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Odds on the Royals Trade Market
So, we're about 10 days from the trade deadline, so why not handicap the Royals and the chances they'll be moved in the next week and a half.
Kyle Farnsworth – 35%
Kerosene Kyle has been effective out of the pen this year and teams are always looking for relief. He could get dealt for a grade C prospect.
Jose Guillen – 5%
It's not that Dayton Moore won't trade him. It's that he can't trade him.
Alberto Callaspo – 20%
Reports on Tuesday had the Angels offering Sean O'Sullivan and a fringe prospect. Once upon a time, O'Sullivan was the Angels fifth rated prospect, but has struggled since moving past Single-A. I don't blame Dayton – if the reports are true and he turned this offer down. However, if that's the best bounty Callaspo will bring, he's not going anywhere. Although the Angels seem like a fit.
Willie Bloomquist – 15%
He would return a PTBNL. At most.
Zack Greinke, Brian Bannister, Kyle Davies – 0%
The rotation is thin with Gil Meche and Luke Hochevar on the DL. There's absolutely zero chance Dayton guts his rotation.
Joakim Soria – 5%
He's signed at to a club-friendly deal and is a closer. Both points matter a great deal to management. Those Soria to New York rumors (and for Jesus Montero!) were so laughable, I'm not even sure they need to be addressed.
Bottom line: This is baseball's silly season. I get the feeling there are a few national writers who scour losing teams for quality players on low dollar contracts. In other words, bargains. And those writers immediately throw those names into the trade cauldron. We get it… The Royals are the chum and the Yankees are the sharks. It's lazy and unprofessional and total B.S. It's like closing your eyes and throwing a dart and guessing where it will land. So the Yankees covet Soria. Really? If I had to guess, I'd say there are 28 other teams who covet the guy.
Soria isn't going anywhere. Yet.
David DeJesus – 20%
This is the one guy who the Royals are willing to part with (although no one on this team should be "untouchable") and he's the one who would net the greatest return, so his odds are the highest outside of Farnsworth.
I could see him headed to Tampa or the Giants. And yes, I could see him in Boston. The Royals will have to lower their asking price though. No, he's not a fourth outfielder, but he's much more valuable to the Royals than he would be to say the Rays. That's not a knock on DeJesus, it's just a fact. And because that's the case, teams aren't going to want to give up a ton. Although if Jeff Passan's report that the Royals are seeking a major league ready prospect and a mid level prospect is accurate, that seems fair to me.
It will take a savvy GM to get a team to pony up what the Royals are looking for. I don't think we have that GM.
The Field – 15%
Overall, I think the odds that GMDM and the Royals make a trade is around 15%. I just don't see much happening at the deadline.
I hope I'm wrong.
Really not much to analyze in a 13-1 beatdown.
— It was one of those nights when Anthony Lerew looked like a Triple-A pitcher and the Blue Jays looked like the team leading the AL in home runs and second in slugging. The Jays were ripping Lerew all over the park. It was the Laser Show prelude to the Lightening Show.
It was only a matter of time before someone lined one up the middle and off the pitcher. Honestly, Lerew was throwing BP out there – he probably should have had the screen in front of him. At the time, I thought that was the last thing the Jays wanted to do… Why knock out the pitcher who has nothing? Turns out it didn't hurt as Kanekoa Texeira wasn't any better, allowing both inherited runners to score before allowing two more to plate in the third inning.
Early word on Lerew was a bruised rib cage and bicep. I bet. He's feeling the pain right about now.
— Speaking of BP, that was exactly what Blake Wood was throwing. That 95 mph on a string… No way a slugging team like the Jays doesn't just crush the ball against a pitcher like Wood. And crush him they did. Bautista smoked a double off the Royals reliever and Lind hit a liner that bounced off the top of the wall for a home run. In both instances, the hitters were sitting fastball. In both instances, Wood obliged.
— If you were a major league player and your best chance at getting on base was to make like a fastpitch softball player and execute a swinging bunt, would you be embarrassed? Just asking…
— There was a Brayan Pena sighting as he entered the game in the eighth as a pinch runner for Jose Guillen with the Royals down by 10 at that point. Love the strategic maneuvering. Gotta keep Guillen fresh. And it was muddy out there, too. Gotta keep him safe.
— If you love spectacular defensive plays, this was your game. The Jays had Web Gems all around the infield on Tuesday. And Alberto Callaspo turned in a couple of nifty plays to his left as well.
— The Blue Jays had 16 hits, while the Royals had 11. Yet the Jays scored 13 runs, while the Royals could only muster a run.
Perhaps the difference was that the Jays had 10 extra base hits to the Royals one.
That seems to be the story of the Royals offense in a nutshell.
When I hear someone say Kevin Seitzer has done a great job with this team, I just shake my head. Not that he's done anything wrong or horrible… But he hasn't done anything to really make a bit of difference with this offense.
The point of the offense is to score runs. The end. I could care less that the Royals are leading the league in batting average. They're second to last in walks and their 4.37 runs per game are 10th. They rank seventh in OBP (at .335, which is actually a surprise given the lack of walks… And a good thing) and 11th in slugging at .402.
It's not like Seitzer can teach guys power, so I'm not going to dock him points for the Royals team slugging percentage. But when you depend on guys to string together three singles to score one run, it's going to be difficult to get the runs across the plate.


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Uncharted Territory: Scientists Discover New and Incredible Species
It's every scientist's dream to travel to a remote, unexplored place looking for as many new and interesting species as they can find. This was a dream come true for the 15 Mozambican and international scientists, led by Piotr Naskrecki, who spent 3 weeks in the Cheringoma Plateau of Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. There couldn't have been a more adventurous setting for this expedition than the sheer limestone cliffs, studded with deep caves, cascading down to the lush riverine forest and rushing streams of the gorges below. The scientists' mission was to collect and record information on the species of this region to help park managers understand and protect Gorongosa's biodiversity.
In total, the team recorded over 1,200 species (and counting) including 182 bird species, 54 mammal species, 47 reptile species, 33 frog species, over 100 ant species, and 320 plant species. Some of the notable finds on the survey were the Chewbacca Bat, named after the Star Wars character; a strange, cave-dwelling frog that is possibly new to science; an ant that is incapable of walking on flat surfaces; a bombardier beetle that defends itself by producing small explosions from its abdomen; and several katydids that are new to science.
The scientists used a variety of methods on the survey including pitfall traps, mist nets, pheromone traps, remote cameras, and ultrasonic sound detectors. They explored uncharted territory in Gorongosa, descending into caves in deep limestone gorges, and ascending the tall canopies of trees using advanced tree climbing and repelling techniques.
This was the first comprehensive biodiversity survey in the history of this 4,000sqkm protected area, and its results will help guide the restoration effort to reverse biodiversity losses suffered by the park during the armed conflicts that devastated Mozambique from 1975 until 1992. By understanding what species exist in Gorongosa, park management can make better decisions about how to protect the park's biodiversity and its rare and threatened species.
The Wilson Biodiversity Laboratory, in honor of E.O. Wilson's support, is a modern science laboratory scheduled to open in Gorongosa soon. Specimens collected during the survey will form the foundation of a biological research collection that will be housed in the lab. And information collected by the survey's scientists will contribute to the park's biodiversity database, a tool that helps manage and protect its natural resources.
For further information see Gorongosa.
A portrait of Tree frog (Leptopeles flavomaculatus), one of 33 species of frogs recorded on the Cheringoma Plateau (Piotr Naskrecki).

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Virgin's Pacific Blue Lands Low Fares in Dunedin07/07/2008
Pacific Blue's eye-catching red jet will touch down for the first time in Dunedin on 1 July, bringing the southern city some much-needed airline competition and a service style second to none.
Today's launch flight marks the start of daily return services between Christchurch and Dunedin, with convenient connections on Pacific Blue to and from Auckland and Wellington.
"What better timing to begin our new Dunedin flights than on National Tartan Day," said the airline's Chief Executive, John Bartlett. "It's the first time in a number of years that travellers from New Zealand's famously Scottish city, as well as tourists heading to the Dunedin region, have had a real choice in domestic air travel."
"With the addition of regular Pacific Blue flights, not only will the people of Dunedin find it more convenient to take off on holiday or to visit family and friends, these affordable services will no doubt boost tourism to the region in the future, which is an added bonus of real and sustainable competition," John Bartlett added.
The new service comes just two weeks after Pacific Blue took delivery of its seventh Boeing 737-800 aircraft. With the addition of the new service and aircraft Pacific Blue now offers 270 flights a week to and from four New Zealand cities, four Australian cities, and South Pacific destinations including Rarotonga, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and Vanuatu.
As well as its famous low fares, Pacific Blue also offers a superior service style, brand new state-of-the-art aircraft with comfortable leather seating, a free to join 'Velocity' frequent flier program and Web and Self-check-in facilities. Other optional services available on a pay-for-use basis include; a range of delicious in-flight drinks and snacks, Blue Zone seating, Fully-flexible fares and carbon off-setting options.
Dunedin Mayor, Peter Chin, will be one of the VIP Guests aboard Pacific Blue's inaugural flight to Dunedin which will depart Christchurch at 11.30am today. All Guests onboard today's historic flight will also be treated to complimentary champagne and special in-flight activities to mark the occasion.
The arrival of the flight will be followed by a tartan-themed celebration at Dunedin International Airport featuring bagpipes, highland dancers, a 35-strong school kapa haka group, and guests from the Dunedin business and tourism communities.
The aircraft will even become an honorary Dunedin "scarfie" for a few moments after it lands when a specially made 15-metre blue-and-gold Otago scarf is tied under its fuselage.
Since Pacific Blue began its domestic services in November 2007 the airline has carried hundreds of thousands of travellers around New Zealand and airports around the country have reported strong increases in domestic passenger numbers.
About Pacific Blue, Polynesian Blue, and Virgin Blue Airlines
Pacific Blue and Polynesian Blue, along with Australian domestic airline Virgin Blue, operate a fleet of 68 modern Boeing 737 and Embraer E-Jet aircraft flying to 24 Australian and eight international destinations including New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu and the Cook Islands.


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Jewel Bait Finesse Jig 2pk
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Jewel Bait Company created the Finesse Jig and set a new standard of jig fishing. The Jewel Baits Finesse Jig is a small profile bait that allows fishermen to fish a finesse jig in the most dense cover. When conditions get tough or fishing pressure is making bass tight lipped, the Jewel Baits Finesse Jig will produce bites. Each Jewel Baits Finesse Jig features a custom-designed Mustad Ultra Point Hook and a weedguard that allows for fishing in and around structure. The Jewel Baits Finesse Jig has a round head which can be effectively fished in rocks, wood, or grass. Next time the bass won't take your larger offerings try the Jewel Baits Finesse Jig, you won't be disappointed.
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Comments: Best finesse jig on the market hands down. I have been using Jewel Finesse Jigs for years & have never had an issue with the hook. Best hook up and landing rate of any jig on the market like it. They were the leader in finesse jigs 20 years ago & still are today!
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Comments: Best jig on the market! I never used to be big into fishing a jig, until this past year now its hard to get it out of my hand, I have tried many different styles and brands and nothing compares to Jewels Finesse Jig. I prefer buying the jig head and skirts separately. That way I can paint the heads any color I choose. But that's just me being picky haha!!
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From: David: Louisville, KY 7/26/15
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From: Darrin: VA 2/12/15
Comments: I loved these jigs, always had one on the deck during any tournament any time of the year. They changed the the hook, eye color, and skirt holder. Now get lot less strikes and lose most hooked fish. Now I'm in search of different jigs.
From: Jo: Birmingham, AL 1/2/15
Comments: These jigs used to be one of my "go to" baits//jigs, caught a lot of fish on the older style jig and the hook was rock solid. Recently they have changed the hook on this jig, and it isn't for the better. The new hook is super light wire, and it straightens out on a decent hookset. I will no longer use these, as I have lost two good fish in the last couple weeks that cost me money in a tournament. If you are using anything heavier than 10 lb line and a drop shot rod, don't use this jig. Hook is absolute garbage. Jewel needs to go back to the old style hook.
From: Brad: TX 10/13/14
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Comments: Love these jigs. Caught tons of fish and won quite a bit of money on them. Used one of these jigs in my local club classic one time in the first part of October and smashed em and took home first place with 22.00 lbs. Wish the hooks were a little better on the 5/16 oz jigs (I prefer the 7/16 because of the better hook) but other than that, keep it up.
From: Dakota: Valliant, OK
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Comments: This is a good jig. It really needs a wire tie because the rubber bands break and then they are useless. Other then this, I have won alot of money with them.
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Comments: love this bait good for flipping pitching anything best jig i have ever seen if i had to pick one bait it would be this with a eakins craw trailer one time i was fishing with my buddy griffen who wrote a review we were flipping seawalls and i had a regualar jig and he had one o these and he caught 5 largemouth all keepers in 10 min on one sea wall i didnt catch a single bass this is a goo to bait BASS FISHING RULES
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Comments: This jig is great! i love to fish it around anything! Its great for skipping docks! 7/16 in pbj is one of the best jigs on the market. Jewel makes good quality jigs that have proven themselves many times to me!
From: Andrew: GA
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Bugs' Life Not so Rosy Around Young Entomologist
It's a wonder that Justin Runyon's parents didn't have insomnia. After all, who could sleep when the young bug enthusiast was throwing on floodlights outside the house in the middle of the night to attract and collect insects?
"Yes, my parents were very patient with me," said Runyon, a research entomologist at the Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Runyon no longer needs to wake his parents to conduct his research – he has plenty of opportunity to do that at his lab in Bozeman, Mont., where he studies the chemical interaction between insects and plants. His work and accomplishments earned him this year's prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The accolade is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Runyon was one of 102 recipients to receive the award this year. Read more »


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ABAJO MOUNTAINS: Tommi Budd fished some open water at Blanding #4 on Sunday. His limit of fish included a 21-inch tiger trout and a 16-inch albino. Tommi experimented with a variety of spinners, flies and bubble, and PowerBait. He also observed ice anglers catching fish at Blanding #3. Recapture is a mixture of ice and open water. The ice fishing season is over there. Tommi recommends PowerBait at Blanding #3 and #4, and brassy lures or Rapalas at Recapture.
ELECTRIC LAKE: Weekend blizzard conditions kept anglers at home. Open water occurs on the north end around the mineâs water discharge. Springs or isolated pockets of open water may also be encountered. Caution is advised.
HUNTINGTON CREEK: Tom Ogden fished the creek on January 13, and caught 10 small browns along open water stretches below the forks. Tom used floating line and three different fly patterns. These included a size 12 bead head Montana, size 14 bead head hares ear (gray color), and size 12 bead head serendipity (green color). Tom reports very little fishable water along the creek at this time. He observed most trout in holes, resting on the bottom, and indicates that in winter months, a fly must be drifted past a trout a number of times, before it will bite. The bite will be very light, so an angler must watch for any hesitation in the drift of the fly.
HUNTINGTON RESERVOIR (MAMMOTH): Blizzard conditions over the weekend put a stop to angler activity. The ice cover is thick, and snow-covered. Angler access is difficult, and drilling an ice hole is even harder.
HUNTINGTON NORTH RESERVOIR: Slow fishing is expected.
Conservation Officer Casey Mickelsen reported fair to good fishing on Saturday, January 24 for 10-12 inch splake. He checked 10 parties of anglers, all of whom were using jigs, tipped with chub meat. Casey recommends fishing west of the new boat ramp and south of Lowry Water.
Ron Sorensen of Mount Pleasant, who caught a 27-inch splake on January 3, caught another 27-incher on January 17. It weighed an estimated eight pounds. Ron fishes with a custom yellow/chartreuse jig, tipped with chub meat. On the 17th, Ron fished in 12 feet of water near the Lowry Water inlet on the north side of the lake. Ron reported catching a lot of small splake that moved around in schools, so the bite alternated between hot and cold all day long.
Regulations at Joes Valley Reservoir changed on January 1. The limit is four trout, and only one trout may be over 18 inches. Please take along a 2009 Fishing Guidebook for reference.
LAKE POWELL: Visit http://www.wayneswords.com for the winter fishing report from Wayne Gustaveson, DWR project leader.
LASAL MOUNTAINS: Mountain access is closed, except by snow machine. On January 28, Conservation Officer Tj Robertson stated that Kens Lake was now open. The ice fishing season is over.
MILLSITE RESERVOIR: Fishing success has slowed down.
Sergeant Stacey Jones reported that Scofield Reservoir was rainy all weekend. Rain, slush and a slick surface made moving around the ice pack very difficult. Fishing success was poor with all kinds of end tackle and on all parts of the reservoir.
On January 1, regulations changed at Scofield Reservoir. The limit is four trout in the aggregate. A slot limit is now in effect for tiger and cutthroat trout. No more than two may be cutthroat or tiger trout under 15 inches, and no more than one may be a cutthroat or tiger trout over 22 inches. All cutthroat and tiger trout from 15-22 inches must be immediately released. The trout you take home should not be filleted or the head and tail removed. Any trout with cutthroat markings is considered a cutthroat trout. Itâs a good idea to take along a 2009 Fishing Guidebook for reference.


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Source: http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/22004285070223/POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- Nearly a dozen billboards across South Florida claim that Judgment Day is less than two weeks away.
Radio host Harold Camping and his followers have calculated that the end of the world will occur on May 21. "It's going to be a horror story that we absolutely cannot conceive of. Millions of people will die on that day and everyday thereafter," Camping said.
According to Camping, who is the founder of the Family Radio network, Judgment Day will begin with earthquakes at 6 p.m. local time.
Camping's followers have been traveling around the world, spreading the word about the forthcoming day. "We see people that give us the thumb. They say, 'Thumbs up.' We also see people that, unfortunately, give us the other finger," said one devotee, Darryl Keats.
Nine billboards about Judgment Day have been spotted around South Florida, and dozens more advertisements have been posted nationwide. "Yeah, I heard the world's coming to an end, but I'm not really a believer in that, so why not buy groceries for a longer time?" one man said.
I like to go on note I do not believe this BS. The fact that they even had the permission and the money to put these Nationwide just annoys the fuck out of me! I have seen these billboards here in CA while driving on the Freeway but I thought it was just a little stupid thing but apparently they made it bigger. I dont like the fact that they are scaring thousands of people. I dont like the fact that they go and ad this nationwide, and I certainly dont like how they proclaim that we will end on the 21st when there were past dates on how the world was "Supposed" to end. Kinda makes me sick


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By Blake Long/Special to the Journal
TUPELO – Zach Johnson's senior year of football may not be a perfect one, but he and his teammates have assured themselves of one thing. Tupelo will enter the final week of regular season play in playoff contention.
The Golden Wave defeated Horn Lake 31-0 on senior night to keep their hopes of a fourth straight postseason berth alive.
Tupelo must now is to win at Olive Branch next Friday.
"Man, I'm going to be so excited," Johnson said. "We're trying to do something Tupelo hasn't done in a while."
Johnson made some big catches to help the Wave move the chains and build a comfortable lead in the first half.
Tupelo senior Thomas Harris started at quarterback and hit Johnson on the opening possession for a 13-yard pickup to set up first-and-goal.
Reed Taylor put the Golden Wave (4-6, 2-4) up 7-0 two plays later on a 4-yard scoring run.
Johnson hauled in three catches in a 12-play drive a quarter later. The second reception, from sophomore QB Alex Norwood, gained 20 yards and put Tupelo in field goal range.
Drew White's 32-yard attempt into a stiff wind was successful and made the score 17-0 with 7:54 remaining until halftime.
Defense steps up
Tupelo added to its advantage with two defensive touchdowns. On Horn Lake's first possession, Michael Ray returned a fumble 19 yards for a touchdown.
James Gilleylen tipped and intercepted a Dalton Minton pass and went 51 yards untouched to complete the pick-six and give Tupelo a 24-0 advantage at the break.
Alyjiawon Johnson added an 8-yard touchdown run in the third quarter for the Golden Wave's final points. It's the second week in a row that Taylor and Johnson, both juniors, have found the end zone.
"Coming into the season we had so little experience at the skill positions that it's been a growing process for all of those guys," said Tupelo offensive coordinator Andy Crotwell.
"They've matured a little bit and are getting better and better."
Norwood saw the majority of the snaps for the Wave and finished 9 of 11 for 128 yards passing.
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Linda Lathroum
posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 - 8:06 am
Dr. Muthen,
What is the difference between STDY Standardization and STDYX Standardization in the standardized model results? Which of the two should I interpret when I have direct and indirect effects unto one Dependent latent variable?
Thank you,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, April 04, 2011 - 9:09 am
You should use StdYX when covariates are continuous and StdY when covariates are binary.
Linda Lathroum
posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2011 - 8:22 am
Dear Dr. Muthen,
Thank you very much for this clarification.
I have one other question. At what point is skewness problematic (as an indicator of a latent)?
Thank you!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2011 - 9:33 am
Unless you have a preponderance of zeroes, estimators like MLR that are robust to non-normality should handle skewness for continuous indicators. Floor or ceiling effects for categorical indicators are handled by categorical data methodology.
Linda Lathroum
posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2011 - 12:31 pm
Thank you Dr. Muthen,
Ahmed Shafik
posted on Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 3:59 am
Dear Dr. Muthen,
I am estimating a logistic regression (MLR) with some covariates that are continuous and others that are binary. I am using exclusively observed variables and no indirect effects. It is a simple logistic regression as you use to estimate in Stata or SPSS.
Should I use StdYX for continous and StdY for the binary covariates even when the two types of covariates are in one and the same model? I have a strange feeling by using for some covariates the coefficients from one part of the output and for the other covariates the coefficients from an other part of the output. Is this really advisable?
Best Regards
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 11:17 am
With logistic regression, I would standardize the coefficients with continuous covariates with respect to x only. I would not standardize the coefficients with binary covariates.
Ahmed Shafik
posted on Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 3:26 pm
If I understand right, I should use the coefficients under the output block titled StdYX for the continuous covariates while for the binary covariates I should use the non-standardized coefficients at the top of the output?
Is it really advisable to use for some covariates one specific part of the output while for other covariates a different part of the output is used?
Best Regards
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 3:49 pm
No, for continuous covariates you need StdX which you will have to create yourself. See the STANDARDIZED option in the user's guide where you will find formulas to help you do that.
You should report all of the raw results and report standardized only for variables with continuous covariates.
Michael Lorber
posted on Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 11:53 am
I am trying to make sense of differences in the p-values and meanings of the unstandardized vs. standardized (STDYX) covariances in the following output. All the variables in the model are continuous and both have missing data, so I am using FIML. Estimator = MLR. Typically, I like to report the STDYX results because they�re in an easily understood metric, but I am unnerved by such differences. I have several similar examples in regression models.
If the only difference is that STDYX is calculating the covariance having rescaled each variable to have M=0 and SD=1, I would expect the p-values to agree perfectly. Since that�s not the case, I�m unsure what Mplus is doing�how these inconsistent p-values occurred. Also, which results are �more correct.� And is the answer any different if I�m doing regression models with continuous DVs and predictors?
Thanks for your input!
STDYX Standardization
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 5:35 pm
The p-values differ for unstandardized and standardized parameters because the parameters have different sampling distributions.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 5:39 pm
You can try Bayes and see what this says about the 95% CIs in this case.
Michael Lorber
posted on Friday, January 18, 2013 - 11:46 am
Thanks for the feedback!
Leaving Bayes est aside for the moment, which results would you put more stock in, the unstandardized (n.s.) or the standardized (sig)? Is it arbitrary because they're both "correct"? Sigh, I'm sure this is where the people who advocate getting rid of null hypothesis testing would pipe up.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, January 18, 2013 - 12:23 pm
See if Bayes shows disagreement for the 2. Bayes also tells you if the distribution is non-normal. You wouldn't trust an ML z-score if the distribution is non-normal.
Michael Lorber
posted on Sunday, January 27, 2013 - 11:51 am
So you're suggesting that Bayes is "better" than either the regular unstandardized or standardized solutions? I should trust the result that is more consistent with the Bayes result? If so, does that imply that I should be using Bayes all the time?
By the way, I've been using MLR because the IV and DV distributions are nonnormal.
Thanks again.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 - 10:33 am
Bayes does not assume that the sampling distributions of the parameters are normal as frequentist methods do. It is not clear how robust Bayes is to non-normality of the data. If your data are non-normal and the sampling distributions of the parameters are non-normal, you may be best off with ML and bootstrapping.
posted on Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 5:12 am
Dear Dr Muthen
I am running a multiple mediation model with two dummy independent variables, 5 continuous mediators and 4 latent outcome variables. When reporting standardized output am I right in thinking I should report STDY for the path estimates between the independent variables and the latent factors and STDYX for the path estimates between each of my mediators and the latent factors?
Also when reporting standardized indirect effects should I use STDY as the independents are binary variables?
Many thanks for your help.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 10:09 am
Use StdYX unless the covariate is binary. Then use StdY.
posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2014 - 9:21 pm
Hello there,
For factor loadings, should we use STDY for binary variables and STDYX for continuous/ordinal/latent variables, or if we can use both, without consideration for the scale of the variables ?
Thank you
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, September 04, 2014 - 9:01 am
The factor model is
factor indicators ON factors
You should standardize by the factor (continuous covariate) and the factor indicator so StdY. This is for both binary and continuous factor indicators.
posted on Friday, September 05, 2014 - 12:32 pm
Thank you for the answer.
I would have one more question for factor loading coefficients.
When I am using a WLSMV estimator, there is no StdY coefficients in the output. Does that mean that it is not possible to obtain StdY coefficents when using WLSMV estimator ?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, September 05, 2014 - 2:11 pm
If you are talking about standardizing loadings, just use STDYX. In this case, it is the same as what you would get with STDY.
Athanasios Mouratidis
posted on Monday, February 01, 2016 - 1:49 am
Dear Dr. Muthen,
I have a practical question regarding the numerical values I am getting in a two-level model.
Although the observed scores of the variables in my model are between 1 and 5, and although I have already centered the scores at the higher level, the values that I am getting at the between level are excessively high under the STDYX standardization section (the same applies under the STDY standardization section). Specifically, although the paths from the between level to the outcomes seem reasonable (i.e., .71 and -.74) the intercepts are as high as 11.46 and 10.56.
In the non-standardized solution the respective intercepts fall within logical boundaries (i.e., 3.56 and 3.04). I am getting exactly these values under the STD standardization section. In those sections however the paths from the between level to the outcomes are excessively high (.995 and -.965).
So, my question is what am I missing (or doing wrong)?
I thank you for your consideration
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, February 01, 2016 - 11:05 am
Please send the output and your license number to
yvette xie
posted on Monday, January 16, 2017 - 12:50 am
Dear Professor,
In my model, I have continuous latent variables as DV, and both continuous and bivariate variables as IV. Should I report the results in STDYX for continuous covariates and STDY for bivariate covariates?
Many thanks!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, January 16, 2017 - 9:42 am
posted on Monday, January 16, 2017 - 5:09 pm
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I have a follow-up question.
Some studies argued that we can no longer use standardised coefficient to compare the effect sizes of different IVs within a study. Then, why should we report the standardised solution?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, January 16, 2017 - 6:01 pm
You may want to ask this general question on SEMNET.
posted on Monday, January 16, 2017 - 6:18 pm
Thanks for your advice.
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The confluence of social networking, mobile computing, analytics, and cloud computing (SMAC) creates a perfect storm of challenges for enterprise IT groups. Generational changes in the way people adopt and use technology further exacerbate this disruption. A parallel subtrend called the consumerization of IT (CoIT) is driving the convergence of these technologies in ways that contradict the traditional IT management methods of command and control, locked-down systems, systematic rollouts, and long cycle-time application development.
Over time, SMAC and CoIT will expand and deepen the digital operating model explored in the previous article, "Exploiting the growing value from information," on page 06. But these two trends present challenges that will require significant changes in how enterprise IT operates and enables business, which are issues examined in the next article, "Embracing open IT," on page 54. Fortunately, evolving approaches supported by emerging technologies can help achieve this transition to a permeable enterprise.
These emerging technologies represent a new generation of application programming interfaces (APIs), or code-based programming specifications that allow software components to communicate with each other in a distributed system. A relatively new style of APIs, called representational state transfer (RESTful) APIs, and emerging solutions to manage them, called API management platforms, provide mechanisms so enterprises can engage with SMAC in a strategic and systematic manner to assist the fulfillment of their digital ambitions. Together, they power the consumerization of APIs.
Previous issues of the Technology Forecast have covered the individual impact of social,1 mobile,2 analytics,3 and cloud.4 RESTful APIs and API management platforms are the key technologies that abstract above these individual pieces and support the integration of SMAC, thus making them the key tools for participating in the digital economy.
RESTful APIs enable what PwC calls the permeable enterprise, in which capabilities and assets inside the enterprise are easily combined with assets and capabilities outside the enterprise. Once the sole province of highly experienced software developers with deep knowledge of the enterprise context, APIs are becoming the basis for creating digital value chains that access and act on information from traditional data stores, humans, and an increasing number of physical objects that contain digital content; in short, we're witnessing the consumerization of APIs.
APIs have been used as a mechanism for linking programs since the early days of software. However, API creation and design have significantly changed. Early methods were proprietary and created interdependent coupling among pieces of code and systems. If one side of the coupling required a code change, the other side was affected. Over time, APIs evolved to reduce the interdependency of tightly coupled interfaces, generally lowering the complexity of integration. (See Figure 1.) Table 1 describes the evolution of integration and interface technologies to create distributed systems.
Figure 1
A conceptual view of the relative trends in complexity of integration and the nature of coupling, in the evolution of software integration technologies over time
Within the last decade, enterprises began to expose APIs to allow external parties to build new functionality, something software companies did in the past. ProgrammableWeb maintains a catalog of these publicly facing APIs. (See Figure 2.) Its directory has topped 6,000 APIs, and RESTful interfaces far outpace other styles, such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).5 (See Figure 3.) Today, communication on the web has evolved from the early days of using SOAP standards to using features of RESTful methods, making REST-compliant APIs a major class of web services.
Figure 2
Adoption of externally facing APIs is accelerating
Service-oriented architecture (SOA), which gained wide acceptance using web services built on SOAP, has been popular within organizations as a mechanism for sharing information across the enterprise. However, the use of a REST architecture, along with associated technologies such as JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), is accelerating the development and use of APIs. Some of the most popular services such as Twitter, Netflix, and Facebook are now processing API calls on the order of billions per day or month.
APIs are becoming the basis for creating digital value chains, including digital indirect channels previously established mainly by software companies and purely web-based companies. "When we step back to see what the big revolution is, we see that APIs are the first serious digital indirect channel," says Sam Ramji, vice president of strategy at Apigee, an API management vendor. "Although physical indirect channels have supported businesses for a long time, the equivalent in the digital domain has been unclear so far."
One big reason behind the successful adoption of RESTful APIs is developers' ability to build modular capabilities with lightweight interfaces that don't require heavy integration. "RESTful interfaces create a level of simplicity that didn't exist previously, and simplicity always speeds things up, making integrations cost-effective," says John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb.
The potential to lower cost expands the opportunities to integrate. "In the past, everything was a heavy integration. This meant that if there was a seemingly small need, the cost of integration was a barrier to fulfilling that need," says Devon Biondi, vice president of strategy services at Mashery, an API management vendor.
Despite rising adoption, integration via RESTful APIs is best regarded as a tool in the integration toolkit, and is not the right solution in all use cases. Each of the integration approaches in Table 1 have their advantages and disadvantages. For example, a REST architecture has added benefits such as being highly scalable and undeniably simpler, but depending on the protocols, clients, or servers used, it may have performance inferior to other integration styles, such as CORBA. Therefore, a cost-benefit analysis of specific IT use cases will determine the optimal integration style that must be implemented.
Table 1
The evolution of integration and interface technologies in distributed systems
As noted earlier, REST stands for representational state transfer, meaning that a client communicates with a server—not directly with the source of information on that server. This transfer is done through representations of the state of that resource. The REST architectural style for distributed systems was developed around 2000, and it is patterned after the HTTP6/1.1 Protocol. In RESTful designs, the client does not need to know about the implementation on the server. The server is free to store data as it likes, and the client can store the same information differently. This loose coupling means that as long as the interface is stable, the implementation on the client or the server can independently change. This independence creates flexibility in distributed software systems.
The REST architectural style requires that the following six constraints be met:
An API implemented using the preceding principles of REST and using standard HTTP communications protocols is a RESTful API, sometimes called a RESTful web service. Like any resource on the web, the RESTful API will need a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), such as an http:// address.
The early use of RESTful APIs has been concentrated in web companies, in companies active in mobile, in social applications, and in large enterprises leading the adoption of SMAC technologies. However, PwC expects this concentration to change; eventually all large enterprises with considerable data and information assets will use this technology internally and externally. Although SMAC applications motivate RESTful integration today, it is typically useful for any application-to-application integration.
For many enterprises, the path to web services begins with the adoption of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which uses SOAP as a method for exchanging information. In today's web service world, both SOAP and REST are used as methods of communication. There are several factors behind the popularity of REST when contrasted with SOAP.
Simplicity. REST uses simple HTTP and therefore standard commands—such as GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE—to coordinate communication between clients and servers. SOAP has no widely accepted methods corresponding to GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE, which leaves developers free to define their own semantics. But the result can be complex, proprietary mechanisms to connect components. Any programmer unfamiliar with these proprietary semantics will need time to learn them, slowing development. (See Figure 4.)
Figure 4
Contrasting SOAP and RESTful mechanisms for web services communication
Familiarity. Since REST is closely related to web design, web developers do not face a steep learning curve. REST is also language and platform agnostic. On the other hand, SOAP requires a significant skill set in SOA-specific development and delivery tools. This impact can be substantial, as Ramji of Apigee explains: "When you get an order of magnitude shift in the number of developers who have the skill and talent to be able to use something, then you end up with outsize network effects."
Efficient with bandwidth. The use of the existing web infrastructure eliminates the need for an additional messaging layer in RESTful APIs. Coupled with the fact that REST uses those short request and response sequences, these APIs consume considerably less bandwidth than SOAP-based APIs.
Scalability. With simpler component implementations and reduced complexity in the connection semantics, RESTful services can scale—as evident from several services that register more than 1 billion API calls each month.Although REST has many benefits, in some situations—such as stateful operations where state needs to be continued, or for applications expecting a guaranteed level of security or reliability, or requiring formal contracts with rigid specification of the interaction—SOAP would be a more appropriate choice over REST, as it has standards to ensure certain requirements are met.
As simple as RESTful APIs are to build, they still require management and maintenance. And although it is easy to manage a single API, all enterprises will inevitably have several APIs that internal developers, strategic partners, and public developers use to build applications across diverse platforms. This increase in APIs has led to the need for tools and services that help companies create, publish, manage, operate, and analyze APIs. Such solutions, often called API management platforms, are now offered by several vendors, including 3Scale, Apigee, Layer 7 Technologies, Mashery, and others. Alcatel-Lucent also provides API management solutions but with a focus on the telecommunications vertical, enabling service providers to make their networks addressable by others.
API management platforms bring a wealth of new functionality to API publishing and operations. The following paragraphs describe their key characteristics.
Developer community engagement. Engaging with the developer community is a significant first step to building an API ecosystem; internal and external developers must be aware of exposed services and the APIs to use them. Some API management platforms are free tools for those just getting started, while others are complete developer portals that support easy access to APIs and accompanying documentation, such as wikis, blogs, and discussion forums, to promote developer collab-oration. Some companies also offer outreach and marketing programs designed to make the development community aware of their APIs.
Security. API management platforms offer several facets of security, starting with new developer approvals and developer authorization to access specific APIs. Many companies support the open security standards or OAuth 2.0 for authentication and key management. More sophisticated API management platforms support multi-tier access control methods that specify which developers can access which APIs. Usage monitoring is also part of this multi-tier access control capability. API management platforms should be able to integrate with existing enterprise security systems and protect against external security threats by using encryption, threat detection, and analysis.
Analytics and reporting. Analytics help companies understand and improve the value of their APIs. Value-driven analytics gauge API adoption by measuring traffic, purchases, and registrations. Partner-focused analytics help companies better understand who is using their APIs and via which partner channel they are accessing it, informing an appropriate response. For example, companies might segment audiences by top developers and applications, or they might analyze usage by API method. Operational analytics and reporting tools give visibility into the API platform to improve efficiency. Customers can use such tools to troubleshoot problems, improve or maintain service quality, measure latency, analyze load statistics, monitor transaction data and traffic flow, or identify underlying API problems.
Traffic control. For companies that maintain their API platform in house, traffic control is important to protect back-end systems from overload. API traffic control tools can set platform-wide rate limits, set limits by other rules such as client or IP [Internet Protocol] address, or create tiered systems to allow priority customers to consume more API data. With API traffic control tools, companies can define and enforce levels of partner access to data consumption.
Performance and scalability. API management platforms address performance and scalability issues associated with API platform growth. They also can manage scalability issues and limit lag time and latency when a large number of developers, applications, devices, or end users concurrently use the APIs.
API optimization. Although the use of RESTful APIs is on the rise, sometimes companies must support other methods. Companies can help drive API adoption by offering APIs that use protocols the partner or developer prefers, and API management platforms provide protocol translators to streamline the process. They can optimize API content and format to fit the requirements of specific mobile platforms or devices, and then institute and enforce API version control.
Platform outsourcing. Companies can offload the entire API management task to external service providers via cloud-based services or global API networks. They can also tap these solution providers to take over API management when traffic must remain on the premises.
Table 2 shows the broader group of capabilities and how they are evolving.
Table 2
Capabilities of API management platforms
As discussed in the article, "Exploiting the growing value from information," on page 06, the adoption of RESTful APIs creates significant new opportunities for enterprises to transform internally to a digital operating model and to engage externally with the evolving digital ecosystems. Strategically, any API program will start by analyzing an enterprise's opportunities to take advantage of data and information assets, turning them into platforms, and facilitating their extension by internal or external developers. Once under way, the program must recognize that the use of APIs is like all other programs in that they will have a life cycle of their own. This API life cycle must be understood and managed, so ongoing changes and refinements can be made.
A typical life cycle of an API program moves from driving developer adoption to using APIs to expand channels, as illustrated in Figure 5. API management platforms provide support along the entire life cycle. One best practice is to treat APIs like products and staff them with the roles and infrastructure typically put in place for any other product. "It is important to keep the API stable, so it should be managed like a product that would be maintained, supported, and evolved with good change management practices," says Mark Noworolski, CTO of Streetline, a global provider of smart parking solutions.
Figure 5
Life cycle for adopting and benefiting from APIs
Thus far, this article has discussed APIs as a mechanism to link capabilities provided in distributed software components to RESTful web services in traditional computing environments. However, the use of APIs extends beyond that. "The homogeneous world of PCs, Macs, or web browsers is transitioning to a heterogeneous world where almost anything can have an IP address and be open to collaboration," says Ramji of Apigee. Coordination across such a diverse and pervasive system requires an easy mechanism to connect and communicate. "That is why APIs are important. They provide such a mechanism in a digital ecosystem," Ramji continues.
Ramji is referring to what is called the Internet of Things (IoT), a term first used by Kevin Ashton in 1999, referring to the growing tendency to build inanimate objects that have the capability to generate digital information without human intermediation.
IoT is seeding an analog-to-digital transformation of everyday activities by making a greater portion of a person's environment more digital. Today it is becoming possible to capture information from data points as diverse as a toothbrush, home appliances, a thermostat, a car, or a home. Every object can be equipped with sensors that digitize the information about the object's state, location, and other relevant data.
APIs then make it possible to access and monitor that data in a standard way. Companies such as Cosm and ThingSpeak provide open source platforms for real-time access, for the sharing and manipulation of information, and for the development of applications that take advantage of IoT. Typical applications automate the everyday environment, such as turning off the HVAC system or lights when a person leaves the home. Applications are also used in enterprise contexts. For example, FedEx SenseAware collects a wide range of information as a shipment moves from its origin to delivery.
While IoT may focus on inanimate objects, the growing use of smartphones and the role they can play in collecting data from sensors creates opportunities to further digitize human actions without active attention from the individual. (See Table 3.) For example, UP from Jawbone uses an iPhone app and a sensor embedded in a wristband to track meals, physical activity, and sleep patterns to later display it to the user to promote healthy habits. Smartphones today have sensors for location, acceleration, orientation, and so on. Many services that collect, link, and analyze this new data are emerging; Table 3 lists a sample of them.
Table 3
A sampling of services that illustrate the use of sensors and smartphones to digitize activities
The confluence of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) technologies is disrupting the business environment to an extent not seen since the early days of the Internet. SMAC represents a pace and degree of change that is overwhelming to the current IT approach of owning the end-to-end experience. Today's methods do not scale to address the challenges that SMAC presents: too many variations in use cases and too many endpoints. In addition to understanding and having strategies for these individual SMAC technologies, enterprises should look at abstractions that bring together these technologies where they intersect.
RESTful APIs and API management platforms are just such an abstraction and should be added to the existing integration toolkit. The best way to manage the upcoming challenges stemming from the confluence of SMAC is to use emerging IT tools around RESTful APIs. Combining these tools presents a model where central IT provides a platform for participation with the digital ecosystem. "In the future, the way to increase the barrier to competition will be to lower the barrier to participation," suggests Biondi of Mashery.
The collective impact of these tech-nologies makes the pursuit of a permeable enterprise an imperative. With the rise of RESTful APIs and API management platforms comes the opportunity for enterprises to extend and deepen their digital footprint by making it possible to easily access and combine data from many more sources than previously possible.
1 "Transforming collaboration with social tools," PwC Technology Forecast 2011, Issue 3.
2 "Unleashing enterprise mobility," PwC Technology Forecast 2011, Issue 1.
3 "The third wave of customer analytics," PwC Technology Forecast 2012, Issue 1.
4 "Driving growth with cloud computing," PwC Technology Forecast 2010, Issue 4.
5 According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP): "SOAP is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks."
6 HTTP is Hypertext Transport Protocol, the protocol used for communications on the World Wide Web.


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Community Courts Adapt Community Policing Principles
Since the early 1990s, more than 30 community courts have opened in jurisdictions across the United States. Focused on bridging the gap between the justice system and the neighborhoods they serve, community courts adapt the problem-solving approach, first tested by community policing, to the complex issues facing state and local courts. Community courts take many forms, but all attempt to solve neighborhood public safety issues through community collaboration, creative partnerships, and innovative programs. They build new relationships, engaging residents, schools, churches, and other stakeholders as advisors and volunteers to address problems like prostitution, graffiti, vandalism, and drugs. They combine punishment and help, requiring low-level offenders to pay back the community while at the same addressing the issues that often underlie criminal behavior, like drug addiction and unemployment. And they work toward tangible goals like decreased crime, improved neighborhood safety, greater accountability for low-level offenders, and increased public confidence in justice.
While modern community courts share a common set of principles, they are as diverse in their operations as the communities they serve. Since the nation's first community court, the Midtown Community Court, was launched in Manhattan in 1993, community courts have been established all across the country—in central business districts, urban residential communities, and suburban neighborhoods, with a wide range of goals and strategies. In Seattle, the community court focuses on chronic offenders, providing them with necessary help while requiring that each complete community service at sites around the city. In New York City, the Harlem Community Justice Center runs a reentry court that helps both juvenile and adult parolees returning from state placement become productive, law-abiding citizens. And in Dallas, a court housed in an existing community center tests new low-cost ways of linking defendants to community-based services. The spread of these projects across the United States has been matched by increased international interest in community justice. South Africa, Australia, Canada, England, and Wales have established community courts, while plans are underway in Scotland and New Zealand.
The community court model has its origins in community policing and problem-oriented policing. Like these two policing innovations, community courts have a problem-solving orientation, focusing on bringing new resources from both inside and outside the justice system to bear on local public safety issues. Community courts have adopted community policing's implementation methods by systematically assessing identified problems, engaging diverse stakeholders, and evaluating outcomes. Both focus on community engagement: they develop relationships with residents, business owners, religious officials, and other leaders, and involve these stakeholders in identifying local problems, setting priorities for problem-solving efforts, and helping to shape and sustain solutions. This common philosophical and practical approach fosters natural partnerships between community courts and local policing efforts. Leaders in both fields are likely to find fertile ground for collaboration in the following areas:
Communication: Both community court and community policing models place a premium on information. They use data drawn from a wide range of sources to analyze local problems and identify solutions. They also communicate regularly about their work, allowing them to better monitor the impact of their work. For example, the Philadelphia Community Court has an on-site police liaison who updates the 10 police districts served by the court on case outcomes and also provides training to new officers about how the community court operates.
Community outreach: Both community policing and community court initiatives believe that citizens and neighborhood groups have an important role to play in helping the justice system identify, prioritize, and solve local problems. Actively engaging citizens helps improve public trust in the justice system. Greater trust, in turn, helps people feel safer, fosters law-abiding behavior, and makes citizens more willing to cooperate in the pursuit of justice (as witnesses or jurors, for example). Police representatives and staff from the Hartford Community Court attend community meetings, listen to community problems, and report on how they're working to resolve them. At Bronx Community Solutions in New York, which serves an entire county, staff meet monthly with community affairs officers from the county's 13 police precincts to collect police recommendations for community service projects from throughout the Bronx.
Education: Both police and community courts seek to educate the public about the law and the justice system. At the Harlem Community Justice Center, court staff and police officers work together to create workshops for local youth, helping them better understand how the police and courts work. Included are role plays on topics such as what to do when you're stopped by the police.
Collaboration: By working together, police and community courts can address difficult problems more effectively. Local police officers work side by side with case managers from the Midtown Community Court in New York to identify homeless hot spots and offer services to homeless individuals. The police officer provides both security and authority to the case worker, while the case worker provides expertise in working with this difficult population. Since the program was launched more than a decade ago, these teams have persuaded thousands of clients to visit the courthouse voluntarily to receive help with entitlements, housing, job training, drug treatment, mental health counseling, and other services. In Indianapolis, police officers participate in court-run panels that bring together offenders and community members to discuss the impact of low-level crime on local neighborhoods. The panels have proven an effective tool for dealing with everything from prostitution to panhandling. At a typical session, police participants help explain the strategies they apply to handle these vexing problems and answer questions from both community member and offenders.
For more information about community courts, see www.courtinnovation.org or write to the Center for Court Innovation at email@example.com.


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Solia 1-1/4" Flat Iron and Moisturizing Heat Protecting Boost Value Pack
- Overview
- Solia Tourmaline Ceramic Ion Flat Iron (1-1/4") - ($139.95 Value)
- Heat Proof Iron Pouch - ($20.00 Value)
Sedu Moisturizing Heat
Protecting Boost -
($17.99 Value)
- Features
- Versatile: This iron will straighten, bend, flip, spiral and curl hair.
- Ceramic/Tourmaline Ion plates give a shinier, silkier results than regular ceramic flat iron in lesser time.
- Ceramic/Tourmaline Ion plates emits up to 6 times more negative ion.
- Variable Temperature Control
- 1-1/4 inch plate width, the most popular size: wide enough for any hair length and hair types, yet narrow enough for bangs.
- Heating plates wrap around edge for easy finishing touches
- Wet to dry: can be used on damp (not soaking wet) or dry hair
- Contoured easy grip handles.
- 9 professional swivel power cord
- Two years limited warranty.
- Made in Korea
- Voltage: 110-120V 50/60Hz, plug type: A. T
- This model can be used in USA, Canada, Mexico and the following countries: AmericanSamoa, Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda Brazil ,Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Micronesia, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Okinawa, Palmyra Atoll, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Tahiti, Taiwan, Trinidad & Tobago, United States of America, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British and U.S.).
- Heat protective pouch - Can be used to store iron , once iron has completely cooled
- Sedu Moisturizing Heat Protecting Boost gives thirsty hair the moisture it needs.
- Suitable for all hair types, it buffers the heat from blow dryers, curling irons, flat irons and hot rollers,while enhancing the effectiveness of the tools. Leaving your hair soft, shiny, and smooth!
- About the brand
This Value Pack Includes:
Solia Tourmaline Ceramic Ion Flat Iron 1-1/4" is the most popular styling tool in the Solia family and one of Folicas best sellers.
Whether your hair is super-straight, wavy, curly, or a little bit of everything, Solia® professional beauty products are designed for even the most complex and multi-textured hair.
A Reply To The Previous Frizzy Comments:Ive had access to over four-thousand user reviews, and viewed over hundreds of actual before and after photos, all related to the Solia 1.25 Flat Iron.. I have to say that if your hair remains frizzy and dull after.. its because youre not using heat protectant spray; period. You may not have shine depending on something else, but the only thing that protects your hair from damage is the heat protectant sprays out there. While these products can work well; learning from my research and trust me.. my all too limited use lol.. One thing I will say is that you CANNOT believe any advertisement that states that their flat iron is heat protectant; especially for those that are either ceramic or ceramic and tourmaline; you still need heat protectant! I talked with three top-end hair specialists on-site in one day, and then had a previous appointment to have my hair cut for that same day later in the evening. After that still I spent hours upon hours cross-referencing facts through technical data, user reviews, function, and price. There is one commonality in use and care that needs to be applied with every single flat iron and use - heat protectant spray. Ill tell you that the first time it was tried on me in one day.. no heat protectant was used, and though I didnt know much about these things I still tried it. My hair was 100% different than it had been since I was about six years old; straight, soft, and shiny then. Over the years I tried many things - like many others, but not a lot; it just never seemed to work; nothing and not beauticians. Then the second and third times that day I used it with heat protectant spray, and the third time my hair was completely done from the beginning to end. My hair was magazine, television, or movie ready.. and no other products were used. When I was real young - like six years old - my hair was entirely straight but with that kind of softness that makes it look more full than flat bone straight hair. Then when I was about twelve my hair began to change into thicker wavy hair, and in early adulthood I learned I had hypothyroidism; which, many women know.. can create brittle hair in its dysfunction and even after synthroids nothing is nearly it should be.. so since I was in my early twenties... oh my hair only looked good when I went to my boyfriends best friends salon, but the one thing it never was soft. I tried a lot of the serums, and things, for shine already along time ago and they all looked more like a whole lotta grease than shine; even with very small amounts applied, they were heavy on the hair, some were sticky, hands always messy, and for a whole lotta nothing that I wanted those products were, and are, vastly overpriced; a lot that many people mention now and think they are great; I think, too, a good many people confuse shine and grease, so when an equally good number of people are saying its greasy it most likely is. My hair without the miraculous use of a flat iron and heat protectant spray alone is: dull, a soft matted dry when blown straight with a wide tooth comb, frizzy fly a-ways all over from head to ends - about twenty inches of hair or so, and bangs and all every end was thick and frizzy, so much so that my hair was like smooth matted chunks (except for the 20� of fly-a-ways). A good choice I have summarized from my vast research is to have a couple to few hair-dos you like so you dont feel the need to use a flat iron daily; wear your hair lightly combed and down the day after; the day after that (on the third day) where your hair up and do something with your bangs, and then on the fourth day wash your hair and start over if you want; always using heat protectant spray! I do believe that if one follows this they will never have damaged hair from the use of a flat iron. Another thing I learned.. is pricing, quality, and durability.. pricing largely reflects on the amount of features you want, and if you think about it.. all ceramic or all ceramic tourmaline irons are the same technology and materials, so really once you find one that you believe is most suitable for yourself it really comes down to the warranty and most certainly the user reviews on durability and results. The same technologies will give you the same results, but knowing the good companies from the weak ones is key. They will provide a good warranty, a much more solid product (not flimsy and prone to breaking down), good customer service (no run-arounds), and they will provide a reasonable price as well, etc. Even more to be able to view hundreds upon hundreds of REAL before and afters is great, too. I also viewed hundreds upon hundreds of before and afters for the Sedu.. and there were so many befores that actually looked better than the afters.. and a great percentage from them all had me saying, "I get that with blow-drying my hair and thats your flat iron!" A few here and there looked really good, but I imagine they had non-frizzy hair to begin with and just used it to straighten. Well anyway.. I�m going to return here periodically after I�ve used my first flat iron to give updates and reviews of all my experiences with the product, and the company I choose to purchase it from. My Four star rating means nothing because I havent yet purchased or used this product, but I dont want to leave a less than acceptable rating and appear false in that, so Im kind of stuck, and since my research led me to this product Im at least confident in that.Jun 29, 2009Jenny
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Great ProductI read a lot of reviews before I bought my first "expensive" flat iron. I was leary even after reading the reviews but the Solia made a believer out of me. After having a straightening perm for the last 30 years I let my natural hair grow out because I was starting to thin. This flat iron straightens my hair and gives it a beautiful silky sheen. I dropped it recently and one of the plates came out, but to my surprise I was able to slide it back in place and it still works. Im thinking of purchasing another to have just in case. The free heat stand that came with it comes in very handy too.Jun 9, 2009Cassandra / United States
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The Best Flat Iron I've Ever Used!Leaves my hair as if I just came out of the salon! Great product and would recommend to anyone. My hair is curly, thick and long- this flat made the process of straightening my hair easier and faster. Ive been an owner of many flat irons but this has to be the best. If your hair is like mine, I recommend the 1 1/4" because it is bigger and will be faster to do hair.Jun 7, 2009Meli E / Bronx, NY
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Love Iti beleave this is one of the best flat irons i have ever used.May 9, 2009Brittany / MA.
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Uhi would only buy if want frixzzy hairMar 19, 2009Sonya / New York, New York
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It Just Isnt What I Expected It To BeIt made my hairfrizzy and dullMar 7, 2009Amber / Kemp Tx 75143
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The Best!I think this is totally nice you get to have the Solia 1/4 flat iron whos wide enough for your hair and small enough to style your bangs or curl your hair!!!ITS AMAZING!!!!!So you get the Solia 1/4 flat iron,Sedu Moisturizing Heat Protecting Boost Value Pack and a heat protecting pouch!!! Lets not forget that this flat iron can be also used in Europe, Asia, Australia and lots of other countries!!And also the Solia flat iron box includes an iron stand!!isnt that a great offer!! hurry up and buy it before anyone else do!!Mar 3, 2009Facrun / Brossard, Montreal
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Slow And InaffectiveThis flat iron took a long time to straighten my hair.i would have to iron one 3 inch part of my hair over and over again slowly only to get it a little straight.i ony have wavy hair.the comparison between the chi hair straighter ans the solia semmed to goo to be true,i guess it is.i am very dissapointed and am shipping it back!just thought you should know.Feb 24, 2009Melanie / California
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This Straightner Is Great!!!!Alright, i have had like 3 chis already they usually break in 6 monthes, so my thought I should try a different brand, and i got this and it straghttens great ! my hair is like wavy and fluffy, but it still got the job done like in 10 minutes. im so happy with this product, its definatly worth the money, plus you get a warranty, and like these heat protecting spray! i recommend it!Jan 31, 2009Becca Fraizer
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FRANCE Luxe
France Luxe Medium Narrow Pin - Dijon, Orange, Red, Fuchsia
- Overview
- Features
- France Luxe Medium Narrow Bobby Pins are so versatile! Use to create a wide variety of styles to compliment any occasion.
- Bobby pins add a subtle touch of color.
- 8 pins per pack.
- Dimensions: 1/16" wide, 2 3/4" long
- About the brand
France Luxe Medium Narrow Bobby Pins are great accent pieces to compliment any occasion.
France Luxe handcrafted hair accessories have been dressing up hairdos for over a century. Not your average accessory collection, France Luxe creates headbands, barrettes, combs and ponytail holders to transform your style from the office space to party time.


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Tod's Suede Platform Bootie
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With an array of handcrafted shoes, Tod's is the perfect blend of tradition and classic style. The sleek suede bootie pairs perfectly with your favorite skinny trouser pants.
- Suede upper
- Interior side zipper
- Reinforced leather heel cup
- Round toe
- Fully lined in leather
- ¾" platform, 3¾" heel
- Synthetic sole
- Made in Italy
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Location: Miami Beach , Florida
July 28, 2013
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"When I saw these TODS boots I had to have them ! Gorgeous and a price I could $queeeeze thru..I'm a shoe freak, and addicted to DSW - I'm saving to buy another pair asap of TODS boots because they fit, look fab and are very ,very comfortable to actually walk in."
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The Easton Stealth 55S II Hockey Sticks are the most affordable sticks in the Stealth line. The 55S features the Elliptical Taper profile for a low-kick point providing very quick and accurate passes and shots.. The The 55S also features a pro inspired shaft dimension, feeling slightly narrower with straight sidewalls and rounded corners.
- Heritage: Easton 55S
- Level of Player: Ideal for the entry to recreational level of player
- Construction: Fused one-piece
- Shaft Dimensions: Rounded corners/Straight sidewalls
- Flex Point: Low kick
- Weight: 549 grams (based on a Hall curve, 85 flex)
- Construction:
- Fused 1-piece carbon construction
- Flex Profile:
- Elliptical Taper Profile™ - Improved torsional strength for better puck feel and shot accuracy
- Tuned taper section built with Easton's Elite Stiffness Profile to pro specs - Offers quick shot release and controlled puck reaction
- Geometry: Pro inspired shaft dimensions
- Straight side walls, and rounded corners
- Shaft dimensions used by most Easton Pro players
- Grip: Smooth matte finish
- Blade:
- Ribbed blade
- 1 rib runs the length of the blade to provide strength and durability
- Solid foam core helps reduce vibration
- Flex: 85
- Length: 59.5"
Comments: Got this stick and couldn't believe how light it was for the price point. Much, much better than other entry level sticks, and one of the only ones out there that doesn't have a silly grip coating. Looking forward to trying the more expensive entries in the line.
From: Charlie, Rockville, MD
Comments:just recieved hockey stick - stealth 55s and its awesome. much better than expected. the shipping was astonishly awesome.. it was due on thurs 12.13.12 and it came i full day earlier just in time for my game tonite 12.12.12. cant wait to try it out and score many goals with it. thank you so much for the awesome deal on the stick and the quick shipping . definitely will recommend your company to my teammates and others that want to but hockey equipment. i will be doing business with you in the near future. ABSOLUTELY IMPRESSED thank you
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