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text: Robert G. Brown wrote: > ... > > > a) It lists identical hardware configurations as many times as they >are submitted. Thus "Geotrace" lists positions 109 through 114 with >identical hardware. If one ran uniq on the list, it would probably end >up being the top 200. At most. > Do you mean it is 6 times the same cluster ? If not, I don't see the problem. > > b) It focusses on a single benchmark useful only to a (small) fraction >of all HPC applications. I mean, c'mon. Linpack? Have we learned > > >>>nothing<< from the last twenty years of developing benchmarks? >>> ... >If they want me to take the top500 list seriously, they could start by >de-commercializing it, running a pretty stringent unique-ing process on >the submissions and accepting only the first of a given design or >architecture, especially for clusters that are more or less turnkey and >mass produced. Then they could run a SERIOUS suite of benchmarkS (note >plural) on the clusters, one which (like SPEC) attempts to provide >useful information about things like latency, bandwidth, interconnect >saturation for various communications patterns, speed for a variety of >actual applications including several with very different >computation/communication patterns (ranging from embarrassingly parallel >to fine grained synchronous). Scaling CURVES (rather than a single >silly number) would be really useful. > > > I agree with you. The linpack had some meanings 10 years ago, before the (linux) massively parallel machines venue. Nowadays, in the top500 list, most of the computers have some hundreds or thousands of cpus, but most of the programs that people are using are unable to scale beyond, let's say 32-64 cpus ! It's definitly not the case with the "super famous dongara's linpack", it always scales, and the top500 list has become the list of gigabit ethernet clusters only usefull for parametric studies. I wonder when we will see some grids in the top500, may be in the next few months ? For us, a "HPC-spec" benchmark should be the right answer, but it seems there is no serious alternative right now, probably because it costs to much efforts to do that. So, the only thing that we can do is to criticize this stupid list >:o Phil.


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If you have ever travelled from Athens to Heraklion(or vice-versa :P) with a Minoan Lines ship, mabye you'll notice that there's a Wifi Hotspot, owned by Forthnet. If you try to use it, you'll be presented with a Captive Portal.
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Apparently, the best, if not the only, way to bypass the captive portal is DNS Tunneling.
However, the connection was awful, so SSHing to my server, and setting up the "customized" DNS server, was impossible.
So, I did all the preperations(DNS server modifications, etc…) while I was in Crete, and hoped I could test it when I'd travel back to Athens.
But, the Wifi Hotspot(specifically the Captive Portal "server" I think) was 'down', when I was travelling, so I couldn't test DNS tunelling.
Maybe, next time.
Anyway, if anyone has tried it, let me know.
Although I think the bandwidth/speed will be terrible, considering the DNS tunelling overhead.
Btw, tricks like MAC/IP spoofing, ARP poisoning, hacking a poor Windoze unpatched user(etc etc), and setting up a NAT, are out of the question, since I wanted to 'hack' the hotspot/portal, and not the (l)users. 😛
(to the hotspot admins! :P)
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I tried to bypass it this summer that I went to Herakeon and I failed, but I didn't prepare anything beforehands. Please break it and give me access to your server.


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posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 6:44 am
Hello, I am trying to use the method described in your aricle "How To Use A Monte Carlo Study To Decide on Sample Size and Determine Power" dated April 9, 2002 to estimate the power for a 2-factor CFA. I understand the examples for the normally distributed variables, but am having difficulty with the non-normal examples. Specifically, I am not sure why the residual variance for the 2nd factor (which contains the non-normal data) is changed from .36 (as it was in the example for normally distributed data) to 9. I'm also unsure why the factor correlation in the MODEL MONTECARLO statement is .95 and in the MODEL statement is .20. Shouldn't these be the same? I'd appreciate any help. Thank you!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 2:45 pm
I will have to look into this after I return to the US -- after February 2.
posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 2:20 pm
See the "second step" on page 603 of the article. The modelmontecarlo values residual variance and factor covariance values are the 2-class values needed to get the 1-class reliability of 0.64 and the 1-class factor correlation desired.
posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 3:44 pm
Dear Dr. Muthen,
I tried to follow "How To Use A Monte Carlo Study To Decide on Sample Size and Determine Power" for MIMIC model, but could not make it right. I copied exactly the same code from the paper for CFA, and only added "f1-f2 on var*0.3;" as the last line in both :model montecarlo" and "model" and try to see what I can get (hoping to test the hypothesis that the structure is invarient with the covariate "var", I made up the number 0.3), but I got error message "** FATAL ERROR A POPULATION VARIANCE FOR A COVARIATE IS ZERO." May I ask what should I code here? Thanks you very much!
PS: I have to comment %overall% as I kept getting error message with this line.
montecarlo: names are y1-y10 var;
nobservations = 400;
nreps = 10000;
seed = 53487;
save = test.sav;
variable: names are y1-y10 var;
categorical are var;
analysis: type = general;
estimator = ML;
model montecarlo: !%overall%
f1 by y1-y5*0.8;
f2 by y6-y10*0.8;
f1 with f2*0.25;
f1-f2 on hist*0.3;
model: !%overall%
f1 by y1-y5*0.8;
f2 by y6-y10*0.8;
f1 with f2*0.25;
f1-f2 on hist*0.3;
output: tech9;
posted on Monday, February 28, 2005 - 6:34 pm
Your statement
f1-f2 on var*0.3
implies that the variable "var" is an "x variable" in Mplus terms, i.e. a covariate as referred to in the error message. Such a variable must also be given a population variance value in the Model MonteCarlo paragraph, e.g.
Leaving this out gives the default of 0 variance - this is chosen so that user's become aware of having to make a choice. The statement should not be included in the Model paragraph.
Erich Studerus
posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 9:19 am
I'm also having problems to understand the example with non-normally distributed data in your your aricle "How To Use A Monte Carlo Study To Decide on Sample Size and Determine Power". I'm trying to adapt the example to my own cfa-model with non-normally distributed data.
The indicator variables of one of my factors have on average a skewness of 2.3 and and kurtosis of 5.7. Let's say I use the same proportion of indivdiuals in the normal and outlier-class as in your example. Which mean and variance do I have to take for the outlier class to get the desired skewness and kurtosis generated for the population? Is there a formula to calculate these two numbers?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - 6:08 pm
There is no formula. I believe it is a matter of trial and error.
Erich Studerus
posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 1:28 am
Thanks! But how do I check the resulting skewness and kurtosis?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 4:08 pm
Generate one replication for 10,000 observations, save the data, and compute skewness and kurtosis using one class and TECH12.
Erich Studerus
posted on Monday, July 07, 2008 - 2:29 am
Thanks! It worked out very well, but now I have still another problem. I tried to simulate a skewness of 3.12 and a kurtosis of 9.91 in one factor, since this is what I find in my raw data. I tried several combinations of means and variances in the outlier class, but only found the right combination by decreasing the proportion of individuels in the outlier class as well. In another factor, I want to simulate a skewness of 1.27 and a kurtosis of 0.9, but with the oulier proportion I set for the first factor, it seems not to be possible. I would have to increase the proportion of individuals in the oulier class to find the right combination of mean and variance of the second factor in the outlier class. How can I escape this dilemma?
Another problem is, that the correlations between the non-normal distributed factor and other factors is decreased quite a lot. Even by setting the factor correlation to 0.95 in the model population, I can not simulate the original size of the factor correlation, that I had in my raw data.
Any solutions or thoughts are highly appreciated. Thanks!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, July 07, 2008 - 9:43 am
You could try having a separate latent class variable influencing each of your factors to have more flexibility.
One point is that you say you saw a certain degree of non-normality in your raw data. I assume you refer to the factor scores estimated for each person from the posterior distribution. Note that this does not necessarily give the true factor distribution, but could show a skewed distribution merely because there are no items covering one end of the factor dimension. In other words, data generated by a normal factor and such asymmetric items will give a skewed posterior.
Erich Studerus
posted on Monday, July 07, 2008 - 1:25 pm
Thanks. Actually, I just estimated the factor skewness and kurtosis by averaging the skewness and kurtosis of the items loading on that factor. Since you mentioned skewness and kurtosis of the factor scores, I looked at that too and it's quite close to my previous estimates.
I followed your advice and introduced a second latent class variable. Unfortunately, whenever I introduce it, I get the error message "unknown class label in model population %C#1%". Can you tell me, what I'm doing wrong?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, July 07, 2008 - 3:36 pm
That would have to be looked at by
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Erich Studerus
posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 3:41 pm
Although I can simulate the same degree of kurtosis and skewness as in my raw data by generating 1 or 2 latent class variables with 2 latent classes and analysing them as one, the resulting distribution seems to be quite different from my raw data. I generated one replication for 10'000 observations, saved the data, imported it into SPSS and generated histograms. I compared the resulting histograms with my raw data and figured out, that the distribution is totally different, although skewness and kurtosis is about the same.
In my raw data, non-normality is primarily the result of censoring from below or zero-inflation. Some variables even have a piling up on both ends. The piling up on the lower end is quite extreme. All variables have at least 10% zero cases, some variables have up to 70% zero cases. The variables are from visual analog scales with possible values of 0 to 100.
I already tried to generate censored dependent variables in my cfa-model and then estimate the model, as if the variables were normally distributed, but It seems not to be allowed in Mplus. My idea was to estimate the bias of not taking zero-inflation into account. Do you see another possibility to do that?
Anyway, I guess I have to go back to EFA and CFA taking zero-inflation and censoring into account from the beginning.
Erich Studerus
posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 3:45 pm
The problem is also that some variables have a piling up on both ends and I read that you can only estimate variables with censoring at one end. How would you treat such variables? The problem is also that my questionnaire has 66items. It seems to be impossible to do an EFA with so many censored variables, since it needs numerical integration.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 11:24 am
It sounds like you want to generate censored data. See the Monte Carlo counterpart of Example 5.4.
Mplus can only have censoring at one end.
Numerical integration is influenced by the number of factors not the number of variables.
Erich Studerus
posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 3:06 pm
Thank you. I don't think, I can use numerical integration, because I have to extract more than 4 factors. Do you think, it would be feasible to categorize the variables, so I can do my EFA with categorical variables and WLSMV? If so, how many categories would you suggest?
I'm also not quite sure, whether I can treat my variables as censored from below, because the zero values are probably true zero values. As I've said earlier, the variables are visual analogue scales (with values from 0 to 100) from a questionnaire that measures altered states of consciousness. The lower end of every scale is labeled as "not more than usual" and the upper end as "much more than usual". Subjects are asked to rate certain aspects of altered states of consiousness and how much it changed compared to their usual state of consciousness. I suppose, one can only totally negate any change in consciousness and therefore values below zero wouldn't make any sense. I read that it's possible to model this kind of zero-inflation with a 2 part model, but so far, I only saw examples in the growth modeling literature for this. Has anybody ever done this in the test construction field?
I know, that it's possible to generate censored variables with montecarlo, but it seems not to be allowed to analyse the same variables as uncensored.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 3:11 pm
See Kim and Muthen 2008 on the website.
With external Monte Carlo, you can generate censored and analyze continuous. See Example 11.6 for external Monte Carlo.
Andrea Vocino
posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 6:30 am
I am trying to estimate the power of a simple one factor congeneric model. The reason behind my analysis is that excessive power due to large sample size may lead to the rejection of the proposed model.
I have one latent with 7 observed variables. The indicators are ordinal hence I would like to use the WLSM estimator. Considering that my analysis is post hoc since I already have data, how do I estimate the power of such a model?
Thx in adance
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 8:33 am
The power estimation of Mplus' Monte Carlo facility concerns a single parameter, but it sounds like you are instead concerned with overall model fit measures such as chi-square. In those cases, I prefer a sensitivity analysis where you start with your initial model and use Modindices to relax the restrictions of the model until chi-square is acceptable. Then consider if this new model has changed the parameters of the initial model in substantively important ways. If not, then the test is overpowered in this sense.
Andrea Vocino
posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 4:46 pm
Thx Bengt. Is there any way to estimate the power using such a method or do I need to run the Mplus' Monte Carlo facility for each parameter?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 - 5:16 pm
There is the power paper related to model fit
MacCallum, R. C., Browne, M. W., & Sugawara, H. M. (1996). Power analysis and determination of sample size for covariance structure modeling. Psychological Methods, 1, 130-149.
Andrea Vocino
posted on Friday, August 15, 2008 - 11:09 pm
Thx again. I had a look at the paper and in order to undertake such a procedure one needs to run a few SAS commands and SAS is not my forte.
I then wonder if I could use the Mplus' Monte Carlo facility. Given that I already have the data do I need to estimate the implied population covariance matrix using the WLSM estimator first? And what then?
I have read your paper Muthen and Muthen (2002, pubished in Structural Equation Modeling) but only synthetic data is used in that paper.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 9:39 am
The M & M (2002) paper is about power for a single parameter - so using the Mplus Monte Carlo facility. It sounded like you were instead interested in power of the test of overall model fit which is the MacCallum et al topic. If the MacCallum approach can be done in SAS, it should be possible to translate that into being done in Mplus. I can't recall the procedures in that paper, so I can't say off hand how it would be done. It is easy in Mplus to produce the implied population covariance matrix by fixing every parameter and asking for Residual output.
Andrea Vocino
posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 6:48 pm
Many thanks Bengt. It would be great if the next release of Mplus could embed the MacCallum et al's power estimation for both retrospective and prospective models. I think it would add a lot of value to the product. How's that for a marketer's speech ?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 9:34 am
We can certainly add it to our list.
Andrea Vocino
posted on Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 9:10 pm
By the way, after some consultation on SEMNet it would appear that the method used by MacCallum et al. (1996) to computing power can only be applied to normal theory with continuous observed variables and a covariance matrix as input. Such a procedure involves the non-central chi-square distribution (which is linked to RMSEA's distribution for the test of not-close-fit). But with ordinal variables, polychoric correlations, and estimators such as i.e., WLSM, WLSMV or even WLS I wonder whether sure this method will yield the correct results. I was not able to find any literature in that regard. My gut feeling is that such literature is yet to be written. Could you please suggest any alternative method to estimate model power using estimators such as WLSM or WLSMV? Thanks in advance.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 - 8:23 am
This sounds like a methods research topic. We are not aware of any such methods.
Lois Downey
posted on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 8:17 pm
I want to use the Monte Carlo facility to assess power for several sample sizes for analyzing a 16-indicator 4-factor CFA model, in which the indicators are generated as 10-category ordinal variables, but analyzed as continuous, using the MLR estimator.
I've included the following two options in the MONTECARLO command:
GENERATE = y1-y16 (9 p);
CATEGORICAL = y1-y16;
It was my understanding that y1-y16 would be initially generated as normally distributed with mean=0 and variance=1, and that in order to recode them into 10 categories, I should specify the 9 thresholds as part of the MODEL POPULATION command. Therefore, I entered 9 statements similar to the following to define the 9 thresholds:
[y1$1 y2$1 y3$1 y4$1 y5$1 y6$1 y7$1 y8$1 y9$1 y10$1 y11$1 y12$1 y13$1 y14$1 y15$1 y16$1](-1.75);
This produces error messages like the following for each threshold:
*** ERROR in MODEL POPULATION command
True value must be specified for [ Y1$1 ].
Where have I gone wrong?
And a second question: The choice of -1.75 for the first threshold was based on a desire to have approximately 4% of the sample falling in the lowest category. Is this the correct method for determining the appropriate threshold for each category, given a goal of producing negatively skewed samples with a specific shape?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 10:32 am
You need to give a population value for each threshold.
Lois Downey
posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 11:10 am
The full set of thresholds I specified are as follows:
[y1$1 y2$1 y3$1 y4$1 y5$1 y6$1 y7$1 y8$1 y9$1 y10$1 y11$1 y12$1 y13$1 y14$1 y15$1 y16$1](-1.75);
[y1$2 y2$2 y3$2 y4$2 y5$2 y6$2 y7$2 y8$2 y9$2 y10$2 y11$2 y12$2 y13$2 y14$2 y15$2 y16$2](-1.41);
[y1$3 y2$3 y3$3 y4$3 y5$3 y6$3 y7$3 y8$3 y9$3 y10$3 y11$3 y12$3 y13$3 y14$3 y15$3 y16$3](-1.17);
[y1$4 y2$4 y3$4 y4$4 y5$4 y6$4 y7$4 y8$4 y9$4 y10$4 y11$4 y12$4 y13$4 y14$4 y15$4 y16$4](-1.00);
[y1$5 y2$5 y3$5 y4$5 y5$5 y6$5 y7$5 y8$5 y9$5 y10$5 y11$5 y12$5 y13$5 y14$5 y15$5 y16$5](-0.50);
[y1$6 y2$6 y3$6 y4$6 y5$6 y6$6 y7$6 y8$6 y9$6 y10$6 y11$6 y12$6 y13$6 y14$6 y15$6 y16$6](-0.20);
[y1$7 y2$7 y3$7 y4$7 y5$7 y6$7 y7$7 y8$7 y9$7 y10$7 y11$7 y12$7 y13$7 y14$7 y15$7 y16$7](0.08);
[y1$8 y2$8 y3$8 y4$8 y5$8 y6$8 y7$8 y8$8 y9$8 y10$8 y11$8 y12$8 y13$8 y14$8 y15$8 y16$8](0.39);
[y1$9 y2$9 y3$9 y4$9 y5$9 y6$9 y7$9 y8$9 y9$9 y10$9 y11$9 y12$9 y13$9 y14$9 y15$9 y16$9](0.84);
Are you saying that I cannot indicate, say, the 8th threshold for all 16 indicators in one statement, but need to specify each threshold for EACH indicator in a separate statement?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 - 11:19 am
The assignment is to the last entry unless the variables are part of a list, for example,
posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 12:50 pm
Hello, Dr. Muthens, I have two questions about Monte Carlo simulation study. In example 11.1. Monte Carlo Simulation study for a CFA with covariates with continuous factor indicators and patterns of missing data (user's guide), the variance for y1-y5 are listed in Model population (y1-y4*.5), but the means for y1-y4 are not specified. Does this mean that all of the means for y1-y5 are 0?
The second question is about @ and *. Can you verify whether @ and * are exchangeable in Monte Carlo simulation study? If so, are they exchangeable for part of "model population" or both part of "model population" and part of "model"?
Thanks a lot!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 1:01 pm
Any parameter not specified has a population parameter value of zero.
The @ and * symbols are interchangeable in MODEL POPULATION but not in MODEL.
posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 8:52 pm
Thank you very much for the reply. I have further questions for Monte Carlo study. For Monte Carlo simulation for path analysis with continuous dependent variables(example 3.11), the following is the input:
y1 ON x1*1 x2*2 x3*3;
y2 ON x1*3 x2*2 x3*1;
y3 ON y1*.5 y2*.75 x2*1;
[y1*-1 y2*0 y3*1];
y1*1 y2*1.5 y3*2;
I cannot figure why the variance of y1 is 17, the variance of y2 is 17 and y3 is 32 in the generated dataset. Why aren't they 1, 1.5 or 2 as specified in the Model population command (y1*1, y2*1.5, y3*2)? Do I miss anything?
Thanks again!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 9:56 am
The population values given in MODEL POPULATION are residual variances not variances. It is a conditional model.
Xuan Chen
posted on Saturday, December 02, 2017 - 9:34 pm
Hi Dr Muthens,
I would like to compute the power for my cfa model, which is consisted of 25 zero-inflated categorical respond items. Do you have example in UG that I can follow to do that?
And could the power calculation be applied to MCFA?
Many many thanks
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Sunday, December 03, 2017 - 11:21 am
The UG does not have examples of zero-inflated categorical modeling. I assume you are not referring to counts. A high probability for the zero category is typically handled by ordinal DV modeling, but you can try to add zero-inflation by adding a mixture of two classes.
Xuan Chen
posted on Sunday, December 03, 2017 - 12:06 pm
Thanks for your clarification.
It is not couting data. Only a three-likert scale with many 0 zeros. Do you have the UG example of power calculation for categorical data in CFA? For the real data power calculation, do I need bootstraping to get it? And then I can try to add more features i need.
Thanks in advance
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, December 04, 2017 - 3:02 pm
See a UG example with categorical FA. It has a corresponding monte carlo version on our website at
Real-data power analysis is still a montecarlo run but with real-data parameter estimates.
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text: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Mark Hahn wrote: > OK, so grid is just cycle scavenging with its own meta-queueing, > its own meta-authentication and its own meta-accounting? And perhaps most important (but not yet significantly implemented, although there is a very serious project here at Duke to implement it called Computers On Demand -- COD) -- a meta-OS-environment and meta-sandbox for the distributed users that can be loaded literally on demand (at a suitable time granularity, of course:-). Multiuser/multitasking with a vengeance, where "the network is the computer" on a very broad scale indeed. Mark, you shouldn't discount the economics of cycle scavenging or refer to it as "just" that. In once sense, all multiuser/multitasking computing is cycle scavenging, but who would deny its benefit? Even now, things like Scyld can be booted from e.g. floppy on a node, leaving the node's hard disk and primary install intact. Or, people can install two or three or ten bootable images on a modern disk and choose between them with grub. Surely it isn't crazy to develop tools to take the individual craft and handwork out of these one-of-a-kind solutions and make them generally and reliably implementable? Just to give you a single example of the economics that drive this process, Duke has gone from a couple of clusters (mine and one over in CS) to literally more clusters than the University per se can track over the last five years. From order 10-100 nodes total to thousands of nodes in tens of departments in maybe 100 independent groups. Some groups (the EP folks like myself) are always and inevitably cycle-hungry. They build all the nodes they can afford and run on them continuously. They don't need much in the way of network. They do need a "known environment" on the nodes -- e.g. PVM or MPI or GSL or ATLAS or ETC libraries, the right OS and release number to support their binaries, appropriate permissions. Other groups need more nodes than they can ever afford to buy, but only for three short weeks a year. When they need them, they REALLY need them, but the rest of the time they are doing something else (e.g. analyzing the results of those three weeks, thinking, writing, teaching). Some groups need tightly coupled, synchronous clusters. Others are EP. The potential benefits that can be obtained by providing a suitable interface to permit these various groups, with their widely disparate needs and usage patterns to mutually optimize their investment and usage patterns across ALL organization-level (in our case initially departments, eventually perhaps the University itself) cluster resources are significant -- equal or greater in value to the total value of all of those resources, presuming that the AVERAGE resource utilization is likely to be below 50% as things currently stand (a not unreasonable number, BTW). This may not be Grid Computing (big G, on the RC5/Seti scale), but is rather grid computing (small g, on a purely sensible institutional scale) within a single organization with a single domain of trust, an adequate backbone and other infrastructure, and a unified model and toolset for permitting optimization of the utilization of its resources at the institutional level rather than the individual research group level. Here it makes sense, I think, although time and experience will prove this right or wrong. At any rate, there is a clear economic benefit that drives the development process -- it remains to be seen whether or not it can be realized. The tools being developed will really revolutionize "node" resource allocation, by the way. In principle they will allow the automated recovery of cycles wasted at night on e.g. computer systems that support the undergraduate physics labs here -- by day they run NT and are in use by students. By night they are totally wasted and sit idle, consuming electricity that the University pays for to no visible profit, while my work limps along on all the systems I can afford but would greatly benefit from more. On other scales the toolset might control the allocation of a department-wide compute cluster among four or five groups of researchers on an access-granularity scale of hours to days, or reallocation of the undergraduate clusters provided as "terminals" to the network to EP tasks during holidays and breaks. I expect/hope that over the next two or three years, GPL tools will be developed (some of them here by Justin Moore and Jeff Chase) and perfected that permit a midsized or larger organization to increase their utilization efficiency for a wide range of compute cluster/node resources by a factor of 2-3 with no significant degradation of security and with an overall INCREASE in the productivity of just about everybody associated with a shared group. rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Tales Of The Predicta
"Hey Titus, let's go pick up a T-bird,"were words that resonated in the brisk, late fall morning air in 1959, spoken by the man who'd just pulled up in a customized '59 Buick with open trailer in tow. That man being none other than the now legendary customizer/show promoter, Darryl Starbird. The place, Star Kustom Shop at 734 E. Mt. Vernon in Wichita, Kansas (still standing alongside the railroad tracks when last we checked).
The shop gopher, Jerry, quickly pulled down the doors and hopped in for the 30-some-mile trip with his 26-year-old boss and friend (friends for 50-plus years). What they found were the sad remains of a '56 Thunderbird in a shed that was literally falling down around it. Darryl just had to have it to fulfill his vision of the future. Forking over $800 (a lot of loot in 1959), the two cleaned out the rubble around the car and loaded it up for the haul back for its destiny. Yep, it was to become the Predicta, one of the great milestone custom cars of all time.
If the wrecked hulk that Darryl started with looked like it had been hit by a train, well, that's because it had. He obviously had his work cut out for him, but already having a '57 T-bird, Le Perle, under his belt, the plan was set in motion. Note that Le Perle had really put Starbird in the limelight, not only winning the 1959 NHRA National Sweepstakes Championship, but the Top Body Shop award as well. He had to get this new and vastly improved T-bird finished in record time so as to not break the momentum, which we're glad to say is still rollin' headlong into the future to this very day.
It was indeed an intense few short weeks to turn a totaled sporty car into the groundbreaking Predicta in time for the 1960 National Roadster Show in Oakland, California (February 19-28th). (Note that "Grand" wasn't added to the title until '62 and, even though held in Oakland, it never was officially the Oakland Roadster Show). The show was the goal, and they (Darryl and assistant Dave Stuckey) almost make it. Actually, they did, but I say "almost" because the bubble wasn't ready when it came time to load Predicta on the trailer for the long haul to California, and had to be shipped separately. If you look closely at the August '60 CAR CRAFT cover photo with Darryl and the magazine's editor, Dick Day, sitting in the car, you'll note that the bubble is merely sitting on the car, not attached. In another of the three cover shots, with Darryl alone in the cockpit, the bubble isn't seen at all, only the partial ring with hinges behind him. Complete or not, Predicta impressed the judges enough to bestow Darryl with Oakland's Sweepstakes of the Future Award.
The Bubble
A major part of turning that wrecked '56 `Bird into the Predicta was to reshape the perimeter of the cockpit to accept the footprint of a semi-double canopy. To do so, a steel ring was created which would serve both as a base, as well as provide hinge mounting locations.
Lustre Craft in Wichita was chosen to blow the bubble. Upon accepting the challenge, however, they had to build an oven large enough to accommodate a 6×8-ft. sheet of Plexiglas, as well as a rail system to move the plastic into and out of again once heated. In working the hot plastic, speed is of the essence, as it cools quickly. So, with the edges of the Plexi clamped to the rails, it's slid into the oven. When heated to just the right point of elasticity it is pulled out and clamped between the aforementioned plywood ring and a solid sheet on the bottom. Air nozzles then apply pressure through holes until the bubble is blown to its vertical form on either side of the profile shape. The first couple of tries got the plastic too hot, which caused it to pull away from the rails when pulled from the oven. Eventually they got it right.
The Mono Stick
Besides the bubble, one of Predicta`s other Car of the Future features was the absence of a conventional steering wheel; directional control being achieved by a centrally located stick, much like that found on some airplanes, which could be accessed from either side, as there were two sets of pedals on the floor. Very innovative for then or now, with a 100 percent wow! But "how th' heck do it work?" Well, after almost half-a-century of speculation, here's the skinny: Sometimes knowing what you want and achieving that goal are downright incompatible, but luck was on young Darryl's side.
It was off to the local boneyard to be an organ donor for Darryl's latest project. The early production '57 Chrysler had two major components he was after–a 392cid Hemi (with tranny) and a full-time power steering unit. The powertrain would be a straightforward swap but the steering? Chrysler engineers had made their new power steering integral with the column. Sometimes the most obvious solution to a problem is right before your eyes, you've just got to look at it from a different perspective. The simple and elegant answer was to lay the column under the floor, attached parallel to the frame, problem solved with a little tinkering to fit the column to the T-bird's steering box and the center stick, and with everything married together, it worked like a charm.
Note that it was only during the first few months of '57 production that Chrysler offered full-time power steering. They then switched to a more conventional power-assisted system using mostly the same components, but with different valving. This is something Darryl would find out the hard way later when he went to duplicate the system. He would go on to use this central stick steering concept on several more of his fantastic creations, including Futurista and Electra.
The Restoration
Ever since Darryl got his beloved Predicta back and reversed the changes made while in the hands of others, his goal was for a full and authentic restoration back to its 1963 Monogram model release form. When he opened his ever-expanding National Rod & Custom Car Hall Of Fame Museum in Afton, Oklahoma, Predicta became the centerpiece. But no one knew better than Darryl that it would need a little freshening up. The day finally came in 2006, just around six months before Darryl's 50th Anniversary Wichita Show early in '07, where she was to be the star attraction. She was as one of seven bubbletops featured in the show, four of which were Starbird creations.
Darryl dismantled Predicta down to the last nut and bolt, refurbishing, re-plating, or replacing everything, making her as good as the day Monogram Models had taken possession some four-and-a-half decades earlier. He even engineered and built his own rotisserie, where he could more easily work the body and frame to perfection before having son Rick spray it in a trademark Starbird Blue. As paint has changed significantly over the years, Darryl started with a House of Kolor Kandy Blue, which he lightened and finessed until the Predicta original shade of blue was ready to apply. If you're saying; "but, wasn't Monogram's model red?" You are correct, but it was only painted candy red as part of the Monogram deal. Blue it once was, blue it is again, and blue it ever shall be.
Getting close to his Wichita show's deadline, Darryl called on the car building talents of son-in-law, Tom Vogele, to lend a hand in what must have been the ultimate Monogram kit, a one-to-one Predicta. Tom, a hot rodding celebrity in his own right having cut his teeth building AMBR winners with the late Boyd Coddington, and later as editor of STREET RODDER, was more than willing to help Darryl. Putting all those painted and plated parts back together again turned into an intense month of 10-hour days.
Now, fully restored and on display at the Starbird Museum for this and future generations to enjoy and see, it illustrates how things were in an era when a young man with vision could put his dreams into steel (and plastic) to predict a bright and unlimited future, and Predicta stands as a benchmark of still-viable "what ifs."


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Michigan's Denard Robinson has electrified crowds and broken records as a quarterback. Now he's winding down his college career in a way that could prepare him to play in the NFL.
When the 20th-ranked Wolverines wrap up the regular season Saturday at No. 4 Ohio State, he likely will see more time at running back or receiver than QB.
Robinson was held off the field for two-plus weeks with nerve damage in his right elbow. The injury limits his ability to grip and throw the ball, but it hasn't slowed his fast-moving feet.
He lightly lobbed short passes more than an hour before playing the Hawkeyes, but he didn't throw any long passes or deep outs when Devin Gardner did during warm-ups nor did he attempt a pass when he took snaps at QB during the last game.
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"All in all, this is a win for our state's taxpayers, our main street retailers, and our workforce," Malloy said. "Amazon's multi-million dollar investment and the hundreds of jobs that will come with both the construction and operation of their future facility will unquestionably boost our local economy. Their agreement to begin collecting revenue is a great step, but federal action on this issue is still necessary."
Under current federal law, out-of-state retailers cannot be required to collect tax on sales to Connecticut, leaving consumers with the burden of paying state-use tax and facing penalties for failing to pay the tax. Beginning Nov. 1, 2013, — at the start of the two biggest retail sales months of the year — Amazon will start collecting and remitting state sales tax.
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Teams of Destiny: The First Fifty Years of Boston College Football
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Introduction | 1899 | 1920 | 1928 | 1940
Today's generation of students and recent alumni probably associate Boston College football greatness with athletes such as quarterback Doug Flutie (class of 1986), linebacker Bill Romanowski (class of 1988) and center Damien Woody (class of 1999). However, football has a long and much celebrated history at Boston College going back to the late nineteenth century. The first officially sanctioned team played in the Fall of 1893 and is pictured here.
This exhibit celebrates four of the greatest squads or "teams of destiny" that played in the first fifty years of the sports program. Profiled are the 1899 team (the strongest team of the nineteenth century), the 1920 and 1928 Eastern Championship teams, and the Sugar Bowl Team of 1940. It should be noted that during these fifty years other teams and players also achieved much success and glory but are not included in this virtual exhibit. Players like All-American Charles Darling (Class of 1925), pictured at right, and the undefeated 1926 team (six wins-no losses-two ties) are not featured in this virtual exhibit for reasons of time and space. However, they and all Boston College athletes have contributed to efforts to make their football program a great and celebrated tradition.
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With a vote on the Senate farm bill expected sometime this week, lawmakers will continue with votes on a series of wide-ranging amendments on Wednesday. Earlier this week, in a deal between parties to move the legislation, the list of amendments to receive votes was trimmed from some 300 to 73.
Among amendments already voted on:
- An amendment passed that would repeal the USDA catfish inspection program. Mandated in the 2008 farm bill, the inspection program was yet to be implemented. (For more, see here)
- An amendment to reduce crop insurance sales costs to restore some $4.5 billion in cuts to nutrition program spending was defeated.
- An amendment that would have placed more strict eligibility standards for nutrition program recipients was defeated.
- An amendment that would prevent states from increasing nutrition program roles/benefits via a federal home heating assistance program was defeated.
- An amendment to place a $250,000 adjusted gross income eligibility marker for farmers was defeated.
- An amendment that places a $75,000 cap on marketing loan pay limits passed the Senate.
- An amendment to end mandatory crop checkoff funds was defeated. This amendment was offered by South Carolina Sen. Jim Demint, who courted controversy last fall with his views on a checkoff favored by Christmas tree farmers (more here).
- An amendment to support rural development passed the Senate. The amendment would ensure funding of USDA Rural Development programs such as updating wastewater and sewer infrastructure systems, provide farmers with access to capital, and provide technical assistance to beginning farmers and ranchers.
Among amendments yet to be voted on:
- A ban on EPA flyovers/aerial surveillance of farmland under the Clean Water Act.
- An amendment to eliminate the Conservation Reserve Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program.
With such a draft farm bill and amendment votes what message is being sent from the Senate to the House prior to a farm bill conference?
During a Wednesday morning press conference, Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said one of the "great things" about deficit reduction efforts and the "super committee" process last fall, was a coming together of Senate and House agriculture leadership. "We agreed to come up with $23 billion in deficit reduction under our jurisdiction. Unfortunately, we were the only (ones) who did that. If everyone had done that within their areas of jurisdiction, we'd have had a big deficit reduction proposal. That didn't happen.
"But one of the positives out of that is (the House and Senate agriculture leaders) really developed a great working relationship. I've been keeping (House leaders) apprised of what we're doing. I have great confidence in them and, once we move this out of the Senate, I believe they'll be successful in reporting a bill out of (the House Agriculture Committee)."
The broad parameters agreed to last fall "are maintained" in the Senate farm bill, said Stabenow. While not enamored with the Senate bill, Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, House Agriculture Committee ranking member, has said any problems – presumably including those that still remain for rice and peanuts -- can be fixed during conference.
An amendment being prepped last week from Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss and South Dakota Sen. John Thune would have allowed rice and peanut producers target price supports. After speaking with Stabenow, the senators withdrew the amendment believing that the issues for the crops will be best addressed in conference.
Conservation, crop insurance
Back to the Senate amendments, Chambliss has also proposed attaching conservation compliance to crop insurance. There has been opposition to that idea from farm groups and the crop insurance industry. Stabenow's reaction?
"First of all, we've fought very hard in the farm bill to strengthen … conservation. We have more of a focus on conservation than any farm bill in the past."
Further, "the new risk management programs are all tied to conservation compliance. Anything in the Commodity Title – to get a marketing loan, if you're under the new ARC program -- … is tied to conservation compliance.
"Then, we made a major step forward with the Sod Saver Program to protect native grasslands. … If you're going into native grasslands, prairielands, breaking them up, there's a penalty against your crop insurance."
However, "we did not take the step totally on crop insurance. Primarily, that's because crop insurance is different kind of entity. It is a private insurance program that people purchase into. It's different than when folks are receiving dollars under the Commodity Title. At this point, crop insurance is fundamentally different and we didn't make that total link."
The "process of change" would mean a deficit reduction "net over $15 billion in the Commodity Title."
Stabenow does not "anticipate" the Chambliss amendment will pass.
The chairwoman was also queried on two other premium support/crop insurance-related amendments up for votes – one from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (which would reduce federal premium support by 15 percent), another from Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin/Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn (which would limit the crop insurance premium subsidy provided to farmers with an adjusted gross income greater than $750,000).
"On the overall question around crop insurance limits, (South Dakota) Sen. John Thune has a side-by-side amendment with Durbin/Coburn," said Stabenow. "They're trying to work out common language, to come together where we might accept the amendment…
"My concern, as we move to a risk-based system and look at any of the amendments that deal with crop insurance, is that we don't undermine the reforms we've made. We're eliminating four direct subsidies … that aren't tied to risk management. We're moving to crop insurance and we want to support and incentivize farmers to purchase crop insurance.
"The reason it's a partnership, where the federal government provides a discount, is to be able to support (farmers) so they'll have skin in the game, to put their own money up. Whenever we look at … limits on that, my worry is we'll shift the cost to smaller farms."
Perhaps, Stabenow suggested, it would be best to deal with such limits in the next farm bill. "We don't have enough information yet. … I am concerned about looking at these limits and what it does to small and medium-sized farms."


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Definitions of stale
n. - The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake. 2
v. i. - Vapid or tasteless from age; having lost its life, spirit, and flavor, from being long kept; as, stale beer. 2
v. i. - Not new; not freshly made; as, stele bread. 2
v. i. - Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed. 2
v. i. - Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common. 2
v. t. - To make vapid or tasteless; to destroy the life, beauty, or use of; to wear out. 2
a. - To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle. 2
v. i. - That which is stale or worn out by long keeping, or by use. 2
v. i. - A prostitute. 2
v. i. - Urine, esp. that of beasts. 2
v. t. - Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon. 2
v. t. - A stalking-horse. 2
v. t. - A stalemate. 2
v. t. - A laughingstock; a dupe. 2
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Feds to make recommendation this week on whether to seek death penalty in marathon bombing
BOSTON – Prosecutors plan to make their recommendation this week on whether they believe Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) should face the death penalty if convicted in the deadly attack.
In court Tuesday, prosecutors said they are in the process of completing their written proposal to U.S. Attorney Eric Holder. He will make the ultimate decision on whether to seek the death penalty against the 20-year-old Tsarnaev.
Tsarnaev's lawyers also complained that prosecutors are withholding evidence they need to defend him against the death penalty, including information on a 2011 triple slaying in Waltham in which Tsarnaev's brother, Tamerlan, is a suspect. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, also suspected in the marathon bombing, died following a shootout with police several days later.
The judge did not immediately rule on the request to order prosecutors to turn over evidence.


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The Arrest of Christ The Fall and Salvation of Mankind through the Life and Passion of Christ
Altdorfer, Albrecht; printmaker; German artist, c.1480-1538
circa 1513
Date according to Winzinger
black carbon ink; Medium
laid paper; Support; chainlines vertical
height, image, 73, mm
width, image, 49, mm
height, sheet, 76, mm
width, sheet, 52, mm
transferred; 1876; Cambridge University Library
monogram; image upper right; printed; AA
inscription; verso; graphite; 22; Cambridge University Library album number
inscription; verso; graphite; 20; Bartsch number
Fitzwilliam Museum mark; verso; stamped black ink; UNIVERSITY LIBRARY; Lugt 2475
Fitzwilliam Museum mark; verso; stamped black ink; AD.5.22-22; Cambridge University Library album number
Bartsch; 20; 1808
Winzinger; 45; 1963
New Hollstein (German); 20; 1997
Lugt; 2475
The German Little Masters II. Prints by Albrecht Altdorfer (ab. 1480-1538) and Heinrich Aldegrever (1502-1555/61). 1983-01-11 - 1983-04-10
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.), UK
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)
Winzinger, Franz. 1963. Albrecht Altdorfer Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen.Munich: R. Piper
Reference to the Fitzwilliam impression.
Related Object(s):
AD.5.22-2; The Fall of Man
AD.5.22-6; The Virgin entering the Temple
AD.5.22-17; Christ taking leave of His Mother
AD.5.22-19; Entry into Jerusalem
AD.5.22-20; The Last Supper
P.2111-R; Expulsion from Paradise
P.2112-R; Joachim's Sacrifice, refused by the Priest
P.2113-R; Annunciation of the Birth of the Virgin to Joachim
P.2114-R; Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate
P.2115-R; Annunciation
P.2116-R; Visitation
P.2117-R; Nativity
P.2118-R; Adoration of the Kings
P.2119-R; Circumcision
P.2120-R; Presentation in the Temple
P.2121-R; The Flight into Egypt
P.2122-R; The Dispute in the Temple
AD.5.22-24; Christ before Pilate
P.2124-R; The Agony in the Garden
P.2126-R; The Flagellation of Christ
P.2127-R; The Crowning with Thorns
P.2128-R; Ecce Homo
AD.5.22-28; Pilate washing his hands
AD.5.22-29; Christ carrying the Cross
AD.5.22-30; Christ nailed on the Cross
AD.5.22-31; Raising of the Cross
AD.5.22-32; The Crucifixion
AD.5.22-33; The Descent from the Cross
AD.5.22-34; Lamentation
AD.5.22-35; The Entombment
AD.5.22-36; Christ in Limbo
AD.5.22-37; The Resurrection
AD.5.22-38; Noli Me Tangere
AD.5.22-39; Ascension of Christ
AD.5.22-40; Death of the Virgin
P.2129-R; The Last Judgement
P.2130-R; The Virgin and Child on a Crescent
AD.5.22-18; The Transfiguration of Christ
AD.5.22-23; Christ before Caiaphas; Caiaphas tearing his clothes
P.2123-R; Pilate washing his hands
P.2125-R; Ascension of Christ
AD.5.22-3; Expulsion from Paradise
AD.5.22-4; Expulsion from Paradise
AD.5.22-12; Joachim's Sacrifice, refused by the Priest
AD.5.22-10; Annunciation of the Birth of the Virgin to Joachim
AD.5.22-7; Visitation
AD.5.22-9; Nativity
AD.5.22-14; Adoration of the Kings
AD.5.22-11; Circumcision
AD.5.22-13; Presentation in the Temple
AD.5.22-15; The Flight into Egypt
AD.5.22-16; The Dispute in the Temple
AD.5.22-5; Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate
AD.5.22-21; The Agony in the Garden
AD.5.22-25; The Flagellation of Christ
AD.5.22-26; The Crowning with Thorns
AD.5.22-27; Ecce Homo
AD.5.22-41; The Last Judgement
AD.5.22-8; The Virgin and Child on a Crescent
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Comments: Susan Battice (Nee: Peel) | Toronto Ontario Canada | 1901-1920 | Comments: Out Camping Near Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
This photo, in my grandmothers album, shows my grandfather Joes two brothers, Frank & John ROGERS, with their stepsister, Susan BATTICE, nee PEEL, and several other people, camping about 1910? I wonder if the others might be Susans brother Armour PEELs family?
F-Frank Rogers, born 1874, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
J-John Rogers, born Toronto,1882
Their parents were Mary Ann WHITE & William ROGERS, both born in England.
S-Susan Battice, nee Peel, born Toronto, 1863
Susans brother, Armour PEEL, married Rebecca PALMER in 1877. His and Susans parents were Armour Deprong Peel, born Ireland and Hannah, also born Ireland. Armour Deprong PEEL married Mary Ann WHITE in 1887 and Catherine DODGSON, nee AUSTIN in 1898.
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Feb. 23, 2008
WELLESLEY, Mass. - Sasha Brophy and Nicole O'Keeffe finished 1-2 in the 500-yard freestyle and diver Doria Holbrook eclipsed her own conference record on the one-meter board en route to First Team All-Conference honors, as MIT's women's swimming and diving team earned 209.50 points to sit comfortably in second-place after the first day of competition at the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championships. Seven-time defending champion Springfield College holds the top spot with 234 points, while Wheaton College is currently third with a score of 184.
Wellesley College, which is hosting this year's event in its Chandler Pool, is fourth with 153.50, followed by Coast Guard (118), Smith College (89), Babson College (86), Clark University (60), WPI (56) and Mount Holyoke College (50).
Brophy and O'Keeffe, who entered the evening's finals as the top two seeds from the afternoon's prelims, earned the Engineers a combined 37 points with their 1-2 finish in the 500-yard freestyle. With an NCAA "B" cut time of 5:06.50, Brophy nabbed First Team All-Conference honors, while O'Keeffe garnered Second Team accolades with her finishing time of 5:08.77.
Holbrook, competing in her final NEWMAC Championships, took first-place on the one-meter board for the third time in her illustrious career. The Yakima, Wash., native's tally of 517.45 not only secured maximum points for the Cardinal and Gray, but it also surpassed her own NEWMAC Open, Championship and Institute record of 513.65, set at last year's Championships.
Nearly earning another victory for MIT was the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Amy Jacobi, O'Keeffe, Sarah King and Brophy. The quartet clocked in at 1:38.59, pulling in 34 points and Second Team All-Conference plaudits, while missing out on both the Institute record and a first-place finish by less than two-tenths of a second. Additionally, both Brophy (24.16) and Jacobi (24.24) earned NCAA "B" cuts for the 50-yard freestyle with their splits.
Jacobi bested the "B" cut time in the 50-yard freestyle for a second time later in the evening, as she touched the wall in 24.30 to earn a tie for fifth-place with Wellesley's Savanna Johnson.
In the 200-yard individual medley, Abby Clark and Jen Chao placed fifth and sixth, respectively, to pull in a combined 27 points for the Engineers. Clark finished the race in 2:16.13, while Chao followed closely behind at 2:16.40.
The evening's final event, the 400-yard medley relay, elicited a third-place showing for MIT's squad of Jacobi, O'Keeffe, Chao and Brophy, as the crew touched the wall at 4:05.20. Tech's "B" relay team earned the victory in the consolation final, as Lauren Hernley, Clark, Ellie Souganidis and Kristen Felch finished with an impressive time of 4:12.03.
The competition will continue today, Feb. 23, as the prelims for the 200-yard medley relay, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly, 400-yard freestyle relay and 1,650-yard freestyle will begin at 11:00 a.m. Meanwhile, the three-meter diving prelims will commence at 1:30 p.m. and finals for the day's events will get underway at 6:30 p.m.


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Editor's note: The winner of the GOP primary -- Kevin Lundberg or Eric Weissmann -- will face incumbent Boulder Democrat Jared Polis in November's contest for Colorado's 2nd Congressional District seat. Louisville Libertarian Randy Luallin and Boulder Green Party member Susan Hall also have declared their candidacies for the 2nd CD seat now held by Polis, who's seeking a third two-year term.
Starting this year, the 2nd Congressional District includes all of Larimer County, all of Boulder County except for Longmont, all of Broomfield, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand and Summit counties, parts of Eagle, Jefferson and Park counties, and a small chunk of Weld County.
Boulder business investor Eric Weissmann says his political inexperience would be a plus, rather than a problem, when it comes to representing the viewpoints of most of the residents of Colorado's 2nd Congressional District.
"I'm a businessman, with a track record of achievement," Weissmann said recently. That background positions him to be the best Republican candidate to unseat fellow Boulder entrepreneur Jared Polis, the incumbent Democratic congressman, in this year's general election, he said.
"I am running for Congress to get our economy moving, and for the federal government to be less expensive and less intrusive," Weissmann said.
He wants to target the size and cost of federal government and how that's contributed to a slumping national economy, he said.
"Those are the issues that I am about," he said.
Weissmann contrasted his credentials with those of Kevin Lundberg, the state senator who's also seeking to be the GOP standard-bearer in this fall's 2nd Congressional District contest.
Eric Weissmann
Residence: Boulder
Age: 48
Occupation: Entrepreneur; has acquired and invested in several small companies
Political experience: First run for any public office
Civic activities: Served as a board member and advisor to the Alliance for Choice in Education, Colorado Uplift and The Wellness Initiative; served on the Colorado State Treasurer's Investment Advisory Council and the Colorado Executive Committee of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee; former president of the Young Entrepreneur's Organization's Colorado chapter; advised the Leadership Program of the Rockies
Education: Undergraduate business degree, State University of New York; master's in business administration, University of Colorado
Family: wife, Jennifer; sons, David and Jonah; daughter, Isabel
Campaign website: ericweissmann.com
He called Lundberg "a career politician" who's "been running for or serving in office since 1998."
Weissmann charged that Lundberg has accomplished little in that time to benefit the constituents of the Larimer County House and Senate districts he has represented in the Colorado Legislature.
In addition, he has criticized Lundberg for devoting so much time to social issues -- such as the senator's strident opposition to bills proposing recognition of certain legal rights for partners in same-sex civil unions -- rather than working to resolve the financial problems facing Coloradans.
Lundberg "is not a candidate who would appeal to the broader electorate" in the general election for the congressional seat, including the 2nd District's unaffiliated voters and disgruntled Democrats, Weissmann maintained.
Of his own candidacy, Weissmann said he's offering voters "values that match the district's."
The primary-election endorsements and contributions he's collected from across the Republican spectrum demonstrates that people are looking for a candidate with the "ability to mount a winning campaign" in the general-election face-off, Weissmann said, adding that those endorsements were "not about social issues."
During the primary election campaign, Weissmann has frequently told GOP audiences, "I'm the Republican who is going to fire Jared Polis."
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Before declaring that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "is about a month and a half away from being this massive politically correct joke and slipping into ... obscurity to never win another elected office again," Fox News Radio 600 KCOL host program director Scott James called the Democratic presidential candidate "Osama."
JAMES: Osama, Obama, Obama -- Barack Obama is about a month and a half away from being this massive politically correct joke and slipping into -- into obscurity to never win another elected office again. This guy is really startin' to show his true colors. A massive gaffe. Oh, it was a slip of the tongue; it was -- I, I don't mean to sound like one of these, these crap purveyors. It was a slip of the tongue, but it was how he responded to the slip of the tongue, and it's why the slip of the tongue even occurred to begin with at a campaign appearance he was making. And we'll get to that story in a few minutes.
James was referring to a May 8 speech during which Obama "drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died," as the Associated Press reported. According to the AP, after Obama "concluded his remarks a few minutes later, he appeared to realize his gaffe":
"There are going to be times when I get tired," he said. "There are going to be times when I get weary. There are going to be times when I make mistakes."
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said later that the senator meant to say "at least 10," instead of 10,000.
As Colorado Media Matters noted, on three separate occasions during his February 16 broadcast, Newsradio 850 KOA host Mike Rosen called Obama "Barack Osama." Similarly, Media Matters for America has pointed out (here, here, and here) other media figures and conservative commentators who either have referred to Obama as "Osama" or highlighted the phonetic resemblance of Obama's name to "Osama."
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Illinois Department of Human Services
Pat Quinn, Governor
Michelle R.B. Saddler, Secretary
FY 2011 Budget Request Agency Budget Briefing March 10, 2010 (ppt)
Unless extended, ARRA funding for some programs will reach their end early in FY11. Some outcomes seen so far:
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Developmental Disabilities funding Reductions
Grant elimination
Rate cuts/payment cycle
The DHS Budget Briefing Book will not be available in printed form, but the material can be reviewed or downloaded from the DHS Website at www.dhs.state.il.us/budget/2011/.
May we entertain questions about the Appropriation Request?


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AUSTIN, Texas — The man police say killed two people when he smashed his car through a barrier and into a street thronged with attendees of the South By Southwest festival has been charged with capital murder.
A district judge Friday set bail for Rashad Charjuan Owens at $3 million. He remains jailed.
The 21-year-old from Killeen, Texas, faces one capital murder charge, though more charges can be added later.
Police say an officer tried to stop Owens on suspicion of drunken driving around 12:30 a.m. Thursday, but he drove into the crowd while attempting to flee.
An Austin woman and a man from the Netherlands were killed. Twenty-three others were injured. Owens was treated for minor injuries but remained in police custody the entire time.


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