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Russell Simmons Writes Letter to Lady Gaga About Furgate
Furgate is turning into the controversy of the summer. Lady Gaga has sparked a bit of criticism -- and support for how she handled the criticism -- over her recent alleged wearing of fur.
Mother Monster didn't confirm or deny the authenticity of the materials she has been wearing, but she did say she respects those who crusade for animals in mature ways (read: not PETA) and that she tries to stay away from skinned fur. In a display of honesty, Mother Monster also said that she might cave at the sight of a work of art fur coat and purchase it.
Overall, though, she avoided the question and issues at hand, and it caused lots of web chatter, a fake letter from animal rights activist Kesha and now, a letter from hip-hop mogul and animal rights crusader Russell Simmons.
Simmons tweeted that he considers Gaga hero but he also penned a reasoned and thoughtful argument about why her stance towards wearing fur is questionable and irresponsible. He pointed out that PETA's militant tactics are not the issue here; her sphere of influence and seeming lack of consideration for animals is.
The full text of Simmons' letter is below.
Dear Mother Monster:
You will go down in history as one of the most talented and beloved artists the world has ever known. You are an integral part of the artistic community that gives a voice to our pain, joy, struggles and triumphs through your music.
This is the same community that has historically been on the side of right since the beginning of time - bringing people together via the language of song. Poets always spoke the truth in song, whether it was via the innocent spirituals, as the slave songs came to be known, the protest songs of the beatnik generation who pushed for the end of the war, the legendary peace anthem of John Lennon's "Imagine," or the poetry of Tupac Shakur that gave a voice to the violent hardships that exist for every angry child growing up in inner cities. The poets who make music about social change set the tone and direction for our society because they are able to express the god that is within themselves.
When you look inside, you see "god" or the connective tissue that bonds you to all living beings and to life itself. The artist knows what the yogis and other leading spiritual beings have said throughout history: that we (all living beings) are ONE. If god were the ocean, we would be cups of god.
While I will not judge each individual's unconscious action, I will speak to the collective. The ripping off of skin of other sentient beings while they are still alive - during a time when we have options available to us to wear cruelty-free alternatives - is an issue I have to lend my voice to. Wearing these skins is abusive to animals, but equally as abusive to ourselves, as we are the animal that we abuse. As a vegan, I believe the greatest karmic disaster in the history of humankind is the 40 billion animals made to be born into suffering each year. Fur-bearing animals suffer the same fate for vanity and greed.
Lady Gaga, you are a great artist who has used your celebrity to fight for equality and fairness, so I know you are a compassionate loving human being who would not publicly defend others for their unconscious behavior. LET'S NOT SET OFF A CHAIN REACTION WHERE ARTISTS ACT AS SUPPORT FOR A SOCIETY'S UNCONSCIOUS BEHAVIOR. Let's instead do what artists have done throughout history and be on the side of love and compassion, because that is our natural state.
I am PETA's Person of The Year and I support them, but this isn't about PETA or their tactics. Don't allow your feelings about them to govern how you feel about animals. Those feelings should come as a result of your heart meditation. Please continue to use your immense talent as an instrument of love, peace and compassion. Watch this video, whose message cannot be denied, and know that I love you.
Russell Simmons
And speaking of Kesha and her letter, which was proven fake, she and Gaga had a brief Twitter exchange.
Animals+ @ladygaga - jus woke up in Japan +heard that there's a letter from "me" floating around.well it's a fake.not from me.love u all xx
— ke$ha(@keshasuxx) August 16, 2012
Gaga's responsorial tweet offering a box of animal crackers to Kesha looks to have been deleted. According to Capital FM, it read: "Thanks for clearing up that the letter was fake. U are brave+know the meaning of acceptance. Box of animal crackers coming ur way."
This is such a hot button issue. We wonder if Gaga will take a stand against fur given this backlash or if she will hold her ground.
In other Gaga news, she did post that she was inspired to write 'PARTYNAUSEOUS,' her duet with Kendrick Lamar, after her concert drama in Jakarta, where her show was canceled over religious protest. Her tweet is below.
I wrote "PARTYNAUSEOUS" about Jakarta, and my relationship with that country. Wishing I could "get high with the enemy" and make peace. — Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) August 15, 2012
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Forgent JPEG Related Patent
PUBPAT filed a formal request with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in November 2005 to revoke the patent Forgent Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: FORG) is widely asserting against the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) international standard for the electronic sharing of photo-quality images. In its filing, PUBPAT submitted previously unseen prior art showing that the patent, which was issued in 1987 to Forgent's subsidiary Compression Labs Inc., was not new and, as such, should be revoked. The PTO granted PUBPAT's request in February 2006 and rejected the broadest claims of the patent in May 2006. In November 2006, Forgent abandoned all assertion of the patent.
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Well and Truly Hung: Fiscal Foolishness and Crisis Convergence
In the UK, headlines are dominated by one thing: the hung parliament, and which party, or coalition of parties, is going to take power. Perhaps the subject slips to issues of economic crisis, with mention of uncertainty in the markets over the pound due to the political limbo, not to mention the Eurozone debt crisis emanating from Greece.
Otherwise, anyone would think the world has stopped to watch endless numbers of pundits pore over, continuously, the fact that Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has been in talks with Cameron and Brown.
Meanwhile, thanks to the Institute for Fiscal Studies report released prior to the elections last week, we now know that all three parties fundamentally agree on the extent of the austerity measures designed to close an enormous £163 billion deficit – up to around £52 billion of which no party has been able to account for vis-a-vis future economic and fiscal policies.
Deficit fetishism
The big problem is that the three-party consensus on how to deal with the deficit is completely defunct, with Labour, Conservative, and Liberal Democrats all ignoring the most obvious and viable solutions, while skirting the issue of deep-rooted structural reform. As The Economist points out, looking across the Atlantic but with highly relevant implications over here, it is a "simple truth", that "you don't cut government spending or raise taxes during a recession" citing Washington's Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). Rather, if governments should ever run deficits, it should be purely "during recessions to compensate for lack of private demand" – efforts to "balance the budget" through spending cuts should occur "during periods of strong economic growth and full employment." The CBPP notes that massive unqualified cuts in government spending in a recession "would reduce the overall demand for goods and services" – with reduced expenditures in health, education, and infrastructure leading to increased unemployment, reduced consumption, demand slump and thus declining productivity – "and thereby partially or fully cancel out the economic boost that the recovery measures were designed to provide."
Of course, this is not the full picture. Running a deficit is never an optimal option, neither in nor out of a recession – and the exponential escalation in deficits of the North over the last decades has been a key structural feature of neoliberal globalization based on a monetary and banking system whose structure generates debt through the process of creating money. Indeed, the preceding years of 'growth', driven not by productivity gains in the real economy, but by stupendous profits raked in by financial and information services, have relied directly on generating credit based on accelerating debt tied to asset-boom driven speculation.
To Tax or Not to Tax?
The Economist's suggestion that raising taxes is not an option is therefore only partially true. It's certainly the case that the solution offered by the three-party consensus – which is to raise taxes in such a way that will most likely impact on the majority of the public – will of course impact detrimentally by squeezing people's already excruciatingly tight budgets. But that doesn't mean taxes aren't one answer to the issue.
Indeed, as the New Economics Foundation have pointed out – and as all three-parties have completely ignored – the entire deficit could quite easily be paid off simply by resolving existing "flaws and holes" in the current tax system. It's largely the very wealthy – people earning up to or over $10 million a year – who benefit from this. Over £100 billion every year is lost "because of loopholes in the tax system, tax bills remaining unpaid and from illegal non-payment of tax." No doubt a percentage of this revenue "would be absorbed by the modest additional resources needed to implement the measures" to strengthen tax collection and crackdown on tax evasion, but it would leave "substantial amounts… available to the public purse." The Lib Dems, to their credit, acknowledge the issue but underestimate potential dividends to a paultry £17 bn.
The other eminently viable policy measure, which remains equally ignored by all three parties, is the prospect of making the tax system more fairer and equalising. Former Labour Environment Minister Michael Meacher MP advocates, for instance, "taxing the super-rich (a 50% tax on incomes over £100,000 including bonuses, 60% on incomes over £250,000, capital gains tax fixed at the same rate as income tax, ending the non-dom loophole, a Tobin tax of 0.1% on UK stockmarket transactions, much tougher action against tax havens and tax evasion, and a solidarity tax on wealth could yield at least £40bn over a 4 year period)." Perhaps some of these measures seem too much. Earnings over £100,000 a year are certainly about three times the average family income in the UK – but do they qualify someone as being "super-rich"? I doubt it – tax at this level would serve to debilitate capital to such an extent it could fundamentally endanger small businesses.
A better option would be to focus taxes on those who really are 'super-rich'. Even a 0.05 per cent tax, advocated by former chief World Bank economist and Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz, on global banking financial transactions could raise hundreds of billions of pounds a year. The combined wealth of the richest 1,000 people in the country amounts to £333.5bn – enough to pay off our deficit more than twice over. So let's tax them properly.
Bunker-Boot Sale?
Demilitarization is another viable option. Total UK annual defence expenditure is now around £37 billion – 11 per cent higher in real terms than 1990 levels, and 2.5 per cent of the GDP. A large fraction of this – just 5 bn annually now – has gone to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet those wars have not made us safer at all. New studies by Simon Fraser University and the State Department demonstrate that the rise of fatalities from terrorist activity has occurred not prior to, but in the aftermath of Anglo-American regional military operations. In particular, a groundbreaking quantitative analysis by US political scientist Ivan Sascha Sheehan, When Terrorism and Counterterrorism Clash: The War on Terror and the Transformation of Terrorist Activity (New York: Cambria Press, 2007), examines the largest ever terrorism database for the period 1992-2004, documenting a direct "cause and effect" correlation between events such as the offensives in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the "intensity, lethality and regularity" of international terrorism.
Apart from seriously re-thinking the efficacy of counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan (and that means more than just banally comtemplating the generic need for some defence spending cuts, but an overhaul of our entire understanding of 'security'), we should also take seriously concerns about Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent system. It's not only the Lib Dems who have raised this issue, but even former British Army chief Gen. Sir Richard Dannatt, who is also a defence adviser to the Tories, and who recently suggested that the Trident system would probably be irrelevant after about five years. Indeed, we now know that the replacement of Trident could cost as much as £100bn, about two-thirds of the deficit. How will this be sustained without crushing austerity measures to maintain our triple A rating along with, on that basis, further borrowing and growth premised on speculation?
Growing Our Way to Stability?
By deflecting this question, the three-party consensus in effect advocates socializing the costs of the economic crisis with a view to sustain privatized profits for the few – the public has to foot the bill to minimize losses for banks and corporations, while maintain our counter-productive military mobilization in far-flung theatres. Meanwhile, we are told, continued economic growth is another solution that will generate enough revenues to close the deficit black-hole.
But this 'solution' rests on the very traditional politico-economic assumptions that got us into this mess, and can only be taken seriously because the three-party consensus continues to overlook some of the most fundamental policy questions of all. Global energy scarcity being, perhaps, one of the largest elephants – soon to be inherited by David Cameron – that has been inhabiting the Prime Minister's living room at No. 10 for some years now.
The End of the Oil Age
It is increasingly clear that world conventional oil production peaked around 2008, is currently on an undulating but gradually declining plateau, and is most likely to continue declining for the foreseeable future. One of the latest official admissions has come from Australia. Curtin University's Professor Peter Newman, a top infrastructure adviser to the Australian government, warns that the current economic recession was indelibly linked to our energy crisis:
"Peak oil did happen I believe in 2008 and it didn't happen because some oil exporting country had a revolution or something. It just happened because we couldn't produce enough to meet the demand. Subprime mortgages were mostly out on the urban fringes miles away from work. People had to drive and when the price of fuel tripled in American cities they couldn't pay their mortgages. As the demand increases again the supply crunch will happen and the price will go up."
The implication is that the era of 'growth' as we currently conceptualise it is reaching its own structural limits. If there is a meaningful economic recovery, and it is patently unclear that there will be one, the problem is that the 'growth' it involves as demand increases will breach current global oil capacity limits, triggering an oil price spike that will once again induce recession. Indeed, the only thing stabilising oil prices at the moment has been the lack of demand that was induced by peak oil in the first place.
So potentially grave is this problem that now even the US Joint Forces Command acknowledges the dangers in its Joint Operating Environment 2010 report: "A severe energy crunch is inevitable without a massive expansion of production and refining capacity. While it is difficult to predict precisely what economic, political, and strategic effects such a shortfall might produce, it surely would reduce the prospects for growth in both the developing and developed worlds." (p. 28) Of course, the assumption here is that the problem is not geophysical (i.e. that we have exhausted half the world's actual reserves of cheap oil) but that we haven't invested enough in refining capacity. A lot of hope was poured into the prospects for exploiting deepwater reserves – a hope shattered for the next few years by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill which has frozen deepwater exploitation indefinitely. In any case, it's also clear that deepwater could at best only slightly ameliorate the impact of peak oil, but not prevent it. The US military report continues: "By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 MBD." (p. 29)
The conclusion, in any case, is even more dire than the predictions of groups like the UK Industry Task Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security, which earlier this year timed the coming global oil supply crunch at 2015. And the new analysis by Sir David King, the UK government's former chief scientific adviser, proves clearly that the problem is not just about capacity, but about how much oil is actually in the ground and the rates of exploitation. The King study, published in the journal Energy Policy, finds that official estimates of world conventional (including deepwater) oil reserves should be downgraded from 1,150-1,350bn barrels to between 850-900bn barrels – and forecasts that demand may outstrip supply by around 2014.
An Unnatural System
And that's not our only problem. The danger is that as we leave behind the era of cheap oil, we will turn increasingly to other hydrocarbon energy solutions like coal and gas which, apart from representing their own difficulties vis-a-vis scarcity, will continue to contribute dramatically to fossil fuel emissions and thus intensifying interference with the Earth's complexly-interdependent eco-systems. The spectre of runaway global warming remains a reality, whatever the pretensions of self-styled, oil-funded 'climate sceptics'. Earlier this year, the Guardian reported the findings of a new peer-reviewed study published in Science:
"Scientists have recorded a massive spike in the amount of a powerful greenhouse gas seeping from Arctic permafrost, in a discovery that highlights the risks of a dangerous climate tipping point.
Experts say methane emissions from the Arctic have risen by almost one-third in just five years, and that sharply rising temperatures are to blame.
The discovery follows a string of reports from the region in recent years that previously frozen boggy soils are melting and releasing methane in greater quantities. Such Arctic soils currently lock away billions of tonnes of methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, leading some scientists to describe melting permafrost as a ticking time bomb that could overwhelm efforts to tackle climate change.
They fear the warming caused by increased methane emissions will itself release yet more methane and lock the region into a destructive cycle that forces temperatures to rise faster than predicted."
Needless to say, the impacts of this positive-feedback alone would be sufficient to propel the entire Earth climate system into a process of irreversible runaway warming that could, well before the end of this century, create conditions devastating to most species, including droughts across a third of the planet, failed harvests in the major food basket regions, increased frequency of natural disasters, unprecedented sea level rise of up to five feet, and so on.
Paradigm Shift
These converging crises speak to the need for fundamentally re-thinking our understanding of the efficacy of the ideology, structure and values underlying our current economic behaviour, and whether they really are as inevitable, optimal or natural as we tend to assume a priori. At the very least, it is clear that unqualified austerity – or in Stiglitz's words "deficit fetishism" – is not the answer:
"… even deficit hawks acknowledge that we should be focusing not on today's deficit, but on the long-term national debt. Spending, especially on investments in education, technology, and infrastructure, can actually lead to lower long-term deficits. Banks' short-sightedness helped create the crisis; we cannot let government short-sightedness – prodded by the financial sector – prolong it… Deficits to finance wars or give-aways to the financial sector (as happened on a massive scale in the US) lead to liabilities without corresponding assets, imposing a burden on future generations. But high-return public investments that more than pay for themselves can actually improve the well-being of future generations, and it would be doubly foolish to burden them with debts from unproductive spending and then cut back on productive investments."
Thus, we need to focus government stimulus spending where it's most needed in the context of global crisis convergence: the development of a zero-carbon transport, housing and energy infrastructure, generating millions of new Green jobs. On that note, the Green New Deal Group's recent reports provide an excellent step forward, but still highly conservative in its aspirations and out-of-touch with the imminent severity of global crisis convergence. In the UK, the Campaign against Climate Change trade union set out a more ambitious plan for one million green jobs. Similar plans have been considered in the US where an investment of £100 billion over 2 years could produce 2 million jobs, but again, implementation is slow. There's a long way to go, and time in which we need to act is diminishing fast – at the moment, only one-sixth of the British government's fiscal stimulus package has focused on green industries. On the other hand, timely global action by governments could ride us through the storm while creating a new form of prosperity based on more harmonious and sustainable ways of living.
The simple truth is that we are now in an age of civilizational transition, premised on the intensifying inability of the global political economy in its current form to continue business-as-usual. This global systemic crisis has no easy answers, but unless we start thinking outside the three-party box, things will get worse, not better.
As the US Joint Forces Command report warns: "One should not forget that the Great Depression spawned a number of totalitarian regimes that sought economic prosperity for their nations by ruthless conquest." (p. 28)
If business-as-usual continues, and if the three-party consensus here and conventional policymaking reign the day, then the flawed policy measures taken by governments over the next decade may well precipitate the rise of the far-right, the permanent militarization of our societies, and the resort to violent inter-state and inter-communal conflicts to resolve disputes over diminishing resources. It doesn't have to be this way. We can avert a Global Weimar collapse, but we need to do things a bit more differently than even Clegg might imagine.
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I have recently been doing a foundation audit and the amount of bases I have is RIDICULOUS. But I can't help it…whilst I definitely have some loves (and they are nearly always the pricey ones) I don't have one Holy Grail foundation that I prize over others because my skin changes, the season changes, my needs change.
On this basis, I think it's totally fair that these three Estee Lauder foundations have entered my life:
Estee Lauder foundations are pretty well known, especially the Double Wear base. That frosted glass bottle right? We've probably seen it on our mum's dressing tables when we were little.
The three I have here are (the newest): Invisible Fluid Make Up, Double Wear Light and Double Wear. All the foundations have 30ml of product and come in a signature Estee Lauder Blue Box.
At the moment I am a MAC NC30-35 – that is because my neck is darker than my face, and the NC35 makes it match up better.
Estee Lauder splits it's foundations into W, N and C (apart from the ones that use the 'Intensity' guide).
W stands for WARM, N stands for Neutral (peachy) and C is of course COOL. I think this division method helps makes things a bit clearer for people who are buying blind (ie online), although, you can always do some mixing (for example, I find strictly 'warm' foundations too yellow for me, even though I am definitely warm in colouring).
Level wise, I am around the level '3' which as you can see I am matched up to in all 3 bases, and this works really well for my skintone. The '4' I find is too warm and orange for my skintone but 2 looks ashy.
In these foundations I have:
Invisible Fluid Make Up – 3CN1
Double Wear Light Make Up – Intensity 3.0 – I reviewed this in 2011 but it was too dark for me then.
Double Wear Stay In Place Make Up – 3W1 Tawny
The Invisible Fluid comes in a plastic container, and it MUST be shook before application, otherwise the pigment and watery bits separate. The applicator is a nozzle and you squeeze this on to your hand or wherever beforehand then apply. This nozzle makes sense as the product is watery, it's easier to control the amount coming out, but sometimes there is still too much seeping out.
Double Wear Light comes in a standard tube and is the most compact and easy to use of the three as you just squeeze out what you need quite easily. The product is a medium thick texture so you can't really use too much.
Double Wear comes in that famous glass jar which I am nostalgic about and I love how high quality it feels but it is a pain, as you need to unscrew the lid (which always gets product stuck in the grooves) then pour the whole bottle over, or use something to dip it in (like a cotton bud) to get the product out. Trust me it can get everywhere- foundation-y baby alert! (However, the MAC foundation pump will fit into this, if you are so obliged).
Double Wear light is actually thicker than Double Wear – more of a cream whereas Double Wear is a rich liquid. Invisible is a watery texture. All three blend in well, there's very little work required for an even finish.
Invisible Fluid gives a sheer glowy finish and covers just the right amount of redness if your skin is in decent condition. I have found myself really loving this product because it doesn't feel like you're using a foundation and it's effortless to use in the morning (pat pat pat with the hands – done). It's a really easy base for busy mums like me who just want things evening out.
Double Wear Light gives a more flawless finish than Invisible Fluid, with less shine but still a glowy finish. There was a time when I felt this base didn't give me enough coverage but perhaps my skin has improved as I find this provides enough to cover redness and smooth out pores.
Double Wear offers medium to full coverage and long lasting qualities. As you can imagine it's a rich textured base and it does dry to quite a heavy coverage finish.I would describe it as semi-matte. This foundation covers everything – I don't need concealer at all after using it, so is quite good for people who want/need great coverage.
Being that kind of base though, means that inevitably, this foundation can look a little full on and flat. Your entire face is evened out with the foundation which means you need some blush etc.to bring some life back into it. If used all over I think it can look quite obvious that you are wearing make up…I guess the other two foundations let your natural skin show through, this one does not.
I LOVE foundations with good coverage usually, and this one does what it says on the tin (it also lasts ridiculously well) but thinking about it, I think I would save Double Wear for when I am going out or have a long day ahead of me as I know it'll be flawless all day. Otherwise, it's too heavy just for general every day wear.
I have 3 foundations in my current foundation wardrobe – and enjoy using all of them!
If you are looking for a high quality,high end foundation, you could do a lot worse then trying an Estee Lauder base – I feel like their foundations are fairly consistent in performance and do what they say on the tin.
These foundations are priced £27 – £27.50 and you can buy them here.
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First of all, thank you to everyone for your encouraging and kind words on my last post. I'm so blessed that my readers care enough to 'help' me through some of my most difficult moments. So thank you again! I appreciated it more than you know.
On to more positive things......
Lauren and I went out dress shopping last Saturday and I have to say, she picked such a beautiful dress. She will make an amazingly, beautiful bridesmaid.
Here is her dress, however she'll be wearing a very bright purple color.
We had a great time giggling, shopping, and having lunch together. It was nice that we got to spend alone time together and really bond and talk about life, school, work, dad, family, us, me.....everything.
I haven't known her as long as I have known Kassidy, because Lauren lived with her Mom in Arizona, so quite honestly, we've only been around each other since March. We've had our struggles, but in the end they have made us stronger and more appreciative of each other.
Friday I'll be taking Miss Kassidy in to purchase her dress, so stay tuned for what her dress looks like. She has two to choose from, so I'm curious to see what she decides on. :-)
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Lauren's Dress
First of all, thank you to everyone for your encouraging and kind words on my last post. I'm so blessed that my readers care enough to 'help' me through some of my most difficult moments. So thank you again! I appreciated it more than you know.
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Labels: wedding
Thursday, January 13, 2011
I've been a little emotional lately.
More so over the top than I usually am. And it took until just a couple of days ago to figure out why....I'm almost hitting my year mark of never being able to have children. On 1/20 it will have been a year since my hysterectomy.
And it is still unfair.
It still makes me cry.
I'm still reminded I will never have someone call me Mommy.
There will be no one to say "can you fix this Mommy".
No one to say "that's my Mom".
And every day a little piece of me dies. And every day a lot of me finds life completely unfair. For I will grow old with LW and never understand what it feels like to have him hold my hand when our child is born or to hear him say "she looks just like you".
I'm blessed in other ways and I know this.
But being blessed doesn't mean for a tiny fraction of a moment that I can't feel sorry for some of the things that have happened in my life. That I can't waive a fist in the air and scream "this isn't fair". Because it's not fair. Nothing about it ever was fair. And for those that tell me it's fair are those that can look into their baby's eyes at night and see hope, love, happiness. I will never have that opportunity.
My babies all died. And while I never got to hold their tiny hands, or kiss their sweet little faces, each of them lived inside of me, if only for a brief period of time. Each gave me hope. And one by one they each vanished right along with my hopes and dreams for them.
I'm grateful to have Kassidy and Lauren in my life, but it's not the same. It doesn't mean that I don't love them with all that I have though. I would give them the moon if I could.
My life isn't as I expected it to be but it's beautiful in other ways. I love my girls and I love LW. And that DOES matter to me. It's the things I'm missing out on that hurt the most.
Somehow, someway I'll find the strength to move on as I always do but for now I'm going to quietly think about what could have been.
Posted by Danica at 3:29 PM 10 comments
Wedding Questions
Since I don't have any other fun news to report, I'll bore you with some wedding details. I've been asked many questions about the wedding details so I thought rather than respond to every request I'll post it here.....
Honeymoon - we are going to St. Lucia and will be staying at the Grande St. Lucian.
I can not tell you how badly I need this vacation. I'm beyond excited to go somewhere this amazing!
Date - we are getting married June 18th....Father's Day weekend.
Wedding Location - we are getting married outdoor under a beautiful arbor with a back drop of trees and a field of green grass not far from our home. The website does not have a picture of the arbor up yet as it is new. We were the second couple to book the arbor since it was built in August of last year.
Reception - will also be at the same place we are getting married, however it will be inside. 130 of our closest friends and family are invited. It's an italian style buffet.
Ceremony music - this I am most excited about as I just booked a steel drum! Yes a single steel drum, but it will be so beautiful!!
Flowers - our flowers are all tropical in nature....lots of oranges, yellows, purples and pinks. Not only is the flower shop doing the flowers for the ceremony but she is also doing them for the tables at the reception. I can't wait to see them!
Cake - is being done by someone I met on a local chat board. It is four tiers...one tier is lemon with lemon filling, another is chocolate with a chocolate raspberry filling, and the last two are yellow with a buttercream filling. All four tiers will have a different color ribbon the color of the wedding (lime green, orange, hot pink and purple).
Invites - are being made by a friend. They are turning out to be orange and pink with a black background. As soon as they are finished I will share. I've seen the prototype and love it! She is also making all of our table numbers, thank yous, etc.
Placecards/gift to guests - I have strugled with this, but we have opted for lollipops in the wedding colors. So we'll somehow attach the table number and the guest name to the lollipop. I can't wait to see how this turns out!
DJ - is a friend of the family and is free, so I can't wait. The song we are walking into is a secret as well as our first dance song. I'm trying to find a song for the girls to dance with their dad as a surprise to him.
Linens - our table clothes are white with napkins in the color of the wedding. Our cake table will be in orange though. :-)
Other than that, that's all I've got. I still have minor details to iron out, but the big stuff is done.
Stay tuned!
Posted by Danica at 8:13 AM 10 comments
Labels: wedding
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tick Tock
I am seriously 5 months and 13 days away from being married!!! I wish I could say it was all finalized.
I'm struggling finding ceremony music. People I have contacted just want way too much money. Sadly I may have to cave though. I can't get married to people whistling as I walk down the grassy aisle (we're getting married outside). I mean I guess I could but that's not how I roll! I once went to a wedding where that happened and it was so TACKY.
But I digress.
Other than ceremony music I have pretty much secured everything else!
I've made my final decisions on the linens.
Flowers have been choosen.
Cake has been decided upon.
Invites are being made.
Dress is on order.
Photographer booked.
DJ is supposidly secured. Must check with LW on this as this was his only task!
Honeymoon is picked out...will be placing deposit down this week.
LW needs his tux and the girls need their dresses and we all need shoes, but the HUGE items are almost taken care of.
Now I'm hoping it all comes together nicely.
For a refresh...here is my dress......where it shows tan, I will have BRIGHT ORANGE! And of course I will not have a train.
Here is my MOH's dress....however her's will be in a bright pink color!
Lauren and Kassidy still have to pick their colors though. Kass wants to be in lime green and Lauren will be in a royal purple. We go at the end of this month to order theirs. With Kassidy growing so much I didn't want to chance ordering it too soon!
But soon it will all be over and I keep thinking what do I have to look forward to next? It's not like I'm going to have children.
So once the wedding is done I'm going to have to find something else to focus on...Kassidy isn't with us full time so I don't get to be a full time Mom. Lauren doesn't really need me because she's far too grown up. LW is always busy with basketball. So I guess now is my time to find something for me.
When I got divorced before I had to learn to live on my own again. So that took time. Then my Mom died so I spent a lot of time taking care of her prior to losing her. Then I started dating again. Then I had to learn how to be a Mom to someone else's children. Then I had to cope with knowing I could never have kids. Then I had a wedding to plan. And then...I will have to find something else to focus on.
Maybe it's time I take a class I've always wanted to take or craft more or work out more or find a hobby that consumes me when the family isn't around.
But I guess for now, I'll focus on making this wedding beautiful and making this time with the girls special. As for once we can all hopefully be...THAT happy family.
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Davood Tofighi
posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 9:06 am
Dear Dr. Muthen,
I am running a CFA with categorical observed variables. However, one of the residual variances for the categorical observed indicator is negative. Could you please let me know what might have went wrong?
The fit indices are
Chi-Square Test of Model Fit
Value 0.511*
Degrees of freedom 2**
P-Value 0.7744
Number of Free Parameters 22
RMSEA (Root Mean Square Error Of Approximation)
Estimate 0.000
WRMR (Weighted Root Mean Square Residual)
Value 0.171
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - 9:36 am
You need to make some adjustment to your model to avoid the negative residual variance. Perhaps it is overfitted in some way.
posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 11:23 am
Linda or Bengt,
I am running a multiple-population LGM, divided by genotype (two groups). When I include the covariates, I get negative residual variances for two of my observed ordered categorical variables (four categories) in one of my groups. I ran the same model with theta parameterization, and neither of the negative residual variances was significant. I tried to lower the factor loadings in the Delta parameterization model, to get rid of the negative residual variances, but so far it hasn't worked. Is there a problem publishing papers using Theta instead of Delta parameterization? What is the big difference between the two parameterizations except for the ability to get residuals with the Theta parameterization?
posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 5:43 pm
I think you are saying that you get negative (albeit not significant) residuals with the Theta parameterization. Then the solution would be to fix those at zero. You don't have that flexibility in the Delta parameterization. The delta parameterization can be advantageous in some settings mentioned in conjunction with the examples in web note #4, but you shouldn't hesitate to use the Theta parameterization.
posted on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 5:45 am
Yes Bengt, that is exactly what I was asking. Thank you very much.
Jennie Jester
posted on Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 7:43 am
I am doing a CFA with categorical observed variables. Some of the residual variances were negative when I used the default parameterization, so I tried THETA parameterization. However, I do not see the residual variances and their standard errors in the output, so I don't know how to tell if they are significant or not. Also, in this parameterization, I am getting a few threshold values (including for the variable that had negative residual variance in the delta parameterization) that are more than 10 times higher than the others and the variance of one of my latent variables is 100 times higher than the others.
My questions 1) How do I get the residual variances in the output to see if they are significant?
2) Are the high thresholds and variance of the l.v. of concern?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 7:52 am
In a single group analysis with the Theta parameterization, the residual variances are fixed to one. I think you should go back to the Delta parameterization and change your model so that you do not obtain negative residual variances. If you model is not stable, changing the parameterization is not the solution.
Jennie Jester
posted on Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 8:15 am
Thanks so much for the quick response!
By changing the model, do you mean throwing out items or changing the factor loadings as you have mentioned in other posts? I have items in my model that have very low endorsement, does this cause instability? Otherwise, what could cause a model to be unstable?
posted on Friday, June 10, 2005 - 9:15 pm
This is our model (D3i's and D43 D53 D63 are the 5 point ordinal, BID1A is 0/1 and Xi�s share some common elements) and we are doing a Single Group Analysis � also we are using DELTA Method. �(using THETA parameterization, we were getting �*****� for some of the SE values, shifting to DELTA saves from that, however though results do not improve)
RI by D31-D33;
BEN by D43 D53 D63;
BID1A on RI BEN X1;
RI on BEN X2;
BEN on RI X1;
Now under DELTA parameterization I got this....
Residual Variances
Observed Residual
Variable Variance R-Square
BID1A -1.701 Undefined 0.24972E+01
Variable R-Square
BENEFIT Undefined -0.42359E+01
Q1. Under Delta parameterization we calculate �theta or the residual variances� as remainder, which is = scale factor � (loading factor^2)*variance of latent variable � we assume scale factor equal to 1, � now, since �BID1A� is single indicator variable, factor variance is set to1� is not it! � and so also will be its factor loading � and in that case �residual variance� should be Zero � however I�m getting it as negative � can you explain me please
Q2. Could you please suggest why we are having negative residual variance and some possible remedies? ... I don't want to change the model, because the same model fits a different data set very nicely.For both the data set we use exactly the same survey format
Q3. �Undefined� and the value following undefined indicates what? �I got the same �undefined� answer under THETA parameterization
Thanks and regards
posted on Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 6:10 am
See the section "The Scaling Parameters of Delta" in Appendix 2 of the technical appendices on the Mplus web site for a thorough exposition of Delta calculations. A negative residual variance suggests model misspecification. Undefined R2 means that a residual variance is negative.
posted on Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 10:33 pm
Thank you professor ... I read the relevant portion of MPlus Technical Appendix, things are really becoming clear now ...I have three very quick questions and a query
Q1. "delta" the scaling matrix is a "Diagonal Matrix" ... isn't it? ...then why do we need "diagonal of delta" ...it makes thing slightly confusing
Q2. the product "delta*var[Y*|X]*delta" gives us the correlation matrix (in a sense I found the off-diagonal elements will then represent correlation) ... now your equation 39 stating it as covariance matrix for (Y*scaled), are they same?
Q3. in equation 45, you mentioned about var[Y*], i.e. unconditional variance of Y* ... are we using unconditional variance at all in any part of our analysis, given the premise that MPlus works on conditional normality
Queries regarding assumption about error distribution!
1."THETA" our (p*p matrix) associated with measurement error (epsilon) AND "PSI" our (m*m matrix) associated with Structural equation error (zeta)- aren't both of them diagonal matrix?
2. can we accommodate heteroscedasticity(coming from individual heterogeneity) in MPlus
Thanks and regards
posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 7:56 am
I will answer questions 1-3 when I return. Neither Theta nor Psi are diagonal matrices. Yes, heteroscedasticity can be handled using random slopes.
posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 2:14 pm
Thank you Prof.�the reason I asked Q2 is that some authors showed concerns about the usage of Correlation instead of Covariance ...it's true that Correlation matrix circumvents the problem regarding interpretation of unit of measurement etc., however, quoting Prof. Joreskog �"analysis of correlation matrix is problematic in several ways, this may
(a) modify the model being analyzed
(b) produce incorrect chi-square and other goodness of fit
(c) give incorrect SE �..
To obtain correct asymptotic SE in LISREL for a correlation structure when the correlation matrix is analyzed, the WLS matrix must be used" (Joreskog, Page 400, 401; Quality and Quantity, 1990(24)) � I�m sure in MPlus these issues have been dealt very thoroughly �but I�m afraid because I think I have missed them �
Besides, � from your 8th June explanation to (Jaume Aguado Carné�s question) �both WLSMV and LISREL�s DWLS, they have similar philosophies, but use different asymptotic approximations in estimating the asymptotic covariance matrix of the estimated sample statistics used to fit the model (i.e. the weight matrix)� � I was wondering the reasons behind such development in differences, I suppose one is Mplus based on conditional normality given X, while LISREL works with both (Y* and X)
Thanks and regards
posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005 - 5:36 am
Analyses of correlation matrices can be problematic both because they may distort parameter estimates and because special standard error computations being necessary. Mplus has several features for doing these analyses correctly. With categorical outcomes and either multiple groups or multiple time points, problems of analyzing correlation matrices are circumvented by allowing for different groups or different time points to differ with respect to their y* variances through the use of the Delta matrix. For an early statement of this, see my 1981 Psychometrika article with Christoffersson. See also, my 1984 Psychometrika article which describes the chi-square and standard error computations through WLS.
The differences between Mplus and Lisrel in terms of asymptotics I cannot comment on because I have not delved into how Lisrel does this.
For modeling differences between Mplus and Lisrel for categorical outcomes, see Web Note 4.
posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 4:59 pm
Thank you very much Professor, regards
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After last week's humbling by Fleetwood, it was a tough call for Andy Holdsworth's men to face the reigning champions on their own patch.
But they came out of the game with immense credit because although they fell some way short of forcing a victory, they were in command for much of the afternoon and took the lion's share of the points from a top quality game.
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Last week's collapse came after a solid start by Holdsworth and Jack Catterall, so there were probably some nerves when after a similar start, the visiting skipper skied one to become the first departure.
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The PtP Kirby wallpapers I glued together.
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PtP yougurt bread
The Miniature I made to Miburo for the secret santa thingy
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And the wooden statue I made for my failed contest -_-
Thanks to Cayen/Naris for making the base picture
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Abdullah H. Aldakhel, 26, of Tiffin, was charged with obstruction and public indecency Saturday.
A caller from Walmart, 2801 W. SR 18, reported the theft of a TV Sunday evening.
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A 400-block Water Street man reported early Monday morning a man threatened to beat him with a piece of wood. According to another caller, a threat was made because a woman had been groped.
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I WASN'T a fan of local government reorganisation and the way it was implemented in Cheshire.
I could understand it when they hived off Warrington to become a unitary authority. To some extent, I could also understand it when they did the same with Halton.
Both of those are fairly large, clearly defined urban areas with a critical mass of council tax-paying residents.
What we were then left with was a mish-mash of towns (plus the city of Chester) spread out among Cheshire's countryside.
If local government reorganisation was then to be foisted on us, what bright spark, I wonder, came up with the idea of splitting Cheshire in two?
The whole point of unitary authorities, surely, is to do away with duplication but the way we now have it with Cheshire East and the extravagantly named Cheshire West and Chester, we now have two of everything – two chief executives, two heads of social services, education, regeneration etc.
Let's not forget that before the Whitehall mandarins got the hands on our lovely county, we already had an organisation (one organisation) running a lot of these services called Cheshire County Council.
What's more, Cheshire County Council threw its hat into the ring to be a single unitary authority for the whole of Cheshire (minus of course Warrington and Halton).
The county council, as it was, already had responsibility and expertise at running schools and social services but was broken up, almost on a political whim.
Then what happened?
Why, the recession, of course followed by a change of Government with our new Westminster masters viewing the public sector as flabby and ripe for cutting back.
Well, as the song says: You're going to reap just what you sow, and we now face something of a nightmare situation in Cheshire West and Chester with councillors next month having to debate and vote on proposals to cut 400 jobs in a bid to make even more budget savings.
The council says these are 'unavoidable' staff reductions which will save £14.7m and are aimed at bridging a £49m financial gap in the council's coffers.
But don't worry, as the Guardian reported, the staff cuts over the next three years will focus 'mainly on senior and middle management posts'.
Well. That's ok then, phew, it's only managers who will lose their livelihoods.
Or will that be the end of it? Apparently not because a council spokesman went on to add that the cuts will also affect staff across the board in six council services.
But this isn't the first round of job cuts at Cheshire West and Chester. Since it came into being in 2009 it has shed around 1,200 staff.
Now it may well be the council was overstaffed in the first instance and many of these cuts were necessary as the fledgling council found its feet.
But as a user of council services, it feels like these cuts are beginning to bite and their effects are starting to be felt on the front line.
I really hope the optimism of CWAC leader Clr Mike Jones isn't misplaced when he said: "We will continue to restructure, innovate, increase efficiency and eliminate waste and duplication by sharing services with other authorities, while doing everything to protect frontline services, especially for vulnerable children and elderly residents."
Perhaps Clr Jones holds the key to a successful and thrifty future after all. Perhaps he really knows what he's talking about.
Please just take a moment or two to read his words carefully: 'continue to restructure'; 'eliminate waste and duplication'; 'sharing services with other authorities'.
Now I'm a simple soul and I have only the sketchiest knowledge of how local authorities run themselves but I have a suggestion, one I may well have put forward before.
Why not 'continue to restructure' all the way to a merger with Cheshire East to form the single authority for Cheshire we should have had in the first place.
That would be a sure way to 'eliminate waste and duplication'.
My final thought is just one insight into the world of duplication.
Have a quick look on the internet for the salaries of the chief executives of Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester.
CWAC's chief exec is paid around £180,000 a year. Cheshire East's chief exec was on £173,000 basic (more than £200,000 with bonuses and pension payments). The new chief exec has had his salary 'slashed' to a mere £150,000 with a potential £10,000 bonus.
Time for a merger and the end to this duplication, I think.


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