text:
MythTV 0.25 added support for AirTunes and AirPlay for streaming audio and video from iOS devices to MythFrontend.
AirPlay (video support) is experimental at this time.
Enabling AirTunes
AirTunes does not work out the box because AirTunes is a proprietary format and is encrypted in order to enable vendor lock-in. Fortunately the encryption key has been discovered which enables use of AirTunes in open source applications such as MythTV.
When starting the frontend, you will get the following message in the log:
RAOP Conn: Failed to read key from: /home/<user>/.mythtv/RAOPKey.rsa
You can obtain the key from this post at the vlc-devel mailing list.
Simply copy the entire section:-
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- (and everything inbetween) -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Paste into a new file at /home/<user>/.mythtv/RAOPKey.rsa and restart your frontend.
Enabling AirPlay (video support)
Because AirPlay support is experimental, you have to manually enable it at the command line.
Set the environment variable named MYTHTV_AIRPLAY before starting the frontend, for example:-
export MYTHTV_AIRPLAY="1" mythfrontend


text:
Episode 5 | 53m 36s
Travel east and west to explore the connections and rivalries between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic empires that experienced their own cultural flowering in the 15th and 16th centuries. Both spheres were open to influences flowing both ways.
Aired: 05/15/18
Expires: 03/31/26Video has closed captioning.
Buy Now:
Problems Playing Video?
Blog | Following the Cult of the Artist
Nikos Fyodor Rutkowski on artistic narratives and what gets left out.
Blog | The Outer Reaches of Inner Space
Des Moines artist and professor Benjamin Gardner on using space in art.
Interactive | A Declaration of Liberty
Columbia University scholar Simon Schama explores Rembrandt's "The Night Watch."

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Colchester Dots Silk Pocket Square, Red / White / Black
Returns, Exchanges and Cancellations
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
Should you choose to return our product (gasp!), The Dark Knot offers a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee:
- All products must be returned within 30 days of purchase, unused in their original packaging.
- Refunds are based on the value of your item at the time of purchase, and not the most recently listed price.
- We will even refund up to 10 USD of your outbound shipping costs!
- If the item has a major defect, please show us a picture and we will give you the liberty of cutting up our tie so you do not have to return it!
- Please email us at [email protected] for further instructions on our delivery address.
- Should your item be returned in a less than acceptable condition, The Dark Knot may deduct a restocking fee of no more than 30%.
60 Day Hassle Free Exchange Policy
- All products must be exchanged within 60 days of purchase, unused in their original packaging.
- Returns are entitled up to 10 USD in refunds for return shipping costs. Outbound shipping costs on the exchanged product are covered by us also!
- Please email us at [email protected] for further instructions on our delivery address.
- Should your item be returned in a less than acceptable condition, The Dark Knot may deduct a restocking fee of no more than 30%.
- In the event that the value of the exchanged product is less than the value of the product being returned, we will credit you for the difference.
- If the item has a major defect, please show us a picture and we will give you the liberty of cutting up our tie so you do not have to exchange it!
Terms and Conditions for Cancellations:
- The Dark Knot reserves the right to refuse cancellations if instructed after packages have been dispatched. Given that The Dark Knot will typically mail out products on either the same day or the day following the purchase, we suggest immediate notification if an order is to be cancelled.
Rest Assured, we are here to make your experience with purchasing from The Dark Know as enjoyable and stress free as possible!
Please note that at The Dark Knot, we dispatch all orders on the same day or very next day. In the case of weekends or public holidays, we will dispatch your order on the next working day.
At The Dark Knot, we provide Free Standard Shipping Globally
- Free Standard Shipping Globally on all orders. U.S, Asia & Europe orders typically take 7-10 days, while other regions may take slightly longer.
- Free Standard Shipping is provided through Hong Kong Postal Service.
- We provided tracking information on all shipments, so you can see when your order was dispatched and, if tracking information is forwarded to your country's postal service, where the package is along its travel route at all times.
Expedited Shipping
- The Dark Knot offers Expedited Shipping (typically takes 2-3 working days) for a fee of USD 19.99 for all regions outside of Hong Kong.
- This is provided through UPS or a freight forwarder of our choice.
- As is the case with Standard Shipping, we will provide you with tracking information once your package has been dispatched (same or very next day).
Please note that regarding shipping times for both regular airmail and priority delivery, The Dark Knot is not responsible for delays in delivery caused by the post office. Buyers understand that they may reside in a country which will not allow for inward tracking of registered airmail parcels and will not hold The Dark Knot responsible for lack of online tracking information.
Please note that buyers should be aware of any potential customs duties or taxes that could arise within the country of purchase. The Dark Knot will not be held responsible for any such charges, should they arise.
From our experience, customs / duties in major jurisdictions have been non-existent.
Colchester Dots Red / White / Black is a contemporary hand made silk pocket square, with a red, black and white polka dot motif set against a red background.This is encompassed by a red border with navy hand rolled contrasting edges.
Wear this pocket square with a puff or edged puff fold for some serious addition of color and panache to your ensemble!
Looking to spice up your ensemble for a wedding reception or an evening out? Our Colchester Dots Pocket square will ensure that you look the part and then some, with its vibrant polka dot sequence and navy hand rolled contrasting edges!
Recommended with a navy, blue or olive green solid, striped, foulard or paisley silk tie, all of which perfectly complement the strong red hues on this vibrant polka dot pocket square. Navy hand rolled contrasting edges provide further sophistication.
Alternatively, this can be worn with a jacket and a solid, striped or checkered white, blue, pink or grey shirt.
Size: 17 inches x 17 inches
Fabric: 100% silk hand made, with hand rolled edges
Contrasting Hand Rolled Edges provide an extra element of color and panache, along with that perfect crisp finish.
Presented in an elegant black gift box along with a card with recommendations for matching attire. Our packaging can be viewed here.


text:
Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE).
See our extensive range of expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places.
We carry out and fund high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment.
Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment.
Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development.
Explore the many ways you can help to support the incredibly rich and varied heritage.
Read about our current news, projects, campaigns, listing work and keep up with the latest applied research and historic environment's hot topics.
No List Entry matched the List Entry Number.


text:
- High Resistance To Brake Fade
- Produces Less Dust than OEM Pads
- Practically Noise Free Operation
- Promotes Long Pad and Rotor Life
- Specially Formulated for Truck and SUV Applications
Starting at: $78.29Save: $8.70 (10%)
Sometimes your truck or SUV could use a little extra braking power, and Hawks Truck & SUV Brake Pads are perfect for adding a little stopping power to your ride. Your stock brakes are pretty good but lets face it they could be better, and Hawk makes some pretty impressive Truck & SUV Brake Pads.
Hawk Truck & SUV Brake Pads deliver extra braking power to your ride when you need it, which is usually when you are towing something on a downhill slope. In circumstances like that your brakes can heat up pretty quickly and Hawk Truck & SUV Brake Pads can handle the heat and deliver more stopping power.
Starting at: $78.29Save: $8.70 (10%)
Select Your Model
|How do you use your vehicle?
Daily Driver
Hauling & Towing
Commercial Fleet Service
|Brake Pad Features
High Friction
High Heat Resistant
Low Dust
Low Noise
|Price Range:
$66 to $95
$96 to $124
$125 to $153
$154 to $182


text:
SQL Server 2005 is the largest leap forward for SQL Server since its inception. With this update comes new features that will challenge even the most experienced SQL Server DBAs. Written by a team of some of the best SQL Server experts in the industry, this comprehensive tutorial shows you how to navigate the vastly changed landscape of the SQL Server administration.
Drawing on their own first-hand experiences to offer you best practices, unique tips and tricks, and useful workarounds, the authors help you handle even the most difficult SQL Server 2005 administration issues, including blocking and locking. You'll learn how to fine-tune queries you've already written, automate redundant monitoring and maintenance tasks, and use hidden tools so that you can quickly get over the learning curve of how to configure and administer SQL Server 2005.
What you will learn from this book
Who this book is for
This book is for experienced developers and database administrators who plan to administer or are already administering an SQL Server 2005 system and its business intelligence features.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working technologists to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.


text:
Anything but simple: Inappropriate use of euclidean distance in Govinder et al. (2013)
Victor M.H. Borden
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
The 'Equity Index' (EI) introduced by Govinder et al.1 has stimulated critiques addressing a variety of flaws in the use of this allegedly 'simple and objective' measure of racial and gender equity among South African higher education institutions. Dunne2 noted that the use of a mathematical formula and the resultant numerical result provides a false sense of validity and precision. He further described in great technical detail why measures of distance are not as simple as they may seem when portrayed, for explanatory purposes, as the distance between points in a two-dimensional space. Dunne also addresses several issues of substantive validity including the stochastic nature of social measures for which dynamic probabilistic models are required as compared to the mathematical models that serve physical phenomena like measuring distance between objects in space. Moultrie and Dorrington3 extend this critique, examining other mathematical (double counting) and conceptual (suitability of benchmark) problems.
As a long-time institutional research practitioner within the US context, I was intrigued by the publication of the index and the ensuing critiques as they touch upon the long-standing institutional research practices of peer institution benchmarking.4-6 Because of the diversity of the US higher education landscape, with over 7000 post-secondary institutions ranging from for-profit, single programme vocational institutions and 2-year community colleges to 4-year regional and comprehensive universities and both public and private research universities, it is not common for us to think of a single measure that can be applied equally to all institutions, or even to those that are internationally competitive for students and staff. Because of this complexity, we are well versed in comparing institutions across a variety of measures and dimensions, including the demographic and academic profile of students, the mix of academic programmes, the types of instructional and non-instructional staff, and revenue sources and expenditure targets. One thing we have learned from this vast experience is that there is no such thing as either a simple or objective measure of institutions in relation to a target (whether that be another institution or a regional or national benchmark).
In the remainder of this critique, I will illustrate the lack of reliability (and therefore questionable validity) of employing a Euclidean distance measure on the concatenated distribution of two sets of proportions (race and gender). Rather than explore the mathematical and technical dimensions of these problems, I will illustrate how the comparison of the 23 South African higher education institutions changes depending on what type of distance measure is used and whether it is used on race and gender separately or combined.
When comparing the 'position' of an institution relative to other institutions or to criterion benchmarks like the national representation among racial and gender groups, one must take into account the scale characteristics of the measurement variables (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio), as well as the statistical relationship (association) among the variables. If one is simply considering race and gender as distinct variables, then it may be suitable to describe these as independent measures (the likelihood of being male or female is not contingent, at least conceptually, on the racial group). However, when the values of a proportional representation variable are portrayed as the values upon which comparisons are based, then, as Moultrie and Dorrington pointed out, there is redundancy. That is, the percentage of males is linearly dependent on the percentage of females (percentage males = 100 - percentage females). Thus, the values of the variable gender have only one degree of freedom. Moreover, as race entails four categories and gender two, if we assume equal probability of each category, the race factor has three times the weight in the characterisation of the position (because race is four groups, there are three degrees of freedom, compared to one for gender). However, race is not uniformly distributed (that is, the general probability for each category is not one divided by the number of categories), so one must take into account the non-linear qualities of proportions across the range values. More prosaically, a 5% point difference has different substantive meaning when an event is rare (e.g. 5%), or more common (e.g. 60%).
There is a wide variety of ways to calculate similarity or difference for use in a positioning (nearest neighbour) analysis. Even if one would like to use a Euclidean-based measure, there are several to choose from. Govinder et al. use the 'RSSD' version, that is, the root of the sum of squared differences. If the variables are on notably different scales in terms of variation, it is advisable to first transform the measures to their standardised form (value minus mean, divided by standard deviation). When using percentages, the Chord form of Euclidean distance is recommended, where the values are first subject to a square root transformation. There are several derivatives of the Euclidean form, such as a City Block metric and Minkowski metric that vary the root to which the difference between coordinate points is raised. In addition to Euclidean-based measures, there are correlation-based distance measures (Pearson and Spearman) and the Mahalanobis measure, which takes into account both Euclidean distance and covariance among the variables.
Tables 1 and 2 demonstrate how the calculated distance value and the rank of the 23 South African higher education institutions change depending on which proximity measure is used to calculate the distance from the national benchmark. For these tables, the benchmarks were taken from the Govinder et al. article and the proportions of enrolled students from the Department of Higher Education and Training document, Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 20117. The first three proximity measures included in Table 1 are three forms of the Euclidean distance: the RSSD version used by Govinder et al., one based on standardised values for each proportion, and the 'Chord' version, which is based on a square root transformation of the original values. In addition, the table shows the results using the Mahalanobis metric, which incorporates the covariance between the variables, and a measure based on the Pearson correlation, which has been reversed (Pearson values range from 1 for the most similar to 0 for the least similar, so the calculated value is subtracted from 1) and multiplied by 1000 to represent the value in integer digits. The rightmost columns of the tables show the rankings among the 23 institutions of the corresponding calculated values.
Table 1 exhibits these various distance measures for the combined race and gender proportions as employed by Govinder et al.1 The reader is reminded that there are several technical reasons why it is not appropriate to combine these proportions into a single estimation of distance, as noted in the critiques of Dunne2 and Moultrie and Dorrington3. Some of the ramifications for the inappropriateness of doing so are manifest in the variation of calculated distance values and rank in these tables. For example, the Central University of Technology, ranked 2nd using the RSSD calculation, is ranked 11th using the Mahalanobis measure. Durban University of Technology varies considerably by the four measures, as high as 5th using the RSSD and as low as 17th using the Mahalanobis metric.]]> Table 2 uses the same five measures on the four categories of race. While not suggesting that examining race alone establishes evidence of equity, the benchmarking of distance from the national norms is a cleaner measurement concept than when incorporating race and gender into a single measure. Although the rankings for race alone are not as varied as they are for race and gender combined, they still vary considerably. For example, University of Johannesburg, which is ranked 1st by four measures, is ranked 10th using the Pearson correlation measure. It is also interesting to note that the Chord version of the Euclidean measure, which is generally recommended over RSSD for percentage measures, varies considerably from the RSSD measure.
Establishing equity
Although it is not without controversy, it is instructive to consider how equity is established in other, long-standing methodologies. For example, the US Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance, has required since the early 1970s that organisations and businesses that obtain federal contracts establish the equity in both hiring and compensation of their workforce. The compliance requirements revolve around 'labour-market availability' within job groups that are defined according to the wages, job duties and responsibilities, and training requirements. Specifically, the requirements (http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/ scaap.htm) note8:
...federal contractors must conduct availability analyses to determine the percentage of women and minorities who have the skills required to perform the jobs within each job group... Availability involves calculation of minorities and women who are 'available' to work in the job from both external sources (i.e., hired from outside the company) and internal sources (e.g., transfer or promotion of existing employee in the company)...For calculating 'external' availability, you want to consider who is qualified for the job within 'the reasonable recruitment area' for that job. The 'reasonable recruitment area' represents the area from which a contractor usually seeks or reasonably could seek workers for a particular job group.
Assessing equity in academic programmes can be considered as analogous. To be admitted to an academic programme, students must meet certain basic requirements, such as having completed a secondary education credential and having basic skills suited to a specific programme of study (for example, higher order math skills for engineering and higher order writing skills for communications). Students must also live within commuting distance (except perhaps for UNISA). Comparing proportions of women and racial groups enrolled at a particular university to a generic national benchmark masks all of the availability issues, which are at the root of establishing equity. Throughout my 30 years of experience in using evidence and analysis to address educational access issues, I have found that it is far more constructive to confront directly and as complexly as possible the root causes of inequity, such as those revealed through the many aspects of 'availability'. Conversely, reducing to a single measure such complex phenomena tends to shift attention away from the root causes and can be used by various groups and individuals to absolve the responsibility that we all share in addressing such issues. Establishing equity is anything but simple.
1. Govinder KS, Makgoba MW. An Equity Index for South Africa. S Afr J Sci. 2013;109(5/6), Art. #a0020, 2 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/sajs.2013/a0020 [ Links ]
2. Dunne T. Mathematical errors, smoke and mirrors in pursuit of an illusion: Comments on Govinder et al. (2013). S Afr J Sci. 2014;110(1/2), Art. #a0047, 6 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/sajs.2014/a0047 [ Links ]
3. Moultrie TA, Dorrington RE. Flaws in the approach and application of the Equity Index: Comments on Govinder et al. (2013). S Afr J Sci. 2014;110(1/2), Art. #a0049, 5 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/sajs.2014/a0049 [ Links ]
4. James GW. Developing institutional comparisons. In: Howard RD, McLaughlin GW, Knight WE, editors. The handbook of instituitonal research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass; 2012. p. 644-655. [ Links ]
5. Terinzini PT, Hartmark L, L'Orange Jr. WG, Shirley RC. A conceptual and methodological approach to the identification of peer institutions. Res High Educ. 1980;12(4):347-364. [ Links ]
6. McCormick AC, Zhao CM. Rethinking and reframing the Carnegie classification. Change. 2005;37(5):51-57. [ Links ]
7. Department of Higher Education and Training, Republic of South Africa. Statistics on post-school education and training in South Africa. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training; 2011. [ Links ]
8. US Department of Labor. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs [homepage on the Internet]. No date [cited 2014 May 09]. Available from: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/scaap.htm [ Links ]
Victor Borden
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Indiana University, 201 N. Rose Avenue, Bloomington


text:
ALMATY (Reuters) - Turkish company Polimex Construction has won a contract worth over $2 billion to build a new airport near Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat, a Turkmen government official told Reuters on Saturday.
The official, who requested anonymity, gave no further details.
The construction of the airport should begin this month and be completed in August 2016, the official Neitralny Turkmenistan newspaper reported earlier. It will have a capacity to serve 1,600 passengers per hour.
Turkmenistan, a Central Asian nation of 5.5 million which holds the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves, was one of the poorest of the 15 Soviet era republics.
But since gaining independence in 1991 the government has been pouring billions of dollars into ambitious construction projects across the desert country, helped by revenues from the oil and gas industry.
Polimex has already built a modern airport near the Caspian Sea port of Turkmenbashi in western Turkmenistan and completed a number of other projects in the nearby resort area of Avaza and in the capital Ashgabat.
Reporting by Marat Gurt; Writing by Dmitry Solovyov; editing by Patrick Graham


text:
Prevent Blindness has the only national program that trains and certifies people around the country to conduct screenings that find vision problems in preschool and school-age children. Our screening procedures are recommended by many of the nation's leading children's eye care professionals and researchers.
Young children with vision problems often do not know that the way they see the world is not the way everyone sees it. Yet vision problems affect one in 20 preschoolers. They also affect one in four school children. Without early detection and treatment, children's vision problems can lead to:
Only an eye doctor can diagnose and treat a vision problem, but screenings help find children who need a full eye exam. Prevent Blindness America's children's vision screenings are an accurate, cost-effective way to find vision problems in children.
First, a screener checks the child's eyes for signs of problems. Trained screeners note watering eyes and swollen or crusted lids. Screeners also watch how the child acts, since that may show signs of a problem. Rubbing of the eyes or tilting of the head may indicate the child has trouble seeing. Screeners consider what teachers and parents say about the child's behavior. Screeners check the child's distance vision (distance visual acuity). The screeners use the recommended charts to conduct the check. Children with problems seeing things at a distance may have trouble seeing the blackboard at school or performing well at sports.
Screeners will also test children through age 9, or third grade, to see whether the eyes are straight and how well their eyes work together. This test is important because children whose eyes do not work well together are at risk for lazy eye (amblyopia). Lazy eye can cause lifelong vision loss in the affected eye.
If it is found early enough, however, lazy eye can be treated. In general, the earlier lazy eye is found, the greater the chance of preventing permanent vision loss.
Results of the vision screening are used to assess whether a child needs to see an eye doctor. Children who need a full eye exam are referred to an eye doctor of the parent's choice. Families in financial need are directed to local agencies. They may also qualify for Vision Service Plan's Sight for Students® program.
Photoscreening is a tool for screening the eyes of pre-verbal or challenged children. During a photoscreening, the screener uses a special camera to take a picture of the subject's eyes. Once the instant photo is developed, a trained screener uses the photo to look for signs of vision problems.
We work to make sure that everyone has a chance to enjoy a lifetime of healthy vision, starting in infancy and continuing through adulthood. Here's how we help make sure that children can see well to learn and grow.Learn More


text:
World #1 Heads The Bill
World #1 Claire LEROY (FRA) has already earned her spot in the Grand Final after out sailing the male teams in qualifier 5 of the Winter Challenge series.
World #2 Lotte MELDGAARD PEDERSEN (DEN), will make the trip from Denmark, as will fellow national Camilla ULRIKKEHOLM (DEN), both ready to compete on the Queen Mary Reservoir and to test their skills against the predominantly European line up. World #3 Klaartje ZUIDERBAAN (NED) will also compete.
After losing out to LEROY at the JPMorgan Women's Final in 2006, Jenny AXHEDE (SWE), Sweden's Female National Champion, will be hoping to go one better in 2007 and beat out her opponents for a berth in the Grand Final.
Home Challenge
Finland's Silja LEHTINEN will swap her Olympic Class Yngling for one of the RYA's J/80s at the weekend event while Great Britain's Josie GIBSON from London, world #8 and Great Britain's top female mach racer will also join the line up.
Recent Olympic campaigner turned match racer, Gemma FARRELL (GBR) from Aylesbury, who has been steadily climbing the Women's Rankings, jumping 17 places in the last six months, will also field a team.
Southampton's Katie ARCHER, Great Britain's current Women's National Champion has attended several winter challenge events and will hope that her local knowledge will give her an advantage over the other competitors.
Ireland's Mary O'LOUGHLIN will bring the tenth team to the event with hopes of a positive finish at the Women's Final.


text:
Electronics recycling in Wisconsin
Electronics are one of the fastest growing parts of the waste stream. TVs, laptops, cellphones and other electronics contain valuable materials that can be recovered through responsible recycling. Electronics also contain hazardous materials, such as lead and mercury, that can harm human health and pollute the environment if not properly managed.
Wisconsin's electronics recycling law keeps millions of devices out of landfills and incinerators and creates recycling opportunities for state residents. Electronics recycling is a growing industry in the state, creating jobs and preserving valuable resources.
- Recycling electronics
- E-Cycle Wisconsin program
- E-Cycle participants
- Businesses handling e-waste
- Contact information
- For information on recycling electronics, contact:
- firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Guide in Niseko
It is the live broadcasting picture from Niseko roadside station "Niseko view plaza"
HOME > About Niseko | Overview of Niseko
Overview of Niseko
Overview of Niseko
'Niseko (nisekoan)' is an Ainu word meaning '(river which runs around the bottom of) a sheer cliff'.
About the origins of 'Niseko'
The word 'nupuri' also comes from the Ainu language and means 'mountain'. 'Niseko-Annupuri' - where the ski slope is located - means 'mountain with a (river which runs around the bottom of a) sheer cliff'. As the name contains the word for mountain it is not called 'Mt. Niseko-Annupuri'.
Though many place names in Hokkaido are rooted in the Ainu language most of them are written using kanji characters. It is said that though the Japanese who settled in Niseko during the Meiji period (1868-) recorded the Ainu place name using the kanji script it didn't catch on and the katakana script came to be used instead.
History of the town name
Niseko Station
In 1963, the Niseko-Annupuri area was designated 'Niseko - Shakotan - Otaru Kaigan Quasi-national Park'. At this time,the national railway station (now JR) was still called 'Kaributo Station' and as a result moves were made to change the name of the gateway to Niseko to 'Niseko Station'.
However, as the national railway company was reluctant to change the name to one written in the katakana script, efforts swung towards renaming the town and, in 1964, the town of 'Niseko' was born.
Geography and Climate
Enjoy the seasonal beauty of Niseko
A field of sunflowers bathes in the summer sun
Niseko Town (42°52' N and 140°48' E) is located in the west of central Hokkaido almost in the centre of Shiribeshi Subprefecture. It lies in a gently undulating basin with the 1,898m Mt. Yotei in the national park to the east and the 1,309m Mt. Niseko-Annupuri in the Quasi-National Park to the north.
Flowing through the town is the Shiribetsu River whose tributaries include the Konbu, Niseko Anbetsu and Makkari rivers. The area has an inland climate with an average temperature of 6.3°C and, in winter, the town can see snow accumulate to a depth of as much as 200cm.
Industry and Culture
|Around 200 households farm 2,000 hectares of land with an annual production of just under three billion yen. Main crops include potatoes, melons and asparagus, particularly well known for their quality and taste, and rice, tomatoes and lily bulbs. With Niseko's distinctive characteristics being used to promote agriculture and through the improvement of profits, furthering of environmentally friendly 'Clean Agriculture' and support for direct farm sales, the agricultural industry is experiencing a period of revitalisation.
|The Niseko district has areas designated as both National and Quasi-National parkland and is a year-round tourist resort blessed with scenic countryside reflecting the beauty of all four seasons. Summer invites visitors to try outdoor sports such as hiking, canoeing and rafting while in winter they throng to the large ski resort for its world-famous, top-quality snow and winter sports. The area is also dotted with many hot springs of differing mineral content and offers plenty of accommodation such as hotels and B&Bs each offering its own personal touch.
|Located at the foot of Mt. Yotei is the well-known Arishima area - farmland that was first cultivated by the father of the famous early twentieth century author Takeo Arishima. Takeo let his tenants use the land free of charge and his legacy of 'mutual aid' lives on in Niseko to this day. In 1977, to celebrate 100 years since his birth, the Arishima Takeo Memorial Museum was built on the original site of the farm. As the museum plays a central role in the dissemination of local culture, it receives many visitors.
The origins of Konbu Onsen
Why 'Konbu'?
Konbu literally translates as 'kelp' and there are various explanations as to the origin of the name 'Konbu Onsen'. One opinion holds that the name was taken from the nearby mountain known as 'Konbu-dake'. This mountain is referred to in the Ainu language as 'Tokonpo-nupuri' which translates into Japanese as 'chiisana ko(n)bu yama' (lit. little hump mountain) and hence the name 'Konbu-dake'.
Another opinion is that, as the area was located where the Shiribetsu and Konbu Rivers merge, had a long history of producing agricultural products and was relatively close to Isoya, a village on the coast of the Japan Sea blessed with an abundance of marine products, the name might have come about after the Ainu brought marine products such as konbu inland to trade for agricultural products. As there were no roads at that time, it is said that konbu was fastened to the trees to guide their way back.


text:
5 Takeaways on How Bernanke Will Be Remembered
1 Mark Gertler, The Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Economic at New York University
When I first met Ben Bernanke more than 30 years ago, I did not understand his fixation with the Great Depression. Nor did I get why he was so passionate about the Federal's Reserve's failure in the 1930s to intervene as the economy was sliding rapidly downhill. Little did I realize that he would eventually put this knowledge and passion to use by leading the Fed's efforts to prevent a global meltdown of financial markets, thereby saving the world economy from a second Great Depression. Fortified by his knowledge of the Depression and no doubt inspired by Franklin Roosevelt's example of fighting the Depression with "bold experimentation," he spearheaded an aggressive and creative mix of central bank policy interventions to restore normalcy to financial markets. And like Roosevelt, he was the calming influence — the grownup in the room — during the darkest days of the economic turmoil. His interview on "60 Minutes" in March 2009 where he reassured the nation it would emerge from the economic crisis was epic. As the rest of the government floundered (and continues to flounder) in dysfunction, the Bernanke Fed led the way out of the crisis.
How ironic that the former academic who was the world's leading expert on financial crises, the former Fed governor who promised Milton Friedman on his 90th birthday that the Fed would never again stand by and watch the economy collapse as it did in the 1930s, would become almost by accident the chairman of the Federal Reserve on the eve of the greatest financial crisis of the postwar era. How will history remember him? He was the right man for the time.
2 John B. Taylor, The Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution
Many will remember Ben Bernanke for classic central bank stabilizing actions taken by the Fed during the fall 2008 panic, including emergency loans to banks and swap lines to foreign central banks. But historians might also consider actions the Fed took before and after that panic.
From 2003 to 2005, shortly after Ben Bernanke joined the Board stressing deflationary concerns, the Fed embarked on a very low interest rate policy. The policy was rationalized in part by these deflationary concerns, but it was a deviation from a policy that had worked well for two decades, and it exacerbated the housing boom and led to excessive risk taking.
The inevitable bust and defaults started as early as 2006. But the Fed misdiagnosed the resulting hits to bank balance sheets as a pure liquidity problem, and its initial treatment — pouring funds into the interbank market via the 2007 Term Auction Facility — did little good. The Fed then followed up with an on-again off-again bailout policy which created more instability. When the Fed bailed out Bear Stearns' creditors in March 2008, investors assumed Lehman's creditors would be bailed out too. When they weren't, it was a big surprise. With policy uncertainty reaching new heights, panic ensued.
After the panic, the Fed began to draw down the emergency loans, but it then embarked on an entirely unprecedented policy — massive purchases of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities, a tool known as quantitative easing, or QE. The economy has grown slowly with QE compared with past recoveries without QE and far short of the Fed's predictions. Many argue that QE has not reduced unemployment, but has diminished the Fed's independence and credibility, offsetting the effects of adopting a numerical inflation target. Now, only a year after the latest round of QE began, the Fed is struggling with how to unwind it, just as many had warned.
3 Mohamed El Erian, CEO and Co-CIO of PIMCO, the World's Largest Bond Investor
Half of Ben Bernanke's legacy can be confidently specified at this point. The other half cannot; and how it turns out is no longer in the hands of the talented outgoing chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Mr. Bernanke's courageous actions in 2008-09 helped the world avoid an economic depression that would have devastated millions of lives, as well as harm the prospects of the next generation. His bold design and rapid implementation of new Fed facilities succeeded in stopping cascading financial market failures, thus helping to interrupt an economic implosion and buy time for the economic system to heal.
Mr. Bernanke did more than take the Fed deep into experimental territory and to places it has never been before. He also managed to amplify the beneficial impact by thoughtfully persuading others, domestically and internationally, to do their part in implementing supportive measures.
Having succeeded in stabilizing the economy, Mr. Bernanke pivoted in 2010 from normalizing markets to assuming primary responsibility for delivering significantly higher economic growth and more dynamic job creation.
By no means was this a power grab by Mr. Bernanke. Instead, he was responding to what may be deemed a moral and ethical obligation: that of using the Fed's policy flexibility to compensate for the inaction of other economic policy makers paralyzed by political polarization and dysfunction.
Mr. Bernanke did not make this historic pivot lightly. From the start he acknowledged that the "benefits" of greater Fed involvement came with "costs and risks." He understood that the Fed would have to rely on imperfect and untested tools. And he acknowledged that ultimate success would require the eventual full cooperation of other policymaking entities with better tools.
Until today, the results of the pivot have repeatedly fallen short of the Fed's own expectations. Moreover, the longer-term consequences – good and bad – remain uncertain. And there is little Mr. Bernanke himself can do at this stage to change this unsettling reality.
What eventually transpires will constitute the second half of Mr. Bernanke's legacy. Reflecting much more than his own inputs, it will be materially influenced by how his successor, Janet Yellen, leads the Fed during an extremely tricky and complex policy phase, both nationally and globally. And it will be impacted even more by whether Congress manages to overcome its damaging dysfunction and resumes with its economic governance responsibilities.
4 Michael Bordo, Board of Governors Professor of Economics, Rutgers University and Visiting Distinguished Fellow, The Hoover Institution
During the Fed's first 100 years, it has shifted gradually from being a banker-run to an economist-run central bank, culminating in Ben Bernanke's assumption of the chairmanship in 2006. His appointment promised to bring the academic rigor of modern monetary economics to the chairmanship. Bernanke's research, advocating greater transparency and better communication to enhance the central bank's credibility, augured well for continuing low and stable rates of inflation.
Before he could address this agenda, his watch was consumed by the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the Great Recession. Bernanke's approach to these challenges was influenced by his research on the Great Contraction of 1929-33. He identified the Fed's failure to counter the banking panics as the key factor that reduced the money supply and disrupted credit disintermediation, leading to massive deflation and high unemployment.
The prelude to 2007-2008 was the tech-stock bust of 2001 when Bernanke was a governor on the Fed board. Concerned about the possibility of deflation, as happened in Japan in the 1990s, he advocated a low fed funds rate from 2002 to 2006. In retrospect, this fear of deflation was overblown and low interest rates contributed to the housing boom.
Apparently conditioned by his interpretation of the 1930s, Bernanke initially viewed 2007-2008 as a liquidity crisis. Flooding the market with liquidity, the Fed was slow to recognize the underlying problems of counterparty risk and insolvency. To protect credit markets, new lending facilities were created, expanding the Fed's balance sheet and taking on risk. Competing concerns about the prospects of "too big " or "too interconnected" firms failing and of moral hazard led to inconsistent policy, with the government bailing out Bear Stearns, letting Lehman Brothers fail, then bailing out AIG.
By the time the crisis subsided, the fed funds rate was near zero– a lower bound that left conventional monetary policy unable to treat the still contracting economy. Purchasing long-term securities—quantitative easing—lowered longer rates but because the Fed paid interest on excess reserves, the banks were discouraged from lending, hindering recovery. These policies formulated by discretion rather than rules threaten the Fed's credibility and independence, and Bernanke's legacy.
5 Lars E.O. Svensson, Former Deputy Governor of the RIKSBANK
Ben Bernanke most likely saved the US and probably the world from the Great Recession turning into the Great Depression II. Trusting his judgment, his previous research on the Great Depression and on unconventional monetary policy with the policy rate at its lower bound (such as his 2004 Brookings paper with Vincent Reinhart and Brian Sack on large-scale asset purchases), he led Fed monetary policy out onto a limb to save the US economy . Without this, U.S. and world economic developments would have been inconceivably worse.
Furthermore, under Bernanke's low-key, mild-mannered but most convincing and effective leadership, the Fed has gradually developed and improved its policy framework to become a model for the rest of the world. This included a transparent and clear interpretation of the Fed's dual mandate of stable prices and maximum employment in the form of flexible inflation targeting, with an explicit inflation target and a balanced approach to mitigating deviations of inflation from the target and unemployment from an estimated longer-run normal rate. It also included published forecasts of inflation, unemployment, and the policy rate; with reference to these, Bernanke would at press conferences provide clear justification of the policy choice as well as honest and detailed answers to the most intriguing and difficult questions.
Finally, under Bernanke's leadership, the Federal Reserve has learned important lessons from the financial crisis. The Fed has invested considerable resources to establish new surveillance programs to assess risks in the financial system, and the Fed has been working with other regulators to implement a broad range of reforms to mitigate systemic risk. With respect to the large financial institutions that it supervises, the Fed is using a variety of supervisory tools and indicators to assess their exposure to, and proper management of, the relevant risks. The Fed's new policy to maintain financial stability has also become a model to the rest of the world.


text:
Tammy Wallace necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 109 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
The Wildlife Society
The Wildlife Society, founded in 1937, is a professional international non-profit scientific and educational association dedicated to excellence in wildlife stewardship through science and education. Every year, we host a large conference in a different location for members to share research and information to other wildlife professionals. This year, the conference will be held in Snowbird, Utah.
Members are typically wildlife biologists, ecologists, and natural resource specialists from around the world. Every year, the location of the conference changes and lapel pens and other mechandise are developed with a new logo that represents the area and/or wildlife located near the conference location. There is approximately 1200 to 2000 members expected to attend.
We are looking for a logo that represents Utah and the local wildlife. We would like the logo to incorporate a mule deer or a rocky mountain elk and maybe even a pika with the deer or elk since those are the animals that are most abundant or represent Utah.
You can be creative with background with possible things in Utah or something simple without much of a background. The overall shape can be something other than the typical circle. Have fun with it.
Keep the design simple, and the graphics sharp. Use only 2, possibly 3 colors to reduce the cost of printing and merchandise. The logos will be reduced to a small size for lapel pins and name tags, etc. and needs to still be clearly visible and reproduce clearly.
Somewhere on the logo, it needs to say: The Wildlife Society
Somewhere on the logo, it needs to say: Snowbird
Somewhere on the logo, it needs to say: 2010
We will need a color-seperated file and the PMS colors used. The format we need is an illustrator, or compatible drawing program, EPS file.
You are welcome to check out the following website to get more information about The Wildlife Society. If you look under conferences, then past conferences, you will be able to see a few of the previous logos.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


text:
Founders of some of the best-known digital brands have drafted an opinion that, gently put, differs with how the White House wants to handle intellectual property.
Foursquare, Twitter, Reddit, Fark, TopSpin, OpenDNS and Cheezburger's founders/CEOs address the issue of infringement in a filing that offers perspective on the administration's proposed Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Enforcement [PDF]..
The goal is to protect American intellectual property rights. The administration's main thrust is creating more legal enforcement. The point the tech heavy hitters make is that enforcement merely stifles innovation -- and doesn't really protect things very well, either.
U.S. & World
What's needed, they say, is more room to innovate, not less. Of course, that reads like "piracy is OK" and the content creators are not going to abide that sentiment.
Unfortunately, most of the focus to date, instead, has been on increasing the power of law enforcement, which actually is counterproductive in that it tends to have massive collateral damage in terms of both potential attacks on free speech, but more importantly by creating chilling effects on the very innovation that is needed to respond to widespread infringement.
The flip side of this that the innovation sought could actually lead to more property rights, as they now exist -- and are likely to as long as Sumner Redstone or any other studio mogul takes breath.


text:
Umar Cheema
Acceptance Speech
CPJ International Press Freedom Award 2011
November 22, 2011
Ladies and gentlemen,
This is a great privilege. I feel humbled and honored. There couldn't be a greater recognition. But it doesn't mark an end of the troubles. The award is a call for continuous struggle, without care for consequences. And yes, I am glad about having been bracketed with the distinguished men and women, the ones who faced trial and tribulation defending the freedom of press.
The incident has made me a new man. I reacted the way I never expected from me. The fear was flooded inside me. But the crisis taught me one thing: never let the fear dictate your decisions. I decided to be on the right side of history, hence I spoke up. Having done so not only inspired my confidence but that of all Pakistani journalists.
Like me,
This award is in fact recognition of the bold work Pakistani media is doing. I would like to share this award with all those colleagues killed in the line of duty, especially Saleem Shehzad. It would also be my pleasure sharing this honor with my friend Azaz Syed. His house was attacked twice but he neither submitted to the forces of repression nor left the country.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I can't finish without thanking my attackers who helped me in discovering the strength of character that I possessed but didn't realize before. But my special thanks go to CPJ who first spread my word far and wide and now has bestowed this great honor.
More on the Awards
• The ceremony • Press release • Awardees • Al-Jamri, Bahrain • Radina, Belarus • Valdez, Mexico • Cheema, Pakistan • Rather, Benjamin Award


text:
This info will be visible to others
Already a member? SIGN IN
That verification code doesn't match the one we sent.
Didn't get your code? Sometimes it may take several minutes. If still have not received it, please try again.
We never post to Facebook.
Copyright © 2001-2020 BiCupid.com / SuccessfulMatch.com. All rights reserved.
BiCupid does not conduct background checks on the members of this website.


text:
You currently have no items in your shopping bag.
Discover what new designs Ray-Ban have released to get you started...what's new
You currently have no saved items
Discover what new designs Ray-Ban have released to get you started.
Dazzle your customized Ray-Bans with Remix Prints. A modern take on the free spirited pop art of the 20th century, these color blasted pattern will add some funk into any design. Choose between "Drops", "Bubbles" or "Waves" patterns, each available in multiple, vivid colors.
Solid colors, genuine since 1937, the classic G-15 and B-15 were originally developed for military use.
Classic lenses offer a high level of clarity, comfort and protection.
Gradient lenses follow the latest style trends and provide a wide range of colors creating exciting and unique looks.
Gradient lenses are characterized by a smooth transition from a solid color to a transparent shade of the same or different color.
The mirror coating is achieved through an advanced technological process.
It helps to reduce glare for even greater visual comfort, deflects envious glances and gives you that unique look.
Polarized lenses drastically reduce the brightness of shiny surfaces, like chrome, and large bodies of water.
Polar lenses reduce reflections and enhance contrast, improving visual clarity and reducing eye strain.
Flash lenses are the new shiny comer in the mirror family.
Their mirror coating helps to reduce glare for great visual comfort and creates that additional edginess that won't make you walk unnoticed.
Having problems locating your Gift Card Number and PIN ? Please read below.
The Gift Card Number is the 19 digits number (#### #### #### #### ###) written on the back of your gift card under the label CARD NUMBER.
The Gift Card PIN is the 4 digits number (####) that appears in the scratching area.
You can find both The Gift Card Number and the Gift Card PIN in the e-mail you received from Ray-Ban. To help you find your e-Gift Card in your e-mail inbox please note that the Subject contains "sent you a Ray-Ban E-Gift Card! "
Why are we asking you to accept Terms & Conditions?
You are now shopping at the new Ray-Ban.com, which features a set of new options to make your shopping experience even better! For this reason there are also new Terms & Conditions and privacy policy, updated in respect to the previous ones you agreed upon.


text:
Looking toward AMC's "Better Call Saul"
"Better Call Saul," the highly anticipated "Breaking Bad" prequel from Vince Gilligan, was delayed from a November start to early 2015 due to Gilligan's writing pace. "I'm very slow for television," Gilligan said. As he discussed his writing process, it became clear there are good reasons for his slow pace.
"The tradition of having something sweated over, worked out as best we can, with tremendous attention to detail and some showmanship" will continue on "Better Call Saul," said writer-producer Peter Gould.
The logistical realities of television can impact the storytelling, Gould noted.
or instance, "in Season 2 we had to kill Tuco in episode 2 due to actors' schedules…" Gilligan said. "We thought a lot ab out this character Saul Goodman, it was a leap of faith for me…Saul moved the universe two degrees to the left. I was so worried we were going to break open the "BB" universe and he would be this puzzle piece that didn't fit…Lo and behold this crazy, slippery lawyer in the crazy suits in this crazy office, he made the drama more dramatic, the comedy more comedic." Bob Odenkirk's Saul was the right counter-weight to Walter White, he said.
The prequel is set in 2002, Gilligan said. He finds it difficult to believe, but "it is now a period piece," he said. "We like non-linear storytelling, we like jumping around in time." Assume anything that "Breaking Bad" did is possible for "Saul's" storytelling technique.
"There's a lot of focus on cause and effect," Gould said. Individual stand-alone episode are not out of the question, but "we seem to be following a rhythm where it locks together."
"I love the expression "Swiss watch," I hope it will rise to that level," Gilligan said. "We're doing mass conjuring, all the writers, trying to imagine every nuance. It's a hell of a lot of work, but I don't know how to do it any other way."


text:
A Sandwich A Day: Pork Loin at Manny's Tortas in Minneapolis
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
In this great country of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the country. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
Thin slices of pork loin sizzle on a flat top as the cook at Manny's Tortas douses the meat with seasoning salt. The pork loin torta ($7.45) is available at both locations of the popular Minneapolis takeout restaurant, which offers ten tortas total, from steak to Hawaiian.
The cook then smears avocado on one half of a baguette and adds lettuce, tomatoes, and pickled jalapenos, then gives a generous squirt of chipotle mayo. In one bite, you'll taste the seasoned pork, the salty bacon, the refried beans, the creamy avocado, the pickled jalapenos and the spicy mayo. The torta is unapologetically spicy. Then you have the vinegar punch from the pickled jalapenos and the super-thin pork slices cooked through. With all those delicious layers, how could this not be a perfect sandwich?
The bag of potato chips is free, but I don't even open the bag. I'd rather devour the rest of the torta.
Manny's Tortas
Midtown Global Market; 920 East Lake Street #125m Minneapolis, MN 55407 (map); 612-870-3930
Mercado Central; 1515 East Lake Street #103, Minneapolis, MN 55407 (map); 612-728-5408
All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.


text:
|Up a level
Nagabhushana, KR and Lakshminarasappa, BN and Rao, Narasimha K and Singh, Fouran and Sulania, Indra (2008) AFM and photoluminescence studies of swift heavy ion induced nanostructured aluminum oxide thin films. In: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 266 (7). pp. 1049-1054.


text:
Moroccan S44259
Marc Phillips Decorative Rugs
Interior designers have long favored the timeless Moroccan Beni Ourain rugs for their beauty and versatility.
Their un-sheared pile has an incredibly plush texture that gives otherwise severe modern rooms warmth. In more traditional rooms the rug's loosely structured patterns provide an elegant modern contrast.
Woven nearly exclusively in neutral palettes, our Moroccans stand apart with their bright and bold colors that impart a stylish and modern edge to what are otherwise ubiquitous rugs.
Materials: Wool
Product Specifications
- Dimensions
- Width: 6 Length: 9.67
- Lead Time
- 0-3 Weeks (Quick Ship)
Nearby Showrooms
About Marc Phillips Decorative Rugs
Marc Phillips Decorative Rugs is a leading innovator and manufacturer of outstanding hand-made rugs. Please check back soon. We are expanding and adding new products regularly.


text:
Mplus Home
Last Day
Last 3 Days
Last Week
Tree View
Edit Profile
Mplus CFI is smaller than LISREL's?
Mplus Discussion
Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Duanli Yan
posted on Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 10:53 am
We did CFA in Mplus and Lisrel using the same data set (N=700)and the same variables. The RMSEAs and SRMRs are similar, but the CFIs are very different:
Lisrel RMSEA=0.053, SRMR=0.073, CFI=0.965.
Mplus RMSEA=0.056, SRMR=0.062, CFI=0.832!
Did we miss anything in Mplus?
DATA: FILE IS neurot_small_items.dat;
VARIABLE: NAMES ARE y117,y116,y96,y7,y63,y35,y10,y17,y87,y78,y61,y118,
MODEL: f1 BY y117,y116,y96,y7,y63,y35,y10,y17,y87,y78,y61,y118;
f2 BY y114,y69,y53,y91,y44,y70,y21,y37,y50,y51,y68,y82;
f3 BY y56,y60,y110,y85,y76,y109,y57,y102,y84,y108;
f4 BY y106,y104,y105,y41,y33,y29,y81,y1,y103,y32;
f1 WITH f2-f4;
f2 WITH f3-f4;
f3 WITH f4;
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 3:37 pm
Mplus and Lisrel use a different baseline model so CFI and TLI will be different.
Gregory Arief D. Liem
posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2011 - 7:48 pm
Hi Linda,
If I understand correctly, the computation of CFI and TLI in LISREL and Mplus is based on different null/baseline models� chi squares. That is, in LISREL, all the observed variables are not correlated, whereas in Mplus all observed variables are correlated (i.e., covariances among observed variables are estimated or fixed to 0). Am I right?
My question is: Is there a way that we can do a baseline model in Mplus with observed variables are not estimated at all (i.e., covariances among observed variables are not correlated nor fixed to zero � i.e., a baseline model in LISREL)?
Really appreciate your answer.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, April 07, 2011 - 7:39 am
If the model does not contain covariates, Mplus and Lisrel should get the same results. If they do not, the models or data must be different.
In the case of a model with covariates, the Mplus baseline model is means of x and y, variances of x and y, and covariances among the x's. Lisrel sets the covariances among the x's at zero. This makes it easier to get good model fit if the x's have large correlations because then the baseline model is poorly fitting. We do not believe that model fit should be influenced by the correlations among the x variables because the model is not concerned with the correlations among the x's. It is estimated conditioned on the x variables as in regression analysis.
The baseline in Mplus cannot be changed but one can run two analyses to achieve this.
Paige Lancaster
posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 8:27 am
My colleague and I noticed different values for the CFI when he analyzed data with EQS while I used Mplus. We find the same values for the chi square and df but are not sure why the CFI differs.
Do you know if this is a difference in the 2 programs? Thanks!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 8:39 am
You probably have a model with covariates. In this case, we use a different baseline model than EQS. We use means and variances of all variables and covariances among the independent variables. EQS uses only means and variances and holds the covariances among the independent variables at zero.
J.D. Haltigan
posted on Saturday, August 20, 2011 - 8:38 pm
Am I correct in overviewing this thread that in a classical CFA model (congeneric indicators) that the baseline model for Mplus calculates covariances among all indicators whereas in LISREL/EQS the baseline sets these to zero? The discussion of covariates above got me a bit confused (unless referencing say a MIMIC model).
Many thanks.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, August 22, 2011 - 3:04 pm
The baseline model for Mplus is means and variances of both dependent and independent variables and the covariances of independent variables. Factor indicators are dependent variables.
LISREL uses a baseline model of means and variances of all variables and no covariances among any variables.
J.D. Haltigan
posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 3:40 pm
Above it is mentioned that the baseline models can not be changed in Mplus but that 'one can run two analyses to achieve this' [i.e., different CFI values]. Is the idea here to run two models (one with constrained v. free relations against the covariates) and then compare this to the CFA-specified model, calculating a new CFI? In short, how would I go about mimicking the LISREL CFI results (if possible) via Mplus.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 5:06 pm
Run your H0 model and LISREL's baseline model.
J.D. Haltigan
posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 11:11 pm
To be sure this would be my CFA model (baseline) with all covariates allowed to associate with each other (and the factors?) and a model where essentially only the factor means and variances are estimated and all other loadings are constrained to zero? I realize this question is pedantic but I am still grasping at the specifics of the baseline models.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 7:11 am
The CFA model is your H0 model. The baseline model it is compared to is a model of means and variances for all dependent and independent variables. I believe this is what you will get if you have no MODEL command. Try it and see.
Back to top
Add Your Message Here
Posting Information:
This is a private posting area. Only registered users and moderators may post messages here.
Enable HTML code in message
Automatically activate URLs in message
Tree View
Program Credits


text:
Graphite ceiling fans provide a subtle sophistication to a formal room. Gray is a versatile neutral color that can be used to create a warm or cool design scheme. Fanimation fans offers a selection of slate fans with unique forms. Graphite fans go well in any living space and help blend a room all together. These slate colored fans have that architectural contemporary feel.
Gray, Slate and Charcoal Finishes Make up Graphite Ceiling Fans
Ceiling fans with a silver finish are common choices for homeowners when they are shopping for fans. Those who want a similar look without the actual silver finish, however, may want to consider buying one of the many graphite ceiling fans on the market. Also known as gray ceiling fans or even slate ceiling fans, graphite ceiling fans get their name from their color, which matches the color of the mineral graphite. These fans come UL listed for all areas of the home for your exterior spaces choose the graphite 62 inch outdoor ceiling fans.
It is not entirely unheard of for graphite ceiling fans to be constructed, at least in part, from the mineral graphite. Yet as already noted, graphite more often refers to the color of the fan. There can be many shades of graphite, ranging from light gray to a darker hue; thus, it is possible for consumers to find graphite fans that will go well in nearly any room, no matter its other colors.
As far as cleaning goes, graphite ceiling fans have a distinct advantage. Because of its color and the color of dust, a graphite ceiling fan will not show dust as readily as ceiling fans that come in other colors. This means that people can get away with dusting them less frequently than they would dust fans of other colors. Still, graphite ceiling fans should be cleaned regularly. A consistent cleaning schedule will minimize the circulation of dust allergens and keep the fan running well many years into the future.
Graphite ceiling fans come in all shapes and sizes suitable for indoor and outdoor areas. Gray outdoor ceiling fans add a contemporary touch to any outdoor room. Whether a traditionally designed fan is needed or a more contemporary look is desired, anyone should be able to find a graphite ceiling fan that will match the destination room perfectly. Take time to browse through the large selection of graphite ceiling fans below and choose the one that has the best color and style for the decorating project.


text:
Gale Anne Hurd, queen of the genre legend and tastemaker, is getting into the giant robots business. Perhaps it was something she say in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim trailer?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Walking Dead producer is backing a live-action, feature film adaptation of the classic anime Gaiking. Her production company will be teaming up with Toei Animation and All Nippon Entertainment Work.
Gaiking was a small series that lived and died between 1974 to 1976, consisting of 44 episodes, centered around a baseball star who now pilots a giant robot to protect our planet. Could we be approaching the mecha renaissance?


text:
Breslow plans on returning to active roster soon
BALTIMORE -- For the second straight season, Craig Breslow spent Opening Day on the disabled list. However, the invaluable lefty feels he will return much sooner than 2013, when he didn't pitch until May 6.
"I think these are totally different circumstances this year," said Breslow. "I feel strong, I feel healthy, I've thrown throughout Spring Training. Last year, I was shut down for a period of probably four to five weeks and needed to get ready for a season in three weeks.
"Whereas this was just, we kind of listened to my body, any findings in the training room or anything in terms of when it was time to progress to the next step in a throwing program. In the conversations I've had with [general manager] Ben [Cherington] and [manager] John [Farrell], I wanted to make it clear I'm not injured. I just ran out of games."
The Red Sox list the cause for Breslow's DL stint as a left shoulder strain.
On Sunday, he stayed back in Fort Myers, Fla., and pitched in an intrasquad game before joining his teammates in Baltimore.
"I went up against [Clay Buchholz] actually. I outdueled him for two innings," quipped Breslow.
Breslow will pitch in a Minor League rehab game at Triple-A Pawtucket on Thursday. Though the competitor in him would have liked to start the season on time, Breslow realizes why the decision was made to put him on the DL.
"I was brainwashed a little bit by John and Ben into believing that we're looking at the big picture, but once you can remove yourself, it certainly makes sense," Breslow said. "To arbitrarily be ready for March 31 when we're talking about the alternative being maybe April 5 or 6, and being able to move forward a little more prudently, it obviously makes sense. It's just hard to get your hands around when you're the person on the inside that's not going to be ready for Opening Day."


text:
Buried here are the remains of:
Tom McLaury Killed in Earp-
Frank McLaury Clanton Battle
Billy Clanton Oct. 26, 1881
Dan Dowd, Red Sample, Bill DeLaney, Dan Kelly & Tex Howard hanged legally by J.E. Ward, Sheriff, for Bisbee Massacre, Mar. 8, 1884. John Heath lynched by Bisbee Mob Feb. 22, 1884.
Mr. Peel murdered in Charleston March 8, 1882.
Geo. Johnson hanged by mistake.
Dutch Annie, Indian Bill, Quong Kee, Charley Storms, Les Moore, Mashal White, 3 Fingered Jack Dunlap, Bronco Charley, Red River Tom shot by Ormsby.
|Men legally hanged on Mar 8, 1884
My personal favorite:
Here Lies
Lester Moore
Four Slugs
From a 44
No Les
No More


text:
Hot Search
Popular Recommendation
Inspired by Aegean civilization, with gorgeous animations, transitions and sound effects.
Almost all of your favourite menu options can be accessed in just three steps. EMUI 5.0 sorts your messages, alerts, photos and videos, while handy shortcuts help you enable Wi-Fi, find apps and block notifications faster. Through tireless research and testing, we identified many scenarios in which it was easy for users to accidentally press the wrong thing. But with our slick new interface, these little glitches are a thing of the past.


text:
Getting a college degree still helps your chances of getting a job, but not necessarily a good one.
Some Americans are becoming overeducated for the jobs that are available to them, as data shows more college educated workers are taking low-skill jobs that are clearly below their qualifications.
Take taxi drivers for example. About 15%, or more than than 1 in 7, had at least a bachelor's degree in 2010, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Compare that to 1970 when less than 1% of taxi drivers had college degrees. And the job description hasn't changed much, if at all, since then.
"A lot of people, particularly people with bachelor's degrees, are getting jobs, but not good jobs," said Richard Vedder, an economist at Ohio University.
In a study released Monday, Vedder shows that about 37% of employed U.S. college graduates are working in jobs that require no more than a high school diploma. Those include jobs like taxi drivers, sales clerks, firefighters and telemarketers. He calls this phenomenon "credential inflation," as the supply of college grads is growing faster than the jobs requiring that level of education.
Vedder argues that an underemployment problem is likely to persist even after the U.S. economy recovers fully from the jobs crisis. He predicts that the number of college grads will grow by 19 million between 2010 and 2020, while the number of jobs requiring that education is expected to grow by less than 7 million.


text:
Why choose our homework writing?
- 24/7 SupportEven if you wake up in the middle of the night and realize you've forgotten about an assignment, we will be there to do your homework. Leave all papers to us and get rid of worries!
- Free RevisionsAlthough all papers that we deliver are of high quality, you can always request a free revision. We'll provide the required improvements until your assignment sounds perfect.
- On-time DeliveryDeadlines are sacred for our writers. With our assistance, you will never miss the submission date. Give us a try even if your homework assignment should be done in no time.
- 100% Plagiarism freeWe do not tolerate plagiarism. Our experts write each and every paper from scratch. We'll do homework for you and help you get an A-grade.
- High-quality papersLet us improve your grades by taking care of your homework! Rely upon our experts and they will write supreme papers for you. Don't waste time on challenging assignments, leave them to professionals!
- Custom homework helpOur service offers assistance with all types of papers from essays to dissertations. We know how to meet every customer's needs. Let us know your initial requirements and get help with homework in one click!
Check out how HomeworkFor.Me works
- Place an orderSelect the subject, topic and volume, specify the deadline and your academic level
- Check your total priceAdd extra features if your homework needs a special touch
- Submit payment detailsChoose one of the available payment options
- Get your homework donePreview and download the paper long before the deadline
I couldn't believe my luck when I found these guys to do my homework. The essay turned out great. I submitted it with days to spare and got an A!
I never needed anyone to do my homework writing until I got a part-time job in college. Good thing I did my research and chose this website to outsource all the essays. I've been using their services for a year now, and they have never let me down.
When I realized I couldn't keep up with football practice and essays, I decided to hire someone to complete the homework for me. I chose this site for affordable prices and excellent support. Don't plan on replacing it with others.
If you need cheap, quick and professional writing, I definitely recommend Homeworkfor.me. I got two As and a B with them without a single revision!
Help Me Do My Homework and Get a Good Grade
People come to us to get assistance with their academic tasks and get just that. We do not ask why you are unable or not willing to do it on your own once you contact us with words like "Help me do my homework." You must have your reasons, and our main concern is that you end up getting a good grade.
It does not matter to us, whether you are too busy at work, concentrating on a passion project, or simply tired of a seemingly infinite flow of assignments. We will take care of them, and for a reasonable price, as we understand that students usually don't have a lot of money to spare. Besides, no one will ever know that you got a paper from our company as we guarantee complete confidentiality to our customers. We understand perfectly well what students need and are ready to cooperate and satisfy your requests.
I Need to Get My Homework Done ASAP
Students lead busy lives and often forget about an upcoming deadline. Then, suddenly, a thought comes into their mind, one that you might have had yourself and more than once, "Help me with my homework! I have no time for it!" Not a pleasant situation, but not a hopeless one. After all, solving such problems is what our service was created for!
Our experienced writers are used to dealing with urgent tasks and producing great papers within a limited time. So, if time's pressing and you are looking for help, don't lose any more precious minutes and place an order on our site. We will then contact you to clarify the details so that nothing prevents our writer from completing your order within a short timeframe. Have no trouble doing your math homework and other challenging academic tasks thanks to our assistance.
I Am Willing to Pay Someone to Do My Homework
There are times when you just have too much on your hands, and you may even start telling your fellow students " I have trouble doing my statistics homework. Can anyone help me with this paper? I am ready to pay someone to do my homework." Often, there are no results to these cries for help because your peers may be either as busy as you are or not confident they can deliver a well-written assignment worth the money you are paying.
After discovering our site, you will no longer need to bother your friends with such requests. Our company specializes in assisting students and being ready to come to their rescue at all times. We have a team of skilled writers who know how to write a good paper that will satisfy your professor without compromising your grade.
Can a Professional Do My Homework for Money?
If you are active on social media, you might have noticed your friends and other people desperately seeking help with their written assignments, leaving tweets or comments like "Can anyone do my homework for money?" or "What writing services can you recommend?" Perhaps, you even left such comments yourself. Well, now you have found an answer to those questions, and it's Homeworkfor.me.
Unlike many people who could respond to these requests, our writing service guarantees that your work will be done by a professional who has at least a few years of experience in academic writing and is proficient in several fields of knowledge. Due to the variety of skills our employees have, they can deal with pretty much any written assignment you need to get done. Place an order, and we will give it to the most suitable writer we have available. Doing your homework has never been so easy and fast.
How Fast Can You Do My Homework for Me?
Many students who come to our site want to know how fast we can deliver a completed paper to them. "Can you do my homework for me today?" is a frequent question our customer support agents receive. They then go on reassuring a stressed-out student that indeed, our service can deliver high-quality works within a matter of several hours. There is, of course, a limit on the number of pages even our best writers can produce with a pressing deadline, but as a rule, we manage to satisfy all the clients seeking urgent help.
It is a common practice to charge more for such immediate papers, and our company is not an exception. However, you can be sure that you are getting a fine work for the price you are paying. It's best, of course, not to come to us at the very last moment, as it will cost you less if you place an order with a sensible amount of time before the deadline.
Can You Do My Homework Online? For Sure!
Online academic help is a solution many students use to save their time, their place, and their grades. We successfully deal with any challenges you may ask us to help with, and there are various services we provide to our students. On our site, homework help implies more than simply writing a paper from scratch. Your work will be thoroughly checked to contain no plagiarism and accompanied by reference and title pages. While you pay for homework, we offer those options for free. Additionally, you can order editing and proofreading.
You can also get various discounts on our site which will help you save some more money for future orders or whatever you want to spend them on. Our customer support will gladly tell you whether there are any special offers at the moment, as well as make sure that you are receiving the best service our company can deliver.
Can I Always Count on You to Do My College Homework?
Whenever you decide to ask us for professional assistance, feel free to contact our support managers. Our experts are ready to help you do homework any time day or night. We offer our assistance to students who are in trouble and can't cope with a pile of assignments themselves. We won't leave you on your own with your academic burden. Being desperate, just contact us and let us know about an assignment you need. Provide all the initial details, let us know about the deadline, and we will start creating your paper to help you get high grades. Order homework from our service, and don't struggle, doing your assignments anymore. Student life is not only about writing, reading, and cramming. It can be full of unforgettable moments if you have enough time to live your life to the fullest. So, leave the most challenging papers to our professionals and get supreme quality papers on time. Even if the deadline is really tight, feel free to contact our managers. They will try to do their best to assign the most qualified writer to do your college paper. An experienced professional will create an error-free assignment in no time and will help you boost your grades.
Choosing our service, you will see that studying can be easy if you benefit from the assistance of qualified experts.


text:
Born and raised in the upper Midwest, Mandy began her birth professional and massage therapy career in 2001 while living in New Mexico. There she attended her first births with a local midwife while attending massage therapy school and became a doula through the Birthing From Within philosophy. Later that year, upon completion of the programs and moving back to Minnesota, Mandy met her husband and married in 2003. By the end of 2005 they had two children, both born at home with midwives, and were residing in Chicago, IL.
In 2007, Mandy began her midwifery training through The National College of Midwifery earning an Associate of Science. Her clinical experience was diverse; she trained primarily with CNM's and family practice physicians who specialized in maternity care and home birth. Her most unique internship was a winter spent in rural southwest Wisconsin serving primarily an Amish population. She graduated and earned her CPM credential in 2010. She has lived in Austin since 2011. Mandy is a member of Midwives Alliance of North America, North American Registry of Midwives, Association of Texas Midwives, Central Texas Midwives and is certified in Bodywork for the Childbearing Year. ® You can see Mandy in either of her two convenient locations: southwest Austin and central Austin. Contact her today for a free consultation.


text:
Two-thirds of respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll say smart phones are changing the way they work—with more than one-third of those selecting "very much" to describe the change.
The research firm IDC recently predicted that in 2011 the latest wave in technology, led by smart phones, will start to take over the market. The firm said an estimated 330 million smart phones will be sold worldwide next year, and within 18 months non-PC devices capable of running software applications will outsell PCs.
In a separate report, the Nielsen Co. said smart phones already account for 30 percent of all mobile phones in the United States. As with a number of new technologies, many early adopters have been business users.
Some 22 percent of readers who responded said they do not have a smart phone.
More than 340 readers participated in this week's poll, which was conducted Dec. 27 and 28.
Is smart phone technology changing how you work?
Very much: 36%
Somewhat: 30%
Not very much: 10%
Not at all: 7%
I do not use a smart phone for work: 17%
What kind of smart phone do you use?
BlackBerry: 32%
Android: 24%
iPhone: 18%
Other: 4%
I do not have a smart phone: 22%
Here are some comments from readers:
Hey, it changes your life. The electronic leash dictates you answer right away, answer every call, e-mail, text. Gives you less free time. It sucks. I want to turn the thing off and go back to the Pony Express.
—Jim Duke, Victor
It's great when I need some time to think and have peace and quiet; I can bring my whole office via BlackBerry to the bathroom to get things done. Couldn't do that before.
—Jim Ehmann, ProMotivations by Design Inc.
It seems as if many are getting totally dependent on their smart phones for all their communications, personal data management and Internet access. Smart phones can become a "single point of failure," where losing it or having it damaged will cause great personal trauma. Not my choice of stress.
—Frank Muscato
Personally my smart phone changes the way I work by seamlessly integrating with social media platforms. In our company, we attend many trade shows, and smart phones allow show attendees to engage in social media, real-time on the show floor.
—Megan Alchowiak, brand specialist, Mirror Show Management
Smart phones make it impossible for me now not to take work home with me. I answer every e-mail in real time. It is a blessing as much as it is a curse.
—Erin Shannon, SWBR Architects
If smart phone technology isn't changing the way that you work, then you probably are or will be out of work.
—Bill Lang Jr., Webster
I hear many people bemoan the fact that work e-mail and desktops are available everywhere now. In my opinion, this just gives us more options. It allows us to be more productive although spending less time at work. Less time at work is a good thing!
—Joe Fabetes, Rochester
Smart phones are a blessing and a curse, raising expectations even further that we are "always on" and that response times should be measured in minutes rather than hours. Productivity is up because I can use my time more wisely and be more connected to what is happening. And the need for downtime is up, so that I can recharge and be effective when I am "on."
—Dave Vanable
Ain't smart enough to use one.
—Ed McDonnell
I am a real estate manager, and the smart phone has made my job easier by integrating my contact list, camera and mapping capabilities into my phone. If more applications were developed specifically for my profession, I would definitely find a way to use them.
—Steven Savoca
As a result of the smart phones, the Internet, and other technological advances, business has become more moment-to-moment, which increases efficiency. Some people feel modern communication is too efficient and invasive, but in my opinion it sure beats the Pony Express.
—Joe Cameron
E-mail, voicemail, texting, navigation, Internet searches, and media recording/playback all in the field! Who could not benefit from these capabilities?
—Lou Calarese, Applied Audio and Theatre Supply
My Android sits on my desk in a media cradle and alerts me real-time to the arrival of e-mail (from four different accounts), AIM and text messages and phone calls. What a time-saver!
—Steve Vaughn
(c) 2010 Rochester Business Journal. To obtain permission to reprint this article, call 585-546-8303 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Los Cabos Information
Start Planning Your Mexico Vacation
The Low Down: Los Cabos
If you want a vacay spot with stuff to do out the wazoo, then plant yourself in Los Cabos. For all you water babies, there's snorkeling, scuba diving, kayaking and big-game fishing. Don't like getting wet so much? No problem. You can golf on world-class greens, chillax at chichi spas, ooh and ahh at art galleries, or just revel in all the goodness that the lush resorts here can lavish upon you. For adrenaline junkies, you can hop on an ATV, zip line through canyons, or go whale watching where you might see ginormous mammals leap out of the sea a few feet in front of you. Whew. Ready to chill? Or do you want to continue your excursion-induced, ninja rush? Good, because Los Cabos has both. You can kick back with a glass of fine wine at an elegant nosh spot, or blow it out until all hours at the clubs until the sea cows come home.
Other Destinations in Mexico
The Swiss Army Knife of Destinations: Mexico
Let's start with the east coast: Cancun's got an epic party scene. Cozumel is the mecca for diving and snorkeling. Moving to the west coast, if you're into adventure, head to Mazatlan to explore historic ruins or hit Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo for a similar vibe, but a bit more upscale. For those who want to escape into the wilds of nature, Huatulco and Mazanillo are your places to explore. Puerto Vallarta and Los Cabos have majestic mountains that kiss their beachy shores along with aahmazing golf courses, breath-stealing resorts and delicious beaches. But Cabo, situated at the tip of Baja, where the shimmering Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific, not only has a hip party vibe, it also has the iconic Los Arcos, where you can slow down and let the beguiling magic of Mexico wash over you.
Baja Blowout: Cabo's Party Scene
Think of the hottest nightclub (and we don't mean temperature) you've ever been to, then add some shimmering sand, glistening water and a shot of tequila. That's Cabo.
The first place (and as far as we're concerned only) you should hang is at Breathless Cabo San Lucas Resort and Spa. This chic, minimalist decor, adults-only locale serves up smokin' hot monthly and nightly themes like Play with a Hot Bunny and Anything Can Happen. Other sizzling spots to check out are the Passion Club and of course, Cabo Wabo, the joint owned by former Van Halen musician Sammy Hagar. Look for flyaway hair and spandex and you might spot him gyrating in the crowd. If you're jonesin' for phat backbeats, hit Giggling Marlin and Squid Roe.
Party's Over: Chill Stuff
Not everyone can party like a rock star. And while sunsational beach and water activities abound in Cabo, there's oceans more to do than just frolic in the sand 'n surf. How about teeing off in paradise at champion golf courses designed by Jack Nikklaus and Pete Dye? Schwing (indeed). Foodies, ready your taste buds. The drinkeries and grubberies here make for one heck of an Epicurean Odyssey. For you culture cravers, the art district in San Jose del Cabo is a popular complex for checking out local sculptures, photography, paintings and jewelry. If you want to even more culture and history, explore the towns of Todos Santos and La Paz, but don't miss Plaza Mijares, San Jose del Cabo's town square, where you can soak up all there is to know about to learn about all the Old Mexico architecture.
Set Sail: Winter Whale Watching
Channel your inner Captain Ahab, climb aboard and set out for one of the experiences of a lifetime: whale watching in Los Cabos. Each winter, you can get a rare looksee at the grey whales as they make their journey through the Pacific to Baja California, where they'll search for mates in warmer waters. On a whale watching tour, you'll see whales playfully swim through the waters, and if you're lucky, you'll get to see a baby being born or a mama and her calf approach the boat. Nature is so awesome. What do we call this? A whale of a good time.
Get Out and About: ATV Riding
Fact: the landscape of Los Cabos is breath-stealing. The coast, the mountains and the desert are knock-your-socks off gorgeous. Couple this truth with a jaunt on a high-speed ATV and you've got a thrill a second. You can whiz by all this natural beauty filled with cacti (don't get too close), palm and pine trees while you inhale the fresh Baja air. Then slow down, ponder your escape from reality and grab some Selfies and nature snaps. It's a rush you won't want to miss.
Fly High: Canyon Zip Lining
Talk about taking your Cabo vacay to new heights, check this out. You'll put on a harness, helmet and all other accoutrement that you're required to wear, then travel through mountains and valleys at speeds up to 50 miles an hour on a thin metal wire–300 feet in the air. If your heart is pumping just a little faster reading this, imagine how you'll feel when you're actually zipping along above it all. The majestic views of nature's awesome from this vantage point are incredible and unmatched. In a word: eyegasm.
Los Cabos Quick Facts
Mexican Peso, but USD is also accepted.
110 volts (same as US) and the plugs are the same
All U.S. citizens must have a valid passport when traveling to and from Los Cabos.
Drinking Water
Ask for "agua purificada" (purified water) or bottled water.
Time Zone
Mountain Standard Time (UTC/GMT -6 hours)
Peak Season
December- April
|0.2 in.
|1.1 in.
|0 in.
|0 in.
|0 in.
|0.2 in.
|0.4 in.
|1.2 in.
|1.4 in.
|0.6 in.
|0.5 in.
|1.1 in.
*Historical averages.


text:
Vanilla WordPress performance isn't great, each page has to be generated via PHP per view, which soon starts to bog your server down under load. Fortunately there are some plugins and tweaks you can make to improve performance and resilience.
Any PHP or Apache gurus out there, feel free to comment and let me know where I'm going wrong, I don't claim to be a PHP environment expert!
Caching plugin
I've generally used W3 Total Cache which provides a number of different levels of caching, including the PHP itself if the relevant apache modules are installed. You can even delegate data to a CDN if that's your thing.
But before installing the plugin, let's get everything ready for optimising it.
PHP Performance
To get the full benefit of a plugin like Total Cache, you need to add a few modules to Apache and PHP.
Install DotDeb repository
The DotDeb repository is set up for Debian boxes with up to date versions of common packages.
Instructions are straightforward and involve adding their repository.
Install fpm
fpm is a FastCGI process manager.
sudo apt-get install php5-fpm
Install apc
apc is a PHP object cache. It's required by W3 for doing the PHP caching.
sudo apt-get install php5-apc
Install mod_expires apache module
The caching plugin works better with mod_expires installed.
sudo a2enmod expires
You should get a response like
Enabling module expires.
Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' to activate new configuration!
Install mod_headers apache module
.. and with mod_headers installed
sudo a2enmod headers
You should get a response like
Enabling module headers.
Run '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' to activate new configuration!
Do a graceful apache restart
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Once you have restarted, have a look in your apache logs for any thing unusual.
Now install W3 Total Cache
Once installed and activated, the first thing to do is run the compatibility check to ensure that everything is ok.
Then you can start enabling features.. and hopefully see some response time improvements!


text:
Passengers on an Iran Air flight learned the hard way why you should keep your seat belt securely fastened while taxiing after their plane collided with a truck loaded with jet fuel.
Details are a little limited at this point, but what we know from friend and photographer Mokhtar Chahine is that the incident happened at the Jeddah Airport in Saudi Arabia. The tail number and insignia clearly identifies it as an Iran Air jet.
Based on the tipped nature of the refueling truck it looks like the plane crashed into the truck and not the other way around. In the event of an explosion, please proceed to the exit that suddenly opens over the left side of the plane.


text:
Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears the Crown
Season 3 Episode 1 | 53m 2s
Revolution sweeps across Europe and pressure builds on Victoria with new arrivals at the Palace.
Aired: 01/13/19
Expires: 03/01/26Video has closed captioning.
Buy Now:
Problems Playing Video?
History in Images: Victoria Episode 1
Learn the real history of Episode 1 through images from Victoria's reign.
Fact or Fiction: Inside Episode 1
Here's what's fact and what's fiction in Episode 1 of Victoria Season 3.
Victoria Season 3 New Cast & Characters
Find out who's new and who's who in Victoria, Season 3, premiering Sunday, Jan. 13!
Sign Up for Victoria Insider Emails
Subscribe for free and get exclusive cast videos, interviews and more!


text:
The government waged a brutal multifaceted crackdown against independent news media covering the country's months-long protest movement. Security forces subjected journalists to assaults, expulsions, detentions, politicized trials, prison terms, and lethal mistreatment in custody. Both international and local reporters were targeted: A journalist for the U.S. broadcaster ABC was beaten and his camera was confiscated in February; a photographer for the independent domestic daily Al-Wasat was beaten while covering a March protest. Authorities used live ammunition against protesters and reporters: The New York Times reported that two of its journalists came under helicopter fire in February. The Ministry of Information expelled CNN correspondent Mohammed Jamjoom over coverage of the unrest, and detained members of a CNN crew trying to interview human rights activist Nabeel Rajab. In June, a court convicted two critical journalistic bloggers on a series of antistate charges and sentenced them to lengthy terms. Reports of torture and mistreatment of detainees were common: Two journalists, one a founder of Al-Wasat, died in government custody under circumstances authorities would not fully explain. Al-Wasat, the country's premier independent paper, was in the crosshairs throughout the year: Armed assailants stormed its printing facility in March; the Information Ministry briefly shut the paper in April; and the government filed criminal charges against three senior editors for "false news" the same month. CPJ honored Al-Wasat founder and editor Mansoor al-Jamri with its 2011 International Press Freedom Award.
Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri and Karim Fakhrawi were the first media fatalities CPJ recorded in Bahrain since the organization began keeping detailed data in 1992. Both died in government custody. Al-Ashiri, a critical blogger, died a week after his arrest on charges of disseminating false news. The government cited complications from sickle cell anemia, an assertion disputed by al-Ashiri's family. Fakhrawi, a founder of Al-Wasat, died in state custody three days later. The government pinned his death on kidney failure, but photographs published online showed a body identified as that of Fakhrawi with extensive cuts and bruises, CPJ research shows.
Online journalist Abduljalil Alsingace was serving a life sentence on antistate charges when CPJ conducted its annual prison census. A fellow online journalist, Ali Abdel Imam, was convicted in absentia on similar charges. In September, an appeals court upheld their sentences.
Since civil unrest began on February 14, at least 92 local journalists endured arrests, threats, and harassment, according to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights.
Breakdown of those targeted:
46: Print journalists
22: Photographers
15: Internet reporters
9: Radio, television journalists
Intent on silencing international coverage of the unrest, authorities blocked numerous journalists from entering the country and expelled or deported others, CPJ research shows.
Several international and local journalists were detained for days or weeks for their coverage of civil unrest, CPJ research shows.


text:
You have no items in your shopping cart.
No need for gloves when you use these handy handlebar covers. They are warm, water-repellent and windproof. Just slide them over your handlebar grips, and off you go!
Dimensions in cm: 36 long, 22 wide
Currently Shopping by
Shopping Options
View as:
3 Item(s)
Copyright BikeCap BV 2016