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posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 2:06 pm
I am writing a paper in which I estimated a mixture model used the randomization procedure new to M-Plus 3.0. I want to describe specifically how the start values are generated, but cannot find documentation either in the new manual or in the online technical appendix. Can you give me some information regarding how this is done? Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 5:16 pm
We have not yet written up all of the technical information related to Version 3. As we do, we will add it to the Technical Appendices on the website. If you look under STARTS in the Index of the Mplus User's Guide, there is a brief description.
posted on Friday, July 23, 2004 - 7:19 am
I really appreciate the addition of random starts to Mplus. A couple of questions so that I understand how to use this better:
In the manual it indicates that random starts are random perturbations around the user-specified or automatic start values for all parameters except variances and covariances. So are variances and covariances held constant at the user-specified or automatic values?
Also, the default for the STSCALE is 5 -- does that control the dispersion of the random perturbations? Is it the width of a uniform distribution, or is the metric in sds of a normal distribution, or something else? 5 is indicated to be a medium value, but I don't understand the scale.
posted on Friday, July 23, 2004 - 10:11 pm
The variances and covariances will get the same starting values across the different perturbation runs.
STSCALE controls the dispersion of the random perturbations by multiplying the a perturbation in the sds metric by a uniform distribution with that width. The rule of thumb is that if the default scale doesn't produce enough diverse solutions you would increase STSCALE, if it produces too many improper solutions, like classes collapsing and singular variances, you would decrease it. You can also get the perturbed starting values with OPTSEED and MITER=1. Tihomir
posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 6:42 am
I'm am trying to use the OPTSEED option to specify a start seed for a latent class analysis but cannot get MPLUS to run more than the default 500 iterations.
I've tried using MITERATIONS = 2000 but this doesn't seem to work with the OPTSEED option
could you please help?
Thank you
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 7:00 am
Please send your input, data, output, and license number to
so we can see what is happening. Also, include the output where you found the seed that you are using.
posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 5:16 am
I have a question with regard to starting values.
I have been running LCA with different sets of starting values in order to examine whether there exist different local maxima. i am a little unsure as to how to evaluate the tech8 output. do i simply check the column labelled 'loglikelihood at local maxima', and then examine whether there exist vast differences between the values?
in all my runs (with different sets of starting values), the loglikelihood values in that colum are almost identical and the estimated loglikelihood value listed along with the fit statistics is the same across all runs. does this mean I can be confident in the obtained solution in that it is not reaching too many different local maxima?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 8:07 am
I'm not sure if you are changing the starting values yourself. It sounds that way given that you are looking at TECH8 for each solution. You can use the STARTS option which will randomly generate sets of starting values. This option and related options are described in the user's guide on pages 436-438. On pages 325-328, you will find a description of how to know if you have found a good solution. Note that the new user's guide is available online.
Christian Geiser
posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 2:28 am
I have a question concerning the Mplus output with regard to random starts. I noticed that while Mplus versions 3 and 4 always provided the loglikelihood values, seeds, and initial stage start numbers for *all* sets of starting values (initial + final stage of the optimization), Mplus 5 provides this information only for the final stage of the optimization. Is there a way to make the initial stage starting value information available in Mplus 5 in addition to the final stage values (other than TECH8)?
(I am teaching LCA with Mplus 5 and for didactic reasons, it would be nice to have both sets in the output to illustrate what is done in order to avoid local maxima.)
Thank you very much in advance!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 10:03 am
We decided to delete the initial starts because with faster computers and more complex models many starts are being used and the output is lengthy. Plus we typically didn't look at the values of the initial starts. For instance, the final set of values tells us how many fewer random starts we might have been able to get away with. There is not a way to make them available in Version 5. So the pedagogical presentation would have to draw on displays outside the output.
Sanjoy Bhattacharjee
posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 8:32 pm
Professor(s) Muthen,
I am running "LCA with covariates" model. The model estimation terminated normally. However, I got the following warning "WARNING: THE BEST LOGLIKELIHOOD VALUE WAS NOT REPLICATED. THE SOLUTION MAY NOT BE TRUSTWORTHY DUE TO LOCAL MAXIMA. INCREASE THE NUMBER OF RANDOM STARTS."
I tried with four different STARTS: (500 10), (1000 10) (500 20), (1000 20) with STITERATIONS=20, however I keep getting the same warning.
With (1000 10) the Log-likelihood values at local maxima, seeds, and initial stage start numbers are the following:
-1076.170 863691 481
-1083.083 366533 484
-1083.703 928287 197
-1085.223 349263 263
-1085.545 61587 400
-1086.163 352277 42
-1090.509 479273 156
-1091.846 275475 413
-1094.520 888905 444
-1100.841 879211 453
Q1. How diverse these likelihood values are? Can I submit the result claiming that we reach global rather than local maxima? If not how should I proceed?
Q2. How should I use the option �OPTSEED� and analyze the result. Could you suggest some example?
I am using MPlus 4.
Thanks and regards
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, August 23, 2008 - 9:59 am
There have been so many changes between Version 4 and Version 5.1 that it is difficult to say what is happening. I recommend getting Version 5.1.
Jungeun Lee
posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 1:03 pm
Regarding "Anonymous posted on Friday, July 23, 2004 - 10:11 pm ", what does "diverse soultions" mean in the sentence "the default scale doesn't produce enough diverse solutions"? Diverse seeds? diverse LL? or something else? Thanks!!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 3:25 pm
Diverse LL values. - Which is a function of the diversity of the starting values.
Ruixue Wang
posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 12:37 pm
Hi,I have couple of questions about tech8 and starts value.
Final stage loglikelihood values at local maxima, seeds, and initial stage start numbers:
-4545.804 569131 26
-4545.804 608496 4
Here I know the final stage use the starts number 26 and 4 from initial stage. But what's seeds, how does mplus generate seeds? Can I use seeds to identify the exact starting value?
2.In tech8
How can I find what's the starting value in set 1? Is it random value? Can I specify the starting value? The iter is 3. Does Mplus run 3 iter only or it stops when the abs change is small enough?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 2:03 pm
The seed is a random variable that determines what the starting values will be. So for your first LL value of -4545.804 the seed is 569131. You can use this seed in a new run to get those starting values, saying
You can see the starting values in the Tech1 output.
Mplus runs iterations until the first-order derivatives are small enough.
Ruixue Wang
posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 2:22 pm
thank you.
Is that possible to decide what the start value by myself?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 2:41 pm
Yes. Just give them and say STARTS=0.
Ruixue Wang
posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 2:48 pm
sorry I don't understand.
I mean how to set the start value from the very beginning.you mean use starts=0,then give the starts value(such as 39 15 3)to what?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 3:50 pm
No, you give start values for the parameters in the usual way, such as
Ruixue Wang
posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 4:41 pm
thanks. IF I want to setup several start values, is it [i*1.5 1.6];or [i*1.5];[i*1.6];?can you tell me which part of users guide introduce this concept:random or fixed start values?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 5:26 pm
You can give only one starting value for a parameter.
Jeremiah Schumm
posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 11:10 am
Dear Bengt and Linda,
I have been trying to compare a 2 versus a 3 class mixture model. The 2 class model converged appropropriately, showed a repetition of the best log likelihood value, had lower BIC, and a had significant bootstrapped likelihood ratio test all favoring the 2 versus 1 class model.
To attempt to obtain a repetition of the lowest log likelihood value for the 3 class model, I increased the initial random starts to 1000 and final stage optimizations to 10. I also increased the initial stage iterations to 20. This still did not result in a repetition of the lowest log likelihood value.
Therefore, I followed the suggestion in the user guide and used the optseed command to examine the parameter estimates in the model solutions. These model solutions showed different estimates for each seed. The Mplus user guide suggests that this indicates that the model is not well-defined, possibly due to there being too many classes.
Are there any other steps or recommendations that you would have to trying to acheive a replicated lowest log likelihood value before I conclude that the 3 class model is not well-defined and go with the 2 class model?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 5:22 pm
The final stage optimizations should be about one fourth of the random starts. I would try 1000 250 or even 2000 500.
Jeremiah Schumm
posted on Friday, July 01, 2011 - 6:36 am
Linda, thank you for your reply. I was able to acheive model replication by trying your suggestion of increasing the starts to 2000 and final stage optimization to 500. I will keep this ratio in mind for future analyses.
posted on Thursday, March 08, 2012 - 7:06 pm
Dear Bengt and Linda,
I am trying to follow the example in 7.6 for my study.
1) How should I determine starting values? In addition,the example in the manual also assign negative values to some variables but not others. I can't find further explanation about this in the manual.
2) Does Mplus automatic starting values with random starts take care of the problem associate with "converge on local solutions"
Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 09, 2012 - 12:25 pm
1. This example uses starting values but not random starts. This would usually occur when an analysis in in the final stages and one does not want a lot of random starts so uses starting values and no random starts to speed things up. You would take the starting values from the analysis.
3. Using random starts and the Mplus default starting values will help to avoid local solutions.
posted on Friday, March 09, 2012 - 7:47 pm
Thank you very much for this prompt reply.
posted on Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 9:05 am
Dear Professor Muthens,
I previously did not mention that there are 60 variables with 4-point, 3-point, and binary indicators in my study. When I used default starting values with random starts, I got the following message:
I am really confused with deciding threshold starting values.
The manual use 1 and -1 or binary; 0.5 and 1, -0.5 and 0 to three-category indicators. I am not sure if I assign correct threshold starting values to my 9 indicators with 4-point scale:
[u1-u5$1*0.33 u6-u9$1*-0.33];
[u1-u5$2*0.66 u6-u9$2*0];
[u1-u5$3*1 u6-u9$3*0.33];
Thank you
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 9:19 am
If you do not have knowledge of what the starting values should be, use the default starting values. The message means you should increase the random starts using the STARTS option, for example,
posted on Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 9:49 am
Thank you.
posted on Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 10:57 am
I got error message after adding
*** ERROR in VARIABLE command
Unknown option:
I tried different ways to get rid of the problem, but it kept showing the same error message.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 11:00 am
STARTS belongs in the ANALYSIS command.
Julia Lee
posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 7:30 am
I am running an LTA with 5 classes and I am using STARTS = 800 40; The output did not include the final stage loglikelihood values. Is it because the model was not terminated normally? I did not see the message about normal termination. From covariance, the output jumped straight to model fit information. Thank you for your advice.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 8:16 am
I would need to see the output to understand why this happened. Please send it and your license number to
kelly kenzik
posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 1:34 pm
I am testing several latent class mixture models with categorical indicators for 2 latent factors. (u1-u21 has 3 categories and u22-36 has 4 categories)
Sample set up code for allowing the variance and covariance to vary across classes looks like this:
algorithm=integration; integ=7;estimator=mlr;
starts= 1000 250;
f1 by u1-21;
f2 by u22-36;
f1-f2; f1 with f2;
f1-f2; f1 with f2;
f1-f2; f1 with f2;
I have had success with having the means vary (variance and cov invariant across classes) but I am trying to determine if there is a way to use my start values from the basic latent class model to speed up the analysis? I know using the SVALUES gives this information and I have used it previously to change my reference class. Are these start values usable for the more complex variations?
Thanks for any help!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 2:05 pm
You can use them but I don't think they are useful here because your solution with free factor covariance matrices may be quite different.
But - are you holding the factor means at zero and the thresholds invariant across classes? That seems very restrictive.
kelly kenzik
posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 5:54 pm
Thanks for the quick response. I had a feeling that would be the case.
I am looking at different variations- my next model frees factor loadings, thresholds, and variances.
I was just concerned because with the current model, 4 classes is taking upwards of 8-10hrs and I assume the less restrictions I place the longer the model will take.
kelly kenzik
posted on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 5:22 am
Dr. Muthen- Just to ammend/update my previous post (and to thank you) part of my 10hr run was a technical problem i just realized.
Also per your comment on being too restrictive, I started to think that that was the reason the loglikelihoods were not replicating even with max random starts.
I allowed the thresholds and means to vary and the model completed with LL replicated within 3 hours for 4 classes.
Does this just mean my data does not fit the more restricted models? And I would report that the LL were not replicated in the restricted models?
Thank you!!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, January 11, 2013 - 4:03 pm
Note that when you allow the thresholds to vary across the classes, the factor means must be fixed at zero in all classes for the model to be identified.
I think your earlier model had the thresholds equal across classes and the factor means fixed at zero for all classes. Such a model does not seem meaningful so should not be considered.
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She might be in a hospital.
She might be in a hospital.
She is on FB. I think she got fed up with the Politics forum here.
The SCI-Nurses are advanced practice nurses specializing in SCI/D care. They are available to answer questions, provide education, and make suggestions which you should always discuss with your physician/primary health care provider before implementing. Medical diagnosis is not provided, nor do the SCI-Nurses provide nursing or medical care through their responses on the CareCure forums.
She said on Facebook that she has major medical issues.
She said on Facebook she is getting IV antibiotics, so that sounds like she's in a hospital.
She has been quite a frequent poster on Care Cure Community. Aside from being fed up with the Politics forum (who wouldn't be, hopefully in the new iteration of Care Cure Community it will go away altogether).
The SCI Nurses or any Mod. knows the exact date and time that Lynnifer (or any of us) ever posted here. Maybe they will respond with that information instead of the FaceBook information, i.e., Post # 2 this thread.
She did say in the Politics forum earlier that her leg was getting infected again and she was watching some sort of tell-tale signs of it getting worse. I guess it got worse. See, Politics Forum is good! lol
She has gone thru so much for so long. May she find happiness and health.
Andy's defense of it is not humorous or helpful, typical of the bullshit there.
And if you're reading this Lynnifer, please hang in there. We could use you here!
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- The FBI says the man is a member of the MS-13 gang
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A Salvadoran national recently added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list for allegedly committing a 2011 murder in Colorado is under arrest, the FBI announced Wednesday.
Edwin Ernesto Rivera Gracias was in El Salvador and after voluntarily agreeing to return to the United States to face charges he was flown to Denver on Wednesday, according to the FBI. He surrendered to Salvadoran authorities and FBI agents on Tuesday, said FBI spokesman Dave Joly.
Rivera Gracias is accused of killing Richard Limon, 69, in August 2011. Law enforcement officials alleged that Rivera Gracias choked, beat and stabbed the man and then dumped his body in the mountains outside of Denver. According to the FBI, Limon was a long-tme family acquaintance of Rivera Gracias' teenage girlfriend.
Rivera Gracias was in the United States allegedly illegally at the time of the Limon murder. The FBI described the suspect as between the age of 29 and 33 and said he was a member of the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 gang. He is said to have a number of tattoos including one of "MS-13" across his back.
MS-13 originated in Los Angeles 20 years ago among Salvadoran immigrants fleeing the country's civil war. The government says it has now grown to about 10,000 members in the United States.
In October, the Obama administration named the organization a transnational criminal enterprise, with the goal of freezing millions of dollars in profits from drug and sex trafficking operations.
Rivera Gracias was added to the FBI's Top 10 list on March 14 and at that time law enforcement officials said they believed he had fled to his native country. The FBI announced a reward of $100,000 for information leading to his arrest.
It's unclear if anyone will be receiving that reward money for tips provided in the case. In Wednesday's announcement the FBI said "further reward information will not be made public."
The FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list was launched in 1950. The program seeks to publicize terrible crimes and get tips that lead to arrests. Rivera Gracias was the 498th person to make the roster.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was on the list until he was killed in Pakistan during a May 2011 raid by U.S. forces. Alleged Boston mob figure James "Whitey" Bulger spent more than a decade on the list and ultimately was captured in June 2011 in Santa Monica, California.


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We want you to throw big parties, tell us about it, and win big (big!) prizes from Le Creuset. (Find out more here.)
We are thrilled to announce that arielleclementine's will be our first Big Feast! We'll be rolling out posts from her smashing party all week long. Arielleclementine, if you don't know her, is an excellent blogger, and always a cheerleader for her fellow home cooks on FOOD52. And sometimes, when we are very lucky, she treats us to photos of her adorable baby Henry, melting our hearts into puddly nothings every single time. Like this:
And now, without further ado, welcome to Big Feast! Take it away, Arielle.
Arielle's Big Feast
As a teenage girl, I could usually be found in one of two places. When I wasn't sprawled out at my best friend Molly's eating Nutty Bars and watching Ricki Lake, I was poring over cookbooks and studying all things Martha Stewart (there's not a lot to do in rural Buda, Texas). Even though in those days I dreamed of being a high-powered bureaucrat working in the Office of Management and Budget (I don't know why I was so specific about that), I also aspired to be the sort of über-hostess who greets her guests at the door with a shiny platter of warm gougères. Now I'm 28. I worked in politics fresh out of college and absolutely hated it, but my love of entertaining has remained. I never gave up my Martha addiction, and have used every birthday and gift-giving holiday to stockpile white platters and pieces of cooking equipment. Thus, I have a reputation amongst my friends as the person you go to for help with party planning. So when Molly -- still a best friend -- asked for my help planning a surprise 30th birthday party for her boyfriend, I was thrilled to have a big event to daydream about.
The birthday boy, Dustin, loves so many geeky-cool things that we initially struggled to pick a theme: Star Wars? Comics? Video Games? Lord of the Rings? I spent several nights brainstorming, but I just wasn't feeling inspired. Much to my husband's dismay, I'm not a Star Wars fan. The only food-related thing I could remember from the movies was a blue milk-type drink, which is possibly the least appetizing thing ever. Lord of the Rings has rich food-pairing potential, but lately we've been gathering together on Sunday nights for a pre-Downton Abbey English-themed meal, so I'd used up most of my Tolkien-esque material. Then, finally, inspiration struck...
(Some inspiring petri dishes!)
Dustin, a biotechnologist, loves all things science. He routinely posts links to various bits of science-geekery on Facebook: pictures of Earth from space, nanotechnology for waterproofing sneakers, etc. What if we made a Science!-themed party? Molecular gastronomy techniques, food in petri dishes, drinks in test tubes -- the works?! Yes! We were off and running. Let the brainstorming begin! I remembered that I'd seen an episode of Made in Spain that featured some very science-y dishes from José Andrés' DC restaurant, Minibar. One in particular stuck with me -- a caprese "skewer" where the skewer was actually a pipette filled with a mozzarella cream that you squeezed into your mouth as you nibbled at the tomato and basil. Reading about temples of molecular gastronomy like Alinea and El Bulli, I became enthralled with the idea of a meal that could so surprise and delight you. Yes, I love simple food, deliciously prepared with the finest ingredients. But there's something magical about biting into something you think is an olive, only to have it be a spherical packet of intensely-flavored olive juice. I haven't had the chance to eat at any of these restaurants, but thanks to the internet, the chemicals and recipes needed to create these experiences at home are just a few clicks away! I was thrilled at the prospect of trying my hand at molecular gastronomy, and even more excited to do it with my closest friends!
To begin planning the menu, I thought back to the dishes I'd read about or seen on television. We would definitely have a course where a pipette was used as a skewer. And fortuitously, just before we started planning the party, an episode of Top Chef aired with a quickfire challenge involving Nathan Myhrvold's mammoth Modernist Cuisine book. I remembered three dishes in particular that I thought I could emulate: a dish with powdered olive oil, another with a dill "caviar" (involving a technique called spherification), and a Miracle Berry tasting plate (though it sounds like something you'd take at a rave, Miracle Berry is a totally legit pill that makes everything taste sweet for an hour or two). I had ideas for four courses already! Through random googling, I came across an idea for serving jello shots in petri dishes. But this was a gougères-on-shiny-platters-kind of party, so I would fill my petri dishes with a savory gelée instead, inspired by an item on the Uchi menu. So I had five courses all sorted out. Petri dishes and pipettes! This was really starting to sound science-y.
Little by little, the menu began to take shape. A Food52 article on Super Bowl fare reminded me of Oui, Chef's ridiculously delicious herbed beef skewers -- sublime party fare that, along with the horseradish cream, lent themselves perfectly to the pipette course. Along the way, I discovered a very helpful site that yielded ideas for a cheese course that would be a natural place to feature powdered olive oil and spherified honey, in addition to grapes that had been carbonated with dry ice. Amanda's mention of popped sorghum on the FOOD52 "52" got me thinking about a plate of miniaturized fair foods. And when I was ready to purchase the chemicals for the faux caviar and the powdered olive oil, I made a last-minute impulse purchase of some unflavored pop rocks to incorporate into another savory course. Top it off with KelseyTheNaptimeChef's chocolate cake decorated to look like the periodic table, and we had ourselves the start of a seven-course feast!
After much, much more tinkering, I finally had a working menu. To help plan, I typed up the menu with links to recipes I'd be using that I hadn't made before. I wrote up a shopping list for items I would need, with sections for the farmers' market and grocery store, including when the items would need to be purchased (for example, the meat I used was purchased at the farmers' market the week before the party because it is sold frozen, so I needed lead time to defrost it). I sketched (and my sister Helenthenanny resketched -- she's a much tidier artist than me!) pictures of what the courses would look like, so I could get a sense of what equipment I would need to plate each dish, and so I could make sure I had enough serving pieces to make every course look the way I envisioned it. Lastly, I made up a to-do list for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (the day of the party), with the bullets listing everything that needed to be done in the order I would need to do it.
I know it sounds like a lot, but all this planning really helped me keep cool and stay on task during the hours of prep work. Planning the party was such fun -- I can't wait to show you how it turned out!
Stay tuned for future posts about my first attempts to powder-ize and sphere-ify things, all leading up to the Big Feast itself.
Le Creuset has generously offered to reward our Big Feasters for all their hard work, and as our first Big Feast, Arielle will win, in the color of her choice (flame, cherry, fennel, or cassis): a 4 1/2-quart round French oven, a 10 1/4-inch iron handle skillet, and a 2 3/4-quart precision pour pan. Pitch us your Big Feast at [email protected] for a chance to win $500 in Le Creuset booty.
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Gotham city is an odd place: nightfall seems to operate independently of the circadian clock and criminal alter-egos are so common that the guy dressed up like a bat to fight crime barely even registers as unusual. But why is Gotham the way that it is?
Today we took a look at 20 of the enemies who posed the least credible threats to Batman. The thing is, a lot of them had hobbies and interests that aren't too far off from our own, but instead of taking up coin-collecting or adopting a cat from their local ASPCA, they tried to crush Batman with a giant penny or dubbed themselves The King of Cats. So what gives, Gotham?
A Batman theory I'm quite proud of: The Joker actually successfully poisoned all of Gotham with a mild version of his gas at one point, and as a result the whole city is mildly insane. Including the whole Batfamily. It explains why so many ordinary people in Gotham randomly decide to create alter egos, dress up, and commit crimes using obviously flawed schemes.
I'm fairly sure that was a subtext of Nolan's Batman Begins. Once you accept that the entire city is slightly-to-moderately deranged, (and Bruce more than any of them) it all makes more sense.
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Everyone loves football games that come with a built-in subplot, so it's no surprise that yesterday's Bears-Rams game received some extra hype due to the brother-on-brother matchup of defensive end Chris Long and offensive guard Kyle Long. Two brothers enter, but only one can win! It'll be just like when they used to throw the ol' pigskin around in the front yard!
But it turns out that having to play against one's brother in an NFL game isn't really all that fun. The Long brothers never really touched each other during the game, save for one instance when Chris Long came sprinting off the sideline to pull his brother out of a potential brawl.
After the game, Chris Long told the Chicago Tribune just how not-fun having to play against his brother was:
"That was a hell of a week," Chris said while exhaling after the Rams' 42-21 victory over the Bears. "It's not fun. I don't want to play my brother. I don't find it fun to have to compete against your brother in a game where it is so violent.
On the one hand, it's nice to know that Chris Long doesn't enjoy being violent with his brother, on the other hand: I'm making a sad face right now.


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Irving, TX: Old-fashioned Burgers Still Hit the Spot at Griff's
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Want Fries with That? Made from frozen, but are crispy, hot, and ketchup-ready
Price: Hamburger, $1.19; double cheeseburger, $3.89, medium fries, $1.69; onion rings, $2.19; milkshake, $2.59
Notes: Around a dozen locations left from Arizona to Louisiana.
The American landscape is littered with the skeletons and ghosts of dead burger chains. Odds are you've eaten in an old Burger Chef at least once in your life, even if you don't know it. And if you haven't had Mexican seafood in what used to be a Hardee's, you haven't lived. Burger joints are born, burger joints die, and the cycle continues. But sometimes a chain doesn't quite disappear. Instead it lingers on, as if on life support, known only to a lucky few. Griff's Hamburgers is perhaps the perfect example.
Once an extremely popular chain in the southwest United States, Griff's is now down to around a dozen locations scattered around the area from Colorado to Louisiana, with the bulk of the stores centered around "corporate headquarters"—one imagines, the back room of a restaurant—in Dallas, Texas. With no website, much less an advertising budget, Griff's relies on a mixture of word-of-mouth and their somewhat creepy mascot "Griffy" to lure patrons into what are quite often crumbling A-frame restaurants. Once inside, though, one will discover burgers as they used to be: juicy, cheap, filling, rough, fast, basic—and delicious.
Understand this: Griff's isn't going for the ironically old-school, retro look. If something looks like it hasn't changed since the 1970s, that's almost certainly because it hasn't—and if it hasn't, that's almost certainly out of necessity (or neglect) rather than out of historical respect. At most Griff's locations you're experiencing fast food as it once was: Formica, tickets and loudspeakers, Styrofoam—and enough saturated fat to stun a gazelle.
Squeeze past the Ms. Pac Man or Galaga machine, and step up to order. Barring the occasional special, like pepper-cheese tots, the only thing to change in decades is the price list. These have kept track of inflation but little more than that—you can get a classic burger-fries-shake meal here and get significant change for $10.
Patties, crisped nicely on a flat-top, are styled as "Giant" and probably were when they were first hewn in the 1960s. These days they'd be considered positively petite at a quarter pound or less. (Tellingly, the default combo on the menu is for a double.) Small they might be, but these burgers are things of beauty with the right balance of crust and juiciness, even though they're cooked well-done.
Don't mistake the modest size for a healthy option (particularly if, like me, you go all-out Texan and add bacon and jalapeños to the mix). From first bite to last, the juiciness remains. External sear, coupled with grease, does a splendid job at providing the bulk of the flavor on the barely-seasoned patties. Within your lightly toasted, unapologetically industrial bun you'll also find your choice of Texan staples mayo or mustard, surprisingly fresh lettuce, a small scattering of onions, and some completely extraneous tomato. If it's not the burger you grew up with, it's damn close.
The notably crisp french fries may not win any awards, but they do exactly what they're intended to do: provide a nice contrast of flavor and texture against your now-soggy burger and serve as an excellent conduit for the plastic-bottle ketchup.
The milkshakes are perfectly fine. Thick and flavorful with a few ice crystals, they're perhaps the only thing on the menu that could be called expensive at $2.59.
To be frank, Griff's would get along fine without your business. Far from its heyday of being a traveler's favorite, remaining locations are nearly all neighborhood joints, away from the highways, visited only by a loyal band of locals. Regulars come here, order their usual, and step up to take their paper sack before their number is called. The rest of us might feel like we're in some kind of living burger museum. In a sense, we are, but it's one that you'll always leave satisfied. And we'll miss it when it's gone.
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A few years ago I made a video on YouTube called Lost Adventures of the Blue Cow, which is a parody of the Blue Cow Story segment of the CBeebies show Story Makers.
It's the second-most watched video on my channel and I've been getting requests for a sequel.
One of the ideas I've been playing with on my long walks to work is a cow based parody of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, which I've called Meaty Mooin' Cow-er Rangers.
All I have to do is re-colour copies of the Blue Cow into any other colours I need and I've got all the characters I need. Plus a disembodied head who lives in the water cooler. He's their mentor.


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There have been some incredible eating experiences, unforgettable with tastes that I can still remember as if I had just eaten them.
When I get home, though, there's always one thing I crave. Whether I walk in the door at six in the morning or midnight I always reach for a saucepan, pop some toast in the toaster and scramble some eggs.
It's a hugely comforting and easy and yet deceptively luxurious dish. I don't gild the lily either – no smoked salmon, truffle or cream for me. The method though, is key – patience is required.
I take 3 eggs (medium size) and whisk till smooth. I add pepper, no salt at this stage as it prevents the eggs from coming together. I melt butter in a saucepan over a medium heat and then pour in my eggs, stirring
I don't rush, I don't turn the heat up, I just let it do its magic, thickening slowly, until it finally comes together at which point I season it well, remove it from the heat and spoon it only toast thick with butter. This is, after all, my comfort food.


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Ashley Broadway, left, married her 15-year companion, Lt. Col. Heather Mack, in November — their first chance to hold a formal ceremony after the 2011 repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell."
Marine Corps leaders have directed their legal teams to alert spouses clubs at all Marine bases to begin allowing same-sex spouses as members if those social groups want to continue operating on Marine installations, Marine officials confirmed to NBC News Wednesday evening.
In an all-hands memo to legal offices across the branch, the Marine commandant's Staff Judge Advocate warned against discrimination based on sexual orientation, and he specifically mentioned a controversial decision made last month by the officers' spouses club at the Army's Fort Bragg to deny access to the same-sex spouse of a female Army lieutenant.
NBC News reported Dec. 14 that Ashley Broadway, the newlywed wife of Lt. Col. Heather Mack, was blocked from joining the spouses club at Fort Bragg, N.C., sparking accusations from a national military spouses organization that Broadway was being blackballed only because she is a lesbian.
The Marine memo, issued Tuesday, described the Fort Bragg club's stance as having "caused quite a stir" and added, "We do not want a story like this developing in our backyard," confirmed Capt. Eric Flanagan, a Marine Corps spokesman.
"The order was pretty much using (the Fort Bragg events) as an example to clarify our policy," Flanagan said. "We stated that the policy is to be non-discriminatory.
"We don't control what (the spouses clubs) do. But they get support from the Marine Corps so that they can hold their meetings on base or at Department of Defense facilities. So, in order to do that, they do have to follow Marine Corp policies," he added. "We expect that all who are interested in supporting Marine Corps family readiness would be welcome to participate and will be treated with dignity and respect."
Broadway married Mack, her 15-year companion, in November — their first chance to hold a formal ceremony after the 2011 repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the policy that kept gays from openly serving in the military. The couple has a 2-year-old son and Mack, who is pregnant, is expected to deliver their second child this month.
"I commend the commandant and the Marine officials for being able to take a look and really think about what is going on, and basically realizing that, hey, we've got same-sex Marines that are married, and we need to support their families," Broadway told NBC News on Wednesday night.
"This is a huge step in the right direction. I applaud them."
Broadway, who recently met with the garrison commander at Fort Bragg in her continuing bid to gain membership to the officers spouses club, remains banned from attending the group's functions. But she said the Marine Corp's re-emphasized policy could apply public pressure on Army officials to take the same approach.
"I would imagine so. I would probably say the Navy would follow suit and then the Air Force and the Army will take a look and say, you know what, this is the right thing," Broadway said. "As a loyal Army wife, I would have liked to have seen it from my own branch first. But hey, I'm very excited for my Marine brothers and sisters."


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A gourmet menu in Spain's Heritage Cities
"Papas arrugás" (wrinkled potatoes) with mojo sauce, a typical dish in San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Madrid-style "Callos" (tripe), very popular in Alcalá de Henares
"A feira" octopus, typical in Santiago de Compostela
"Ensaimada", a typical sweet in Ibiza
We suggest you start with Iberian cured ham, gazpacho and Manchego cheese; then continue with dishes such as roast suckling pig served with fresh vegetables sautéed with olive oil, or some quality seafood. And for dessert, traditional sweets and tropical fruit. All accompanied by designation of origin wine. Sounds good, doesn't it? These are just examples of what you could be trying as you explore Spain's Heritage Cities. If you want to discover the rest of the menu, then keep reading. Exquisite gastronomy is yet another reason to visit one or more of these 15 cities.
UNESCO has given them a special distinction for their wealth of heritage and monuments. Here we suggest you also discover them through the diversity of their cuisine. Being spread throughout Spain, these cities offer a wide variety of gastronomy, representing the different specialities of each area. Why not discover them with a "gastronomic menu" that will ensure that your trip to Alcalá de Henares, Ávila, Cáceres, Cordoba, Cuenca, Ibiza, Mérida, Salamanca, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Tarragona, Toledo, Úbeda and Baeza leaves the finest of aftertastes.
To start off, there are a range of flavours depending on the city in question. In Santiago de Compostela, try "a feira" octopus as a starter. In San Cristóbal de La Laguna, there are the typical "papas arrugás" (wrinkled potatoes) with mojo sauce from the Canary Islands. In Cordoba, we would recommend "salmorejo" (type of gazpacho) and in Ávila, "patatas revolconas" (potatoes poached with onions and peppers). Something missing? Of course, one of Spain's most typical foods: ham, which has its own designation of origin in Salamanca (Guijuelo Ham) and in Mérida and Cáceres (Dehesa de Extremadura Ham).
The menu for starters is completed by all kinds of cured meats, mainly pork, and with designation of origin cheeses such as Mahón cheese, from Ibiza, and Manchego cheese, typical in Toledo and Cuenca. Not to be forgotten, of course, is the "pincho" (small portion) of potato omelette, very popular in the Region of Madrid, which is where Alcalá de Henares is situated. Pipirrana (a cold tomato dish) is typical of the Úbeda and Baeza area. Any variety of olive is also essential in these cities (green, black and ergot).
Meat has an important place on the "gastronomic menu" of Spain's Heritage Cities. In Castile-León, be sure to try Ávila T-bone steak, roast suckling pig in Segovia and fried kid in Salamanca. In Mérida and Cáceres we would recommend "migas extremeñas" (fried breadcrumb dish) and partridge.
In Spain's Heritage Cities you can also sample other meat dishes such as stewed bull's tail and "flamenquín" (fried serrano ham and cheese roll) in Cordoba; and pork shoulder with turnips, highly recommended in Santiago de Compostela. In Úbeda you can try delicious marinated partridge.
Other specialities not to be missed are: Madrid-style "cocido" (chick pea casserole) and "callos" (tripe) in Alcalá de Henares, garlic soup and La Mancha-style "pisto" (ratatouille) in Toledo, Armuña lentils in Salamanca, designation of origin beans in Ávila, and broad bean and chickpea casserole in Baeza.
Fish and shellfish
In Santiago de Compostela, Ibiza and Tarragona, the fruits of the sea take on special importance. In the first of the three you will find shellfish all year round. Scallops, barnacles, spider crabs… and local wines to accompany them. Santiago de Compostela has everything for a perfect seafood extravaganza.
Tarragona is outstanding for fish with its Tarragona Blue Fish designation of origin. To sample it, we would recommend "romesco de pescado" (a rich seafood casserole). In Ibiza, the menu has scorpion fish cooked with herbs, lobster casserole and Ibiza-style tuna, amongst others.
There is good fish to be had at cities inland, too. In Cuenca, trout is typical, and in Cáceres, fried tench. Even in Alcalá de Henares you can enjoy seafood dishes. Pickled sardines and garlic-fried prawns, for example. Baeza-style cod is a typical casserole in Baeza. This fish is usually added to "andrajos" stew in Úbeda.
And to finish off... varied, exquisite sweets. A few recommendations would be "ensaimada" (type of pastry) which you will find in Ibiza, Cordoba tart in Cordoba, "buñuelos" (fritters) in Mérida and Cáceres, sugar-coated almonds in Alcalá de Henares, "alajú" (with bread, almonds, walnuts and honey) in Cuenca, "yemas de Ávila" (made with egg-yolk and cinnamon), Santiago tart in Santiago de Compostela, marzipan in Toledo, "gachas dulces" (anise-flavoured sweet) in Úbeda, and "virolos" (puff pastry) in Baeza.
If fruit is more your thing, then don't leave Alcalá de Henares without trying strawberries from nearby Aranjuez; nor, of course, should you leave San Cristóbal without sampling the bananas and huge variety of tropical fruits to be found on the Canary Islands.
These are a few of the delights that await you in Spain's Heritage Cities, but there are many more. If you want more information on them, go to regional gastronomy, but if you want to sample them and do them justice, then come to Spain and discover another side of these cities' heritage: their gastronomy.
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At times, I don't know how either of these teams
could win a game, much less a playoff series.
The Bulls and Philadelphia 76ers offered a painful exhibition of bad shots, bad shot selection, bad defense and bad ball handling.
But someone had to win Game 4 of this first-round series Sunday, and that someone was Spencer Hawes. At least, in the first half, when Hawes made seven baskets.
And then in the fourth quarter, it was Jrue Holliday, who poured in 10, including back-to-back killer threes that gave the 76ers a seven-point lead they rode to an 89-82 win and a three-games-to-one lead.
I'll say this: The Bulls were game.
I'll also say this: They just didn't have enough game without Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah.
That's what you'd expect with the Bulls' missing their best player and their best rebounder and most active defensive presence.
What you didn't expect was such a close game so late. But that's largely due to a 76ers team that just isn't very good, even when it has everything going its way, including another afternoon start when the Bulls didn't show up.
After again failing to wake up for a noon tipoff, the Bulls got 10 straight points off the bench from Taj Gibson to help wipe out a nine-point first-quarter deficit. They were game, alright.
In the second half, C.J. Watson rained down 17 points. Yes, that C.J. Watson, the one who hadn't scored since Tuesday. They were still game, indeed, and they were also getting a game from Carlos Boozer, who finished with a team-high 23 points and 11 rebounds.
But Luol Deng and Richard Hamilton combined to miss 12 of 20 shots. Deng has been playing with a torn ligament in his left wrist that he appeared to injure badly on a fall in the first half. I don't know what Hamilton's excuse is.
Whatever, if that's what your veteran leaders are going to do, you have no chance.
The frustrating part is that the Bulls did have a chance, for whatever one win might've meant. They had leads in the second half. They were forcing the 76ers into a halfcourt offense they cannot execute. They were within a basket with 2:05 to go.
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Then, pffft.
That's when the greatest frustration sets in, even with an undermanned team. The Bulls failed to finish. Again. It's not so much the offense as the defense. They gave up 25 points in the final period. That's when this team had been at its best in the regular season. But in the last three playoff games, the Bulls have been outscored 79-56 in the fourth quarter.
Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau indicated unhappiness with the officiating after the 76ers made more free throws than the Bulls were allowed to attempt. Visting teams don't get a lot of calls. Bad teams get fewer, especially late.
Right now, I feel pity for the Bulls. They don't want it, of course. No team does. But it's all I have because all they have isn't enough.


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