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Frankly I don't think trolls are the problem, i really don't. Obvious trolls are obvious and easy enough to spot and simply ignore. i'd say the bigger problem which seems to be spreading like a cancer is the "treat corporations like ballclubs" disease and the perception bubbles that come along with it.
We've all seen it, its the same disease that will make an otherwise rational person believe that apple can't gets viruses and "thinks different' or that Google really goes around saying "Do no evil" and is made up of nothing but nerds dedicated to making the world a better place.
this to me is the bigger problem because like religious zealots anything that threatens their perception bubbles will be attacked repeatedly and en masse. with any topic that has fanbois in attendance basically you end up with either karma whoring, where groupthink is the order of the day, or you get discussions quickly breaking down into giant flamewars. a good example of this is Slashdot which once was a geek paradise but now is losing members rapidly because the fanbois have taken over and its groupthink city there.
So I don't think the big problem is your average troll but the fanbois because ultimately trolls are usually solitary creatures or at most small groups whereas the fanbois can be legion and descend like a plague to turn anything involving "their" company into a giant press release. It kills flow, ruins actual discussion and makes any sort of comparisons right out. I give OSNews credit for not having this cancer spreading like slashdot and many of the other geekier sites but its something i'm sure the mods have to deal with daily and i wish them luck.
Because once the fanbois take over its really hard to get a site back from that, again look at /. which has users making hundreds of accounts so they can modbomb and once the fanbois decide you are "the enemy' they perception bubbles twist everything they see. Hell I was once accused of being a "M$ Ninja" and shilling for MSFT for saying IE sucks. I still haven't figured out how saying a product was lousy equaled an endorsement of the company that made a lousy product but I'm sure to that fanboi and his followers that made some kind of twisted logical sense.
Sorry about the length but I just wanted to say how nice it is that OSNews still seems to allow opposing viewpoints and discussions without rampant fanboism destroying the flow and i hope they are able to keep it up. at least here one can have a 30 post discussion about file systems or OSes without a dozen 'I hope you die!' 'Go choke you shill!' posts ruining everything.


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"What do you think is the ideal age for a child to start school?
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So I recently had an argument with a friend of mine (Favour) whose niece (Jane) started school at a very tender age; Jane could barely say "papa" when her mum forced her into nursery one. She wasn't even two years old yet.
One fateful noon, she was given an assignment from school but she couldn't even read it. Her mum had to do the assignment for her! Defending her action, the mother said "I would rather keep doing her assignments for her till she is mature enough to read and write, than have her stay home disturbing me..."
In modern times the school age is reducing daily and it worries me to hear that parents send their babies and toddlers to school as early as 18 months and they expect them to start reading and writing. I fear that with this trend, parents will start sending 1 month old babies to school soon! Personally, I think a child should be at least 4 years old before being enrolled into a school, that way the child will be matured enough.
According to a report on Dailymail "children should not have to start school until they are six to prevent early 'adultification'" the report further says "only children from deprived backgrounds should enter formal education at the younger age because they would 'benefit from such early interventions'. Though it makes little difference whether a child starts school at 4 or 7, the major problem with starting school early is that such kids do not have the privilege of being nurtured under good parenting skills. Because they are forced to start school early, they have issues like low self esteem. I once battled self esteem while growing up. I was the youngest in my class so it took a while before I could mix well with my classmates.
On the other hand, my friend (Favour) opines that starting school early gives a child the chance of being academically bright compared to a child that starts later on.
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Colour MatchingMarch 05, 2007
I've never satisfactorily solved the colour matching problem while working on the print jobs I do every few months or so. A few years back I wrote up some colour tips I've learned, but it doesn't exactly mean I've gotten any better at it in the mean time.
Browsing through the local specialty art book store the other day, I came across the Process Color Manual, a colour guide for CMYK that nicely fills a gap in my collection. It's basically a formula guide of printed swatches and their specific CMYK values. It doesn't cover every combination in existence, but at 24,000 possible values, it's good enough for my needs.
Sure I could have gone the Pantone route as well and paid a bunch more, but, compare: 24,000 colour selections on one type of paper, vs. 1,114 colour selections on three types of paper. Given my modest print needs, I'll save the extra money for some other rainy day.
So after discovering this book, I'm curious now — does anyone know if there's a (legal) equivalent for spot colour? I'm guessing Pantone's system is all sorts of proprietary and anyone trying to release their own book of the same would be sued out of existence, but, maybe not.
Investing in the standard set of four Pantone guides is worth the price. Last time I checked, it was a couple hundred bucks for the spot coated, spot uncoated, spot matte, and process.
Don't fall for the "make sure to renew your set every two years" bullshit, but the initial purchase is worth the outlay… especially now that we don't use CRTs anymore which were much closer to colorometrically accurate.
"Investing in the standard set of four Pantone guides is worth the price. Last time I checked, it was a couple hundred bucks for the spot coated, spot uncoated, spot matte, and process."
I'm seeing that set going for close to $500 this side of the border, and given the relative paucity of my print projects (three or four a year), it's been too hard to justify thus far.
Weird, I can't seem to find the four-piece set on Pantone's site right now, but here's the two spots:
$89 – http://pantone.com/pages/products/product.aspx?pid=53&ca=1
… and the two processes:
$120– http://pantone.com/pages/products/product.aspx?pid=283&ca=1
Might be a little pricier with the Canuck funnymoney though. :)
Oh, hmm. That first one looks like it might suit the bill. This is the one I was seeing, it goes for $300 USD - http://pantone.com/pages/products/product.aspx?pid=115
I usually get by with the Pantone Solid to Process swatch (now called Pantone Color Bridge). If you only get one swatch (especially if you do limited print work), it's the one to get. It shows Solid AND Process for each color (the Process is just the closest CMYK equivalent to the Spot). Check it out:
You will never get the vividness of certain spot colours with a CMYK colour equivalent, and sometimes it's just not practical. Imagine the difficulty of printing a .25pt line with four colours - registration can be a bitch! And printing CMYK in some cases might be more expensive.
You could use your CMYK book to find the colour combinations you like, and then borrow your printer's PMS books to match. Not ideal, and possibly inconvenient, but could get you through until you want to make the purchase.
"You could use your CMYK book to find the colour combinations you like, and then borrow your printer's PMS books to match."
*Exactly* what I did today.
I am in the same boat since I do not do too much print work but it is normally a pain once I get a proof from a printer. Deliberating whether I should buy the essentials set - http://pantone.com/Pages/Products/Product.aspx?pid=435&ca=1.
I got lucky with my pantone swatchbook– I mentioned to a printer rep that I didn't have one and had to go to the library every time I needed to choose a spot color. Next time I saw him he gave me an old one that they were probably going to throw out! Even though it's old, it's still more accurate than the colors on my monitor.
Dave: try out this book about colour management.
link: http://www.rotovision.com/description.asp?isbn=2-88046-819-1
It is loaded with terrific stuff.
After many years in print production and design, I've learn a few "dirty little secrets" about color matching:
While a Pantone guide is a must, please realize that even Pantone considers it a "guide" only. Different ink manufacturers' colors vary, as do the mixes that printers themselves may make. Press conditions and even the press operator make a difference.
But perhaps the largest variable is the paper itself. If you need an exact match (which is probably impossible anyway), you'll need to have the ink specially mixed to the paper (or change the values for cmyk, assuming the printing "system" is calibrated). And sometimes even that is impossible due to metamerism.
I agree that you don't need to get a new book every year or so – unless you leave it open near a window. Then you'll need a new one in a couple of days. (Been there, done that!). Keep it in a drawer.
The Pantone solid-to-process guide/color bridge is an essential tool IMO, being an in-house designer I've had little need for other guides, and no, I don't replace it every 2 years :)
A friend of a friend I know worked for Pantone, and I understand they have a ridiculously complex, fancy press set-up to produce those swatch books, so that they can print a multitude of inks in a single run. Because of that, it's probably tough to find a "less expensive" spot color guide.
you'll need to have the ink specially mixed to the paper (or change the values for cmyk, assuming the printing "system" is calibrated
I used to work in a print house and now run a small design studio and in my experience it's impossible to create certain Pantones out of process.
The Colour Bridge swatches are well worth their money but always ask the printers opinion about the breakdown. Some of the colours (and it seems to be the darker ones) tend to have high black values. If you're running up around 80% or more then think about knocking it back and upping the other colours. Because the press operator can tweak the amount of ink going on each plate, he'll have an easier job (and you a better result) if he's got more room to manouver, if he has to knock the black down then you might find that the black points of images and solid black text will be affected.
I'm with Jason. Solid to Process is really nice to have and not that expensive.
Back when I was doing printing at college we were using a number of different Spot matching systems, Pantone and a few others. I can't remember the names, but I do know that they exist, it's just Pantone has become the standard for matching. As for the copyright side of it, as far as I know they've only got legal rights to the colour names and not the actual colours themselves… I could be wrong though.
I'll have to have a look out for that book though, it looks nice.
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Pantone tells you to buy a new set every year, and some people do. Last year's book tend to show up on ebay for pretty cheap. Often they'll have a set of holes drilled through them but other in great shape.
+1 on Solid-to-process
+100 on "Remember that is just a guide"
Spot color and PMS swatch books are a relic of the past and should only be used in projects where Offest printing is the the final output and to drive home the point - offest where it is known a line screen of 300 or better is being used and metal plates capable of holding fine dots are used.
Some of the most popular spot colors which can be lumped into groups like the candy apple reds and reflex blues and rich mexican blues should only be mixed as ink and applied with fifth and sixth plates if the budget allows for it.
If one is using a digital printing process PMS guides should be used only as guide post one tries to get close to…
Due to the shear number of digital printers on the market and whose profile set is used if at all, which reandering engine is used and then throwing in the real physical DPI of the print file rendered by the RIP - which happens after you leave your file off at the digital printer results will not only vary but reduce many clients to tears.
With the large increase in large format graphics that cover buildings and buses these days a 2% to 5% change in one or two of the colors in CMYK, although clearly seen in a swatch book won't even show on a digital press printign at 20 or 50 DPI.
Profile clipping and dirt introduced by 6 and 8 color heads many times makes it even worst.
It would seem those extra heads still spray fine amounts of ink even though Photoshop might say there is no cyan in such and such - but a close look with a glass shows a 2% tint of cyan which can not be removed - because the printer maker does not know a better way to prevent head damage due to clogged ink jets.
Finer printers like epsons running in the 600 to 1200 DPI range may have large and beautiful color range but without a way to control six or eight colors in the seperation stage - something Adobe seems very timid to even consider putting in Photoshop -despite anything they may claim- the degree of control needed to render these kinds of colors is not there.
For what it is worth try this approcah on a critical project:
For each digital press type request the different printers to print out that color chart of process colors the RIP vender supplies on the DVD/CD that installed it - from the digital press you are going to use and on the final paper type.
Use than chart to comapre to the PMS book and realize close made have to be good enough.
I used to use Process (CMYK) color a lot, but I can tell you right now that just because you have a color that looks like it's firey red in that CMYK book, it probably will be a bit different on every printer you print on. Most printers and print shops have slight variations in the way that the colors are processed. Using a Pantone reference book works alright, but if you must continue using CMYK, try the Pantone Huey. It is a great monitor color calibration device, costs less than 100 bucks and gets your colors a lot closer to print.
A reputable print shop should be "fingerprinting" their equipment. At every step of the process, a certain amount of "dot gain" is introduced. When the image setter burns the negatives, the dots may come out a bit larger than needed. When you burn those images to plates, the light will flare outward a bit enlarging them more. And it is natural to the print process that the pressure of the ink transfer from rubber blanket to paper sheet will cause dot gain as well. More dot gain will be evident in uncoated papers than on coated ones. Bigger dots absorb more light and we see a different color as a result. After determining how much dot gain is added at every step, your printer can develop a color profile that is applied on the computer during the output stage that will compensate. It is important that there be a profile for each imagesetter/film/plate/press/ink/paper combination used. Obviously this can be a time consuming process, but it's critical to getting the expected output. (It is also why platesetters are handy because they cut out many steps in the process which reduces dot gain error and reduces the time to getting the job in registration on press.)
For digital output devices it is even more difficult because the control mechanisms are not as durable as in commercial offset printing. There are entirely new concerns as well. For instance, on toner based systems, the electrical characteristics of the paper stock itself play a critical role and moisture content of the paper will affect those characteristics. But the same fingerprinting process should be possible here. Although the print drivers for large format inkjet may not support tweaking, it should be possible to keep those settings consistent, measure the resulting output with a colorimeter, compare it to what was desired, and modify the files in Photoshop accordingly.
What someone mentioned about having high black values in process color is known as "grey component replacement". In theory, if you had perfect cyan, magenta and yellow inks and printed 100% coverage of each down on a sheet, you should get black. We call this process black, often because it's not actually black, but closer to brown. This occurs because while the cyan should absorb only cyan light, it might absorb a tiny amount of magenta or yellow as well. (That's why there are many variations of the same colors available, cyan is cyan, but its error varies by formulation.) The same for the other colors. This induces error into the system. It also means that the ink density on the sheet is very high which can cause problems in the print process with picking, ghosting and sheet-to-sheet transfer in the delivery stack. So there is a process by which the computer can determine how much of the C, M, Y inks it can subtract and replace with black (K) to achieve the same, but often truer result. Less ink density means less chance of ink transfer problems and a lower cost because you're applying one ink instead of 3 to achieve a black appearance.
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I love how work looks printed, but I always run into the same problems I'm sure you are having. I've been using Color Theory/Harmony/Communication books to see how a specific CMYK value looks printed, but thanks for another reference as it certainly looks more comprehensive.


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The 40-year-old British actor was accompanied by his longtime girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell, who sparkled in a purplelicious floor-grazing gown.
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I would like to share what I read this morning from one of my favorite books, A Cherokee Feast of Days Daily Meditations by; Joyce Sequichie Hifler – she spoke of summertime when we were children and the days were so long and we would daydream or just hide out in a secret place, it was a good time and we expected everything to be good…
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Fredrik Falkenström
posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 8:22 am
I read in the article "Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling: A More Flexible Representation of Substantive Theory" from 2012 by Bengt Muthén and Timohir Asparouhov that it is recommended to standardize the latent variable indicators in Bayesian CFA with informative priors. I assumed when I read the article that this was for pedagogical reasons (i.e. setting the prior variance to .01 will have the same meaning for all indicators). But in some circumstances it may not be a good idea to standardize (e.g. in growth curve modeling when you want to estimate the means over time). The problem then is, I guess, to know how to get the prior variances right? Is there a solution for this?
A related question, which is more of an Mplus question actually: When I tried to estimate a Bayesian CFA with unstandardized indicators Mplus would not produce standardized estimates. Why is this so?
Thank you very much in advance.
Best wishes,
Fredrik Falkenström
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning
Linköping University
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 8:44 am
Your assumption is correct and I agree that standardization can be dangerous such as with models that are not "scale-free", one example being growth models as you mention. Instead one can simply scale the variables so that they are similar (say variances in the 1-10 range). Differences of this magnitude probably don't affect the impact of the priors very much, but experimenting in terms of a prior sensitivity analysis is always useful. With growth variances change over time, but I would think they don't change enough to change prior impact. This is in a way a bit of a research area, so more work is welcome.
Regarding your last question, I don't see why this would happen, so please send the output to Support.
Fredrik Falkenström
posted on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 4:22 am
Thanks! If I would be interested in means (which I'm not sure I am) I guess I can't scale the items using different weights (i.e. dividing or multiplying different indicators by different numbers) because then the means will be affected differently. However, I checked the variances in my sample and it seems that they are all close to 2 so I guess I could either divide them all by 2 and then use the .01 prior that you recommended in your paper, or I could use a .02 prior to reflect the larger variances?
Another question came to mind in this regard: When using the Inverse Wishart prior, you specify degrees of freedom rather than variance for the prior (although the df is translated into a variance for the prior). It seems from you article that the degrees of freedom are related only to the number of variables and not to the variance of the observed variables, is this right? Or are the degrees of freedom translated into a different prior variance if I use non-standardized indicators (with variances other than 1)?
P.S. I have sent my output with the error message about standardized parameters to the Support. D.S.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 2:13 pm
Let's say the prior variance is for a small cross-loading with factor variance 1. With Y variance 2, the standardized loading is obtained by dividing the loading by sqrt(2)=1.4 so not far from 1. So I don't think you need special prior variance considerations in that case.
Here is one way to think about the IW(Sigma,df) specification, where Sigma is the covariance matrix and df is the degrees of freedom. Denote the number variables of the covariance matrix by p. Our BSEM article appendix and wikipedia points out that df > p+1 makes the mean exist, so a weak prior may have df=p+2. A larger df makes the prior stronger. Furthermore, the mode is
mode = Sigma/(df+p+1).
So say that you want the mode to correspond to a variance of say v. Together with df=p+2, you can then solve for Sigma in IW(Sigma,df) as
Sigma = v*(2p+3).
For instance, p=10 and v=50 gives df=12 and Sigma = 50*23 = 1150, so IW(1150,12).
Fredrik Falkenström
posted on Friday, November 15, 2013 - 4:35 am
I'm sorry, I have been thinking about this for some time now but I still don't get it. The df part I think I understand, but the Sigma part I don't.
When using standardized y-variables in your big-five analysis on females that I downloaded, you have p=15 and v=1 (due to standardization). That would mean Sigma = 1*(2*15+3)=33. But in your example input you define the prior as IW(0,21). Shouldn't it have been IW(33,21) then?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, November 15, 2013 - 4:43 pm
Yes, IW prior specifications are a bit awkward. By "Sigma" we mean a covariance matrix and we refer to an element that is either a variance (a diagonal element of Sigma) or a covariance (an off-diagonal element) in that matrix. In my post I was talking about variances, but my paper considered priors for covariances. Hence the zero in IW(0,21). So the mode for the covariance is zero in that case which is what we want to keep residual covariances small. Hope I said that right.
Fredrik Falkenström
posted on Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 12:23 pm
Thanks, that was clarifying. But my original question was actually if the df for the covariances need to change if the variance of the observed variables change? Or are the df independent of the variance of the observed variables (it seems that way to me, but I want to be sure before I go on with my analyses)? Sorry for the unclear question.
I am also still a bit confused by your explanation about the prior for the variances. I thought that the p1-p15 in the input statement of your big five females example referred to the diagonal element (i.e. variances) and p16-p120 referred to the covariances? In that case, you specify a prior of IW(1,21) for the variances, but shouldn't it have been IW(33,21) according to your formula (see my previous posting for this calculation). Or does p1-p15 refer to something else?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, November 18, 2013 - 2:23 pm
The df does not depend on the variance size. You can think of the increasing number of df as having prior information giving an increasingly large addition to the sample data.
The df has to be the same for all Sigma elements.
Regarding your last question, yes, back then I did not go by the advice I am giving you now.
Fredrik Falkenström
posted on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 12:29 am
Thanks! Now I think I get it. I hope you will bear with me for two last questions : )
1. The zero prior for the covariances is given, so that is no problem. However, the prior for the residual variances (i.e. the "v" in your formula) is more open. Would it make sense to think that the residual variances are likely to be considerably smaller than the observed variables's variances, for example residual variances in the range of 1/3 to 1/2 of the observed variable variances)?
2. Are there any rules of thumb for how large residual correlations can be (or how many moderately large residual correlations there can be) before the model will seem problematic? In your paper I get the sense that you interpret the fact that only one residual correlation was above .50 as a sign that the there is no problem with the model, or did I misunderstand that? It seems from my experiments so far that model fit is often excellent when allowing estimation of residual correlations using small variance priors, but as you state in your paper there may still be problems with the model if too many residual correlations are large.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 1:41 pm
1. Sure. Or you can run ML to get those variances.
2. No rules of thumb yet - this is a research area where we have to gather experience.
Fredrik Falkenström
posted on Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 11:27 pm
Fredrik Falkenström
posted on Sunday, March 23, 2014 - 1:18 pm
I am trying to use the Inverse Wishart distribution as a prior for estimating the variances and covariances among latent factors in a longitudinal CFA model. There are three factors all estimated at ten time-points. The variances are supposed to be close to 1, so I tried the formula Sigma = v*(2p+3), and arrived at IW(63,36) (i.e. 1*(2*30+3)) for the factor variances. However, it seems like this must have been wrong, because I get factor variance estimates up to about 60. Have I misunderstood something?
Thank you very much for your help!
Fredrik Falkenström
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 1:25 pm
On top of page 57,
you can find the marginal distribution of your diagonal elements and from here
you can get the marginal mean and mode.
The marginal mode is
The full distribution mode is
If the DF is large enough those lead to the same setting but not otherwise. In your case the DF is not large enough.
In BSEM you vary the DF parameter as part of the sensitivity analysis. As you increase the DF you get priors with smaller variances.
If you want the variances to be tight enough around 1 you need to choose bigger DF. Also once you decide what DF you want to use perhaps consider the difference between the marginal and full mode formulas above. To match the marginal mode use
marginal mode=Sigma/(df-p+3).
which with DF=p+2 would be
Alternatively, use the mean formulas instead of the mode. Those are the same for the full and the marginal distributions
With DF=p+2,
Ultimately setting up the prior shouldn't really affect the results.
Fredrik Falkenström
posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 3:09 am
Dear Timohir,
Thank you very much for this explanation. A short follow-up question: One of my factors is uncorrelated with the other two (for all occasions). In this case I guess this factor will have its own IW block, and I will count degrees of freedom for this factor separately from the other two, right? i.e. with ten occasions (and the first variance fixed at 1) the p will be 9 for the covariance matrix for this variable and 18 for the matrix of the other two (which are correlated)? So df will be 9 + whatever value I chose for the first factor and 18 + something for the other two?
Again, thank you very much for your help!
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 2:37 pm
Yes. It is also possible to add IW prior that includes the initial point, i.e., IW of size 10 and 20.
Fredrik Falkenström
posted on Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 10:49 am
Great, thanks!
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In the United States, there has been much focus on the Democratic and Republican parties' National Conventions to be held later this summer, when they will nominate candidates, establish a party platform, and rally their members for upcoming campaigns. Last month, the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) held its own National Convention in preparation for what will hopefully be Sudan's first free and fair national elections, to take place in 2009. Plans for national elections are an integral part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which, signed in 2005, ended 21 years of civil war between the SPLM, a Southern-based opposition movement, and the National Congress Party, based in the North, and which currently controls the central government.
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Besides taking care of official business, such as democratically electing party leaders for the first time and developing the party's platform on key issues heading into elections, the Convention attendees also knew how to have fun. Party leaders chanted to rally the crowds, delegates joined in singing and dancing, and even the Secretary General of the SPLM took his turn reading a poem and leading the crowd in song. A marching band in bright red uniforms performed patriotic songs while the audience cheered on. And the event did not go unnoticed by members of the international community – in addition to the many members of the diplomatic corps in attendance, actor Ben Affleck even put in an appearance!
The successful SPLM Convention marked a significant milestone, not only in the transformation of the SPLM into a national political party, but for the democratic transformation of Sudan as a whole, and helps set the stage for what will be a very important and exciting year in Sudan's history.
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i want to see the video of splm 2rd convention
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Did the SPLM convention address the ongoing conflict in Darfur? Were there representatives from Darfur in attendance at the convention?
Also, was anything done to ameliorate the ongoing tensions over Abyei?
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@ DipNote Blogger Heather Hwalek -- Heather,
My question's real simple.
Are they tired of killing each other yet?
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@ William in Nevada -- Successive elections took place before the Convention at the boma (village), payam (district), county and state levels to determine which delegates would attend. Many of the SPLM leaders who had been working in Juba or Khartoum thus had to return to their home districts, giving them the chance to connect with their constituents and provide information. Transportation for most of the delegates coming from within Sudan was provided by the SPLM. They traveled mostly by plane on regularly scheduled flights or charter flights. About 75 delegates from the Sudanese diaspora, representing more than a dozen countries, also attended the Convention with assistance from the U.S. government.
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I have had my eye on Sudan for a while. I would like to know how the word got out to the convention delegates? Was there transportation provided or did everyone have to find there own way to the convention. I would like to know how the basic logistics of the event went? From implimentation to final farewell? The Sudan is going to be a success story in the comming years I believe, but the U.S. media will never portray this in the light it should be in.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Open World Leadership Center, the Congressional agency working to increase U.S.-Eurasian understanding and partnerships, has selected not one but two Student Government presidents from the State University System of Florida to travel to Russia this fall as guests of the host country -- and today, they are in Washington, D.C., with Chancellor Frank T. Brogan for an informal orientation and to begin formal preparation for the trip.
University of Florida's Ashton Charles and Florida A&M University's Gallop Franklin will be members of the contingent representing about 25 public and private universities nationwide, signifying a great honor to the State University System of Florida. It is uncommon for one state to have more than one representative selected -- and to have both state representatives from its public universities.
This past November, 15 university student body presidents from across the United States similarly traveled to Russia to participate in the exchange mission. The travel and all costs are fully funded by the International Relations Department of the Federal Agency on Youth Affairs of the Russian Federation. The student leaders met with their counterparts as well as senior officials in the legislative, executive and judicial branches of power in Russia.
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May 31, 2013
After several years of intense scrutiny for highly publicized personal matters, LeAnn Rimes opens up in impressive fashion on her revealing new album, Spitfire. Due in stores June 4, Spitfire is easily the 30-year-old singer/songwriter's most personal project to date as she directly addresses the firestorm of emotions surrounding her affair, divorce from first husband Dean Sheremet and subsequent marriage to Eddie Cibrian.
May 30th, 2013 - Check out the lyric video for Morgan Frazier's new single "Yellow Brick Road" featured today on MetroLyrics. CLICK HERE
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May 24th, 2013 - Catch the video premiere for Rachel Holder's "FIVE DAYS" on MetroLyrics now.
May 22, 2013
"I Drive Your Truck" has been nominated for the 25th Annual 2013 MusicRow Awards for "Song Of The Year"! The MusicRow Awards take place on Tuesday, June 25th at ASCAP's Nashville headquarters. To read more, click here.
The GI Film Festival is pleased to announce that five-time GRAMMY winner Wynonna Judd will participate in the GI Film Festival, which will be held May 6-12, 2013 in the Washington, DC metro area. Wynonna will receive a GI Film Festival "GI Spirit Award" for her charitable work in support of the troops.
May 22, 2013 - Via Nashville Skyline:
I first encountered LeAnn Rimes one day in the mid-1990s as one of my first visitors in my new job as Billboard's Nashville bureau chief.
Billboard then still had an actual physical headquarters in Nashville, on Music Square West (aka 17th Avenue South). They were fairly nice offices overlooking Reba's regal office building across the intersection, which I think still had a helipad on the roof until all the recording studio owners in the neighborhood complained about the excessive noise and vibrations.
May 20th, 2013 - This week's COUNTRY DOWNLOAD is fresh out of the box and features a segment about LEE BRICE out on the road, getting the word out about "PARKING LOT PARTY" and big props for the limited issue ZIPPO LIGHTERS.
Check out the episode now:
Haven't bought the new single "Parking Lot Party" yet? Get it on iTunes now!
May 16th, 2013 — Following breakout success on the top-ranked Winter Jam 2013 Tour Spectacular, Curb sibling trio OBB is poised for its national radio debut this summer, in addition to multiple high-profile appearances around the country.


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Dropout Docs – The Answer for #HealthIT Startups?
Colin Hung is the co-founder of the #hcldr (healthcare leadership) tweetchat one of the most popular and active healthcare social media communities on Twitter. Colin speaks, tweets and blogs regularly about healthcare, technology, marketing and leadership. He is currently an independent marketing consultant working with leading healthIT companies. Colin is a member of #TheWalkingGallery. His Twitter handle is: @Colin_Hung.
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Recently both Nick van Terheyden (@drnic1) and Mandi Bishop (@MandiBPro) shared a link to an interesting article via Facebook. "Dropout Docs: Bay Area Doctors Quit Medicine to Work for Digital Health Startups".
The article highlights a new phenomenon happening In the Bay area – would-be doctors are dropping out of prestigious medical schools to pursue careers in digital health. Even those that complete their schooling are opting to join digital health start-ups/incubators (like Rock Health located in San Francisco, very close to USCF Medical Center) rather than apply for residency.
Being a doctor or a surgeon was once the pinnacle of achievement in American society, but with changes to reimbursements and general healthcare frustration, many are not seeing the practice of medicine as the rosy utopia it used to be (or was it ever?). Now even physicians are succumbing to the siren call of #HealthIT where there is a chance to "do good" and make a difference on a large scale.
I believe this trend could be a good thing for #HealthIT. Having more peers who are enthusiastic and passionate about improving healthcare can lead to more positive innovations. Consider the following quote from a doctor who joined a health care company instead of practicing medicine (from the KQED article):
"I realized that the system isn't designed for doctors to make the real change you would like to for the patient."
Having more people who want to put the patient at the center of healthcare makes my #HealthIT heart race. You can't teach people to have this inner fire. It is something that is intrinsic to the individual…and we need more peers in #HealthIT with this flame.
There is just one line from the article that don't agree with:
"…dropout doctors are well-positioned for a career in digital health as they have an insider's view of the industry – and ideas about how to fix it."
I think it is a bit of a stretch to say that people who went through med-school have a true "insider's view". Having not worked in a practice or in a healthcare setting, they would not be familiar with the political, financial or workflow aspects of care on the front lines. I hope these doc-dropouts are humble enough to remain open-minded as they listen to real-life customers provide feedback on the technologies and solutions they are involved with. In fact, dropout docs would be well served by remembering one particular part of their medical training – truly listening to the patient – which in this case may be the entirety of healthcare.


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4 Additional Flu Deaths in Minnesota
ST. PAUL (AP) - Minnesota health officials say four more people have died of flu-related illness.
The Minnesota Department of Health said Thursday the four deaths confirmed last week bring the season's death toll to 180. Last year's flu season claimed 33 lives. Since October, nearly 3,000 people have been hospitalized in Minnesota in one of the toughest flu seasons in many years. Last year, the flu caused about 550 hospitalizations.
Health officials say one nursing home reported a flu outbreak in week of March 10-16, bringing the number of outbreaks in long-term care facilities to 149 since the start of the season. Four schools reported flu outbreaks last week. So far about 490 schools have reported outbreaks during this season.


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Today, you opened the newspaper and probably noticed something different.
Your opinion matters, so today�s Crestview News Bulletin features a development a month in the making: a regular source that keeps the conversation going and includes the following sections you can expect:
� From the Editor�s Desk: a column that usually will give readers a glimpse �behind the curtain� on news-selection decisions or otherwise would add substance to our A1 stories.
� Word on the Street: Weekly, our news staff will pound the pavement, asking residents for their input on our question of the week.
� A local columnist. Currently, we will run commentary from a familiar face, Bob Allen, but we encourage guest columnists and talented writers to weigh in on local issues or provide a nice slice of life for Crestview, Baker, Holt, Milligan or Laurel Hill. We prefer non-elected officials, average Joes and Jeanettes who don�t usually appear in the paper.
� Hubbub: a collection of the most thoughtful or humorous Facebook or Twitter comments we received the prior week. This also is the space for any letters to the editor.
The Opinion section isn�t new to the News Bulletin. Upon checking the paper�s archives, I noticed that this once-regular section comprising several regular features evolved and evolved and evolved until, well, there wasn�t much of a section.
In life, things change. Sometimes, newspaper staffers focus their energies on a certain story or other opportunity that seems more important at the time, and other things, inadvertently, fall by the wayside. Newton�s law of gravity states that whatever goes up must come down, and I suppose the rule reaches into other disciplines. For instance, I�ve seen the quality of my favorite TV sitcoms and dramas nosedive in their later years, and recall appointment-television newscasts making inexplicable changes to the detriment of content.
However, when it comes to the newspaper, any reason for this focal shift can�t justify the erosion and ultimate exclusion of an Opinion page. After all, newspapers celebrate freedom of speech and accountability, and those values extend far beyond the newsroom.
YaleUniversitylaw professor Thomas Emerson said that freedom of speech acts as a so-called safety valve that allows anyone to express his or her opinion without resorting to revolt.
Oprah Winfrey, in interviews explaining her daytime talk show�s massive success, stated a belief she said everyone shares: �We want to know that we matter. We want to know that we were heard and that what we had to say meant something.�
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It's rare that any NHL player says something as intriguing as Bruins forward Brian McGrattan did the other day about Ottawa's Chris Neil.
Unfortunately, what some of us was hoping would turn into a war of words quickly turned into a verbal TKO for McGrattan, as Neil barely put any effort into his rebuke.
"I'm sure he's trying to get into the lineup," Neil said in the Globe and Mail Tuesday. "I have nothing bad to say about the guy."
Neil was of course responding to McGrattan's comments to the Boston Globe Monday about actions Neil took Saturday night in Ottawa to start a late-game fight with Bruins defenseman Dennis Seidenberg. McGrattan, a healthy scratch all season for Boston, was on a conditioning assignment with the Providence (AHL) farm club at the time. He played with Neil for several years in Ottawa.
"I heard about it," McGrattan said of Neil's actions to the Boston Globe. "That's typical Chris Neil. I had to protect that guy for three years when I was there. He'd do that and I'd have to fight all his battles for him the next time we'd play a team after he'd do something stupid like that. It doesn't surprise me."
The Bruins and Sens don't meet again until Nov. 13 at TD Garden. If the Bruins are still playing as well as they have through the season's first eight games, it's unlikely head coach Claude Julien would want to alter his lineup. However, if ever there was a reason to give Shawn Thornton or Brad Marchand or another forward a night off, it might be when the Sens come to town so that McGrattan could make Neil pay. At least then we'd get some physical fireworks after Neil threw a wet blanket on the verbal battle.


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Aloha and Welcome! This is the Kapi'olani Community College Chapter of Slow Food located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, disappearance of local food traditions and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. Today, we have over 100,000 members all over the world!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Our Action-Packed November! Pt 1. CEJE Catering
Well it's almost the end of the month and boy have we kept super busy bringing Slow Food to the community! To start off we catered a fantastic lunch for CEJE, a non-profit organization at UH Manoa. The lunch for 100, facilitated by Slow Food KCC member Monica Onoe, was a delicious success and included a menu of mostly vegan mostly locally grown foods from some of our favorite farmers. Event Organizer Eri Oura wrote a recap of the event for us:
"Healing from the Center: Decolonizing the Self and Our Communities was a conference organized by the Collective for Equality, Justice & Empowerment (CEJE) on Saturday, November 14th. The conference was a gathering of community and student activists, in which discussion of decolonization as part of the healing process was engaged.
SLOW FOOD KCC catered lunch with a menu filled with locally grown and organic products, nourishing freedom fighters from around the world.
Through this partnership with SLOW FOOD KCC, CEJE hopes to encourage more people to eat local and eat fresh by eating SLOW FOOD - locally grown and organic foods."
The menu:
Borlotti Beans and Wilted Kale
Misoyaki Eggplant
Grilled Opah with Citrus Salsa
Hearts of Palm Salad
Sassy Greens Salad
Roasted Vegetable "Un-fried" Rice
Coconut Tapioca
Pumpkin Mousse Tartlets
The Farmers:
Heirloom Borlotti Beans – North Shore Farms, Oahu
Tomatoes & Cucumbers – Ho Farms, Oahu
Kale & Eggplant – North Shore Value Wagon, Oahu
Sassy Salad Greens – Ma'o Farms, Oahu
Heart of Palm & Avocado – Wailea Agriculture, Big Island
Ka'u Oranges – Big Island
Opah – Local wild caught
Eggs- Ka Lei Eggs
Here's a recipe for the Heirloom Bean and Wilted Kale Salad. Feel free to email us with questions! firstname.lastname@example.com
Heirloom Bean and Wilted Kale Salad Yield 6-10 servings
Kale fresh 1 lb
White beans in shell 2 lb
Garlic cloves 3
Tomatoes, baby teardrop ½ pint
Basil, fresh 6-10 leaves
Olive oil 1 tbsp
Sherry vinegar 2 tsp or To Taste
Kosher salt To Taste
Cracked pepper To Taste
Parmesan cheese, shaved 1oz
1. Oven dried tomatoes:
Chop tomatoes in half lengthwise. Toss with a little olive oil salt and pepper and place on parchment lined baking sheets in a 250 degree oven for about 2 hours. Check them frequently to make sure they aren't burning. When they are mostly dry remove from oven. Cover with a thin layer of olive oil and refrigerate if not using right away. Tomatoes will keep for about a week.
2. Bean preparation:
Shell beans (will yield about 1 lb) and bring to a boil in unsalted water. Drain water. Refill with cold water, a bay leaf and a whole peeled onion. Allow to simmer until beans are soft but not mushy about 1 hour. Drain and salt beans. Set aside.
3. Salad Preparation
1.Wash and chop kale into bite size pieces. Dry in salad spinner. Set aside.
2.Chiffonade basil. Set aside.
3.Cut garlic cloves into paper thin slices. Heat olive oil until just below smoking and add garlic, stir constantly until garlic slices just start to brown. Remove garlic from oil. Drain on paper towels.
4. Add chopped kale to hot oil. Toss in oil until kale is bright green and just wilted. Remove from heat. Transfer to large salad bowl.
5. Gently toss in beans and roasted tomatoes.
6. Dress with sherry vinegar, salt and pepper. Toss in basil chiffonade.
7. Finish with a drizzle of fresh olive oil and sprinkle with fried garlic chips.
If desired, garnish each serving with curls of shaved parmesan.
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