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The XNC KNX provides the functionality for an IQ3 Controller to be able to communicate with a KNX network.
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In June, 2015, the Hotel Fasano Las Piedras restructured its operations to make room for a new expansion of its project and vision. With hotel activities planned to resume in 2016, the project will become even more exclusive under the name of Locanda Fasano. Among the principal changes are the renovation of the lodging area for a new concept of 10 suites constructed in a single building preserving the space's striking architectural identity – of strategic location atop a vast plateau with one of the region's most spectacular vistas.
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Nelson Villoria writes:
I find the multilevel approach very useful for a problem I am dealing with, and I was wondering whether you could point me to some references about poolability tests for multilevel models. I am working with time series of cross sectional data and I want to test whether the data supports cross sectional and/or time pooling. In a standard panel data setting I do this with Chow tests and/or CUSUM. Are these ideas directly transferable to the multilevel setting?
My reply: I think you should do partial pooling. Once the question arises, just do it. Other models are just special cases. I don't see the need for any test.
That said, if you do a group-level model, you need to consider including group-level averages of individual predictors (see here). And if the number of groups is small, there can be real gains from using an informative prior distribution on the hierarchical variance parameters. This is something that Jennifer and I do not discuss in our book, unfortunately.


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These guidelines are provided to inform landowners considering the donation of an open-space easement to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF). They are intended to describe the types of resources VOF strives to protect and the potential restrictions considered necessary to protect them. Each property is unique and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
An open-space easement is an interest in property voluntarily offered by a landowner that limits the property's uses in order to protect its conservation and open-space values. A property's open-space values might include farm and forest land and wildlife habitat, as well as historic, natural, scenic, scientific, or public recreational values of a property (see Appendix for further explanation). These values are identified by staff, and protected through the terms in the deed of easement, and then described in the documentation of the property contained in VOF files and records. VOF also takes into consideration the degree of development in the area, and the threat of conversion of the property to intensive uses. A proposed easement must protect the property in perpetuity and yield a significant public benefit.
Typical restrictions necessary to protect the open-space values of the property include limitations on divisions of the property, and on the number and size of buildings and structures that can be constructed on the property, and the creation of restricted-build areas to protect scenic views of the property, prime soils, streams, and/or other natural features.
An open-space easement is an interest in property that restricts how the property may be used in order to protect certain conservation values on the property. The easement need not permit public access to benefit the public, but to be accepted by VOF an easement must have significant public benefit.
The Public Benefit of an Open-Space Easement
Though most VOF easements do not require landowners to permit public access, protected properties do have significant benefit to the public, such as protection of water quality, retaining productive farm and timber land, and protecting scenic views enjoyed by travelers along public roads, rivers or from parks. It is this public benefit that helps qualify easements for federal and state tax benefits.
Conservation Values on Easement Properties
Conservation values to be protected by an open-space easement might include: productive agricultural or timberlands, scenic vistas, rare species, caves, unique geologic features, rivers or streams, wetlands, wildlife habitat and corridors, and/or historic resources (See Appendix for more information on specific resources).
Other conservation attributes of a property might include:
- inclusion in a private or governmental conservation program, plan, inventory or register, such as National Audubon Society's "Important Bird Areas", Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation's "Virginia Outdoors Plan", The Nature Conservancy's "Ecological Portfolios" or one of VOF's ten "Special Project Areas", or
- areas adjacent to other conservation lands such as: existing VOF or other conservation easements, designated scenic rivers or scenic roads, state or national parks or forests, wilderness areas, wildlife management areas, state natural area preserves, or historic battlefields or other historic properties.
By statute VOF must be sure that the protection of open-space land is consistent with the official comprehensive plan of the locality in which the property is located, so that the easement program complements county planning rather than working against it. The language of the Comprehensive Plan, the property's designation on the locality's Future Land Use map, or the locality's review of the easement proposal may provide the indicator of that consistency.
When considering acceptance of an easement, VOF weighs whether an easement on a property may interfere with an anticipated or planned public works project. VOF considers the extent to which planning for the public works project has been finalized, and the practicality and availability of other options for achieving the purpose of the public works project. VOF could suggest provisions in the deed of easement to forestall a conflict between the public works projects or decide it cannot accept the easement. Where an existing road or railroad or utility expansion is in an existing plan, that expansion cannot be blocked, and must be accommodated within the easement's terms.
A. Open Space Guidelines
There is no minimum acreage for VOF easements. Properties under 100 acres with strongly significant or multiple conservation values and development potential to be substantially removed or eliminated may qualify for VOF easement. Though each property is different, properties of over 200 acres are likely to contain sufficient open-space values by virtue of their size to qualify for VOF easement, if easement terms adequately protect conservation values. See section C. below for further considerations related to acreage.
B. Excluding parcels or portions of a property
In developing an easement project, VOF considers adjacent properties owned by the potential donor as a whole, rather than as individual tax map parcels. An easement effectively combines the tax parcels together for consideration of the easement, even though there may be retained rights for dividing the property. To achieve the best conservation possible, cutting out or excluding a portion of a property proposed for easement is discouraged, as future development of adjacent land may impair conservation values on the easement property.
For example, creation of a relatively small parcel in the center of the property, or "donut hole", excluded from the easement proposal is discouraged, as is excluding other adjacent property owned by the donor. An exception may be considered for a house lot on small acreage which does not contain multiple internal division rights, and which may be excluded if it lies on a boundary or in a corner of the property, provided that the number of dwellings and/or divisions (if any) on the proposed easement property are reduced. It is generally recommended that if a substantial acreage is proposed to be excluded from an easement project, the remaining property in easement should not be further divided. For example, if a donor wishes to place 300 of 500 acres owned in an easement, the recommendation would be for the easement to restrict the 300 acres to no division. For the donor's consideration: leaving out a portion of a property may lessen the appraiser's valuation of the easement gift.
An adjoining property owned by the same owner, but unrelated by virtue of topography or other natural feature, may be considered a separate property, rather than an excluded portion of the property proposed for easement. Requests to omit parcels or portions of a property will be considered on a case-by-case basis based on the above criteria.
C. Division of Land
To protect open space, properties should remain as a whole to the extent possible and divisions or creation of new parcels should be minimized. Parcelization has the greatest negative impact on open-space and keeping properties intact provides the most open-space and conservation benefit.
For Consideration: In general, the density recommendations listed below indicate the maximum that will be favorably recommended by VOF staff, when presenting projects to the VOF Board of Trustees for their consideration. Fewer parcels are often more appropriate in order to protect specific conservation values. Additional parcels may be accommodated in certain circumstances (such as the property's being split by a road or river) provided that the other terms of the easement help create an otherwise equivalently protective easement. Protective terms might include controls on building location (setbacks from roads and waterways), further limiting the size or number of dwellings, or other setting up natural resource protection zones, such as for scenic high elevations, rare species or karst features.
For the density acreage guidelines below, please note that the acreage may be less important than the net developable area of the property. If a significant portion of the property could not reasonably be developed, i.e., it contains mostly steep mountain land or wetlands, more limitation on divisions and improvements may be appropriate than on another property of a similar size without physical limitations. Often, these areas also coincide with important areas to conserve.
To accomplish meaningful conservation, in more remote rural areas where population densities and development pressures are relatively low, fewer parcels may be recommended, as compared with those for properties in highly urbanizing areas such as waterfront or localities near major cities.
Other important factors that VOF considers when determining recommended easement terms include:
- The threat of development and existing parcel sizes in the neighborhood.
- Location of the property in relation to county-designated Growth Areas or corridors, or planned road or utility lines.
- The presence of resources with significant public value such as streams feeding a community water supply reservoir or a native trout stream.
General Acreage Density Guidelines
Please read the section "For Consideration" immediately above, as the information is important for understanding the number-based recommendations immediately below:
Properties with fewer than 150 acres should have a strong or multiple conservation values, and are recommended to remain as a whole. It will be recommended that the easement not permit any division or any conveyance except as a whole.
Properties of 150 to 300 acres are recommended to remain as a whole or in no more than two parcels.
Properties of 300 to 600 acres are recommended to remain as a whole, but in some circumstances may be recommend favorably if not divided into an overall density of not more than one parcel per 100 acres, depending on conservation attributes and their protections by other easement terms.
Properties of 600 to 800 acres are preferred to remain as a whole, but may be recommended favorably for easement if not divided into more than five or six parcels.
Properties of 800 to 1,000 acres are preferred to remain as a whole or in as few parcels as possible, but may be recommend favorably if not divided into more than six or seven parcels,
For properties over 1,000 acres, VOF staff will recommend a maximum of eight parcels. On a case-by-case, additional parcels may be favorably recommended, with the aim to achieve an overall density of one additional parcel for each additional 500 acres. This sliding scale is intended to encourage the substantial preservation of large intact tracts of land, which tend to have highest open-space and conservation value, and which are becoming increasingly rare.
D. Guidelines for Dwellings
Number of Dwellings: One dwelling for each of the retained parcel rights is normally permitted. A second, often smaller dwelling for one or more of the permitted parcels for uses such as a guest cottage or apartment, small cabin, farm manager's house, or farm workers' quarters may be permitted, provided that the aggregate square footage of living area of the two dwellings is limited. Barn or garage apartments count in the number of permitted dwellings and aggregate square footage. Habitable dwellings of any kind (i.e., cabins, apartments, mobile homes, etc.) will count in the number of permitted dwellings and their aggregate square footage.
Note: landowners may wish to check with their county planning departments or individual mortgage lenders on whether the presence of more than one dwelling per parcel will be permitted under county regulations. Also, it is important to note that the size of an indivisible parcel may raise issues when obtaining a building permit or a new mortgage.
Sizes of Dwellings: Generally, the total square footage of above-ground enclosed living area for the dwelling(s) on a permitted parcel should not exceed an aggregate of 4,500 to 6,500 square feet of above-ground enclosed living area, and each individual dwelling should not exceed a threshold size (customarily 3,000 to 4,500 square feet of living area or smaller) without VOF's prior review and written approval. Large houses generally have a more significant impact on a property's resources, so smaller sizes are encouraged in most circumstances, though larger houses may be acceptable depending on their locations.
Locations of Dwellings and other Large Buildings: Location of dwellings or other large buildings can have a major impact on the view from public places as roads, rivers, parks, outlooks, etc. or a natural or historic resource particular to the property. Both the size and location of such a building can impact a property's natural and open-space resources. For this reason VOF will often suggest limitations on placement of dwellings or other large buildings.
E. Farm Buildings and Structures
The easement contains a threshold size for individual farm buildings and structures, generally 4,500 square feet in ground area (or if the property is less than 50 acres in size 2,500 square feet in ground area). On large working farms especially those retaining lower densities, the size threshold for review of new farm buildings or structures may be increased to up to 10,000 square feet in certain cases if conservation values are protected. Requests for individual larger farm buildings (such as riding arenas or poultry houses), will be considered on a case-by-case basis and will require siting limits. (An alternate easement form is available for commercial agricultural properties, which includes a relatively small defined farmstead area with unlimited farm buildings and related uses by right, and recommends half the usual density of retained division rights for the additional flexibility within the farmstead.)
F. Other Typical Restrictions
Forestry: Forestry is permitted, provided that VOF has approved a pre-harvest plan prior to a timber harvest and that Best Management Practices are used to control erosion and protect water quality.
Riparian (stream buffer or wetlands) Protection: To achieve water quality protection, stream buffers are strongly recommended along perennial streams (solid blue lines on USGS topographical maps), rivers, or other significant water resources on the property. VOF prefers to incorporate buffers that exclude livestock from the waterway, and may require this for important waterways.
Mining: Mining and other earth-disturbing activities that would alter the natural topography of the land are not permitted with exceptions for construction of permitted improvements, generally accepted farming practices, and erosion and sediment control measures.
Scenic Protection: To protect scenic resources, building envelopes, no-build areas or setbacks from roads, rivers, or historic structures may be appropriate.
Monitoring and Enforcement: VOF must be able to inspect the property periodically in order to enforce the restrictions set forth in the deed of easement and the deed of easement makes provision for such monitoring and enforcement. Permission is sought from the landowner in advance of a monitoring visit.
Other: Large signs, accumulation of junk or trash, and certain commercial structures such as large scale cell towers are not permitted.
Additional restrictions desired by the landowner beyond those identified above and outside of those contained in the standard form easement must have clearly delineated conservation purposes, be readily observable by staff during routine monitoring visits, and be practicable to monitor and enforce. A VOF easement cannot undertake, for example, terms which would take daily or frequent monitoring such as a prohibition on hunting or trapping, application of pesticides or bio-solids, or the riding of ATV's on a property.
All VOF easement proposals must be approved by the VOF Board of Trustees at one of its quarterly meetings. Once an easement proposal has been approved, it may be finalized and recorded any time within one year of approval.
If an approved easement proposal has not been executed and recorded within one year from the date of acceptance by the VOF Trustees, it must be resubmitted to the Trustees for approval. Reconsideration of a project after the one year initial approval date may be subject to a $1,000 fee.
Guidelines for VOF Staff to Use in Evaluating Potential Easement Properties
Criteria for determining property characteristics:
NATURAL (meets one of the following):
A. The property is in a relatively natural state defined by areas:
- With little or no land disturbance or clearing of vegetation;
- Providing habitat for rare, threatened, or endangered species;
- Of high biological diversity as determined by a qualified professional;
- Within a designated wilderness area;
- Having unique geological features.
B. The property includes lands designated by a federal, state, or local government, or recognized organization as:
- Wetlands;
- Wildlife habitat;
- Riparian corridors, public water supply watersheds, Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Areas, Resource Management Areas, flood plain protection areas, or other lands important to water quality or quantity;
- Steep or critical slopes; or
- Prime or other important agricultural or forestal soils.
SCENIC (meets one of the following):
A. The property is listed in a state, or regional, or local landscape inventory (including site-specific listing in the local Comprehensive Plan).
B. The property is part of the scenic rural landscape or scenic panorama seen from a public area such as from a park, nature preserve, road, recreational water body, trail, or historic structure or land area, is open to or used by the general public, and possesses scenic characteristics. For visual accessibility from a public road to provide significant public benefit, it should be a well-travelled road and/or pass through an area of high aesthetic value, by virtue of the scenic qualities of the natural and manmade features of the landscape. Federal tax law suggests examples of factors used in defining a particular view as "scenic" include: 1) the compatibility of the land use with other land in the vicinity; 2) the degree of contrast and variety provided by the visual scene; 3) the openness of the land; and 4) the harmonious variety of shapes and textures.
HISTORIC (meets one of the following):
A. The property is a historically important land area, such as:
- An independently significant land area (for example an archaeological site or a battlefield) that is listed on or meets the criteria for listing on the State and/or National Register;
- A land area listed on the State and/or National Register or within a Rural Historic District;
- A land area identified by the City or County Comprehensive Plan as having local historic significance; or
- A land area identified and documented by a recognized organization as having local historical significance.
B. The property includes a historic structure and/or resides in a historic setting. Examples include:
- Any building, structure, or land area that is listed on or meets the criteria for listing on the State and/or National Register;
- A supporting structure located within a registered Historic District;
- A structure identified by the City or County Comprehensive Plan as having historical significance; or
- A structure identified and documented as having local historic significance (including an example of an architectural style, an association with a historical event, or an association with a historical figure).
Note: In the case of a property that has a State and/or National Register site on it, VOF recommends that the landowner consider donating a historic preservation easement to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
The property includes a site used for scientific research or is determined to be appropriate for the systemic (systematic) and objective collection of data under the direction of a qualified individual in the field of natural science. Examples include a grove of trees resistant to a wide-spread virus, or a unique karst cave system.
The preservation of the property is pursuant to a clearly delineated governmental policy or provides scenic enjoyment to the general public as described above. Examples of governmental policy include farmland and forests within an Agricultural and Forestal District, or forestland within a Mountainside Overlay or Conservation District, land within a Rural Historic District or other designation indicative of State conservation policy. Please refer also to Open Space Guidelines in III A. above.
The property is regularly accessible for use and enjoyment by the general public and contains resources of educational value or offers recreational opportunities, such as a water area used by the public for boating or fishing, or a nature or hiking trail open to the public.
Guidance from Internal Revenue Code
Internal Revenue Code Section 170(h)(4)(A) defines conservation purposes as:
- The preservation of land areas for outdoor recreation by, or the education of, the general public.
- The protection of a relatively natural habitat of fish, wildlife, or plants, or similar ecosystem.
- The preservation of certain open space (including farmland and forest land) where such preservation is:
- For the scenic enjoyment of the general public and will yield a significant public benefit, or
- Pursuant to a clearly delineated Federal, State, or local governmental conservation policy and will yield a significant public benefit.
- The preservation of an historically important land area or a certified historic structure.
Note: The Virginia Outdoors Foundation cannot guarantee that an easement will qualify for a federal income tax deduction under IRS criteria or a state tax credit under Virginia law. Donors should consult with qualified tax advisors to determine the tax effect in their particular situation. VOF is not involved in determining the value of an easement for tax purposes. This determination must be made by a qualified independent appraiser.


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Today, arts and creative learning are essential to the future of our students.
In order to succeed in college, career, and life, America's young people need a complete and balanced education that provides a broad range of skills and knowledge. They need the ability to think creatively, to collaborate, to create, and to solve complex problems—all skill areas that are developed through quality instruction in the arts.
Unfortunately, far too many of our public school students don't have access to music, dance, theater, and visual arts as part of their school day.
If we are serious about boosting graduation rates, improving struggling schools, and giving our students the best opportunities to succeed and thrive, we need to make sure that every child in every school has equal access to the arts and creative learning.
Here are some key facts to help you make the case for more arts at your child's school:
- Low-income students highly engaged in the arts are MORE THAN TWICE as likely to graduate from college than peers with no arts education.
- For English Language Learners (ELLs), gains in student language proficiency scores increase more than 10x with arts engagement in schools!
- At-risk students with access to the arts — inside or outside classrooms — do better academically, aim higher in their career goals and become more civically involved.
- Students involved in the arts feel less bored in school and watch fewer hours of TV at home!
- 72% of business leaders say that CREATIVITY is the number one skill they seek when hiring.
- Arts and creative learning supports the PERSONAL, ARTISTIC, CIVIC, and SOCIAL development of our nation's students.
- Students engaged in arts learning SCORE HIGHER ON THEIR SAT'S than peers with little school-day arts instruction!
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Hello Sir,
I am currently in my final year of B.TECH and secured a job as a Business Analyst. I am interested in Investment area and later have plans for an MBA. I came to learn about CFA for investment professionals. Is CFA a substitute for MBA for a career in Investing. Which one is better? Will I get jobs in equity research etc if I passed CFA without an MBA. Is MBA really important for entering into Investment field or will CFA be enough? If CFA is important, should I start preparing for it from now itself, please suggest me what are the sources or books to start preparation. Please tell me any other information about CFA if I should Know.
Thanking you, Sir.
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CFA (US) is sharply focused on portfolio analysis, investment strategy and asset allocation. If you are keen on becoming an Investment Manager, the knowledge and skills that CFA imparts will be indispensable.
You will find some of the top Fund Managers of India like Prashant Jain (HDFC), Anand Radhakrishnan (FT), etc. have an MBA, perhaps because CFA was not so prevalent 2 decades back. However, a few of them did follow up with a additional CFA.
MBA imparts with more generic skills for general management. Even MBA with a Finance specialization can't impart you with the requisite skills for a career in Investments. However, be prepared to spend around 4 years to complete all 3 levels of CFA.
Hope this helps. Do write back with your views and comments.
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The Little Italy centered on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx could also lay claim to being the city's Little Albania. One edible sign of the neighborhood's long-standing, mostly low-profile Balkan presence has been the Chowhound-endorsed burek at Tony & Tina's Pizzeria—a savory stuffed pastry served with tart house-made yogurt. Now there's a worthy challenger, NewYorkNewHaven tells fellow 'hounds: Giovanni's Brick Oven Pizza just down the street.
Giovanni's—not affiliated with other restaurants of the same name around the Bronx, according to the staff—raises the burek bar with flakier, crisper pastry and beef, spinach, and cheese fillings made with uncommon care, as reported by Serious Eats. It also makes bureks more frequently than the competition and doesn't resort to nuking them. "More flavorful, fresher fillings, better phyllo, no threat of microwave, and a wood-fired oven," NewYorkNewHaven sums up. Note that the burek guy isn't always in the house, so you might call ahead if you're planning a special trip to Arthur Avenue.
Giovanni's Brick Oven Pizza [Bronx]
2343 Arthur Avenue (between E. 186th and 184th streets), Bronx
Discuss: Arthur Avenue Experience — Huge Disappointment
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By Amanda During our first Nana/Daughter/Mommy trip we contemplated several resorts before deciding on Port Orleans Riverside's Royal Rooms. I've had been to Coronado Springs twice in the past 6 months and I'm not a fan of Caribbean Beach. That left Port Orleans Riverside and Port Orleans French Quarter and when I saw the prices for the Royal Room I snagged it! During non-discounted times, the Royal Rooms can run about $30-$40 more than an average room.
We were lucky enough to stay in the Oak Manor, just a bridge away from the main lobby and super close to a quiet pool! I LOVED the location…Seriously couldn't ask for a better spot! The other Royal Room building is Parterre Place and is equally a great location.
The courtyard outside our building.
We were on the 2nd floor in Oak Manor.
Everything had the touch of a princess!
I was impressed the minute we opened the door to our room.
Everything was so regal!
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The last days of the Passover are Sunday night through Tuesday night. I'll be offline during that time. While I'm eating matza, I have a few recommendations:
1. Check out www.pfblogs.org: This site offers a diverse chorus of personal finance voices about money, frugal living and investments.
2. Go to the Carnivals: The carnival of personal finance and the Festival of Frugality are a few of my favorites. The insightful Mapgirl (Mapgirl's Fiscal Challenge) hosted the latest edition and a new edition of FOF will be up on Tuesday at The Digerati Life, another of my favorite bloggers.
3. Teens and Money. Parade magazine highlighted a new publication from the FDIC. It's called Teens and Money at pueblo.gsa.gov.
The Frugal Duchess Booktique
The Frugal Duchess of Beauty Store
Book Shop of Fear
The Poetry & Drama Queen
Frugal Jazz & Blues
Frugal Comic Book Connection


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BeOS R4.5 comes with the YMF724 driver, which unfortunately does not work with recent YMF724F/740/744 chipsets. If you have a sound card based on these chipsets, try the "YMF724 Driver Patch," which you can get here:
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It's that time of year again–Top 10 music lists are out in force, and everyone's got their own best and worst songs to showcase their wonderful taste. Well, what if you could do both–have a best worst songs list? Yes, a celebration of guilty pleasures, of songs so bad they're good–songs you have no excuse for liking and listening to over and over again. As a connoisseur of all things musically trashy and lowbrow, I present to you the 10 Best Terrible Songs of 2011. Read, intrepid audience; read, listen, and weep.
10. Korn (Featuring Skrillex) – "Narcissistic Cannibal"
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This is a decision so bad it had to time travel from 1998 to get here. Sure, Korn's popularity may be lagging, but is that really a good reason to intentionally imitate Nine Inch Nails imitators like Filter or Stabbing Westward? Nu metal and electronica do not mix, especially toothless, uninspired, most-likely-merely-contractually-obligated nu metal and electronica. This one makes the #10 slot on the list because it's mostly just bad, but since I'm not above tawdry dubstep, I usually at least make it to Skrillex's breakdown after a few choruses.
9. Kreayshawn – "Gucci Gucci"
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Wait, what? White hipster chicks trying to act ghetto? No, Internet. Stop this. You know better. I know better. I should know better, but I can't… stop… watching…
8. Insane Clown Posse – "Leck Mich Im Arsch"
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The Insane Clown Posse. Covering Mozart. Produced by Jack White. Need I say more? Hear the full version here. The only takeaway I have from this is what lengths mad genius Jack White will go to conjure even the smallest smidgen of artistic merit from the makers of "Miracles" and "Big Money Rustlas." It appears "Leck Mich Im Arsch" was a fun way to resurrect this lesser-known scatological Mozart piece and grab attention for the release, whereas the single's B-side, "Mountain Girl," actually works by reining in ICP's redneck rhapsodizing and shaping it into a whimsical modern-day bluegrass story song.
7. Britney Spears – "I Wanna Go"
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At thirty years old, Britney Spears could totally drop the teenage sexpot image and still have a vibrant career, right? Right? This is downright embarrassing. She still shapes her mouth to sing her vowels as baby sounds, the double entendre is as clumsy as Alec Baldwin on his iPhone–I would say I'm baffled why she would debase herself this way, but I'm sure it can be explained by the multitudinous digits printed on Ms. Spears' paycheck. So why is this song so listenable? I'll admit it; I like a lot of the production trends in Top 40 music right now–club music that's gaudy, repetitive, loud, over-compressed, and unapologetic–the aural equivalent of B cinema. She may not be acting her age, but Britney's being entirely honest about what she has to offer. The fact that its chorus shares the tiniest helix of musical DNA with Sufjan Stevens' "Vesuvius" might have something to do with it, too, but maybe that's just me desperately hanging onto a scrap of dignity.
6. Rebecca Black – "My Moment"
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"Friday" was the banal train wreck that rocketed Ms. Black from obscurity to national stardom, but it can be easily excused. It was a fluke, a vanity project probably pushed on her by disgusting stage parents, its dopey lyrics penned by the creepy opportunists running Ark Music Factory. "Friday" was an innocent song which pushed an innocent girl into a corrupt world; Black's followup single "My Moment" is a tragic portrait of a young woman pursuing a fantastical dream while she comes of age, assailed simultaneously by the vitriol of the Internet and copious iTunes residuals. It's beyond tragic, even… it's downright menacing. She's not just trying to get to school and have a good time anymore. She wants this fame. She wants to wear fancy dresses and walk the red carpet. She wants to sing to adoring crowds. And she wants to shove it right back in your face, you heckling riffraff. "I'm about to blow up," she warns her "Friday" detractors–an ominous lyric from a California girl who, only three years old pre-9/11, would have been a vulnerable, impressionable young tyke for Al Qaeda to shape and mentor. Let's have the DOJ keep an eye on this one.
5. Attack Attack! – "Smokahontas"
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This was technically released in 2010 on Attack Attack!'s self-titled album, but the video was released in early 2011, so I'm stretching the rules a bit here. Attack Attack! is infamous for popularizing the term "crabcore," wherein a guitarist lowers his bottom to the same altitude as his knees and crabwalks. What caught my attention, though, was the bizarre fusion of hardcore screamo music (as hardcore as you'll get from suburban middle-class white kids in Ohio, I imagine) and angsty, autotuned teen-pop techno. These people heard this before they released it, right? At least Korn just tacked on Skrillex's synth drums and gurgle-bass to their existing sound instead of lurching back and forth between metal riffs and Yo Gabba Gabba hooks. Either they knowingly put out some of the most embarrassing rock music ever produced, or they truly lack the self-awareness to see how awful this is. Either way, my ears win, despite the pain.
4. CJ Fam – "Ordinary Pop Star"
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While some were content to let Rebecca Black's "Friday" be their final exposure to Ark Music Factory, some of us dug deeper. While there were many worthy entries in this exploitative preteen pop genre, some from Ark and others not, nothing quite arouses the level of revulsion and shame as CJ Fam's "Ordinary Pop Star." Identified as 11 years old in another Ark Music Factory video, CJ delivers a tongue-in-cheek ode to the destructive downward spiral initiated by one's entrance into the public eye that's as trashy as it is catchy. What's disturbing here is that Ms. Fam is proof that the entertainment industry, pushing for a younger audience (the only mass clientele they can still get), will exploit younger and younger children to achieve this, and nothing but a major child labor/molestation scandal will delay them. From the looks of how the Ark founders are eying that monitor with CJ Fam footage, it looks like it'll happen sooner rather than later.
3. LMFAO – Everything
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It's insufficient to post a single song from "party rockers" LMFAO. It's more important to see them being "real" in an interview. Between their half-baked sentiments about creating true art, frat-boy ghetto affectations, and random scuffles with presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, these men are either pulling off the greatest piece of performance art in history, or… no. I have to stop myself. It's just stupid. Extremely, extremely stupid.
2. Selena Gomez & The Scene – "Love You Like a Love Song"
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Rest in peace, similes. But then again, the gargly dubstep bass… I'm torn.
1. Big Freedia – "Y'all Get Back Now"
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Wait, how did this one even get on the list? This is just plain one of the best songs of 2011. Yeah, that's right, haters, there is nothing to dislike about "Y'all Get Back Now." Seriously. This is '90s club-inspired, booty-shaking rap that is life affirming and heartwarming. This is about as basic as hip-hop can get–consisting of Freedia's vocals, drums, bass, the occasional MIDI orchestral stab and air raid siren–and that's all we need. The more sophisticated barely middlebrow among you may scoff, but hey, sometimes it's perfectly fine to eat a Big Mac instead of filet mignon. If it's got a danceable beat, goofy lyrics, and an infectious atmosphere of fun, you may be preventing yourself from loving it only for fear of feeling foolish.


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We must keep our heads or risk losing our title chance, says Liverpool's Jordan Henderson
JORDAN HENDERSON says Liverpool are not getting carried despite closing the gap to leaders Chelsea following yesterday's thumping away win at Southampton.
The Reds jumped above Manchester City and Arsenal into second place in the Premier League after goals from Luis Suarez, Raheem Sterling and Steven Gerrard sealed a comprehensive win at St Mary's.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has continuously reiterated his aim of securing Champions League football this season, but the victory over the Saints - which extended their winning run to four matches - has given the Merseysiders a real chance of claiming their first title for 24 years.
With Liverpool only four points behind Chelsea, Henderson feels he and his team-mates must remain focussed ahead of a testing run-in which will make or break the club's title aspirations.
"We have just got to keep our feet on the ground"Jordan Henderson
"We have just got to keep our feet on the ground," he said.
"We are very confident but at the same time there is a long way to go so we've have just got to take each game at it comes.
"We've got some quality players here and are working very well, so we will take each game as it comes and see where we finish."
Next up for Liverpool is a trip to face rivals Manchester United at Old Trafford on March 16.
The Reds will also face Tottenham, Manchester City and Chelsea before the end of the season.


text: The 4-star Caruso Palace Hotel provides an Adults-Only (16 years plus) North Africa holiday stay, located within walking distance of the charming marina of Port El Kantaoui, not far from the bustling city of Sousse in Tunisia. Set in sub-tropical gardens, the Caruso Palace Hotel contains elegant interiors and a total of 123 enticing rooms for varying occupancy needs. You can savour dishes from two restaurants and refreshment from three bars, relax in lounges and soak-up the sun on the terraces and in the gardens. Make a splash in the pool and unwind in the well-equipped Wellness Area; and hit the beach for more fun. Enjoy some deserved quality time when you book into the Adults-Only (16 years plus) 4-star Caruso Palace Hotel at Port El Kantaoui; discover the delights of nearby Sousse City and the beaches of Tunisia. Getting to the hotel: 25 km from Monastir International Airport and 50km from Tunis-Carthage International Airport. Local tips: The marina of Port El Kantaoui hosts a great choice of cafes and restaurants; also seize the opportunity to explore Sousse with its cobbled medina and ribat, only 6km away. FACILITIES: Food, drink and entertainment: Main restaurant 'Les Princesses' serves a fresh breakfast buffet and dining menu; 'La Pergola' restaurant is a grill BBQ and pizzeria; and the poolside snack bar, the cosy 'La Rotonde' bar and the piano/cocktail 'Le Bar' all offer a choice of snack refreshments and beverages and there are relaxing lounges and a reading room. Sport, games and activities: Swimming pool, sun terrace with sun beds and parasols; A Spa billiard table; easy beach access and a champion golf course only a short drive away. Additional: 24 hour Front Desk services, housekeeping, free WiFi internet in public areas, currency exchange, room service, laundry facility, multilingual staff, safe boxes, luggage storage, facilities for guests with disabilities, lift, air-conditioning, souvenir shop, no pets allowed and free onsite parking without reservation is possible.


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When Marvel Comics announced that they were going to be restarting Spider-Man's books and returning the characters back to "basics," what that actually entailed was cause for a great deal of speculation.
While it was the rare fan who guessed one of the ideas the House of Ideas had up their collective sleeves - Peter Parker's Aunt May returning from the dead, her dramatic death just a trick by the Green Goblin - more than a few figured Marvel's plans including busting up the marriage of Peter and Mary Jane Parker.
Not so, says John Byrne, one of the creators directing the Spider-Man revival.
"Mary Jane will be a constant in the book," Byrne said. "I think the only thing worse than a married super-hero is a divorced super-hero."
Not only will the Parkers remain married, Mary Jane will be embracing her modeling career, an aspect of her character that has been placed on the back burner in the recent past.
"She's got this multimillion-dollar career that is going to have her basically be on the road a lot," Byrne told the Detroit News Comic Book Continuum (http://www.detnews.com/comicbooks/). "We're going to turn her back into what she was before they got married. She's the one who comes back and messes up his life periodically."
And in keeping with the return to basics, even a straightforward romantic situation has its wrinkles. In this case, it's Jill Stacy, the cousin of Peter's first great love, the late Gwen Stacy.
"Little Jill Stacy's kind of going, 'Let me take care of you, Peter.' And Peter's going, 'I'm OK, I'm married, I'm cool. [But] Mary Jane's been gone for six months.'


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A "dramatic" rise in purse thefts is spelling Christmas misery for shoppers in Motherwell town centre.
Elderly and disabled people are being targeted by what police believe are organised criminals.
Undercover officers have been drafted in to Brandon Parade and shoppers are now being offered 'purse bells' to deter thieves.
PC Brian Ratcliffe revealed: "Over the last eight weeks we've had 15 purse thefts reported in Motherwell town centre which is a dramatic increase.
"People affected include the elderly and disabled. Shoppers are carrying a lot of money in the run up to Christmas and so losing a purse causes a lot of distress.
"Although it's only cash the thieves are interested in, purses often contain family photos which have sentimental value,"
Police believe the those responsible are coming from outside the area in a bid to avoid detection.
PC Ratcliffe added: "We don't know if it's an individual or a team, but whoever is involved is very organised and I'm urging shoppers to be wary.
"The scenario is someone will bump into a person carrying a bag to cause a distraction, say sorry and dip into the bag. The victim doesn't know anything about it until she's looking for her purse at a shop till."
Shoppers are advised to keep their purse at the bottom of the bag which should always be zipped up.
PC Ratcliffe said: "I want to stress to people that we are aware of this problem. There are uniform police patrols in the town centre and plain clothes officers are also being used as we try to get to the bottom of it.
"CCTV is being monitored as well and I would ask anyone with information about these thefts to contact us or Crimestoppers.
"In addition, we are getting supplies of purse bells and if anyone would like these they should call 101 or approach me in the town centre. "


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My niece, Bailey, was born a year ago. I was thrilled to welcome her to the world and to the family, and rushed to the hospital up in L.A. as soon as I got the call from my cousin/"brother" that she'd arrived. What a precious bit of baby goodness!
Naturally I took some treats to the baby and her parents, including the bouquet above, and I'm oddly proud to say that my gift received some rather strange looks from people as I walked through the halls of Cedar Sinai Hospital. I guess it's not every day that folks see a baby bouquet made from broccoli. Yes, broccoli!
Bailey's parents decided they'd give their baby a B first name and a D middle name, so though I knew the baby girl's initials, I didn't learn her full name until she was born. How and why they started calling her Broccoli while she was in utero is a long story, but suffice to say that Bailey was known as Broccoli until she made her grand entrance into the world last June.
Given the unusual nickname for this baby girl, and that I had time to brainstorm before her birth, I decided to make a broccoli bouquet. It came together beautifully, and as I said before, it was attention-getting! I love the fact that though the broccoli isn't particularly delicate the bouquet still looks girly, and the green and pink worked well together.
Here are the steps involved in assembling this bouquet:
I purchased a large bunch of broccoli with long stems, and decided on a square vase we had up in the cupboard as the base. I just happened to have white acetate ribbon that was the same "height" as the vase, and wrapped it all the way around, sealing the two ends together at the back. Next I selected a vibrant pink ribbon (narrower than the white ribbon) to add a pop of girly pink.
I incorporated Bailey's initials into the bouquet by stamping BDL onto an oval cut from watercolor paper, and affixed small pink flower stickers in between the initials. I accented the edge of the initialed oval with black metallic rub-ons, and attached the paper oval to the band of pink ribbon.
Next, I rubber banded the broccoli stems together in the shape I wanted and tucked the broccoli into the vase – with a bit of white tulle peeking out of the top on either side to soften the look a bit.
And finally, as the piece de resistance, I wired fresh water pearls I had on hand (that were pre-drilled with holes) to wooden toothpicks and inserted them into the broccoli tops. This added another touch of femininity, and also broke up some of the solid darker green of the vegetable. I used a very thin wire to attach the pearls to the tops of the wooden toothpicks.
What do you think? Is it lovely, or am I a lunatic? Or both?! Personally, I think this is a great example of how you can use a personal detail like a nickname in a bouquet or gift, even if one of the materials is way out of the norm. This bouquet was a lot of fun to create and I look forward to the coming years, when Bailey is old enough to hear this story and see the bouquet her creative/crazy Aunt Melody made for her!
Questions? Comments? I'd love to hear from you…
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Boston Attacks
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Investigators are slowly beginning to learn a bit about what motivated the Boston bombing suspects. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to place bombs at the Boston Marathon, officials told The Washington Post. Investigators say the brothers appear to have "self-radicalized," learned about bomb making from the Internet, and carried out the attacks without help from outside terrorist groups. Dzhokhar, who was charged yesterday with setting off a weapon of mass destruction, remains hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the neck. Yesterday the only word he spoke was "no," when asked whether he could afford a lawyer.


text: Officials say southern Nevada residents will see an increase in military flights in the skies over the Las Vegas area for the next three weeks while Nellis Air Force Base conducts Red Flag combat training exercises. Nellis says combat training will be over the nearly 3 million acre U.S. Air Force Nevada Test and Training Range north of Las Vegas. The 414th Combat Training Squadron is responsible for the event, with Air Force units from bases in nine states and forces from the United Kingdom and Australia. The exercise will also involve a cyberspace component. For the first two weeks, more than 80 aircraft are scheduled to depart Nellis about 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily. The week of March 7-11, launches will be about 2 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.


text: News Tuesday 23 June 2015 Applemore Table Tennis ExxonMobil is the first to step up to the table and donate £1000 of the £3600 needed, towards Applemore Technology College's plan to develop an inter-generational project in Hampshire. The school is currently raising the money to purchase 6 table tennis tables, to potentially be used by students and the wider community in an inter-generational project. The concept behind the scheme is to bring generations together through the medium of table tennis. But why table tennis? Table tennis is one of the few sports in which size, sex and age are irrelevant competitive factors. It is a non-contact game that revolves around individual or team skill so is also practically risk free. Therefore can simultaneously be used students and older members of the local population, including those that may not be 'sporty' as well as those with mobility issues. Furthermore research suggests that when playing table tennis; hand eye coordination is improved and it stimulates mental alertness, concentration and tactical strategy; which makes table tennis the ideal activity for students to play in lunch time and breaks as well as older people that attend the project. An additional benefit of the tables is that once they are installed, they will need little upkeep, organization or supervision, therefore table tennis will always be available for students. The school is looking to partner age concern Hampshire and create a club which will be open for all, with the concept people of any age, sex and size could come and play table tennis with each other at the school. The head teacher at Applemore Technology College, Roland Marsh, commented that the project "will have a very positive affect on local older peoples' and students' health and well-being." The ExxonMobil contribution was secured by Allan Pollock through their governor scheme, which rewards employees who dedicate a large amount of their personal time to voluntary governor positions by contributing to their educational facility. Allan, until his recent retirement, was both an ExxonMobil employee and Applemore College governor. His role at the school was to oversee their finance management; hold senior leaders to account for educational performance of the school and to guarantee clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction. Since stepping down he has stressed the importance of ExxonMobil employees holding governor roles due to the mutual benefits, including but not limited to monetary gains through the governor scheme. He is now looking for another ExxonMobil worker to replace him on the full governing body (20 hour commitment per term) so that the school can continue to benefit from being situated near to a large petroleum corporation.


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Armed with insta-fry ray guns, endowed with slimy, humungous brains – and enlivened with out-of-this-world but state-of-the-art special effects. Gasp! As the U.S. legislature is overwhelmed. (Don't fear, we still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for us, and that ain't bad!) Thrill! As Earth fights back with an unexpected weapon. Take that, Martians!


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Deep garnet with ripe mulberry aromas highlighted with notes of orange blossom and milk chocolate supported by an undercurrent of truffle earthiness. This fresh, vibrant Shiraz is defined by the fine tannins from the co-fermentation of Shiraz and Viognier, 5% of the blend, it shows subtle cashew and vanilla nuances from ageing in fine grained French and American oak. Bright berry fruit harmoniously blends with savoury and mineral elements.
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Confidence Interval Interpretation
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Reader Professor Doctor Moritz Heene writes:
I read your post on CIs with great interest, especially this one: http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=11862, see "Thinner is better": "Frequentists prefer thinner, which is to say, narrower intervals over wide, assuming that, ceteris paribus, narrow intervals are more precise. For example, larger samples result in narrower intervals than small samples. But since all you can say is your interval either contains the true value or it doesn't, its width does not matter. The temptation to interpret the width of an interval in the Bayesian fashion is so overwhelming that I have never seen it passed up."
However, a colleague, with whom I discussed this issue sent me the following lines and I wonder what you think of it. I think he made a reasonable point: "For me a confidence interval is a summary of the effects I would [have] rejected if submitted to a hypothesis test (and we don't need to think discretely here, we can think of the p-value as the continuous measure that it is of inconsistency of data with null, so I have stronger evidence against effects closer to the end of the confidence interval).
So a tight confidence interval is one that rejects many effects I may find interesting to know are rejected. A wide confidence interval is one that does not reject many effects I may find interesting."
Your colleague didn't pass up the Bayesian interpretation, either. He can't really be blamed. The official frequentist meaning is too perplexing to keep in mind, its consequences intolerable, that relief is sought.
To repeat the official definition. Observe data, posit a parameterized probability model to "explain" that data, and construct a confidence interval (for one of these parameters). Now repeat the "experiment" such that the repetition is exactly the same as the first run, except that it is "randomly" different. Reconstruct the confidence interval. Repeat the "experiment" a third time, giving a third confidence interval. Repeat again. Then again. Then again forever.
When you reach forever, 95% of your collection of confidence intervals will overlap the "true" value of the parameter.
But what, you ask, about the confidence interval you have in hand? What does it mean? Well, it means just what I said, and nothing more. The only thing you can say about the confidence interval before you—regardless of its width—is that either the true value of the parameter lies within it or it doesn't.
Suppose your interval is [a, b]. Either the true value of the parameters is in the interval or it isn't. Introduce hypothesis testing: form a "null" which says the true value of the parameter is some number c. The frequentist then checks whether c is outside [a, b]. If so, he "rejects" the null.
Rejects is a word more apt than you think. For, as Neyman the man who invented confidence intervals tells us, rejecting a "null" is a pure act of will, just as is assigning the "null" a value of c. When the "null" is rejected, because all we know is that the true value of the parameter is in [a,b] or it isn't, which is a tautology and true for any interval, there is no basis besides "I want".
Your colleague says he would reject "nulls" where c is anywhere not in a to b. Well, he might. But he does so—on the official frequentist theory—with no basis. We are not entitled to say that the true value of the parameter has any probability to be c nor any probability to be in the interval [a, b]. We are not entitled to say that any finite collection of confidence intervals will be "well behaved" either. Only once we have an infinite collection are we allowed to speak—but only because we have observed everything that can ever be observed.
It is a Bayesian interpretation to say that the parameter "probably" or "likely" lies in [a, b]. It is a Bayesian interpretation that the parameter "could very well be" c. If you decide to reject the "null", or to "fail to reject" it, with any kind of sureness or conviction or hope (the word "confidence" is lost to us here) then you have used a Bayesian interpretation.
Of course, this Bayesian interpretation is not a formal one, where the priors have been set up in the official fashion and so forth, but assigning any kind of probability, quantified or in the form of a "feeling", to a parameter just is to be Bayesian.
If this is confusing, well, so it is. But that's frequentism for you. A bizarre idea that you only know a probability at the end of all time.
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"If you decide to reject the "nullâ€, or to "fail to reject†it, with any kind of sureness or conviction or hope".
No. We can surely be confident about a claim because the process that generated this claim is reliable. This does not have to do with degree of beliefs.
Having done some amateur tutoring for intro prob/stats, no one I've seen has really grasped what a p-value means, and they instinctively want to think Bayesian. It's such a natural way of thinking! P-values seem almost pedagogically impossible to teach unless you start a prob/stats class with the ideas of logical probability. For students who just "have" to take the class, they don't generally care enough to get the nuances, they just want to plug and chug, get a passing grade, and move on.
It actually disappoints me a bit that the Bayesian results for various basic tests and regressions are the same (mathematically) as Frequentist formulations. If there were more differences, students might grasp the difference in how the two schools think of things.
This seems like a good place to discuss Nate Silver's latest predictions.
The link is here.
Isnt't the null rejected when c is outside [a,b]?
For the benefit of more recent readers and for Professor Doctor Moritz Heene, his colleague, and others, I re-post an example of the fact that Matt's statement about the meaning of the confidence interval is admitted to in all the best statistics textbooks.
Which is to say, frequentists themselves admit that Matt's definition is completely correct — and then spend the next 200 pages of their texts ignoring what they admitted. For example, the following is from my wife's old Bio-Stat book, which I had pulled down off our bookshelves one day long ago to check Matt's claim. Here is Bernard Rosner (Rosner B. Fundamentals of Biostatistics. Fourth Edition, 1995. p. 162.):
"Therefore, we cannot say that there is a 95% chance that the parameter µ will fall within a particular 95% CI. However, we can say the following: Over the collection of all 95% confidence intervals that could be constructed from repeated random samples of size n, 95% will contain the parameter µ."
Remove the obfuscatory language, and this says precisely what Matt says: the meaning of any particular CI that we can calculate within history is undefined — or, more precisely, as Matt writes: "all you can say is your interval either contains the true value or it doesn't ".
Rosner admits this exactly: "we cannot say that there is a 95% chance that the parameter µ will fall within a particular 95% CI." That is, just as Matt states, there is no meaning to a CI that we could actually calculate. The entire meaning of a CI is exclusively in the infinite set, or as Rosner writes: "[the set of] all 95% confidence intervals that could be constructed from repeated random samples of size n").
And of course, even the 'infinity-minus-one' set of CI has no meaning. Rosner is obfuscating, using the idea that somehow an infinite set "could be constructed", if we really tried.
But we can't calculate an infinite number of CIs within any amount of history. And "we cannot say" what meaning to give to any particular CI that anyone, anywhere, at any time, might calculate.
There is no getting around this. There is no wiggle room. It's not subject to interpretation. The best frequentist statistics texts say out loud that a Confidence Interval is exactly what Matt states that it is. There is NO meaning that can be given ("we cannot say") to any actual calculated CI, by the admission of frequentist statisticians themselves.
So if the CI was as thin as a line, would that be the true value of the parameter? At what point would a narrow CI be so narrow as to be the parameter?
Define "reliable.â€
I would say a procedure is reliable when:
i) when H is true, it will most surely tell me it is true. And;
ii) when H is false, it will most surely tell me it is false.
Or, in terms of CI.
i) most of the time the constructed CI will contain the true value.
If the evidence was generated by a reliable procedure, I can have confidence in that evidence.
Now define "most surely" and "most of the time " and how you know the "reliable" procedure will yield it and, for that matter, how you know when the procedure yields it so the procedure can be deemed "reliable".
I'm curious how knowing how good a parameter might be tells you anything beyond the quality of the parameter and, in particular, male a statement about H if H is anything other than "I have a good parameter" (given the data at hand).
Andy ,
No. Read JohnK's comment
John K,
So true. I have a statistics book where the author correctly explains that the confidence interval has to do with repeated experiments and then proceeds to use confidence intervals through the rest of the book. It's bizarre. He gives the correct explanation and then uses the confidence interval incorrectly throughout the book.
So Neyman rejects inductive reasoning as a source of knowledge and so rejects all conclusions based on sampling. And evades this problem by proposing an infinite number of samples? Which nobody could ever draw so they skip that step? And then they pretend they did? So that's alright then? How did this pass peer review? More, how did it become the standard?
When students have a wobbly understanding of confidence intervals in the early days of a course, and after what is now revealed as the sleight-of-hand by the prof or the text, there are incredible periods of struggle trying to reconcile the two definitions, or the initial definition with the subsequent application. A student who has a more flexible outlook will likely be able to adjust to and accept the inconsistencies, but one who is more concerned with methodical mastery of the material will continue to have trouble with statistics (as generally taught).
"So a tight confidence interval is one that rejects many effects I may
find interesting to know are rejected."
– My line of argumentation: This is like saying that the parameter c has a probability distribution, which is, of course, a Bayesian interpretation. But, as we
know, c is supposed to be a fixed parameter in frequentist statistics.
What we actually have in frequentist statistics is a **sampling**
distribution, which is not the same as a probability distribution of the
parameter c itself. The difference *seems* to be subtle but is, in fact, substantial.
Suppose our model distribution is uniform on [mu-1,mu+1]. Suppose we sample N times. Let m be the minimum sample and M the maximum. I claim a 100% confidence interval is [M-1,m+1]. Not only that, I claim the probability is 100% that mu is in [M-1,m+1]. I claim a narrower region is more precise. I claim it works for any finite N, but (roughly) as N goes to infinity precision becomes absolute. I claim I can say more than "it's either in there or it isn't." I say… it's in there!
Ethologists and animal trainers speak of "intermittent rewards". Doggys learn best if they don't get a treat every time they perform the trick. The options, of course, are "treat or no treat", not "treat or swat on the muzzle", for successful performance.
"*Note: This study used cancer registry data to estimate the amount of HPV-associated cancer in the United States by examining cancer in parts of the body and cancer cell types that are more likely to be caused by HPV. Cancer registries do not collect data on the presence or absence of HPV in cancer tissue at the time of diagnosis. In general, HPV is thought to be responsible for about 91% of HPV-associated cervical cancers."
Someone told me that all cervical cancers were caused by HPV. I pull this up and I see two statements that cause me to wonder if people read them.
"Cancer registries do not collect data on the presence or absence of HPV in cancer tissue"
"in general, HPV is ***** thought ***** to be responsible for 91% of HPV associated cervical cancers"
Can someone define the confidence interval of "thought to" and 'associated with'? Two separate statements of uncertainty.
How many HPV non associated non cervical cancers are there?
from Paul L. Meyer, Introductory Probability and Statistical Applications (Addison-Wesley, 1965)
Ch. 14 Estimation of Parameters, pp 281-282.
"Consider 2?(z)-1=P(X-bar -z?/?n?X-bar +z?/?n).
This last probability statement must be interpreted very carefully. It does not mean that the probability of the parameter ? falling into the specified interval equals 2?(z)-1. ? is a parameter and either is or is not in the above interval. Rather, the above interval estimate should be interpreted as follows: 2?(z)-1 equals the probability that the random interval (X-bar -z?/?n?X-bar +z?/?n) contains ? ."
Meyer goes on to note that forming multiple interval estimates will not necessarily yield the same intervals, since the confidence interval is a sampling variable every bit as much as the sample average. Both the interval estimate and the point estimate are attempts to get a handle on the mean of the population, the interval being an effort to determine how precise the estimate is. I have always compared the mean to the stake in a game of quoits or horseshoes and the interval estimate to the quoit or horseshoe itself. It may or may not ring the stake, but the stake is not the variable, the horseshoe is. "When we make the statement that [? lies between the endpoints of a particular interval] we are simply adopting the point of view of believing that something is so which we know to be true 'most of the time.'"
This text was used in my undergraduate course in the math department.
V.K. Rohatgi, An introduction to Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics (Wiley, 1976)
Ch. 11 Confidence Estimation p.46.
Let ??? and 0<?<1. A function ?(X) satisfying
P(sub-?){ ?(X) ? ?}?1-? for all ?
is called a lower confidence bound for ? at confidence level 1-?. The quantity
inf(over ???)P(sub-?){ ?(X) ? ?}
is called the confidence coefficient.
This has the singular advantage of at least being different from that which is usually encountered! I do not do the typography justice here. The author goes on to remark:
"It is not quite correct to read [the equations] as follows: The probability that ? lies in the set S(X) is ?1-?. ? is fixed; it is S(X) that is random here. One can give the following interpretation:
Choose and fix ? (usually small, say 0.01 or 0.05). Consider a sequence of independent experiments of size n from a population of unknown parameter ?, where n and ? may vary from experiment to experiment. For each sample point x, compute S(x). Then the parameter of the corresponding population may or may nor be covered by S(x). Although the set S(x) will vary from sample to sample, the probability that the statement "S(x) includes ?" will be true is roughly at least 1-?. … Note that a given confidence set either includes the actual parameter point or not; but we would not know which unless we already knew the actual parameter value.
Cochran's Sampling Techniques (Wiley, 1977) addresses only the practical aspects of calculating confidence intervals in various sampling situations, taking account of sample sizes, skewness, multivariate categories, and the like.
H.A. Freeman's Industrial Statistics (Wiley, 1943) does not mention confidence intervals as such.
W.A. Shewhart's Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product does not mention confidence intervals as such.
I did not feel like looking through the rest of my books.
I intuit a relationship between confidence intervals and topological proximity spaces; but I never got around to working it out.
I am happy to see that I agree with myself from 11/11/2014!! Neat.


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As I listened to Jessie Pavalka and Charlie Walduck chatting about health and fitness, the one comment that struck me was, 'fall in love with the feeling, not the visual progress'…or something along those lines…I was so enraptured with Jessie and his wise words, and Charlie's interviewing skills, that it took me a while to write it down!
Think about it for a second. 'Fall in love with the feeling, not the visual progress'. A rather simple statement, yet so crucial to our success. I have spent so many moments being fed up over the numbers on the scales, or pinching a roll of fat and looking at myself with hatred. What exactly I expected to achieve when I was doing that, I have no idea…and I am glad that I have managed to sort my mind out – or am at least making progress anyway.
I have woken up feeling great and walked through the doors of my Slimming World feeling really excited. And then I have stepped on the scales and my heart has sunk and my mood has instantly changed. I get a kind of pout and a frown, and if I wasn't so aware of being surrounded by people, I would probably stamp my feet too! Yet I have walked through the doors on a few occasions and not expected anything, and been pleasantly surprised…and have been on a high all day. It makes me wonder if the scales have some magic power! We feel good or bad dependant upon a number, regardless of our mood and feelings beforehand…crazy really.
The same issues arise when I catch sight of myself in the mirror. I might have been feeling fabulous beforehand, yet a glimpse can rip that feeling to shreds! What a way to live…how can I, and why do I, do this to myself? A number should not define me. Just because I weigh 'x' does not mean that I am 'x'. I am far more than a number. The scales give me an indication of my relationship with gravity…nothing more, nothing less!
The scales don't measure love, or strength, or intellect, or beauty, or kindness, or talent, or possibility, or zest for life…I could go on, but I think – or I hope – you get the point. Whilst I absolutely understand the reasons for maintaining a healthy weight, I think that it is really important to take notice of the journey. It is rare to drive hundreds of miles without stopping for a breather, and therefore I am going to apply the same method whilst trying to lose hundreds of pounds!
Taking time out to appreciate and recognise the 'places of interest' along the way is important. Those non-scale victories I talk about – fitting into a jacket I couldn't wear, or buying some lace up shoes, being able to put socks on, or walk on the treadmill for thirty minutes. Yes, they are now achievable as a result of losing weight…but I can't attribute a specific number to them. But I can tell you how bloody great they FEEL!
I can't attribute a specific number to the giggles I had with my niece today, or the joy on my nephews face as he toddled up the street for a cuddle with me. Nor can I attribute a number to the wonderful little nuzzles my horse was giving me as I sat outside his stable feeding him radishes and kiwi fruit the other day. And the same goes for having my dog follow me to the bathroom as she can't bear to be parted from us! All of these wonderful things are not attributed to weight.
This learned behaviour needs to be unlearned – and it isn't that hard to change really! I sit in my car before weigh in now and think of the wonderful things I achieved that week. And once I step off the scales I run through that list in my head. I know this sounds rather simple, but I realised how powerful this method is when I was driving away from weigh-in this week with a smile on my face. That smile was there despite losing a lot less than I had imagined given the amount of effort I had put in to my exercise. And that smile was there despite me not hitting my '29st something' target in time for my birthday (which is on Sunday!).
You and I are worth so much more than that pesky number on the scales. You are a fabulous person (as am I!) with so much to offer. And regardless of that number you are marvellous just as you are.
Jessie and his wise words made me think about how I feel. Honestly, I feel bloody marvellous at the moment! You can listen to the interview here – it is well worth it as Jessie gave some excellent advice. For those of you who don't know Jessie, he is a personal trainer (model, actor, presenter…all round good guy!) who specialises in working with people who have obesity issues. He presented 'Obese: a year to save my life' and is presenting 'Fat: the fight of my life' which is the follow up series that starts on Sky Living in July.
Right then, today's usuals…
I woke up in a bit of pain with my back, but got on the treadmill and found it actually relieved my pain. I then worked on my other half's project for three hours, worked out some more, and then headed out. My niece spotted us and jumped in the car with us to see the horses. She then had toilet issues in Dunelm Mill which saw a lady coming to the rescue by bringing loo roll to the disabled loo…as there was only one square of paper left! This toilet trip took over half an hour! We then went to a laptop shop and chose one I wanted, only to be left waiting for over half an hour whilst they tried to find the man with the keys to the storeroom. By this time, it was nearing 3pm and I had not had lunch and was getting ratty…so much so that we left without a laptop and I am therefore still without my 11″ as promised! I finished my workout once home, had lunch and then my Mum popped over and we caught up – she is a Big Brother freak and cannot wait for the new series tonight. I am going to try and avoid it, as I get far too involved! So this evening might hold a date with Martina Cole and 'The Graft'.
Breakfast: Banana and two Alpen light bars (1 x HEB).
Lunch: Leftover Mexican bean bake.
Dinner: Sweet potato chips, Linda McCartney rosemary and red onion sausages, Cajun roasted veggies.
Snacks: Two packets Snack a Jacks (9 syns) and two cheese pizza toasties (2 x HEA, 1 x HEB and 6 syns).
My food today was lovely. Lunch was immense! The leftover bean bake had developed in flavour and tasted gorgeous. As did dinner which was a really simple one…throwing some chopped sweet potato, red onion, courgette and pepper into the Actifry with some Cajun seasoning. I have missed my cheese toasties and so thought that I would have a couple tonight using my healthy extras and a few syns…with spinach, tomato purée, garlic and herbs…well worth it!
Exercise: 6 x 10 minute treadmill sessions and 15 minutes of BodyPump.
After yesterday's 30 minute escapade on the treadmill, and a silly method of getting off my back from lifting weights, I had a really sore back last night…which is still sore now. Fortunately, the walking today actually helped to ease the pain and I substituted the weight technique which meant me lying down again, with another, so as not to cause any aches. The problem is that I have a huge bum, with a big bum 'shelf' at the back, so lying flat on my back on a hard surface means that my spine gets quite bent. This is what caused the niggle…or rather it was my stupid way of hauling myself upright yesterday that did it I think. So I will see how I go over the next few days; I think gentle exercise is the way to go, so I am keeping to my small but frequent sessions.
Thank you for reading!


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It's been a slow week in a lot of ways. I didn't get much writing out in the weekend due to work commitments and I didn't do much better on the blog updates either. I have my Red Dwarf X post coming up but that's not finished yet, so instead I have to tell you all about my NaNoWriMo hurdle.
Basically I've fallen behind.
I didn't write anything on Saturday or Sunday, then I left it until way too late on Monday and so my wordcount went un-updated for three. whole. days! Shocking, I know. It knocked my average a bit, but I'm back on the horse now. I've written about 3500 words in the last 24 hours which doesn't come close to catching up but if I can just swing 2000 words a day from here on out then I should be fine. Things will get better after next Saturday though as I'll be completely free from the rest of the month.
I'm still feeling good about it this year. I haven't written as much as I did last year yet, but I've only just fallen behind which is much, much better. On top of that, I'm finding it a lot easier overall and so I'm pretty confident that I'll get it all done and dusted by the 30th.
I'll see you all at the finish line,


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I've been working on my film's story for almost 2 weeks now and things are finally falling into place. I just finished the rough storyboard and listed the number of scenes and shots I have in my film. As of now, I have a total of 9 scenes and 74 shots and they look doable if I work according to the timetable I've created. I'll try to post something from my film within this week to show some progress.
Anyway, here's a sketch I did in San Francisco over the winter break and then painted over with photoshop today.
Going to bed earlier than usual today so I can wake up early in the morning tomorrow to clean up my storyboard !! Good Night !!


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