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Alternative aeration systems such as windmills and solar seem like a natural fit for installations where power is not easily accessible, although it is important to understand that you may not receive the same benefits from these types of aeration devices. Windmills only work when there is steady wind (5 mph or more) and solar systems have to run on an on/off cycle. Under optimal light conditions a solar aeration system can run continuously for 15-20 hours before shutting down to allow the batteries to charge. Another disadvantage of alternative aeration devices is their cost. This is especially true of the solar models. With the purchase price being so high the energy consumption of an Airmax® Aeration System being so low it is nearly impossible to recuperate any cost savings due to electrical consumption. A typical Airmax® Aeration System designed to aerate up to one surface acre will cost less than $18 per month, running 24 hours per day.
To receive the benefits of aeration, your system should run 24 hours per day! The goal of aeration is circulation and the introduction of oxygen to the bottom of your pond or lake. A properly sized aeration system will use the bubbles created by the diffuser to force the cooler water from the bottom of your pond to the surface. The water at the surface is warmer and less dense or lighter. The cooler or heavier water will be pushed up by the diffuser then forced outward where it will naturally sink due to its heavier density. Aeration devices that are under powered, have poorly designed delivery devices or not operated continuously generally will not provide the true benefits of aeration. Do your research and spend your money wisely!
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Graeme McDowell won for the first time in two years when he closed out the World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Sunday. On McDowell's approach shot on 16, someone in the gallery yelled out "mashed potatoes!"—which will never not be funny.
McDowell slyly gave the dude a wanking motion (at the 17-second mark), but apologized for it later on Twitter, saying "it gets a little annoying after a while." Here's McDowell at this year's U.S. Open, getting hit with a textbook "Yabba-Dabba-Doo."

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Ah the holiday season, a time when people 'round the world come together in harmony to pretend to care about peace and love while secretly lusting after the years' shiniest new consumer goods. Unfortunately for us gamers, people who grew up when a cup-and-ball was considered cutting-edge fun are all too often the ones tasked with acquiring our digital entertainment.
With that in mind here's our guide to the various cyber-turds, excreted in 2009, that will be squeezed into your stocking this Christmas by well-meaning parents and grandparents. Start practicing masking your disappointment now, kids.
Category One: Lousy Games Based on Licenses You Like
While most older folks live in fairly airtight cultural bubbles, even your grandma who spends all her time watching "Murder She Wrote" reruns is at least vaguely aware of Star Wars, Harry Potter and them sexy Twilight vampires (perhaps more aware of the last one that you want to know). The kids today seem to like this stuff, so surely they'd like a videogame based on them, right?
Of course what a non-gamer doesn't realize is that the development of your average licensed game is handled with more or less the same level of tender loving care you use to clean your cat's litter box. Licensed games are made by people who not only have no idea how to make a fun game, but are so utterly uncreative that even coming up with their own character by slapping a pair of running shoes or sunglasses on a cartoon marsupial is beyond them.
Lumps of Coal to Expect: Star Wars: The Clone Wars -- Republic Heroes, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, Scene It? Twilight (admit it, you like it)
Category Two: Right Game, Wrong Platform
Here's another situation largely unique to gaming that you can't really blame non-gamers for being confused by. When you watch a movie or TV show on various platforms the size and clarity of the picture may change, but you get the same basic content. The Lord of the Rings isn't a special effects epic on the big screen and a puppet show filmed in Peter Jackson's basement on the DVD. Both versions are the same.
If you get the Blu-ray they add a third puppet.
Not so with videogames, where depending on the platform you may be getting completely different games. Worse, it's nearly impossible to predict which version of a multi-platform game will be superior -- sometimes the flashy high-def version is the one to buy, while other times it's the damn DS game that's better. Either way, the version educated gamers don't want will be the one most likely still sitting on the store shelf waiting to be picked up by a relative of yours who doesn't know a PSP from an Xbox from their left tit.
Lumps of Coal to Expect: Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, any EA Sports game made for the PS2 or handhelds
Category Three: "Helpful" Recommendations of Store Employees
Every year certain titles are hyped by frothing publicists and game executives as the next great step in human evolution. They'll blow your mind, turn your DNA inside-out and leave you quivering in a puddle of your own bodily fluids. Roughly half the time when these games finally come out they're actually, well... kind of lousy.
This leaves game stores in a bit of a bind. They now have approximately 500 copies of a game which have to be cleared out somehow. As a result, when your grandmother timidly steps across the threshold of the game store, all store employees see is a flashing blue-haired target. Now we're not saying all game store employees are heartless opportunists looking to foist the year's flops off on unsuspecting elderly victims, we're sure some of them are good people who work by a strict code of ethics. Anything is possible, right?
"We actually sold a copy of Rogue Warrior!"
Lumps of Coal to Expect: Rogue Warrior, Spyborgs, Velvet Assassin, Wet
Category Four: Bad Games from Franchises That Delivered in the Past
Now we don't want to paint our elders as complete gift-purchasing incompetents. Sometimes, out of sheer dumb luck, or because you made sure the name of the game you wanted was printed in three-inch tall, bright-red letters on your Christmas list, they will actually get the right game, and when they do, oh boy, they remember it.
Sure, they may eventually forget inconsequential things like which order their pants and underwear go on, but they won't forget how well that copy of Sonic 3 went over 15 years ago. As a result that smarmy blue varmint will continue to haunt your Christmas stocking until you personally hunt down and eliminate every last member of Sonic Team. Err, not that we'd ever advocate anything like that. Perhaps we've said too much.
Lumps of Coal to Expect: Tony Hawk Ride, Sonic and the Black Knight, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, pretty much any "MySims" game
Category Five: Bad Games in Good Games' Clothing
For every title on the shelves that's actually worth playing, there are another couple games trying desperately to piggyback on that good game's success, and we can't blame them. Making decent games is like, hard work and stuff. These days it takes tens of millions of dollars and countless thousands of man-hours to create a top-notch videogame, with no guarantees as to whether or not it will be successful.
Ultimately it's a lot more efficient to simply focus on how the game is packaged and presented. Never mind that the game itself is about as fun as a DVD box full of swine flu, what matters is fooling unsuspecting shoppers into thinking your game is the next Wii Sports. Producing quality games is fine and all, but quite frankly it's not a great business plan.
10 events? Why this must be twice as good as Wii Sports!
Lumps of Coal to Expect: Deca Sports 2, Monster Band, Game Party 3, Hurry Up Hedgehog (ripping off Sonic in 2009 is just sad)
Category Six: Games Based on Things Old People Like
From time to time we all make the mistake of buying gifts based on what we'd like to get, rather than accounting for the recipient's tastes (yes, we know all about that Steven Seagal box-set you bought your girlfriend last year). It's a particularly common problem amongst older game shoppers, whose eyes often seem to be magnetically attracted to the most boring shit on the rack.
Game publishers are clearly well aware of this, as there's really no other explanation for the baffling fact that there have been nearly 20 videogame versions of Wheel of Fortune released over the years. With the casual videogame market ever expanding this pandering to the aged is sure to only get worse -- expect "Jitterbug Jitterbug Revolution," and a "Sims 3: Porch-sitting Adventures" expansion pack to appear under your tree in 2010.
Lumps of Coal to Expect: The Price is Right 2010 Edition, Wheel of Fortune, Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders, any one of the dozens of crossword or sudoku games weighing down the DS rack
Category Seven: Games That Will "Improve" You
While most people are content with temporarily buying their child or grandchild's love, a small handful can't help but wonder if killing Nazi-bred zombie gorillas as a D-cupped cyborg ninja is really going to enrich the recipient's life in any way. Are they really learning anything as they replay the same lesbian dwarf sex scene over and over again?
We know what you're planning...
Thankfully for those looking to ease their guilt, there have been a flood of "games" released over the last couple years that purport to either grow your brain or shrink your ass. Surely grabbing little Timmy a couple of these games will balance out any bad karma gained by buying him that copy of "Breastarella vs. the Third Reich" he actually wanted.
There're two problems with this plan. One, there's been roughly one good brain-training game ever made (that being the original "Brain Age" game that kicked off that whole trend), and two, gyrating on an expensive bathroom scale in front of your TV isn't actually going to get you in shape. At least the lesbian dwarf sex scene will strengthen your right forearm.
Lumps of Coal to Expect: Brain Exercise with Dr. Kawashima, Junior Brain Trainer, Challenge Me: Brain Puzzles, Brain Challenge Deluxe, Personal Trainer: Walking, Jillian Michaels' Screaming at Fatties 2009
Category Eight: Dinosaur Games
Most of the above categories assume that the shopper has at least some vague notion of what to buy. A naïve, ill-informed notion, but hey, at least it's something. But what if you don't even have that? Buy something with a dinosaur on the box, of course. With age comes wisdom, and your parents and grandparents know that even if a game with dinosaurs in it stinks, it's still a game with dinosaurs in it, and thus can't help but be at least a little bit awesome.
Your inner child wants this badly.
Lumps of Coal to Expect: Jurassic: The Hunted, Fossil Fighters, Battle of Giants: Dinosaurs, Barney's Backyard Brawlfest
Nathan Birch, as part of his quest to never grow up, obsesses over videogames at GameSpy.com, writes dick jokes for Cracked.com, and writes and draws his own funny animal webcomic over at Zoologycomic.com


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Education: A.J. studied at Stephen F. Austin State University before moving back to Colorado in 2009.
Career: Before joining BSN Denver, A.J. had been writing for and briefly managed the popular Avalanche blog, Mile High Hockey. A.J. began contributing in 2010 with detailed practice reports, training camp coverage, and in-depth looks at Colorado's divisional foes. He would expand his horizons with free agency analysis, draft coverage, and more day-to-day looks at the team before taking over the blog as Co-Managing Editor. It was a short-lived tenure atop before BSN Denver came calling.
Most memorable sports moment: Ray Bourque lifting the Stanley Cup in 2001. John Elway winning his first Super Bowl is a very close second but Bourque winning the Cup and finishing "Mission 16W" is one of the greatest stories in all of sports.
The finest sports book I've ever read: Big fan of "Moneyball". The implications on the sport and the inside look at how an organization changed its attitude to exploit a market inefficiency was fascinating.
One sports movie that I can't live without: There aren't really any I dislike. Major League and Cool Runnings were my favorites growing up but Miracle and Goon have been my favorites as an adult. Also can't live without the Rocky and now Creed movies.
Most memorable experience as a reporter: Covering the 2017 NHL Draft was a dream come true for me. I'd always wanted to attend a draft and I got to do it while covering the team selecting fourth overall. Interviewing Cale Makar after he was selected is something I'll never forget.
The sport that started it all: Baseball! My dad was an enormous baseball fan and when the Rockies came into existence, it was an instant bond for the two of us and created sports fanaticism that has defined most of my life.


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Ryan Lee, who you might remember from "Super 8", has been cast in the upcoming bully flick "White Rabbit". The film follows a young lad who starts to be haunted by a white rabbit, among other things, that he killed as a child. I had no idea you could bully animals. I thought they were just dumb beasts for our amusement and hunting pleasure. honestly I don't think a movie is going to change my mind on that now that I think about it.
No big surprise here but "Resident Evil: Retribution", the next chapter in the RE saga has been slapped with an R rating by the folks over at the MPAA. The big R has been handed down because of "sequences of strong violence throughout" so good news for fans of the series. I assume "mom hips" was also a big reason but you can't very well come out and say something like that can you.
And sad news today my friends. Tony Scott, brother of Ridley Scott and director of such classics as "Top Gun ", "True Romance" and "The Fan" has died after taking his own life this past Sunday.
A 20 year old man in Pennsylvania (shocker) has been sentenced to probation after he was caught going down on a horse. I mean it was a female horse so you know... I don't know actually, I'm walking a real fine line here. I'm just going to leave this one alone.
A 47 year old Nigerian man has been picked up in the fine state of Texas after it was found that he had over 2 pounds of heroin shoved in his bowels. I have no idea how that was discovered but I bet there's an awesome story... behind it. Behind it! Get it?!


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What happened to the Eagle/Viper weight?That's happening next. Hopefully in 2-3 months.
The little stars were indeed dropped.
Updated the first post with an order tracker (I edit this manually)Please check that I got your order right, and watch it for any updates such as when I start invoicing.
The difference in weight is negligible. Though brass is indeed heavier than stainless steel. The stars are quite difficult to engrave properly and will probably take a bit longer to do
Also, I am up for doing weights of all kinds, but as there has been no mention of a V3 I cannot guarantee that this weight.
I haven't been part of reddit very long. Do you know if I need to be active for X amount of time before I post a GB posting?
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e-commerce is not a new thing in most rich and developed countries. Even in my own country Bangladesh, it started from 1998 or 99. However, after 15-16 years, this sector is still suffering from several critical problems. So, e-commerce Association of Bangladesh e-CAB has been recently formed. Already, a number of companies have joined this trade association. It is expected that due to the formation of this association, e-commerce will really gain momentum in the country. I have to state that I am the founding President of this organization and we hope to work for promoting this sector in the country.
A Google search on this topic will perhaps show little content about e-commerce in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has a population of 160 million, mobile phone subscribers of 100 million plus and more than 30 million Internet users. However, e-commerce is still negligible in terms of business turnover and employment. There is no concrete research, stats and legal framework for this sector. So, the companies engaged here are always suffering from a handful of problems.
The problems are common- online transaction and payment problem, lack of good delivery service, a very small market size, lack of awareness among people, no Paypal yet in the country and so on. In the absence of any trade organization, the companies in this sector often face serious obstacles. So, some of them joined their hands together and formed it.
Already a number of companies from Dhaka have joined while we have seen nominal participation from the cities of Sylhet and Chittagong. Still, the main challenge is taking e-commerce outside of the country.
The website of e-commerce Association of Bangladesh is: http://www.e-cab.net/ and the Facebook Page is: https://www.facebook.com/eCommerceAB
There has been a lot of interest about e-CAB and that is why within a very short time, it has become a popular and well visited of Bangladesh according Alexa Ranking.
So, if you are interested about e-commerce in Bangladesh please visit our website. The whole content is in English language there. So, even if you are not a Bengali that should not be a problem.


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Blog "New Liturgical Movement" under new management
Kudos to Jeffrey Tucker who has taken over the reins of the blog New Liturgical Movement! Click on the image and go spike their stats as a welcome gesture.
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NPR on the new, corrected translation
From National Public Radio: New Catholic Mass Already Causing A Stir by Barbara Bradley Hagerty November 25, 2011 This weekend, Catholics may experience a little surprise when they attend Mass. [Not if they have been going to Mass regularly. They … Continue reading
Proper attire in and proper liturgical music
You should be checking out The Chant Cafe with some regularity. I saw this over there. I thought it was apt, considering I have also lately seen a few posts out there in the blogosphere about proper attire in church. … Continue reading
"It is possible to fully understand the Mass."…. NOT.
My friend Jeffrey Tucker over at the Chant Cafe has a great entry on music and matters liturgical… and you. He provides bullet points which are each food for thought. Here is how he begins: What We Think We Know … Continue reading
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Interview with Jeffrey Tucker about liturgical music
The Church's sacred music played an important role in my conversion, when I was a young man. There is a great deal of work to do. But perhaps just as in the spring rivers will thaw and log jams start … Continue reading
What's up with the chant notation for singing prayers in the new Missal?
This is from my friend Jeffrey Tucker's The Chant Cafe Last February (it seems like years ago), InsideCatholic ran my article called Pay to Pray: The Church's Simony Problem. Based on years of thought and research, I took aim at … Continue reading
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Tutorial videos of the new chants for Mass in the Corrected Translation
My friend Mr. Jeffrey Tucker has posted on his blog, Chant Cafe, videos with audio of new chants for the Novus Ordo in English according to the upcoming corrected translation. These are intended as tutorials. Some people are claiming that … Continue reading
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Expert comments on the music for a Papal event in England
At The Chant Cafe my friend Jeffrey Tucker, a distinguished Church musician, has a few trenchant comments about some of the music for an even during the upcoming Papal Visit to England. My emphases and comments: Damian Thompson reports on … Continue reading
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Check a new blog on sacred music, Chant Cafe
Allow me please to direct your attention to a new blog of a friend of mine, Mr. Jeffrey Tucker, who is well-known as a Church musician. He is editor of the journal Sacred Music, which for many years had been … Continue reading
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A couple useful chant links
In previous weeks I have been saying that Gregorian chant just isn't that hard and that it can be introduced in parish worship. It really must be in cathedrals and major churches, right? My friend Jeffrey Tucker over at NLM … Continue reading
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Understanding what really happened to Church music: a glimpse
Liberals want to control the history, the narrative, of what happened during and around the Second Vatican Council. They have had an iron grip on that narrative for years. In recent times, even before the election of Pope Benedict, the … Continue reading
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Red Wiggler worms are busy digging and dining in a compost Can-O-Worms at Annmarie Garden.
Second graders visiting Annmarie Garden on daily CHESPAX field trips explore the world of composting with a little help from the Garden's squirmy residents, about a thousand in all.
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Schroders Quickview: Hong Kong market momentum not based on fundamentals
The surge in Hong Kong's stockmarket on Thursday has added a second consecutive day of strong gains as liquidity and bullish sentiment on domestic China A-shares is having a spillover effect on the Hong Kong market.
Meanwhile, the valuation gap between A shares (listed in China) and H shares (listed in Hong Kong) has widened considerably recently as the Shanghai Composite has risen over 90% since late June last year.
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Prospecting on a Lazy Sunday
The temperature has dropped precipitously outside and, frankly, I don't feel much like shoveling 1 or 2 inches in single digit weather – so let us warm ourselves around the Hot Stove on a Lazy Sunday:
As the "Top Prospect" lists continue to roll off the conveyor belt in various forms, Baseball America's highly-anticipated list was released this week. The list was compiled by Chris Kline who, prior to working for Baseball America as a national writer, was the beat writer for the Kinston Free Press, covering the Class A Kinston Indians. So, needless to say, Kline has an understanding of the Indians' organizational philosophies and has likely retained the contacts that he had within the organization while covering the K-Tribe.
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- Victor is still a catcher and has signed an extension (current contract expires in 2010)
- Ryan Garko has held off Jordan Brown at 1B
- Jhonny is still at SS (with his 2011 option picked up), Asdrubal is still at 2B
- Beau Mills is the 3B, not Andy Marte or Wes Hodges
- Nick Weglarz emerges from the cluttered OF mix to claim LF
- The Tank remains in RF
- C.C. has re-signed
- Jake does not sign another extension after his current deal expires after the 2010 season
- Atom Miller (shown above) still projects as a starter
- Jeremy Sowers has been passed up by other LHP in the organization (Laffey, Lofgren)
- Rafael Perez is the closer
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Speaking of Prospect lists, here is the list from Minor-League Guru John Sickels, who must have Brad Snyder and Jordan Brown confused. Also, a wrap on Tony Lastoria's phenomenal, and phenomenally exhaustive, 1 to 50 list.
Around the horn, here is the latest Big League Choo update and a nice piece on Jordan Brown, who has won two consecutive MVP's playing in Kinston and Akron and has the aforementioned Chris Kline predicting (in an online chat) that he could win another one in Buffalo, something Dennis Manoloff makes light of in the linked article.
Hoynsie reports that the Indians' interest in Bartolo Colon has dimmed but that the Tribe continues to follow Mr. Anna Benson.
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Finally, Indians' Veep Bob DiBiasio is projecting that the salary base for the Tribe's 40-man roster in 2008 should be around $90M, with $75M of that committed to the 25-man-roster.
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As everyone here should know, I'm no math genius, but where does the extra $9M or so get paid out to if the Indians' roster and payroll to that roster is essentially set to hit the projected $90M?
Perhaps an extra $8M or so on the contract of a certain big-boned LHP (a strategy utilized in the Westbrook and Hafner deals) to make his 2008 salary closer to $19M?


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posted on Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 10:06 am
Hello Drs. Muthen,
I am trying to understand how one interprets the negative binomial dispersion parameter in my output. I just ran a very simple model (i.e., one count variable dependent variable regressed on to two continuous varibles) and received a dispersion parameter estimate of 0.114 and a two - tailed p-value of 0.461. I am familiar with the alpha dispersion estimate you receive from STAT and SAS and if the parameter isn't statistically significant, dispersion is not an issue and you can use a Poisson model. Can the parameter estimate provided in MPLUS output be interpreted in the same way?
Thank you!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 16, 2012 - 8:40 am
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 16, 2012 - 9:25 am
With the caveat of the problem of testing a parameter at the border of its admissible space (zero). I use BIC instead to choose between the various count models. See the Marital Affairs example on slides 39-41 in our Topic 5 handout on the website, showing the many variations on the count modeling theme available in Mplus.
Rachel Roiland
posted on Monday, March 26, 2012 - 6:55 am
Thanks so much!
Lisa M. Yarnell
posted on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 10:50 pm
Hi Bengt and Linda,
Is there a rule of thumb for how large the dispersion statistic should be in ZINB regression? Is it supposed to be close to 1.00 for the NB to be appropriate?
Or should I just be judging its significance, as stated above, as a reflection of whether NB is preferable over Poisson?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 2:31 pm
It should be greater than zero. You can check the following reference for a maximum value:
Hilbe, J. M. (2007). Negative binomial regression. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press.
You can look at significance or you can compare the BIC's from the models with and without dispersion.
posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 9:53 am
I had another question re: the dispersion parameter estimates. When negative binomial items serve as indicators of a latent factor, is the dispersion parameter estimate still relevant? For several of my indicators, the p-value is close to 1 for items that have significant dispersion when included as manifest variables in the model. Does this just mean that the 'residual' dispersion after modeling the latent factor is non-significant?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 4:14 pm
The dispersion parameters are relevant also for indicators of factors. Perhaps you are right that the factor absorbs some of the unobserved heterogeneity that the dispersion parameters try to capture and therefore make them go insignificant when used as factor indicators.
Brooke Magnus
posted on Friday, August 04, 2017 - 9:48 am
Hello --
I am running a series of CFAs that include negative binomial indicators. Is there a way to constrain the dispersion parameter to a particular value (i.e., an estimate from a previous calibration)? After searching through the documentation, I cannot seem to find a way to reference the dispersion parameter in the code.
Thank you!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 04, 2017 - 2:27 pm
Try referring to it like you would a variance.
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A very special artist reception, A Gallery Affair, will be held for longtime charter member, Vilma Malmberg on June 8, 2013, between 5:00 -7:30 pm at the San Dieguito Art Guild's, Off Track Gallery. Located at 937 S. Coast Hwy, C103, Encinitas, the Gallery will be buzzing with activity and joy as we honor one of our visionary founders from 48 years ago. We encourage the public to join us as we kickoff the event with great admiration for one of our visionary founders.
Vilma's art interest started at age three. Fast forward some years, she majored in Art Education and picked up a few scholarships in Chicago, and taught art at the Illinois State University. Moving to California in 1958, she continued art studies at San Diego State. She saw art in everything. Traveling widely and living in both England and Japan, sparked her interest in Asian art. She continued to be inspired by nature, especially the western coastline and became proficient in pastels, watercolors and Chinese brush work. She is a skilled self-taught artist who is open to numerous styles' of painting and very good at interpretation.
Time has confined her body to steady itself with a little assistance, but her talent grows and her mind is a steel trap. Her passion for painting is surpassed only by her love of the San Dieguito Art Guild, one of her visions come true.
She remembers the history of the San Dieguito Art Guild very well, from 1965.
"One day fellow artist, Sue Beere, called together friends and neighbors to coffee at her Del Mar home and together they mapped out a vision. There were no other art groups in North San Diego County at that time and according to Vilma, the first people involved in the San Dieguito Art Guild were a mixture of people with a lot of art training or none at all. The main interest was to foster art and to provide a place to display it. We found a small storefront in Del Mar, our first gallery, and a lot of starving artist sales were used to pay the rent. The membership grew and flourished with some good years and some bad. We added what has become an Annual Mother's Day Garden Tour, which helped a lot to make our organization known in the community.
1990 we managed to move around in three locations in Del Mar. The San Dieguito Art Galley rented the building where the Del Mar Library is now on the corner of 13th and Camino del Mar from 1969-1970. The building was the old St. James Catholic Church. During the time that the guild rented the building it was up for sale and Sue Beere and I wanted to buy it. I was prepared to put my own money into the building and get a mortgage. The building eventually was sold and became the Albatross Restaurant before it became the Del Mar Library. I was discouraged and to this day I still think about the memory that could have been".
At age 84, Vilma is still active in the arts and a delight to speak to. She expresses her gratitude to her fellow artists, which she calls a "great group of gals". Her passion and love of art have kept her painting, which she simply states, " I love everything about it. My favorites are nature. These days, I am working on abstracts". She remains an active supporter and participant in the Guild's Monthly Show exhibits and a delightful role model for younger artists whom she encourages to participate in the guild.
"I care deeply about the San Dieguito Art Guild and what it represents. It takes a lot of volunteers and time to keep it going - they are very special folks and I am still proud to be part of the organization," says Vilma.
Over the years she has held numerous Guild positions; 1967 Publicity Chair, 1969-1970 Parliamentarian, 1973 member of the Ways and Means Committee, 1996-1998 Shrink Wrap Bins, Mother's Day Artists and Studio Tour volunteer, 1992 Mother's Day Tour docent organizer, and 2002–2003 Membership Chair Assistant. She has received numerous ribbons over the years for her many watercolor and pastel paintings and has been a member of the San Diego Watercolor Society and the Pastel Society. She will be displaying three of her favorite collection pieces alongside a number of gallery artists bringing their best art to place on display in honor of Vilma, at the reception.
"We thank Vilma and others for giving us our beginning", stated Board members Grace Swanson and Cheryl Ehlers. Without their vision we would not be celebrating today and be sharing art with a much respected member of the San Dieguito Art Guild.
Free to the public, refreshments and food will be served.
The San Dieguito Art Guild is a 501( c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to furthering artistic understanding and fostering artistic growth of members and the community at large by promoting interest, education, knowledge and skills in the visual arts.
For additional information contact Public Relations Chair, Cheryl Ehlers at firstname.lastname@example.com or 760-519-1551.


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Rolland & Paul BÉDARD,
well-known QC actors,
shared the same father,
Alonzo "Bozo" BÉDARD
who married Adèle "Addie" BOURQUE (Alexis+Olivine FUGÈRE) in 1912 in Montréal, QC. Addie gave birth to her only child, Rolland, in November 1913. In January 1915, she died of Meningitis.
Three years after the death of Addie, Alonzo married Marguerite AUDET (Alexis+Virginie BOUTHILLIER) in February 1918, who bore 7 children: Jean-Jacques, Marielle, Joseph-Charles, miscarriage, Paul, Marie-Anne, Joseph-Robert-Lucien. Alonzo died in 1945; therefore, Marguerite remarried & died in 1973.
Although born of the same father, Rolland & Paul were not close, nor did the former have much contact with his father's second family. Rolland felt that he was put aside by his step-mother, Marguerite, who, according to Rolland, treated him like a "slave" in that, being the eldest, he had to tend to most of the family chores. Rolland seems to have resented his step-mother to whom he did not speak for several years. He moved out of the family home at a young age & set out on his own.
Rolland's first job was as a tailor's assistant thinking he would eventually learn the trade & open his own shop. He was soon discouraged & went to work for Lasnier's Candle Shop where he made candles by hand-dipping them. This job lasted 4 years. He survived the Depression by doing odd jobs (painting, hanging wallpaper, moving helper, truck driver). From age 17, though, he also had small acting parts in radio plays and continued his career part-time by singing, acting & being a comedian till it became a fulltime job.
Paul, known in the family as "Ti-Paulo," was born in 1924 in Longueuil, QC. He had an easier life than his half-brother, Rolland, whom he admired because of his acting career, which he hoped to emulate. But, already having a BÉDARD actor in the family, Paul was advised to take on a stage name so as not to be confused or compared with Rolland. Paul decided to take the stage name of PAUL BERVAL, the name by which he became known for the rest of his life.
I have recently read the biography of each of the half-brothers and found it fascinating to discover that each, having lived in the same household, had experienced vastly different emotions despite similar surroundings.
1) ROLLAND BÉDARD, COMÉDIEN by André BOULANGER, published in 1984, gives us an intimate look into the psychological effects that living with a step-mother had on Rolland. This aspect of family life was not discussed in his brother's biography.
2) VIVRE POUR LE RIRE, biographie de PAUL BERVAL by Pierre DAY, published in 2004, relates the daily life of a typical blue-collar Québec family living on the south shore of Montréal, QC.
Isaac BÉDARD
Marie GIRARD
Calvinist Temple, LaRochelle, Aunis, FRANCE
Jacques BÉDARD
Élisabeth DOUCINET
Québec City, QC
Jacques BÉDARD
Jeanne Élisabeth RENAULT/RENAUD
Charlesbourg, QC
Joseph BÉDARD
Marguerite LABERGE
Charlesbourg, QC
Jacques BÉDARD
Marie-Angélique DUMAIS/DEMERS
Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Rouville County, QC
Alexis BÉDARD
Catherine SÉGUIN dite LADÉROUTE
Marieville, Rouville County, QC
Zéphirin BÉDARD
Edwidge LASNIER dite BELLEHUMEUR
Marieville, Rouville County, QC
Amédée BÉDARD
Philomène GARCEAU
St-Pierre-de-Sorel, Richelieu County, QC
Alonzo BÉDARD
Adèle BOURQUE
Immaculée-Conception parish, Montréal, QC
Marguerite AUDET
St-Antoine-de-Pade, Longueuil, Chambly Coutny, QC


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Banana Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Total TimePrep: 45 min. Bake: 45 min. + cooling
Makes16 servings
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1-1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (2 to 3 large)
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 3/4 cup chopped unsalted pistachios, toasted
- 2 containers (8 ounces each) whipped cream cheese, room temperature
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup baking cocoa
- 4-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Additional chopped unsalted pistachios, toasted, optional
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in bananas and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Fold in 3/4 cup pistachios.
- Transfer to two greased and floured 8-in. round baking pans. Bake 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- For frosting, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add cocoa; mix until blended. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until creamy.
- Place one cake layer on a serving plate; spread top with 1 cup frosting. Top with remaining cake. Spread top and sides with 2 cups frosting. Press pistachios into sides of cake if desired.
- Cut a small hole in the corner of a large pastry or plastic bag; insert #127 petal pastry tip. Fill the bag with remaining frosting. Pipe concentric circles of frosting over top of cake. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour or until frosting is set.
Nutrition Facts1 slice: 606 calories, 28g fat (16g saturated fat), 111mg cholesterol, 510mg sodium, 85g carbohydrate (62g sugars, 2g fiber), 7g protein.
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Aug 25, 2015
It was more like banana bread with chocolate frosting. People at work enjoyed it, but it is not a recipe I will plan to make again. Easy to make, but I would rather have made a really good banana bread.I made this in a 9x13 which messed up the frosting to cake ratio. So that may be a factor why it tasted more like banana bread.
Jun 8, 2013
We only made the cake, not the frosting out of ease and we left off the pistachios for personal preference. We also just about doubled the bananas to ensure that they were the highlight. Everyone really enjoyed it. I enjoyed taking credit for it.
Mar 12, 2013
I followed this recipe excactly. The cake turned out o.k. but the frosting was horrible. Way too sweet and the color was not like the picture. We couldnt even taste the cream cheese.
Jan 15, 2013
Made this cake for my son's birthday and he loved it! Next time will bake less than the time required because 45 minutes was a bit much but that could be my oven. Frosting was amazing too!!!
Oct 19, 2012
This is the BEST banana cake and the BEST chocolate frosting I have ever had! I've made this several times and have always had rave reviews! This is a keeper!
Oct 6, 2012
I am rating the cake alone. I used a different frosting. I was making the cake for a friend's wedding. She wanted just a regular chocolate buttercream. But the cake alone is fabulous.I have made this twice now. The first time for her tasting I made the recipe as listed. But thought it needed more of a banana flavor. So thought I would add more bananas for the official wedding cake.Both times I omitted the nuts because of possible nut allergies with guests at the wedding. She didn't want to take a chance.I doubled the recipe for the wedding cake. It made 2 perfect 10" square layers. I had 4 cups of mashed bananas. Double the recipe would have been 3 cups. But the 4 cups was the perfect amount. Cake was so moist & flavor was excellent!!! Lowered the oven temp to 325 since the cakes were so large.Turned out perfect!!Thanks for sharing and will definitely use this recipe again and again!!!
Aug 29, 2012
This cake was pretty good, but did not have a "wow factor" taste. There is plenty of icing and I'll use the leftover on cupcakes. Used walnuts in place of pistachios and peanut pieces for decoration. A stunner to look at, our guests enjoyed it and I'd try it again.
Jul 31, 2012
One of the best cakes I have made. Looks very special and tastes special too.
Jun 21, 2012
I am an avid baker and was very excited to see this chocolate cream cheese frosting here because it appears so dark in the picture. I just finished it an while it tastes delicious and has a good texture, it is very light in color. :(
Apr 21, 2012
Made this for Easter, and used a peanut butter icing instead~ FANTASTIC!!!


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