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Monday, September 17, 2007
Facing demons, watching friends
These days Bud has been proving that he's not a boy who runs from a challenge. Indeed, he is a boy who faces his fears head-on (as it were), seeking out the the things that unsettle him so that he can deconstruct and demystify them.
For the past week, Bud's most-requested and most-watched video has been Dierks Bentley's "Settle for a Slowdown." You can watch it here, and when you do you will probably notice the two things in it that have captivated Bud:
1. Bud's friend Dierks has long hair, and
2. Bud's friend Dierks is caught outside in a thunderstorm.
Bud watches the video as often as I'll let him. Each time he watches, he narrates the action as it happens. He is drawn, especially, to the flashes of lightning and he watches intently as his hero faces the storm outside and the storm within, as the rain starts falling, as his long hair clings, dripping, to his face. And somehow - somehow - watching this happen again and again, narrating it as it happens, Bud seems to be emboldened by it. The lightning in the video becomes a little less scary with each subsequent viewing. And while it hasn't yet transferred to a comfort with real-life lightning, it has got to be a good start. (There is a tag line here about "settling for a slowdown" that begs to be written, but, really, that's the easy way out, isn't it? I'll resist.)
For some reason, Bud is also fascinated by the fact that in this video Dierks appears to live in a mobile home. Bud says he would really, really like to visit a "car house."
There are two other high-rotation videos on Bud's playlist these days - both featuring long-haired men, interestingly enough. The first is Keith Urban's "I Told You So," which also features a storm and seems to have the same emboldening effect on Bud. The second is Eric Church's "Guys Like Me," the bulk of which takes place in a pool hall. This weekend as we watched the video, Bud stared at the screen and asked "They're in a church?"
"No," I explained. "His name is Eric Church. They're in a bar."
And that was it - he was off: "I want to go to a bar!" he said. And then he continued to say it all weekend long: "I want to go to a bar. Can we go to a bar? Let's go to a bar!"
Knowing Bud, his preoccupation with bars will continue all week. I have to admit, I can't help but wonder what they thought at school today about the way we spend our weekends.
17 comments:
- Niksmom said...
As long as he doesn't start demanding martinis I think you're safe! ;-)
Wow, fascinating progression of things with the storms and hair and the music underneath it all. Bud sure is intrepid.
- September 17, 2007 8:14 PM
- kristina said...
Dierks has quite the life!
- September 17, 2007 8:48 PM
Remember a credo I offer in my class:"I will only believe half of what is said about you at school, if you believe only half of what is said about me at home."
But I have to admit, hearing 'bar talk' would have peaked my interest....
- September 17, 2007 9:49 PM
- Maggie Rosethorn said...
Mom-NOS - look into some of the local "bars" and see if they serve regular meals. We took our kids into a bar at lunchtime, the Keyhole Pub, when they were both quite young and we were in Mackinaw City and they had a blast. The food was good and the kids saw what the inside of a "bar" looks like. If there is a place like that near you, it might be a good place for you and Bud to check out.
Cheers to Bud for facing the storms and hair issues on videos. It's wonderful how he grows and learns to cope with his fears.
- September 18, 2007 6:31 AM
I second Maggie's suggestion -- you might want to try taking Bud to lunch at a Buffalo Wild Wings, or some other sports bar. He'll probably think it's too noisy, but it should satisfy his curiosity.
- September 18, 2007 7:52 AM
There are at least a couple of pubs local to us that are quite family friendly.
On another subject, watching this, it occurs to me that in order to have their desired effect, music videos squeeze a lot of drama into four minutes; they are intense. I have never watched one with my neurotypical son, who is six. I think he is old enough to see the themes in a video like this, i.e., country music videos are never sexually explicit or profane. I'm thinking about my own selfishness. It's a huge challenge for me to watch his innocence slip away as he becomes more sophisticated and emotionally mature.
- September 18, 2007 7:52 AM
- gretchen said...
To some folks, a bar and a church are one and the same:-)
Bud's interests seem to have jumped overnight from "little kid" videos of the tubbies to "big kid" videos of grown-up musicians! Don't grow up too fast Bud.
- September 18, 2007 11:15 AM
- Eileen said...
I think it is so smart (and brave) of Bud to know that watching the video with his hero in the storm over and over will help him to face his own fears. I have no doubt that this will help him to "weather the storms". And if not you could always go for a cold one at the bar. Cheers!
- September 18, 2007 11:55 AM
- mommy~dearest said...
Eh- bar...church...why split hairs? ;)
- September 18, 2007 1:16 PM
- Drama Mama said...
Bud is so smart.
Look at him manage his fears.
- September 18, 2007 5:17 PM
Not a comment to this post, but I just want to say that I am anxiously awaiting your post in response or reaction to Jenny McCarthy's book and her and Holly Robinson Peete's appearance on Oprah.
Also wanted to see if you were going to see the movie "Across the Universe" with the Beatles music.
- September 19, 2007 2:05 PM
- neil said...
Bud's preoccupation with bars might last a week? I know some blokes whose preoccupation with bars has lasted a lifetime!
- September 20, 2007 8:00 PM
- Daisy said...
Funny! I've actually taken my "kids" into bars, but only to have lunch. We have a smoking ban locally, and that helps.
- September 20, 2007 9:02 PM
- joker the lurcher said...
my son is mad into caravans too! and indeed bars...
- September 22, 2007 5:06 PM
- Dadof6Autistickids said...
I found an 'Autism guide' for parents and teachers on the website of the National Education Association (NEA). It has a LOT of good info that parents should make sure their school district and teachers of your children have AND use. I thought you and or your
readers would find it useful.
I have more details and the link on our blog.
Good luck!
- September 23, 2007 11:31 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
Bipolar Dad, speaking of innocence slipping away...
Bud's comfort with Dierks' long hair is increasing every day, which has expanded the repertoire of videos he wants to watch. Tonight, we watched Come A Little Closer, and Bud's narration went something like this:
"They're having a nap... They're hugging!........ They're having a pajama party?"
Oh my.
- September 25, 2007 10:52 PM
- Angel The Alien said...
Bars definitely do look like fun when you see them on TV! Hmm maybe you could find a pretty tame neighborhood bar and take him in there for Cokes and pinball games or something! When I was a kid I went to quite a few bars. I still don't drink... but I love pinball, darts, juke boxes and ping-pong!
- September 27, 2007 9:24 AM


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In this silent film taken by Ed Friend for the Georgia Commission on Education at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee in September 1957, groups of white and African American men and women leave the Highlander Folk School library; an interracial group swims in a pond; and still photos show more integration at the school's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration. The film is in two parts; the first section, shot in color, shows the swimmers and the library and the second section shows black-and-white still photos taken by Friend. The clip begins with white and African American men and women leaving the Highlander Folk School library. Some of the women wear skirts and dresses while others wear shorts; many of the men wear short-sleeve dress shirts. Among those identified in the clip is Aubrey Williams, a white man in a bow tie, who waves as he leaves the library. Williams had been the director of the National Youth Administration under President Franklin D. 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Several African American women in Sunday dress leave the library; others are seen wearing name tags. Rev. Maurice McCrackin, a pacifist minister and activist from Cincinnati, precedes a man with a camera who leaves the building. Part two of the film consists of about twenty black-and-white still photos taken during the weekend celebration; many of the pictures in the film correspond to pictures in the broadside published by the Georgia Commission on Education. The first two pictures, duplicated on the second page of the broadside, show an African American man and a white woman apparently dancing and reaching around each other to clap their hands. The next image is of an integrated group of dancers. One of the men identified in the image is Harry Schneiderman from Chicago whose wife was from Atlanta. The next two images show integrated groups of dancers, some holding hands. Another image duplicated on page two of the broadside shows an integrated audience, apparently listening to a speaker. Individuals identified in the image include Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Abner W. Berry, Aubrey Williams, Rosa Parks, and Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School. An image of Ralph Helstein and Abner W. Berry, from page three of the broadside, shows the two men as they speak to a few people gathered around them. Helstein, at the time of the Highlander anniversary, was president of the United Packing House Workers of America. The next two images show people standing behind a curtain and an African American man holding what seem to be note cards as he stands near the curtain. Next, an African American man who wears a uniform stands behind two white women. The following photograph depicts white women serving African American men who are seated at a table. A close-up of Myles Horton, director of Highlander Folk School, follows a picture of an interracial group. The Horton picture is also printed on the first page of the Georgia Commission on Education broadside. Pictures of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Aubrey Williams, included on the second page of the broadside, are also in the clip. An African American man, possibly Atlanta activist and lawyer A. T. Walden, and a white man sit on a stage together. Interspersed with repeating images of an audience and the dancers clapping from the beginning of the section is a picture of Dr. King speaking with an unidentified white man. The section ends with an image of books and papers sitting on a table; one advertises the causes of World War Three. Myles Horton and Don West began the Highlander Folk School in 1932 as an adult education center to teach the principles of self-organization and governance. During the 1930s and through the first part of the 1950s, the school focused on helping labor unions organize; about the time of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the school's focus turned toward civil rights and integration. The school developed programs to teach literacy and help citizens prepare to register to vote through its citizenship schools. It was influential in training volunteers for the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Long accused of communist connections, Highlander was shut down by the Tennessee state government in 1961. The school then moved to its current location in Knoxville, Tennessee as the Highlander Research and Education Center.
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Left untreated, Lyme disease can advance from early flu-like symptoms to painful and permanent damage to the joints, according to the National Centers for Disease Control. The disease can also affect the nervous system, causing numbness, pain, stiff neck and severe headache or muscle weakness in the face or limbs. Occasionally, heart irregularities occur.
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Google used the free internet to convert its novel search engine into a global company on an initial investment of $25 million. In 2004, just six years after it was founded, its search engine was available on computers worldwide and its stock was worth $23 billion—a 900 percent return.
Henry Ford got rich but hardly as rich or as quickly as Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin because in the digital era, ideas are worth so much more than machines.
In the digital economy, innovators don't need a lot of money to create a valuable new company, and even old line industrial firms can use factories, manage supply chains and service products far more efficiently and need less cash to grow.
Consequently, big U.S. companies are flush with billions in cash and too few opportunities to deploy it. Along with individual investors, they bid up prices for young companies, whose owners are looking to cash in on their initial success, and pay huge sums for IPOs of firms like Twitter and Facebook. And many big companies have bought back large blocks of their own stock.
Taken together, those pushed stocks to record levels and drove down yields on dividend paying stocks and the interest paid on bonds and bank CDs.
Investors are fearful that when the Federal Reserve ends altogether purchases of Treasury and mortgage backed securities in October and tries to push up the rates banks pay for overnight loans in 2015, interest rates on bonds and CDs will zoom, causing investors to flee stocks.
As the Fed acts, those rates may rise a bit but not nearly as much as history might indicate and investors fear, because sound businesses are not so hungry to borrow in the digital era as they were in the industrial era to finance expansion.
And with turmoil in the Middle East, European banks and governments still troubled and China hardly a secure place to invest in securities, the United States remains the safe haven for investors.
The Standard and Poor's 500 Index, which encompasses about four-fifths of U.S. publicly traded equities and America's biggest companies, is trading at about 1965 with a price-earnings ratio of about 19.50. Over the past 25 years, its P/E ratio has averaged 18.90, and when the index crossed the 1000 threshold in 1998, the P/E ratio was about 25.
Simply as measured against company profits and history, stocks are not overvalued, and given how efficiently the digital economy can create wealth out of investors' cash, stocks are likely much undervalued.
A P/E ratio approaching 25, which would be consistent with somewhat higher but not radically higher interest rates as the Fed tightens monetary policy, would put the S&P index at about 2500.
My basic advice for ordinary investors remains: each month aim to put about 10 percent of your income in an S&P index fund and you will ride growth in the global economy quite nicely. As retirement approaches, gradually move half your holdings into cash—for example, by gradually purchasing Treasury securities of varying maturities to meet your anticipated liquidity needs.
Not a glamorous strategy, and one that requires folks to endure the ups and downs inevitable to the stock market, but it is a strategy that places confidence in the durability of American capitalism and its largest most successful companies.
Peter Morici is an economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and a national columnist. He is the five time winner of the MarketWatch best forecaster award and tweets @PMorici1


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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 includes many interesting improvements related to its multicore programming features. The parallelism and concurrency profiling tools allow developers to visualize the behavior of a multithreaded application on multicore microprocessors and collect resource contention data.
If you want to translate multicore power into application performance, you have to make sure your concurrent software threads are running on hardware threads taking advantage of parallelism. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 improved many profiling reports related to parallelism and concurrency.
The IDE uses the name Concurrency. However, I'd rather talk about both parallelism and concurrency. When you create a multithreaded application, using task-based programming or raw threads, you're creating concurrent code. Nonetheless, it doesn't mean that the concurrent code is going to run in parallel all the time. It depends on the decisions taken by the operating system scheduler, the underlying hardware and the synchronization problems, among others. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate whether the programmed concurrency is taking advantage of certain parallel hardware capabilities. Are the software threads running in parallel taking advantage of the existing hardware threads? The new Concurrency profiling tools offered by Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 provide nice information to answer this question. Again, this tool allows you to visualize parallelism and concurrency, not just concurrency.
This option works with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Premium or Ultimate versions. Besides, it requires Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Before beginning, you must run Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 as Administrator. Then, you can open the multithreaded solution to analyze and select Analyze, Launch Performance Wizard… from the main menu. I'm going to explain some of the results offered activating the options Concurrency (Parallelism and concurrency in my parallel programming language), Collect resource contention data and Visualize the behavior of a multithreaded application, as shown in the following picture:
If you're working on a 64-bits operating system, you'll probably see a dialog box whit this message "To enable complete call stacks on x64 platforms, executive paging must be disabled. A reboot is then required. To make this change, click "Yes", save your work, and then reboot.", as shown in the following picture:
You have to take into account that the application is going to take more time to run whilst being profiled. Once the application finishes or the profiling session is interrupted, Visual Studio will start analyzing the generated report.
Minor criticism, the IDE usually takes a long time to analyze the report. It doesn't take advantage of multicore in order to run this CPU-intensive process… I think that multicore programming analysis tools should be optimized for multicore. However, remember that I'm talking about Beta 2. As a multicore developer, I expect multicore development environments to take full advantage of modern multicore microprocessors.
The first graph will show a concurrency visualization, displaying the wall clock time, as shown in the following picture:
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To better understand Derrick Henry and how he convinced more than 13,800 voters to let him be the city's mayor for the next four years, you have to go back to 1950s Mississippi.
DAYTONA BEACH — To better understand Derrick Henry and how he convinced more than 13,800 voters to let him be the city's mayor for the next four years, you have to go back to 1950s Mississippi.
There you'll meet Samuel O'Quinn, Henry's grandfather.
O'Quinn was a successful businessman at a time when not a lot of black men were, and he was a devoted solider in the battle for civil rights who fought to allow everyone into voting booths.
He was gunned down in his driveway one August day in 1959, 10 years before Henry was born.
"It's been the cornerstone for my entire life," Henry said in an interview last week. "I always knew I wanted a life that paid homage to him."
As a child Henry traveled to Mississippi every summer and Christmas, and he listened when people talked about his grandfather.
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Houston always suspected Henry, the fourth of her six children, would be a leader someday, like her father.
When she saw him top mayoral challenger Edith Shelley with 55.5 percent of the vote Nov. 6, and when she watched him take the oath of office Nov. 14 in City Hall, she could see the path that got him there.
She could see the stops along the way, when he became a teacher, an assistant principal, a high school basketball coach, a mentor to teenage boys and the Zone 5 city commissioner.
And she could still hear his squeaky grade school voice in the 1970s telling her he'd be mayor someday.
"Those seeds were sown long before I got into the mayor's race," Henry said.
People who closely watched Henry over his 43 years caught glimpses of the man he would become, and where his quiet intensity was leading him.
Henry grew up on Thunderbird Drive in the Derbyshire neighborhood, and he went to Westside Elementary School.
One of his pivotal moments came when he was just 6 years old, and playing basketball at the YMCA in his neighborhood. His father pulled him aside and told him he should try playing with the 8- and 9-year-olds, and the younger Henry started to panic.
"My dad was dumping me into the frying pan," Henry recalled. "Dad said 'I know those kids are bigger than you but it'll make you better.' I never forgot it."
The moment of fear turned into a confidence booster he built on.
A few years later, when he was in fourth grade, he remembers the school librarian hand-picking him to give book reports to classes for Black History Month. And he remembers liking that limelight.
"I always knew my life would be about service and about teaching people," Henry said. "I always kind of knew what I'd want to be. I went around the house quoting Martin Luther King. I was always patriotic."
Henry spent his teenage years at Mainland High School, where he was a standout on the basketball team. He also got involved in student government, serving as vice president of his class his sophomore year and class president his junior and senior years.
After graduating in 1987, he went to Rollins College in Winter Park on a scholarship and double-majored in psychology and philosophy.
His intention was to teach at the college level, but he wound up back at Mainland, teaching social studies, history and psychology. He was honored as Volusia County's social studies teacher of the year in the 1998-1999 school year.
He also became a coach at Mainland, helping to lead the boy's varsity basketball team to three state championships in the 1990s.
Henry decided to go back to school about 10 years ago, and in 2004 graduated from Stetson University with a master's degree in educational leadership.
From 2005 to 2011, he worked as an assistant principal at Mainland, and became the coordinator of a Daytona State College program that helps at-risk boys as they work toward high school graduation and college preparation. The position with Daytona State College was one of many mentoring stints Henry has taken on over the years, something he said he's very passionate about.
In 2009, Henry took a stab at an elected position for the first time and won the chance to serve the remaining time left on Dwayne Taylor's Zone 5 City Commission term when Taylor ran for state office. Henry was easily re-elected in the August 2010 primary, but two months later his world came crashing down on him.
He was arrested and charged with election law violations that could have put him behind bars for decades, and the governor removed him from his commission seat. His older brother, Patrick, won the chance to serve most of his four-year term in a special election in January 2011.
Henry was reassigned to another job at Mainland High School that was not of his choosing, and wound up leaving the school in 2011.
After Henry paid a $23,000 fine and completed a pretrial intervention program, the State Attorney's Office dropped the charges against him in the summer of 2011.
Henry started putting his life back together, announcing in the fall of 2011 that he was running for mayor. He became executive director of a company he and his wife run together, an educational business that provides training sessions for students and teachers nationwide, and he's co-owner of another company that helps preschoolers prepare for what's ahead.
Henry was investigated for possible election law violations before the November election, but charges never materialized. He came back stronger than ever, going from finishing second in a field of four candidates in the August primary to winning the mayor's seat this month.
"I knew I wasn't done with the work for the city," he said. "For me, failure wasn't an option. I never lost confidence with the person my parents raised."
He credits his parents in large part for the ability to keep landing on his feet.
"My parents stressed working hard at whatever you did," he said. "We weren't allowed to quit. If you started something you had to finish it. ... I'm a very competitive person in everything I do."
Henry, whose paternal grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher who traveled a lot, also credits his faith.
"Your faith shapes you and prepares you for challenges," said Henry, who has attended Greater Friendship Baptist Church for more than 25 years. "If you stay grounded in what you believe, things will work out for you."
Now the father of a 4-month-old son, Derrick Jr., and coming up on his one-year wedding anniversary, Henry's life appears solidly back on track.
At Mainland he was working toward becoming a principal, and he said someday he might try to become a school administrator again. As for politics, he said right now he's focused on being mayor and isn't making plans to run for higher office.
"I try to live in the moment. I'm not a big planner," he said.
He said being mayor still seems "somewhat surreal. It hasn't totally hit me." He said he's a little overwhelmed by the number of people who want a piece of his time, and he's just trying to focus on city government business for now.
City Commissioner Patrick Henry, who at 54 is the oldest of Derrick Henry's four brothers, said he's still wrapping his head around the reality of his younger sibling sitting in the mayor's chair. But he said he doesn't doubt his brother's abilities.
"Derrick is a smart guy, a level-headed guy, and he makes decisions based on the facts," Patrick Henry said.
The Rev. L. Ronald Durham, Henry's pastor and a close political advisor, said the new mayor stood out to him when he first saw him at Greater Friendship Baptist Church a decade ago.
"He changes the atmosphere of a room when he walks in it," Durham said. "There's something intangible that lets you know this is a leader. He has that aura."
Durham said he's excited to see what those leadership abilities can do for the city.
"I see him really being able to forge new relationships and partnerships between the city and businesses and organizations that will be long lasting and make Daytona Beach an ideal place to work and live," Durham said. "I believe he is someone who should not be underestimated."
Henry will draw on his devotion to his hometown to live up to all the expectations.
"It wasn't just about campaigning," he said. "It's personal. I chose to live here and I believe in Daytona Beach."
Houston, his mother, said she never lost faith in her son.
"When God brings you through, he brings you through for a reason," she said. "He wants other people to see what you can do. I think my dad would have been very happy for Derrick."


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Jeff Greene
posted on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 11:04 am
I am trying to determine the best model for some count data. I know Poisson is nested in Negative Binomial, and ZIP is nested in ZINB so I can use chi-square difference tests to compare those models. But, I've read that Poisson is not nested in ZIP, and NB is not nested in ZINB and that Vuong's test (1989) should be used. Is there a way to get Mplus to produce Vuong's test? If not, is there a way to use information from the output files to calculate Vuong's test?
Thank you!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 - 10:14 am
Simplest approach would be to use BIC to compare say Poisson to ZIP. You can also try the UG ex 7.25 two-class approach to ZIP to test if 1 class is sufficient using Vuong, that is TECH11. But since TECH11 drops the first class, put the class with restrictions as the second class, not the first as in the example. I have not tried this, however.
Rob Dvorak
posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 3:33 pm
I have a structural model with 2 ZINB distributions (one as a DV and one as a mediator). Is it possible to get Vuong tests for both of these distributions simultaneously? I don't think this can be done using the two-class approach since I have two separate variables which need to be tested.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, July 07, 2010 - 10:16 am
It sounds like you want to test the need for zero-inflation, that is, the need for a zero class. And it sounds like you think about running ZINB explicitly as a two-class model, versus a non-inflated model. I don't know how that would work because it is a two-class model with special restrictions. How about just looking at the SEs for the inflation parameters? Or the BIC difference?
Rob Dvorak
posted on Wednesday, July 07, 2010 - 10:41 am
Yes, that's exatly right. I have reported the BIC difference between nb and zinb, but I would like to have Vuong tests to justify the use of zinb over nb. I believe, given the large drop in BIC between the two models, that the zinb model is more appropriate. I would like to report that it isn't possible to simultaneously test for inflation (i.e., Vuong test) of the two different distibutions in the same model. Is this accurate?
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Wednesday, July 07, 2010 - 2:03 pm
Use the savedata command
savedata: save=LOGLIKELIHOOD;
to get the log-likelihood values for the zinb and nb models. You can then compute the Voung test as in (see page 16)
Rob Dvorak
posted on Thursday, July 08, 2010 - 5:03 am
@ Tihomir,
This is perfect, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
Rob Dvorak
posted on Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 7:35 am
Greetings! I'm trying to obtain the log likelihoods following some multilevel analyses. When I run a multilevel negative binomial the LLs save in the specified file. However, if I switch to zinb (nbi) or hurdle (nbh) the LL column is all zeros. I'm currently working from home on an older version of Mplus (v5.21). Are LLs from nbi & nbh not available in this version... or is it that I am doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 8:54 am
These were available starting with Version 5.1. Please send your input, data, and output to
Rich Mohn
posted on Saturday, August 02, 2014 - 11:39 am
The NYU link posted on July 7, 2010 is no longer valid . . . is there another link to that paper? I am trying to do the same thing.
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Monday, August 04, 2014 - 9:00 am
and the reference
Accounting for Excess Zeros and Sample Selection in Poisson and Negative Binomial Regression Models
William H. Greene
Department of Economics
Stern School of Business
New York University
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It's the official start of summer, when we light our grills, jump in the pool and in many parts of the country, run the AC full tilt. A blast of cool air can be refreshing when the temperature starts to climb, but the financial, environmental and health implications of air conditioning may have you adjusting the thermostat.
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March 13, 2013
The Annual OWASP Netherlands Black Hat Edition Chapter meeting
- Every year around Black Hat Europe we try to get Internationally well-known speakers to talk at a Chapter Meeting. This year Colin Watson and Georgia Weidman are on the agenda!
- This chapter-meeting will be about web application logging, Access Control Design and the all new OWASP Cornucopia.
- 18:30 - 19:15 Registration & Pizza
- 19:15 - 19:35 "Record It" - Colin Watson
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- 19:40 - 20:25 "The smartphone penetration testing framework"- Georgia Weidman
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Do you know security event information should be recorded by an application? Colin Watson will outline which event properties are useful, what should be avoided and how logging can be implemented. In this short presentation, the benefits of good application logging will also be described.
The smartphone penetration testing framework
As smartphones enter the workplace, sharing the network and accessing sensitive data, it is crucial to be able to assess the security posture of these devices in much the same way we perform penetration tests on workstations and servers. However, smartphones have unique attack vectors that are not currently covered by available industry tools. The smartphone penetration testing framework, the result of a DARPA Cyber Fast Track project, aims to provide an open source toolkit that addresses the many facets of assessing the security posture of these devices. We will look at the functionality of the framework including information gathering, exploitation, social engineering, and post exploitation through both a traditional IP network and through the mobile modem, showing how this framework can be leveraged by security teams and penetration testers to gain an understanding of the security posture of the smartphones in an organization. We will also show how to use the framework through a command line console, a graphical user interface, and a smartphone based app. Demonstrations of the framework assessing multiple smartphone platforms will be shown.
OWASP Cornucopia
Microsoft's Escalation of Privilege (EoP) threat modelling card game has been refreshed into a new version more suitable for common web applications, and aligned with OWASP advice and guides. "OWASP Cornucopia - Ecommerce Web Application Edition" will be presented and used to demonstrate how it can help developers identify security requirements from the OWASP Secure Coding Practices - Quick Reference Guide.
Colin Watson
Colin Watson is an application security consultant, based in London. He is project leader for the OWASP Codes of Conduct and OWASP Cornucopia projects, wrote the Application Logging Cheat sheet, contributes to a number of other OWASP projects including AppSensor,and is a member of the OWASP Global Industry Committee.
Georgia Weidman
Georgia Weidman is a penetration tester, security researcher, and trainer. She holds a Master of Science degree in computer science, secure software engineering, and information security as well as holding CISSP, CEH, NIST 4011, and OSCP certifications. Her work in the field of smartphone exploitation has been featured in print and on television internationally. She has presented her research at conferences around the world including Shmoocon, Hacker Halted, Security Zone, and Bsides. Georgia has delivered highly technical security training for conferences, schools, and corporate clients to excellent reviews. Building on her experience, Georgia recently founded Bulb Security LLC (http://www.bulbsecurity.com), a security consulting firm specializing in security assessments/penetration testing, security training, and research/development. She was awarded a DARPA Cyber Fast Track grant to continue her work in mobile device security.


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I am an architect and general contractor, and have decided to make a career change! I have just started a home inspection firm in Virgina on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. I love sailing and have decided to move to this location to start the business because of the proximity to so much great coastline.
Buyers of new and existing homes on the DelMarVa penninsula and eventually the western shores of the Chesapeake Bay area.
Buyers are looking for an inspector that can help them feel confident in their purchase.
I will be marketing to Real Estate agents and brokers.
My intial thoughts on a logo are something in a black line drawing with a sailboat that looks like a weather vane. Thought this might attract clients who are home buyers looking for "direction" and "assurance" that they are making a smart real estate purchase.
The idea of a sailboat weather vane with sails billowing in the breeze, pointing out the correct heading creates an appropriate image for my new firm. It is consistant with my personal interests, the heritage of the region I will be selling in, and could be quite eye catching as signage on the office window or company vehicles. This image also brings thoughts of tradition and stability along with a nostalgia that is appropraite for the Chesapeake region.
A possible tag line for advertising might be " Be Sure about your purchase...Call All Shore Inspection Services"
I am very open to other ideas, though!!!
Looking forward to seeing your response!!!
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Our article about how to get a balloon pilot's license is a great overview of the steps needed to learn to fly a balloon, but for those interested in the business side of starting a balloon ride business will get valuable information from our new book.
Starting a Balloon Ride BusinessWe've just published our own guide that will give all the items, point by point, that you need to research before you spend tens of thousands of dollars on a hot air balloon and support equipment.
This book was written by a veteran of the balloon business who has been a pilot for over 30 years. This insider's guide will prove invaluable as you do your research.
We've got other great books in our Pilot's section.
Fortunately it's relatively easy to get involved in ballooning. Sometimes it's as simple as following a balloon and meeting the crew at the landing. There are lots of other ways to get involved, a few of which we explain here:
You can find an approved balloon ride company in our Ride Directory. If there aren't any balloon companies near you, plan to go for a balloon ride during your next vacation!