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The University of Texas System regents using fear without providing evidence is striking a nerve with me.
For those of you who haven't heard, Texas cancelled a fight between popular Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., and Andy Lee by the regents over elevated security concerns over violence from across the boarder spilling over. Problem is, the law enforcement community have said they have not heard of any concerns, let alone any that would justify cancelling a fight that could provide millions to El Paso.
I grew up in Tucson, Ariz., which is 90 minutes from the Mexican border. Some politicians would talk about violence spilling over from the border, creating a security concern. Problem is, I had family and friends. That was not the case. And it sounds like the same thing.
Something is not right in Texas.
On another note, the Timothy Bradley-Manny Pacquiao undercard has been set. Here's the release from Top Rank.
Tickets are still available for the June 9 fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
The three-bout pay-per-view undercard will feature undefeated No. 1 welterweight contender MIKE "MJ" JONES battling two-time world champion and current No. 2 contender RANDALL "The Knockout King" BAILEY for the vacant International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight title; undefeated World Boxing Association (WBA) super bantamweight champion GUILLERMO "El Chacal" RIGONDEAUX defending his title against world-rated TEON "The Technician" KENNEDY; and five-division world champion and Méxican icon JORGE "Travieso" ARCE, in his first fight in a Las Vegas ring in more than one year, taking on Puerto Rican knockout artist JESUS ROJAS in a 10-round junior featherweight fight.
Tickets are still available for the June 9 fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.They run from $200-$1,200. You can find tickets at www.mgmgrand.com or www.ticketmaster.com.

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U.S. grains rose on the eve of a major crop report, with corn futures notching a seven-week high on Wednesday after the ethanol stockpile plunged to the lowest level since December 2011.
Wheat futures rallied to a five-week high while soybeans trimmed earlier losses to touch a two-week top.
Government data showed production of the grain-based biofuel declined but ethanol stocks dropped 5.5 per cent in the largest draw down since July, indicating strong demand from blenders who mix ethanol into nearly every gallon of gasoline sold in the United States.
The gains in corn, soybean and wheat futures were front-loaded in nearby contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) in "bull spreading" on expectations the U.S. Department of Agriculture will confirm ideas of razor-thin quarterly stockpiles in the world's largest producer of the commodities.
USDA will also release estimates of U.S. spring plantings in one of the most closely-watched crop reports of the year, which is scheduled for release on Thursday, three hours before trade halts for a three-day weekend.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration said ethanol stocks fell to 17.4 million barrels last week, down from 18.5 million barrels in the previous week.
"This week's ethanol stats were about as bullish as it gets, reflecting our expectations for very strong demand," said Linn Group analyst Jerrod Kitt.
Corn futures bounded higher in the wake of the report, with the benchmark May contract finishing five cents higher at $7.35-1/4 per bushel while May soybeans climbed six cents to $14.53-3/4 (all figures US$).
"Obviously when you look at the ethanol data this morning, the production number was nothing to get excited about but the stock draw was pretty big," said Tregg Cronin, market analyst at CHS Hedging in St. Paul, Minn.
Trading volume was light in cautious dealings with analysts expecting the government to show the largest U.S. corn plantings in 77 years and the most soy seedings ever.
CBOT May wheat futures posted their biggest gains in a week, settling 5-1/4 cents higher at $7.36-3/4 per bushel.
Investment funds were said to have bought 6,000 corn contracts, 3,000 soy contracts and 2,000 wheat contracts.
Winter damage
Wheat was supported after freeze concerns prompted investors to cover their bearish bets. Bitter-cold weather earlier this week in the southern U.S. Plains region that grows most of the wheat in the United States may have damaged plants emerging from winter dormancy.
"It will take a couple weeks to determine if there's been any losses," in production, Jefferies Bache analyst Shawn McCambridge said.
Noncommercial traders, including hedge funds, have narrowed their short or bearish stake on wheat futures, last week trimming their net short position to the smallest since January, regulatory data shows.
But even as investors have turned more bullish on the market, cash wheat prices in the United States have declined. Bids in the U.S. barge export market fell to the lowest point since September amid cheaper supplies in Europe and elsewhere. A new U.S. crop will also be harvested as early as June.
"This market is gaining strength on outside influence, on fund influence... It's been surprising how well (wheat) has hung in there with the overbought conditions. The export tenders that have been issued in recent days have not come to the U.S.," McCambridge said.
Iraq, one of the world's largest importers of wheat, bought 350,000 tonnes of the grain from Australia in a tender, a trade ministry statement said.
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JUDGE NOT lest ye be Clay Bennett.
OBAMACARE WAS passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress. If it's so great why are they opting out but leaving the rest of us in it?
I WASN'T A fan of Hillary until I realized how much Republicans are afraid of her. They obviously already see the next election sliding away.
BET 'OL GEORGE is sitting at his ranch watching Obama deal with this Syrian mess and grinning.
WHAT IS THE best cure for post traumatic stress disorder our troops are suffering? It is easy: Bring back the universal draft in America.
I WONDER IF the Chattanooga VW workers have asked themselves, "Why has UAW membership declined by 75 percent in the past three decades?"
IT'S NOT homosexuality that's tearing apart our society. It's fornication and out-of-wedlock births. Why do we focus all attention on the lesser sin?
MAN'S MORAL relativism prevails in our culture, but God's moral absolutes prevail eternally in heaven and hell. God's love doesn't preclude his judgment of sin.
ONCE AGAIN, Highway 64 through Ocoee is closed. Fire TDOT, hire Navy SeaBees. They can have it cleared in a day while under enemy fire.
THANK YOU, Henry Lukin, for purchasing Valleybrook Golf Club and making long overdue improvements that should have been done years ago.
TALK RADIO: I don't mind the bumper music. Some of it is pretty good. And, I like the comments, but please quit talking over it.
"IT'S NOT homosexuality that's tearing apart our society. It's fornication and out-of-wedlock births. Why do we focus all attention on the lesser sin?"
Oh brothers and sisters! How can we stop Bible-Thumpers from fornicating? If only we could stop all those fundies from fornicating with everyone's lives the world would be better.
It's time to pass laws to STOP FUNDAMENTALIST FORNICATION! For centuries those wankers have been screwing civilizations and individuals in the name of one invisible man or another. They've screwed with science, history, and human progression in the name of loony-tune myths believed to be reality.
So Sister and Brothers, join me as I seek to stamp out this evil of Bible-Thumpers fornicating in our midst. Just a few cents a day will help take our message around the world to those who have been hurt by fundamentalist fornication.
"Beware the fundy fornicators, who uses their tiny holy rods to insert themselves into your lives without permission. Guard your children from their indoctrination. Use thy brains and put on the chastity belt of knowledge that thou should not receive the staff of fundy fornication lest you be made diseased with ignorance, intolerance, and delusions, and thy pockets made empty." 1st Shenanigans, Chapter 3, verse 16.
"MAN'S MORAL relativism prevails in our culture, but God's moral absolutes prevail eternally in heaven and hell. God's love doesn't preclude his judgment of sin."
Take away man's moral relativism and what do you have? NOTHING. The great wide empty VOID. Every law that has been written or codified has come from man. Even the Ten Commandments and every word written in the Bible comes from the imagination of man and how humankind defined God throughout the ages. Take humankind and our moral relativism out of the equation and the only thing left are the unspoken laws of nature and self-preservation.
"BET 'OL GEORGE is sitting at his ranch watching Obama deal with this Syrian mess and grinning."
If ol' George is grinning, it's the insidious grin of the devil himself. The man has enough innocent blood on his hands to turn all the oceans of the world red. He is a war criminal who should be behind bars cleaning toilets and being fed stale bread and water, not sitting at his ranch grinning.
Why do so many otherwise rational people hate George W. Bush so much? Do any you truly have any idea of how hard morally as well as physically hard this job is? Of how many decisions the man who does this job must make every day that affect the lives of not only millions of Americans but thousands of those in other countries as well? I cannot see anything that President Bush did that President Obama has not been forced to or simply decided to do as well that has affected those same lives in much the same way. You complain that he is a war criminal. If so, than what of the Congressmen and Women that authorized the actions he took? Are they not equally as guilty? At least President Bush went to them and ASKED for authorization to do what he felt had to be done. Obama has yet to ask Congress for authorization to wage war in the same areas of the world and on the same people! He has yet to ask Congress to approve of him spying on the entire population of this country either. And he is using methods that President Bush never even considered. Using drones to destroy people many of whom had done nothing to hurt the US. Lying to the American people on so many occasions(and getting caught at it)that people are beginning to EXPECT him to lie? Does that somehow make him better than Bush? Less guilty than Bush? I don't think so.
I would like to believe that daytonsdarwin's missive was sarcasm aimed at extremism everywhere but I don't. It's pretty clear who he is aiming at. Why can't arrogant, holier than thou atheists ever take aim at the really DANGEROUS extremists who build car bombs instead of thump Bibles? Is it because he knows that he's really in no physical danger from them? Is it because he knows he doesn't have to worry in a country that Christians have given their lives by the thousands to make safe for him to pump out his egregious nonsense? Maybe we Bible thumpers should petition the authorities to no longer provide him with protection against those who would shed his blood for remarks of the tenure he makes. Maybe he would not be quite so arrogant then. Maybe he would not feel so free to castigate and make fun of the majority of decent people who happen to be Christian but don't run around trying to make one of everybody else they see the way the Muslims do for example. Yes there are a minority of Christians who don't believe in Darwin's theory, but they don't deserve the treatment they are getting from Mr. Evolution here. It's really sad that he seems to have nothing better to do with his time.
" It's really sad that he seems to have nothing better to do with his time. "
Exposing the sheer ignorance of all Abrahamic fundamentalism is my "ministry" to those who would fall under the influence of those fundamentalist bigots. It's also a joy to poke fun at those who believe that fairy-tales are reality.
"Maybe we Bible thumpers should petition the authorities to no longer provide him with protection against those who would shed his blood for remarks of the tenure he makes."
Spoken like a true Bible-Thumping Wrath-of-Gawd Christian. That's why fundamentalism is dangerous. Why is it that fundies get so worked up over blood? Were the apostle really vampires? Sing your sad, whining blood songs elsewhere.
Not that it will be successful as the world is full of gullible people who believe in myths as reality. But I do what I can.
If you fundies would keep your religion in church and home, there's no problem. Just like those crazies who think Star Trek is real,
But start trying to teach that stuff in public schools and use government money and facilities to preach that nonsense, then there's a problem.
No Trekkies are asking that the Prime Directive be installed in courthouses or taught in public schools. Can't you Bible-Thumpers do the same?
Of course you can't. Therefore, I'll expose your god, saviors, and bibles for the BS that they are.
There's no Jehovah, Super Savior, or Holy Flying Ghost. And there's no Capt. Kirk either.
RShultz, I agree with much of what you say about Obama. Indeed he is no better, and in some ways worse, than Bush in perpetuating the "war on terror." I think that his increased use of drones, resulting in the loss of many innocent lives, is reprehensible, that his extending the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan for as long as he has is inexcusable, and that his continuation of homeland security policies are not only unnecessary but misguided and injurious to our wellbeing in the sense that they are making us our own worst enemy.
But for the sheer magnitude of harm done and innocent lives taken, Bush is unmatched. As for his seeking the approval of Congress for waging war on Iraq in the first place, Congress was not privy to the inside information the Bush administration had but was merely relying on the words of his insiders who were telling them and the American people what a grave threat Hussein was. And America was still reeling from 9/11 and very receptive to any excuse for going to war against anyone whom we deemed even a minor threat. But shortly after the bombs started falling and boots were on the ground in Iraq evidence started piling up to prove that Bush and his neo-con thugs didn't just make a poor decision based on faulty intelligence; rather they cherry-picked the intelligence they were receiving and they lied outright. Yet most Americans seemed willing to just shrug it off and develop a "hate the war but support the troops mentality," all the while letting Bush get away with murder, literally.
I and many other libs like me do not deny Obama's culpability when it comes to his penchant for broadening the "war on terror" and taking so many innocent lives in the process, but I never see any people on the right admitting of Bush's unforgivable act of genocide against a people who had NOTHING to do with 9/11. And even if you want to use the excuse that we needed to depose of a ruthless dictator and "liberate" the Iraqi people, that excuse does not hold water - NOBODY from Iraq was seeking our help in getting rid of Saddam and the country is in far worse shape now than it ever was when he was in power.
The fact remains, Bush is a war criminal extraordinaire and still needs to be held accountable for his heinous actions. Obama certainly has his own list of wrongs that he should be held accountable for, but until you righties stop excusing Bush by saying, "Well, he just made some poor foreign policy decisions, and anyway, that was then and this now," you don't have the right to utter one word of criticism against Obama and be taken seriously.
RShultz, as for your comments about us "arrogant, holier-than-thou atheists" and how we so often take aim at you poor, maligned, picked-on Bible thumpers (I notice that you claim to be one yourself): It's true that the vast majority of thumpers don't go around detonating car bombs or suicide bombs but they don't have any qualms about blowing up abortion clinics and even killing abortion doctors in cold blood. And if you think that is somehow excusable because they are just carrying out God's holy war against "baby killers," well, the fundamentalist Muslims excuse their murdering and violence, too - they are also just waging holy war and being good, loyal soldiers of God, ridding the world of those whom they deem to be evil infidels.
The fact is that you are both equally nuts and a public menace and you deserve to be called out, lampooned, lambasted, and figuratively tarred and feathered. And even those of you thumpers who do not resort to such outwardly violent behavior you still keep spreading the lies and the BS about a violent, vengeful, jealous God who "loves" his children only if they obey like dutiful slaves and bow down to his demand to love only him, like some abusive, sado-masochistic wife beater.
It is abominable and disgusting, the abhorrent fairy tales about a mythical hell and a make-believe judgment day and a vengeful god that you poor, mentally challenged thumpers keep spreading. It's not that we atheists and non-believers are arrogant. Its just that we cannot fathom how otherwise grown-up, intelligent human beings can cling to such childishly simplistic, obviously mythical beliefs.
Most of us fully respect the right of everyone to entertain whatever religious or non-religious beliefs are right for them. But when you try to insert yourself into our government the way the teabaggers do (passing stricter and stricter abortion laws, insisting that Biblical creationism be taught in our public schools and that science in general is the work of the devil, and insisting that our forefathers intended for America to be a "Christian" nation), and when you keep preaching that non-believers are doomed to hell for the mere "sin" of not believing exactly as you do or for the mere "sin" of being born gay....well, we are going to keep calling you out for your lies and your self-righteous, misguided, ill informed, wacko bullsh!t.
Rickaroo I suppose we will have to just agree to disagree about Bush but there are a couple of things I would like to get straight. I am a Christian and I believe in the things Jesus taught, and I don't normally get really pissed at atheists as a group but you've got no damned right to lump me in with Muslim terrorists and say that I am as bad as they are. You atheists are arrogant, uncouth sob's and you are as arrogant as any I have communicated with. It may not have occurred to you, but I actually have atheist FRIENDS and they wouldn't like you any more than I do, and they would tell you right from the get go that you're doing exactly the same things that you accuse Christians of doing. Extremism is not pretty in any religion or OTHER group so why don't you try getting over yourself as well as insisting that I do. Yes, I believe abortion is wrong but I am not totally against it. There ARE situations in which it is not only appropriate but necessary. But it shouldn't be legalized just because there are women who love fornication, but don't want the responsibility for raising the child that is often the result. Nor do I believe that there is any such thing as being born gay. I have seen NO evidence to support that ridiculous assertion, and I DON'T think you could provide any that I would consider credible. I don't think science is the "work of the devil", I think we would be lost without it. So how about compromising here? I won't insist that science is evil if you'll stop insisting that Lincoln was the Great Emancipator instead of the criminal we BOTH know he WAS. And I can prove that by his public acts and utterances so don't call me on that particular "lie". If you would take the trouble to TALK to a few normal Christian individuals instead of the cranks who attend rallies and such, you MIGHT find that some of the things you THINK you know about us are self-righteous, misguided, ill informed, whacko bull sheeyet!


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Auburn has hired Oklahoma coach Sunny Golloway to lead the baseball program.
Athletic director Jay Jacobs announced the hiring Friday night. Golloway spent the last eight seasons as Oklahoma's head coach and led the Sooners to seven NCAA regional berths, four super regionals and the 2010 College World Series.
Golloway cited coaching in the Southeastern Conference and "the history of the Auburn program" as big reasons for the move.
He also led the Oral Roberts program for eight seasons. Golloway has a career record of 681-337-1, including 12 seasons with at least 40 wins.
The Sooners won the Big 12 tournament last season and made it to a super regional. He coached No. 3 draft pick Jonathan Gray.
The Tigers have failed to make a regional for three straight seasons.
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Korean Actress Lee Da-hae Admits to Plastic Surgery.
11 years after her debut, Korean actress Lee Da-hae finally admitted on a variety program that she has gone under the knife before she joined the industry.
When further pressed on the details by the host, she laughed, "Do I not look like I've done something to my features before? That's great."
However, she clarified that only "minor alterations" were made and that she used to go on a "crazy diet" in order to lose weight.
Following Da-hae's revelation, a series of photos showing the actress during her school days started circulating online. Netizens pointed out that the 29-year-old's previous single eye-lids, low nose bridge and round face shape have clearly been aesthetically enhanced.
Although some detractors showed their disapproval by saying that Da-hae "looked more memorable in the past", many fans have complimented on her well-defined features after the surgery.
Venturing into showbiz after winning the MBC Chun Hyang Pageant in 2001, Da-hae rose to fame in 2005 after starring in hit drama series My Girl.
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Mr Jimmy Spratt (Chairperson) Mr Raymond McCartney (Deputy Chairperson) Mr Alex Attwood Mr Simon Hamilton Mrs Carmel Hanna Mr Nelson McCausland Mr Alan McFarland Mr John O'Dowd Mr Ian Paisley Jnr
We will now discuss the devolution of policing and justice. I declare that I am a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board.
I am a member of the Belfast District Policing Partnership.
Ian Paisley Jnr has left the room.
We will now discuss the category 2 list of issues. The original issue C relates to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and the security services. I remind members that a letter was sent to the Secretary of State on that issue, and we are awaiting his response. Are members happy to park that issue?
Members indicated assent.
The position is similar with regard to new issue D, which deals with the North/South policing and justice agreements, and the question of a justice sector of the North/South Ministerial Council. A letter was sent to the Secretary of State in relation to that on 22 April, as was the letter in relation to the previous matter. Are members content to park that issue?
New issue E questions the extent of financial provisions for a Department that would exercise the range of policing and justice functions, how, when and by whom the financial negotiations with the NIO should be conducted, and whether a budget should be ring-fenced. A number of those issues are currently being dealt with.
Bearing in mind the discussion that we had during the closed session of the meeting, the specialist adviser will carry out some additional work on a lot of those issues. It may be putting party representatives on the spot to ask for views now, given that we are awaiting some answers on those matters. Are members content to park that issue?
New issue F asks what, if any, consideration there should be of the Ashdown report on parading, whether there is a need for further clarity on the powers to be devolved, and, if so, whether they should include matters relating to the Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1989, flags and symbols, or recruitment to the PSNI. Again, that issue has been raised with the Secretary of State in the letter of 22 April, and we await a reply on that. Are members agreed to park that issue?
We will move on to discuss new issue G. In the context of recommendation 26 of the Committee's original report, to which Department should the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) be attached?
My party's position on that issue has not changed from that stated last week. It is a non-ministerial body, so the only issues are budgetary ones. I reiterate our suggestion that the PPS should be attached to the Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP).
Our position remains that it should be attached to the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister (OFMDFM).
Our party's position is that it should be attached to DFP. However, we were hoping to receive some further guidance from the Republic of Ireland and Scotland after visits to ascertain how it was done there. Subject to any dramatic changes, our position remains the same.
I would like to ask Simon Hamilton why the PPS should be attached to DFP. Why is the PPS such a different creature from all the other justice agencies that will be the responsibility of the justice Department? Why is the prosecution service unique, and why must it be attached to DFP as opposed to another Department, such as the justice Department? The Probation Board, the Policing Board, nor the PSNI have raised any problems with being attached to the justice Department. Given the range of responsibilities, and the sensitivities around those issues, why must the PPS be attached to DFP, whereas the police and the Policing Board need not be?
I understand the points raised that Alex raised, and I am happy to further explore those issues.
I recall from some of the evidence, and some of the suggestions in the PPS submissions, that concern has been expressed in the past about potential conflicts of interest. Our argument for the PPS being in DFP is that if, in the future, it is a non-ministerial body, and there is an argument over budgetary matters, the persuasion of its own parent Department, for want of a better phrase, would be easier than taking the more convoluted route of going through another Department or office.
We are happy to seek the experience of others on how that has worked in practice, as Alan mentioned, but we are not hung up on how it is done. Placing the PPS in DFP is a neutral suggestion. That would solidify the aspect of its being non-ministerial, and get away from any confusion that there might be over any conflict of interest.
The persuasion of its own parent Department on budgetary matters may be more straightforward than might otherwise be the case. I am happy to examine and explore the idea further, and look at it in the context of experiences elsewhere.
It might be useful to spend 10 or 15 minutes doing that some time, because the Chief Constable has not made any point of that nature in respect of his responsibilities — for instance, that the funding Department of the PPS being the justice Department represents a conflict of interest, interferes with his responsibilities or compromises him in some way. The Chief Constable does not make that point at all; it does not even register on his radar.
No one has raised any issue so far about where policing should be placed in terms of its funding authority. I find it unusual that the PPS should be treated differently and separately. I understand that there may be some issues among one or two parties that the PPS funding authority would be OFMDFM.
We had that problem before when one party raised an issue about the appointment of judges, and a residual power that fell to OFMDFM. I could understand if that was the point that was being made, but that point has not been made. That is why I am even more curious why the PPS, of all bodies, should go to DFP. There is no precedent for that. There is no compelling organisational or management argument for it. It seems to me that if we explore that matter a bit more, we could possibly convince people that if there are objections in respect of the PPS going to OFMDFM, it should go to the justice Department.
We are happy to discuss that at a later point if some issues are clarified. I certainly would not close my ears to that discussion.
Are we happy, then, to have that discussion at a later stage?
Part of the reason that this issue has arisen is that there is sensitivity over it. As I recall, Alex has been very sensitive in the past about whether people were being prosecuted, and whether there was interference and public statements being issued. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) expressed fairly strong reservations when he appeared before the Committee — not the last time, but on the previous occasion — about the need for the absolute independence of that body; to have a home where there was no chance of anyone interfering with its budget or influencing matters by cutting back on its administrative support. That was one of the points that were made, and I am sure that that is included in the report of the meeting.
Given that sensitivity, there is an issue about whether it might be possible to influence where the PPS is placed. We think that it should initially be put somewhere where no one would have a reason to interfere with it, which they would not if it were an administrative area within DFP. It is possible that our visit to Scotland and Dublin may show us a better place to put it. Possibly, with a bit of experience, it might go somewhere else. To ensure its independence, as the DPP himself initially said, it seems sensible to put it in DFP to remove all accusations of influence or interference with it.
But the DPP is in a minority of one. None of the other heads of justice agencies in the North raised any issues about their responsibilities or about the funding responsibilities falling to the Department of justice. The Director of Public Prosecutions seemed to make the point that he was unique among the chief executives of the justice agencies in the North. Therefore, I would draw conclusions about what everyone else seems to be content with rather than what the Director of Public Prosecutions is content with.
In any case, going to DFP does not solve the problem. Why, if there was going to be an attempt to interfere with the PPS, would it be more or less likely to come from DFP than from the justice Minister? The point that was made in respect of concerns about interference in the prosecution of cases is a fair one, except, obviously, that responsibility for those cases of concern is not going to be devolved to a Northern Ireland justice Minister or the Executive anyway. Responsibility for all the terror cases is going to be retained by London. The PPS responsibility for such cases will be to London through the Advocate General, not to us through the Attorney General.
OK. Perhaps parties can hold some discussions and come back to explore the issue further. Are members content with that?
We will now move to issue I: in relation to recommendation 30 of the Committee's original report, who should undertake the advisory role in relation to the appointment of the Police Ombudsman?
I restate the DUP position as outlined last week, which is that there is a need for sensitivity and independence, and that the role should be retained by the Northern Ireland Office and the Secretary of State.
My party's position is the same as it was last time — that the responsibility should lie with the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister.
It depends on where the Eames/Bradley process ends up. If the role of rooting around in the past is removed from the Police Ombudsman, it can sit with OFMDFM. If that role is retained — the idea of a one-sided truth commission — the responsibility to decide who should give advice and who should get it must lie with the Secretary of State.
That function should not be retained by the NIO. It should fall to the devolved institutions in the form of OFMDFM. However, we are prepared to be convinced as to whether it should pass to the Department of justice or not.
According to my adding up, there is no consensus. Are members agreed that there is no consensus and that we should return to that issue?
We will now move to issue J: what procedures and protocols will there need to be between the Minister, an Assembly Committee and any newly established department and its associated agencies?
This was an additional question, which was introduced to the category 2 list following a decision on 25 November 2008 to relocate it from the category 1 list as issue O.
We provisionally agreed a position on that matter, did we not? This is issue J, which concerns Committee relationships. I believe that we agreed that the relationships would be of the regular order.
That is agreed.
It is provisionally agreed.
May I ask Mr Hamilton another question? Why does the DUP believe that the Minister should have exactly the same relationship with the Assembly and the Committee as every other Minister, when it has been arguing that the Minister would not be a fully-fledged Minister on a par with every other Minister at the Executive table? To treat a Minister in the same way as other Ministers for one purpose, but treat him or her differently for another purpose, would create a lot of tension.
I am not sure that Alex's characterisation of my party's position is accurate. I do not see any reason why a justice Minister's relationship with a Committee would be any different in an operational sense from that of any other Minister. His comments about the Executive are not an entirely accurate reflection of the position that my party has put forward on that matter.
That issue has largely been sorted, but there has not been a final stamp of approval.
Presumably, the reason that there has not been a final stamp of approval is that, as Alex has said, it depends on the outcome of issue K. It could be argued that how the Minister will operate within the Executive has a direct relationship with how the Minister will operate with the Assembly and other agencies. I presume that the issue has been provisionally parked due to the fact that it is logical to deal with it and issue K together. That can happen when we receive clarity on parties' position on issue K.
Could we return to and agree that issue after our visits to the various legislatures?
We now move to issue K: what would be the status of the Minister's position in, and relationship with, the Executive Committee; and would the Minister be required to bring significant, or controversial, matters to the Executive Committee?
If the Committee agrees, I am happy to take more time to resolve issue K.
The Minister's position in, and relationship with, the Executive should be the same as those of all other Ministers. However, we are willing to return to this matter.
Our party's view is that the Minister should operate in the same way as every other Minister.
I refer to the position that our party has outlined previously, which is that the Minister should be a fully fledged Minister with all the entitlements that that brings. I wish to ask Simon another question: why have we not —
This session is not a cross-examination. Each party should state its position on each issue. I am not going to allow any more such questions. I ask you to state your party's position on issue K.
The Committee will run out of credibility if, week after week, we rehearse exactly the same positions on exactly the same issues. We get no further insight from the main parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, on the outstanding matters of the deal on the devolution of policing and justice. Frankly, it is no longer good enough that we spend week after week rehearsing well-worn positions without being given any clarity from other parties on when those matters may be resolved.
It is disrespectful to the authority of an Assembly Committee that, week after week, we have to listen to people saying that they wish to revisit certain issues. That is not a credible position for us to be in six months after the DUP and Sinn Féin worked out a deal on the devolution of policing and justice. That may well be the position that the DUP and Sinn Féin want to be in, and those parties will have to answer for that. However, I do not see why other Committee members should have to sit here, waiting until the cows come home, because no cow ever comes home.
With all due respect to you, Chairman, it is absolutely right that I, on behalf of the SDLP and the people that we democratically represent, ask other parties questions to which we have not yet received any answers. Equally, it is your duty as the Chairperson to bring that to the attention of other parties. It is not good enough that, after six months, we are revisiting the same issues without having been given any clarity or answers. It is not a proper way for business to be conducted.
I am happy —
Let me answer first, Simon; I am happy to let you in after that.
A great amount of progress has been made, and it is wrong for Mr Attwood to sit there and portray that that is not the case. There was a fair degree of movement even in the financial discussions that we had in closed session today. Some of the issues now hinge on replies that we are waiting to receive. We have sent the relevant letters, and it may be easier to resolve some of the issues when the replies to those letters arrive. I do not accept that there has been no progress. There has always been a process by which each party is invited to state its position on each issue until those are cleared from the agenda. I have done that systematically. It is also my job to keep issues on the agenda that need to be kept on the agenda, and it is for parties to indicate their positions, and they have done so.
I agree that progress has been made. That is a well-recognised aspect of our discussions on the devolution of policing and justice. There are inherent difficulties, but progress has been made. The issue may not be progressing at a pace that everybody likes, but many of the gaps have been bridged, and a lot of progress has been made on areas where many "wise folk" might have thought that it would have been impossible.
Alex may not agree with that analysis, but my party shares the view that there are great sensitivities around many of these issues, including this particular point. He may not agree with that, but that is the position that we take, and it is the position to which we hold, and, if it takes some time to resolve those issues to our satisfaction, we will take that time. That may not be to Alex's satisfaction, and it may not happen at the pace that he wants it to, but it is much better for the Assembly that the issues are resolved to our satisfaction, rather than rushing them and getting them wrong. That is our party's position. Work is ongoing, and, as I said at the start, there are issues of great difficulty inherent in the whole exercise. That is why some issues will take longer to resolve than others. We will take that time, and we will get it right, rather than rushing it and getting it wrong.
Progress has been made, albeit slow, so I sympathise with Alex. However, there is an issue around how fast the issue can progress. It is slightly confusing, but it is clear that there is negotiation going on outside the Committee involving Sinn Féin, which wants a non-DUP Minister — it does not want a "half Minister" under control — and "Lord Ford" and the Alliance Party over whether it will take the post and how it is all going to work. The Committee is not part of that, and, presumably, we are obliged to wait until those discussions have taken place and the white smoke appears.
Nelson McFarland — sorry; Nelson McCausland.
Can I sue you for that? [Laughter.] I am also interested in the fact that Mr Ford has now been elevated.
I saw white smoke outside and was wondering whether that announcement has been made. [Laughter.]
I am interested in the fact that Alan McFarland has elevated Mr Ford and given him a peerage. He rejected David Trimble's peerage, but nevertheless. The point was well made that there is huge sensitivity around the issue, and nobody is more aware of it, or should be more aware of it, than Alex Attwood. The issues are also complex. We received a financial statement and other information this morning, and it is clear that the scope and scale of the problems that we face are only too apparent. Therefore, I take the view that we are making progress, albeit slow, but we should just keep at it, rather than getting irritable about these things.
Every week, we come to the Committee and put our position on the table, and we will continue to do so.
There are six or seven issues under the category 2 list of issues in appendix 1 on which, for more than four months, we have made no progress at all.
I do not accept that. Progress has been made, because the relevant letters have been sent, and we have agreed to examine the financial issues and other matters. I have already clarified that. I hear what you are saying, and I have heard you saying it before.
I will conclude my point, so that you can fully understand what I am saying. There are six or seven issues in the category two list of issues in appendix 1. Since 27 January, we have not got to the green-ink-handwriting point of resolving those issues. One of those matters touches on the financial issues. We have a lot more information, which Nelson referred to, and it will be very interesting how that information now gets handled.
However, five or six other non-financial issues — involving decisions about where authority resides, the Minister's powers, relationships with the Committee, and so on — have not been resolved in the past four months. I do not believe that they will be resolved in the next four weeks. Given the current financial figures and wider economic environment, it would not surprise me if that becomes an even bigger hurdle to the devolution of justice and policing.
Why can there not be some clarity and closure on even one or two of those five or six matters? What is the big impediment? Why is that so difficult? The Committee knows that it is a sensitive area. For 153 days, the Government was suspended because of that sensitivity, and other issues. Why are we now, almost 153 days later, apparently no nearer closure on those matters? That is not credible.
It has already been stated, with the support of members of the Committee, that matters have moved forward, and continue to do so. Mr Attwood says that he keeps hearing the same things, but I keep hearing the same thing from his end of the table.
There is certainly no consensus on the matter of issue K. Therefore, does the Committee agree to park issue K and return to it later?
Members indicated assent.
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A blue-ribbon panel tasked with providing recommendations on the future of U.S. accounting standards for private companies by the end of this year is seeking public feedback on a series of questions that will assist the panel in discussing how accounting standards can best meet the needs of U.S. users of private company financial statements and making recommendations thereon. The panel is reaching out to users of private company financial statements, as well as preparers and practitioners.
The questions, which were posted on fasb.org Thursday, are:
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All respondents:
If you or your organization would like to submit responses to the questions, e-mail them to Tim Woo at firstname.lastname@example.com, no later than Sept. 15. All submissions will be considered public and will be accessible via FASB's website. All respondents also will be asked to fill out a questionnaire relating to information about their company, but the information on that questionnaire will not be posted to the website.
A summary of the responses received through Sept. 15 will be prepared and distributed to panel members and participating observers. The summary will be included as part of the observer notes (a publicly available meeting handout) for the panel's next meeting, which will take place Oct. 8 at the AICPA's New York City office.
At its last meeting on July 19 the 18-member panel weighed in on seven alternative models for private company financial reporting, eliminating models that were based on IFRS and a model that effectively would have maintained the status quo.
All of the remaining models under consideration by the panel would result in differences in GAAP for private companies, where warranted, compared with GAAP for public companies.
The three primary models that are advancing for more consideration are:
More information about that meeting can be found in the JofA's online story, "Blue-Ribbon Panel Narrows Field for Private Company Financial Reporting."
The panel is part of a joint effort by the AICPA; the Financial Accounting Foundation, FASB's parent organization; and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. Panel chairman Rick Anderson, chairman and CEO of Moss Adams LLP and a current FAF board member, said he would like any recommendations to be ironed out by the panel's Dec. 10 meeting. The recommendations will then be presented to FAF.
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Glenn Beck recently announced the creation of a libertarian-themed news network, drawing the ire of Ron Paul fans who correctly believe that libertarianism doesn't need any more crazy-person stigma than it's already got.
But Beck isn't going to stop at a mere re-branding and network launch. He's also announced plans to "go Galt" and create a libertarian community inspired by a bizarro combination of Disney World and Galt's Gulch of Atlas Shrugged fame. Though Beck estimates the project will cost $2 billion, it's an efficient fantasy, since we know Beck can serve as the mayor, town fool and, of course, town crier.
Called Independence, USA, the city will feature a marketplace occupied by small business owners, a media center, farms and workshops aimed at making the development self-sufficient, at least as far as Kool-Aid production is concerned. A religious mission based on the design of the Alamo would dominate the city center, while the front gate to the city would be modeled on Ellis Island. The community will also include residential developments, which just sound like delightful places to live.
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The Beatles The Word Lyrics
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Say the word and you'll be free
Say the word and be like me
Say the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?
It's so fine, It's sunshine
It's the word, love
In the beginning I misunderstood
But now I've got it, the word is good
Spread the word and you'll be free
Spread the word and be like me
Spread the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?
It's so fine, It's sunshine
It's the word, love
Everywhere I go I hear it said
In the good and the bad books that I have read
Say the word and you'll be free
Say the word and be like me
Say the word I'm thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?
It's so fine, It's sunshine
It's the word, love
Now that I know what I feel must be right
I'm here to show everybody the light
Give the word a chance to say
That the word is just the way
It's the word I'm thinking of
And the only word is love
It's so fine, It's sunshine
It's the word, love
Say the word, love (4 times)
Thanks to Molly for submitting The Word Lyrics.
Reveals Lennons Spirituality | Reviewer: Kerry | 4/5/13
Without a doubt, this song shows Lennon's heightened spirituality. He is absolutely making references to the Bible and to what he has come to learn as the Truth. Love is truth. Love is all there is.
Missing Something | Reviewer: Truth | 3/10/13
Without a foundation for love, a reason for love to grow, it's such an empty, undefined word all by itself. Just a feeling that comes and goes.
It's sad that JL didn't find the Person who IS Love.
The word is love | Reviewer: nanci blu | 3/29/12
My take on this is that this is right around where John first started to do his love thing, i.e. change his life, and that 'in the beginning' wasn't necessarily the bible, but what was happening in his life when he was younger. He repeats or develops this theme in "Getting Better" regarding school, the idea being that back then, his life was problematic and without purpose. When he gets the word, i.e. love, and that's it's not about Hesus but about the word is when the troubles start with John with Paul and his 'silly little love songs.'Baby You're a Rich Man is another example of John's evolution as a love prosletyzer and his realization of what was going on with him philosophically.
THE WORD | Reviewer: Ethan Hill | 12/10/08
I see why some thought John was Jesus; if one has ever read the King James Bible, you see where John, whom I assumed did most of the work on this tune, got the language and spirit. "In the beginning" is a great tip that he studied the Bible before the lyrics were penned.
John Chapman, burn in hell.
IT'S THE WORD | Reviewer: THAN VAN CHINH | 4/27/07
I search an other word song but I catch this accidentally. However, It's a wonderful lyrics. I'm attracted, then I decide to look for melody of the song.
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Tim Seifert
posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 6:41 pm
I am modelling pubertal growth using LTA. Two time points with a 4 category latent variable at each time point. The LTA is really nice. But I want to model the effect of the transition from T1 to T2 on a distal outcome. How might this be accomplished? Do I need a second order latent categorical variable, as illustrated in the mover-stayer model?
With thanks.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 8:52 am
I think you are correct that you want a model like Example 8.14 with c pointing to the distal outcome
Tim Seifert
posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - 7:33 pm
I have a model like 8.14 running. But if "c" (the second order latent categorical variable) is categorical with, say, two classes, and the distal outcome is a continuous variable (such as a latent factor), won't there be a problem with the regression estimates? By that I mean "c" is not dummy (0,1) or effects (-1,1) coded, but is coded as 1,2. How might that be handled?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 - 10:04 am
The regression of a continuous distal outcome on the second-order catgorical latent variable is reflected by the change of means of the continuous distal outcome across the classes of the second-order categorical latent variable.
Kaigang Li
posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 12:12 am
Hello Linda,
If I have a THREE category categorical distal outcome, U, and three covariates, ie. x1, x2, and x3. How can I write in syntax for looking at the effect of covariates on the U?
Is the following commands correct?
U on x1 x2 x3;
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 8:45 am
It looks correct.
Kaigang Li
posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 11:59 pm
I have another question. I am reading the chapter "Second-generation structural equation modeling with a combination of categorical and continuous latent variables: New opportunities for latent class/latent growth modeling." but I found the examples penn1-8.inp at
are not consistent with the ones used in the book. Could you please instruct me how I can use those examples?
Kaigang Li
posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 12:22 am
One more question.
In the article "Jung, T. & Wickrama, K.A.S. (2008). An introduction to latent class growth analysis and growth mixture modeling. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2, 302-317." posted at
, the author Specified a single-class latent growth curve model using the following
Model: i s |
But in the penn1.inp, the command % OVERALL% was used.
I run the program with and without
% OVERALL% , the results are different.
I am not sure which is correct if I specify a single class model.
Thanks for clarification.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 7:49 am
If you do not obtain the same results for a single-level growth model and a one-class growth model, you should send your two output files and your license number to
. The results should be identical.
Kaigang Li
posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 8:24 am
Thanks Linda,
I will double check the results.
Do you have any comments on the question posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 11:59 pm right above the question you answered? Thanks,
Christian M. Connell
posted on Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 6:58 am
Colleagues and I have run a LTA with gender as a known class. The next step in our analysis is to include distal outcomes. We have looked at K. Nylund�s dissertation as a guide of how to include distal outcomes in a latent transition model. Her example is helpful in regards to regressing the distal outcomes on a second order mover stayer variable and on estimating the means for a given class within a wave (e.g., class 3 wave 3). However, we are interested in estimating differences in distal outcomes for different transition configurations, separately for boys and girls. For example, we would like to know if girls that transition from class 1 to class 3 have different means on a distal outcome than girls that transition from class 2 to class 3 or girls that remain stationary across the two time points. Is there a way to estimate this in MPLUS? One important thing to note is that we have previously tried to run a mover stayer model with gender as a known class and that model did not replicate (with 2000 starts). Additionally, we tried to run a mover stayer model with gender as a covariate and that model did not replicate either. Any suggestions on how to examine distal outcomes for different transition configurations would be appreciated. Thank you.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, July 16, 2010 - 9:14 am
I think you would have to use the dot specification for two latent class variables. See UG. For instance:
[distal] (p11);
[u1$1-u5$1] (1-5);
[u6$1-u10$1] (1-5);
[distal] (p12);
[u1$1-u5$1] (1-5);
[u6$1-u10$1] (6-10);
[distal] (p21);
[u1$1-u5$1] (6-10);
[u6$1-u10$1] (1-5);
[distal] (p22);
[u1$1-u5$1] (6-10);
[u6$1-u10$1] (6-10);
Model Constraint:
diff = p12-p21;
Christian M. Connell
posted on Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 1:55 pm
I set-up code based upon your suggestion. However, when I run this I get the following warning:
"*** ERROR in MODEL command
Unknown class model name ASB1.ASB2 specified in C-specific MODEL command."
Am I missing a step before setting up the Model asb1.asb2 statement?
A portion of the code is below to show how I begin:
asb1#1 asb1#2 asb1#3 on H1GI20 race_cat poverty_sum_r;
asb2#1 asb2#2 asb2#3 on depress alcw2 anydrugw2;
asb2#1-asb2#3 on asb1#1-asb1#3;
Model asb1.asb2:
... Then sets up the item response parameter constraints and the distal outcome parameters (as well as the model constraint statement).
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 2:41 pm
Remove Model asb1.asb2:
Christian M. Connell
posted on Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:43 pm
I did as you indicated, but now get the following error:
The following MODEL statements are ignored:
* Statements in Class %ASB1#1.ASB2#1% of MODEL:
[ ARRW3_DIC ] !distal outcome variable
This error is repeated for each of the asb1.asb2 combinations (4 levels of each)
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, July 26, 2010 - 2:59 pm
Please send the full output and your license number to
Christian M. Connell
posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 1:22 pm
Related to the above described LTA models -- I have simplified the model and have everything working in terms of assessing distal outcomes by class consistent with K. Nylund's dissertation approach.
To compare distal outcomes across classes I am using the model test approach. However, I cannot seem to locate the actual statistical tests in the output. Can you clarify where these are located (happy to send the output, if that would help).
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 1:30 pm
It is with the other fit statistics before the parameter estimates. If you can't see it, please send your full output and license number to
Jamie Griffin
posted on Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 1:09 pm
I am using the manual 3-step approach to estimate a multiple-group LTA with a continuous distal outcome (two classes at two time points assuming measurement invariance, so four latent statuses). In the third step, I successfully obtain distal means for each of the four latent statuses separately for each of the two observed groups. Of the eight means estimated, six are as expected, but two are quite different from the others (two of the four within a single group). Is there a way to manually estimate these latent status means from the data file created in step 2? I'm trying to get a handle on why the means for those two statuses are so different from the rest. I appreciate any guidance you can provide.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 3:03 pm
Appendix I of our 3-step paper shows that the "c2.dat" data set contains n1 and n2, which are the most likely class variables for the two latent class variables. You can get the distal outcome mean for each cross-classification of n1 and n2.
Jamie Griffin
posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 7:50 am
Thanks for your quick reply. The means estimated in step 3 do no match the means I get from averaging the distal outcomes within each status. For example, for group 2, the step 3 output displays means of -8.83, -43.55, 40.82, -3.21 for statuses 1-4, respectively. Manually estimated means (exporting status and summarizing in Stata) are -6.51, -8.52, -6.25, and -5.47. The -43.55 and 40.82 are the "quite different" means in question. Thoughts?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 8:03 am
You may want to check your steps in detail against the Nylund et al (2014) 3-step LTA article on our website. Also check that the class formations stay the same. If that doesn't help, please send data and outputs from your steps to Support so we can see what's happening.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 4:34 pm
To follow up on this thread, the user did not use the proposed steps: To study the influence of a covariate on the latent class variables in an LTA with measurement invariance, one should go by the Appendix K-N setups, which takes the measurement invariance approach. See the Appendices of the paper on our website:
Asparouhov, T. & Muth�n, B. (2014). Auxiliary variables in mixture modeling: Three-step approaches using Mplus. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 21:3, 329-341. The posted version corrects several typos in the published version. An earlier version of this paper was posted as web note 15. Appendices with Mplus scripts are available here.
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