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Adam Hafdahl
posted on Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 3:46 pm
I'd appreciate any thoughts about how to analyze some data that may or may not be well-suited for multilevel analysis. (Similar queries posted to the SEMNET and MULTILEVEL lists have generated little response, except a few suggestions that Mplus may offer something appropriate.)
A colleague in Agricultural Economics has mail-survey data from about 76 respondents (staff members at various agencies) who each rated 17 policies (all aimed at resolving the same natural resources issue) on 6 qualities (e.g., fairness, efficacy, farmer resistance, preference) using a nine-point Likert-type response scale. She's interested mainly in relationships among qualities and has in mind a particular path model with preference as the ultimate outcome and various correlations and paths among the other qualities. The respondents were a fairly representative convenience sample from the types of agencies to which she'd like to generalize; although the policies cover most of the conceivable ones germane to this specific issue, her broader research agenda concerns policies regarding other natural resources issues as well.
As someone who's relatively naive about multilevel modeling, I suspect there's a multilevel structure to these data -- at least in a repeated-measures sense -- but can't describe it or see how to respect it when analyzing the relationships among qualities. What seems clear is that treating each respondent-policy pair as an independent 6-variate observation is inappropriate.
Some colleagues and I have considered a few strategies, but I'll defer describing them for now. I'd appreciate any advice, including references of published examples with a similar data structure. Thanks in advance.
Adam Hafdahl
University of Missouri-Columbia
posted on Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 5:47 pm
I think you are right that this can be seen as a multilevel situation. You have 76 independent observations and in the multilevel perspective that would constitute level 2, i.e. the "cluster unit". Level 2 covariates such as agency type can be included. Level 1 is the 17 policies, i.e. the "members" of the clusters. And you have multivariate outcomes - 6 qualities. In multilevel modeling, you would treat the members of the clusters (say students in a school, or repeated measures in a person) as statistically equivalent, that is obeying the same model; of course, the means of the outcomes can shift as a function of level 1 covariates. In the student/school analogy, the 17 policies should be thought of as a random sample of students in that school. Typically, multilevel modeling considers level 1 relationships - such as the path analysis among the 6 outcomes that you refer to - as possibly varying across clusters (across your 76 respondents), either in terms of intercepts or in terms of slopes. And, you want to study how much such variation there is and what predictors of this variation you might have.
If you think this captures what you want to do, Mplus is ready to do it.
Adam Hafdahl
posted on Thursday, October 24, 2002 - 2:59 pm
Thanks for your explanation of how these data might be considered multilevel in nature. I'd like to clarify one point and pose three follow-up questions. By way of clarification, each respondent rated the same 17 policies, so unlike the typical student/school situation the clusters (respondents) and members (policies) are fully crossed.
My questions:
1. Is this crossed design likely to influence how the analysis should be handled?
2. Is it important that these policies are nearly the entire population of conceivable policies relevant to this particular natural resources issue? By analogy, this might be like having access to nearly all the children of interest in each school, or measuring nearly all time points of interest. Could these 17 policies be treated as fixed realizations of the Policy variable? (Again, we might hope the model for policies about this particular issue would generalize to other issues, but we have no empirical evidence.)
3. Are the numbers of respondents and/or policies dangerously close to being too small for an appropriate analysis? Where might I look for guidelines about this?
posted on Friday, October 25, 2002 - 9:19 am
Ah, I see. Perhaps I jumped to conclusion. A straightforward way of viewing this is as a data matrix with 76 rows and 17x6 columns. I think you said the 6 variables were going into a path analysis. Perhaps the 17 policies, particularly if they cover nearly all policies, could be viewed as "fixed" rather than "random" effects, and therefore be treated as covariates in the path analysis.
Adam Hafdahl
posted on Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 9:36 am
Upon returning to this problem after several weeks away from it, I'm still unable to think clearly about reasonable modeling strategies. The central issue that has confused me from the beginning is how to handle the two sources of (co)variation: Is it covariation across respondents, policies, or both sources that we wish our path model to reflect? Frankly, I'm unable to distinguish among the substantive questions each choice would address. For instance, what types of research questions would warrant modeling covariation among respondents versus among policies? Does it even make sense to model covariation among both?
Although I've made a bit of progress by thinking about these data in terms of multivariate generalizability theory, three-mode factor analysis, and multilevel SEM, I'm still at a loss. It's quite possible this problem is simpler than I'm making it.
My currently favored ad-hoc strategy is as follows: Assuming the same covariance matrix among the six qualities holds for all 1,292 respondent-policy pairs, first subtract the respondent and policy means from the data and estimate this covariance matrix from the residuals, then use standard SEM software to conduct path analyses on this single covariance matrix. Am I correct that this strategy models covariation among respondents and policies simultaneously? If this is a reasonable strategy, I have four remaining questions:
1. What is the appropriate sample size for standard errors and other results that need this (e.g., fit indices), and how can I trick the software into handling this appropriately (or adjust the results manually)?
2. Is there a more straighforward way to implement this strategy, such as with dummy variables for respondents and policies?
3. Can the assumption of homogeneity of covariance matrices be relaxed to allow, say, the covariance matrix -- or perhaps coefficients in the path model -- to vary across respondents or across policies?
4. With only one replication per respondent-policy pair, can I do anything to investigate whether there's a substantial Respondent x Policy interaction remaining after the marginal means are subtracted?
I would be grateful for any further thoughts about conceptualizing this problem and about the above strategy or other approaches (e.g., it's unclear to me exactly how to implement your suggestion to treat Policy as a covariate or what the substantive interpretation of this would be). References to similar data sets or related methodologies would also be helpful.
posted on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 10:35 am
If I understand your suggestion correctly, you are proposing the use of a 6 x 6 sample covariance matrix created from 76 x 17 = 1,292 observations. This would be acting as if you have independent observations among all 1292 observations, whereas there is true independence only among the 76 respondents. I would instead lean towards looking at a 6 x 6 sample covariance matrix for 76 respondents for one policy among the 17 at a time, or analyzing all policies jointly by putting policy as dummy covariates. Other Mplus Discussion readers are encouraged to jump into the discussion.
Trinh-Duc, S
posted on Monday, March 21, 2016 - 8:06 pm
Dear Dr Muthen and Muthen,
Our data consist of students nested within classrooms nested within teachers nested within schools (with no weight and N=60). And we want to investigate simple mediation analysis (A-->B --> C, and A --> C)on level1 only. Our main question is how to take the random effects into account for computing accurately the standard errors. We have decided to ignore the random effects and to use the bootstrap approach (Syntax below). Is this approach correct? If not what is the best way to proceed?
Thank you.
B ON A (a);
C ON B (b);
NEW( m);
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 1:21 pm
If you use 3-level analysis, bootstrap is not available. Instead just let random intercept variances be estimated on levels 2 and 3. See UG for examples. The indirect effect on level 1 follows the same formula.
Mary M Mitchell
posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 5:08 pm
Is it possible to run a path analysis with a level 3 predictor leading to a level 1 predictor leading to a level 2 outcome? I found that Preacher, Zyphur, & Zhang (2010) wrote about a mediation analysis with a level 2 variable as the outcome, but I looked through the Chapter 9 examples in the User's Guide and didn't find syntax that matched my question.
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UPDATE: I am indebted to Helen McDevitt-Smith for acquainting me with one such bishop: Pierre Francois Lucien Anatole Boillon, Bishop of the Diocese of Verdun, France.
Pierre was born in 1911, and was ordained a priest in 1935. In 1962, at the age of 51, he was ordained a bishop less than a month before the opening of the Council. He served first as an auxiliary bishop of Verdun, and then became the diocesan bishop of Verdun from 1963 until his retirement in 1986; he returned to the Lord in 1996. But what about those all-important years between 1935 to 1945?
Young Father Boillon served, as did many priests, in the French Resistance. So it would come as no surprise to find out that in 1965, as the Council Fathers were debating issues related to war and peace for Gaudium et spes, Bishop Boillon rose to speak strongly in favor of total military disarmament; he had seen the horrors of war first-hand. But there's more to this story.
After the Council, Bishop Boillon continued his work as Bishop of Verdun and the implementation of the Council. His name turns up again in a remarkable account of the French bishops' conference and their 1968 response to Pope Paul VI's famous encyclical Humanae Vitae ("On Human Life"), which had just been promulgated. Here's a link to an archived article on the topic. It gives us many things to consider prayerfully, and shows the complex relationships involved. Some highlights:
"Vatican officials expressed appreciation this week of the 'deep spirit of charity' contained in the statement on birth control with the French bishops issued last Friday. The 120 members of the French episcopate said in their statement that although contraception was always 'disorder,' it need not imply moral guilt on the part of married couples who practiced it. This was a matter for the couples to decide themselves after serious reflection before God."
Bishop Boillon of Verdun served as the spokesman of the French episcopal conference in presenting this statement to the press. He explained that "a Catholic who felt compelled to use artificial means of birth control need not confess it to a priest and could take communion with a clear conscience." In attempting to balance the duties of marriage and the teachings of the Church, the French bishops wrote that "a couple must prayerfully decide which duty took precedence." They continued that "contraception can never be good. It is always a disorder but this disorder is not always guilty."
It is here where Bishop Boillon draws on his own wartime experience. "I killed four Germans," he said. "I try to justify myself before God, but I did not accuse myself at confession of a sin. I had a conflict of duty between the duty of defending my country and that of respecting human life. Killing those Germans was evil but not a sin."
I find much here that is profitable for our reflection today. Among other things, the statement of the French bishops accurately presents the role of conscience and the formation of conscience required by every individual. It also respects that each individual must ultimately form that conscience himself or herself; no one can do it for another. As the Council itself taught, the conscience is a "crucible" in which a person is alone with God. The French bishops respect this religious freedom and responsibility.
The recognition that in life a person can be faced by competing "goods" ("duties") which require hard choices is also refreshing. At least in my own pastoral experience, most people do not set out to do bad things; they are, rather, trying to do their best in often extraordinarily difficult circumstances. While seeing things in black-and-white can seem to make human choices seem simple, life is far more often lived in various shades of gray.
This account, to me, captures much of the wonderful complexity that is reflected in the Second Vatican Council and the very human bishops who struggled with the extraordinarily difficult tasks facing the church and world.
As I researched more of this story, I was reminded of a powerful scene from the 1968 move, "The Shoes of the Fisherman," with Anthony Quinn playing a former bishop-prisoner in a Siberian gulag who is elected Pope. In this scene, his character speaks of the moral tightrope we all must walk. Given Bishop Boillon's own account, perhaps this is not as fictional as one might originally have thought. Regardless, it is worthy of great reflection.

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Rain washed out action at Lancaster Super Speedway on Saturday and LSS owner Doug McManus has decided to move the March 26 program to April 2.
The card Saturday night has three make-up main events from Saturday, March 19 when those events were also a weather victim.
Super Stock paying $1,000 to win, Crate Sportsman $1,000 and Extreme 4 $500 will be making up their main events this week.
On April 2, the regular racing program has the SECA Crate Late Models, Super Stock, SECA Crate Sportsman, Renegade, Vintage and Extreme 4.
Lancaster Super Speedway will host an exciting night of racing Saturday at the half-mile dirt oval.
The LSS racing card has three make-up main events from last Saturday night when the racing action was rained out at the track.
The reset action this week has the Super Stock paying $1,000 to win, Crate Sportsman $1,000 and Extreme 4 $500.
The main events Saturday include the SECA Crate Late Models, Super Stock, SECA Crate Sportsman, Renegade, Vintage and Extreme 4.
Admission is $25 for the pits and $12 for the grandstands.
The Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series headlined racing action, with Ross Bailes taking the coveted checkers at Lancaster Super Speedway on Saturday night.
The Carolina Clash was the featured race for the inaugural Palmetto State Championship at the dirt oval.
Chris "Smokey" Madden captured the pole, setting a new track record of 18.219.
At the green, Madden and hometown favorite, "The Rock Hill Bad Boy," Ben Watkins battled for the lead entering turn one.
The Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series highlights the inaugural Palmetto State Championship at Lancaster Super Speedway on Saturday night.
The Super Late Model Series winner earns $5,000 with the checkers.
The LSS racing card includes the Super Stock, SECA Crate Sportsman and Renegades paying $1,000 to win each division. The Extreme 4 Division pays $500 for the win.
Lancaster Super Speedway hosts the inaugural Palmetto State Championship, headlining the night of racing will be the Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series paying $5,000 to win Saturday night.
Along with the Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series, the support divisions running Saturday night include the Super Stock, SECA Crate Sportsman and Renegade paying $1,000 to win in each division.
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Lancaster Super Speedway will be in high gear for track activity with family fun Saturday.
The day opens with the annual LSS car show presented by Swankyville, Carolina Legacy All-Star Cheering Leading and Faith Funderburke Realty.
The car show starts at 10 a.m. and closes at 2 p.m.
All race cars and mud bog trucks need to be entered by 11 a.m. and judging begins at 11:30.
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Lancaster Super Speedway is gearing to open its 62nd season of racing as the LSS hosts its annual car show March 12.
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All divisions will be featured at the car show.
The car show is at 10 a.m., with the Mud Bog and then practice at the half-mile dirt oval.
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Lancaster Super Speedway, launching its 62nd season, will be a busy place March 12.
LSS will host the annual car show, presented by Swankyville, Mud Bog and practice.
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Lancaster Super Speedway will host its annual Car Show on March 12.
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Lancaster Super Speedway will have a booth at the fifth annual Charlotte Racers Expo on Jan. 22-23 at the Metrolina Tradeshow Expo.
The address is 7100 Statesville Road, Charlotte, N.C., 28269.
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Lancaster Super Speedway is entering its 62nd racing season with the 2016 campaign.
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A Gallery of 'Tadpole Galaxies'
These postage-stamp-size images reveal 36 young galaxies caught in the act of merging with other galaxies. These galaxies appear as they existed many billions of years ago. Astronomers have dubbed them "tadpole galaxies" because of their distinct knot-and-tail shapes, which suggest that they are engaging in galactic mergers.
The galaxies were captured in 2004 in the Hubble Space Telescope's Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) survey of thousands of distant galaxies. They are part of more than 165 tadpole galaxies in the HUDF studied recently by a team of astronomers. The team was looking for indications of black hole activity in these young galaxies. A characteristic signature of such activity is a fluctuation in brightness over time, an indication that a black hole is feasting on surrounding stars and gas. The flickering light does not come from the black hole itself but from the area immediately surrounding the black hole. Astronomers did not see brightness fluctuations in any of the tadpole galaxies they surveyed. They did, however, observe the fluctuations in 46 different faint galaxies in the HUDF. These galaxies existed millions of years after the tadpole galaxies. This result suggests that black holes did not begin eating when galaxies merged. Rather, it took several hundred million years for the gas and stars from the merger to arrive on the black hole's dinner plate and become visible as flickering light. This finding agrees with recent computer models which predicted that the feeding habits of black holes would become visible after galactic mergers.
Each postage-stamp image is roughly 84,000 light-years on a side, which is about the size of our Milky Way Galaxy today. The tadpole galaxies are shown in the middle of each image and are considerably smaller than today's giant galaxies. The image was taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.
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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The college students playing pick-up soccer along the faded grandeur of Algiers' sweeping waterfront say they won't be voting in Thursday's presidential elections, echoing the sentiments of many young Algerians.
They want jobs and housing when they graduate and lack loyalty to a political system run by an aging man too frail to show up for a single campaign event.
Boycotting is the main form of protest against an election that 77-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is expected to win despite his glaring absence, because powerful institutions of the state are firmly wedded to maintaining Algeria's status quo. But dissatisfaction is growing in this key energy producer and U.S. ally in the fight against terrorism in the face of a sclerotic political system that does little to include the 80 percent of the population of 37 million under the age of 45.
"After we finish our studies there's only unemployment and you need connections to get to work," said Redouane Baba Abdi, as he sat on a bench before the game on the paved esplanade between the Mediterranean Sea and the flaking colonial-era buildings of the Bab el-Oued neighborhood. "Most people don't want Bouteflika for a fourth term. He's like the walking dead."
Bouteflika made no appearances in the three-week election campaign, leaving it to his ministers and close associates to rally interest in his re-election. After a stroke last year that left him speaking and walking with difficulty, he has limited himself to carefully scripted TV appearances with foreign visitors like U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry earlier this month.
Bouteflika changed the constitution in 2008 so he could remain president, but a fourth term might be a step too far even for a country that was barely affected by the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings. Several Bouteflika rallies were canceled after they were disrupted by demonstrations, raising fears that another victory could lead to greater unrest.
A small grass-roots movement called Barakat — "enough" in the Algerian dialect — that has come out against Bouteflika's fourth term attempted a protest Wednesday on the eve of elections, but were pounced on by police.
Members were dragged from the sidewalk and marched away by police who also scattered bystanders and journalists watching the protest, eliciting shock from the crowds of pedestrians on the busy tree-lined boulevard in downtown Algiers.
While Bouteflika's rule has been characterized by economic growth thanks to high oil prices and a return to stability after the battles against the Islamists in the 1990s, heavy government spending is running up against dwindling oil reserves and falling prices. The country is still run by the same generation that won the war of independence from France in 1962 and shows little interest in involving others.
"We are in a backward world. It's the old telling the young to get out of the way," said Abderrahmane Hadj-Nacer, a former central bank governor and analyst. "The people have been corrupted by the distribution of houses and jobs — productivity has been destroyed."
In fact, those disaffected young students playing soccer have their education and housing paid for by the government, and they talk about waiting to be given a job rather than going out and finding one. "We have taught our youth to just to stick out their hand," Hadj-Nacer added.
Stability and the largesse of the state have been the main themes of the campaign by the president's surrogates, who have warned that perks like free housing could come to an end or civil war could return if the president is not re-elected.
"He brought you from the darkness into the light, that is the miracle of Bouteflika," Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal roared at the final rally in Algiers Sunday, his voice hoarse from campaigning.
Much of the 5,000-strong crowd at the rally came from public sector companies or unions with ties to the government. Supporters were bused in from across country.
"It is true he's tired, but his brains still work — he doesn't need to use his hands," Akila Kelloud, a union member from the nearby city of Medea, said after the rally.
The country is in a delicate phase. Despite foreign reserves of $200 billion, international financial institutions are sounding alarm bells, describing the economy as overly dependent on oil even as prices are threatening to drop.
Oil and gas make up 95 percent of the country's exports and 63 percent of the budget revenue but employs only 2 percent of the labor force. Worse, reserves are dwindling and the country's trade balance is expected to go negative in the face of a massive importation bill.
In a February report, the International Monetary Fund warned that "wide-ranging structural reforms" are needed to reduce unemployment and grow the economy. While heavy state spending has dropped unemployment to less than 10 percent, it is still at 25 percent for young people.
The man who says he can fix this situation is Ali Benflis, a former prime minister and the main opposition candidate among the five running against Bouteflika.
"I offer an alternative, a new project and I want to put the youth into the center of decision-making," he told The Associated Press.
He described how he visited all 48 provinces in the country and logged more than 100 hours of air travel in the course of the campaign — in contrast to Bouteflika's inactivity.
Benflis' challenge is not just to win over the millions who don't vote, but also to guard against fraud, which local and international observers say often characterize Algerian contests.
"If there is fraud I will not be quiet," he said. "I will ask the Algerians not to accept a false election."
Opposition is also appearing in grass-roots organizations like Barakat who have been staging small rallies around the country protesting the Bouteflika's fourth term and the corruption in the system.
Sid Ali Kouidi Filali, one of the group's organizers, said the real work is to raise people's consciousness and make them realize that they can change the system.
"We are trying to re-engage the Algerian people in politics," he said.
Chafiq Mesbah, a political analyst and former intelligence officer, believes that all these scattered demonstrations — 10,000 of them in 2013, according to police — will slowly increase as the social and economic situation continues to deteriorate.
"I think all these little demonstrations will coalesce into a national movement," he said, citing the elections as a possible turning point. "It will be the beginning of a process, though the explosion won't happen immediately after."


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The company's products and services will accept field mapping, soil sampling, recordkeeping, automated crop monitoring and "whole farm" research plot data from all major hardware or equipment brands. The tools will translate this data, store it and make it compatible with other systems.
"CrescoAg will use a proprietary data collection system named MesoFarm that will allow users to benchmark their crop production performance to farms of similar size and production practices," says Chism Craig, vice president for research and development at CrescoAg. "Because all data is anonymous and based on actual field data, users can get an accurate, unbiased comparison that can drive future management decisions."
For the 2012 growing season, CrescoAg products will primarily be available through retailers and crop consultants throughout the MidSouth and Southeastern U.S. For more information, visit www.crescoag.com.


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2004 News Releases > September 2004 > Wayland inducts new members into active education honor society
Wayland inducts new members into active education honor society
PLAINVIEW - On most campuses, honor societies are formed to recognize students with outstanding academic achievement in a particular field or overall in their education pursuits. At Wayland Baptist University, the trend is no different.
Several honor societies at Wayland recognize outstanding students, but one has also distinguished itself by becoming the most active of such groups on campus.
Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society for education students, inducted eight new members recently into a group that has become known for its service and activities even as a relatively new campus organization.
The Omega Upsilon chapter of KDP was chartered in April 2000, formed to help foster the ideals of the education profession. Members are expected to support the group's ideals of recognizing excellence in education, enhancing growth and leadership among members, foster discussion on educational issues, and promote the development and dissemination of worthy educational practices and ideas.
Members make up the top 10 percent of those studying in the field of education. But according to chapter president Sara Gowman of Plainview, the organization doesn't intend to honor new members and then fade away.
"Kappa Delta Pi really encourages service and reaching out to the community around us," Gowman said. "We hope that members will be able to see that they can make a difference in the community and not just join to get an honor cord."
Since its inception, the organization has planned several events at Wayland, including a children's book hunt around Easter time as part of a national KDP project for Reading Is Fun emphasis. Gowman said activities promoting reading are a key project for KDP and will likely be a regular part of their service lineup.
Last year, the group also did Operation Valentine, where they coordinated efforts for elementary school children to write letters to the elderly. The letters were then delivered to local nursing homes by KDP members. This fall, the organization took on a tutoring project at College Hill Elementary and Ash Sixth Grade in Plainview.
Such projects provide additional leadership and experience for future educators, says KDP sponsor Dr. Patricia Herman, professor of education at Wayland, by getting them into classrooms and schools to work with young people in a practical setting.
New inductees for KDP include Robin Marlar of Plainview, Crystal Holloway of Uvalde, Brandie Shaffner of Wichita Falls, George Guidry of Shallowater, Holly Hingst of Plainview, Heath Ferguson of Lamesa, Debra Woodrow of Sweetwater and Ashley Applewhite of Olney.


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"What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
~ William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, poet and actor,
Romeo and Juliet
Recent Releases
On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service
Rhys Bowen
Historical Cozy. In April 1935, Wallis Simpson, an American socialite on her second marriage, has entranced the Prince of Wales, and both are attending a house party in Italy.
Georgie Rannoch, 35th in line to the British throne, agrees to act as the queen's eyes and ears at the gathering...which means she's present when a murder occurs. Georgie
also helps an unmarried pregnant friend, secluded in a nearby clinic. Like the others in the lighthearted Royal Spyness mysteries, this 11th provides a fascinating glimpse at British aristocracy.
Down a Dark Road: A Kate Burkholder Novel
Linda Castillo
Mystery. Joseph King, an Amish man convicted of murdering his wife, escapes prison and heads to Painters Mill, Ohio, where his children live. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder, who grew up Amish and was close friends with King as a kid, finds him; he claims he's innocent and says evidence supports him. When a police sniper kills King, Kate doesn't back off trying to find the truth in this 11th entry in the gritty series. If you enjoy atmospheric rural settings, well-drawn characters, and a no-nonsense heroine, also try Julia Keller's Bell Elkins series, featuring a West Virginia prosecutor (the 1st is
A Killing in the Hills
Gone to Dust: A Novel
Matt Goldman
Mystery. Minneapolis, Minnesota PI Nils Shapiro takes on a messy
-- literally and figuratively -- case when he agrees to help
a police detective friend in a wealthy suburb: whoever murdered Maggie Somerville at her mansion appears to have emptied dozens of vacuum cleaner bags over the house, making viable DNA evidence unlikely. With a wisecracking detective,
irreverent humor, and plenty of red herrings,
Gone to Dust
is fresh and fun. T
hough this is a debut novel, readers are in good hands: Matt Goldman is an Emmy Award-winning writer.
The Devil's Muse
Bill Loehfelm
Police Procedural. It's Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, and
rookie police officer Maureen Somerville is working her first night parade. She knew it'd be crazy, but she didn't think that within a few minutes of each other she'd see an overdose victim run into a car and hear a shooting, which injures multiple people (including a child). While Maureen and her fellow cops try to capture the bad guys in this fast-paced 5th outing, they deal with partiers, gangbangers, drama-seeking videographers, an incompetent detective, and complicated race relations.
A Perilous Undertaking: A Veronica Speedwell Mystery
Deanna Raybourn
Historical Mystery. In September 1887, after a much-looked-forward-to research trip to Fiji is canceled, English
adventuress and lepidopterist Veronica Speedwell finds herself called
to a secretive meeting at a ladies-only club. There, she's engaged by Princess Louise, one of Queen Victoria's daughters, to find the real killer of a pregnant artist, one of the princess' dear friends. The police have arrested the dead woman's married lover, and he will hang in a week if Veronica and her dashing partner Stoker can't sort out the truth. Readers who enjoyed
A Most Curious Beginning
will appreciate this delightful follow-up, which has the same delicious humor and romantic tension.
What's your real name, writer?
Dishing the Dirt: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
M.C. Beaton
Mystery. Agatha Raisin is no one's idea of a meek, humble person. So when a new therapist arrives in her Cotswold village, goes out with Agatha's ex-husband, and snoops into Agatha's background, Agatha pushes back, threatening the woman. Loudly. That's a problem when the therapist turns up dead. M.C. Beaton is one of several pseudonyms that prolific Scottish author Marion Chesney uses (she also writes historical romances).
Dishing the Dirt
is the 26th outing for Agatha; the 28th and latest in the series,
The Witches' Tree
, comes out in October.
The Silver Swan
Benjamin Black
Historical Mystery. A beautiful woman is found dead, washed up on the rocks, an apparent suicide. Her husband asks pathologist Quirke, an old school acquaintance, to skip the autopsy because he doesn't want his wife to be cut. But Quirke, who's been sober for six months, notices a puncture mark on her arm, and he not only does the autopsy, but also begins digging into the lady's past. Booker Prize-winner John Banville, writing under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, produces a "tense, engrossing tale of passion, crimes, and chaos" (
) in this well-written follow-up to
Christine Falls
The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith
Mystery. PI Cormoran Strike, a 35-year-old who lost a leg in Afghanistan, has spent the night in his bare-bones London office after a relationship-ending fight with his long-term girlfriend. He sports a cut on his face (she threw an ashtray) as he rushes out the door, barreling into a new temp secretary he can't afford. The forgiving temp, Robin, quickly proves herself useful when the brother of a famous model -- who supposedly jumped from the top of her penthouse apartment -- hires them. Entering the realm of the mega-rich, Strike and Robin uncover the truth in this 1st mystery by Robert Galbraith, aka J.K. Rowling; the 3rd and most recent entry is
Career of Evil.
Tomb of the Golden Bird
Elizabeth Peters
Historical Mystery. In 1922 Egypt, Amelia Peabody, her husband Emerson, and their son Ramses want to dig in the Valley of the Kings, but to do so, they need Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter to give up their concession. When they don't, the Peabodys head to Luxor, anyway, only to become embroiled in intrigue that may involve Emerson's charming half-brother. This 18th Amelia Peabody book once again combines fascinating characters, a complex mystery, and Egyptian history. Elizabeth Peters was a pen name of Barbara Mertz, an Egyptologist who died in 2013. The 20th and final Amelia Peabody book,
The Painted Queen
, was published in July; Peters began it and author Joan Hess, her good friend, completed it
The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey
Classic. Mystery. Hospitalized Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is bored. Bed-bound, he's tired of starring at the ceiling, so an actress friend encourages his interest in a historical mystery: did Richard III murder his nephews in order to become king? Researching history and legends and testing out theories on those around him, Grant comes to a thought-provoking conclusion. The
Daughter of Time
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I have found with some clients that the only way to attract links that were valuable was to have a blog rather than a commercial site. There are many good sites who will not link to a commercial site because they do not want to appear to be endorsing a particular product or company. I have far more success generating valuable links by offering a blog which is used as an intermediary to the main site.
If the only object is link juice or PR or domain diversity, than eliminating the microsite is necessary. But if you are trying to attract good links and you need to do it with a blog (or other info site) than this is probably a better experience for the user. For me it's getting the right traffic that trumps my SE rank.


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@Kyndryd. It is a great show. But as you probably know every US production house decides whether or not to renew a show in the first or second episode airing. Just on the basis of how many viewers they get. There is NO art involved, just how many adverts, to how many people, equals how many greenbacks. Its sick, and won't get any better...
British crime dramas are so, so much better than USA crime dramas! I never can figure out who the killer is until the final episode! But not this time, I thought I knew who the killer was in episode 3 and sure enough, i was right! Whew! What a roller coaster ride this first season was and I can't wait to binge watch the 2nd season!
annnnnnnnnnnnnd we continue with the twin story lines.
what the ACTUAL FUCK was this?
i am more than a little pissed this show got canceled.
@Hellfist.She was HOT in Sin City, and you got to see a lot more of her. IF we're talking about the same woman, ha ha ha
The last one
which links are with subs?? help...
She is still so hot
I was thinking 'pin up' when they were deciding.
The #WildBill premiere was excellent, in the unique storyline, filming location, and what appears to be a rather new format of actors promoting cross-cultural exchange regarding television series. This first began with the British, then Australia, and now various locales in Africa; although I would be remiss to not include the United States in this format, as many Brits have been playing roles in American cinema for so many years. Anyhow, I really enjoyed the acting by #RobLowe, usually a lot funnier when not having to portray a serious character. I also enjoyed the banter and wit, which transpires throughout the #Pilot of this new television series by #iTV. As accustomed to British accents and idioms as I am, I found this episode to be almost hard to understand, at times, exactly what was being said, however it is quite possible that it was a matter of the recording rather than the actual dialogue. I have high hopes with regards to the success of Wild Bill, although my expectations are being kept low, as I can't seem to visualize just how a good plot can develop here; I hope that I am wrong, and that the writers can build upon the overall concept and broaden the narrative, in order to gain a greater audience in the U.S. Bottom line, for what it's worth, the Pilot Episode is without question, worthy of a watch. #MarkHalsey
episode numbers are incorrect. waiting for episode 75 from 06.14.19
My link has subs RizalASR
links with subs please
This was great had just the right amount of stuff forgot at times it was a superhero character that was based on. Still love to see the costumes, but was a good non hero show and character development.
Having friends from Republic of South Africa, I'm surprised they still have access to Internet at all. At least for white people. Zuma, Ramaphosa, Malema and their terribly insane and cretinous words "Your time is up white people!" (Ramaphosa) or "We have not called for the killing of white people... at least for now." (Malema). Land redistribution from whites to blacks, recently passed "Film And Publication Amendment Bill" which severely limits freedom of speech (quite like so called "ACTA2") by requiring any publication to be verified by the government before it's published. RSAs government breaks their constitution, even after they change it to suit their needs. Incredibly racist government, and the worst thing is, a lot of that is coming to EU, USA and other parts of the world via Macron, Merkel, Obama, Clinton etc. Censorship, racism, sexism and public deviation (as in LGBTabcdefghijklmnoprstuvwxyz marches) is ALWAYS bad, and it's good (although likely not connected) that websites block that country. Always use a VPN if you live in a censored country.
#Jett is a mind-blowing dramatization, reminiscent of several classic movies from the '90s, such as #GetShorty #LockStock&TwoSmokingBarrels, #PulpFiction and #LAConfidential, albeit with some #DavidLynch style quality to this absolutely brilliant, newly released, television series from #Cinemax. One facet about the show that really grabs the viewer is the believability of the characters from the jump, while maintaining rather quickly changing plot twists, which seemingly turns this Dramatic Action Comedy into the categorical genres of Crime and Mystery within minutes, so best to pay attention, or you may just miss out; just as one thinks they have it all figured out, the Narrative takes a complete 180° turn. #CarlaGugino plays the role of Thief and Seductress quite well, and looks better than she ever has, and quite sexy and scantily clad. The preview for the upcoming season looks unlike any show of this caliber, which has the potential to play out as a newly developed and refined television narrative, essentially an amalgamation of movie and television, which incorporate characters or styles of eras past, albeit set in current time. I'm calling this perhaps the Best Crime/Action/Drama/Mystery of 2019. #MarkHalsey
#Jett is a mind-blowing
@GummyYummyBear Thanks for noticing us! :)
To all the people who are affiliates with VERYSTREAM - you are losing revenue from SOUTH AFRICA because the entire country is blocked from accessing the site! Please inform them and get them to fix it!
To the poster of these new links...THANKYOU!
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 6x5 https://myseries4you.com/episodes/marvels-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-season-6-episode-5-watch-online/
Well, what good is it to post this drama IF THERE ARE NO LINKS????????????????????????????????????????????? This drama aired back in April, so you can't tell me there aren't any links yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marvel's Jessica Jones: 3x1 https://myseries4you.com/episodes/marvels-jessica-jones-season-3-episode-1-watch-online/
iZombie: 5x7 https://myseries4you.com/episodes/izombie-season-5-episode-7-watch-online/
for those looking for the episode....it didn't air due to the Stanley Cup finals
Can we pls have good links for both episode 10 and 11 without arab subtitle??
oh yes Steve Buscemi as God!
Please go to moviestreaming.fun and stay away from this outdated website
Almost 200 links all in Portuguese or don't work. Pathetic
Totally agree Kyndryd, I really enjoyed it, thought the acting was spot on and the story was good
so, yet ANOTHER car just like CHRISTINE. But would you expect anything less from the son of Stephen King (director Hill)?
Can we pls have good links for both episode 10 and 11??
I read a review of this show and I ask myself: "Did they watch the same show I am watching?" Because if they did, the wod "lack luster" and "mediocre" woldn't appear in their review.
Anybody got openload links?
Ashleigh Cummings reminds me of a young Jennifer Grey.
MasterChef Australia: 11x34 https://myseries4you.com/episodes/masterchef-australia-season-11-episode-34-watch-online/
@VCOLL new links added
Can someon PLEASE post the FIRST SEASON OF KRYPTON? ZERO OF THE LINKS WORK...ZERO.
A Christmas Village for all to enjoy - as long as you are the one holding the scissors.
Krypton: 2x1 https://myseries4you.com/episodes/krypton-season-2-episode-1-watch-online/
Can we have good links for both episode 10 and 11 pls?
Conan (2010) Season 8 Episode 109 (s08e109)
Late night veteran Conan O'Brien returns to television 9 months after the events that lead him to resign from The Tonight Show. Now, back again with Andy Richter and Jimmy Vivino & The Basic Cable Band, Conan is once again taking on the challenge to reign as the king of late night. Conan is filmed at Warner Brothers Studios, 3400 W. Riverside Drive, Burbank, CA (Stage 15).
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1. How different is the 9th ICAAP from other HIV/AIDS conferences?
The International Congress on HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific is the biggest, biennial meeting on HIV/AIDS. It is also the world's second largest forum on HIV/AIDS. The 9th ICAAP brings together a wide variety of stakeholders whose focus is on this region – individuals and institutions from the government and non-governmental sectors, as well as the private sector.
2. How many countries will be represented in this congress?
Approximately 65 countries representing Asia and the Pacific, as well as Europe, the Americas, and Africa
3. Who will attend?
Approximately 3,000 delegates are expected to participate in the 9th ICAAP, including health care professionals, public policy leaders, community advocates, activists, researchers, and journalists who may also be people living with HIV. The President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, will open the congress.
4. What are the objectives of the 9th ICAAP?
Amongst others:
- To share expertise and knowledge on key issues and treatments critical to the control of HIV/AIDS in the region
- To help accelerate the scale-up of HIV prevention, care and treatment services and the integration of a comprehensive AIDS response in existing health systems
- To advance strategies to free people infected with, affected by and vulnerable to HIV from stigmatization, marginalization and discrimination and to protect their rights.
5. Why was the theme 'Empowering people, strengthening networks' chosen?
The Asia and Pacific region is of considerable cultural, religious, social and political diversity. Yet there are common problems and solutions that can be found by sharing information and experience among people – both HIV-positive and HIV-negative vulnerable to HIV – and networks such as PLHIV groups, faith-based organizations, communities, governments, regions, and sectors. The 9th ICAAP brings together all these groups to share new ways, knowledge and skills that will foster and strengthen their efforts to minimize HIV infection and provide better treatment and care. With increased mobility in-country and across borders, nations can no longer expect to work alone in their response to HIV and AIDS. Regional and international cooperation is needed to address HIV transmission among migrant populations. Strong networks are of utmost importance when countries need effective intervention.
6. What kind of knowledge and skills will be shared?
Because AIDS is not just a health issue, but based broadly in human development including medical, social, political, religious, economic, management, human relations, communications issues, the 9th ICAAP has four main 'tracks' or areas of focus for easier identification:
Track A: Understanding the Epidemic and Strengthening Prevention Efforts
Track B: Strengthening Partnership for Treatment, Care, and Support
Track C: HIV/AIDS in Context: Understanding and Addressing Socio-Cultural, Economic and Political Determinants
Track D: Leadership and Broadening the Response
A wide range of plenary sessions, symposiums, oral sessions, poster presentations, and exhibitions will elaborate on topics relevant to each track.
7. Is the 9th ICAAP mainly for academics and scientists?
There are many formal presentations, and there will be discussion about important scientific developments and studies being done on microbicides, circumcision and other clinical and therapeutic approaches. But the ICAAP always brings a wide variety of people or 'stakeholders' together. In support of this, there is the Community Forum and also the Asia-Pacific Village.
8. What is the 'Community Forum'?
This forum is where various communities can each have their own conference to identify and share their respectively common issues and experiences. At the 9th ICAAP, there will be an Interfaith forum in addition to the PLHIV, Youth, MSM, LGBTIQ, IDUs, sex workers and womens forum. This forum also ensures that these issues are included in the 'mainstream' of the Congress. The Community Forum will take place on 7-9 August.
9. What is the 'Asia Pacific Village'?
This is the informal 'hang-out' where people can relax more, have smaller discussions in a fun and colourful 'market' atmosphere, surrounded by stalls selling handicrafts and snacks, with a stage for arts and music performances, movies, and so on. It is open to the public.
10. Why was Indonesia picked as the country venue?
Indonesia was one of the first Asian countries to develop a far-sighted national policy in 2006, which decriminalized drug users and provided legal immunity to those seeking methadone treatment or sterile needles at appointed institutions, including those in prisons. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment coverage increased by 21% from December 2006 to December 2007 and community groups have been involved in all aspects of advocacy and service provision. As such, Indonesia has shown leadership in the ways to free the region of HIV. Also, it is ideally geographically situated within Asia and the Pacific.
11. Sponsors of the 9th ICAAP
Coordinating Ministry of People's Welfare, Republic of Indonesia; ASAP; UNAIDS, International AIDS Society; Indonesian National AIDS Commission; Ministry of Health, Republic of Indonesia; Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Republic of Indonesia; WHO, UNDP, Australian Government/AusAID
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Well, this is one of those things that makes you consider not helping people ever: A Hawaii woman says that when she stopped to help three people injured in a car accident, the driver and a passenger took off in her Mazda Miata while she helped the third injured passenger.
The AP reports that the woman in the Miata saw an SUV swerve and crash into a median on H-1 in Honolulu. One woman was bloodied and hanging out the passenger seat. While our heroine was tending to that woman, the two others took off in her car.
One of the two men were arrested, but police are still looking for the driver. Fortunately for our Miata owner (and all Miata owners everywhere), the car was recovered.


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Lenovo, maker of the fabled ThinkPad brand, has had a long and storied history with touch-screen laptop/tablet hybrids. At a time years ago when most other PC makers wouldn't go near the tiny convertible tablet market, there was always a ThinkPad model or two with a swiveling touch screen, even if Windows XP/Vista/7 weren't particularly well-designed for touch interaction.
Then there was the infamous U1 hybrid, a clear predecessor to today's removable-screen hybrids, and a product we championed several CES shows ago, only to see it fade into vaporware.
In the Windows 8 era, Lenovo has been at the forefront of the new thrust towards touch devices, first with the folding-screen IdeaPad Yoga and rotating-screen ThinkPad Twist, and now with the ThinkPad Tablet 2, an Atom-powered slate that comes bundled with a clever keyboard dock and leather carry case.
The ThinkPad Tablet 2 isn't so different under the hood than the Dell Latitude 10, Acer W510, or other Atom Windows 8 tablets. All offer excellent battery life, but require performance compromises. They have limited onboard storage space, and frankly feel overpriced when compared to previous-gen Atom systems, which cost under $300, and full Core i5 tablets or hybrids, which can cost only a couple of hundred dollars more for a full-power experience.
The base model Tablet 2 includes the same Atom Z2760 CPU with 2GB of RAM and a 64GB SSD as seen in other Atom tablets. The slightly higher starting price, $670, can be justified by the excellent overall design and build quality, but you're going to want the keyboard dock, which is an extra $119, and the leather folio case for the tablet and dock, which costs $39. All together, this package will cost you $838, which is not far off from the base (no keyboard case included) Core i5 Microsoft Surface Pro, or any number of slim Core i5 ultrabooks with touch screens.
That said, the keyboard dock provides my favorite to-date Windows 8 tablet typing experience, and while I'm not likely to use it much, I like how the digitizer stylus is cleverly tucked into an inconspicuous slot on the left side of the tablet. After the Surface Pro, it's probably my second-favorite Windows 8 tablet overall, from a general usability standpoint -- I just wish I wasn't paying more than $800 for an Atom CPU and 64GB SSD.
|Price as reviewed / starting price
|$838 / $670
|1.8GHz Intel Atom Z2760
|2GB, 800MHz DDR2
|Hard drive
|Intel GMA
|Operating System
|Dimensions (WD)
|10.1 x 6.9 inches
|0.34 inch
|Screen size (diagonal)
|10.1 inches
|System weight / Weight with AC adapter
|1.2/1.4 pounds
Design, features, and display
As a standalone tablet, the slim, lightweight ThinkPad 2 has a basic design that looks little tighter than the similar Dell Latitude 10 or other 10-inch Atom tablets. The corners are rounded, but still tight, and the rounded left edge (which houses a stylus) is a nice contrast to the squared-off right edge. I'd say it leads this particular pack, but not by a huge margin -- from a few feet away, you may even have trouble telling these apart at first glance.
But, when you insert the tablet into Lenovo's keyboard dock -- a $119 accessory that crams a Lenovo-quality keyboard into a tiny slab -- the design really comes together, making this the best-looking tablet/dock combo I've seen in the current Windows 8 lineup. The tablet connects via Bluetooth, so the actual dock connection is a non-physical one -- a tiny flap on the dock opens up to provide a slot the lower edge of the tablet fits right into.
It feel secure enough for desktop or tabletop use, but the screen angle is not adjustable, a problem we've found in many hybrid devices. Frankly, the keyboard dock is so good, it's a must-have accessory, and has the unfortunate effect of driving up your entry price for the ThinkPad Tablet 2.
The keyboard is of the same flat-topped island style as most recent Lenovo laptops, both of the ThinkPad and IdeaPad varieties, including the excellent IdeaPad Yoga. The large keys bow out a tiny bit at the bottom to assist with error-free typing, and the (relatively) large space bar and function keys make this feel less like a compromise-filled portable keyboard.
While the actual keys are better than the keyboard cover on the Microsoft Surface Pro, I'd still have to give the Surface Pro keyboard cover the edge, as it has a small but functional touch pad built in, while the Lenovo dock has only a small optical track point nestled between the G, H, and B keys. It's actually responsive and not that hard to get used to, but actual left or right clicking requires reaching down to the physical left and right mouse buttons at the lower edge of the keyboard, which can be an awkward move.
Nestled in with the other Windows 8 UI tiles is the excellent Lenovo Settings app. Especially with the steep learning curve going from Windows 7 to 8, having all sorts of settings available in one place is very helpful.
The 10.1-inch display has a native resolution of 1,366x768 pixels, which is exactly the same as every other Atom Windows 8 tablet we've tested. It's fine for such a small screen, and this is an IPS screen so it looks good from nearly any angle. Even with the low-power Atom processor, streaming HD video is no problem, and the Netflix app in the Windows 8 app store is a good example of an app that's well-optimized for this platform.
|Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2
|Average for category [tablet]
|HDMI or DisplayPort
|Stereo speakers, (combo) headphone/microphone jack
|Stereo speakers, headphone/microphone jacks
|1 USB 2.0, microSD card reader
|1 USB 3.0, SD card reader
|802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
|802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
|Optical drive
Connections, performance, and battery life
While the ports and connections on the ThinkPad Tablet 2 might not measure up to even the thinnest ultrabook, it does a better job than some of the other Atom tablets currently available. One full-size USB 2.0 port is included, but other ports -- HDMI, SD card -- are of the "micro" variety and need an adapter or dongle to be useful. A second Micro-USB port is also included, but it's only for charging, not data.


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Facts & Figures
President: Evo Morales (2006)
Land area: 418,683 sq mi (1,084,389 sq km); total area: 424,164 sq mi (1,098,580 sq km)
Population (2014 est.): 10,631,486 (growth rate: 1.6%); birth rate: 23.28/1000; infant mortality rate: 38.61/1000; life expectancy: 68.55
Historic and judicial capital (2011 est.) Sucre, 307,000; Administrative capital: La Paz, 1.715 million
Other large cities: Santa Cruz 1.719 million (2011)
Monetary unit: Boliviano
- Bolivia Main Page
- Bolivia's First Indigenous President Asserts the Rights of the Native Population
- Constitutional Court Rules That Morales Can Seek Third Term
- Morales Embroiled in Controversy Involving NSA Leaker Snowden
- Morales Wins Third Consecutive Term
Landlocked Bolivia is equal in size to California and Texas combined. Brazil forms its eastern border; its other neighbors are Peru and Chile on the west and Argentina and Paraguay on the south. The western part, enclosed by two chains of the Andes, is a great plateau—the Altiplano, with an average altitude of 12,000 ft (3,658 m). Almost half the population lives on the plateau, which contains Oruro, Potosí, and La Paz. At an altitude of 11,910 ft (3,630 m), La Paz is the highest administrative capital city in the world. The Oriente, a lowland region ranging from rain forests to grasslands, comprises the northern and eastern two-thirds of the country. Lake Titicaca, at an altitude of 12,507 ft (3,812 m), is the highest commercially navigable body of water in the world.
Famous since Spanish colonial days for its mineral wealth, modern Bolivia was once a part of the ancient Inca empire. After the Spaniards defeated the Incas in the 16th century, Bolivia's predominantly Indian population was reduced to slavery. The remoteness of the Andes helped protect the Bolivian Indians from the European diseases that decimated other South American Indians. But the existence of a large indigenous group forced to live under the thumb of their colonizers created a stratified society of haves and have-nots that continues to this day. Income inequality between the largely impoverished Indians who make up two-thirds of the country and the light-skinned European elite remains vast.
By the end of the 17th century, the mineral wealth had begun to dry up. The country won its independence in 1825 and was named after Simón Bolívar, the famous liberator. Hampered by internal strife, Bolivia lost great slices of territory to three neighboring nations. Several thousand square miles and its outlet to the Pacific were taken by Chile after the War of the Pacific (1879–1884). In 1903, a piece of Bolivia's Acre Province, rich in rubber, was ceded to Brazil. And in 1938, after losing the Chaco War of 1932–1935 to Paraguay, Bolivia gave up its claim to nearly 100,000 sq mi of the Gran Chaco. Political instability ensued.
In 1965, a guerrilla movement mounted from Cuba and headed by Maj. Ernesto (Ché) Guevara began a revolutionary war. With the aid of U.S. military advisers, the Bolivian army smashed the guerrilla movement, capturing and killing Guevara on Oct. 8, 1967. A string of military coups followed before the military returned the government to civilian rule in 1982, when Hernán Siles Zuazo became president. At that point, Bolivia was regularly shut down by work stoppages and had the lowest per capita income in South America.
In June 1993, free-market advocate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada was elected president. He was succeeded by former general Hugo Bánzer, an ex-dictator turned democrat who became president for the second time in Aug. 1997. Bánzer made significant progress in wiping out illicit coca production and drug trafficking, which pleased the United States. However, the eradication of coca, a major crop in Bolivia since Incan times, plunged many Bolivian farmers into abject poverty. Although Bolivia sits on South America's second-largest natural gas reserves as well as considerable oil, the country has remained one of the poorest on the continent.
In Aug. 2002, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada again became president, pledging to continue economic reforms and to create jobs. In Oct. 2003, Sánchez resigned after months of rioting and strikes over a gas-exporting project that protesters believed would benefit foreign companies more than Bolivians. His vice president, Carlos Mesa, replaced him. Despite continued unrest, Mesa remained popular during his first two years as president. In a July 2004 referendum on the future of the country's significant natural gas reserves (the second largest in South America), Bolivians overwhelmingly supported Mesa's plan to exert more control over foreign gas companies. Mesa managed to satisfy the strong antiprivatization sentiment among Bolivians without shutting the door on some limited form of privatization in the future. But rising fuel prices in 2005 led to massive protests by tens of thousands of impoverished farmers and miners, and on June 6 Mesa resigned. Supreme court justice Eduardo Rodriguez took over as interim president.
Bolivia's First Indigenous President Asserts the Rights of the Native Population
Bolivian Indian activist Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) won 54% of the vote in Dec. 2005 presidential elections, becoming the country's first indigenous president. He carried out two of his three major initiatives in 2006: nationalizing Bolivia's energy industry, which is expected to double the country's annual revenues; and forming in August a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution, which will ensure greater rights for indigenous Bolivians. His third major initiative is to legalize the growing of coca, which many Bolivians consider an integral part of their culture. In July 2007, Morales announced plans to nationalize the country's railways, which for the past 10 years have been run by investors from Chile and the United States. His controversial coca policy, his plans to limit foreign investment, and his close ties with the leftist governments of Venezuela and Cuba have predictably antagonized the United States. Morales has referred to himself as the "United States' biggest nightmare."
On Dec. 9, 2007, Morales presented a new constitution to congress. The new chapter, which will give indigenous people more rights, recognize 37 official languages, and grant indigenous communities autonomy, was approved by 164 of the 255 constituent assembly members. The opposition boycotted the meeting, however, claiming that the document is illegal because it was not approved by the required two-thirds majority. Regardless of the opposition, the government plans to submit the document to a referendum in 2008.
On May 4, 2008, at least one person died and many were injured when clashes broke out in the Santa Cruz province after a poll was held in opposition to President Morale's government. The government strongly disapproved of the prosposed referendum, which would give more autonomy to the Santa Cruz province, including the ability to elect its own legislature, raise taxes for public works, and create its own police force.
On Aug. 10, 2008, President Morales won a recall referendum with 63.5 percent of voters supporting his administration. The recall vote was an unsuccessful effort to remove Morales from office by Podemos, an opposition party—Morales has garnered criticism from some lowland provinces for his policies, including the acceptance of financing from Venezuela.
On Sept. 10, 2008, President Morales ordered the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, to leave the country, accusing Goldberg of "conspiring against democracy" and encouraging rebel groups who were protesting in eastern Bolivia.
In November, 2008, relations between Bolivia and the United States deteriorated further—the U.S. suspended duty-free access for Bolivian exports and President Morales suspended U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration operations, accusing its agents of espionage.
A new constitution that extended the rights of the indigenous majority, granted increased autonomy to the states, and allowed the president to run for a second five-year term was passed in a national referendum in January 2009 despite widespread protests.
In December, Morales was elected to a second term, taking more than 60% of the vote, well ahead of his conservative opponent.
Constitutional Court Rules That Morales Can Seek Third Term
In the spring of 2013, Bolivia's Constitutional Court ruled that President Evo Morales could run for a third term in the 2014 elections. Even though the country's constitution only allows two consecutive terms, the court ruled that Morales's first term would not be counted because it predated Bolivia's current constitution, which was amended in 2009. The 2009 constitution limited both the president and vice-president to two consecutive terms. Opposition and critics said the ruling proved that the government controlled the court.
In May 2013, President Morales expelled the U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID). Morales had threated to expel the agency for some time, accusing it in the past of funding groups that opposed his policies such as a planned highway through a rainforest preserve. A state news agency in Bolivia reported that the USAID was "accused of alleged political interference in peasant unions and other social organizations." USAID, which had nine American employees in Bolivia, had already reduced its presence in the country. In 2007, USAID had an $89 million budget for programs in Bolivia. However, the budget had been decreased to $17 million in 2013.
Meanwhile, on May 16, 2013, hundreds of teachers, miners and other workers marched into Bolivia's capital. It was the 11th day of demonstrations for higher pensions. Protestors asked for their pensions, which ranged from $21 to $28 a month, to be doubled. Protestors attempted to take over the plaza where the government was located and miners set off dynamite. Police fought off protestors with tear gas.
Morales Embroiled in Controversy Involving NSA Leaker Snowden
Bolivia found itself involved in the international controversy surrounding the future of Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. domestic surveillance to several news organizations in June 2013. President Morales offered asylum to Snowden. Bolivia was one of about 20 countries from which Snowden sought asylum. On July 3, the plane carrying Morales from Russia back to Bolivia was diverted because several European nations, believing that Snowden was on board the plane, refused Morales access to their airspace. The move created a diplomatic furor, and Morales called the incident an "affront to all [Latin] America," and the vice president, Alvaro Garcia, said Morales was "being kidnapped by imperialism."
France apologized the day after the incident. Morales's regional allies, including presidents from Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela, met in a show of solidarity and demanded an explanation about the incident.
Morales Wins Third Consecutive Term
President Evo Morales won a third consecutive term on Oct. 12, 2014, taking 61% of the vote. His closest opponent in the election was the Democratic Unity Party's Samuel Doria Medina who received 24.5%. During his victory speech, Morales said, "This victory is the victory of the anti-colonialists and the anti-imperialists."
Morales dedicated his third term re-election to Hugo Chávez. Critics expressed fear that Morales would follow Chávez's lead and attempt to stay in office past 2020. The Constitution currently bars him from seeking a fourth term, but last year Bolivia's Constitutional Court ruled that Morales could run for a third term in the 2014 elections. Many suspect his party would seek another change to the Constitution, allowing him to run again like Chávez did in Venezuela.
Indeed, a referendum was set for Feb. 21, 2016, for voters to decide if Bolivia's Constitution should be changed to allow Morales to seek another term in 2020. The country's first indigenous president, Morales is seen as a successful leader who has reduced poverty and given a voice to Bolivia's indigenous people. However, days before the Feb. 2016 referendum, news broke that Morales had fathered a child out of wedlock with a young woman in 2007, a year before he became president. The most damaging part of the scandal was evidence that the young woman, Gabriela Zapata, had benefited financially due to her relationship with Morales. For example, the company where she works as a top executive has received government contracts worth over $500 million.
A few days after the report, Morales admitted to the affair and having fathered the child who died shortly after birth. As for relations to Zapata, Morales said, "After 2007, I cut all ties." However, a Bolivian news agency published a 2015 photo of Morales and Zapata embracing at a carnival. The scandal torpedoed Morales's hopes for run for a fourth term as voters narrowly rejected the referendum.
See also Encyclopedia: Bolivia .
U.S. State Dept. Country Notes: Bolivia
National Institute of Statistics (INE) (In Spanish Only) www.ine.gov.bo/ .


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An article in the Sept. 12 edition of The Catholic Sentinel, newspaper of the Portland Archdiocese, illustrates a changing picture of U.S. Catholic churches: priests serving as pastors for at least two parishes.
Although writer Ed Langlois is just writing about the situation in Oregon, he quotes a Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate report estimating that 30 percent to 40 percent of U.S. Catholic parishes are sharing a priest. The story also notes that the Official Catholic Directory shows that more than 3,000 parishes nationwide are without a resident pastor. One of the priests Langlois interviewed had this to say about the double-pastoring role: "It is a compromise solution in an imperfect world."


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Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (Johan van Oldenbarnevelt)
3 of 10 portraits of Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (Johan van Oldenbarnevelt)
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Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (Johan van Oldenbarnevelt)
by Willem Jacobsz Delff
line engraving, 1617
10 3/8 in. x 6 7/8 in. (262 mm x 175 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
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- Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (Johan van Oldenbarnevelt) (1547-1619), Dutch statesman. Sitter in 10 portraits.
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- Willem Jacobsz Delff (1580-1638), Painter, engraver and draughtsman. Artist associated with 24 portraits.
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Current affairsRobert Carey, Earl of Monmouth is made Chamberlain to Prince Charles.
Petitions from Catholics persuade James I to permit certain types of recreation on Sundays. However, the king's subsequent declaration of sports angers Puritans who advocated for appropriate and strict observance of the sabbath.
Art and sciencePhysician and Rosicrucian, Robert Fludd, begins to publish his philosophical work, Utriusque cosmi. Extensively illustrated with mystic emblems, Fludd's neoplatonist metaphysics suggested a complex relationship between the spiritual and physical world, prompting attacks from leading scholars.
InternationalIncited by Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes, Constable of France, the seventeen-year-old French king, Louis XIII, forces his mother Marie de Medici who has held de facto power, into retirement and has her favourite, Concino Concini, assassinated.
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