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Family: Aceraceae, Maple view all from this family
Description Large, long-lived deciduous tree. Crown varies with habitat. Branches massive, spreading. Leaves shiny, dark green, largest of any maple, 15-30 cm. across, with five deeply-incised palmate lobes, up to 61 cm. Flowers pendulous, racemes 10-15 cm. long, greenish-yellow with inconspicuous petals. Seed 1-1.5 cm. diameter with a 4-5 cm. wing.
Dimensions Height: 9-21 m. (30-70 ft.)
Diameter: 0.3-0.8 m. (1-2 1/2 ft.).
Habitat Canyons & valleys, Watersides (fresh).
Range California, Northwest, Western Canada.
Discussion The only commercially important maple of the Pacific Coast region. Used as furniture, piano frames, salad bowls, veneer, stringed instruments and guitar bodies.
Seeds, buds, and flowers of bigleaf maple provide food for numerous
birds and small mammals including mice, woodrats, squirrels, chipmunks,
finches, and grosbeaks. Squirrels and chipmunks eat the seeds,
frequently caching them after removing the hull and wing. Seeds
which hang on the tree during fall and winter provide nutritious food
for finches, grosbeaks, and the Douglas squirrel. Seeds on the
ground and young seedlings are eaten by rodents. Rodents eat the roots
or pull entire seedlings into burrows. Numerous birds use leaves and seed stalks for nest building.


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I went to see Paul Graham give a SDForum distinguished speaker talk at PARC. It was quite an entertaining talk on "How to Sell a Startup" -- obviously a popular topic in the Palo Alto area. I certainly learned a few things. :-)
He's got a really good essay on the topic of startups I read a few weeks ago.
I carpooled with seth-trips co-reader Aaron Swartz, who's actually getting some money from the guy who gave the talk. I didn't really know who Aaron was, but everybody else seemed to know him already, he's sort of famous it seems -- and he's still a teenager!


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I don't know JT. My Yellow Kirk has a clean paint job and is very pristine. No messy spots or anything. I like the Yellow shirt more, but the Captain DID wear the Green wrap-around shirt for almost a whole season.
BTW, NewForceComics.com has the Enterprise A and Phaser IN STOCK NOW!


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SHY GIRL & SHY BOY Pillow Covers
by Rosie Music for Sublime Stitching
Rosie Music's illustrations are uniquely sweet and touchingly irresistible. We've interpreted her watercolor work for embroidery. Her shy girl and shy boy are pre-printed and ready-to-embroider as a set of oversized throw pillows. They'll forever be eyeing each other from the ends of your couch. Don't be shy...
No zippers, buttons or sewing needed. A central, overlapping opening along the back gives you full access for stitching. Upholstery-like fabric that is soft, durable and super easy to stitch!
- 100% cotton 18" x 18" (45.7 cm x 45.7 cm) pillow covers
- wash-out ink
- includes the PDF with two full COLOR guides
Also as a blank pillow covers. (Pillow inserts not included.)


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Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell: West Virginia May Decide
In less than 24 hours, West Virginia voters could hold the future of the U.S. Senate in their hands. Will the next Senate Majority Leader be Mitch McConnell or Harry Reid?
If Mitt Romney is elected and Harry Reid remains Majority Leader, Reid will still have ultimate control of what goes before the Senate floor.
Friday, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid made it clear that he will not work with a Romney White House, should the former Massachusetts Governor win the Presidency next Tuesday.
"Mitt Romney's fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his 'severely conservative' agenda is laughable," Reid said.
Read story here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/nov/2/reid-says-he-cant-work-romney/
Harry Reid's comments are precisely the reason we need to replace Joe Manchin in Washington.
"Mitt Romney will need every U.S. Senator he can get to create the jobs we need right here in West Virginia," said Raese. "That's why I'm running for the U.S. Senate. I've seen too many people this year looking for work in our state, and I've seen too many energy producers forced out of business by the Obama-Reid-Manchin policies.
"For Harry Reid to say this, four days before Election Day, tells West Virginians all they need to know," added Raese. "Obviously, the Democratic leaders like Reid hear the hoof beats of the coming Romney victory next Tuesday. For Reid to have to lay down markers this early tells you whom he thinks is going to win next week–and it sure isn't Barack Obama."
Sending Joe Manchin back to Washington ensures that Harry Reid will continue to set the agenda in the U.S. Senate. It guarantees that Harry Reid will continue the War on Coal, no matter who wins the White House.
The only way we can get West Virginia on the right track is by electing Mitt Romney president, and John Raese to the Senate.


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President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.
In an interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an "evolution" that led him to this place, based on conversations with his own staff members, openly gay and lesbian service members, and conversations with his wife and own daughters.
"I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married," Obama told Roberts, in an interview to appear on ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday. Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on ABC's "World News with Diane Sawyer."
The president stressed that this is a personal position, and that he still supports the concept of states deciding the issue on their own. But he said he's confident that more Americans will grow comfortable with gays and lesbians getting married, citing his own daughters' comfort with the concept.
"It's interesting, some of this is also generational," the president continued. "You know when I go to college campuses, sometimes I talk to college Republicans who think that I have terrible policies on the economy, on foreign policy, but are very clear that when it comes to same sex equality or, you know, believe in equality. They are much more comfortable with it. You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we're talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn't dawn on them that somehow their friends' parents would be treated differently. It doesn't make sense to them and frankly, that's the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective."
[Related: Join the debate about gay
Roberts asked the president if First Lady Michelle Obama was involved in this decision. Obama said she was, and he talked specifically about his own faith in responding.
Previously, Obama has moved in the direction of supporting same-sex marriage but has consistently stopped short of outright backing it. Instead, he's voiced support for civil unions for gay and lesbian couples that provide the rights and benefits enjoyed by married couples, though not defined as "marriage." At the same time, the president has opposed efforts to ban gay marriage at the state level, saying that he did not favor attempts to strip rights away from gay and lesbian couples.
The president's position became a flashpoint this week, when Vice President Joe Biden pronounced himself "absolutely comfortable" with allowing same-sex couples to wed.
Obama aides insisted there was no daylight between the positions held by the president and his vice president when it comes to legal rights, but as other prominent Democrats also weighed in in favor of gay marriage, the disconnect became difficult for the White House to explain away.
[Related: How will Obama's gay marriage decision affect his re-election campaign?]
The announcement completes a turnabout for the president, who has opposed gay marriage throughout his career in national politics. In 1996, as a state Senate candidate, he indicated support for gay marriage in a questionnaire, but Obama aides later disavowed it and said it did not reflect the candidate's position.
In 2004, as a candidate for the US Senate, he cited his own religion in framing his views: "I'm a Christian. I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman."
He maintained that position through his 2008 presidential campaign, and through his term as president, until today.
As president in 2010, Obama told ABC's Jake Tapper that his feelings about gay marriage were "constantly evolving. I struggle with this." A year later, the president told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "I'm still working on it."
"I probably won't make news right now, George," Obama said in October 2011. "But I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues."
Obama's decision has political connotations for the fall.
The issue divides elements of the Democratic base, with liberals and gay-rights groups eager to see the president go farther, but with gay marriage far less popular among African-American voters.
Just yesterday, in North Carolina, voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on gay marriage. President Obama carried North Carolina in 2008, and its status as a 2012 battleground was guaranteed by Democrats' decision to hold their convention in Charlotte this summer.
Obama's likely Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, opposes gay marriage, and fought his state's highest court when Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage in 2004, when Romney was governor. Romney said on the campaign trail Monday that he continues to oppose gay marriage.
"My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman," Romney said. "That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point. … Or ever, by the way."


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Newfoundland Liberal leader Dwight Ball stressed inclusiveness and an "open door policy" as he welcomed MHAs Dale Kirby and Christopher Mitchelmore into the Liberal fold this morning.
Kirby and Mitchelmore have been sitting as independents since they orchestrated a messy NDP caucus revolt last October.
"This announcement is about giving people of both districts the best possible representation, "Ball said.
The Liberals will now go into the House of Assembly this spring with 11 members, almost double the six members elected in the October 2011 general election.
Kirby said that he's been able to" reflect "for the past few months, and talked with constituents.
" We must now look to the future to bring about the changes we've been asking for," Kirby said.


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The various OSMers in Victoria are holding a mapping party this coming Thursday, the 17th, at 6pm at the Starbucks at 4077 Shelbourne St. (Map of the Starbucks)
The event is open to all. Even if you are only curious about OSM and don't want to map, please show up and ask questions. Those that want to map will spread out all across Gordon Head for the next two or so hours, collecting data as they go, before meeting back at a point of our choice, likely a pub, for a pint or two before heading home for the night.
If you do that Facebook thing, I have created an event. I finally bit the bullet a couple of weeks ago. Much easier to contact my fellow students this way.


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Ok, it's been a few days... and me ragging on Matt for not posting diary entries... sheesh.
LAN party at Cameron's was quite nice. Should have taken my system, but it would have meant leaving work and heading back home during a baby shower that my wife was throwing... no thanks. It ended up working out fairly well since Nitin let me get in a few games. I hate his key bindings. They suck. Arrow keys are not the correct keys for direction in Q3A. Argh. Almost beat Bad Mojo even with the crap bindings. Next time, they're mine.
Nitin's box had a RF-based wireless keyboard and mouse from Logitech. Very nice, but something with the MS Intellieye stuff (or whatever it's called) would be trick. Having a wireless mouse isn't that nice if you're fighting with the mousepad all the time (and Nitin certainly was fighting his). Nice JavaOne wristrest for the mouse hand, but no mousepad integration hurt things a bit. Amazing to see such small monitors getting used. I'll have to get one of the Viewsonic 19"'s for the next lan party.
Really considering getting a 98 box (Athlon 750, perhaps) as a sep. gaming box.... it's just getting silly to try and maintain my BP6 as a gaming platform, and with the cable modem a theoretical 8 hours away, I'm not sure I wanna bother. Also, I wanna get somthing with NTSC out with a decent video card... routing the game through the home stereo system would be nice... I'd finally be able to record my games on tape, which would finally put those tapes to good use.
Haven't slept in quite awhile. Drew was a huge help getting Oracle installed on the Linux 4-way Xeon... Oracle 8.1.6 (aka 8iR2) is a very nice improvement over 8.1.5 (aka 8i). It finally includes its own jre in the installer, which ended up making my fetch of jre 1.1.7v3 from metalab quite moot. I like monkeys.
Windows 2000 is inheritly evil. Apparently, none of the drive imaging places feels very comfortable with it, because I can't find anything that does drive mirroring natively. You're stuck booting to some dos floppies, but it gets worse. Ghost complains loudly about supposed NTFS errors (although Win2k doesn't have any problems that it speaks of) so I try switching to Drive Image Professional. Not knowing what the deal was at the time, I go ahead and actually boot Win2k. Very very bad idea. By all accounts, and given the current state of the symptoms, Win2k saw the almost-NTFS on the attempted-ghost-target drive and decided that it would be a good place to put its own pagefile work.
Now, it didn't actually make this as a conscious decision. It maps pagefiles by drive letter. Now the ghost target was scsi id 1 (main drive id 0) and as such showed up as the second drive in all accounts (adaptec controller set to boot off of id 0, even). Unfortunately, Win2k decided (by what rationale I don't know... it certainly continues to evade me here at 5:30am as I write this) that the drive it booted off of wasn't good enough for the title of C: and relegated it to D: Since our ghost target was now available as C:, and since the Win2k registry said paging had to happen as c:\pagefile.sys, you got it.
So sure enough this thing is actually *paging* onto the poor defenseless ghost target that just happens to still be sitting on the scsi chain (in retrospect, never let Win2k boot with a drive that you're not willing for it to totally infect). A shutdown and removal of the drive, for whatever reason, does not lead to a working system. Instead, on boot it now complains about a non-existant paging file, gives nice, clear, detailed instructions on how to fix this under the Advanced -> Performance Options section, then gives you an OK button to acknowledge this.
At this point, I didn't feel too bad. Ok, paging was a little weird, but the machine had booted all the way to the point of reading the registry, GUI mode fully going, basically fully booted. But oh no. That's when you think you see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it is the hellish train of bad coding about to mow you down. Clicking the OK to acknowledge this information of how to fix your oh-so-confused machine (no other buttons available, no other key strokes or combinations do anything), you get a few seconds of processing and then the exact same window pops up again. Yes, you're in Hell's Groundhog Day, and it never stops. Click all you want, We'll Make More! True to form, your only option involves power drop or cycling as there is no method to even get to a shutdown capability.
Ok, so this is actually Win2k Professional Eval build 2195. Maybe this is fixed in a more recent version. Maybe I can do some hacks and get a rescue diskette from a working machine to get this thing back to life. Maybe... I guess we'll see.
Goal was to get a backup copy made, split the first client (4GB drive, all Win2k) into 2GB/2GB, install RH 6.2, upgrade kernel (oops when you ifconfig the acenic up is bad), then make a drive image and propogate around (letting Jeff or George handle everything else that needs fixing after I fix client names and ip changes... oh, and maybe use that SID changer util)
Tried the other TMS fiber card in a 5500... With the card in a PCI slot (not even powered on, just in the slot with the slot switch off), it did enough damage to keep the ServeRAID adapter from getting seen and the machine couldn't boot. Pull it out of the slot, and the machine is fine again. Definitely something wrong with that :)
Ok, enough of a break, back to work!


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Beginning Your Genealogical Journey
The only way to begin tracing your genealogy is to begin with yourself and work outward, one generation at a time. You must work from the known into the unknown. This lecture will provide the basic building blocks for thsoe who may have recently begun or are anxious to begin tracing their family's history. This program is part of the Branch Library Series, jointly sponsored by the NYG&B and NYPL.
FREE and no registration is required.
Lauren Maehrlein is the Director of Education at the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society. She has provided educational programs throughout New Jersey, New York City and State, and at national conferences throughout the U.S. and is in the 35th year of researching her own family. Previous to working for the NYG&B she assisted clients and taught a six-session genealogy course at Bergen County adult school. Her specialties include Rhode Island, New York, and German research.


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Internet Censorship watchdog OpenNetInitiative has released an updated report on the state of online freedom of expression in Vietnam and the verdict is grim. The Communist republic has placed heavy restrictions on the dissemination of information for decades, but in 2012 the government has introduced regulations that would provide new powers to censor and criminalize online speech.
We Use the Internet to Save the Internet: An Interview with Steve Anderson About the Stop the Trap Campaign
While US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, who oversees the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), continues to declare that the trade negotiations are "the most open, transparent process ever," we are confounded as to what he defines to be "open" or "transparent." They have yet to even provide the public — civil society organizations and policy makers — with any official documents relating to the text of the agreement. We are fighting for real transparency, which means access to the current draft documents or country proposals for provisions to into the agreement.
In the Philippines, where the Internet is free from censorship, President Benigno Aquino III recently signed into law the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, a troubling development for free expression.
The Act, available online in English, covers a range of "offenses," from the "access of … any part of a computer system without right" to data interference (including the transmission of viruses) and cybersex, but it is primarily the provisions on libel that trouble rights activists in the country. As the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines wrote today:
The United Kingdom's draft Communications Data Bill, more commonly known as the Snoopers' Charter, has drawn a sharp critique from the Global Network Initiative (GNI). In a submission to the UK Parliament's Communications Data Bill Joint Scrutiny Committee, the organization outlined serious concerns with the proposed legislation, which would expand governmental powers to access the online communications of all UK citizens.
GNI is a coalition of companies, civil society organizations (including EFF), investors and academics working collaboratively to advance freedom of expression and privacy in the Information Communications and Technology (ICT) sector.
Canada had been lobbying to enter the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, and its efforts were seemingly paid off with an exclusive invite to the secretive nine-country trade agreement in June. There is no doubt that the TPP will affect many areas of the Canadian economy from agriculture to manufacturing, but the agreement would also regulate intellectual property rights and that could have big consequences for Internet users' freedoms.
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Ok, maybe I'm just slow or don't play with the stuff often enough, but I just discovered that that little steering wheel thing that comes with the carded Pilot Anakin actually fits in the Naboo fighter! Holy smokes, it was made to go into a ship that didn't come with the figure! Imagine my surprise. I mean, they don't even make figures to fit into the ships they come with but somebody was on the ball and included a cross-toyline accessory that is both useful and works! Holy Sh**!
Am I the only one that just figured this out or is this a surprise to others as well?


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Judge Koh Forces Samsung to Make Unit Sales Public in Apple Infringement Case
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Samsung says release damages it competitively; federal judge says "too bad", sides with local firm, Apple
While Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (
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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Judge Lucy Koh
gave Samsung a bit of a boost in December when she
rejected Apple's request to ban sales
of 26 Samsung "Galaxy" products, writing that Apple failed to prove that Samsung's infringement drove the demand for Samsung products.
But she's still in the process of finalizing how much Samsung should have to pay Apple.
And this week she dealt Samsung a blow,
a request by Samsung to seal the results of a Dec. 10 request she made to Samsung. Judge Koh had asked Samsung last month to reveal unit sales of certain products over certain time periods. It is unknown what models precisely were requested, but they likely included the Galaxy S and Galaxy S II smartphones -- centerpieces of Apple's first infringement case against Samsung.
Samsung had pleaded with Judge Koh to keep those details out of the public eye, arguing that it would damage it from a competitive perspective. Judge Koh had little sympathy for the South Korean electronics company, though, siding with local firm Apple, who argued the information should be made public regardless of the damage to its rival.
Apple is pushing Judge Koh to
triple the damages
to over $3B USD, which can be done in certain cases if the infringement was deemed "willful". Samsung, meanwhile, is urging Judge Koh to trim the settlement, pointing out that the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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two of the
key Apple utility patents
involved in the case.
Thus at this point damages could go in any direction. For now all that is clear is that we'll soon be learning some new information on Samsung sales and that for now no Samsung products are banned.
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Katharina Schmid
posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 3:49 am
I am in the process of carrying out LCA and the model appears to be running ok. However, I am having difficulty saving the conditional probabilities- I get an error message in the output. Would appreciate any advice on this.
Input and warning as follows:
Title: LCA for experience (5classes)
Data: FILE IS modeldata.dat;
Variable: NAMES ARE id a1-a28 b1-b127;
USEVARIABLES ARE a1-a28;
CLASSES = c(5);
CATEGORICAL ARE a1-a28;
Analysis: TYPE = MIXTURE;
Output: TECH8 TECH10 TECH11;
Savedata: File is exp5.sav;
Save = CPROB;
*** WARNING in Savedata command
(Err#: 9)
Error opening data save file:
Data will not be saved.
posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 5:29 am
I don´t know if there is another mistake, but you didn´t specify a file path in the savedata command (like "C:\exp.5.sav";).
posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 5:35 am
Sorry for the overhasty comment, according to the user´s guide, a file path doesn´t seems to be necessary in the savedata command.
Marco Grados
posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 9:57 am
I have used this with success in MPLUS 3.0
SAVEDATA: FILE IS result.dat; FORMAT IS FREE; SAVE = CPROBABILITIES;
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 12:58 pm
You would get this message if the file is open or if the directory cannot be written to.
Hee-Jin Jun
posted on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 8:03 pm
I used savedata command and got the data.
but when I opened the data,
there were '*' for missing (originally it was -999) and '**********' for id (originally id was 6 digit)
How can I get the real numbers instead of ***.
My command was
FILE IS BMI10C1_2.sav;
format is delimited;
I used 'format is free' as well. It gave me the same result.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 7:51 am
It seems that your id variable is too long. The asterisks indicate that it will not fit in the space provided. The default for missing is the asterisk. If you cannot figure this out, please send your input, data, output, and license number to
Hee-Jin Jun
posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 4:46 pm
Thanks Linda,
If my id number does not fit in the space provided, how many digits Mplus allows and is there any way that I can increase the digit?
Thank you for your help.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 5:18 pm
You will need to shorten your id variable to no more than 7 digits.
Phil Wood
posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 - 11:53 am
Here's a somewhat related question:
I have an ID variable which contains alpha information (e.g., 198292A).
Is there any way to save this alpha information in the savedata statement?
I tried using
IDVARIABLE to read the information in, (i.e., idvariable is dadid;)
but when I save the data, the output doesn't contain the alpha variable.
Thanks for any insights!
(Alternatively, I guess a workaround is to case-merge the files afterward, but I'm, as always, lazy).
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 - 3:12 pm
For Mplus, all data must be numeric. There is no way around this. You could do a global change of A to 9 for example.
I'm surprised you don't get an error message. I added an A to a variable in a data set and I did.
posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 10:04 am
My ID variable is 7 digits long, ranging from 0001502 to 2601602. Right now, when I save the data, 0001502 becomes 1502. I need to retain the leading zeros on the smaller numbers when I use the savedata command. How can I do this?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 10:22 am
Are you identifying the ID variable using the IDVARIABLE option of the VARIABLE command? Also, you can use a FORMAT statement in SAVEDATA. See the user's guide.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 10:57 am
I was just informed that leading zeroes are not saved. I don't know of how you would do that or why it would matter. Can you explain?
Kätlin Peets
posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 7:16 am
I have a question. I am conducting a LCA (mixture missing). When I save my data (class membership and other data), can I somehow override the default option for missing values (i.e., asterisks) and use a numerical value instead? I have a problem opening the dat. file in spss with asterisks.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 - 8:37 am
There is not an option in the SAVEDATA command to change the missing data flag. If you want to do this, I suggest opening the file in the Mplus or some other editor and doing a global replace of the asterisk with another missing value flag.
posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 7:28 am
Could an option to change the default asterisk (e.g. to 9999) be included in a future update? It is difficult to get SPSS and Excel to recognize the asterisk.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 7:40 am
You can do a global change of asterisk to either a number of symbol that is recognized by SPSS and Excel, for example, 9999.
luke fryer
posted on Monday, November 22, 2010 - 6:22 am
Dr. Linda Muthen,
Mplus (6.1) can now save variables 16 in length... But we are still restricted to numbers only right? There is no possible way around this...?
Just checking,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, November 22, 2010 - 8:02 am
Yes, ASCII files must be numeric if this is what you mean.
posted on Friday, November 01, 2013 - 8:15 am
Dear Linda or Bengt,
I have difficulty saving the latent class membership after fitting a LCA model.
In the model I controlled the effects of complex survey. My commands were:
weight = wt;
STRATIFICATION = strata;
CLUSTER = psu;
IDVARIABLE = id;
FILE IS newdata.dat ;
However, when I checked the exported data file, I found two problems: 1) the id variable is composed of 7-digit numbers, and should look like 1311110, 6522222, and so forth. But in many cases these values were truncated and looked like 131, 652, ..
2) When I read the data file in Stata, I found all the variables were not aligned with the respective columns. For instance, case#1 of the id variable lies rightly in the first column, but case#2 of id falls in the second column, and #3 in the third column..
I tried to save the model without controlling complex survey effects. It turned out a success. But I do wish to save the data with the survey effects. Could you help to figure out where the problem is?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, November 01, 2013 - 8:43 am
Please send the files and your license number to
Belinda Needham
posted on Thursday, July 03, 2014 - 12:28 pm
I am using the Add Health data for a LCA, and the ID number appears to be too long (8 digits). I need to keep the ID number in the data set so I can merge the C variable with the original data set for analysis. If I divide the ID number by 100, Mplus can use it, but the numbers are no longer unique, and the merge doesn't work properly. Do you know a workaround for this?
Thuy Nguyen
posted on Thursday, July 03, 2014 - 4:39 pm
You can declare the variable as AUXILIARY instead of IDVARIABLE. It will be saved with the rest of the data.
The default format for saving the data is F10.3 for free format. You can specify FORMAT = F15.3 so the format width is big enough for the values.
Maggie Thorsen
posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 2:09 pm
When I transfer my data from Stata to MPlus using the "stata2plus" command my id variable, which was originally 8 digits long, somehow is getting converted to a different number. E.g. the first record is now getting a '1" for the id variable instead of the eight digit code it had before. This is especially problematic when trying to merge the class variable and c-probabilities back in with the original dataset. Why would the value of the id variable change? Is there any way to fix this or syntax to use to ensure the original values are retained? Thank you!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 4:55 pm
I do not know why this would happen. It must be because of stata2mplus. You should contact the author of stata2mplus.
John Bulluck
posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 9:23 am
I am having a similar problem, though my error number is 29 but I cant find any documentation that tells me what the #29 means
this is my code:
TITLE: this is an example of a LCA with
continuous latent class indicators using
automatic starting values with random
DATA: FILE IS qs_lpa.csv;
VARIABLE: NAMES ARE id seek lr avd sens;
id seek lr avd sens;
IDVARIABLE IS id;
MISSING = all(-99);
CLASSES = c (4);
OUTPUT: tech1 tech8 tech11 tech14 CINTERVAL;
SAVEDATA: File is "C:/R/o.csv";
This is my output
*** WARNING in SAVEDATA command
(Err#: 29)
Error opening data save file:
Data will not be saved.
I have rights to the folder location and the path is correct. Interestingly, when I change the direction of the slash from / to \ I get error #9 but still doesnt save the data and error message otherwise is the same
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 11:23 am
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This is a "sequel" to this thread:
I gathered some more data on this, focusing specifically on the percentage of "very good" starts rookie QBs have made since 2004, in comparison to their percentages of "poor" starts.
I defined a "very good" start as a start with a QB rating of 90 or higher, and a "poor" start as one with a QB rating of 69 or lower. Starts with QB ratings between 70 and 89 were not used in any of these analyses.
Here are the data:
QB %age of Very Good Starts %age of Poor Starts Franchise QB? Career QB Rating Tannehill 47 47 Luck 31 25 Wilson 69 19 RGIII 67 7 Weeden 27 40 Newton 44 25 Yes 86.2 Dalton 44 38 Yes 87.4 Bradford 25 38 Yes 82.6 Palmer 38 46 Yes 86.2 Roethlisberger 62 23 Yes 92.7 Ryan 56 31 Yes 90.9 Flacco 44 31 Yes 86.3 Ponder 30 60 Yes 81.2 Stafford 20 60 Yes 82.8 Gabbert 14 14 No 70.2 Sanchez 27 33 No 71.7 Young 15 46 No 74.4 Leinart 36 36 No 70.2 Freeman 22 56 Yes 79.8 Gradkowski 27 64 No 65.8 Orton 7 67 No 79.7 Edwards 22 55 No 75.5 Clausen 20 60 No 58.4 Walter 0 75 No 52.6 Smith 14 86 No 79.1 EManning 29 71 Yes 82.7
The thinking here is that a QB's future "ceiling" may be revealed in how often he's able to perform at a very high level during his rookie season, whereas his future quality of play overall may be revealed in how he minimizes poor play as a rookie while maximizing very good play.
As it turns out, the correlation between the percentage of very good starts as a rookie and career QB rating is 0.70, which is strong.
The correlation between the percentage of poor starts as a rookie and career QB rating is -0.37 and is comparatively weak, and that variable will therefore not be used as a basis for any analyses in this thread.
What the data also reveal is that the average percentage of very good starts among the future "franchise QBs" is 37.6, with a standard deviation of 13.78.
The average percentage of very good starts among the future "non-franchise QBs" is 19.7, with a standard deviation of 9.63.
Ryan Tannehill's percentage of very good starts (47%) places him within a standard deviation above the average of the future "franchise QBs," while also placing him nearly three (!) standard deviations above the mean of the "non-franchise QBs."
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The Obama skeptics are fond of invoking comparisons between 2009 and 1993. That was the year that the last Democratic president took over from a Republican predecessor, and it led to dramatic GOP off-year gains the following election — in reaction, it is said, to the same liberal over-reaching we now see with Obama.
It's the wrong analogy. A more apt precedent is 1981, when Ronald Reagan was struggling with a recession in his first year in office.
Then, as now, the president had charged into office with a majority of the popular vote (unlike Bill Clinton, who won just 43 percent of the vote in 1992) — along with a wave of party gains in the House and Senate.
But by early November of 1981, according to a New York Times poll, Reagan's approval rating had dipped to 53 percent. (Obama is right around the same figure today.) Reagan's numbers continued to decline, plunging into the low 40s (and even lower by some measures), as unemployment continued to climb through his second year in office.
Democrats believed then, as Republicans contend now, that the midterm elections would be a rout for the opposition. Democrats did, in fact, gain 26 seats in the US House of Representatives in 1982, but that was due more to federal redistricting after the 1980 census than any ideological shift (and even with that, it was well short of making up the Republicans' 1980 35-seat gain). Meanwhile, the Democrats made no dent at all in the GOP's then-new Senate majority, and, though they gained governorships, lost California and failed in high-profile attempts to take Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Why, in the midst of what at the time was called the worst recession since the Great Depression, did the country not punish the ruling Republican Party? Perhaps because the country's last experience with the Democrats — the loathed malaise of the Jimmy Carter presidency — made people reluctant to turn back that clock.
Similarly, the disastrous recent record of George W. Bush and congressional Republicans now acts as a Carteresque buffer for Obama and the Democrats. Surveys show that, whatever most people think of the current holders of power, it is nothing compared with their lingering disgust with the GOP — which, it should be noted, most Americans continue to blame for the ongoing economic strife. That dynamic was missing in 1993; although George H.W. Bush was unpopular, he was not despised, and fond memories of Reagan-era prosperity were still fresh.
With unemployment likely to remain intolerably high well into 2010, Democrats in the midterm elections will probably lose some of their recent gains. But they will remain solidly in the majority in both the House and Senate, which means that, as the economy improves, they will be in a position to take the credit.
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There are many things to love about the Lowcountry. Like many others who moved here "from off," I was first attracted by the region's beauty.
As a native Californian accustomed to the dramatic topography of the West Coast, I was, and continue to be, mesmerized by the subtlety of this place—the islands and marshes almost blurring into the horizon. Even the grand homes and majestic oaks have a certain nonchalance about them, having patinaed against the garishness of "new" centuries ago.
But what has kept me in love with Charleston for going on 14 years have been the people and the way of life—a not-so-subtle feeling of community, of being a part of something and accountable to it. Despite its size, Charleston retains a down-home quality, a connectedness (what I like to call its one and a half degrees of separation) that other places simply don't have. While some may find this intrusive, I find it caring and comforting—something worth committing to and investing in.
It seems many people are falling in love with our beautiful city. So for this issue, we have reprised our "Odes to the Lowcountry" , asking noted local writers, authors, and poets to share their love affairs with this place. I'm not talking about the many superlatives being bandied about. No, these love letters come from a deeper understanding, an inspection of personal experiences developed over time. You'll read about relationships with pluff mud, tea olive, and undeveloped spaces; imaginations sparked by old homes, graveyards, and the Ben Sawyer Bridge; memories of good manners and ice-cold sweet tea. You'll taste the season's first oyster, feel the pulse and pull of the city, and find authenticity amidst its dichotomies.
I hope you enjoy these highly personal takes on the Lowcountry and then visit us online to share some of your own.
Bon Voyage!
The staff and I would like to wish a fond farewell to our colleague Ellen McGauley, who has been scooped up by Coastal Living to be the magazine's home editor. For the decade Ellen worked with us, she edited House Calls magazine, took over the reins of Charleston Home, became the home editor of Charleston, and launched our blogsite, www.CharlestonGrit.com. We will miss her talent, her professionalism, and most especially her sense of humor.
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Even if Farris is close to Miner, Dornbush, and Rippon in international PCS, that PCS is from junior competitions. Which is not the same as senior. I really liked Joshua's skating at Nationals, but I didn't have a problem with him receiving lower PCS than Ross. To me, Ross skates with a lot more speed, maturity, and presence than Farris. I thought Farris's LP was good but he looked a bit nervous throughout, and he seemed to be dropping his shoulders or something, his posture was just a bit lacking. Also his program was generic, whereas I like the concept and presentation of Ross's program, and you have to admit Ross really kept it moving and maintained great energy throughout. Did Ross get a bit of a reputation boost in PCS? I would say yes. But I'd also say he still deserved to come ahead of Farris.
To me it's not in doubt that Max and Ross had the 2 best overall performances at Nationals, and therefore deserved their spots on the team according to current criteria. I just hope Ross can pull it together and do better at Worlds. 4CC was definitely a pretty big disappointment for him, and I worry that he's now developing a mental block with his triple Axels.
All I can say about the PCS issue on the ladies' side is I disagreed thoroughly with many of the marks at Nationals. I do understand Gracie's PCS boost in the long. However, I very much disagreed with the disparity in Agnes's and Christina's PCS.


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Frostbite mostly affects areas where the circulation is poor. Since cold weather will cause the body to take preventive measures by constricting (making smaller) the blood vessel, this opens the door to frostbite injuries.
Look for the 4 Ps of frostbite:
Pink – affected areas will be reddish in colour. This is the first sign of frostbite.
Pain – affected areas will become painful.
Patches – white, waxy feeling patches show up – skin is dying.
Pricklies – the areas will then feel numb.
Tips to prevent frostbite:
Get to a warm area before frostbite sets in. If it's too cold outside, consider staying indoors.
Protect areas of poor circulation (ears, nose, fingers and toes).
Keep extra mittens and gloves in the car, house or school bag.
Wear larger sized mittens over your gloves.
Wear a scarf to protect the chin, lips and cheeks. They are all extremely susceptible to frostbite.
Wear two pairs of socks – wool if possible
Keep feet warm and dry
Remove any wet clothing.
What to do in case of frostbite:
Do not rub or massage affected areas. It may cause more damage.
NOT HOT – warm up the area slowly. Use warm compresses or your own body heat to re-warm the area. Underarms are a good place.
If toes or feet are frostbitten, try not to walk on them.
Seek immediate medical attention if you see white or grey coloured patches or if the re-warmed area is numb.
Always be on the lookout for the symptoms of frostbite. In case of serious cold weather injury, seek immediate medical attention.
Whenever the body's normal temperature becomes too low, hypothermia (hypo = low and thermia = temperature) occurs and will starve the brain of much needed oxygen.
During cold weather months, finding warmth can be the key to survival, but hypothermia can occur even during the hot days of July. Swimming in cold water for a long period of time can induce hypothermia even in the hottest months of the year. Remember, hypothermia can quickly become life-threatening.
Signs of Hypothermia
Look for the "UMBLES" from people affected by cold temperatures:
A person who mumbles;
A person who stumbles; and
A person who fumbles objects.
Tips to prevent Hypothermia
Wear clothes in layers: The under layer should be the insulating layer to prevent loss of your body heat while keeping the cold outside air away; the outer layer should be the "wind breaking" layer to reduce the chances of cold air reaching the insulating layer.
Drink warm fluids.
If you start to sweat, cool off a little. Wet clothes will accelerate other cold weather injuries.
Wear a hat – up to 40% of body heat loss can occur through the head.
Wear gloves or mittens or both!
Wear a scarf to protect the chin, lips and cheeks – all are extremely susceptible to cold weather injuries.
What to do in case of Hypothermia
Remove wet clothing that promotes hypothermia.
Get to a warm place as soon as possible. Use several layers of blankets heated in your home dryer if possible.
If the person is alert, give warm beverages.
Seek immediate medical attention.
Always be on the lookout for signs of frostbite and hypothermia. In case of serious cold weather injury, seek immediate medical attention.
BE PREPARED! We use the buddy system to watch out for each other! These two injuries are serious and can hurt you in the long term. Camping in the winter can be the funnest time of your Scouting life! But you have got to be prepared!
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|Pacific Northwest Sea Run Forum No such thing as rainbow trout, only landlocked steelhead
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RE:Spey flies
Jay -
I've got a good supply of Blue Eared Pheasant, burned and dyed Spey hackle and dyed flank feathers. Hit my email icon and send me your mailing address again so I can send you some.
BTW - your email icon is missing, if you want it to be available for readers of your posts you might need to add your email address to your profile to get this to show up (your choice).
!!! Bob Veverka will be featuring a Spey pattern for his monthly article in the next edition. !!!
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RE:Spey flies
Thanks for all the helpful suggestions and tricks of the trade. I'll try to get to tying some new flies this weekend and 'give it a go again' Sounds like materials and handling
the hackle a little differently will help.Maybe some day we as a group will have our act together enough to source good material collectively. Probably would shorten the learning curve on some of these less mainstream fly types.
If I can get one to look right, I'll post it.
Thanks for the help.
RE:Spey flies
What hackle are you using? If you are using blue eared pheasant, make sure you try feathers with the thinnest stems for the length you need. Fold the hackle, as per the directions in all the manuals, and wet it down thoroughly with spit (yuck). Press the fibers down along the hook shank with your fingers as you palmer the hackle.
Good luck,
RE:Spey flies
Hi Jay,
Juro's comments are right on. I'll just add a few additional comments . . .
I've been using dyed Golden Pheasant flank feathers for spey hackle on smaller flies recently and am loving them. And Golden Pheasant flank works really well for Lady Carolines.
Brittle stems are something you can't really do anything about (except by avoiding tying with them), but you can alleviate some of the stiffness of hackles by steaming them prior to tying. I just learned this trick in the last couple months - the steam softens the stem and allows you to wrap the hackle with more control. I've found this allows me to get that flowing, slightly curved positioning on the fly more consistently.
The final ingredient is *practice* - you learn to tie these flies by Doing It! I wish I could post a pic of my first attempts (some came out looking like Mohawks) to emphasize this. And others who are much proficient tiers than I tell similar stories.
Good Tying!
RE:Spey flies
Jay -
There are a number of techniques which get the trademark Spey hackle effect to happen properly. First and foremost is hackle selection. Some guys out in the PNW used to settle for Schlappen. I couldn't do it
Schlappen is very effective for certain applications due to it's liveliness in water, my favorite is Brian Lencho's technique of palmering it into the body of a bunny fly to provide color diversity and a radial fiber ribbing (for lack of better words).
But for Spey hackle, schkip the Schlappen. I prefer Blue eared pheasant, dyed or natural; then dyed Spey hackle (Spirit River, other vendors makred SPEY hackle) made from chemically burned and dyed (flank?) feathers from fowl; then dyed mallard - in that order.
Having tied quite a few Spey flies (but by no means an expert) I've noted the following tips/techniques:
Work with the natural curvature of the feather. The barbs curve like a hand, so the stem must wrap to position the barbs in the classic curved formation that identifies these flies.
Strip one side unless you are tying "working" flies for sink tips in turbid water and trying to save time. Certainly for summer flies or fall low water Speys, strip the side you are not going to hackle from the stem.
Leave a little triangle on the tip of the feather to anchor the hackle before wrapping. If you strip the wrong half of the feather, you can simply wrap it in an opposite vector. Don't worry about it if you do, cross-wraps are common with salmon and Spey flies. Just be careful how you tie it in at the end.
The stem is very important, because if it's brittle it won't lay on the body of the fly well and may even snap while hackling. One negative nuance of the chemically prepared dyed fowl is that the stem is often brittle or thick. It does however provide a broad range of colors and lengths to work with.
Palmering over seal fur dubbing makes for a beautiful fly and hides the roots of the hackle from view.
Pick the dubbing and hackles to form the right effect, and I often need to remove some of the barbs from the upper half of the fly to allow for the matched mallard flank wings to set right.
Given three types of flies:
Black Heron, Sol Duc Spey (see Bob Veverka's image on Expert*ise) and my summer shrimp Spey, I use three different hackles: Blue eared or black dyed fowl for large sizes, dyed mallard for small sizes, orange dyed fowl, and white dyed fowl - respectively. If you find the "perfect" schlappen hackles, they will make better choices than the dyed fowl Spey hackles. This has been a problem for me over the years.
Let's get together and twist up a few one of these days.
|Jay C.
Spey flies
So, does anybody know enough about tying spey flies to tell me some tips to get that relaxed flowing spey hackle look? Whether it's salmon or steelhead flies,the relaxed droop of the spey hackle really intrigues me. The fly I am attempting is the Lady Caroline and the first couple look stilted and stiff. The spey hackle stem seems very thick too and only begrudgingly palmers around the hook. I am hoping someone has been here before....
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NightWatch 20110616
For the Night of 16 June 2011
China: Crowds continued to gather on 16 June in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province in eastern China, after unrest broke out on 14 June over a village chief who was beaten by gas station employees who tried to negotiate an increase in land compensation fees, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy reported. The center said the incident catalyzed resentment over land seizures and thousands of villagers converged on the site, despite the presence of Chinese security forces.
Comment: Riots over land seizures by communist party officials have become a regular feature of China's internal security situation in the core Han Chinese provinces, such as Zhejiang.
Disputes over land ownership are among the four fundamental contradictions in modern China. The communists promised but failed to correct the imbalance between owners and producers. The Maoist revolution supposedly ended landlord abuses in the 1950s with massive expropriation and executions of land owners and redistribution of their land to peasant communes and state farms. .
A half century later, communist officials have replaced the landlords, while the workers of the land remain disenfranchised. A major difference is that modern telecommunications technology has made the workers more prone to and capable of self-help action.
This was the fourth incident this month. The Beijing government will step in with a reform package to avoid having to order Chinese security people to fire on Chinese farmers.
China-South China Sea: China deployed one of its largest civilian maritime law enforcement ships, the Haixun-31, to the South China Sea to defend its "rights and sovereignty," official media reported on 16 June.
The Chinese Maritime Safety Administration's ship left south China on 15 June enroute Singapore, passing the Paracel and Spratly islands along the way. The Haixun-31 will monitor shipping, conduct surveys, inspect oil wells and "protect maritime security," Beijing Daily reported. It also reported the ship would inspect foreign ships anchored or operating in Chinese-claimed waters.
Takung Pao newspaper said the ship would "protect national maritime rights and sovereignty," and the International Herald Leader, a Chinese weekly newspaper, said Beijing could not allow other nations to seize oil and natural gas resources in the South China Sea.
Comment: Once again Chinese media published reports that contradict reassurances by the Foreign Ministry about peaceful resolution of disputes. The deployment of Haixun-31 is a deliberate provocation to other Southeast Asian states. It also exposes the continuing and expanding lack of coordination between the foreign ministry and the ministries responsible for state security.
Pakistan: Some 250 militants staged a cross-border raid from Afghanistan into a pro-government Pakistani village on Thursday, security officials and residents said. An intelligence official said six civilians were killed after militants opened fire. Two women were wounded, said government official Shah Naseem.
"They came from mountains where we don't have any security posts," said another government official. "Villagers told us that militants also used rocket-propelled grenades to target houses."
A spokesman for Pakistani paramilitary forces confirmed the attack but did not provide details.
Comment: Feedback from Brilliant Readers indicates that such attacks are executed by anti-Pakistan groups that operate on both sides of the Durand Line which separates Afghanistan and Pakistan. This attack appears to be punitive against the village for forming a lashkar to fight the Pakistani Taliban and al Qaida, as the government announced earlier this week.
As assessed, the lashkars have no ability to stand against an organized force.
Pakistan-al Qaida: An online announcement that Ayman al-Zawahiri, longtime deputy to bin Laden, is the new al Qaida leader is authentic, a U.S. counterterrorism official said on 16 June.
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman said the movement supports Ayman al-Zawahiri as the new leader of al Qaida and vowed to conduct attacks against the West. A senior Pakistani Taliban commander, Omar Khalid Khorasani, recently told Reuters that al-Zawahiri was the group's "chief and supreme leader."
Comment: Earlier reports suggested an operational field commander would replace bin Laden. Today's report tends to confirm that the Egyptian, or non-Saudi, faction now is in charge of al Qaida. The significance of this is a shift in targeting strategy. Zawahiri wants to punish apostate Islamic states before attacking the West again. Pakistan's government tops his list of targets, according to his comments 18 months ago.
Israel: On 19 June the Defense Forces will begin a nationwide civil defense exercise, called Turning Point 5, that will include the largest simulation of missile interceptions ever held by the air force, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The exercise will involve all the air force's missile defense systems -- David's Sling, Iron Dome and Arrow. Hundreds of "missiles" will be fired, in simulation, into Israel from Iran, Gaza, Syria and Lebanon.
The week-long drill will test the responses of the Home Front Command, the Israel Police, the Defense Ministry's National Emergency Administration and other emergency services to a large scale missile attack. Eighty municipalities and local authorities will participate.
Comment: This will be a high cost war preparation precisely because it involves large distortions to normality by civil sectors of the economy. These are not opportunity costs. I
In considering civil defense drills in Israel, there are only two scenarios: Israel attacks and prepares the home front for retaliation or Israel expects to be attacked. The confusion and disarray in Arab states tends to rule out the existence of any threat from Arab or Muslim states that would justify a civil defense exercise of this size and cost.
A national civil defense exercise in preparation for an Israeli attack is never held close to the time of an attack. This exercise does not mean that Israel has decided to attack anyone, such as Iran, but it means that it might and Israel has begun taking the appropriate long term, prudent preparations and precautions. High civilian costs of military-related activities are always a hallmark of real war preparations.
Egypt: The Supreme Council for the Armed Forces issued a decree with a law that criminalizes any protest or activity that hampers the work of public or private institutions, state-run Channel 1 TV reported on 16 June. Punitive measures would apply to "agitators" through words, writings or any other public means.
The law also criminalizes the use of force during such protests "that leads to sabotaging any productive facility, harming national unity, undermining public order or harming public or private funds and property."
Comment: This "law" is the military government's response to the police protests reported on 15 June. The language indicates it is intended to constrain the policemen escalating their protest demonstrations.
Libya: Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi said the government was prepared to negotiate with the opposition on the condition that Qadhafi remain as the symbolic leader, state-run Al-Jamahiriyah TV reported. Qadhafi and Libya's territorial integrity are non-negotiable, al-Mahmoudi said. He also opined that the Libyan people would not accept negotiations with former government officials who now hold key positions in the opposition and made political mistakes in inviting NATO to carry out military operations in the country.
Comment: The comments above show that Qadhafi is not ready to negotiate in any sense that would dilute his authority. Qadhafi was a constitutional usurper who overthrew the King to whom he swore loyalty. He and his family have no legitimate claim to be the rulers of Libya, less than the opposition in Benghazi. His hubris and transparency is manifest in every peace overture to outside parties, including the African Union. He wants to end the fighting only on his terms.
Latvia: The Parliament recognized Russia's occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia, according to Rustavi2. Latvia's parliamentary committee for foreign affairs also urged Russia and international organizations to fulfill the six-point cease-fire agreement with Georgia.
Comment: With this move, Latvia has broken ranks with most of its NATO allies.
Czech Republic - NATO: The Czech Republic has announced it is withdrawing from plans to take part in the US missile defense program because of its frustration from its diminished role in the system.
The initiative was conceived as a deterrent against a potential missile threat from Iran but has drawn strong opposition from Moscow. The Bush administration had initially proposed stationing 10 ground-based interceptors in Poland and a radar facility in the Czech Republic. But in September 2009, the Obama administration scrapped the plans and proposed a revamped program with an unspecified role for the Czechs.
Czech Defense Minister Alexandr Vondra said the conditions offered by the US were not good enough. ''Our ideas about the future co-operation are more colorful than just a room or two with some screens there,'' he said.
Comment: NATO and the US have a serious problem in Eastern Europe. The problem is Russia does not acknowledge the permanence of NATO's expansion into the Russian sphere of influence. Russian President Medvedev announced two years ago that Russia has a sphere of influence beyond its borders and that treaties can be undone.
With forces committed in Afghanistan and Libya, NATO has no capability to defend its Eastern European members in the event of a crisis. Nevertheless, they fall within NATO's guarantee that an attack against one is an attack against all members. That is the legal basis for the NATO support of US operations in Afghanistan - the 9/11 attack was approved by bin Laden in Afghanistan and the US demanded that NATO members honor their treaty obligation.
Poland, the Baltic States and now Czechoslovakia sense a growing threat from Russia but are not sensing NATO and US sensitivity to their sense of alarm. As a result they are becoming less cooperative with the US, are experimenting with their own multi-lateral defensive arrangements outside of NATO and they reject an open-ended commitment in Afghanistan. Their defense resources are needed at home to guard against an increasingly assertive Russia.
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I hate changing all the clocks.
I hate standing on a box.
To reach way up upon a wall.
Over my own clutter crawl.
To move a hand a bit one way.
As if to Mother Nature say.
It is not one time, but another.
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(NFL) - Betting against the Super Bowl champs – Winning the NFL Super Bowl is a remarkable achievement. Once a new season starts, any team that plays against the defending Super Bowl champ will be more motivated to win than usual. Therefore, bet against the previous Super Bowl winner for the first 4 weeks of the season?
This is an angle that has a lot of merit because it definitely has an effect on player motivation. Players are more inspired to win when they're up against the defending champion, and will often play harder as a result.
Now, what about a staking plan? An A-B-C-D staking plan as I've outlined previously can make the system super-effective! Why? Because if the Super Bowl champ manages to cover the spread in week 1 (thus making your [A] bet loses), then their opponent in week 2 becomes even more motivated to win! And if the champ covers the spread in both their first 2 games, then their 3rd opponent becomes super-motivated to win! By following an A-B-C staking system, betting against the most recent Super Bowl winner on the spread in the first 4 weeks of the season (only betting on the 2nd week if the first week loses against the spread, and only betting on the 3rd week if both the 1st and 2nd week lose against the spread and 4th week if the third losses, increasing your stake every time), you would have won each and every single one of these 4-game betting series in the entire history of the NFL! In the NFL, it's recommended to buy 1 point if your team is an underdog of exactly +2.5 or +6.5, and buy a � point if your team is an underdog of exactly +3 or +7.
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