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CBL Closes Modification of Major Credit Facilities
Retail Traffic Staff | Aug 01, 2011
CBL & Associates Properties Inc. closed the modification of its three major secured credit facilities with aggregate capacity of $1.15 billion including its $520 million secured credit facility, its $525 million secured credit facility and its $105 million secured credit facility.
Outstanding balances on all three lines of credit will no longer be subject to a LIBOR floor and will bear interest at an annual rate equal to LIBOR plus a range of 200 to 300 basis points, depending on the Company's leverage ratio. The reduction in interest rates represents a more than 200 basis point improvement in average borrowing cost for the facilities.
The maturity of the $520 million facility remains August 2011, with an option to extend the facility to April 2014 (subject to continued compliance with the terms of the facility). The maturity of the $525 million facility was extended by two years, from February 2012 to February 2014, with an option to extend the maturity for one additional year to February 2015 (subject to continued compliance with the terms of the facility). The maturity of the $105 million facility was extended for one year to June 2013.
"We are pleased to extend our major lines of credit and significantly reduce our borrowing costs under the credit facilities," CBL CFO John Foy said in a statement. "Our bank group continues to demonstrate confidence in our business and the results we have achieved and we appreciate their ongoing commitment."
Wells Fargo Bank NA is the administrative agent under the $520 million facility and the $525 million facility. First Tennessee Bank NA is the administrative agent under the $105 million facility.
EPN Group Completes Tender Offer for EDT Retail Trust
EPN Holdings II LLC with EPN GP LLC, a completed a tender offer for all the units in the EDT Retail Trust not already held by EPN.
As a result of the purchases of EDT's units during the Offer period, EPN has increased its interest in EDT from 47.8 percent to approximately 96.4 percent. EPN ultimately plans to compulsorily acquire the remaining EDT units under the terms of the Offer. Following compulsory acquisition of the remaining EDT units, EPN will become the holder of 100 percent of the outstanding units of EDT and it is expected that EDT will be removed from the official list of the Australian Stock Exchange shortly thereafter.
Following the completion of the takeover bid, EPN's equity investment in EDT Retail Trust is approximately $360 million.
EDT is a REIT focused on investing in U.S. community shopping centers. It currently owns 48 assets in 20 states covering 10.9 million square feet.
EPN is a real estate investment venture jointly formed by Elbit Plaza USA L.P., a subsidiary of Elbit Imaging Ltd. and Plaza Centers N.V., and Eastgate Property LLC, an affiliate of a U.S.-based international fund manager with assets under management of over $ 3 billion, of which approximately $800 million are dedicated to real estate.
Macerich Buys Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls
The Macerich Co. closed the acquisition of the 526,000-square-foot Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls.
The center is anchored by Saks Off 5th, Nike, Coach Women's and Men's stores, Old Navy, Gap and Polo Ralph Lauren and includes other tenants including Michael Kors, Barneys NY outlet, J Crew, Cole Haan, Burberry, Tommy Hilfiger, Brooks Brothers, Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss, Banana Republic and 120 others.
The enclosed center's shop tenant sales average approximately $650 per square foot. The center is nearly fully occupied and enjoys a list of tenants waiting for space, leading Macerich to explore options for expansion of the center.
The Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls was purchased from a subsidiary of AWE Talisman Co. for $200 million, including the assumption of the existing debt of $121 million that has an interest rate of 5.90 percent and a maturity of October 1, 2020. Macerich has entered into a management and leasing agreement for the center with AWE Talisman Co.
Simon Acquires ABQ Uptown
Hunt Companies Inc. completed the $86 million sale of the 220,000-square-foot ABQ Uptown Retail Center in Albuquerque, N.M. to Simon Property Group.
Hunt developed, constructed and opened the lifestyle center in 2006. ABQ Uptown is the retail component of a mixed-use project that includes upscale retail space, residential units, restaurants, entertainment venues, and a Trader Joe's urban grocery store.
The center is 95 percent leased and generates sales of approximately $650 per square foot. Tenants of ABQ include Ann Taylor, Ann Taylor Loft, Anthropologie, Apple Computer, BCBG Max Azria, California Pizza Kitchen, Francesca's Collections, L'Occitane, Lucky Brand Jeans, Pottery Barn and Williams-Sonoma.
Hunt's affiliate, TRECAP Partners>b?, served as the investment manager and advised Hunt on the transaction.
DeBartolo Development Acquires Portion of Bradley Commons
DeBartolo Development LLC acquired a portion of the 500,000-square-foot Bradley Commons regional power center anchored by a Wal-Mart Supercenter and Kohl's department store in the Chicago suburb of Bradley, Ill.
DeBartolo has purchased the 175,000-square-foot piece of Bradley Commons that sits between the two anchors with tenants Dick's Sporting Goods, Bed Bath and Beyond and Petco. The acquisition also includes seven vacant out-lots fronting Route 50 and approximately 98 acres of commercially and residentially zoned land adjacent to and behind the center.
Built between 2008 and 2009, it is pre-leased to approximately 94 percent with national credit, regional, and local tenants.
NorhMarq Arranges $53.3M in Debt and Mezz Financing
Mike Dobbins, Vice President of NorthMarq Capital's San Diego regional office, arranged $53.3 million in combined debt and mezzanine financing for the 156,291-square-foot Village Walk Shopping Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
Major tenants at the center include TJ Maxx, Trader Joe's, Pier 1 Imports, PetCo and Henry's Farmers Market. Debt financing in the amount of $46.3 million was based on a 5-year term and a 30-year amortization schedule and was arranged for the borrower by NorthMarq through its relationship with a CMBS lender. This structured finance included mezzanine funds and closed within 30 days of the signing of the loan application.
Mezzanine financing in the amount of $7 million was based on a 5-year term with a balloon payment at maturity and was arranged for the borrower by NorthMarq through its relationship with a mezzanine lender. These funds provided for an 80 percent loan-to-value.
Robert B. Aikens Acquires Pine Ridge Square
Robert B. Aikens & Associates LLC acquired the 189,000-square-foot Pine Ridge Square center, in Gaylord, Mich. Jeffrey Thompson, president of the company, made the announcement.
Pine Ridge Square is currently home to several major retailers including Big Lot's, Dunham's, Bath & Body Works, GNC and Payless Shoe Source. The center currently has 30,000 square feet available for lease.
Loja Real Estate Acquires The Shops at Pacific Station
Tom Engberg, CEO of Loja Real Estate LLC, announced the firm's acquisition of the 38,828-square-foot The Shops at Pacific Station for one of the firm's separate accounts. Loja Real Estate LLC, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Loja Group LLC, a real estate investment management firm.
Loja Real Estate purchased The Shops at Pacific Station from Pacific Station Property LLC for $19.5 million. The transaction closed on July 25, 2011. This is Loja Real Estate's fourth acquisition.
The Shops at Pacific Station is the retail portion of a 98,403-square-foot vertical mixed-use center containing second and third-story office space totaling 9,733 square feet, and 47 residential condominium units.
Tenants including an Urban Solace restaurant, Bliss 101, Icons, and a Bombshell Boutique Salon. The Shops at Pacific Station is currently 96 percent leased. The development is LEED Silver Certified.
Loja Group was represented by Richard Lebert, senior vice president, Colliers International. Pacific Station Property LLC was represented by Ryan Gallagher, senior managing director, Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P. Loja Group has retained Capital Growth Properties Inc., to manage the property.
Cohen and Co. Brokers Sale of Virginia Center
Cohen and Co., Inc. Real Estate announced the sale of the 127,801-square-foot Oxbridge Square in Richmond, Va., for $12.5 million.
Michael Cleeman, senior managing director of Cohen and Company represented the buyer PMAT Acquisition LLC, a real estate investment and development company headquartered in Louisiana in the acquisition from Oxbridge Retail LLC. The center is currently 79 percent leased and anchored by a Martins Supermarket with strong sales volume and includes national retailers Harley Davidson, Starbucks, Popeye's, Subway and UPS.
Other Notable Deals
Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services arranged the sale of the 50,315-square-foot Paraiso Town Center, an REO shopping center in Newbury Park, Calif. Kyle Matthews, an associate vice president investments in Marcus & Millichap's Encino office, represented the seller, U.S. Bank. The buyer was Paradise Capital Group LLC, an affiliate of Cardinal Equities LLC, a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based real estate investment firm.
Stan Johnson Co. completed the sale of a 43,505-square-foot retail building in Midlothian, Va., 100 percent occupied by hhgregg to a New Jersey-based private investor. The list price was $5 million. Jim Gibson and Mike Parker of Stan Johnson represented the seller, a Virginia-based private investor. Steve Maloy of ARC Properties represented the buyer.
TNP Strategic Retail Trust Inc. acquired a 45,817-square-foot BI-LO grocery store located within the Chester Plaza Shopping Center in Chester, S.C. Originally constructed in 1991, BI-LO remodeled and expanded the property by more than 15,000 square feet in 1999. BI-LO has a long-term lease in place through 2019 with options through 2039.
Aztec Group Inc. announced that Howard Taft, senior managing director and Charles Penan, director, secured $3 million in debt financing for a ground lease of a Walgreens in Hialeah, Fla. Financing was provided by Symetra Life Insurance Co. Terms of the 20-year, self-amortizing, non-recourse facility includes a 70 percent loan-to-value and 6.04 percent fixed interest rate.
Whitestone REIT announced the sale of the 20,607-square-foot Greens Road Plaza for $1.75 million in an all-cash transaction. The company expects to reinvest the proceeds in acquisitions in its target markets in Arizona, Texas, and Illinois.
RCG Ventures LLC acquired the 59 West shopping center in Bessemer, Ala. The center is anchored by Burke's Outlet, Hibbett Sports and Shoe Shoe.
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Baruch Barzel & Albert-László Barabási, Network link prediction by global silencing of indirect correlations, Nature Biotechnology 31(8), 2013, p 720–725. doi:10.1038/nbt.2601.
Soheil Feizi, Daniel Marbach, Muriel Médard & Manolis Kellis, Network deconvolution as a general method to distinguish direct dependencies in networks, Nature Biotechnology 31(8), 2013, p 726–733. doi:10.1038/nbt.2635.
This post is the first of a trilogy (part2, part3) in which my student Nicolas Bray and I tell the story of these papers and why we took the time to read them and critique them.
In order to quantify connectivity in biological networks, Barzel and Biham proposed an experimental perturbation model in the paper Baruch Barzel & Ofer Biham, Quantifying the connectivity of a network: The network correlation function method, Phys. Rev. E 80, 046104 (2009) that forms the basis for network link prediction in Barzel-Barabási. In the context of biology, link prediction refers to the problem of identifying functional links between genes from data that may be confounded by indirect effects. For example, if gene A inhibits the expression of gene B, and also gene B inhibits the expression of gene C, then if the expression of A increases, it will decrease the expression of B, which in turn increase C. Therefore one might observe correlation in the expression levels of gene A and C, even though there is no direct interaction between them. The Barzel-Biham model is based on perturbation experiments. Assuming that a system of genes is in equilibrium, it is a model for the change in expression of one gene in response to a small perturbation in another.
The assertion of intractability is based on the claim that the equations are coupled. They reason that since the naïve matrix inversion algorithm requires operations for m equations, the solution of (3) would require time . When we looked at this system, our first thought was that while it is large, it is also structured. We sat down and started examining it by writing down the equations for a simple case: a matrix S for a graph on 3 nodes. We immediately noticed the equations decoupled into n systems of n equations where system i is given by and , with the n unknowns . This immediately reduces the complexity to , or even by simple parallelization. In other words, the system is trivially tractable.
Here the operator "/" denotes element-wise division, a simple operation to execute, so that inferring S from G requires no more than inverting G and scaling it, a formula that is also much simpler and more efficient to compute than (2). [Added 2/23: Jordan Ellenberg pointed out the obvious fact that off the diagonal means that for some diagonal matrix , and therefore and since the diagonal entries of must be zero it follows that . In other words, the Sherman-Morrison formula is not even needed]. While it would be nice for us to claim that our managing to quickly supersede the main result of a paper published in Nature Biotechnology was due to some sort of genius, in fact the entire exercise would be suitable for an undergraduate linear algebra homework problem. Barabási likes to compare himself to the great physicist and nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, but it is difficult to imagine the great Chandrasekhar having similar difficulties.
Unlike Barzel & Barabási that resorted to simulating with Michaelis-Menten dynamics in their study of performance of their approximation, using (4) we can efficiently simulate data directly from the model. One issue with Michaelis-Menten dynamics is that they make more sense for enzymatic networks as opposed to regulatory networks (for more on this see Karlebach, G. & Shamir, R. Modelling and analysis of gene regulatory networks, Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 9, 770–780 (2008)), but in any case performance on such dynamics is hardly a validation of (2) since its mixing apples and oranges. So what happens when one simulates data from the Barzel-Biham model and then tries to recover the parameters?
A comparison of the standard method of regularized partial correlations with exact inference for the Barzel-Biham model. Random sparse graphs were generated according to the Erdös-Renyi graph model G(5000,p) where p was varied to assess performance at different graph densities (shown on x-axis) The y-axis shows the average AUROC obtained from 75 random trials at each density.
When examining simulations from the Barzel-Biham model with graphs on 5,000 nodes (see Figure above), we were surprised to discover that when adding even small amounts of noise, the exact algorithm (4) failed to recover the local response matrix from G (we also analyzed the approximation (3) and observed that it always resulted in performance inferior to (4), and that 5% of the time the correlation with the exact solution was negative). This sensitivity to noise is due to the term in the exact formula which becomes problematic if the diagonal entries of are close to zero.
Some intuition for the behavior of may be gained from noting that if S is such that its geometric sum converges, the diagonal of is equal to that of . If S has mixed signs and there is significant feedback within the network, the diagonal of may be close to zero and any noise in the measurement of G could create very large fluctuations in the inferred S. This means that the results in Figure 1 are not dependent on the graph model chosen (Erdös-Renyi) and will occur for any reasonable model of gene regulatory networks including the modeling of both enhancers and repressors. From Figure 2a in their paper, it appears that Barzel and Barabási used in their simulation an S with only positive entries that would preclude such effects. Such an assumption is biologically unrealistic.
However, the difficulties with noise for the Barzel-Biham model go much deeper. While a constant signal-to-noise ratio, as assumed by Barzel and Barabasi, is a commonly used model for errors in experiments, it is important to remember that there is no experiment for directly measuring the elements of G. Obtaining from an experiment is done by making a small perturbation of size e to gene i, observing the change in gene j, and then dividing that change by e. This last step increases the noise on the estimate of by a factor of 1/e (a large number, for a perturbative experiment) above the noise already present in the measurements. Increasing e acts to remove the system from the perturbative regime and thereby increases the intrinsic error in estimating G. It is therefore the case that attaining reasonable error on G will require very low noise in the original measurements. In this case of biological networks this would mean performing many replicates of the experiments. However, as Barzel & Barabási acknowledge in their paper, even a single replicate of a perturbation experiment is not currently feasible.
While the exact algorithm (4) for inverting the Barzel-Biham model performs poorly, we found that a widely used shrinkage method based on partial correlation (Schäfer, J. & Strimmer, K. A Shrinkage Approach to Large-Scale Covariance Matrix Estimation and Implications for Functional Genomics, Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 4, (2005)) outperforms the exact algorithm (blue curve in Figure above). This suggests that there is no input for which (4) might be useful. The method is not even ideal for inference from data generated by the model it is based on.
The three methods tested potential improvements on are Pearson, Spearman and Mutual Information. Pearson and Spearman rank 16/35 and 18/35 respectively in the DREAM5 benchmarks. There may be some reason why Silencer applied on top of these methods improves performance: in the case where G is a correlation matrix, the path interpretation given by Barzel and Barabási connects the inference procedure to Seawall Wright's path coefficients (ca. 1920), which in turn suggests an interpretation in terms of partial correlation. However in the case of mutual information, a method that is ranked 19/35 in the DREAM5 benchmarks, there is no statistically significant improvement at all. The improvement is from an AUROC of 0.67 to 0.68. Amazingly, Barzel and Barabási characterize these results by remarking that they "improve upon the top-performing inference methods" (emphasis on top is ours). Considering that the best of these rank 16/35 the use of the word "top" seems, shall we say, unconventional.
We have to ask: how did Barzel & Barabási get to publish a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology on regulatory network inference without improvement or testing on anything but a handful of mediocre DREAM5 methods from a single dataset? To put the Barzel-Barabási results in context, it is worth considering the standards the Feizi et al. paper were held to. In that paper the authors compared their method to DREAM5 data as well, except they tested on all 3 datasets and 9 methods (and even on a community based method). We think its fair to conclude that significantly more testing would have to be done to argue that Silencer improves on existing methods for biological network inference.
We therefore don't see any current practical utility for the Barzel-Biham model, except possibly for perturbation experiments in small sub-networks. Even then, we don't believe it is practical to perform the number of experiments that would be necessary to overcome signal to noise problems.
Unfortunately the problems in Barzel-Barabási spill over into a follow up article published by the duo: Barzel, Baruch, and Albert-László Barabási, "Universality in Network Dynamics." Nature Physics 9 (2013). In the paper they assume that the local response matrix S has entries that are all positive, i.e. they do not allow for inhibitory interactions. Such a restriction immediately renders the results of the paper, if they are to be believed, moot in terms of biological significance. Moreover, the restrictions on S appear to be imposed in order to provide approximations to G that are unnecessary in light of (5). Given these immediate issues, we suspect that were we to read the Universality paper carefully, it is quite likely this post would have to be lengthened considerably.
Barabasi is famous for the "BA model", proposed in Barabási and Albert 'Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks", Science, Vol. 286 15 October 1999, pp. 509-512. Lada Adamic and Bernardo Huberman immediately refuted the practical applications of the model. Moreover, as pointed out by Willinger, Alderson and Doyle, while it is true that scale-free networks exhibit some interesting mathematical properties (specifically they are resilient to random attack yet vulnerable to worst-case), even the math was not done by Barabási but by the combinatorialists Bollobás and Riordan.
Barabási has has repeatedly claimed metabolic networks as prime examples of scale-free networks, starting with the paper Jeong et al., "The large-scale organization of metabolic networks", Nature 407 (2000). This fact has been disputed and refuted in the paper Scale Rich Metabolic Networks by Reiko Tanaka.
The issue of attack tolerance was the focus of Error and attack tolerance of complex networks by Réka Albert, Hawoong Jeong & Albert-László Barabási in Nature 406 (2000). John Doyle refuted the paper completely in this paper.
In the paper "The origin of bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics" published in Nature 435 (2005) Barabási pretends to offer insights into the "bursty nature of human behavior" (by analyzing e-mail). In a follow up comment Daniel Stouffer, Dean Malmgren and Luis Amaral demonstrate that the reported power-law distributions are solely an artifact of the analysis of the empirical data and the proposed model is not representative of e-mail communication patterns.
Venturing into the field of control theory, the paper "Controllability of complex networks" by Liu, Slotine and Barabási, Nature 473 (2011) argues that "sparse inhomogeneous networks, which emerge in many real complex systems, are the most difficult to control, but that dense and homogeneous networks can be controlled using a few driver nodes." Not so. In a beautiful and strong rebuttal, Carl Bergstrom and colleagues show that a single control input applied to the power dominating set is all that is required for structural controllability of most, if not all networks. I have also blogged about this particular paper previously, explaining the Bergstrom result and why it reveals the Barabási paper to be a control theory embarrassment.
In other words, Barabási's "work" is a regular feature in the journals Nature and Science despite the fact that many eminent scientists keep demonstrating that the network emperor has no clothes.
Post scriptum. After their paper was published, Barzel and Barabási issued a press release claiming that "their research moves the team a step closer in its quest to understand, predict, and control human disease." The advertisment seems like an excellent candidate for Michael Eisen's pressies.
The Bollobás, Riordan paper is a beautiful example of coupling graphs. They show that within every preferential attachment graph there is a large sparse random graph and each PA graph has a large part contained inside a sparse random graph. You won't see any such insight into the underlying random structure in B's papers.
Critical discussions are good. It's a shame that "leading" journals do not publish critique, replications (including when things do not replicate) and papers pointing to methodological errors. Given the lack of appropriate forum it is good you publish critique on your blog. Did you ask the authors to take a look and defend themselves?
From a wider perspective, how come everybody knows that the leading science journals are full of bad science and still everybody want to publish there?
As long as we all believe that everybody wants to publish there, we will all want to publish there, right?
To answer your question, we submitted a truncated version of this blog post to Nature Biotechnology almost 5 months ago. The two page comment has not yet been decided on by the journal, and my understanding is that a major reason has been the delay of Barzel and Barabási in responding to it. So they did get a chance to respond, but to be honest we just gave up on waiting. Its still possible that Nature Biotechnology will publish our comment and their response. I don't know, and I don't particularly care at this point. The authors are of course welcome to post replies in this comments section.
Can you post this two page comment, like you did for Manolis Kellis' paper, or is that the same comment?
We have a separate comment for this paper and it is still under review at Nature Biotechnology. It follows the post closely, and I plan to post it in the near future.
Thank you for an excellent read. I had myself struggled a lot with the issue of noise when trying their approach in R, and rapidly concluded that the method was simply not usable for any of the biological networks and correlation networks I was interested in. It is astonishing that a method so overly sensitive to noise and multicollinearity is being sold as applicable to biological data.
See also, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15496552 our modest contribution to this controversial / trendy subject, years ago.
I found the ALB paper very misleading in terms of their claimed contributions. The paper looks pretty but the content is very hollow, not to mention there are technical issues. I showed the paper to one of the students, and he quickly spotted the derivation was nonsense. The journal should clarify why this paper is accepted.
1. I really really hate Lior's blogs, because the three blogs cost me two weeks to understand the major viewpoints. Lior's great match really scared me. So I have to improve my math for a better understanding, and have to discuss with my friends.
2. Great thanks to write the blogs. My friends and I truly respect you, and what you are doing. Everybody clearly know that you will get no profit from doing so, but you did. You are a great man and a real computational biologists.
Sorry that I wrote the blogs in Chinese, but I tried my best to keep the major viewpoints of Lior. So Chinese scientists can take a look on it, if you do not want to read English. I will apologize if some misunderstandings were made, because it's too difficult to me for the math.
It looks like the overhype is quite common in academic society. I am offen stranged that some really poor work can be published in top journals, but noboday dare to stand out. So, the Bioinformatics field should thank for Lior's criticisms, which is much, much, much helpful for the current and future of the field.
I am afraid you had made a mistake in your Chinese blog, especially the first one. The scaling parameter is for the eigenvalue but not for the sequence as you explained. You should give a careful read of Lior's new blog post https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/number-deconvolution/ for details.
You are not the first person to notice that ALB papers were mostly BS.
Same with the Medard and Kellis paper. In fact, the entire literature is full of these kinds of BS. The problem is that people do research to get grants and not the other way around.
But you are the first that had the "balls" to openly announce these findings. I do not have the same amount of courage as you do (and I commend you on that).
But the cottage industry that Barbasi fathered has spun so much out of control that it is unstoppable.
This guy should become an NAS and NAE member! He markets his junk quite well.
BTW, comparing oneself to Chandrasekar should be done with care since Edmund Stoner had scooped (and did a more thorough calculation) Chandrasekar but did not get the notoriety for some "reason". Moreover, Chandrasekar it note cite Stoner, even though the evidence is that he knew about the earlier work.
So, why stop at NAS/NAE….go straight to Stockholm!
Typo…I meant Chandrasekar DID NOT cite Stoner….
I'm so glad I came across your post today and find out about Barabási's history of nonsense papers.
He published two closely related papers in Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5968/1018) and Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/full/nature10856.html#close) on migration and mobility. I am a population geographer and migration researcher and wondered why I could not make sense of a paper published in a prestigious journal. The findings don't look plausible at all to me, and the model cannot be replicated because the data haven't been made available…. Anyway, now I know what to think of it.
Took the liberty of posting this on hacker news, apologies if this is not appropriate.
The comments are of some interest.
Delighted to see that I am not the only one who is annoyed by this Barabasi rubbish.
This (and the followup postings) are very much appreciated. I observed the nonsense of Barabasi many times in the past. What puzzles me, however, is that many researchers feel the need to cite his papers. (A quick look at Google shows 22886 citations.) There is a certain "we have to" feeling. People feel they must (for some religious reason?) cite the paper. Recently, I reviewed a paper for a journal with solid mathematical content. They cited the infamous Barabasi-Albert paper stating that they observed a limit result. I told the authors that I took a close look at this paper and found it utterly trivial, with no mathematical content, containing lots of jargon (and, at best, some computer simulations) and, in fact, even the model was not new when the paper was published (1995): the model was known in 1955; see Simon (1955), Biometrica Vol. 42, pp. 425-440.
Ok. almost complete mathematical ignoramus here, but still a teacher, 5th grade. I picked up Linked at B & N. Like science. Opened to pg 98. Bose Einstein condensation. Why here in networks? Read, read, fine, then Pg. 101: !!! Bianconi discovery of incredible similarity of fitness model nodes in networks to energy levels in Bose gas…gosh…suddenly they have done the extraordinary and blended at last the quantum and Newtonian worlds and I've heard nothing of it? "…each node in the network corresponds to an energy level in the Bose gas." All those gas particles at almost 0 Kelvin sink to lowest energy level, new form of matter, and that has what to do with macro world networks and fitness? The rich get richer because the cold all sink down thru energy levels? Help? Keep thinking of similies-apples and toenails or some such. Remembering P. T. Barnum. Elementary school teacher only, me, but afraid I can't buy this one. Beating Einstein….maybe not this time. Tear me apart, but I really don't get it. Welcome any explanations-that aren't too mathematical!
Dear Lior, I find your tone quite rude here. Admittedly, I do not understand your maths discussions; the only thing I can say is that ALB's network of diseases is highly predictive and inspirational. We are working on an exciting sub-cluster of this, which appears to prove everything true about this new definition of diseases and drug repositioning.
I am current a Graduate student in New York and I have been following your blog for a long time. In a recent assignment for a course that I am taking, Critical Dissection of Scientific Data, I choose to take up this paper by Barabasi and have read through this blog again. Here is some thoughts I would like to share.
3. With regard to the broader work of Barabasi, professor John Doyle (disclaimer: I am a big fan of him) has claimed in his dropbox video lecture (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7bgwzqsl7ycxhie/AACL0TVRi5H0k9-r63T1hIyva/VideosSlidesPapers/2.0.OverviewWithNeuroEmphasis?dl=0, ZombiSciIntro) that biological network is in fact, not scale-free, as oppose to what Barabasi has claimed. However it was not clear to me what the explanation is in the video and I can't find a proper citation yet.
Finally, as long as I am here, I want to thank you for writing these blogs. As a graduate student, I was appalled how Dr. Eric Lander (or someone who claims to be him) reacts to your p-value prize blog and it is now clear to me (after some mental gymnastic) that they were claiming something trivial as significant. So your blog has been a positive impact on my academic life and I believe it is important to read your blog in a sometimes somewhat unfortunate academic environment.
Thanks for your comments and for the links- much appreciated. John Doyle is passionate about the problems of network analysis and has written a lot in the area so I'm not sure which paper is most relevant to the claims in the talk. I know he is still interested in the topic- you should ask him.
The underlying issue arises when the original authors assume that the average of the function is the function at the average for explicitly nonlinear maps. This is indeed only true for linear maps.
The embarrassing fact is that Barabasi got over 100,000 citations to his papers so far. Neither me, nor the authors of this funny contribution equal him in this respect. So, why not throwing mud at him, just for the sake of our ego? The authors' arguments are partly mathematical in nature. I have nothing to add here. However, I note that there are far more people who refuted Darwin' evolutionary theory than those who refuted the claims and models of Barabasi. Some maintain that the Earth is flat. Whatever people refute, evolution is the best we can do with the information we have, and the Earth is certainly round. I consider this article a psychological means of addressing threats to the ego. If one cannot grow up to somebody one has to bring him or her down. Nice trial.
(Ps. I am not Barabasi. I am just a biologist newly acquainted with his work, and I was fascinated).
Thanks for your interesting and courageous blog! I'm a high energy physicist trying to follow the literature on network theory and stumbled across this page. Regarding point 1. of your summary: I had been pretty stumped on how the BA model from 'Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks' could have been quite as innovative as it was promoted to be. I recommend the great review article by Newman https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303516v1 specifically section VII where he explains in simple terms how the BA model is a special case of the 1965 citation-network model by Price, which curiously is never cited in the BA paper nor their reviews. I have no horse in this race but the lack of proper accreditation to the Price model by BA made it super confusing for me in trying get a grip on this vast literature. I'm not aware of any other scenario in physics where authors have gotten so much kudos for a "result" which is so clearly a sub-case of a previously published article (Newman points out that both the Price and BA articles were published in Science 🙂 ). As for the complaint that BA were not mathematically precise…I am very supportive of articles being published before being made rigorous, I don't see any great crime by BA in that regard. The lack of credit given to Price is however really bizarro.
Albert Lazlo Barabasi, a professor of network science at Northeastern University is in New York Times.
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Anibal Sanchez is a 6-foot, 205 lb. right-handed native of Maracay, Venezuela. Born on February 27th, 1984, he signed with the Boston Red Sox in 2001 and made his professional debut with them in 2003. After the 2005 season, the Sox traded him with Hanley Ramirez, Jesus Delgado, and Harvey Garcia to Florida for Josh Beckett, Mike Lowell, and Guillermo Mota.
Sanchez made his major league debut with the Marlins in the 2006 season, cruising to a 10-3 record and a sparkling 2.83 ERA. On September 6th, in just his 13th career start, Sanchez struck out six and walked four in a no-hit, 2-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. At this point of his career, Sanchez was not considered a strikeout pitcher, as evidenced by his 72 whiffs in 114 1/3 innings, but his solid 1.190 WHIP was plenty good enough for him to finish ninth on the National League Rookie of the Year Award voting.
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2008 and 2009 would see Sanchez start just 26 games for the Marlins, with a 6-13 record and a 4.51 ERA. His WHIP subsided to a more palatable but still concerning mark of 1.533 between the two seasons combined.
2010 would be Sanchez' first actual full season of play in the major leagues. He led the Marlins with 195 innings pitched and 32 games started, with a team-second 157 strikeouts. He finished with a 13-12 record and a 3.55 ERA to his credit, along with a 1.344 WHIP that hinted at even better things to come.
In 2011, Sanchez set a career high with 202 whiffs in 196 1/3 innings, to date just one of two seasons where he struck out over a batter per inning. Despite starting in 32 games, he registered just 17 decisions, going 8-9 with a 3.67 ERA and a 1.278 WHIP.
2012 began for Sanchez on the rechristened Miami Marlins, and in 121 innings he struck out 110 batters with a 1.256 WHIP. He was 5-7 with a 3.94 ERA when Miami traded him with Omar Infante to the Detroit Tigers for Rob Brantly, Brian Flynn, and Jacob Turner.
Sanchez played five-and-a-half seasons with Detroit, then played a season with the Atlanta Braves. In 2019, he went 11-8 for the eventual World Series Champion Washington Nationals.

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Jai Gill (19) won the Suzuki Apprentice of the Year accolade for his achievements during his first year of a three-year apprenticeship.
His achievements were recognised at an awards ceremony Suzuki's headquarters in Milton Keynes in what was a double night of celebration for Pebley Beach, as former Apprentice of the Year finalist Arron Smith – who started his career as an apprentice in 2005, and is based at the firm's Swindon dealership – was named one of the top six Suzuki apprentices in the UK.
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The former Deer Park School pupil underwent constant assessment during his first year, and every two months would spend a week in a classroom environment at Suzuki's training centre in Doncaster.
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International stocks are supposed to help diversify a portfolio. What happens, though, when foreign companies are swept up into globalization and those companies become less foreign? Are you still as diversified?
A study last year from Merrill Lynch showed that U.S. and foreign markets perform more in tandem now than they did a few years ago. The so-called correlation between the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Morgan Stanley Capital International EAFE (a benchmark for international stocks) over five years that ended in early 2006 was 96 percent, up from 32 percent over the five years that ended in early 2000.
If domestic stocks have a bad year, then there is a greater chance your international holdings will, too. A truly diversified portfolio should include some assets that "zig" when others "zag."
If you are just starting to build a portfolio, you probably don't have the cash to diversify through multiple funds.
Not a problem, said Bob Mecca, a financial planner in Mount Prospect, Ill. He suggests picking a global fund, which invests in U.S. and foreign stocks.
The Vanguard Global Equity fund, for example, invests 46 percent of its assets in U.S. stocks. The rest is directed to Europe, Japan and elsewhere in Asia.
A global fund also isn't restricted to specific countries or industries, giving the fund's managers the flexibility to move money around the globe as different markets heat and cool.
"You leave it up to the manager to pick and choose where he wants his allocation overseas and in the U.S.," Mecca said.
One issue is that if you hold a domestic stock fund, it could invest in the same U.S. companies that a global fund finds attractive, creating overlap, not diversification.
For example, Pfizer Inc. is one of the top holdings in the S&P; 500 and the second-largest holding in Vanguard's Global Equity fund.
In that case, you probably are better off with an international fund that invests solely in companies headquartered abroad.
Diversify across regions and size.
With your bases covered, globalization is still an issue: You are investing in companies overseas, but what happens when those firms do a lot of their business in the United States?
As your portfolio grows, consider adding funds from areas of the global market that might not have a large, or any, presence in a typical international fund.
Small-cap foreign funds and emerging-market funds are two to consider, said Matthew Kelley, a financial planner in Boulder, Colo. Without mega-companies that straddle U.S. borders, these funds may have a lower correlation with U.S. stocks.
They also could produce juicier returns. For the last four years, emerging-market stocks have returned more than 30 percent on average annually.
Just keep in mind that the downside can be equally dramatic, and emerging markets' four-year winning streak could mean the category is ready to cool.
"You always have to remember that huge returns are coupled with huge risk," said Lisa James, a financial adviser with Merrill Lynch in Chicago.
Another option is to look abroad in other investment categories, such as real estate investment trusts and bonds.
David Siopack, a portfolio manager for the Schwab Global Real Estate fund, contends that, historically, real estate has a lower correlation to stocks, cash and bonds.
The correlation can be even lower abroad.
"Real estate is a very localized business," Siopack said. "Demand for office space in downtown Tokyo has mushroomed, while markets in some U.S. cities have really started to plateau."


Increase your website conversion rate first, and then focus on increasing traffic.
To build a solid structure, you must first build a website that focuses on maximizing conversion, then improve its merchandising, and only then undertake to drive more traffic. It is the only sane and logical order.
If you already have visitors coming to your website, the simplest way to increase your revenue is to increase conversion. There are many small changes that you can make to a website that may help increase conversion. If you change too many things at once, you may make some bad changes that negate the good.
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In the latest trading session, BP (BP - Free Report)	closed at $45.23, marking a +1.57% move from the previous day. This move outpaced the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.11%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 0.32%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.19%.
Heading into today, shares of the oil and gas company had gained 4.46% over the past month, outpacing the Oils-Energy sector's gain of 2.95% and the S&P 500's gain of 3.84% in that time.
BP will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of $0.67, down 14.1% from the prior-year quarter. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $53.02 billion, down 23.33% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $3.19 per share and revenue of $253.65 billion, which would represent changes of -16.05% and -16.49%, respectively, from the prior year.
It is also important to note the recent changes to analyst estimates for BP. Recent revisions tend to reflect the latest near-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
The Zacks Rank system, which ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate remained stagnant. BP is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Digging into valuation, BP currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 13.97. This valuation marks a premium compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 11.75.
It is also worth noting that BP currently has a PEG ratio of 1.97. This popular metric is similar to the widely-known P/E ratio, with the difference being that the PEG ratio also takes into account the company's expected earnings growth rate. Oil and Gas - Integrated - International stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 1.47 based on yesterday's closing prices.


If you're a motorcycle rider, like me, you might be interested in recording audio and video during your rides. Recording your ride can offer both entertainment and security.
However, I wanted to use this Bluetooth headset to record audio as well, without having to make a phone call. In my specific scenario, I'm using a separate camera, mounted to my motorcycle, to record video. That way, I can keep my phone in my motorcycle pocket or mounted onto my cell phone mount, so I can use it as a GPS with the Android Auto app.
Since I'm recording audio via Android, separately from the camera's video stream, I'll have to use software to combine these later on. You can use something like TechSmith Camtasia for this purpose. If you're recording audio / video purely for security purposes, you can simply discard your data, unless needed for reporting an incident.
Let's explore how to set up your helmet's Bluetooth headset and Android phone for audio recording.
Thankfully there's a free Android app available, called Parrot Voice Recorder, which enables you to record audio using the phone's built-in microphone, or through an external Bluetooth microphone.
To set up your Android device and Sena headset for Bluetooth recording, simply follow the directions below. If you have a different headset than mine, you can probably skip step #1 to update the firmware. I included this step (and link), just in case someone else has the same headset that I have.
At this point, you should be able to initiate a new recording from the main screen of the Parrot app, and it should be recording through your Bluetooth helmet. Before you head out on your motorcycle each time, make sure you pair up your helmet, open up the Parrot application, and start recording audio. I'd also recommend using some kind of "dash cam" to record traffic activity around you, just in case you need it. The camera I'm using is called the iON Camera, and I've mounted it to my motorcycle using this awesome, metal mount.
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package com.zaxxer.hikari.util;

import java.lang.reflect.Array;
import java.sql.CallableStatement;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyCallableStatement;
import com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyConnection;
import com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyFactory;
import com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyPreparedStatement;
import com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyResultSet;
import com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyStatement;

import javassist.ClassPool;
import javassist.CtClass;
import javassist.CtMethod;
import javassist.CtNewMethod;
import javassist.LoaderClassPath;
import javassist.Modifier;
import javassist.NotFoundException;
import javassist.bytecode.ClassFile;

/**
 * This class generates the proxy objects for {@link Connection}, {@link Statement},
 * {@link PreparedStatement}, and {@link CallableStatement}.  Additionally it injects
 * method bodies into the {@link ProxyFactory} class methods that can instantiate
 * instances of the generated proxies.
 *
 * @author Brett Wooldridge
 */
public final class JavassistProxyFactory
{
   private static ClassPool classPool;

   public static void main(String... args)
   {
      classPool = new ClassPool();
      classPool.importPackage("java.sql");
      classPool.appendClassPath(new LoaderClassPath(JavassistProxyFactory.class.getClassLoader()));

      try {
         // Cast is not needed for these
         String methodBody = "{ try { return delegate.method($$); } catch (SQLException e) { throw checkException(e); } }";
         generateProxyClass(Connection.class, ProxyConnection.class.getName(), methodBody);
         generateProxyClass(Statement.class, ProxyStatement.class.getName(), methodBody);
         generateProxyClass(ResultSet.class, ProxyResultSet.class.getName(), methodBody);

         // For these we have to cast the delegate
         methodBody = "{ try { return ((cast) delegate).method($$); } catch (SQLException e) { throw checkException(e); } }";
         generateProxyClass(PreparedStatement.class, ProxyPreparedStatement.class.getName(), methodBody);
         generateProxyClass(CallableStatement.class, ProxyCallableStatement.class.getName(), methodBody);

         modifyProxyFactory();
      }
      catch (Exception e) {
         throw new RuntimeException(e);
      }
   }

   private static void modifyProxyFactory() throws Exception
   {
      System.out.println("Generating method bodies for com.zaxxer.hikari.proxy.ProxyFactory");

      String packageName = ProxyConnection.class.getPackage().getName();
      CtClass proxyCt = classPool.getCtClass("com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.ProxyFactory");
      for (CtMethod method : proxyCt.getMethods()) {
         switch (method.getName()) {
         case "getProxyConnection":
            method.setBody("{return new " + packageName + ".HikariProxyConnection($$);}");
            break;
         case "getProxyStatement":
            method.setBody("{return new " + packageName + ".HikariProxyStatement($$);}");
            break;
         case "getProxyPreparedStatement":
            method.setBody("{return new " + packageName + ".HikariProxyPreparedStatement($$);}");
            break;
         case "getProxyCallableStatement":
            method.setBody("{return new " + packageName + ".HikariProxyCallableStatement($$);}");
            break;
         case "getProxyResultSet":
            method.setBody("{return new " + packageName + ".HikariProxyResultSet($$);}");
            break;
         }
      }

      proxyCt.writeFile("target/classes");
   }

   /**
    *  Generate Javassist Proxy Classes
    */
   private static <T> void generateProxyClass(Class<T> primaryInterface, String superClassName, String methodBody) throws Exception
   {
      String newClassName = superClassName.replaceAll("(.+)\\.(\\w+)", "$1.Hikari$2");

      CtClass superCt = classPool.getCtClass(superClassName);
      CtClass targetCt = classPool.makeClass(newClassName, superCt);
      targetCt.setModifiers(Modifier.FINAL);

      System.out.println("Generating " + newClassName);

      targetCt.setModifiers(Modifier.PUBLIC);

      // Make a set of method signatures we inherit implementation for, so we don't generate delegates for these
      Set<String> superSigs = new HashSet<>();
      for (CtMethod method : superCt.getMethods()) {
         if ((method.getModifiers() & Modifier.FINAL) == Modifier.FINAL) {
            superSigs.add(method.getName() + method.getSignature());
         }
      }

      Set<String> methods = new HashSet<>();
      Set<Class<?>> interfaces = getAllInterfaces(primaryInterface);
      for (Class<?> intf : interfaces) {
         CtClass intfCt = classPool.getCtClass(intf.getName());
         targetCt.addInterface(intfCt);
         for (CtMethod intfMethod : intfCt.getDeclaredMethods()) {
            final String signature = intfMethod.getName() + intfMethod.getSignature();

            // don't generate delegates for methods we override
            if (superSigs.contains(signature)) {
               continue;
            }

            // Ignore already added methods that come from other interfaces
            if (methods.contains(signature)) {
               continue;
            }

            // Track what methods we've added
            methods.add(signature);

            // Clone the method we want to inject into
            CtMethod method = CtNewMethod.copy(intfMethod, targetCt, null);

            String modifiedBody = methodBody;

            // If the super-Proxy has concrete methods (non-abstract), transform the call into a simple super.method() call
            CtMethod superMethod = superCt.getMethod(intfMethod.getName(), intfMethod.getSignature());
            if ((superMethod.getModifiers() & Modifier.ABSTRACT) != Modifier.ABSTRACT && !isDefaultMethod(intf, intfCt, intfMethod)) {
               modifiedBody = modifiedBody.replace("((cast) ", "");
               modifiedBody = modifiedBody.replace("delegate", "super");
               modifiedBody = modifiedBody.replace("super)", "super");
            }

            modifiedBody = modifiedBody.replace("cast", primaryInterface.getName());

            // Generate a method that simply invokes the same method on the delegate
            if (isThrowsSqlException(intfMethod)) {
               modifiedBody = modifiedBody.replace("method", method.getName());
            }
            else {
               modifiedBody = "{ return ((cast) delegate).method($$); }".replace("method", method.getName()).replace("cast", primaryInterface.getName());
            }

            if (method.getReturnType() == CtClass.voidType) {
               modifiedBody = modifiedBody.replace("return", "");
            }

            method.setBody(modifiedBody);
            targetCt.addMethod(method);
         }
      }

      targetCt.getClassFile().setMajorVersion(ClassFile.JAVA_7);
      targetCt.writeFile("target/classes");
   }

   private static boolean isThrowsSqlException(CtMethod method)
   {
      try {
         for (CtClass clazz : method.getExceptionTypes()) {
            if (clazz.getSimpleName().equals("SQLException")) {
               return true;
            }
         }
      }
      catch (NotFoundException e) {
         // fall thru
      }

      return false;
   }

   private static boolean isDefaultMethod(Class<?> intf, CtClass intfCt, CtMethod intfMethod) throws Exception
   {
      List<Class<?>> paramTypes = new ArrayList<>();

      for (CtClass pt : intfMethod.getParameterTypes()) {
         paramTypes.add(toJavaClass(pt));
      }

      return intf.getDeclaredMethod(intfMethod.getName(), paramTypes.toArray(new Class[paramTypes.size()])).toString().contains("default ");
   }

   private static Set<Class<?>> getAllInterfaces(Class<?> clazz)
   {
      Set<Class<?>> interfaces = new HashSet<>();
      for (Class<?> intf : Arrays.asList(clazz.getInterfaces())) {
         if (intf.getInterfaces().length > 0) {
            interfaces.addAll(getAllInterfaces(intf));
         }
         interfaces.add(intf);
      }
      if (clazz.getSuperclass() != null) {
         interfaces.addAll(getAllInterfaces(clazz.getSuperclass()));
      }

      if (clazz.isInterface()) {
         interfaces.add(clazz);
      }

      return interfaces;
   }

   private static Class<?> toJavaClass(CtClass cls) throws Exception
   {
      if (cls.getName().endsWith("[]")) {
         return Array.newInstance(toJavaClass(cls.getName().replace("[]", "")), 0).getClass();
      }
      else {
         return toJavaClass(cls.getName());
      }
   }

   private static Class<?> toJavaClass(String cn) throws Exception
   {
      switch (cn) {
      case "int":
         return int.class;
      case "long":
         return long.class;
      case "short":
         return short.class;
      case "byte":
         return byte.class;
      case "float":
         return float.class;
      case "double":
         return double.class;
      case "boolean":
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Last Saturday evening we had a microburst monsoon event that toppled our little palo verde tree out front near the driveway. We recently posted about repairing and re-hanging the little birdhouse in that tree. Fortunately, when the tree toppled, the birdhouse was not damaged.
A neighbor helped us clean up the tree mess on Sunday morning; we cut it into pieces with a chain saw and put it on his trailer for transport to the green dump. Verna rescued the birdhouse and put it in the courtyard for the time being. There is no nest inside, so no birds were involved.
Today, we went up the hill behind the RV drive where we have the bird feeders. There is a nice little mesquite tree up there that was perfect for hanging the recovered birdhouse. I took the image above this afternoon while up on the hill out back. Click on the image to enlarge.
The little birdhouse given to us in May of 2012 by our late friend "River Ron" (RIP) fell off of the palo verde tree out front last week. Today, I screwed the broken parts back together and hung it back up. Click on either image to enlarge. Images courtesy of Verna.
One of the little antelope ground squirrels in the area has been making itself a bit of a pest by digging up Verna's bulbs and roots in the courtyard. Earlier today, I set up the Havahart small animal trap with a piece of bread and peanut butter for bait. It wasn't more than a half hour later that Cabela let us know the trap had been sprung.
Ever since we unwittingly caught a cactus wren in a rat trap by the trash barrels, it has been our policy to catch and release the pests. We caught this little guy in the courtyard and released it at Tractor Supply, about a mile away. That should work to keep it away from Verna's garden for a while.


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Simply a Piece of a Larger Pie: The Weight of Adultery in Child Custody Determinations
July 31, 2014 | by M. Devin Whitt
If you are involved in a child custody dispute, it is important to be aware of what Mississippi courts look at when making custody determinations. One important question that often surfaces is whether adultery can disqualify a parent from obtaining custody. Adultery is a factor that can play a part in child custody determinations, but it is not necessarily the deciding factor; and the extent to which adultery affects a custody determination depends on the circumstances. Most importantly, in a child custody dispute between divorcing parents, Mississippi courts consistently award custody of the child (or children) to the parent that will better serve the "best interests and welfare" of the child. This "best interests of the child" standard serves as a guiding light for the courts in all custody cases in Mississippi. Riley v. Doerner, 677 So. 2d 740, 744 (Miss. 1996) (citing Sellers v. Sellers, 638 So.2d 481, 485 (Miss.1994)).
Courts will usually first look at several legal presumptions that have been developed over the years to further the "best interests of the child" standard. Such presumptions include the presumption against a violent parent having custody of the child, or the presumption that natural parents should be favored over an adoptive parent. Beyond these legal presumptions, courts will look at the often-used Albright factors, named after a 1983 Mississippi case. See Albright v. Albright, 437 So. 2d 1003 (Miss. 1983). A brief overview of these Albright factors can be found here.
One of the Albright factors is "moral fitness," and the Mississippi Supreme Court has held that "moral fitness" does encompass activity such as adultery. So in an Albright analysis, a party committing adultery could very well lose this factor. Ever since the Albright factors were first developed, the Mississippi Supreme Court has been quick to note that adultery should not be used as a sanction in custody disputes. And while adultery would have weighed more heavily in custody determinations many years ago, Mississippi courts in the past three decades have recognized that a thorough factual analysis such as that required under Albright is more appropriate.
The important thing to recognize, however, is that "moral fitness" is merely one of a dozen Albright factors that Mississippi courts consider and evaluate in a custody dispute. Even if a party loses on the "moral fitness" factor because of adultery, the court still will look at the rest of the factors. Losing "moral fitness" does not always mean losing custody. Also, "moral fitness" does not necessarily carry more weight than the other factors. In other words, adultery by itself does not disqualify a parent from custodianship of the child. Carr v. Carr, 480 So. 2d 1120, 1123 (Miss. 1985) ("[T]his Court notes that moral fitness of a parent encompasses the charge of adultery. But moral fitness is but one factor to be considered, and it is a factor worthy of weight in determining the best interest of the child. Adultery of a parent may be an unwholesome influence and an impairment to the child's best interest, but on the other hand, may have no effect. The trial court should consider this factor along with all others when making original custody determinations.").
The bottom line: Mississippi courts certainly do look at adultery when making a custody determination, but a finding of adultery does not inherently disqualify a parent from obtaining custody of their child. If you are seeking custody of your child, it is critical that you retain an experienced family law attorney. As an experienced Mississippi divorce and child custody attorney, I have litigated child custody and support cases throughout Mississippi and have the ability to guide you through your dispute should you need professional assistance. If you or a friend need professional representation in a child custody dispute or any other family law matter, please contact the Law Offices of M. Devin Whitt for a free consultation at (601) 607-5055.
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As a child, my life was far from easy. My early childhood was defined by a meth addict of a mother and an alcoholic father. I was no stranger to beatings and screaming matches, belts to the face and daggers to the soul. My parents divorced when I was five, my father then disappeared from my life. My mother was clean for some time, I respect her for working as hard as she did in the following couple of years. However, her absence in the household left my siblings free to torment me. I still don't know why they attacked me so savagely, I was beaten, duct-taped and left in dark closets for hours, locked out of the house in the rain, oh there were myriad torments. When I was seven, Child Protective Services placed my siblings and I with my grandparents, this was just the first time. My mother regained custody and lost custody multiple times. I didn't see or speak to my father again until my grandparents arranged a meeting. I was eleven when I saw him, I hardly recognized him. Life was never easy for my father either, and alcoholism helped him less than a bullet might have.
My grandfather and I always had a close relationship, he was the closest thing to a father figure I had. We also shared a birthday, the eleventh of July. Byrd understood me like no other person ever has, he was the man who taught me to care for others more than myself. He was the man who taught me to be strong and silent, rather than weak and full of false promise the way most "men" are. He was a man who spoke little, but took great lengths to carefully think out every situation, analyzing all possible repercussions prior to taking action. I still lack his resolve in such matters, but I am trying.
When I lost my grandfather, I turned to drugs and alcohol heavily. I was a mess without his guidance. I still am a mess, though I have been struggling to fight through my depression. It's not easy to cope when you've been conditioned to feel an abhorrence against your very existence. I fully believed that I was God's mistake before my Grandather Byrd began to teach me differently.
Byrd Jones was a former Baptist Preacher, retired because he could not stomach the hypocrisy he felt leading a congregation. He could not bear to stand before those people and preach the Gospel any longer, his past weighed heavily upon his conscience. Despite this, he did his best to instill in me good Christian principles, not for the sake of salvation so much as for the sake of teaching me to be a good man. He never forced me to attend church, he never even suggested it. He would share proverbs and stories with me, that I later learned were often paraphrased scriptures.
Although Byrd is no longer with me, the ideals that he strived to impart upon me remain vibrant in my memory. Byrd taught me to love all people, even if I despised them to the core, because they are also human. I was taught to love all people because there is not a person on this planet who had the opportunity to choose their birth, or their upbringing. We all were born innocent, and we all have sinned. We all were thrown into life without the slightest clue what to do, and we all have a character built from our experiences.
If you are reading this, I love you. I love you because you are human, and because I know how it feels to be unloved. Stay true to what you believe in, let your heart guide your path. Do not allow the anger and hatred of those who have lived a different life harden your heart, and do not judge your fellow man. Every man and woman has been given their own lot in life, and we all live the only way we know how. We are all equal. Each of us was born into a life we never knew, and each of us will die in our own time.
I am not a Christian, but I am a follower of Christ. I shun religion because no man should presume to tell another what to believe. I follow the teachings of Christ, not because of a story I was told as a child, but because I believe in loving all people. I do not presume to tell you how to think, I merely wanted to share my perspective with the hope that I can light the candle of hope within your heart.
I love you, please don't give up. A song once said "I don't want to give up before I die." I hold those words in high regard. If no other person has ever loved you, just know that I love you despite never having met you. You are human, and you are loved.
I found this piece very moving and heartening. Your grandad sounds like a great man who taught you so much about how to be one, too, and to show you good paths to follow, and even if we get lost now and again, that sort of guidance stays with us long after the source is gone, helping us to get back on track when we stubble in the wrong direction.
- I'm not sure I understand the first part of this paragraph, but the last part makes a lot of sense - you have shared your perspective, and your hope there is heartwarming. I'm so glad you found love and human kindness, which you are willing and able to share. A lot of this is down to your grandad. This piece of writing is a great tribute to him. Take care of yourself as he would have wanted you to, and keep writing.
Thank you, Bee. I appreciate your compassion and understanding. Byrd taught me that our flaws are part of what makes us beautiful, a diamond is hard to find in a sea of silver, but a diamond in the rough shines all the brighter.


There's a crisis brewing in the cosmos. Measurements over the past few years of the distances and velocities of faraway galaxies don't agree with the increasingly controversial "standard model" of the cosmos that has prevailed for the past two decades. Astronomers think that a 9 percent discrepancy in the value of a long-sought number called the Hubble Constant, which describes how fast the universe is expanding, might be revealing something new and astounding about the universe.


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I've spent a lot of time trying to promote the business and impart some valuable tools & advice to my regular readers - of which there are many, like at least 10.
I know, strong numbers right!? Pulitzer, here we come.
I thought it about time I did a personal blog about my journey with Langley Foxall.
I love reading personal stories and the journey of how people got to where they are today.
The trials & tribulations, successes, failures, highs & lows. All whipped up into an epic adventure of one man against the world and his mighty triumph against adversity.
I, however, haven't had anywhere near the early life of the likes of Sir Richard Branson, who seemingly ran businesses like a gunslinger from the old west, trusting his gut and firing from the hip.
I feel I have had quite the journey in comparison to my own life and early working career. I've worked in some fairly interesting places, worked with equally interesting people and have done a lot of things. Nothing says varied like the transition from Fancy dress shops to top-level Facilities management (for the record there were jobs in between but this is a blog not a CV).
If I had short hair and a one hit wonder I'd be comparing my current position to everything else in the eternal words of Sinead "nothing compares, to you".
I was approached by my good friend Nick (happens to own the place too) over 18 months ago to join LF, he had a clear vision of what he wanted to achieve, the people he needed, the mission, and less than a full idea of how to get there. I was sold at "Hang on lads, I've got an idea".
Any of my friends reading this probably just asked themselves, "Why the hell did he want you then?" Hilarious guys and never gets old, really, it doesn't...honest.
I joined because intrinsically I shared that same vision and couldn't wait to be a part of that environment.
The early days had some tough times yet bags of fun to boot.
I'd never previously been part of a company that was evolving on an almost daily basis.
Processes, documents, marketing, message, execution we're constantly tinkering with our daily tasks, analysing everything, making minor adjustments and constantly learning - how can we do this better, what does the customer want, how can we make this more attractive and user-friendly, how do we communicate to our clients better and in turn impart that knowledge so they can communicate with theirs better.
It's important to note that we made mistakes, me especially, but that's what happens when you're on the steepest learning curve of your life.
It's in this phase of the company where arguably I learnt my most important lesson.
Believe in the power of failure. It's the best way to learn. Just remember to learn from your mistakes, and not to repeat them.
I've learnt so much and continue to do so with every challenge and opportunity I face, ultimately I feel the company and I have grown tremendously, both professionally and personally and will continue to do so long into the future.
Next steps for us is to find yet more like-minded people to add to our flourishing team, let's hope they can offer a new and refreshing insight from their experiences to improve how we operate even further.
Did you enjoy this? Let me know if you did, I promise it won't inflate my ego.


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Q: SSAS - How to import translations (dimensions / measure, etc) in Excel ? I'm creating an SSAS cube and I would like to provide friendly names for dimensions, measures, KPIs etc.. So, I created all transactions for all properties in Visual Studio Data Tools.
When I browse my cube in Visual Studio it works well, all properties are translated.
However, if I launch PowerPivot for Excel and trying to import data, no property is translated, It gives me strange names such as [Dimension Name] [Hierachy Name] etc.
Any idea to provide friendly translaed names in Excel ?

A: You can try the following:

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*On the Table Import Wizard, where you setup your connection to the SSAS click Advanced.

*Change the Locale Identifier setting to the preferred locale.
You can find the  locale Ids here, in order to find the Id of the language you used at the translations you made at the cube.

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I am aware that the title of this chapter conflicts with the fact that not all aquatic bird groups are included in it, but I was unable to find a more appropriate one. As outlined in Chap. 3, there is support for a clade including the nonmonophyletic "Pelecaniformes" except the Phaethontidae (tropicbirds), as well as the Sphenisciformes (penguins), Gaviiformes (loons), Procellariiformes (tubenoses), and the taxa of the nonmonophyletic "Ciconiiformes." The affinities of the Phaethontidae are uncertain, and the taxon is discussed in the present chapter for convenience only.
The fossil record of crown group representatives of the "waterbird clade" is among the oldest for Neoaves. Stem group Sphenisciformes date back to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (Hansford 2008), and putative stem group Gaviiformes and Procellariiformes were reported from the late Cretaceous (Chap. 4). The early evolution and historical biogeography of these birds is, however, still poorly understood. The osteological features of early Eocene stem group representatives of, for example, the Threskiornithidae are trenchantly different from those of coeval Sphenisciformes, which indicates a long evolutionary separation of the lineages leading to these two taxa already by that time. Likewise it is uncertain where the stem species of the clade including the above-mentioned taxa lived, although this may well have been one of the southern continents.
A tentative hypothesis on the interrelationships of some of the taxa discussed in this chapter is depicted in Fig. 7.1.


While scores of folks watched the World Cup Final on Sunday, about 250 UC San Francisco staff, faculty, students and supporters came out on a cold and foggy morning in Golden Gate Park to raise funds in the annual AIDS Walk San Francisco event.
Since 1987, AIDS Walk San Francisco has raised more than $90 million for HIV programs and services in the Bay Area. A leader in AIDS-related research and patient care, UCSF also has been a top fundraising team since the event began.
"The commitment of all of our walkers is reflective of how much the UCSF community is dedicated to treating and prolonging the lives of those living with HIV," said Robert Mansfield, an administrative officer in Global Health Sciences, who is also a member of the UCSF AIDS Walk Steering Committee and the top individual fundraiser from UCSF.
This year's AIDS Walk San Francisco had raised $1.8 million as of Monday. The funding will support dozens of AIDS organizations in the Bay Area, including Project Open Hand, Positive Resource Center and the Golden Compass Program at Ward 86 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General.
The annual 10K walk on Sunday was part of a kickoff for a special anniversary for UCSF: 35 years of HIV care at Ward 86. UCSF/ZSFG is planning a special celebration to coincide with World AIDS Day in December to acknowledge this milestone.
The entire UCSF contingent comprises 16 teams affiliated with UCSF that are raising funds through the August. So far, the combined UCSF teams have raised more than $65,000, placing it second behind the National AIDS Memorial Grove among top teams this year. Members of UCSF community, as well as friends and family, can still donate to the cause.