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An updated version of this story is now available at MassLive.BOSTON – House budget leaders are unveiling a $27.8 billion spending plan for the state's new fiscal year, including $234 million in cuts to local aid to cities and towns. House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Murphy said the budget proposal includes no new taxes and doesn't draw from the state's rainy day fund. Murphy called the fiscal situation facing the state "challenging" and said House plan reflects that with $1.4 billion in cuts and spending reductions. The budget relies in part on $1.5 billion in one-time federal stimulus dollars. He also said the budget's bottom line is $400 million below the budget released earlier in the year by Gov. Deval L. Patrick. Patrick's $28.2 billion budget maintains education and local aid for cities and towns while increasing taxes on candy and soda.
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I don't buy Max Payne 3 for his multiplayer, but i wanna know more about it. If its a great multiplayer you guys from R*, be sure that i'm spend months playing it
- on February 28 2012, 12:36pm@LikeNoOther317 We don't have anything to pass along on that just yet, look for more PC details closer to the release of the game this May
- on February 28 2012, 11:18amI'am so sorry R* to ask that more than once but i know you can feel me as i'am really dying to have this game on my Steam Library!
- on February 28 2012, 11:15amR* please, If you have any information about Pre-Ordering the game from Steam Store or you can contact with Valve i will be very appreciate as the game is available for Pre-Ordering in all stores on the planet but i need only the Digital version.
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- on February 28 2012, 11:06amcool trailer
details on the score and soundtrack.........contributions from sao paulo rap stars, rock and electro?? yeeaaahh
so john marston gonna be in the next red dead?? xD
- on February 28 2012, 9:26amIs the soundtrack going to be available to buy in I-tunes to those who didn't pre-order the special edition?
- on February 28 2012, 4:27am@ UnCool_Head
Good point that and I think you hit the nail on the head, thanks for preventing my head from exploding :D cheers!!!
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HATTIESBURG, Mississippi -- After yielding 464 yards and 41 points in the season-opening loss to South Carolina, the Southern Miss defense moved a step in the right direction in Saturday's 34-7 win over Prairie View A&M.
The Golden Eagles allowed just 211 yards and might have produced a shutout if not for a coverage mistake in the secondary in the third quarter. As it was, the defense let Prairie View cross midfield just three times, a much better effort than the previous week when South Carolina lived in USM territory.
"I thought we had far less mental errors," said Southern Miss defensive coordinator Todd Bradford. "Our kids are more comfortable playing at home. And they certainly weren't as good a team as South Carolina."
That's not a glowing evaluation of his unit's improvement, and that's probably because the Golden Eagles must prepare for a Kansas team that knocked off 15th-ranked Georgia Tech 28-25 last week.
Another reason is the fact Bradford is going against an offensive coach who knows his defensive schemes. Former Southern Miss offensive coordinator Darrell Wyatt is now on Turner Gill's Jayhawks staff as the co-offensive coordinator and wide receiver coach.
"We watched the Georgia Tech game and they found themselves in that game, so you would expect for them to stay on that path," said Bradford. "They didn't change a lot of what they did in the two games, they just played better in the second game. They made more plays and the guy completed more passes."
Redshirt freshman quarterback Jordan Webb was the guy for Kansas. He connected on 18 of 29 passes for 179 yards and three touchdowns, running an offense very familiar to Southern Miss.
"They look exactly like us," Bradford said of the Kansas attack. "Darrell has a big influence on what they are doing on offense. I don't know who is calling the plays, I just know that his fingerprints are all over what they are doing.
"I'm sure that Darrell has some things in his notes from all the times he practiced against us, things that he thinks he would do if he played against us. I'm sure we're going to see those things."
One area Bradford expects Wyatt to attack is the middle of the field, which has been a problem for the Golden Eagles in the first two games. Prairie View's touchdown came on a seam route, a 32-yard completion from Shaun Stephens to Andrew McGlory with defensive back Kendrick Presley in coverage.
"We haven't played the deep ball down the seams as well as we have in the past," said Bradford. "We've given up a couple of long seam balls where we have the guy covered and ball was still caught, and I'm disappointed in that. We haven't played the ball in the air very well, and I know Darrell is going to try to put it down the seams. That's one of his deals.
"Saturday night, the one we didn't play well, he just never found the ball. ... The ball got on him before he expected it to and it just wasn't a very good play."
One area of the secondary Bradford is pleased with is the boundary corner spot held by redshirt freshman Deron Wilson. Wilson has six tackles, leads the team with three passes broken up, and has blocked a punt.
"Deron hasn't played many games yet," said Bradford. "He was a guy we were going to play last year and he got hurt. He's playing how we expected him to play. He's coming around and we're pretty comfortable when he's in there. We expect him to keep getting better."
Another area Bradford likes what he's seen is up front, specifically the play of senior defensive tackle John Henderson, a second-year transfer from The College of Sequoias (Calif.)
"I wish he could have been in the program his whole career," Bradford said of the 6-foot-1, 301-pounder. "I'm really impressed with how far he's come. He played really well against South Carolina and was named team captain last week because of how well he played.
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The tournament is an 8-player double round-robin event, with 22-year old world #1 Magnus Carlsen the firm favourite to win. The venue is The IET at 2 Savoy Place, on the banks on London's river Thames, and the total prize fund is €510,000 (approx 665,000 USD).
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Oil prices have climbed to a record high of $78.71 a barrel amid worries about whether oil supplies can meet global demand.
The price of a barrel of US light, sweet crude passed the previous high of $78.40 a barrel, reached in July 2006.
Prices have risen steadily in the past few weeks following disruption to output in Nigeria and the North Sea and set a new closing high on Tuesday.
The latest rise was triggered by data showing a fall in US crude stockpiles.
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Analysts had been forecasting a far more modest fall of about 700,000 barrels.
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Despite a rise in output from the members of the Opec oil producers' cartel last month, traders are still worried about the amount of spare capacity in the market amid robust demand and continuing instability in oil-rich Nigeria.
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INVESTIGATION CONTINUES — Michigan State Police continue to investigate the circumstances behind the death of 3-year-old son of a Jackson County sheriff's deputy who accidentally shot and killed himself Saturday.
Michigan State Police Jackson Post Cmdr. F/Lt. Michael Krumm said officials are still waiting on forensic lab results, stating he hopes to have those done by today.
NO TRIAL YET — David Kellen Grow is charged with murder in last month's fatal stabbing of his mother, Robin. For now, he will not face a criminal trial after a judge accepted findings Thursday that he is not mentally fit. He will leave the Jackson County Jail no later than Monday.
MANCHESTER WINS TITLE — Congratulations to Manchester High School's girls basketball team, which won the Class C regional title Thursday, earning a spot in the state quarterfinals. The team earned an exciting, come-from-behind win and plays again Tuesday. Check out our story and photo gallery.
SING IT! — Two-time Grammy winning artist and storyteller Bill Harley was on hand at the Middle School at Parkside to sing to a crowd of students about childhood Thursday. The event was in honor of March Is Reading Month.
THE BUCK STOPS — Jackson City Council Member Derek Dobies is taking a step toward accountability in government by posting his campaign literature online for all to see. The reason: He wants to increase accountability in government and hold council members to their promises.
RESCHEDULED — The sentencing of a Jackson County Jail inmate who stole a fire chief's car while on a work assignment and sped away was rescheduled from Thursday to March 14. Domonick Mata, 21, was scheduled to be sentenced on two charges, including unlawfully driving away in a motor vehicle.
GRAND OPENING — Jackson Community College will hold a grand opening for it's new International Student Institute Monday at the college.
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Sales tax for everyone
At last, common sense could prevail: Curry County's financial woes have finally forced it to consider the dreaded sales tax. Actually, the lawmakers in Salem should consider the same thing for the entire state so as to stabilize our budget and gain needed revenue from those who pass through our state and enjoy the free tax ride.
Arriving at an equitable revision of our taxing approach is going to require us to throw out all of the present taxes and start over. Why not consider what our needs are and then -- using projected income from property assessment, income and sales -- arrive at a revenue that is balanced and equitable for the citizens of this state?
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Southwest Portland
A sales tax and an increase in property tax should work just fine for Curry County. Its residents will either go to Coos Bay to shop or move to California to live, leaving plenty of food stamps for the rest.
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Hoarding and safety
We are all responsible for the recent death of Thomas Owen in a clutter-filled house that caught fire last week. We also threaten the lives of our firefighters, one of whom estimated that one in four calls lands him in the house of a hoarder, according to The Oregonian's Feb. 17 story.
Hoarding is a mental health issue that we ignore to our peril. The article says that "roughly 75 U.S. cities have community task forces specifically designed to address hoarding, though Portland isn't one of them." It's long past time that we address this problem and take measures to ensure the health and safety of our citizens, and especially of our firefighters.
Northeast Portland
TriMet finances
Regarding the editorial "Don't let TriMet sinkhole swallow the Free Rail Zone" (Feb. 14): There is a way to keep the Free Rail Zone, partly with technology, partly with enforcement by new personnel.
First the technology: Tickets would be scannable. The scanners would display a green light if a scanned ticket is valid; red if not.
Ticketing personnel would get on the outbound trains at the first non-free stop and get off the inbound trains at the same place to wait for the next train. All tickets would be scanned as the train is moving. If the scanner shows red, or if the rider has no ticket, the rider is ejected at the next stop to walk to his final destination or buy a ticket. No ticket sales on the train.
I would be surprised if this didn't make up the shortfall. The alternative is the miniature fortresses that Atlanta has for train stations.
North Portland
Mandates and religion
It must be election time, as contraception has crept into the national debate. We notice that at this point in the Republican run for the presidency, only white males aspire to the job. All quest to overturn Roe v. Wade as justification to win and dominate behavior.
This obvious imposition of one's views upon those of another gender should prompt a national vote on the contraception issue. If so, let only the female gender hold a national vote on whether males must not have a vasectomy and that those males who've had the procedure get a reversal. Choose wisely.
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In 1960 when John Kennedy was running for president, one of the negatives used against him was that as a Catholic, he might play dummy to the pope. We now have a president being trumped by a bishop.
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Dear Mr. President: What a great job you have. I just love these things called mandates. You get to tell private companies that they have to provide stuff (contraception, in this case). Here's the thing: I am no longer of childbearing age. You keep talking about everything being fair, so I have been thinking that you could mandate something free for me. All votes should cost equally, don't you think?
I would like free eyeglasses every year. Also, I am self-employed and haven't had a vacation paid for by somebody else in 30 years. Could you mandate that I get that? Just one other small thing. I like to eat out but sometimes have digestive problems. Could you mandate that all restaurants provide antacids on the table? This way I won't have to think about what I'm eating.
This personal responsibility stuff the Republicans keep talking about just gets so tiresome, don't you think?
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We've now experimented with our garbage collection system and can come to some conclusions (although we haven't gone through a two-week stretch in a hot summer when we might get more familiar with our neighbor's doings than we'd care to).
Our garbage collection has been cut in half, to every two weeks. This is very inconvenient for many folks, and this was done without a reduction in rates. What a deal. Instead, we get a debris recycle every week.
I've already seen a marked decrease in people putting out the green roll carts for yard debris and food compost weekly. The amount of kitchen organic waste is a small percentage of a family's garbage. Metro says that the waste will create methane if they don't collect it and compost it, but doesn't that create methane regardless of where it winds up?
Most households can fit their recyclables in the blue roll cart every two weeks. If anyone can't fit their kitchen scraps in the green roll cart every two weeks instead of weekly, then they're feeding a regiment. So, if we are going to go down this garbage route, why not collect everything every two weeks and reduce our collection fees by half?
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The children paused at the front door when they returned from school if they heard loud classical music.
They'd scan my face and ask, "is someone coming over?"
If the music was something particularly dramatic, like Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries, or possibly worse, Tchakovsky's 1812 Overture, the odds plummeted I was cleaning for company.
Which usually meant only one other option: I was angry.
I always cleaned to classical music, particularly if I needed a constructive outlook for my fury, but it was only years later I realized why.
That's exactly what Mrs. Austin did in Madeleine L'Engle's Meet the Austins.
During one child's birthday party, my husband took everyone to the movies and I stayed home to "get things ready," for the sleepover to come. Since I had a couple hours to myself, I painted the front and back doors of the house.
In the middle of a birthday party.
Later, I realized that's exactly the type of thing Mrs. Belford would have done in the Katie Rose series by Lenora Mattingly Weber.
The summer my daughter turned eight, I realized she had never seen The Sound of Music, so I went to Blockbuster Video to rent a copy. Couldn't find it anywhere. I asked the young pierced man behind the counter. He started typing, "Sound of what?"
"The Sound of Music." I spoke slowly and enunciated everything with care.
"Music?" he looked puzzled.
"Don't tell me you've never heard of The Sound of Music."
So help me, I turned into Woody Allen and addressed the middle aged man behind me in line. "You've heard of The Sound of Music, haven't you?"
"Of course," he grunted. "Chick flick."
The clerk shook his head.
So I became Julie Andrews and broke into song: "Doe, a deer, a female deer."
The female clerk behind the counter joined me and I only wish, now, I'd danced through the video aisles with my arms outstretched as we got more and more enthusiastic.
Paralyzed at his screen, the male clerk watched with his mouth open. I suppose this was a two-woman flash dance . . .
The point of these stories is to show how fiction has affected my life and my mothering in unexpected ways. When I read and reread those YA books by L'Engle and Weber as a lonely teenager, I had no way of knowing how they were imprinting me and thus my own family. The musicals I loved added music and joy to my life.
Is that what YA fiction is doing now?
I've heard stories recently of wonderful teenagers I know cutting themselves. What would make them think to do such a thing, particularly young teenagers?
Could it have to do with the media they consume?
What we put into our minds, particularly those stories we reread and think about, has an affect. If your society emphasizes the "dark side," the negative, the ugly, the brutal and the cruel, do you really think you can "consume" those ideas and not be affected?
I didn't wake up one morning and think, "I'm going to clean house to classical music because that's what Mrs. Austin did." I just did it because it made sense.
It still makes sense.
But I'm far more conscious now, on the potential affects on my life if I read too much in the negative. How about you?


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Just in time for the mass transit of New Zealand writers (and chefs) to Germany for all the fun of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Guardian has launched a new series on the country, "The accidental empire".
Among the dozens of pieces is one on German words.
Mark Rice-Oxley picks as his favourites Handschuhschneeballwerfer (a person who wears gloves to throw snowballs) and Sitzpinkler: a man who pees sitting down.
And while there remains doubt as to whether the longest German compound, cited in the Guinness Book of Record , ever in fact existed, it is, surely, too good to check:
Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft, or the association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services.
A handful more, suggested in the comments under the piece (can't vouch for them, etc):
Reißverschlusssystem Traffic merging like a zip
Eisenbahnknotenpunkthinundherschiebershäuschen The little cabin where in earlier times the switchman was manually operating the railroad switches
Torfabbaugenehmigung A governmental permission to develop bogland, in order to use the peat for commercial purposes
Sitzriese Somebody who looks bigger when they're sitting down than when they stand up


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The 3145 Hamilton Blvd. science center had 1,055 paid visitors today, which it credited to the three-day holiday weekend and the renowned "Bodies Revealed" exhibit.
The center's record for paying customers in a single day was broken on Dec. 27 with 981 visitors, which surpassed the previous record by 50 visitors that had been set on Dec. 29, 2005.
That record was passed three more times in recent weeks, reaching 1,013 on Jan. 5 and 1,040 on Saturday before it was broken again today, according to the center.
"Bodies Revealed," which was extended through Feb. 18, is a three-dimensional display of the human body with 11 full anatomical specimens and 180 additional pieces.
The exhibition is being presented by St. Luke's University Health Network, and is being shown as part of the center's Year of the Human Body project.
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A guide to learning French in France
Here is our guide to language schools in France, along with an overview of the best online and computer courses for learning French.
Being an expat in France is not an easy task. If you think your English will be useful, you are most probably mistaken. People in France are understandably keen on their own language so if you want to be accepted there, do not while away your days looking at the Eifel Tower -- start learning some French.
National language schools in France
Alliance Francaise
The well-known institution Alliance Francaise has branches almost anywhere, both in France and around the world. It is dedicated to promoting French worldwide: classes, cultural activities, and French certification. Classes cover all levels of French learning, from complete beginner (level A1) to autonomous (level C1). Intensive, extensive and evening classes are offered. They offer different packages with which you can combine your general French class with any of our other classes (workshops, personalised packages etc) during the same period, building a French training course adapted to your needs, availability and objectives.
Cost: Intensive general French course comprising 20 hours per week in a larger class (12+ students) costs EUR 206.
Contact details: (E) firstname.lastname@example.com | www.alliancefr.org
The international language school has 28 centres across France in all major cities. Teaching can be done privately or in groups and Berlitz teachers can even come to your offices Courses prices vary depending on the language being studied.
Cost: Upon request.
Contact details: www.berlitz.fr
France Langue
With six schools around the country, France Langue provides lessons for all levels of general French and specialised French (e.g. business, legal, medical), courses for French teachers, and exam preparation (TEF, DELF, TCF). All French teachers hold a university degree and/or a recognised language teaching qualification. The school also has accreditations with FFL Campus France, IALC (International Association of Language Centres), CSN (accreditation by Northern European countries) and Universite Paris Sorbonne.
Locations: Biarritz, Bordeaux, Nice and Paris
Cost: The fundamental 20-hour per week course with up to 12 students costs EUR 230 per week in the Paris location.
Contact details: www.france-langue.fr
Language schools in Paris
Accord Ecole de langue
This French language school has three locations in Paris offering intensive French programs, work experience opportunities, and cultural training. The school is accredited by CSN and Bildungsurlaub in Germany. The school is also a member of Souffle, a professional organisation for quality language training centres teaching French as a foreign language; and Elite (European Federations of Associations for Teaching of Mother Tongues to Foreigners).
Cost: Intensive general French course comprising 20 hours per week in a class of up to 14 students costs EUR 300 (prices are lower for longer courses).
Contact details: 14 boulevard Poissonnière, 75009 Paris
(E): email@example.com
Elika Language Training
This specialised language school offers customised instruction to fit the individual needs of students including: beginners, advanced, university students, businesspeople and French for law. The school offers personalised packages, ranging from individual French lessons to full immersion programs. Students may choose how they want to learn – a duo lesson or a private lesson – or even a little of each.
Cost: Courses are charged on hourly basis. The equivalent of a 20-hour per week course in a class of up to 4 students will cost EUR 240.
Contact details: Ophira I, 1 place Bermond, 06560 Valbonne Sophia Antipolis
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Learning French in Lyon
Lyon Bleu International
The school seeks to provide a quality alternative to larger, more traditional academic structures for French language courses. The focus is on active and modern teaching methods for French language with materials based on practice and communication. It also offers customised classes to learn French, made to measure by the teachers and the director of studies, adapted and updated each week according to the needs of the groups. The school is a French professional training organisation certified by the French government. The French language programmes are officially certified by the CNS programme of the Swedish Government and by the main German Länder for Bildungsurlaub. The school is also a member of the FLE and IALC.
Cost: The General Intensive French course comprising 25 lessons (45 mins each) per week is EUR 215 per week.
Contact details: 82 rue Duguesclin, 69006 Lyon
(E): email@example.com
Language schools in Marseille
Easy French Learning Institute
This school teaches small classes and provides tailor-made course programs, delivered by experienced French teachers. The French language training courses aim to provide you with the ability to: Interact more confidently when visiting French-speaking countries or dealing with French-speaking nationals. Additionally it will help you to build and strengthen relationships with French-speaking friends, colleagues or clients through a show of interest in the French language and culture.
Cost: The standard 15-lesson per week course with up to 4 students is EUR 440.
Contact details: 4, cours Belsunce, 13001 Marseille
(E): firstname.lastname@example.com
Skype: easyfrench
Montpellier language schools
Accent Francais
Accent Français has been awarded the Ministry's seal of quality ("Label Qualité Français Langue Etrangère") for the quality of its teachers and courses. Their learning method reflects the official progression of the Common European Framework of Reference (European passport). The method strives for the development of the communication and use of the French language to provide you with the means of using the language in real-life situations. Every day, students will tackle a new "savoir-faire": asking questions, giving opinions, talking about one's likings, telephoning, talking about one's plans, etc. In order to achieve the above, students cover the 4 language skills (speaking, writing, listening and reading) each morning. The school uses its own teaching method compiled from various methods of instruction, which the teachers adapt every week according to the profiles of the students in their respective groups.
Cost: General French course comprising 20 lessons per week costs EUR 220 (maximum of 10 students).
Contact details: 2 rue de Verdun, 34000 Montpellier
(E): email@example.com
Language courses in Nice
FLE Accredited, the school approaches the French language from a practical perspective. It sees its purpose as to allow you to acquire varied knowledge while rapidly developing your communication skills in French. Favouring scenarios of real life and based on a large number of teaching materials (authentic documents, records video, audio, comics, articles press clips and French songs, movie clips and French novels), their teaching method aims to stimulates your desire to continuously learn and express yourself. Teachers are native French speakers. All university graduates, they seek to improve your French language skills and provide you with assistance throughout your stay. A professor specialising in the latest technology is available to help you choose subjects that correspond to your level and you can learn about useful websites.
Cost: Standard 20-lesson per week course cost EUR 247 in 2012.
Contact details: 47 rue Herold, 06000 Nice
E): firstname.lastname@example.com
Skype: azurlinguaskype
French online and computer courses
Most companies to have the best programme out there to learn Spanish quickly and retain everything. However, since everyone learns differently, explore the teaching style used by the programme before you buy. Here are a few good language software titles.
- Tell Me More French
- Fluenz French
- Rosetta Stone French
- Berlitz French Premier
- Instant Immersion French
- French Learning Suite
- RocketLanguages
- Living Language Platinum
- Hello-Hello World
- Pimsleur Comprehensive
- Transparent Language
- SmartFrench
Remember: Some of these titles are pretty costly, ranging from EUR 32 all the way to EUR 150.
Useful websites
Almost anything you can buy can be found on the Internet for free, so don't be afraid to look around.
The BBC actually has a very innovative product that also includes audio files, a very valuable asset when trying to learn a language. Another great resource is Radio Lingua Network (www.radiolingua.com), which offers short audio language tutorials, downloadable as podcasts.
You may also want to buy pocket phrasebooks that will help you get around in the day-to-day grind. They won't be great at in-depth grammar usage and explanations but they will definitely have useful phrases. It would also be good to have an electronic translator to carry around just in case – Google Translate is quite a useful free app that will often give you an audio as well as written translation.
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melosi posted:
This list is very helpful. When I arrived in Paris, I went to Alliance Francaise, one of the most prestigious school because it's well known. But I was very disappointed : a lot of students in the class (16), it was very hard to speak and it' s very expensive. I met someone in the group Franglish who recommended to go to Langue Appart' in the 11th. It was the best decision I made! It' s not as prestigious as Alliance Francaise or France Langue, it's a small school. You feel at home, the atmosphere is great and the teachers are very good and very available. In a few weeks, I could manage basic conversations. So be careful with big schools. Sometimes you just have the feeling you are a money whereas there are small schools where you can fit easily!
anna posted:
I would like to mention also Live-French.net, it's a French school that works exclusively online. They have excellent teachers, and you get the flexibility you need to schedule your lessons when it suits you.
Pourquoipasmary posted:
LSF in Montpellier is worth checking out too. I've been studying there for 2 months now and I've been very satisfied with the school so far. It's not easy learning a language when you're an adult but the teaching method at LSF is really outstanding. You can read a little about my experience here. Good luck!
AlexiaFlo posted:
Just came back from 3 months in beautiful Paris, what worked best for me: a few hours in one of the not so expensive schools for theory and constructing good basis (http://www.parislangues.com/french-courses/general-french-class/ for myself) get involved in clubs you like and meet people, can%u2019t do best to improve your speaking skills. Learn, enjoy activities and meet people, what more do you need ? ;)
Susy posted:
The information you provided is extremely helpful:). Thank you!
PeachySanchez posted:
Yes, I heard that before. If you're planning on going to France, do not rely too much on English. My family is planning a trip for December so I enrolled in http://preply.com/en/french-by-skype to learn French via Skype. I know I wouldn't be an expert yet by then but at least I will be able to bring a few phrases I can use for emergencies.
Julia posted:
I took Berlitz course until level 5 and it was enough to understand what people say and to communicate during daily tasks.
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I agree! Private teacher are much better, cheaper and very flexible. I improved my french with a fantastic teacher - recommended by friends in Paris. Her lessons matched my needs. Mine was wonderful but there are plenty of others. Her contact: Marie Laure, firstname.lastname@example.com
Andre posted:
I took individual french lessons in Paris - see the website here - www.learnfrenchinparis.eu - good hourly rate and a very customised approach to my needs of learning French. I was working as software developer and I needed to bring my speaking and writing French to a level that allowed me to handle my tasks better in the company I was working.
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I've been learning French via Skype for 6 months with Learn French at home. http://www.learnfrenchathome.com. I can honestly say I have been extremely satisfied with all the lessons I have received. I have found the whole experience very positive.
David Goodfellow posted:
It is not necessary to learn French with a private business. For example, I am going to Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis and their language courses work out at €4,60 an hour, a fraction of the private schools. There is no age limit (I am 65, UK citizen). In addition the instructors are University trained and not fresh from school on a working holiday!


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State Sen. Scott Beason, it seems, was more trouble than he was worth.
Republican leaders in the Senate on Tuesday announced his ouster as chairman of the powerful Senate Rules Committee. We'll find out whether Beason will continue to be trouble for them once the 2012 legislative session starts in February.
Whatever trouble Beason might cause on the Senate floor isn't worth the problems of having the Republican agenda in the Senate pushed by a lawmaker who doesn't hold the line, who is involved as a witness in a controversial bribery trial and who has been called a racist and political opportunist by a respected federal judge in a court order.
One might argue that Beason's ouster as Rules chairman was long overdue. But give the Senate leadership credit: Beason was cut loose well before next year's legislative session. Clearly, Republicans want to distance themselves from Beason's toxic rhetoric and awkward blunders. That's smart and, really, their only option if they want to keep their legislative momentum going.
The short press release sent from Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh's office Tuesday morning didn't even mention Beason's name. The release was titled: "Waggoner to Serve as Rules Committee Chairman for 2012 Legislative Session," referring to Majority Leader Jabo Waggoner, R-Vestavia Hills, a solid, even-tempered Republican known as a team player.
While Marsh didn't list the "many realities" he said caused the leadership to remove Beason, It was later reported that Republicans were upset because he called black casino customers "aborigines."
As well they should be. Making matters worse, Beason took part in the racially insensitive discussion while he was recording for an FBI investigation in the bribery-for-bingo scandal.
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson later said Beason and former state Rep. Benjamin Lewis, R-Dothan, lacked credibility as prosecution witnesses in the trial "for two reasons. First, their motive for cooperating with FBI investigators was not to clean up corruption but to increase Republican political fortunes by reducing African-American voter turnout. Second, they lack credibility because the record establishes their purposeful, racist intent."
Unless the Republican leadership purged Beason from its ranks, they, too, could have been tainted by the same "purposeful, racist intent" in every bill they put forward. That just wouldn't do.
Republicans will push an aggressive jobs agenda in the legislative session; Beason, meanwhile, may still have to testify in a retrial of the bribery-for-bingo scandal.
The Senate Committee on Assignments voted to oust Beason. Reportedly, Beason was the only no vote vs. five yes votes to remove him as Rules chairman. Beason supposedly turned down a deal to head another committee. That leaves us to wonder if he will attempt to gather his own supporters and, at the very least, keep Senate Republicans from having a sure-fire, filibuster-proof majority.
Senate leaders certainly considered the down side. To their credit, they decided Beason would be more of an embarrassment as chairman of the Rules Committee than as a renegade troublemaker in the Senate.


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UPDATE- 2:22 a.m.: Fire investigators are still at the scene working to determine what started the fire and aren't expected to conclude the investigation until tomorrow. Firefighters are also staying at the scene dealing with hotspots as they arise. More information will be published as it becomes available.
CHICOPEE - An apartment fire in the city's center early Saturday evening prompted emergency rescues and evacuations of residents and employees and patrons of the nearby Munich Haus.
Ildefonso Figueroa, 25, a third-floor resident of a three-story building at 23 Center St., said he was overcome by smoke when he tried to make his way out of the building after alarms sounded around 5:30 p.m.
"I was halfway down the stairs and felt heat down below, so I ran back up to my apartment, blind from the smoke," said Figueroa, standing outside the smoldering building.
Firefighters pulled him out a window and he descended a ladder to safety and the street below.
Fire officials said they believed the fire started in a kitchen in one of the units, but no additional details were available as they continued to battle the blaze into the early evening and plumes of smoke poured from the building through the commercial district.
Officials said some residents were treated on scene for smoke inhalation.
Yolanda Gonzales, 37, also a third-floor resident of the building, said she heard alarms going off but initially thought they were false.
"Then I opened the door and smelled smoke. I ran and grabbed my coat and purse and ran downstairs," she said.
It was unclear how many residents were evacuated from the building.
As firefighters continued to try and quell the fire, German-outfitted employees from the Munich Haus, directly next door, filed out onto the street.
Roxanne Furgal, a server at the popular restaurant, said employees and patrons were told by fire officials they had to clear the building at the start of the dinner hour.
"I had just seated a party of 30 and had taken their drink orders when they told us we had to leave," Furgal said, adding that the restaurant had started to fill with smoke and balconies from the burning building were dangerously close to the restaurant.
Mayor Michael D. Bissonnette said he had visited the site at Market Square and that the apartment building, which had been rehabilitated in the 1980s, also was home to Wickles Fine Printing and was one of the city's oldest structures in that district.
"The building's a total loss. It was one of our oldest buildings in the downtown. It was a wood-and-brick structure and once the fire ignited in the walls it just went up," Bissonnette said. "It's a shame to lose a building like that because it's part of the downtown and we're trying to revitalize that area."
According to the mayor, fire fighters were working to keep the damage contained to 23 Center Street.
"We're hoping the Munich Haus, which is a very successful restaurant, doesn't suffer anything more than some water damage," he said.


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HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Officials plan to hold another briefing on the 2 p.m. plane crash in Madison at 4:30 p.m., at which time they may release the names of the two people killed.
Madison County Commissioner Dale Strong said that some airplane fuel spilled from the wreckage, but he said it was successfully contained by Madison and Huntsville's hazardous materials teams.
Roller said she was running toward the plane as it came down toward a stand of trees separating the Ashbury and Oxford subdivisions, but turned around, ran the other way and called 911 when she saw the plane was going to crash.
"I thought it was going to hit me," Roller said.
She said it looked like the plane, which had engine trouble, was trying to clear the trees and land in an open area, but it clipped the trees, nosedived and burst into flames.
"I kept looking for people to come out, because that's what you want, but it kept burning and kept exploding," Roller said.
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Frances O'Grady is the new, and very different, face of the TUC
Frances O'Grady hasn't done a day's striking in her life. Her Dad did as a shop steward on the British Leyland line at Cowley that now makes Minis for BMW. Her brother, a former miner, has been out, as has her sister, a teacher. Other members of the family have been in disputes at the Massey Ferguson tractor factory and at Jacob's biscuits.
All of which makes her the subject of some teasing among the wider clan, especially as from next week Frances O'Grady becomes general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, the first female leader in the movement's 144-year


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Results tagged ' Kevin Youkilis '
Another day, another injury
Continuing the theme of the week, J.D. Drew is out of today's game with a sore legs, which include a barking quad. In actuality, he might not have played today anyway, as Kazmir is pitching for the Rays. But given Drew's game-winning homer last night, it might have been nice to see if he could take that momentum into today.
Kevin Youkilis is also out of the mix for the fifth straight game, and likely won't play again until the start of the West Coast trip on Tuesday. "We'll try to use the day off to our advantage," said Red Sox manager Terry Francona.
And in a display of the selflessness that has come to mark this team, Youkilis said this morning that he'd have no problem with Jason Bay continuing to stay in the cleanup spot, even when Kevin is back in the lineup.
"He can hit there," Youkilis said. "If he's going to hit the way he is, he can stay there. I'll hit anywhere in the lineup except for leadoff. I don't mind. I'll hit sixth, I don't mind. I've hit there before."
Drew leading off; Youk, Ellsbury not playing
Definitely a different Red Sox lineup tonight as they open a five-game homestand at Fenway. J.D. Drew is leading off, Jason Varitek hitting sixth, Jeff Bailey batting seventh, Jonathan Van Every eighth and Nick Green ninth.
Jacoby Ellsbury, who injured his right hamstring last night, should return to the mix tomorrow night. Manager Terry Francona seemed a little more iffy on when Kevin Youkilis might be back.
Rocco Baldelli is here at Fenway, but won't be activated tonight. He was scheduled to have today off. There will be a decision on Rocco tomorrow.
Jed Lowrie was back with the team today for the first time since his surgery. His rehab is right on schedule. He should start swinging a bat in early June.
The team is in the process of deciding where Dice-K's next rehab start will be. The choice is either for Pawtucket at Columbus, or home for Portland. If I was in Matsuzaka's shoes, I'd beg for Portland so I could have the best lobster imaginable.
John Smoltz re-started his throwing program on the Fenway lawn, playing catch at a distance of 60 feet.
All for now.
Saturday in the Citi
OK, that's my last corny pun about Citi Field for a long time, since, who knows when I will be here again? Perhaps in October for a Red Sox-Mets World Series? Otherwise, it could be a while.
Daisuke Matsuzaka gets the nod in Boston's final game of Spring Training.
Kevin Youkilis is over the flu bug — intestinal turmoil as his manager referred to it as — that took him out of the lineup on Friday night. Youk is back in there today. Rocco Baldelli will lead off and play center against the left-handed starter. Ellsbury will come in off the bench at some point.
Brad Wilkerson has apparently decided he will accept an assignment to Triple-A Pawtucket. This, after a horrific spring in which Wikerson hit .119 and struck out 18 times in 42 at-bats.
Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield pitched in a camp game back in Fort Myers today, throwing six innings, allowing seven hits, two earned runs, two walks, three strikeouts over 83 pitches.
The Sox will work out at Fenway on Sunday and then open their season. It will be the first Home Opener at Fenway for many players on the roster. Here is the list of those players who have never had an Opening Day with the Red Sox:
Justin Masterson; Brad Penny, Ramon Ramirez, Takashi Saito, John Smoltz, George Kotarras, Jed Lowrie, Rocco Baldelli, Chris Carter and Mark Kotsay
Pedroia to return Friday
Just as the Red Sox were updating the situation on Kevin Youkilis, which doesn't seem to be anything to fret about, it was revealed that Dustin Pedroia will be back in the lineup for Friday's game against the Pirates. Pedroia will get two at-bats Friday, take BP on Saturday and then get about three at-bats on Sunday.
As for Youkilis, he will wear a boot on his foot for two to three days, then hopefully progress to batting practice, and perhaps game action at some point next week.
Bench coach Brad Mills will manage the Sox on Friday. Terry Francona will be attending the graduation of son Nick from Officer Candidate School.
Jetting back to the Fort
Yes, the return of Brownie Points is coming. When last I was in Fort Myers five days ago, it was a slow camp. It was by the far the slowest Spring Training in my eight years on the Red Sox beat. And then I left and all you know what broke loose.
Lugo, surgery. Pedroia, injured, and out of the World Baseball Classic. Jon Lester, signed for five years. Jason Bay, no contract extension this spring. Josh Bard, out of a job. Kevin Youkilis, now out of the World Baseball Classic.
Wow. Quite literally, there was NOTHING going on when last I left Fort Myers. Now we have an official Red Sox Spring Training in full motion.
I land in Fort Myers after 11 tonight. Back in to blog and story mode tomorrow.
Lester, Youk, Lugo and other topics
This is obviously terrific news for the Red Sox that Jon Lester is seemingly on the verge of signing a five-year deal, $30 million that includes a $14 million option for 2013. So now the Red Sox, going into the next four to five years, know that they can depend on a sturdy nucleus of Pedroia, Youkilis, Lester and Ellsbury.
It is so hard to find a big, strong lefty like Lester that you can anchor a staff around, so you knew the Red Sox would pounce at the first opportunity to get him secured for the forseeable future.
Of course, the Jonathan Papelbon situation is still year to year, and you wonder if the sides will ever meet up there. Papelbon has made it clear that he wants to get his maximum worth, and the Red Sox might eventually deem that they can get someone like Daniel Bard to do the job at far less money.
Speaking of Bard, I don't ever remember a prospect who was all but a lock not to make the team having a camp like this. He is just overpowering hitters.
The Red Sox are representing themselves well at the World Baseball Classic. A day after Dice-K got the win for Japan, Youkilis just obliterated a towering home run, his second longball in his many days. Dustin Pedroia might have broken out of his swing, golfing a pitch down the left field line for a double in Team USA's big top of the sixth inning.
Meanwhile, in Fort Myers, the shortstop situation continues to be intriguing becuase Julio Lugo and Jed Lowrie are both playing well.
"They both look good," said Red Sox manager Terry Francona.
"If that ends up being a dilemma, I'd rather have that happen than guys not
playing well."
Lugo remains confident that he can be the player he was before coming to the Red Sox.
"Things are going to take care of themselves as long as I'm healthy," Lugo said.
And fans will be happy to know that the shortstop is working very hard on his defense this spring with new infield coach Tim Bogar.
"Very well, i think Bogar is going to be a big help to me," Lugo said. "He's letting me be myself and making plays the way I know how to make it and that's the way it should be. That's what got you here. Just refine those skills and that's it."
Dice-K at Dawn
Who are the truest baseball junkies out there? The correct answer is those of you who will set your alarm clocks so you can watch Daisuke Matsuzaka face Korea at 5 a.m. ET on Saturday. This World Baseball Classic encounter from Tokyo will be televised on ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and yes, MLB.TV.
Under tournament rules, Matsuzaka is permitted to throw 70 pitches in his first-round start.
Those of you who need a Dustin Pedroia, Kevin Youkilis and Jason Bay fix can check out Team USA vs. Canada at 2 p.m. on Saturday on ESPN. And Big Papi David Ortiz will be representing the Domincan Republic in an 11 a.m. encounter (ESPN 2) against the Netherlands.
Things are much quieter here in Fort Myers, where a home game Spring Training lineup features Josh Reddick, Jeff Bailey, Zach Daeges, Chip Ambres and Ivan Ochoa.
Ace Josh Beckett is nearing the completion of a three-inning outing. Jed Lowrie and Jacoby Ellsbury will make the trip to Port Charlotte tomorrow — "You'll see those guys on every trip," quipped Red Sox manager Terry Francona.
With the Marlins in town today, Alex Speier of WEEI.com used the timing element to write a nice blog entry on how close Manny Ramirez came to being a Marlin. Imagine how that could have changed the course of events? Would Manny still have wound up with the Dodgers this year? Would Manny have even approved a trade to the Marlins?
By the way, how utterly perplexing was Manny's comment at the presser yesterday: "Sometimes you're better off to have a two-year deal in a place that
you're going to be happy than have an eight-year deal in a place that
you're going to, you know, suffer."
Suffer? Really? Did Manny suffer while winning two World Series? Did he suffer while earning $160 million in Red Sox dollars? Did he suffer while getting the trophy as World Series MVP in 2004? Did he suffer as fans adored him unconditionally for eight years, many of them who would write e-mails to every sportswriter who had the audacity to dare criticize Manny for one of his indiscretions? Did he suffer while teaming with David Ortiz to form one of the most dynamic 3-4 punches of this generation?
Suffer?!? If Manny ever plays at Fenway again, he will probably be greeted with the loudest round of boos in Red Sox history.
I will say one thing though. I did not "suffer" covering Manny during his time in Boston. He is the best pure hitter I've ever seen, and was always amusing to observe and, even when he allowed, to interact with.
Classic Exodus
There was a different feel in the clubhouse at City of Palms Park this morning, as David Ortiz, Kevin Youkilis, Dustin Pedroia and Jason Bay were spending their final few hours in Fort Myers before going to the camps of their respective countries for the World Baseball Classic. Javy Lopez was also leaving camp, but Puerto Rico will train just down the road in Fort Myers for the next few days.
Meanwhile, Dice-K remains in Japan, where he's been all spring. He pitched for the second time in a game situation yesterday — or is it tomorrow in Japan ??? — giving up a hit and two walks over three shutout innings against the Yomiuri Giants. It was a relief appearance for the Dice Man.
By the way, Mr. Ortiz has a message for his teammate, but possible competitor during the Classic
going to take Dice-K deep for sure," chuckled Ortiz.
But Dustin Pedroia, whose TEAM USA squad will be playing in the same bracket as Canada in the first round, couldn't resist telling Jason Bay that his squad won't be around long.
"Pedroia told me to pack one pair of underwear," said Bay.
Speaking of Bay, he will play center field for Canada to allow his team to generate some more offense.
After those early-morning chats about the Classic, I trucked over here to Hammond Stadium for a tilt against the Twins. The Red Sox trotted out Pedroia, Ortiz and Youkilis in this one, and have a loaded arsenal of pitchers going today, including Josh Beckett, Tim Wakefield, Jonathan Papelbon, Hideki Okajima and Takashi Saito.
Youkilis (photo below) just smashed a homer to right-center, improving a swing that he felt had been "horse manure" in recent days.
Beckett had a nice easy stint, mowing down all six batters he faced. He didn't get to use his changeup because he was so efficient at being ahead in the count. Oh well, that's a problem Beckett and the Red Sox will gladly take.
Papelbon was impressive in his first exhibition outing, firing 10 pitches and mowing through the Twins in order.
Sox are in Fort Lauderdale tomorrow. I'm not scheduled to go on that trip, but I will pass along whatever updates I get.
Youk on the offense and Papi
Kevin Youkilis, aside from sporting his new Youk fu facial display, was in a good mood on Sunday as several reporters surrounded his locker.
He is not worked up about the lack of true sluggers beyond David Ortiz.
"I think the
key is if a guy doesn't hit for a lot of power, the key is, are they giving you
good at-bats? You have a guy like J.D. that can grind out at-bats and take
pitches and he can hit the longball with the best of them. Then you have guys
like Jason Bay, Mike Lowell, all the way down the line, we're going to grind it
out and have good at-bats. Jed Lowrie is a guy who can give great at-bats. That's
the key. Just try to have guys who are going to grind it out and we have that. Do
it the the Boston Red Sox way like we've done for years, that's our motto is
grind it out every day."
And the man they call Youuuuuukkkkkkkk is particularly intrigued by what Ortiz might accomplish with the full health back in his left wrist:
"It's huge," Youkilis said. "He
can drive in over 120 runs a year. If he stays healthy and drives in 120, 130,
140 and you have those guys in front of you, Jacoby and Pedey, they're going to
be on base. There's a lot of things you can do there."
And what about silencing the critics?
"David is going
to have a good year if he stays healthy. If he has his confidence, it's lights
out," Youkilis said. "The bottom
line with David is I would like David to go out there and honestly go out there
on the field and shut some people up. That's the best thing to do, for people
who have said, you can't do it, and he's getting old, I'd like for him to go
deep in the first three at-bats of the season."
The guy just gets it
How else to explain Dustin Pedroia? Could he have made more money if he had gone year to year and took arbitration for three years and then free agency following the 2012 season? Of course.
But Pedroia didn't take that into account when he opted to take the six-year, $40.5 million contact that includes an $11 million option for 2015. What he took into account is the fact that he loves Boston, he loves everything that comes with playing in Boston.
Pedroia loves playing under pressure. He loves playing in games that count. He loves losing to manager Terry Francona in cribbage. OK, maybe he wins those battles every now and then. He loves roaming around the clubhouse after a big home run, proclaiming himself as "the strongest 165-pound man in baseball."
It's good to know that the little man is set to become a fixture in this town for years going forward. And whenever Jason Varitek leaves the Red Sox or retires, we all know who the next captain is.
Now that Pedroia is in the fold, you wonder if guys like Kevin Youkilis, Jonathan Papelbon and Jon Lester will follow suit with deals that will keep them in a Boston uniform for many years.
Speaking of Pedroia, could this winter get any better for him? A Gold Glove. A Silver Slugger. An MVP. And now, $40.5 million worth of security.


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Updated May 7, 2014, but really, does it matter? — Erin Vang wrote, "Global Pragmatica still has a functioning copy of StatView 5 for Windows and can provide StatView data conversion to .txt, .xls, .jmp, etc. at a basic hourly rate."
Configurations Available: PowerPC for Mac OS 8 (discontinued); UNIX (runs on Macs in Terminal mode, command line only); no Mac support now.
Current Version: 6.1 (as of 1-24-06)
Listing updated: 12/2010
EQS was developed by Peter Bentler but is now distributed by MVSoft. On OS X, the UNIX version runs under the command line. In Europe, EQS is distributed by ProGamma.
The EQS web site now proclaims:
Due to incompatibilities between EQS for Macintosh and versions 9 and 10 of the Mac operating systems, we have discontinued sales of EQS for Mac.
Even though just after that they wrote:
EQS 6 for Mac UNIX is currently available and will work on any Mac with OS X. Unlike other Mac products with a graphical user interface, it, however, will only work in the UNIX mode of the Mac OS X.
Configurations: PPC or Intel
Current Version: 2.13
Software updated: 2008 or so
Listing updated: 9/2016
Fathom Dynamic Statistics was a software package designed for teaching basic statistics and data visualization in secondary and undergraduate classes. It appears to have been dropped around 2014.
Configurations: On-line
Listing updated: 11/2013
Forecaster Online is a Web-based data analysis tool specializing in business forecasting, with a relatively easy interface. Developer Prashant Telang wrote around 2010?, "We have kept it free and it will be free for at least the next year. We will be adding ANN and Monte Carlo in around three weeks [from December 15]."At the moment, the site appears dead and there is nothing but a generic place-holder page there.
Mac OS X, Linux, many other versions
Current version: 1.55 (parity)
Last revised: April 19, 2004
Listing updated: July, 2014
Mx is a very cross-platform package that even has an on-line and Unix server version; it is written by Michael Neal. While there is a graphic user interface for Windows, the writer recommends doing a server installation to allow for a graphic interface. (Thanks, Stephen J. Read) — consigned to the dead zone, though still available, in August 2010 due to six years without an update. (Updated July 2014, now ten years.)
Current Version: beta
Configurations Available: OS X, PPC or Intel
Listing updated: 11-13-08
It can do correlations, frequencies, descriptives, reliability, various t-tests, ANOVA, linear and canonical regression, factor analysis, K-means clustering, chi-squares, and various nonparametric tests. Plainstat is created and designed by Iyus A. Muslimin, statistician and Mac developer, who lived in Bandung, Indonesia.
Data is hard to type into the spreadsheet-style database at this point, but can easily be copied from spreadsheets such as Excel. Analysis is quick for small data sets and appears in an easy to read output bin in the main (and only) window; each analysis is added to a "table of contents" on the left side, along with the data. Output can be copied, but only without the column headings; it can also be exported to a tab-delimited plain text file for import into spreadsheets (or word processors, but since decimal points are fixed, that might not look very good). Data and value labels can be added via an inspector, a rare find in a free, simple program.
PlainStat might really be all you need — keeping in mind we have not yet verified its results by checking against a more established package. We're waiting with baited breath for the first release, which we hope will also have a facility for setting value and variable labels en masse.
The web site had been given up when we checked back in 2013.
Configurations: Windows; Linux; 68K, PPC, and Universal Binary (OS 7 still available!)
Pricing: 50 euros ($66 at time of writing)
Current Version: 4.3
Listing updated: 12/2009 (thanks, Bill Prinzmetal and Olivier Mericq)
StatisticS had a full graphical interface, does a decent variety of analyses (no regression but it has survival and various comparison tests), and the company infers it's geared to doctors looking to publish their results. It will run under Rosetta but with the usual potential accuracy issues. Data can be shown in spreadsheet mode and can be imported from Excel; it is smart enough to ask whether the first line contains value labels and the second contains definitions. Charting is instant and rather good and it's easy to restrict analyses by condition; clicking on a bar or a point of a chart leads you to the data window, and clicking in this window leads you to the complete observation. Overall it's a good buy - a bargain if you need what it can do - even if it requires some forethought to work with. As of 12/17/09, the company's web site had disappeared.
Configurations: Intel with Excel 2004, 2008, or 2011
Pricing: $250 commercial, $130 academic, $110 student; bulk rates exist
Current version: "5 final release" (was last seen at 5.4 in 2009) — labelled "2009 edition" in Dec. 2013
Listing updated: December 2013
Software last updated: 2009
StatPlus is based on a Windows program, but AnalystSoft reprogrammed it completely in Applescript, optimized for either Intel or PPC (which means it takes advantage of the G4 and G5's math capabilities). Because of this, it is fast and has none of the usual quirks of Windows ports.
StatPlus itself is a fairly small, fast-loading program that has a small number of menus — one that launches Excel; one that provides statistical analyses; and one that manipulates data. The analyses menu provides simple, easily understood categories, and underneath those are submenus with the actual operations. It's easy to learn, yet contains numerous statistical methods that are not normally provided by easy-to-learn software, including one, two, and three way ANOVAs, GLM models, and many other analyses. The Help system is fully developed, in a standard Mac format, and is moderately easy to read. Cleverly, StatPlus launches Excel automatically when you start it up, saving a step and making it seem more seamless.
This software does not appear to have been updated since 2009 and may not be functional on newer computers. We were unable to get a 2013 demo to work. A reader complained about lack of support. We wrote to the software author in late December 2013 and have not gotten a response.
Configurations Available: 68000; 68020; 680x0 with FPU; PowerPC native; X11
Current Version: 3.52 ?
Price: Free
XLisp-Stat is a statistics toolkit for researchers that is available on the Mac, MS-Windows and various UNIX systems (with the X window system). It was developed by Luke Tierney, University of Minnesota School of Statistics. The software home page was last updated in the 1990s and the FTP link doesn't work. The program seems to have stalled.
Lisp-Stat is an extensible statistical computing environment for data analysis, statistical instruction and research, ... Extensibility is achieved by basing Lisp-Stat on the Lisp language. ... Implementations of XLISP-STAT ... are available for the Macintosh, UNIX systems running X11, and for MS Windows.
If you have any of this software already and want to run it, try using a Mac OS emulator such as SheepShaver (for OS 7-9), or vMac (for OS 6 or 7). Without an emulator, few of these programs can be run on a current Mac.
|Compatiblity, last version
v. 1.34
|Free program for fitting multinomial binary tree models to frequency data; file-compatible with the MS-DOS "MBT" program.
v 2.0
|System design, simulation and analysis package developed by Tritera.
|Purchased by SPSS; Mac version dropped; sold by SPSS.
|Cricket Graph
|68K; v. 1.32 and III
Cricket Graph 1.32 works in Classic. It is still one of the easiest to use graphing programs, and has fast regression curve fitting that makes polynomial designs easy. CricketGraph files can be read by DataGraph.
|Data Loom
|Free data visualization program for multivariate data by Carl Manaster.
|68K; v2.0
Updated 2000
|FloStat provided basic analysis; it is still published by Senecio Software (as of April 2010).
v. 6.0
Updated 2005
$25 shareware for generalized linear models with a graphic suer interface. Has spreadsheet-style data entry, many plots and diagrams, statistics, and saving of model specifications.
|PPC; v. 8.7
Updated 2006
|("LInear Structural RELations"), developed by Karl Jöreskog and Dag Sörbom; the program for structural equation modeling for years. Version 8.7 had OS X compatibility; by 2008, all mentions of Mac versions were gone.
v 2.5
|MacCati was designed for web- and self-administered surveys, and ran in Java.
v. 1.5.5
|MacCurveFit fits a regression curve to user defined functions using least squares. Pricing remains the same as it was in 2003.
|68K: v3.1d3
|First 3D data visualization program for the Macintosh (and perhaps any personal computer).
|General purpose math program
|68K, PPC; v. 10
Updated 1997
Statistics package used mostly in education.
|PPC; v.6.12
|The last port worked in Classic. JMP is still available on Macs.
|StatSoft Statistica
Updated 1997
|In May 2007, it was still listed for sale on their web site. Caveat emptor, indeed! Statistica once went head to head with SPSS. (In 2010 the Mac version was gone, along with price lists.)
|$25 shareware with descriptive stats, histograms, student's t-test and linear regression, by Chris Pereira.
|68K, PPC; v5
|We miss these programs from Abacus Concepts! SAS bought the company and then dropped support in 2003. StatView and SuperANOVA were fast, capable, and easy to use, but did not have a syntax language.
Translating to and from StatView: Erin Vang wrote, "Global Pragmatica still has a functioning copy of StatView 5 for Windows and can provide StatView data conversion to .txt, .xls, .jmp, etc. at a basic hourly rate."
|68K; v5.21
|Bought by SPSS Inc, Mac version dropped, sold to Cranes (of India). A former SPSS employee wrote, "most of the developers that helped build the back end are in no way connected with the present company."
|Free program by Forrest Young, Mac version abandoned around 1999. Windows version later picked up by co-author Pedro M. Valero-Mora.
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