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Mayor of Michel Delving
The Mayor of Michel Delving was the elected leader of Michel Delving, the de facto capital of the Shire. Though the responsibilities Mayoralty itself amounted to little more than presiding at banquets, the office was attached to that of Postmaster and First Shirriff and so by the end of the Third Age had surpassed the Thainship as the most important official position in the shire, so much so that its occupant was commonly known as the Mayor of the Shire.[1]
The Mayor was chosen by the hobbits of the Shire every seven years at Lithe, during the Free Fair on the White Downs.[1]
In Fo.A. 13 (S.R. 1434) the Mayor of Michel Delving, along with the Thain and the Master of Buckland, was made a Counsellor of the newly re-established North-kingdom by King Elessar.[2]
Mayors of Michel Delving
Will Whitfoot was the Mayor of Michel Delving during the War of the Ring. An old and fat hobbit, he was largely regarded as a harmless figure of fun[3] but showed his mettle when in T.A. 3019 he was one of the few hobbits that protested Lotho Sackville-Baggins' takeover of the Shire on behalf of Saruman, and in return was imprisoned in the Lockholes by Lotho's Ruffians.[4] He was released following the Scouring of the Shire, and Frodo Baggins acted as his Deputy until he had recovered.[5]
After Whitfoot, Samwise Gamgee served an unprecedented seven consecutive terms as Mayor, starting in Fo.A. 6 and ending in Fo.A. 55 (S.R. 1427–1476).[2]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, "Prologue": Of the Ordering of the Shire.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "Later Events Concerning the Members of the Fellowship of the Ring".
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, "Strider".
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Scouring of the Shire".
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Grey Havens".


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The Historical Association of Lewiston has announced tickets are on sale for its eighth annual Tour of Homes, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 1 and 2, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at select addresses in Lewiston.
The theme for the 2012 Tour of Homes is "A Town and Country Christmas." It will feature six homes, each dressed in holiday finery by Western New York's most notable designers and retailers. Each home will also feature at least two tablescapes offering holiday decorating ideas.
Participating decorators include Vanderpool: design; RTM Design and Interiors; Sophia Smith; Canterbury Place; Melissa Morinello; Le Creuset; Soft Inspirations; Patricia's Back Barn; Summertime Blooms; Richard Nashwinter; Ob's Paper Barn; Accentric; The Country Doctor; and A-1 Land Care Inc.
Bruce Sutherland, president of the Historical Association of Lewiston, said his organization is grateful to those who are opening their homes for the tour, including Cliff and Sandy Swain, The Gardens at Oxbow, Susie Reinhardt and Judge Peter and Gretchen Broderick. The remaining two hosts wish to remain anonymous.
The Tour of Homes is self-guided. Trolley service for ticketholders will also be available from the Barton Hill Hotel & Spa, compliments of Great Lakes Real Estate.
Tour of Homes ticketholders are also invited to attend a dessert sampling and cocktail reception from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days at the Barton Hill Hotel & Spa. Desserts will be provided by DiCamillo Bakery and the Village Bake Shoppe, with poinsettia cocktails compliments of Supermarket Liquors & Wines and Wegmans - Niagara Falls.
Tickets are $25 and are available at www.LewistonHomeTour.com or by calling 716-754-4214.
Tickets are also available for purchase at the following: all Wegmans locations throughout Western New York; The Orange Cat Coffee Company, 703 Center St., Lewiston; The Village Bake Shoppe, 417 Center St., Lewiston; and DiCamillo Bakery, 535 Center St., Lewiston.
If any tickets remain on the day of the tour, they can be purchased at the above locations or at the Barton Hill Hotel & Spa.
Presenting sponsor for the 2012 Tour of Homes is Supermarket Liquors and Wines.
Premiere-level sponsors include: Barton Hill Hotel & Spa; Cornerstone Community Federal Credit Union; DiCamillo Bakery; Great Lakes Real Estate; Kinetic Kitchen and Bath; Modern Corporation; Niagara County Community College; Niagara Falls Bridge Commission; Niagara Frontier Publications; Sevenson Environmental Services Inc.; The Village Bake Shoppe; and Wegmans - Niagara Falls.
Sterling-level sponsors include: First Niagara Risk Management; Health Essentials of WNY LLC; Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center; Tedesco Construction Services Inc.; and United Thermal Systems.
Gold-level sponsors include: Apple Granny Restaurant; Brickyard Pub & B.B.Q.; Dr. David and Kari Bonnevie; Candella Construction; Carmelo's Restaurant; Castaway Cove Boating Club; Coppins Service Center; CRA Infrastructure and Engineers; Gardens at Oxbow Development; Hardison Funeral Homes; Lewiston Family Dental; Lewiston Insurance Agency Inc.; Lewiston Village Pub; Northern Customs Services; Orange Cat Coffee Company; Robert Macvie Inc.; Stuart Sports; and Water Street Landing.

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Federal Contractors Required to Use E-Verify System
WASHINGTON— Federal contractors and subcontractors will be required to begin using the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' E-Verify system starting September 8, 2009, to verify their employees' eligibility to legally work in the United States. In a final rule scheduled to publish tomorrow in the Federal Register, the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council amended the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to reflect this change.
The new rule implements Executive Order 12989, as amended by President George W. Bush on June 6, 2008, directing federal agencies to require that federal contractors agree to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their employees. The amended Executive Order reinforces the policy, first announced in 1996, that the federal government does business with companies that have a legal workforce. This new rule requires federal contractors to agree, through language inserted into their federal contracts, to use E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all persons hired during a contract term, and to confirm the employment eligibility of federal contractors' current employees who perform contract services for the federal government within the United States.
Federal contracts awarded and solicitiztions issued after September 8, 2009 will include a clause committing government contractors to use E-Verify. The same clause will also be required in subcontracts over $3,000 for services or construction. Contracts exempt from this rule include those that are for less than $100,000 and those that are for commercially available off-the-shelf items. Companies awarded a contract with the federal government will be required to enroll in E-Verify within 30 days of the contract award date. They will also need to begin using the E-Verify system to confirm that all of their new hires and their employees directly working on federal contracts are authorized to legally work in the United States.
The final rule announced today takes into account the more than 1,600 comments received on the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council's proposed rule published in June. It also reflects some changes from the proposed rule that are designed to lighten the burden on small businesses who decide to accept federal contracts, and to provide contractors with flexible means of complying with the basic requirement that all persons working on federal contracts be electronically verified.
More than 92,000 employers currently use E-Verify, a free Internet-based system operated by the DHS in partnership with the Social Security Administration that allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their employees. During Fiscal Year 2008, more than 6.6 million employment verification queries were run through the system representing 1 out of every 8 hires made in the


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If you've ever pondered what you would say to an alien, you may get that chance between 7:30 and 8 p.m. PT tonight.
That's the goal of Tweets in Space, a project – sorry, "performance art piece" – by two guys with starry, starry eyes. As part of this year's International Symposium on Electronic Art in New Mexico, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern will spend 30 minutes capturing every tweet with the hashtag #tweetsinspace for later transmission into the (much) wider Twitterverse.
Using a radio transmitter in Florida, they plan to beam our messages to GJ667Cc, an exoplanet that might, just maybe, possibly, have the required attributes that would allow it to theoretically support life (as we know it). Four to six weeks after Friday's event, the planet will move into alignment (just barely) with the transmitter. And that's when Kildall and Stern, a multimedia artist and associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will hit send.
"It all goes," says Kildall, the new media exhibit developer for the Exploratorium. "Even political positions I don't agree with: 'Vote for Romney,' 'Vote for Obama.'" (All except hate speech, he added. We might not want to betray our baser nature to the ETs.)
But it's a long shot in more ways than one. The target is 22 light-years away. That means 44 years minimum before we know if they've succeeded.
If there's even a chance. Reality check, say radio astronomers: There isn't. "We have absolutely no hope of actually being heard," said James Benford, founder of Microwave Sciences and longtime skeptic of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He did the math for Wired. With the Deep Space Communications Network's Florida dish, which is small and low-power by industry standards, the signal might be detectable up to seven times the distance to Pluto, assuming the aliens have the same technology we do.
"That's nowhere," Benford said. "That's not getting anywhere near interstellar distances."
But Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, says it's theoretically possible that the theoretical aliens on the target planet could pick up the signal from Florida. "If they have a receiver the size of Nebraska, then they can pick this up," he said. "You have to hope the aliens have spent more money on their antennas than we have on ours." (Incidentally, a receiver the size of Nebraska would cost in the hundreds of billions. In U.S. dollars, that is. "What's your currency/exchange rate, aliens? #tweetsinspace")
What's more, most astronomers put the estimate for nearest ETI at no fewer than hundreds of light years away, and it's probably closer to thousands. Twenty-two would be miraculous. We'd have far better odds of floating a message in a bottle from San Francisco to China.
But even if their project's more stunt than sound science, Kildall and Stern are (unintentionally) participating in an ongoing, still-controversial debate: whether or not we should be actively messaging aliens in the first place. Could it endanger Earth and the fate of mankind? That's not such a kooky, far-out question. People like Benford, along with sci-fi author David Brin, UCLA professor and best-selling author Jared Diamond, and Stephen Hawking, have argued for years that we should be sitting silently in our cosmic corner, biding our time and weighing risk factors before we go flamboyantly yoo-hooing to the entire universe.
If the aliens are sufficiently advanced to receive and translate our messages, shouldn't we be afraid they'd also have the technology to warp to our location, eat our children, and blow up this precious planet?
The other camp, which includes the SETI Institute and the historically optimistic, pro-METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Russians, argues that we've already given away our position a thousand times over, thanks to decades of signal leakage. As Shostak put it, "If they're looking our way, they will already know." So we might as well continue. Heck, we might as well start sending them everything. Encyclopedias! Beatles songs! The Google server!
Benford disagrees. In a recent paper, he showed that no signal, not now or 50 years ago, could ever be detected by ETI. That doesn't mean the prospect of METI doesn't worry him. In a century, we'll have the technology (and plenty of bored trillionnaires to fund it) to build radio transmitters big and powerful enough to send detectable messages. Just as likely, Benford says, we'll be sending energy to and from satellites, a practice that could considerably brighten Earth's position in the cosmos. The thought worries him. He wants us to stay dark and silent. At least until we know better.
The conversation continues. Shostak is publishing a paper now on whether transmissions to space are dangerous. ("No," in brief.) Benford is similarly engaged from the other side. The two men, though old colleagues, can still be heard gleefully bad-mouthing each other, both privately and in public forums.
Though Kildall and Stern remain optimistic that their Tweets in Space have a chance of succeeding – they believe they have better odds at this than winning the lottery – they also allow for occasional moments of realism. "It's working with potential and imagination, rather than actuality," Kildall eventually conceded.
Shostak, for one, has no problem with projects like this, of which there've been a few in recent years. He sees it as an introspective exercise. "It's interesting not for the aliens. It's interesting for us," he said. "What do people want to say?"
Find out tonight. Or don't. The aliens will never know. We think.
Image: Banner ad for Tweets in Space. Used with permission.


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UW researchers pioneer way for ordering laundry detergent with 3D printing. (Photo courtesy Mark Stone/University of Washington)
There's a new way to order laundry detergent, and it doesn't involve shopping in-store or online.
Pioneered by the University of Washington, 3D printed objects can now do all the work for you, including monitoring your detergent use and placing an order the minute you're running low. The main components: a cell phone, 3D printer, plastic-and-copper-filament, and a router.
"We were thinking about ways people can order things automatically, without pressing a button," said Justin Chan, project team member from the Allen School's Networks and Mobile Systems lab and UW Computer-science graduate student. "And what we've done is create something that can basically be stuck on top of a detergent bottle."
As the laundry liquid is pouring out, the device attached to the detergent bottle, which includes plastic gears, springs, and a switch, tracks the speed of the flow and interfaces with the antenna. The speed at which the device is turning indicates how much soap is flowing out. If the speed dips below a certain amount, the antenna signal is picked up by your Wi-Fi router and sends the information to your Amazon app to order more.
"Let's say you have a flashlight and you're turning it on and off to send a Morse code," said Vikram Iyer, team member and PhD. student in Electrical Engineering at the UW. "That's something like your Wi-Fi router and phone are doing. The 3D objects are like mirrors reflecting or deflecting that bright light and using the antenna to send a message to a phone."
The best part, it doesn't take a scientist to carry out the procedure. The group's designs are readily available online for free download and use. The hope was to see what the public would come up with.
As for the materials, both the antenna and switch, which are made using plastic-and-copper filament, are printed with a 3D printer and do not cost very much. The plastic material is about $30 and the 3D printer a couple hundred. A conductive filament for the antenna is also needed.
"There's been a lot of interest in 3D printing," said Iyer. "But a lot of these 3D objects have really complicated mechanical components and no way of interfacing with the electronic world. We wanted a way for objects to communicate with electronics."
Now, six months later, they've accomplished just that.


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Coffee with Figwit
Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie, better known here as Figwit, is offering the chance to meet him for a Fair Trade coffee and a chat in this auction run by Oxfam. The winning bidder gets to have coffee with McKenzie and will receive a guitar signed by McKenzie and his Conchords partner Jemaine Clement.
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Khloe Kardashian Tweets Family Reaction To Birth & New Baby
The family speaks! On June 16, a day after Kim Kardashian and Kanye West welcomed their baby into the world, sister Khloe took to Twitter to update everyone.
It has been quite the weekend for Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and the entire Kardashian family. After Kim gave birth to a healthy baby girl on June 15, her sister Khloe Kardashian finally broke the family's silence a day later on Twitter, telling the world how ecstatic they are to welcome another member to the family!
Khloe Kardashian On Kim's Baby: We're 'Overwhelmed With Love'
"I can not even begin 2describe the miracle that is now apart of our family. Mommy/baby are healthy &resting. We appreciate all of the love," Khloe first tweeted on June 16. She then added, "More info will come when the time is right! Thank you all for understanding! We love you all dearly! Overwhelmed with love right now ♥."
The momager Kris Jenner soon after Instagrammed a screenshot of Khloe's tweets, reinforcing how thrilled everyone in the family is to have a new baby girl in the family.
Kanye West & Kardashians Ecstatic After Kim Kardashian Gives Birth
"Overwhelmed with love" seems to be the perfect phrase to describe what the Kardashians and Kanye are feeling right now. A source close to the family told HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY that Kris was extremely emotional after Kim gave birth: "Kris was crying after Kim's baby was delivered."
And the new daddy rapper is also on an emotional high after seeing his girlfriend give birth to their daughter. After being by her side through the whole thing, a source close to Kanye tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively, "Kanye is overwhelmed — he's very happy and he's in good spirits."
Kanye hasn't left Kim's side, and he doesn't plan to any time soon: "Nothing else matters. He hasn't even thought about leaving his family. It's all he wants right now," says the source.
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Two UH Manoa scientists among fifteen honored by the National Academy of SciencesUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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Klaus Keil, Interim Dean at SOEST, has been awarded the J. Lawrence Smith Medal "for his pioneering quantitative studies of minerals in meteorites and important contributions to understanding the nature, origin, and evolution of their parent bodies."
Keil has been at UH Manoa since 1990, and has a well-established international reputation as one of the top researchers in his field.
The Smith medal was established by a gift of Sarah Julia Smith in memory of her husband and has been presented once every three years since 1888 to recognize "recent original and meritorious investigations of meteoric bodies." It includes a cash award of $25,000.
Steven M. Stanley, research professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, will receive the Mary Clark Thompson Medal for his analysis of the meaning of shell forms of bivalve mollusks and for his studies, for many kinds of organisms, of patterns of large-scale evolution and extinction in relation to global environmental changes of the geologic past.
Stanley has been at UH Manoa since the fall 2005 semester. He was previously a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.
The Thompson Medal is also awarded every three years; a cash prize of $15,000 goes with the honor "to recognize important services to geology and paleontology." It was established by a gift of Mary Clark Thompson and has been presented since 1921.
"The recognition of Drs. Keil and Stanley is further evidence of the ability of the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa to attract and retain some of the brightest and best faculty in the country," said Manoa Vice Chancellor for Research Gary Ostrander. "It is truly noteworthy that these creators of ʻnew knowledge' are also teaching and mentoring our students."
"Professors Keil and Stanley are richly deserving of this recognition, and to have two scientists from the same school receive these awards in the same year is truly remarkable and a tremendous honor for UH Manoa," said UHM Chancellor Denise Konan. "These awards are a measure of the high regard in which our research enterprise is held by the nation's scientific community.
Recipients will be honored at a ceremony on April 23 in Washington, D.C., during the Academy's 143rd annual meeting.
About the National Academy of Sciences: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is an honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. It was created by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Its members serve as principal science advisors to the U.S. Government. The Academy's service to government has become so essential that Congress and the White House have issued legislation and executive orders over the years that reaffirm its unique role.


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All individuals, if they live enough years, experience the death of a significant other. However, not all bereavement occurs due to a loss from death, yet the emotional pain can be as severe if not worse. Separation, divorce, ambiguous loss, chronic or terminal illness, or loss of status (e.g., financial or social) also involve a grieving process for individuals, couples or families. Many times, the repercussions of a loss are manifested in other presenting problems, such as school or behavioral problems in children and relational discord in couples. Working this through in a safe therapeutic environment will help you develop a new identity, and reestablish balance in you relationships.
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So am I correct in assuming the only reason they'd change the name of XIIIvs to XV is because their numbered titles sell more copies?Other than that, why does it even matter.
Though, if Versus was in fact renamed to XV then that would mean that the entire project suffered a massive change at one point that made Versus no longer part of the Fabula Nova series like it was originally planned.
That and the fact that Versus XIII was always a stupid name...
^You followed Type-0 closer than me. Did the game didn't suffered any big changes when the project went from cell phone to PSP?
Do the games even really share any significant mythos that would validate the use of the FFXIII "brand"?
From what I've read, the cell phone project barely even existed. It was still in the conceptualization, pre-production stage when they decided to make the switch. And that had nothing to do with the name change, that came much later.
I can tell you that Type-0 still has fal'Cie, l'Cie, and the like, though their roles aren't exactly the same. The general mythology (and, uh, crystals I guess...) was the only thing connecting the games from the start.
Do we know if the fal'cie/l'cie is incorporated into the plot of versus as well?


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Sit right back and you'll hear a tale – one that's getting old in Hollywood.
There are plans to bring the 1960s castaways sitcom "Gilligan's Island" to the big screen, Variety reports – marking the latest evidence that Tinseltown is running out of ideas and pinning its hopes on nostalgia-driven name recognition.
It's far too soon to know, of course, whether the film will float beyond the length of a "Saturday Night Live" sketch, never mind a three-hour tour. But there already is a well-populated island of failed old-TV-show movies that includes "The Beverly Hillbillies," "The Honeymooners," "Sgt. Bilko," "Bewitched," and, more recently, "Land of the Lost."
Some films managed to get voted off that island of shame by movie fans. The first "Brady Bunch" flick packed a good mix of camp and comedy, as did the "Addams Family" comedies. The "Star Trek" movies largely have done the TV series proud.
While the odds of success are steep, it's hard not to pull for Gilligan and the gang – perhaps a reflection of the show's infectious, absurdist sense of hope amid the futility of being stuck on the island.
If that's reading too much into what may be the silliest of the 1960s TV comedies, well, we're not the first to plumb those depths.
The show long has exercised a hold on the popular imagination that's spurred viewers, if only tongue in cheek, to look for a greater meaning that (probably) doesn't exist. Some have posited the marooned seven each represent one of the Seven Deadly Sins (the Skipper is Gluttony, Ginger is Lust – you get the idea). More recently, some fans have found intricate parallels between "Gilligan" and "Lost."
We'll float another theory: maybe the time is right for a "Gilligan" movie, if only because the show falls into the zeitgeist of the Reality TV era. "Survivor" clearly is the "Gilligan's Island" of reality shows. TBS even ran a show called "The Real Gilligan's Island" with real-life counterparts of the characters left to their own devices on an island.
But let's take this step ahead: the "Gilligan's Island" characters have become the archetypes of folks found on a variety of reality shows.
There are sailors ("Deadliest Catch"). Useless rich people ("Real Housewives" of wherever, "The Simple Life). A brainiac ("Beauty and the Geek," "American Inventor"). A movie star (let's send her straight to "Celebrity Rehab" – Ginger must have hit rock bottom to travel with such a motley crew).
Plucky Mary Ann doesn't fit into any easy categories, though with her improvisational sewing skills, maybe she could find a spot on "Project Runway." (While Hef would gladly welcome her, Mary Ann doesn't belong on the misleadingly named "The Girls Next Door.")
The "Gilligan" film, no doubt, will be filled with real actors – spurring discussions about who should play the iconic roles. Michael Cera already has been mentioned as a possible Gilligan.
We can't do any better than that – but maybe you can. Use the comments section to cast the castaways.
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Overwhelmed relative drops off 6-year-old at KC fire station
Kansas City police investigating
Kansas City police are investigating after a 6-year-old boy was dropped off at a fire station earlier this week by an overwhelmed relative.
Police said a man dropped off the boy at Fire Station No. 17 at 34th Street and The Paseo, telling firefighters that he could no longer care for the child.
"For whatever reason, I think they expressed that they were unable to care for that child and left the child at the fire station," said James Garrett, a battalion chief with the Kansas City Fire Department.
The boy was taken to a hospital to be checked over. Authorities said a social worker was called.
Kansas City police said the boy is in the custody of his mother.
Kansas and Missouri have Safe Haven laws for overwhelmed parents, but they only apply to children less than a year old.
The infants can be dropped off at hospitals, fire stations or other safe havens without fear of prosecution.
KMBC's Peggy Breit reported that the laws are meant to be an alternative to abuse or abandonment.
In this case, because the boy is 6 years old, the law does not apply. Police said it is unclear whether charges will be filed.


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A cliché of entrepreneurial life is the image of the founder unwilling to let go when the company passes the start up stage and needs someone with managerial skill to drive rapid growth.
Another situation in which letting go is difficult, however, occurs when a mature company suddenly finds itself in vastly different circumstances. Take Omnet Inc., for example, the company I founded in 1980 with my wife, Susan K. Kubany. For 23 years, we operated the company entirely on our own – through good times and bad.
In the 1980s, we rode the crest of a then-exotic service – e-mail – which we provided to scientists doing research around the globe and needing to communicate across time zones. Annual revenue rose to $3.2 million. In the mid 1990s, when the Internet dealt our proprietary service a crushing blow, we shuttered the business, moved from Boston to Staunton, Virginia, where costs are lower, and repositioned Omnet as a consulting firm focused on information technology and the Web.
Time for a Partner
We had operated all on our own, with nary a thought of bringing in a partner – until recently, that is, when a wave of good fortune has forced us to think the unthinkable: that we may have to hire someone other than an employee.
You might also be thinking of finding a partner, should your business follow a similar trajectory. In our case, my wife – Omnet's president – has been pursing government contracts for the past several years. What happened recently is that many began coming to fruition. We were named a prime contractor by one agency, meaning that work is about to flow to us. A large contract is in the works that will increase revenue geometrically. Several smaller pieces of business are also on the horizon.
All of a sudden, our staff of seven employees seems dwarfed by the opportunities, and my wife and I question the scope and adequacy of the skills we bring to the table.
It is time, in short, to think about a partner. Wrestling with this dilemma – and it is a dilemma that we're far from having solved – has led to a flurry of questions on a number of levels that I will share in this article in hopes of guiding entrepreneurs in similar situations.
To Partner or Not to Partner
At the most fundamental level is the question of whether we need to partner. An entrepreneur, of course, could forego enticing opportunities and choose just to coast, especially if the outcome would involve merely growing less rapidly than otherwise would be the case. However, if those dangling plums represent an important change in your market, or a shift in what your customer wants, perhaps you can't as easily ignore them – and survive.
At the next level, you might be able to pursue the new opportunities by simply taking on a new employee, one that you manage as you have managed others so far. If that is possible, you don't have a problem. However, if the opportunity requires a self-starter, someone who is ambitious and au courant with the technology, and who has skills you don't have, you might need to face the fact that you need a partner rather than an employee – and that you need one sooner rather than later.
Ask yourself: are you expanding from a customer base with which you are familiar to one with a different culture? Are you shifting from a business model in which you will incorporate products into a service you've been providing, or vice versa? Are you aiming (like Omnet) to actively pursue large government contracts?
The Role of Authority
If you've answered yes to the above questions, you've taken your thinking about partnering to the next phase. You might believe that the task is as easy as finding a person with the right skills and giving that person the authority to do the job. (This is all the more doable in this Internet era, in which you can search for talent nationally and even internationally as easily as placing ads in the local newspaper.)
Ah, but the kicker is that little word "authority." When a bright self-starter takes the plunge and pulls your company into a promising new market, that person is going to know more than you do and substantially increase the value of your company. In return, he or she may want and deserve to be rewarded with more than a salary.
Thus, the ultimate question becomes: if you are going to have to give up some control to achieve greater value for your company, are you ready for that? Do the math to figure out what the new opportunity is worth to you. In other words, how much of your company can you justify setting aside for a partner to drive the new business?
At this point, you also need to address the thorny issues of how big a cut the new shareholder gets and what that person, in turn, might be expected to chip in, over and above expertise.
Wrestling with Demons
Whether you can cede some control is just the first of the demons with which you will have to wrestle. Recognize that bringing a partner into a mature business isn't the same as doing so in a start up. When moving from infancy to adolescence, a company doesn't have a lot of history or a deeply engrained culture. When moving from maturity into a new phase, however, it has all of the above, plus a customer base to protect and a well-established chain of command. Do you really want to stir up all of that?
One specific danger is that your company will split in two, psychologically speaking. One group continues with business as usual, while another cohort led by the partner could go off on its own. As a way to guard against the culture shock of such a split, you might consider setting up the new group as a separate corporate entity, or moving it into different physical quarters or to another geographic location.
Inevitably, some corporate upset will occur as a result of your bringing in the new authority figure. The trick is to keep it to a minimum by establishing in advance the boundaries of the person's authority and making sure those boundaries are understood by others in the organization. A clear commitment to the new partner as to the extent and timing of his or her own rewards is also in order.
A Balancing Act
Ultimately, recruiting a partner involves a delicate balancing act. You must give your new equity holder (or potential equity holder) the authority and personal space to get the job done, while making sure the values and culture that served you well for a long time don't get lost in the turmoil. After all, those values are a part of how your existing customers see you.
The balancing act also involves a nod to the inevitability of change. And change is difficult, all the more so for an established company that has become comfortable and achieved results under its existing way of operating. As my wife and I ponder the changes ahead for Omnet, I am not about to say we've come to an answer about whether or not to bring in a partner. However, we've begun to ask the questions, and for us, as well as for you, that is what is important.


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Meeting Notes 2010 08 03
The 121th Meeting of Noisebridge
Get someone to grab the membership binder now. Get someone to take notes.
- Moderator: Ronald Miloh Alexander
- Note-Taker: Sai Emrys
Quote of the day: "Someone told me to come to 2169", "Are you sure they meant mission street?"
Welcome to 2169
- What noisebridge is about
- We are excelent
- Who's here?
- Do the names, it's important.
- Tres. report
- membership binder
Introduction and Names[edit]
- Anyone new to the meeting/space should stand up and say something cool.
- What Noisebridge is about: We make stuff and so can you!
- A brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you!
Ace Monster Toys, the East Bay Hackerspace - 6050 Lowell, Oakland/Emeryville, acemonstertoys.org
We have a large designjet - large format inkjet printer. People should set it up and use it more.
SEM needs operators. Ask Mike how to teach people how to use it.
Financial Report[edit]
Funds in bank:
There is no active treasurer. We don't really know who's a paid-up member, whether members are being reminded, etc. Someone should step up and do this.
Membership Binder[edit]
- Clean up binder pages, remove pages of any approved members into the records binder.
- Read off any names from the binder for the past month. (edit this step to include current checkmark system)
- Anyone up for join this week should introduce themselves then leave while the present group comes to a Consensus about their membership.
What's Going On at Noisebridge[edit]
One short sentence about each of the following: (Ideally delivered by the *moderator*)
- Circuit Hacking Mondays (7PM, 2169)
- Tuesday general meeeting
- I/phone development discussions (please link and add in time here)
- BACE working group on Monday evenings http://timebank.sfbace.org/
- Python Mondays (6:30 PM, 2169)
- Linux system administration certification study group 3 PM to 6 PM (turing) (what day?)
- Linux discussion group 6 PM to 8 PM (turing) (day?)
- Machine Learning (please link and add in time here)
- Tastebridge (Taste bridge usually meets for planning following the Tuesday meeting)
- SCoW craft group - Wednesdays at 7PM
- GameDevelopment - Wednesdays at 8PM, back from Berlin(? please edit) and 2010 class is in session
- Programming_for_Poets Gentle introduction to Processing; most Thursdays at 8 if !(Currently on Hiatus)
- Sensebridge and the EEG group - Sundays at afternoonish (1-2ish) - come to try brain scanning
- Spacebridge - Sundays at 5PM planning meeting this Sunday to decide
- Knots, Go, and Locks! - Sundays 3PM
- D&D Sundays: A group has been holding campaigns in Church on Sundays for the last month at least.
Other groups
Android Development
Trying to find a time:
- Bay Area Hacker's Association monthly or fortnightly meetings.
Project Updates[edit]
Your mother was a build out.
Consensus items[edit]
Discussion Items[edit]
Ethics workshop coming to Noisebridge?
What does Ace Monster Toys need that we don't need?
Does noisebridge have a Ignore_all_rules clause? People should at least hear about it.
Noisebridge affinity area orientations. Are you a software developer who occasionally uses a hammer? Are you a chef who doesn't know what a Pony is? Are you a junk hoarder with a spare kansnoodelater who doesn't know that *that* it is precisely what Noisebridge needs to survive?
End of Meeting[edit]
- PGP Key Signing could happen now, check the list to see who wants in on the action.
- Put back the membership binder.
- Save the meeting notes to the wiki.
- Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
- Copy the Meeting Notes Template for next week's agenda and update the main wiki page's link to it.
- Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.


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Looking to navigate the region? Here are some tips and tricks on being street smart in Hampton Roads.
Summer backups
Traffic backups are common during the summer on eastbound Interstate 64 at the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel. If you're heading to the beach or the Outer Banks, use the Monitor-Merrimac.
Beach-bound traffic jams are as much a summer tradition around here as fireworks and backyard barbecues.
Street Smart tip:
•VDOT recommends the following route for reaching South Hampton Roads via the James River Bridge: If you're traveling east on I-64, take the Mercury Boulevard Exit 263 and cross the bridge. Continue on Route 17 to the I-664 interchange in Suffolk.
Yes, we get them. When the state pushes to fill potholes, repair aging roadways and bridges and widen thoroughfares, the region has work zones with unfamiliar traffic patterns. "Be alert and eliminate all distractions," according to police and the state transportation department.
Speeding in a work zone can net a fine of up to $500.
Street Smart tips:
•Stay alert, pay close attention, turn on headlights for greater visibility.
•Don't tailgate or speed, follow posted signs, keep up with traffic flow.
•Don't change lanes.
•Minimize distractions including those associated with mobile technology like phones, expect the unexpected and — perhaps most of all — be patient.
Regional navigation
Get the real-time info you need at http://www.va511.org or by calling 511 or the Traffic Information Line at 757-361-3016. Highway Advisory Radio 1680 AM also provides up-to-date traffic information.
Street Smart tips:
•Sign up for free mobile traffic alerts. Text TRAFFIC to 71593.
•Post traffic videos at eyewitness.dailypress.com
E-ZPass is easy
E-ZPass automatically deducts toll charges from your prepaid account so you can zip through toll gates in Virginia and 13 additional states worry-free. The Coleman Bridge (connecting York and Gloucester counties) has a toll as does the Chesapeake Expressway (the quick way to get to Nags Head, N.C.) and theChesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (connecting Virginia Beach and the Eastern Shore with a $12 toll). More tolls are likely coming to South Hampton Roads soon.
For more information or to sign up for an E-ZPass account, go to http://www.ezpass.va.com
Don't be that guy
With climbing temperatures, make sure all your fluids are at proper levels in your car and that your tire pressure is at proper levels.
The AAA estimates that 1.7 million auto club members will need a summer rescue because of a dead battery. Not having enough oil or anti-freeze will make for a long, hot sticky wait on the side of the road. And it will tie up traffic for the rest of us.
Ditto for checking your gas level before heading into one of the tunnels.
You don't want to be that guy.
Times to avoid
Anyone who spends any time on the Peninsula quickly grasps the reality that the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel is a traffic choke point of epic proportions — one of the worst in the entire country in fact. But did you know that at 7:15 a.m. you can expect to hit average travel speeds of 17 mph heading eastbound on Interstate 64 in the vicinity of Settlers Landing Road and Mallory Street in Hampton? Or that I-64 grinds to a 13 mph crawl in Norfolk heading into the tunnel about 4:15 p.m.?
Street Smart tip:
•Go another way. Avoid those locations at those times.
Licensed to carry
This is Street Smart, we're talking about driver's licenses here. Save a hassle and a $5 fee by renewing your driver's license and/or registration via the Internet, by phone or by mail. The $5 fee is added to in-person transactions at local DMV offices.
Street Smart tip:
•If you must to go to the DMV, try the offices in Poquoson, Smithfield or Gloucester County which usually have no lines or waiting, as opposed to the Hampton and Newport News offices. For hours and locations: http://www.dmv.state.va.us.
Take a bus/ferry
HRT, which stands for Hampton Roads Transit, is the region's public bus, ferry and light-rail system. Paddle wheel ferries connect Norfolk and Portsmouth crossing the Elizabeth River. Light rail operates in Norfolk. Buses run all over the region. For routes, fares and schedules, go to http://www.gohrt.com
The Jamestown-Scotland Ferry is operated by VDOT, is free and runs 24 hours. It crosses the James River and connects Surry County and James City County. For more information and schedules, call 1-800-VA-Ferry or search Jamestown-Scotland Ferry at http://www.virginiadot.org
Street Smart tip:
• Save some money. Buy a HRT GoPass.


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Socket Ring
Jewelry Design Focus: Socket Ring
A Good Jewelry design example, the Socket is a creative Ring design. Socket was designed in 2011, and here is a how it is described by its designer: The Socket Ring is a fun ring design where the base is constant and the decoration can be replaced. The top part is magnetically attached to the base. Each packet comes with a single base and six color options so that you could configure your ring based on your clothes.
Socket Ring Images:
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Viewing angle on this LG is also one of its strengths
Very good sense of 2D picture depth
Inexpensive for such a large panel, Fairly accurate colors
Screen is quite reflective and not suited to a bright room and picture quality is otherwise lackluster.
Isn't promising the most amazing image quality.
Saving energy is one of the biggest pros of the LG 42PA4500 TV.
Inexpensive plasma with natural-looking colors and solid bright-room quality
Nice, deep black, Excellent responsiveness
Deeper black levels than last year
Significant picture issues, 3D glasses are not included
Sports look sharp and clear without blur or stutter
Excellent color in bright and dark areas
Well-designed interface
Brilliant 3D pictures
Good media-streaming support
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Seymour Duncan AHB-1B Blackouts 7-String Phase 1 Bridge Pickup
Seymour Duncan AHB-1B Blackouts 7-String Phase 1 Bridge Pickup
9-volt active humbucker for aggressive playing styles. Recommended for old school metal,garage,punk,thrash,drop tunings,and other heavy rock styles.
The "other" USA-made active humbuckers use unbalanced inputs in a differential preamp. The problem is,an unbalanced differential preamp is not very effective at cancelling hum. Our engineers figured out how to capture the tone that players want in an active design,but using balanced inputs. The result is 12dB to 14dB less noise,plus more lows,more highs,and more output. Simply put,Blackouts have more tone than other active pickups.
complete setup
Blackouts are available in individual neck and bridge models,or as a two-pickup set. All versions come with all necessary mounting hardware,including pots,jack,and a battery clip.
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Friday, 20 June 2014 05:56 PM
A United Methodist pastor on Friday asked a church appeals panel to overturn a decision to defrock him for refusing to promise to uphold the church's law, which bans ministers from performing same-sex marriages.
Frank Schaefer of Lebanon, Pa., had his ministry credentials stripped last year after a trial jury found that he was guilty of violating church rules when he officiated his son's 2007 same-sex wedding in Massachusetts, where gay marriage had been legal for three years. The 52-year-old Schaefer was suspended for 30 days, but at the end of it, he was defrocked for refusing to pledge never to officiate at another gay marriage. It means Schaefer is no longer employed with the United Methodist Church.
On Friday, Schaefer's attorney, Rev. Scott Campbell, told the nine-member appeals panel in Maryland that the pastor had served his sentence. He argued the decision to take the more drastic action was illegal because it was based on the assumption that the minister would break church rules in the future.
However, counsel for the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, Rev. Dr. Christopher Fisher, said the ruling is valid because Schaefer disobeyed church law. He said the 30-day suspension was not a sentence but a delay after which the church would determine whether he could stay in the official ministry.
More than 50 Schaefer supporters wearing multi-colored stoles streamed into a conference room at the BWI Airport Marriott in Linthicum to watch the proceedings.
Campbell told the panel that Schaefer's sentence was imposed for two violations: officiating a same-sex wedding and disobeying church law. But, he said, the defrocking resulted from "an entirely new allegation: the unwillingness to give the church assurance about the future."
After his conviction in 2013, when Schaefer was asked if he would promise to obey the "Book of Discipline" in its entirety, which includes a ban on performing same-sex marriages, Schaefer refused.
"Making a statement in response to a question is in no way saying, 'I will not uphold the Book of Discipline,'" Campbell said. "The trial court erred egregiously, and sought to penalize Mr. Schaefer not for what he's done, but for what he might do in the future."
But Fisher argued that Schaefer's 30-day suspension "was a period of grace for Rev. Schaefer to discern his motivations."
He told the panel that Schaefer's initial explanation was that he officiated the wedding out of love for his son, but after conviction said he'd discovered a new calling to advocate for the LGBT church community.
"Motivation was an important question for the trial court," Fisher said.
Fisher went on to argue that Schaefer response to the church's question was "an outright rejection of the Discipline." Fisher also asked the panel to dismiss the appeal, arguing that because Schaefer did not surrender his credentials voluntarily after refusing to make the promise, as predicated in the jury's order, he had again broken church rules.
"This is no minor thing," Fisher said. "Schaefer stated he won't abide by the Discipline, and demonstrated it by his unwillingness to obey the trial court."
The topic of gay marriage is contentious in the Methodist Church. Recently, hundreds of ministers have spoken out against the church's doctrine on homosexuality, which allows for gay members but bars them from becoming clergy, and forbids ministers from performing same-sex marriages.
Schaefer was charged after a member of his congregation complained to the church about his officiating his son's wedding.
Prior to the hearing, Schaefer on Friday said he is cautiously optimistic, and vowed to appeal to the church's high court if the decision is upheld.
"I think there will be a victory at the end of the day," Schaefer said, adding that the LGBT movement is "unstoppable."
"Things will change," Schaefer said, "I'm certain of that."
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Pippa Middleton has received plenty of criticism for her over-simple party planning book, but she has defended herself in a piece written for the Daily Telegraph.
"Celebrate, my book on entertaining, has been a labour of love... I could have written a book that showcased the most extravagant or elaborate of occasions – after all, I spent three years working for an events company planning parties – but I wanted to produce something that was achievable."Fair enough, you might think, but then just a paragraph later she comes up with a classic Pippa-ism:
"When having friends over for a dinner or hosting a party, I spend hours thinking it all through, creating a vision in my head of how the occasion is going to unfold. Firstly, who is going to come."
Really? You mean you have to decide who to invite when throwing a party?


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Here's Our Mark Zuckerberg Halloween Mask
Mark Zuckerberg comes in the night for your most precious digital secrets. So why not borrow from the Facebook CEO's creepy public image and turn Halloween into Night of the Privacy Snatchers? We've got just the costume for it.
We first posted our Zuckerberg mask last month, but the social networking kingpin hasn't changed his look at all in the interim: a gray t-shirt, gray hoodie, jeans and white sneakers are all you need to finish off the costume. We've reproduced the instructions form our original post below.
Just make a color printout of the image above and mount it on a stick.
What to Wear:
Thanks to Zuckerberg's ultra casual style, completing the costume could hardly be easier. You probably have everything you need in your closet. Start by donning a gray hoodie, Zuckerberg's trademark. A black or blue hoodie or a gray T-shirt will do in a pinch. Bonus points if you wear shorts, and more still for shorts with Adidas flip flops. For tips on how to comport yourself, consult our paparazzi pics from a few weeks ago, his appearance on Oprah last Friday, or Zuckerberg's Facebook photo cache.
And remember: Don't just ask for tricks or treats. Private, personally identifiable information is so much more valuable.


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Editor's note: This story was published in November 2012.
More and more retailers are announcing plans to stay open on Thanksgiving Day in 2012, WWD reports.
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In the ceremony at the Sneznik Castle (east of Ljubljana), the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša, welcomed the ESA delegation and confirmed the support his Government is ready to give to this new agreement.
In May 2006, a Slovenian delegation led by Mr Peterle (former Slovenian Prime Minister and currently a Member of the European Parliament) visited ESA's European Space Research & Technology Centre (ESTEC).
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Re: st: Bootstrap to compare ROC area on imputed dataset
roland andersson <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Bootstrap to compare ROC area on imputed dataset
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:56:27 +0100
Thank you Cameron
Will read this.
In the meantime I hope for some help with Stata code (as I am not a
programmer). I must correct a typo - we would normally use roccomp
(not roctab) for the comparison of the ROC areas, but this does not
work with mim.
With roctab we can get the combined area over the imputed datasets,
and we can also use bootstrap for each imputed dataset, but we do not
know how to get the combined bootstrapped area over the imputed
datasets nor how to do the comparison.
I guess that a combination of mim, bootstrap and roctab must be possible.
2011/11/17 Cameron McIntosh <email@example.com>:
> Roland,
> You're asking for both specific Stata code and more general methodological guidance. I can try to take a bit of a crack at the latter. Bootstrapping in conjunction with imputation is quite intensive, although it can of course be done (after all, the two are similar in a number of ways):
> Efron, B. (1994). Missing Data, imputation, and the bootstrap. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89(426), 463-475.
> Heymans, M.W., van Buuren, S., Knol, D.K., van Mechelen, M., & de Vet, H.C.W. (2007). Variable selection under multiple imputation using the bootstrap in a prognostic study. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 7:33.http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2288-7-33.pdf
> Kim, J.K., Brick, J.M., Fuller, W.A., & Kalton, G. (2006). On the bias of the multiple-imputation variance estimator in survey sampling. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 68(3), 509–521.
> Kim, J.K., & Rao, J.N.K. (2009). A unified approach to linearization variance estimation from survey data after imputation for item nonresponse. Biometrika, 96(4), 917-932.
> Davison, A.C., & Sardy, S. (2007). Resampling Variance Estimation in Surveys with Missing Data. Journal of Official Statistics, 23(3), 371–386.
> Eltinge, J.L. (1996). On Variance Estimation With Imputed Survey Data: Comment. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91(434), 513-515.
> Efron, B. (1994). Missing Data, imputation, and the bootstrap. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89(426), 463-475.
> Saigo, H., Shao, J., & Sitter, R.R. (2001). A Repeated HalfSample Bootstrap and Balanced Repeated Replications for Randomly Imputed Data. Survey Methodology, 27(2), 189-196.http://www.statcan.gc.ca/ads-annonces/12-001-x/6095-eng.pdf
> Shao, J., & Sitter, R.R. (1996). Bootstrap for imputed survey data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91, 12781288.
> Chen, J., Rao, J.N.K., & Sitter, R.R. (2000). Adjusted imputation for missing data in complex surveys. Statistics Sinica, 10, 11531169.
> Essentially, what you want is D=(AUC1-AUC2)/SE_b,
> where AUC1 and AUC2 are the original AUCs from the two models being compared, and SE_b is the standard error of the bootstrapped AUC differences. I don't imagine this would be very hard to program, perhaps in R if not in Stata. I think you would just bootstrap from each imputed data set so this would expand the number of replications as follows: k imputations * b bootstrap samples. You also definitely need to see (and you might want to try the empirical likelihood approach):
> Long, Q., Zhang, X., & Hsu, C.-H. (2011). Nonparametric multiple imputation for receiver operating characteristics analysis when some biomarker values are missing at random. Statistics in Medicine, Early View.http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.4338/abstract;jsessionid=63E100FD9A64CCB7B6C8E6D57CA08581.d01t02
> Liu, D., & Zhou, X.-H. (January 21, 2011). Semiparametric Estimation of the Covariate-Specific ROC Curve in Presence of Ignorable Verification Bias. UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series. Working Paper 374. Seattle, WA: University of Washington - Seattle Campus.http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1213&context=uwbiostat
> An, Y. (2011). Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for ROC Curves with Missing Data. Mathematics Theses. Paper 95.http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_theses/95
> Liu, X. (2010). Semi-Empirical Likelihood Confidence Intervals for the ROC Curve with Missing Data. Mathematics Theses. Paper 89.http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/math_theses/89
> Janssen, K.J.M., Vergouwe, Y., Donders, A.R.T., Harrell, F.E., Jr., Chen, Q., Grobbee, D.E., & Moons, K.G.M. (2009). Dealing with Missing Predictor Values When Applying Clinical Prediction Models.Clinical Chemistry, 55, 994-1001.http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/reprint/55/5/994http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/content/full/clinchem.2008.115345/DC1
> Liu, D., & Zhou, X.-H. (2010). A model for adjusting for nonignorable verification bias in estimation of the ROC curve and its area with likelihood-based approach. Biometrics, 66(4), 1119-1128.
> Hope this helps,
> Cam
>>Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:04:56 +0100> Subject: st: Bootstrap to compare ROC area on imputed dataset> From: firstname.lastname@example.com
>> To: firstname.lastname@example.com
>> We are analysing discriminating capacity of a clinical score. Because
>> of some missing values we had to use imputed dataset. We have now
>> constructed a new clinical score and want to compare the new with an
>> old, using bootstrap.
>> We have used mim, category(combine) est(r(area)) se(r(se)) : roctab
>> diagnosis score1, summary to analyse the combined ROC area of the
>> imputed datasets. However we want to compare two different models and
>> would normally use roctab for this, but this does not work with mim,
>> category(combine).
>> We also want to make a bootstrapped analysis of the diagnostic
>> properties of a new clinical score on the imputed dataset.
>> We would appreciate any help on how to do the bootstrapping of the ROC
>> areas and comparing two areas on the imputed dataset.
>> Regards
>> Roland Andersson
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>> * For searches and help try:
>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
>> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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> * For searches and help try:
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> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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