14-cell battery cell controller, the MC33772 expands Freescale's hardware- and software-compatible battery cell controller portfolio to encompass a full range of single chip, 3- to 14-cell solutions.
IAR Systems Adds Development Tools for Freescale S32K
June 30, 2015 by John Day
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IAR Systems® announced extensive development tools support for the new S32K product line from Freescale Semiconductor.
The new microcontrollers are tailored for automotive applications and will be supported by the complete C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM. AUTOSAR Microcontroller Abstraction Layer (MCAL) support for the toolchain will also be available.
Since the introduction of the Kinetis product series from Freescale, IAR Systems has delivered development tools for Freescale's ARM Cortex®-based MCUs. The new S32K product line is based on the ARM Cortex-M4 architecture and provides scalability and compatibility within an area of the automotive market traditionally served by a mix of 8-, 16- and 32-bit solutions. The new MCUs deliver professional software for AUTOSAR MCAL and other functionality, and include an IEEE-754 compliant Floating Point Unit (FPU).
New Freescale MCU Optimized for Software Development
S32K Automotive Microcontroller Series Is Designed for Software Engineers
Automotive Architecture Based on ARM® Cortex® Technology Delivers Software and Hardware Scalability for Faster Development Through Future-Proofing Features and Optimal Software Reuse
At the Freescale Technology Forum 2015, Freescale Semiconductor introduced the S32K, which it described as the first automotive microcontroller (MCU) product line designed to significantly speed and simplify software development.
The S32K is based on ARM Cortex architecture, which delivers exceptional scalability and compatibility for a range of automotive electronics applications traditionally served by a heterogeneous and incongruous mix of 8-, 16- and 32-bit MCUs, while providing a strong foundation for advanced tools and software platforms.
Freescale Introduces a Very Compact, Highly Accurate Tire Pressure Monitoring Device for Trucks
Integrates Intelligence to Support Advanced Data Analytics for Fleet Management
Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL), which last fall introduced what it called the "world's smallest" tire pressure monitoring device for passenger cars (FXTH87), has introduced the wireless FXTH8715 family, combining small size and high pressure accuracy for trucks and other large vehicles. The Freescale TPMS will be included in a module recently introduce by Advanced PressurePro.
The FXTH87 family is 50 percent smaller than competing products, helping designers reduce overall bill of materials costs.
ARM Broadens Automotive Support With Functional Safety Package for ARM® Cortex®-A Processors
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ARM Expects Vehicle Compute Performance to Increase 100x in Next Decade
ARM is licensing functional safety support across its Cortex-A, Cortex-R and Cortex-M processor families to deliver even stronger alignment for automotive use as the industry seeks to meet rapidly rising compute demands.
The company said this will help the ARM ecosystem shape next-generation technologies as vehicle manufacturers plan increasingly complex driver assistance and infotainment systems. ARM-based SoCs are already widely used in the automotive sector.
NXP and Freescale Announce $40 Billion Merger
March 5, 2015 by John Day
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NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) and Freescale Semiconductor, Ltd. (NYSE: FSL) have agreed that NXP will merge with Freescale in a transaction that values the combined enterprise at just over $40 billion. NXP Chief Executive Officer Richard Clemmer will be President and Chief Executive Officer of the merged company.
The merger creates a high performance mixed signal semiconductor industry leader, with combined revenue of greater than $10 billion. The merged entity will become the market leader in automotive semiconductor solutions and the market leader in general purpose microcontroller (MCU) products. The combined company will capitalize on the growing opportunities created by the accelerating demand for security, connectivity and processing.
Next-Generation CogniVue APEX Vision Processing Core Offers 10x Performance Improvement
March 3, 2015 by John Day
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At the Mobile World Congress 2015, CogniVue Corporation, which licenses its APEX™ Image Cognition Processor (ICP) technology to semiconductor vendors, announced its next generation of APEX ICP technology with a 10x performance increase.
The automotive market continues to drive the need for high performance vision processing at low power. Building on its expertise in automotive safety applications and working collaboratively with major automotive Tier-1s and OEMs, CogniVue's team has improved APEX ICP architecture and hardware blocks, and added new features that are said to provide the best performance per area per power for vision and image processing.


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May 29, 2013 Episode- Lily Winters Ashby
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Special Request- August 7, 2012 Episode- Abby Carlton
On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Abby wears a hot pink high-low dress and a half moon necklace. She fakes her own kidnapping then is rewarded by falling for her kidnapper and starring in a reality show for all the world to see. No wonder Abby doesn't have a care in the world and never learns anything from her mistakes! She also has the added advantage of being both an Abbott and a Newman which pretty much means she gets the best of both worlds. Her secret donation may have made a world of difference but in this outfit, she should feel on top of the world.
Mason By Michelle Mason Asymmetrical Shift Dress
$374.00$261.80 by Mason by Michelle Mason at shopbop.com
Kenneth Jay Lane Half Moon Gold Necklace
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Special Request- September 30, 2011 Episode- Phyllis Summers
On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Phyllis wears a gathered dress with leather sleeves. While the former Mrs. Newman is becoming friendly with Detective Malloy, leather or not she is innocent concerning Diane's murder has yet to be determined. At least the evidence proves that Phyllis definitely has killer instincts when it comes to fashion.
Mason By Michelle Mason Gathered Dress with Leather Sleeves
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The Young and the Restless 38th Anniversary Party
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Michelle Stafford arrived atThe Young and the Restless 38th anniversary party taking a page right out of Phyllis' style book. Her character on the show is known for wearing dresses with asymmetric necklines and Stafford does not disappoint fans in this purple number. Get the look with this similar dress.
Mason by Michelle Mason Asymetrical Dress
$218.00 by Mason by Michelle Mason at Madison LA
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Adrenalin Rush in Rotorua
Trip Start Nov 10, 2013
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***Jori K.: I hope you are reading this... ***
For $130, I took part in a great 3-hr, nearly-personalized zip line canopy tour. Keep in mind that this was the first zip-line canopy tour that I had ever taken part in..
All told, the tour featured 6 different zip line runs: the shortest being 40 meters long, whereas the longest of the day was a whopping 220 meters!!! We also got to cross three swing bridges and follow the guides along 4 different stretches of trail, during which the guides provided excellent information on local vegetation; common (and rare) bird species; pests; conservation methods/successes; extinct, endangered and threatened New Zealand native species.
Considering this was my first canopy tour ever, I was more than a little apprehensive about the whole thing. Luckily, I was one of just three participants (with two guides, plus a third in training). And considering that the other two were a couple from New York City, I had to put on my best "I'm not afraid of anything" face and man up for these zip line runs. I must say, that stepping up to the first zip line run, I was a little nervous, but I pretended like this was nothing out of the ordinary and just went for it. My nerves immediately disappeared, as the thrill of things created (I'm sure of it) a big-dumb-looking smile on my face. After that, there was no turning back! Each run got longer and more exciting.
The 220m. zip line was the longest of the day and the guides had us try to shout out, as we traversed the entire length of the zip line, but my old, rum-soaked lungs were not up to the task... On the last run of the day, an approximately 70m zip line, we were free to attempt any freestyle posture (as, according to our guides, we were close enough to the road that they could carry us out and down to the hospital if necessary...). So after being given a mini-tutorial, i successfully attempted an upside-down, backward-facing maneuver. Oh man! Words, unfortunately, cannot convey the excitement and thrill that accompanies such a series of actions. However, those of you that have gone zip lining, I'm sure can relate.


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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
In this illuminating script book, Charlie Kaufman, the Academy-Award©-nominated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, shares the logistical challenges of writing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Kaufman also provides commentary on stills from the movie, revealing remarkable details about the editing process, set construction, and shooting techniques that were used to tell this unconventional story.
In the acclaimed Newmarket Shooting Script® format, the book includes an introduction by director Michel Gondry (Human Nature), a facsimile of the script, a Q&A with Kaufman, a selection of black & white movie stills with commentary, and the complete cast and crew credits.
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Hook Has Hollywood Waiting With Baited Breathby
In Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie's classic, Peter urges children to clap if they believe in fairies. If they clap hard enough, Peter promises, they will revive a dying Tinkerbell.
Too bad life doesn't really imitate art. If it did, Hollywood would be applauding till its hands went numb. Its fervent hope: that the Dec. 11 opening of Hook, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the Barrie play, will awaken a box office that's entering its eighth narcoleptic month.
Hook, the reasoning goes, could be one of those "event films"--a must-see that will get customers back into the theaters. Hollywood could use the business: Box-office receipts so far this year are off more than $163.5 million, according to Daily Variety. The decline--4.3% from a year ago and 6% from 1989--has come about even though ticket prices have increased. Except for a brief flurry during July, when Terminator II and Robin Hood did a land-office business, receipts have been sliding since April. This summer's box office was off by 25% from 1990 and was the lowest since 1971. There hasn't been much of a pickup since. "We're running out of reasons why we can't get people into the theaters--are they just staying home watching TV, playing parlor games, or what?" frets Tom Sherak, executive vice-president for marketing at News Corp.'s Twentieth Century-Fox FilmCorp. unit. It's highly likely that budget-conscious consumers are passing up increasingly costly trips to the local Bijou. But exhibitors pin most of the blame on Hollywood's inability to make pictures that audiences want to see.
For much of the past year, Hollywood has been retrenching. Studios have slashed production budgets and put marginal products on hold. But no executive worth his table at Spago is going to trust in frugality during the crucial six weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas, a season that can account for as much as 25% of annual box office receipts.
BIG GUNS. So Hollywood is rolling out the big guns (table). Paramount Pictures, in the midst of a management shuffle, is putting heavy marketing and merchandising muscle behind The Addams Family, the spin-off from the 1960s' TV show that it picked up in March for $14.6 million from ailing Orion Pictures Corp. It is also trotting out its sixth Star Trek flick, promoting the 25th anniversary of the sci-fi TV show.
The names are familiar over at Warner Bros. Inc., too: Oliver Stone's JFK stars Kevin Costner as a New Orleans prosecutor investigating President Kennedy's assassination, and Bruce Willis stars in The Last Boy Scout.
Most eyes are on Sony Corp., however, which has spent lavishly to rejuvenate its two film subsidiaries, Tri-Star and Columbia Pictures. Tri-Star's Hook, which stars Robin Williams as the grown-up Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook, came in three weeks late and $11 million over its $49 million budget.
Sony's film units could have another winner with Columbia's The Prince of Tides, a drama featuring Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte. With gangster movies generally bombing, there's less confidence about another project, Tri-Star's Bugsy, a love story that features Warren Beatty as gangster Bugsy Siegel.
The crush of yearend films could be too much for a sluggish market to absorb, and good films could get lost in the crowd. Possible wallflowers this year include Disney's Father of the Bride, which stars Steve Martin in a remake of the 1950 Spencer Tracy-Elizabeth Taylor film. Or it might be Fox's For the Boys, featuring Bette Midler as the lead singer of a USO troupe.
Then again, Martin and Midler could make it big while Spielberg & Co. bomb. That would probably be acceptable in Hollywood. Right now, any hit will be magic enough.
A SAMPLER OF HOLIDAY FARE Percent Millions TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX 14.4 % For the Boys $33 WARNER 13.4 The Last Boy Scout 28 BROS. JFK 35 DISNEY 12.3 Billy Bathgate 45 Father of the Bride 30 Beauty and the Beast 28 UNIVERSAL 11.1 Cape Fear 35 American Tail 2 25 ORION 10.5 -- -- TRI-STAR 10.2 Hook 60 Bugsy 40 COLUMBIA 9.5 The Prince of Tides 27 PARAMOUNT 9.1 The Addams Family 30 Star Trek VI 30 *Through Oct. 6 DATA: DAILY VARIETY, BW ESTIMATES


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"The president has never gotten over his obsession with taxing people who make $250,000"
Here in New York, we all know that families with a combined income of $250,000 are really middle class; they certainly don't live like the president's favorite billionaire, limousine liberal Warren Buffett, and when they get done paying for the area's higher cost of living, not to mention school tuition, etc., they're barely saving enough for retirement…
Bottom line: The president has never gotten over his obsession with taxing people who make $250,000, except for a brief period in 2010, when the Republicans won the House and picked up seats in the Senate.
His 50.96 percent popular-vote victory over Mitt Romney in the recent presidential election (albeit much more pronounced in the Electoral College) has emboldened him to back his original thesis on tax fairness. Sure, he offered his Republican counterpart, namely House Speaker John Boehner, a "deal" to start tax increases at $400,000, but it was an unserious offer; he offered not a single specified spending cut, aside from some cost-of-living adjustments in Social Security, and certainly not enough for Boehner to sell to his skeptical colleagues who wouldn't even consider starting the tax hikes at $1 million in income without some real spending reductions.


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Part of the series Statistics for Biology and Health pp 363-423
Recurrent Event Survival Analysis
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This chapter considers outcome events that may occur more than once over the follow-up time for a given subject. Such events are called "recurrent events." Modeling this type of data can be carried out using a Cox PH model with the data layout constructed so that each subject has a line of data corresponding to each recurrent event. A variation of this approach uses a stratified Cox PH model, which stratifies on the order in which recurrent events occur. Regardless of which approach is used, the researcher should consider adjusting the variances of estimated model coefficients for the likely correlation among recurrent events on the same subject. Such adjusted variance estimates are called "robust variance estimates." A parametric approach for analyzing recurrent event data that includes a frailty component (introduced in Chapter 7) is also described and illustrated.
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Too many cover lessons put students on a back foot
An over-reliance on supply teachers in Welsh schools is damaging pupils' progress, according to a study by the Wales Audit Office and watchdog Estyn.
The temporary cover work given to students is no replacement for that set by a class teacher, the research warns. It found that less-able pupils do not receive the support they need, while the progress of middle and high-ability pupils is hampered because the work set is not challenging enough. Secondary students' progress was affected by disruption most accutely.
Teachers in Wales are absent from the classroom for an average of seven days a year, compared with 4.5 days in England. Absence is due to a variety of factors including sickness, teaching training and meetings. The financial cost of supply cover is also high, with schools forking out around £54m on temporary staff in the academic year 2011-12, up 7% on the year 2008-09.
Older children need bedtime stories too, parents told
Parents should continue reading with their children throughout primary school, according to a study by Oxford University Press.
It calls on mums and dads to keep up bedtime stories, reporting that almost half (44%) of the 1,000 parents it surveyed said they rarely or never read with their child after their seventh birthday.
The report includes tips for parents who want to keep their child engaged with reading, written by former primary head James Clementson.
These include asking questions about the book (such as, "What might happen next?"), taking turns to read aloud to each other and stopping to make sure children understand any unusual words.
Pupil tests don't stand up, Northern Ireland teaching body warns
Northern Ireland teachers lack faith in the assessments used to track the progress of children from eight years of age to 14, according to a survey by the General Teaching Council.
The assessments, which are sat by children at age eight, 11 and 14, give pupils a numbered level and a description of their progress. But only 7% of teachers say the grade is accurate and nine in 10 believe it will not inform parents.
"Unreliable data is being used for accountability purposes," a key stage three teacher told researchers. "This was never the purpose of levels or teacher assessment."
Researchers added that: "The process of teaching, learning and assessments should focus on improving learning and should not be over-burdened with bureaucracy or exposed to potential manipulation."
"Vitually all of the research into the use of teacher assessment advises against the use of numerical assessment outcomes for target setting and accountability purposes."


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I might slightly disagree with the 'this is not allowed' logic (mostly because of my experience), but only after it's been 2 months or more. Subaru is notoriously bad at getting info to their dealers or customers, to the point where I would bet they start to lose future sales on ordered cars.
My order process was a horror story. When I ordered mine, and after 8 weeks of no info at all (only a record of the order from my dealer to SNE - which I checked after 6 weeks), I started calling around (dealer, SNE, SNA, etc). It was only because I harassed people to get info on my car that we began to trace the problem - I later found out that the order was dropped somewhere between SNE and SNA and FHI. I eventually got the car I ordered, but it was a huge pain and I basically had to get involved in tracing where they dropped the order (SNA and SNE couldn't have cared less, IMO). It's rare I know, but it does happen (particularly in the northeast with their screwy distribution system), and I find nothing wrong with (after a reasonable amount of time, mind you) you start making phone calls. 8 weeks is minimum waiting, in my opinion.
But, keep in mind there are literally 100s of other orders that go through perfectly smoothly - and you get a wonderful car without much issue. So don't let my story bother you - let it be a story that makes you think "I'm SO GLAD I'm not that guy and my car is coming soon".
However, at this point, be patient and after a while (i.e. mid-december-ish) you should be able to get some info out of someone.
Take it for what you will. Complaining will not make your car show up any faster. The simple solution here is to not buy a Subaru. Also, get a new wife.


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st: problems with Murphy-Topel
"Rachel Bouvier" <email@example.com>
st: problems with Murphy-Topel
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:57:00 -0400
Hi stata-listers:
I'm working on a problem dealing with the Murphy-Topel procedure as
outlined in Hardin (2002) and Hole (2006). Briefly, I have a very large
stacked model in the first stage, consisting of 31 countries and up to
17 years (some countries have a shorter time series). It is stacked so
that the intercepts and the coefficients can vary for each country,
rather than "pooling" them all. (I posted a question about this
quite a while ago, so it may seem familiar to some.)
I use OLS to predict the trend of income over time for each country,
and call this variable "new_predict", and its square,
"new_pred2." I also generate another variable, called
"new_flux," which is made up of the residuals from the first
stage (or how far income falls from its predicted trend). I then use
those three variables from the first stage in my second stage model
(also using OLS). I need to adjust the standard errors from the second
stage model because those three variables were generated in the first
My former dissertation advisor and I modified the code used in the Hole
essay to account for the fact that I use OLS in both stages. We're
running into two problems, though: if I try to display the results
using the matrices b and M, I get an error code that the matrix is not
positive definite. Further, the standard error for at least one of my
estimated coefficients is smaller than it was before doing the
adjustment, which doesn't seem plausible. The problem likely lies
somewhere in the correlation between new_predict, new_pred2, and
new_flux. I think the problem might be in how we defined "zz," but
I'm not sure. I'm wondering if the fact that we used the residuals
from the first stage as a variable in the second stage needs to be
accounted for in a different way.
If anyone out there has any suggestions, I'd be very grateful. I am
out of my comfort zone with this! Thanks. I've copied the code
below. -Rachel
PS. I'm using Stata 7, but if a later version of Stata is necessary,
I'll just bite the bullet and pay for it (my department has no money
for such trifles!)
*first stage:
xi: regress lnpppc i.code*year i.code|yearsq
predict double new_predict
predict double res1, res
gen double res1sq=res1^2
quietly sum res1sq
scalar mse=r(mean)
matrix V1=(e(df_r)/e(N) )* e(V)
gen double s1=res1*(1/mse)
gen new_flux = res1
gen new_pred2=new_predict^2
*second stage, need to use new prefix:
xi, prefix(rev):regress lnpoll new_predict new_pred2 new_flux
pop_dens year i.code
matrix b = e(b)
matrix V2 = (e(df_r)/e(N) )* e(V)
predict double res2, res
gen double res2sq=res2^2
quietly sum res2sq
scalar mse2=r(mean)
gen double s2= res2*(1/mse2)
generate zz= _b[new_predict] + 2*new_predict*_b[new_pred2] -
_b[new_flux] /*this how the generated variables affect the stage-2
*Calculate C using scores:
gen byte cons=1
matrix accum C = _Icode_* year _IcodXyear_* yearsq _IcodXyeara*
cons new_predict new_pred2 new_flux pop_dens year revcode_* cons
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BeschreibungSociological theories of crime include: theories of strain blame crime on personal stressors; theories of social learning blame crime on its social rewards, and see crime more as an institution in conflict with other institutions rather than as in- vidual deviance; and theories of control look at crime as natural and rewarding, and explore the formation of institutions that control crime. Theorists of corruption generally agree that corruption is an expression of the Patron-Client relationship in which a person with access to resources trades resources with kin and members of the community in exchange for loyalty. Some approaches to modeling crime and corruption do not involve an explicit simulation: rule based systems; Bayesian networks; game theoretic approaches, often based on rational choice theory; and Neoclassical Econometrics, a rational choice-based approach. Simulation-based approaches take into account greater complexities of interacting parts of social phenomena. These include fuzzy cognitive maps and fuzzy rule sets that may incorporate feedback; and agent-based simulation, which can go a step farther by computing new social structures not previously identified in theory. The latter include cognitive agent models, in which agents learn how to perceive their en- ronment and act upon the perceptions of their individual experiences; and reactive agent simulation, which, while less capable than cognitive-agent simulation, is adequate for testing a policy's effects with existing societal structures. For example, NNL is a cognitive agent model based on the REPAST Simphony toolkit.
I. Peering into the Fog.- Introduction; A. Kott. - How it is done today; D. Eyre. - The Historical Perspective; Vancourt. - Technology of Unconventional Modeling; E. Waltz. -
II. Parts of the Equation. - Political Interactions; M. Abdollohian. - Social Interactions; M. Tswetovat. - Economic Interactions; J. Dechant. - Military and Insurgencies; A. Kott. - Infrastructure Phenomena; Th. Brown. -
III. The Whole of the Parts. - Integrating Heterogeneous Models;
L. Rozman. - Emergent Behavior in Modeling; H. van Parunak. - Integrating Heterogeneous Databases; D. Dyer. - Populating the Models; G. Citrenbaum. - Virtual Collaboratin Technologies; S. Fouse. - Visualization Technologies; W. Page. - IV Walking in the Fog. - Multi-Dimensional Planning;
L. Hawley. - Plan Optimization and Synchronization; J. Ridder. - Adversary and War Games; A.R. Washburn. - Robust Planning in the Face of Uncertainty; S. Morse. - New Approaches to Decision Support; T. Leal. - Efect Identification and Impact Assessment; R. Richards. -
V. Conclusion: Living with the Fog, G. Citrenbaum.
PressestimmenFrom the reviews: "Anyone involved in modeling or planning will want this excellent introduction. ... The book also includes a variety of case studies and examples. The editors provide several tables so that the reader may locate an example related to a mechanism of intervention, an effect of intervention, or a modeling technique. The references at the end of each chapter, as well as the index, are well done. ... an excellent introduction to the current field of modeling interventions, and will be useful and worthwhile to readers." (Brad Reid, ACM Computing Reviews, June, 2011)
Untertitel: A Handbook of Computational Methods and Models for Anticipating Economic, Social, Political and Security Effects in International Interventions. 2010. Auflage. Previously published in hardcover. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Springer
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Prudential today geared up for its AGM in London next week by posting record funds under management in its M&G unit.
The company said its asset manager now controls £238.4 billion, helped by £2.4 billion of net inflows during the first quarter as European investors piled into its funds.
Overall, new business profits rose 5% to £563 million boosted by strong growth across its core Asian business, which now accounts for more than half of these profits. This offset a weaker performance in the United States, where profits slipped 10% to £192 million.
The solid performance caps an eventful few weeks for Britain's largest insurer, which posted strong full-year results in March but was later hit by an embarrassing fine by the City regulator over its failed bid for rival AIA in 2010.
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Hey Gunny here is a collector site with a 1916 Winchester 1894 .30wcf.
I'll bet it is close to yours.
I just acquired a Model 1894, S/N 166XXX, manufactured in 1899. It's a .30 WCF with a 24" octagon barrel, full length magazine and the curved butt plate; bright bore, outstanding wood and 75% overall - except - someone in the last 100 years or so ground off the ears/top half of the rear sight so as to clear a scope (I guess?) and discarded the sight elevator. So... I have a question. Does anyone know, or push me in the correct direction, what style of rear sight would have originally been on this weapon? What remains of the rear sight still shows a small screw on the right ear as if a variable windage/ elevation plate had been affixed. Plus, the sight itself is press fitted into the dovetail on the top flat of the barrel. Brownell's and Dixie Gun Works both offer replacement rear sights for the early M-94 but their catalogs show a "mule ear" type rear sight with no screw adjustment and, in addition, the replacement sights feature a locking set screw on top of the sight base that locks the sight assembly into the dovetail. As the same someone previously mentioned also drilled and tapped the left receiver plate for a scope (No problem, properly done. It's also probably the reason why I could afford the rifle in the first place!) this fine old lady is a shooter. But I would like to give her the benefit of an original rear sight, if possible.
BTW, since she is a shooter, I plan on sending her to Doug Turnbull for a blueing and caseharding job (when I save up twice again what she cost me!).
Sorry, no picture yet. I don't have enough posts to do so. I thank all of you fine folks in advance for your help. Blessing of the new year to you and...
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Hey Gunny here is a collector site with a 1916 Winchester 1894 .30wcf.
I'll bet it is close to yours.
Salty Dog. Thanks! Wonderful picture and it's easy to see the mechanics of the rear sight. (And the 1918 Winnie is almost 4 times what I paid for mine! Boy do I feel lucky.) I believe I've seen a replacement sight of this design on the Dixie Gun Works site. Great help! Thanks again.
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If one didn't know any better, Stage Fright might appear to be some sort of explicit homage to Brian De Palma, loosely held together by post-Scream clichés. At least, the litany of references to De Palma's cinema would suggest as much: a roaming, tormented killer amid a musical production like William Finley from Phantom of the Paradise; a bucket of blood straight out of Carrie; and a power tool in desperate need of an outlet, à la Body Double. The similarities end here, however, as Jerome Sable's debut feature couldn't be further from De Palma's delirious cinematic essays on vision and genre. Instead, Sable operates under the most requisite notions of intertextuality, blankly referencing and parodying far better, more exuberant films less as a form of revision or reflexivity than to engage a pop nihilism that has characterized numerous Scream imitators over the last two decades.
Stage Fright's premise, an amalgam of bits and pieces from other horror films, masquerades as genre spoof. At the Center Stage Camp for Performing Arts, a gaggle of theater types gather to put on an annual summer production, and this year it's Haunting of the Opera, which is significant for Camilla (Allie MacDonald), whose mother (Minnie Driver) was killed on stage during a performance of the show 10 years prior. From here, clichés and gags operate less for deconstruction than empty jabs at both theater and the horror genre. For example, Artie (Brandon Uranowitz), the play's director, wants to set his new version in Japan and infuse the content with a kabuki-inspired context, to achieve "the very essence of post-structuralism in theater today." The problem isn't that Sable's script is pseudo-intellectual, but the aimlessness with which his jokes and parody unfold, often pitched at a level that mistakes the tongue in cheek for meaningful genre engagement. Likewise, once the killer arrives, he stabs, saws, and rips through the campers with a ruthlessness that misunderstands horror's social component; the bloodshed here is simply "fun," but of the sort that divorces genre from its humanist resonances. No one in the film is an actual person. Instead, Sable is merely checking off archetypes and plodding along to the inevitable climax, when Camilla will come face to face with her mother's killer.
The film's only mildly interesting component is its music, which allows the campers to perform rather excruciating song-and-dance routines throughout, amid the carnage from the masked killer, who laments in a rock ballad that the campers "don't know pain…now I'm gonna make you scream!" Yet, Sable is utterly incapable of locating even a semblance of pain within any of his characters, or their contemporary moment, since the film operates as retrograde pastiche, remaining wholly disinterested in how a genre's form can be reworked.
Stage Fright remains in rehearsal throughout, working out any semblance of larger aims or significance as simply a gesture to cinematic or philosophical sophistication. As musical-horror, the film most bares resemblance to Slumber Party Massacre II, which features a killer with an electric guitar doubling as a power drill stalks a group of teenagers shacked up for the weekend, the climax set to Sterling E. Smith's "Can't Stop (Lovin' You)," while the killer runs around, spouting Freddy Krueger-esque one-liners. That film, however, at least had the good sense to omit unmasking a killer and going through the trite beats of explanation and motivations for the slayings. Stage Fright fails to manage even that feat, as the conclusion unveils rather no-brainer culprits and the clichés become merely a means of resolution, further mangling the signifiers and genre mash-ups, which finally implode into a heap of scorched, imperceptible intent.


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The following cases were adjudicated over four days of District Criminal Court on May 19, 20, 24 and 25 in Bolivia.
Codes: PG, pleaded guilty; PNG/NG, pleaded not guilty, found not guilty; PNG/G, pleaded not guilty, found guilty; BCDC, Brunswick County Detention Center; NCDOC, North Carolina Department of Corrections.
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Judge Jerry A. Jolly presided over the following cases with prosecutor Joy Easley and courtroom clerk Lisa Quick:
What exactly is it state Sen. R.C. Soles Jr. believes he is doing?
Surely, he can't believe most of his constituents think he is acting in the community's best interest with the latest bills he has introduced in the General Assembly's "short session."
Remember, this is a time when he and fellow legislators are supposed to be considering only "non-controversial" bills.
Lorie Burcham was already busy baking elaborate cakes in coastal Carolina with her thriving six-year-old business, Crumb de la Crumb.
Then her cousin, Shane Stevens, a songwriter and fellow Brunswick County native, summoned Burcham to Nashville.
He said she could make a lot more money crafting cakes in Music City.
CAROLINA SHORES—The town board of commissioners followed proper procedure when assistant town administrator Amanda Chestnut was fired in a letter approved May 3, town attorney Holt Moore says.
But he added the board would have the matter on its next meeting agenda at 3 p.m. next Thursday, June 10, "just to reiterate and make doubly clear what was taking place."
Moore left a voice mail message on a Beacon reporter's phone Tuesday in response to recent queries by the Beacon for comment.
The youngest ambassadors of peace and joy, the African Children's Choir (ACC), performs at 7 p.m. Friday, June 4, in Odell Williamson Auditorium.
These are children from the poorest countries of the world, whose voices have been heard by world leaders and top performers in the entertainment world and, for the past 25 years, have raised millions of dollars to educate and rebuild countries devastated by famine, war and AIDS.
SUNSET BEACH—Police arrested a 39-year-old man for shoplifting and trespassing Saturday, May 29.
Hilario Trejo Flores, address not available, was charged in connection with the incident at Food Lion, Sunset Beach Police Chief Lisa Massey said.
A fence amendment is on the agenda of Sunset Beach Town Council's monthly meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, June 7.
A 6:45 work session is set prior to the meeting.
The proposed amendment addresses fences allowed in side yards on corner lots abutting street rights-of-way.
More information is available during normal business hours at Sunset Beach Town Hall, or call chief building inspector Jeff Curtis at 579-0068.
The second Honor Flight of Southeastern North Carolina took 102 World War II veterans on an all-expenses-paid day trip last Wednesday, May 26, to see their memorial in Washington, D.C.
The veterans, including 25 from Brunswick County, and their accompanying entourage of guardians left that morning on a chartered US Air flight and returned that evening to much fanfare at Wilmington International Airport.
The Carolina Shores Board of Commissioners' monthly workshop is at 10 a.m. next Monday, June 7.
The town budget for fiscal year 2010-2011 will be discussed at a public workshop prior to the board's monthly meeting at 3 p.m. Thursday, June 10.
CAROLINA SHORES—A subpoena charging town administrator Linda Herncane with destruction of public record has been filed with the Brunswick County Magistrate's Office.
The subpoena was issued May 21 after former town commissioner Gere Dale filed a complaint with Chief Magistrate Martha Bryant about Herncane deleting town e-mail.
A hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. June 30 in Brunswick County District Court. The subpoena states Herncane must appear and testify at that time.
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…Specifically, tundra swans!
Last week we were blessed by the sights and sounds of gorgeous white birds on their way from Canada's Arctic coast to Chesapeake Bay and beyond.
Most of them didn't stop but that didn't matter. They're beautiful in flight.
Marcy Cunkelman had her camera ready as the flocks flew over her house.
Bye bye, swans.
(photos by Marcy Cunkelman)
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They are beautiful in the air. I haven't seen or heard any this fall, but I did last fall, but only after dark. Hopefully they will stop and visit on the river like they did in March on a Sunday afternoon when Steve Gosser got some good pix.
# CarrolltonOhon 19 Nov 2012 at 6:33 am
Beautiful Swans! I also saw some of these giant birds passing over… up high..Their communication calls are awesome!
Lancaster, PA has some falcons! Info posted on BCAW by "beagles-r-us".
# Rachelon 23 Dec 2012 at 4:14 pm
Has anyone ever been close to a swan in flight? Do they all sound like they are in serious respiratory distress while in flight?
# Kate St. Johnon 23 Dec 2012 at 8:38 pm
I have heard them from the ground. Their breathing is fine. They aren't in any distress. Interestingly, you can hear their wings flap… which is actually pretty cool.


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Necton 2 miles. A delightful two bedroom conversion of a hay barn, in the rural hamlet of West End near Necton.
This Necton cottage offers relaxing country living with modern amenities in a large open plan living area, featuring a kitchen, dining area and sitting area, and French doors opening into the garden, which has a running stream and a covered veranda, perfect for alfresco dining overlooking the pond.
A private bridge takes you to the shared gardens, where ducks and chickens roam freely and horses can be seen grazing in their paddocks.
This lovely Necton cottage is centrally located for exploring Norfolk, being within easy travelling distance of Thetford Forest, Snetterton raceway, RSPB nature reserves, NT properties, award-winning gardens and many sporting facilities.
A visit to Norfolk's wonderful coastline or the Norfolk Broads are not to be missed, or why not enjoy a day trip to Norwich, with two cathedrals, a castle, museums and excellent shopping?
A lovely Necton cottage for a romantic or relaxing break.
Note: This cottage is below Ref. 2059 and next to Ref. 3505, together they accommodate 13.
All ground floor. Two bedrooms: 1 x double, 1 x twin. Shower room with shower, basin and WC. Open plan living area with fitted kitchen, dining area and sitting area with electric fire.
- Oil central heating with electric fire in sitting room
- Electric oven and hob, microwave, fridge, freezer, dishwasher, washing machine, flat screen TV with Freeview, DVD, radio/CD, WiFi, books/DVD/games
- Fuel and power inc. in rent
- Bed linen and towels inc. in rent
- Off road parking for 2 cars
- Garden with furniture, unfenced stream and large pond, shared use of other garden areas, BBQ available
- Two well-behaved pets welcome at £10 pppw (please bring own bedding)
- Sorry, no smoking
- Shops and pub with restaurant 2 miles
- Note: Due to proximity of stream and pond, this cottage is not suitable for children under 8
- Please ensure all children are supervised
- Note: Due to horses, ducks and chickens, and close proximity of stream and pond, dogs must be kept on a lead.
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Swaffham 5 miles; Dereham 6 miles; Norwich 22 miles.
The thriving village of Necton is situated at the heart of Norfolk, between the market towns of Swaffham and Dereham, and hosts a welcoming pub with restaurant, a village store with butcher's and a post office, whilst an impressive Norman church dominates the village and boasts a beautiful carved oak communion table dating back to 1086 and a wonderful Jacobean pulpit. Visit Bradenham Hall, a fine Georgian house with over 27 acres of beautiful gardens and arboretum, reputed to have been visited by Lord Nelson, or enjoy the infamous Peddars Way and the Norfolk Coastal Path, offering 93 tranquil miles of picturesque Norfolk countryside close by, great for walking, cycling and horse riding. The pretty market town of Dereham is just 6 miles away offering a variety of shops, pubs and restaurants and a local farmers' market every fortnight. Plenty to see and do in this lovely location.
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