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The Toyota i-Road is a three-wheeled leaning road beast with room for two and an electric drivetrain, and best of all, Toyota is actually building it. This October, 70 Toyota i-Road trikes and COM compact EVs will help launch the Ha:Mo electric car sharing service in Grenoble, France.
This electric car sharing service is part of a three-year trial that will also include the installation of 30 charging stations across the area, and the integration of several smartphone apps that let you reserve one of the EVs and plan the most efficient route to your location. The idea is to help commuters save time on the first or last kilometer of their journeys, with public transportation serving to cover the medium-or-long-distance travel of daily commuters in Toyota's vision of a "Smart City".
Toyota will piggyback its car sharing system off of Grenoble's decade-old car sharing service, one of the most successful in the country, and making the area more open to the idea of a short-range EV commuter. Whether or not there's enough interest to sustain such a short-range car sharing system what the three-year trial aims to find out, though I can tell you personally, I've got a ton of interest in driving one of the i-Roads.
The i-Road looks like more fun than a glorified scooter ought to be capable of, and making it part of a car sharing scheme is a great way to gain more exposure for this unique concept.

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Ayelet Waldman's "Love and Treasure" (Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, April 1) is a triptych novel that follows the lives of American and Hungarian Jews across the 20th century. A story of relationships, art and loss, it moves among a granddaughter trying to solve a puzzle, feminists in Budapest between the wars and European Holocaust survivors headed to Palestine.
"When my book was being auctioned in Britain, one of the people who didn't bid on it said, 'This book is too Zionist for us.' And then my Israeli publisher, who did end up buying it, was like, 'Man, this is a really anti-Zionist book.' I got those responses the same day," Waldman says via Skype.
She has set her laptop up on her treadmill desk so she can talk and exercise. "This is good, this is how people get 10,000 steps a day," she says, explaining that she's eager to catch up to writer Susan Orlean. "She's my Fitbit pal. I get like 3,000 steps and she gets 29,000. It's because she never gets off her treadmill. Maybe now I can approach her. She kills me."
Waldman can be a bit competitive. The author of a dozen books, including "Bad Mother" and "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits," was at one time a federal public defender in Los Angeles. She graduated from Harvard Law School in the class of 1991 alongside a young man named Barack Obama.
She was raised in the U.S. and Canada and Israel, where she was born. All four of her grandparents were Jewish and from parts of Eastern Europe that were part of Russia, off and on. They emigrated to North America in the years before and after World War I.
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Finally, she was ready. She had already set herself the task of writing about visual art, something she knew little about, so researching the novel would allow her to learn something new. And when her friend Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis was named ambassador to Hungary, Waldman wanted to go visit her and make it a business trip. "So I Googled the words 'Hungary,' 'Holocaust' and 'art,' I kid you not, and I found the Hungarian Gold Train. That is how I chose what to write."
Serendipity aside, a real sense of political engagement runs through "Love and Treasure," particularly in the form of an Israeli war hero, an American soldier managing the spoils of war found on the Hungarian Gold Train, and women in 20th century Budapest fighting for the right to vote.
"I don't believe in political novels — I think they're bad," Waldman says. "But I can't help myself. That's the way my mind works. I dig my teeth into an idea, and it's an idea that inspires me and excites me, and then I find myself writing about it."
She continues, "I think the trick is to be driven by character and driven by story, and have the rest feed your narrative the way those things feed your life as a human." And then she adds, "Unless you're really an idiot, you have a political identity in the sense that you care about the world around you and you lift your eyes occasionally from your own myopic interests."
It is that merging of art and edge that gives Waldman's work an extra boost of energy, and she's no stranger to controversy. In 2005, as the author of some moderately popular detective novels, she leapt into the national consciousness with an essay in which she declared, "I love my husband more than I love my children."
Never mind that she and her husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon, were happily raising four children together in Berkeley. Her controversial statement propelled her to "Oprah" and the "Today" show and resulted in her nonfiction book, "Bad Mother."
Almost a decade later, she says, "The truth of that essay is even more profound, because we sent our first kid to college this year, and when they are gone, they are gone." Her eldest daughter is independent, communicating mostly by text. "We send out the text, and we wait. We're so excited when she replies. If we didn't have each other, we'd be devastated. We'd be lonesome."
Then she adds, "I mean, we have three more."
Waldman began her writing career with a series called "The Mommy Track Mysteries"; her recent books have been increasingly ambitious. "I think there's definitely certain people who read me expecting they're going to get in-your-face sassy funny and they're a little taken aback," she says. "In my fantasy, people who read me thinking that then think, 'Oh wow, she can really write.'"


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Behold the appearance of part of Chain Reaction Redwood City. What is that attached to the wall near our dressing rooms? Decoration? Something to add character? Does it belong in the modern retail environment? Is it appropriate or just something we think is cool? (Click on the photo to read the T-shirt's text.)
OK, what is it? It's a t-shirt I got from Versus network a few years back, when the prior year's Tour de France had been rocked by scandal (has there been one that wasn't?) and people were making noises that bike racing wasn't worth watching because the winners are all dopers and that somehow makes it not a legitimate sport (just like baseball, football, and, good gosh, golf even!). I put a link on our website to their Tour de France page, and in return, I got a T-shirt (hey, all Charlie Brown got was a rock, I'm not complaining).
So what does it mean when someone sees that t-shirt hanging on a wall outside the dressing rooms? Do they actually read what it says and think about it, or does it just look like an old orange t-shirt badly in need of dusting off? Does it somehow add desirable "character" to the shop, or does it add to the background noise level, a distraction from what is supposed to look like a professionally-run retail business?
It's tough, this idea of bringing up our retail presentation and standards to modern expectations. Whose expectations? I mean, isn't part of being in business for yourself an act of independence from "The Man", an almost-defiant act of putting your own stamp on things, so that you're mistaken for neither the hapless *Mart nor the sterile Nordstrom experience? Bikes aren't lingerie, or car batteries. They're something everyone on our staff really enjoys riding. To us, they're a lifestyle, and that's what this character or attitude stuff is all about. We want to promote that we're cool. We see stuff that separates us from the rest of the retail experience. We're hip.
Which is all well and good for those coming in who have already bought into the lifestyle and are looking for that casually-hip & trendy experience. But if Chain Reaction Bicycles were to have to pay the bills on just that crowd, we'd be broke. If we were to play the music that most of our younger staff would get into, rather than "Classic Vinyl" (Channel 46 on Sirius Radio), we'd alienate a lot of our core base of customers. In short, if we don't, at times, accept a lowest-common-denominator (but modern and well-implemented) approach to retail, we could become just another asterisk of the Internet, a place that people remember, a few people very fondly, some people not. We cannot afford to be a place that people would avoid coming back to because we've got too much attitude, too much badness factor. We need to deliver an exceptional and welcoming experience to all manner of people who make the effort to come and see us. Don't get put off by my "lowest common denominator" remark… I mean that in the best-possible way; that we need to seek a common ground with all who come in. It's not "lowering" anything really… rather, it's raising our ability to deliver the message that bikes are the most-wonderful thing on the planet to as many as possible.
This business, Chain Reaction Bicycles, has to be more than the combination of my employee's and my own view of what's personally cool about bikes. We have to excel at retail, delivering an experience that's friendly and efficient each and every time. We have to look at all the "cool" stuff on the walls and question whether that means anything to the average customer or if it's just noise, and one thing the world absolutely has too much of is noise. We have to recognize that what's really cool is getting as many people as possible to enjoy cycling as much as possible. That's great for cycling and great for business.
But my wife thinks I'm crazy to listen to retail experts who come in and tell me that that shirt needs to come down from the wall. The interesting thing here is that she's all too aware of my propensity for clutter & noise at home, and would love to see me adopt a "cleaner" (figuratively & literally) attitude around the house. The problem at the business, I think, is that what it is today represents a little bit of this, a little bit of that, that we've all contributed to over the years. It's "us" if you will, and to some extent (I think) we can't see the forest for the trees. What do you think? –Mike–


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ann feng
posted on Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 1:23 pm
I am attempting a multilevel analysis on survey data collected annually over 3 years. Data were collected with geographic stratification (no cluster sampling) within each state and county of residence is my chosen independant clusters (data on a continental scale). My main interest is the relationship between outcome and the between-group predictor. Since the 3 year-combined sample is used, I could fit a hierarchical model using year of interviw as a within-group predictor and specify the stratification to reflect the sampling feature. But there are more than 4000 strata in the data so alternatively, I fitted the model ignoring the sampling strata,and instead specified stratification=year of interview to allow some time dependance. I am a little perplexed by the fact that I didn't account for the sampling strata and instead "post"-stratified the data by year. The between-group covariate is time-invariant by the way and although computations seem not be a problem for my model of choice, I wonder if I correctly adjusted for the year index here. I guess I could always allow year as a within-group predictor having a random slope across clusters (i.e. county) but when this specification was attemped computation failed (maybe my inexperience with syntax was to blame). So I am leaning towards the model using year as stratification but am very uneasy about the implications...Many thanks for any input from this resourceful community!
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Friday, November 12, 2010 - 10:00 am
I would suggest that you use year (two dummy predictors) as a within-group predictor with a fixed slope (instead of random slope).Keep in mind that the strata specification only affects the SE - not the model estimates. Strata specification that doesn't reflect the true sampling method would not be correct.
ann feng
posted on Friday, November 12, 2010 - 10:14 am
Thanks a lot Tihomir for your advice! I do have a follow-up question if you don't mind. So both type=complex and type=twolevel allows/requires the cluster option but do they have different meanings? From reading your Mplus notes 'Stratification in Multivariate Modeling' I surmise that units within a cluster (if cluster sampling used) should probabaly be as heterogeneous as possible in order to improve esimation precision but from a random effects modeling standpoint (allowing for intracluster correlation) the units are supposed to be similar wrt the variable of interest. So I am a bit confused as to if the clustering option is treated differently in the complex or twolevel methods? Again thanks for sharing your expertise!
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 1:32 pm
Take a look at
section "Factor Analysis with cluster Sampling".
The difference between complex and two-level is about what the model describes. Complex modeling gives a model for the entire population while taking into account the sampling scheme that causes non-independence between the observations. Twolevel modeling on the other hand describes the exact clustering effect and yields models that are specific to each cluster. In many cases both models can be used but the interpretation is different.
ann feng
posted on Sunday, November 14, 2010 - 2:04 pm
Thank you Tihomir for explaining the two approaches' distinction and the reference. Will take a thorough read through. One other concern I have is that the between-group predictor in my model (at the county level) might not be independent since spatial clustering wrt this variable might be present, yet the assumption is that the random effect (a random slope predicted by this 2nd-level covariate) is normal and independent. Should I formally test the spatial independance assuption on the random effects? But then adjusting for the spatial correlation may pose a problem since there are more than 2000 clusters or counties and using indicator variable to specify a cluster boundary seems unwieldy to say the least. So to pose a more general question how do I account for autocorrelation in random effects in Mplus? Also is it correct to say that autocorrelation in my outcome variable(a categorical latent class variable) if present at the 2nd or between-group level is already accounted for by the random effects? I hope I didn't sidetrack too much from multilevel modeling to discuss the minute details of my model. I am really grateful for any pointers and advice you may have to help me wrap my head around this.Thanks!
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Monday, November 15, 2010 - 9:05 am
You can use type=complex twolevel where you can introduce additional level of clustering (such as states or regions) and that can account for additional dependence between the random effects of neighboring counties. See
This would be a bit ad hoc though if the sampling of the counties is not based on such clustering.
Alternatively you can use the Bayes estimator in Mplus to estimate the two-level model, then generate plausible values, see
The plausible values can then be used in a spatial model to test spatial dependence. Mplus currently does not estimate spatial models however.
ann feng
posted on Monday, November 15, 2010 - 10:56 am
Thank you so much Tihomir for your guidance and references!! I believe R is capable of some spatial independence testing like computing the Moran's I so I will probably resort to that after I am able to obtain the Bayesian results. You have been tremendously helpful. Thanks again for your insight and help!
Malte Jansen
posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 8:17 am
i've also got a somewhat similar question: I'm trying to analyses data from students that are nested within classes that are nested within schools. My research questions don't really concern school- or class-level variables but i want to correct the standard-errors to account for clustering. Could i use stratification=school with cluster=class and type=complex to achieve this?
Many Thanks in advance!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, January 16, 2012 - 11:11 am
You can use
Cluster = school class;
Type = Complex Twolevel;
where Twolevel refers to modeling that takes into account clustering within classes and Complex refers to correcting SE's/chi-2 for clustering within schools.
Student 09
posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 12:25 am
If I understand this correctly, then model parameters such as random intercepts and slopes for a model using
Cluster = school class;
Type = Complex Twolevel;
refer to differences of students within and between classes, not to differences of students within and between schools.
But suppose a researchers is merely interested to control for clustering of students within classes, while her major interest focuses on the model parameters referring to differences of students within and between schools (and not to students within and between classes). Is there a syntax to adequately deal with such a research question?
Many thanks for your reply
Anna-Maria Fall
posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 6:38 pm
We fit a multi-group 2 PL logistic model (ex. 5.5) to estimate treatment effects (we are using a 46-item measure). The design is blocked on teachers and random assignment is classes within teachers with students nested in classes. We have modeled this as STRATIFICATION=TEACHER and CLUSTER=CLASSES. With variance fixed at 1 across the two conditions, and the C group latent mean fixed at 0, and the freely estimated T group mean was is .35. We interpret this as a 30% of a standard deviation difference or an effect of .35. A nested models comparison indicated no significant differences when the nestedness of the data was modeled . Without the nested structure, the parameter differed significantly and considerably from 0. The questions are: 1) does it make sense to adjust SE in the two group IRT model where treatment effects are of interest; 2) if so, and if the assumption about the conceptualizing the latent variable difference as an effect size, an effect of .35 in a properly structured multilevel sample of 450 should be statistically significant�thoughts on why it isn�t? Also, we get a lot of these: WARNING: THE BIVARIATE TABLE OF X AND Y HAS AN EMPTY CELL. I understand that this indicates a correlation of 1.0. However, the binomial correlations are not 1.0 or even close in most cases. Ideas about why we are getting these messages and what can be done (short of dropping the items)?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 9:49 am
I would aggregate the data to the classroom level and have classroom as my unit of analysis. Then your cluster variable in a multilevel analysis can be schools.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 4:01 pm
1. Yes. When clustering is ignored, standard errors are too small.
2. It may be too few classrooms.
A zero cell implies a correlation of one. The fact that the correlation is not estimated at one is the problem.
Philip Parker
posted on Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 7:48 pm
I have a model as follows:
Level 1 (students): Variables = educational aspirations (expect) and socioeconomic status (ses)
Level 2 (schools): not interested in this level just controlling for it
Level 3 (countries): Here I want the effect of ses on expect to be random at level three.
Essentially I want to model:
expect~B0+SES where the intercept is random at Level2 and the intercept and slope is random at Level3. In R I would do:
glmer(expect~ses+(1|SCHOOL)+(1+ses|COUNTRY), family=binomial (link=probit), data=AchData2, weights=W_FSTUWT)
I cannot quite see how to go about this in mplus.
Philip Parker
posted on Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 8:46 pm
So far I have tried
USEVARIABLES Expect ses;
categorical = Expect;
within = Zses;
!weight = W_FSTUWT; !weights not allowed in bayes?
S1| Expect on ses;
Expect; !I still get slope variances with this
;!maybe try this? seem dubious to me.
!with or without this constraint results are similar to glmer in R
[S1]; S1; Expect;
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 8:52 pm
Your idea of
on the SCHOOLID level seems right to me.
And, you are right that weights have not been developed in the Bayesian literature as far as I know. Perhaps use weights-related variables as covariates.
Philip Parker
posted on Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 9:25 pm
Many Thanks Bengt. Two more question if that is ok. I plan on extending this model by adding a mediator. So:
1. My understanding is that the default link function in mplus is probit?
2. I have tried to label my parameters i.e. [S1] (p1); [s2](p2); ect. However, when I refer to these labels in model constraint no output is produced. Is there a reason for this?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, November 16, 2012 - 8:01 am
1. For Bayes and WLSMV it is. With ML you have probit and logit.
2. Please send output to Support.
Allison Tracy
posted on Sunday, March 02, 2014 - 12:38 pm
I am working with a dataset with random sampling of counties and then stratified random sampling of households within these counties. Does the STRATIFICATION= command assume that the stratification is done at the PSU level?
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Monday, March 03, 2014 - 1:51 pm
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Monday, March 03, 2014 - 1:56 pm
So technically speaking the assumptions of the estimator are not the same as the actual sampling mechanism. In some cases it is ok to ignore this mismatch ... but the conservative thing to do it probably to ignore the stratification and accept the bigger SE without it. This is not specific to Mplus - most software use the same method.
Allison Tracy
posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2014 - 7:55 am
Thanks, Tihomir. Good suggestion. I'm glad it is not a fatal flaw in the sampling design. As such are the vicissitudes of secondary data analysis!
Danica Cruz
posted on Sunday, August 03, 2014 - 6:45 pm
I'm working with a nationally representative data set that instructs users as follows: "A 1-stage sampling plan should be set up using STATE and SAMPLE variables as strata, ID as the cluster and WGHT as the weight." However, if I enter both STATE and SAMPLE in the STRATIFICATION option, I get an error:
*** ERROR in VARIABLE command
Unrecognized variable in STRATIFICATION option: STATE SAMPLE
If I remove one variable from the STRATIFICATION option, the program runs with no error.
I'm new to using complex survey data in Mplus, so please tell me if there is there another way to use both strata variables in Mplus. Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, August 04, 2014 - 11:57 am
You can combine state and sample into one variable and use the new variable with the STRATIFICATION option.
Danica Cruz
posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2014 - 1:42 pm
Do you mean create a new variable to represent each possible combination of the two original stratification variables?
For example:
sample state new_variable
1 48 1
2 48 2
1 38 3
2 38 4
1 51 101
2 51 102 (50 states + DC) * 2
Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2014 - 9:35 am
No, create a new variable like
new = (10*sample) + state;
posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 1:05 pm
Dear Drs. Muthen,
I have a question about analysing complex survey with a binary outcome, using a three-level model.
I am analysing surveys obtained from two stage sampling.
The sampling method involved:
1. stratifying population by districts
2. selecting PSUs from each district
3. selecting households from each PSU.
Three-level model is used to combine 30 national surveys in a single;the three levels are household, PSU, and nation. My main outcome is a binary variable at lv 1, and the main explanatory var is a continuous var at lv 2.
I read that the bayesian estimator used for three-level logistic analysis does not allow incorporating weights and stratification in MPlus. Would you suggest if there's any other alternatives I can use to incorporate stratification and weight in Mplus?
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 2:55 pm
I would suggest the following approach. Convert the 3-level model to a 2-level model using the long to wide approach and transforming "household" to a multivariate observation. This will require entering missing data for the situation when household has varying size. Search the manual and the web site for "long to wide" and "wide to long" if you need help doing this. You can then use the ML estimator.
Other options could be using a 30 group two-level model or treating the weights and stratification as covariates. The weights and stratification variables are incompatible with the Bayes estimator on theoretical level.
Ann-Renee Blais
posted on Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 8:48 am
Good morning,
I'm working with a dataset originating from two populations (Regular and Reserve Forces Army members). Within each population, we used a stratified (4 strata) random sampling technique. Hence I have 2 populations, 4 strata within each population, and sampling weights. I'm hoping to run a latent profile analysis on the overall data set (with strat is strat, weight is weight, etc.) and use Reg/Res as a predictor of the latent profiles. How should I go about this in order for the weights to remain accurate?
Thank you!!
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Friday, September 30, 2016 - 10:10 am
The weights should be proportional to "1/probability of selection". Without having a complete description of the weights and the sampling process one can not verify that this is the case. If so I would recommend using the weights in the data set without modifying them.
Ann-Renee Blais
posted on Friday, September 30, 2016 - 3:17 pm
Thank you Tihomir!
Stefan Kulakow
posted on Friday, March 30, 2018 - 3:53 am
Good morning,
I have a question about clustering, too. In my study, I clustered classes in schools. Some of those schools have mixed age classrooms. Is it valid to cluster the single age-groups within one classroom addressing the developmental differences? Or should I cluster only the class itself without regard to the age-differences?
Thank you in advance.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 30, 2018 - 1:41 pm
Good analysis strategy question for SEMNET.
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Current Law Students / Re: Bored while writing a paper, who has the wackiest summer plans?« on: May 18, 2010, 08:21:49 PM »
One week in Dallas, six weeks in Tulsa, then 8 more weeks in Dallas....pretty random...even to me.
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It definitely shows that you are a 1L.... Newsflash... Law school does not equal practice. If you think your exam hypos prepare you to practice, Bigfirm or not, you are insane.
To win cases you have to learn how to use all resources (and supplements/treatises are the FIRST place you start). You don't go researching case law from scratch. You take a look based on your topical area as to what cases are most relevant in your jurisdiction.
I hear people saying that in this economy there are no jobs for people from anywhere besides Stanford/Yale/Harvard. Is this an exaggeration? How many from Michigan, Northwestern, Chicago and the rest are still getting 6 figure jobs straight out of law school?
Is this normal? Am I supposed to support this? Is this what I signed up for?
No. No. No.
There are so many things wrong with your story; I don't know where to begin.
You need to have a talk. The time your husband is spending doing anything other than going to class and reading is time that he chooses to spend with this other person over you and your child. This has nothing to do with 1L stress.
Clarify with the firm first, especially regarding transportation issues. I was faced with a similar situation a year ago at a firm (admittedly one in my home state). Because that firm considered the interview to be a combination of screening + callback, I didn't get reimbursed for my transpo expenses.


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Lions roar past Middlesbrough
Andy Keogh scored twice as Millwall registered a first home win of the season in the Championship after sinking Middlesbrough 3-1.
Last Updated: 01/09/12 3:22pm
The Lions, who had taken three points from their opening three games of the campaign, hit their stride against Middlesbrough from the off and raced into a two-goal lead after 35 minutes.
Skipper Liam Trotter got the ball rolling with a precise 20-yard effort in the 25th minute and Keogh got his first of the afternoon and the season 10 minutes later when he reacted quickest to his shot thundering into the post.
Boro, who started the day in the top six, gave themselves hope before half-time through Marvin Emnes' second of the season, but Keogh's second from close range in the final five minutes made sure of the points for the Lions.
Boro will have not appreciated the lunchtime kick-off in south-east London, having not arrived home from their midweek Capital One Cup victory at Gillingham until 4am on Wednesday.
And after another lengthy journey back down to the capital their weariness began to show as the Lions pressed and Keogh volleyed straight at Jason Steele before missing an even better chance when denied by the Boro keeper from close range.
But the home domination eventually paid and Trotter gave his side the lead in the 25th minute when he latched onto a loose ball and fired into the top corner from 20 yards.
That became 2-0 10 minutes later as Keogh, who had been a constant threat throughout, was found in the penalty area and lashed a shot that beat Steele, but thundered into the post. However, the former Wolves striker reacted quickest and slotted the rebound home.
Middlesbrough were in danger of being blown away but they were given a lifeline two minutes before the break when Jimmy Abdou fouled George Friend in the penalty area.
Emnes coolly struck home from 12 yards to reduce the deficit.
That goal changed Tony Mowbray's half-time team-talk and Boro came out roaring after the interval, with Merouane Zemmama and Grant Leadbitter having shots blocked.
Boro then had three opportunities to level but Leadbitter fired just wide, Friend's shot was blocked and Emnes cleared the bar from the edge of the area as they searched desperately for a way back into the game.
And they paid the ultimate price with five minutes remaining as Keogh put the game to bed for the hosts when he was on hand to tap home Scott Malone's cross from the left.
Friend immediately tested Maik Taylor in the Millwall goal, but the former Birmingham man parried the danger away as the hosts saw it out with ease and condemned Boro to a miserable journey home.


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People who view dogs not as possessions but as true companions.
Many dog people treat canines as family members.
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buy the domain for your foodie blog
Lads that do piss themselves at parties like raves and punk festivals that do go on all night. Also people who fall asleep in the wrong place while drunk or taking drugs.
Jaysus man, Johnny joined the dog people after taking that ketamine last night. Wet himself and all lad.
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Dodge's Hornet concept totally has the X-factor — most agree not building it as a global B-segment car would be like Lee Iacocca killing the Mustang. It's got comfortably radical styling, C-segment roominess and windshield wipers (most concepts don't have 'em — go ahead and check). AutoWeek reports Dodge is likely ready to go with it, after a few details are ironed out. First, how will the US market for small cars shake out? Second, who will be its production partner, Mitsubishi or Volkswagen? Third, can it bring it to market without losing its off-kilter appeal? So many questions, only four years till the end of the decade.
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Just an assemblage of my relatively modest thoughts and experiences at the extraordinary Reason Rally in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2012.
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Aw I love how there was the pledge said with no "under God". ;)
Thanks for this video. :D Aw James Randi! Harry Potter and the Wizard of Oz much more believable and more fun lol. My dad and brother were able to attend, I couldn't be there, but they couldn't really hear anything James Randi said. My dad mentioned the Harry Potter reference though lol, I think it made him think of me. :D And Richard Dawkins really is awesome, glad you included a clip of him in this. ;)
I like how you ended the vid too about not feeling insignificant and then back in the car. ;)
So just wondering, did your wife want to attend but couldn't? Or is she not an atheist/skeptic/"Reason-based" person lol? ;)
I was there alone, too. Very nice!
Was also there. The only people I met that I knew were people I know who work for Richard Dawkins, and Dawn Berg from here. But the rally itself was a blast!
It was a great time fore sure! Also, it was nice meeting you there, Steve.
-James from Hagerstown
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City withdraws population appeal
The City of Valdez has withdrawn its appeal protesting the state's estimated population of Valdez according to John Hozey, city manager.
"They're playing hardball with us," Hozey told the Valdez City Council a week ago Tuesday. Instead, the city will accept the state's estimated population of 3992. Hozey said state officials had implied the city might lose a number of residents counted in the city's population count if the state accepted the city's methodology.
Coasties rescue hikers
A Coast Guard Station Valdez 25-foot Response Boat–Small crew rescued two stranded hikers near Valdez Thursday.
The Coast Guard received a call from a good Samaritan reporting two hikers were stranded on Rock Island, about a quarter mile from Valdez.
The small boat crew launched and arrived on scene about 10 minutes later. The rescue crew safely took the hikers aboard and transported them to Valdez. They were reportedly in good condition with no injuries.
"The Coast Guard recommends carrying multiple forms of communication when in the outdoors and not to rely solely on cellular phones," said Mike McNeil, with Sector Anchorage command center. "Recommended devices include handheld VHF radios, satellite phones and personal locator beacons. We also recommend carrying a survival kit, water and food in case of emergencies."
SERVS reaches milestone
On June 6, 2012, Alyeska Pipeline achieved an operational milestone its corporate communications office announced Tuesday after the company's Ship Escort Response Vessel System (SERVS) conducted its 12,000th tanker escort.
The press release said the marine tanker "Polar Discovery" departed from the Valdez Marine Terminal under escort by SERVS' tugs "Aware" and "Nanuq." SERVS was established in 1989 to prevent oil spills by assisting tankers in safe navigation through Prince William Sound, and to protect the environment by providing rapid and effective response services to the Valdez Marine Terminal and Alaska crude oil shippers.
Community foundation proposal touted
Public meetings are planned Thursday June 7, and Friday, June 8, in Valdez to help decide if there is enough interest in Valdez to start a proposed community foundation according to Patricia Relay, executive director for the Valdez Museum.
The meetings are scheduled for 1 p.m. at the Valdez Senior Center on Thursday and at 10 a.m. Friday at the Valdez Museum and Historical Archive. The public is invited to attend these informational meetings to learn more about the proposed program.
Relay said in an emailed notice Tuesday that the foundation could be an important step in expanding private philanthropy in Valdez and allow existing nonprofit groups to focus on core services and then rely on the foundation for technical and financial help. The Alaska Community Foundation, assisted by the Rasmuson Foundation, has already helped establish several affiliates across the state.
Haines, Homer, Juneau, Kenai, Petersburg, Seward and Talkeetna have set up local foundations according to Relay's email. As of last September these entities had raised nearly $4 million in assets for permanent endowed funds that support local projects.
The Alaska Community Foundation assists with financial management, legal expertise, investment oversight, IRS reporting obligations and compliance with the best practices of the National Council on Foundations.
"Communities may develop their own endowment funds, and local advisory boards raise money for their community endowments. We all benefit by sharing financial management and the administrative and training resources of the Alaska Community Foundation," the foundation says on its website.


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Did you all enjoy the falling down challenge? I know Sniksnak did cause she's our winner! Here's what she won!
Onto this weeks challenge spotlight! Scrapbooking and card making have somehow always gone hand in hand. Have you been itching to try your digital or hybrid skills on a card? Well here's Julie to help you out! Every month she will give you a card template. Remember cards are good for all kinds of occasions, and if you can't think of anything you need a card for, how about a thank you card? You can never have too many of those on hand right? So try out the Sept. Sweet Card challenge!
Here's her template and example:
Go to the sweet card challenge to download the template.
Want to see more examples? Me too!
Cute huh? I think so too! Make your own card with Julie's template at the Sept. Sweet Cards challenge! Then come back here and post the link to your card in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I'll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar).
Bonus – I will give a Brownie point to everyone who comments with their LO link.
CT & those who have already done the challenge are elligable. Let me see those comments!


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Tok guru Nik Aziz also had been sent to learn Islamic knowledge from To Khurasan, one of the most famous Guru in Kelantan at that time
Biography of Tok Guru
According to Hussain Yaacob (1992), Nik Abdul Aziz B. Nik Mat was born in 1931 at Pulau Melaka, a village located about 7 km from Kota Bharu town. His father, the late Tok Guru Haji Nik Mat B. Raja Banjar is a famous Islamic Scholar at that time. The late Haji Nik Mat Alim was the founder for Pulau Melaka Islamic School or Sekolah pondok (hut type school). Haji Nik Mat really serious about his sons Islamic education and this is one of the factor that contributed to the style of leadership perform by Tok Guru Nik Aziz. He trained all his son and daughter about the Islamic knowledge from early days.
Furthermore, Tok guru Nik Aziz also had been sent to learn Islamic knowledge from To Khurasan, one of the most famous Guru in Kelantan at that time. Later, Tok Guru Nik Aziz continue his study with a few other Islamic Scholar in Kelantan and Jertih, Terengganu with the late Tuan Guru Haji Abbas Haji Ahmad at Madrasah Ittifaqiah.
After 5 years studied at the school, in 1952 Tok Guru Nik Aziz went to India to further his study at the Deoband Darul Ulum in India. The course at Deoband took about 5 years. From India, Tok Guru Nik Aziz continue his Islamic Education at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. There, he took the Arabic Language and Islamic Law as main subject After 4 years, this brilliant Tok Guru managed to pass and finish his Bachelor Of Arts and <bold>Master of Art</bold> in Islamic law. In 1962, Tok Guru Nik Aziz went to Malaya (now Malaysia). Tok Guru Nik Aziz can speak a few foreign languages such as Arabic, Tamil, Urdu and English.
In 1963, Tok Guru Nik Aziz married with Tuan Sabariah Tuan Ishak (at that time his wife was 14 years old). Now, both of them got 10 children (5 daughter and 5 sons). According to Tok Guru Nik Aziz, all his children took Islamic education as their main subject.
Career path
After coming back from Egypt, Tok Guru start his work as the full time religious teacher and become an Islamic preacher, to full fill his father ambition. In the middle of 1960, Tok Guru Nik Aziz was a part time teacher and teaches the adult class people for one year (Guru kelas dewasa KEMAS). He agreed to be the teacher because they (the class supervisor) allow him to gave his lectures without any term and condition (<italic>Tak payah ikut telunjuk atau arahan orang kemas, so dia setuju, jangan silap faham pula macam MB Kedah tu selalu do kata</italic>) .
Political Career
Tok Guru Nik Abdul Aziz seriously join the Parti Islam Semalaysia or PAS after resigned as the adult class teacher. In a few month after that, i.e. in 1967, he was offered as the candidate for by-election for Kelantan Hilir (now Pengkalan Chepa) parliamentary seat. He has won the by-election at Kelantan Hilir or Pengkalan Chepa parliamentary seat from the year 1967 and every time there was another election, he won the seat until 1986 when he was transferred to another parliamentary seat in Bachok, Kelantan.
Nik Aziz as the Central Ulamak Council Chief
Tok Guru Nik Aziz has been elected as the Central Ulamak Council Chief from 1968 until now. This position give him authority to advice all matters pertaining to Islamic faced by the party and the followers.
Nik Aziz as the Kelantans PAS Commisioner
As a good leader, Tok Guru Nik Azizs followers has request to the top partys leaders to appoint him as the Kelantan state party commisioner. They (the followers) need a leaders that was well versed about Islam and they did not want any secular leaders anymore. At last, the top partys leaders had agreed to appoint him as the Kelantans PAS commissioner, a strong position that give him certain power to manage and control the partys activities particularly in Kelantan . Compare to the other state, Kelantan is the only state in Malaysia with the biggest PAS followers. In another words, the position as Kelantans PAS Commissioner is actually a big opportunity and not so many opposition party leader in Malaysia can hold that position.
At first, Tok Guru Nik Aziz did not want to accept that post. He felt that other PAS leader should hold that post, not him. As a humble leader, Tok Guru Nik Aziz keep on telling his follower that he was not the right person. But after so many pressures given to him, at last he accept it based on a <italic>hadeeth</italic> (Nabi Muhammad words) that give guidelines on how a selected leader should not reject a good position if he (the potential leader) has the ability to lead compare to others.
Tok Guru As Chief Minister of Kelantan Darulnaim.
Tok Guru Nik Aziz has been appointed as the 5th. Chief Minister of Kelantan Darulnaim on 22nd. October 1990 at 8.00 pm to replace former Menteri Besar from the ruling government i.e. Barisan Nasional. He got the biggest majority during the national election for Kelantan. As an emerging Islamic and transformational leader, Tok Guru Nik Aziz has cut off 40% of his salary to be given to the savings of Kelantan PAS (<italic>dia dah buat penjimatan sejak lama dulu dah</italic>..). He also did not accept any allowance provided for him during Hari Raya (the celebrating holiday in Islam).
Tok Guru also warned all the elected exco and state assembly members to reject any prize given to them by any people. He felt that the prize given can be considered as misconduct or bribery that could led to corruption.
Itu sajer, nak tau
lebih lanjut, silalah melawat beliau di rumah beliau kat tepi masjid Pulau
Melaka, Kota Bharu, tengok dan saksikanlah sendiri rumah beliau yang amat
sederhana, cuma dibuat dari kayu biasa, tangga dari simen (tak ada marmar
atau mozaik etc) iaitu rumah tipikal masyarakat Melayu di Kelantan......


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Shore Excursions and Toursby Paul Motter | 03.08.12
How to save money on shore tours and time in port during your cruise.
If you take a cruise in Europe you already paid thousands of dollars just to get there, so it makes no sense to skimp at the last minute and not see the destination. However, there are ways to save money on tours, and ways not to do it.
In ports that cruise ships visit on a regular basis you can always find independent tour providers on shore who will give you the same tour at a fraction of the cost. But there are some risks to using them as well. They may have car trouble; get lost, not speak English very well, may not be very truly knowledgeable and frankly just might take you someplace and disappear.
If you are going to use independent tour providers you need to take a few precautions. First, we strongly urge you to use the Internet to find well-established tour guides. Assess their web sites and ask other cruisers for recommendations. The well-established ones depend on their reputations and will do the best job for you. They want to be recommended to your friends.
Make the arrangements with them before you arrive, but do not make full payment until the tour is complete. Use a credit card if possible. As a general rule, if your tour requires a car and guide you will save money by spitting the cost with a group of people. If you can get a van that carries seven people suddenly the price of $400/day does not seem so outrageous. This should buy you the same tour as a cruise ship might charge $150 per person.
Renting cars in various ports of call is easier than you might think, and usually fairly affordable. Once again, splitting the cost will save you a good amount of money. The only drawbacks are that you do not get a driver and tour guide. You are on your own to see what you can, and you may get caught in traffic or lost. It is up to you to weigh the pros and cons, but if you do decide to rent a car we recommend you spend a lot of time studying road maps before you go.
The golden rule of touring is that if you go on your own you are responsible for what happens. If you miss the ship at sail away time it is your own fault, even if it was because the taxi driver ran out of gas. To be sure – using the cruise ship provided tours is always the best way to make sure you will not miss the ship.
Now, I say this with one caveat. We always tell people that taking a ship-sponsored shore tour will guarantee that the ship will not leave port without you. But this only applies for as long as you follow the rules given to you by the tour guide, you cannot "disappear" for an hour and expect the ship to wait. One couple actually thought they could do exactly that, and during a shore excursion to "Atlantis" in Nassau they made a dash for the casino just before the tour guide started gathering up the rest of his flock to return to ship just before sailaway. He looked for the missing couple, keeping in contact with the ship, but after an hour he was advised to head back without them. They missed the ship – don't be "those people."
Another thing you need to watch out for is taxi drivers who take you to a remote place for one price and then try to change the cost to return to the ship. In general, it is not a good idea to rely on taxis to go to a remote or isolated beach. You have no guarantee that you will find a ride back to the ship. You can negotiate with a taxi driver to come and pick you up, but you are putting yourself at his mercy. It is a better idea to either rent a car or to stick to going to places that are well-known to taxis and tourists. Generally, there is a reason why they are popular.


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Fueled by competitive contests for president and down-the-ballot races, more than 3.3 million ballots were cast in the Illinois primary, eclipsing the recent high-water mark of more than 2.9 million in 2008, unofficial vote totals showed Wednesday.
On Tuesday, voters cast more than 1.97 million ballots for president on the Democratic side and more than 1.37 million on the Republican side.
With 99 percent of the precincts counted in Illinois' Democratic primary, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had 50.4 percent of the vote to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' 48.7 percent, a difference of 34,290 ballots.
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"Using a large suite of climate model experiments, we see a clear emergence of much more intense, hot conditions in the U.S. within the next three decades," said Noah Diffenbaugh, an assistant professor of environmental Earth system science at Stanford and the lead author of the study.The study predicts that "an intense heat wave – equal to the longest on record from 1951 to 1999 – is likely to occur as many as five times between 2020 and 2029 over areas of the western and central United States." In other words, imagine you are 60 years old or so, and think of the absolute most extreme heat wave you've experienced in your entire life.
Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), Diffenbaugh concluded that hot temperature extremes could become frequent events in the U.S. by 2039, posing serious risks to agriculture and human health.
"In the next 30 years, we could see an increase in heat waves like the one now occurring in the eastern United States or the kind that swept across Europe in 2003 that caused tens of thousands of fatalities," said Diffenbaugh, a center fellow at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. "Those kinds of severe heat events also put enormous stress on major crops like corn, soybean, cotton and wine grapes, causing a significant reduction in yields"...
In the study, Diffenbaugh and Ashfaq used two dozen climate models to project what could happen in the U.S. if increased carbon dioxide emissions raised the Earth's temperature by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) between 2010 and 2039 – a likely scenario, according to the International Panel on Climate Change.
In that scenario, the mean global temperature in 30 years would be about 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) hotter than in the preindustrial era of the 1850s. Many climate scientists and policymakers have targeted a 2-degree C temperature increase as the maximum threshold beyond which the planet is likely to experience serious environmental damage. For example, in the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Accord, the United States and more than 100 other countries agreed to consider action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions "so as to hold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius."
But that target may be too high to avoid dangerous climate change, Diffenbaugh said, noting that millions of Americans could see a sharp rise in the number of extreme temperature events before 2039, when the 2-degree threshold is expected to be reached.
"Our results suggest that limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial conditions may not be sufficient to avoid serious increases in severely hot conditions," Diffenbaugh said.
Twenty years from now, such heat waves will be occurring once every year or two.
And needless to say, there is zero evidence that we are prepared to seriously address the problem of global warming sufficiently enough to actually achieve the 2-degree goal. This is because we are a short-sighted, greedy, and not-quite-intelligent-enough species, and the world we bequeath to future generations will be severely damaged as a result. Very likely we will go down in history as a generation of obnoxious assholes who were too enthralled with our SUVs and plastic tchotchkes to make even the most minimally adequate moral calculations about our actions.
And if you think things might change once the effects of global warming actually start showing up in earnest... well, I have my doubts. Here is Revkin quoting social scientist Robert Brulle:
I'm up in New Hampshire, and the signs of climate change are everywhere, should you choose to see them. The strawberry season has already passed (it usually comes in late July), and you can now get fresh blueberries (3 weeks ahead of normal). The lake I am staying at has lost a lot of water clarity due to an excessive amount of tannic acid. The lake had its earliest ice out this year in memory, and so the leaves had had a longer time to decompose, thus releasing more tannic acid to the water. The water looks more like what you see in the Pine Barrens than in New Hampshire. These changes are all just taken in stride. Climate change remains something abstract and far away, both in time and space. In short, these changes are being normalized.Cloudier lakes in New Hampshire today, an inundated Bangladesh tomorrow, and everything changing at the rate of one very slowly boiling frog. This is just a very difficult sort of calamity for our species to respond to.


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" 1 Gonzalo Higuain bagged a staggering 38 goals in 42 appearances last season Napoli will hold contract talks with Gonzalo Higuain this week as interest from Arsenal and Chelsea continues to grow. The striker bagged a staggering 38 goals in 42 appearances last season, sparking interest from several clubs. Arsenal and Chelsea are both tracking the 28-year-old, while Paris Saint-Germain are also ready to make an approach.
But, according to Gazzetta dello Sport, Napoli will hold contract talks with Higuain this week to resolve his future. The Italian club are desperate to keep the Argentina international and as a result they are ready to make him one of the highest paid players in Italy.
Napoli will offer Higuain a contract worth a reported ?105,000-a-week, which would extend his stay until 2020. " " The nominees for the PFA Player of the Year awards has been announced – and there is no place for last year's winner Mohamed Salah. Continue reading "England forward Sterling has also dazzled for the Citizens throughout the season, with 17 goals and nine assists in 30 matches."


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Dartmouth BEs Win $20,000 for C. diff Treatment System
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October 2013 • Thayer By Degrees: BE
A team of Dartmouth Bachelor of Engineering (BE) graduates collected $20,000 from two national competitions for their novel system to treat an increasingly common severe bacterial infection, known as Clostridium difficile (C. diff), rampant in hospitals and causing more cases of diarrhea, colitis and even death each year. In Seattle last month, team members Jennifer Freise '12 Th'13, Taylor Gray '13 Th'13, Pauline Schmit '13 Th'13, and Alison Stace-Naughton '11 Th'13, accepted $10,000 from NIH's Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge, and, with Sharang Biswas '12 Th'13, another $10,000 from NCIIA's BMEStart biomedical design competition for undergraduates for their collection and isolation system that takes in a stool donation from a healthy person and outputs the beneficial bacteria to repopulate the colon of the patient with C. diff.
In their senior design course, ENGS 89/90: Engineering Design Methodology and Project Initiation/Completion, the students optimized this unstandardized yet highly effective replacement process known as Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT), which is beginning to gain traction in the medical field, with a machine built in a closed environment to mitigate cleaning difficulties and reduce human exposure to fecal pathogens. Their project borrowed from prior ENGS 89/90 work by Peter Ankeny '12 Th'12, Alex Engler '12 Th'13, and Will Hart '12 Th'12.
"None of us expected to win one, much less two first place prizes in such prestigious national competitions," says Schmit. "It was extremely gratifying to see our hard work recognized by professionals who acknowledge the potential of FMT to be a clinical game changer in the treatment of many different diseases."
Their timing was spot on—in June, the Food and Drug Administration dropped plans to tightly control FMT, saying it will no longer require doctors to get the agency's approval before using the procedure. Until recently, the same costly broad-spectrum antibiotics that cause C. diff infection have been used to treat the condition, despite 35 percent of patients experiencing recurrence after the drugs and more than half of those patients developing chronic, recurrent C. diff. These medications don't allow for the re-colonization of the colon with healthy bacteria, like FMT. The group's standardized filtration system, however, separates viable bacteria from the insoluble waste in stool within a closed system to avoid contamination and make the process of FMT, which has shown to be 90 percent effective, less crude. The treatment has been so effective that some in the medical community are exploring whether FMT could treat irritable bowl syndrome, Chrohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.
"What an honor and great opportunity to further explore this project. Still in the early stage, we are excited to see where it goes as we seek clinical validation and continue with the engineering development," says Stace-Naughton, a budding entrepreneur who is also developing a vacuum pressure system to stabilize tissue during endoscopic surgery. "Biotech development takes time, but this is a new up-and-coming procedure so we want to use that momentum to help us get it to the clinic faster."comments powered by Disqus


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LONDON—The macabre mystery surrounding a man whose body fell from a plane onto a suburban London street in September has been partially solved.
Police said Thursday they have finally identified the man as Jose Matada and determined that he was originally from the African nation of Mozambique.
But they have not been able to locate his family or to repatriate his body despite receiving assistance from authorities in that country.
Matada's crumpled body was found on a street in the quiet west London suburb of Mortlake early on the morning of Sept. 9.
Police thought at first he was a murder victim, but soon determined his lifeless body had fallen from a plane preparing to land at nearby Heathrow Airport.
They believed he might be from the African country of Angola because he had currency from that country in his jeans and because a jet from Angola had been passing overhead at the time. Some members of London's Angolan community came to the spot where he landed shortly after his death to place flowers and pray for him.
But efforts to identify him with the help of Angolan officials failed.
Detectives next tried to call phone numbers on a SIM card found in his jeans and eventually received information about his identity and origins.
"Following a complex inquiry in which new information has recently come to light, detectives are satisfied the deceased is 30-year-old Jose Matada," the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
Police are still holding the body for eventual return to his family if his relatives can be found.
Matada was not carrying identity documents when his body fell from the plane. It is believed he was already dead and that his body fell from the undercarriage of the plane after it lowered its landing gear for the approach to Heathrow.
An autopsy conducted two days after the body landed listed the cause of death as "multiple injuries."
Although firm figures are not available, in recent years there has been a rise in the number of stowaways trying to get to Western Europe by hiding in the undercarriages of passenger planes.
Experts say they often end in death because stowaways experience oxygen starvation and extremely cold temperatures.


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Desperate to get out of London, and eager to shop for rare Krautrock – and Moomin glove-puppets – I find myself in Brighton hours before anyone's playing, the sky turning from lead to gold from one street to the next. Down at the pier, the sea is a violently churning and bilious green, higher than I've ever seen it, and threatening to swallow the palmists, coconut-shys, and fish&chipperies, forever. Fortuitously, I'm just in time for a history lesson…
Amidst a dozen seminars about making & promoting music in what may soon be called Web 3.0 (yer Twitters and Spotifys), Jah Wobble of Public Image Limited is in conversation with Jon Savage (author of England's Dreaming), about the timeless value of actually having a new product rather than just a new platform to regurgitate and recirculate. Okay, there's no such smuggery from the speakers, but the contrast with Punk's absence of a business-model is palpable. With affable geezerishness, but less of a concern for high rhetoric & socio-cultural critique than his mate John Lydon, the artist otherwise known as Jah Wobble is an engaging one-man history of punk and post-punk.
As the dub-influenced bassist in PiL, Wobble was basically a chancer; a good bloke who describes himself as more intimidated by jazz musos from West London, than players from West Africa (or gypsy pornstars, like the original Invader of the Heart who gave his group its name). He never expected Lydon to join a band, and remembered John Ritchie (i.e. "Sid Vicious") being McLaren's first pick for the iconic frontman of his imaginary band of rock'n'roll highwaymen… his "sex pistols". Without forcing a point, Wobble hints that this is what working class artists are, and do: the people who take an opportunity, enjoy it while it's there, and are true to themselves, unlike more calculating upper-middle class musicians.
The "right place at the right time" in Wobble's case was "…when mad Jamaicans were trying to get the heaviest sounds ever, onto wax, and then playing them through 22 inch speakers that sucked in your trousers". So, there's a clue he wasn't wearing drainpipes just yet… As you'd hope, Wobble has plenty of anecdotes about PiL and the Pistols, and he doesn't rise to the bait (from the audience) to slag Lydon for his recent (ahem) "commercial" activities – instead, obliquely mocking the questioner by spending more time describing the motorway service station toilets, in which he was offered a million pounds to reform the band, in what turns out to be a Kafkaesque allegory about taking the piss (or not).
In fact, Wobble is most animated – and most articulate – responding to questions about the relationship between Punk, Post-Punk, and World Music. PiL, we learn, was more of a genre-hybrid, being modal rather than chordal music (i.e. rock), and certainly not pentatonic (as much of what people lazily call "World" music is); in other words, PiL really was the clean break the Pistols (and Punk) should have been, but also managed not to be the Paul Simon / Peter Gabriel / Damon Alban-style strategy of appropriating musical styles from people whose Otherness is effectively affirmed even as you build (blah) "symbolic bridges" to it.
Hearing about Wobble's experience of having money flung at him, aged 19, you hope there might be a few contemporary musicians listening; the audience look like veterans – lots of white hair, some Vicious spikes, and Simon Price's trademark purple horns – but you never know: maybe someone'll be inspired to be more of a chancer.


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Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has responded to media reports that he supposedly ignored evidence of sexual abuse by a future Chicago priest, Daniel McCormack, now serving time in prison. McCormack was a seminarian when then-Father Kicanas was rector of Mundelein Seminary at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in the Chicago Archdiocese.
The media reports — with one of the first being a blog by Tim Drake of the National Catholic Register — come on the eve of the U.S. bishops' annual fall meeting in Baltimore, where they will elect a new president. If the conference follows past practice, Bishop Kicanas as vice president of the bishops will be elected to succeed Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George as USCCB president.
In one part of the response, Bishop Kicanas said:
I would never defend endorsing McCormack's ordination if I had had any knowledge or concern that he might be a danger to anyone, and I had no such knowledge or concern. At no time while McCormack was a seminarian at Mundelein did I receive any allegation of pedophilia or child molestation against him. I never received any allegation, report or concern about McCormack during his seminary years at Mundelein that involved sexual abuse of anyone. Prior to ordination, each student's readiness for ordination was discussed at length by seminary administrators, faculty and the diocesan bishop. Furthermore, McCormack was evaluated, as was every seminarian, each of his four years by faculty and students who were given an opportunity to endorse or not endorse his continuing in the seminary. No student nor faculty nor anyone ever negatively commented on McCormack in all the endorsements he received. With the harm that he has done to children and families, it is tragic that he was ordained. Would that he had never been ordained.
McCormack was ordained in 1994. By 2006 McCormack was suspended from active ministry when he was arrested on charges of molesting two boys; more charges were added as more victims came forward. In July 2007 he was sentenced to five years in prison immediately after he pleaded guilty to five counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse stemming from charges he molested five boys between 2001 and 2005.
His arrest rocked the Chicago Archdiocese, because it came out that the priest, then pastor at St. Agatha Parish, had been arrested and questioned in late August 2005 about allegations made by the family of one boy stemming from incidents three years earlier. Police released him because of a lack of evidence. Chicago archdiocesan officials did not remove him initially because no formal allegations had been made against him by the boy or his family. In the aftermath Cardinal George repeatedly apologized for how the case was handled and he instituted a series of changes in procedures aimed at preventing similar situations.


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Today's workout was developed by Bryce Lane.
Complete as many circuits as possible in twenty minutes.
If you are not accustomed to plyometric training or are obese, perform the Basic WOD.
- 12 Short Range Squat Jumps(Half-Squat Jumps: Squat until your elbows touch your knees and thighs are parallel to ground and then jump for height or distance)
- 12 Full Range Squat Jumps(Deep Squat Jumps: Squat deep until your hands touch the ground and then jump for height or distance)
- 20 High Tension Bodyweight Squats(Squat while maintaining conscious tension of the leg mucles)
- 6 Short Range Squat Jumps
- 6 Full Range Squat Jumps
- 10 High Tension Bodyweight Squats
- 5 Half-Squat Jumps
- 10 Lunges (Each leg)
- 10 Calf Raise and Flex
Are you tempted to cheat on the jump as your legs become tired? Try Traveling B-Circuits by jumping for distance instead of height. Try to cover the same total distance on each circuit as the workout progresses to ensure that you are pushing yourself adequately.


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Saturday Philosophy – The unbelievably small world of VLDBs June 12, 2010Posted by mwidlake in VLDB.
Tags: Meeting, rant, user group, VLDB
Yesterday I posted about the potential for a Oracle in Science community within the UK Oracle user group {and wider for that matter, there is after all a world Oracle Life Science community but it is currently less vibrant than it was, sadly}.
My friend and occasional drinking partner Peter Scott replied to say he felt there was "a place for a SIG for stonking great databases" {now wouldn't SGDB be a better TLA than VLDB? 🙂 }.
Well, I would agree but for one small detail. An apparent lack of anyone willing to be part of the community.
When I was building a very considerable VLDB {and I'm sorry I keep going on about it, I'll try and stop soon} back in the early to mid 2000's I seemed to be working in a vacuum of information, let alone prior experience. Yes, there was stuff in the Oracle manuals about how big things could theoretically be made and some vague advice on some aspects of it, but an absolute lack of any visible Oracle customers with anything even approaching the sizes I was contemplating. 2TB was about the limit and I was already way beyond that. Was this because I really was pushing the boundaries of database size? Well, I have since found out that whilst I was up there just behind the leading edge, there were several databases much, much bigger than mine and others already envisioned that might hit the Petabyte level, let alone Terabyte.
The thing is, no one would speak about them. At all.
We were left to do it all pretty much from scratch and it would not have been possible if I had not spent years building up with VLDBS as the definition of a VLDB size increased, plus of course cracking support by the other DBAs and Systems Admins around me. And to be fair, Oracle Corp helped us a lot with our efforts to build these massive databases. Interestingly, one Oracle Consultant would regularly tell me that our systems really were not so unusually big and there were plenty larger. He usually said this when I asked, exasperatedly as something else failed to scale, if Oracle had every tested things at this level :-). But despite constantly asking to meet with these people with massive systems, so we could exchange war stories and share advice, and being promised such contacts by Oracle, they never materialized except for CERN – who we already talked to as a fellow scientific organisation – and Amazon, who it turns out did things in a very different way to us {but it was really good to talk to them and find out how they did do their big databases, thanks guys}. Both were at the same scale or just behind where we were.
This is because most of the people with massive oracle databases will not talk about them as they are either run by the largest financial organisations, are to do with defense or in some other way just not talked about. In his comment Peter refers to a prior client with an OLTP-type system that is now around the PB scale. I would be pretty sure Peter can't say who the client is or any details about how the system was designed.
So although I think there is a real need for a "stonking great databases" forum, I think there is a real problem in getting a user community of such people/organisations together. And if you did, none of the members would be allowed to say much about how they achieved it, so all you could do would be sit around and brag about who has the biggest. There is an Oracle community about such things, called the Terabyte Club, but last I knew it was invite-only and when I managed to get invited, it turned out that mine was biggest by a considerable margin, so I was still not meeting these elusive groups with 500TB databases. Maybe there is an Oracle-supported über database society but as I never signed the official secrets act might not have been eligible to play.
If I am wrong and anyone does form such a user group (or is in one!) I would love to be a member and I would strive to present and help.
I'll finish with what appears to be a contradiction to what I have just written. There already is a UKOUG User Group that deals with large systems and I chair it – the Management and Infrastructure SIG. {sorry, the info on the web page could do with some updating}. Part of what we cover is VLDBs. But we also cover Very Many DataBases (companies with thousands of instances) and Very Complex DataBases plus how you go about the technical and management aspects of working in a massive IT Infrastructure. It might be that we could dedicate a meeting to VLDBs and see how it goes, but I know that whilst many who come along are dealing with database of a few TB, no one is dealing with hundreds of TB or PB database. Either that or they are keeping quiet about it, which takes us back to my main point. The MI SIG is probably the closest to a VLDB SIG we have in Europe though, and is a great bunch of people, so if you have a VLDB and want to meet some fellow sufferers, we have our next meeting on 23rd September in the Oracle City office.
- 1. Pete Scott - June 12, 2010
So true – it is as if people are ashamed to stand up and say "my name is Mike and I have a large database"
I remember putting in 4.5TB system at the turn of the century – go live was Dec 1999 – I felt quite proud of that but the customer would not own-up to having it, not even to owning a barn full of Sun kit… 4.5TB of 18GB disks needs a little space. I guess this was argument that they got "competitive advantage through analysing their data" and telling people how to do it was silly.
And now people might admit they have the data, but not on what it is running. For example I have had a talk accepted for Oracle Open World this September on the lessons learned building a retail data warehouse on Exadata, the bit I have to leave out is who the customer is!
This of course is big problem for us who speak about databases – we can talk if we are not specific but then that almost becomes wooly marketing hype. Working in a consultancy lets me have more scope on what I can say, but not free rein. And people at meeting love to hear stories from users, and people like me…
Two other points – that PB scale DB is strictly speaking not OLTP either. And SGDB or VLDB for that matter are not TLAs, the are FLAs …. there's inflation for you 🙂
- 2. Noons - June 13, 2010
More likely lack of info on these is due to the folks involved being flat out trying to overcome the bugs they uncover at every turn. But just ignore that and call me a "dinossaur", after all it appears to work for Oracle…
And in many cases, VLDB ends up being a collective exercise with a group of people or a consultancy company involved and understandably they don't want that knowledge capital to be shared.
I prefer to refer to any database that nudges the limits of the hardware involved as a vldb: the problems became very much the same, abstracting the bugs.
- Noons - June 13, 2010
I forgot to include the software "limits" as well: as important as the hardware ones, IME.
Not just the database software: have had many nasty surprises with the OS itself, as well as storage architectures and devices.
I think the unwillingness to engage is due to the change in nature of the dba and specialist job.
For the last 10 years, Oracle and others have been dumbing down those, to the point where we now have most dbas and "architects" so unaware of the inherent limits of their systems that all of this is just noise to them.
Very few are even aware of what is possible, let alone how to do it or how to get there.
I was told recently by one of the above that the next upgrade to our architecture has to be Exadata.
We just reached around half the sustained I/O throughput of an entry level Exadata, in hardware that costs an order of magnitude less.
The argument goes like this: "Why bother? If Oracle marketing says the next step is Exadata, who are we to contradict them?"
That's what I mean by dumbing down the job.
And the show goes on…
- Noons - June 13, 2010
LOL! My old 6610 doesn't need to be rebooted every second day, like the new E72 from work does…
Coming back to VLDB and the lack of interest:
The amount of learning needed nowadays to cover the entire gamut of Oracle is staggering. I doubt that anyone can be an expert on the whole lot, hence my reluctance in accepting the certification exercises as having any validity: it's just too wide a field, all one can do is know in detail one area at a time. Simply impossible to keep up with the lot.
But for VLDB, the range is much narrower and more specialised. That makes it possible for one to concentrate enough "grey matter" firepower to at least be able to understand the problems involved, if not reason all solutions. And once one knows what the problems are, it's then feasible to effectively engage specialist knowledge to resolve each hurdle.
What I find scary is a management -and yes: also a dba – attitude that "none of this is worth pursuing, we just engage consultants whenever we need to think". Sure fire way to blow budgets and end up buying what one doesn't need!
Good luck taking this with the OUG. I gave up on the Australian version of it and their insistence on boring me with Fusion and other j2ee marketing nonsense – and decided to join the Meetup initiative from Pythian: at least there we can decide what to discuss, instead of having endless presentations from commercial consultancies.
Not perfect, but a lot better than what I saw at the OUG for years.


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Aston Villa beat Norwich City 4-1 to qualify for the Capital One Cup semi-finals
A second-half double from Andreas Weimann gave Aston Villa a 4-1 Capital One Cup victory over Norwich City.
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The game marked the first return to Carrow Road for Lambert, who was given a mixed reception from the home crowd, despite his consecutive promotions at the East Anglian club.
Villa, dumped out at this stage two years ago, were looking for a distraction from Premier League troubles against the Canaries, who had reached the last eight for the first time since 1995/6.
Norwich came into the game on a fantastic run of form, unbeaten in ten games in all competitions and sat just four points off the top four, whilst Villa had won one of their last sixteen away games against Premier League opposition and scored just two goals in their last five games.
The game started brightly, and Norwich could have been ahead after less than two minutes, a cross from Grant Holt hitting the far post after looping over Shay Given. Moments later Darren Bent was sent through on goal by Brett Holman but fired straight at Mark Bunn. Australian Holman was comfortably the best player during the first half, his range of passing superior to any other performer.
Given, back in the side after losing his place for Premier League football to Brad Guzan, looked out of confidence as his kicking occasionally got Villa into trouble, and the former Irish international was beaten on 19 minutes when Steve Morison collected a long ball from Holt and comfortably knocked the ball into the goal, Given left stranded.
Incredibly, it was only 75 seconds until Villa equalised, Holman collecting a knock down from Christian Benteke before half-volleying superbly into the bottom corner.
The goal initiated a spell of pressure from the away side, and Mark Bunn was forced into a tremendous triple save from Holman, Benteke and Bent, the second save from the Belgian being the most impressive.
As the game settled before the break, the final action of note was the unfortunate withdrawal of Bent with what seemed to be a pulled hamstring. The striker had looked impressive and will feel frustrated that his chance to impress Lambert was cut short.
The second half began with a pair of disallowed goals as both Morison and Benteke had efforts ruled out for offside. Given then made a reaction save from Holt as both sides pushed for the lead.
It eventually came through substitute Weimann for Villa, who converted Eric Lichaj's cross from close range after 78 minutes. The Norwich defending was static as Weimann ghosted in, and seven minutes later the Austrian performed the trick once more, this time taking a pass from Benteke and slotting home. Villa had been rewarded for their invention and creativity during the second half, with both Weimann and Benteke impressing hugely.
One minute into stoppage time and Benteke scored the goal of the game, the away side putting together 17 passes before working the ball to the edge of the box, where the Belgian forward fired low into the right hand corner of the net.
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