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Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (Paperback)
For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas. The stories within these pages were chosen by Bradbury himself, and span a career that blossomed in the pulp magazines of the early 1940s and continues to flourish in the new millennium. Here are representatives of the legendary author's finest works of short fiction, including many that have not been republished for decades, all forever fresh and vital, evocative and immensely entertaining.
About the Author
In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2011 at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.
Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!" Bradbury later said, "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."


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How to Create Fabric Flowers for a Scrapbook Border
Gather a bouquet of blooms for your scrapbook layout by creating a variety of handmade fabric flower accents and combining them into a single, striking border. Two types of handmade fabric flowers work beautifully for this type of border: gathered flowers and rolled flowers. You can make these flowers from any fabric of your choice, though sturdier fabric, such as felt, works best for the gathered flowers.
Springtime at Descanso by Lisa VanderVeen, as seen in Scrapbooking Ideas for Every Season, page 57.
How to Create a Rolled Flower
1. Cover cardstock circle with liquid adhesive or apply a jumbo adhesive dot. Adhere end of fabric strip to center.
2. Twist fabric in tight spiral pattern as you adhere to circle. Tuck in end.
-- Learn how to make gathered flowers on page 2 --
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Formula for fun and discovery: National Chemistry Week includes day of fun, hands-on activities Oct. 15 at Manhattan Town Center
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A week of fun and educational activities are planned in Manhattan to showcase how chemistry makes life better. The events are part of National Chemistry Week, Oct. 16-22, and are sponsored by Kansas State University's local section of the American Chemical Society and the department of chemistry.
The week kicks off with a free public event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Manhattan Town Center. Kids can learn about chemistry hands-on by making slime, producing a gas from vinegar and baking soda, and getting a chemistry tattoo. Chemistry magic shows, presented by Alpha Chi Sigma, the professional chemistry fraternity, will be at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Free helium balloons also will be handed out. Chemists will supervise all activities, with safety and learning as the top priorities.
In addition, the public can find out more about chemistry at a chemistry book display available throughout the week at the Manhattan Public Library, 629 Poyntz Ave.
"National Chemistry Week is an annual community outreach program hosted by K-State's local section of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society," said Yasmin Patell, assistant teaching scholar in chemistry at K-State and a member of the society. "The week is designed to show how chemistry supports everyone and contributes to our quality of life and nation's economy."
The American Chemistry Society has a membership of more than 154,000 chemists and chemical engineers. The nonprofit organization was chartered by the U.S. Congress to help foster the public welfare, education and more. The society publishes scientific journals and databases, sponsors major research conferences and provides numerous resource materials to chemistry teachers and students.


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A roadside stand in South Sudan selling soap; an internet start-up in Gaza; a tofu processing plant in Indonesia: The global economy is connected by complex and dynamic markets. Mercy Corps believes in harnessing this inherent power to provide better opportunities for the world's poor and vulnerable, half of whom live on less than $2/day.
Local communities themselves have the ability to drive this change and no two situations are alike. For this reason, we take a holistic, locally-led approach, working with communities, their systems and structures to build businesses, increase income and improve employment opportunities. Even in the most fragile and informal markets, we focus on intentional, market-based solutions, ones which can succeed and expand long after we've left.
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The latest group of students to graduate from our vocational training program in southern Afghanistan — more than 3,600 of them — show that real success is giving young people hope.
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All but two Mercy Corps staff members have been evacuated from Bentiu, the beleaguered border town that has been in the news recently as the target of Sudanese air strikes.
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In the final years of Thomas's Jefferson's life, America's best friend in Europe was also the last surviving commander of Continental Army forces. The Marquis de Lafayette was a fatherless French aristocrat, inspired by the Declaration of Independence, who outfitted a vessel and sailed the Atlantic to commit to the American cause. Widely identified as General Washington's "adoptive son," Lafayette survived not one, but two revolutions (our nation's and his). After an absence of four decades, he returned to the United States in 1824, accompanied by his son, George Washington Lafayette.
Throughout the marquis' triumphal tour, newspapers reported his every move, his every speech, as he symbolically set foot on the soil of each of the 24 states–nearly drowning when the boat his party was traveling on up the Ohio River went down in the middle of the night. All a person had to say was "the Nation's Guest," and everyone knew who was meant. Lafayette was so beloved that multiple cities and counties were named after him. For extended moments, France loved America, America loved France.
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On Nov. 4, 1824, Lafayette's coach arrived at Monticello, to the accompaniment of trumpets. Jefferson emerged from the house and the two men embraced. Eyewitnesses wept. Jefferson's nephew arrived late: "I would have given my best coat to have witnessed the meeting," he said.
No one will marvel at the sublime when Francois Hollande is received Monday at Jefferson's villa, but the French president undoubtedly knows of the "special relationship" our two countries enjoyed at the time America's moral identity was being forged. Hollande's visit to the mountaintop with President Obama will conjure warm feelings and reveal familiar artifacts. Jefferson was a noted connoisseur of French wines, which he continued to import for decades after his tenure as U.S. minister to France ended in 1789. Monticello's signature dome was copied from the Parisian architecture he had lovingly inspected. When Jefferson was in office, a French chef ran the kitchen at what was then called the President's House.
As to that moral identity, which Jefferson helped to forge with his rich patriotic script and French Enlightenment influence, much can be said. Jefferson has always been freedom's philosopher, but over the past half-century, his position along America's political spectrum has shifted from one end to the other. From the New Deal through the 1960s, he was plainly a champion of liberal government. The patrician Franklin Delano Roosevelt saw Jefferson as he saw himself, "a great gentleman … a great commoner." In combating the conservatives who regarded his programs as a government takeover, FDR insisted: "Jefferson realized that the government must intervene … not to destroy individualism, but to protect it."
Yet no president loved Thomas Jefferson more than Ronald Reagan, who collected Jefferson quotes, peppered numerous speeches with them and was thoroughly convinced that the third president was, like himself, a champion of small government. At the Jefferson Memorial, on July 3, 1987, he said: "Jefferson so fervently believed that limited government was vital to the preservation of liberty that he used his influence to see to it that the Constitution included a Bill of Rights, 10 amendments that spelled out specific governmental limitations."
One thing has never changed. Jefferson's is the first name Americans associate with representative democracy. He is the founding father whose political sentiments reverberate loudest. Here and around the world, he is democracy's muse. When former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev visited Monticello in 1993, he remarked that he had conceived Russian reform by referring back to what he'd read in college about Jefferson's political thought.
Politicians gravitate to Jefferson for obvious reasons. His expressions of hope for the future of the republic—and republics abroad—remain integral to Americans' collective sense of purpose. Over the years, he has provided an ennobling vocabulary that members of Congress draw upon when they seek support for anything from the latest farm bill to patent reform. He is an oracle of sorts, with near-biblical authority. In the mid-1990s, for example, Republican Bob Smith of New Hampshire rose in the Senate chamber, and proclaimed: "Lest there be any doubt where Thomas Jefferson would have stood on the balanced budget amendment, that doubt ought to be laid to rest by the following statement he made in 1798: 'I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution … an additional article taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.'"
But back then, the Democratic Party had a spokesperson with a special claim to the third president. It was right there in his middle name: William Jefferson Clinton. Speaking at the Jefferson Memorial on the occasion of Jefferson's 250th birthday, President Clinton called attention to one of the panels inside the national shrine that resonated with model liberalism: "Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind…. Manners and opinions change. With the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times." If Reagan's Jefferson was a symbol of an admired past and a simpler, more manageable government system, Clinton's Jefferson was sensitive, experimental and oriented toward the future. He was a protector of the environment, too.
Jefferson can sound thoroughly cautious and practical in his pronouncements, and usually does. But he also indulged in hyperbole. From France, some years before that nation plunged into the time of Terror, he wrote fatefully: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh wore a "blood of tyrants" T-shirt on the day he blew up the Murrah Federal Building.


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For a show like The Following, where a streamlined story replaces television's all-too-familiar episodic narrative, it's all about the journey and the end result. No matter how thrilling the ride or how high the body count, the success of the series rests on creator Kevin Williamson (Scream, The Vampire Diaries) providing a satisfying conclusion to this chapter of Carroll's twisted tale. Thankfully, Williamson does just that, and then some.
Much like the series premiere, The Following season 1 finale thrusts audiences into a non-stop, action-packed, suspenseful thrill-ride where Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), through his unwavering determination, leads viewers into the heart of darkness - only now it's to provided answers, or in this case, a potential conclusion. And though it is often the promise of impending answers which fuels excitement for any type of finale, The Following is merely turning another page to the last chapter, as was the plan from the start.
The Following has, through its impeccably planned series progression, helped fuel and rejuvenate the much-ignored idea of an enclosed tale on broadcast television. Still, what makes this series work better than others is its perceptible intent at actually telling a story with purpose, not simply because having a TV show sounds fun.
Carroll, now injured from Claire's attack, is forced to play out his final act as physically exhausted as Hardy is through his selfless dedication; both out for vengeance, yet up against an opponent more powerful than either initially planned. But The Following has always been about carefully planned attacks on the psyche more so than brute force – so even when Carroll and Hardy come face-to-face, the suspense not only remains, it builds exponentially, as this is where the series shines.
The Following thrives on moments where dialogue and intent are used to progress the core plot, and James Purefoy and Kevin Bacon, whether together or separate, are masters at it. Whatever happens onscreen, The Following is a show where its most poignant moments can be enjoyed simply by listening to the dialogue – well, most of it. Even after a rewarding and thoroughly surprisingly conclusion to this chapter of the story, the FBI aspect of the series still fails to come close to the powerful prose that its two leads receive - with the exception of Annie Parisse and her amazingly impactful final scenes as Special Agent Debra Parker, of course. Though this element of (sometimes) weak dialogue doesn't stand out in the finale as much as it has in earlier episodes, it does raise some questions about the show's potential, next season.
In many ways, no one could have expected to witness the death of the show's villain, Carroll, or the surprise stabbing of Hardy and his love, Claire, in the show's final moments. The Following has always presented itself as a streamlined story with a purpose - but now, without Purefoy, the show must evolve in season 2.
The ending of The Following season 1 finale feels like a mixture of "Plan A" and "Plan B," depending on whether or not it was renewed for next season. And, for all intents and purposes, it delivered an exciting conclusion to what could have been seen as a successful mini-series. But now, with cliffhangers and a dead nemesis, the show's producers, as well as its audience, are venturing into unknown territory about what The Following can be in season 2, versus what it was in season 1.
While it's true that Carroll can (and probably will) "live on" through his followers, Williamson and his team have more than enough time to craft another complete tale for viewers to enjoy. And if the quality of season 2 is anything like it was in season 1, you won't have to think twice about whether or not you'll be tuning in.
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Vegetarians and vegans must develop a better answer to that age-old meat-eater question--but you kill plants don't you? Raising the plant question is, in my experience, a first line of defense for most omnivores. Now, most seasoned vegetarians have their standard 10-point response about why it is better to eat plants than animals. They offer points such as the following: plants don't feel pain because they lack a nervous system, the experiments in The Secret Life of Plants have not been reproducible and even the author refused to perform the experiments again, omnivores actually kill more plants because cows eat plants, etc. This line of argumentation has its place, but it doesn't answer the question of whether or not it is OK to eat plants in the first place. Vegetarians have to look a bit more closely at why every single omnivore makes this argument and why we get so angry/defensive/exasperated with this argument. It is because there is something to it.
Consider the following justifications for eating plants made by vegans on the Vegan-L email discussion list. Most of these arguments (numbered below and followed by my response) could just as easily have been made by someone trying to justify eating meat.
1) Even vegans have to eat something.
This is verbatim a meat eater's argument--"But what do vegans eat? I don't have time to cook all of my own meals, I could never get enough to eat without eating meat...." Clearly vegans could eat fruits and parts that can be eaten without killing the plant--just like herbivorous animals who most often eat only leaves or parts of the plant that will grow back.
2) Plants lack a central nervous system and it is unlikely for them to feel pain in the way animals or humans do.
Just as Descartes managed to ignore the obvious when he said that animals were unfeeling machines, there is considerable evidence that plants are much more aware than we commonly believe. Using a definition of pain that is based on possession of a nervous system deliberately and arbitrarily excludes plants. Yet plants are clearly aware of when they are being attacked because they mobilize chemical defenses. Just as meat eaters try to deny the fact that animals feel pain, vegans try to deny the fact that plants feel something akin to pain--something that could be used to justify not killing them. If we ever encounter aliens, the chances that they have a nervous system like ours is vanishingly small, but we would nonetheless assume that they feel what we would categorize as pain.
3) Plants have no need to feel pain since they cannot move away from the source of the pain like animals can.
See the previous response--plants clearly do react; if pain is simply a warning tool, some sort of distress signal would still serve a purpose in plants.
4) And even if plants did feel pain, eating meat causes much more suffering than living a vegan lifestyle because animals eat countless plants before humans eat the animals.
This doesn't apply to hunting wild animals who generally don't kill plants (unlike cows who are fed dead soybeans). And what about all of the plants and animals that are disrupted or killed by farming (i.e., the ones that were there before the farmer, the ones that the farmer kills on purpose)? Although veganism probably does decrease plant suffering when compared to eating meat, this doesn't justify killing plants. The question is not whether we should be omnivores or vegans, but whether or not vegans should adopt a more plant-friendly diet.
5) Fruits are designed specifically to be eaten--that is how plants spread their seeds.
Then just eat fruits. Eating potatoes and carrots doesn't spread seeds around and it kills the plant--how can this be justified? What about plants that try to avoid being eaten--ones that are poisonous, taste nasty, or make you infertile (e.g. sheep who eat clover high in phytoestrogens)?
6) Foods like tomatoes, apples, cherries, eggplants, grapes, etc. do not require the killing of the plant. It's more like taking eggs from a chicken.
Given that vegans don't eat eggs because they think it's wrong, this argument makes no sense.
7) If fruits aren't eaten, they quickly wither and die--they are intended to be eaten. The same is not true of animals.
Yes, fruits are intended to be eaten. Some herbivores are also "intended to be eaten." There are carnivorous animals that can only eat other animals. If these carnivores did not eat the old and diseased prey animals, those prey animals would, in fact, "wither and die." Additionally, the whole herd would suffer if the population got too large or dying members were constantly eating food that healthy members could eat.
8) We should be vegans because we can; we should reduce whatever suffering we can.
Should we not then be fruitarians or gatherers because we can? Or are we simply too lazy, just like most people are too lazy to be vegan. We usually don't find that an acceptable excuse! (Of course laziness is certainly not the primary problem--people are constantly bombarded with the idea that they can, should, and must eat dead animals.)
9) We're herbivores. We must eat plants to survive--it is our instinct.
This simply begs the question--meat-eaters justify eating animals by pointing out that humans are omnivores (which we are--see e.g., Humans are Omnivores). Furthermore, humans manage to overcome all sorts of "instincts"--for example, we generally do not copulate in public. Arguments that appeal to "nature" should be met with deep skepticism. Recall that slavery and the subjugation of women and countless indigenous cultures were and are considered a necessary part of the "natural order."
10) Broccoli screams might be pleasure, not pain.
Ditto for animals.
11) It's a rare person--and, I would say, a very strange person--who would flinch upon seeing a carrot pulled from the ground.
First, many people do abhor large-scale agriculture. Second, the fact that our culture is desensitized to violence, especially to something that's been going on for a long, long time is not an argument for anything. Also, people don't want to face up to what they are really doing--just like how most people don't think about where their meat came from.
The above responses show that vegans cannot come up with any truly compelling reasons as to why eating plants is justified in the context of animal rights. Which leads us to the ultimate question...
12) And so what if you cannot totally eliminate any supposed pain that plants may feel. Is that a justification for eating meat? For killing humans, by extension?
We can agree that humans must cause some suffering to exist. Whereas a meat-eater uses this fact to ignore animal suffering, vegans use this fact to ignore plant suffering. But just as inflicting plant suffering does not justify inflicting animal suffering, the fact that we do not inflict animal suffering does not license us to inflict wanton plant suffering. Rather than just dismissing plant suffering as inevitable, vegans should try to reduce that as well.
Meat eaters raise the plant question not because it is an indictment of veganism, but rather to deflect attention from their own shame caused by eating animals--they are trying to show that vegans are not perfect either. But rather than getting defensive, sarcastic, or belittling the person, we must admit our own shame from harming plants. Sociologists point out that "Conflicts escalate, according to Thomas Scheff, when there is no mechanism for individuals to express shame and shame is transmuted to anger and pride, which, in turn, can lead to more shame. To block this 'feeling trap' as Scheff calls it, is necessary to reduce alienation between groups and find ways to offer apology and restitution" (Groves 189). True dialog can only occur if both sides accept their shame. Until then we will be left with the pride, anger, and deliberate attempts to redirect shame as revealed in this 30 June 1998 post to the Vegan-L:
The proper response to the "You're killing/hurting plants" argument is to laugh in their face and not even entertain such a ridiculous notion. By taking them seriously, you're legitimizing their argument--and that's what they want you to do. This whole angle was obviously dreamed up by meat industry propagandists. Their aim is to engage vegetarians in a silly debate that will end up making the vegetarians look ridiculous by revealing us to be utter and outrageous wimps--so wimpy we actually care about a plant's feelings. Think about it--do you think these argumentative meateaters give two shits about a plant's feelings? Of course not; they're just trying to make us look silly. So, if you want to win the debate, laugh in their smug meateating face and make THEM look silly.
Plant exploitation parallels animal exploitation. There are factory farms with monocropping, cloning, genetic engineering, pesticides, herbicides (!). Agriculture is a constant battle against the plants, insects and other animals that initially lived on the land. Beyond plants as food, plants are kept in houses as "pets," used for entertainment (Christmas trees, Jack-o-lanterns), people wrap themselves in dead plants, and doctors are always experimenting on one plant or another looking for the next "miracle" drug.
One can say that individual plants are not aware, but they are alive and try to remain that way, which differentiates them from, say, rocks. Plants have all kinds of chemical defense systems that go in to action when the plant is damaged. Plants have ways to avoid being eaten--thorns, phytoestrogens (found in over 300 plants), poison, taste, growing high off of the ground. As Barbara McClintock, a Nobel laureate geneticist who worked with corn for over 30 years, said, "Animals can walk around, but plants have to stay still to do the same things, with ingenious mechanisms.... Plants are extraordinary. For instance...if you pinch a leaf of a plant you set off electric pulses. You can't touch a plant without setting off an electric pulse.... There is no question that plants have [all] kinds of sensitivities. They do a lot of responding to their environment. They can do almost anything you can think of. But just because they sit there, anybody walking down the road considers them just a plastic area to look at, [as if] they're not really alive" (Keller 199-200). If anyone should be at least open to the possibility that plants have some level of awareness, it is vegans since we continually chide others for not acknowledging animal awareness.
But whether or not plants are aware is not really the issue. There are clearly two levels to concern about animals--the immediate suffering of individual animals and the fact that animals are exploited at all. While one can certainly object to the treatment of animals simply because of the suffering they endure, most vegans object to the inherent exploitation of animals. That is, they are not animal welfarists who believe it is acceptable to exploit animals as long as their suffering is minimal, but rather animal rightists who believe, on face, that it is wrong to own animals and systematically exploit them. It might be possible to raise animals for food who are unconscious the entire time--that is, they are just as unaware as plants might be. But vegans reject such idealized scenarios because no matter how "kindly" animals are treated, they are still slaves.
In fact, vegans may not simply be animal rightists, but environmentalists who believe that all of Nature deserves consideration. This is why it is not necessary to resolve the thorny issue of whether or not plants are "aware" in order to give them consideration. The dominionist mindset that Nature is here for humans to exploit applies to animals, plants, and even rocks. Just as environmentalists so often fail to see how eating animals is the embodiment of the dominionist mindset, vegans seem to want to ignore the fact that agriculture is simply another aspect of that worldview.
The ideal way to give plants consideration is to eliminate agriculture in favor of foraging. We tend to think that it is impossible to return to a forager lifestyle because agriculture has been around for 10,000 years. (Even Jim Mason, who highlights all of the negatives brought about by the beginning of agriculture, simply states that we are stuck with it and that we should only rid ourselves of animal agriculture.) But if the whole of human existence is compressed into a calendar year, we have only been farming for the last 8.5 hours. Furthermore, most of the forager cultures in the Americas were destroyed beginning only 500 years ago. And most importantly, there still exist numerous forager cultures. Foraging is not some romantic notion out of the past--it is a reality even as you and I sit at our computers.
A forager diet need not--and should not--include hunting. There is no nutritional requirement to hunt. Organized hunting "began only about 20,000 years ago--some 25,000 years after the emergence of Homo sapiens sapiens" (Mason 72). Prior to that, our ancestors met their nutritional needs by foraging, which sometimes included insects, lizards, and maybe scavenged meat. Hunting developed mainly as a response to female power (women gathered most of the food and bore children, in which the male role was not known). "The hunt, in other words, was not so much about nutrition as it was about acquiring power--the animal's power" (Mason 86). "Hunting also gave men some role, and hence some status, as food providers" (Mason 87). Furthermore, humans are not required to live in extreme environments. Humans chose to live in the Arctic because they were exploiting animals. This certainly does not entitle humans to live there anymore than Nike is entitled to continue to use slave labor because they built their entire business on it.
Is it possible to return to a forager lifestyle? At current population levels, clearly not. Absent foraging, is it possible to develop a sustainable agriculture not based on the domination of nature? Perhaps. The bottom line is that plants deserve consideration; we must figure out what that means.
Groves, Julian McAllister. Hearts and Minds: The Controversy over Laboratory Animals. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1997.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. A Feeling for the Organism. New York: W H Freeman, 1983.
Mason, Jim. An Unnatural Order: Why We Are Destroying the Planted and Each Other. New York: Continuum, 1993.
Tompkins, Peter and Christopher Bird. The Secret Life of Plants. Philadelphia: Harper & Row, 1973.


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I am considering to use a missing data design(3-form design of Graham (1996)) in my PhD-research. The design comes down to the use of 3 types of questionnaires in which there is always an overlap of ľ of the items and Ľ of the items is present is all 3 types of questionnaires.
I was wondering to what extent Mplus is able to handle this missing data. I want to apply the missing data design on my IV's, which are dimensions of culture, measured on a 7-point likert scale. I was wondering whether Mplus uses listwize deletion for missings on incomplete independent variables ore uses full information maximum likelihood.
I read somewhere that I should make my IV's DV's. Is this only true if this IV is an observed variable?
For example:
belongness BY BE1 BE2 BE3;
egalit BY EG2 EG3 EG4 EG5;
persaggr BY ON38 ON39 ON40;
persaggr ON egalit;
persaggr ON belongness;
If I have used the missing data design on my IV's BE1 BE2 BE3 EG2 EG3 EG4 EG5, does Mplus use full information maximum likelihood and not listwize deletion on the independent variables? I think Mplus uses FIML in that case but I am not sure…
If egalit and belongness are observed variables, can I make them independent by adding the following to the syntax?
persaggr BY ON38 ON39;
persaggr ON egalit;
persaggr ON belongness;
Many thanks for your advice!
Kristel Wouters
posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 1:04 am
Some additional questions.
- How much missings will Mplus be able to handle, or in other words is there a limit to the number of variables I can put in my design of missingness?
- Is there a requirement of a large realized sample? And how large should that sample be?
- Can I apply this design on my dependent variables (which are different kinds of unethical work behaviours, where the distributions of the items are often very positively skewed)?
- Are there any pitfalls I should be aware of by using this design and my analyses in Mplus? For example if I want to use WLSM?
Many thanks for your advice!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 4:01 pm
The variables BE1 BE2 BE3 EG2 EG3 EG4 EG5 are dependent variables. FIML handles missing data for these variables.
The variables egalit and belongness are independent variables.
You would need to do a simulation study to determine how large of a sample is needed. There is not rule of thumb.
Posts on Mplus Discussion should be limited to one window.
emmanuel bofah
posted on Monday, July 14, 2014 - 9:33 am
I have data for three time points.
there are students in time2 not in time1 and students in time3 not in time2 and time1.
my question is how will mplus handle the missing data especially between time1 and time3.
second, is it advisable to use the students in all the data set or use only those on the three measurement time point. I wish to use all students in all measurement but i cannot conceive myself why i should i should.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, July 14, 2014 - 5:39 pm
ML under the MAR assumption says that you should use all available data. Don't exclude anyone unless he/she has missing data on all three time points.
Aimee Maxwell
posted on Monday, February 16, 2015 - 4:48 pm
Thanks so much for informative answers!
I used the MLR estimator to perform my cross-sectional model and am now testing a portion of it longitudinally (3 time points).
Does MLR use FIML like ML does?
Do I just code the missingness -9999 and tell Mplus that's the missing values number then use the MLR estimator as usual?
As in:
Missing are all (-9999) ;
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, February 16, 2015 - 5:40 pm
Q1. Yes.
Q2. Yes.
Aimee Maxwell
posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 3:28 pm
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Disney Princesses Get Reimagined As Hipsters [ART]
If Disney's princesses had lived in the 21st Century, they'd probably major in art history at an East Coast liberal arts college and then move to a parent-subsided walk up apartment in Brooklyn, where they would intern at some cutting-edge media company. At least the ones in this nifty artwork would, that is.
That's basically the idea behind deviant art user Viria13 series of sketches in which she reimagines Disney princesses in modern hipster garb. And before you blow up our comments section, Viria13 knows that Anastasia is not and never has been a Disney princess (Fox released her animated movie), but the artist included her because she is her a favorite and "has the finest outfit." So you sticklers are just going to do deal with her artistic license. Check out more hipster Disney princesses below.
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The February 2010 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession.
This month our two fantastic hostesses chose a very popular dessert as our challenge. One of my favourites, that's for sure, so I was really excited about getting stuck in to this one.
Deeba & Aparna chose Tiramisu, an Italian dessert made mostly with mascarpone cheese, boudoir biscuits and coffee. If you've never had Tiramisu before, I suggest you give it a try. There are quite a few versions of Tiramisu, some with raw egg, some with cooked egg, some with none, some with or without alcohol, and even the alcohol choice is different between recipes. Basically it is layers of savoiardi biscuits dipped in strong espresso with a hint of alcohol like brandy alternating with layers of a luxurious and sweet mascarpone mixture then dusted generously with cocoa powder. It may sound fairly simple, but every spoonful leaves you wanting more.
I've made Tiramisu many times before and it is fairly simple to put together but the ladies had something up their sleeves to make this month's recipe a good challenge. We were told that we'd be making Tiramisu from scratch.... Yup, we'd be making everything. That meant not only assembling the dessert, but making everything we need to put it together, so we'd be baking our own lady finger biscuits and making our own mascarpone cheese. Awesome!
I'll admit, when I first saw the recipe they'd chosen, I was a little sceptical. Even though there are various versions of Tiramisu, I wouldn't call this one authentic. Never before have I seen a Tiramisu recipe that includes pastry cream and so little mascarpone. But, and I'll explain why in just a bit, the pastry cream was perfect for what I had in mind.
As with all DB challenges, a few guidelines were put in place. Making our own lady fingers and mascarpone was mandatory but we were given freedom with flavours and presentation. At first I thought I'd stick to the original recipe 'cause I really do love Tiramisu just as it is, but my brain being the way it is decided that I had to do something a little different, after all, there will be plenty other opportunities to make and eat "plain" Tiramisu.
With a dessert like Tiramisu I think it's easy to go a little overboard with flavour choices and over complicate something that should be fairly simple. After all, if it aint broke.... so at first I thought up two simple flavour choices, one Tiramisu with Baileys, and one with Frangelico. Both of them turned out delicious and I'm glad I stuck to a simple flavour change, I would make both variations again!
Then inspiration hit me when I was reading through the DB forums and someone was asking what other liquid she could use to dip the lady fingers in instead of coffee. Plenty of options were given like using fruit juice and I suggested that she could also use tea. Then and idea hit me, what if I use Earl Grey tea?
Now, you need to understand, I absolutely hate tea, something about having too much of it when I was a kid, so for me to think of Earl Grey tea was definitely not something of the norm. My husband loves Earl Grey so I knew I'd have at least one person who'd have no trouble finishing off the dessert. Then I had another unusual idea, flavour the mascarpone with lavender. Unusual because I've never used lavender before and have never wanted to try it. But, good things come out of trying new things and my Blue Rinse Tiramisu was born.
Why Blue Rinse? Well, the name actually came from my genius husband! I was telling him my plans for a lavender and Earl Grey Tiramisu and told him that the combination reminded me of old ladies with purple hair. He then said something like "Oh yes, those purple or blue dye ladies." to which I answered, "Oh yes, blue rinse!" Hence the name was born. :)
Here's where the pasty cream in this recipe was the perfect thing for my Blue Rinse version. I bought some lovely lavender sugar and used that in place of the granulated sugar in the recipe. I don't think flavouring just the zabaglione would have given enough of a lavender flavour so being able to flavour the pastry cream as well worked really well and the end result had a lovely flavour without being too weak or overpowering.
All in all, I'll stick to my tried, tested and favourite Tiramisu recipe 'cause it's quicker to make and tastes fantastic, but if I want to infuse some interesting flavour like lavender, the DB recipe with pastry cream is really useful.
The following recipe is the DB challenge recipe with my changes which includes adding extra mascarpone (as I mentioned before, Tiramisu is all about the mascarpone and I felt this recipe just didn't have enough), decreasing the sugar and flavouring with lavender and Earl Grey tea, but if you'd like to see the original challenge recipe, you can see it at The Daring Kitchen.
Oh, and last thoughts, I LOVED the Blue Rinse Tiramisu, tea and all! I actually found it to be very refreshing and quite light considering some of the rich ingredients, so it's perfect after a heavy meal :D
Blue Rinse Tiramisu
2 large Egg Yolks
3 Tbsp Lavender Sugar
1/4 cup Earl Grey Tea
1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract
Lavender Pastry Cream:
1/4 cup Lavender Sugar
1 Tbsp All Purpose Flour
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 large Egg Yolk
3/4 cup Milk
Whipped Cream:
1 cup Chilled Heavy / Whipping Cream
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
To assemble the Tiramisu:
2 cups Strong Earl Grey Tea, room temp (I used 4 teabags)
150g Mascarpone Cheese
36 Savoiardi / Ladyfinger / Boudoir Biscuits
Grated White Chocolate or Powdered Sugar for sprinkling
Purple/Violet Paste Food Colouring
For the zabaglione:
- Heat water in a double boiler
- Tip: If you don't have a double boiler, place a pot with about an inch of water in it on the stove. Place a heat-proof bowl in the pot making sure the bottom does not touch the water
- In a large mixing bowl mix together the egg yolks, lavender sugar, Earl Grey tea and vanilla extract
- Whisk together until the yolks are fully blended and the mixture looks smooth
- Transfer the mixture to the top of a double boiler or place your bowl over the pan / pot with simmering water
- Cook the egg mixture over low heat, stirring constantly, for about 8 minutes or until it resembles thick custard
- Tip: I ended up having to bring the water to a boil in order for the zabaglione to thicken up
- It may bubble a bit as it reaches that consistency
- Remove from heat and strain to remove any lavender bits
- Let cool to room temperature and transfer the zabaglione to a bowl
- Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight, until thoroughly chilled
For the pastry cream:
- Mix together the lavender sugar, flour and vanilla extract in a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan
- To this add the egg yolk and half the milk
- Whisk until smooth
- Now place the saucepan over low heat and cook, stirring constantly to prevent the mixture from curdling
- Add the remaining milk a little at a time, still stirring constantly
- After about 12 minutes the mixture will be thick, free of lumps and beginning to bubble
- Tip: If you have a few lumps, don't worry. You can push the cream through a fine-mesh strainer
- Pour through a strainer to remove any lavender bits
- Transfer the pastry cream to a bowl and cool to room temperature
- Cover with plastic film and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight, until thoroughly chilled
For the whipped cream:
- Combine the cream and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl
- Beat with an electric hand mixer or whisk by hand until the mixture holds stiff peaks
- Set aside
To assemble the tiramisu:
- Have ready a rectangular serving dish (about 8" by 8") or individual serving glasses
- Pour your cool Earl Grey tea in a shallow dish for dipping the biscuits
- In a large bowl, beat the mascarpone cheese and purple/violet paste colouring until smooth and desired colour is acquired
- Add the prepared and chilled zabaglione and pastry cream, blending until just combined
- Gently fold in the whipped cream
- Set this cream mixture aside
- Workings quickly, dip 12 of the ladyfingers in the Earl Grey tea, about 1 second per side
- Tip: They should be moist but not soggy. If using store bought biscuits, they'll be drier and can be dipped for longer
- Immediately transfer each ladyfinger to the platter, placing them side by side in a single row or into the individual glasses
- Tip: You may break a lady finger into two, if necessary, to ensure the base of your dish is completely covered
- Spoon one third of the cream mixture on top of the ladyfingers, then use a rubber spatula or spreading knife to cover the top evenly, all the way to the edges
- Repeat to create 2 more layers, using 12 ladyfingers and the cream mixture for each layer, ending with the cream mixture on top
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- Spoon in required amount into each serving glass
- Tip: The amount you spoon in depends on the size of your individual serving glasses and if you're doing layers or not
- Tip: I didn't do layers in the Blue Rinse Tiramisu so I spooned in enough of the mixture till it reached the top of the glass
- Clean any spilled cream mixture
- Cover carefully with plastic wrap and refrigerate the tiramisu overnight
- To serve, carefully remove the plastic wrap and sprinkle the tiramisu with grated white chocolate or powdered sugar using a fine-mesh strainer or decorate as you please
Mascarpone Cheese
This recipe makes 12oz / 340g of mascarpone cheese
500ml / 2 cups Whipping / Heavy Pasteurized (not ultra-pasteurized) Cream
1 Tbsp Fresh Lemon Juice
- Bring 1 inch of water to a boil in a wide skillet or large pot
- Reduce the heat to a simmer
- Pour the cream into a medium heat-resistant stainless steel bowl, then place the bowl into the skillet or pot
- Tip: It doesn't matter if the bowl does or doesn't touch the water
- Heat the cream, stirring often, until you see small bubbles starting to push to the surface, about 80°C to 90°C
- Tip: It will take about 15 minutes of delicate heating
- Add the lemon juice and continue heating the mixture, stirring gently, until the cream curdles
- Tip: Do not expect the same action as you see during ricotta cheese making. All that the whipping cream will do is become thicker, like a well-done crème anglaise. It will cover a back of your wooden spoon thickly. You will see just a few clear whey streaks when you stir
- Remove the bowl from the water and let cool for about 20 minutes
- Meanwhile, line a sieve with four layers of dampened cheesecloth and set it over a bowl
- Tip: A think kitchen towel will do
- Transfer the mixture into the lined sieve
- Tip: Do not squeeze the cheese in the cheesecloth or press on its surface, be patient, it will firm up after refrigeration time
- Once cooled completely, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate (in the sieve) overnight or up to 24 hours
- Keep refrigerated and use within 3 to 4 days
Lady Finger/ Boudoir / Savoiardi Biscuits
This recipe makes approximately 24 big ladyfingers or 45 small (2 1/2" to 3" long) ladyfingers
3 Eggs, separated
6 Tbsp Granulated Sugar
3/4 cup/95gms Cake Flour, sifted
Confectioner's / Powdered Sugar
- Preheat oven to 350°F / 180°C (160°C Fan Assisted)
- Lightly brush 2 baking sheets with oil or softened butter and line with parchment paper
- Beat the egg whites using a hand held electric mixer until stiff peaks form
- Gradually add granulate sugar and continue beating until the egg whites become stiff again, glossy and smooth
- In a small bowl, beat the egg yolks lightly with a fork and fold them into the meringue, using a wooden spoon
- Sift the flour over this mixture and fold gently until just mixed
- Tip: It is important to fold very gently and not overdo the folding otherwise the batter would deflate and lose volume resulting in ladyfingers which are flat and not spongy
- Fit a pastry bag with a plain tip and fill with the batter
- Tip: Or use a Ziplock bag with a corner snipped off
- Pipe the batter into 5" long and 3/4" wide strips leaving about 1" space in between the strips
- Tip: You can pipe them to exactly the size you need for your individual serving glasses, even doing round discs
- Tip: To get them uniform, draw line on the underside of the parchment paper to pipe over
- Generously dust confectioner's sugar over the ladyfingers and wait for 5 minutes
- Tip: The sugar will pearl or look wet and glisten
- Again, generously dust the piped batter again with the powdered sugar
- Tip: This helps to give the ladyfingers their characteristic crispness
- Tip: While I was taking photos, the powdered sugar kept disappearing into the batter so mine got about 4-5 generous dustings, but this may have helped keep them from spreading too much while baking
- Bake the ladyfingers for 10 minutes, then rotate the sheets and bake for another 5 minutes or so until the puff up, turn lightly golden brown and are still soft
- Allow them to cool then remove the ladyfingers from the baking sheet with a metal spatula and cool throughly on a rack
- Store them in an airtight container till required
- Tip: They should keep for 2 to 3 weeks
Thanks again to Aparna & Deeba for this great challenge, I really had a good time with this one!
Have a look at my Baileys Tiramisu that I also made using the home made mascarpone & boudoir biscuits with an adapted Gordon Ramsay recipe which contains no egg.
Or check out the delicious Frangelico Tiramisu that I made adapting my favourite Tiramisu recipe with a few small changes to make it without raw egg.
Other Tips
If making this as a single tiramisu in a large dish, serves 6 - 8 portions
Can be frozen. Cover dish well with plastic wrap and freeze. Allow to sit out at room temperature to defrost, about 15-30mins depending on your climate


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Say goodbye to the iconic slogan "Got Milk?" that sparked the series of humorous milk mustache commercials.
After two decades, the milk industry is replacing the catchphrase with the new tagline "Milk Life."
The new campaign is designed highlight the nutritional benefits of milk and to get consumers to rethink the drink, Milk Processor Education Program CEO Julia Kadison told Ad Age. MilkPEP is an industry marketing program funded by milk processors.
"A lot of people don't know that milk has protein, so it was very important to make that connection between milk and protein," Kadison says. In addition to focusing on protein, she says MilkPEP wants to make milk "relatable, relevant and meaningful to Americans."
The "Got Milk?" line was created by the advertising agency Gooby, Silverstein & Partners and originated in 1993 as a rebranding initiative for the California Milk Processor Board.
In 1995, MilkPEP licensed the well-known slogan. The phrase rose to popularity in the campaign's ads, which featured about 300 celebrities such as Bill Clinton, Elton John, Steven Tyler and David Beckham.
The California processors, which are still partnered with Goodby, will continue the "Got Milk?" campaign in California.
MilkPEP's "Milk Life" slogan was designed by the advertising agency Lowe Campbell Ewald in hopes of not only conveying the power of protein after drinking milk, but also boosting milk sales. Per-capita fluid milk consumption has declined by 25 percent since 1975, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
MilkPEP plans to spend more than $50 million on the campaign, Ad Age reported.
The new tagline ads will be released today, featuring ordinary people and reflecting milk as a key ingredient to a healthy and active lifestyle.


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A few weeks ago, I found the Alvin Penstix at my University Bookstore. I've heard good things about Alvin products, so I was excited to take this pen for a spin.
While I do not typically create graphics or technical drawings, I am certainly interested in "all fine writing."
As you can see from the writing sample, I was not a huge fan of this pen. It is not very comfortable to hold, and the ink is more of a grey-brown than black, so that, too, was very disappointing. The color of the scan was not entirely accurate on how dark the inks were, but the color of the Alvin Penstix is pretty close to how I see it in person.
Outside of those two points, the cap takes very little energy to be removed, so I can see this pen ruining some clothes. The clip is not on the cap (it is on the back of the barrel), so this pen would be point down in your shirt or pants pocket. If the cap falls off, which it will, there will be ink all over the place.
The one thing I can say about this pen is that I really did enjoy the way the point puts ink on the paper - it was fun to use in that respect, but otherwise there is little I can say to salvage the overall writing experience.
See what I mean about the edges? There two edges that are not great to hold after a few minutes. The tip is one of those white plastic tips that feels like a firm felt-tip marker.
I will be sending this pen off to The Pen Addict to see what he says about it, but I don't recommend purchasing one.