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cooler an issue with GTS V8 Air Cooler
mohammed posted a topic in MasterCase 5Hi , find solution to my issue for cooler master cpu cooler maker GTS V8 With the Cooler master master case 5 the cooler now is tite with the case panel so some times when we try to run the pc it crash and couldn't start and after we open the side panel for the case it runs perfect. Over all im happy with cooler master products and I have a lot of your product in my last 2 buld the v850 psu, cooler master master case 5 Nvidia ,GTS V8 Cpu cooler ,Cooler master master Case 5 and geminii S524-v2 cpu cooler. And my issue is on build CPU Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor CPU Cooler Cooler Master V8 69.7 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler Motherboard ASRock Z170 Pro4S ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory Storage Silicon Power Slim S55 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 960 4GB Video Card Case Cooler Master MasterCase 5 ATX Mid Tower Case (Whithe) Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply OS Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit And im looking ahead to make an solution for that without change my build I see some suggestions :- 1.make an custom window pups out an few mm. 2.change the motherboard stud's. Thank you Mohammed Almawlani
CM V8 GTS dust issue?CM V8 GTS seems to have a dust issue. I wonder anyone has the same issue. I built my PC last march with V8 GTS. It has been less than two months clearly, and I use my PC less than an hour a day. I really like how it looks but today I found collected dust dropped from the fan. See the attached pictures. Dust has been collected on the right bottom of the steel part, and some large dust bunches dropped from it onto the VGA card. Some of them might fall into the VGA board through the holes. I am worried that dust might come from the grinded moving part of the fan. This seems to be an quite problem considering the time I have used it. Anyone has the same issue?
Original V8 Cooler and Case Compatibility
Jon R. Schebesta posted a topic in Build AdviceI have an older cooler master V8 that I just acquired (http://www.coolermaster.com/cooling/cpu-air-cooler/v8/), and it currently does not fit into my case.... Is there a list of cases that it will fit inside of? Can Cooler Master give me a list of suggested cases I could purchase?
[WILL IT FIT] CoolerMaster V8 GTS for my buildHey all, Currently I have a Gigabyte Z97-HD3 Motherboard and a coolermaster storm enforcer case, I would just like to know if a V8GTS cooler will fit in the case before I buy as there are returns within 7 days but if opened I only get 50% of its value back as a restock fee. Basically the reason I am asking this is just because I want to know if these factors will affect the fitting of the Cooler even though it says a V8GTS can fit in an enforcer case: *I have no fans at the top or side, only the rear fan and front 200mm fan. *The motherboards cpu and ram position as the ram 4 slots closest to the HDD bay and Optical disk drive slot (if that makes sense) -This is because the current builds I have seen with the V8GTS have 2 or 4 ram slots on both sides of the processor with the processor slot in the middle. *If the height of the case is enough for the motherboard and V8GTS cooler. *if the RAM I have will be in the way (G.Skill Ripjaws X 2x4GB) Sorry if this is a noob question, I am capable of putting together my own computer myself and have been building for years, but because of the size of this cooler I really do not want to stuff this up and have to fork out money for wasting the shops time. Note: the picture I have uploaded is a picture from when I was building the rig with nothing but the motherboard on it, this photo was used because you can see the exact placement/layout of everything instead of it being cluttered but the rest of the components Thank you.


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Here is a screenshot of the What's New link:
OK, the What's New link takes you to the FamilySearch.org Blog Archive but guess what? The Archive doesn't have anything about the most recent changes. As I mentioned, the most important change notice came from The Ancestry Insider and the other changes, such as the notice about the What's New link came from the FamilySearch Blog, so apparently "What's New" isn't all of what's new. Here is a screenshot of the blog:
The two new updates are described as follows:
- The Family Tree now has a What's New link.
- This week, the FamilySearch home page will show more data from your family tree when the Family Tree image is active on the carousel (that part of the home page with the pictures that change from Fan Chart to Photos, Family Tree, etc.)
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The Operations Division is responsible for safety and emergency mitigation; to protect and serve citizens. The Operations Division is the largest division of the department and is under command of the Operations Chief. This division consists of over 300 firefighters covering three 24-hour shifts in thirteen fire stations. Every day there are fourteen engine companies, nine Mobile Intensive Care Units / ambulances, five ladder companies, five water tankers, one heavy rescue, one training officer and one safety officer. The firefighters are under the direct command of one of nine battalion chiefs. In addition to emergency medical services, fires and rescues, the operations division responds to a variety of unique situations, collectively serving as the department's front line emergency medical, rescue and fire suppression response capability. Each shift is overseen by four Battalion Chiefs (three Fire and one EMS). Also available through cross-staffing are a variety of well equipped specialized units, including dive, foam, hazmat, front-country/rope rescue, urban search & rescue and water rescue. A central 911 dispatch system serves the entire Municipality and coordinates, fire and EMS response to all areas of the Municipality.
In addition to suppression duties, each engine company serves as a non-transport Basic Life Support (BLS) unit equipped with a semi-automatic defibrillator to enhance response to cardiac emergencies. The engine companies supplement the Department's Paramedics, who, in combination with Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT's), provide Advanced Life Support (ALS) care and transport. Likewise, all Paramedics are cross-trained as firefighters to enhance response to suppression incidents when necessary.
The Anchorage fire service area covers the immediate 100 square miles of the Anchorage bowl; EMS coverage extends throughout the 1,980 square miles of the entire Municipality. Mutual Aid agreements exist between the Anchorage Fire Department, Ted Stevens International Airport Aircraft/Rescue/Fire, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Girdwood Volunteer Fire Department and Chugiak Volunteer Fire Department. In addition, the State of Alaska Division of Forestry and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management help protect residents and property lying within the 2000 square mile Municipality during the wildland fire season. The Anchorage Fire Department lends support to communities threatened by wildland fires throughout South-central Alaska.
Service within the fire service district area offers a variety of challenges. Rescue and fire response to off-road terrain that requires 4-wheel drive and, occasionally, helicopters, occurs only short distances from major highways and the high-rise, downtown urban area. The Port of Anchorage, Ted Stevens International Airport, Merrill Field (the world's busiest small plane airport) and the hub of the Alaska Railroad pose potential industrial and transportation hazards. Suburban and rural areas add to the mix and a young populace spread over a wide socioeconomic range contributes to a full spectrum of emergency response activity. The Anchorage Fire Department serves a diverse need with a fully blended fire and rescue service.


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Phone Numbers, E‐Mail Addresses, and Metaphor Wars
The law normally advances by small and cautious steps—by the gradual extension of established precedents and rules to novel problems and fact patterns. Little wonder, then, that tricky questions of law often amount to conflicts between competing metaphors. Is a hard drive like a closed briefcase whose contents are all fair game for police once the "container" is legitimately opened? Or is it more like a warehouse containing hundreds or thousands of individual closed containers? If the latter, what are the "containers"? Directories? Individual files?
A similar metaphor war figures in the FBI's effort to expand its authority to acquire information from Internet Service Providers using National Security Letters, which are issued by agents without judicial oversight, and typically forbid providers from disclosing anything about the demand for records. The Bureau had long assumed that the NSL statutes gave them broad authority to get "electronic communications transaction records"—information about your online communications, though not the contents of the communications themselves—as long as they certified that those records would be "relevant" to a national security investigation, a far lower standard than the Fourth Amendment's "probable cause." But in a 2008 opinion, the Bush administration's Office of Legal Counsel rejected this interpretation, finding that NSLs could only be used to obtain the particular types of records specified in the statute, including "toll billing records." For Internet accounts, this meant the FBI could only get "information parallel to... toll billing records for ordinary telephone service."
The obvious question is what, exactly, constitutes information "parallel to" a toll billing record in the online context. The FBI would prefer to resolve the ambiguity by simply amending the law to give them blanket authority to acquire transaction records. In particular, according to The Washington Post, government lawyers think they can obtain "the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user's browser history." On its face, this sounds like a reasonable reading. An important 1979 Supreme Court case, Smith v. Maryland, held that the information contained in telephone "toll billing records"—the itemized list of calls placed and received you'd find on a standard phone bill—didn't enjoy Fourth Amendment protection, and so unlike the contents of phone conversations themselves, could be obtained by the government without a full probable cause warrant. Surely the obvious equivalent in the online context is the list of e-mail addresses in an Internet user's inbox and outbox? At a second glance, though, there are some problems with that metaphor, of two central kinds.
First, there's a problem with the formal analogy. The Court in Smith supported their finding of a diminished privacy interest in toll billing records on numerous grounds. For one, the Court noted that because one's itemized phone bill did contain these numbers, no reasonable person could be unaware that this information was "exposed" to employees of the phone company and retained as a matter of course among the company's business records. Of course, it's now increasingly common for phone companies to charge a flat rate rather than billing by individual calls, and so the legislative history of the NSL statutes makes clear that by "toll billing records" they mean information that could be used to assess a charge, even if a company happened not to charge that way.
The analogy gets pretty strained when we come to Internet services, though. At the time the laws in question here were written, ISPs almost universally charged people for the amount of time they were connected, not by the number of individual e-mails sent. Now it's much more common to simply play a flat monthly fee for broadband connection, though you also sometimes see plans where there's a charge by the megabyte above a certain threshold of bandwidth usage. Your ISP, of course has technical access to the list of e-mail addresses you've communicated with—just as they have the ability to access the e-mails themselves—but no major service, as far as I know, has ever actually kept this list as a separate billing record.
But maybe that's not the right way to apply the metaphor. Maybe what's important is whether those to/from e-mail records are substantively "parallel to" the kind of information you'd traditionally find in telephone toll billing records. As the Smith Court observed, a list of phone numbers was far less revealing and sensitive than the actual conversation—it revealed nothing of the "purport" of the communication itself, or even who was on the call. But as soon as we start to think more carefully about how we actually use e-mail in the real world, it becomes clear that the analogy is far from perfect.
One thing lots of people do with e-mail, after all, is participate in mailing lists and discussion groups. Records of this sort, then, are likely to reveal the membership in potentially controversial social, political, or religious groups—and the Supreme Court has also found that such membership lists enjoy First Amendment protection as a component of freedom of association. But they'd also reveal much more than that. The closest telephone analogue to a mailing list discussion is probable a conference call. An investigator who obtained toll billing records for such a call would, at most, have learned that a certain number of people called in for a certain amount of time; they'd learn nothing about who spoke in response to whom, or how much, and who remained silent. Someone getting e-mail transaction records would have a much more detailed picture of who was vocal and who was silent, the order and frequency with which participants spoke, and so on. And more generally, people in practice do not use e-mail like traditional letters: They tend to have exchanges in which each individual e-mail is more like a piece of the longer conversation.
There are also many common uses of e-mail that don't really have close analogies in the telephonic context. If I make a purchase from Amazon, win an Ebay auction, make an OpenTable restaurant reservation, register for a conference at a local think tank, or place a Craigslist ad, that will typically generate an automatic confirmation e-mail from the site, and the e-mail address from which the site comes will often reveal something about the nature of the transaction. (My inbox has messages from auto-confirm, order-update, ship-confirm, and store-news @amazon.com—inherently more revealing than the mere fact that I called some mail-order vendor.) It's not a particularly big deal in those cases, but such e-mails could also reveal that I had opened or closed or modified an account at a particular politically, sexually, or religiously oriented Web site, or subscribed to a specific publication.
For an example of just how sensitive and revealing such task-specific e-mail addresses can be, consider Craigslist in particular. The site—which for those who haven't used it is the vast online equivalent of the newspaper's classified section—generates an individual anonymized e-mail addresses for each ad placed, so that users don't have to expose their own contact information to the world. Yet while this provides anonymity against the general public, it also makes those mere e-mail addresses much more revealing to the government agent who obtains transaction records. That's because each ad can be linked to a particular e-mail address, so if you've sent a message to email@example.com, the government may not know exactly who you've written, but they can determine why you're writing: To respond to an ad offering a handgun for sale, say, or one soliciting a foot fetishist for a "casual encounter."
The point is not just that investigators shouldn't be able to get e-mail transaction records without a probable cause warrant—though I happen to think that would be a reasonable standard. It's that metaphors can mislead us: We need to look past the easy equivalencies between new technologies and more traditional forms of communication, and drill down to see the full range of privacy interests implicated given the real-world practices of ordinary people who use those technologies.


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BOSTON - The New England Patriots' attorney says 34 text messages between coach Bill Belichick and former tight end Aaron Hernandez were provided to Massachusetts prosecutors investigating a 2013 killing in which Hernandez is charged.
Andrew Phelan said Friday it's important to clarify the material listed in court documents this week as 33 pages of texts. Phelan says he doesn't know how the texts between December 2012 and April 2013 were displayed.
Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder in the killing of semi-pro football player Odin (OH'-dihn) Lloyd, whose body was found near Hernandez's North Attleborough home.
The messages were on a list of discovery documents prosecutors gave Hernandez's attorneys. Also listed were statements Belichick and team owner Robert Kraft gave police.
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Currently the Fan Fiction Forum is being moderated by Angel-Jot, and Smileyface. So please direct all your queries to one of us!
2) Plagiarism/Copy/Inspiration
Any plagiarism OR coping of fan fiction from any sources are STRICTLY prohibited on India-forums.com. It highly violates the copyrights of the original work and could lead to legal issues. Plagiarism has become a big issue on India-Forums.com and it's a serious crime, that's why we have decided to give definitions so everyone is aware of the seriousness:
Inspiration is seeing a process or materials and applying it as an element in your own vision in a different environment.
Plagiarism - Trying to imitate another person's materials and taking credit for it by presenting it as your original work.
Partial copying occurs when the exact words or content from a source are inserted as part of your fan fiction without giving proper attribution.
3) Adult content
Mature Content In FFs
4) Vulgar/Abusive Language
The use of swears words in any posts in ANY section of I-F are not tolerated. Let it be in an FF, or any post made to abuse someone. These swear words/inappropriate language includes (but isn't limited to):
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If you aren't sure by what I mean by these, PM the FF Dev Team and we'll help.
Some of you may already be aware of this, but not fully aware of what is acceptable and what is not. The word must starred out except for the first letter. [EX: f***] You may not keep more than ONE Letter in the word. You can star a word by pressing the shift and 8 key together. The word crap is allowed.
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a) It has come to our attention that there is extensive chatting going on in the Fan Fiction threads. Please keep in mind that India-forums.com consists of a Chat Club section for members to chat, and the FF section is primarily to be used to share and discuss members creating skills and give feedback.
b) Sometimes we are very eager for writers to continue FF's. But we have to be considerate of the fact that the writers have lives outside of I-F too, and so sometimes they aren't able to continue. Posting replies that only contain something along the lines of, "please continue soon" "continue soon: etc., is considered spamming in an FF, which is another thing we don't want to do. If any such post is found, it will be trashed. (However, adding other words of encouragement with the continue soon' is permitted.)
If anyone is seen to engage in such activity following this reminder, the particular FF will be subjected to closure. Hence any sort of chatting beyond the fictions in order to cross 150 pages is considered as spamming and it may face temporarily closure for 3 days.
It has come to our attention that members are getting PM from unknown members with a request to visit/comment on their Fan Fictions. Its understandable we want members to appreciate our work like them and give us feedback but kindly try to understand not everyone has time or interest to read fan fictions. So please respect their wish and do not spam members PM dabba without their permission. Send a PM and ask whether they want to be PMed for new updates and if they agree then send them a buddy request.
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India-forums.com Code of Conduct strictly prohibits members from having multiple IDs. Please refrain from making MIDs, especially to bash member, vote in contests to win etc. If ever convicted with having MIDs, all except the most active ID will be inactivated, followed by a raise in W/L to the active/original ID.
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Maximum number of pages allowed in any topic/FF is 150. After 150 pages, the topic starter should start another thread (if they wish to continue) and provide a link for that new thread in the older version. PM a dev Team member to close it or report your own thread and say it has crossed 150 pages, we will do the needful.
Please refrain from engaging in any moral policing around the Fan Fiction forum. If you find anyone breaching rules or come across any issue on the forum that may require immediate attention, please use the REPORT button to report to the development team rather than trying to solve the matter yourself. The development team will look into the matter as soon as possible!
PS! The Report Button is used when a member is violating the rules of the forum. Unnecessary reporting will not be tolerated. If you want a member to update or don't understand why a particular thread is locked, the report button is NOT the way to go to get an answer! You do not need to worry about anyone finding out that you've reported their thread because only the DT can see the reports. They are not accessible to anyone else except for the forum DT. Any unnecessary reports will be ignored.
11) Blog Links (in either siggy or topic)
It has been noticed that some members are posting adult content parts on their blogs and then posting the link to the blog on their FF thread in order to overcome the adult content rule. This is NOT allowed on IF. If you want to move on to a blog, you are more than welcome to do so BUT in no way, can you use IF to promote your blog.
This means that you cannot post your blog link on FF threads or in your signature. If you start your FF on IF then every part of that story must follow the rules of IF and you cannot post different parts in different sites and give links (For e.g. you cannot post parts 1 to 5 on IF and then post part 6 on your blog and give a link on IF and continue your story from part 7 on IF)
12) Art Requests
All FF Avi/Sig/Banner requests are to be made in the new sticky. Any old shops/new shops will be closed! Only the official graphicers make the graphics.
13) Racially Discriminatory/ Offensive Language
Anything that is and/or can be deemed offensive or discriminatory is prohibited in Fan Fictions! Especially racially discrimnatory language. You may not degrade a religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, or gender! Neither are you permitted to negatively speak about any sexual orientations whether it's hetrosexual, bisexual, homosexual or asexual. Please be aware that this rule does not just ONLY apply for the issues mentioned above. As stated earlier, anything that can/is offensive will not be tolerated!
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What should I do if I find that a member is violating any of the above written rules or is threatening or using abusive language in his/her pms to me?
Well, firstly do not react or try to take charge but see if any of the FF Dev team member is online and pm the link to the topic to them(if it is a pm copy the pm and forward it).
If there is none of the FF dev team member online and the matter is urgent then, go to the main page and right at the bottom where there is a list of online members, and see if any of the Global Moderators or Admins are online and pm them.
However if the matter is not urgent then pm the FF Dev team and we will deal with it when we come online. BUT do not attempt to solve it as this may lead you in trouble and may accelerate the problem.
Hi, this may be the wrong place to ask this question but I could not find anywhere else, why is that when I post a comment the "like" button does not appear on my post.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder FAQ
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a potentially disabling anxiety disorder. A person who has OCD has intrusive and unwanted thoughts and repeatedly performs tasks to get rid of the thoughts. For example, if you have OCD, you may fear that everything you touch is contaminated with germs, and in order to ease that fear, you repeatedly wash your hands.
The effects of OCD range from mild to severe. OCD can disrupt your social life and relationships as well as your ability to work or go to school.
What are the symptoms?
OCD is a chronic or long-term illness, and the symptoms typically increase and decrease over time. Treatment can lessen the severity, but some symptoms may linger after you begin treatment. Anxiety is the most common symptom of OCD. For example, you may have an overall sense that something terrible will happen if you don't follow through with a particular ritual, such as repeated checking to see whether the stove is on. If you fail to perform the ritual, you may have immediate anxiety or a nagging sense of incompleteness.
Symptoms of OCD include:
*Obsessions, which are recurring, unwanted thoughts, ideas, and impulses that interrupt normal thinking and cause anxiety or fear. The thoughts may be sexual or violent or create a concern of illness. Examples include:
*Compulsions, which are behaviors or rituals that are repeated intentionally to try to control the obsessions. Some people have rituals that are rigid and structured, while others have very complex rituals that change. Examples include:
People vary in their understanding of their obsessions and compulsions. Sometimes they may recognize their obsessions and compulsions as unrealistic, and at other times they may be unsure of or believe strongly in their fears.
What causes OCD?
What causes OCD?
Researchers have yet to pinpoint the exact cause of OCD, but they are studying brain abnormalities, genetic (family) influences, and environmental factors. Brain scans in people with OCD have shown that they have different patterns of brain activity than those without OCD and that abnormal functioning of circuitry within a certain part of the brain (striatum) may be related to the disorder. Abnormalities in other parts of the brain and an imbalance of brain chemicals, especially serotonin, may also contribute to OCD.
How is OCD Diagnosed?
How is OCD diagnosed?
A diagnosis of OCD is based on your symptoms, your medical history, and a physical examination. Many people with OCD live with the condition for years and go without treatment because they are afraid or embarrassed to talk to a health professional.
Symptoms that confirm a diagnosis of OCD include:
OCD is a very disruptive illness and is different from the inflexible character traits of OCD personality disorder, such as being a perfectionist and being overly conscientious.
How is it treated?
Treatment for OCD includes counseling and medications. Antidepressant medications called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as fluoxetine (for example, Prozac), are most commonly used. Your doctor may increase the dosage of your medication or change to another SSRI if the first medication prescribed doesn't help. It may take several weeks before you feel the effects of an antidepressant and it begins to affect thoughts and behavior.
Counseling used to treat OCD includes exposure and response prevention, a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Exposure and response prevention is behavorial therapy that provides gradually increasing contact with the feared obsession so that anxiety is reduced. For example, if you were obsessed about germ contamination, you would repeatedly touch an object you believe is contaminated and not wash your hands afterward. You would repeat that behavior until your anxiety was reduced. Cognitive therapy may also be used to help overcome the faulty beliefs (such as fear of contamination) that lead to OCD behaviors.
The most effective treatment for OCD may be using medications and counseling together.
This article is directly from Yahoo! Health. Some words were edited and added in order to make points clearer. Direct Link
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False-color radar imagery shows the Ganges Delta in Bangladesh, as seen by the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite in 2009. Standard radar images do not detect color. In this case, readings from three different satellite passes were analyzed, and the different colors reflect the surface variations that occurred between those passes.
If you still have to send out your season's greetings, take your pick from a spectrum of holiday e-cards featuring spacey imagery from the European Space Agency.
The ESA selected pictures that have a festive look — such as this Envisat radar view of the world's largest delta, formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers in India and Bangladesh. This particular photo focuses on the Bangladeshi part of the delta.
Radar readings can show differences in surface height and reflectivity, but they can't show color directly. This picture combines radar data from three different satellite passes — on Jan. 20, Feb. 24 and March 31, 2009 — and uses the different colors of the rainbow to show the surface changes that occurred between passes. Envisat, the world's largest civilian Earth observation satellite, was launched in 2002 but went out of contact this year.
For a completely out-of-this-world radar view, check out the Cassini orbiter's picture of a hydrocarbon river delta on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
Today's gander at the Ganges Delta is one of the last offerings from the Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar, which has been serving up daily views of Earth from space this month. For more spacey goodies, follow the links below:
- 2012 Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar
- Day 1: A fantastic Chinese fan
- Day 2: Satellite shows a Grander Canyon
- Day 3: Typhoon stirs awe — and alarm
- Day 4: Glittering nighttime view of Riyadh
- Day 5: Night lights shine on 'Black Marble'
- Day 6: Holy sites seen at night
- Day 7: Blue Marble still leaves its mark
- Day 8: Satellites look into a volcano's hell
- Day 9: Jack Frost nipping at Alaska's nose
- Day 10: Cosmonaut looks down on peaks
- Day 11: Earth looms above moonwalker
- Day 12: Skytree casts shadow on Tokyo
- Day 13: Aurora sets stage for meteor show
- Day 14: Apollo's last look at Earthrise
- Day 15: A sobering moment from space
- Day 16: Middle Earth spotted from orbit
- Day 17: Mount Etna erupts ... in 3-D!
- Day 18: Gaze into the Great Blue Hole
- Day 19: Mount Fuji goes fuzzy
- Day 20: Look down on a ruined Maya city
- Day 21: Pyramids have their day in the sun
- 2011 Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar
- 2010 Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar
- The Atlantic: Hubble Advent Calendar
- Zooniverse Advent Calendar
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15 Real Jobs That Pay $50 an Hour, in This Month (October 2010) – Hurry up
Though $50 won't make all your wildest dreams come true, it's no chump change, either. There's still a lot you can get for $50 these days: a haircut, dinner for two, a tank of gas, a 50-day supply of macaroni and cheese. It can buy a lot of life's necessities and simple pleasures.
Now, just imagine what you could do if you got paid $50 for each hour on the job. (Lifetime supply of mac and cheese, anyone?)
While it may seem like the kind of money only doctors and lawyers make, it is possible to earn $50 an hour in a variety of career paths. Here's a sampling of jobs that pay $50 an hour* (or $100,000 a year, based on a 40-hour workweek, with two weeks' vacation time).
1. Computer and information scientist
What they do: Computer scientists research everything from computer algorithms to programming languages and software properties. The goal of computer science varies, but objectives may include: improving the ease of computer use, expanding computer functionality and developing artificial intelligence.
Education: Most have a Ph.D.*
Average hourly earnings: $50.66*
2. Pharmacist
What they do: Pharmacists work in hospitals, drugstores and outpatient facilities. They dispense patient medication, ensure proper dosage, analyze possible drug interactions and provide information to patients.
Education: Doctor of Pharmacy degree (Pharm.D.)
Average hourly earnings: $51.27
3. Construction foreman/superintendent
What they do: These professionals oversee residential and commercial construction sites. They manage construction workers and coordinate project timelines and budgets.
Education: On-the-job experience; bachelor's degree preferred, but not necessary
Average hourly earnings: $50.14
4. Funeral director and embalmer
What they do: Funeral directors make plans for church services, wakes and burials. The embalming portion of the job title involves cleaning and sanitizing the body, and preparing it for burial.
Education: Licensing, two-year education program and apprenticeship required
Average hourly earnings: $52.47
5. Marketing manager
What they do: Marketing managers help direct a company's advertising, promotional and sales strategies, with the goal of improving the company's reputation and increasing its revenue.
Education: Bachelor's degree in business, communications, advertising or public relations.
Average hourly earnings: $50.81
6. Financial aid officer
What they do: Financial aid officers direct disbursement of student scholarships, loans and grants, with the goal of making school more affordable for students.
Education: Bachelor's degree usually required.
Average hourly earnings: $51,203
7. Securities trader
What they do: Securities traders typically work at investment banks, managing securities such as stocks, bonds, futures and options for individual and institutional investors.
Education: Most securities traders hold a bachelor's degree in finance or other business concentration. Often, securities traders must pass financial certification exams such as the Series 7 and Series 63 tests.
Average hourly earnings: $50.79
8. Behavioral psychologist
What they do: Behavioral psychologists study and treat emotional and behavioral issues by helping patients change their perceptions and behaviors, often through therapy.
Education: A doctoral degree is required to practice as a psychologist
Average hourly earnings: $50.36
9. Adult day care director
What they do: Adult day care directors manage day-to-day operations of the facility. Responsibilities may include overseeing employees and budgets, developing relationships with attendees and their families and planning activities.
Education: High school diploma required; bachelor's degree preferred.
Average hourly earnings: $50.64
10. Seismologist
What they do: Seismologists study, report on and predict earthquakes and seismic waves.
Education: An undergraduate degree in physics or geology is enough to get a foot in the door, though many seismologists have master's or doctoral degrees.
Average hourly earnings: $50.43
11. Judge
What they do: Judges preside over trials and hearings in local, state or federal courtrooms.
Education: Because almost all judges get their start as lawyers, law school is the most common educational path for judges.
Average hourly earnings: $49.99
12. Physicist
What they do: Physicists study the physical world, with emphasis on the properties and laws of nature such as mass, gravity, inertia and the composition of matter. Physicists may also apply their findings practically, and develop new medical instruments and engineering technologies, for example.
Education: Though entry-level positions can be found with a bachelor's degree, most physicists have a Ph.D.
Average hourly earnings: $51.76
13. Human resources managers
What they do: HR managers interview and hire workers, mediate employee complaints and act as information sources for employees.
Education: Bachelor's degree
Average hourly earnings: $50.73
14. General and operations managers
What they do: General managers are responsible for the overall operation of venues such as amusements parks, restaurants and hotels. They oversee things such as employees, guest relations, budgets, marketing and purchasing.
Education: High school diploma; bachelor's degree preferred.
Average hourly earnings: $53.15
15. Co-pilot
What they do: A co-pilot serves as one part of the two-part team that makes up an airplane cockpit crew. In-flight duties are usually shared between the more experienced pilot, also called the captain, and the less experienced co-pilot, also referred to as the first officer.
Education: High school diploma, pilot's license.
Average hourly earnings: $52.45
* Salary and education information from CBSalary.com and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Salary info from CBSalary.com based on average earnings in Chicago. All salary information reflects pre-tax earnings.


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AGE: Turns 28 on Jan. 1, 2014.
NBA EXPERIENCE: 2013-14 will be his seventh season.
HOW THE MAGIC ACQUIRED HIM: Traded by the Boston Celtics with Von Wafer for Brandon Bass on Dec. 12, 2011.
CONTRACT STATUS: Signed through 2014-15.
2012-13 STATS: 31.1 mpg, 15.1 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 2.1 apg, 44.8 fg%, 71.8 ft%
SCOUTING REPORT: Named a co-captain by coach Jacque Vaughn before last season, Davis helped propel the rebuilding Magic to a surprising 12-13 start and the league's sixth-best defensive efficiency rating. Davis was en route to a career-best year until he dislocated his left shoulder during a game on Dec. 19. The injury proved to be the Magic's turning point. The team's defense never recovered. After he missed 11 games because of the shoulder injury, Davis played in eight more games. Then, in his ninth game back, he fractured the outside of his left foot; he subsequently underwent surgery and missed the rest of the season. On July 8, he had a second surgery to promote healing in his foot.
THE SEASON AHEAD: The Magic will be ultra-cautious as they bring Davis back from his most recent foot surgery — making sure he doesn't do too much, too soon — and he will miss training camp, perhaps the entire preseason and maybe the beginning of the regular season. But Davis remains the Magic's best low-post defender. Once he's fully healthy, I envision him returning to his starting role, although Tobias Harris, Andrew Nicholson and Jason Maxiell could push him for minutes at the 4. Offensively, Davis is at his best when he's on the move and driving to the hoop. He has a tendency to fall in love with his midrange jumper. Davis could draw interest from other teams as the NBA trade deadline approaches on Feb. 20.
ODDS & ENDS: Davis' full name is Ronald Glen Davis. . . . He was an accomplished high-school football player. . . . His Twitter handle is @iambigbaby11.
Josh Robbins covers the Orlando Magic and the NBA for the Orlando Sentinel. You can reach him via e-mail at email@example.com and connect with him on Facebook at facebook.com/JoshuaBRobbins. Follow him on Twitter at @JoshuaBRobbins.


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For Blake Lively, "Green Lantern's" real power lies in the woman behind the superhero.
"I grew up watching comic book movies like this and I never saw a woman who was equal to the man," says the 23-year-old actress, who plays Carol Ferris, the longtime love interest – and boss – of Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds).
"I think that Carol is very unique in this genre," says Lively. "She's an incredibly powerful woman and she's also a fighter pilot along with Hal. She runs her father's aviation company and it's rare to see such strong women existing as equals amongst men in film, especially in this genre."
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Lively thinks the character is a more active iteration of the typical faithful girlfriend/damsel-in-distress, and something she wants to see more of. "She's a bit of a real life hero in her own right. She has the strength and the power of the men who surround her, but she's also able to the balance the femininity and be the heart for the man that she loves. I think that women will appreciate that."
Another selling for the female audience? "Ryan is half naked," jokes Lively.
The actress, who is an accomplished amateur chef, admits she did her best to undermine Reynolds' ab-tastic workout regimen by constantly baking sugary treats on the New Orleans set. "It was just a way to sabotage Ryan," she laughs. "It was not fair – he was working out and I'm the girl and supposed to look better, and I didn't think it was right and fair, so I tried to sabotage him with cupcakes."
Lively learned her lessons in female wiles and willpower early on, she explains. "My mom would always say to me and all my siblings when we were growing up 'Where there's a will, there's a way.' And she would always make the impossible happen. She definitely instilled that in us. I remember when I was in high school, I took on way too many clubs and activities and extracurriculars, and they brought me into the office and said "You can't do all of these things." And I said "Why not?" and they said "Because it's never been done before." I said "Okay, well then, great – you get to see it be done for the first time." I should not have done that. It was a terrible idea. I went to school from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day and I was miserable, but I had to prove that I could do it because of this willpower thing. I do believe where there's a will, there's a way."
And if the willful Lively has her way, Carol Ferris will be back in a sequel, exploring her dark side – as fans of the comic book lore know, she occasionally morphs into the sultry, scantily-clad and sinister Star Sapphire (think Serena van der Woodsen with a purple power stone, a barely there magenta super-suit and a very bad attitude).
"I loved that if this franchise continued that she does become a villain!" says Lively.


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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Christina Aguilera tumbled, Bob Dylan strained to be heard and Lady Gaga turned up in an egg costume -- just one of the many memorable moments from the 53rd annual Grammy Awards.
Aguilera, who fumbled recently while singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl, slipped and nearly fell at the end of a tribute to Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin.
The ceremony Sunday night included other highlights as well.
Millions of television screens reverted to black and white for a few minutes during a performance by Bruno Mars.
It was a section of the show that emphasized the connections current popular music has to the past, on a night where several music legends teamed with new stars, including Barbra Streisand, Mick Jagger and Dylan.
But it was an independent rock band from Canada, Arcade Fire, that took the night's biggest prize, the album of the year Grammy. The band seemed surprised when it won the award -- one member's first words on stage were "What the hell?"
Mars sang his hit "Grenade," a performance that echoed back to the 1950s and Sam Cooke, or the 1960s and Otis Redding.
Janelle Monae followed with a futuristic soul performance of her song "Cold War," which brought the Staples Center crowd to its feet for a long standing ovation.
Rihanna made a triumphant return to the Grammys, two years after she canceled her performance hours after she was beaten by then-boyfriend Chris Brown.
Rihanna teamed with rapper Eminem to perform their "Love the Way You Lie," a record of the year contender.
Joining the duo on stage were Skylar Grey and Dr. Dre.It was Dre's first live television performance in more than a decade.
Eminem was later handed a Grammy for best rap album for "Recovery," the best selling CD of 2010. It was his second Grammy for the day, counting one awarded during the pre-telecast show for best rap solo.
Rihanna, who appeared to have recovered from her bout with the flu, also delivered a steamy rendition of her hit "What's My Name" with best new artist nominee Drake.
Lady Antebellum took home five Grammys, including for song of the year, record of the year and best country album for "Need You Now." The group also got two Grammys in the pre-telecast show.
Jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding beat out Drake and Justin Bieber to win the best new artist award.
The show opened with a "get-well card" to Franklin, who is recovering from an undisclosed illness.
Yolanda Adams, Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride and best new artist nominee Florence Welch sang a soulful montage of Franklin's hits, including "A Natural Woman," "Ain't No Way," "Knock On Your Door," "Think," "Baby I Love You" and "Respect."
Franklin did not attend, but instead a video message was played.
"I especially want to thank all of you who took the time to send me get well cards and flowers, beautiful flowers, and most importantly your prayers during my time of hospitalization," Franklin said. "I wish I could have been with you tonight," Franklin said. "But next year, OK?"
The star power from the past included Streisand, who sang her 1976 Grammy and Oscar winning song, "Evergreen." It was the theme song for "A Star Is Born," the film in which she starred with Kris Kristofferson, who introduced Streisand.
Mick Jagger paid tribute to songwriter Solomon Burke, who died last October, by singing Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love." The Rolling Stones covered the song on a 1965 album.
Dylan sang and played his harmonica with best new artist nominee Mumford and Sons, and rising roots rockers, the Avett Brothers, in a salute to the comeback of acoustic music.
A musical tribute to country legend Dolly Parton featured Norah Jones, Keith Urban and John Mayer singing her song "Jolene."
Lady Gaga popped out of a giant egg on stage at the start of her performance of "Born This Way," a song with a message about gay and lesbian rights.
Gaga, who wore a raw meat dress on another red carpet last year, arrived inside the egg for the Grammys.
Gaga was "incubating," her creative director Lauri Ann Gibson said.
"It was necessary to incubate her for a certain time, because tonight she is actually birthing a new race," Gibson said. "A new race that doesn't have the ability to judge or hate in their DNA, so she is incubating right now so she goes through that process."
Gaga, whose "Bad Romance" won her two Grammys during the pre-telecast show, was given the best pop vocal album Grammy during the telecast for "The Fame Monster."
British alternative rock band Muse won the best rock album Grammy for "The Resistance."
Miranda Lambert won her first Grammy, taking home the best female country vocal award for her song "The House That Built Me."
"Thank you, and I love country music," Lambert said.
Train won the first Grammy handed out on the telecast. It was for best pop duo or group performance with vocals.
"Thanks, Justin Bieber, for not being in a duo or a group," Train lead singer Patrick Monahan said.
A mini-tribute to the four-year career of the 16-year-old pop sensation included video of an even younger Bieber auditioning for his eventual mentor, Usher. Bieber sang a montage of three songs with Usher and actor Jaden Smith, the 12-year-old son of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
Cee Lo revamped his hit "F-k You" into "Forget You" so he could perform the record of the year contender on the broadcast. He was accompanied by Jim Henson's Muppets and Gwyneth Paltrow. It was a colorful performance, strikingly reminiscent of Elton John's guest appearance on the Muppets.
With 98 of the 109 awards presented pre-telecast, producers had plenty of time for entertainment during the 3 1/2-hour live show on CBS.
Jeff Beck, Legend and Jay-Z each won three Grammys in the pre-telecast presentations, while BeBe & CeCe Winans, the "Crazy Heart" soundtrack and Usher gained two trophies.
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock added two Grammys to his extensive collection, one for improvised jazz solo and one for best pop collaboration with vocals. With 14 of the trophies on his shelf, Hancock said winning them never gets old.
CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report


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According to Eurobricks this is a possible lineup of the series 10 minifigure collection.
There are pieces that have been added to Brickset.com complete with piece number and picture which has helped to back up this rumour.
Enough new pieces have been found to make up 16 individual figures. So it seems highly likely that this is series 10
These are the new parts that have been listed on Brickset.com and the figure that they might make.
[I included a few links to some of the new parts]
Sea Captain - Seagull, Nautical cap, Nautical torso, Face with thick gray beard http://www.brickset.com/parts/?part=6029299
Colonial Judge - Powdered Wig, Colonial officer/governor torso
Bee Costume Man - Bee hat, Bee torso, Bee legs, Bee wings, Honey pot
Medusa - Medusa head, Medusa torso, Medusa hair
Sky Diver - Sky diver legs, Sky diver torso, Sky diver head, Sky diver helmet (skate helmet in Bright Yellowish Green), Backpack
House Painter - Painter hat, Paint bucket, Paint bucket handle, Paint roller, Painter head, Painter pants, Painter torso, http://www.brickset.com/parts/search/?query=paint
Pierrot Clown - Pierrot hat, Pierrot face, Pierrot torso, Pierrot pants, Black ruff
Paintball Player - Paintball player helmet, Paintball player pants, Paintball player jacket, Paintball gun
Native American - Painted face, Gold-tipped spear, Body-painted torso, Legs with loincloth
Female Actress - Face with heart drawn on sunglasses, Blonde wig, Chihuahua, Trendy pink torso, White pants with chains http://www.brickset.com/parts/?part=6029295
Female Nerd - Nerd girl face, Nerd girl vest, Legs with Sand Yellow skirt, Dark brown "Ginny" hair (HP), Blue flask, Yellow flask [looks like Amy Farah Fowler from Big Bang Theory]
Roman Officer - Plume for Roman Officer, Titanium metallic armor torso with wolf inlay, Armor skirt and sandals http://www.brickset.com/parts/?part=6029310
Old Man - Bald head with combover, Aged face with glasses and mustache, Torso with suspenders, Old newspaper
Female Spartan - Historic female torso, Armor skirt and boots, Eagle shield, Warhammer/Battle Axe [Boadicea?]
Male Punk/biker - Punk torso with arm tats, Punk pants, Black mohawk, Sunglasses and mustache
Tin Soldier - Tin soldier face with rosy cheeks, Tin soldier torso, Tin soldier hat, Wind-Up Key
There is also a Baseball torso with a catchers mitt.
One of these figures may be the exclusive figure that comes on the outside of the Character Encyclopedia book due out next year.
Looks like Series 10 could be an awesome wave


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https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?jobname=Android 4.2 x86&rev=2520866d5874&showall=1
More sets will be added as we green the test suites on Cedar.
|Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Android-x86.png
Back to the topic, there are various aspects of the Android x86 testing which are different from the rest of our mobile automated testing, here's a brief list:
- We don't run them on a device like a Tegra board or a Panda board
- We run them on Linux 64-bit in-house machines (we can't use AWS)
- No foopies involved
- We run them under the Android emulator for the x86 architecture
- We test on Android 4.2 rather than on Android 2.2 or 4.0
- We run them in parallel: four emulator instances at most
- An Android x86 job on tbpl is called a "set"
- All Android x86 jobs will be grouped under "Sets" rather than per suite category grouping (e.g. reftest or mochitest)
- A set can run test suites from any category (mix mochitests with reftests)
Here's how it looks on tbpl:
From a developer's perspective here's what you need to know:
- The jobs are currently not running visibly on tbpl
- see bug 917361 if you want to help
- Android x86 is on its way to become a tier-1 platform
- You can borrow a releng machine to run the tests on them
- You will be able to run it on your machine if this bug gets fixed
- We're greening more suites on Cedar and we will add them to other tbpl development trees
- We could potentially be adding another 7 to 11 sets in the next few weeks
- The suites on each set are currently in-flux as we move suites from orange sets to green sets
- Android x86 testing will ride the Gecko 27 trains
In a following blog post I will go into the technical details on how these tests are run by mozharness.
All of this work happened under bug 895186.
If you want to contribute on how to make them easily runnable outside of a releng machine please visit this bug.
After several months of development, big thanks (sorted alphabetically) to aki, Callek, dminor, gbrown, rail, RyanVM and ted.
We still have some work to go but it is good to capture this small step towards victory.
- Run visibly on tbpl
- Try server support
- Make it easy for dev to run locally
- Crashdumps for Android x86 are not working properly
- More test suites and sets
- Ride the trains
This work by Zambrano Gasparnian, Armen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.


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Roger E. Millsap
posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 9:12 am
I am now using Version 5, and I fit a model to 10 binary indicators using MLR, which the manual says will give 2PL output. In that output, two chi-square statistics appear as
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit for the Binary and Ordered Categorical
(Ordinal) Outcomes**
What null hypothesis do these chi-squares
test? One is a Pearson, and one is an LR chi-square. They do not appear to be
testing the fit of the 2PL model per se.
Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I couldn't find it on the list.
Roger Millsap
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 9:21 am
These are tests of the observed versus expected multiway frequency tables for the categorical indicators.
Roger E. Millsap
posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 10:24 am
Hi Linda,
If I could follow up on this: when you
say "expected", under what model are the expected frequencies generated?
They do not seem to be generated under
a single-factor model for binary
indicators. Or are they?
The chi-squares are much different from
the fit of the single-factor model under
WLSMV, for example. Thanks,
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 10:52 am
In both cases expected is the H0 model such as a 1-factor model. The frequency table chi-squares (Pearson and LR) have higher df since they test against the full distribution whereas WLS tests against only bivariates - so df's are different (WLSMV df, as opposed to WLS and WLSM, is of course totally different since it is estimated). The p values should be comparable. As usual, freq table Pearson/LR can suffer from low cell count problems.
Roger E. Millsap
posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:04 am
Hi Bengt,
The p-values in my example are not even close to comparable.
I'm fitting a single-factor to 10 binary items with N=937. No missing data.
For the MLR run, the two chi-squares are:
Pearson chi=1039.751
LR chi=589.487
For the single-factor run with WLSMV:
WLSMV chi=54.598
Clearly, the IRT-MLR results lead to a vastly different conclusion about fit.
What is the explanation? If you want
the data and programs, I can send them.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:24 am
Typically when the Pearson and LR chi-squares for a frequency table are as different as in this MLR run, neither can be trusted most likely due to many freq table cells with (close to) zero cell counts. Adding Tech10 to the MLR run should expose this. The WLSMV chi-square can work better in such situations since it collapses to bivariate tables. If that doesn't explain it, please send materials to support.
Roger E. Millsap
posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 9:43 am
Hi Bengt,
I think that your conjecture is correct. When I cut the number of items down to 5-7, the p-values are much more comparable. Once I get up to 10 items, the divergence is there and there are many cells with zero's.
I guess that the lesson is to use the single-factor WLSMV to test the model if the number of items exceeds what can be supported with the N. Thanks,
krisitne amlund hagen
posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 5:18 am
Dear Drs. Muthen,
I am testing a model, in which the independent variable (IV) is categorical with 4 groups (4 groups of children with different social profiles). The grouping variable is gender.
I use version 5 now.
1. How do I specify that the independent (w1_socgr) variable is categorical?
When I run this model command:
W3_anti BY W3_devfA W3_police W3_drugA;
W2_soci BY W2_coopA W2_assrA W2_contA;
W2_soci ON w1_socgr;
W3_anti ON w1_socgr W2_soci;
it looks like w1_socgr is being correlated with w2_soci (a latent variable of social competence at w2)? If I choose w1_socgr as a grouping variable, how do I test for gender differences and how do I retain the three wave nature of the design?
2. One of the indicators for the outcome variable (antisocial at wave 3) is actually a count variable treated as a continuous variable (# of times the adolescent in contact with police). It has about 50% missing + many zero�s. Could I recode the variable into a dichotomous variable? What else could I do?
3. The results indicate that w2_soci is a mediator for girls, but not for boys, in that the path from w2_soci to w3_anti is significant only for girls. Do I have to run a test constraining that path to be equal across groups to test for significance? How do I specify that in the command?
Thank you for a wonderful forum,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 8:46 am
You need to represent a four-category nominal variable by three dummy variables and include these dummy variables as covariates in your model.
You can treat the variable as a count or dichotomize it. You could try both.
It depends on what question you are trying to answer. The z-test given for each group tests whether the coefficient is different from zero. A difference test tests whether the coefficients are different from each other.
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Something to be proud of
Cattle and beef production represent the largest single segment of American agriculture. In fact, the USDA says more farms are classified as beef cattle operations (35%) than any other type. USDA's 2007 Census of Agriculture classified 687,540 farms as beef cattle operations. The future of our industry depends on producing a safe, wholesome and nutritious food tailored to the needs of our consumers. For many farmers and ranchers, raising cattle is a family tradition. Some of us may be first generation, some of us may be 3rd, 5th or even 9th generation cattle ranchers. There's more to raising safe, wholesome, quality beef cattle than just turning your bull out to pasture in late summer with your heifers and cow's. It takes knowledge by trial & error, knowledge by learning from other producers, desire, integrity and honesty. Most farms and ranches in the United States, including cattle ranches, are family owned and operated. Even the largest farms tend to be family farms. More than 97 percent of beef cattle farms and ranches are classified as family farms. When it comes to beef cattle production, most operations are smaller than you might think. According to USDA, the majority of beef cattle operations (79%) have less than 50 head of cattle. Although cattle farms and ranches are spread across the United State, nearly a third of cattle operations are located in the Plains states.
We all strive to provide safe, high-quality beef for our consumers both stateside and over-seas at an affordable price while sustaining and improving resources under our close watch/care. Beef production methods have evolved to achieve this goal, resulting in new management protocols and technologies specifically through programs like The Beef Quality Assurance Program (BQA) and NCBA's MBA Program. Both of those programs help us meet consumer demand. And now a day's, consumers demand quality animal care otherwise known as BQA. As Beef producers, the best way to produce safe, wholesome and nutritious beef is to simply combine the latest scientific advances (see NCBA's web-site and the Center for Beef Excellence site), with time-honored family traditions which most of us already posses. If you're a first generation farmer/rancher/producer, there's no better time than the present to start cementing family traditions for following generations. Every family started as first generation "somethings"! Right? Why not start a family tradition of producing Beef with the guidelines set forth by the BQA program?
If your not a Beef producer and don't have the opportunity of becoming one, but like to learn as much as you can about what you eat and where it really comes from and how it get's there? The following is a brief synopsis I found on the Explore Beef.org web-site…
Beef production begins with a cow-calf producer who maintains a breeding herd of cows that raise calves every year. When a calf is born, it weighs 60-100 pounds. Beef calves are weaned at six to 10 months of age when they weigh 450-700 pounds. Calves leave their ranch or farm of origin between six and 12 months of age. Younger or lighterweight calves may be sent to a backgrounder or stocker who continues to graze them on grass or other forages until they are 12 to 16 months old. Both the cow-calf and stocker segments graze cattle on range and pastureland that is largely unsuitable for crop production. In fact, about 85 percent of U.S. grazing lands are unsuitable for producing crops, and grazing animals on this land more than doubles the area that can be used to produce food.
After the calves are weaned, some are sold at an auction market. A cow-calf producer may also choose to keep the best females to add to the breeding herd. Some animals may not be sold at an auction market, and instead will go directly from the cow-calf producer to the feedlot or from the backgrounder/stocker to the feedlot. Most beef cattle spend approximately four to six months in a feedlot just prior to harvest where they are fed a grain-based diet. At the feedlot (also called feedyard), cattle are grouped into pens that provide space for socializing and exercise. They receive feed rations that are balanced by a professional nutritionist.
Feedlots employ a consulting veterinarian, and employees monitor the cattle's health and well-being daily. Feedlots are efficient and provide consistent, wholesome and affordable beef using fewer resources. The time cattle spend in a feedlot is often called the "finishing phase." Some producers choose to finish cattle on grass pasture. The beef derived from these animals is "grass-finished" (sometimes called "grass fed"). This is a significantly smaller segment of modern beef production because it requires unique climate conditions, and it takes the cattle longer to reach market weight. All cattle—whether they are grass-finished or finished in a feedlot—spend the majority of their lives grazing on grass pasture.
Once cattle reach market weight—typically 1,200-1,400 pounds and 18-22 months of age, they are sent to a processing facility to be harvested. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspectors are stationed in all federally inspected packing plants and oversee the implementation of safety, quality and animal welfare standards from the time animals enter the plant until the final beef products are shipped to retail and foodservice establishments for consumers to purchase.
There, that was fairly painless right? If you're a consumer and you have any other questions about where you food comes from and how it got there, log on to ExploreBeef.org. Above all, don't be afraid to stop at a farm or ranch and ask a producer about how they raise their Beef and why? Ask as many producers as you can find, you may be surprised how many different way's of raising Beef there are.
Beef production affects the U.S. economy. According to USDA, producers of meat animals in 2008 were responsible for more than $66 billion in added value to the U.S. economy, as measured by their contribution to the national output. Now that's Something to be Proud of!


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They say that a way to a man's heart is through his stomach. For Oscar Manuel, father of two sponsored children in the CFCA Hope for a Family program†in Guatemala, this statement couldn't be more true.
Oscar was a farmer with little to no income. There was no bakery in Oscar's community, and through the work of CFCA livelihood programs, Oscar and other parents began making and selling bread around their community.
CFCA provided training and a loan for the group to build an oven and start making bread.
Oscar and others are eager to share their new skills with others.
"With happiness in our hearts," he says in this video, "we will teach what we have learned."
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Students interested in teaching as a career invited to information session at Leeward Community College
Campus to offer new Associate in Arts in Teaching programLeeward Community College
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PEARL CITY, Oʻahu — High school students interested in teaching as a career and others who may be interested in making a career change are invited to a free public information session to learn about the new Associate in Arts in Teaching (AAT) Program at Leeward Community College (LCC). The session will be held on Saturday, April 8, at 10 a.m. in room PS 210B on the LCC campus.
The new AAT Program is a two-year associate degree program designed for students interested in pursuing a teaching degree in elementary or secondary education. New cohorts will begin the program in Fall 2006 and Spring 2007, with each limited to 25 students. The AAT Program allows students to jump start their study of education by offering education courses and field experiences during their first and second years of study.
Graduates of the AAT Program will be able to seek employment as a paraprofessional in K-12 education or transfer to a baccalaureate program in elementary or secondary education. The LCC AAT Program currently has articulation agreements with Chaminade University and City University (Bellevue, Wash.), and is in the process of forming agreements with UH West Oʻahu, which will begin a new baccalaureate program in elementary education in Fall 2007, and UH Mānoa.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Sunday's "NASCAR Now" Takes Aim At "RaceDay"
Once again ESPN has slowly been focusing on the NASCAR programs that fell through the cracks last season.
The Sunday morning NASCAR Now in 2007 was an hour of opinion and commentary. Host Erik Kuselias made the announcers "pick" and "choose" and answer his biting questions. In the entire hour, the Busch Series and the Truck Series were usually never mentioned. Hype and innuendo ruled the day.
This Sunday, Ryan Burr was joined in the ESPN2 studios by Mike Wallace. Reporting from the track was Marty Smith, who worked very hard in 2007 to keep the news portion of this TV series current. This season he has adopted the Lead Reporter role and has been participating in more on-air roles for the ESPN Networks.
Burr and Smith work well together, and it certainly helps to have a current NASCAR personality like Mike Wallace along for the ride. The fact that Wallace had been featured spotting for his daughter Chrissy on Saturday as she drove in the NCTS race made it even better.
Burr welcomed Robby Reiser to the program from Martinsville and got a nice dose of NASCAR reality. Burr asked Reiser about "his mandate" from Roush in his new role. The look on Reiser's face was priceless. This is racing, not rocket science.
Now understanding his subject much better, Burr toned-down his high-brow questions and walked Reiser through a review of his transition into management and some of his frustrations with being "in the office." Mike Wallace put a nice cap on the interview with a summary of the Roush season in 2008.
A feature on Petty Racing's pit crew seemed to be strange, as Kyle Petty had missed the Martinsville race. A snippet of a post-race crew meeting and a look at the workout and practice routines of the group was a bit strange on a Sunday morning race preview program.
NASCAR Now again played the Jack Roush quotes from the Martinsville Media Center. Roush continues to ignore common sense and public relations advice with his comments. The program brought-in reporter David Newton who followed-up with the information that Michael Waltrip had already "plead guilty" to the Roush charges, and the incident actually happened back in 2007.
Mike Wallace is a plain-spoken guy, and he put a "bigger picture" perspective on the issue of missing parts. Wallace pointed the conversation in the direction of the teams and the unspoken code of honor in the garage area. His re-directing of the discussion back to reality and away from the hype was exactly what the program needed.
Burr finally brought-up the topic of Chrissy Wallace and her Martinsville performance. Mike lit-up immediately and provided some of the real emotion that is so often lacking on the NASCAR Now set. A great touch was having Chrissy Wallace by satellite from Martinsville after the highlights.
Burr sometimes makes NASCAR a bit too complicated, and the Wallace family brought him back down to earth by emphasizing once again the simple fundamentals of racing. Mike got to ask his daughter a question, and it made her look a lot more like a teenager than a NASCAR driver. What other sport brings the mom and dad connection right into the event while it is in progress? The Wallace interview put a nice family spin on this show.
Burr got another learning experience when he asked Mike Wallace about Martinsville and got a professional lesson from a veteran driver. Wallace showed his value and his years of experience as he laid-out point-by-point the dynamics of both the track and the race itself. This was an outstanding preview of the Sunday race.
As a continuing statement about the growth of the NASCAR Now production team, a feature report on the late Alan Kulwicki suddenly appeared on-the-air. Featuring veteran journalists and NASCAR personalities, a profile of the unique owner and driver emerged that was outstanding.
Educating new fans and reminding older ones of the past has been a tough challenge for NASCAR Now. The voices of Bob Jenkins and the late Benny Parsons on the old ESPN telecast went a long way to filling that void.
In closing the piece, NASCAR veterans Paul Andrews, Kyle Petty and journalist Steve Waid put an emotional stamp on the feature with their memories of Kulwicki's transporter leaving the Bristol track after the plane crash that took his life.
Mike Wallace once again pointed-out just how small the NASCAR family really is by relating that Paul Andrews was in Wallace's wedding, and the family originally thought that Andrews was also on the plane that crashed. This is exactly the type of commentary and first-person perspective that NASCAR Now needs to embrace and continue this season.
Marty Smith re-appeared in the final segment with Elliott Sadler to update his health situation and his plans for the race. Having a veteran like Smith at the track in this role instead of a "general assignment" reporter like David Amber or Bob Holtzman has made all the difference in the world for this Sunday show.
NASCAR Now has gone through a very public process of pulling itself up by its bootstraps from the disaster of 2007 to the emerging success of 2008. Individual programs like this one go a long way toward cementing in the minds of the fans that ESPN is back and committed to this sport for the long-haul.
The Daly Planet welcomes comments from readers. Simply click on the COMMENTS button below and follow the easy instructions. The rules for posting are on the right side of the main page. Thanks again for stopping by and adding your opinion.
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- Anonymous said...
"As a continuing statement about the growth of the NASCAR Now production team, a feature report on the late Alan Kulwicki suddenly appeared on-the-air. Featuring veteran journalists and NASCAR personalities, a profile of the unique owner and driver emerged that was outstanding".
I'll very much agree that the Kulwicki piece was Grade A - perfect piece of production. I enjoyed it alot. BUT......
Packages like this SHOULD BE outstanding. There is no excuse. The production team can spend weeks upon weeks gathering the contents of these packages. It SHOULD BE perfect & it was.
I do give credit to the person that realized it's been 15 years since Kulwicki's untimely death. Very good fore thought.
I'm not naive enough to think that the "NASCAR NOW" prod team put this piece together. This had the markings of an ESPN "Sports Century" production, which awards have been won, and rightly so.
I don't disagree with you very often since I started enjoying your site, but this time, I cant let it fly.
NASCAR NOW had very little to do with this Kulwicki package.(I can't prove it...but that's my opinion)
Thanks JD
- March 30, 2008 at 12:13 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Where do you think it came from?
I thought I had seen it earlier in the Ultimate NASCAR programs the network aired last season.
Did that ring a bell for you?
- March 30, 2008 at 12:28 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'm just glad that NASCAR Now didn't ignore the weather or possibilities of bad weather. First time ever in my memory it was mentioned on NN as a possibility. Usually ESPN and SPEED ignore the weather even as rain pours down and lightning strikes. Or memorably on NN, the weather sends their reporters to do the reports inside because they can't be done outside and they still try to ignore it.
Finally these networks are understanding that weather at an outdoor event is something that can't be ignored and it's their responsibility to note it for their viewers. Hopefully it won't affect the race, but we're grown folks - we can handle the possibility. Great job with that today, NN.
- March 30, 2008 at 12:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
The Kulwicki piece was originally aired during the fall Atlanta race, commemorating the 15-year anniversary of the 1992 Hooters 500.
They added in a few new clips, but the narrating was the same. I was a little disappointed that they repeated the same piece, but I've watched it a few times, so maybe not everyone remembers it.
Anyways, whether they created it or not, it's still excellent.
- March 30, 2008 at 12:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
Don't want to take credit for the Kulwicki piece, but maybe we prodded their memory here at the Daly Planet.
When Jeff Burton made his Polish victory lap after the Bristol race, several posts here (mine included) remembered it was the 15th anniversary of the spring Bristol race where the Hooters hauler made the reverse lap in honor of Alan.
Be interesting if we actually contributed to ESPN airing that item.
- March 30, 2008 at 1:23 PM
- Tripp said...
The piece on Alan Kulwicki was excellent. Whether it was a repeat or not is irrelevant. It was deftly done and deserved a spot in this show. What brought it home to me were the recollections of Andrews, Petty and Mike Wallace. I was a Kulwicki fan and this package got me a little weepy.
I appreciate this recollection by NN and it helps this show emerge as the class of the field.
Mike Wallace is great in this role. His style is so different from Kenny's that you'd almost never know they were brothers. The thread that common to them both is, as JD said, plain speaking. Mike's style and knowledge, or maybe wisdom, brings a lot to each broadcast. I'm pleased that ESPN has included him as part of their talent pool. That pool just keeps getting deeper to the benefit of the fans.
- March 30, 2008 at 2:29 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I went to the party at the Atlanta Hilton for Alan after his victory. I was a guest of the Wood Brothers and had a great chat with Alan about his day.
He was certainly a different kind of cat, but he was so proud of what his team had done and there was a lot of emotion in the room with the Ford guys.
I don't know if you remember, but Kulwicki crossed out the "Th" on his Thunderbird, so he went into that race as the "underbird." I always thought that was hilarious.
- March 30, 2008 at 4:05 PM
- PammH said...
Wow, JD-what a piece of information that I had not heard before! Thanks much!!
I thought I vaguely remembered this piece from before, because I recall tearing up when Paul Andrews did. Still an exceptional piece & a well-timed airing for newbies (like me)
- March 30, 2008 at 7:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
It's hard to believe this is the same program that was so abominable last year. The improvement has been truly impressive. This is now a show worth watching. Congrats, ESPN, it is now a program you can be proud of. Thanks for listening.
- March 30, 2008 at 9:49 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I think that right now this turnaround is the NASCAR TV story of the year.
- March 30, 2008 at 10:34 PM
- chase said...
I thought we were done with Eric the Klueless - can't ESPN get it? Otherwise, it was an excellent show and the content and presentation was extraordinary but please ESPN, protect us from E the K - he's useless and brings no redeeming social value to the show nor to race fans in general.
- March 31, 2008 at 9:28 AM
- Anonymous said...
I think that Mike Wallace could turn out to be the best TV analyst in the family!!
I just hate it when a day-of-the-race program gets so locked into it's preset menu that it can't drop an inappropriate piece. What the heck does it matter if Kyle Petty's pit crew does a good job. It never matters. Especially when he isn't racing.
- March 31, 2008 at 12:25 PM
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- March 31, 2008 at 1:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
Takes Aim At Raceday???
- March 31, 2008 at 1:01 PM
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- March 31, 2008 at 1:05 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 1:01PM,
This column talks about the changes in the one hour Sunday morning edition of NASCAR Now.
Last season this program struggled and was pretty much ridiculed because hype and opinion dominated.
Now, it has changed into a nice one hour show. This week, Mike Wallace was on the set and did a good job of integrating himself into the show. If you read my column, or watch the show, you can make your own judgements.
The three new co-hosts of the show continue to be interesting to watch, with Burr continuing to learn the sport as he goes.
If you did not like a portion of this show or had issues with the on-air talent, please take a minute to tell us what they were and what you think ESPN2 can do to make changes.
As for the poster that asked about an ESPN job, I left ESPN in 1989 after working there for ten years. I only returned twice with clients as a consultant to sell them shows.
Currently, I am focusing on the Internet and have no TV programs on ESPN and no clients who are involed with the ESPN networks. I hope that clears up my profile for you.
- March 31, 2008 at 1:16 PM
- Julie said...
Yes, the Kulwicki piece was very good, but I'm surprised no one has commented on the Robbie Reiser interview. It was one of the stranger interviews I've seen, mainly because Robbie never looked at the camera until the very end of the interview when Ryan was able to elicit a little bit of emotion in him when he contemplated the idea of doing something else.
I don't know who I felt more sorry for - Ryan or Robbie.
- March 31, 2008 at 8:07 PM


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A conversation with author Christina Jeter
Christina Jeter, the author of the e-book "Celebrate Being You," discusses her work with Creative Dreamers.
This book is a celebration of the diversity of the world and how it helps us thrive, in doing so, it should always be celebrated and never depreciated!!
Cover image of "Celebrate Being You" from Amazon.com.
CD: What made you decide to write this book?
Christina: Overcoming the troubles of my childhood and adolescents made me write this book. I wanted to show the greatness in a child and how it should be nurtured not demolished by an adult!
CD: How long did it take you to write it, from idea to completed project?
Christina: It took me about 3 years to put the idea together. The reason being is because I just came into being informed about the history of the people I used in it.
CD: So it took a lot of research?
Christina: Yes, I read the books about them (people in the book), talked to the authors, visited museums and other historical land marks. I prayed and felt I talked to them spiritually.
CD: What was the most challenging thing about writing it?
Christina: Making sure it focused on shaming the attacker (bully) instead of shaming the victim of bullying! I wanted to show how you can overcome with words and knowledge, but also be able to physically protect yourself from injustice.
CD: How about the most rewarding part?
Christina: The most rewarding part was bringing it to life and completing it. I sent it out to people before I published it and got great reviews. I hope to one day do some readings and signings at various Barnes and Noble stores and maybe even make it into a picture book, cartoon, TV series, etc!!!
CD: If there was one thing you would hope your readers take away for reading it, what would that be?
Christina: Never be ashamed about who you are! GOD doesn't make mistakes. We all contribute to the beauty of the world. We are all super heroes. Everyone – please keep inspiring inspiration.
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If all the leaks and rumors surrounding Thursday's Facebook event pan out, we can say with 99.9999 percent certainty that we'll see a new smartphone from the social media giant.
The leaked specs point toward an HTC-built device with ho-hum specs and a custom Facebook launcher running over Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. As underwhelming as the rumored hardware sounds, there's always the chance that Facebook will have a trick or two up its sleeve when it comes to the phone's software. And the social network is going to need to pull out all the stops if it hopes to compete against the likes of Apple and Samsung in the mobile space.
Here are a few things the Facebook phone needs if it doesn't want to face the same tepid response that greeted the last "Facebook phone", the HTC Status.
Kick-ass camera software
According to a February 2012 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by Facebook, an average of more than 250 million photos are uploaded to the social network every single day. (Seriously, why do you keep uploading so many photos of your kids?) While the Facebook phone's rumored 5-megapixel camera might not sound all that impressive, Facebook can help make up for the lack of megapixels by building in some awesome features for the phone's camera app. With most people taking photos on their smartphones, the ability to seamlessly take, edit, and upload those photos will be crucial if the Facebook phone hopes to avoid the discount bin.
One way Facebook could do this would be by making Instagram the default camera app. Instagram is one of the most widely used mobile photo apps in the world and it features a bevy of filters and editing tools that can help hide some of the camera's imperfections. And, because it's owned by Facebook, this version of Instagram could also have extra functionality not found on the standard iOS or Android versions.
Keep some Google in
If you're a regular user of Facebook on a desktop, you may have noticed that a number of the social network's features are powered by Microsoft Bing. Though Bing may have its advantages over Google Search, Bing's mapping services still pale in comparison to Google Maps. In the past, phone makers and carriers have tried stripping some of the built-in Google services and apps from Android—usually with disastrous results.
By leaving Google services such as Maps and Google Now intact, Facebook could push its phone as having all the benefits of a regular Android phone with extra goodies that make it more social.
Ad-Free for you and me
More than the constant interface changes, people really hate the intrusive nature of Facebook ads. You'll be browsing your newsfeed, silently judging your "friends," when all of a sudden an ad for some lame poker game assaults your senses (and your intelligence). This is particularly problematic on the Facebook app, where it seems like every other post on your newsfeed is an invite to download a Words With Friends rip-off or someone trying to sell you 12 pounds of bacon. It's hard to fault Facebook for trying to make money, and we can somewhat forgive its aggressive marketing tactics on a desktop. But unless all those ads are somehow going to make the Facebook phone more affordable they should probably be kept as far away from the handset as possible. Speaking of which….
Priced to move
It's getting harder and harder to convince people to drop several hundred dollars on a new smartphone, especially one that doesn't have the word "Galaxy" in its name. Even Nokia's top-of-the-line Lumia 920 was priced for considerably less than its competitors when it was first released here in the States. The previous "Facebook phone," the HTC Status, launched on AT&T to the tune of $50 on contract—but that budget friendly price-tag was not enough to distract people from the phone's various shortcomings.
The rumored specs of the Facebook phone paint a picture of a largely unimpressive handset, but a sub-$100 price point would make it easier to look past the device's flaws and would also make the phone more appealing to people buying a smartphone on a budget.
Multiple carriers
One of the biggest traps phone makers fall into when launching a new product is limiting it to certain regions or carriers. Phones available on a single carrier don't tend to do as well as ones released on multiple carriers. (And yes, I recognize the iPhone is a very big exception to that rule.) People don't tend to pick their wireless carrier based on what phones are available, but rather on who has the best prices and coverage in their area.
For the Facebook phone to sell well, the company needs to adopt Samsung's carpet-bombing strategy and launch the phone on as many carriers as it can. By making the phone widely available, Facebook ups the chances of getting the phone into the hands of as many people as possible. Combine that with an attractive price, and you have a phone that stands a chance against the unending horde of iOS, Android, and Windows phones.
This story, "How a Facebook phone can conquer the world" was originally published by TechHive.


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Sam Gordon, a 9-year-old girl from Salt Lake City, is absolutely dominating her all-boys football league. Gordon, who is in her first season playing, has scored 35 touchdowns and has 1,900 yards.
Her father uploaded video of her highlights from this season to YouTube on Tuesday night and it's already gone viral. Sam and her father went on Good Morning America today. The most adorable quote from Sam: "It's just fun because all the boys are like, 'whoa, it's a girl.'" Watch: