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September 25, 2009-Wet Day In Phuket
Wet Day In Phuket
Wings' project is going fine even if we have had a lot of rain. (Check back later for photos.)
The primer for the new paint is 50% on (rain delay). Hull looks very fair. Rudder is back, R&R completed to spec. Windvane renewed completely, looking like a work of art; invoice was 50% of my estimate. Sails ordered, very low price and service is great; Sailmaker Ket on the boat today to validate all of my measurements. Engine to be put back together Monday, hydraulics rebuild still in progress but the report is good. Many small projects completed.
We like these projects where a dozen people are working every day while we get to sleep in and then we go down to the boatyard and do a walk around inspection, work for an hour ourselves, then go to lunch. Afternoon: a nap. How come we never thought of this approach for that last 30 years? Jing Loey!
On sunny days we go to the pool for a swim before bfst.
We went to Singapore to see Sherry, Judy's long lost niece, and our trip was great; we had a chance to catch up with Sherry after 30 years. WOW! How time flies. And also had some time with our other friends Marco and Tessa and Tara in SG and put them all together & got Sherry onto a SG mobile phone (GSM, Wot's that?), did some camera shopping (unproductive, but we did break down and buy a new Prolink cellular modem).
The Jurong BIRD PARK was great but not too many photos.
So, all is well.
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, Phuket


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The traditional county town of Argyll, and a classic example of an eighteenth-century planned town, INVERARAY was built in the 1770s by the Duke of Argyll in order to distance his newly rebuilt castle from the hoi polloi in the town and to establish a commercial and legal centre for the region. Inveraray has changed very little since and remains an absolute set piece of Scottish Georgian architecture, with a truly memorable setting, the brilliant white arches of Front Street reflected in the still waters of Loch Fyne.
Squeezed onto a promontory some distance from the duke's new castle, Inveraray's "New Town" has a distinctive Main Street (set at a right angle to Front Street), flanked by whitewashed terraces, whose window casements are picked out in black. At the top of the street, the road divides to circumnavigate the town's Neoclassical church, originally built in two parts: the southern half served the Gaelic-speaking community, while the northern half served those who spoke English.
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Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 – As the OOIDA lawsuit against C.R. England continues to move toward resolution, a court ruling ordered last week adds a new dynamic to the outcome.
The class action lawsuit was first filed in 2002. Some naysayers said it couldn't be done in Utah, but in October 2006 OOIDA and trucker plaintiffs took C.R. England to trial in federal court in the Salt Lake City truckload giant's own backyard and came away with a benchmark truth-in-leasing victory for truckers.
U.S. District Court in Utah ruled that the lease agreement C.R. England used with its owner-operators between the years 1998 through the summer of 2002 violated truth-in-leasing regulations in several respects. The court also held that the motor carrier had improperly managed thousands of truckers' escrow accounts and ruled that it must provide a detailed accounting of what happened to those funds.
In October 2008, Judge Ted Stewart's final order held that individual class members would be entitled to restitution, along with "payment of reasonable interest," if they had positive escrow balances, after consideration of any allowed set-offs.
The judge then referred the case to Magistrate Judge David Nuffer to oversee the disposition of individual class members' escrow claims. The devil must have been in those details, because for C.R. England, paybacks could now be hell. Here's why:
One of the big issues facing Judge David Nuffer was exactly how much that rate of interest should be. OOIDA suggested that Utah's statutory legal interest rate of 10 percent be used. C.R. England argued that the 91-day Treasury bill rate should apply.
The magistrate judge used neither in his final decision. Judge Nuffer cited a paragraph included in a number of the motor carrier's own leases, which uses an 18 percent annual "finance charge" on balances overdue in the event that either party to the lease (the driver and C.R. England) defaulted on any amount due. In other words – what was good for the goose is good for the gander.
C.R. England argued that this whopping rate of interest was too much. Judge Nuffer wrote that "the Defendant should not be permitted to argue that its own form contract is unreasonable when that rate is applied to the Defendant."
But C.R. England took its fervent appeal back to Judge Stewart. On Dec. 16, 2009, Judge Stewart backed up Judge Nuffer, ruling that the 18 percent would stand.
"The practical effect of the ruling is huge," said David A. Cohen of The Cullen Law Firm, OOIDA's litigation counsel. "Owner-operators who leased on to CRE between February 2000 and July 2002 appear to have the default clause in their operating agreement. This is roughly half the class subject to the accounting ordered by the court, if not more."
Class members: Who's who?The court's ruling regarding the appropriate interest rate is not applicable to all class members or all class claims. The class certified by the court, which numbered almost 6,000 persons, included all owner-operators leased to C.R. England from June 1998 through the end of 2005. After trial, the court held that the lease agreement C.R. England implemented in the summer of 2002 (after OOIDA filed suit) was completely compliant with the federal regulations. (OOIDA disputes this ruling, and it is subject to a later appeal).
Leases entered into between 1998 and 2002 were deemed noncompliant by the judge. The court ordered an equitable accounting of all class members' escrow funds for class members who entered these leases. Approximately 1,800 class members have positive escrow balances and are contesting set-offs asserted by C.R. England as part of the accounting process.
Of these 1,800 class members, only those who entered lease agreements containing the default provision noted by the court will be entitled to 18 percent interest on unlawfully retained escrow funds. Cohen said this is around 1,000 class members. Class members who had this clause will be entitled to interest compounded at a rate of 1.5 percent per month after lease termination for unreturned escrow funds.
"A class member owed $1,000 in escrow in 2002 is now owed $3,000, almost triple the original amount," said Cohen.
He said the other 800 class members who did not have the default clause (those leasing on in 1998 and 1999) will be entitled to interest at the 91-day Treasury bill rate.
What's next?The parties are waiting for one additional ruling from Judge Stewart before submitting a plan for the final adjudication of all contested set-offs. This issue concerns how moneys returned to drivers at final settlement should be allocated. C.R. England has argued that all moneys paid to drivers at final settlement should be considered the return of escrow funds.
OOIDA and the class have opposed this position, pointing out that most of the funds returned at final settlement constituted compensation for final trips and reimbursements of lease completion bonuses. This is based on the accounting forms submitted by C.R. England, said Cohen.
Once the court rules on this issue, the parties will be required to submit a joint proposal to the magistrate judge detailing how and when contested set-offs will be adjudicated. Cohen said that Judge Stewart should rule on the motion shortly.
"The award of 18 percent interest per year (1.5 percent per month) to class members should make C.R. England as anxious as OOIDA to move this case forward as expeditiously as possible," said Cohen.
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Does Cloud Really Matter When it Comes to Collaboration?
Recent numbers from Gartner suggest that by 2016, enterprise public cloud services spending will reach $207 billion, up from $109 billion in 2012. Additionally, according to IDG's Unified Communications and Collaboration survey, 90% of organizations plan to invest in new or upgraded unified communications and collaboration technology in the next 12 months.
It's clear that businesses see a lot of opportunity in the cloud and collaboration, but how exactly can it help your business? At Cisco, we see four main ways that organizations can benefit from services that provide collaboration in the cloud, such as those offered with the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution:
You Can Create Unified User Experiences: Cloud-based collaboration solutions deliver a consistent experience across all devices – something important with the increasingly expanding array of devices used for work. This means, that someone using a smartphone from their car will be having the same WebEx meeting experience as the person joining from their desktop computer in a cubicle and the lucky coworker that is dialing in from their tablet at a sunny outdoor café. The application will look and feel the same so there isn't a learning curve to use it on a different device and you can be assured that there won't be any difference in the features and functionalities between users as well.
You Can Optimize Resources: One of the many ways that collaboration delivers value is through operational ROI that allows organizations to avoid unnecessary costs and improve processes, but the resource gains from cloud collaboration go well beyond fiscal benefits. Since the cloud can unify and automate operations across employees and offices, it allows IT and business executives to refocus their energy and investments less on operational issues and more on strategic priorities ultimately leading to business transformation.
You Can Enable IT & Business Agility: True business agility can only be achieved with an agile IT infrastructure. With a hosted solution, your IT team doesn't have to worry about constantly downloading software updates across a slew of different supported devices. Instead, the service is evergreen and is constantly refreshed and run by your service provider, so your employees are always in sync with the latest versions of the most up-to-date apps.
You Can Maintain Control & Management: It is a common misconception that moving to the cloud involves a loss of visibility and control of the applications across an organization. In fact, in many cases a hosted solution can actually offer business greater ability to establish and enforce consistent cloud-based security policies, receive real-time threat intelligence, and enable greater scalability and improved performance.
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Chema Ballarin
Fully agree with the benefits stated Doron. I'd add to those the perfect companion that the cloud is to the emerging BYOD trend. Being able to access the applications anywhere and from any device makes it much easier for users to collaborate. Our Webex collaboration portfolio is indeed a very good example of CLOUD+BYOD enabled solution.


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Who I am:
28 years of age
only 3 years of experience in high school
looking to get back into the game (1 to 5 times a week, any time of the day)
Who I am looking for:
Level is not a concern for me.
I just want someone who loves the game and is willing to put in the time on
a weekly basis.
I live @ fulton and dwight in berkeley, willing to bike to nearby courts!
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Hey Jim,
Would you be interested in playing on Monday Oct 8th around 8:30 or 9:00am?
I think good courts would be:
James Kinney Center or Cedar Rose Park; maybe Strawberry Creek Park.
Hi there
Are you free to play this Thursday evening, around 7 pm at MLK court or San Pablo court?
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I'm not that mysterious. There are constants in my life that serve as a cement foundation to my predictable Sturm und Drang (a fancy German term for "storm and stress" that I love and lifted from writer Keph Senett as she also contemplated her annual autumn Sturm).
This afternoon I sat at the The Starving Artist on Landsdowne Sturm und Dranging with a Labatt 50, because, sometimes, a Labatt 50 is the perfect balm for such epic thinking. And, it seemed to pair nicely with my bacon, chive and cheddar studded waffles. I was reading the latest Zoomer magazine, which, yes, has a masthead that indicates "For 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s PLUS." My mom usually gives me the back issues and I am totally absorbed in the pages (like a tween with the Twilight series) and gladly trade her for my Toronto Life mags. (Disclaimer: I actually stole this copy from Jimmy's Coffee, but surely a hundred drip coffees qualifies this steal?)
As I read about Jeff Bridges and his second career as a musician, and a west coast 60-something couple that picked up and moved to Cairo, I realized the appeal in Zoomer. The articles are entirely about pursuing arrested passions. The sun-soaked ads for turqouise beaches target the about-to-retire, Freedom 55-ers and lucky snowbirds with perma-Bob Barker tans, 4pm happy hours and a schedule that accomodates reserved dreams. The focus is on transition and how everything familiar evolves and resolves. It's comforting and hopeful. It's 24-7 philanthropy. Chicken Soup for the Retired Soul.
I dog-ear the spoils of the lavish Armani Hotel in Dubai where guests are appointed their very own "Lifestyle Manager" for the duration of their stay. I read about weekend jaunts to Vienna for the sole purpose of eating: Andalusian Jabugo ham, mustard-rubbed organic roast beef, veal scallops fried in bread crumbs and warm chocolate souffles. There are endless pages devoted to career reinvention. I want to retire and reinvent! Retired people, Zoomers, do all the things I love most–they travel with itineraries that involve finding the best souffles and riojas. They fly for nearly a day to maybe spot the fabled Double-Watted Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. They move to Cairo and establish shelters for dying women and their soon-to-be orphaned children. But why not do this sooner?
My fulfillment doesn't necessarily come from my paid work as a massage therapist, it sneaks in right here. It is deeply rooted in one of my constants, writing. And, so, tonite, after waffles and waffling, I enrolled in a writing course through a new media school for travellers called Matador U. Because, it's not so much that I want to retire, it's more that I don't want to put my bleeding passions on hold much longer. I don't want to wait another 20 years to do what makes me truly stretch my mind and soul.
I wasn't actively looking for signs to take this course of action. In fact, I was mindlessly sweeping to Buffy Sainte Marie and paused in front of my bookshelf to see if I could get rid of a few titles to make room for my latest. I pulled out How To Live on Nothing, not because it was ready for the discard pile, but because it makes me smile. My mom gave it to me when I was 17 or so. When she thought for sure I was going to live on some commune, plant trees with eccentrics named Ladyslipper and Sparrow and make clothes out of feathers and shells. Really. I leaned the broom against the wall (this is why it takes me an hour to sweep 700-square feet) and randomly opened the book to "How to Vacation on Pennies."
See? A sign. Although we spent a lot of pennies on three weeks rounding Egypt in September, I would do it all over again. But, not in Egypt (see previous post). The How To Live on Nothing author's advice was more in the vein of, you can have an adventure in your own neighbourhood. You can discover pseudo vacation thrills a mere subway ride away. And this is true, which is why I went west of Bathurst (which, as everyone knows, always gives me a nosebleed. What? I can't see the CN Tower. I'm still in Toronto?).
I made a field trip out of The Starving Artist just to try their much-raved about bacon dipped in waffle batter. Perfect time to have an epiphany. Plus, cheaper than the trip to Vienna and that Andalusian Jabugo ham.
I know what I want but am really gifted in avoidance. Of course I want to write travel guides and be sent to Belize to interview a toucan expert on mating rituals. I'd be equally happy to write about the banana chocolate chip muffins at Jimmy's that are nearly Mom-like. I'd jump at the chance to document Peregrine falcons nesting in the "a" of a Wal-mart sign in Ancaster. I want to write more but I only seem to want to start things on Mondays and every Monday passes until it's another year of Mondays missed. I blog and blab and blow my energies on attempted witty Facebook status updates, and when I don't write at length, wow, I am disjointed and disenchanted in every way. Like I said, not very mysterious at all.
I have kept an anonymous quote that was probably an epiphany on another sunnier day. Maybe I came up with it, I can't remember. "Stop thinking about what you think you could do and start doing what you know you can do." My brain server threatens to crash with all the electrical activity I generate when I think of the hope injected in this statement. I am overloaded with possibility and it makes me pant and pace and drink Malbec like I am already celebrating. I write entire books in my head while I massage and run.
But then I re-read another quote I squirreled from somewhere and it sounds tres Oprah-ish. It may have originated from an inspirational poster in some dental office with a serene country landscape backdrop with horses and such–"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." (Lau Tzu). So then, thanks to Tzu, I'm content and rejoicing. And still drinking Malbec. And celebrating how I am lacking nothing.
I am want for nothing. I say this all the time. Somehow I work more and make less every year, so this is a good thing. What I know for sure? I like vacation versus vocation. My work-life balance tips towards life, always.
A few nights ago Kim asked what I would do with $350,000. We were talking about housing prices and how $350,000 basically buys you a crackhouse without a roof or plumbing in Etobicoke or a condo more suitable for a chihuahua than a human. I imediately thought of a share in a winery (Argentinian), owning a bookstore with an extreme blood red espresso machine and a hunky guy named Joel (with an South African accent) doing the latte art, a trip to Bora Bora with very idle days just staring at the water and each other…and maybe a donkey sanctuary with room for retired llamas and Plymouth Rock Barred cockerals.
With Kim's imaginary $350,000, she opted for a LandRover (so she could drop me off at the sanctuary) and would donate the rest to the vet bills of the donkey sanctuary. This is why I love her so immensely.
But really? What are we all working for? What do you want? Why not do it now?
What do I want?
I often wait until decisions are made for me. But sometimes, as rare as the Double-wattled Cassowary, I jump-start my writing bones again. It is Monday. Or it was 42 minutes ago. It's 12:42 and I'm 37 and not a Zoomer, but realizing in this very not-so-profound moment, that I want and need to write more. And when you say things out loud, they get bigger. Or, you say to yourself, "shit, I said that in a blog, now I better put out."
The rest will follow.
It always has.
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Stergate: A dark period in major league baseball history when Roger "the Rocket" Clements appeared before a judicial committee to defend his innoncence in his alleged use of steroids.
I was watching ESPN last night and saw the Rocket get hammered at Stergate, brutal. He was pitching some of his best fast balls.
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The final McCoy Tyner Blue Note album found the innovative pianist during a low point in his career. His records were not selling that well, his mentor John Coltrane had passed away three years earlier, and it was not obvious that Tyner would be able to continue struggling successfully to make a living out of music. Fortunately, his fortunes would soon rise when he signed with Milestone in 1972 and the critics began to rediscover him. Asante is a bit unusual, for the emphasis is on group interplay rather than individual solos. The four originals feature Tyner with altoist Andrew White, guitarist Ted Dunbar, bassistBuster Williams, drummer Billy Hart, Mtume on congas, and two spots for the voice of Songai. Worth investigating.


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That is tough for me to say (what you would be giving up). I never rode the V2 Sector 52 and I barely remember the V1 52. As far as locked in, I think they are pretty close. Nothing like locked in on a race board though. Why not keep your fins and put those on the new 54 as they have 5 fin boxes and are all mini Tuttle?
My first instinct is to say that you wouldn't be giving up anything as the boards have just gotten better and better, but I can't guarantee that.
I too liked the little boosts I could do on the boards...
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March 30, 2010
Tombstoneless Tuesday - Napoleon LeBlanc - Died at age 9
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- Janine said...
No kidding. My GGGrandfather's death certificate, from NH, stated that his birthplace was St. François Xavier, and his birthdate was 1 Dec 1843. I found him in Boucherville (Ste-Famille) 30 Nov 1842.
- March 30, 2010 at 8:22 AM
- Lucie LeBlanc Consentino said...
Hi Janine,
I all depends who gave the information to the medical examiner in this case it may have been the undertaker as my grandfather certainly knew my grandmother's name and her death certificate reads correctly.
- March 30, 2010 at 9:00 AM
- Barbara said...
Poor child, his death came too early. Boy that Merrimack River is wild today, with all our rain (it is a mile from me), and prob. not far from you either. Wonder what the weather was like on that day of his death.
- March 30, 2010 at 10:51 AM
- TCasteel said...
No doubt her son's accidental tragic death affected her greatly - maybe to the cost of her health.
I have seen many errors on death cert's - so you are correct in not always taking them at face value and as your only source.
- March 30, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- Lucie LeBlanc Consentino said...
Hi Barbara,
Ther Merrimack is supposed to flood today - poor people.
I have always believed that it must have been a nice hot July day when my uncle Napoleon drowned in the Merriamck. The family lived on Broadway near Theatre Row and I can't imagine any other reason why he would ave been at the river. In those days, they used to swim up above where the falls are located.
- March 30, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Lucie LeBlanc Consentino said...
My father always said his mother had stepped on a rusty nail and died of blood poisoning. her death certificate does cite blood poisoning.
It was tough in those days. My grandfather had lost three sons with his first wife too.
- March 30, 2010 at 12:09 PM


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Movie review: Deliver Us from Evil trots out well-worn shtick (with video)
Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez star in tired genre exercise
Deliver Us from Evil
Three stars out of five
Starring: Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, Olivia Munn, Joel McHale
Directed by: Scott Derrickson
Running time: 118 minutes
Better pack that crucifix. It may just come in handy, and perhaps help you realize the prayer the title tempts us with.
A rather standard exorcism film from genre veteran Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose), Deliver Us from Evil begins with the ever-ominous words: "Based on a true story."
Apparently, an NYPD detective named Ralph Sarchie saw some pretty weird things while he was working on the streets of the Big Apple.
Now, you might think that would be par for the course that is the five borough freak show. But Sarchie, played in the film by the ever-empathetic Eric Bana, has a radar, see?
And when that radar goes off, Sarchie usually ends up with stitches. This time around, it's even worse: He ends up with Satan, or maybe it's Satan's minions, but forces of evil nonetheless.
Apparently, according to the frock-rocking priest (Edgar Ramirez) who befriends Sarchie, there are two kinds of evil. They are both pretty bad. And one is way worse than the other.
It's sort of like the dialogue in this movie. Most of it feels as stale as the air in the ancient crypt we see in the opening scene — a Middle Eastern cave that pulls three U.S. Marines down its dark hole, and spits them back out as changed men.
When the movie takes us back Stateside, Sarchie and his buddy Butler (Joel McHale) are in their ghost car cruising the mean streets of the Bronx when a domestic call comes in. Sarchie's radar starts twirling and the two detectives find themselves face to face with a crazed soldier with superhuman strength. Soon, there are more calls — and more radar blips on Sarchie's mental screen.
By the time we realize three war veterans are wrapped up in some haunting precipitated by their exposure to the crypt, Derrickson's chances of telling a modern exorcism story have all but evaporated because he doesn't take the plausible road first.
This could have been a highly imaginative twist on post-traumatic stress disorder and the difficulty soldiers have readjusting to everyday life. Instead, Derrickson plays it as straight-up possession by demons, which may carry the film through the portals of genre without effort, but it kills the bigger metaphor of what war does to men.
Men who carry the mental scars of active duty truly are possessed, but the source of evil isn't some third-party parasite hitching a ride on the souls of the living. It's their memory and demagnetized moral compass that are wreaking havoc on the psyche.
As a New York cop, Sarchie understands their pain because he feels it himself. He's also suffering from PTSD, but Derrickson doesn't even use this to his thematic advantage by raising the spectre of doubt — and suggesting everyone exhibiting signs of paranormal occupation is actually experiencing some form of stress-induced psychosis.
Perhaps he thought this wouldn't have been as scary as watching whitened eyeballs and rotting corpses float across the frame at regular intervals, but he was wrong.
Black veins and creepy contact lenses feel like shtick now. Making things even worse is its overall look — a wash of desaturated, muted greens and greys that casts a low-budget pall over the entire movie.
Derrickson does nothing interesting or new, but he does put all the pieces together in a workable fashion, and he does cast Bana in the lead, which makes this tired exercise worthwhile because the Aussie actor sells his character.
Bana even plays the side of the script Derrickson didn't have the finesse, or forethought, to approach. Bana shows us a man fragmenting under the stress of work and seeing the evil man is capable of inflicting on others. This is the darkness from which we need deliverance, and it doesn't need to speak Latin or spew ectoplasm. It's inside every single one of us just waiting to rear its leathery head, and pull us down the dark ladder.


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During this 4th of July 2014 weekend celebrations, take a few minutes to remember our Veterans. In doing so, however, we must also take a few moments to reflect on those in our own families who were in the military. What were their lives like. What experiences did they have; good or, bad?
If possible, find a tape recorder or a pen and paper and ask questions to a Veteran who may be attending your celebrations. Don't be surprised, however, if they are shocked that someone is interested in they military adventures. Imagine a Grandfather or, even a Great Grandfather talking for the first time of their time serving this great Nation of ours. Hopefully, some may even have a few photographs to share.
When dealing with African American Veterans, especially in regards to our Wars prior to 1975, experiences were more negative then positive. Segregation, abuse, hatred were often experienced by Black military personnel during their time in service. Can you imagine serving your country, putting your life on the line, when you yourself did not have the open opportunity to enjoy all the freedoms that your country had to offer? It happened.
One of the wars where African Americans served in segregated units was during the Spanish American War. Ca.1898. Many of the Blacks who volunteered to serve who lived in North Carolina, as in many other states as well, joined to show their community and National officials that they can serve with honor, dedication and commitment. To show African Americans had the right, as of the White population, to have all freedoms that come to a freed man.
Below is an image of a post card given to me by a friend of mine. Annie Fay knows of my work in preserving old all African American endangered cemeteries and finding "Forgotten " military Veterans.
If your Ancestor was a soldier in the 9th Cavalry in 1898 and served at Camp W. Koff, he may be in this photograph card.


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Dec. 15, 2004
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - The National Soccer Coaches Association of America announced its selections for the 2004 NSCAA/adidas Scholar-Athlete All-America Team, the Men's College Team Academic Award, and the All-New England Soccer Team.
Tri-captains Dan Griffith, Walter Song, and Jose Ramon Torradas were selected to the All-New England Team, with Song and Torradas earning First-Team honors while Griffith was named to the Fourth Team. Song and Torradas join Nick Nestle '03 as two-time All-New England picks. Torradas also collected Scholar-Athlete All-America honors, marking the first time MIT has received this award at the national level. In addition, last year's squad was recognized with the Team Academic Award as it boasted the second highest GPA among the 73 teams selected for this honor.


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I didn't think mine was dirty.
I have been actively email marketing for more than a decade. I have been systematically building my lists for that same amount of time. When I email market, I follow all of the rules. I am very familiar with all of the requirements of the 2004 Can Spam Act and the 2014 CASL. My list is a double-opt-in list meaning, every name on the list voluntarily signed up and agreed to be on it a second time before being placed on the list.
I begin every email I send with "Mailing information, including how to remove yourself, is located at the end of this message." I show the name of my list such as "The Social Media Bible" or "The Fusion Marketing Bible", which helps the recipient know what our relationship is based on, my personal email address so they could contact me with any questions, an "Unsubscribe" link, my physical address, and a link to my "Privacy Policy" right there in every email!
In addition, I check my subject line and email content with of many online spam checkers. I employ an automated "bounce" handler, which removes hard bounces and even soft bounces after they soft bounce four times. And, I nearly never "sell" in my content and always provide free content. And still… I kept getting complaints from my ISP (Internet Service Provider) and email service providers about my lists being bad.
So. I went on a quest to find out and learn what "cleaning", "scrubbing", and email list "hygiene" all meant. Did you know that Yahoo! emails are impossible to verify? Did you know about the "Dead People's List?" Did you know about "Disposable Emails?" Did you know about "Spam Trap Emails?" Well, neither did I and I have been email marketing for more than 15 years.
I emailed dead people.
Did you know that there are "dead people lists? Yep. There are lists that are maintained by different services and the United States Postal Service (USPS) that contain physical addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses of dead people. I thought I'd put my brother's information on this list just for fun, but realized it might not be easy to get him back on the "alive" list if there is one.
Here's what the Deceased Lists folks had to say:
Deceased do not contact registration.
"When you register a name with DDNC, the person's name, address, phone number and e-mail address is placed in a special do not contact file. All DMA members are required to eliminate these individuals from their prospecting campaigns. The service is also available to non-members of DMA so that all marketers may take advantage of this service to eliminate names and addresses.
A new, updated file is distributed to our members at least once every three months. Therefore the number of commercial contacts from DMA members should begin to decrease within three months."
Traps and disposable emails.
Also, did you know that there are services that provide spammers "temporary" or "disposable" emails just for spamming? True again! You can get an email, send out a slug of spam messages, and the email disappears immediately after you send your spam message. Sorry… No link to these here.
Also, did you know that there are emails specifically used as "spam traps"? These email addresses are just designed to be used to trap your emails in email spam traps! Why people would sign up for my free information using spam trap emails is beyond me, but they did! All this makes email marketing really difficult. Especially if you are not aware of any of this.
Scrubbing bubbles.
I identified and contacted many different companies that do email scrubbing and decided upon another ESP. I downloaded one of my email lists from my system (DPhP List), in a CSV format (Comma Separated Values), and uploaded it to the system to see what they had to say about it. I was pretty confident that they wouldn't find anything as I have always taken such care in building my email list.
Here's what their initial free report showed for one of my lists:
I was glad that they also provided some definition to the terms in the chart above as I have never heard of them.
The address appears to be deliverable, and not a trap (as far as we know), disposable account, etc.
The address is not deliverable – it doesn't exist, it's suspended, or its mailbox is full.
The address doesn't appear to be a trap (as far as we know), but we can't determine if it's deliverable or not.
"Invalid domain"; either no DNS records, invalid ones, or there isn't a mail server listening.
Known trap, monitoring domain, blackhole, etc. A "blackhole" email is one that ends up in a dead letter bin or has been closed.
Belongs to a disposable email address provider, like mailinator.com. OK… So here is one example.
Further explanation
Typically, we'll reject anything but verified and unknown addresses. we'll accept unknown addresses, because they're probably good, but we just can't tell for certain. Because the "unknown" addresses will contain some bounces, we recommend that you add them to your mailings slowly, in order to keep the overall bounce rate low for each mailing.
Similar to unknown addresses, you should expect at least a few bounces, mostly at Yahoo!, which cannot be verified. The older your data, the more often you will experience this. To keep the bounce rate as low as possible, we recommend you add Yahoo! verified results to your mailings slowly."
What the…! Where did 135 "undeliverables" and 147 "unreachables" come from? And, 12 disposable email address and 2 email traps! In that one list alone! WTF! (Wow! That's Fantastic)! I had nearly 300 bad emails that were causing my accounts to be shut down and my emails not being delivered!
The fee for scrubbing / cleaning my 6 lists was a very reasonable $50. The fee is based on the size of your lists. It is certainly work $50 to have your list cleaned of all these pitfalls. And, it doesn't have to be done each time you send an email blast. Once a year or even every two years is sufficient.
You would think that after all of this, I would be good to go? Not so fast!
With a cleaned email list in hand, I sent my first perfectly clean email blast! I couldn't wait to see the "tracking" report. It would be the first time with absolutely NO hard bounces, traps, or dead people. When the email blast was complete, there were still 366 hard bounces or emails that could not be delivered for a variety of reasons: typo, deliberately given wrong address, company gone, employee or person gone, etc. OMG!
I contacted this provider and asked them "Huh?!" Here's what they had to say about the 366 hard bounces:
We suggest mailing gradually to 'unknown' addresses because we cannot conclusively determine their deliverability. If all of them were included in your mailing, and a high percentage of them were invalid, that would cause a high bounce rate, which could get you flagged as a spammer. As far as Yahoo addresses, Yahoo.com and Yahoo! hosted domains are unique in that our standard method of validation, SMTP, does not work, as the mail server says the email is good every time you ask. We have developed a proprietary technique to validate these addresses.
Since the data sources we reference are not designed for validating Yahoo! addresses, they are not 100% accurate. Specifically the method occasionally misidentifies invalid Yahoo! addresses as verified, but when you mail to them they bounce.
The next step in my cleaning process was to take my 366 hard bounces and also remove them from my list.
Lastly, there is another way email spammers are trying to trick the spam blockers including your own filters! Here's a few spam email addresses I caught with my own name in them:
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- email@example.com
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- email@example.com
- email@example.com
- email@example.com
- email@example.com
- email@example.com
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- firstname.lastname@example.com,
- email@example.com
- email@example.com
- email@example.com
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- firstname.lastname@example.com
Even: firstname.lastname@example.com
Did you know any of this?
So, with a hand-cultivated, double opt-in, personal contact email list of 8,567 emails, nearly 700 of these emails were unknown, undeliverable, illegitimate, or disposable emails. The good news is, that once you have your lists cleaned, they don't usually have to be cleaned again for a while.


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interesting post about the data on ws team with regard selection
surprised you didn't compare results from the Wrexham Open, however.
Hi, I have some excellent metal racking that I am about to get rid of. It is deep though (type used for palletes). I am however in East Anglia... let me know if you are interested... A well done for what you have acheived, truly fantastic.


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Common Symptoms of Pet Cancer
Last Reviewed: September 17, 2012
What are signs and symptoms that my pet may have cancer?
Erika Krick, VMD, DACVIM Veterinary Medical Oncologist, University of Pennsylvania, responds:
Some common signs of cancer in pets include a lump that you can see or feel, wounds that do not heal, and unexplained weight loss, decreased appetite, or loss of energy. More specific signs depend on the specific type of cancer.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series. View the entire transcript from When a Beloved Pet has Cancer.


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Fundraising Tips
So you have registered? Now what?
1. Send an Email! Write an email, from your own inbox, to family and friends inviting them to join your team and donate to your page. At the bottom of this page, there is a sample letter to use. Be sure to insert the URL from your fundraising page by copying and pasting.
2. Sell Sheep! These cute little sheep are not a "baaaaaa"d way to raise money! They can be sold for any dollar amount the donor chooses - and then they can be displayed with the donors name for everyone to see! These work great in restaurants, schools, corporations or any place that has people who are motivated to end homelessness!
3. Feed the Piggies! You can foster a piggy bank from The Lord's Place, and return when it is full. Your donation will go toward your team. Piggy banks are great at local stores, restaurants, schools and even at your own house. Piggy banks are also a great way to teach children about giving back. Foster one today!
4. Put the FUN in FUNdraising! Consider a lemonade stand, a garage sale, a bake sale or a car wash… there are lots of FUN ways to raise money for The Lord's Place. Be sure you let us know what you are doing to raise money – we want to let the world know about your FUN endeavor!
5. Spread the Word! The Lord's Place has rack cards, buttons, bumper stickers and more! Please let us know what you need to spread the word about this great event!
Subject: It's time for SleepOut – please help me end homelessness
Dear Name,
It's that time of year again! The Lord's Place is launching its TENTH annual SleepOut to raise awareness of the issue of homelessness in our community and I will once again camp out under the stars in support of this great cause.
Every day, The Lord's Place makes a difference in the lives of homeless men, women and children. Its mission is to break the cycle of homelessness by providing housing, food, education and support that leads clients to lives of economic independence and self-sufficiency. Last year, The Lord's Place provided supportive housing to 337 individuals, including 51 families. By the end of the year 94% of our clients were no longer homeless. The Lord's Place success is due to an unwavering commitment to its clients and an approach that balances compassion and personal responsibility. The Lord's Place is a leading agency in Palm Beach County dedicated to ending homelessness once and for all.
You can help in one of two ways:
1) You can donate to Add Your Team Name Here by following the link at the bottom of this email.
Simply fill out the donation form and you're done!
2) You can join Add Your Team Name Here by registering to participate in SleepOut and selecting Add Your Team Name Here from the dropdown:
Join me as I pitch a tent and participate in SleepOut on April 7th, and help me leverage your circle of influence by joining the team and helping raise money for this great cause. All of the information regarding the actual event can be found at: https://www.SleepOutTLP.org/
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There are 3 types of broadband Forestdale internet providers. Typically satellite internet providers have been limited in their speeds. Satellite based broadband with speeds from 1-3Mbp has been typical (New technology has increased this to a top speed of triple that). Satellite is now offering blazing fast internet in Forestdale of up to12mbps. The internet providers have evolved to keep up with the bandwidth demands from their Forestdale MA internet customers.
The main advantage of a satellite provider is the access it affords homeowners in areas where DSL or cable broadband is not available. There is a vast area in rural America that depends on satellite for their internet needs. The new technology that is just being offered will enable these rural MA homes to enjoy the speeds previously limited to city dwelling DSL and Cable Broadband subscribers. As technology marches on, who knows, maybe there will be a internet satellite on homes in denser populated areas similar to the satellite TV expansion we have seen in the last 10 years.
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He was America's foremost film critic for many years. It's a long obituary; here's the beginning.
Stanley Kauffmann, Critic, Dies at 97; Spent a Half-Century at the Movies
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: October 9, 2013
Stanley Kauffmann, whose literate, tightly constructed movie reviews appeared in The New Republic for more than a half-century and set a standard for critical ease and erudition, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 97.
His death was announced by Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, who said the cause was pneumonia. Mr. Kauffmann wrote for the magazine until his last months.
Mr. Kauffmann went from being an actor and a stage manager with a Manhattan repertory company to a book editor and a writer of vaguely philosophical novels before becoming a film critic at The New Republic in 1958. His reflective, highly wrought essays appeared weekly for the next 55 years, with a break in 1966, when he was, briefly, the chief theater critic for The New York Times.
He also doubled as the theater critic for The New Republic from 1969 to 1979, but it was as a film critic that his influence was felt, even if it was hard to define, since he belonged to no camp. His abiding interest in theatrical givens like theme, story, dramatic construction and character could make him seem old-fashioned, and set him in direct opposition to the auteur school, with its emphasis on the formal aspects of film. Readers came to him for reviews that read like mini-tutorials, the product of a deeply literary mind and a graceful pen.
Although resolutely high-minded, with a strong bias toward foreign art films, he was not elitist. He championed Jane Fonda early in her career and preferred Britain's lightly satirical Ealing comedies, like "Kind Hearts and Coronets," to the kitchen-sink realism of the British New Wave. He forgave many sins in otherwise negligible films if they had a progressive social message.
"He was a literate, quarterly sort of writer, and to the extent that he had disciples, they wrote in quarterlies," Phillip Lopate, the essayist and editor of "American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now" (2006), said in an interview in 2011. "He had a good influence on film criticism by pushing it away from teenage gaga enthusiasm for the joy ride and toward adult responsibility."..
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When I started dating Tim, I thought he was interesting and creative, but I hated the fact that he smoked, and his apartment was always a mess. Nevertheless, we had fun on our dates and he was really attractive, so I continued to see him and figured I would play it by ear (hey, we've all been there, right?). The truth was I was at this point in my life where I just really wanted a boyfriend. I thought being in a relationship would make me happy, and give me something stable to count on as I was adjusting to living in a new city, having just started graduate school.
Tim was undeniably kind to me at the onset of our relationship, but grew sullen if we didn't see each other for more than a couple days, and resented me for going to parties with my friends. It didn't bother me so much at first, as I was a little lost and Tim was good at giving directions, so we started spending more and more time together; within about a month, he asked if we could be monogamous. Within two months, he was suggesting we move in together. I live in New York, so I considered his offer with an open mind – it would take a lot of nagging on my part, but maybe if he made a few changes — like got a stable job and cleaned his apartment more often and truly committed to quitting his nicotine habit — we could make it work. I hated my roommate at the time, and Tim lived in a hipper part of town. On the surface, it all made sense. So, I told him to give me a couple weeks to tell my roommate and pack up my things, and we could make the leap together. Sure, I was rushing into things, but I enjoyed the semi-recklessness of all if it. And Tim's shoulders. I enjoyed Tim's shoulders a lot.
On Halloween, my friends threw a big party. Tim said he didn't feel like going, and asked me to stay at home with him. I explained that I needed to get out of the house, and I wanted to be social, and that I would only be out for a little bit. He huffed and pouted, as he was fond of doing.
When I got to the party, my friends rushed to my side, and proclaimed how much they had missed me, and asked where I had been for the past few weeks. They wanted to meet his guy I had been spending all of my time with, and were wondering why I had not brought him along for the night.
"Oh he wasn't feeling well…" I lied. "Maybe next time?"
Then I headed straight for the punch bowl. I had a feeling that if I told my friends we were moving in together, they would totally flip.
I received a call not 45 minutes later. Tim was furious that I had "abandoned" him.
"You're so selfish! You just want to do what you want when you want and you never think about other people!" he ranted. "You're such a brat! I bet you're going to spend the entire night talking to other guys! You know what? Maybe we shouldn't move in together!"
I stood out on the corner of the street, simultaneously listening to his barking and the sound of "The Monster Mash" emanating from the party upstairs. I felt a tickle in my throat. I wasn't about to cry — I actually wanted to burst out laughing, his accusations were so ridiculous.
"Relax, please." I said, "I'm sorry I went out, I enjoy Halloween and wanted to party with my friends. I'll come over now and we can talk about it."
The hardest part was telling my friends I was leaving the party.
"But you haven't even been here for an hour!"
"I know," I crossed my arms. "I don't know what got into him."
I rushed back to his apartment and found Tim sitting in the dark in his underwear; dishes piled high in the sink, a cigarette loosely hanging from between his lips. I did not find his shoulders very appealing in that moment.
We proceeded to have one of those stupid, circling fights, where no one wins or feels better afterwards, but just says everything is okay because they're so exhausted. Also, I was still wearing my pirate costume.
"I think we'll both feel better in the morning," I said through a yawn. "Let's go to sleep."
The sex and advice columnist, Dan Savage, has a theory called "The Price of Admission." He says some rides (i.e. partners) are so wonderful, that you must sacrifice or give up something or accept certain unappealing things in order to be with them. I have weighed numerous other prices before — he's allergic to cats, he doesn't make much money, he genuinely likes Michael Bolton — and found all of these charges to be fair and reasonable. But the one sacrifice I am not willing to make in order to be with someone is giving up the things I truly love about myself. I think that is what it comes down to in the end: We all deserve to be with someone who helps us be the best version of ourselves, not someone who makes us feel worse.
The next morning, I woke up furious. Not at Tim, necessarily, but at myself. I didn't know what had gotten into me! Had I wanted a boyfriend so badly that I was willing to sacrifice being social, my friendships, and most importantly, my independence? Who was I? I didn't recognize myself. I did not like this new person, this me with a needy, controlling boyfriend.
I had always prided myself on my ability to make the best out of any situation, but I was in over my head with Tim. Not only were there things about him that I wanted to change – but being with him would also force me to be a version of myself that I wasn't willing to be. I was never the girl who left parties early because her controlling boyfriend called and said she had to. I was the girl who danced all night and woke up the next morning loving every sore muscle. There was not a pair of shoulders in the world worth trading that for.
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Rewrite Episode 6
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Plot : Kazamatsuri, a modern, well-developed city renowned for its burgeoning greenery and rich Japanese culture, is home to Kotarou Tennouji, a high schooler least privy to the place's shared values. Content to fill his pockets with frivolity, the proud and nosey boy whiles away his time pestering the self-proclaimed delinquent Haruhiko, and indulging in his amorous feelings toward the oddball Kotori.
Equipped with the superhuman ability to permanently rewrite any part of his body to multiply his strength or speed, Kotarou is naturally drawn to the supernatural. One special meeting with the lone member and president of the Occult Research Club, the "Witch" Akane Senri, leads to Kotarou reviving the Occult Club by recruiting Kotori and three other members: the clumsy transfer student Chihaya, the strict class representative Lucia, and the unassuming Shizuru. As Kotarou unveils hidden secrets of each member of the Occult Club through their shared adventures, he will inevitably encounter a fate that only he might be able to rewrite.
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Title: Romaji: Rewrite, Japanese: リライト
Studios: 8bit
Producers: Aniplex, Visual Art's, Magic Capsule
Episodes: Unknown
Genre: Drama, Mystery, School, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Broadcast Period: Jul 2, 2016 —
Status: Not yet aired
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FOIA requests hoped to reveal more about the inauguration scandal.
Beyoncé truthers have been working hard to discover what really happened on that fateful Inauguration Day: The Marine Corps said she was lip syncing, only to backtrack about the national anthem backing track, before Beyoncé admitted her transgression in fabulous fashion, but apparently that still wasn't enough. So far, the feds haven't bothered to hand over any sort of followup information. Of another intervening scandal of (overrated) note, President Obama recently joked, "I've got 99 problems and now Jay-Z is one." Well, count Beyoncé as another.
Bloomberg News filed a Freedom of Information Act request looking for emails sent from January 22-23 that had anything to do with Beyoncé's performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner." Today, they published their findings. They got 172 pages of absolutely nothing back. Federal lawyers saw fit to hand over the emails with Beyoncé's name scrubbed from every last one. We'll let the folks at Bloomberg explain what getting "(B)(6)'d" is:
The exemption "prohibits disclosure of personal information when an individual's privacy interest outweighs any public interest," we were told in the letter.
The Department of Justice official FOIA Guide says (B)(6) is designed to safeguard information about individuals "in personnel and medical files and similar files" when the disclosure "would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
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Winner - mrbojanglezs - closest to actual score/spread
Honorable mention- ZAZusmc03 - next closest to score
Bonus points - fmr60 and Mr. Magoo - correct margin of loss
Week 13 Results-
Winner - Mr. Magoo - closest to actual score/spread
Honorable mention- Why so Serious? - next closest to score
Bonus points - Beebe - next closest to score
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Winner - MidnightVoice - closest to actual score/spread
Honorable mention- THRILLHO - next closest to score and closest to Bills points
Bonus points - Thurmal - calling the terrible game by the offense
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Winner - fmr60 - closest to actual score
Honorable mention - OLDSRIP - next closest to score and closest to Bills points
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Honorable mention--better days (27-14-off by 3-Browns correct score)
Bonus points--pinkdogg32(correct margin of victory-10)
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Winner-MitchMurrayDowntown 37-17 (closest to margin 18 pts, closest to actual score)
Honorable mention--Beebe (Spiller stats - 130 yards on 19 carries )
Bonus points--paladin warrior - just for being paladin warrior
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I have a question about how best to setup my dataset to handle the pattern of missing data in the dataset I am using. The data come from a longitudinal follow-up evaluation of an early childhood intervention program. Children ranged in age from prenatal to 15 months at baseline. Family-level data were collected based on enrollment date and reflect varying child ages at each time point. So, while I have longitudinal data (upto 4 observations), these datapoints reflect different periods of children's life across the first three years (for some kids it represents the first 2 years, for others years 3-4). My questions are:
1) Is this considered missing by design? My understanding (from reading the manual) is that in order to account for this, and to distinguish between the missing by design vs. other missing (e.g., survey not administered, item skipped/refused) I include both a MISSING ARE(x) and a PATTERN IS statement in the variable command.
2) If so, then (a) I need to first create child-age specific study variables (e.g., income-age 3 months, income-age 4 months, etc.) and distinguish between those who should have data at that age but don't (e.g., skipped item on survey; -99) and those who are missing because they are not of that age-range (e.g., -88). And, (b) in the PATTERN IS option I need to specify all potential combinations for ages across the four time points (e.g., 1= inc-3, inc-9, inc-18, inc-27)?
3) Once the nature of the missing data is correctly specified in the variable command, is it the case that I would set up a growth curve modeling month-to-month observations (as if for any given child I had observations across the first five years), but in reality any given child contributes a maximum of up to 4 points?
4) Can you recommend some articles/readings on this topic.
Thank you in advance for your response.
posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 9:26 am
I think you want to rearrange your data as shown in Chapter 13. See the section under Missing Data Analysis called Rearrangement of the Multiple Cohort Data. The data are rearranged so that rather than measurement occasion being the time variable, age is the time variable. Any missing data that arise because of this rearrangement is missing by design. Other missing data may not be, and note in Chapter 13 that there is a listwise deletion as part of this procedure. You would use the MISSING, COHORT, TMEASURES, and TNAMES options to do this. Alternatively, you could use program like SAS to rearrange the data.
When you do your growth model, you use the age variables in the analysis. In doing this, you also make the assumption that each age cohort comes from the same population. So, for example, you assume that 3 year olds born in 1999 are the same as three year olds born in 1998.
Following is one paper that used this approach:
Muthén, B. & Muthén, L. (2000). The development of heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems from ages 18 to 37 in a U.S. national sample. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61, 290-300.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (June 25, 2010) - Five highly competitive tournaments, highlighted by a home tournament and a tough Atlantic Sun Conference slate makes up the 2010 ETSU volleyball schedule, head coach Lindsey Devine announced Friday.
"Every season it our main goal to compete for the Atlantic Sun Championship and earn a postseason berth," said coach Devine. "To prepare for this, it was important to schedule teams that will not only challenge us but also give our squad the chance to build confidence in their play."
ETSU opens the 2010 campaign at the Wake Forest Deacon Invitational on Friday, August 27. The event features VCU, Coastal Carolina, Georgia as well as the host Wake Forest and ETSU. The Bucs open the tournament against VCU on Friday before taking on Wake Forest and reigning Big South champion Coastal Carolina on Saturday.
The Bucs will make their home debut on August 31 as they will take on rival Appalachian State at 7 p.m. The Bucs have battled the Mountaineers 54 times over the years equaling the longest rivalry for ETSU.
Three days after their home opener, the Bucs will head to the Radford Tournament that will feature Norfolk State, Canisius, Davidson, and Radford. ETSU will take on Canisius on Friday before battling Davidson and Radford on Saturday.
Just one week later, ETSU returns home as they will host their own tournament, the Buccaneer Classic. The event will feature Austin Peay, UNC Greensboro, UNC Asheville, as well as the Bucs. ETSU and UNCA continue a long standing rivalry as the two schools have battled 40 times over the years with each team winning 20 matches apiece.
"We are very excited to be hosting the Buccaneer Classic preseason tournament Sept 10-11," added Devine. "Last year we had great support from our fans throughout our regular conference season. We know that our fans can make the difference in the outcome of a match and we hope that people from the all over will come and witness the excitement this fall in the newly renovated Brooks Gym."
One week later the Bucs will travel to Statesboro, Georgia to take part in the Georgia Southern "Bash in the Boro" Tournament. The two day tournament will match ETSU against Charleston Southern, South Alabama, Georgia Southern and Winthrop.
ETSU will take a quick break from tournament competition as they will travel to UT Chattanooga on September 22 before heading to the North Carolina Central Tournament on September 24 for the final regular season tournament. The Bucs will take on N.C. Central and Maryland Eastern Shore on Friday before battling Hampton and South Carolina State on Saturday. The Bucs will take on N.C. Central and Maryland Eastern Shore for the first time.
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"In the spring, we discussed to the team about the move to a single round robin for conference play in 2010," said Devine. "It is very clear in our returning senior player's minds the importance each win is for our program this year."
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Well-Rested Bulldogs Seek to Capitalize on Week Off
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—After enjoying a break from competition last weekend, the Yale men's track and field team will return to action on Friday and Saturday when it hosts the annual Giegengack Invitational, named in honor of legendary Yale track and field coach Bob Giegengack. The friendly unscored meet always brings a wide range of both in-state and northeast schools to Yale's Coxe Cage, and this year's field includes teams from schools such as Colgate, La Salle, SCSU, St. Joseph's, Stony Brook and UMass Amherst.
The Elis are coming off an impressive performance two weeks ago at the Terrier Invitational in Boston, where senior James Shirvell (4:00.54) broke Yale's all-time mile run record and freshman Marc-Andre Alexandre (47.45) fell just two-hundredths of a second shy of tying Yale's all-time record in the 400-meter dash. Despite having last weekend off, the Bulldogs will strive to use some of this momentum to their advantage when they take to the track this weekend.
Competition will begin on Friday evening with the completion of the high jump; long jump; weight throw; 200-meter dash; 5,000-meter run and distance medley relay.
Senior Dana Lindberg will represent the Elis in the long jump—his signature event. Lindberg last competed in the event at the Columbia-Dartmouth-Yale tri-meet on Jan. 18, placing first overall.
Meanwhile, Alexandre, Lindberg, senior Daniel Jones and senior Nnamdi Udeh have been the team's stars in the 200-meter dash up to this point in the season, and all four will be competing in the event on Friday. Alexandre and Lindberg have both already recorded fast enough times to qualify for the IC4A Championships in March, and Jones and Udeh will be hoping to run qualifying times on Friday. Juniors Dylan Hurley and William Rowe, along with several other runners, will also be entered in the event.
The Bulldogs competed in the 5,000-meter run, though, for the first time at the Terrier Invitational, and sophomore Alex Conner, junior Isa Qasim and sophomore Duncan Tomlin finished with nearly identical times in 11th, 12th and 13th place, respectively. Tomlin will run the 5,000-meters again on Friday but will be joined by two different athletes: junior Alec Borsook and freshman Dan Grosvenor.
Most events, however, will be held on Saturday, beginning with the shot put at 10:00 a.m.
One of Saturday's many events will be the 60-meter dash. Alexandre, Jones and Lindberg have been the team's best 60-meter sprinters this season, and the trio account for the Elis' 16 fastest times in the event this season. More remarkably, despite his freshman status, Alexandre has registered the Bulldogs' six fastest 60-meter times this season—all seven seconds or faster—and has already qualified for the IC4As in the event.
With his nearly record-setting performance in the 400-meter dash at the Terrier Invitational, though, Alexandre ensured that he would be a runner to watch not only in the short sprints, but in the long sprints as well. Apart from Alexandre, Hurley and junior Mario Kranjac have put together this season's top times in the 400-meter dash, and both runners will join Alexandre in the event on Saturday. Rowe will be the Elis' sole representative in the 500-meter dash. And if past meets are any indication, the Elis' top 4x400-meter relay squad will likely consist of Alexandre, Hurley, Rowe and either Jones or Lindberg—perhaps depending on who is more rested following his other events.
Junior Daniel Kemp, freshman Austin Loewen and freshman Torren Peebles, meanwhile, have represented the Elis in the 60-meter hurdles all season long, and the order in which the three have finished has changed meet-to-meet.
In the middle distance events, junior Michael Grace, sophomore John Mahoney and junior Alexander McDonald are the big names to watch. Grace has especially excelled in both the 800-meter and 1,000-meter races this season.
Shirvell—the Bulldogs' ace in the 800-meter and mile runs—will not be present at Coxe Cage this weekend, as he will travel back to Boston to compete individually at Boston University's Valentine Invitational on Saturday. After setting Yale's mile run record two weeks ago, he is now hoping to secure a fast enough time to earn a spot at the Division I NCAA Indoor Championships in March.
The Elis' will also enter a deep and talented squad in the 3,000-meter run. Dooney currently holds the team's best 3,000-meter time of the season by far (8:21.94). On Saturday, he will be running alongside several fellow distance runners, including Conner, Qasim, senior Michael Cunetta, junior Tom Harrison, senior Ryan Laemel and freshman James Randon, along with a few others.
Finally, in Saturday's field events, pole vaulter Brendan Sullivan will seek to continue his brilliant sophomore season. Sullivan's personal record coming into this season was 15'05" (4.70m), and he has topped that mark at all five meets in which he has competed this season. His current personal record stands at 16'4.75" (5.00m), and he is now only six inches away from tying Yale's all-time school record in the event.
Senior John Oppenheimer and freshman Luke Persichetti, meanwhile, will lead the team in the shot put. Oppenheimer—varsity football's starting center for each of the past three years—started competing in the throw events this season and has track and field experience from his high school days. Persichetti, for his part, holds the team's top shot put mark of the season: 43'5.75" (13.25m).
Friday night's action will conclude around 8:20 p.m., while the entire meet will finish up by 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. A full schedule of events for both days is available here. Results will be posted on www.yalebulldogs.com at the end of competition on both Friday and Saturday.
Report by Zach Schloss '15, Yale Sports Publicity
This meet is named in honor of legendary Yale track and field coach Bob Giegengack. In his 29 years at Yale, the USA Track and Field Hall of Famer led the Elis to 183 victories, four IC4A titles and 13 outdoor and four indoor Heptagonal championships. Teacher, coach, philosopher, tireless storyteller and international leader in track and field, Giegengack spent more than 40 fruitful, exciting years in a career he loved. Helping talented young people to excel—both in their sport and in their studies—met his highest ideals. He trained his athletes, encouraged them and taught them strategies for success, always with the goal of mens sana in corpore sano—"a healthy mind in a healthy body." He demanded the best effort possible from each athlete, not just for the sake of individual achievement, but also for the good of the team. Beginning with his high school students at Brooklyn Prep, then at Fordham and Yale, and even as an Olympic coach in Melbourne (1956) and Tokyo (1964), "Gieg" worked to fulfill his personal ideals as a teacher, mentor and competitor. After his retirement in 1976, he coached Yale's first women's track and field team. The Giegengack legacy of talent, devotion and high ideals lives on at Yale today.


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