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Thousands of rural communities in Senegal have held public rallies declaring an end to female circumcision. This report originally aired on Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.
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CleanTools is proud to announce that Gene and Earlene Elpers of Evansville, IN were crowned the winners of the 2009 CleanTools Legend Cup award with their 1946 Chevy Pickup Truck "Ballistic". They were onsite to accept the $5,000 cash prize along with a stunning perennial trophy that stands over five feet tall and honors the best of the best.
Constructed over a period of 7 years, Ballistic features hundreds of body modifications ranging from a 1937 Ford-inspired grill to a one-piece molded cab and bed combination. The truck is powered by a fuel-injected 6.1 Chrysler Hemi V8 and backed by a Chrysler transmission. Gene described the honor of winning the CleanTools Legend Cup as "Super Good!" and that the key to the truck's success has been the attention to detail. "Everything had to be right and had to look just right," Gene added.
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The Common Core State Standards will soon be driving instruction in forty-five states and the District of Columbia.
While the standards are high quality, getting their implementation right is a real challenge—and it won't be free, a serious concern given the tight budgets of many districts and states.
But while critics have warned of a hefty price tag, the reality is more complicated.
Yes, some states may end up spending a lot of money. But there are also opportunities for significant savings if states, districts and schools use this occasion to rethink their approach to test administration, instructional materials and training for teachers. The key is that states have options, and implementation doesn't need to look (or cost) the same everywhere.
States could approach implementation in myriad ways. Here are three:
• One, stick to "Business as usual" and use traditional tools like textbooks, paper tests, and in-person training. These tools are very familiar in today's education system, but they can come with reasonably high price tags.
• Two, go with only the "bare bones" of what's necessary: Experiment with open-source materials, computerized assessments, and online professional development in ways that provide the bare bones of more traditional, in-person approaches. This could save major coin, but could require more technology investment and capacity for some states.
• Or, three, find a middle ground through "balanced implementation" of both strategies, which offers some of the benefits—and downsides—of each model.
But how much money are we talking? Take Florida:
If Florida sticks to business as usual, it could spend $780 million implementing the Common Core. Under the bare bones approach, the tab could be only $183 million. A blend of the two? $318 million.
But that's the total cost; don't forget states are already spending billions of dollars each year on textbooks, tests, curricula, and other expenses. Look at it that way and the sticker shock wears off: The estimated net cost of putting the Common Core in place in the Sunshine State, for example, ranges from $530 million to roughly $67 million less than what we estimate that they are spending now.
Each implementation approach has its merits—and drawbacks—but states and districts do have options for smartly adopting the Common Core without breaking the bank. Further, they could use this opportunity to create efficiencies via cross-state collaborations and other innovations.
To learn more, download "Putting a Price Tag on the Common Core: How Much Will Smart Implementation Cost?"
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gnome-desktop-sharp stuff need gnome-desktop:2, bug #389181 by Kacper Kowalik.
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London has a rich and unrivalled sartorial history, and while its famous Savile Row remains the epicentre of the traditional tailoring culture, the flame of contemporary elegance burns brightest in a less celebrated corner of Mayfair. Working from a former art gallery near Oxford Street, Messrs Luke Sweeney and Thom Whiddett run Thom Sweeney, London's coolest bespoke tailors. This season the duo have produced their first ever ready-to-wear collection, which is exclusively available from MR PORTER.
"We started the business in January 2007," remembers Mr Sweeney. "Before that we both worked for [the tailor] Timothy Everest in the East End." Mr Whiddett explains the duo's original intentions: "We wanted to have a bespoke tailoring house, looking after our clients with great service and great clothes." Key to their success is the fact that the suits are cut in a shape that's more relevant and contemporary than those produced by most bespoke tailors. "Our guys don't want to walk down the street in cropped trousers or with a jacket that stops half-way down their back," says Mr Whiddett. "But they still want to look modern and cool. Our clients wear our suits at work, but also to [exclusive Mayfair clubs] 5 Hertford Street and The Arts Club. And because of the way they're cut you could also go to Shoreditch House [in London's fashionable East End], because it doesn't look like a boring city suit."
All around Thom Sweeney's bespoke shop there are images of style icons from the past, men such as Messrs Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen and Sir Sidney Poitier. However, the tailors use these old shots as a springboard that propels them forward, rather than a weight that holds them back. Mr Whiddett explains, "If an image still looks current then that says something about the guy in the shot, and the guy who made the clothes. But there isn't one old look that's just spot on, it's always about the proportions - the width of the trousers affects the size of the lapels. Our look is current without being edgy." It's a look that appeals to many high-profile Londoners, most notably Mr David Beckham who wore a Thom Sweeney suit when he piloted the Olympic flame down the River Thames en route to the opening ceremony of the 2012 Games.
From left: Messrs Sweeney and Whiddett
Among the things that sets Thom Sweeney apart from London's classic tailors is that the clothes the firm makes reflect modern life better than the traditional pinstripes-all-week-and-tweed-all-weekend dichotomy that still seems to inform much of Savile Row. Mr Sweeney explains, "We guide a lot of guys for what they're going to wear at the weekend and in the evening - people want to look better in the evening than they do in the office." Thom Sweeney also caters for the growing number of men who like to wear separate jackets and trousers, even on formal occasions. "Separates are a big deal at the moment," says Mr Sweeney. "It can look great if you get it right, with a double-breasted blazer and trousers. One of our best customers is often in separates from nine-to-five, but come the evening he's in a mohair suit and a tie."
Talking of mohair, which is made with yarn created from the hair of Angora goats, it's an important part of Thom Sweeney's superb dinner jacket. "The tux is really important to us," says Mr Sweeney. "We make a lot of tuxes for our clients. Whether you wear it once a year, or 10 times a year, it's something you need in your wardrobe. Every time we've made one for a bespoke client he's come back and said, 'I wish I'd done it earlier'. When you go to black tie events people notice." Mr Whiddett is equally evangelical, "If you've got a few good suits already and you come to an event where you want to dress up, there's nothing smarter."
However, people also notice what a man wears at the weekend, which is why Thom Sweeney makes casual trousers and blazers. "We've done navy blue cotton chinos," explains Mr Whiddett, "with a slim leg, so you can dress them down with a polo shirt and sneakers. The main difference between the casual pieces and the formal jackets is that for the casual jackets we softened up the shoulders with a flat sleeve head, so they're a bit easier to wear." In fact soft shoulders are a Thom Sweeney signature, as well as a defining feature of most of what's good in contemporary tailoring. Mr Sweeney explains how the house block was developed, "The shoulder line's a bit softer than you get on Savile Row, but we still keep the roped sleeve head. It has presence, but it's soft to wear."
These details have been taken directly from the handmade suits and put into the new collection. Mr Whiddett explains the rationale behind the ready-to-wear range, "It's in line with the bespoke, right down to the way it sits on the shoulder."


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boll weevil
boll weevil or cotton boll weevil (bōl), cotton-eating weevil, or snout beetle, Anthonomus grandis. Probably of Mexican or Central American origin, it appeared in Texas about 1892 and spread to most cotton-growing regions of the United States. Over the years the weevil became a significant pest, destroying about 8% of the annual U.S. cotton crop. Boll weevil devastation was a major reason for diversification of the South's historic cotton economy. In 1978, however, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture began a concerted eradication campaign. By the end of the century the weevil had disappeared from from most of the nation except Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, where the campaign continued.
The young adult is grayish, darkening with age, and about 1/4 in. (6 mm) long, with a long snout for boring into the cotton boll, or seed pod, where weevils feed on the cotton fibers. Weevils may also invade cotton flower buds before they mature into bolls. Females lay eggs within the bud or the boll, where pupation (see insect) occurs. The larvae eat the entire contents of the boll. Metamorphosis from egg to adult takes about three weeks; from 2 to 10 generations occur each season. The weevil's resistance to some poisons, and the removal of some poisons from the market, have encouraged Integrated Pest Management, e.g., the use of safer insecticides, synthetic growth regulators, and pheromone traps, and the release of sterile males to frustrate reproduction. Adults are also controlled by elimination of field litter, especially cotton stalks, in which they overwinter. Short-season cotton, bred to mature early, escapes much damage from weevil larvae.
The boll weevil is classified in the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Coleoptera, family Curculionidae.
See P. P. Sikorowski et al., Boll Weevil Mass Rearing Technology (1984); G. Matthews and J. Tunstall, Insect Pests of Cotton (1992).


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posted on Thursday, January 03, 2013 - 3:25 am
I'm running a GMM wit covariates. I know that in TECH4 I can find the means of the growth factors - but how can I know if they are significant?
A second question: how can I interpret the influence of covariates on s and q? For example, depressive symptoms have a significant negative effect on the (negative) linear slope, but a positive significant effect on the quadratic term in youth with externalizing symptoms?
Thanks a lot for your help
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 03, 2013 - 9:49 am
To see if the growth factor means are significant you can run an unconditional model (no covariates).
Perhaps your linear slope s is negative and the quadratic q positive so that the development first goes down and then up. The negative slope on a covariate for s means that as the covariate value increases s gets larger negative values. The positive slope on a covariate for q says that as the cov value increases q increases. So all in all a deeper dip and a stronger upswing as the covariate value increases.
posted on Friday, January 04, 2013 - 7:43 am
Thanks a lot for your quick response and the very helpful interpretation!!!
Two related questions concerning the unconditional model: due to missings in my covariates I have a smaller sample size in the conditional model (in comparison with the unconditional model). Is this a problem when I refer to the significance of means in the unconditional model?
Furthermore, the sizes of classes change a little bit when I add the covariates. Is that a problem?
Thanks a lot again!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, January 07, 2013 - 9:43 am
I would not worry about those minor issues. But if this bothers you, you may want to think about a new 3-step mixture approach described in Web Note 15 - see our home page.
posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 4:40 am
Thank you very much, you are very helpful.
I have another question concerning the log-likelihood difference testing. First, I analyzed different models (GMM) for girls and boys separately. Now I want to compare classes with multiple group analysis (two times log-likelihood difference). For example, I am interested if the intercept of class 1 in girls is equal to that of class 1 in boys.
My question: Is the H0 model the more restrictive one (constrain two intercepts to be equal) and the H1 model the less rectrictive (no equalities)? Or differently asked: which value do I have to subtract from which one?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 10:11 am
Subtract the model with the most restrictions from the model with the least restrictions.
posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 11:49 pm
Thank you!!
posted on Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 4:15 am
it is me again. One more question: how can I constrain linear regressions of i on covariates to be equal across groups in multiple group analyses with knownclass? I am not sure about the syntax.
Or is that the default in Mplus
- if that is the case, how can I free them?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 7:38 am
I believe this is the default. You can tell by checking your results or TECH1. You free them by mentioning the in the class-specific part of the MODEL command:
i ON x;
i ON x;
posted on Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 5:56 am
Thank you very much!!!
Can I also free the multinomial logistic regression of latent class variable (c) on covariate x for group 1 (girls) and group 2 (boys) in multiple group analysis? At the moment, I can find only one OR for each class in comparison to the reference class in the results , but I expected to have different values for girls and boys...
How can I handle this (syntax)?
I would like to compare the odds ratios via chi-square difference testing... or isn't that possible (sorry for that silly question)
Thanks a lot again for your help!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 11:58 am
You should be able to free c ON x in each known class.
You can use MODEL TEST to test if the multinomial regression coefficients are equal across known classes. You would need to define the odds ratios in MODEL CONSTRAINT to test if they are different.
posted on Friday, January 25, 2013 - 4:35 am
Could you please help me with the syntax for
a) free c ON x in each known class
b) for defining the odds ratios in Model constraint?
Thank you very much
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, January 25, 2013 - 4:41 pm
Let's see if we can get a) going first.
Have you tried
classes = cg(2) c(2);
and then for
Model cg:
c on x;
c on x;
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 - 8:08 am
That worked!!! I tried that before but I did not include the line "Model cg" before the specific model commands.
Thank you very much!
So now we can continue with b)?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 - 8:19 am
For b), see the UG chapt3er 14, Section Calculating Probabilities From Logistic...
It shows log odds and to get odds you just exponentiate, odds = exp(logodds).
posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 6:43 am
I had to focus on some other things in the meantime but now I am back on this.
Unfortunately, I still do not understand how to test if two odds ratios are equal in two known classes (even after I read the recommended section in chapter 14...).
Can you tell me the syntax I need?
I would be very happy about your help...
Thanks a lot
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 12:32 pm
In the Model command, for say class 1 you simply say
c ON x (b1);
and then in Model Constraint:
eb = exp(b1);
to get the odds ratio.
posted on Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 7:51 am
Thank you very much!
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This will explain why Audrina Patridge was practicing parkour on the streets of Chicago Oct. 14.
The former cast member of MTV's "The Hills" tweeted a photo of herself filming a parkour segment for NBC's "1st Look," which she now hosts (former host and "Bachelorette" Ali Fedotowsky is now a correspondent for "E! News"). Patridge filmed Oct. 17 at Burke's Bacon Bar at the James Chicago hotel.
On Oct. 15, Patridge had her hair blown out at Blowtique salon in the Near North neighborhood and visited Bub City and Three Dots and a Dash. She had drinks Oct. 16 at Jimmy in the James Chicago hotel.
Fellow TV host Maria Menounos was spotted Oct. 12 at Siena Tavern and Three Dots and a Dash and Oct. 13 at Rosebud on Rush. She was in town covering the Chicago Marathon for "Extra."
Also filming in Chicago lateley is Sophia Bush ("One Tree Hill"), who is part of the upcoming "Chicago Fire" spin-off, "Chicago PD." Bush had dinner Oct. 14 with "Chicago Fire" star Jesse Spencer and two other people at State & Lake Chicago Tavern in the Wit Hotel and dined Oct. 13 at the newly opened Chop Shop in Wicker Park.
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Usually the prevailing thought at this point is, "Who do the Orioles deal at the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline?" But this month, the Orioles appear to be buyers. One, because at 45-40 they are in second place in the AL East and currently a postseason contender. Secondly, the Orioles don't have any coveted veteran trade chips this year to be sellers. Only infielder Mark Reynolds and reliever Kevin Gregg fall into that category, and neither will bring back much -- if anything -- in a trade. So Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette is wheeling his empty cart up and down the starting pitching aisles. Duquette has already made overtures for starting pitching, including the market's most coveted prize, Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Zack Greinke (left). Pretty much every established veteran starter that's potentially available will catch the Orioles' interest: Greinke and his teammate Shaun Marcum, the Chicago Cubs' Matt Garza, Paul Maholm and Ryan Dempster (right), the Philadelphia Phillies' Cole Hamels, Houston's Wandy Rodriguez, Arizona's Joe Saunders (center), Seattle's Jason Vargas and the Oakland¿s Bartolo Colon, among others. The problem is that the Orioles' farm system is top heavy and shallow -- with right-hander Dylan Bundy and shortstop Manny Machado considered the only potential difference-makers. Both are relatively untouchable, especially for a two-month rental. That makes getting a top-tier pitcher unlikely, unless an opposing club still sees one of the Orioles' demoted starters -- Brian Matusz, Jake Arrieta or Zach Britton -- as the centerpiece of a deal. The best guess is that once the jockeying and bidding is done, the Orioles will settle for a lower-level starter such as a Rodriguez, Vargas, Saunders or Colon -- someone who can likely improve the rotation but not anchor it. Regardless, Duquette has shown an aggressiveness in his short stint with the Orioles, so a deadline deal for a pitcher is more likely than not. They also could attempt to make a deal to shore up their infield defense and get more consistency out of left field, but for now starting pitching is the priority.
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EEOC Office of Legal Counsel staff members wrote the following informal discussion letter in response to an inquiry from a member of the public. This letter is intended to provide an informal discussion of the noted issue and does not constitute an official opinion of the Commission.
Title VII: Disparate Impact
February 29, 2000
Dear [sanitized]
We have received your letter, dated February 17, 2000, concerning employer liability for tests that have a disparate impact on a particular protected group. The Legal Counsel has asked me to respond.
As you are aware, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces, among other laws, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (Title VII), which bars discrimination in employment on the bases of race, color, sex, national origin, and religion. In many cases brought under Title VII, the inquiry will concern whether an employer intended to discriminate against a person on the basis of his/her protected status and, if so, whether the employer has a defense to doing so.
Even where an employer does not intend to discriminate, however, it can be found liable under Title VII if it uses a facially neutral practice that has the effect of disproportionately excluding members of a particular protected group. In such cases, which apply the disparate impact theory of discrimination, the individual alleging discrimination must prove -- usually through statistical evidence -- that the challenged practice has a substantial and significant adverse effect on a protected group. If the individual can make this demonstration, the employer will be liable for discrimination unless it can show that the practice in question is job-related and consistent with business necessity. It is the employer's burden to make this showing, and a failure to provide any justification for the practice will likely result in a finding of liability. Even if an employer can demonstrate that a practice is justified, moreover, the individual will be given an opportunity to prove that there are other available practices that would also serve the employer's purposes, but with less impact on the protected group. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(k).
The EEOC, along with several other federal agencies, has promulgated guidelines that can help employers to meet these standards. The Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, a copy of which is attached to this letter, require covered employers to maintain data on the impact caused by their tests and selection procedures. Where those data suggest that a practice does create an adverse impact, employers are required to validate the procedure under technical standards that are discussed in detail in the Guidelines. The validation standards set forth in the Guidelines are intended to be consistent with generally accepted professional
standards for evaluating selection procedures; the newest version of those standards may be obtained from the American Psychological Association. Employers are also expected to include in their validation studies an analysis of whether there are alternative selection procedures that could be used to reduce the identified impact.
In conclusion, proof of a Title VII violation does not in all cases depend on a showing that an employer intended to discriminate. As a result, employers are expected to monitor the impact of each of their selection tools and to ensure that those tools are related to important aspects of the job for which they are used, as well as predictive of an individual's ability to meet those job requirements.
I hope that this information is helpful to you. Please note, however, that this letter does not constitute an opinion of the EEOC under Section 713(b) of Title VII.
Dianna B. Johnston
Assistant Legal Counsel
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By Steve DiMatteo
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Jim Thome walks into a hallway of the Chicago White Sox spring training facility, having just finished swapping old stories in the team dining area. He's a special assistant to White Sox general manager Rick Hahn, having last played in 2012, though he hasn't yet ruled out a return to uniform. "I could see myself one day managing or, you know, there's days that I think, 'God, I kind of like what I'm doing in the front office,'" said Thome, now 43.
The hallway is adorned with pictures of him, from when he played for the Sox, and everyone who passes by acknowledges Thome, gives him a pat on the back and says hello. This is the player -- the person -- that Jim Thome is, intensely respected by all in the game, even if, for some reason, it never quite feels like the national appreciation for him has ever reached the level he deserves. It's especially noticeable in the wake of Mariano Rivera's year-long retirement party, with a similar run now expected for Derek Jeter.
Thome is seventh all-time in career home runs, with 612 -- 91 more than Chicago icon Frank Thomas, who recently was elected to the Hall of Fame on his first ballot. At the start of Thome's career, only six men had ever hit 550 home runs, a milestone since passed by eight more hitters. Yet only Thome and Ken Griffey Jr. amassed those numbers without ever being linked to a criminal investigation or positive test for steroids. Thome and Griffey's clean names are preceded on the all-time list only by Aaron, Ruth and Mays, making it all the more remarkable that Thome has had such a quiet exit from the game.
You won't catch him being bothered by that, though. "I won't really think or look at a situation and go, 'Oh, I'd like it to be this way, or I'd like it to be this way," Thome said. "I enjoyed being in the spotlight when I hit, but I'm not a spotlight guy. Not that anybody else is, it's just that we all have different paths."
While one of Thome's paths could have certainly been the arena of superstardom, the one eventually laid out for him led to an aura of quiet leadership and gushing humility. "I feel so blessed and honored that I got to play so long and had a good career and was with some great managers, teammates, teams," Thome said. "I have no second regrets on any of that at all."
Still, this is a player who spent 22 seasons hitting 612 home runs, including an all-time franchise-best 337 for the Cleveland Indians, plus 17 more in the postseason for Cleveland. He's seventh all-time in walks with 1,747. He's 24th all-time in runs batted in with 1,699. He hit 451 doubles and scored 1,583 runs, and his career OPS of .956 is good for 19th all-time. He is one of the best power hitters the game has ever seen, yet he never finished higher than fourth in the MVP voting. That is partly because that he did play in the steroid era, when home runs were hit at astronomical levels. Thome only had one season where he hit more than 50 home runs, plus five more seasons of 40 or more.
"I don't feel slighted because I played in a time when all that was going on," Thome said. "There's always gonna be the question, 'Did this guy do it or did this guy do it?' I know what I did. I can look in the mirror. At the end of the day, the mirror doesn't lie."
It also might be that Thome was too consistent a player, putting up solid numbers with such regularity that, at some point, it no longer seemed noteworthy. "When you have an opportunity, I guess, to put up numbers, sure, that's very natural," Thome said. "But if you look on the back of a baseball card, [the numbers] are not the same year in and year out, so that's where I try to keep it in perspective."
"That's what was so great is, you know, trying to take little things every year and try to improve your game and if I wasn't hitting the breaking ball well one year, I'd go home and work on it, or if I had problems defensively, and I felt like I needed to work on it, I did it. I had great coaches and great people that have helped me along the way, but ultimately, the player has to get out there and do it. You have to get out and do it."
That doesn't mean there wasn't failure to go right along with that success. After all, Thome does have the second-most strikeouts in history, with 2,548. "This game is evolved around failure, so as much as it looks like there was success, there was so much failure involved at times in the cage and trying to work out things -- and then all of a sudden, you get it," Thome said. "You get it, and you get on one of them streaks, and the enjoyment and the success just kept me wanting to come back, and that's what's cool about the game."
Thome probably doesn't have to worry about his place in baseball history, or that he played in a time where the big power numbers are now scrutinized and met with shifty-eyed skepticism. Thome's legacy is a quiet one, a slow-burning appreciation that more fans will recognize when the Hall of Fame eventually gives him the spotlight he deserves, as his name finally rises above more controversial ones.
Of course, Thome doesn't need that type of recognition, given that he has already found the satisfaction he was looking for from the game of baseball. "I want to be remembered for a guy that posted up every day, that came and wanted to play every day and was a good teammate," Thome said. "I think one of the biggest compliments anybody can give a player is, 'God, he was a gamer, he loved to play.'
"I felt like when I was a player, I gave everything to the game. I showed up to the ballpark early, I stayed late. I wanted to get better. I failed, I succeeded, but yet at the end of the day when the game is done -- as right now it is -- when you look back, and you have ex-teammates that seek you out and say, 'Man, you were a good teammate' -- you know what, to me, that's special. That's special because, ultimately, you can't play baseball forever."
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Steve DiMatteo writes for the Associated Press, Fox Sports Ohio and more. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him at @steve_dimatteo.


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A concert is a live performance of music in front of an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band.Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment. Before recorded music, concerts would provide the only opportunity one would generally have to hear musicians play.
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Introduction – in simple terms, SEO is the action of convalescent the bulk of visitors to a website via seek engines. By optimising your website with targeted specific key phrases acclimated by your ambition customers, its accessible for seek engines rank your website added awful than agnate aggressive sites (that are not optimised). SEO should be beheld as a basic of allotment of your all-embracing able internet business action and ethically acclimated to advance the superior of your aggregation experience, according to seek engine guidelines and standards. The aboriginal footfall is to accept how seek engines work….
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How Do Seek Engines Work? – Seek engines use automatic algebraic algorithms to rank and analyze web pages of a agnate content. The algorithms are awful circuitous of and await on seek bots consistently canoeing the Internet to an archetype or 'cache' every webpage it visits. Seek bots automatically attending for specific advice if visiting a web website such as the robots.txt file, sitemap.xml file, WHOIS data. They do this to acquisition new agreeable in microseconds and ensure their own listings presented to users are awful up to date and relevant. The abstracts is stored by the seek engine aggregation in huge server abstracts centres. The exact algebraic formulae of the seek algoithm is jealously attentive by seek engines, and so alone assay of actual abstracts is acclimated to accomplish some accepted assumptions about how they baronial work. In addition, anniversary engine broadcast some webmaster guidelines to accord some accepted advice about how to actualize a superior website and not use techniques that may get a website banned from its listings, by its moderators.
How Do Seek Engines Present Accordant Results? – historically, the primary agency seek engines acclimated to rank web sites is the bulk of links a website has from added websites. These are accepted as entering links. Over time seek engines grew added accepted and hotlink farms developed to try and dispense the results. To action this the algorithms became added sophisticated. Today, links are beneath important and instead the textual accommodation of the words, paragraphs, pages and absolute affair of website is analytical accomplishing top seek engine results. Seek engines administer avant-garde anti spam factors to ensure that users are presented with the a lot of accordant and superior after-effects accessible to reflect their search. Added afresh seek engines are diversifying into altered agency of search, such as images, video, accepted bounded search, artefact and bulk allegory as able-bodied as developing chargeless online applications such as calendars, spreadsheets and chat processing applications.
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Once you accept acclimated your bazaar ability and keyword accoutrement to validate the seek volumes of phrases, accomplish a list, ranked by seek volume, of your top 10 phrases. Invariably there are derivatives of your top ten ambition phrases. For instance, if your primary ambition appellation is 'mortgage adduce uk', you ability aswell analyze 'uk anchored bulk mortgages' and 'mortgage agent uk' as accessory phrases. Your affairs will blazon in hundreds of agnate seek queries to acquisition a accurate artefact or service. By creating optimised web pages with accordant agreeable (that cover these phrases), you maximise your affairs of accomplishing added seek engine traffic. You will charge to consistently amend the account and assay your website logs and statistics and assay application keyword tools. From this feedback, by blockage which seek phrases and admission pages were acclimated to admission your website over time, you can calmly see how acknowledged your optimisation efforts are going. Key byword alternative should in fact behest the best of breadth allotment for new sites, website design; abyssal structure, altered affairs credibility and bond strategy. Consistently add a brace of alternative fields in your Acquaintance Anatomy to get acknowledgment anatomy your website visitors; 'which seek engine did you use to acquisition our site?' and 'what seek appellation did you use?'
Competitor Assay – bold you accept a artefact or account that has some altered affairs points, you charge analyse your online antagonism so you can optimise your USP's effectively. From an internet point of appearance you charge analyse what added websites accept accomplished about to your own website. For the aboriginal footfall is to analyze who they are and accomplish a list. This is simple abundant by entering all of your primary and accessory key phrases into the aloft seek engines and architecture up to a list. Of agnate key phrases are usually accompany up the aforementioned websites and you will actual bound accept what do you charge to beating off the to the seek engine to succeed. Updating this account on a approved base is as important as the antecedent analysis. By accepting acknowledgment from seek after-effects you can consistently re-analyse competitors in agreement of added links or agreeable they accept added, or analyse how they accept restructured and reorganised their website accept to accomplish it added seek engine friendly. Review anniversary website anxiously to analyse your competitors on the afterward basis:-
Keyword / Keyphrase Physique Assay – accomplish a account of your competitors keywords (as per above) to validate your own analysis.
Pagerank Checkers – seochat accommodate a advantageous apparatus to lookup pagerank of assorted sites, if you accept a ample bulk of competitors.
Supplemental Page Checker – use toosl to assay the admeasurement of 'less important, beneath awful ranked' pages of ab website in Google's 'Supplemental Index', adjoin its capital index.
Search Engine Exposure – rather than visiting anniversary of seek engine individually, you can appointment websites like netconcepts to accommodate accoutrement to admeasurement how abounding centralized links a website has been able to get cashed in anniversary aloft seek engine.
Whois & Acquaintance Forms – the WHOIS databases will acquiesce you to bout website owners with absolute apple businesses that are (perhaps) application assorted sites to addition sales possibilities.
Site Age – By application archives.org WayBackMachine you can see affected of old pages of your competitors to see how they originally started years ago and afresh afflicted and bigger their sites over time.
Quote Checker & Mystery Shopper – if your competitors are online adduce arrangement its actual simple to analyze your artefact bulk akin adjoin theirs. if they alone use a acquaintance anatomy and blast alarm aback you could pretend to be a anticipation acute a quote.
Links Assay – hotlink architecture is a never catastrophe action and never stops (because you competitors won't). As the bulk of pages on your website increases you will acquisition out sites (and in accurate directories) will activate abacus links to your website after your knowledge. To advice accomplish top rankings, you could activate to see how abounding superior links you charge by searching at the bulk and blazon of links and 'backlinks' from your top 5 adversary sites. You can aswell use links checkers to see how abounding entering links competitors accept accumulated aback their apperception by application accoutrement such as xxx or xxxx. This is your accepted ambition for hotlink aggregate to. Alternatively, you can o manually acquisition this out blazon of advice absolute from seek engines like Google by entering the afterward seek queries:- your-competitor.com
Choosing a Breadth Name – this breadth summarises the issues faced if chief what to alarm your new website and how to administer the breadth name….
Where to Buy a Breadth Name? – if you haven't already called your breadth name for your new website a acceptable abode to alpha is NetworkSolutions. This is the bigger anthology of of breadth names on the Internet and provides a account to assay breadth name availability. This is a acclaimed aggregation that allows you to move an absolute breadth name settings (DNS) advisedly and ensures your aloofness is aswell protected. Some breadth name resellers accept acclimated aciculate convenance to accomplish it difficult for you to move your breadth name in the future, amid altered hosting companies. They accept accomplished this application banking penalties, abstruse over complexity, alarm centre queues and in some cases acknowledged baby book (that could even lose your acknowledged appropriate to own the breadth name). In a lot of situations, resellers of breadth names are generally aswell hosting companies whose primary absorption is to advertise you added hosting amplitude which is affiliated to the breadth name itself.
Choosing The Appropriate Breadth Name? – it is bigger to accept a name which incorporates the primary seek appellation or byword you are aggravating to accomplish top rankings for. Your new breadth name has to reflect what you are affairs or your aggregation vision. There has to be no abashing in the minds of the user. In particular, if it is a blazon of website breadth you wish echo business, the name website has to be calmly remembered, spelt – so the beneath the better. However, about all individual chat and accepted bartering key byword 'expressions acclimated to annals a breadth names accept been already purchased by added humans and breadth name squatters. So allotment a breadth name of the is consistently difficult and may absorb the behest on a breadth from the additional user market. If this is the case of, (just like affairs a additional duke acclimated car), it is important to assay the history of the breadth name in agreement of what it was acclimated for in the accomplished and whether it has been banned by seek engines like Google. The endure affair you wish is to buy a breadth name from the additional user market, alone to acquisition Google has banned it in the accomplished for not befitting to seek engine guidelines. It is aswell consistently alive to attending at the country extensions of domains to assay whether the breadth name you are gluttonous has already been registered and fabricated reside in added countries. Humans tend to sometimes accept of that all websites are a '.com'. Therefore, if you can acquisition a name breadth you can annals the '.com' as able-bodied as your bounded country extension, you will abstain confusion. Seek engines aswell use the country addendum of a breadth name in their baronial algorithms to accomplish seek results. As seek engines aswell accept assorted country orientated seek websites, you accept to ensure your breadth name reflects your country (particularly if your ambition bazaar lives in one cartography only).
Domain Names & Seek Engines – if there is not usually a accurate acumen why you charge dozens of breadth names in adjustment to advertise the aforementioned artefact or service, afresh don't… these are accepted as burst sites or aperture pages and are awful by seek engines to appearance this as a anatomy of spamming. If the agreeable of anniversary website is altered and absolutely different, afresh amid by capacity or localised geographic agreeable makes absolute sense. Just bethink it takes alert as continued to advance and physique and administer alert as abounding sites. Seek engines 'search bots' aswell automatically catechize the WHOIS database to analyze the buyer on the website. Therefore, if you annals your breadth name, it is alive to acknowledge your acquaintance data on WHOIS database if you accept annihilation to hide.
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Author: Gail Carriger
Series: #5 in the Parasol Protectorate
Narrator: Emily Gray
Run Time: 11hrs and 29 minutes
Producer: Hachette Audio
Book Description:
Alexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss. Of course, being Alexia, such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society, living in a vampire's second best closet, and coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to turning supernatural willy-nilly. Even Ivy Tunstell's acting troupe's latest play, disastrous to say the least, cannot put a damper on Alexia's enjoyment of her new London lifestyle.
Until, that is, she receives a summons from Alexandria that cannot be ignored. With husband, child, and Tunstells in tow, Alexia boards a steamer to cross the Mediterranean. But Egypt may hold more mysteries than even the indomitable Lady Maccon can handle. What does the vampire Queen of the Alexandria Hive really want from her? Why is the God-Breaker Plague suddenly expanding? And how has Ivy Tunstell suddenly become the most popular actress in all the British Empire?
This has to probably be one of my favorite series that I had read/listened to in the recent past. I loved all 5 books and while various ones had their ups and downs, like can be expected in a series, overall, they were well worth my time. I can't wait to see how the spin-off series featuring Alexia's daughter is going to turn out, as well as the other series pending that is set in the same world, but 20-ish years prior. But I digress. Timeless picks up 2+ years after the end of Heartless – but not much has changed in the world. There are still vampires and werewolves roaming loose in London, but Alexia isn't just having to cope with that, she also now has a toddler to chase after. Adding a twist to this installment, Alexia travels abroad to Egypt (and all that entails). I really want to say more, but it could easily turn spoilish and I don't want to ruin this series for anyone.
As I was listening to Emily Gray's narration, I realized that sometimes, it felt like the author had just reached into a hat filled with various sounds and pulled several out to make names of some of the characters. I also loved Lord Ackeldama – he has been one of my favorite characters through-out the whole series and I can't wait to see the influence that he has had on characters in the later books. I have to admit to being a bit disappointed by the Biffy/Professor Lyall scenario – I don't think that it really added anything to the book overall – but maybe it will be needed in the future.
Emily Gray's narration for all 5 books was spot on – I felt that she managed to capture the British accents perfectly and I felt like I was there. Her narration of Lord Maccon was great and well, Lord Ackeldama…all I could do was laugh because it was perfect. I highly recommend her for future narrations and will be looking out for her when I pick audiobooks in the future. Overall, 4 stars and a high recommendation


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J.M.E. McTaggart provides an objection to the A series of time but suggesting that it may be true that past, present, and future are mere illusions of the mind.[1] McTaggart dismisses the argument's subjectivity of time by simply defining it out of existence.
McTaggart's Argument:
- Anything existent can either possess the characteristic of being in time or the characteristic of not being in time.
- Anything existent does not possess the characteristic of being in time [due to subjective references, a lack of indexing events from moment to moment or changing, etc.]
- Therefore, anything existent does not possess the characteristic of being in time (time is illusory).
The objection to the A series by the subjectivity of the individual mind is not so easy to dismiss as McTaggart seems to do. With advances in relativity theory this objection may have phenomenological credibility. Though McTaggart's rejection of the argument is correct, there are better reasons for opposing the argument of the mind's subjective relationship to time.[2]
The special theory of relativity (STR) states that clocks in motion slow down. This time dilation occurs with respects to the observer. In the early 1900's, Albert Einstein's STR changed how physicists and philosophers viewed the previous Newtonian paradigm of absolute simultaneity. If STR is correct, then an observer in motion will experience time at a slower rate than an observer at rest. Perhaps, given STR, the A series of time is really illusory since the experience of time is relative to the subject (the object being the spacetime fabric).
STR may still permit an A series of time where the subject's experience of objective becoming is supported by the object's relation to the subject. There are two concurrent ways this may be done: Lorentzian simultaneity (from the physical approach) and God as the prime reality (from the metaphysical approach). Hendrick Lorentz proposed the idea that time and length are absolute but there are no way these measurements could be made since the measuring devices are in motion.
Lorentz's equations for local time and transformation may aid the A theorist in the subject to object relationship with the observer being the subject and spacetime being the object; however, if the object is changed to God then perhaps the observers experience of becoming is objective [or perhaps a metaphysical time]. Propositions that appear in the past tense are true if and only if that proposition was true and that moment it describes. The proposition, "It rained yesterday on March 12" is true if and only if today is March 13 [or any later day] and it rained the day before March 13. If the observer experienced an earlier-than, later-than sense of becoming respective to March 12 and March 13 what criteria would warrant a rejection of that sense of becoming? If on March 12 the observer objectively experiences rain and then affirms the truth of the proposition "It rained yesterday on March 12" the next day it seems that the proposition is objectively true as it stands in relation to the event and the observer. If the event experienced (absolute becoming) is objective and the proposition "It rained yesterday on March 12" is true on March 13 then perhaps the referent for temporal becoming is not mere spacetime but rather God.
Admittedly this makes pantheism and panentheism to be sufficient explanatory hypotheses but these are not the only hypotheses that may work. If all reality is found in God, according to an Anselmian God, then conceivably the phenomenological experience of the observer objectively experiencing a temporal becoming is due to a noumenal projection or referent providing that objectivity. This would be analogous to Kant's phenomenal-noumenal split with regards to the categorical imperative. Just as Kant antecedently accepts the categorical imperative as objective he consequently postulates God as the objective source. The analogy fits in the same phenomenological/experiential sense as well as the antecedent-consequent relationship and postulation (as well as implying the reality of events and experiences having temporal characteristics).
The question of how God relates to the world will inevitably be raised in light of this hypothesis. Explaining how God relates to the world, whether it is pantheistic, panentheistic, or God's temporal relationship is a Lorentzian time, is not necessary to make the postulation as long as God is the Anselmian understanding of God (that God is the prime reality). This explanation comes to the same conclusion that McTaggart came to except more credence is given to the subject's relationship to the object (whatever the object may be). If the object is spacetime then it certainly may be the case that temporal becoming is an illusion given STR.
[1] J.M.E. McTaggart, "Time: An Excerpt From The Nature of Existence" in Metaphysics eds. Peter van Inwagen, Dean W. Zimmerman (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), 118.
[2] When is use past tensed verbs such as "experienced" or "rained" I am using them in a series-independent sense. The English tenses may assume an objective difference in time but I am not giving credence to my argument by appealing or assuming verb tenses as being true merely because of linguistic limitation.


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The Bank of Japan should buy more long-dated government bonds and a wider variety of risk asset types, including foreign bonds, to achieve 2 to 3 percent inflation, Koichi Hamada, a special economic adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said on Thursday.
Hamada, 76, professor emeritus of economics at Yale University, also called for revising the BOJ Law that guarantees the central bank's independence, to make it more accountable for achieving its policy objectives.
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"Generally speaking, the BOJ is making an effort. But there is hardly any change to its pace of 'too little, too late'," said Hamada, who was appointed a special adviser to Abe's cabinet.
"It is necessary to amend the BOJ law," he told Reuters in a telephone interview on Thursday.
The views of Hamada, who had been privately advising Abe before he was sworn in as Japan's prime minister on Wednesday, are likely to have a significant impact on the new government's policies.
"The BOJ should not only buy long-term bonds but purchase a wider type of assets such as commercial paper, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and shares, which will help to have an impact on the economy," said Hamada, who taught BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa when he was a student at Japan's prestigious Tokyo University.
"I think buying foreign currency-denominated assets can also be a part of an effective monetary policy."
Hamada said it was desirable for the BOJ to set an inflation target of 2 to 3 percent to revive the economy and to help keep sharp yen rises in check.
While Japan should not target a specific exchange rate when guiding monetary policy, the level of the yen could be one way of measuring the extent of policy loosening, he said.
"The yen's weakening to close to 95 or 100 yen (per dollar) would be evidence of the effectiveness of monetary policy. The BOJ should ease monetary policy until inflation occurs, and the yen and prices are reacting appropriately," he said.
Abe, whose Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide victory in a lower house election on December 16, has called on the BOJ to set a 2 percent inflation target, double the bank's current goal, and to ease policy "without limits" to beat deflation. He has also threatened to revise the BOJ Law if his demands are not met, turning up the heat on the central bank.
The yen fell to a two-year low against the dollar and Tokyo stocks hit a 21-month high on Thursday, on expectations that Abe's government will pursue aggressive fiscal and monetary stimulus.
The BOJ already eased monetary policy last week via an increase in asset purchases, offering its third stimulus step in four months. It has also signaled that it will set a higher inflation target at its next meeting in January.
But Hamada, who headed the Japanese Cabinet Office's Economic and Social Research Institute, a government think tank, from 2001 to 2003, said the December measures were not enough.
"Everything the BOJ does is behind the curve," he said.
(Additional reporting by Leika Kihara; Editing by Edmund Klamann)


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LOS ANGELES -- Cody Doolin's layup with 0.5 seconds left thwarted a second-half rally and gave San Francisco a 61-59 win Thursday night over Loyola Marymount.
The Dons (12-15, 5-9 West Coast) led by as many as 20 in the first half, but the Lions (8-19, 1-13) came back after halftime, taking their first lead of the game, 57-56, on Alex Osborne's layup with 2:20 to play. USF's Frank Rogers was then called for a technical foul, and Ashley Hamilton made two free throws for a three-point lead.
Loyola, though, wouldn't score again. USF's Cole Dickerson tied the game on a 3-pointer with a minute to play before Doolin's heroics sent the Lions to their 11th consecutive loss.
Dickerson scored 16 and Doolin had 13 for the Dons, who now lead 107-38 in a series that dates to 1924. Anthony Ireland led Loyola with 21 points, and Hamilton and Osborne scored 11 apiece.


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OU Head Coach Pete Hughes Names Baseball Coaching Staff
Anderson coached the Huskers for nine seasons from 2003-11, leading them to a College World Series appearance in 2005. He owns a 337-196-2 career record and led Nebraska to a 125-116-1 record in the Big 12 Conference, including regular season championships in 2003 and 2005 as well as Big 12 Coach of the Year awards in those two seasons. The Huskers added a Big 12 Tournament Championship at the conclusion of 2005.
"Mike is one of the most accomplished head coaches in the profession," stated Hughes. "He has recruited players to teams that have gone on to Omaha. He is truly a first class human being."
In nine seasons, Nebraska made the NCAA Tournament five times, all in Anderson's first six seasons. The Huskers hosted an NCAA Regional on four occasions over that stretch, including 2006 when they earned a national seed for the first time in program history.
For the 2013 season, Anderson coached at Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colo.
Prior to being named the head coach, Anderson served as an assistant at Nebraska from 1994-02, helping the Huskers reach Omaha for the first time in 2001 and again in 2002. He made his debut coaching at the collegiate level in 1992 at his alma mater, Northern Colorado. Anderson also worked as a head coach at the Northern Colorado Lab School for four years as well as spending two seasons as a scout for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Anderson played outfield at Northern Colorado from 1983-86 and later returned to earn his bachelor's degree in physical education in 1990 after a three-year stint in the California Angels farm system.
Anderson was an eighth-round draft pick of the Angels in 1986 and spent three seasons with the Palm Springs Angels of the California League.
He and his wife Kim have four children: Kaleigh, Taylor, Madison and Andie.
Giese will return for a third season on the OU staff after coaching a Sooner pitching staff that has accumulated 1,054 strikeouts and an 8.02 strikeout-per-nine innings ratio over the past two seasons. Under Giese's guidance, Oklahoma has had nine pitchers drafted.
"I am thrilled to continue the great lineage of pitchers that have come through Oklahoma by keeping Jack on staff," said Hughes. "His track record speaks for itself on the recruiting trail. Jack is a valuable asset whom I felt was very important to keep on staff as a connection to the recruits we have coming in."
Gaines has also been retained and will begin his ninth year on the OU baseball staff in the role of coordinator of baseball operations. He is responsible for the day-to-day operations off the field, including travel and serving as the liaison with the athletic training, equipment, media relations and strength and conditioning staffs. Gaines also serves as the director for the Oklahoma Baseball Camp.
"Nobody has a better firsthand knowledge of the inner workings of OU athletics and the baseball program," Hughes said of Gaines. "Ryan will be a valuable asset over a period of transition for our staff."


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Movie Club: Mixed thoughts on Diddy in 'Get Him to the Greek'
On Saturday, we got ourselves to the Vista.
And as filmgoers filed out of the Hollywood theater after seeing "Get Him to the Greek," they were mostly positive about Sean Combs, Russell Brand and the film overall. Yes, they probably did not stampede onto Twitter to e-sing the movie's praises, but this subdued bunch seemingly got what it came for.
The tone may have been set when many in the crowd hissed at the trailer for "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," but eventually the hipsters settled down and had many a laugh. One of the most topsy-turvy topics discussed afterward was the performance of Puffy, or Diddy, or just Combs(?). Did people like him? Was it a stretch? Too over-the-top? Did he, as one interviewee commented, "shoot airballs" with the comedy?
Although we didn't dress up thematically this time (except for a "My mum went to London and all I got was this T-shirt" T-shirt), moviegoers both dressed down and praised the music mogul and the movie.
Though "Greek" landed at No. 2 at the box office with an estimated $17.4-million take for the weekend, giving Diddy the excuse to pop in a golden grill, one filmgoer said that it would've been great if the movie's songwriter Jason Segel and/or other BOAs (Buddies of Apatow) had made appearances.
C'est la vie.
-- Jevon Phillips