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Rage. Probably political rage. Maybe just personal rage. Lots of sarcasm and cynicism. Also pretty pictures.
How about increase the teachers' salaries (which is in this budget) but don't cut the 3000 filled positions/jobs (600+ are vacant positions for 180+ days) and forget about the corporate tax cuts that are already being enjoyed? How do we need more corporate tax cuts in this state? We're already the most Business/Corporate-friendly state in the US. How is eliminating State Jobs good for job creation - i mean, i know public employees are the devil and all, but they are still employed! This is ridiculous. I cannot wait until we can vote you out of office.
Gary Clement's week in review, Dear Abby edition
Political cartoonist Gary Clement takes a look at the week gone by
Was Hitler really a fan of gun control? (Hint: No.)
Fox News simultaneously headlines a negative immigration article on Fox Nation while headlining the exact same topic with a positive connotation on Fox Latino.
(Media Matters) - Fox Nation and Fox News Latino are once again selling different versions of the same story to pander to conservative audiences while simultaneously attempting to court Latino readers.
As reported by the Los Angeles Times, the Obama administration announced Wednesday that it would create an easier process for undocumented immigrants who are relatives of American citizens to apply for permanent residency in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security, which issued the new rule, hopes to reduce the amount of time families spend apart while relatives seek to obtain legal status. The change is set to take effect March 4, and approved applicants will be required to return to their native country to retrieve their visas.
Fox News Latino reported the story with the headline, "US Eases Path to Legalization for Some Immigrants, Keeps Families Together," accompanied by a photo of individuals at a rally for immigration reform (top photo).
The anti-immigrant Fox Nation, on the other hand, posted the Los Angeles Times article with the headline "Obama Begins Amnesty Push" and the (second photo).
If the photo looks familiar, it's because Fox Nation used the same one in a June story attacking the Obama administration's decision to halt deportations of undocumented children.
Fox News Latino has received sharp criticism from Latino leaders who argue that the site lacks credibility, given that it seeks to attract and profit from Latino readers while its parent network and partner websites demonize immigrants.
This dichotomy persists even as Fox News hosts abruptly softened their anti-immigrant positions after the November 6 election, in which Latino voters heavily favored President Obama over Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
House Speaker John Boehner yanked the bill to provide $60 billion in emergency aid to states ravaged by Hurricane Sandy to get back at a top lieutenant who defied him over the Fiscal Cliff fix, Congressional sources said Wednesday.
Boehner was angry, the sources said, when Majority Leader Eric Cantor led the revolt Tuesday by conservative House Republicans against the Fiscal Cliff compromise that wound up being passed later in the day, the sources said.
So rather than let Cantor bring the Sandy aid bill he had hammered out with New York and New Jersey lawmakers to the floor for a vote, Boehner (R-Ohio) pulled rank and tabled it - likely killing the aid package for the current session of Congress, which ends Thursday.
Boehner's decision to pull the bill triggered outrage Wednesday from both Republicans and Democrats in New York and other states devastated by Sandy. They said his decision forces tens of thousands of storm victims to wait even longer for help.
His voice shaking, Rep. Pete King, a Long Island Republican, took to the floor of the House Wednesday morning to launch an extrordinary attack against Boehner, his own political leader.
King called it a "cruel knife in the back" to New York and New Jersey.
Gov. Cuomo, a Democrat, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, issued a joint statement calling the House's inaction a "dereliction of duty."
And at a Manhattan press conference, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said, "Speaker Boehner pulled out the rug from us at the last minute." He added, "This failure to get relief now could be called the Boehner betrayal."
The New York Daily News, "Sources: House Speaker Yanked $60 Billion In Sandy Aid Out of Spite."
Pathetic.(via inothernews)
Last night, the House of Representatives failed that most basic test of public service, and they did so with callous indifference to the suffering of the people of my state. If you want an example of how non-partisan this issue should have been, I offer this for your consideration: near midnight last night, conservative Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California both spoke on the floor in concert with each other in support of (the Hurricane Sandy) aid package. It's one for the record books, I suspect.
On the equities, this one should be a no-brainer for the House Republicans, as well. Both New York and New Jersey used the international firm of McKinsey & Co. to assess and quantify the damage to our states. Our professional staffs have spent countless hours with Congressional staff providing leadership and backup documentation for ALL of the damage claims. Governor Cuomo and I have spent hours and hours speaking to individual members of the House and Senate to answer their questions. We worked with President Obama and his administration to satisfy them of the urgent need of this $60 billion aid package.
This was good enough for 62 United States Senators — of both parties — to vote for this package. This was good enough for a majority of the House of Representatives. It overcame all the factual challenges. It just could not overcome the toxic, internal politics of the House majority.
Finally, New Jersey and New York are perenially among the most generous states in the nation to our fellow states. We vote for disaster relief for other states in need; we are donor states sending much more to Washington D.C. than we ever get back in federal spending. Despite this history of unbridled generosity, in our hour of desperate need, we've been left waiting for help six times longer than the victims of Katrina with no end in sight.
Americans are tired of the palace intrigue and political partisanship of this Congress which places one-upsmanship ahead of the lives of the citizens who sent these people to Washington D.C. in the first place.
New Jerseyans and New Yorkers are tired of being treated like second-class citizens. New York deserves better than the selfishness that we saw displayed last night; New Jersey deserves better than the duplicity we saw on display last night. America deserves better than just another example of the government that has forgotten who they're there to serve, and why.
66 days and counting. Shame on you; shame on Congress.
New Jersey governor CHRIS CHRISTIE, blasting House Speaker and fellow Republican John Boehner over the latter's refusal to vote for Sandy aid.
Christie would later make his anger crystal clear: "All I can tell you is this was the Speaker's decision. His alone."
(via Mediaite)
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) "is signaling that at least one thing will change about his leadership during the 113th Congress: he's telling Republicans he is done with private, one-on-one negotiations with President Obama," The Hill reports.
"During both 2011 and 2012, the Speaker spent weeks shuttling between the Capitol and the White House for meetings with the president in the hopes of striking a grand bargain on the deficit. Those efforts ended in failure, leaving Boehner feeling burned by Obama and, at times, isolated within his conference."
Instead, he'll try to "pass bills through the House that can then be adopted, amended or reconciled by the Senate."
As opposed to …?
Texas Ends Funding of Planned Parenthood, Leaving 1,000s in the Lurch
AUSTIN, Texas (Daily News) — Texas can cut off funding to Planned Parenthood's family planning programs for poor women, a state judge ruled Monday, requiring thousands to find new state-approved doctors for their annual exams, cancer screenings and birth control.
Judge Gary Harger said that Texas may exclude otherwise qualified doctors and clinics from receiving state funding if they advocate for abortion rights.
Texas has long banned the use of state funds for abortion, but had continued to reimburse Planned Parenthood clinics for providing basic health care to poor women through the state's Women's Health Program. The program provides preventive care to 110,000 poor women a year, and Planned Parenthood clinics were treating 48,000 of them.
Planned Parenthood's lawsuit to stop the rule will still go forward, but the judge decided Monday that the ban may go into effect for now. In seeking a temporary restraining order, Planned Parenthood wanted its patients to be able to see their current doctors until a final decision was made.
"We are pleased the court rejected Planned Parenthood's latest attempt to skirt state law," attorney general spokeswoman Lauren Bean said. "The Texas Attorney General's office will continue to defend the Texas Legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
All I can do right now is facepalm.
Republicans Now 100 Percent AWOL From Fiscal Cliff Talks
(Mother Jones) - John Boehner gave up on fiscal cliff negotiations after he was unable to get House Republicans to agree to any proposal at all, even one that he himself had crafted. The fate of the Republic, he said, was now in the Senate's hands. So how is Mitch McConnell handling things?
An aide said Wednesday that McConnell had not been in contact with any top Democrats, including Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the majority leader, during the holiday break….Always cautious, McConnell has kept a decidedly low profile during the last few weeks of political theater in the Capitol….Behind the scenes, he [] helped devise Boehner's Plan B maneuver, which failed to gain enough Republican votes to be brought up in the House. In the aftermath of that defeat, however, McConnell may be unwilling to take on the job of deal-maker. The reasons reflect the pressures that have buffeted his fellow Republicans.
"I cannot emphasize how little a constructive role he will play in this," Democratic strategist Jim Manley, a former top Reid aide, said of McConnell. "He's going to be very reluctant to get involved, and to the extent he does get involved, he's going to move very slowly."
No Republican dares to be associated with a tax increase, including McConnell. Grover Norquist and his blood pledge still control them all. Will this change after January 1, when the conversation is no longer about raising taxes, but about lowering them? That would make sense, but sense is in short supply these days in the GOP caucus. Here's the best quote in the entire story:
"The president made a strategic miscalculation and overreached," said one GOP aide granted anonymity to discuss party strategy. "He could have worked to reach a fair agreement, but instead he picked a fight, poisoned the well, and now we are likely to have a rather unproductive next four years. The decision he made only hurts himself."
The president overreached! He spent an entire year campaigning on letting tax rates go up modestly on the rich, and then, after winning a convincing victory in November he insisted on … letting tax rates go up modestly on the rich. In GOP-land, that constitutes "poisoning the well," and it will now become the official excuse for another four years of bitter obstruction and spittle-flecked conspiracy theories. The whole process took less than two months from start to finish. Happy New Year, everyone.
Two Years Ago, John Boehner promised to be "Laser Focused on Jobs and the Economy" So what has the GOP House been up to?
House Bills passed:
46 Bills on Abortion
113 Bills on Religion
73 Bills on Family Relationships
36 Bills on Marriage
72 Bills on Firearms
604 Bills on Taxation
437 Bills on Govt Investigations
Bills attempted and failed to be passed even by the GOP:
33 attempts to Defund Obamacare…..Failed
15 attempts to Cut Funding for Planned Parenthood……Failed
3 Attempts to Cut Funding for VA Hospitals…….Failed.
GOP blocked bills:
Blocked bill to aid Small Business
Blocked Unemployment extension
Blocked Bank Reform Bills
Blocked Campaign Finance Reform and open Contributions Law
Blocked MULTIPLE Jobs Bills
Blocked Infrastructure Bill
Blocked Ending Tax Breaks for companies that Outsource Jobs
Blocked Wall Street Reform
Blocked Energy Legislation
Blocked Mine Safety Bill
Blocked Oil Spill Liability Cap increase
Blocked Bill to lower Oil Company Tax Breaks
Blocked Bill to impose charging American Oil Companies on Oil achieved in the Gulf
Number of TRUE Jobs Bills even allowed to come to a vote in the House….NONE.
I understand the reflexive establishment posture, which suggests partisan observations are necessarily wrong, but consider recent events: the fiscal talks have broken down because Republicans won't compromise and accept meaningful concessions; the farm bill and the Violence Against Women Act are stuck because Republicans won't vote on them; efforts to reduce gun violence face extremely long odds because Republicans are beholden to the NRA; a U.N. treaty on disabilities was killed because Republicans believed extremist conspiracy theories; the process of filling President Obama's second term cabinet is stalled because of Republican smear campaigns; and another debt-ceiling crisis is underway because Republicans are threatening to hurt Americans on purpose unless Democrats pay a steep ransom.
It's not "both their fault." One side is being reasonable; the other side is being nihilistic. One need not be partisan or biased to see what is plainly true.
Why is Washington Obsessing About the Deficit and Not Jobs and Wages?
It was the centerpiece of the President's reelection campaign. Every time Republicans complained about trillion-dollar deficits, he and other Democrats would talk jobs.
That's what Americans care about — jobs with good wages.
And that's part of why Obama and the Democrats were victorious on Election Day.
It seems forever ago, but it's worth recalling that President Obama won reelection by more than 4 million votes, a million more than George W. Bush when he was reelected — and an electoral college majority of 332 to Romney's 206, again larger than Bush's electoral majority over Kerry in 2004 (286 to 251). The Democratic caucus in the Senate now has 55 members (up from 53 before Election Day), and Republicans have 8 fewer seats in the House than before.
So why, exactly, is Washington back to obsessing about budget deficits? Why is almost all the news coming out of our nation's capital about whether the Democrats or Republicans have the best plan to reduce the budget deficit? Why are we back to showdowns over the deficit?
It makes no sense economically. Cutting the budget deficit — either by reducing public spending or raising taxes on the middle class, or both — will slow the economy and increase unemployment. That's why the so-called "fiscal cliff" is so dangerous.
In the foreseeable future our government has to spend more rather than less. Businesses won't hire because they still don't have enough consumers to justify additional hires. So to get jobs back at the rate and scale needed, government has to be the spender of last resort.
The job situation is still horrendous. Twenty-three million Americans can't find full-time work. Less than 59 percent of the working-age population of the nation is employed, almost the lowest percent in three decades. 4.8 million Americans have been out of work for more than six months. The 40-week average spell of joblessness is almost three times the post-1948 average.
And even those who have jobs are finding it harder to make ends meet. Jobs created since the trough of the recession pay less than jobs that were lost. The median wage is 8 percent below what it was in 2000, adjusted for inflation. And wages are still heading downward: Average hourly earnings in October were 3.1 percent below what they were in October, 2010.
This isn't just an ongoing tragedy for 23 million Americans and their families. It also robs all of us of what these people would produce if they were fully employed – roughly $2 trillion worth of goods and services that won't be created this year.
These folks would also be paying taxes — and they'd require less unemployment insurance, fewer food stamps, and less public assistance than they do now. According to estimates by Bloomberg News, the total cost of those lost tax revenues and the extra social spending is more than twice what taxpayers will shell out this year to pay interest on the federal debt.
In other words, unemployment is hugely expensive. Debt, by contrast, is relatively cheap. The yield on the 10-year Treasury is only about 1.7 percent. Creditors worldwide are willing to lend America money that won't be repaid for a decade at the lowest rate in living memory.
So why are we debating how to cut the deficit when we should be debating how best to use the cheap money we can borrow from the rest of the world to put more Americans to work?
Because too many Democrats inside and outside the Beltway have ingested the deficit cool-aide that the "serious people" on Wall Street have serving for two decades.
And the President has been all too willing to legitimize their deficit obsession by freezing federal salaries, appointing a deficit commission, and, now that the election is over, going back to deficit-speak.
A month after the election Obama was on Bloomberg Television saying business leaders need "a deal on long-term deficit reduction" before they'll increase hiring.
That's just not true. Before they'll increase hiring they need customers.
Rep. Marcia Fudge's choice words for John McCain. (h/t The Daily Show)
This Week in War. A Friday round-up of what happened and what's been written in the world of war and military/security affairs this week. It's a mix of news reports, policy briefs, blog posts and longform journalism. Subscribe here to receive this round-up by email.
- Gaza is celebrating after the end of an eight day conflict between Hamas and Israel, which resulted in 162 Palestinian deaths and 3 Israeli deaths, but the first post-ceasefire violence already claimed a life this morning. Israeli troops shot dead one Palestinian man and wounded nine others along Gaza's border fence. The reports say the incident looks unlikely to jeopardize the ceasefire.
- A set of photos by Mosa'ab Elshamy from inside Gaza during the siege.
- Al Jazeera looks at the social media war between Hamas and Israel.
- Related #longreads piece at Boston Review: Colin Dayan, "How Not to Talk About Gaza."
- Nadim Baba, Al Jazeera English's Gaza correspondent, answered questions in a Reddit AMA.
- Assad's government says that aid to rebels is aid to terrorists, angry at the foreign governments who have acknowledged the opposition.
- The Atlantic on the powerful role children have played in the Syrian revolution.
- Jordan has charged 89 activists with inciting violent revolt.
- A review of two books on extremism in Yemen at the New York Review of Books.
- Protests erupted in Cairo on the anniversary of the fatal protests against SCAF on Mohammed Mahmoud Street.
- After three days of protests, some demonstrators fire-bombed one of Al Jazeera's offices.
- Egyptian president Morsy has assumed new powers, declaring that judiciary system cannot block any of his orders, and ordering the retrial of Mubarak and his top aides for the killing of revolutionary protesters and created a specific new "protection of the revolution" judiciary body to carry out these trials.
- Benghazi police chief Faraj al-Deirsy was killed in front of his home.
- M23 rebels in the Congo have taken the city of Goma, the country's largest and most strategic city. They now vow to take the capital of Kinshasa. The Security Council has backed a resolution calling for sanctions against the M23 rebels and cessation of foreign aid to them.
- Former Sudanese intelligence chief Salah Gosh and a number of top army officers have been arrested over a plot which "targeted the stability of the state and some leaders of the state."
- Simon Allison visits Yida refugee camp in South Sudan, labeled the most difficult refugee camp in the world.
- The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Simone Gbagbo, the wife of former Côte d'Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo, who is already awaiting trial in the Hague. Simone Gbagbo, who was an active campaigner for her husband, is wanted for crimes against humanity following the 2010 elections. [pdf of the actual ICC warrant]
- Amnesty International has released a report condemning the failure of Bahrain to reform, instead ratcheting up the repression of political dissent.
- The death of Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti in custody raises serious questions about the powers granted to Iran's cyber police.
- Iranian opposition leaders Musavi and Karrubi are both in poor health.
- Karzai ordered the takeover of Bagram Prison, accusing Americans of having failed to carry out the agreed-upon transfer of the prison to Afghan control.
- For the Afghan war, five generals in five years (nearly two dozen since late 2001).
- Russia eyes opportunities for cultural outreach in Afghanistan.
- France officially ended its combat operations in Afghanistan on Tuesday when it pulled hundreds of troops from volatile Kapisa province.
- The UN drug agency released a report finding that more land in Afghanistan is being cultivated for poppy growth than last year, the second year of poppy growth expansion. Despite efforts by the Afghan government, the land area devoted to poppies grew by nearly a fifth. [pdf]
- Former US ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, speaks out about his battles with the CIA with regards to the drone program.
- The lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attack which killed more than 160 people, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, was executed in an Indian prison. Kasab was one of ten members of Pakistani group Lashkar e-Taiba who attacked Mumbai's main railway station.
- Colombia's main rebel group, FARC, have announced a Christmas ceasefire that will last until January 20th as part of ongoing peace talks in Cuba.
- Four Southern California men have been arrested in a terror plot.
- The UN Committee Against Torture has adopted General Comment No. 3 which is an authoritative interpretation of the right to redress, and is the first such clarification of this area of international law by a UN body [pdf].
- According to a new report, 70 percent of retired three and four star generals took jobs with defense contractors or consultants.If you would like to receive this round-up as a weekly email, you can sign up through this form, or email me directly at firstname.lastname@example.com
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The Most Dangerous City in the World
On the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the perilous Nyiragongo volcano towers 3470m over the city of Goma. The wildly erratic volcano is one of the most active on the planet, famous for the violent 200-metre-wide lava lake cradled in its vast summit crater, constantly emitting deadly gases and huge geysers of liquid rock. In 1977 and 2002, the volcano spewed deadly molten rock towards the million inhabitants of Goma, killing hundreds, forcing evacuations and destroying homes—but these were just small disturbances compared to what Nyiragongo is capable of unleashing. The volcano has an intricate 'plumbing' system like roots of a tree snaking deep underground, with vents not just at its summit but all around it, and so the threat to Goma is very immediate, and it has been dubbed 'the most dangerous city in the world' by researchers. The question is not if the volcano will erupt, but when. And yet, Nyiragongo is one of the least studied volcanoes in the world, because for the past twenty years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has experienced almost constant warfare. A deeper understanding of Nyiragongo must be gained in order to prevent a catastrophe, but serious research has only begun in the past few years. Until we can predict its activity, the question of when? will haunt scientists and seismologists alike, and will determine the fate of nearly one million people.
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Part two of the award-winning four-part documentary series first broadcast in 1993, examining Margaret Thatcher's eleven years as Prime Minister.
In her second term in office after victory in 1983, Mrs Thatcher's position seemed impregnable. Her conduct of the Falkland's war was popular, she had trounced Arthur Scargill and the striking miners, and had survived the bombing by the IRA of the Grand Hotel in Brighton. But all was not well: Cabinet Secretary Robert Armstrong and ex Chancellor Nigel Lawson are amongst those who recall the emnity between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine. Thatcher thought of him as 'over-poweringly ambitious and self-centred', and his handling of the Westland affair in 1986 only served to increase ill-feeling between the two, which reached its height with his challenge to her leadership in 1990.
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This hotel is quietly located in Oberwolfach. Hotel-Pension Schacher features free Wi-Fi in public areas, a café and an Asian-style spa area with sauna, relaxation room and massages.
Score from 120 reviews Fabulous
This hotel is in the health resort of Lauterbach, in the Black Forest. It offers traditional food and quiet rooms with a balcony, and a shuttle service to Hornberg Train Station.
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Hotel-Gasthof Zum Weyssen RössleScenically situated in the heart of the Black Forest, Hotel-Gasthof Zum Weyssen Rössle is a timber-framed hotel located in Schiltach. It offers a garden, a terrace, and free WiFi access.
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The Gasthof Sonne is located at the marketplace in the historical town of Schiltach, in the heart of the Black Forest Dating back to 1590, this beautiful half-timbered hotel is a listed heritage...
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Micheal, the owner,could not be faulted nothing was too much trouble for him. Food was fantastic. When we return to the Black forest area we would definatly stay here again
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The hotel is in an very good location with a friendly staff. Also the food here tasted amazing, highly recommended to have your dinner here. The beer they serve is Alpirsbach beer which is the best pilsner in the world.
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In the heart of the Black Forest, the Schiltach Guest House, Zur alten Brücke, was a treat. We chose to begin and end our days having a meal with host Michael in the cozy restaurant. The town of Schiltach is beautiful and close to the Open Air Museum in Gutach and Cuckoo Clock Triberg!
Everything! Great staff, comfortable rooms and beds, clean, restaurant is excellent, location superb. Dog is welcome in rooms and restaurant. Breakfasts are immense and fresh, dinners are excellent and many local dishes are served. Village is lovely and picturesque with lots of quirky shops and museums. Third time here and would definitely go back again as consistently awesome.
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Everything. Breakfast brilliant. Beer garden wonderful. Room very comfortable. Above all, everyone involved so welcoming, it felt just like being at home!
Hosts were really welcoming and very attentive. Breakfasts superb with a huge variety of fruit. Evening meals also excellent. Location was lovely - the beer garden alongside the river was really pretty.
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Determining the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution
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Oct19-09, 07:36 PM
Hi all,
I have a stats problem I'm trying to figure out.
Suppose I have a very large population (~millions) of colored balls with exactly 50% red, 30% green, 20% blue. If I take a random sample of 1000 of these balls, the distribution of colors I end up with can be modeled as a multivariate normal distribution, with each dependent variable denoting the number of red, green and blue balls
[r g b].
I can calculate the expected values and variances for each variable:
The means are (obviously): Mu = [500 300 200]
And each variance will be given by, (100-P)*P/n
Where P is the probability of picking a particular color (e.g. 0.5 for red) and n is the sample size, 1000 in this case. Note that this is a valid approximation as long as the population I am sampling is large compared to the sample size.
However, I'm not sure how to determine the covariance matrix. I know the diagonal elements are the variances [edit: should be standard deviations, not variances] of each variable, so that's easy. However, given that the variables must add up to 1000 (r+g+b=1000), and knowing the means and variances of each, shouldn't I be able to use an analytical expression to determine the covariances?
Intuitively, I know that for every extra red ball I pick, this translates to 300/(300+200) probability that there will be one less green ball, and 200/(300+200) probability that there will be one less blue ball, in the final distribution.
What am I missing here? I'm about to perform a Monte Carlo simulation to empirically determine the covariances, but I'm sure there's a neater way!
Thanks in advance!
Oct20-09, 06:32 AM
I will try to rephrase the question in a more general way. I have 3 dependent variables, X, Y and Z. I know their marginal distributions (which are normal) and I know roughly how they move together:
X+Y+Z = constant
and if I increase X, Y will on average decrease by a proportional amount, Y/(Z+Y), and Z will decrease by Z/(Z+Y). I *think* this is the case (see the more detailed formulation above).
Given all this, isn't it possible to calculate the correlations and hence covariances between X, Y and Z?
Oct22-09, 10:16 AM
I'm not sure what you need your model for, so I am not sure what approximations actually make sense, here.
To me this looks like a classic Bernoulli trial problem. I choose N=1000 balls, each with probability .5 of being red, .3 green, and .2 blue. So the probability of getting kr red balls and kg green balls and kb blue balls (with kr+kg+kb=N) should be a multinomial. If you want, you can use the Demoivre-Laplace theorem to approximate this with a multivariate normal distribution, but that will only be accurate for a k within about sqrt(N) or so of the expected value. I don't know your goal of the model, so I don't know if that approximation is useful to you or not. Note that under that approximation you will have a nonzero probability of kr+kg+kb>N (and of kr+kg+kb<0). Of course, your approach will also have a nonzero probability of kr+kg+kb>N (and of kr+kg+kb<0). Why? If you model X,Y, and Z as jointly normal, then X+Y+Z is also normal (you should prove this if you don't already know it), so with this model you cannot impose the hard X+Y+Z=N constraint.
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Determining the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution
You are right. I took it for granted that the normal approximation is valid (it probably is close enough, but your last statement is making me think a little bit...).
My aim was to use the Mahalanobis distance to see if certain data sets were close to a certain model (e.g. in my example here, the model would be the multivariate distribution with means of 50% red, 30% green, 20% blue and the appropriate variances and covariances).
Edit: It's clear to me that the normal approximation is indeed valid, as long as the sample size is large enough. I know that for the bivariate case there are rules of thumb for using the approximation. Not sure how these scale to the multivariate case, but in my example where I'm using n=1000, I would probably have a good approximation regardless of the variables' proportions.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction and for your reply. I really appreciate it!
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Clymer, Pennsylvania If this doesn't make your "what the fuck" meter tremble and break, there isn't much hope anything else will. I respect the work that is performed by those working for the Humane Society. I really do. I hate the commercials and programs that show pictures of injured, neglected, and abused pets. I cannot imagine working with those animals on a daily basis – animals that have no voice – animals that cannot say, "no, I don't want to sex it up with that. Not her. Not again."
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Allow me to back up. I do hope you caught the part about he and his dog.
Yes. Dovie Lee Kerner, a 46-year-old sex goddess, not only got her freak on with a horse, but with the "confidential" informant and his Jack Russel terrier … and a pig. Hold on, he and his dog contracted a sexually transmitted disease from her. You've got it folks. This crazy woman was screwing everything with two – four legs with a dirty snatch.
She deserves as much ridicule as humanly possible but I don't think this guy deserves to get off scott-free. He obviously knew she was letting his dog release his sexual tension, obviously knew about the pig, and for god's sake, he video taped the sex scene with a horse. I don't think his name should be confidential. I think it should be plastered right along with hers and he too, should face charges of animal cruelty. After all, he condoned it until they broke up.
Lovey Dovie is charged with two counts each of obscene and other sexual material and performances and disorderly conduct and one count of sexual intercourse with an animal.
Wait…dogs can get a STD?
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i hope the STD in question is rabies, it would explain a lot.
May 1, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Indiana County Humane Society officials launched an investigation after receiving a call from an informant asking if having sex with animals was legal. I mean – did he think it wasn't?
i think you mean "was" not "wasn't". unless you want to share more about your PETA activities.
and HERD is brilliant!
May 1, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Ok. I have only one thing to say.
May 1, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Ummm… Her name IS "Thinkgoat" absinthe. :D
May 3, 2010 at 12:37 am
I have heard of men gettin it on with animals but i do not think I have heard of women doing that. What is with the dude though? I bet you are right. He got jealous and then decided to turn her in and not because he thought this sh!t was wrong. He obviously did not have problems filming it.
May 4, 2010 at 11:21 pm
If she is single and hot I would fuck her. That shit is sexy.
May 13, 2010 at 9:28 am
Can animals sperm impregnate you?
July 13, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Wow. Is nothing sacred?!?!?
October 27, 2010 at 9:18 am
Wow!!! Brings a whole new light to the concept of animal rescue, dosent it? HOW SICK!!
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Watching "Sex in Space" on the History Channel. Something we may have to think about one day. Interesting!
Finally, my love of cosmetics (nails, in particular) and sexual/romantic rights combine! Great basic nail art design celebrating the overturning of Prop 8!
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How to loop through files in a FolderApril 21st, 2007
Here's a simple routine to loop through all the files in a particular folder. It places all file names in a collection object. You can then do whatever you want with the collection. This particular example lists the file names in column A of the active sheet.
Sub LoopThroughFiles()
Dim strFile As String
Dim strPath As String
Dim colFiles As New Collection
Dim i As Integer
strPath = "D:\TEMP\"
strFile = Dir(strPath)
While strFile <> ""
colFiles.Add strFile
strFile = Dir
'List filenames in Column A of the active sheet
If colFiles.Count > 0 Then
For i = 1 To colFiles.Count
ActiveSheet.Cells(i, 1).Value = colFiles(i)
Next i
End If
End Sub
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Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends (2004-2009) is a CGI-animated series targeted towards preschool audiences that is seen on Nick Jr.. (formerly Noggin) in the United States and Treehouse TV on Canada. The program was briefly removed from Nick Jr. in early 2012, but quickly resurfaced. The series began with the film Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids, which was itself based on a popular series of books by David Kirk. It features the adventures of a spider Mom and Dad and their family of eight children— five spiders and three adopted "buglets" — a dragonfly named Dragon, a jewel beetle named Shimmer and a bedbug named Bounce. Miss Spider is described as being a "fruit spider" and she and her musician husband, Holley, try to teach their children to "Be Good to Bugs."
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Pitcher Marcus Stroman of the Toronto Blue Jays has received a six-game suspension and an undisclosed fine for intentionally throwing a pitch in the head area of Caleb Joseph of the Baltimore Orioles in the bottom of the sixth inning of the Monday, September 15th game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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Puffin: Fratercula arctica
Distribution: North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean; breeding colonies in Britain are mainly on north and west coasts. Well-known colonies on Skomer Island (Pembrokeshire), Bempton on Humberside and Portland Bill in Dorset.
Habitat: Open sea, grassy cliff-tops and islands, boulders at the foot of steep cliffs.
Description: Stocky build, very large triangular bill which is bright red, blue and yellow in the summer. Black and white plumage; orange, webbed feet.
Size: Body:- 30cm; Wing length:- males, 147 - 170mm. Females, 146 - 168mm. Weight:- males, 345 - 488g. Females, 310 - 345g.
Food: Sand eels in summer. Also whitebait or fish larvae.
The puffin's distinctive bill has given it the nicknames of 'sea parrot' and 'bottle nose'. Although it looks a bit like a penguin or a parrot, it is actually related to the auk family - its close, larger relatives being razorbills and guillemots.
Puffin Habits
Daily Life: for most of the year, when not breeding, puffins are to be found bobbing about on the waters of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, often hundreds of kilometres from land. They are found mostly singly or in pairs. The puffin is perfectly adapted to a marine environment; it keeps its feathers waterproof by applying oil, from a gland near its tail, as it preens. To catch food, the puffin dives from the water's surface, using its wings like paddles to 'fly' down to great depths to catch sand eels or other fish. Underwater, a puffin looks to be swimming in a silvery air bubble because the air in the feathers is partly forced out.
The puffin's large beak and mouth has backward pointing spikes which enable it to catch as many as ten small fish one after the other, without swallowing them, and hold them crosswise. In winter the face is darker and the bill rather dull in colour, but they become more colourful in the spring in preparation for the mating season.
Breeding: the puffins return to their breeding colonies in March and April, and to prepare for this they gather in tightly-packed 'rafts' offshore. Here the pairs display to each other, rubbing bills and cooing, before mating and coming ashore to the grassy slopes of their breeding ground. By now, their beaks have become brightly coloured and they have developed a whiter face with a horny blue patch above and below the eye.
A puffin colony sometimes has several thousand pairs. The birds usually pair for life, though they are not necessarily together all year round. The puffins may dig a shallow burrow, about 2 metres long, in the soft turf on cliff tops and islands, or use an old rabbit burrow. They return to the same burrow every year. On land, the pairs strengthen their bond by preening each other and tossing their heads. The males often present the females with gifts of grass or feathers.
A single egg is laid in a chamber at the end of the burrow and both parents take turns to incubate it which take 39 days. The newly hatched chick (or puffling) is covered in dark brown down and has a small black bill. Its parents share the task of feeding it, flying out to sea to catch beakfuls of sand eels. After about 40 days, the chick is deserted and stays in it burrow for 7 - 10 days, without food, whilst its adult feathers develop.
Leaving the burrow is a dangerous time for the young puffin, so it emerges at night to avoid hungry gulls. It cannot yet fly, so it tumbles down the cliff face and swims as far out to sea as possible before daybreak. It then starts learning to fly and fish. The following year, the young puffin returns to the colony, although it does not breed until it is four or five years old.
Off the United Kingdom, there are large puffin colonies in the Outer Hebrides in the north of Scotland, Skomer Island in Pembrokeshire, Bempton on Humberside and Portland Bill in Dorset. The colony on Skomer Island could have been affected by oil which surrounded the island after the tanker 'Sea Empress' ran aground in February 1996, but fortunately, most birds had not yet returned to the colony, and a major catastrophe for the puffin was avoided.
Puffins and Humans
On the island of St. Kilda in the North Atlantic, puffins were once used to flavour porridge! However, today they are a protected bird, although numbers have been declining since the 1960s when chemical and oil pollution of the sea killed many puffins; some traditional colonies were deserted as the numbers fell. Conservationists are now concerned about the overfishing of sand eels and whitebait by man - this is thought to be resulting in the starvation and death of many seabirds, including the puffin.


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It appears he is buried in Pioneer Rest Cemetery in Richland Co., OH. The information on his stone says that he died on March 27, 1864 at Andersonville, Georgia at age 38-0-7. However, it says that he was the grandson of Peter and Elizabeth Erving. That must be a mistake. It should be Susan Ervin/Erving.
Joan Best wrote, "Just looked and found, in Ripley Twp., Huron Co., Ohio: Thomas S. Bodine, age 24, hotel keeper, b. NY; wife Elizabeth, age 20, b. NJ(?); and 1/12 year old daughter listed as Namelus, b. OH ... I can speculate that the couple shortly named their daughter Maria. Living with them were Ann Beverie, 31, b. NY; and son Russel, 5, b. OH. This was recorded on Nov. 8, 1850. Is she the same as Amy Bevier and children Russel and Susan recorded as living with Susanna, widow of Peter on 16th of Sept. [1850] in Cass Twp., Richland Co., OH?"
The above info may or may not apply to this Thomas S. Bodine, but it is very likely that it does. The birth years match - 1826.
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This is a great goto for a side dish! I used pam instead of the oil, pre-cook the green beans in the microwave before a quick visit to the pan with the garlic and ginger!
Hot Sichuan-Style Green Beans
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BMaguire Posted: 06/23/09
This was a really yummy recipe! I cut the oil back to 1.5 tsps, and it was still deelish.
CisHinkle Posted: 11/11/09
I made a half batch, and it came out beautifully. Great taste, relatively easy. My brother (a foodie) was pleasantly surprised by the excellent flavor.
NutsinNormal Posted: 09/19/09
I made a half recipe of this wonderful dish last night, and wished I had made more! Because I don't usually like a lot of heat, I was conservative with the red pepper, which made it very flavorful without being punitive. The only change I made was to add a small amount of sesame oil at the finish, which seemed to pull it all together. Served cold, as a side with pepper steak.
hparrish Posted: 05/01/10
The March 2004 issue of Sunset had an article on Asian small plates, of which this was one. I've gone back to that issue so many times the pages are tattered. If you're looking for the other recipes (since myrecipes doesn't link them), they are: Drunken Chicken; Hot Sichuan-Style Green Beans; Soy-Braised Mushrooms; Thai-Style Cabbage Slaw; Sesame Noodle Salad; Hoisin Pork with Hot Mustard; Sweet-Hot Coconut Shrimp; Mandarin-Berry Almond Floats;
ElizaThorn Posted: 07/10/09
Good recipe paired with salmon and brown rice, we opted for the high end of chile flakes and it was great.
tara31 Posted: 11/21/10
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TOPIC: Fat people need workout clothes too!
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Posts: 35
March 4, 2012 7:48 AM
Okay - so I have made an effort to lose weight and exercise - probably more motivated this time than I had been in the past (I have had this on again off again relationship with MFP. )
I truck my fat butt to the local sporting good store and shop around for exercise wear while my husband hunts down a pair of running shoes. Hundreds of items of sports wear hanging on the racks from running shorts, to sports bras, etc.,etc., BUT can someone explain to my why the athletic wear ranges from size XS to Large. REALLY!.... there isn't enough spandex in those clothes to get them past my knees!.
Where are the fat people sizes? - we need something comfortable to work out in and keep us motivated while we do it. At this point the only motivation would be to buy that XS small size and hang it above the treadmill - the problem is by the time I get to wear it I wouldn't really need it!
You would think that the sports industry would be promoting health and fitness and include the class of people who probably need it the most. Granted I don't want my fat rolls squeezing into some spandex shirt but it would be nice to not have to work out in a big baggy t-shirt and pair of too tight leggings or old shorts.
Evan the local supercenter chains stop at size XL.. maybe you could find a XXL but it is really a large when you try it on. Unless looking like a sausage is the in thing in workout wear!
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March 4, 2012 8:25 AM
My clothes are pretty stretchy, so I was wearing the same sizes more or less at 165lbs as I could at 130lbs, so I don't really need to go much bigger when it comes to yoga pants or t-shirts.
My sports bra is another story. I'm a 32G and good luck finding ANYTHING that size in a regular store. I think the only place that sells bras in that size locally is Nordstrom. I generally have to get those sorts of things off the internet, and most of the time they are imported from the UK.
If you are not satisfied with the workout gear around you, perhaps you should modify what you have nearby, or just expand your search to the world wide web. I tend to alter a lot of my clothes for work by hemming up the pants, etc, and I know some of my coworkers do too. My workout clothes generally aren't as much of a problem, because they are so stretchy that they somehow will modify themselves to fit me.
Can you get some workout clothes that already exist and just add some extra panels of fabric?
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March 4, 2012 8:29 AM
and here I am never being able to find an xs. Probably because I only shop at walmart and they have never heard of that size.
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March 4, 2012 10:05 AM
and here I am never being able to find an xs. Probably because I only shop at walmart and they have never heard of that size.
Try Academy sports -they had more XS sizes than any other store I've seen
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March 4, 2012 10:08 AM
fashion bug has some workout clothes for larger sized women
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March 4, 2012 10:09 AM
Try Target or maybe TJ Maxx and Marshals....they have a good variety of sizes in their athletic apparal sections.
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March 4, 2012 10:16 AM
I've had good luck at JCPenney. They have a good selection in Plus Size workout clothes. Very reasonably priced too...... I got a pair of workout pants and matching warm-up jacket for $32 last week.
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March 4, 2012 10:19 AM
Of all places, I just had luck at Dollar General. They carry up to 3X in workout pants with matching jackets. I got men's plain Tshirts to match.
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March 4, 2012 10:24 AM
I have several old navy work out shirts that I LOVE! I bought two of the "compression" tanks, and I was pleasantly surprised that they fit so well. I got the 2x (in the plus size section) and they fit. I'm 5'4", 230 and a 42DD/DDD.
I found cotton work out shorts at target in 1x and 2x and I've been wearing them since I started this journey at 298. they're getting too big to tighten now... but I love them :)
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March 4, 2012 10:26 AM
I got my sports bra from La Senza and my jogging bottoms from Asda (they go quite large there) and just wear a normal cotton t-shirt.
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March 4, 2012 10:46 AM
Check out Old Navy. I'm not sure if in store but online their womens goes up to xxl and they have have women plus that goes up to 4x. They have GREAT stuff. I just bought two pairs of 12 dollar work out yoga capris and I LOVE them. I like them even better than my 30 dollar Nike pants. They also have 30% off right now.
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March 4, 2012 11:27 AM
Very good post!
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March 4, 2012 11:59 AM
Every once in a while I find some at the Avenue.
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March 4, 2012 12:02 PM
I agree! I thought the Biggest Loser was coming out with Plus sized work out clothes, but I haven't seen anything. I also tried to find Ski Clothes...no luck..had to order them online....
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March 4, 2012 12:43 PM
Old navy online and, believe it or not, Walmart online has some reasonably priced danskin workout apparel.
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The NFL has announced that Justin Blackmon has been suspended 4 games for violating the league's substance abuse policy.
There are no specific details about the exact reason for the suspension, but multiple violations are required for suspension.
ESPN seems to be inferring that it is somehow related to his DUI arrest, but that doesn't seem clear (or possible) in a vacuum.
Last year, Blackmon caught 64 passes for 865 yards and 5 TD in what was a rather awful passing offense for the Jaguars.
This is a huge hit for the Jaguars, who have a slew of problems already, and are poised to once again be a terrible team. The loss of Blackmon certainly won't help anything.
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