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The staff made sure I had the list of gluten free food. They were very careful in preparing my meal. It was very good!
209 Ella Grasso Turnpike, Windsor Locks, CT 06096
The girl was new who made my food but she didn't change her gloves. They had a long list of what's gluten free but I felt kinda gross afterwards.
|Celiac friendly
209 Ella Grasso Turnpike, Windsor Locks, CT 06096
Staff was very knowledgeable, they had a gluten-free menu worksheet right at the assembly station that the server pulled down and kept beside him while he assembled the taco bowl we ordered so he could reference it item-by-item. Staff cleaned thoroughly and changed gloves before assembling.
5976 Meijer Drive, Milford, OH 45150
When we told them my daughter had a gluten allergy they did NOT change their gloves. But overall the food was ok.
5961 Sunbury Rd, Westerville, OH 43081
It was easy enough to Google the allergy guide, but the employees had no idea what gluten free even meant.
|Celiac friendly
3497 Valley Plaza Parkway, Ft. Wright, KY 41017
I eat here almost once a week. It is one of the few places I can eat without getting sick.
|Not celiac friendly
1287 S Dorset Rd, Troy, OH 45373
Staff had no idea what was gluten free and chuckled at me when I asked. Not helpful at all!
|Celiac friendly
790 S. 30th Street, Heath, OH 43056
The food is good and their menus have the little gf symbol by all the safe stuff so you don't have to ask about ingredient which is nice. Utensils are used across orders so contamination does occur.
|Not celiac friendly
1510 S. McCord Rd, Holland, OH 43528
They're not really prepared for this. My wife had to give them very strict instructions. At the end, they put my (gluten-filled) cookies on her tray.
280 Mt Zion Rd, Florence, KY 41042
They have a gluten free menu right at the beginning of the ordering area which is great. The workers seemed clueless. I asked the girl to change gloves, which she did as she rolled her eyes. Then she passed our bowl off to the next person without me realizing it and the second person had NOT changed her gloves. I explained the problem and the first girl grabbed stuff and remade our order without any words- obviously irritated. It is a shame that a place that offers so many choices does not have better understanding of the gluten free necessity for some people.
123 National Road, Richmond, IN 47374
They have gluten free, but for some reason I always feel like I got ahold of gluten afterwards. :(
3585 South Dixie Highway, Middletown, OH 45005
hot head is completely gluten free! that is if you don't get tortillas, and they are delicious! (:
421 Mary Esther Blvd, Mary Esther, FL 32569
Have a list of gluten products. Not knowledgeable at all.
123 National Road, Richmond, IN 47374
Staff was rude when I told them about my allergy and didn't accommodate very well.
5450 Mahoning Avenue, Austintown, OH 44515
Similar to Chipotle, but with more choices. When told we were gluten free, they got a separate tray and clean gloves to make our food. Their sauces and queso are delicious as well!! :)
|Celiac friendly
5450 Mahoning Avenue, Austintown, OH 44515
like Chipotle but not so good. more choices of sauce, but there isn't any sign the food is of any particular quality. a little stingier on the guacomole. still, we liked this better than the Eat and Go across the street that didn't have enough choices for us.
|Celiac friendly
116 E National Rd, Vandalia, OH 45377
Has gf options and menu
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1287 S Dorset Rd, Troy, OH 45373
Has gf menu. Some employees are aware of minimizing crisis contamination so are not but at less you can see what they are making and stop them before they contaminate the food
9046 Dayton Lebanon Pike, Centerville, OH 45458
Steak bowl is GF and really good.
|Celiac friendly
421 Mary Esther Blvd, Mary Esther, FL 32569
Amazing tacos!!!!And GREAT chips!
1113 Brown St, Dayton, OH 45409
I miss Hot Heads 😢 Please come to Colorado!!! Lol They're very transparent with what's gluten free and what's not. Ask them to change gloves. Never showed a reaction but cross contamination is possible.
8325 North High St, Columbus, OH 43235
All of their ingredients are just straight, unseasoned, and bland, sadly. Nice heat levels, though.
1120 E. Stroop Rd, Kettering, OH 45429
Love this place. GF items are clearly marked with allergen list. Have never gotten sick.
|Not celiac friendly
2254 S Smithville Rd, Kettering, OH 45420
Hit or miss. They will change gloves if you request. You can get a bowl or tacos. Pork or veggie. Chance of cross contamination is high.
3800 Colonel Glenn, Fairborn, OH 45324
The staff doesn't know GF too well. The seasoning on the chicken isn't GF. However, there are a lot of options. The chips are GF
1113 Brown St, Dayton, OH 45409
I thought it was very tasty food, and was very pleased with how helpful the staff was. They double checked the chips and taco shells and many other things on the list for me.
280 Mt Zion Rd, Florence, KY 41042
Great barbacoa burrito bowl!
315 Elm St, Youngstown, OH 44503
They know which ingredients has gluten and which do not, but have no clue why I asked them to change gloves. Since it was the lunch rush, I dropped the issue and just ate my contaminated food.
2025 Tiffin Avenue, Findlay, OH 45840
|Celiac friendly
3362 E State St, Hermitage, PA 16148
The employees changed their gloves and avoided cross contamination well. The food itself was good, similar to chipotle.
|Not celiac friendly
1324 Wagner Ave, Greenville, OH 45331
All Hot Heads states they have a gf menu, but I have always had problems after eating here. Sorry, Hot Heads!
|Celiac friendly
1287 S Dorset Rd, Troy, OH 45373
My wife has celiac and microscopic colitis. She is not super sensitive to cross contamination. We have enjoyed eating here many times without a single issue.
1509 Hilliard Rome Road, Columbus, OH 43228
This is my go to place to get gluten as well as an allergy free meal. All allergens are listed on the website. There is also a reward card to earn free food. Staff has always been friendly and helpful.
|Celiac friendly
5655 Youngstown Warren Rd, Niles, OH 44446
The staff was very helpful, and appeared to be knowledgeable. Very happy with my visit and I will definitely be back!!
|Celiac friendly
1384 Main Street, Hamilton, OH 45013
They have great small bowls that are delicious without dairy or gluten.
|Not celiac friendly
421 Mary Esther Blvd, Mary Esther, FL 32569
Talked with a manager who was very friendly however he was not knowledgeable about gluten free and was not very convincing about cross contamination. The more questions I asked the more he admitted that there is a chance for spatulas and spoons to touch wheat tortillas and then going back into the dish. Very disappointing but expected from a chain like that. Would not recommend celiacs to dine there!
5961 Sunbury Rd, Westerville, OH 43081
Good bowls. Not my first choice for this type of food (Chipotle's GF menu wins on flavor and freshness), but location is convenient and I've never had a reaction.
|Celiac friendly
5625 Pearl Dr, Evansville, IN 47712
We eat at Hot Head often with my daughter who's a Celiac. She has never had any issues after eating and the staff is always very accommodating. I always order her meal first and have them change gloves. Staff seems knowledgeable about gluten.
1113 Brown St, Dayton, OH 45409
Tried it tonight. Was not very good in my opinion just taste wise. Would much rather go to chipotle or qdoba.
563 South Main Street, Englewood, OH 45458
It's great but all of the meat is gluten free EXCEPT for the chicken. Big bummer there!! :(
1509 Hilliard Rome Road, Columbus, OH 43228
Their website will tell you what is gluten free.
563 South Main Street, Englewood, OH 45458
Good selection and staff helpful!
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Of all the dance orchestras and concert ensembles that Kalamazoo produced during the 19th century, the Phillips Brothers' Orchestra was among the busiest... and perhaps the best. Five talented violinists; Joseph, Joshua, Sylvester, Albert and Gilmore Phillips shared a seemingly equal affinity for classical and popular music, and were some of the community's most highly respected musicians and society members. The brothers all worked at other jobs by day, but when social, religious, political or cultural gatherings called, the sweet strains of the Phillips Brothers' Orchestra "brought all upon the ball room floor."
H. Wesley Phillips (born about 1829) and his wife, Virginia Harris Phillips (born 19 April 1833, daughter of Joseph "FreeJoe" Harris and Fannie Harris), moved from Vernon, Indiana, to Michigan in September 1862 and bought a farm seven miles west of Kalamazoo in Oshtemo Township where they were among the community's first African American residents. Together, the couple raised eleven children. (A twelfth child, a son, died soon after birth.)
Virginia Phillips died of consumption (tuberculosis) in 1878, just a week after her (unnamed) three-day-old son. Wesley Phillips remained a lifelong farmer until his death in 1894, while the Phillips children went on to become successful musicians and business professionals. The sons formed the Phillips Brothers' Orchestra, one of the leading musical organizations of its time in Kalamazoo. Martha Phillips married and became a dressmaker with an interest in real estate; Ida was a beautician and a business owner; Susan, Carrie, and Laura became successful homemakers. Fannie later married Albert White, the celebrated Kalamazoo contractor, and was active in the Civic Improvement League. Fannie joined the brothers' orchestra on occasion as a vocalist.
The eldest of the Phillips children, Joseph F. Phillips (born 5 January 1851) was a boy of twelve when his family moved to Michigan and established the family farm in Oshtemo. By 1871, Joe was living in the village of Kalamazoo and working as a carpenter. In 1877, he married Miss Mary F. Burton and worked as a yardman at the Kalamazoo House, and later as a coachman.
In addition to playing music with his brothers, Joe Phillips was Kalamazoo's only practicing viola player, and thus had the opportunity to work as a "hired hand" with many of the city's leading orchestras. Joe performed extensively with the Academy of Music Orchestra, and was a member of George Pfeiffer's popular dance orchestra for a time.
By the spring of 1881, Joe Phillips had become an accomplished tenor singer and violinist, and was playing double bass with Professor N. P. Stanton's newly formed Kalamazoo College Orchestra. With assistance from two local professionals, John H. Everard and John Lounsbury, the original 21-piece orchestra made its public debut with performances at the 1881 Kalamazoo College and Kalamazoo High School commencement exercises. The orchestra had expanded to forty members when it gave its initial concert at the First Baptist Church in December.
"Those who are well posted in music and musical matters say the music was wonderfully good, for the amount of practice the organization has had, and even a credit to any orchestra."
—Kalamazoo Gazette, 23 June 1881
"Mrs. Shortt's orchestra does not play dancing music but only parlor music..."
—Kalamazoo Gazette, 11 June 1887
By June 1887, Joseph Phillips and his brother, Sylvester, were part of Madam Jannasch-Shortt's advanced orchestral instrumentation class and were performing with her twenty piece orchestra. Shortt, a prominent—though somewhat eccentric—Kalamazoo violin and music teacher, was well known throughout her forty-plus year career for providing instruction for many of the community's up-and-coming musicians. Shortt, however, made it clear that her orchestra was not a dance orchestra, but instead a group that focused on sophisticated repertoire.
About 1887, Joseph Phillips began working as a caretaker and servant for Senator Francis Stockbridge in Kalamazoo. After the senator's death in 1894, Joe continued to serve as a caretaker for Stockbridge's stately home on Carmel Street. Joe was a highly respected member of the community and as a great lover of music; he conducted the choir at Second Baptist Church for many years. "His work in the churches with the young lovers of music was especially marked as successful" (Gazette). Joseph Phillips passed away in March 1921 at age 70. He is buried at Riverside Cemetery.
Joshua W. Phillips, born in Indiana on 28 April 1853, was the second child of Virginia and Wesley Phillips. By 1876, Joshua was living on Water Street in the village of Kalamazoo and working as a barber, a trade he would continue throughout his lifetime.
In 1884, Joshua married Martha C. Wilson, and began working for George W. Stafford as a barber. In September 1900, Josh left Stafford's Burdick Street shop to become the full-time barber at the Michigan Asylum for the Insane.
An accomplished violinist with a smooth baritone voice, Josh Phillips' violin solos were featured many times during programs at Second Baptist Church and his baritone vocal solos were often a highlight of community programs.
Joshua Phillips passed away in May 1937 at the age of 84. He is buried at Riverside Cemetery.
The third Phillips child, Sylvester C. Phillips, was born 17 April 1855 in Indiana. By 1886, he too was living in the village of Kalamazoo, where he worked as a drayman (delivery driver).
By 1899, Sylvester was working for the Desenberg & Co. grocers with his younger brother, Gil. He later worked as a carpenter and was employed by the Clarage Fan Company in Kalamazoo for several years.
Sylvester was bicyclist, a bass violin player and a bass vocalist (his favorite song was "Sleeper in the Down"), and served as musical director at Second Baptist Church. His wife, Catherine (Wilson), whom he married in September 1897, passed away just seventeen months later at the age of 24. Sylvester was devastated by the sudden loss, but was later remarried to Anna Daley in January 1900.
Sylvester Phillips died 18 August 1919, and was buried at Riverside Cemetery.
Gilmore L. Phillips, the fifth child of Virginia and Wesley Phillips, was born 10 August 1862 in Indiana. At the age of 18, Gil Phillips left the farm and began attending night classes at Parsons Business School in Kalamazoo.
By day, Gil Phillips worked as a porter, shipping clerk, and later a foreman at Desenberg's Wholesale Grocery. While there, he and his brother, Sylvester, would have undoubtedly become acquainted with fellow musician, Edward B. Desenberg. The Phillips brothers would later share the stage with Desenberg on many occasions as musicians and performers.
In 1887, Gilmore Phillips married Miss Eliza Dean Proctor (born Eliza D. Wilson), a South Carolina native. Eliza Dean Phillips was a gifted soprano who often added vocal accompaniment to the Phillips Brothers' Orchestra performances.
The couple became successful property owners and received high praise in the 1919 Michigan Manual of Freedmen's Progress, an early salute to African-American business owners and entrepreneurs. Together, they spearheaded many local society events and led the local Progressive Legion Society, an African American organization brought about for "the promotion of brotherly feeling and the advancement of social intercourse."
"Mrs. Dean Phillips voiced in strains of enchanting harmony 'Seek ye the Lord' which thrilled the congregation, richly meriting the encore which was demanded by rapturous applause..."
—Kalamazoo Gazette, 14 September 1889
Dean Phillips passed away on 19 November 1930 at Borgess Hospital.
Gilmore Phillips later became a guard at the City National Bank (Kalamazoo-City Savings Bank) in charge of the safety deposit vaults, where he remained until late in life. A great lover of music, he managed the Phillips Brothers Orchestra, played violin, and assisted with the choir at Second Baptist Church. He became church music director in June 1900, and was a founding member of C. Z. Bronson's Symphony Orchestra and E. C. McElhany's Philharmonic Orchestra, both 1890s forerunners of today's Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra.
Gilmore Phillips died at his home in 1938 at the age of 75. He is buried at Riverside Cemetery.
Born on the family farm in Kalamazoo on 17 October 1866, Albert Phillips was the youngest of the Phillips sons, and a violin player, as well. Albert evidently left Kalamazoo at a fairly young age and spent much of his life training race horses in Kentucky and Indiana. Albert Phillips died on 3 December 1923. His last known residence was in Rushville, Indiana (1921), but his place of burial is not known.
During the 1880s, the Phillips sons were still working the wheat fields on the family farm in Oshtemo. In their spare time, however, the oldest four brothers; Gilmore, Sylvester, Joseph and Joshua, had formed a string quartet and were performing for occasional church events and community programs.
"The Phillips' brothers entertained the audience with several choice string quartettes, which were executed finely."
—Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 May 1885
From early 1880, the Phillips brothers were performing musical programs in many of the local churches and in surrounding communities, including Almena, Oshtemo and Portage. The brothers performed a "pleasing melody" for a holiday program at Second Baptist Church in December 1886, and by 1887, had begun holding midwinter dance parties at the Masonic.
By 1890, the Phillips brothers had expanded their orchestra to feature anywhere from six to ten musicians, and were performing throughout West Michigan. Crowds consistently filled ballrooms and social parties throughout the 1890s for a chance to dance to the immensely popular orchestra, yet the brothers themselves were well educated with sophisticated repertoire. As an aside, they often performed as a concert orchestra and were included in a variety of local events. They also took part in numerous programs of classical and sacred music at many of the local churches.
While many of their performances were clearly directed toward the growing African American community, the Phillips Brothers' Orchestra remained extremely popular among Kalamazoo's general population. The Phillips Brothers' Orchestra became a popular attraction at Lake View Park on Woods Lake during the summers of 1893 and 1895, and provided special musical programs during Rev. Thomas Barr's "Lake View" services at First Congregational Church throughout the winter months.
"The Phillips Bros., upon the violins, viola and cello, rendered pleasing music..."
—Kalamazoo Gazette, 31 December 1886
In April 1894, two essentially separate concert orchestras were formed in Kalamazoo; C. Z. Bronson's Symphony Orchestra, and E. C. McElhany's Philharmonic Orchestra. Gilmore Phillips was a founding member of Bronson's Symphony (ca. 1894), and a year later, joined his brothers Sylvester and Joseph at the core of McElhany's Philharmonic.
In addition to the Phillips brothers, the Philharmonic Orchestra included other well known local musicians, many of whom are believed to have been African American. The Philharmonic was initially directed by First Presbyterian Church organist George W. Klock, and included Eugene C. McElhany, violinist and director of the Academy of Music Orchestra (McElhany later took over as director of the Philharmonic); and Oscar G. Clement, a violinist, as well, and popular local orchestra leader. Frank Wilson, a musician, actor and manager of Kalamazoo's predominantly African-American Harmonic Brass Band, signed on to manage the Philharmonic, while William Marchant from White's Military Band was enlisted as the musical director and librarian.
The first advertised public performance by the Philharmonic Orchestra was a "grand concert" at the YMCA auditorium on 9 January 1895. The orchestra performed several times throughout the year until early 1896.
August 1894 saw the Phillips Orchestra performing for Governor John T. Rich with more than three thousand onlookers during the afternoon exercises of a massive Sunday school rally in Kalamazoo. For a November 1895 benefit concert in West Cooper Township, the Phillips brothers were joined by former Symphony Orchestra members Fred Davis (cornet) and C. Z. Bronson (clarinet).
As an example of the brothers' repertoire at the time, a program given at Turn Verein Hall in February 1897 featured the following selections by the Phillips Brothers' Orchestra:
In 1901, the Phillips Brothers took part in a First M. E. Church banquet that included then Governor Aaron T. Bliss and an audience of more than two hundred. A year later, the six-piece Phillips Orchestra "furnished a long list of charming dances" for a party of some seventy-five invited guests at Brook Farm.
"There will be a grand musical concert at the Second Baptist church, Thursday evening, May 11, under the auspices of Phillips brothers famous orchestra, assisted by Mr. Desenberg with is shadowgraph. This entertainment promises to be one of the best indoor concerts of the season."
—Kalamazoo Gazette, 7 May 1899
The Phillips brothers continued to perform concert and social music in and around Kalamazoo well into the nineteen teens, though its popularity as a dance orchestra appears to have peaked soon after the turn of the twentieth century. The Progressive Legion Club held frequent events, for which the Phillips family members always provided ample vocal and instrumental entertainment, while the various church socials, weddings and private parties managed to keep the brothers' social calendars filled.
After more than three decades of performing, a November 1913 benefit concert for the North Side Improvement Association proved that the Phillips Brothers' Orchestra hadn't lost touch with current repertoire. The orchestra featured timely renditions of Rose De Haven's Carolina Chimes (1904), Von Tilzer's Medley Overture (ca. 1912), Piccalilli Rag (1912) by George A. Reeg, Jr., and Chas. L. Johnson's Dream Days (1913).
Like many in our "All About Kalamazoo History" series, this article is by no means a definitive study but rather a continuing work-in-progress. If you have new information, corrections, or items to share, please contact the author or the Local History Room.
Related reading from Kalamazoo Public Library's Local History essays.

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Around The Classical Internet: March 30, 2012
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- On Fresh Air this week, Michael Tilson Thomas talked about his famous grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, the king and queen of Yiddish theater in New York. (And did you know Tilson Thomas' zayde is name checked in Mel Brooks' The Producers? "I was a protege of the great Boris Thomashefsky," boasts Max Bialystock.)
- Related: I really love the new MTT-led San Francisco Symphony recording of music by John Adams. On Monday, we watched MTT and Adams, among others, talk about what makes American composers "mavericks." Tonight the PBS series Great Performances features the SFS centennial gala, with violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Lang Lang and a musically and visually stunning encore of Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine. (Check your local listings.)
- This might be the coolest high school program ever: Face the Music, the new music project in New York City for students from grades 5 to 12. They're hardly hobbyists: "Last year Face the Music performed [Steve] Reich's Tehillim with Alarm Will Sound; this year Philip Glass's Glassworks is the centerpiece of its programming. Its expanding playlist also includes works by Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, Angélica Negrón, Lev Zhurbin, JacobTV, Graham Fitkin, Osvaldo Golijov and Gérard Grisey, as well as oddities like Ligeti's Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962), a piece that involves winding up and starting the metronomes and letting them run down."
- How come no one's making a big deal of Debussy's 150th birthday anniversary this year (aside from the sheer bother of the word "sesquicentenary")? Perhaps we need to reconsider him from the ground up, suggests Tom Service: "Maybe the most important critical canard to start plucking, disembowelling and roasting is the whole Debussy-as-atmospheric-impressionist idée fixe. That comes from bad musicology, bad thinking, and bad performances."
- People are making a big deal about a newly discovered piece of music that might be by the 10-year-old Mozart. A four-minute "Allegro Molto" was found in an Austrian attic and was recently performed at Mozart's birthplace on his own piano.
- Awful: a 29-year-old Portland singer and choir director named Brian Tierney was found shot in his car Wednesday night on an Oregon interstate road; he was shot multiple times and remains in critical condition after reconstructive surgery. Married, with a young daughter, and a district winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Tierney had been on his way home from work directing a church choir. Police are asking for the public's help in solving the case.
- in the future, this roundup might forgo stories about music and science. Not this week, as the Telegraph reports a new study that finds classical music can be ... relaxing! This week's revelation comes from a team of plastic surgeons in Oxford, England, who figured out that classical music helped surgical patients lower their anxiety levels and breathing rates.
- Did you, like me, start seeing Facebook and Google ads run by the Louisville Orchestra in their search for nonunion replacement musicians? ("Now auditioning all orchestra positions. $925/wk + benefits. Apply today!") Apparently they've upgraded from the Craiglist posts they were running before. Anyway, while they're trying to recruit, they've made another offer to their actual musicians — and, said their board president, "It's going to be very similar to the last offer." The musicians have since agreed to binding arbitration towards a new contract, but under several conditions.
- Meanwhile, in Philadelphia: Ongoing negotiations between the Kimmel Center and its largest tenant, the struggling Philadelphia Orchestra, mean that the Kimmel has yet to announce its calendar for the 2012-13 season, except for its popular Broadway series. "What's at stake, according to several sources who have been briefed on the talks, is the question of whether the Kimmel can continue as a full-fledged arts center with an artistically independent presenting arm, or whether it will be reduced to being a rental facility for resident companies while letting its halls on open nights to commercial entities such as Live Nation."
- Philadelphia Orchestra president Allison Vulgamore issued a sharp quote on the topic back in November during an interview with Philadelphia Magazine for an article depressingly titled "What If The Philadelphia Orchestra Can't Be Saved?": "We can either have a world-class orchestra and a regional performing arts center, or a regional orchestra and a national performing arts center," Vulgamore said. "There isn't enough money for both. And I didn't come here to run a regional orchestra."
- All this needs to make way for a happier Philly story. It's about the 10-year reunion of a class of second graders whose teachers had them create their own opera — and the long-term impact the project has had. It was "a rare opportunity to a class of second graders, many from low-income neighborhoods and homes where English wasn't regularly spoken. That year, infused into every part of the students' curriculum, was the creation of an opera. Their teachers describe seeing striking changes in them. Shy students began to speak more. Students who hated writing began filling pages on end with their thoughts. Students who were ambivalent about school suddenly began showing up every day."


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Now that Ben Affleck has shaved his good-luck Oscar beard, it's safe to officially close the book on the 2012-13 awards season so we can cast a small peek at the treasures that await. What will the best picture race look like? Here are 10 candidates (release dates may change): -- Glenn Whipp, Tribune Newspapers
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PORTLAND, Maine — Alan Klapmeier, CEO of the startup airplane manufacturer Kestrel said Wednesday the company has secured a new foreign investor that's put some employees back to work at its Brunswick Landing facility, but he declined to share many details.
"As we have funding, we bring people back and say, 'Here's the next thing we need to get done,'" Klapmeier said, noting that fundraising is still an ongoing process as the company seeks to develop a prototype of the all-composite plane it has said will be the fastest single-engine turboprop aircraft. "It's positive news for the company, but it's not big news."
He couldn't confirm the number of employees working this week out of the Brunswick location but said it's "more than there were last week."
Steve Levesque, leading the Brunswick Landing redevelopment as executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, said in an email he didn't have any more detail on Kestrel's employees after the latest investment but wrote that it "looks like a good long-term prognosis" for the company and that they are current on their rent payment with MRRA.
The website flightglobal.com first reported that Kestrel secured a new foreign investor and could get its plane to market within three years, based on comments attributed to the company's technical officer, RJ Siegel, Tuesday during the Experimental Aircraft Association conference in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Klapmeier said the latest investment doesn't ensure the three-year production schedule, but moves the company closer toward critical stages of development like building and conforming prototypes for the aircraft.
The company's headquarters are in Superior, Wisconsin, where it decided to locate in 2012 after getting a package of loans and tax credits through various state agencies and the federal New Markets Tax Credit program.
Former Gov. John Baldacci and Brunswick Landing officials had previously announced the company would locate its manufacturing headquarters in Brunswick in 2010.
In September 2013, the company was behind on its rent payments in Brunswick and paychecks to about 40 Brunswick employees. Klapmeier told the Wisconsin TV station WDIO in May that delays in financing are pushing back the project schedule and that it was behind on paying a loan from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.
Officials from that state agency said they were working out a deal with the company to defer payments to November.
Klapmeier said there is still some question about how much of the project the company will do in Maine and how much will happen in Wisconsin, where Gov. Scott Walker has said the company could create up to 600 jobs.
Since that announcement, the company has not moved forward on its plans to build two construction plants and company and state officials are still ironing out details of the 30-month-old Wisconsin financing package, according to a report earlier this month in Business North.
In total, Klapmeier said that he's seeking to raise between $100 million and $125 million to get the plane designed, built, certified by the FAA and out to market.
"But some of that's easy cash," Klapmeier said, noting that financing to buy radios, propellers, avionics systems and other components will come easier because they will be needed at a later stage of development when the major components of the plane are already completed.
As part of the financing plan to develop what Klapmeier has billed the fastest single-engine turboprop aircraft, made of composites, Klapmeier said the company plans to raise up to $30 million in exchange for equity in the company.
He declined to say how far the company is toward its fundraising goals. He said the process is more complicated than raising one lump sum to support its project.


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I ran a CFA "successfully" (i.e., there were no negative residual variances, or other error messages). Unfortunately, my fit indices are indicating lack of fit.
Chi-Square = 337.5 p = .000
Do you have suggestions on how I might modify things to increase goodness of fit?
Liz Woodruff
posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 2:02 pm
For example, are there robust fit indices?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 2:05 pm
You can take a look at modification indices. Or you could start with an EFA to see if your CFA model is in the ballpark.
MLR is a robust to non-normality.
Liz Woodruff
posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 2:34 pm
OK, thank you. The SRMR = .06 and the literature (as you know) suggests a cutoff of SRMR </= .07/.08. Given that my model is below the cutoff on the SRMR, is it safe to consider it indicated, even though the other fit indices aren't as strong?
Thank you in advance.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 5:14 pm
If everything else is bad, I think you would have a hard time justifying looking at only SRMR.
Liz Woodruff
posted on Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 12:49 pm
OK, thank you. I am having a hard time understanding how to use modification indices in my analysis. I looked at the shortcourse video as well as the manual but I'm a bit confused.
First I used this command:
But in truth, I'm not sure what the differences are between these or which is most appropriate for my data...each of these gives me the same results as the standardized output command, none of my fit indices change at all. Am I doing something wrong? Thank you for your patience and help.
Liz Woodruff
posted on Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 12:52 pm
Oh, I see! Model modification indices are where the results are given. Could you, however, still explain the difference between the types of modifications I mentioned above?
Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 2:13 pm
This is explained in the user's guide. Please look there.
Liz Woodruff
posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 2:01 pm
OK, I believe that I understand which command to use. However, I am a bit confused in terms of interpreting the modification indices.
E.g., The command I used was STANDARDIZED MODINDICES (3.84); Below is an example of one of the modification indices provided:
M.I. EPC StdEPC StdYXEPC
Does this mean that by setting Y9 at 3.84 then chi-squared drops by 39.504?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 2:14 pm
No, this means that by freeing the factor loading of y9 for f1, chi-square will drop by 39.504.
Liz Woodruff
posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2011 - 2:50 pm
I have found that adding a residual covariance between to indicators will improve my chi-squared. Is there a portion of the short course video or a place in the manual that will instruct me on how to add this covariance?
Thank you
Liz Woodruff
posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2011 - 2:51 pm
*two indicators
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2011 - 3:12 pm
See the WITH option in the user's guide. Chapter 17 of the user's guide documents the MODEL command. This is an important chapter to be familiar with.
Liz Woodruff
posted on Thursday, June 02, 2011 - 2:28 pm
I have a feeling I know what you will say, but do you have suggestions for how to proceed if modification indices do not satisfactorily improve the model's fit to the data?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, June 02, 2011 - 2:48 pm
If you are looking at a CFA, I would suggest starting with an EFA to see if your CFA was even in the ballpark.
Liz Woodruff
posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 - 10:36 am
Is it possible to run a "mini" CFA for each individual latent construct? To look at the factor loadings separately from the entire model?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 03, 2011 - 10:38 am
Yes, you can and should test submodels. You can do this only if a factor has more then three indicators.
Malte Jansen
posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 8:55 am
Dear Mplus Team,
i have run a CFA model with 18 Items loading on one latent factor. This is just a comparison model for the model that follows from our theoretical hypothesis and the questionnaire scales(a three dimensional model with 6 items on each factor), so the fit of the model is supposed to be rather bad. A three dimensional model with moderate correlations (.3 to .5) actually provided a good fit to the data.
However, the fit of the one-dimensional comparison model turned out to be so bad that i started wondering if these numbers are even possible:
Chi-Square: 13338
MLR Scaling Correction: 0.142
(n is 384 and df are 135).
I already checked for possible errors in the data. I checked some SEM/CFA literature but most did not mention CFI values of zero or such a low MLR scaling correction factor as possible cases. Also, the Chi-Sqaure is worse than the Chi-Square of the Baseline Model (7737.047, df = 135). Is there any chance that these numbers are trustworthy? It would be great if you could help me.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 1:41 pm
This could be caused by very low correlations in your data. I would check that.
Malte Jansen
posted on Friday, February 15, 2013 - 5:55 am
Well, theoretically the items are supposed to load on three independent factors (the one factor model is a comparison model that follows from a different theory) with 6 items each. Within each of the three factors, the manifest correlations between the indicators are ~ 6. to .7. Across factors the manifest correlations are ~ .15 to .35, so, yes they are very low for a one factor model.
However, even given these low correlations, how is a Chi-Square value worse than the value of the baseline model and a negative TLI possible?
Best regards,
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, February 15, 2013 - 10:41 am
When a model fits so poorly, odd things can happen.
Kara Thompson
posted on Friday, January 03, 2014 - 3:30 pm
I am running a CFA with 5 indicators. some of the indicators are the same construct measured at two different time points (i.e., alcohol T1 and alcohol T2). The loadings are great (all >.60), but the fit is terrible - particularly the RMSEA. All variables are significantly correlated. Why are the loadings and model fit so inconsistent with each other?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, January 04, 2014 - 12:59 pm
The size of the factor loadings is not related to fit. It may be that the two repeated measures are correlated so highly they need more than one factor. You may want to post a general question like this on a general discussion forum like SEMNET.
Vaiva Gerasimaviciute
posted on Friday, December 15, 2017 - 11:19 pm
Two of competing models fit the data better than the baseline model (based on chi-square test of difference).
The fit statistics of each model:
Model a: chi-square test 436.115, df=37, CFI=0.982, TLI=0.973, RMSEA=0.012
Model b: chi-square test 444.223, df=39, CFI=0.982, TLI=0.74, RMSEA=0.012.
Should I chose a more parsimonious model (b), or should I chose a model with lower chi-square statistics (a)?
Vaiva Gerasimaviciute
posted on Friday, December 15, 2017 - 11:20 pm
Correction: TLI in model B =0.974
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, December 16, 2017 - 2:36 pm
This general analysis question is suitable for SEMNET.
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One of the winners of the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine once received a helping hand from the National Human Genome Research Institute. But the aid didn't come on the scientific front - it came on an airplane landing strip.
The saga dates back roughly a decade when a small plane skidded off the short runway at the Airlie Center in Warrenton, Va., and ended up in the mud. The pilot, Oliver Smithies, Ph.D., faced quite a predicament. But a gaggle of National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) staff, assembled for their annual scientific retreat, came to his rescue, applying their collective heave-ho to get Dr. Smithies' craft back onto the runway.
Scientific meetings rarely start with such excitement; but Dr. Smithies, who was then a member of the NHGRI Board of Scientific Counselors, made that gathering one to remember. Now, the octogenarian genomics researcher has landed something far more exciting - a feat that has all of NHGRI cheering.
Dr. Smithies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is among the trio of researchers recently awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for pioneering work on gene targeting technologies that enabled development of knockout mouse models. In addition to Dr. Smithies, the other recipients were another researcher with ties to NHGRI, Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., of the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City; and Sir Martin J. Evans, Ph.D., of Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Dr. Smithies served on the NHGRI Board of Scientific Counselors - a group that previews and evaluates NHGRI's intramural research programs and provides peer review of Division of Intramural Research investigators - from 1994 to 2000. He has used gene targeting to develop mouse models of inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis and thalassemia. He has also developed numerous mouse models for common human diseases such as hypertension and atherosclerosis.
The other recent Nobel Prize winner with NHGRI connections is Dr. Capecchi, who is currently collaborating on a comparative sequencing project with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Intramural Sequencing Center, administratively housed within the NHGRI Intramural Program. He is also a co-author of the 2004 Nature Genetics paper that described the scientific rationale for the trans-NIH Knockout Mouse Project, in which NHGRI is a key participant. In addition to his role in developing gene-targeting technologies, Dr. Capecchi's research has uncovered the roles of genes involved in both mammalian organ development and in the establishment of the body plan. His work has shed light on the causes of several human inborn malformations.
Gene targeting, the breakthrough technology recognized with this Nobel Prize, can be used to inactivate genes in mice. The result is an animal model, called a knockout mouse, which can be used in experiments to study diseases impacting mice and humans. Gene targeting makes it possible to produce almost any type of DNA modification in the mouse genome, allowing researchers to determine the role of each gene in normal physiology and development.
Researchers are developing knockout mice as models of inherited human diseases such as cancer, heart disease, neurological disorders, diabetes and obesity. Gene targeting has already produced more than five hundred different mouse models of human disorders, including cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes and cancer.
NIH, and NHGRI in particular, is steeped in research that benefits from the discoveries made by these Nobel laureates. A trans-NIH initiative of particular note is the Knockout Mouse Project mentioned above. NIH works closely with other large-scale efforts that are developing knockout mouse strains now underway in Canada - called the North American Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Project (NorCOMM) - and in Europe - called the European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis Program (EUCOMM). The collective goal is to create a mutation in each of the approximately 20,000 protein-coding genes in the mouse genome. The initiative, launched in 2006, aims to generate a comprehensive and public resource of mice containing a knockout mutation in every gene in the mouse genome.
The net impact of the Knockout Mouse Project, made possible by the discoveries of these Nobel Prize awardees, will be the rapid and efficient availability of animal models to study the underlying genetic causes of diseases impacting human health. Biomedical research and public health will receive enormous benefit from the rapid and wide availability of these knockout mouse strains.
"The selection of these researchers to receive a Nobel Prize is very gratifying for those in our field who have utilized gene-targeting technologies for their studies and can see its remarkable promise," said NHGRI Scientific Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. "It truly represents a fundamental breakthrough that is enabling a wealth of important biomedical research today."


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A road construction worker, Nick Spencer earns most of his salary and makes most of his annual purchases in the summer, buying Christmas presents, wood pellets and household necessities he and his family will need when he is not working in the winter.
The Tunkhannock man needs that stockpile now more than ever as he finds himself shut out of the unemployment compensation he, his wife, and three children have relied upon through the winter months.
Changes approved by the state Legislature last year changed how eligibility for unemployment benefits is calculated for seasonal employees such as construction workers. Now, tens of thousands of those workers who qualified for unemployment in years past are facing the winter without that income.
Spencer, 35, works for Eastern Industries Inc. and stands on equipment in summer heat, feeding steaming 300-degree asphalt into the spreader. He drinks two gallons of water on a typical workday, which can be 12 to 14 hours in the summer months, the ideal time for road-building.
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Pedro Jose Lopez, 47, sat stoically as the verdict of guilty was announced three times. His family members sat crying in the front row.
Lopez is slated to be sentenced on Jan. 14, and he faces close to three years under federal sentencing guidelines. He was convicted of bribery, obstruction of justice, and lying to a federal agent.
"This is about a police officer who used his position for his gain, then lied about it to the FBI,'' said Assistant US Attorney Andrew E. Lelling.
Lopez was indicted just over a year ago, accused of soliciting a free snow plow — valued at $4,000 — from a company, M & W Towing Co., of Lawrence, in exchange for sending tow jobs to the company. He later lied about it to an FBI agent, and produced a bogus receipt.
Prosecutors alleged he received other gifts from the company as he continued to send more business to M & W Towing.
Lopez was placed on leave after his arrest.
His lawyer, Alexander R. Cain, had argued that the case was based on the testimony of questionable witnesses, including at least one who received immunity for her cooperation. He also said that Lopez was doing his job by ordering the towing of illegally parked cars.
"What you did hear was Mr. Lopez was doing his job,'' Cain said. "What you did hear was Mr. Lopez was going into these areas and removing vehicles that were illegally parked there.''
He added, "With all due respect, the government has failed to meet its burden.''
Lelling had argued, however, that it was Lopez himself who lied to the FBI agent, "because the alternative was they were going to find out he has been in this long-term bribery scheme with M & W Towing.''
He said a review of one week in January 2011 showed that Lopez ordered 48 cars towed, while the average police officer made such an order only four times.
"I guess the other guys didn't get the message about the weather, or the kickbacks,'' Lelling said.
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Francis Maude, minister for the Cabinet Office, said: "Improving public services across Government by bringing them online, making people's lives easier and saving millions of pounds is a prize worth having. Mike has shown he can deliver real change through his achievements at the Guardian. I am looking forward seeing radical change in our public services online experience."
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text: Despite the discouraging employment figures for 2003, engineers could see a surge in employment in the design industry, according to ZweigWhite, a Natick, Mass.-based management consulting firm. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) forecasts the employment growth for engineers across all industries will be 9% through 2010. However, the BLS estimates the employment level for electrical engineers will increase 36.8% between 2000 and 2010. This is the second highest growth rate of the four major engineering disciplines (Chart at left). ZweigWhite attributes the increase in employment to the declining number of engineering degrees awarded in recent years. The amount of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees have declined from a peak of 120,727 in 1985-1986 to 104,467 in 1999-2000. As a result, engineering firms now must select from a smaller pool of new job candidates.


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In response to my post about the decision of that New York State newspaper to publish the names and addresses of those with handgun permits in its locality, a friend and former colleague writes:
We live in a rural area where most people own guns and would-be intruders would be wise to think so.
We don't have anything more dangerous in our home than a kitchen carving knife.
If the public became apprised of who owns guns in our area, I would feel compelled to get one just so as not to be thought a patsy to criminals.
So, to the extent that the publication of the names and addresses of gun permit holders has any effect on gun ownership, its effect will be to increase it.
But liberals typically don't worry about the consequences of their political gestures. As long as the gesture expresses the appropriate amount of outrage (i.e., lots), they have done God's work (though most wouldn't put it that way) and that's the end of it.


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Watch this Video of Rockers in Funny Situations
From bad cases of guitar face to doctored album covers, we present this video of some of the funnier things we've come across here at Ultimate Classic Rock.
Click out the clip embedded above to see Gene Simmons' dog wearing Kiss pajamas (as if he would wear anything else?), Ohio's biggest Ronnie James Dio fan and a camel at an Eagles concert in Dubai.
There are also some oddly amusing pairings in these photos. Who would have thought that Phil Collins would be good buddies with wrestler Randy Orton? Or that Slash and Betty White would even be mentioned in the same sentence together, no less be photographed together? The backstory behind that one can be found here.
Finally, Paul McCartney gets attacked twice, first by a bug, then by Lady Gaga. Check it out.