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Farmingdale held a 5-2 advantage after the first period led by two goals by freshman midfielder Donovan Devaney (Northport, N.Y.) and senior attack Ryan Oswald (Floral Park, N.Y.), and two assists from senior midfielder Tim Caden (Setauket, N.Y.). In the second, Vassar shut down the Rams, holding them to just five shots, and tying the game at 5-5 with a goal from senior midfielder Matthew Pearce (Alpharetta, Ga.) and two goals by senior midfielder Jeff Lee (Syosset, N.Y.).
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For Vassar, sophomore goalkeeper Andrew Nicol (Carmel, N.Y.) made 11 saves in defeat. Gross and Lee both led the team with two goals and one assist. Junior defender Casey Rice (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and senior defender Stephen Kozey (Syosset, N.Y.) each caused four turnovers.
The Rams will now face Hartwick on Saturday, March 11 at 1:00 p.m. This will be the Rams final home game until Saturday, April 14, playing seven straight road games.


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All too often, LGBT people experience religion as a cudgel
used against them. But many faith traditions are becoming more accepting and
inclusive. As Christians celebrate Easter and Jews observe Passover, we take a
moment to recognize some of the LGBT activists and straight allies who are
making a difference, and several of whom have new books out. These folks are a
diverse bunch — they include a former president, a onetime Pat Robertson
associate, the first out transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish
university, a Bible code-cracker, and more.
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter proudly embraces his "born-again Christian"
identity but has never been a member of the religious right. He has become more
popular in his post-presidential role as statesman, humanitarian, and author
than he was during his tenure in the White House. He's won favor with us
through his outspokenness in support of gay equality. In March, while promoting
his book
of biblical studies, NIV Lessons From Life Bible: Personal Reflections With
Jimmy Carter, he told The
Huffington Post, "Homosexuality was well
known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born, and Jesus never said a
word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things, he
never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very
fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies." As for religious
ceremonies, it should be up to the individual church, Carter said — a position
in keeping with the First Amendment.
James Alexander Langteaux
James Alexander Langteaux spent several years working with
noted homophobe Pat Robertson as a producer and host on the Christian
Broadcasting Network, then realized that "playing strip poker with the big wigs
in Christianity today while hiding the gay card up my sleeve is a game I no
longer wish to play," he writes
in the memoir Gay Conversations With God: Straight Talk on Fanatics, Fags
and the God Who Loves Us All. He chronicles
his journey from the Christian right to a place of spiritual and sexual
self-acceptance in lively, often raunchy prose. It's a 21st-century
journey on the path taken two decades ago by Mel White, who came out as a gay
Christian and founded the LGBT activist group Soulforce after having been a
ghostwriter for such antigay figures as Robertson and Jerry Falwell.
Joy Ladin
Poet and literature professor Joy Ladin, born Jay, details her transition from
outwardly male to the woman she always knew herself to be in Through the
Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders. The transition nearly cost Ladin her job at Stern College for Women of
Yeshiva University in New York. Yeshiva, she notes, is "Orthodox Judaism's
premier institution of higher learning, and Orthodox Judaism, like most
traditional forms of religion, considers the things transsexuals do to fit our
bodies to our souls to be sins." In 2007, after she notified the dean of her
plan to transition, the school placed her on "involuntary research leave," but
eventually, in what Ladin calls a "miracle," Yeshiva agreed to her attorney's
demand that she be allowed to return to teaching, making her the first openly
transgender faculty member at an Orthodox university. Ladin also chronicles her
divorce, her evolving relationship with her children, finding love with another
woman, and her discovery of support for her identity in the teachings of the
great Jewish scholar Hillel. Her prose is smooth and, one might say, poetic,
and her story is fascinating.
Michael Wood
For those of us who aren't theologians, biblical scholarship
can make the head spin, but Michael Wood, a cryptographer and son of a Nazarene
minister, was drawn to it. He began by studying what scholars called the
"Pauline Paradox," St. Paul's contradictory statements on whether God judges
people by their faith or their deeds. That spurred him to delve into Paul's
condemnations of homosexuality, which are among the "clobber passages" of the
Bible used against LGBT people. In his book Paul on Homosexuality, Wood asserts that Paul has been mistranslated and
misunderstood for two millennia. Paul, Wood writes, believed that Old Testament
prohibitions on same-sex relationships were no longer valid and that Jesus'
commandment to love one another superseded all. "I would like to see this
discovery used to bring full equality to the LGBT community," Wood said in an
interview with The Advocate. "Evangelicals
will only change their minds when their current interpretations are shown to be
indefensible. The standard approach of showing viable alternatives to all the
clobber passages does nothing to undermine the viability of the evangelical
interpretation of each of them. We must do more than just give a viable
alternative, we must show them that their alternative isn't even a possibility."
Jay Michaelson
Supporting LGBT equality isn't just a good social value,
it's a religious one, writes
Jay Michaelson in God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality. Michaelson, a gay man who was closeted for years as
a practicing Orthodox Jew, writes that his relationship with God improved after
he came out, and that his extensive research has found ample support in
Judeo-Christian and other faith traditions for gay equality. "I sincerely
believe that our shared religious values call upon us to support the equality,
dignity, and full inclusion of sexual and gender minorities — that is, of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people," writes Michaelson, the founder
of Nehirim, an organization that provides community programming for LGBT Jews.
His book makes an eloquent case that "'God versus Gay' isn't just a false
dichotomy. It's a rebellion against the image of God itself."
F. Jay Deacon
Religious fundamentalists insist that their scriptures, their
beliefs, are unchanging. But beliefs are meant to evolve, writes F.
Jay Deacon in Magnificent Journey: Religion as a Lock on the Past or an
Engine of Evolution. Deacon has certainly
been through his own evolution: When he was "a teenager bored with the very
proper Presbyterian church," he embraced the fundamentalist strain of
Christianity at a Billy Graham crusade, then attended an Assemblies of God
seminary. His recognition that he was gay eventually led him away from
fundamentalism to the largely gay Metropolitan Community Church and finally to
the liberal, inclusive Unitarian Universalist Church, where he has been
director of the Office of GLBT Concerns; he is now minister for a Unitarian
congregation in New Hampshire. His journey has led him to call for a new type
of spirituality, one that can help counter homophobia, sexism, war, bigotry,
class exploitation, and environmental destruction. "Regression to a primitive
past is not the answer," he writes. "Religions must transform, must evolve,
now. They must become engines of evolution, not chains binding us to that
barbaric worst of what humanity is capable."
Mormon Stories
In addition to the books listed on previous pages, there are
many other sources of good news for LGBT people of various faiths. Mormon
Stories, a support community for LGBT Mormons, will hold a conference,
"Circling the Wagons," in Washington, D.C., April 20-22. Keynote speakers will
be Carol Lynn Pearson, whose book No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons
Around Our Gay Loved Ones calls for Mormons
to become more welcoming to LGBT people, and Mitch Mayne, a gay man who serves
as executive secretary to his Mormon bishop.
Muslims for Progressive Values; Catholics for Equality
Muslims for Progressive Values is spreading an egalitarian,
inclusive vision of Islam with women and gays in leadership positions. It will
hold its sixth annual retreat, with the
theme "A Theology of Mercy," in New York City in July. Spreading the progressive gospel in another faith, Catholics for Equality,
founded in 2010, is mobilizing Catholics to lobby for LGBT rights, which it
calls part of "the rich tradition of Catholic social justice teachings."
Soulforce and More
Participants in Soulforce's Equality Ride are taking a message of acceptance to religious colleges and other institutions
around the nation this month and next. Add to that the work of Believe Out
Loud, Faith in America, Faithful America, and many other interfaith and
faith-specific groups advocating LGBT equality, and there's much to celebrate
in this season of rebirth.

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Jesse Biter has not hidden his desire to shape Sarasota politics and get Richard Dorfman elected to the City Commission on May 14. The multimillionaire has raised money for Dorfman and set up a fundraising arm to "educate" voters about Susan Chapman, the candidate he opposes.
But it's what Biter hasn't done -- file a required finance report -- that has some people crying foul. The same critics say Dorfman has not properly disclosed how employees at Biter's property known as the HuB have supported his campaign.
On Tuesday, Biter got a reminder from the city auditor and clerk: If he is using the fundraising organization to affect the upcoming election, he needs to follow the rules and report to the city.
Biter has already missed one city deadline for reporting the finances of his recently created electioneering communications organization, Biter ECO, which can receive unlimited amounts of money to use on media ads ahead of an election.
He said his attorney told him he only had to file finance reports with the state, which would mean any contributions and expenditures would not be public until months after the city commission election.
"We're not trying to hide anything, we just want to do it legally," Biter said. If that means filing with the city, Biter said he would do so. "If I have to, or if I should, yeah."
According to state election law, he has to.
After the Herald-Tribune spoke with Biter about the filing issue and City Auditor and Clerk Pam Nadalini sent the letter, Biter's attorney, Bucky Mitchell, said he was aware of the next city reporting deadline -- May 8 -- and the organization plans to file finances then.
Mitchell, considered an expert on state election law, said he did not know about the previous reporting deadline on April 26. He said Biter's accountant was in charge of filing.
Dorfman's critics say the candidate has also not followed the rules for reporting campaign finances. They argue Dorfman should list in-kind contributions from employees at the HuB business incubator on his finance reports.
The interest and investment in the local election come as Sarasota is trying to determine how to simultaneously foster business and keep residents satisfied. Biter and others say increased density and a change in noise restrictions could create a more vibrant downtown, while others argue the city must maintain a high quality of life for residents by keeping the current rules and enforcing them.
The involvement of big-money organizations is unprecedented in the local race, said Kelly Kirschner, a former mayor and Chapman supporter.
"No one ever has expected you would see that in a local city election where you're talking about community gardens and how our neighborhood safety has improved," Kirschner said.
"I think where the money comes from and how you finance campaigns probably gives you a pretty good indication about someone's thinking," he said. "If it is going to happen, they better be reporting."
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Biter jumped into politics over the past couple of years.
He ran presidential candidate Rick Santorum's Florida campaign and has hosted events for politicians, including U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, at his home.
But Biter ECO, for now, appears very city-centric. The organization's goals are outlined on its website:
Allow increased density of living units downtown, on the North Trail and in the Rosemary District.
Create a noise ordinance that clearly defines what businesses can do and protects residents.
Add an elected mayor charter amendment to the November 2014 ballot.
ECOs are limited in how they can support a campaign. They can only spend money on media advocacy, such as television and newspaper ads, or phone calls, according to state election law. There is no limit on how much someone can give an ECO.
The organization would allow Biter to have greater sway in the city, where he already is flexing his financial muscles.
The entrepreneur whose company, Dealers United, provides car dealerships with office supplies, is working on a downtown "HuB PuB" sports bar next to the HuB. He has also bought several properties around downtown and announced plans to build about 200 smaller apartments in the heart of the city.
His views on the noise ordinance and increased density -- allowing more living units in buildings -- dovetail with Dorfman's.
In a recent email to voters that states along the bottom, "Paid electioneering communication paid for by Biter ECO," Biter chided city commissioners for their decision (which they later reversed) to put a moratorium on new bars in response to noise issues.
"This is the type of nonsense a candidate like Richard Dorfman will fight against. We need real leadership in city hall to ensure Sarasota continues to grow more vibrant while respecting the residents that live in the core," he wrote.
Biter announced the creation of his ECO at an April 10 fundraiser he hosted for Dorfman, the candidate said. Biter ECO filed a statement of organization with the state the next day.
Dorfman said he is not involved with Biter's new organization.
"I have nothing to do with Jesse's ECO. I'm not actively participating in it or anything else," Dorfman said.
Dorfman previously considered using money from Citizens United For Future Leaders, an ECO created by former Sarasota County Republican Party Chairman Eric Robinson. Dorfman said he decided against it after discussing the idea with a number of supporters.
"We decided it just really wasn't necessary," he said.
The candidate, who is competing with Mayor Suzanne Atwell and Chapman for the two open seats, has had the best-funded campaign.
According to finance reports filed with the city last week, Dorfman has received $57,516.10 in contributions, Atwell has $24,238.75 and Chapman $27,755.
Acting like a PAC
But some Dorfman opponents say he is not reporting all the contributions he has received.
Employees at the HuB, a building in downtown Sarasota that houses entrepreneurs, have backed Dorfman's campaign. Biter owns the property that the HuB operates out of and his company, Biter Enterprises, partners with the organization.
Biter said he is just the landlord, and the political involvement coming from the HuB is among individuals who want to spread the word about the importance of the May 14 election.
"There's not any single person or entity that's doing anything. It's just a bunch of volunteers, a bunch of young professionals," Biter said.
But Chapman and some of her supporters say the HuB's involvement has gone beyond expressing opinions.
"They claim that they're a business incubator but they're acting like a political action committee," Chapman said.
Kirschner agrees, and pointed out a post on the "Richard Dorfman for Sarasota City Commission" Facebook page that said he has a campaign office at the HuB.
"If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck," Kirschner said. He said HuB founder Rich Swier Jr. should have a "heightened awareness" of campaign finance requirements because he monitored a group that was pushing for a strong city manager ballot measure in the last election and filed a complaint with the state over their lack of reporting.
There is one $50 payment for "web site development" to the HuB Studios reported under Dorfman's expenditures over the past year. He has not reported any in-kind contributions from the organization.
Swier said he is a big Dorfman supporter and has made calls, gone door-to-door for the candidate and helped him with his website. The HuB hosted a Dorfman campaign event in December and a call bank for him in March. Sarasota Day, a media organization based in the HuB, has a video near the top of their website titled, "Politically Personal: Getting Personal with Richard Dorfman."
"I can understand how people blend all that together," Swier said.
Dorfman said while people at the HuB write articles and emails backing his campaign, employees there do not work for him.
"They post their feelings on different political situations," Dorfman said. "That's their right."
HuB fundraising tactics for Dorfman criticized
Jesse Biter has not hidden his desire to shape Sarasota politics and get Richard Dorfman elected to the City Commission on May 14. The multimillionaire has raised money for Dorfman and set up a fundraising arm to "educate" voters about Susan Chapman, the candidate he opposes.


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Paul Zak: Trust, morality -- and oxytocin
What drives our desire to behave morally? Neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it "the moral molecule") is responsible for trust, empathy and other feelings that help build a stable society.
A pioneer in the field of neuroeconomics, Paul Zak is uncovering how the hormone oxytocin promotes trust, and proving that love is good for business.
What's behind the human instinct to trust and to put each other's well-being first? When you think about how much of the world works on a handshake or on holding a door open for somebody, why people cooperate is a huge question. Paul Zak researches oxytocin, a neuropeptide that affects our everyday social interactions and our ability to behave altruistically and cooperatively, applying his findings to the way we make decisions.
A pioneer in a new field of study called neuroeconomics, Zak has demonstrated that oxytocin is responsible for a variety of virtuous behaviors in humans such as empathy, generosity and trust. Amazingly, he has also discovered that social networking triggers the same release of oxytocin in the brain -- meaning that e-connections are interpreted by the brain like in-person connections.
A professor at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California, Zak believes most humans are biologically wired to cooperate, but that business and economics ignore the biological foundations of human reciprocity, risking loss: when oxytocin levels are high in subjects, people's generosity to strangers increases up to 80 percent; and countries with higher levels of trust lower crime, better education fare better economically.
He says: "Civilization is dependent on oxytocin. You can't live around people you don't know intimately unless you have something that says: Him I can trust, and this one I can't trust."
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ANAHEIM, Calif., May 13 (UPI) -- Detroit's Henrik Zetterberg notched a goal and an assist Sunday and the Red Wings advanced to the conference semifinals with a 3-2 win over Anaheim.
Zetterberg scored 1:49 into the game and later assisted on Valtterii Filppula's tally in middle frame, which put the Red Wings ahead 3-1.
In between Justin Abdelkader scored a shorthanded, unassisted goal and the seventh-seeded Wings went on to take the deciding Game 7 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series over the second-seeded Ducks.
Jimmy Howard stopped 31-of-33 shots for Detroit, which now goes on to face the top-seeded Chicago Blackhawks in Round 2.
Emerson Etam and Francois Beauchemin scored for Anaheim, which fell to 2-3 all-time in Game 7s.
Jonas Hiller turned aside 29-of-32 shots for the Ducks.


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Triple-double for James as Heat beat Raps in OT
Miami Heat center Chris Bosh (1) looks for an opening past Toronto Raptors forward Quincy Acy during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Published Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:35PM EST
Last Updated Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:38PM EST
MIAMI -- Dwyane Wade scored 35 points, LeBron James got his 34th career triple-double and the Miami Heat rallied from a 15-point deficit to beat the Toronto Raptors 123-116 in overtime on Wednesday.
James finished with 31 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds for Miami, getting the last board on Toronto's final shot of the night. Wade added seven assists, including the one that set up Ray Allen for the 3-pointer that clinched the win with 59.3 seconds left in overtime.
Allen scored 18, Mario Chalmers scored 14 and Chris Bosh had a 12-point, 12-rebound night for Miami. The Heat finished overtime on a 13-2 run, erasing a four-point hole.
Alan Anderson scored 20 points for Toronto, leading seven Raptors in double figures. Jose Calderon scored 17, Terrence Ross had 16, Amir Johnson finished with 15 points.
Miami outrebounded Toronto 53-29, with Udonis Haslem also grabbing 10 rebounds for the Heat.
Wade and Allen each had six points in overtime for Miami, which outscored Toronto 14-7 in the extra session. James had five rebounds in the final 5 minutes -- after getting five in all of regulation.
The path to overtime was frantic, with neither team leading by more than three in the final 6:51 of regulation.
Calderon made a 3-pointer with 1:51 left to give Toronto a 105-103 lead; Bosh answered with a jumper to tie it. So Calderon connected on another 3, only to have that one rebutted by a 3-pointer by James, knotting the game once again.
And for good measure, after DeMar DeRozan went 1 for 2 from the line to put the Raptors up by one, Bosh followed with a 1 for 2 from the stripe to tie the game for the 13th time.
DeRozan missed a wild layup with 19 seconds left, and James' 20-footer at the buzzer bounced off the back iron -- sending it to overtime.
Toronto led 54-39 late in the second after a 19-9 run. Kyle Lowry had seven points during the burst, Anderson added six -- and both made four-point plays during the stretch.
But Miami closed to 57-50 by intermission, after a heads-up final few seconds from Shane Battier.
He made a 3-pointer late in the half, then stole Toronto's inbounds pass to give Miami a possession that led to a free throw by Bosh. Battier then contested Lowry's layup at the buzzer, forcing a miss before the break.
Toronto led by as many as 10 in the third, before the Heat got hot. Miami scored 30 points in the final 7:55 of the quarter -- with Wade going 6 for 7 in the period, and the Heat outrebounding Toronto 13-3.
Still, it only added up to an 88-84 Heat lead entering the fourth.
Notes: James passed Tom Chambers for 37th on the league's career scoring list. ... James had 10 points in the first quarter, the fifth straight game where the NBA's reigning MVP has reached double-digits in the opening period. It's the third time he's had such a streak in his career, with a run of six consecutive games in 2010 his longest. ... Toronto had no turnovers in the game's first 22 minutes. ... One of the loudest cheers in the first half came when the halftime score of the Miami-Duke game -- the Hurricanes led 42-19 in a stunner at that point, in a game going on a few miles south in Coral Gables -- was displayed on the scoreboards. Miami went on to a 90-63 victory.


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Ben Cousins leaves DeNA's Scattered Entertainment to become freelance F2P consultant
Ben Cousins has left his role as head of DeNA's free-to-play studio Scattered Entertainment to become a freelance F2P consultant. He's now explained his decision in a new interview.
Scattered Entertainment headlines
The Drowning: former Batlefield dev's iOS shooter out now
Time to see if the mobile experiment succeeded; Ben Cousins' new shooter, iOS exclusive The Drowning, is out now. The former Battlefield executive producer was pretty confident in the game's touch controls, and since it's free on iTunes there seems to be no reason not to go see if he was right.Thanks, Joystiq.
GDC Europe 2013 sessions detailed for Nintendo, IO Interactive, Scattered Entertainment
More GDC Europe 2013 session details from Nintendo, IO Interactive, and Scattered Entertainment have been announced by show organizers.
PS4: Sony went for "cheaper hardware" for fear of smaller install base - Cousins
PS4 is made up of cheaper hardware than its predecessor because Sony fears it will see a smaller install base in next-gen, ex-Battlefield producer and EA exec Ben Cousins has suggested.
The Drowning - new trailer for former Battlefield dev's tablet FPS
The Drowning boasts some serious shooter chops behind it thanks to project lead Ben Cousins, former executive producer of the Battlefield series. See how a veteran shooter team makes the jump to touch controls in the trailer through the break.
Former Battlefield developer reveals iOS FPS
The Drowning, a free-to-play post-apocalyptic first-person shooter for iOS, has been unveiled by Ben Cousins, former Battlefield Executive Producer.
Scattered Entertainment latest
Ben Cousins leaves DeNA's Scattered Entertainment to become freelance F2P consultant
GDC Europe 2013 sessions detailed for Nintendo, IO Interactive, Scattered Entertainment
PS4: Sony went for "cheaper hardware" for fear of smaller install base – Cousins
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Nick Cox <email@example.com>
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Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:38:05 +0000
If you consider that exploratory factor analysis is the way to go, then you use values of (often called scores of) your first factor as the best summary of the two variables. It will in effect be, or be related to, a weighted mean of your two variables.
However, you do have categorical variables, but exploratory factor analysis, unless you use some special flavour specifically designed for your problem, would treat those as measurements on continuous scales. Any jury of statistical people would divide into factions on whether that is still a good idea, dubious at best, or totally inappropriate.
Cameron's suggestions may contain more positive advice, but something that is quick and easy is a cross-tabulation or appropriate graph of your two categorical variables, which will suggest how strongly they are related. If the relationship is weak, no composite variable is going to work well as a substitute for both.
Alessandro Freire
Maarten, thank you for your reply. I believe exploratory factor
analysis is more appropriate for my case. Nevertheless, I still don´t
know how to extract the mean from two variables with different scales.
Any ideas on that?
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Cameron McIntosh <email@example.com> wrote:
> Thanks Maarten for the link to your paper, very interesting. I might also suggest some more general conceptual and methodological treatments of this topic, which is pretty hot these days in marketing and social psych research:
> Hardin, A.M., & Marcoulides, G.A. (2011). A Commentary on the Use of Formative Measurement. Educational and Psychological Measurement, Online First.http://epm.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/08/02/0013164411414270.abstract
> Hardin, A.M., Chang, J.C.-J., Fuller, M.A., & Torkzadeh, G. (2011). Formative Measurement and Academic Research: In Search of Measurement Theory. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 71(2), 281-305.
> Grace, J.B., & Bollen, K.A. (2008). Representing general theoretical concepts in structural equation models: the role of composite variables. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 15(2), 191-213.
> Cadogan, J.W., & Lee, N. Improper Use of Endogenous Formative Variables. Journal of Business Research, forthcoming.http://www.research-training.com/index_htm_files/NEW_CADOGAN_LEE_15_OCT_2010.pdf
> Kim, G., Shin, B., & Grover, V. (2010). Investigating Two Contradictory Views of Formative Measurement in Information Systems Research. MIS Quarterly, 34(2), 345-365.
> Edwards, J.R. (2011). The fallacy of formative measurement. Organizational Research Methods, 14(2), 370-388.
> Treiblmaier, H., Bentler, P.M., & Mair, P. (2011). Formative constructs implemented via common factors. Structural Equation Modeling, 18(1), 1-17.
> Baxter, R. (2009). Reflective and formative metrics of relationship value: A commentary essay. Journal of Business Research, 62(12), 1370-1377.
> Bollen, K.A., & Davis, W.R. (2009). Causal Indicator Models: Identification, Estimation, and Testing. Structural Equation Modeling, 16(3), 498-522.
> Howell, R. D., Breivik, E., & Wilcox, J.B. (2007). Reconsidering Formative Measurement. Psychological Methods, 12(2), 205-218.
> Bagozzi, R. P. (2007). On the Meaning of Formative Measurement and How It Differs From Reflective Measurement: Comment on Howell, Breivik and Wilcox. Psychological Methods, 12(2), 229-237.
> Bollen, K. A. (2007). Interpretational Confounding IS Due to Misspecification, Not to Type of Indicator: Comment on Howell, Breivik, and Wilcox. Psychological Methods, 12(2), 219-228.
> Howell, R. D., Breivik, E., & Wilcox, J. B. (2007). Is Formative Measurement Really Measurement? Psychological Methods, 12(2), 238-245.
> Franke, G. R., Preacher, K. J., & Rigdon, E. E. (2008). The Proportional Structural Effects of Formative Indicators. Journal of Business Research, 61(12), 1229-1237.
> Wilcox, J. B., Howell, R. D., & Breivik, E. (2008). Questions About Formative Measurement. Journal of Business Research, 61(12), 1219-1228.
> Diamantopoulos, A., Riefler, P., & Roth, K. P. (2008). Advancing Formative Measurement Models. Journal of Business Research, 61(12), 1203-1218.http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxb14/EDEN/Articles/Diamantopoulos-Riefler-Roth%202008.pdf
> Coltman, T., Devinney, T.M., Midgley, D.F. & Veniak, S. (2008). Formative versus reflective measurement models: Two applications of formative measurement. Journal of Business Research, 61(12), 1250-1262.http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1693&context=infopapers
> Bollen, K.A., Lennox, R.D., & Dahly, D.L. (2009). Practical application of the vanishing tetrad test for causal indicator measurement models: An example from health-related quality of life. Statistics in Medicine, 28(10), 1524-1536.
> Roberts, N., & Thatcher, J. (2009). Conceptualizing and testing formative constructs: tutorial and annotated example. ACM SIGMIS Database archive, 40(3), 9-39. ACM New York, NY. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1592401.1592405
>> From: firstname.lastname@example.com
>> The key question is whether you believe that there is some latent
>> concept (interest in politics) that influences the answers on those
>> two questions or whether you believe that the things asked in those
>> two questions add up / influence the latent concept. In the former
>> case you can use techniques like factor analysis (see: -help factor-)
>> to create the composite and in the latter case you use sheaf
>> coefficients to create the composite (see -ssc desc sheafcoef- and
>> <http://www.maartenbuis.nl/wp/prop.html>.
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Alessandro Freire wrote:
>> > I want to create a composite measure by using the mean of two
>> > variables regarding interest in politics, but their scales are
>> > different. One of them is scaled from 0 to 10, the other goes from 1
>> > to 5. What should I do so that their weights are equally distributed
>> > in the new variable?
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Tigers Fall Short at Home Versus SIUE, 4-2, 2-1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee State fell short in both games against SIU Edwardsville on Friday afternoon at Tiger Field. The Cougars gained the victory in the opener, 4-2, and held on to take the night cap, 2-1. TSU fell to 16-32, 4-14 in Ohio Valley Conference play, while SIUE improved to 22-19, 14-3 in conference.
In game one, the Cougars built a 3-0 advantage heading into the bottom of the fifth inning. SIUE pitcher Haley Chambers was perfect heading into the frame and recorded the first two outs. Kiarra Freeman broke through for TSU as she lined a single into left for the first base runner of the game.
Courtney Gearlds continued the inning with a drive into centerfield. The speedy left fielder picked up her third triple in the last nine days, as she chased Freeman around the bases to get the TSU on the board. The Tigers sustained the two-out rally with a hard shot off the bat of Shea Morris. The ball skipped by a diving Alex McDavid allowing Gearlds to cross home plate, cutting the lead to 3-2.
The Tigers could not get closer as SIUE tacked on another run in the seventh and Chambers made the score stand. Chambers improved to 13-12 as she surrendered three hits, while striking out 10.
Olivia Gamache (4-11) took the loss tossing four innings, giving up four hits, two walks, three runs, two earned and striking out five.
The second game consisted of three runs, all unearned. The Cougars scored in the second on a throwing error and notched a run in the third taking advantage of a passed ball.
In the bottom of the third, the Tigers would pick up a run on an SIUE miscue. Lindsey Burgess reached base as a ball would get away from the first baseman. The ball would land far enough away for Freeman, who started the play at first, to scamper home.
SIUE hurler Alexis Robison-Kohrs earned her first win of the season as she retired the next 13 batters. Robison-Kohrs yielded two hits, a walk and registered two strikeouts.
Hannah St. Clair worked three innings and was touched for two hits. The freshman suffered the loss and is now 3-10.
Gamache worked one inning and struck out one batter. The fanning, couple with the five in game one, gives the senior 200 strikeouts in her career, becoming the fourth hurler in TSU history to surpass the number. Gamache joins teammate Shea Morris, Amanda Vaught and Caitlin Eaton in the 200 club.
TSU will host Eastern Illinois in a twin bill on Saturday afternoon. First pitch is scheduled for 1:00pm as TSU will honor seniors Gamache and Ashley Haynes in their final game at Tiger Field. The games can be seen on OVCDigitalNetwork.com.


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Indians, Kipnis agree on six-year extension
Deal with second baseman worth $52.5 million, includes club option for 2020
CLEVELAND -- Jason Kipnis had appeared in only three dozen games in the big leagues when the Indians first approached him about a contract extension. The second baseman decided to give it time, because he wanted to see what direction the organization was heading.
Three years later, following Cleveland's return to the postseason last summer and Kipnis' emergence as an American League All-Star, the sides finally struck a deal. In the hours leading up to Friday's home opener, the Indians announced they had signed Kipnis to a six-year, $52.5 million contract that has a club option that could keep him in the fold through 2020.
"Today is very special," Kipnis said. "It's an amazing feeling to get something done. I wanted to stay here. I'm excited about being here."
The deal is the third in a series of recent signings that call to mind the work of former Indians general manager John Hart, who pioneered the art of extensions for players already under club control. Since the start of Spring Training, current Cleveland general manager Chris Antonetti has signed outfielder Michael Brantley, catcher Yan Gomes and Kipnis to multyear pacts.
During the news conference to announce Kipnis' deal, Gomes sat to the second baseman's right and Brantley joined him on the left. They represented the face of the Tribe's new young core, which wants to build off last season's run to the playoffs. That was the motivating factor for Kipnis in the three-year process to sign the extension.
While the contract is indeed lucrative, Kipnis' agent, Danny Horwits of the Beverly Hills Sports Council, said the money was secondary throughout the process.
"Jason's big concern was just that he really wanted to be a part of what they're doing as far as turning it around," Horwits said. "In 25 years, I've had a lot of lot of free agents, a lot of arbitration signings. He was probably, out of all my guys, one of the most, if not the most concerned about how the team was going to be framed going forward."
Kipnis' contract, which includes a $1 million signing bonus, will pay him $2 million this season, followed by salaries of $4 million (2015), $6 million (2016), $9 million (2017), $13.5 million (2018) and $14.5 million (2019). The club option for 2010 is worth $16.5 million, but Cleveland will also have the ability to buy that out at a cost of $2.5 million.
The contract covers all three of Kipnis' arbitration years (2015-17) and at least two of his free-agent seasons.
At the beginning of Spring Training, the Indians signed Brantley to a four-year contract worth $25 million that includes a club option for 2018. On Monday, Cleveland signed Gomes to a a six-year, $23 million deal that has club options for '20 and '21. Gomes' contract marked the largest in baseball history for a catcher in his pre-arbitration years.
"It's something we've always believed in doing," Antonetti said. "You just have to make sure you have the right players and you're investing in the right guys. We couldn't be more excited about the group of guys who we've extended long term."
The Indians reached an agreement with Kipnis on Sunday, but the sides managed to keep things quiet until early Friday morning. The deal became official after the second baseman completed a physical in Cleveland on Thursday, which marked his 27th birthday.
Kipnis laughed when asked if the contract was the best birthday gift he has ever received.
"If you've had a better one," Antonetti said with a grin.
"I haven't had a better one," Kipnis said. "It's been a crazy couple days, but it's going to be nice to get back to baseball today. I'm just happy we could get it done."
Kipnis made his first AL All-Star team last summer and finished the year with a .284 batting average, 17 home runs and a team-high 84 RBIs in 149 games. He also recorded 36 doubles, four triples, 76 walks, 86 runs and 30 stolen bases in his second full big league season. Kipnis was the first Indians second baseman to lead his team outright in RBIs since Joe Gordon in 1948.
Last year, he became only the sixth franchise player to turn in a season with at least 15 homers and 30 steals, joining Grady Sizemore (2007-08), Roberto Alomar (1999-2001), Kenny Lofton (2000), Joe Carter (1987) and Bobby Bonds (1979).
"From the time he arrived in the Majors Leagues in 2011," Antonetti said, "he's emerged as one of the best second basemen in baseball. His unique combination of power, speed and hard-nosed play has made him one of the best players, not only at his position, but in the American League."
For his career, Kipnis has posted a .270/.349/.424 slash line with 38 home runs, 66 stolen bases and 179 RBIs in 337 games. The Indians selected Kipnis as an outfielder in the second round (63rd overall) of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, but he began a transition to second base in 2010.
After his rookie season, during which Kipnis posted an .841 OPS in 36 games for Cleveland, Antonetti and team president Mark Shapiro approached him about a long-term deal.
"I give Chris and Mark a lot of credit," Horwits said. "After 69 days of service, they came after him."
The time was not right for Kipnis.
That was no longer the case this season.
"When I got drafted here and looked at the organization, they were in a little rut," Kipnis said. "They were having those 90-loss seasons. I wanted to be a part of the transformation that turned this organization around, and a group of players that can put the foot down and get this going in the winning direction. That's what I've always set out to be, the type of player I've wanted to be.
"Signing back here, it's something I wanted to see myself, along with guys like Brantley and Gomes, finish the job. We weren't just going to get to free agency and leave. We weren't just going to take the money. This is something we set out to do, to be the players that want to be able to be the guys that turn Cleveland around.


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I have a rather trivial question. I am looking for the decomposition of $1/2\otimes 1/2\otimes 1/2$. It should give, $0,1/2$ and $3/2$. I thought one must get as the overall dimension of this space 8, but counting, I just get 7. Does one have 2 singlets?
1$\begingroup$ Possible duplicate: Adding 3 electron spins. $\endgroup$ – Emilio Pisanty Aug 31 '12 at 13:50
$\begingroup$ The question is similar, true but I am more interested in the formal mathematical expression of this problem. $\endgroup$ – Hamurabi Aug 31 '12 at 15:19
From where did you get the idea that one can get a spin zero representation? The product of an even/odd number of Fermion representations always gives a Boson/Fermion representation.
In your particular case, repeated use of $$1/2 \otimes s = (s-1/2) \oplus (s+1/2)$$ gives $$1/2 \otimes 1/2 \otimes 1/2=(0\oplus 1) \otimes 1/2 = (0 \otimes 1/2) \oplus (1 \otimes 1/2) =1/2 \oplus (1/2 \oplus 3/2).$$ Thus one gets two spin 1/2 and one spin 3/2 representations.
With the caveat that I'm 30+ years rusty at this stuff: Two 1/2's and one 3/2 (and no singlet) does have dimension 8. And Mathematica's Clebsch-Gordon routines affirm this decomposition.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay area commuters got at least a temporary reprieve from a massive transit strike when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an inquiry into a labor contract dispute.
Sunday night's eleventh hour order averted the walkout and left the morning commute to proceed normally, without the widespread travel congestion that a strike involving Bay Area Rapid Transit, the nation's fifth largest rail line, would have created.
In the order, Brown named a board of investigators for a seven-day inquiry into the contract dispute that had labor unions poised to walk off the job at midnight Sunday.
The order Brown issued came under a law that allows the state's intervention if a strike will significantly disrupt public transportation services and endanger public health.
"For the sake of the people of the Bay Area, I urge — in the strongest terms possible — the parties to meet quickly and as long as necessary to get this dispute resolved," Brown said in the order
In a statement, BART spokesman Rick Rice said the transit authority's board president Tom Radulovich sent a letter to the governor requesting his intervention and a cooling off period of 60 days. The governor issued an order with considerably less time of a week.
"The formal impartial fact-finding that accompanies the cooling-off period will help clarify the points of difference between the proposals," the statement said.
Union leaders issued a critical statement after the order, accusing BART management negotiators of stalling until only hours remained before the strike would have begun to provide counter proposals on core pay and benefits.
"Our hope is that the Governor's Board of Investigation will reveal how little time BART management has spent at the bargaining table in the past 30 days, compared with how much time they've spent posturing to the media," said SEIU 1021 President Roxanne Sanchez.
BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said late Sunday that it is "extremely frustrating" that the unions were misrepresenting the improved proposals they've been getting, including wage increases, and the transit authority was hard at work all weekend despite allegations of absence.
"We made several proposals this weekend and they all went in one direction and that was up, up, up," said Trost.
Bay Area Rapid Transit managers and union leaders had returned to the bargaining table Sunday in hopes of heading off a strike that would have affected 400,000 commuters and created traffic nightmares for the San Francisco area for the second time in a month.
Representatives from BART management and the agency's two largest employee unions negotiated for about 14 hours Saturday and resumed bargaining Sunday morning as a midnight deadline loomed. Brown's order came at around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
Big differences remain on key issues including wages, pensions, worker safety and health care costs, but the parties had expressed some optimism that an agreement could be reached to avert a strike planned for Monday.
Despite allegations of stalling late Sunday, earlier in the weekend union leaders cautiously expressed hope for agreement and said progress was being made.
"The parties made some important but incremental moves yesterday, and I hope to get to a deal," Josie Mooney, chief negotiator for the Service Employees International Union 1021, said Sunday before heading into negotiations. "If the parties work very hard, then it's certainly possible in the amount of time we have left."
"There was definitely movement from both sides," BART chief negotiator Thomas Hock said as he left negotiations late Saturday night. "Hopefully, if we keep moving, we will get to a proposal that both sides can agree to."
BART's two largest unions issued a 72-hour notice Thursday that employees would walk off the job if they didn't reach agreement on a new contract by midnight Sunday.
"BART really is the backbone of the transit network. No other transit agency has the ability to absorb BART's capacity if there's a disruption," said John Goodwin, spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
In the event of a strike, transit agencies had planned to add bus and ferry service, keep carpool lanes open all day and even give away coffee gift cards to encourage drivers to pick up riders. They were also encouraging workers to avoid peak traffic hours or telecommute if possible.
When BART workers shut down train service for four days in early July, roadways were packed and commuters waited in long lines for buses and ferries. The unions agreed to call off that strike and extend their contracts until Sunday while negotiations continued.
Bay Area and state officials have been pressuring BART managers and union leaders to reach an agreement this weekend, saying a strike would create financial hardship for working families and hurt the region's economy.
Calif. gov. orders inquiry, averts SF rail strike
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay area commuters got at least a temporary reprieve from a massive transit strike when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an inquiry into a labor contract dispute.


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A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer, over the course of twelve years, and depicts the murders that really develop his inner madman.
A Pentecostal pastor, Lemuel Childs, and his believers handle venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. Lemuel's daughter, Mara holds a secret that threatens to tear the church apart: her romantic past with a nonbeliever, Augie. As Mara's wedding to a devoted follower looms, she must decide whether or not to trust the steely matriarch of their community, Hope, with her heart and life at stake.
Hawthorne College is winding down for the holidays, yet one by one, sorority girls are being picked off. Riley Stone, a girl dealing with her own trauma, begins to notice and tries to save her friends before they too are picked off.
A former boyracer who married his first love and took a job in one of the fish factories, now has a 17 year-old-son of his own following in his footsteps and can no longer ignore the fact he's going nowhere. Unable to be physically or emotionally present with his family, he takes his son's car out for one final joy ride and risks losing the love that surrounds him
Red Snow is a dramatic adventure that begins when Dylan, a Gwich'in soldier from the Canadian Arctic, is caught in an ambush in Panjwayi, Afghanistan. His capture and interrogation by a Taliban Commander releases a cache of memories connected to the love and death of his Inuit cousin, Asana, and binds him closer to a Pashtun family as they escape across treacherous landscapes and through a blizzard that becomes their key to survival.
Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.
Actors Rob Byrdon and Steve Coogan continue their travelogue series with a visit to Greece.
A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.
Season 2 | Episode 7 Liz is forced to revisit a painful part of her past when her mother shows up at the diner unexpectedly. Michael urges Maria to seek help after she experiences a strange vision. Kyle's attempt to get Steph to open up doesn't go as planned.
Season 2 | Episode 8 Despite promising Liz that he'll take things easy with his new heart, Max sets out to find Cameron after learning that she's gone missing. Michael grows concerned about Maria after a surprising discovery about her family history leaves her vulnerable. Elsewhere, ready to move on, Alex goes on a date with Forrest, and Rosa makes a decision about her future.
Season 2 | Episode 10 After uncovering a cryptic message from the past, Alex, Isobel, Max, Michael and Maria set out in search of answers at the reservation where Alex's mother grew up. Meanwhile, Cameron encourages Liz to reach out to someone from her past after Auturo gets detained.
Season 2 | Episode 9 After uncovering a surprising connection to their past, Michael and Isobel learn the painful truth about the night Tripp attacked their mothers. Meanwhile, Alex confronts his father about their troubled family history. Elsewhere, Kyle's first date with Steph takes an awkward turn after Liz inadvertently becomes a third wheel.
Season 1 | Episode 1 Assistant District Attorney Andy Barber is assigned as the lead prosecutor in the case of his son's murdered classmate.
Season 1 | Episode 3 Andy admits a family secret to Laurie before it becomes public.
Season 1 | Episode 2 When new evidence is discovered, Andy is taken off the case.
Season 1 | Episode 5 Andy visits his father, and learns some troubling information from Jacob's friends Derek and Sarah.
Season 1 | Episode 4 Andy takes matters into his own hands. Laurie reexamines the life she knew.
Season 1 | Episode 6 Andy and Klein explore two last-ditch efforts to prove Jacob's innocence.
Season 1 | Episode 1 Los Angeles, 1938. LAPD detective Tiago Vega and his partner, Lewis Michener, investigate a murder. While at City Hall, Tiago's activist brother Raul Vega battles with the fiery Councilman Charlton Townsend over the construction of California's first freeway. Meanwhile, Peter Craft, the head of the German-American Bun, meets Elsa, the mysterious mother of one of his patients. Sensing danger, Tiago's mother Maria pleads with Santa Muerte to protect her family as the rising tensions in the city threaten to explode.
Season 1 | Episode 7 As the trial begins, Jacob's fate hangs in the balance.
Season 1 | Episode 2 Raul Vega lies on the brink of death. Tiago and Lewis meet radio evangelist Sister Molly Finnister. Councilman Townsend furthers his political goals. Peter Craft runs into Elsa at the beach.
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The US shredded its opponents in CONCACAF women's soccer Olympic qualifiers this week—14-0 over the Dominicans, 13-0 over Guatemala, and 4-0 over Mexico—but Brandi Chastain, the lady who's famous for this, was not impressed. She called the games for Universal Sports Network (it's not the one formerly known as Versus; it's that other one) and critiqued the women for not working on their fundamentals or something. In Olympic qualifiers. The first two of which they won 27-0. And Solo did not dig it.
So she had some fun with Chastain on Twitter, ramping up a feud between the USWNT sex symbols of past and present. What fun! Stefan Fatsis explains, in this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast.
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Meeting Notes 2008 10 07
Time and Place[edit]
8pm, place: Noisebridge, 83C Wiese St. near 16th St. & Mission St., San Francisco
- kitchen proposal (Shannon L)
- incorporation status
- The Key Issue (TM)
- Issues with Consensus; definition of our consensus process
- safety committee
- risk assessment/mitigation best practices
- Insurance status
- Safari (online books)
Hi all,
Here are my notes from the meeting today. Please let me know if you have any additions, questions, or amendments, etc.. I'll wiki-fy them after a day or two, including any fixes people send me, unless someone else feels like doing it.
Roughly 32-35 people in attendance.
1) Incorporation Status
- Secretary of State has accepted the incorporation documents
- The first Board resolutions to activate the corporation have been drafted, need to be slightly fixed up, redrafted, and then signed by Board members. Then we are an active California Public Benefit Non-Profit corporation.
- ETA: Wednesday 8 October 2008
- Andy and Mitch take responsibility for obtaining signatures
- David Molnar will file online for a Tax ID number
- Noisebridge will then open an account with Wells Fargo
- There is a branch down the street
- Question about Wells Fargo's stability - they appear to be stable (they are eating other banks, not being eaten)
- Question about credit unions -- they appear not to be a good fit for small businesses
- Wells Fargo can be changed later if membership desires, but we need a bank account now
2) Keys, Dues, Membership
- Shannon Lee sent out to make many copies of the key to the space
- People are getting keys tonight
- Bootstrap Membership process
- We have talked about a 3 month contribution/waiting period
- Do not want to prevent people from being members who have contributed so far!
- Therefore invite people to join now
- Initial members will help us all make a membership process
- Goal: simple 1-page document to sign stating agreement with Noisebridge mission, disclaim liability, and agree to pay dues on time
- Dues: where does it go?
- Rent - $1975/month
- Electric bill - we're not sure exactly, but $300-$600?
- Previous tenants paid $365 for 1.3 megawatt-hours (13,000 100-watt lightbulbs on continuously)
- House can use 2 megawatt-hours per month
- Connectivity - DSL + cable bill
- Consumables - toilet paper, resistors, etc.
- Board exists to fill will of membership
- Want to trust the members. "We're not sacred cows. Don't be afraid to kill us."
- "Don't actually murder us."
- Want to collect 2x rent every month
- Cushion because we don't know our monthly expenses yet
- Will be moving target until we work this out
- Two proposals for membership fees, assuming 55 members:
1) Baseline fee of $75, "starving hacker" fee of $50 2) Baseline fee of $80, "starving hacker" fee of $40
- We accept donations above membership fee
- If you want a "Corporate Rate" of $5000/month we can do that
- Pay 3 months or more at a time if you can
- Helps Noisebridge figure out what to expect
- Jake promises to sink as much money as needed to keep Noisebridge running for one year more
- Feeling that $10 makes a difference to starving hackers, so $80/$40
- What do members get for their dues?
- Need to work that out with members
- Keys at a minimum
- Membership lapses? 1 month behind on dues?
- Another thing to figure out
- Won't take away key because you're one month behind
- Door lock progress
- Goal: keycard lock
- Thomas is obtaining bill of materials for AnonAccess keycard system
- We will be obtaining a quote for SALTO DESFire system, too
- Contact David Molnar to be on the Lock Team
- For now, trust the members to do the right thing with keys
- Do we redo key discussion when we have a new lock?
- Probably not, but we will talk about it
- Likely scenario: trade in key for keycard
- What if income is low enough that $40 is too much?
- Gender issues, women work for 50 cents/dollar
- Scholarship program - Noisebridge forgives some dues?
- Sponsorship/patronage program - one member sponsors another?
- We will try to work something out
- The $40 is not "hard wired"
- Grants?
- Jake looking at $150K grant for "hacker in residence" program
- Want to make Noisebridge accessible as possible
- Even if not member, not paying dues, welcome to hang out at space!
- Members will also be part of consensus process
- Welcome input from non-members too, but members decide
- Greg wanted to point out that the $80/$40 can be reviewed at a future time, even if we agree to it now
- Put as agenda item for meeting on wiki
- Treasurer will open source accounting
- Subject to privacy of donors - $1k in anon donations already
- Should ask "does anyone disagree" with consensus rather than "does everyone agree" - easier to hear when there are dissenting voices
- Adopted
- After Shannon arrived with the keys (at the end of the meeting), Jake then asked people to sit down. Then Jake asked people to stand up if they felt they had made a contribution, that they would continue to make a contribution, and they were OK with paying dues. Many people stood up, they all got keys.
- Consensus: Move forward with $80 baseline, $40 "starving hacker" dues, with concerns noted about payment in kind, sponsorship, or scholarship for people that can't afford $40 but still contribute. Also noted that these numbers are open to revision.
3) Consensus Process and Running Meetings
- Proposals for improving meeting and consensus process:
- 90 minute time limit to meetings
- Recorder reads back consensus to everyone, asks "Does anyone disagree?"
- Do not decide big things in same meeting when introduced
- Limit ad-hoc agenda items (see also 90 minute time limit)
- Who joins the consensus process? "Wander in off the street" issue.
- Have to be a member
- Person has to be a member of a group for consensus to work
- This deals with "out of nowhere" problem
- Can we get IRC channel to discuss beforehand?
- Yes. See #noisebridge on irc.freenode.net !
- Sadly, this by itself does not shorten meetings
- NYC Resistor - need to do a cool project to be a member
- What about members interested but not present?
- Some weeks people can't leave the apartment
- People travel
- Ubuntu Boston meetings: webcam, IRC
- Space will have projector, webcam, microphones
- Work on telepresence and tele-consensus needs doing
- Process discussion will go on wiki
- Consensus: we are not done yet discussing the consensus process. More work needed.
4) Safety Committee
- Seth Schoen is starting a Safety Committee. He couldn't make it tonight, but he has already started adding things to the space.
- Currently 2 fire extinguishers, some goggles, earplugs, etc.
- e-mail the list and start a wiki page about Safety Committee
- Action items for Safety Committee: figure out agenda items for near future meeting
- Question - are board members on Safety Committee? Jake is.
- Consensus: we have a Safety Team.
5) Kitchen and Chem Lab
- Shannon previously had suggested on list that we scrap the kitchen and use it exclusively as a chem lab.
- Shannon stated at the meeting that he felt the consensus was to keep the kitchen. No one disagreed with this.
- Meredith described plans for a fume hood on casters.
- Meredith and Shannon will form the Chem Lab Team. Talk to them if you want to help out with building out the chem lab.
- Consensus: we keep the kitchen. We have a Chem Lab Team.
6) Insurance Status
- David Molnar is handling interactions with insurance agents.
- One agent gathering a General Liability quote for us
- Another agent has given us application forms
- Forms sent to email@example.com, archives public
- Check wiki page, ask David if any questions
- We are applying for the following insurance:
- $1MM of general liability, $500K per occurrence, because the lease says we need to have it. Covers slip and fall, accidents, etc.
- Property theft insurance - $15K replacement cost, $1K deductible, but this may change depending on the premium. This covers Noisebridge property of the space only, so it covers the oscilloscope but it DOES NOT cover your laptop! We will ask about coverage for member property and see how much it costs.
- $1MM of Directors & Officers insurance. Protects board and officers in case a donor sues the corporation for mishandling a donation among other things. At a previous meeting Alameda County Computer Resource Center people suggested seriously having this.
- These are starting points for insurance so we can get up and running. We can revisit in the future. In particular we may want to increase the coverage for member property. That depends on our finances and the cost. Our priority now is to get the basics in place to cover operations.
- Until then, please don't leave your laptop in the space.
- Two people pointed out that renters' insurance may cover personal property lost in the space. Check your coverage!
- Consensus: David M. should continue to pursue insurance.
7) Safari
- Brian/endenizen is researching Safari, online book service for O'Reilly books
- Current status is we can get a corporate account at no cost to Noisebridge proper, then that enables individuals to access cheaper plans than they could obtain on their own. Need minimum 5 people.
- Plans are pre-paid, cheapest is $153/year in advance
- Cheapest plan is 10 books / 30 day period, not downloadable
- Slightly more expensive plan allows downloading
- Plans rocket up in cost from there
- Still need individual accounts under the corporate account, but these accounts are transferable
- Brian asked if group is OK with having a group account, also asked if there were at least 5 people interested
- More than 5 people raised their hands
- Meredith pointed out competing services may be available.
- This does not establish a precedent that all no-fee corporate accounts are automatically OK. For example, would need to discuss a corporate Zipcar account. Settle on case-by-case basis.
- Consensus: Brian can move forward with a corporate account for Noisebridge and organizing Team Safari. Several members have concerns about being associated with a service that uses Digital Rights Management, but these concerns are not blocking. In addition, future corporate accounts must be discussed on a case-by-case basis.
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Project G.R.E.E.N. - High Voltage Return Battery Accessory System
When last we saw Circle Track's Project G.R.E.E.N. Camaro, she was sitting under the bright lights of the Vehicle Technology Center at last year's SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. And although the car has not recently graced the pages of the magazine, the whole G.R.E.E.N. team has been hard at work planning, structuring, and generally preparing for the next phase of the project.
As a refresher, or for the benefit of new subscribers, Project G.R.E.E.N. was designed as a very special project car that would give Circle Track readers a glimpse into the future of what oval track racing might be like 15, 10, or maybe even just 5 years from now. G.R.E.E.N. actually stands for Green Racing Experimental Engine Narrative, an acronym coined by our very own Bob Bolles. In a nutshell, we wanted to investigate exactly how racey of a car we could build employing modern drivetrain technology and skinning it in a late-model body. Our base engine was Chevrolet Performance's CT525, while the body of the car would be a '10 Camaro. During the course of phase one of the project, we compared carburetion to electronic fuel injection, as well as race gas to pump E85 in a quest to find the best fuel/induction combination for the motor. For a number of reasons, the combination of EFI and E85 won out by delivering an overall 7 percent increase in torque. At least on paper the car should pull very hard off of the corners.
In a subsequent test at New Smyrna Speedway with resident CT project car driver Dalton Zehr behind the wheel, the EFI/E85 configuration of the Project G.R.E.E.N. Camaro turned laps 0.5 of a second faster than with traditional carb/race gas. The lap times were truly impressive, but would such a car be able to compete with Midwest Super Late Models? There was only one way to find out. So we packed up the trailer and headed to LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway in LaCrosse, Wisconsin for the annual Dick Trickle 99, a 99-lap race that is divided into three 33-lap segments.
Running with the likes of Chris Wimmer, Steve Carlson, Ross Kenseth, and more than 60 other top-notch drivers would be no easy task, but in the end Dalton finished a very respectable 14th. But the best part was we only spent $38 on gas and had approximately $8,500 in the engine. Now anybody who races in a series like the ASA Midwest Tour, where built 9:1 powerplants are the standard bearer knows that you don't normally spend less than $10 g's on a motor and less than $40 in gas for a 100-lap race.
As is typical with many short tracks around the country, LaCrosse opens the pit gates up after the event and allows the fans to meet the drivers and teams. Suffice it to say our little red Camaro had gained a lot of attention on the track, so when the checkered flag fell and fans streamed into the infield at 10 p.m., we had no choice to start talking about the project. When the last fan left, we looked at the clock and it was 1:30 a.m. Project G.R.E.E.N. was truly a success. We'd build a racey car at a low cost that yielded a ton of fan and driver interest and appeal.
The Camaro then made appearances at the 2010 PRI Trade Show in Orlando and SEMA 2011 in Las Vegas accompanied by a comprehensive presentation crafted by our friends at Argonne National Laboratory at both stops. Subsequently, the presentation was given a third time at IMIS-Indy last year.
Prior to the Trickle 99 race we had hauled the Camaro to Argonne National Lab's facility just outside of Chicago for some final instrumentation work on the car so that our engineer gurus Forrest Jehlik and Danny Bocci could gather the data that they needed. It was during a bench racing session at lunch that Dalton hatched an idea that led to Phase 2 of this project upon which we are about to embark. Our 20-something driver, theorized that if we removed everything that was mechanically driven off of the front of the engine, then we should free up horsepower. Items like the water pump and power steering pump should be driven electrically, perhaps by a second battery located remotely toward the rear of the car. Now, there would no longer be a need for an alternator, more free horsepower. Jehlik and Bocci both agreed that it would be easy to do. Then came a flurry of downstream ideas.
"Let's use rechargeable batteries. "
"Let's capture spent energy coming off the driveshaft to recharge the batteries. "
"Let's divert some of that captured energy to a secondary drive system that could be designed as an on-demand horsepower increase controlled by the driver. "
"Let's figure out how to hide all of this and really drive Lumpy nuts." (Ed. Note—If you don't know who Lumpy is, refer to the March '12 issue of Circle Track)
At the risk of entering an arena where we will completely blow the economics of this thing out of the water, we began constructing what would become Phase 2 of Project G.R.E.E.N. Budgets be damned, we decided to break Phase 2 into two separate segments. The first would be focused on electrifying two components that are traditionally mechanically driven in an oval track car, the water pump and the power steering pump. Accomplishing that with a secondary battery would also allow us to ditch the alternator. Once that segment of the project is complete, we would then focus on turning the Camaro into a true hybrid race car. With that cat peeking out of the bag, let's delve into segment one and leave hybridization to your imaginations and for later on in the year.
First order of business was to determine what two pumps we were going to use. Let's face it, electric water pumps or p/s pumps aren't exactly the norm in oval track racing. After some research we chose Meziere's electric water pump, PN WP337S. Weighing just slightly more than 6 pounds, this pump flows 55 gallons per minute through stainless steel hardware. Under normal use the pump will draw 11-12 amps and is just 5.20 inches long from the mounting surface to the tip of the pump. For the power steering unit, we purchased Flaming River's Motorsports Electric P/S System, PN FR40105. The P/S weighs just under 14 pounds, but only draws 8 amps. That coupled with the Meziere water pump makes a very manageable combination for the batteries.
Speaking of the batteries, we are not just sticking in a second Exide. Nope, the guys at Argonne sourced a pair of high-tech rechargeable batteries to handle all of the Camaro's electrical needs. They are actually lithium-iron magnesium phosphate (LiFeMgPO4) batteries from Valence Technology. Two 12-volt batts are strategically placed where you would put your normal battery in an Asphalt Late Model. The batteries will power all of the car's electrical systems together, which is actually a departure from our original idea of one battery powering the water pump and p/s pump while the other powered the starter, ignition, and more. But Danny and Forrest said that running them together would be much better. The batteries also have their own on-board recharging system, now affectionately known as "that gray box" not to be confused with "that black box" which is actually part of a data logger system from Racepak. For this phase of the project we replaced the Motek unit we previously used for the Racepak you see in the pictures, because the Racepak unit allows us to gather all of the required data while simultaneously gathering and monitoring spark. The Motek unit would have required a separate system.
The Racepak logger draws the signal through something called the Smartwire, which utilizes a number of different sensors including a torque sensor and a fuel flow meter. While the latter is pretty obvious as to what it is, the torque sensor consists of two units, the aforementioned "black box" and a donut looking apparatus around the driveshaft. The torque sensor in cooperation with other sensors will allow us to see just how much of an effect the removal of the mechanically driven systems will have on horsepower output at the tailshaft. The entire system monitors every aspect of what is happening in the car, from the EFI's spark, to the temperature, horsepower, and even the batteries.
Of course, the basic structure of this system is actually the foundation for the hybridization we alluded to earlier in the story. Like Phase 1 of Project G.R.E.E.N., this phase is designed to push the envelope far beyond conventional thinking in oval track racing by applying cutting edge on-road vehicle systems to a fairly typical Super Late Model. This exercise is, however, just the tip of the iceberg so stay tuned for some really amazing things coming your way in 2013.


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Sefer Torah in Outer Space
When the late Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, boarded the ill-fated Columbia space shuttle in 2003, he took along a small Sefer Torah. The son of an Auschwitz survivor, Ramon felt compelled to borrow this tiny scroll from Professor Joachim Joseph of TelAvivUniversity who brought it out from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp where he had secretly held a ceremony for his Bar Mitzvah.
To honor the memory of her husband and the Columbia crew, Rona Ramon borrowed a small Torah from Professor Henry Fenichel, a physics professor in Cincinnati, a child survivor of the Holocaust, and asked Canadian astronaut Steve Maclean to take it with him on the Atlantis flight.
When the Atlantis returned to earth, a ceremony was held at the Center for Holocaust Studies and Humanity Education in Cincinnati as Maclean, who declared that Ramon was his best friend, returned the Sefer Torah to Fenichel.


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Hi everyone,
In my early message I was asking some help to get me started but I was not looking for how to do the whole task... Imagine being in my position having not many programming experience for implementing different projects in the past but wanting to learn from others through guidance. Some people they just read the instruction ...and they know already what to do or where to start....but Iam not upto that level. If anyone has any idea way of improving this situation
I would take his/her advice as valuable gift.
apart from that, the encryption/ decryption program is S-P ( one permutation function and one S-boxes).
P takes 4 letter word (m1,m2,m3,m4) and returns (m1,m3,m2,m4)
and I think I can handle that without any help.
the S-box takes:
S(m1,m3) = (m1 + m3k1 (Mod 26), k2m1 + m3(Mod 26))
and same for S(m2,m4) ... k1, k2 are tha only keys they are also characters and m1...mn are the messages to be encrypted.
Thanks in advance