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Stephen King long ago became a big-league author. Now he digs in and stands ready to give whole new meaning to the phrase, "Batter up!"
In 1999, King wrote a short novel, "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon," that put a lost 9-year-old girl alone in the woods with only her Boston Red Sox jersey (Tom Gordon's, of course) and a portable radio (able to pick up Red Sox broadcasts) to help her cope. Five years later, the same season the real-life Red Sox ended an 86-year championship drought, King and fellow New England novelist Stewart O'Nan co-authored "Faithful," an account of their real-life fandom.
As if those two examples weren't enough, any regular reader of King's work is familiar with the ubiquitous references to Red Sox Nation in his books, as well as several laundry baskets' worth of Red Sox jerseys, T-shirts, and caps worn by various characters in his numerous novels and short stories.
In short, the scariest thing one could imagine about the King of Horror is a Yankees cap perched on his head.
With all of that in mind, it comes as little surprise to learn that King has written his first full-fledged fictional baseball work with the new novella Blockade Billy.
Clocking in at a breezy 112 pages, King's tale unveils the truth behind a fictitious scandal that rocked Major League Baseball during the 1957 season. It is the time of Ike, Sputnik, and the unexpectedly mighty Milwaukee Braves.
Enter William Blakely, the blockading wunderkind catcher whose nickname provides the title. Today he has, it seems, disappeared from the baseball record books, along with all but the faintest memories of his team, the New Jersey Titans. Yes, Stephen King would have us believe not just that cars can rage and wreak havoc ("Hello, Christine"), but also that the ever-humble Garden State once fielded a Major League Baseball team. In Newark, no less.
If Newark's baseball glories are to be believed, a credible narrator is a must, much like a reliable play-by-play man in the broadcast booth. Meet George "Granny" Grantham, the third-base coach of the Titans, who looks back on these dark events from the vantage point of 50 years later.
He's a curmudgeon, bored and irritated with the old folks' home he lives (suffers) in. Grantham speaks directly to his real-life creator throughout the book, adding a "Mr. King" here and there for point of emphasis.
For the most part, King pulls this off without lapsing into too many baseball clichés. "Sure, I'll tell you about Billy Blakely," Grantham begins. "Awful story, of course, but those are the ones that last longest."
Blockade Billy gets his shot at the big time after emerging from a minor league field of dreams in Iowa. This being Stephen King, that field of dreams devolves into a field of screams. How it gets there is a clever piece of storytelling that rises to the occasion with the precision of a four-seam fastball.
Just before the Titans break camp at spring training, their catcher, Johnny Goodkind, gets drunk and runs over a woman in the road. When the cops pull Goodkind from the car, he smells like a brewery and struggles to get to his feet, as Grantham tells it.
Then matters really unravel. "One of the deputies bent down to put the cuffs on him, and Johnny threw up on the back of the guy's head," Grantham says. "Johnny Goodkind's career in baseball was over before the puke dried."
With that, a desperate search for a replacement begins — and leads to the signing of Blakely, an unheralded stopgap backstop who arrives with no expectations.
For the next month, he'll build an instant legend, delivering clutch hits and becoming an instant fan favorite with his impregnable stance blocking home plate and tagging out opposing base runners. Fans pack the stands, snapping up orange cardboard diamonds bearing the words, "Road Closed By Order Of Blockade Billy."
There are more than a few clues of something amiss, but players and coaches alike cast such concerns aside. Blockade Billy can hit and catch, and as for the rest, hey, it's a baseball team, not the Rotary Club. Still, Blockade Billy borders on the bizarre even with benefit of the doubt. The rookie catcher has no clue what a Cy Young Award is, substitutes echolalia for conversation, and sports a mysterious Band-Aid on a finger bearing no discernible cuts or injuries.
Then, too, there is the Red Sox pinch runner who, in Billy's debut, crashes into the young catcher, gets tagged out, flips over – and emerges with a mysterious, debilitating slashed ankle.
The baseball sequences move as well as the character sketches, helped by King's preference for "Bull Durham"-style baseball pragmatism rather than the weepy "Field of Dreams" nostalgia too often plaguing baseball literary efforts.
"I won't drag out the suspense; this ain't no kids' sports novel," Grantham says at one point while recounting details from a game played a half-century ago.
King employs his salty baseball lifer to take a few shots at modern-day aspects of the game (sideways caps) – and players, too. Grantham mentions Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds with a sneer, dubbing the controversial sluggers "a couple of bushers, if you ask me."
A one-off assignment managing the Titans includes being tossed out of the game for arguing a controversial call, an episode Grantham says "would have made Billy Martin look like a peacenik."
Verisimilitude abounds in other ways, too. Plenty of familiar greats dot the field in Blockade Billy's tale, from Ted Kluszewski and Ted Williams to Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron.
King knows his way around the dugout and makes fine sport of the game's rhythms and gallows humor, too. The Titans' manager, Joe DiPunno, has the hangdog manner of, say, Jim Leyland – and a nicotine habit to match. DiPunno smokes four packs a day to deal with the stress of finding a catcher, managing the head cases who fill his roster, and coping with the endless grind of baseball season.
All in all, "Blockade Billy" merits a curtain call for the endlessly prolific, and inventive, King. His novella makes a perfect companion for scanning the summer box scores and, most impressive of all, even conjures a momentary twinge of empathy for that most scorned baseball species: the umpire.
Erik Spanberg is a freelance writer in Charlotte, N.C.


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Obama Travels to Connecticut as Nation Struggles Over Next Moves on Gun Control
(NEWTOWN, Conn.) -- President Obama is expected to travel to a mourning Newtown, Conn., this evening for memorial services, as the nation pieces together the circumstances that led to a gunman taking the lives of 20 young children and six adults Friday at the community's Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Assuming a consoling role that has become all too familiar for this presidency, Obama will also privately meet with some of the families affected by the tragic shooting, as well as local first responders.
The president has witnessed five mass shootings since assuming office in 2009, but his reaction to this most recent tragedy in New England has been his most publicly emotional. On Friday, tears collected in his eyes as he addressed the nation after the tragedy.
"The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old," the president said, pausing to collect himself. "They had their entire lives ahead of them — birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own."
But the president has also been more directly political in the immediate aftermath of these killings, as national discussions simmer over how to move forward and what, if any, policy is needed to prevent future violence. The president said it was time for "meaningful action" to prevent such tragedies, "regardless of the politics."
"We have been through this too many times, whether it's an elementary school in Newtown or a shopping mall in Oregon or a temple in Wisconsin or a movie theater in Aurora or a street corner in Chicago," he said of the other mass shootings in the past year alone. "These neighborhoods are our neighborhoods, and these children are our children."
It is a subtle but noticeable shift for Obama, who has not actively pursued stricter gun control during his four years in office despite pledges to do so during his candidacy. Although the White House says it needs support from Congress to move forward with strong legislation, it is also known that many politicians shied away to such reforms during the 2012 campaign season out of fear of alienating potential voters.
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I'm pleased to announce the availability of Apache Apollo 1.0. Apollo is a faster, more reliable, easier to maintain messaging broker built from the foundations of the Apache ActiveMQ project but with a radically different threading architecture which lets it scale to large number of concurrent connections and destinations while using a constant number of threads.
Apollo features:
- Stomp 1.0 Protocol Support
- Stomp 1.1 Protocol Support
- Topics and Queues
- Queue Browsers
- Durable Subscriptions on Topics
- Persistent/Reliable Messaging
- Message Expiration
- Message Swapping
- Message Selectors
- JAAS Authentication
- ACL based Authorization
- SSL/TLS Support and Certificate based Authentication
- REST Management API
Yes, it supports JMS! Just download Apollo, start it up using the getting started guide and then check out the distribution's
examples directory. Oh yeah, Apollo has great documentation!
I've re-run the STOMP benchmarks I covered in a previous post against the 1.0 release. The benchmark uses the STOMP protocol to build an apples to apples performance comparison between all the major STOMP servers. I've also built a new JMS benchmark which uses the JMS API build the same kind of performance comparisons. Both benchmarks are open source and available to be tried out on your choice of hardware. Or better yet, follow the simple instructions found in each project's readme to run the benchmarks on EC2:
For those of you wondering why the ActiveMQ project create new message broker as a subproject, it's because we wanted to address the shift in the processor market to multi core for the next major release. ActiveMQ currently employs complex thread locking which starts to become bottleneck as you increase the core count and you don't end up fully exploiting the potential on large core count machines. By developing the solution as a subproject, it's easier to explore the best options without impacting current main line development of ActiveMQ 5.x.
Now that the Apollo sub project has proven itself, I think it's time to start integrating it into ActiveMQ. Ideally, ActiveMQ 6 switches Apollo's messaging engine and adds/ports all the existing features we've come to expect out of ActiveMQ like networks of brokers and priority queues. But we should really be talking about this on the Apache mailing lists.. join me there!


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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, generally hairy, generally taprooted
Stem prostrate to erect
Leaves simple to pinnately compound, basal or cauline, alternate or opposite; stipules 0
Inflorescence: cyme (generally raceme-like and coiled) or flowers solitary
Flower bisexual, generally radial; calyx lobes generally 5, generally fused at base, generally persistent, enlarging in fruit; corolla generally deciduous, rotate to cylindric, lobes generally 5, appendages in pairs on tube between filaments or 0; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, filament base sometimes appendaged, appendages scale-like; ovary generally superior, chamber 1, placentas 2, parietal, enlarged into chamber, sometimes meeting so ovary appears 25-chambered, styles 12, stigmas generally head-like
Fruit: capsule, generally loculicidal; valves generally 2
Genera in family: 20 genera, 300 species: especially w US; some cultivated (Emmenanthe, Nemophila, Phacelia )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to be included in an expanded Boraginaceae (also including Lennoaceae) [Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 1998 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 85:531553; Olmstead et al. 2000 Mol Phylog Evol 16:96112]
Annual, perennial herb, generally glandular-hairy, tap-rooted or from ± thick caudex
Leaves generally alternate, simple to 2-pinnately compound, generally ± reduced upward
Inflorescence: cyme, generally dense, coiled, generally 1-sided; pedicels generally short
Flower: corolla rotate to bell-shaped, white to purple, tube base with scales free or fused to filaments; stamens generally attached at same level, equal; ovary chamber 1 (or 2 below middle), placentas parietal, enlarging and meeting in fruit, style 2-lobed, generally hairy below lobes
Fruit oblong to spheric
Seeds 1many, oblong to spheric, generally brownish; back generally pitted or cross-furrowed
Species in genus: ± 175 species: Am; some cultivated for ornamental
Etymology: (Greek: cluster, from the dense inflorescence)
Reference: [Halse 1981 Madroño 28:121132; Heckard 1960 Univ Calif Publ Botany 32:1126; Lee 1988 Syst Bot 13:1620]
Bristly hairs may cause severe dermatitis. CA pers often hybridize, difficult to separate. Biennial and perennial herb species by Richard Halse.
Annual 525 cmSee the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Stem erect, 0few-branched, glandular-puberulent, short-stiff-hairy
Leaf 1045 mm; blade linear to narrowly oblanceolate, entire, tapered to petiole
Flower: pedicel 25 mm; calyx lobes 35 mm, 510(15) mm in fruit, unequal, linear to oblanceolate, puberulent to short-hairy, glandular; corolla 58 mm, bell-shaped, tube base generally yellowish, limb white, aging pale blue, deciduous, scales lanceolate; stamens 514 mm, unequal, ± glabrous; style 58 mm, short-hairy
Fruit 35 mm, ovoid, short-stiff-hairy, gland-dotted
Seeds 48, 12 mm, pitted
Chromosomes: n=9
Ecology: Sandy or gravelly soils, coniferous forest, dry streambeds
Elevation: 14002500 m.
Bioregional distribution: San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains.


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Build your own twitter like real time analytics - a step by step guide
Major social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter have developed their own architectures for handling the need for real-time analytics on huge amounts of data. However, not every company has the need or resources to build their own Twitter-like solution.
In this example we have taken the same Twitter/Facebook-like blueprint, and made it simple enough for developers to implement. We have taken the following approach in our implementation:
- Use In Memory Data Grid (XAP) for handling the real time stream data-processing.
- BigData data-base (Cassandra) for storing the historical data and manage the trend analytics
- Use Cloudify (cloudifysource.org) for managing and automating the deployment on private or pubic cloud
The example demonstrate a simple case of word count analytics. It uses Spring Social to plug-in to real twitter feeds. The solution is designed to efficiently cope with getting and processing the large volume of tweets. First, we partition the tweets so that we can process them in parallel, but we have to decide on how to partition them efficiently. Partitioning by user might not be sufficiently balanced, therefore we decided to partition by the tweet ID, which we assume to be globally unique. Then we need persist and process the data with low latency, and for this we store the tweets in memory.


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2008 Dr Pepper Football Championship Insider Blog
Wendell Barnhouse is a nationally-known and respected columnist who has spent over 20 years covering collegiate athletics. He has reported from 23 Final Fours and more than three dozen bowl games and has written about the Big 12 and its schools since the conference's beginning. Barnhouse will be updating the Big 12 Insider on happenings and behind-the-scenes information about the conference.
Saturday, Dec. 6
Projecting the bowls
The Bowl Championship Series selection show on Fox starts at 7 p.m. CT. Here's how the Big 12 bowl games figure to look when the official pairings are released Sunday:
BCS Championship game: Oklahoma vs. Florida.
BCS Fiesta Bowl: Texas vs. at-large team.
Cotton Bowl: Texas Tech vs. Southeastern Conference team.
Holiday Bowl: Oklahoma State vs. Pacific-10 Conference team.
Gator Bowl: Nebraska vs. Atlantic Coast Conference team.
Alamo Bowl: Missouri vs. Big Ten Conference team.
Insight Bowl: Kansas vs. Big Ten Conference team.
Check out the postgame: One more thing before I head to the field - for complete postgame coverage (analysis, interviews, etc.) make sure to log on to www.Big12Sports.com. The web site plans a postgame wrapup that should supply plenty of interesting information.
Oklahoma 41, Missouri 14, end of third quarter: The Sooners are 15 minutes from wrapping up their third consecutive Big 12 championship. We'll suspend blogging for now. I'll be headed to the field at the 5:00 mark to help chase down some quotes.
Oklahoma 41, Missouri 14, 3:59 third quarter: Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel hit receiver Tommy Saunders on a nine-yard slant pass for a touchdown with 3:59 remaining.
Oklahoma 41, Missouri 7, 9:00 third quarter: Jimmy Stevens kicked a 30-yard field goal as the Sooners scored on their first offensive possession of the second half after forcing a Missouri punt.
Halftime notes: Oklahoma's Chris Brown has over 1,000 yards rushing. The Sooners are the first team in Division I-A history to have two 1,000-yard rushers (DeMarco Murray has 1,002 yards rushing) and a 4,000-yard passer (Sam Bradford). ... The Sooners has surpassed Hawaii's single-season scoring record (656 points in 2006). Oklahoma's 38 points in the first half gives it 678 points. ... OU's 31-point halftime lead was the third-largest in Big 12 Championship game history. Texas led Colorado by 39 (42-3) in 2005.
Oklahoma 38, Missouri 7, halftime: The Sooners down to their third-team middle linebacker and without its best running back (DeMarco Murray) had little trouble dominating the first 30 minutes. OU outscored Missouri 28-7 in the second quarter. The Sooners scored twice in a span of 2:01 and then scored two more TDs in a span of 2:40.
In last year's Big 12 Championship game between the Sooners and the Tigers, the game was tied 14-all at halftime.
Oklahoma 38, Missouri 7, :53 second quarter: Oklahoma is the avalanche, Missouri is the ski chalet. Oklahoma cornerback Brian Jackson intercepted Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel and returned it to the Tigers' 28. After a 22-yard pass from Sam Bradford to Ryan Broyles, Chris Brown reached the endzone on a six-yard run.
Following Bradford's completion to Broyles, press box announcer Peter Irwin said "Frank Broyles" before quickly correcting himself. The writers in the box got a good chuckle and then laughed when Irwin corrected himself by saying, "You've seen one Broyles, you've seen 'em all."
Oklahoma 31, Missouri 7, 2:33 second quarter: Third-team tailback Mossis Madu scored on a 12-yard run off the left side. It capped an 89-yard, 15-play drive. Eight of the plays on the drive were runs.
Oklahoma 24, Missouri 7, 8:59 second quarter: That's 14 points in just over two minutes. The Sooners' scoring drive was set up when Nic Harris hit Chase Daniel on a first-down run. Daniel fumbled and the Sooners recovered. They drove 49 yards in six plays. Sam Bradford, just before he got drilled by Missouri defensive lineman Ziggy Hood, found Juaquin Iglesias for a seven-yard touchdown pass.
Just before the snap, someone from the lower stands fired an orange onto the field. It rolled just past Bradford, who was in the shotgun. In the old days in the Big Eight, OU fans like to toss oranges on the field to celebrate trips to the Orange Bowl.
Oklahoma 17, Missouri 7, 11:00 second quarter: On a third-and-seven from the 11, Oklahoma's Sam Bradford had lots of time, moved in the pocket and eventually found Juaquin Iglesias for the touchdown.
Just four minutes into the second quarter and we've already had six personal foul penalties. Oklahoma has a 4-2 lead. The most recent PF came on Juaquin Iglesias. It was a non-contact penalty so it involved trash talk or something unsportsmanlike. Because of the penalty, Oklahoma kicked off from its own 15. Missouri returned it to the OU 47.
Oklahoma 10, Missouri 7, 13:09 second quarter: Jeremy Maclin scored on a 22-yard pass from Chase Daniel on a thrid-and-seven. Maclin was isolated on OU linebacker Travis Lewis and caught a short pass over the middle, then ran it in. On the previous play, Missouri came up short on a third-and-two but was flagged for an illegal formation. OU took the penalty instead of giving the Tigers a fourth-and-short.
On the touchdown play, Missouri's Tommy Saunders was called for a personal foul, non-contact. He appeared to make a throat slash motion after Maclin's TD. Missouri kicked off from its own 15. Oklahoma returned it to its own 47.
End of first quarter: The Sooners have a 10-0 lead. In the first quarter, each team had the ball for 7:30. You rarely see the time of possession split 50-50.
Oklahoma 10, Missouri 0, 2:03 first quarter: The Sooners have no karma issues. OU went 90 yards in eight plays with running back Chris Brown going the last 17 yards on three carries. He scored from the four on a first-and-goal.
After the touchdown, the Sooner Schooner made its first appearance. At about the 25-yard line, the driver lost the reins. It took a few minutes to untangle the reins from the right front wheel.
4:37, first quarter: Oklahoma has some karma issues. DeMarco Murray appears to be out for the game after being injured and the Sooners committed two personal foul penalties in a five-play series. In addition to Jimmy Stevens' ugly field goal, punter Mike Knall shanked his first attempt 26 yards. So far, this one's a defensive struggle. Who knew?
7:02, first quarter - Missouri's Jeff Wolfert just missed a 48-yard field goal attempt. That's usually well within his range but the kick wound up just short. The Tigers' drive stalled when Chase Daniel was tackled for a four-yard loss on a quarterback draw on third and two from the Oklahoma 26.
DeMarco Murray, OU's leading rusher, appears to have an injury to his left leg. He was on his back and a trainer was stretching the leg.
Oklahoma 3, Missouri 0, 10:55: Jimmy Stevens made a 20-yard field goal. He drilled it. Literally. His kick was about 11 yards high and barely cleared the cross bar.
Murray is up and walking around but he still is showing his frustration.
7:23 p.m. - Oklahoma running back DeMarco Murray apparently was hurt on the opening kickoff. He has spent the opening drive on the OU bench, pounding his fists in frustration.
7:16 p.m. - Oklahoma's DeMarco Murray returns the opening kickoff 30 yards. We'll post another update when there's something significant to report.
7:12 p.m. - The team captains are meeting in the center of the field for the coin toss. Oklahoma won the toss and elected to receive and defend the North end zone.
7:11 p.m. - Oklahoma takes the field. The Sooners also gathered in the North end zone.
7:09 p.m. - Missouri has taken the field. The team ran to the North end zone before heading to their bench area.
7:05 p.m. - The natural grass field appears to be in good shape. A few weeks ago, the Chiefs installed new turf between the hashmarks. The grass between the hashes and the sidelines looks a little beat up but the cold temperatures and the lack of preciptitation appears to have eliminated slippery conditions.
7:03 p.m. - Official game-time temperature is 32 degrees.
6:46 p.m. - The teams have left the field. The Sooners had to move through the Missouri marching band that had assembled on the sideline. A few Tigers fans booed.
6:28 p.m. - It's a final in Atlanta in the Southeastern Conference champinship game. Florida scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns to surge past Alabama, 31-20. The victory probably assures the Gators a spot in the Bowl Championship Series title game on Jan. 8. Alabama (12-1) will likely wind up in the Sugar Bowl. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow had three short touchdown passes in a performance that will no doubt get the attention of Heisman Trophy voters. Sam Bradford, you're up.
5:39 p.m. - Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe just finished an informal news conference in the Arrowhead Stadium press box.
Beebe said that if there is a change in the tiebreaker rule the process would start during athletic directors meetings in March during the Big 12 basketball tournaments. Any change in the rule would require a 7-5 vote.
"Typically what happens is that Big 12 staff will gather information and distribute it to the schools," Beebe said. "We can look at any changes that the schools might want."
There won't likely be any change in the rule until the conference spring meetings in May.
5:10 p.m. - Oklahoma is in the house. The Sooners, wearing crimson warmups, are checking out the field. Some are in shirt sleeves, some wearing shorts. Mind over nature?
5:03 p.m. - Bowl buzz. Notre Dame is bowl eligible with a 6-6 record. A number of minor bowls have openings and would love to have the Irish.
However, NCAA post-season rules dictate that any at-large teams with records better than 6-6 must be selected before teams with .500 records. The Western Athletic Conference has five bowl-eligible teams, four with 7-5 records, and four bowl tie-ins. The Mid-American Conference also might have an extra team with a record better than 7-5.
There are two likely landing spots for the Irish and both would be created by the Big 12 not having enough bowl-eligible teams to fill their bowl agreements. Notre Dame could play in the Texas Bowl in Houston against Rice. It also could wind up in the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La. The Independence matches teams from the Big 12 and Southeastern conferences; neither league will have enough bowl-eligible teams to fill their bowl commitments.
4:55 p.m. - Missouri is in the house. The Tigers, dressed in black warmups, are walking the field, some are kneeling to pray.
4:50 p.m. - More on the Banner Battles. A pro-Texas banner being flown over the stadium had this message: Enjoy The BeatByTexas.com Bowl. Obviously a reference to the fact that Oklahoma and Missouri both lost to the Longhorns.
4:45 p.m. - Greetings from Arrowhead Stadium. It appears the Dr Pepper Football Championship game will be played in cold and dry conditions. The skies are clear. Temperature at kickoff is forecast to be 31 degrees with a wind chill of 22. At 10 p.m., about the time the game should be winding down, it's forecast to be 26 degrees with a wind chill of 18.
Friday, Dec. 5
8:35 p.m. - Just got back to my hotel room here at the Westin following the inaugural Big 12 Legends reception. The autograph session for the 12 Legends went overtime; they didn't cap the last Sharpie until about 40 minutes ago. This first-time event was quite a hit and its popularity should only grow with each Big 12 championship game.
As Baylor legend Grant Teaff said: "The past is relevant to where we are now."
Each Legend received a crystal trophy - a football on a stand that had the Legend's name engraved. Teaff, executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, noted that the crystal football was a mini version of the $30,000 Waterford crystal football that the AFCA presents to its national championship team. I mentioned that the Legends trophy resembled the NFL's Super Bowl trophy. We agreed the Legends trophy was a hybrid.
Here are some other tidbits/observations from the Legends event:
* Dave Armstrong, who has been broadcasting Big Eight and Big 12 games for 23 years, was the master of ceremonies. The Legends were introduced and brought on stage one by one, preceded by video highlights.
* Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, who retired in 2005, has returned to his job with the Wildcats. When I told him "Welcome back" he gave me a smile but then said, "I'm not so sure." He was kidding. I think.
* After John Hadl (Kansas), Bill Snyder (Kansas State) and John Kadlec (Missouri) were seated, Armstrong remarked, "Kansas, Kansas State and Missouri, all sitting next to each other. That's a photo opportunity."
* Texas Legend Priest Holmes flashed a wide smile and displayed Hook 'Em signs with both hands. When Texas A&M Legend John David Crow followed Holmes to the head table, Crow "retaliated" with the Aggies' thumbs up Gig 'em sign.
* Iowa State Legend Matt Blair is a photographer of some renown. He has an on-line photo book "Time Never Stops" that can be ordered at www.blurb.com. Blair was busy clicking his Nikon as the group's unofficial photographer.
* Snyder spoke for the 12 Legends: "I'm enjoying the daylights out of this. This is a highlight for each and every one of us. Each and every one of these gentlemen have been special to their universities in so many ways. It's not just about football. These gentlemen have been a conduit from their university to national recoginition. This conference has so many amazing universities with programs and academics of national and world-wide merit. That information doesn't get out that often. But it does when these gentlemen promote this silly game of college football. Everybody pays attention."
* Dennis Poppe, who played at Missouri and is now with the NCAA, was in Kansas City for his grand daughter's birthday but dropped by the Legends reception. Poppe is the NCAA's Managing Director for Football & Baseball. His main football duty involves bowl games and their certification. He's been busy dealing with trying to help officiate bowls that are trying to fill their slots because the Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences don't have enough bowl-eligible teams to fill their contractual bowl obligations.
* Missouri Legend John Kadlec's daughter Peggy lives in Kansas City. She stopped by to say hello. We were high school classmates - Columbia, Mo., Hickman, Class of '72.
3:10 p.m. - Just perusing the Interweb and came across this item on FrontBurner, the blog site for Dallas-based D Magazine. You might remember that during the Texas-Oklahoma game, Dallas towing firm Lone Star Auto Services towed a bunch of cars that had been waved into a pay lot on game day. When they returned, their cars had been towed. The city of Dallas has ordered to cease operations. Here's the kicker, via FrontBurner poster and D Magazine editor/writer Eric Celeste: the company blamed its problems on the BCS.
3 p.m. - Just got back from a trip to a local studio to be hooked up via satellite for an appearance on ESPN's Outside The Lines. The first segement of the show reported on O.J. Simpson's sentencing. So I've got that working for me in the resume department.
1 p.m. - Coaches Bob Stoops of Oklahoma and Gary Pinkel of Missouri spent the last 15 minutes on stage with Musburger for a Q and A session. A number of questions were submitted by fans who attended the luncheon. Here are some highlights.
* One question asked each coach if there was one Big 12 player he could add for the championship game, who would it be. "I anticipated that question," Pinkel chuckled. "Actually, I'm happy with my team." Stoops agreed then said, "I'd like to steal (Missouri receiver/returner Jeremy) Maclin."
* Stoops said that quarterback Sam Bradford's thumb injury to his non-throwing hand should not be an issue. "Sam has practiced all week and operated in the same manner he always has," Stoops said. "The difference is we've had the chance to prepare for it and brace (the thumb)."
* On the post-season, both coaches would lean toward a plus-one system that would match the top four teams in bowl games with the winners playing for the national championship. Stoops also said he wants to see the bowl system maintained.
* When Missouri played Kansas last Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium was played in "snowy, rainy, crummy" conditions according to Pinkel. That led to some footing issues for both teams. "They (the Chiefs) got the field in the best shape the could," Pinkel said. "Isn't that a great answer?" Stoops isn't concerned about the field conditions. "We're all playing in same conditions," Stoops said. "We'll play on it whatever it is. I don't concern myself with something that will be both ways for each team."
* A representative from the Rose Bowl won the drawing for the football autographed by both coaches.
12:40 p.m. - Musburger said when he was going through airport security in Missoula, Mont., he was asked to step aside for a special pat down by aiport security. But Musburger said it just emphasized how much interest Big 12 football is generating. "The guy wanted to ask me if Missouri has a chance," Musburger said.
12:35 p.m. - The Big 12 male and female athletes of the year were honored and recognized - Kansas women's volleyball athlete Katie Martincich and Baylor men's basketball player Mamadou Diene. Also honored and recognized were the Big 12 Special Olympians of the Year. Derek "Tank" Schottie from Sugarland, Texas, and Tabitha Darnell from Davenport, Iowa.
12:10 p.m. - Master of ceremonies Brent Musburger of ABC has made is opening remarks. It's time for the salads.
Noon - As an appetizer before the lunch, here are some links and nuggets:
ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach writes about the paths that Oklahoma and Missouri took to reach the Dr Pepper Football Championship game.
ESPN.com's Tim Griffin, whose coverage of the Big 12 this season has been outstanding and prolific, explains why Oklahoma's offense might be one of the best ever.
Will he stay or will he go? Texas Tech wide receiver Michael Crabtree told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal he plans to return for the 2009 season instead of entering the NFL Draft.
Two Texas A&M players tell Randy Riggs of the Austin American-Statesman their opinion on which Big 12 South team is the best.
Oklahoma's defense will probably try to play some mind games with Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel.
* Via the ever-diligent Joseph Duarte of the Houston Chronicle and the Dan Patrick Radio Show, here's the top four teams in Texas coach Mack Brown's recent ballot in the USA Today/Coaches poll: 1, Alabama; 2, Texas; 3, Florida; 4, Oklahoma. All 61 coaches' ballots will be revealed after Sunday's final regular-season vote but Brown divulged his top four while on Patrick's show.
* Remember the banner flying over Stillwater Saturday that reminded everyone about the score of the Texas-Oklahoma game? Thursday, a single-engine plane flying over Austin towed the following sign: 'HEY MACK BROWN QUIT WHINING YOU KNEW THE RULES!' While Texas fans claimed responsibility for the plane rental last Saturday, it's unclear who paid for Thursday's airborne signage.
* When Texas and Oklahoma meet next October for the Red River Rivalry, there might need to be an air traffic control tower set up at the Cotton Bowl.
* One last comment about the tiebreaker controversy. Those who are blaming the Big 12 Conference are directing their criticism in the wrong direction. The conference administrates for the 12 member schools. The schools decide what goes on. The schools decided on the tiebreaker rules, not the conference.
11:55 a.m. - Greetings from Kansas City and the start of Dr Pepper Football Championship weekend. I'm currently sitting in the Century Ballroom at the Westin Hotel awaiting the start of the Kickoff Luncheon.
Posting on the blog helps keep me awake. I was in Austin Thursday for Texas' victory over UCLA in the Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series. I drove back to Dallas after the game and had an 8 a.m. Southwest flight out of Love Field. Add that all together and it was three hours of sleep for your Big 12 Insider.


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Changes in ones career, relationships, and purposeful path often happen as a result of life's challenges. Your struggles, your journey of inner healing, and the lessons learned in the process are often teachers that enable you to help others in amazing ways. This has been true for me, Lori Bestler. I have come to realize that what makes me unique and effective is my keen awareness of self, of others "self-ness" and knowing who I am at my core. A big part of who I am is an Empath. Not only that, I have come to understand that the numerous "Busy Minded" individuals I coach or work with through my life coaching and hypnosis work, are often highly sensitive and often empathic in some way.
It has always been my passionate purpose to help individuals utilize their unique gifts, accept and embrace being different, and to deal with their sensitivities in an effective and healthy way where a harmonious, successful, rich and joy filled life results.
Knowledge is power, and it is often a breakthrough tool for rising above your struggles. Therefore, educate yourself on the traits of an Empath. For many, and if you're like most of my busy minded coaching clients, you will find this to be an excellent article that will help you understand more about yourself, especially if you are struggling with emotions, increasing physical discomfort, being extra sensitive to sensory stimulation; visually, auditorily, feelings physically, (conflict, yelling, loud or irritating noises, unappealing smells, feelings triggered by disturbing situations) which overload you and you want to cope better.
21 Traits of an Awakened Soul (A "Sensitive Awakened to Be an Empath")
You can say it's because of a global shift in consciousness, a destiny we have arrived at due to spiritual evolution, or the outcome of strange times, but, many people all across the globe are going through intense personal changes and sensing an expansion of consciousness. Personal changes of this magnitude can be difficult to recognize and to understand, but here are 21 traits of an awakening soul, a 'sensitive', or an 'empath.'
1. Being in public places is sometimes overwhelming. Since our walls between self and other are dissolving, we haven't really learned to distinguish between someone else's energy and our own. If the general mood of the crowd is herd-like or negative, we can feel this acutely, and may feel like retreating into our own private space. When we have recharged our batteries with meditation, spending time in nature, far away from other people, or just sitting in quiet contemplation, we are ready to be with the masses again. In personal relationships, we often will feel someone else's emotions as our own. It is important to have this higher sense of empathy, but we must learn to allow another person's emotions while observing them and keeping our empathy, but, realizing that not all emotions belong to us. Social influence can dampen our own innate wisdom.
2. We know things without having to intellectually figure them out. Often called intuitive awareness, we have 'a-ha' moments and insights that can explain some of the most complex theories or phenomenon in the world. Some of the most brilliant minds of our time just 'know.' Adepts and sages often were given downloads of information from higher states of consciousness after meditating or being in the presence of a more conscious individual; this is happening for more people with more frequency. As we trust our intuition more often, it grows stronger. This is a time of 'thinking' with our hearts more than our heads. Our guts will no longer be ignored. Our dreams are becoming precognitive and eventually our conscious thoughts will be as well.
3. Watching television or most of main stream media, including newspapers and many Hollywood movies is very distasteful to us. The mindset that creates much, but not all, of the programming on television and in cinema is abhorrent. It commodifies people and promotes violence. It reduces our intelligence and numbs our natural empathetic response to someone in pain.
4. Lying to us is nearly impossible. We may not know exactly what truth you are withholding, but we can also tell (with our developing intuition and ESP skills) that something is not right. We also know when you have other emotions, pain, love, etc. that you aren't expressing. You're an open book to us. We aren't trained in counter-intelligence; we are just observant and knowing. While we may pick up on physical cues, we can look into your eyes and know what you are feeling.
5. We may pick up symptoms of your cold, just like men who get morning sickness when their wives are pregnant. Sympathy pains, whether emotional or physical, are something we experience often. We tend to absorb emotion through the solar plexus, considered the place we 'stomach emotion' so as we learn to strengthen this chakra center, we may sometimes develop digestive issues. Grounding to the earth can help to re-establish our emotional center. Walking barefoot is a great way to re-ground.
6. We tend to root for the underdog, those without voices, those who have been beaten down by the matrix, etc. We are very compassionate people, and these marginalized individuals often need more love. People can sense our loving hearts, so complete strangers will often tell us their life stories or approach us with their problems. While we don't want to be a dumping ground for everyone's issues, we are also a good ear for those working through their stuff.
7. If we don't learn how to set proper boundaries, we can get tired easily from taking on other people's emotions. Energy Vampires are drawn to us like flies to paper, so we need to be extra vigilant in protecting ourselves at times.
8. Unfortunately, sensitives or empaths often turn to drug abuse or alcohol to block some of their emotions and to 'protect' themselves from feeling the pain of others.
9. We are all becoming healers. We naturally gravitate toward healing fields, acupuncture, reiki, Qi-Gong, yoga, massage, midwivery, hypnotists, etc. are fields we often find ourselves in. We know that the collective needs to be healed, and so we try our best to offer healing in whatever form we are most drawn to. We also turn away from the 'traditional' forms of healing ourselves. Preferring natural foods, herbs, and holistic medicine as ways to cure every ailment.
10. We see the possibilities before others do. Just like when the church told Copernicus he was wrong, and he stood by his heliocentric theory, we know what the masses refuse to believe. Our minds are light-years ahead.
11. We are creative. We sing, dance, paint, invent, or write. We have amazing imaginations.
12. We require more solitude than the average person.
13. We might get bored easily, but we are really good at entertaining ourselves.
14. We have a difficult time doing things we don't want to do or don't really enjoy. We really do believe life was meant to be an expression of joy. Why waste it doing something you hate? We aren't lazy, we are discerning.
15. We are obsessed with bringing the truth to light. Like little children who say, "That's not fair" we want to right the wrongs of the world, and we believe it often just takes education. We endeavor to explain the unexplainable and find answers to the deep questions of life. We are seekers, in the Campbellian paradigm. 'The Hero With a Thousand Faces."
16. We can't keep track of time. Our imaginations often get away with us and a day can feel like a minute, a week, a day.
17. We abhor routine.
18. We often disagree with authority (for obvious reasons).
19. We will often be kind, but if you are egotistical or rude, we won't spend much time with you or find an excuse to not hang out with people who are obsessed with themselves. We don't 'get' people who are insensitive to other people's feelings or points of view.
20. We may be vegan or vegetarian because we can sense a certain energy of the food we eat, like if an animal was slaughtered inhumanely. We don't want to consume negative energy.
21. We wear our own emotions on our sleeves and have a hard time 'pretending' to be happy if we aren't. We avoid confrontation, But will quietly go about changing the world in ways you can't even see.
These 21 traits of an awakening soul are a reminder of how important it is to maintain awareness, clarity and strength in these interesting times.
If you are struggling with excessive negative emotions that seem difficult to shake, sensitivities that lead to holding onto painful feelings, struggle with anxiety or excessive stress, contact Lori for a no cost phone consultation. There are many resources and techniques to help you rise above these issues to live a life you absolutely love.
About the Author
Christina Sarich is a musician, yogi, humanitarian and freelance writer who channels many hours of studying Lao Tzu, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rob Brezny, Miles Davis, and Tom Robbins into interesting tidbits to help you Wake up Your Sleepy Little Head, and See the Big Picture. Her blog is Yoga for the New World. Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing the Body And Mind Through the Art of Yoga.
Republished with Permission
Lastly; if you love an Empath. Here are tips to support them and love them more...
15 Things To Remember If You Love An Empath
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Khouri on Arab security services and foreign policy
A very cautiously written, but important column by Rami Khouri: When Arab security chiefs conduct foreign policy
Two intriguing meetings took place this past week in the Arab world. In Egypt, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with the intelligence services directors of four Arab states - Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Just days later, Arab heads of state met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for their annual Arab League summit.
Which of the two meetings was more significant and signaled the tone, content, and direction of Arab state policies? Was this a natural interplay between three separate factors - United States foreign policy, Arab security systems, and Arab leaderships? Or did the three converge into a single trend, where US foreign policy blended with Arab security policy?
The Arab summit was a routine event that reissued a historic, but five-year-old peace offer to Israel. Rice's meeting with the intelligence chiefs was a novelty that deserves more scrutiny, for both its current meaning and for its future implications.
Whatever the nature of Rice's meeting with the Arab intelligence chiefs, it seems like the sort of noteworthy development that Arab governments should explain to their own Arab citizens. As the Iraq situation shows with gruesome daily regularity, security is a core imperative for Arab citizens and their states. Citizens need to know that they can leave their homes in the morning and have a good chance of returning alive at night. States, societies, and governments need to know that theirs are orderly, secure, stable communities that can aspire to achieving their full potential and even some prosperity.
Security is not a dirty word, and Arab security systems need not remain a secret and forbidden world of shadows and whispers. Arab security agencies have important, legitimate roles to play. The modern Arab states have all pursued domestic policies that place security and regime survival before any other value. Most Arab citizens who live in safe, stable societies appreciate that fact. A few Arab states that have allowed security agencies to abuse their roles have been transformed into grotesque police states, to the discomfort and disdain of most of their citizens, and the world.
A new set of questions arises, though, if some of these states now consider giving security agencies a role in foreign policy in addition to their established role in domestic governance. The wider context in which this may be happening is pertinent. Rice's latest visit to the region included her quest for "moderate Sunni Arabs" who would join the United States and Israel in their face-off against Iran and its Arab allies, alongside her meeting to foster bonding between the US State Department and Arab security establishments.
Arab citizens in whose name and for whose interests this is happening deserve to be informed about the full implications of what is going on. This is especially true if we are witnessing a confluence between the largely Israeli-defined Middle East foreign policy of the US and some Arab security agencies. Security agencies play a central role in Arab public policy, and are moving into foreign policy duties. Egyptian foreign policy relations with the Palestinians and Saudi links with Washington, for example, are both being handled today primarily by top security personnel, rather than Foreign Ministry officials.


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Archive for Thursday, July 7, 2011
Douglas County DA: No charges planned in fatality accident on Kansas Highway 10
July 7, 2011
Douglas County prosecutors won't file criminal charges in connection with a May 31 accident on the South Lawrence Trafficway in which a Lyndon woman was struck and killed by debris that fell from a pickup truck.
"This appears to be just a horrific accident," District Attorney Charles Branson said. "But there was no conduct that rose to the level warranting filing of criminal charges."
Douglas County Sheriff's officers had forwarded information in June to Branson's office for review. Detectives had said witnesses indicated a metal object fell from a westbound Dodge pickup truck hauling items and eventually pierced the windshield of an another pickup truck following it, according to the accident report.
The metal object, described as a tooth from the bucket of a front-end loader, struck 47-year-old Cindy Burnett, a passenger in her husband's pickup truck. She later died from her injuries. The sheriff's office identified 20-year-old Nicholas Rockhold of Baldwin City as the driver of the truck that lost the piece of debris.
But Branson said prosecutors would only refer the case back to the sheriff's office to consider any citations for traffic infractions. Sgt. Steve Lewis, a sheriff's spokesman, said Tuesday Rockhold was ticketed for failing to secure a load.
"We've completed our review of the investigation in this matter," Branson said. "We've determined that there are no criminal charges appropriate to file in this case."
According to the accident report, Rockhold told Detective Jay Armbrister that all items on his trailer were chained down and that he stopped twice to make sure the load hadn't shifted and the chains had not loosened.
The accident occurred just north of the Kansas Highway 10 bridge over Clinton Parkway southwest of Lawrence. Armbrister said Rockhold told him the object possibly could have come out of a container when he hit bumps where the pavement meets the bridge deck on K-10.
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A Texas appeals court tossed out the criminal conviction of former US House majority leader Tom DeLay on Thursday, saying there was insufficient evidence for a jury in 2010 to have found him guilty of illegally funneling money to Republican candidates.
DeLay was found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering for helping illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. He was sentenced to three years in prison, but his sentence was on hold while his case made its way through the appellate process.
The Texas third court of appeals said the evidence was "legally insufficient," and in a two to one ruling decided to "reverse the judgments of the trial court and render judgments of acquittal."
DeLay's attorney, Brian Wice, told the Associated Press that DeLay felt validated by Thursday's ruling.
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Wice said the state could appeal to the Texas criminal court of appeals, the state's highest criminal court. Wice said he was confident DeLay would win again if necessary.
A jury in Austin had determined that DeLay conspired with two associates, John Colyandro and Jim Ellis, to use his Texas-based political action committee to send a check for $190,000 in corporate money to an arm of the Washington-based Republican national committee. The RNC then sent the same amount to seven Texas House candidates. Under state law, corporate money cannot be given directly to political campaigns.
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The Brandon Unruh family knows the secret to growing great pumpkins, lots of water.
"They take a lot of water, more than you'd want to pay for," Krisi Unruh said.
She said the last few years have been rough with the drought, and this year because of all the rain.
"We don't have good soil that can handle all the rain up here, some of the pumpkins did not drain properly and almost drowned," she said.
The family owns and operates a pumpkin patch outside Goessel called Papa's Pumpkin Patch. They grow 20 varieties of pumpkins from the classic orange to green pumpkins, big and small pumpkins, and gourds.
"The size depends on the variety," Unruh said. "We sell your plain medium orange pumpkin the most."
Throughout the year, Kristi, along with her in-laws, husband, four children, and multiple grand children help tend to the patch and raise the pumpkins for the holiday season.
"It's a big family effort," Kristi said. "There's always a bunch of us here and we have a lot of fun. Everyone plays some roll."
The patch is the brain child of Kristi after taking her kids to Wal-Mart to pick out pumpkins to carve.
"I just didn't want them to know that's where pumpkins came from," she said. "So the next year we started a small patch and each year it grew. We had some family and friends come out and pick pumpkins and they said you really have something going on here, so we decided to commit and open on a large scale."
The family now cultivates five acres worth of pumpkins, and hosts school tours during the week, and is open to the public Friday through Sunday.
"We don't charge an entrance fee, because we think it's important for everyone to be able to experience picking a pumpkin from a patch," Unruh said. "This way people can just buy what they want or can manage and everyone can have a pumpkin to carve."
The patch also offers fun activities such as target shooting with a slingshot and air cannon, an play area including a slide and barrel swings, hayrack rides, and several animals to pet.
For more information on the patch visit http://papaspumpkinpatchks.com/index.html.


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- Rosso: Located at the corner of upper storey comes the second french bedroom Rosso with great nature view of both sides.
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Moh Yin Chang
posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007 - 2:00 pm
Dear Dr. Muthen,
May I know if Mplus can handle joint modeling of survival and repeated measure (growth model) distribution? What is I also want to model discontinuity in the repeated measure process?
Moh Yin
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 10:09 am
Mplus can handle joint modeling of survival and repeated measure. You can use either continuous or discrete time survival modeling. This modeling is essentially NMAR analysis, so it could be tricky but powerful.
Anna Zajacova
posted on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 3:41 pm
I am also interested in a joint model of a repeated-measure outcome (5-category ordered variable) and survival in a data with 70% dying during the 4-wave 7-year study.
May I ask where I could find an example of implementing the joint survival/growth model in Mplus?
Many thanks in advance for your response -- this discussion forum is immensely helpful!!!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Sunday, December 06, 2009 - 10:58 am
One way to handle this is to follow the UG examples 6.23. Just replace the f, u part with your growth model where f would be the growth factors.
That's not the only way to do this, however. You can also study e.g. the Diggle-Kenward 1994 Applied Statistics "selection" modeling approach to NMAR, the Roy 2003 Biometrics pattern-mixture oriented approach, and the Beunckens et al 2008 Biometrics shared-parameter approach. The Beunckens approach is similar to ex 6.23 in the 1-class case. These approaches and many more can be handled in Mplus as I show in an upcoming paper. The question is how you view the relationship between death, your outcome, and other related variables.
Anna Zajacova
posted on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 - 11:25 am
Dear Dr. Muthen,
Many thanks for your prompt and helpful reply!
I will consult the sources you suggested.
Anna Zajacova
Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell
posted on Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 9:09 am
I have longitudinal data on the onset of substance use across four substances -- cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana. I have estimated discrete-time survival models for each substance separately and would like to model the relationship among hazards across substances, analogous to a parallel-process model of multiple LGCM trajectories. I am uncertain that I have done this correctly and would like to confirm before I interpret. Here is the code:
analysis: estimator = mlr; integration=montecarlo;
model: hazc by
hazt by
haza by
hazm by
hazc hazt haza hazm on sexf;
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 5:33 pm
You want to check that your 5 haz factors are correlated conditional on the covariate - check your output and if not add WITH statements.
Michael S. Businelle, Ph.D.
posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 8:31 am
I am conducting a discrete time survival analysis (example 6.19 in edition 5 of the MPlus manual).
I have 4 differet time points where relapse was determined (abstinent = 0, relapse = 1, missing = 999). It seems that example 6.19 instructs me to code all time points after the first relapse as missing. Is this correct?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 9:46 am
Yes, this is correct. You will find more information about discrete-time survival analysis in the Topic 4 course handout on the website starting at slide 132. Following are examples of how the data should look for discrete-time survival analysis:
� An individual who is censored after time period five ( ji = 6)
( 0 0 0 0 0 )
� An individual who experiences the event in period four ( ji = 4)
( 0 0 0 1 999 )
� An individual who drops out after period three, i.e. is censored
during period four before the study ends ( ji = 4)
( 0 0 0 999 999 )
Borja Del Pozo Cruz
posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2019 - 12:36 am
I want to run a continuous-time survival analysis using a Cox regression model. In doing so, my outcome is continuous and longitudinal (sitting, measured 5 times- s1-s5). So i first run a growth curve model and then try to link that model with the mortality risk. I have two covariates x, and y. Am i correct with the following model? if not could please assist?
VARIABLE: NAMES = t s1-s5 x y tc;
SURVIVAL = t (ALL);
TIMECENSORED = tc (0 = NOT 1 = RIGHT);
i s |
i s t ON x y;
the idea is then to predict t from i and s, after controling for x and y.
Tihomir Asparouhov
posted on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - 8:38 am
This looks reasonable. You would need "t on i s" as well. In addition, you should use
SURVIVAL = t;
instead of
SURVIVAL = t (all);
The difference is explained in Section 9
That change will allow Mplus to use the most appropriate treatment for the survival variable.
Borja Del Pozo Cruz
posted on Thursday, August 15, 2019 - 4:11 pm
thank you, Tihomir.
Its seem to work fine. I shall try adding a mixture part as well. I will post my proposal to that and imay have some follow up questions. Thanks! Borja
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Volunteers have spent many hours recently moving merchandise from the old St. Luke Hospital Auxiliary Shoppe to the new.
Volunteers are carrying many items by hand, but larger and more cumbersome items are being transported the nearly one-block distance by pickup. Volunteer Dean Armstrong said racks full of clothes have been the heaviest, bulkiest things to move.
"It's going great," volunteer Joyce Richmond said. "I think we've had good help."
There has been a slightly different crew of volunteers every day, and they have been working since before Labor Day.
Shop manager Rosemary Garrard estimated the auxiliary has had 45 or more volunteers help with the move into the former Duckwall store. Some put in a couple of hours, while others have helped for days.
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The real job of an industrial energy management system
Industrial users have been looking at ways to operate more efficiently for some time now. For many, the focus on efficiency has been primarily oriented toward ways to streamline their overall work flow and operations process. However, due to the rising cost of energy and the need to further reduce operating costs, users are now beginning to focus on how efficiently they are using energy. Globally, industrial users account for approximately 27% of total energy consumption. Omitting energy used by the electrical power sector and electricity related losses, the industrial sector accounted for approximately 52% of total energy consumption in 2008. See Figure 1.
While industrial users cannot control the energy market directly, they can manage how efficiently they use energy. Energy management systems are a very effective way for users to understand their energy consumption and the associated costs. Armed with this information, a user can then make the necessary decisions to reduce energy consumption without impacting his ability to meet production goals.
New standards such as ISO 50001 can help users understand their own requirements for an energy management system and provide guidance through the use of the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) continuous-improvement structure, ensuring the system meets the user's energy goals. See Figure 2.
What to gather, how to decide
An energy management system should be able to gather information surrounding any form of energy consumption, be it electric, liquid fuels, natural gas, oil, etc. (refer to Figure 3). In addition to collecting consumption data, information regarding emissions, emission control systems, and other factors that may affect machine operating efficiency (such as vibration) should be considered as these may have a significant cost impact as well.
The final decision of what needs to be included is largely dependent on the user's goals, which is why the planning phase of the PDCA structure is so important. Once in place, a baseline of energy usage can be established, measures can be put in place to manage usage and costs, and measures taken to reduce emissions can be evaluated for their impact on operations.
Finally, the energy management system can be used to document savings from an internal standpoint and for external purposes such as credits issued as a result of reduced emissions or energy consumption.
Corey B. Morton is solutions architect, B&R Industrial Automation Corp. For more information, visit www.br-automation.com
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I soon found a post over at Young House Love about a DIY Drum Shade. I thought it was a great idea and totally "do-able." I just needed to make a few minor tweaks such as taking the clamps off the rings, redesigning the bottom cover, and finding a way to hang it.
All that obsessing paid off!
|Gather Supplies
- 2 - 24" Wooden Quilting Hoops
- Plexiglass Sheets (from Hobby Lobby)
- Hot Glue Gun & Glue
- Scissors
- Measuring Tape
- Pencil
- Pliers
- 30" of small Chain (10lb test)
- Eye hook screws
- Clear Packing Tape
- Single Fold Bias Tape
- Fabric for bottom of drum aprox: 28" diameter
- Fabric to wrap around drum aprox: 62"x 22"
- Wood Glue
- Measure the height desired for the shade. Cut that height out of the plexiglass. Several pieces will be needed to wrap around the circumference of the loop.
- Use the wood glue to make a bead of glue on the solid inner wooden loop. Attach the outer hoop and tighten. Let dry over night. Pop off the "handle" of the loop.
- Cut the fabric for the bottom of the shade: aprox 28" in width.
- Glue the fabric to the top edge (NOT SIDE EDGE) of the wooden hoop (12 o'clock) .
- Go to the opposite side of the ring (6 o'clock) and pull the fabric taught and glue. Go to the 3 o'clock section of the wooden hoop and attach then to the 9 o'clock spot. Continue this way until all of the fabric is secure with out puckers or bubbles.
- Trim the excess fabric off the loop making sure to stay as close to the edge as possible leaving little to no extra fabric.
- Continue all the way around the hoop.
- Attach the plexiglass with a small bead of hot glue 2" away from the edge of the plastic glass.
- Slowly Continue to work all the way around the ring making sure to keep the edges even to each other with no overlapping of the glass or hoop.
- 10 - Apply a bead of glue between the plexi glass and wooden hoop with the exterior of the hoop facing left and the plexi glass on the right.
- 11 - Make sure the hot glue is smooth and flat between the wooden loop (bottom of drum) and the plexiglass.
- 12 - Leave about 2" from the edges to glue AFTER the top hoop is attached
- 13 - Stand up the shade. Make sure the work space is clean and free of hot glue drips. Attach top ring in the same manor the bottom ring was attached.
- 14 - Attach the fabric for the sides of the shad to drum starting at one of the joint sections. This is done to make sure that the fabric is attached on a straight line and wraps evenly around the drum. Do not glue to the edge of the rings - leave about 2" for later adjustments. PULL TAUGHT while working around the drum.
- 15 - Glue the bottom edge first leave a 2" space from the fabric joint.
- 16 - Repeat for the top open side of the fabric.
- 17 - Let glue dry for a few moments before finishing.
- 18 - Turn the edge of the fabric under one time and glue with glue gun. Let dry.
- 19 - Attach the finished edge to the side of the drum.
- 20 - Working around the edge of the drum make sure that the loose ends are attached now.
- 21 - Working with the open edge of the shade attach the fabric over the top of the hoop.
- 22 - Cut off excess.
- 23 - CAREFULLY cut off excess from the bottom of the shade.
- 24 - Using Single Fold Bias Tape apply small dots around the edge of shade and secure tape.
- 25 - Fold over the cut edge of the bias tape and secure.
- 26 - Flip over and attach bias tape to the other edge.
- 27 - Cut off any strings or excess fabric.
- 28 - For calculating the dimensions for attaching the shade measure the exterior of the shade and divide into thirds.
- 29 - Holding the tape on the exterior of the shade mark three times for the placement of the eye screws.
- 30 - Attach the eye screws making sure not to puncture the plexiglass.
- 31 - Measure the diameter of the shade for the length of the chain. Take that measurement and divide in half and then subtract 1". That will be the length of the chain. My diameter was 19" divided in half is 9.5" - 1" = 8.5"
- 32 - Using the wire cutters or pliers open one end of the chain and hook it onto the eye screw.
- 33 - Close the open chain end. Repeat 2 more times.
- 34 - Leave the end of the chain open to attach to existing light fixture.
- 35 - Using a ladder I attached the chains to the existing light fixture.
- 36 - Turn on light and enjoy.
A few important tips that I have learned after making 2 of these shades are:
- Work on a clean space!
- Be cautious of the hot glue and where it drips.
- TAKE YOUR TIME! Do not rush the project.
- Cut off excess fabric - It will show as a shadow once the light is on.
- Measure twice, cut once.
I forgot to mention the best part - It was only $42 for both shades!!


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