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If Wren does not flip Cabrera before the season starts, did the Vasquez improve the team?

Your prayers are needed at this time for Michael Badnarik.

Jessica,

I just received word that the President of the 2009 Continental Congress and 2004 Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, Michael Badnarik had a Heart Attack this morning and in an unconscious state. His condition is serious.

His Mother, Elaine, reported to me that Michael was in Madison, Wisconsin attending a hearing regarding a raw milk case. After the hearing he got in a car to go to lunch with friends, He then slumped over. His friends attempted CPR and contacted the paramedics. They attempted to revive him 3 times with no success. Upon the 4th attempt his heart was revived yet with erratic behavior.

He was taken by helicopter to Gunderson Lutheran Hospital CCU in Lacrosse, WI. Please do no call or visit the hospital, only family is allowed.

He has been fitted with a temporary pacemaker and a balloon pump to ease stress on his heart.

I have no further details at this time. Please watch your email box for an update.

Michael is a true asset and leader in our movement who works tirelessly and selflessly for freedom. Please pray for Michael at this time.

In Freedom,

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so i have this data which turned out to be bimodal. (i was so blind in scoring it, i was triple-blind!) let's call this score number s.

i want to describe and test this data in terms of one factor (on or off). most of "on" is in one peak, most of "off" is in the other peak. (by pretty large values of "most", especially in the "on" case, as it happens.)

i am sorta thinking about this in two ways:

. if f=(1,0), p(s)= ?

or

. for s=(0-26), p(f=(0,1)) = ?

are these the reasonable models, or given that i have two kinda gaussian curves with a nice valley of nuthin' in between, is there some other way i should look at it?

and

what would be reasonable tests to poke this with to try to generate some lovely p-values?


thanks for any thoughts :)


(eta over in my own journal i posted a "disease/exposure" 2x2 matrix analysis, which is SUPER LAME i know but i still got a nice teeny-weeny p-value. ;)

I feel : contemplative

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/rosenthal-yanks-vazquez-122209

I swear to God, Wren can't GM his way out of a paper bag! First he over pays for a 35+ year old Lowe, trades one of the best catcher prospects in Flowers for Vazquez and Logan, then has to trade Soriano in a lopsided deal because he decided to take arbitration (and because he has signed two OLD relievers in the place of Soriano and Gonzalez leading to the salary crunch and has to the release of Church, whom he got for Franceur). All in all, Wren has wasted a lot of money and resources, to get a decent outfielder and an overpaid starter who was at best average. Good job Wrenny, maybe you can destroy the Braves like you worked the Orioles.

Melky frikkin Cabrera. Apparently, that was the best Frank Wren could get for Javier Vazquez. Not sure why the Derek Lowe-for-Juan Rivera deal with the Angels couldn't turn into Vazquez. Instead, we get a player no better than what we already have.

Has anyone started a FireFrankWren.com website yet?

ETA: Forgot - Vazquez has a no-trade clause to the West Coast. But still.

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I suppose, every libertarian should be against any state invasion in any issues. But the worst kind of state invasion is when one state impose its colonial rule to another nation. Therefore, I guess, every true libertarian has to support the fair struggle of Pacific Unity League for independance. If you can't or don't wish go to NC, then you might support PUL by donation.

This large Pacific island was discovered by James Cook in 1774, and named Caledonia, the ancient name of Scotland, Cook's homeland. Favorable island climatic conditions and fertile soil had attracted the interest of European colonizers - traders, planters and missionaries. In 1853 France announced the island its colony. Then within 30 years the French government had deported many convicted criminals to New Caledonia.

The struggle for independence of the Kanak people, indigenous people of New Caledonia, has a long and glorious history. A new stage of this struggle began in 1985 when “Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front”, led by the outstanding son of the Kanak people Jean-Marie Tjibaou, started its activity. FLNKS had advocated the establishment of an independent Kanak state. The events on the Ouvéa Island in 1988 became culmination of the struggle. FLNKS fighters had taken hostage 27 French gendarmes and judge and demanded immediate independence. The French colonial authorities sent a special commando unit. As a result of bloody clashes, the rebels were forced to let gendarmes off. Jean-Marie Tjibaou was assassinated. But the colonizers realized that they can not longer maintain their dominance in the previous form and made some concessions.

According to the Matignon (1988) and Nouméa (1998) Accord, New Caledonia

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Im interested in getting a blackberry and i have a few questions-
First, whats the best one? im pretty much clueless. im thinking about the new curve because ive read about problems with the track ball and ive heard the track pad is better. plus the new curve gets wi-fi. that brings me to my second question.. what is the advantage of wi-fi if im paying for internet anyway?

some general contract questions:
my moms contract is up in march, would she be able to upgrade to a BB and then switch numbers so that the BB is actually my phone? And early before march can the upgrade be processed? (We have a 2 yr contract if that makes a difference)

THANKS!

I have the LG enV 3 phone at the moment, and I'm thinking about switching to a new phone soon. I'm looking for a phone that allows one to surf the internet and not just check your mail. Is there such a phone at Verizon? As much as I'd like an iPhone, I don't plan on switching to AT&T anytime soon.

Thanks in advance!

In LaTeX, is there way to define a custom continued fraction formula \mycfrac{an}{bn} with a single continuous zickzack fraction line?

I am not quite satisfied with this code

\textnormal{\LARGE K}_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\left.a_n\right|}{\left|b_n\right.}

which gives me

FCS: Last night, Villanova slugged out a tough victory over Montana to win their first Division I football championship, 23-21. Montana led 14-13 at the half, before Nova scored 14 unanswered in the second half to take a 23-14 lead. Montana closed to within two with a minute to play, but the onside kick attempt tumbled out of bounds, giving the Wildcats possession and the ability to kill the clock. It's the Grizzlies' second consecutive loss in the FCS title game, but they've won twice before so it's not the end of the world in Missoula. Both teams finish the season with 14-1 records.

Interestingly, with Villanova currently ranked #9 in the basketball polls, there's the chance here for a team to win the "official" Division I football and basketball titles in the same school year for the first time ever.

D-III: The last team to beat Mount Union, Wisconsin-Whitewater, beat them again today, scoring 10 minutes in the final 77 seconds to break a 28-28 tie and win 38-28. It's Whitewater's second Division III title, the first being their win over Mount Union in 2007. Mount Union's winning streak ends at 29 games, and their season concludes with a 14-1 record. Whitewater, on the other hand, finishes 15-0 and now (obviously) hold the longest active winning streak in D-III.

NAIA: Braden Wieking kicked a 42-yard field goal late in the fourth quarter to break a tie in a bit of a see-saw battle, and gave Sioux Falls (15-0) a 25-22 win over Lindenwood (13-1). It's Sioux Falls' fourth NAIA title, and third in the last four years. They've only got one more chance to add to that total, as they'll be moving "up" to NCAA D-II in 2011. I say "up" in quotes because the competition level is actually about equal, but you know how people perceive things -- headed up by the fact that teams currently in the NCAA have accounted for 50 of the 81 NAIA football titles. (The first NAIA football championship wasn't until 1956, but there were two divisions for 27 years, between 1970-1996.)

Nobody except for Sioux Falls and Carroll (MT) have won the NAIA football title since Georgetown (KY) repeated in 2000-2001.

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http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/Share_the_Sacrifice_Act_of_2010.pdf

thanks to alobar

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TIME Magazine officially sucks.

The TIME Person of the Year for 2009 is...Ben Bernanke. Ben fucking Bernanke.

I missed it because I usually don't give a whit who is or isn't TIME's Person of the Year, considering my continual process of "waking up" and realizing these rags for what they are...but seriously?

But Bernanke also knows the economy would be much, much worse if the Fed had not taken such extreme measures to stop the panic. There's a vast difference between 10% and 25% unemployment, between anemic and negative growth. He wishes Americans understood that he helped save the irresponsible giants of Wall Street only to protect ordinary folks on Main Street. He knows better than anyone how financial crises spiral into global disasters, how the grass gets crushed when elephants fall. "We came very, very close to a depression ... The markets were in anaphylactic shock," he told TIME during one of three extended interviews. "I'm not happy with where we are, but it's a lot better than where we could be."

Yeah right. As if anything else needs to be said, I turn only to the first page of Mish's Global Economic Analysis, which reads: "Seven Banks Fail, 140 YTD total, Sheila Bair 'prepared to handle an ever-larger number of bank failures next year'".

Uh-huh.

I have no idea what to say, other than the obvious: the editors of TIME are twats.

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Couple’s tax transfer runs afoul of assessor

But the county assessor’s office denied their request because its appraisers believe the Seylers sold their house for more than it was really worth. The county believes the couple owe more than $5,500 in property taxes rather than the $2,000 they had planned on.

The definition of the value of something is the price that is actually paid for it. The arrogance of government thinking that it can set a value in some manner other than that. This is a fundamental problem with giving the government so much power just because we want to get "free" stuff from other people.

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Does it or does it not have WordUpThome written all over it?!.

Billy Wags; I have such high hopes for you.

I must be stupid... how do i set my alarm on my LG Chocolate to ring AND vibrate?

So, the B10/11 is thinking about expanding. The last time conferences decided to expand, things rippled through all of college football. What happens now?

If the Big 10 takes a Big East team (doesn't matter which one), that leaves them with 7 football teams. They'll need an 8th. I'm thinking ECU. Which leaves CUSA one short of a championship game. At this point, I'm thinking a MAC member (although the only one not firmly entrenched in the league is Temple, and they're football-only, so that might exclude them from switching) or a Sun Belt team (Troy possibly). The dominoes could stop falling at that point, since the Sun Belt would still have 8 teams or the MAC would have 12.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/44912.html

It seems Peter needs to spend some more time w/ Ron Paul. The golden boy may know what he's talking about w/ economics but be on the PRO-PREEMPTIVE WAR bus, directly against the US constitutional mandate to 'keep out of it' so to speak. Send him a message to show your dismay/disapproval, wish to re-educate etc.
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Schiff just defended PREEMPTIVE WAR! He gave an example using the false claim that “If Iran was making a nuclear weapon as they are supposedly doing…,” then stated “I’d ask the Iranians to let our inspectors in, then if they didn’t we’d blow them up.”
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We have already written about the difficult fate of the Pacific state of Nauru after independence. It would be very unpleasant if another jewel of the Pacific - Solomon Islands, repeated the same mistakes.

Solomon Islands achieved independence from Britain in 1978. This state with a population of over half million people consists nearly a thousand islands, whose total area is 28 thousand square km. A very significant part of the Solomon Islands population continues living in the conditions of traditional society, preserving its tribal and community structures. This is largely due to the fact that European colonizers settled on the Solomon Islands later than on the other Oceania archipelagos since they were given hard rebuff their activity. Only in the 60s years of the XIX century, the European traders, planters and missionaries succeeded a firm foothold on the islands.

Since 1870, European slave traders and recruiters started to deliver the Solomon Islands inhabitants for working to the plantations in the Australian province of Queensland. The islanders were sold also to work on plantations in Fiji, New Caledonia and Samoa. While the islanders put up armed resistance, the slave traders were mercilessly killing those who resist or those who tried to flee. They staged bloody punitive expeditions and burned villages. The thousands islanders were dead of poor conditions and diseases on the plantations.

The legacy of the dark period Anglo-Australian colonization is a lopsided economy based on exports such goods as tropical timber, fish, copra and cocoa. But even this undeveloped economy has been undermined as a result of tribal conflict in 1999-2003.

In fact, the country has only just regained its economy. The state is now at the crossroads.

Solomon Islands, like Nauru, are rich in mineral resources. There are explored deposits of lead, zinc, nickel, gold, bauxite and phosphates. But the only

First the Link:

http://espn.go.com/blog/pac10/print?id=6381

If the PAC-10 were to expand, I'd imagine Utah and BYU get the nod and Boise gets left out, and here's why:

Look at the conference... it is designed nicely for rivalries amongst the 10 teams:

USC vs. UCLA
Arizona vs. Arizona State
Oregon vs. Oregon State
Washington vs. Washington State
Cal vs. Stanford

Adding the Holy War would fit very easily into that dynamic.

You could do divisions like this:

"Mountain"
Oregon
Oregon State
Utah
BYU
Washington
Washington State

"Pacific"
USC
UCLA
Cal
Stanford
Arizona
Arizona State

The championship game could be played in Glendale (Home of the Cardinals), Los Angeles (Either the Coliseum, Rose Bowl, or the new L.A. stadium down the line), Oakland (A stretch), or Seattle.

Mojo magazine have been running a feature on The Wall in the past two issues. In the November issue they ran a big interview with Roger Waters and gave away part one of "The Wall: Rebuilt" which is the wall album entirely in cover versions - each song by a different band. The December issue (out now) gave away part two of the album. I missed the November issue and part one but I have ordered this from the magazines back issue department. Part two of the album is really good. If people get the chance to grab a copy of this its well worth it.

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Hey! This is not really a question, but I hope it's allowed nonetheless...

I just wanted to inform you that the usual css code for the Contextual Popup links does not work anymore. Instead you now have to use the following code for the link colors. :)

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First the link:

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/12/15/report-big-ten-to-make-expansion-statement-today/

After digging their heels in for so long, it looks as if the Big 10 is ready to expand to 12 teams, which will mean a conference championship game. A lot of teams are being rumored to be targets, but one in particular stands out to me, and that is Pittsburgh.

Notre Dame is a lost cause at this point. The school would give up far too much in terms of scheduling control and such to join a conference (Not to mention they currently don't have to share one cent of post-season and television money with anyone).

If Pittsburgh were to join, here is how I see the Big 10 divisions shaping up:

Eastern Division:
Pittsburgh
Penn State
Ohio State
Purdue
Indiana
Northwestern

Western Division:
Michigan
Michigan State
Iowa
Illinois
Minnesota
Wisconsin

You have one natural rival in the opposite division (Ensures the Michigan/Ohio State game along with Illinois/Northwestern since they are in the same state but different divisions). You then rotate out of division teams like the SEC does.

Another name that has been discussed is Missouri. If that were the case, you'd put Missouri in the West and move Illinois into the East (But Missouri would be Illinois' chief out-of-division rival).

If Missouri were to jump ship from the Big 12, it would cause a bigger ripple effect than Pittsburgh leaving the Big East (You could offer an invite to a number of mid-major teams and try to make up with what you lose in basketball as well). The Big 12 would have a hole in the North, which could be filled very nicely by the likes of a Boise or Utah... then again, that's just wishful thinking at this point.

Does anyone know a good proof that:

According to a report at The Huffington Post:

WASHINGTON — Dismissing complaints from some members that Congress had more pressing matters, a House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion. [snip]

The legislation, which still faces steep odds, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game as a national championship unless it results from a playoff. The measure passed by voice vote in the House Energy and Commerce Committee's commerce, trade and consumer protection subcommittee, with one audible "no," from Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga. [snip]

The legislation, which goes to the full committee, would make it illegal to promote a national championship game "or make a similar representation," unless it results from a playoff.

There is no Senate version, although Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, has pressed for a Justice Department antitrust investigation into the BCS. [snip]

The article does mention that several legislators did point out that perhaps, just maybe, there were more important things for Congress to be dealing with right now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/opinion/13sun2.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=Twitter&st=cse

And we 'know' it must be even worse given the source liberal publication = NY Times. Someone has filed a suit. Whoppee... I hold out about as much hope for that changing anything as the Fed actually being abolished, our civil liberties restored or pulling out of any of the existing wars around the globe w/o bankrupting our country first.

So what's the next source of monitoring to occur? Orwell's 1984 novel ala' through the television?

Thanks to the big brother community for the original 'alert'.

I'm just working through some practice MC for my Intro Linear Algebra exam, and I'm having trouble with a few questions.

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5 year/$85MM.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/12/14/heyman.lackey.redsox/index.html

Does this give Boston the best rotation in the AL East? I think it does. It'll be interesting to see what the Yankees do to counter this.

Credit where credit is due: This is pretty damn cool.

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Federal torture, bailouts and global warming scams spark new opposition from liberty activists in New Hampshire.

We have the new LJ Search tool, but it doesn't seem to be mentioned in any FAQs. FAQ #215: How do I search my journal? How can I find a particular entry or comment? seems like the natural place to put it.

Nauru is the smallest republic in the world, located on the eponymous island in the Pacific. It has land area of 21.3 km ² and a population of 14 thousand people. To the misfortune of the islanders (alas, one can't say otherwise) the phosphorite reserves were discovered on the Island. Phosphate intensive mining has resulted in the destruction of soil cover and most of the island turned into a stone desert (later on, as a result of remediation activities it managed to restore 63% of vegetation cover of open pits).

After achieving independence in 1968, the Nauru Government decided concentrate profits from its sole source of foreign exchange earnings to special Fund as the Government has foreseen phosphate reserves exhaustion. The funds were invested at buying property and financial services. The funds placement was given into the hands of so-called "experts" - financial managers from Australia and New Zealand. As a result of their well-paid "work" the islanders have find themselves with virtually nothing. In 90s the Nauruan stabilization fund dropped 10-fold - from 1.3 billion Australian dollars to 130 million. Easy money had disservice Nauruans because traditional economic activities were destroyed and people accustomed to the lifestyle of rentiers. Officially, 90% of islanders are unoccupied.

Nauru is now in a very difficult situation and it would be very difficult to solve this package of problems even for the crisis manager out of the top drawer.

We have some proposals for economic stabilization and development of Nauru, which were sent to the address almost all officials of this country. These proposals are complex, interrelated, and quite specific.