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Like their counterparts across the pond, British conservatives entered office in 2010 as firm believers in fiscal austerity, slashing spending, curbing public investmentand raising food, electricity and tuition costs. Echoing the views of many Republicans, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, predicted that "expansionary austerity" was just the cure for the country's economic crisis.
It turns out that austerity in Britain, like in the rest of the world, has been anything but expansionary. "The empirical case against expansionary austerity is that it doesn't seem to be working in Britain (or in any of the struggling eurozone countries)," notes Larry Elliott, economics editor of the Guardian. Since the Tory-Liberal Democrats coalition took over, economic growth has slowed, unemployment has increased and investor confidence has plummeted.
As in the United States, public sector employees have bore the brunt of the recession. Their pay has already been frozen for two years and now the government has proposed capping wage increases at 1 percent beginning in 2013 (a cut in real terms), while demanding that public sector workers increase their pension contributions by 3 percent and retire two years later. Britain's independent Office of Budget Responsibility predicted yesterday that more than 700,000 public sector workers would lose their jobs by 2017.
It's against this backdrop that public sector workers staged the largest strike in three decades today, with 2 million workers protesting the government's cuts. The Guardian called it "the biggest bout of industrial action since the 1979 winter of discontent." (Check out the paper's live coverage.)
"Public sector workers are justified in striking since they're being asked simultaneously to work longer, get a smaller pension, and put in a higher contribution," says Will Straw, an economic policy expert at Britain's Institute for Public Policy Research. "The Government has left the Unions with no choice.… The Unions need to ensure now that they build public support for their argument but also explain why the Government's policies will detrimentally affect those working in other sectors by consigning the UK to meager pensions, second rate public services, and further austerity."
The strikes are designed to put pressure on the government to negotiate a fairer deal, draw public attention to the perils of austerity and push the opposition Labour Party to take a stronger stance against the government's cuts and in favor of public investments. There are signs the Labour Party, under new leader Ed Milliband, is heading in that direction. Milliband criticized an earlier bout of strikes in June, angering the unions who supported his bid for party leader, but defended the striking workers today. "Why do you think so many decent, hard-working public sector workers, many of whom have never been on strike before, feel the government simply isn't listening?" he asked Prime Minister David Cameron today.
Today's strikes mark the largest protest against the government's austerity regime, but they certainly won't be the last. The policies of the coalition government are likely to grow only more unpopular if the economy continues to head south. Austerity usually leads to a vicious, self-defeating circle, Paul Krugman notes:
What's happening in Britain now is that depressed estimates of long-run potential are being used to justify more austerity, which will depress the economy even further in the short run, leading to further depression of long-run potential, leading to…
It really is just like a medieval doctor bleeding his patient, observing that the patient is getting sicker, not better, and deciding that this calls for even more bleeding.
And the truly awful thing is that Cameron and Osborne are so deeply identified with the austerity doctrine that they can't change course without effectively destroying themselves politically.
As the Brits would say, brilliant. Just brilliant.
US politicians, take note. Don't say you haven't been warned.


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Coral Davenport: Obama Pursuing Climate Accord In Lieu of Treaty
The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress. In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal to commit some of the world's largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution. But under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty only if it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate. To sidestep that requirement, President Obama's climate negotiators are devising what they call a "politically binding" deal that would "name and shame" countries into cutting their emissions. The deal is likely to face strong objections from Republicans on Capitol Hill and from poor countries around the world, but negotiators say it may be the only realistic path.
Obama pursuing global #climate deal that could bypass Congress. nyti.ms/1pf7X37
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American negotiators are instead homing in on a hybrid agreement — a proposal to blend legally binding conditions from an existing 1992 treaty with new voluntary pledges. The mix would create a deal that would update the treaty, and thus, negotiators say, not require a new vote of ratification. Countries would be legally required to enact domestic climate change policies — but would voluntarily pledge to specific levels of emissions cuts and to channel money to poor countries to help them adapt to climate change. Countries might then be legally obligated to report their progress toward meeting those pledges at meetings held to identify those nations that did not meet their cuts. The strategy comes as scientists warn that the earth is already experiencing the first signs of human-caused global warming — more severe drought and stronger wildfires, rising sea levels and more devastating storms. In seeking to go around Congress to push his international climate change agenda, Mr. Obama is echoing his domestic climate strategy. In June, he bypassed Congress and used his executive authority to order a far-reaching regulation forcing American coal-fired power plants to curb their carbon emissions.
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text: Potash Raises Profit Forecast as Fertilizer Buyers Return July 24, 2014 03:57 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc., the world's largest fertilizer producer by market value, raised its full-year earnings forecast and said Chinese demand for its namesake crop nutrient will be more than previously expected. Profit will be $1.70 to $1.90 a share, the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based company said today in a statement, up from its April guidance of $1.50 to $1.80. The shares rose 4.6 percent in New York. The company increased its forecast for industrywide potash shipments to as much as 58 million metric tons, up from as much as 57 million previously. Latin American demand may reach a record this year and Chinese usage will now exceed 12 million metric tons, it said. Buyers of potash, a form of potassium that strengthens plant roots and boost drought resistance, have returned to the market after a plunge in prices last year. That slump followed a move by Russia's OAO Uralkali, the largest producer, to abandon a sales pact and boost sales. Since then, Potash Corp. has reduced its production capacity while North American stockpiles have fallen. Uralkali last month reduced its full-year output target by about 8 percent to help support prices. "Prices are still down year-on-year but are inching higher," Mark Gulley, a New York-based analyst at BGC Partners LP, said in an interview before the results were released. "Pricing stability is drawing buyers back to the potash market." Tight Supply Potash Corp. rose to $37.85 at 7:11 a.m. in New York, before the start of regular trading. For the second quarter, net income dropped to $472 million, or 56 cents a share, from $643 million, or 73 cents, a year earlier. The average of 24 analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg was for profit of 45 cents a share. Sales fell 12 percent to $1.89 billion, beating the $1.68 billion average estimate. The company said that North American inventories ended the first half at their lowest since 2011 and will remain tight as scheduled maintenance limits output. Potash Corp. also produces phosphate and nitrogen fertilizers. Back to news


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Restoring Louisiana's coast is a complex problem that has engaged the top minds in the state. But some solutions are so simple even a kid can take part.
Restoring Louisiana's coast is a complex problem that has engaged the top minds in the state. But some solutions are so simple even a kid can take part.
Students from Bourg Elementary, Pointe-aux-Chenes Elementary and Montegut Middle schools joined with volunteers Friday to plant marsh grass and deploy an experimental new restoration technology called "floating islands" in the shallow waters off Island Road in Isle de Jean Charles.
The hope is that the islands will not only buffer the last strips of wetland bordering Island Road but also collect sediment and help marsh plants thrive, creating new land in the shallow open water in a part of Terrebonne that's suffered major land loss.
The project was a result of a partnership between the Coastal Conservation Association's Building Conservation Habitat Program, Shell Oil Co., Keep Terrebonne Beautiful, Terrebonne Parish government, Terrebonne Parish School District, Martin EcoSystems and the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
The artificial islands are a new marsh-building technology being employed to protect Isle de Jean Charles and Island Road.
The 5-foot by 20-foot islands, made of recycled plastics, are each to be planted with 150-200 native plants by volunteers. They will stretch about 1,000 feet in the open water alongside Island Road. Anchors are set to protect them from washing away.
The project cost about $100,000.
Students packed the floating islands, which looked kind of like hole-punched, matress-sized Brillo pads, with two types of marsh grass, smooth cord grass and seashore paspalum. The mats were then ferried out to the restoration site by adult volunteers and anchored in place.
The idea is that the new marsh plants will eventually set root in the water bottom and trap land-building sediments.
Floating marshes have already been tested along the south Lafourche Levee system and near Bayou Sauvage near New Orleans.
John Walther, habitat committee chairman for the Coastal Conservation Association of Louisiana, said it's a project that can be done quickly without heavy equipment. And in Isle de Jean Charles, the hope is it will have multiple benefits — creating habitat and land, and protecting Island Road.
Volunteers will also work today to complete the restoration project.
The first phase of the project was completed in September 2011. It was the first open water use of the new technology, developed by Martin EcoSystems. Walther said the first phase was a huge success, despite undergoing a big challenge from last year's Hurricane Isaac.
Ted Martin, owner and CEO of Martin EcoSystems, said the floating islands endured a 5-foot storm tide and 90 mph winds for 20 hours during the storm. Despite the rough conditions, only 10 percent of the 1,500 feet of floating islands was lost.
"Even after the devastating effects of Hurricane Isaac, we found the floating islands were still thriving and outperforming the surrounding natural marsh," Walter said.
Martin added that the anchors for the new mats have been redesigned in hopes they'll be even stronger.
The project's success shows this technology can be used elsewhere as a part of the state's master plan for coastal restoration and protection, Walther said.
But one of the project's greatest non-environmental advantages can be seen in the students, like John Melancon, 10, a Bourg Elementary student and budding coastal advocate who spoke excitedly about the importance of Louisiana's coast.
"You don't realize how fast we're losing land," Melancon said. "I think one of my teachers told me it is a football field an hour. That's how fast it's disappearing."
Melancon said restoring the coast is important because it helps support the economically important fishery Louisiana is known for. He also said he wants to make sure his home can be here for his future kids and grandkids.
"It's good to get out here to do something to save the land," he said. "And we're having fun."
Holly Hebert, a fourth-grade teacher at Pointe-aux-Chenes Elementary School, said that as bayou residents themselves, many of the students working on the project are well aware of what coastal land loss had done to their communities and the need for restoration.
"They have to live it every day," Hebert said. "They see it for every storm. Our kids don't want to have to move. They love it down here."
Students and other community volunteers also pitched in to build the first phase of the project.
"I drive by the phase 1 site often, and I am always amazed at how the project is doing," said Ryan Richard, the Coastal Conservation Associations's Bayou Chapter president. "To think that a group of volunteers, including local school kids, rebuilt our disappearing wetlands like that is very gratifying. I can't wait to get back out there this weekend to build more marsh."


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Conversation Tag
The tomahawk sandbox component ConversationTag will introduce a new scope to JSF called: conversation scope\\ Other keywords for this scope are: dialog scope, pageflow scope, application transaction, unit of work.
The features of this tag are:
- Introduce a new conversation scope
- Multiple window aware (you can start the same conversation from multiple differen windows)
- Named (parallel) conversations
- Syncronize with lifetime of your database session
- Timeout to get rid of orphaned conversations
- Do not use serialization - thus it can be used with transparent persistence frameworks
The conversation tag do NOT require a persistence framework. Virtually every managed bean and its content can be put into the conversation scope. There are just helpers to synchronize the lifetime of your database sesssion with a conversation.
- conversation
Same as dialog, application transaction, pageflow, etc.
Mainly this is a scope which spans mutliple requests and has a defined start and end point
- multiple window
Using a session bean often lead to the problem that you cant deal with multiple open windows. The conversation tag tries to avoid this by adding a parameter to the url named "conversationContext". You can have multiple named conversations within an conversationContext and multiple conversationContexts within an session.
Within an conversationContext you can forcibly start a new conversationContext.
I am not aware of a solution which is 100% save against the multiple window problem. For example: If the user clicks on an link which already has a conversationContext parameter there is NO WAY on the server to prevent this nor to know this.
However, using the conversation tag is a good try to avoid the session scope at all.
Before you can start using the conversation tag you have to add additional stuff to your web.xml configuration.
<filter> <filter-name>conversationFilter</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.myfaces.custom.conversation.ConversationServletFilter</filter-class> </filter> <filter> <filter-name>requestParameterProvider</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.myfaces.custom.requestParameterProvider.RequestParameterServletFilter</filter-class> </filter> ... <filter-mapping> <filter-name>requestParameterProvider</filter-name> <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>conversationFilter</filter-name> <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> </filter-mapping>
You have to adjust the url-pattern according your setup. It should be the same mapping than your MyFacesExtensionsFilter.
Context parameters:
org.apache.myfaces.conversation.MESSAGER - FQN of your ConversationMessager
Sometimes the conversation stuff has to send some message to the user, to allow to configure this stuff you can configure your own org.apache.myfaces.custom.conversation.ConversationMessager. The best will be to derive your own class from DefaultConversationMessager.
org.apache.myfaces.conversation.PERSISTENCE_MANAGER_FACTORY - FQN of your PersistenceManagerFactory
To allow to synchronize the database session lifetime with the conversation lieftime you have to provide your own implementation of org.apache.myfaces.custom.conversation.PersistenceManagerFactory.\\ A sample how it should look like will be shown below.
Unverified problem
email@example.com: I have no problems using the RequestParameterServletFilter with the ExtensionsFilter and the DefaultAddResource. Ben, could we discuss on myfaces-dev whats the problem you found?
Finally, if your application makes use of the MyFaces ExtensionFilter, you must use the StreamingAddResource and <t:document*> tags. Some components (e.g. InputDate, InputCalendar...) will not work when using the RequestParameterServletFilter with DefaultAddResource.
org.apache.myfaces.ADD_RESOURCE_CLASS - org.apache.myfaces.component.html.util.StreamingAddResource
<s:startConversation name="myConversation" [persistence="true|false"] />
This will start a conversation. You can embed this tag within an commandLink or commandButton to start the conversation on a specific action, though, I think the most common use case will be to put this tag right after the h:view tag to automatically start a conversation if the user navigate to the page.
If you set the persistence to true a new PersistenceManager will be created through your PersistenceManagerFactory.
The name is required and has to be unique.
A already started conversation will not be restarted, instead startConversation do nothing.
<s:conversation name="myConversation" value="#{myConversationBean}" />
The data required within a conversation should be put into its own request scoped managed bean.
The above tag will get the bean out of its current scope and put it into the conversation scope.
You can have multiple s:conversation tags for the same named conversation.
<s:endConversation name="myConversation" [onOutcome="success[,yes,jo-o]"] [errorOutcome="startOver"] [restart="true|false|#{valueBinding}"] [restartAction="#{restartAction}"]/>
Like s:startConversation you can simnply put the endConversation on your page, but in this case I think the most common use case is to put the endConversation tag as child of one of the action tags (e.g. commandLink, commandButton). So the conversation will be ended as soon as the user e.g. press a "save" button.
You can bind the end of the conversation to the outcome of your action method. So only if the action method returns of the given outcomes (onOutcome) the conversation will be ended.
If you setup a errorOutcome and a exception happens during your action method this special outcome (errorOutcome) will be returned insted of simply showing the exception to the user.\\ In your ConversationMessager you can configure what to do with the exception. The default is to pass the stacktrace as FacesMessage to the JSF framework.
All beans within this scope are deleted afterwards. If your bean implements the ConversationListener interface it will be informed about it, this can be used for cleanup stuff.
With restart/restartAction you can immediately restart a conversation, see in "Advanced Topics" what this is good for.
The signatur of "restartAction" can be
public void restartAction()
<s:separateConversationContext> <h:form> .... commandLinks, commandButtons, navigationMenu, etc .... </h:form> </s:separateConversationContext>
To make the conversation multiple window aware a new parameter will be added to the url called conversationContext.
Now if you require to forcibly start a new conversation context you can use the s:separateConversationContext tag to render links without this conversationContext parameter. That way, if the page requests a conversation (s:startConversation) a new conversationContext will be started to store your named conversations.
<s:ensureConversation name="myConversation" redirectTo="view-id" />
Think about a wizard style page flow with e.g. 4 pages. The first page contains the s:startConversation tag and the last page the s:endConversation tag (within a commandButton for sure).
Now, for some reasons, it might be possible that a user navigates directly to page 2, 3 or 4 and NOT started with page 1 - another reason might be, that the conversation timeout take place and when the user came back the conversation is no longer existent.
This is where the s:ensureConversation tag take place. Put this tag on all pages but the one with s:startConversation (in our case these are the pages 2, 3 and 4).
Now it will be checked if the named conversation myConversation is active, else a redirect to the given view-id will be issued - say to page 1. That way you have a clean restart of the conversation.
Again the ConversationMessager will be used to send a message to the user.
ConversationManager allows you to easily retrieve your beans from the converation scope.
MyBean myBean = (MyBean) ConversationManager .getInstance() .getConversation("myConversation") .getBean("myConversationBean");
The PersistenceManagerFactory is responsible to create (or synchronize) a database session.
TODO: Example of it for e.g. hibernate
Advanced Topics
Parallel/Named conversations
You can have multiple running conversations per conversationContext. I think the most common use case is to have maximum 2 conversation per conversation. One conversation with a larger lifetime and one with a shorter one which deals with persistence.
request = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = addItem conversation ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= order conversation ======================================= session =======================================================================
Think about a order processing system where you have a handful of pages to create an order and add items to it.\\ Such an application might have these two entities:
- order head
- order item
In this scenario the addItem conversation will be the one which deals with persistence and thus is also the demarcation of your database session. IF the addItem conversation is the demarcation of your database session you have a problem with the order head. Again, after the addItem conversation ends this entity will be detached.
To workaround this problem its best to store the entity id of the order head in your outer converstion (order conversation) and refetch it from the database on request.
Notice: This will NOT hit the database each time. You have the running database session from the addItem conversation and thus the persistence framework will get the entitiy from its cache.
On the end of the addItem conversation the session will be closed and on restart for the next addItem conversation a new database session will be created. This means that NOW a fresh copy of the order head will be read from the database, but only ONCE as then the persistence framework again will get it from the cache.
If you will avoid hitting the database even in this case, you can configure the second level cache of your persistence framework.
If you do it that way, there is no need for a session scope bean and the user can start multiple "order conversations" within the same session.
Suggestion how to design your beans
For a successful work with the conversation tag I propose to separate the conversation scoped data from your normal "view controller" backing bean.
Say you have a backing bean called "EnterBlog" you should also have a bean "EnterBlogData" which will hold the entities only, a simple bean with getter/setters. The "EnterBlog" should be request scoped and can hold stuff like the component bindings and values. "EnterBlogData" will hold your entities and maybe component values too.
While you can use the managed-property feature (faces-config.xml) in this special case I propose to use the value-binding strategy to get access to the "EnterBlogData".
You can do this with a utility function like:
FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(); return fc.getApplication().createValueBinding("#{" + beanName + "}").getValue(fc);
The reason for this is, that a conversation can die - and restarted - in the mid of a request, after the restart JSF wont reset the managed-property beans, this is why you have to use the solution above.
Review Data after endConversation
As you have learned, the conversation bean will be removed from any scopy after endConversation so you can start over your persistent session. Depending on your use case it is required to review the currently changed data.
Ok, lets describe the flow:
- you start with a empty page - a new conversation will be started
- the user enter some data
- and press save - which is also the end of the conversation
- the user should be able to change the already entered data
Now, there is a problem, the conversation has been ended and so all entities are detached, you have to refetch the data from the database using the new conversation.
But there is a timing problem.
The conversation will be ended AFTER the save action, so you cant reload the data from within - and much more bad, a new conversation will only be started when the view will be rendered, so way to late to reload the data.
One might argue that you always can do a "layz reload", means, to load the data in any getter requesting data from the entity. But trust me, this is bad, very bad. The reason is, that it can happen, that the bean hasnt fully initialized (values set from the component) at this point.
The solution is to restart the conversation. This can be done by configuring restart/restartAction on your endConversation.
<s:endConversation name="myConv" restart="true" restartAction="#{myBean.loadDataAction}" />
In your loadDataAction the conversation has been started and you have access to new, fresh conversation beans. Now, you can reload the data which will be associated to the new conversation then.
Why not just NOT end the conversation?
The reason is simple: The user might have navigated many different pages, opened some "browse/search" pages where you loaded a huge number of entities into the session which still fills your memory. Ending the conversation will allow them to be garbage collected (which is what we want), after the review the session will hold the data required to display all the stuff only (which is what we want too).
Additional Informations
The sandbox examples: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/myfaces/tomahawk/trunk/sandbox/examples/src/main/webapp/conversation/
Without persistence, but sufficient to get a clue about how it works.


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Case Study: Light For Cause Turns An Average Campaign Into A Charitable Quest To Meet Richard Branson
from the many-paths-to-success dept
As part of our sponsorship program with Insightly, we're exploring some innovative businesses that have used the CRM tool. In this sponsored case study, we're looking at Groovy Lights and the Light for Cause initiative.
As crowdfunding gets more popular, the mere act itself no longer brings publicity, so it becomes more important for creators to find a way to stand out on crowdfunding platforms. A product like Groovy Lights seeking $40,000 could easily get lost in the shuffle, so creator Joe Player found a way to wrap it up with a sponsorship program and a charitable initiative doubling as a marketing plan, in a nice little example of synergy.
Indiegogo, which has somewhat more relaxed rules than Kickstarter, is the place where the more experimental crowdfunding campaigns often happen. Instead of just pre-selling enough lights to launch the product, the Indiegogo campaign sets a more interesting goal, dubbed the Light for Cause initiative: selling the lights to raise money for the Virgin Unite Foundation, in turn gaining an opportunity for Player to discuss the initiative and the product with Richard Branson and get his endorsement. We've noted studies before that show how crowdfunding projects do better when they have a charitable component, and the chance to tie that in with some celebrity marketing was a smart thing to take advantage of.
Looking at the campaign page, it actually all feels a bit chaotic, with the reward tiers including other unrelated products, Mexico vacations and corporate sponsorships (this is the occasional downside of Indiegogo's less structured system). But that doesn't seem to have hampered it, since the campaign hit the $40,000 goal almost exactly, and is now headlined with a photo illustrating its success:
The tiers were successful too: all three vacations with Player were sold (and that's an ambitious offering — most crowdfunders limit tiers like that to a weekend in their home town), and one company snapped up a "gold corporate partnership" which includes a bunch of marketing opportunities. That latter aspect is particularly interesting: while many crowdfunders focus solely on finding customers, and that's clearly goal number one with any campaign, there's also a huge opportunity at the crowdfunding stage to start finding sponsors, advertisers and other corporate partners. I wouldn't be surprised to see a new crowdfunding platform that focuses more on such networking in the future.
Overall, a successful experiment. The Groovy Light looks cool, but it's hardly alone as a "funky home decor" item in the crowdfunding world, and there's no way to guarantee it would stand out — but there's also lots of market room for such products, and a little ingenuity in how it was funded got it the attention it needed. The biggest thing that campaigns like this remind us is how much of an open field crowdfunding is — those who are concerned it "won't work for everyone" are portraying it as a single strategy when, in fact, it can support a multitude of approaches (and we haven't yet seen them all).
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My sister draws the outlines on muslin with pencil and then colors it in with Sharpies. I love this project because it is so interactive and it can be packed up in a bag with a few select toys and taken to ballgames and parks really easily.
1. Jump off the dock or go down the slide to swim in the moat.
2. Have a fancy dinner in the banquet hall.
3. Dance in the grand ballroom of the castle.
4. Take a nap or have a slumber party.
5. Paddle the rowboat around the moat.
6. Read a book or have a Bible study.
7. Arts and crafts time- painting and coloring!
8. Workout- lift some weights or do yoga.
9. Swing on a tree swing.
10. Swim and play in the pool.
11. Jump on the trampoline.
12. Ride a wild dragon.
13. Play hopscotch with their friends.
Rapunzel jumping on the trampoline.
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The Lady Bisons won game one 5-3, and captured the nightcap, 3-1, Wednesday evening at Draper Diamond. It was the first doubleheader sweep for the Lady Bisons since they beat North Florida 1-0 and 2-0 March 27.
"We feel very fortunate to walk out of here with two wins," said Lady Bisons coach Kristin Peck. "We didn't do everything perfectly today, but we finally got clutch hits with runners on which was something we haven't been doing.
"We finally started putting some little things together which were very timely and gave us the opportunity to score. It was good day all around. There are a lot of positives we can take into the weekend."
In game one freshman Whitney Kiihnl ran her record to 11-5. She gave up four hits and three runs, all earned. She struck out four and walked two.
"We got a pretty good pitching performance out of Whitney in game one," said Peck. "It was not her best game, but it was good enough to win. And we finally put up some decent runs on the board behind her."
The Lady Bisons gave Kiihnl a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning when Abby Keese hit her sixth home run of the season over the right field wall.
In the fifth they added four runs. Caroline Mason started things off with a single to center and moved to second on a passed ball. Megan Rottler moved Mason to third with a sacrifice. Mackenzie Tucker was safe at first on a fielder's choice that allowed Mason to score.
Lauren Dortwegt singled and Tucker went to second. Courtney Billington singled to drive in Tucker. Kellie Sirus then singled to right to send Dortwegt across the plate. Keese reached base as the result of an error by Chattanooga's shortstop. That play allowed Billington to score the fourth run of the inning.
The Lady Bisons would need the extra runs. The Lady Mocs, with five hitters batting .300 or higher coming into the doubleheader, rallied for three runs in the sixth. Lyndsey Stiles walked to lead off the inning. Kaiti Kelly struck out. Michelle Fuzzard doubled to left center to score Stiles. Tiffany Baker then hit a two-run homer to right field.
Kiihnl regrouped and forced the next two batters to ground out to third base and fly out to right field.
In game two the Lady Mocs opened with one run in the first inning off of Christen Campbell. Stiles opened the game with a single through the right side of the field. With two outs Baker singled to the left side of the field to score Stiles.
The Lady Bisons tied the game with one run in the fourth inning. Sirus singled and then went to second on a sacrifice by Keese. Campbell fouled out and Mollie Mitchell was safe at first on an error by the pitcher. Sirus scored on the play.
In the fifth inning the Lady Bisons took a 2-1 lead. With two outs Dortwegt singled and Billington hit a triple to right center to score Dortwegt. It was the second triple of the season by Billington.
The Lady Bisons added one more run in the sixth. Keese led off with single through the left side of the field. Campbell grounded out to the shortstop as Keese went to second. Mitchell rapped a single to right center to score Keese.
Campbell, who has the lowest earned run average in the Atlantic Sun Conference, improved to 7-0. She scattered four hits and struck out two. She did not walk a batter.
The Lady Bisons had six hits in each game. Sirus had two hits in game one and Dortwegt had two hits in game two. Sirus also had one hit in game two, extending her hitting streak to seven games, the longest current streak on the team.
"It was good to see Mollie get a big hit," said Peck. Courtney busted out with a couple of big hits. Abby came through with a big hit in game one. It was good to see some of our players that have done a decent job of getting on base lately come through with some timely hits."
The Lady Bisons are 25-8 overall. The Lady Mocs slipped to 20-18.
Friday evening the Lady Bisons are on the road at ETSU in Johnson City. Saturday they travel to USC-Upstate for what has been billed as the "Atlantic Sun Series of the Week". Both the Lady Bisons and USC-Upstate tied for a share of the A-Sun regular season championship in 2008.


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Getzlaf scores 25th goal, Ducks top Blues 3-2
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ryan Getzlaf scored his 25th goal, and rookie Frederik Andersen made 34 saves as the Anaheim Ducks got back to their winning ways with a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night.
Anaheim, which had an eight-game winning streak snapped on Friday in Chicago, has won 19 of 21. The Ducks have won nine of their last 11 on the road and lead the NHL with 79 points. They are 20-0-2 at home.
Matt Beleskey and Cam Fowler also scored for the Ducks, who have a league-best 37 points on the road. Andersen (12-2) has won three straight.
Barret Jackman and Jaden Schwartz scored third-period goals for St. Louis, which has lost back-to-back games in regulation for just the second time this season.
Anaheim scored three times on its first 11 shots against Brian Elliott, who had a franchise-record, 13-game home winning streak snapped.
Getzlaf scored off a pass from Corey Perry 5:27 into the game. Getzlaf, who added an assist, has 14 points in his last nine games.
Beleskey squeezed a shot through Elliott early in the second period. Elliott made the initial save, but the puck trickled through his legs into the net.
Fowler tallied on the power play with a shot from the top of the circle to push the lead 3-0 midway through the second period.
Schwartz got the Blues to within 3-2 with a power-play goal at 14:31 of the third.
St. Louis is 1-7 against California teams this season.
NOTES: St. Louis LW Alexander Steen returned to the lineup after missing 11 games because of a concussion. … The Blues have an NHL-best, plus-55 goal differential. … Anaheim RW Teemu Selanne didn't play in the second of back-to-back games, as usual. The Ducks lost 4-2 in Chicago on Friday. … RW Chris Stewart played in his 200th game with the Blues. … The Ducks are 22-3-4 in games in which they score first.


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Vero's pictures are back and she looks gorgeous!!! I love how confident, beautiful, and just amazing she looks. I love her beautiful dress and hot heels. I wanted to post and let you take a look better than the dark photos my camera takes lol. Enjoy!
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Rocky Chatwell use to love the JUDGE kites. But now you see him only on the SCREAMER kites because he can do twice as much unhook tricks up in the air before landing on the water and that is because of the hang time the SCREAMER kites have, compare to the JUDGE or the RENEGADE kites. But again it's a matter of what you like and this is the reason why we came up with different kite models.
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When you look back on 2011, it's hard to put a finger on any one defining moment that transformed enterprise IT. But when you consider all of the developments of the past year, a rich tapestry of events that will shape enterprise IT for years to come starts to emerge.
So, while 2011 is not likely to be remembered for any one great development, it has certainly been a year that has witnessed the start of many things that will certainly have a lasting impact on enterprise IT
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Did New Zealand Spooks Tap Into PRISM To Spy On Dotcom?
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As Techdirt has reported, the attempts to extradite Kim Dotcom from New Zealand to the US have turned into one of the most catastrophically bungled legal cases in a long while. One of the biggest scandals to emerge was that New Zealand citizens had been wiretapped in an effort to gain evidence against Dotcom, since domestic spying was forbidden there just as it is in the US (oh, wait...). Unfortunately, rather than rapping knuckles and telling the local spooks not to do it again, the New Zealand government has instead just brought in new legislation to make it legal in the future.
But it seems that the revelations in the Dotcom case aren't over yet. A story on the Australian site ITnews drawing on a blog post by Keith Ng has the following remarkable claim:
Police affidavits related to the raid on Kim Dotcom's Mega mansion appear to show that New Zealand police and spy agencies are able to tap directly into United States surveillance systems such as PRISM to capture email and other traffic.
Here's why Ng thinks that's the case. On page 13 of the Kim Dotcom affidavits (pdf), which have been released in a redacted form (and are embedded below), there is a request from the Organised and Financial Crime Agency New Zealand (OFCANZ) to the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), New Zealand's signals intelligence unit, to "conduct SIGINT analysis against persons associated with Mega Media Group" -- notably Kim Dotcom.
The police then provided a list of what page 19 of the affidavits calls "selectors" -- precisely the word used by the NSA for PRISM search terms. Page 17 contains some more tantalizing hints of what is going on, as Ng explains:
The selectors were entered into █████, in an email classified as "SECRET//COMINT//REL TO NZL, AUS, CAN, GBR, USA". In other words, the selectors were entered into a secret communications intelligence system, and this secret system was considered related to Five Eyes
"Five Eyes" is the cosy club of Anglo-Saxon countries -- US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- that form a kind of inner circle for swapping surveillance information. It's probably fair to say that these documents don't constitute cast-iron "proof" that the New Zealand police drew on information from PRISM supplied through the Five Eyes collaboration, although it is certainly consistent with that. However, what this does show without doubt is that Kim Dotcom's case was being discussed with New Zealand's spy agency in the context of the Five Eyes group.
At the very least, this demonstrates the completely disproportionate lengths to which the New Zealand government was prepared to go in order to try to obtain evidence against Dotcom for a case that was essentially about alleged copyright infringement. It may even be the first indication that PRISM's global surveillance system is also being deployed in areas that have nothing to do with terrorism or serious threats to the US or its citizens.
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New York City: It is darn expensive. Like, you can sneeze and somehow lose twenty dollars. In less than an hour. And twenty dollars is perhaps a conservative number.
However, in this wallet-sucking city, there are still plenty of sights and sounds to take in for… are you ready?… FREE. No, really.
You may remember from my previous posts, I talked about checking the
insane extravagant holiday lights displays in the Dyker Heights nabe in Brooklyn, as well as the holiday windows and FAO Schwarz tour in Manhattan. Yep, those were good, free times. Well, when my in-laws — who had never seen any of NYC beyond the Statue of Liberty — visited for New Year's, we wanted to cram in as much as we could into the three days they were going to be here.
Josh and I planned and mapped it out, and we think (hope) it was a successful/educational/entertaining/hopefully-all-three trip, hitting some of the better known touristy highlights, as well as a few lesser known surprises thrown in as well. If I gave you our entire itinerary, it may be more confusing than if I just provide you with a walking map, pointing out some of the (free) landmarks we checked out (I'll also point out some landmarks we didn't get to check out). For today, I'll show you our map of Midtown and the surrounding area. (Tomorrow's all about Lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge.)
The total walking tour is about 3.6 miles, so maybe not the best for a novice walker or someone with back or knee problems, however there are plenty of subway options along the route and if you break up the walking by stopping for lunch in between, it's really not so noticeable (and you're going to stop and take pictures anyway, right?)
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For an even better printable version, check out this MS Word doc: gpp midtown walking map
Hope this is helpful for future trips! And if your ideal Midtown itinerary varies a bit from mine, type it into Google maps and select the walking option (or mass transit or whatever). You can re-arrange the order of the letters/landmarks so you're not doubling back or wasting time — though every corner of Midtown Manhattan has some famous name, landmark, and street sign, so no matter where you end up, you'd hardly be wasting time.
Check back tomorrow for a (slightly more detailed) Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge walking tour!
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Japan Appeals to Chinese TravelersJul 01 (Fri ), 2011
Japan Appeals to Chinese Travelers
Japan has announced that it will shorten its group visa approval process for Chinese travelers, starting July 1. This is part of an effort to boost tourism into the country after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Together with this new development, Japan has also announced that Chinese tourists will be able to visit Okinawa on multiple-entry visas, effective July 1.
Chinese authorities are also doing their part to help Japan. On April 29, China's National Tourism Administration (CNTA) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have lifted their Japan travel alert. According to a report in eTurbo News, CNTA Chairman Shao Qiwei stated at the Sino-Japan tourism seminar in Japan in early June that China will implement five specific measures to help prop up Japan's struggling tourism industry. The measure include restarting group tours to Japan, opening Shanghai-Kagawa charter flights and restarting Shanghai-Ibaraki charter flights, inviting 100 children from Japan's quake zone to south China's Hainan Province for a short vacation and welcoming Japanese delegations to promote their tour routes and products.
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Rabies is a deadly disease caused by a virus that attacks the nervous system. The virus is present in saliva and in the nervous tissue of a rabid animal.
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Rabies is most often found among wild mammals such as raccoons, bats, skunks and foxes. Cats, dogs, horses and livestock can also get rabies, if they are not vaccinated for their protection. Deer and large rodents, such as woodchucks, have been found rabid in areas affected by rabies.
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How do people become exposed to rabies?
People usually get exposed to the rabies virus when an infected animal bites them. Exposure may also occur by a scratch inflicted by an infected animal, or if saliva enters an open cut or mucous membrane (nose, eyes, mouth). Many people have been exposed to the rabies virus by handling their pets after an attack and getting the saliva of the rabid animal on their hands.
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Wash the wound thoroughly with soap and water and seek medical attention immediately. Contact your doctor and your county health authority immediately. Try to capture the animal without damaging its head or risking further exposure.
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Encourage children to tell an adult immediately, if they are bitten or scratched by any animal. Tell children not to touch any animal they do not know.
Report all animal bites or contact with wild animals to the county health office.
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posted on Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 3:22 pm
sometimes it is of interest to inform readers/reviewers what has been termed a "residual ICC" - the ratio of between-group variance/total variance in a dependent variable which remains after covariates have been entered into the model.
However, I just noted that the (presumed) residual ICC of my dependent variable (I use Mlwin example data) does not differ from the according ICC I requested via 'multilevel basic', even though I added several significant group-level covariates. At the same time, the between-group R_square of the model with covariates clearly increased as compared to the null model without any between-group covariates.
Is it correct that the ICC for a dependent variable shown by Mplus ALWAYS relates to a null model without covariates?
Thanks for your answer!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 6:33 am
Yes, you should instead compute your residual ICC from the model-estimated parameters.
Nidhi Kohli
posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - 12:38 pm
I have a two-level nested cross-sectional data where the dependent variable is nominal with 3 unordered categories. The dataset contains within- and between-level covariates. I want to compute ICC (between variance/total variance) for the twolevel model with and without covariates. I tried running the model with TYPE=TWOLEVEL BASIC, but the output did not contain the ICCs. Can you please help me to compute ICC in Mplus.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - 8:57 pm
There is no within-level variance with a nominal outcome (this parameter does not exist) and therefore icc's are not defined. I would just see if the between-level variances for the random intercepts of the nominal variable are significant.
Nidhi Kohli
posted on Thursday, October 06, 2011 - 8:59 am
Thank you for your response. I have a follow-up question. I did not see the between-level variances for the random intercepts of the nominal variable in the output. How can I get the between-level variances for the random intercepts of the nominal variable?
Thank you very much.
Nidhi Kohli
posted on Thursday, October 06, 2011 - 9:18 am
I am sorry, I forgot to mention that I was not able to run TYPE=TWOLEVEL BASIC when I classified the dependent variable as nominal. Thus, I classified the dependent variable as categorical so that at least I can get something in the output, which obviously didn't work. What is the best way to get the between-level variances for the random intercepts of the nominal variable? I greatly appreciate your help.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, October 06, 2011 - 9:39 am
To get the between-level variance of the random intercept of the nominal variable, you need to mention the variance in the between part of the model. If the nominal variable is u with three categories, say
Nidhi Kohli
posted on Thursday, October 06, 2011 - 10:22 am
Just to confirm, are you referring to model with TYPE=TWOLEVEL?
Another question that I have is: will the random intercepts of u#1 and u#2 be treated as continuous variables? If yes, then the regression coefficients at the second -level obtained from regressing u#1 and u#2 on the between-level covariates are the linear regression coefficients? Thanks.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, October 06, 2011 - 1:22 pm
Yes and yes.
Nidhi Kohli
posted on Monday, October 10, 2011 - 8:57 am
Hello Linda,
One last question on this thread. I fitted a Twolevel model where I requested the program to estimate the between-level variance of the random intercept of the nominal variable by using the following command:
alt_dep#1 alt_dep#2 ON md_age md_female md_white img family panel_pts;
The output shows that the residual variances corresponding to alt_dep#1 and alt_dep#2 is non-significant (p-value>=0.05). Based on this information, is it reasonable to assume that a Twolevel model is not required. Alternatively, there is not much variability at the second-level, hence, a single-level model is appropriate for this dataset?
Li Lin
posted on Monday, October 10, 2011 - 12:29 pm
I have a question about two-level model with dichotomous respones. For each observation and each endogenous variable, I'd like the residual (observed-predicted) for further analysis. Are there any output options I can specify to save these residuals?
Thanks for your help.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, October 10, 2011 - 3:23 pm
Nidhi: It would seem so.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, October 10, 2011 - 3:25 pm
Li Lin: No options are available for this. You would need to create the predicted score and the difference score in DEFINE.
Li Lin
posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 6:55 am
Hi Linda
Thanks for your response. I have two more questions.
1. How to create the predicted score in Mplus?
2. I have dichotomous responses in the model. residuals = observed-predicted score? Does multivariate normality assumption hold for the residuals?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 11:52 am
1. Is the dependent variable binary? Are you using WLSMV or MLR?
2. See TECH10 and the technical appendix Standardized and Normalized Residuals.
Li Lin
posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 12:37 pm
Yes the dependent variables are binary. I'm using MLR.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 1:26 pm
You need to use DEFINE to compute a log odds for each person:
logodds = -a + bx
where a is the threshold and b is the regression coefficient.
The probability is equal to
1 / (1 + exp (-logit)
where - logit is a - bx.
If a person has a probability greater than .5, assign a value of 1 as the estimated value. If a person has a probabiity less than or equal to .5, assign a value of 0 as the estimated value. Then take the difference between the observed and estimated values.
Sarah Phillips
posted on Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 10:56 am
I am sorry for this basic question. I have been reading the discussion board and looking at the Topic 5 handout you suggest, but I am confused about how to calculate the overall ICC for my model so that I can calculate the design effect.
Here's what I am doing. Could you help me figure out what to do differently?
1) I estimate what in HLM would be the null model-- just my dependent variable-- using type=basic twolevel and specifying the dependent variable only on the within portion of the model-- i.e.
Type=basic twolevel;
engage by m_a3 m_a31 m_a60 m_a72 m_a74 m_a79 m_a80;
m_a3 with m_a31 m_a60;
m_a31 with m_a60;
In the output, I get ICCs for Y variables. But I am not sure how to combine them to get the total ICC. Do I average the ICCs for the Y variables to get the ICC for the null model? Do I use some other option to get the total residual variance for the within and between? Something else?
Thanks so much for your continued help.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 6:31 pm
I am not familiar with the concept of "overall" or "total" icc. To me, icc is a variable-specific concept.
You can also computed an icc for a latent variable as we describe in Topic 7.
You say that you want to compute a design effect. I wonder why. Design effects are sometimes used to make an approximate correction of SEs of estimates. But there is no need to do that since you can simply use Type=Complex to get the right SEs.
Sarah Phillips
posted on Friday, July 13, 2012 - 6:46 am
Thanks, Dr. Muthen. Understanding that in MPLUS icc is variable-specific helps.
I'm computing the design effect to determine if I need to use multilevel modeling or can ignore the clustering.
Based on your response, I should be computing the design effect for each variable individually?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, July 13, 2012 - 5:04 pm
It is not necessary to compute design effects. You should run the analysis without taking clustering into account and with TYPE=COMPLEX that takes clustering into account. Compare the standard errors. If they are very close, it is not necessary to take clustering into account.
Sarah Phillips
posted on Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 11:57 am
Thanks Dr. Muthen!
posted on Monday, August 20, 2018 - 1:54 pm
I'm working with multilevel data (within = time for variable y, between1 = subject, between2= therapist), and I'm hoping to calculate the ICC to examine the variance related to therapists (i.e., therapist effect). The data is in long form.
Would you be able to confirm that the below code is appropriate to estimate the ICC? Thanks!
USEVARIABLES = y therapist subject;
CLUSTER = therapist subject;
%BETWEEN subject%
%BETWEEN therapist%
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, August 20, 2018 - 2:27 pm
Yes, but see also the FAQ on our website "ICCs for 3-level" using Threelevel Basic:
posted on Monday, August 20, 2018 - 3:37 pm
Hi Dr. Muthen,
Thank you. I read the link you shared and I am a little confused.
Is threelevel basic another way to find the ICCs via the formulas B2/Total and B3/Total? Is the syntax I shared earlier still appropriate?
Thanks in advance
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, August 20, 2018 - 3:46 pm
Yes on both.
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