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Sebastian Nitsche
posted on Monday, March 07, 2011 - 2:15 am
I want to test a mediation model, where IV and mediator are continuous and DV is a count variable. It was no problem to specify the model itself but unfortunately MPlus (6.1) cannot determine indirect effects when using count data (error: "BOOTSTRAP is not allowed with ALGORITHM=INTEGRATION.").
Is there any workaround (f.e. with MODEL CONSTRAINT command), so I can test the assumed mediation effect formally?
Thanks in advance,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 07, 2011 - 9:27 am
In this situation you can use MODEL CONSTRAINT to define the indirect effect.
Sebastian Nitsche
posted on Friday, March 11, 2011 - 6:26 am
Thank you for the quick response.
I'm not sure if I did it correct, but I finally specified a constraint model with 4IV, 1 Med and 1 Count-DV (see below). Is this the way you thought of?
If possible, I additionally want to determine the overall mediation effect (med_total). According to Preacher & Hays (2008) the total indirect effect is the sum of the specific indirect effects. Unfortunately, they used the bootstrap-procedure to analyze indirect effects and they had several mediators, not several IVs. Do you think I can still apply this rule to the current model (like I have done)?
Thank you very much,
Title: Mediation with model constraints
4 IV, 1 Med, 1 DV (count)
File is MPLUS3.dat ;
Names are
age sex type y2 y1 y3 x4 x1 x2 x3 m2 m1 sq2 sq3 sq1;
usevariables are y1 m1 x1 x2 x3 x4;
count is y1;
analysis: estimator=ml;
m1 on x1 (a1);
m1 on x2 (a2);
m1 on x3 (a3);
m1 on x4 (a4);
y1 on m1 (b);
y1 on x1 x2 x3 x4;
Model Constraint:
new (med1 med2 med3 med4 med_total);
med1 = a1*b;
med2 = a2*b;
med3 = a3*b;
med4 = a4*b;
med_total = med1+med2+med3+med4;
output: samp; stdyx; tech1;
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 11, 2011 - 9:10 am
This looks correct.
Sebastian Nitsche
posted on Friday, March 11, 2011 - 11:47 am
Great. Thank you!
posted on Friday, May 02, 2014 - 7:11 am
Respected Prof. Muthen.
In the model I am testing, I have a count mediator and continuous DV. The count variable's distribution is zero inflated negative binomial. Model specification is done for the zero inflation parameter as well and the model runs fine. However, my challenge is
1.)How to test for indirect effect? I read in one of your papers, it is incorrect to test just product (i.e. a * b) for non-continuous mediators. Could you please advice a sample Mplus code to properly do this please?
2.)How to bootstrap the indirect effects captured in step 1. I am unable to do with ESTI=MLR.
3.)How to test indirect effect for model in step 1 using ESTI=Bayes.
4.)As additional analysis I introduce a continuous moderator to model in step 1. Is it possible to test this model after properly undertaking the mediation with count variable?
As always, my sincere gratitude in advance!!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, May 02, 2014 - 8:52 am
A count mediator is a tricky situation. In the M on X regression you want to specify M as a count variable to get Poisson regression. But in the Y on M regression there isn't a way to treat M as count. There is not a continuous latent response variable formulation for count. So when you regress Y on M you have to treat M as continuous. I discuss it in the paper on our website
Muth�n, B. (2011). Applications of causally defined direct and indirect effects in mediation analysis using SEM in Mplus.
posted on Friday, May 02, 2014 - 10:19 am
Thanks a lot, Prof. I checked this paper and the new paper forthcoming in structural equation modeling. I don't see specific code for count mediator. Could you please share that code.
Also in my model I specify count as negative binomial (with zero inflation) rather than Poisson because the mean and variance are unequal. So is that possible as well or I should force fir a Poisson?
To above points, is it possible to test moderated mediation using the steps by Preacher et al for these types of count mediators? If so what would be the right formula to specify in the MODEL CONSTRAINT statement?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, May 02, 2014 - 4:18 pm
The technical appendix, Secton 13.5 says:
"The count variable can also be a mediator in which case the integral is replaced by a sum over the possible counts and using the probabilities determined by the Poisson distribution. Using m to predict y, m may be treated as continuous."
Although possible, I have not tried this out in Mplus and therefore don't have code for it. It is advanced stuff, so unless you are a statistical expert I would not recommend that you get into this. Instead you would have to make approximations such as treating the mediator as a continuous variable.
posted on Friday, May 02, 2014 - 9:02 pm
Dear Prof. Muthen. Thanks a lot for your advice. My sincere gratitude to you.
posted on Saturday, May 03, 2014 - 9:31 am
Prof. Muthen. Sorry I forgot to request before. Could you please suggest a reference or citation for considering count as continuous in these kind of situation please. It is becoming extremely challenging for me to convince reviewers.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Sunday, May 04, 2014 - 4:54 pm
I don't know of any references. If the tail is long enough, you could consider a censored variable. You need to look at the variable's distribution and be guided by that. This is a research topic.
posted on Sunday, May 04, 2014 - 8:44 pm
Thank you Prof. Muthen.
Yan Liu
posted on Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 11:03 am
Dear Dr. Muthen,
I want to use the multilevel mediational models based on SEM proposed by Preacher, Zyphur and Zhang (2010).
I have one predictor, one covariate, one mediator and one outcome, which were measured at individual level. In addition, I have another predictor, intervention (control vs. experiment), which was conducted at school level. When I treat the outcome as a continuous variable, the model works. However the model doesn't run when I define the outcome as a count variable using negative binomial (nb).
I wonder if negative binomial works for Preacher's multilevel mediational model.
Many thanks!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 3:52 pm
You should have no problem estimating 2-level model with a DV that is nb. Whether or not mediation effects can be logically defined is another matter.
If you have problems with the run, send output and license number to Support.
Yan Liu
posted on Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 8:34 pm
Thanks for your reply! Before I send you the output, I would like you to take a quick look and see if there are something wrong with my Mplus code. The error message shows that the X (predictor), Cov (covariate), and M (mediator) cannot be used at between level. They have to be defined at within level.
In addition, when I treat Y as continuous variable, the saddle point appears, so I decreased the criterion for MCONVERGENCE and increased the random starts.
USEVARIABLES ARE COV X M Y tchid;
COUNT=Y (nb);
CLUSTER = tchid;
X (aw);
M (bw);
X (ab);
M (bb);
NEW(indw indb);
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, May 16, 2014 - 10:02 am
Please send your output and license number to
Brian Johnston
posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 7:37 am
I have analyses somewhat similar to what Sebastian Nitsche posted on Friday, March 11, 2011, but it is with a zero-inflated outcome. As a simplified example, say I have a continuous predictor (x), a continuous mediator (m), and a zero-inflated outcome (y). I have input for a zero-inflated model with indirect effect estimates below, and, following that, I�d be grateful for your feedback on some questions.
FILE IS data.dat;
x m y
count is y(i);
x m y
estimator = ml;
m on x(a);
y on x
y#1 on x
model constraint:
new (med_pois med_zero)
med_pois = a*b1;
med_zero = a*b2;
output: cinterval
1) If I understand this correctly, this output produces indirect effect estimates, one of which is a product of linear and Poisson estimates and another which is a product of linear and logistic estimates. As each of these is the product of a linear estimate and a natural log estimate, do I interpret their product also as being on a natural log scale?
2) If I can interpret the indirect effect estimates as being on a natural log scale, can I exponentiate them and interpret them as rate (for the Poisson estimate) and odds (for the logistic estimate)?
Thank you very much in advance!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 5:13 pm
The answers are in the following two papers (to be read in that order) on our website:
Muth�n, B. & Asparouhov T. (2014). Causal effects in mediation modeling: An introduction with applications to latent variables. Forthcoming in Structural Equation Modeling.
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Muth�n, B. (2011). Applications of causally defined direct and indirect effects in mediation analysis using SEM in Mplus. Click here to view the Technical appendix that goes with this paper and click here for the Mplus input appendix. Click here to view Mplus inputs, data, and outputs used in this paper.
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Brian Johnston
posted on Friday, September 26, 2014 - 9:56 am
Many thanks! These papers are very helpful.
Brian Johnston
posted on Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 8:53 pm
I see now that version 7.2 can handle this mediation with the MODEL INDIRECT statement, which is very helpful - thank you! I do still have a question regarding output. Continuing with my previous example (continuous x, continuous m, zero-inflated y):
x m y
count is y(i);
x m y
estimator = ml;
m on x;
y on x m;
y#1 on x m;
model indirect:
y ind m x;
y#1 on m x;
Based on Muth�n and Asparouhov (2014), I believe I have an understanding of the PNDE, TNIE, TNDE, and PNIE estimates (though I see these are only available with single mediation paths, unlike the above example).
However, I'm not clear on the output labeled "Specific indirect" (with multiple mediation paths, as above), or, in other cases, labeled "Indirect" and "Direct Effect" (with a single mediation path). Should these be exponentiated to interpret indirect and direct rates (for Poisson) and odds (for logistic)?
Thanks again,
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Sunday, September 28, 2014 - 12:03 pm
You should look under the new heading saying "counterfactuals":
The effects here are in terms of expected Y, so with a count Y no exponentiation should be done. (With binary Y the expectation is the probability of Y=1 instead of 0).
And, yes, so far this is limited to a single mediator.
Brian Johnston
posted on Sunday, September 28, 2014 - 1:41 pm
Thank you again for your response.
So should I not interpret the "Specific indirect" estimates whatsoever? I ask because I would like to test a model with multiple mediation pathways, and I cannot obtain the counterfactual estimates.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, September 29, 2014 - 9:02 am
It sounds like what you are looking at are the Specific indirect effects referring to the old-fashioned effects, that is, effects for the Y log-rate (log-mean), not effects for the Y mean that the counterfactual output provides. Seems like we are in a bit of a gray area here regarding how we should handle this and what journals would accept. Perhaps the log-rate results are of some use, but it is not an optimal approach. You may also find this article useful since it discussed counterfactually-defined effects in the presence of multiple mediatiors:
Tyler VanderWeele & Stijn Vansteelandt (2013) Mediation Analysis with Multiple Mediators. Epi Methods.
Brian Johnston
posted on Monday, September 29, 2014 - 9:21 am
Thank you!
Nassim Tabri
posted on Saturday, December 23, 2017 - 10:36 am
Dear Mplus team,
I want to test a moderated-mediation model using Bayesian estimation in which the DV is a count variable (the IV and mediator are both continuous). However, when I run this model, I get the following error message:
�Estimator BAYES is not available for analysis with count, continuous-time survival, censored or nominal variables.�
I understand the error message, but want to ask if there�s a work around in Mplus to estimate this model? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you for your time and hope you have a wonderful holiday!
Nassim Tabri
posted on Saturday, December 23, 2017 - 11:16 am
Dear Mplus team,
Apologies for posting a second message, I want to clarify what I meant by "work around" in my previous post on running a moderated-mediation model in which the DV is a count variable using Bayesian estimation. Based on the error message, I understand that this is currently not possible.
But is there a work around? For example, could the count DV be included using two variables for which Bayesian estimation is available? For instance, the first variable would be binary (0 or 1; for the zero-inflation portion of the DV) and the second variable would be continuous (but not sure what to do about participants who score zero for the second variable). Appreciate any input and suggestions you may have.
Thanks again for your time!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, December 23, 2017 - 2:40 pm
That's right - providing Bayes for counts is still on our to-do list. But why not use ML? Note also the special considerations for indirect and direct effects for count outcomes, needing counterfactually-defined effects as described in our book.
If you have a long tail, you could turn the count variable model into a two-part model (also described in our book).
Alexis Brieant
posted on Friday, January 25, 2019 - 2:09 pm
I am testing a two-group mediation model with a count outcome. It seems that I cannot actually do this with a 2 group model, so I instead used KNOWNCLASS and model constraint (rather than ind). However, I still get the following message: "One or more MODEL statements were ignored. These statements may be incorrect or are only supported by ALGORITHM=INTEGRATION." Is there anything I can do to resolve this?
Thank you.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, January 26, 2019 - 1:17 pm
Note that with a count outcome, you should really use counterfactually-defined effects. See our Topic 11 Short Course video and handout.
Regarding the error message, we need to see the full output - send to Support along with your license number.
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OTTAWA — After almost a month of dragging his solar-powered car by hand across the highways and back roads of Eastern Ontario, a Toronto environmental activist has finally reached Ottawa.
Despite having driven his car more than 38,000 kilometres, including two trips to the Arctic Circle, Marcelo Da Luz was forbidden by the Ontario government from driving his hand-built automobile on the province's roads, the only jurisdiction where he has faced such a prohibition.
But Da Luz doesn't mind. When the government told him he couldn't drive, he walked.
First, Da Luz used a special harness to pull the 250-kilogram car down gravel shoulders and across parking lots from Niagara Falls to Toronto, giving presentations along the way to raise awareness about the importance of environmental sustainability.
"The idea behind this project was to challenge everyone to change something for 28 days to protect the environment," said the 44-year-old flight attendant.
Da Luz has relied on a network of volunteers to provide him with necessities and run the support car that drives alongside him.
"It's been very challenging physically, especially the hills," he said. "There was one day I quit many, many times but I just kept on pushing. I was always impressed by the people I met who helped me get through. It was so rewarding."
Even the mayor of Kemptville, Ont., got in on the project, Da Luz said, pulling the car for a few hundred metres when it passed through the town on May 24.
The solar car project is called the Power of One, and Da Luz said his message is simple.
"I want to inspire people to take ownership, to take responsibility on the individual level to do what we can to help the environment," he said.
Da Luz wasn't a trained automotive engineer when he began working on the design for what became the solar car; he said his experience shows that one person really can make a difference.
"Often I'm talking to people who tell me that they can't change the world," he said. "But if you think you can make a difference, you can make a difference."
Da Luz has been all over with his solar car. It first hit the pavement in 2008, and since then Da Luz has claimed a number of records, including the world distance record for a car powered entirely by the sun.
Powered by 893 solar cells, the car was designed and assembled by Da Luz and a small team. It has a top speed of 120 km/h, can accelerate from 0 to 85 km/h in six seconds, and has a range of up to 500 kilometres on a sunny day, according to Da Luz.
Da Luz grew up in Sao Paulo, and said his Brazilian upbringing had a big impact on his environmental advocacy.
Just 20 kilometres from where he grew up is the town of Cubatao, once known as the most polluted place on Earth.
Da Luz said that one day when he was a child he asked his Grade 5 science teacher why adults pollute.
"The teacher said, 'That's the price of progress,'" he said. "But I was never satisfied with that answer. I always thought there had to be a better way."


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Coding in a Post-PC World, Part 1
The latest trend that has captured my attention is the impact of a Post-PC world on software development. I'm not talking about how we are using our PCs to run mobile device emulators and simulators to write software for those platforms. I'm talking about actually using those new hardware devices to write code. I'll share with you my hardware and software configurations, workflow practices, and hard-earned lessons from the successes and failures I have had with coding in a Post-PC world. This first post will begin with my tablet coding-oriented hardware configuration.
Coding in a Post-PC World, Part 2
Previously, I talked about my hardware of choice. This post discusses the software I use on both Android and iOS devices to achieve my programming objectives. Emacs or Vi?
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This post discusses the cloud-based services I use to keep my app development in sync. The two services I link into the most when developing with a little help from the cloud are Dropbox and a variety of virtual machines.
Coding in a Post-PC World, Part 4
This is the fourth and final installment on writing code for a post-PC way of life. Part 1 covered the hardware. Part 2 covered the software. Part 3 covered the cloud. When all these aspects come together, they work harmoniously. But baby, we still have a long way to go before developers will leave behind their laptops en masse and opt for this early glimpse of what the future holds for those who love to code.


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Bar Eats: Savor Tator Tots in the Dark at Skylark
Trying to define a dive bar is about as taxing as trying to describe a hipster. It's not something you can necessarily quantify, you just know one when you see one, right? There are commonalities among them, sure, but part of the mystique of being a bona fide dive bar is in the history, the attitude and intangibles. And Skylark has them all.
This place is tough to describe, perhaps in part because so much of it is shrouded in darkness. But I guess I'll start with the purely physical descriptors. There is a lounging area in front, a pair of decorative rifles on the wall. A good-sized bar, framed flags adorning it. A pinball machine. An old-school photography booth. Those coveted semi-circle diner booths.
And as for the intangibles, someone else described Skylark to me years ago as an artist's enclave. And there is a certain Bohemian electricity in the air, or maybe it's just the noticeable din of actual conversations against the absence of television. It's somewhat of a hipster hideout. It's very grandparent basement-ish. If you simply turned all the lights on, it could probably be mistaken for an Elks Lodge, circa 1969.
And the food? I guess I would describe the food as somewhere between Midwest comfort and upscale cafeteria. And that is in no way a slam. It's simple, hearty fare—perfect for soaking up those cheapest-in-the-city craft beers.
There may be no sweeter question to hear in a restaurant than "You want fries or tots with that?" Right? As soon as I hear that, I get that wonderful combination of happy surprise and genuine excitement all rolled up in childhood nostalgia, then deep fried. Like that song from the 80s that you've long-since forgotten about, then you hear randomly on the radio, tots take me to a special time and place. At Skylark, that transcendental experience will only set you back $3.50, or get the deluxe package for an extra buck with honey mustard, ranch, and barbecue sauces. They are crispy (not greasy), salty, and piled high. A must.
The potato and cheese pierogies ($5.50) are pan-fried to a gentle crisp, almost like gyoza, and served with sour cream and apple sauce. What they lack in presentation, they make up for with pure plumpness and rich, savory filling. Simple and delicious.
The mac & cheese ($5.50), again, is simplicity personified. Served in a lunchroom-style bowl with a few toasted breadcrumbs on top, it won't win many presentation awards. But a very simple spice profile (read: black pepper) lets the old ooey-gooey speak for itself over perfectly al dente elbows. It is hearty, belly-warming, and nearly a meal in itself.
The Panko-breaded fried chicken breast ($10.50) with portabella gravy is not complicated, but it works. Crunchy on the outside, moist and tender inside, it is nicely cooked. And the earthy, savory gravy doesn't smother it; if anything, I could have gone for some extra. It is served with some simple, complementary mashed potatoes and a forgettable mixed green salad.
The porter cheese dip ($5) is for the health nuts. The cheese is nice and sharp, and the beer gives it a noticeable bitterness, but it is a bit too thick and unwieldy, it did not outlast the generous bevy of toasted pita chips and veggies.
Skylark is a cool bar, yet unpretentious. The clientele largely prefer anecdotes to status updates; there is no Wi-Fi, nary a MacBook in sight. As you might have guessed, it is cash only. But there is a friendly, communal vibe about it. The full-handed waitress spilled some tots in the middle of a few tables on her way to the kitchen. After the collective moment of silence for the fallen tots, about four of us tried to help round them up. Of course, with the lighting, it was the equivalent of trying to pick marshmallows out of a snow drift. It made for a fun game, a few cheap tot jokes. What else do you really need?
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I enjoyed reading this book for several reasons. It had awesome pictures that allowed me to see what was going to happen next. Also, it showed me what they doing. The book also had scary events. One part was when the kids went to a scary looking house. Another part was when a guy with red hair and with fangs showed up. It also has good describing words. The author wrote "a huge streak of lighting in the distance," and "thunder boomed so loudly the widows rattled and the ground shook." As you can see The Bride of Frankenstein Doesn't Bake Cookies is a must read book for its awesome pictures, scary events, and good describing words.
I recommend this book to people who enjoy reading about scary events, and those who want to see a fake mad scientist in a book. This story will really spook you! Read, The Bride of Frankenstein Doesn't Bake Cookies.


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So, over the holidays I took a badly needed holiday vacation, and because I like warmth and the tropics, I decided to go to Chicago and hang out with Sweet Machine, Mr Machine, and their most excellent cats. I read books, watched Lost, took naps, cuddled with the kitties, and took a hot steam bath next to their radiator every time I went to the bathroom. It was quite excellent, and my suitcase will never again be entirely free of cat hair. But we did venture out into the cold a couple times, expressly to hemorrhage money. We both needed some self-pampering and both had noticed our bras weren't fitting quite right, so one day we made appointments at Intimacy and went downtown to have our breasts handled by professionals (after making a necessary stop at Lush for the post-holiday sale and far too many new bath bombs).
When the saleswoman asked me if I thought I was the same size as before, and I said "No, I think I might be a C cup now," she said, "I'd say a C or a D." !!! Shapelings, moving to a B cup was a big change for me last year. In response to a college house questionnaire, I once named my breasts "Small" and "Equally Small." As I later said to SM and Kate, every time I go into Intimacy, I come out a cup size larger (SM: "You should be in their ads!"). Anyway, SM and I spent too much money and spent the next 24 hours staring at our own and each other's amazing tits, but that's not the point of this post.
The point is that I am almost at the high end of my normal size range right now, and it's making me reflect on how much my breast size has fluctuated during the past decade. I have been this big a couple times now, though with much less well-fitting bras — the first time I went on the pill in my early 20s, that time I tried the birth control patch (I haven't gotten quite that big again since, but it actually turns out that three steady months of morning sickness are not worth it for boobies), and once or twice over the course of my normal weight fluctuations since then. So if properly sized, I would say I range from an… A? (never properly fitted at the low end, but they are little) to apparently at least a C, normally within the span of a year or two. I should note that I am on the short side and very petite, and when I gain or lose weight it seems to go and come entirely from my rack. The convenient part of this is being able to shop straight sizes and not having to buy a whole new wardrobe when my body decides it's time to be 10 pounds heavier for 6 months; the inconvenient part is that those changes routinely — and dramatically — affect the size of the most expensive part of my body to clothe. Now that I have a salary I allow myself a once-annual indulgence in one or two lovely, perfectly-fitted, exorbitantly priced bras (which means we are up to three nice ones to date, one of which fit 3 months ago and two which fit today) and fill in the rest of my week with cheap purchasesfrom the internet to get me through with minimal pokage. So my breasts could still be happier, but they feel wonderful (and look HUGE!) a couple times a week. Like today! The girls say hello. To everyone. Loudly.
The upshot is that my body kind of acts like a one-woman case study on boob size. Because the rest of my body doesn't really change outwardly, I have more or less isolated the breastage effect on social interactions. I spent a couple years after college living in the Land of Entrapment. I went on the pill there for the first time when the weather was warm, which bumped me up probably (in retrospect) from an A cup to a C cup over about a month of warm weather. Furthermore, the local social culture there is such that men are a lot less subtle in checking women out than back east, so there's no mistaking it. It was very easy to notice changes in how I was treated between month A and month C.
I was certainly blatantly checked out and hit on a lot more. That isn't too surprising, because, hey, I'm here to be eye candy, right? But I wasn't used to that kind of treatment so it was weird. And frankly, while sometimes it felt weirdly flattering (hey, I was 22), being sloooowly checked out on the street is pretty damn objectifying. It's bad enough when men think (somehow) they're being subtle! I bet the men in this video thought so:
But what caught me even more by surprise was how much friendlier people were — men and women, friends and colleagues and strangers. Most of those people probably were not even particularly interested in sleeping with me or deliberately hitting on me (hard to believe, I know!). They were just… nicer. I didn't have to wear anything especially revealing for that to be true, either. Bigger breasts just meant better treatment in general, and while some men were creepy and deliberate about it (see above), for most people it seemed to be unconscious. We are heavily socially conditioned to react favorably to breasts.
Honestly, I like my breasts in general and think they look nice on my body at all of the sizes they've been, but I'll admit that I like them a bit better when they're larger. Clothes look sexier to me and I feel damn hot. I don't dislike the girls on the small end, but I will certainly sometimes wear some padding or pushing-up items to keep the clothes looking the way I like them to. Frankly, I don't feel bad about this. It's one of the many conscious concessions I make to the beauty ideal (see also: shaving legs; bleaching upper lip; and wearing v-neck sweaters, high-heeled shoes, dresses, and variable quantities of make-up). I don't dislike my body or the things about it I alter for cosmetic reasons; it's just a hell of a lot easier to do those things, and I consciously choose to do my femininity that way. Besides, I can't undo all of the training that has taught me what to find attractive, so I pick my battles. For me, in part because I've been taught big breasts are better, and in part because of my own [highly scientific!] personal experiments and observations, the portrayal of the rack is part of how I present myself. It's not even that I consciously display the ladies for personal gain — in terms of skin and cleavage I actually show pretty little, and I am not very interested in deliberately manipulating the people around me* — but I like to look nice and girly and so I go with it.
But I think there is nothing wrong with not going with it, with refusing to play up my breasts or hunt for clothes that create the appearance of that hourglass figure. There would be nothing wrong with refusing to do that as a personal fight against the beauty ideal; or with just not giving a shit; or with deciding it's too much of a stretch and too much work to be worth it. I mean, the beauty ideal is impossible to reach, but as people go I definitely have it on the easier side, because I am thin and a little hourglassy to start with. When my tits are bigger I have to do even less work (though it's still a conscious effort). If you don't want to work for that, I mean, who the hell cares?
Well, okay, a lot of people care, but what they care about is policing you, not attraction. Otherwise they would just happen to not find you attractive, and that wouldn't be offensive to them, and they wouldn't care about how you looked. Except that it is your obligation and role as a woman to be attractive to all men, of course. Besides, I can attest that many people are attracted to women with small breasts. While I have been treated very differently on the street based on my breast size, my statistical ability to actually attract real dates/lays are unchanged across my full range of boobages.
Summary of long-winded post: People treat you differently when your breasts appear different sizes, mostly because our society is fucked up. But we should present our breasts how we want to present them, fuck anyone who gives a damn**, and not let the girls hold us back from enjoying our lives, dating, dancing, or taking luxurious Lush-bombed baths. Oh, and we should make a conscious effort to be equally friendly to the small-busted ladies, to counteract that unconscious conditioning that makes us act just a bit friendlier to the chestier among us.
*This is a lie. For instance, I deliberately distracted SM with my breasts so that she would request a guest post, because I deeply covet her internet-fame.
**Not literally.
Cross-posted at Volcanista.


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My first sewing project was sometime in middle school and it was some sort of blouse at the local fabric store and I detested the process. I remember my blouse was a wreck and I could not get the hang of button holes. The next project was a giant orange felt jack-o-lantern pumpkin that I made for Halloween sometime in early high school. I had that costume for years and years and years. I think it finally started to fall apart after 20 years and it must have been given away in one of my moves. I took a long, long break from sewing after that. It wasn't until I was in my 30's and had an icky breakup with a boyfriend that I started sewing again. My mom suggested that I start a project to get my mind off my broken heart and I made my first quilt in less than I week I think. I just cut and sewed and cried non-stop. Pretty sad sight I was. :) And at the end of the project I have what I like to call 'the break-up quilt'. It lived on my bed for many years and now it resides happily on my guest bed. I still totally love that quilt, which is sort of surprising since it could have turned into one of those things that has bad memories associated with it. But I think it's too pretty not to love! (I'll get some pics of it soon...)
And now on to the winner of the giveaway! The FQ pack + Pillow Panel goes to #24, Hannah. You can see all of her lovely projects on her Flickr stream here.
Hannah said: I think my first sewing project was making cheerleadering skirts for Halloween costumes when I was in 6th grade. I'm sure I had a lot of help from my mom, but I'm pretty certain that I did almost all of the actual sewing by myself. I just finished grad school, and until very recently, still had that skirt. Thanks to an elastic waist, it got lots of use by lots of people for lots of really random stuff over the years!
Hannah: Just email me and let me know which color story you'd like.
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Rabbit in the Grass
Watercolor painting on Yupo paper by Donna Ridgway of a rabbit in the grass.
Happy Goat
Bright and cheerful goat painting to liven up your walls!
Betsy Cow
Here's the family milk cow, she's very tame, she almost lives in the house she's so close to the family. She provides good milk and cream and raises a new calf each year. She's indispensible!
Big Horn Ram
Watercolor painting of big horn ram by Donna Ridgway on Yupo paper.
Bison Bull
Watercolor painting of a bison, buffalo, by Donna Ridgway, on Yupo paper.
Goat in the Snow
Watercolor painting by Donna Ridgway, of a goat in the snow. It's painted on Yupo Paper.
A fox laying down, with his big old foot scratching his nose. Watercolor on Yupo paper by Donna Ridgway
She seems to be looking right out of the paper, this sheep is painted with watercolor on yupo paper by Donna Ridgway
Painting of a raven, by Donna Ridgway, a watercolor on Yupo paper
Mule Deer Doe
Deer watercolor painting by Donna Ridgway on yupo paper
The Curious Deer
She's trying to figure out what you are doing! Watercolor painting of a deer by Donna Ridgway, on Yupo paper
She's a mule deer, studying what you are doing! Watercolor on Yupo paper, by Donna Ridgway
He looks a bit sad and care-worn but he's just enjoying the shade on a warm day.
Fierce Osprey
This osprey is perched high, looking into the water for a fish!
Squirrel with Flower
Cute squirrel in summer with a flower in his hands. Watercolor on yupo paper, by Donna Ridgway
Buck Deer
White tail buck deer, watercolor painting by Donna Ridgway on yupo paper.
Silly Cow
She's cute and funny. A cow painting by Donna Ridgway, watercolor on Yupo.
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Cliff Drive is about a sketchy as it gets.
Quote from: The Nailer on October 25, 2012, 07:14:54 AMCliff Drive is about a sketchy as it gets.I can certainly understand why you'd say that, with the bodies and burned vehicles, condoms and syringes, etc. But as far as disc golfers are concerned, has anyone ever had their vehicle broken into at Cliff? Not that I'm aware of. It has happened several times at Swope and Rosedale, though.


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Adobe Pass, a key component of Adobe's Project Primetime, has quickly established itself as the industry leader in TV Everywhere services. Used by NBC Olympics to enable live streams, Adobe Pass is now integrated with more than 150 pay TV providers and supports over 40 sites and mobile apps from 25 major networks including Fox, ESPN, CNN, TNT, MTV, Disney, and NBCU.
As TV Everywhere gains momentum, a transformation is occurring in how consumers engage with, and broadcast and cable networks monetize TV content. We've seen a 10-fold increase in authenticated streams in the first six months of 2012 and Adobe Pass has been used for a number of major events already this year, including NCAA March Madness, UEFA Euro 2012 soccer, the NBA playoffs and the London 2012 Olympic Games. Approximately 98 percent of pay TV households in the U.S. are now able to view TV content via the Adobe Pass service, which will also power college football and other major events for Pac-12, ESPN and the Big Ten this fall.
Adobe Pass supported NBC Olympics' verification efforts for its coverage of the London Games, which resulted in more than 88 million authenticated streams to U.S. viewers, the highest number recorded for a single event in TV Everywhere history. Desktop consumption in the U.S. accounted for 70 percent of authenticated streams, while smartphones and tablets combined for the remaining 30 percent (with iOS leading by 81 percent, and Android serving 19 percent of the streams). A total of roughly seven million TV subscriber households accessed authenticated streams online from roughly 10 million authenticated devices.
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In addition to these latest numbers, we are also introducing Adobe Pass 2.0 today, which was successfully tested during the London Games. Adobe Pass 2.0 has several innovative capabilities, including:
- Auto-Authentication: Support for Auto-Authentication in Adobe Pass 2.0 enables automatic recognition and authentication of customers, who receive both their TV and Internet service from the same provider. The feature, which makes the authentication process much more easy and seamless, was used by Comcast and Cablevision during the London Games and saw an authentication success rate that was 23 percent higher than pay TV operators that didn't take advantage of the capability.
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Vehicle transports equipment for fine arts program
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ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — A heart for the Adrian Public Schools fine arts program and a little elbow grease resulted in a project that any school district would be proud of.
Jeff Caris recently customized an equipment-hauling trailer for the district's fine arts programs, particularly the band. The trailer boasts a hinged, movable wall, floodlights for loading and unloading at night, and shelving.
Caris told The Daily Telegram of Adrian that the idea for the customized trailer came when his now-graduated daughter was in band.
"They took off for band camp four years ago with an overloaded truck, and I said, 'Hey,?I have a trailer we can take,' " Caris said. He gave the school the use of an old construction trailer to haul equipment to football games, camps and the like.
After seeing another school with a trailer a few years ago at the Clinton Fall Festival, "I said, 'Boy, it'd be nice if we had one of our own.' "
With the support of the community and the school's fine arts director, Julianne Dolan, a fundraiser was started in February to purchase a 28-foot-long trailer from Brown's Trailers Inc. in Clinton.
The $7,755 custom-built trailer was ready in early July, and has already been used for several events.
Caris said he was pleased that the start-to-finish process of obtaining the trailer was less than eight months.
"It's what happens when you have a good, solid team to work with," he said.
Dolan said Caris brought the idea of a customized trailer to the music boosters as a forward-thinking project.
"He was thinking about the future, and a lot of people were really appreciative of the fact that it's about our band that serves our community in many ways," Dolan said.
From parades to concert performances, having a vehicle to safely and comfortably transport equipment offsite is beneficial to the district.
"This has eliminated a lot of those barriers" that come up when attempting to transport equipment and uniforms on a school bus shared with the students themselves.
The trailer, named "Adrian Arts on the Move,"?is representative of the many different departments at the school that use it.
Most of the interior work and exterior graphics were done at cost, and Caris had to officially donate the trailer to the school for it to become the district's property.
Caris said he is grateful to Dolan "for the amount of trust given me to do what I needed to do."
"It's a labor of love; a good project," he said. It will last them 20 years or more, Caris said.


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Turkey is increasingly turning to renewable energies, with wind power targeted to reach 20GW by 2023. The government passed a renewable energy law in 2005, introducing state-guaranteed prices. While the tariff is less than the price available on the open market, it is still important in helping to secure financing. For a while, investors were queuing round the block and, in 2007, submitted applications for a staggering 78GW.
Since then, however, the shine has faded somewhat. The market regulator is still working out how best to process those applications and the long-promised revisions to the law, which at one point offered higher and differentiated tariffs, are on hold. The other major question is grid capacity. Substantial investment is needed to allow 20GW online by 2023, let alone projections beyond that date.
This uncertainty, coupled with the low tariff, has put some investors off and made financing more difficult. Nevertheless, well-designed projects on windy sites continue to be built. Local banks are becoming more comfortable with wind power and multilateral finance institutions are also playing an important role.
For example, Turkey's biggest plant, a 135MW facility at Osmaniye, was funded with a mix of equity and loans from the International Finance Corporation, European Investment Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The World Bank is also helping Turkey to make better use of its grid capacity.
Another important factor is that projects in Turkey cannot generate carbon revenue from certified emission reduction credits (CERs) issued under the UN framework, partly because it is not classified as a developing country. However, it can generate verified emission reduction credits (VERs), which are still a significant income source. The Osmaniye project, for example, would not have been viable without carbon-credit financing, says Ireland-based EcoSecurities, a leading carbon credit firm that guides companies through the process of generating and selling credits (Windpower Monthly, December 2009).
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Early US Newspaper Comics
Newspaper comic strips developed in America around the beginning of the twentieth century. These strips were inspired by comic magazines from the Old Country, mostly Germany, sent to relatives who had emigrated to the United States. Early newspaper strips such as 'The Katzenjammer Kids' (1897-2006) by Rudolph Dirks were directly derived from German strips, in this case from 'Max und Moritz' (1866) by Wilhelm Busch.
The Katzenjammer Kids, by Rudolph Dirks
Unlike today, when strips have very restricted space in newspapers, the early comics were often a full page and in brilliant colors. There were a lot more newspapers back then, often several in a city, and they all competed for readers. Especially newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst played an unequaled role in the development of newspaper strips. Big colorful comics supplements attracted crowds of devoted fans, and comic strips really became the "face" of specific newspapers. Comic artists who contributed strips considered themselves more like newspapermen, and their creations were owned by the newspaper.
This sometimes led to conflict. When Rudolph Dirks wanted to leave his strip to travel in Europe, The New York Journal assigned Harold Knerr to continue it in 1914. Only after a fierce court battle did Dirks regain the right to draw his own characters - but the title stayed with the newspaper. Dirks continued the strip in The New York World, but now he named it 'The Captain and the Kids'.
The Katzenjammer Kids, by Harold Knerr, 1935
This famous battle became a precedent for many conflicts to come between comic strip artists and their newspaper or syndicate. Even as recently as 1988, Bill Watterson fought his syndicate not only over the licensing rights to his popular strip 'Calvin & Hobbes' (1985-1995), but also over the restrictive format of the Sunday page strip. Watterson won both fights, which is why 'Calvin & Hobbes' has never been merchandised, and readers have been able to enjoy the lusciously drawn Sunday pages again, instead of the prescribed 6-panel format (which allowed newspapers to cut it if they wanted).
Even so, newspaper comics will never again be the way they were in the early twentieth century. The artistic freedom as well as liberal space in the papers resulted in many beautiful comic strips. Some of them are still widely known and appreciated, such as the famous 'Little Nemo in Slumberland' (1905-1927) by Winsor McCay, 'Bringing Up Father' (1913-2000) by George McManus, 'Krazy Kat' (1913-1944) by George Herriman, 'Gasoline Alley' (1918- still running as of 2017!) by Frank King, 'Buster Brown' (1902-1921) and 'The Yellow Kid' (1895-1898) by R.F. Outcault, and many others which are only starting to fade from memory.
Examples of Buster Brown merchandise in this 1905 strip
To preserve some of these early gems drawn for such a transient medium, we have started to display some of the newspaper strips from that period. Some ran only for a short while, or were over-shadowed by more popular strips in the same newspaper, but many still conjure up vivid memories for the older generations. Young viewers should also appreciate this nostalgic look back to an earlier era of comics, and we recommend it for all ages.
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"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" continued with its rock-themed week and jammed out with performances by Stevie Nicks and appearances by members of Nirvana.
Introduced by Nirvana's Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, Stevie Nicks and Fallon – portraying Tom Petty – performed the 1981 hit, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around."
Fallon went so far as to recreate the original video with authentic sound equipment, clothing, and he donned a blonde wig while mimicking Petty's onstage mannerisms.
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After the performance, Fallon sat down with the Nirvana band members who will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame April 10.
"It's also bittersweet, because our friend Kurt's been gone for 20 years," Novoselic said, referencing late band member Kurt Cobain. "He should be here."
The "Smell's Like Teen Spirit" singers also reminisced about favorite touring moments including Cobain intentionally destroying an old drum set during a Nirvana show so Grohl could get a new one.
Nicks, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, also performed her classic, "Edge of Seventeen. Nicks will be going on tour with Fleetwood Mac for the first time in 17 years starting this September.
Nirvana, KISS, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens, Linda Ronstadt, Hall and Oates, the E Street Band, Andrew Loog Oldham and Brian Epstein are to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 10.


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Schwartz should be fired ASAP
Lions coach Jim Schwartz should have been fired on Monday morning. But it didn't happen.
It's not a shocker, though. After all, it's the Lions where most aren't held accountable. Let's not forget that Matt Millen, considered the worst general manager is pro sports history, was allowed to run the franchise for 8-plus years.
In this case, it's been five seasons for Schwartz and the Lions have basically been bad since he got here. They made the postseason once under Schwartz in 2011, but the team has been brutal the past two seasons. On Sunday, the Lions lost 23-20 in overtime to the hapless New York Giants at Ford Field. To make matters worse, Schwartz lost his cool and cursed fans after they booed him for not trying to win the game at the end of regulation.
Despite having two timeouts and 23 seconds left, the Lions decided to play for overtime rather than take a few shots downfield.
TV cameras caught Schwartz cursing at fans who booed his decision to play it safe. "I was disappointed to hear the boos," Schwartz told the media after the game. "We're getting ready to go to overtime right there and our crowd is great for us and support us.
"The team needed a lift right there. We didn't need to feel bad at that point." He added, "That's tough, situations when your players are getting booed and you want them fired up. That's what I was trying to do right there."
It didn't work. The Giants (6-9) prevailed. The loss was the Lions' fifth in the last six games and eliminated them for the postseason.
Many thought it would have been a layup for the Lions, especially after they started 6-3, plus the fact that their division rivals both lost their quarterbacks - the Bears' Jay Cutler and the Packers' Aaron Rodgers.
Instead, the Lions (7-8) will play out the string, finishing the season at Minnesota. It's a good chance they will lose that game, too. That game will mark the final game at the Metrodome. You can bet the Vikings will be up for the emotional moment.
Still, it's hard to ignore what Schwartz-led teams have done the last two seasons at the end of the season.
Last year, the Lions lost their last eight games to finish 4-12. This year, they've lost five of six. That's means the Lions have lost 13 of 14 when it mattered most.
There's no defense for that terrible play down the stretch. The Lions have talent with Calvin Johnson, Matthew Stafford, Ndamukong Suh and Nick Fairley. No one is saying the team is good enough to win the Super Bowl, but they should be better than they have been.
Nobody cares that Schwartz took over this team after they were 0-16. Many want to give him credit for making the team respectable. The team had to get better with all the high draft picks they got for being lousy for so long.
The bottom line remains that enough progress wasn't made. In fact, you can make an argument that they have regressed the last two seasons under Schwartz, especially Stafford. The Lions often were able to beat the also-rans, but never the best teams in the league.
The Lions didn't play any of the Super Seven teams this season - Denver, Kansas City, Seattle, San Francisco, New England, Carolina and New Orleans.
And the two 10-win teams that the Lions did play - Arizona and Philadelphia - they lost both games.
Players, of course, back Schwartz. That's not shocking. It happens all the time. Instead, players shouldered the blame.
"It simply comes down that we didn't execute, we didn't get the job done," Suh said. "It falls on the players. That's how I see it.
"For whatever those reason are, we will have to go out in the offseason and figure it out and make some changes with us as players and fix it."
The easy fix is replacing Schwartz, who has $12 million left on his contract and has only won 29 of 78 games.
"We knew we were going to roll," LB Stephen Tulloch said. "After the 6-3 start, things just started to unravel."
The same can be said about Schwartz's tenure as Lions head coach. The end is clearly here.
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California senate candidates Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina don't agree on much when it comes to illegal immigration.
Boxer, a Democrat, opposed the controversial Arizona law that allowed police officers to investigate immigration status while enforcing other laws. Fiorina, a Republican, supported the law (while decrying the inflammatory rhetoric on both sides of the debate on the measure)
A recent Field Poll shows that Californians are just as divided as the Senate candidates. But there is a middle ground on which Golden Staters of all political leanings should be able to agree, including Mmes. Boxer and Fiorina.
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That is, to entreat Congress to reimburse California and other border states for the cost of accommodating most of the nation's illegal immigrants.
In an article last year for the Los Angeles Times, George Skelton estimated state and local government here in California collectively spends more than $5 billion a year on illegal immigrants and their families.
That includes government-provided education, taxpayer-funded health care (Medi-Cal), public welfare (CalWORKS) and other related expenses.
California would not be forced to bear the cost of illegal immigration if the federal government upheld its fundamental responsibility to secure the nation's borders and encourage legal, as opposed to illegal, immigration.
Since Washington has all but abdicated that responsibility – even has gone to federal court to dissuade Arizona and other states from taking matters into their own hands – then the very least Congress can and should do is pay California and other border states for their trouble.
While California boasts the nation's largest foreign-born population, the immigration issue was not expected by most political observers to rear itself in the U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina.
But it has, thanks to a decision by Judge Susan Bolton to block sections of a controversial Arizona law that authorized police officers to ascertain a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws.
Boxer came out strongly against the Arizona law and supported the Obama administration lawsuit that led to Judge Bolton's injunction last week. She favors federal immigration reform that ultimately would provide amnesty for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants throughout the country.
Fiorina supported the Arizona law (while decrying the inflammatory rhetoric on both sides of the debate on the measure). She favors federal legislation to better secure the nation's borders, while also creating a guest worker program.


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Today I have some bittersweet news to share with the Book Country community: I'm leaving my role as Book Country Director and moving to a new position inside Penguin Random House, as Assistant Director of Publicity at Random House.
As you might know, my first couple of jobs right out of college were in publicity. My favorite projects were when I got to work on literary fiction debuts by emerging writers. Working with these types of books is exciting because the publicist's job is to get readers excited about up-and-coming writers, and also gets the chance to work with writers at the beginning of their careers. This is actually quite similar to what I've been doing here at Book Country in many ways, and I can't thank the community enough for what I have learned from you as you have explored the new frontiers of writing, publishing, and marketing your books online. I'm firmly of the mindset that no writer can find an audience without getting involved in a writing community at the start, and I'm planning on using a very community-minded approach to publicizing books in my new job at Random House.
Random House publishes some of my all-time favorite writers, so I feel very lucky to become a part of their world-class publishing team. However, there are a lot of things about working at Book Country that I know I'll really miss. Working with this community was a unique opportunity to learn an enormous amount about diverse genres, different styles of publishing, social media and video, web development, and, of course, gave me the chance to connect to over 20,000 writers from all over the world. With Book Country I hung out with romance writers in New Orleans and Atlanta, mystery and thriller writers on the beach at Bouchercon, and dug into the craft of writing and business of publishing at writing conferences and meetups in Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, and here in New York. I've read and reviewed books that have been in progress for years, as well as new novels you're just starting to write. We've also set–and achieved–some incredible goals together, from NaNoWriMo to feedback challenges to the Book Country Buddy Program.
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Camille's innocent: And so is Agnes, says resident
Columbia, Fluvanna County's only town, is so small that, according to one resident, a "landslide" election victory means the candidate's votes hit double digits. Nevertheless, the little village with a population of 70 once marked the eastern edge of a 100,000-acre estate that continued all the way to the West Virginia border.
Lindsay Nolting, a Columbia resident since 1972, has done extensive research on the town and its founder, David Ross, a Scottsman who supported the Continentals in the Revolution. She says that Ross owned not only all of south-central Virginia, but also huge tracts into Kentucky including what is known today as Big Bone Lick, in Boone County.
After William Clark returned from his famous expedition with Meriwether Lewis in 1806, Thomas Jefferson commissioned him to begin an archaeological dig at Big Bone Lick, so named because it is a repository of prehistoric fossils.
Before Clark could begin, however, Jefferson wrote to Ross seeking permission for the dig on his property. Some of the more than 300 specimens collected at the site now hang in the great hall at Monticello. Others found their way to L'Histoire Naturelle in Paris and the American Philosophic Society in Philadelphia.
In more recent Columbia history, a real estate ad in the mid-'80s offered for sale almost all of the large shops, warehouses, and residences on the north side of Route 6, the main street through town. One of the buildings was once a private home where Yankee officer George A. Custer slept, understandably not a point of pride for townspeople. Another of the buildings, a large double-porch Victorian, according to Nolting, had been a boarding house.
Nolting– an artist who lives at Gum Creek, a house built in 1797 by David Ross for his son James– says it was lack of a sufficient water supply and sewer system, not the threat posed by the river, that thwarted the previous owners. Even in the worst flooding of the James the river has not reached those buildings, but they have nonetheless fallen into disrepair and decay. "Agnes and Camille," she says, "took the rap for owners who let the buildings go."
Like most residents, Nolting is cheered by the HUD grant and the attention Columbia is receiving in official circles. She has a vision for how the place can be revitalized.
"We have to accept the river as part of the town," Nolting says. "We have to make the river the dominant feature." She also offers a suggestion for future businesses. "I think a canoe livery would be a great idea," she says. "If worse came to worst, and the river did come up, the inventory could just float."