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Last month, the parliamentary science and technology committee released a report on "Women in scientific careers", in particular the under-representation of women in academic careers in the sciences.
We were discussing this on Twitter. Olly asks:
to which Laura responds:
@lchilds Good question. What *should* be done?— Oliver Johnson (@BristolStats1) February 7, 2014
@BristolStats1 I have no idea. Does anyone?— Laura Childs (@lchilds) February 7, 2014
So here's an attempt at a very incomplete answer.
It certainly seems that many of the "obvious" solutions are either too small to be all that effective (Give postgrads the option to attend diversity training! Add "Good quality women candidates are particularly encouraged to apply" to the bottom of job adverts!) or too huge to be practical (Reduce social stigma around girls being interested traditionally male activities! Change cultural values pertaining to gender balance of child-rearing duties!).
But I think that if any academic institution can't even think of any feasible ways to attack this problem, then they're just not bothered.
As a demonstration, here's five ideas I though of on the walk home yesterday. I'm not saying I can defend all these as deep, well-considered, pragmatic, easily workable, thoroughly evidence-based plans — but if I can come up with these in 25 minutes, I can only imagine how many brilliant ideas an expert committee could come up with in a year or so.
The emphasis here is on ideas that your university/funding body/whatever could introduce right now, if they just decided to.
1) American orchestras have had huge success in reducing gender discrimination using "blind" auditions. To the greatest extent possible, universities should anonymise applications in the pre-interview stage to recruitment committees, journals should anonymise papers to associate editors and peer reviewers, funding bodies should anonymise research proposals to review boards.
2) In American football, the "Rooney rule" forces teams to interview at least one ethnic minority candidate whenever a head coaching position becomes vacant. When the Rooney rule began in 2003, 6% of coaches were African American; three years later it had gone up to 22%. Universities should be required to interview at least one female candidate for any advertised post.
3) The "panel pledge" asks male speakers at (mostly non-academic) science and tech conferences to sign that: "I will not speak on or moderate all-male panels at technology and science conferences." Academics: don't organise and refuse to speak at conferences where all the (plenary) speakers are men. Campuses: refuse to host conferences where all the speakers are men. Universities, funding bodies and professional societies: refuse to financially support conferences where all the speakers are men.
Two things that would help early-career academics (and particularly women) with partners / children / care duties:
4) As the parliamentary committee suggests (para. 47), universities and funding bodies should "increase the number of more stable and permanent post-doc positions", even if this means reducing the total number of positions.
5) As the parliamentary committee also suggests (para. 48), "research funders should remove from fellowship conditions any requirements for researchers to move institute or country and instead provide funding for shorter visits to other institutes for collaboration purposes".
Maybe relatively easy fixes like these won't work, and the only solution is gradually, slowly influencing wider culture. But at the moment it doesn't even look like we're trying.
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Abstract. The surface reflectance ratio between the visible (VIS) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) radiation is an important quantity for the retrieval of the aerosol optical depth (τa) from the MODIS sensor data. Based on empirically determined VIS/SWIR ratios, MODIS τa retrieval uses the surface reflectance in the SWIR band (2.1 μm), where the interaction between solar radiation and the aerosol layer is small, to predict the visible reflectances in the blue (0.47 μm) and red (0.66 μm) bands. Therefore, accurate knowledge of the VIS/SWIR ratio is essential for achieving accurate retrieval of aerosol optical depth from MODIS. The heterogeneity of the surface cover in an urban environment increases the uncertainties in the estimation of the surface reflectance and, consequently, τa. We analyzed the surface reflectance over some distinct surface covers in and around the Mexico City metropolitan area (MCMA) using MODIS radiances at 0.66 μm and 2.1 μm. The analysis was performed at 1.5 km×1.5 km spatial resolution. Also, ground-based AERONET sun-photometer data acquired in Mexico City from 2002 to 2005 were analyzed for aerosol optical thickness and other aerosol optical properties. In addition, a network of hand-held sun-photometers deployed in Mexico City, as part of the MCMA-2006 Study during the MILAGRO Campaign, provided an unprecedented measurement of τa in 5 different sites well distributed in the city. We found that the average RED/SWIR ratio representative of the urbanized sites analyzed is 0.73±0.06. This average ratio was significantly different for non-urban sites, which was approximately 0.55. The aerosol optical thickness retrieved from MODIS radiances at a spatial resolution of 1.5 km×1.5 km and averaged within 10 x 10 km boxes were compared with collocated 1-h τa averaged from sun-photometer measurements. The use of the new RED/SWIR ratio of 0.73 in the MODIS retrieval led to a significant improvement in the agreement between the MODIS and sun-photometer results; with the slope, offset, and the correlation coefficient of the linear regression changing from (τaMODIS = 0.91 τa sun-photometer + 0.33 ,R2=0.66) to (τaMODIS = 0.96 τa sun-photometer −0.006, R2=0.87).
Citation: de Almeida Castanho, A. D., Prinn, R., Martins, V., Herold, M., Ichoku, C., and Molina, L. T.: Urban Visible/SWIR surface reflectance ratios from satellite and sun photometer measurements in Mexico City, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 7, 8113-8139, doi:10.5194/acpd-7-8113-2007, 2007.


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[quote:Jamesbo:MV8xNjA3NjQxXzI2NTY4MjM5XzkxMjY4MzQ5] (My other post from that thread) 559 BCE Cyrus II of Persia ID'd as commander of the lost Batallion along with certain dolphins an whales. Ahura Mazda led as a "winged God" in the search party. "On land, The Domain Search Party members were referred to as "Annunaki" 178 (Footnote) by the Sumerians, and "Nephilim", in the Bible. Of course, their true mission and activities were never disclosed to homo sapiens. Their activities have been purposefully disguised. Therefore, the human stories and legends about the Annunaki, and the other members of The Domain Search Party have not been understood and were badly misinterpreted." "A common element of the Pyramid Civilizations around the Earth is the constant use of the image of the snake, dragon, or serpent. This is because the beings who planted these civilizations here want to create an illusion that the "gods" are reptilian. ... The 'gods' are not reptiles, although they often behave like snakes." I always thought that the gold mining story was smelly, that the Anunnaki were so mysteriously absent from stories of Atlantis and MU, and from the UB Lucifer rebellion. Question is, what role did the Anunnaki truly play as part of the Domain? at times they seem to have been the good guys, but mostly, they seem to have been the bad guys. This can be seen as with Marduk, as his reign matches the attributes of the "Old Empire". At times, the Domain appears as if they were the "Life Carriers" of the UB, their "Main Computer Database" seems like that of the Ashtar command, as they replinished life on earth 70 million years ago (the time of the asteroid demo that took out the reptilian dinosaurs) and later, including the processes of "sex" and "pain" to cause the IS-BE to come and get "Stuck" in the flesh. The comment: "This wave has proven to be the most effective trapping device ever created in the history of the universe, as far as I know" was pretty powerful. This corroborates that spoken by Edgar Cayce and others, in their story of creation, when the first flesh-dwellers got stuck, and created the original sin, that of the monstrosities. NIP, can you maybe elaborate some as to whom the Domain is relative to GFL, Life Carrier corps, and Anunnaki Thanks [/quote]
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The purpose of this thread is discussion around the Alien Interview that took place back in the times of Roswell crashes. I just learned of this book a few days ago as somebody posted it in one of my threads.
Now at the time of the Roswell crash, there were two craft that came down some distance apart. each as a survivor. Most of you may have read something of EBE who survived until about 1951,. EBE was a PLANT person and a member of a group who had come here to help man deal with the increasing issues of carbon dioxide. Yes there are PLANT people as planets vary greatly in the intelligence walking being that evolves out of them. ATmospheres, densities, pressures, temperature vary. You might want to google Roswell crash and EBE. It was thought EBE was a gray by many readers but not so.
This crash had one survivor also that lived fine for several weeks, and then there was an attempt to disengage the soul or murder, whatever. This person was a gray, and it's not correct totally to say a gray, because it's just a body type, and a synthetic one at that, that is use a great deal by immortal spirit beings to travel the cosmos. it actually comes in most of the colors of the rainbow and while.
Here is an example of the more white tall "gray" used by very ADVANCED "angelic origin" beings. :Aton, sort of: In fact those of you that read my stuff from and about MIchael of Nebadon/ATON, this is the body type he is using for this mission. He is a spirit being and must walk this plane and he is often all over the place in craft and it suits his needs. At one time I did a work on this, in which we called this type of form, the "casper the friendly ghost form", as many people did watch those cartoons long ago and you will remember that nasty ghosts in the story had a more nasty form. there was great truth there. Aton's form for his return is about 9 1/2 feet or 3 meters tall. I have met him and this form is more muscular and he can actually intake small amounts of food, and uses a formula for nutrition, intaking liquid light with other substances to nourish the form. Many of your guardian angels use these types of forms. You will much better understand it when you read what it is. In fact the all do, and some of you have gray visits are being visited by both friends and guardian angels.
At any rate, if you choose to read this book I am posting, you will get a much better idea of what the body does. Some think these ones don't have souls. Yes they do, but there is also a form created as a slave form by such as the Orions, that is not ensouled in the meaning of the world. And I can discuss that more later.
I need to shower and tend an appointment, but I decided to go ahead with this project as there is interest.
Here's the pdf file. Its free, but I also purchased a copy, feeling I owe the author if I am going to teach, to not use a possibly pirated copy. It's only $5.
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] if you use google and "alien interview' you will discover lots of free pdf's. and also the original website.
I am also going to get a link to a thread here, where there has already been some discussion because I posted the link in it. The reason I posted in it, is I sensed a bit of fear in the poster who had some gray experiences. I think I will move my posts from that thread to this one later today.
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I think READING this book will enlighten anyone of interest and perhaps reduce the fear. The alien is a lovely being and the person who spent weeks with her gathering information, was an army nurse at the time. I can probably answer most to all questions which might come up. Now the file seems big, it is a book but the first 1/2 is the story and the 2nd 1/2 is annotations and foot notes. I may or may not be back to the thread tonight, more likely tomorrow.
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Georgia Tech announced on Wednesday that 65 members of its athletics department, including 54 athletes, graduated from the Institute earlier this month. Thirty-four percent of them graduated with honors.
John Dantzler (BSMGT)
Sean Devine (BSMGT)
Michael Klindt (BSMGT)
Jeremy Slayden (BSMGT)
Ryan Tinkoff (BSMGT)
Kristie Champlin (BSPUPB)
Michael Dergance (BSME)
Amy Gress (BSBIO)
Ta Kim (MSME)
David Pham (BSMGT)
Hannah Watkins (BSCE)
Kathryn Kenline (BSBIO)
Tyler Barrett (BSAE)
Robert Brannon (BSMGT)
Kevin Crosby (BSMGT)
Tyler Evans (BSMGT)
Sedric Griffin (BSMGT)
Robert Hall (BSMGT)
Deron Jasper (BSMGT)
Quincy Kelly (BSHTS)
Richard King (BSMGT)
Zach Krish (BSCE)
William Minter (BSMGT)
Steven Powers (BSMGT)
Michael Ray (BSBC)
Darrell Robertson (BSMGT)
Osahon Tongo (BSMGT)
Recardo Wimbush (BSMGT)
Chesson Hadley (BSMGT)
Gary Cage (BSMGT)
Brad Sheehan (BSMGT)
Le Garen Toomer (BSMGT)
Steven Wolcott (BSMGT)
Jeremy Jackson (BSMGT)
William Lee (BSPFE)
Michael Malul (BSMGT)
Robert Miller (MSCS)
Alexander Roan (BSME)
William Woodworth (BSMGT)
Brian Huff (MSAE)
William Bonn (BSPUPB)
David Ford (BSSTC)
Casey Gramling (BSBIO)
Timothy Guglielmo (BSEE)
Matthew Hickey (BSME)
Gregory Johnson (BSIE)
Michael Lawson (BSIE)
Steven Marcelle (BSMGT)
William Mateker (BSMSE)
Nigel Orr (BSBC)
Garad Soderman (BSME)
James Taylor (BSIE)
Whitney Haller (MSHS)
Laurie Reed (BSMGT)
Michael Boyce (MSHCI)
Bradley Hamilton (BSMGT)
Christopher Wood (BSMGT)
Kimberly Wu (BSBCHM)
Christina Demichelis (BSMGT)
Emily Hedberg (BSMGT)
Agatha Kwasnik (BSBMED)
Lisa Pucci (BSMGT)
Lauren Barnes (BSSTC)
Amanda McDowell (BSINTA)
Mellany Stanislaus (BSBIO)
Degree Legend:
BS(MS)AE Aerospace Engineering
BSBC Building Construction
BSBCHM Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
BSBIO Biology
BSBMED Biomedical Engineering
BSCE Civil Engineering
BSEE Electrical Engineering
BSHTS History, Technology, and Society
BSIE Industrial Engineering
BSINTA International Affairs
BS(MS)ME Mechanical Engineering
BSMGT Management
BSMSE Materials Science and Engineering
BSPFE Polymer & Fiber Engineering
BSPUBP Public Policy
BSSTC Science, Technology, and Culture
MSCS Computer Science
MSHCI Human-Computer Interaction
MSHS Health Systems
May 20th, 2010
4:25 pm
May 20th, 2010
4:26 pm
BSmgt must be a tuff one.
May 20th, 2010
4:30 pm
MGT is the business school, which is ranked ahead of UGA's "flagship" Terry School of Business.
May 20th, 2010
4:32 pm
superDawg you wouldn't have made it through the first semester.
May 20th, 2010
4:32 pm
cheerleading,dance,trainers,my word.
May 20th, 2010
4:32 pm
Leave it to the UGA fan to insult earning a degree.
May 20th, 2010
4:33 pm
May 20th, 2010
4:35 pm
Wrong lizellanerd.
May 20th, 2010
4:38 pm
Obviously superDawg hasn't paid attention to the cheerleaders or dance much and has no idea what it takes. Likewise, managers and trainers work as hard as the athlete win no recognition. Oh well, consider the source I guess.
May 20th, 2010
4:41 pm
I have two degrees and a masters in being a tech hater.
May 20th, 2010
4:43 pm
You have to take a full year of calculus to earn a BSMgt at Tech. Hardly a cake walk.
May 20th, 2010
4:44 pm
superDAWG is in a trailer in Athens eating pork rinds, watching daytime television, stealing wifi from the local McDonalds. His rants are in between trips to the toilet.
May 20th, 2010
4:46 pm
To all the graduates good luck in life.Being a tech alumn watching UGA stomp your pathetic pj coached football team will always haunt you.
May 20th, 2010
4:50 pm
haha actually I'm in a very nice home on a private lake enjoying life.Good luck with yours.
May 20th, 2010
4:55 pm
superDawg where are you going to relocate when they close the mental institution in Milledgeville….back to the outhouse in Inbredville I assume..until ugay wins anythingof magnitude besides the shreveport bowl, you really need to F@#K OFF
May 20th, 2010
4:56 pm
Nice to see Wimbush come back and finish his degree. Congrats Recardo!!!! Challenge '99.
May 20th, 2010
4:57 pm
Read it and weep superdawgbreath
GT 26th, UGA 59th
May 20th, 2010
5:07 pm
Hooray for all the grads. All of us who have graduated from GT know it can be tough. Remember, the words of PJ, "If someone is giving you a hard time punch them in the nose." Additionally, you can take pride in knowing you are most likely that person's boss!
May 20th, 2010
5:17 pm
me thinks some Tech envy is showing through, huh supermutt??…..sorry, we can't all go to Tech!
Go Jackets!!
May 20th, 2010
5:19 pm
Much success to all the grads. Any bets on superDawg having to wipe the Cheetos orange off the keyboard?
May 20th, 2010
5:24 pm
As some have already noted, Tech's business school has a better national ranking than UGA's does.
The MGT degree at Tech is very operations and technology driven. Its not retail, sales, or hospitality oriented at all.
I'm quite happy with my GT MGT degree and its corresponding six digit salary. *wink*
May 20th, 2010
5:26 pm
thats 54 bosses for thuga grads!!!!!
May 20th, 2010
5:53 pm
Here are the requirements for the 1st year. In the interest of brevity, I've left out the hard stuff, years 2 – 4. Sorry about the all-caps; it's from the web site, verbatim.
Bachelor of Science in Management
College of Management
Suggested Schedule FIRST YEAR-FALL
MATH 1501 CALCULUS I or MATH 1712 SURVEY OF CALCULUS
HIST 2111 or 2112 or POL 1101 or PUBP 3000 or INTA 1200
MATH 1502 CALCULUS II or MATH 1711 FINITE MATHEMATICS
COMPUTING REQUIREMENT 3 HRs
May 20th, 2010
6:21 pm
Come on, people, don't let a fool like superDawg get under your skin. The last time he was in a classroom was sixth grade, when he was already 16 and driving a tractor to school. Look, he can't even spell dog right.
What more do you expect from a fire hydrant-wetting, slobbering, furniture-lovemaking dimwit?
May 20th, 2010
6:58 pm
30 – 24
May 20th, 2010
7:08 pm
Unlike other schools, its pretty hard to earn a degree from Tech. Congrats to all and welcome to the Alumni family.
May 20th, 2010
7:38 pm
Big thumbs up to Recardo Wimbush.
May 20th, 2010
7:45 pm
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!….BSMGT means that one day these scholars…..Phhhfffffttt, will be selling meth on the streets of Atl!……..Have you heard these guys actually try to speak real English?…….Ebonics is not a recognized language!…….Niether is mumbling in front of the tv cam!
May 20th, 2010
7:48 pm
The RHODES SCHOLORSHIP is one of the (if not the) most prestigious scholarships awarded in America.
Only 3 schools from the ACC have more students who have been awarded this scholarship than the UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.(16) They are Virginia, Duke and North Carolina.
Every school in the SEC has more winners of the RHODES SCHOLARSHIP than Georgia Tech (3), except Mississippi State (1) and Auburn (3).
All schools from the SEC have had at least one student win a RHODES SCHOLARSHIP, while the ACC has two schools that have never produced a RHODES SCHOLAR (Clemson and NC State)
Georgia Tech fans and students like to brag about how good their school is, #5 Engineering School?
#1 Stanford (82)
#3 University of Cal- Berkley (22)
#4 Cal Tech (6)
#5 Georgia Tech (3)
It is interesting to see what a huge drop-off there is between the #3 best engineering school and the #5. Why can't Georgia Tech produce more RHODES SCHOLORS?, MIT has 36! GT only a pitiful 3!
May 20th, 2010
7:50 pm
Please excuse the SCHOLARSHIP typo, or secretary Graduate from Georgia Tech.
May 20th, 2010
7:53 pm
our secretary graduated from Georgia Tech, he is very good at math.
May 20th, 2010
7:57 pm
To the Muttlanders in attendance, we all want to win THE BIG GAME! We have always wanted to win it, it's just this last time, your ilk finally admitted it was just as important to you. Props to you. You have scoreboard. However, it's much more important to win in life and a degree from Tech gives you a competitive advantage. Therein lies the difference between the two fan bases. If the Muttlanders win, they have nothing else on thier shingle.
May 20th, 2010
8:09 pm
People who go to GT are wanna-be engineers who could not get into Stanford or MIT or the University of California, or they are people who just never wanted to move out of their mothers basement.
May 20th, 2010
8:23 pm
To earn a degree from GT is quite an accomplishment. My two best friends from HS, at least a quarter of my graduating HS class, and my Dad (UG and Masters) went to Tech. I will attest my two friends had to study way, waaaay harder than I did in the mid 80s. I'm sure UGA is a lot tougher today than when I attended, but I'm very sure Tech is still much more difficult than UGA.
It takes a lot of discipline to do what these scholar athletes have achieved. Good luck to them, and I'm sure they will be successful. A Tech degree does carry some weight!
See y'all 'tween the hedges in November.
May 20th, 2010
8:32 pm
What a great accomplishment this is compared to the joke located fifty miles to the east of Atlanta.
Way to go, folks!
May 20th, 2010
8:51 pm
Ugh, the Rhodes Scholarship is a liberal arts award. Stanford and UC Berkley are not engineering only like GT and CalTech, and MIT also has a sizable liberal arts program.
UGA is a massive liberal arts school roughly 20 times the size of GT's Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Realistically, if the two schools were similar in academics, UGA should have close to 60 Rhodes scholars, since GT has three.
May 20th, 2010
8:56 pm
SuperDAWG, too bad that the Masters in Tech Hating is the only one you use. Also MIT Grad– location, location, location, has nothing to do with mother's basement. Home state of the schools you mentioned are way to liberal!!!! I think even SuperDAWG will agree to that.
May 20th, 2010
9:04 pm
Congrats to the graduates. Way to go Ricardo!
May 20th, 2010
9:07 pm
SuperDawg, you are one piece of redneck trash! I wish a garbage truck would pick you up, but I'd much rather you stick around to see CPJ steamroll your almighty Dawgs. To Hell with you and your team.
May 20th, 2010
9:11 pm
Did any of the football players who played graduate? Thought so!! HA !!
May 20th, 2010
9:36 pm
I am a UGA grad with a business school degree that went to GA Tech my first year and majored in Management. The core courses were very much the same except the science classes at Tech were harder. I was a student/athlete at GA Tech my first year and that was tough. Both schools are great in their respective fields, Engineering and Liberal Arts.
Congrats to the GA Tech student/athletes for earning their degree from a great school. Any college athlete that graduates in 4-5 years should be very proud, especially from a great academic school as Tech.
In this day and age, a student/athlete that actually graduates should be commended since a majority of them only care about athletics.
Congrats to Recardo Wimbush for coming back and graduating. His parents must be proud.
On another note. I wish for just one day that BOTH UGA and GA Tech fans wouldn't go on the others blogs and bash each other when something good happens for another school. BOTH sets of fans are guilty. It is not even football season yet. Let everyone enjoy the good times that the players are having.
CONGRATS GA Tech student/athlete graduates!! You now have something that can never be taken away from you.
May 20th, 2010
9:51 pm
I see you Techtards are at it again, trying to live vicariously through the student athletes at Yech, "Ohh lookie, our athletes are superior to your UGA athletes because they graduate from Tech."
What a bunch of crap. For the majority of the football players, do you morons really think they would have qualified to the school unless they were athletes first?? Like someone earlier already posted, ebonics is the first language for these "student" athletes.
Like any of you really care anyway. Unless you are a friend of, or related to any of the above mentioned athletes, the only reason you NERDS even bring this up is to act like youre above everyone else.
Your athletes are no smarter than any other fan base's, on the average. Now on the playing field, your teams SUCK. It's all good though. That's what most of you nerds enjoy doing the most anyway, sucking!
May 20th, 2010
10:04 pm
DOGBOI'S, go forth and PISSS ON your own blog.
May 20th, 2010
10:13 pm
Did Rachel Maddow go to UGAg?
She's a RHODES SCHOLAR.
May 20th, 2010
10:16 pm
Douche bag JIMMY, went to U of HOUSTON and says "your teams SUCK"….BHHHWWAHAHAAHAHAAHAHA!!!!!!
Do they still have a football program?
May 20th, 2010
10:16 pm
and how does a dogboi define suck, since you use that as your vocabulary of preference………
I know your dictionary has a few words in it besides body functions….
May 20th, 2010
10:17 pm
"Did any of the football players who played graduate? Thought so!! HA !!"
Here is the information————-
Georgia Tech had only 4 seniors on the 3-deep roster last year:
Sedrick Griffin – Starting LB – is on the list in this blog
Brad Sellers – Starting OT – is completing his BSCE
Cord Howard – Starting OG – is in the NFL
Dan Voss – 2nd team C – is still in school
3 players on the 3-deep for 2010 have already graduated-listed above:
Robert Hall – Starting DE (injured in Game 3, 2009)
Zack Krish – 2nd team OL in 2009
Osahon Tongo – 2nd team DE in 2009
May 20th, 2010
10:26 pm
Ramble On,
Don't sit there and act like youre football royalty. My Coogs will be ranked higher at the end of the season than your team will, trust me.
Our defense isn't so great, but yours is worse. If the teams played, we would win something like 49 – 38. Of course Tech would never play a team like UH. Too scared. People love to run down the non BCS teams, of course it strikes me odd that the big boys will never schedule them.
At least I give credit to teams like Okie St, UCLA, Texas Tech, oh and Missy St.-whom both of our teams beat last year by a TD.
May 20th, 2010
10:33 pm
Conference USA…BHHAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!
…what a Douchebag.
May 20th, 2010
10:36 pm
2 games over .500 in the 2000's. CONFERENCE USA!!!
Check out the 1990's, OUCH, OMG (there should have been a mercy killing)!!!
How did you like the 90's there Jimmy–what's that, you weren't born yet?
Jimmy, is a douchebag.


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Caldwell made the commitment in an effort to encourage others to commute on bikes and embrace an active lifestyle. It is also a way to celebrate the nearly $100,000 grant the city received to implement active transportation corridors.
The mayor said by riding his bike to work he is letting his actions speak louder than his words.
"I think with some good, careful planning and some other things I should be able to make it work in just about any weather condition that confronts us," Caldwell said. "I'm far more afraid of automobiles and people distracted driving than anything the weather will throw at me."
Studies show that people are happier the less time they spend in their cars and feel more connected with their community, he said, adding that as the population of the Wasatch Front continues to grow, the habit of solo-driver commuting is not sustainable.
Caldwell's roughly five-mile trip from home to office takes 25 to 30 minutes, depending on the weather.
"It really doesn't take that much more time to do and when you get to the office you feel so much better and invigorated and it's a nice way to end the day, too," he said. "Work kind of stays at work and you're ready to be with the family and do some other things."
Severe weather, however, will slow Caldwell down. He walks down icy hills and uses his slower mountain bike with large snow tires in snowy conditions. Some days are just too icy or cold for novice bikers, he acknowledged. Caldwell said he's been "passionately losing bike races for over 30 years" and has commuted to work on his bike at different times throughout his life. At one point he used to commute to Salt Lake City from Ogden.
Caldwell started a twitter account, @OgdenCityMayor, where he will post his exploits. He is going to tweet bike commuting tips and his experiences commuting as well as videos from a GoPro camera he will put on his handlebars.
Carolyn Szczepanski, director of communications for the League of American Bicyclists, said a mayor riding to work can be influential.
"It has a lot of prominence and a lot of sway not only with the community but with elected officials on the city council and with engineers," Szczepanski said. "That's a huge asset to the community and we're trying to get as many elected officials on bikes as we possibly can."


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Categories > Original > Romance > Fallen Angel?
Horse Shit0 Reviews
Rated for language mostly
The balm, whatever the hell it was, had kept the water and salt out of my tattoo, so it was the same slightly healed skin as it had been before we'd gone into the water. Morgan said the balm was short of a miracle. Supposedly, if you use it every day, it can heal you three times as fast.
Yep. Guess who's getting the miracle cream later. All my powers of amazing girliness will go to getting it.
God, why did I just feel so evil? I shook the feeling as Andy stirred next to me, muttering something about Adele.
He'd heard the whole 21 album, do to Morgan's fanboy party for one. I swear, the boy even has Adele manties. Andy rolled over right onto me, still asleep.
Not that I minded, but he was kinda heavy. I bit my lip on a giggle as he held onto me tightly. He's so cute when he sleeps.
Like, cuter than he is awake.
If that's possible.
Is it?
My mind was having a conversation with itself.
Is that not a sign of insanity?
Shut up. You're just jealous.
Yep. Jealous that I get to be out here with him and you don't.
Ummmm......You realize we're the same person, right?
Nah. We can't be. You're to annoying.
What does that say about you?
Fuck off.
Only if I get to fuck Andy.
My cheeks burned at the thought. I must have made a noise or something, because Andy moved again and woke up on top of me.
He gasped and pushed off of me quickly. "God sorry! Are you okay?" he murmured quickly. I nodded.
Better than okay. "Yeah, I'm fine. It's a good thing Morgan or Steve didn't walk in just then, huh? Neither of us would be okay." I laughed, fighting down my inner voice that just had the urge to make me say the dumbest things I can in front of him.
He chuckled and leaned closer to me. Our lips barely brushed as the door banged open. We jumped in shock, causing me to fall right off the bed.
"Oh shit!" Andy pulled me back up to the warm spot I'd just left. "Are you okay? Again." Thankfully, Steve was juggling a giant pot so he hadn't seen anything.
"Yes. What the hell?" I looked at Steve with a hard gaze.
"Come on. Breakfast is nearly ready!" he turned and walked back out.
"Is that the only thing he wanted to say?" Andy asked, sitting up and looking at the door. I shrugged.
"He's a man of few words." I shrugged again and stood up. "Come on. It looked like he was making Horse Shit!" I danced to the door and looked back at Andy on the bed, who's face was twisted.
"Horse.....shit?" he murmured, gagging slightly.
"Yeah!" I said brightly. "We usually had it when I would stay the night after work. Best shit I've ever had in the morning."
"You eat shit?" he looked at me in confusion. I nodded and pulled him to his feet.
"Now come on. You're gonna like eating this shit." He dug his heels into the carpet slightly, but I was still able to pull him out and into the kitchen. "Sit."
He made a face and sat at the island as I grabbed bowls and spoons. "Some shit, if you will." I held the bowls out to Steve, who smiled and dumped a big spoonful of 'shit' into each. "Thank you." I murmured sharply and stuck a spoon into one of the thick mounds.
I slid it across the island's smooth counter so it would sit in front of Andy. Our eyes met and I lifted a pile into my mouth. The sweet chocolate sent my mouth into a mosh pit, the heat slamming around my cheeks.
"Eat." Steve said sternly, taking a bite out of his own bowl. Morgan was scooping himself some, but still nodded enthusiastically to Andy.
Under the pressure of our eyes, he sighed and lifted a half empty spoon to his mouth. His lips trembled slightly but parted, allowing the spoon to enter his mouth.
The perfect red lips closed over the spoon and his eyes snapped open. "It's not shit!!!" he shouted, his small laugh making me smile.
In truth, Horse Shit is melted milk chocolate, brownie bits all broken up, broken up double chocolate chip cookies and M&Ms. It was the breakfast of sugar addicts and superheros everywhere.
Just kidding! It's only know in our family, and we never, ever ever ever share it. I bit the inside of my cheek as I stirred the rest of my shit around.
Stella had named it. She used to ride horses and, of course, clean up the stables. The first time Steve had made it, she'd come home and said 'Why the hell is there horse shit in this bowl?!'
The name just stuck. A tear fell from my nose into the thick brown mixture. I wiped my face roughly, the movement causing the skin over my shoulders to tighten and burn in pain slightly.
She would be on my back. Along with Jasmine. Forever.
Andy's hand closed around mine, making me look up. He smiled down at me slightly and kissed my forehead.
"Steve, isn't that mom's car out front?" Morgan asked, his voice cutting the sweet air Andy and I were generating between ourselves to claw at my ears.
"Mom?! Mine or yours?" I jumped up, shoving Andy a little.
"Yours. Wh.....?" Steve's question trailed off as he looked at me.....next to Andy. "Oh....." he looked back out the window. "Yep. We're boned."
I looked quickly around as a knock sounded from the first floor, followed by the opening of the back door. "Destiny? Steve?"
I blanched as Mom's voice drifted up to us. Morgan, Steve and I pushed our heads together quickly. "How do we explain him?" I whispered quickly.
"He's.....Morgan and my long lost cousin?" Steve murmured, unsure of his plan.
"No! He's your new apprentice. She'll believe that a lot more."
"But she's never seen him in town! She'll never buy that." I hissed.
"She might!" Morgan said defensively. Her heels were clicking on the tiles of the floor, coming around to the stairs.
"Shit! There's not time. Okay, apprentice it is!" we broke apart and took our places around the room.
"Up here, Mom!" I shouted quickly. I held my breath as thick, bouncy black hair came into sight.
~sigh~ Had a long night. I've been working on this since last weekend, so you better love me Xp
So................theres this. Enjoy, R+R and all that good Horse Shit.
Oh! Speaking of Horse Shit, I encourage you all to try making it! You can actually use chocolate syrup instead of melting chocolate, but, whatever floats your shit boat........ ~waves hand~
Hugs and Blinds,


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Rare Antique Smith & Phillips Fenix Toiletry Set Chamber Pot and More Circa 1900 Rare Antique Smith & Phillips Fenix Toiletry Set Chamber Pot and More Circa 1900 This "complete" nine (9) piece toiletry set includes a water pitcher and bowl, lidded chamber pot, covered soapdish, hot water pitcher, brush holder and mug. Each piece is beautifully hand crafted in a white and blue semi-porcelain finish, adorned with gold flowers. The overall condition of this collection is very good, and all defects at listed as follows (measurements are approximations): * The water pitcher is in excellent condition and stands 11 1/2 inches tall and 5 1/2 inches wide at the lip. * The wash bowl is in very good condition and is 16 1/2 inches wide and 4 1/2 inches deep. 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Impatience Linked To Lower Credit Scores
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NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (UPI) — U.S. researchers say there may be a psychological reason why people default on their mortgages — that is, they may be more impatient.
Stephan Meier of the Columbia Business School and Charles Sprenger of Stanford University, while working at the Federal Reserve's Center for Behavioral Economics and Decisionmaking in Boston, recruited 437 low-to-moderate income people at a community center in Boston that offered tax preparation help.
Each participant was given a questionnaire that featured choices between a smaller, immediate reward and a larger reward to be received in the future. The participants agreed to let researchers access their FICO credit scores.
The study, scheduled to be published in the Psychological Science, found participants who were the most willing to delay rewards and exhibited more patience had FICO scores that were approximately 30 points higher than those of participants who were least willing to delay.
The study found the impatient participants fell below the subprime lending cutoff of 620 — a level at which individuals generally face substantially elevated borrowing rates.
"Conceptually, it does make sense that how people discount the future, i.e. how impatient they are, affects their decision to default on their loans," Meier says.
However, defaulting on a loan isn't always a deliberate choice. People may default for a variety of reasons, such as when they lose their job, the study authors added.


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Rurouni Kenshin (2012) Review
Country: Japan
Genre: Historical
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My Thoughts: If you're a fan of manga or anime you've probably heard of Rurouni Kenshin, since its a classic. Even though I never read/or watched it, I knew what the basic premise was and I was surprised to hear that they made a movie. Anyway, I decided to give it a chance and in the end I was really pleased with this film. The characters were portrayed really well and they were fun to watch. My favorite was the title character, Kenshin. He had a really cute and aloof side to him but he also had a lot of skeletons in his closet. It was almost as if he could become a different person when the circumstances allowed and I loved that. And him saying "Oro" was just so cute. (Watch the film to get what I'm referencing here lol) Another thing I enjoyed was the juxtoposition of the feudal era and the coming of the 20th century. While many were still wearing kimonos, others started dressing in western attire. Also, the whole samurai system was becoming less prominent and swords were replaced with guns and mechanical inventions. I thought that contrast was very realistically rendered and presented. The only thing I did not like about this movie was how weak the female character were. I know every film can't have a strong female kicking ass but I think in a historical/martial arts type of film there should be at least ONE. For example, there was one scene where the villain was just beating on a female character and I though "Ugh, look at this crap!" And then I just began to imagine how shitty it most of been for women back during they time period. There were probably way more rapes, and crimes against women. So, I'm just tired of the whole damsel in distress thing so I want more from the leading ladies~ Lastly, the ending was very beautifully shot and joyful, and the camera panned to capture the emotions and reactions on every one of the characters' face. I really liked how all of the characters, at first seemed like misfits or incompatible, eventually formed a sort of team and family.
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The National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, is a national institution of culture, one of the largest museums in Poland and the largest in Warsaw. It comprise a rich collection of ancient art, counting about 11.000 pieces, an extensive gallery of Polish painting since the 16th century and a collection of foreign painting.
The museum is also home to numismatic collections and a gallery of applied arts. The National Museum in Warsaw was established on 20 May 1862, as the "Museum of Fine Arts, Warsaw", and in 1916 renamed "National Museum, Warsaw" (with the inclusion of collections from museums and cultural institutions such as the Society of Care for Relics of the Past, the Museum of Antiquity at Warsaw University, the Museum of the Society for Encouragement of the Fine Arts, and the Museum of Industry and Agriculture).


text: Description Suggest an Edit The 11-mile Capital Crescent Trail follows the route of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Georgetown Branch rail line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. It begins in Silver Spring, Maryland, east of the Rock Creek Trestle and curves westward and south through Maryland into Washington, D.C., to end in the heart of historic Georgetown.For the 7 miles between Georgetown and Bethesda, the Capital Crescent Trail is paved, and much of it includes an adjacent gravel trail for joggers. Between Bethesda and Lyttonsville (3 miles), the trail is surfaced with crushed stone; this segment is called the Georgetown Branch. From Lyttonsville the Georgetown Branch Trail continues for 2 miles as an on-road bike route into downtown Silver Spring. Future plans call for creating a hard surface alongside the proposed Purple Line light rail between Bethesda and downtown Silver Spring, where the Capital Crescent will connect to the Metropolitan Branch Trail.The asphalt section of the trail connects Georgetown to Bethesda. In Georgetown, the trail travels with the Potomac River on one side and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park towpath on the other side. From the trail, you can watch the rowing crews of Georgetown University at practice or possibly jog past a senator. Deer, foxes, rabbits, many species of birds and the three different color phases of ubiquitous local squirrels—white, grey and black—also share the trail.In Georgetown near Thompsons Boat Center and in west Silver Spring at Jones Mill Road, the trail connects to Rock Creek Park, a densely forested area that closes its roads to car traffic on weekends and becomes a playground for non-motorized uses. The loop of the Capital Crescent and Rock Creek Park totals 22 miles and takes you past the National Zoological Park and the Kennedy Center.In Silver Spring, Bethesda and Georgetown there are a number of places just off the trail to have a meal or a cup of coffee, as well as a large number of shops. Click to read more Parking and Trail Access To reach the Silver Spring terminus from Washington's Capital Beltway (Interstate 495), take the Georgia Ave. exit and head south toward Silver Spring. Turn right on Colesville Road toward the Metro station. At the first light, turn right onto Second Ave. The Georgetown Branch Trail starts at this intersection. To start in Bethesda, take the Capital Beltway to the MD Route 355 (Wisconsin Ave.) exit and head south toward Bethesda. In downtown Bethesda, turn right onto Bethesda Ave. The trail crosses Bethesda Ave. at Woodmont Ave., just one block west of Wisconsin Ave. To begin in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, go south on Wisconsin Ave. to its end under the Whitehurst Freeway and turn right onto Water Street. The trail begins at the end of Water Street. Street parking is usually available along water Street on weekends. Click to read more Reviews Soccer/Biking Weekend June, 2014 by ltucker111 My nephew was playing in a soccer tournament in Potomac so we looked for a trail in the area and found the Capital Crescent. We started in downtown Georgetown along the old C&O locks. Diverted over Key Bridge for breakfast the returned to the trail for ...read more A Capital Trail June, 2014 by heochief Rode this trail last week from Bethesda to Georgetown. The trail is paved and where it is not it is smooth riding. A commuter path for the locals; as many riders/runners access the trail to run or bike to work. Heavy traffic at times but was well spaced ...read more Commute Artery for Bikes June, 2013 by jlodge Well maintained, paved heavily wooded trek through Northwest DC area. You have no idea you are in the middle of a major urban area. Connects with C&O towpath trail, Rock Creek trail and DC Riverwalk paths and trail. read more


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Alternative methodologies in studies on business failure: do they produce better results than the classic statistical methods?
AbstractOver the last 35 years, the topic of company failure prediction has developed to a major research domain in corporate finance. Academic researchers from all over the world have been developing a gigantic number of corporate failure prediction models, based on various types of modelling techniques. Besides the classic cross-sectional statistical methods, which have produced numerous failure prediction models, researchers have also been using several alternative methods for analysing and predicting business failure. To date, a clear overview and discussion of the application of alternative methods in corporate failure prediction is still lacking. Moreover, frequently, different designations or names are used for one method. Therefore, this study aims to provide a clear overview of the alternative research methods, attributing each of them a fixed designation. More in particular, this paper extensively elaborates on the most popular methods of survival analysis, machine learning decision trees and neural networks. Furthermore, it discusses several other alternative methods, which can be considered to have a certain value added in the empirical literature on business failure: the fuzzy rules-based classification model, the multi-logit model, the CUSUM model, dynamic event history analysis, the catastrophe theory and chaos theory model, multidimensional scaling, linear goal programming, the multi-criteria decision aid approach, rough set analysis, expert systems and self-organizing maps. This paper discusses the main features of these methods and their specific assumptions, advantages and disadvantages and it gives an overview of a number of academically developed corporate failure prediction models. Several issues viewed in isolation by earlier studies are here considered together, which is of major importance for gaining a clear insight into the possible alternative methods of corporate failure modelling and their corresponding features. A second aim of this paper is to find an answer to the question whether the more sophisticated, alternative modelling methods produce better performing failure prediction models than the rather simple classic statistical methods. The analysis of the conclusions of a large number of empirical studies comparing the classification results and/or the prediction abilities of failure prediction models based on different techniques seems to indicate that we may question the benefits to be gained from using the more sophisticated alternative methods.
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- Neophytou, E. & Charitou, A. & Charalambous, C., 2001. "Predicting Corporate Failure: Empirical Evidence for the UK," Papers 01-173, University of Southampton - Department of Accounting and Management Science.
- Frydman, Halina & Altman, Edward I & Kao, Duen-Li, 1985. " Introducing Recursive Partitioning for Financial Classification: The Case of Financial Distress," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 40(1), pages 269-91, March.
- Shumway, Tyler, 2001. "Forecasting Bankruptcy More Accurately: A Simple Hazard Model," The Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 74(1), pages 101-24, January.
- Teija Laitinen & Maria Kankaanpaa, 1999. "Comparative analysis of failure prediction methods: the Finnish case," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(1), pages 67-92.
- Neophytou, E. & Molinero, C.M., 2001. "Predicting Corporate Failure in the UK: A Multidimensional Scaling Approach," Papers 01-172, University of Southampton - Department of Accounting and Management Science.
- Kahya, Emel & Theodossiou, Panayiotis, 1999. " Predicting Corporate Financial Distress: A Time-Series CUSUM Methodology," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 13(4), pages 323-45, December.
- Dimitras, A. I. & Zanakis, S. H. & Zopounidis, C., 1996. "A survey of business failures with an emphasis on prediction methods and industrial applications," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 90(3), pages 487-513, May.
- Kaiser, Ulrich, 2001. "Moving in and out of financial distress: evidence for newly founded service sector firms," ZEW Discussion Papers 01-09, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research.
- Molinero, C Mar & Ezzamel, M, 1991. "Multidimensional scaling applied to corporate failure," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 19(4), pages 259-274.
- Yang, Z. R. & Platt, Marjorie B. & Platt, Harlan D., 1999. "Probabilistic Neural Networks in Bankruptcy Prediction," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 44(2), pages 67-74, February.
- Yochanan Shachmurove, 2002. "Applying Artificial Neural Networks to Business, Economics and Finance," Penn CARESS Working Papers 5ecbb5c20d3d547f357aa1306, Penn Economics Department.
- Cecilio Mar-Molinero & Carlos Serrano-Cinca, 2001. "Bank failure: a multidimensional scaling approach," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(2), pages 165-183.
- Altman, Edward I., 1984. "The success of business failure prediction models : An international survey," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 8(2), pages 171-198, June.
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- Alessandra Amendola & Marialuisa Restaino & Luca Sensini, 2013. "Corporate Financial Distress And Bankruptcy: A Comparative Analysis In France, Italy And Spain," Global Economic Observer, "Nicolae Titulescu" University of Bucharest, Faculty of Economic Sciences;Institute for World Economy of the Romanian Academy, vol. 1(2), pages 131-142, November.
- Niemann, Martin & Schmidt, Jan Hendrik & Neukirchen, Max, 2008. "Improving performance of corporate rating prediction models by reducing financial ratio heterogeneity," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 434-446, March.
- Aaro Hazak & Kadri Männasoo, 2007. "Indicators of corporate default : an EU based empirical study," Bank of Estonia Working Papers 2007-10, Bank of Estonia, revised 04 Sep 2007.
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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation and Choice in Wireless Communications
AbstractProposals to increase regulation of mobile wireless services, for example, by applying net neutrality" regulation, are often based on claims that such regulation would enhance innovation and increase consumer choice. In fact, they would have the opposite effect. The business practices that would be banned by such regulation are efficient mechanisms for spreading and reducing risk, lowering transactions costs, and enhancing marketing activities, all of which contribute to innovation and choice. Moreover, product differentiation increases competition and thus contributes both directly and indirectly to consumer choice. While some types of exclusive agreements and other discriminatory" practices can theoretically harm competition, the precondition for such harm to occur i.e., market power in one or more of the affected markets generally is not present in wireless markets. Hence, the proposed regulations cannot be justified on grounds of market failure. Rather than increasing innovation and consumer choice, as promised, they would severely disrupt the wireless sector's highly successful business model and significantly reduce innovation and consumer choice.
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The game surely lived up to its billing, and 60 minutes just wasn't enough to end this latest installment of Rangers-Islanders. After regulation and three minutes of overtime went scoreless, Derick Brassard fed Dan Girardi with a gorgeous backhand pass that the defenseman buried top-shelf over Evgeni Nabokov's stick. Henrik Lundqvist finished with 29 saves to record his first shutout of the season.
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