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Nice collection. Check Ebay for some idea of value. Sell on Ebay. Honeywell people might scoop them up.
Any takers here.
I'm headed to Nashville tomorrow to trade a guitar amp so I'm gonna head by the Antique Archeology place and see what they say or maybe if they can appraise them. I just don't go into Nashville that often so I figure why not. Thanks for the replies.
I'm not sure how much the round Honeywell ones would be worth. I replace those maybe two to four times a month.
Originally Posted by jtrammel
The one above the one wrapped in newspaper looks like a Barbar Coleman stat that a bunch of the churches I work on use for chilled/boil water systems they are for operating proportional valves. Do they have 3 wires (red, blue, and yellow)? If so they are very expensive controllers and still in use today. TP8101 is the single action one, I think the dual one like in your pic is a TP8102
See if you can find a model # on those ones.
Originally Posted by jtrammel
See if you can find a model # on those ones.
The box the one above the one wrapped on newspaper says TA-151-0-3 The manual with it appears to be at least from the 50-60s but can't find a for sure date.
I think I have 3 barber Colman ones that same size, including the newspaper wrapped one.
Few good ones,, but in Ny (real Buildings 20 fl and Up) buildings Every Basement will Have Box similar,,
except for a few, I honestly would like one and use it as a case For a rasberry Pie,, Audrino.
The ones with clocks im sure a interior desighner would like,,, customer might be /retro
Would anyone on here be interested in buying the lot of these? If so PM me with an offer and we'll go from there, I'd prefer not to deal with ebay.
I did go to the American Pickers store but never went inside because I met Mike out in a little side street about to get on his motorcycle and talked to him for a second and it wasn't anything he was looking to buy. All the stuff in that store were big sort of restored signs and stuff.
I'd be interested in discussing what you have -- you can email me at Email Address Removed
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I know this is a year old thread, but I'm trying to understand how my T861a thermostat is supposed to work. I see you had one mounted on the wall and I thought I saw the box for it in your pictures...I'd much appreciate if you have some time and have the instructions around that you could photo for me please.
Originally Posted by quixotic
So I bought a house from a guy who was a bit of a hoarder. The house was built in the 60s and he was the only owner and when I was going through the attic, I kept noticing boxes of old antique thermostats. At the time, I didn't think anything of it. I just went through the boxes again, and it appears they are very old and possibly worth a lot of money. I haven't counted for sure but it seems that they are around 30 or 40 total.
Almost all of them appear to be Honeywell. They seem to range in various ages but nothing close to being modern. There are some round, some rectangle, vertical reading, horizontal reading, cast iron, plastic, some with clocks, some in the original boxes with original paperwork, etc. I will try to get some pictures of them more in depth tomorrow. Most of them seem to have been kept very well and a lot of them are wrapped in cloths to preserve them.
I might be looking to sell them on here but I honestly am really just looking for more info about them and their age. I will try to edit this post sometime tomorrow with in-depth pictures and serial numbers and whatever else I can find. In the little research I have done, this collection seems to be very extensive compared to what I've seen. Any info or sites with guides would be greatly appreciated because I am not an HVAC guy and know nothing about it. Thank you.
Do you still have the old thermostat collection? Please email with more details. I have seen the pictures and would like to talk with you. Thanks again,racing4us
You have lots of company on eBay - search for "antique honeywell thermostats"
The Art Deco one you have - big round clock face with thermometer on top is most awesome.
Good Luck
What is sad is I have installed most of those, they cant be antiques
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- Evidence for an exotic S=-2, Q=-2 baryon resonance in proton-proton collisions at the CERN SPS (2004)
- Results of resonance searches in the Xi - pi -, Xi - pi +, Xi -bar+ pi -, and Xi -bar+ pi + invariant mass spectra in proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s]=17.2 GeV are presented. Evidence is shown for the existence of a narrow Xi - pi - baryon resonance with mass of 1.862±0.002 GeV/c2 and width below the detector resolution of about 0.018 GeV/c2. The significance is estimated to be above 4.2 sigma . This state is a candidate for the hypothetical exotic Xi --3/2 baryon with S=-2, I=3 / 2, and a quark content of (dsdsu-bar). At the same mass, a peak is observed in the Xi - pi + spectrum which is a candidate for the Xi 03/2 member of this isospin quartet with a quark content of (dsusd-bar). The corresponding antibaryon spectra also show enhancements at the same invariant mass.
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- The main results obtained within the energy scan program at the CERN SPS are presented. The anomalies in energy dependence of hadron production indicate that the onset of deconfinement phase transition is located at about 30 A GeV. For the first time we seem to have clear evidence for the existence of a deconfined state of matter in nature. PACS numbers: 24.85.+p
- Chemical equilibrium study in nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies (2004)
- We present a detailed study of chemical freeze-out in nucleus-nucleus collisions at beam energies of 11.6, 30, 40, 80 and 158A GeV. By analyzing hadronic multiplicities within the statistical hadronization approach, we have studied the strangeness production as a function of centre of mass energy and of the parameters of the source. We have tested and compared different versions of the statistical model, with special emphasis on possible explanations of the observed strangeness hadronic phase space under-saturation. We show that, in this energy range, the use of hadron yields at midrapidity instead of in full phase space artificially enhances strangeness production and could lead to incorrect conclusions as far as the occurrence of full chemical equilibrium is concerned. In addition to the basic model with an extra strange quark non-equilibrium parameter, we have tested three more schemes: a two-component model superimposing hadrons coming out of single nucleon-nucleon interactions to those emerging from large fireballs at equilibrium, a model with local strangeness neutrality and a model with strange and light quark non-equilibrium parameters. The behaviour of the source parameters as a function of colliding system and collision energy is studied. The description of strangeness production entails a non-monotonic energy dependence of strangeness saturation parameter gamma_S with a maximum around 30A GeV. We also present predictions of the production rates of still unmeasured hadrons including the newly discovered Theta^+(1540) pentaquark baryon.
- Fluctuations of strangeness and deconfinement phase transition in nucleus-nucleus collisions (2004)
- We suggest that the fluctuations of strange hadron multiplicity could be sensitive to the equation of state and microscopic structure of strongly interacting matter created at the early stage of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. They may serve as an important tool in the study of the deconfinement phase transition. We predict, within the statistical model of the early stage, that the ratio of properly filtered fluctuations of strange to non-strange hadron multiplicities should have a non-monotonic energy dependence with a minimum in the mixed phase region.
- Fluctuations and deconfinement phase transition in nucleus-nucleus collisions (2004)
- We propose a method to experimentally study the equation of state of strongly interacting matter created at the early stage of nucleus--nucleus collisions. The method exploits the relation between relative entropy and energy fluctuations and equation of state. As a measurable quantity, the ratio of properly filtered multiplicity to energy fluctuations is proposed. Within a statistical approach to the early stage of nucleus-nucleus collisions, the fluctuation ratio manifests a non--monotonic collision energy dependence with a maximum in the domain where the onset of deconfinement occurs.
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- Fluctuations of charged particle number are studied in the canonical ensemble. In the infinite volume limit the fluctuations in the canonical ensemble are different from the fluctuations in the grand canonical one. Thus, the well-known equivalence of both ensembles for the average quantities does not extend for the fluctuations. In view of a possible relevance of the results for the analysis of fluctuations in nuclear collisions at high energies, a role of the limited kinematical acceptance is studied.
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- The most recent data of NA49 on hadron production in nuclear collisions at CERN SPS energies are presented. Anomalies in the energy dependence of pion and kaon production in central Pb+Pb collisions are observed. They suggest that the onset of deconfinement is located at about 30 AGeV. Large multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations are measured for collisions of intermediate mass systems at 158 AGeV. The need for a new experimental programme at the CERN SPS is underlined.
- Energy and centrality dependence of deuteron and proton production in Pb+Pb collisions at relativistic energies (2004)
- The transverse mass mt distributions for deuterons and protons are measured in Pb+Pb reactions near midrapidity and in the range 0<mt–m<1.0 (1.5) GeV/c2 for minimum bias collisions at 158A GeV and for central collisions at 40 and 80 A GeV beam energies. The rapidity density dn/dy, inverse slope parameter T and mean transverse mass <mt> derived from mt distributions as well as the coalescence parameter B2 are studied as a function of the incident energy and the collision centrality. The deuteron mt spectra are significantly harder than those of protons, especially in central collisions. The coalescence factor B2 shows three systematic trends. First, it decreases strongly with increasing centrality reflecting an enlargement of the deuteron coalescence volume in central Pb+Pb collisions. Second, it increases with mt. Finally, B2 shows an increase with decreasing incident beam energy even within the SPS energy range. The results are discussed and compared to the predictions of models that include the collective expansion of the source created in Pb+Pb collisions.
- Study on chemical equilibrium in nucleus-nucleus collisions at relativistic energies (2004)
- We present a detailed study of chemical freeze-out in nucleus-nucleus collisions at beam energies of 11.6, 30, 40, 80 and 158A GeV. By analyzing hadronic multiplicities within the statistical hadronization approach, we have studied the chemical equilibration of the system as a function of center of mass energy and of the parameters of the source. Additionally, we have tested and compared different versions of the statistical model, with special emphasis on possible explanations of the observed strangeness hadronic phase space under-saturation.


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Thanks for this, Scott. I am praying for you in a special way today, as you start your new job. I'm sorry for being a major pain in your gluteus maximus. I don't know why I start arguments with you on facebook, except I have noticed (in myself) that I only ever argue with people I respect. I think that my respect for you isn't always evident. I don't comment every time I agree with you or even every time you teach me something new. But these agreements and moments of learning form the context out of which I make any of my comments. Please know that you are a tremendous witness to me, and I am grateful to be honored by your friendship.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. I am excited. As you know by now, I find argument invigorating and educational. I do know what works in my experience, which is limited to people in my parish, but over many years. It takes some effort to draw people out at times, but it is worth it. As with any teacher sometimes you have to ask questions, provocative ones. Like saying, "Well if nobody has any sort of reaction to what they read, was it even worth the effort of reading it and worth it to be here discussing it?"ReplyDelete
Sometimes it is simply telling what it is about what we are discussing that moves me.
I certainly do not expect everyone to agree with me. That would be boring, very boring. Sometimes I am just plain wrong. You are not a pain and I know that you have a lot of experience as a catechist, which I honor and respect. I believe our experiences are very different. Of course, the one who teaches must communicate something of himself, which to me means that I have to teach in a way that consonant with who I am and not soembody else. This is true for others, too.
I value your friendship and companionship very much. I am grateful for you.
One time in SoC, I threw my book backward over my shoulder and said, "So none of us thinks this is useful or possible? [the discussion was all about how it's too hard to love as Fr Giussani describes] Lets all go home!" THEN we had a fruitful discussion!ReplyDelete
Exactly! I've been tempted. It is so hard to cut through the chaff, through all the abstractions. It is not a question of can we, but a question of how, which means we need a method. A method implies effort, which implies the possibility of failure, which means taking a risk. In this case nothing ventured, everything lost because the method accounts for failure and sees it as essential experience. So, in the end, you really don't risk anything.ReplyDelete
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Their names are tucked into the Minnesota Department of Health database that catalogues the state's suicides, with no hint of their common bond.
There is the 17-year-old girl from Kerrick who shot herself on the railroad tracks in Pine County. The 38-year-old man who made his living selling rides on a World War II-era tank until he killed himself in Inver Grove Heights. The 19-year-old born in Thailand who shot himself in Minneapolis.
Some were mechanics, some were students, some worked construction. All were soldiers in the Minnesota National Guard.
Their deaths have helped give the state Guard an unwanted distinction: It's second in the nation in the number of suicides that occur in its ranks.
Since 2007, 18 members of the state National Guard have killed themselves. Only Oregon, with 20, has had more. The Minnesota cases have been part of a worrisome trend of more suicides in the military, one which saw more service members kill themselves last year than died in combat.
"It's always a horrible tragedy to see a service member safely off of the battlefield only to lose them to this scourge,'' said Maj. Gen. Rick Nash, adjutant general of the Minnesota Guard.
When members of the Army Reserve are included, Minnesota still has the second-worst suicide total in the country, with 27 deaths since 2005, trailing only Texas at 30.
Most of the suicides in the Minnesota Guard, which has the eighth-largest state contingent in the nation, have been soldiers who never deployed to a war zone. In fact, Minnesota leads the nation in suicides among Guard members not on active duty. Some of them had not yet even attended basic training.
There is no easy explanation for the toll. Over the last decade, though, the demands on Guard members have profoundly changed. Once a force typically called on only for occasional stints of disaster relief work, the Guard is now commonly summoned for long deployments to combat zones. No one is drawing a direct link between that new stress and the increase in suicides, but the rising suicides among Guard and Reserve forces drove the military's overall total to a national record last year.
Guard commanders say they know that they have a serious problem.
"We can, must, and will do better," Nash said. "We have an obligation to save future lives."
What's uncertain is whether the Guard has adequate solutions.
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Army leaders say the geographic isolation of many Guard and Reserve members when they are not on duty contributes to the problem.
David Staab, a sergeant in the Minnesota Guard who served a year in Iraq, came home to rural Dawson, for example, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism. Told he was going back for another tour, he sought help at a VA facility in St. Cloud, 2 1/2 hours from his home.
After a bout of drinking, he shot himself in the chest in August 2008 in the small house where he lived behind his parents' home.
His mother, Cindy Staab, said he had been struggling with depression, anxiety and some family problems. "It was a combination of personal life and military," she said.
Counseling programs for returning Guard and Reserve units vary from state to state. Minnesota is considered a pioneer with its "Beyond the Yellow Ribbon" program, which helps families and soldiers adjust to life after a deployment. It requires soldiers and their family members to attend programs on such issues as communication and finances.
Other states, such as California, are more often cited for the quality of their suicide-prevention work with Guard members and reservists. It has embedded mental health counselors down to the unit level on drill weekends and during two-week training periods.
New Jersey has a program that provides Guard members and reservists with access to mental health services similar to those available to full-time soldiers on military bases through a program called Vets4Warriors. It was started through the advocacy of an East Brunswick, N.J., mother whose son committed suicide.
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who has been pushing to expand the program nationwide, saying it has helped save lives and aided thousands of military families. Federal legislation is being considered to require the Pentagon to provide similar resources to all inactive Guard and Reserve members.
Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army's vice chief of staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee last year that close tabs can be kept on any active-duty soldier returning from service. But for a Guard or Reserve member, "within five to seven days, he's back in his community, on his own."
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Awkward homecomings
Greg Roberts, a former staff sergeant in the Minnesota Guard now studying to become a chiropractor, can attest to the pressure that returning Guard members face and their difficulties adjusting to civilian life. He returned to Bemidji from Iraq in June 2007 along with other members of his unit after an extended deployment.
Everyone from the unit had trouble trying to pick up where they left off, Roberts said. While they would occasionally bump into each other, most wanted to go their own way.
Fellow Guardsman Jesse Davis lived next door to Roberts. In late summer of 2009, Davis, who was 27 and had been deployed to Iraq twice, began drinking more heavily than usual. He started school, then quit, started a job, then gave notice and moved in with his brother.
In September, Davis shot himself in the face inside the home.
"Looking back ... every one of us had a little piece of the puzzle, but we had all scattered and gone our separate ways,'' Roberts said.
No one could point to a single event in Iraq that traumatized Davis. But it was clear that he came back from the war more withdrawn and isolated.
"For him, it was a failure to adapt to regular life,'' Roberts said. "I don't think he felt like he had a place, like he fit in with anything."
Roberts, who has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, said Guard and Reserve units are especially vulnerable to stress after a deployment.
To ease the transition, it may even be wise, Roberts said, to require Guard and Reserve soldiers to show up at the local armory every day for a few hours in the months after they return.
"You are stuck in this lifestyle of doing the Army thing, and then all of a sudden you're back home and you are expected to know how to be a civilian again,'' he said. "You can't act the same way in civilian life that you can in your uniform. People look weird, they are doing their own thing, there's no cohesiveness. Things don't make as much sense and it takes a long time to get back into that."
Roberts used to wear two bands on his right wrist -- one carrying the name of Greg Riewer, a friend killed in a bomb blast in Iraq, and one for Davis.
He recently decided not to wear them every day. Too many questions from too many people.
"It's time to move on," he said.
But they were back on his wrist for Memorial Day.
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'Why do we kill ourselves?'
Minnesota Guard leaders don't dispute the high numbers of suicides in the state, but they say the tally cannot necessarily be viewed as a spike because the Army only began keeping track of Guard statistics in 2006.
Even as prevention and monitoring programs have been instituted throughout the military, the part-time nature of Guard service has made it difficult to identify at-risk soldiers in its ranks, said Lt. Col. John Morris, head chaplain of the Minnesota Guard, who oversees many of its outreach efforts.
Every soldier is now provided a card as part of the Army's "ACE'' suicide prevention program. It encourages fellow soldiers or family members to "ask," "care" or "escort" an at-risk soldier to get help.
"We're a part-time force doing a full-time job. We're displaced throughout the state, we only see these soldiers once a month," Morris said. "Because of the demands of the war, they look to us for full-time support but we're staffed at part-time levels. It's a big challenge."
He said the high suicide numbers in the Minnesota Guard need to be viewed in context -- the state has higher rates of suicide as a whole, particularly in northern Minnesota.
The part of the population most likely to join the Guard -- young white males -- also has a higher rate of suicide in general.
"We kill ourselves at a high rate in this state. Why do we kill ourselves so much in Minnesota? Why do we abuse alcohol at such a high rate? Why do we lead the nation in depression? We've got some things going [on] here that are systemic, and we reflect that in the Guard," Morris said.
A review of the Guard suicides in Minnesota shows the problem evident across the state, with deaths occurring in the metro area and in rural towns. Only two took place in the same city -- tiny Pierz, in Morrison County, although they happened two years apart and apparently were unrelated.
The soldiers involved ranged in age from 17 to 39. The average age was just under 27. All but one was white, all but two were men. The worst year was 2009, with eight suicides. As is often the case with military suicides, gunshot was the most common method.
At least 10 Minnesota Guard members shot themselves. At least three died by hanging. At least five of the deaths have been connected to alcohol intoxication.
For some, their deaths came despite the Guard's help.
Lukas Koskie, 23, a Spring Lake Park resident who killed himself in January 2010, had struggled with personal and relationship problems from which the Guard provided a refuge. He joined at 19, enjoyed the military and was looking forward to his infantry unit's first deployment.
His mother, Peggy Koskie, said the Guard counseled him on his problems, a fact that she was unaware of until after Lukas' death.
"The National Guard turned his life around,'' she remembered.
"Somebody from the Guard came up to me and said, 'I've been counseling Lukas and I said, 'Eh?' I knew nothing about that," she added.
With its new focus on suicide prevention, the Minnesota Guard is classifying more soldiers as at-risk. In 2010, it identified 31 soldiers as having suicidal ideas or having made an attempt and been placed on a 72-hour psychiatric hold. That was up from 16 the year before.
In 2009, eight Minnesota Guard soldiers killed themselves. Last year, the number was five.
Through the end of February, two Guard soldiers had killed themselves while 11 others were identified as having suicidal thoughts or made attempts.
"You see that they're coming forward for the first time," said Command Sgt. Major Edward Mills, the Guard's top enlisted soldier. "They feel like they can come to us, and we are not going to hold it against them."
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In the New York Daily News, charter school Biology teacher, Emmanuel George, makes the case for teacher pension reform.
The good news is that charter schools like Democracy Prep have shown there is a better retirement solution - one that's better for students, for the system and most of all for teachers. It's called a 403(b) defined contribution plan, the public-sector equivalent of a 401(k). Under these plans, public charter school teachers like me get paid more, have greater control over our retirement, and have the same flexibility afforded other professionals like lawyers or architects.
With a pension, most teachers are forced to contribute a set percentage of their base salary, and the district is typically forced to contribute an additional percentage. With a 403(b), I choose how much to contribute to the fund over time, and my school matches my pre-tax contributions. Because my school doesn't have to make onerous pension contributions, I take home at least 20% more pay than I would in the Department of Education in base salary and performance bonuses. That means every year I have an additional $15,000 I can invest as conservatively or aggressively as I like.
That model better suits the increasingly mobile lifestyle of today's teachers. If an emergency or a job offer compels a move out of state, my investments and the interest move with me. At Democracy Prep, after just five years, 100% of my school's contributions are mine to take with me as well.
With pension plans, teachers often must work decades in order to be eligible to receive the maximum retirement benefits; that effectively hurts younger teachers who may choose to spend less time in a given school system, or in the profession. Most importantly, charter schools like Democracy Prep invest the money they save on pension costs and fees directly into teachers and into the classroom.
People argue that my 403(b) is riskier than a pension fund, because it's in the market. But pension funds were exposed to the same derivatives that contributed to the financial collapse. The difference is, I choose how much risk to expose myself to; with pensions, everybody - including the taxpayers - is on the hook for bad investments.
Read the whole thing. This piece makes similar arguments as Reason's recent California pension reform study by Adam Summers: How to Fix California's Public Pension Crisis.
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An oldie, but still useful from time to time.
Ever wonder which Jar or directory contains a class you're using in your JEE Web Application? Or which of multiple provider Jar files is the one being used? Or even whether or not a particular class is found at all?
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The robots are here, and they're winning your dogs' affections. Well, at least this one is. One dog owner, distraught over leaving his pup home alone every day, built a robot to keep him entertained.
Jordan Correa is a developer in the Microsoft Robotics Group, which unfortunately means he has to leave his dog Darwin home alone. So Correa did what any self-respecting roboticist would do: built his dog a robotic playmate. DarwinBot isn't autonomous, but Correa can control the robot using (what else?) an Xbox controller, and interact with Darwin via Skype. DarwinBot even allows Correa to remotely play ball and distribute treats.
In the video above, Correa describes the bot, and towards the end we get to see DarwinBot play with its namesake. It's a cool idea, but knowing my luck with the Xbox controller, I'd throw a plasma grenade when I meant to throw the tennis ball.
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Tipping Off The Big East Countdown: #10 South FloridaPosted by Dan Lyons on October 22nd, 2012
After starting the year at #14 in Big East preseason coaches poll, the USF Bulls went an astounding 12-6 in conference last year and earned a berth in the 2012 NCAA Tournament, the school's first in 20 years. The Bulls went on to defeat Cal in one of the First Four games and Temple in the Round of 64 before losing to the upstart Ohio Bobcats in the next round, but overall, last season was a year of almost unprecedented success for Bulls basketball. The school loses a few key players this year, but they're getting much more respect this preseason with a #8 spot in the 2012-13 preseason coaches poll.
2011-12 Record: 22-14, 12-6
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The Bulls should be able to compile a number of wins before entering Big East play as their non-conference schedule is not the most daunting. USF opens with rival and future Big East foe UCF at home on November 10, before returning the favor with a road game in Orlando right before conference play opens in a rare non-conference home-and-home series. USF also takes on Georgia and George Mason at home and Oklahoma State on the road. In conference play, USF has home-and-home series with Villanova, Louisville, Marquette, and Connecticut.
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USF brings in a lot of new yet experienced faces to plug in some holes this season. Senior forward Kore White should see immediate playing time in the frontcourt. The 6'8″, 241 lb. White transfers in from Florida Atlantic where he averaged 7.7 points and 4.5 rebounds in just over 23 minutes per game last season. Guard Martino Brock is also eligible to play after sitting out a year following his transfer from South Alabama, where he scored 14.2 points per game two seasons ago. Sophomore Musa Abdul-Aleem comes in from Georgia Perimeter College as a junior college transfer. Both Brock and Abdul-Aleem are big (6'5″) and physical guards, which should allow them to fit in well in the rugged Big East conference. Both are expected to see a lot of playing time due to their defensive contributions.


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Wonder how to work catwalk cool into your own closet? Here's how to translate the trends for real life.
No doubt, there's something alluring about catching a glimpse of skin via a woman's peekaboo or cutout clothing – a shoulder, a back, a bit of décolletage.
And the look was all over spring 2013 runways: at BCBG, Diane von Furstenburg, Victoria Beckham, Reem Acra, Roberto Cavalli, Roland Mouret, Versace, Saint Laurent, Carven, Gucci, Alexander Wang, Jason Wu … Yeah, pretty much every designer was playing it bare.
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Can you name these Supreme Court justices? Take our quiz below.
The Supreme Court has been making big headlines this summer, both with its split decision to upheld one part of a tough Arizona immigration law while striking down three other parts, and its decision to upheld the 2010 health care law, thus preserving President Obama's landmark legislative achievement.
Supreme Court upholds health care law
In the latter ruling, the majority opinion held that the Affordable Care Act was a valid exercise of Congress's power to tax. In the ruling on Arizona's immigration law, the part that the justices upheld requires police officers stopping someone to make efforts to verify the person's immigration status with the federal government.
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Monday Make-up
For the third time this season, a day off on a Monday for the Phillies has become a game day. Tonight's game is the result of a September 5 postponement.
Hopefully, the Phillies will fare better than the two previous Monday make-ups, an 8-7 loss at Boston on June 26 and an 8-3 loss to the Mets at Shea Stadium on August 28.
The Astros had an ESPN Sunday night game in Houston and then flew to Philly, landing around 4:00 a.m. After the game, they fly to Pittsburgh for a three-game series starting tomorrow night.
Over the last three years, the Astros and Phillies share the best record in the majors for September-October, 53-28.
The Phillies, who have the best NL record since July 26 (38-20), have caught Chris Coste, Carlos Ruiz, Coste and Mike Lieberthal (Wednesday) over the past four games. Combined, they have 7 RBI. Liieberthal is hitting .383 with 16 RBI in his last 18 games.
Tonight, "Lieby" is behind the plate:
Jimmy Rollins, ss
Shane Victorino, cf
Chase Utley, 2b
Ryan Howard, 1b
David Dellucci, rf
Pat Burrell, lf
Mike Lieberthal, c
Abraham Nunez, 3b
Randy Wolf, p
After the game, it's "All Aboard" for the Phillies, riding an AMTRAK charter train to Washington, DC, and the start of a six-game road trip, the final one of the regular season.


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While doing our Kotaku East live stream of Dragon Quest X last week, the most common question I got was "What is the battle system like when you're in a group?" Well, at that time, I was just starting out and had yet to get a full group going. However, since then I have spent the majority of my time in Dragon Quest X with a full group and here is what I have learned.
When someone in the group touches an enemy, the entire group enters its own little instance for battle. On the outside, other players can't join the fight but they can cheer you on, giving the group a temporary buff.
On the inside, however, the game utilizes a version of the active time battle system that feels like a co-op version of Final Fantasy XII more than anything else. Every few seconds, you get a turn, and then you choose which attack, skill, or item you wish to use from the menu that pops up.
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Dragon Quest X was released on August 2, 2012, for the Nintendo Wii in Japan. Stay tuned to Kotaku East for our import preview later this week.


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Noesis Technologies necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 86 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
We need our business card to be designed.
The card should look clean but impressive. It must catch your attention. We want a 2 sided card. Letter and envelop designs will be a plus, but not needed.
We appreciate all the work you are going to put into this, and we will provide frequent feedback as we receive submissions.
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0 stars - not yet reviewed.
1 or 2 star - not really what we are looking for.
3 star - getting closer but need revisions or a different take on your design.
4 star - design is being considered.
5 star - We really like the design and will make the final selections from these.
Payment methods:
- PAYPAL (preferred one)
Noesis Technologies
Noesis is a new company that provides its team expertise in the fieldof real-time 3D graphics for software development. It owns a growingtechnology platform that makes easier the development of graphicapplications and videogames. That platform follows the philosophy ofusing small blocks to construct software.
The colors that represents our identity are:
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- Metallic Silver for the logo.BUSINESS CARD
We want a 2 sided card. But be creative, the card can be vertical or horizontal, with round edges or not, ...
Front Side
The front side will have the logo of the company centered over a dark gray background. The background should have some kind of gradient that highlights the logo and gives a professional touch. Add some color if you think will improve the design.
Back Side
The back side will preferably be white. It will have the logo with the name of the company, Noesis Technologies. And all the personal info:
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Envelope and A4 letter stationary will be a plus but not needed.
If done, it should be very clean and simple.
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- A background image to be used as the front cover page of the document. This background should have a space for the document TITLE.
- And a simpler background image for the document text. With space for the page number and section title.
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Splodey-dope Faisal Shazad (aka Times Square Bomber) update
It seems that Shahzad told a US Attorney that he intended to keep blowing stuff up until he was either dead or caught.
Mr. Bharara's office also revealed that Mr. Shahzad told the authorities after his arrest on May 3 that he planned to detonate a second bomb in New York City two weeks later, and was prepared to conduct more attacks until he was captured or killed, the document shows.
The story reveals a little more about his ties to the Taliban as well.
It said that in the period leading up to the bombing attempt, Mr. Shahzad stayed in regular contact with the Taliban over the Internet, using software programs the Taliban installed on his laptop computer while he was training with them in Pakistan. The programs were not identified.
He communicated with his Taliban associates about the bomb he was building and the Nissan Pathfinder he had bought, as well as other topics, the government said.
Sentencing is Tuesday. That was fast, eh?


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Cornelia Wrzus
posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 1:47 am
Dear Dr. Muthen,
I am modeling longitudinal data (~54 measurements over 9 days, i.e. 5-6 measurements per day) using random coefficient multilevel modeling.
How is it possible to take into account that time between measures is unequally spaced (and thus, measurement points differently correlated)?
I read about modeling a covariance structure applying the spatial power law using SAS, but don't know whether this is possible in Mplus (so far everything in my analyses has been possible in Mplus
I browsed this very helpful discussion forum, but did not find help this time.
I would be very thankful for any ideas or references.
Best from Berlin, Germany,
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 4:18 pm
By the "spatial power law", perhaps you are referring to the version of 1st-order auto-correlated residuals where differences in timing intervals are taken into account. The Mplus UG example 6.17 shows how Model Constraint can handle the case where the timings have the same intervals. Here the "corr" parameter is the correlation between adjacent residuals. Residuals two points apart will have correlation corr**2, etc. So with non-equidistant time points, you will have to adjust those Model Constraint settings.
If there are individually-varying times of observation I think you could use the VARIABLE option CONSTRAINT = in order to read in individual timing differences and then use that constraint variable (or variables) in Model Constraint.
If you don't have individually-varying times of observation, the easiest way to handle the residual correlations for non-equisdistant time points is to let each pair of adjacent time points have their own residual covariance parameter.
In my discussion here I have assumed the use of the "wide" data approach to growth modeling, the single-level, multivariate approach.
Cornelia Wrzus
posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 2:06 am
Dear Dr. Muth�n,
thank you very much for your answer.
You are right that times between observation are individually-varying, but there is a variable indicating the distance which I could use in the constraint option.
Sorry for being imprecise - I assumed with about 54 repeated measures using ANALYSIS: TYPE = TWOLEVEL RANDOM would be the only applicable way.
I have used the "long" data approach, so far, because number (range 44-76, mean 54) and spacing of measurements differs between individuals.
Do you see any objections having 76 variables in the multivariate approach and many missings for some individuals?
I found that is not possible to use the CONSTRAINT command when using TYPE = TWOLEVEL, right?
I try to work it out the way you described it and might ask again.
Again, thank you very much for your help. Best, Cornelia
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 10:33 am
You are right that having as many as 76 variables wide with a lot of missingness is an awkward way to go. The long, two-level approach is better in this case. Model Constraint is available for Type = Twolevel in the current Mplus version. I am not sure, however, how to implement this correlated residual approach in the long approach.
Roy Stewart
posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 4:40 am
Dear Everybody,
I hope that in the meantime, someone has a good Mplus-example for an unbalanced longitudinal model with non-equidistant time points, where the correlated residuals were implemented in the long approach.
Is there anyone who can give me this example or references?
Thanking you in advance.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 8:46 am
In the long format, correlated residuals are not parameters in the model.
Roy Stewart
posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 5:56 am
Dear Dr Muth�n,
Thank you for your quick answer.
I change my question a little bite:
Is there anyone who has one or more example(s) and/or reference(s)
of an unbalanced longitudinal with ordered time points?
Thank you, again in advance.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 8:46 am
See the examples in Chapter 6 of the user's guide which is on the website and also posted papers on the website.
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