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Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 2: Advanced Experimental Design
Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 2: Advanced Experimental Design
May 2005
780 pages
DescriptionA comprehensive overview of experimental design at the advanced level
The development and introduction of new experimental designs in the last fifty years has been quite staggering and was brought about largely by an ever-widening field of applications. Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 2: Advanced Experimental Design is the second of a two-volume body of work that builds upon the philosophical foundations of experimental design set forth half a century ago by Oscar Kempthorne, and features the latest developments in the field.
Volume 1: An Introduction to Experimental Design introduced students at the MS level to the principles of experimental design, including the groundbreaking work of R. A. Fisher and Frank Yates, and Kempthorne's work in randomization theory with the development of derived linear models. Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume 2 provides more detail about aspects of error control and treatment design, with emphasis on their historical development and practical significance, and the connections between them. Designed for advanced-level graduate students and industry professionals, this text includes coverage of:
- Incomplete block and row-column designs
- Symmetrical and asymmetrical factorial designs
- Systems of confounding
- Fractional factorial designs, including main effect plans
- Supersaturated designs
- Robust design or Taguchi experiments
- Lattice designs
- Crossover designs
In order to facilitate the application of text material to a broad range of fields, the authors take a general approach to their discussions. To aid in the construction and analysis of designs, many procedures are illustrated using Statistical Analysis System (SAS®) software.
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1. General Incomplete Block Design.
1.1 Introduction and Examples.
1.2 General Remarks on the Analysis of Incomplete Block Designs.
1.3 The Intrablock Analysis.
1.4 Incomplete Designs with Variable Block Size.
1.5 Disconnected Incomplete Block Designs.
1.6 Randomization Analysis.
1.7 Interblock Information in an Incomplete Block Design.
1.8 Combined Intra- and Interblock Analysis.
1.9 Relationships Among Intrablock, Interblock, and Combined Estimation.
1.10 Estimation of Weights for the Combined Analysis.
1.11 Maximum-Likelihood Type Estimation.
1.12 Efficiency Factor of an Incomplete Block Design.
1.13 Optimal Designs.
1.14 Computational Procedures.
2. Balanced Incomplete Block Designs.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Definition of the BIB Design.
2.3 Properties of BIB Designs.
2.4 Analysis of BIB Designs.
2.5 Estimation of ρ.
2.6 Significance Tests.
2.7 Some Special Arrangements.
2.8 Resistant and Susceptible BIB Designs.
3. Construction of Balanced Incomplete Block Designs.
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 Difference Methods.
3.3 Other Methods.
3.4 Listing of Existing BIB Designs.
4. Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 Preliminaries.
4.3 Definition and Properties of PBIB Designs.
4.4 Association Schemes and Linear Associative Algebras.
4.5 Analysis of PBIB Designs.
4.6 Classification of PBIB Designs.
4.7 Estimation of ρ for PBIB(2) Designs.
5. Construction of Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs.
5.1 Group-Divisible PBIB(2) Designs.
5.2 Construction of Other PBIB(2) Designs.
5.3 Cyclic PBIB Designs.
5.4 Kronecker Product Designs.
5.5 Extended Group-Divisible PBIB Designs.
5.6 Hypercubic PBIB Designs.
6. More Block Designs and Blocking Structures.
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 Alpha Designs.
6.3 Generalized Cyclic Incomplete Block Designs.
6.4 Designs Based on the Successive Diagonalizing Method.
6.5 Comparing Treatments with a Control.
6.6 Row–Column Designs.
7. Two-Level Factorial Designs.
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 Case of Two Factors.
7.3 Case of Three Factors.
7.4 General Case.
7.5 Interpretation of Effects and Interactions.
7.6 Analysis of Factorial Experiments.
8. Confounding in 2n Factorial Designs.
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 Systems of Confounding.
8.3 Composition of Blocks for a Particular System of Confounding.
8.4 Detecting a System of Confounding.
8.5 Using SAS for Constructing Systems of Confounding.
8.6 Analysis of Experiments with Confounding.
8.7 Interblock Information in Confounded Experiments.
8.8 Numerical Example Using SAS.
9. Partial Confounding in 2n Factorial Designs.
9.1 Introduction.
9.2 Simple Case of Partial Confounding.
9.3 Partial Confounding as an Incomplete Block Design.
9.4 Efficiency of Partial Confounding.
9.5 Partial Confounding in a 23 Experiment.
9.6 Partial Confounding in a 24 Experiment.
9.7 General Case.
9.7.1 Intrablock Information.
9.8 Double Confounding.
9.9 Confounding in Squares.
9.10 Numerical Examples Using SAS.
10. Designs with Factors at Three Levels.
10.1 Introduction.
10.2 Definition of Main Effects and Interactions.
10.3 Parameterization in Terms of Main Effects and Interactions.
10.4 Analysis of 3n Experiments.
10.5 Confounding in a 3n Factorial.
10.6 Useful Systems of Confounding.
10.7 Analysis of Confounded 3n Factorials.
10.8 Numerical Example.
11. General Symmetrical Factorial Design.
11.1 Introduction.
11.2 Representation of Effects and Interactions.
11.3 Generalized Interactions.
11.4 Systems of Confounding.
11.5 Intrablock Subgroup.
11.6 Enumerating Systems of Confounding.
11.7 Fisher Plans.
11.8 Symmetrical Factorials and Finite Geometries.
11.9 Parameterization of Treatment Responses.
11.10 Analysis of pn Factorial Experiments.
11.11 Interblock Analysis.
11.12 Combined Intra- and Interblock Information.
11.13 The sn Factorial.
11.14 General Method of Confounding for the Symmetrical Factorial Experiment.
11.15 Choice of Initial Block.
12. Confounding in Asymmetrical Factorial Designs.
12.1 Introduction.
12.2 Combining Symmetrical Systems of Confounding.
12.3 The GC/n Method.
12.4 Method of Finite Rings.
12.5 Balanced Factorial Designs (BFD).
13. Fractional Factorial Designs.
13.1 Introduction.
13.2 Simple Example of Fractional Replication.
13.3 Fractional Replicates for 2n Factorial Designs.
13.4 Fractional Replicates for 3n Factorial Designs.
13.5 General Case of Fractional Replication.
13.6 Characterization of Fractional Factorial Designs of Resolution III, IV, and V.
13.7 Fractional Factorials and Combinatorial Arrays.
13.8 Blocking in Fractional Factorials.
13.9 Analysis of Unreplicated Factorials.
14. Main Effect Plans.
14.1 Introduction.
14.2 Orthogonal Resolution III Designs for Symmetrical Factorials.
14.3 Orthogonal Resolution III Designs for Asymmetrical Factorials.
14.4 Nonorthogonal Resolution III Designs.
15. Supersaturated Designs.
15.1 Introduction and Rationale.
15.2 Random Balance Designs.
15.3 Definition and Properties of Supersaturated Designs.
15.4 Construction of Two-Level Supersaturated Designs.
15.5 Three-Level Supersaturated Designs.
15.6 Analysis of Supersaturated Experiments.
16. Search Designs.
16.1 Introduction and Rationale.
16.2 Definition of Search Design.
16.3 Properties of Search Designs.
16.4 Listing of Search Designs.
16.5 Analysis of Search Experiments.
16.6 Search Probabilities.
17. Robust-Design Experiments.
17.1 Off-Line Quality Control.
17.2 Design and Noise Factors.
17.3 Measuring Loss.
17.4 Robust-Design Experiments.
17.5 Modeling of Data.
18. Lattice Designs.
18.1 Definition of Quasi-Factorial Designs.
18.2 Types of Lattice Designs.
18.3 Construction of One-Restrictional Lattice Designs.
18.4 General Method of Analysis for One-Restrictional Lattice Designs.
18.5 Effects of Inaccuracies in the Weights.
18.6 Analysis of Lattice Designs as Randomized Complete Block Designs.
18.7 Lattice Designs as Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Designs.
18.8 Lattice Designs with Blocks of Size Kl.
18.9 Two-Restrictional Lattices.
18.10 Lattice Rectangles.
18.11 Rectangular Lattices.
18.12 Efficiency Factors.
19. Crossover Designs.
19.1 Introduction.
19.2 Residual Effects.
19.3 The Model.
19.4 Properties of Crossover Designs.
19.5 Construction of Crossover Designs.
19.6 Optimal Designs.
19.7 Analysis of Crossover Designs.
19.8 Comments on Other Models.
Appendix A: Fields and Galois Fields.
Appendix B: Finite Geometries.
Appendix C: Orthogonal and Balanced Arrays.
Appendix D: Selected Asymmetrical Balanced Factorial Designs.
Appendix E: Exercises.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
""...a broad and in-depth book...covers not only classic but also up-to-date results and references, making it convenient for researchers. It is one of the very few advanced textbooks on experimental design..."" (Technometrics, November 2006)
""I suspect this excellent book will be used most often by specialists in design...the book's importance is largely as a reference for experts...or as an independent learning tool…"" (Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2006)
""I would expect HK to attain essentially the same stature and appeal to virtually the same markets as the 1952 edition."" (Journal of Quality Technology, January 2006)
""…the authors have done a commendable job in putting together the vast amount of literature that is available on the topics…of great value to students, and also to teachers and researchers."" (Mathematical Reviews, 2006b)


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For musicians & performers, interactive installations, museums, or meta-instruments, Eobody3 USB Sensorbox is a plug&play versatile solution to use new controls, to trigger and modulate sounds and videos, to create new sensor-based instruments with no computer programming background. The version with a MIDI output enables to control MIDI hardware devices with sensors with no computer. Its internal signal processing has been especially developped for music and video applications. And if you want to go further into the signal processing control, a PC, Mac compatible Eobody3 Editor enables to adjust internal process parameters and shape the outcoming signal waveform (status/analogue zoom/digital zoom & offset/inverse/lag processor/gate/ note on/off/new waveshaper). These settings can be stored in Sensorbox non-volatile memory! It's now possible to store an entire installation or performance setup inside a Sensorbox and save it for a future use. High-speed USB enables to reduce significantly the latency. A 32-bit resolution avoids 'scale effects' and allows a nearly linear conversion curve. Sensorboxes can be plugged directly to the USB in of your computer or thru a USB hub if you want to plug more. Technical specifications - Eobody3 has a more powerful 32-bits IC, which enables more pre-processings and more pre-mappings. - New waveshaper pre-processing tool - 8 to 16 inputs - new internal architecture opened to other protocols - Eobody3 Sensorbox is compatible with all MIDI softwares! - No MIDI interface needed! - It's all pre-configured! - It's all reconfigurable! - Internal Signal Process to get the best results for your application - Input type: 0-5V, Eowave compatible sensor (jack 6,35'') - Number of inputs: 8 or 16 per Sensorbox - Number of Sensorbox you can plug: as many as your computer (or usb hub) can host - Input resolution: up to 32 bit - Input Sample rate: 12 bit - Output: USB - Hi-speed USB - Non-volatile memory - Eobody Editor: PC, Mac compatible. - Max collective files also available - Self powered by USB or externally powered - Internal processing parameters: status/analogue zoom/digital zoom & offset/inverse/ lag processor/gate/note on/off/ message format types: Control change 7 bits/Control change 12 bits/Note on Trigger/Program change/Pitch bend real 12 bits/Pitch bend mapped 14 bits/ Monophonic aftertouch/new waveshaper - Pre mappings per sensor types - Possibility of upgrade from 8 inputs to 16 inputs - Enclosure ABS black 12x12x6 cm - Different models available: 8 or 16 inputs, 8 inputs with MIDI output, 16 inputs with MIDI output.
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It's the basic question when investing in a stock: is it on the way up or down
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So far this year, the S&P 500 is up nearly 8.58 percent, with less than half (211) of the index components outperforming the overall market. Stocks with positive performance this year, CNBC's Analytics teamlooked at the ones that have average consensus estimates farthest above their current stock prices. Companies which have seen their values drop by more than 10 percent YTD are excluded from this list, in order to compensate for any time lag in analyst estimates. All values including analysts' estimates are as of the market close on July 2, 2012.
So, which stocks are analysts expecting to have the biggest pops? Click ahead to find out!
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New park in Menomonee Valley to open in July
New park in Menomonee Valley to open in July
The final step in revitalizing the vacant rail yard in the Menomonee Valley is close to complete.
Members of the From the Ground Up organization announced the park's official name, Three Bridges Park, on Thursday.
The 24-acre area will have a 6-mile extension of the Hank Aaron Trail, access to the river for fishing and canoeing and community gardens.
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The movie "Rudy" hits theaters. It's based on the real-life story of Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, an Illinois native and walk-on for Notre Dame who got a game-ending sack on the final play of his college career. The movie also marked the film debut of Vince Vaughn, who remains a huge Notre Dame fan. It also spawned infinite chants of "Rudy! Rudy!"
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NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell puts the chance of any change to the GST on par with pigs flying.
As Mr O'Farrell headed into the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Canberra on Friday he was asked if GST reform was on the agenda.
"Hang on, a pig just went by," he told reporters at parliament house.
"There's as much chance of reforming the GST in the lead up to a federal (election) campaign as there is of me jumping off this building and surviving."
Mr O'Farrell has previously called for debate on raising the 10 per cent rate of the consumption tax, or broadening its base, in lieu of getting rid of inefficient state taxes.
"I'm sceptical about so-called appetite for GST reform federally. That's why I continue to look for pigs when I come to Canberra," he said.
"Unless every state and the commonwealth agrees to reform, there will be no reform."
Mr O'Farrell also said he was bitterly disappointed a review into how GST revenue is carved up among the states and territories recommended no change to the current distribution mechanism.
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Police said Hewey, of Claremont, N.H., eventually called 911 and said he had no idea where he was. He had hiked half a mile uphill to find cellphone reception.
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Meet Secret Life of Bees author Sue Monk Kidd … at Sam's Club
Sue Monk Kidd, author of the bestselling novel The Secret Life of Bees, is coming to Annapolis.
She's selling and signing her newest book, The Invention of Wings, not at familiar book haunts but at Sam's Club, a newcomer in author appearances.
Released in hardback this week, The Invention of Wings is a tale of two young women growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s. Sarah is the well-to-do daughter of a respected judge, while Hetty 'Handful' is Sarah's 11th birthday present, her personal slave of the same age.
Invention follows the lives of the two girls as they grow up in the deep South, both smart and strong-willed, one black and one white, one master and one servant. Their friendship and allegiance foster the adults they become. Of course, along the way there are many challenges and much drama that keep the reader riveted. You hope for the best but expect the worst. The book is educational and heartfelt, with Hetty's character adding perspective.
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STOCKTON - Despite pleas from counselors and from the head of the teachers union, Stockton Unified School District took the first step Tuesday night toward possible layoffs of nearly 100 teachers and counselors.
STOCKTON - Despite pleas from counselors and from the head of the teachers union, Stockton Unified School District took the first step Tuesday night toward possible layoffs of nearly 100 teachers and counselors.
The board voted unanimously to issue the layoff notices ahead of the March 15 state deadline. They are only preliminary notices; for the layoffs to take effect, the district would need to send notices by May 15.
If the district reduces staffing by the 95.2 positions approved Tuesday - including 27 elementary school teachers and 17.2 counseling positions - it also is possible that summertime clarification of Stockton Unified's finances could result in rehirings. Retirements also could reduce the number of layoffs.
But teachers, counselors and board members voiced concern that the layoff plan will affect the continuity of services at Stockton Unified campuses.
"We have a good counseling team," said Tammy Earnest, who serves students at Chavez High. "Laying off counselors makes it difficult for us to maintain the relationships we have with our students. With all the violence and uncertainty in Stockton, we help students navigate their lives. We encourage students daily, and we're there for them."
Stockton Teachers Association President Ellen Old asked the board - in vain, as it turned out - to end what has become an annual ritual of issuing layoff notices.
"This has become the new normal in Stockton Unified," Old said.
One bit of good news could be coming from the state. Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a new funding formula for California public education under which school districts like Stockton Unified that have high numbers of economically disadvantaged students and English-language learners would benefit the most.
Superintendent Steve Lowder said if the proposal becomes reality, it could mean an additional $9 million for Stockton Unified next year. But Lowder said he does not expect the district to ever see the full $9 million, though it might get some extra funding.
Lowder, calling the state system of school budgeting "a crazy mess," said the district must be cautious because Brown's funding proposal is not yet officially the law.
He said most of the district's budgeting woes stem from the use of restricted funds to make it through fiscal trouble in 2011-12. He said grants might ultimately be the key to retaining counselors.
Edison High's Barbara Greenwood, head of the union that represents counselors, said if the staffing cuts do occur, it will increase the workload for an already beleaguered group. She said the student-to-counselor ratio would increase from 727-to-1 to more than 900-to-1.
"It's a nasty task," Lowder said of the layoff process. "It involves people's lives, their futures. We hate it. But it's the task we've been given. ... I wish it was different. It's not."
The board also issued notices during closed session Tuesday to 11 principals and two downtown administrators. No names were revealed. Lowder said all notices approved Tuesday were "preliminary."
One issue not addressed was an administrative proposal to ask the state to allow Stockton Unified to raise class sizes in 2013-14 as a means of saving money.
An agenda item to request the waiver was on the Feb. 12 board agenda but was pulled. Lowder said he may ask board members if they are willing to revisit the matter at an upcoming meeting.
Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/phillipsblog.


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Southern Cal, under interim coach Bob Cantu, loses 76-74 to No. 21 Oregon
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LOS ANGELES – Bob Cantu slid over a couple of seats on the USC bench for Thursday night's Pac-12 game against Oregon. The end result wasn't much different than most of the Trojans' games this season. USC battled back from a 10-point deficit in the final minutes, but came up just short in a 76-74 loss to No. 21 Oregon.
USC was coming off a victory over Utah last week, but it marked the final game for coach Kevin O'Neill, who was fired on Monday. Cantu, in his 12th season as an assistant with the program, came up short in his second try as the team's interim coach. Cantu served as the team's interim coach for one game in 2011 when O'Neill was suspended. USC lost that game to Arizona in a Pac-10 tournament semifinals.
"It's been a tough week," Cantu said. "I'm really proud how we competed and fought. We kept pushing, got back in the game and had our chances. We did a decent job of pushing the ball up the floor and we attacked. ... But we weren't consistent enough to get over the hump. I'm proud of the guys and their effort."
The Trojans (7-11, 2-3 Pac-12) were down 75-67 with 2:11 remaining. J.J. Terrell, who had 22 points, made two free throws to cut Oregon's lead to 75-74 with 33.1 seconds left. Jio Fontan of USC missed a 3-pointer and his teammates missed a couple of putbacks with Oregon's Arsalan Kazemi finally grabbing the rebound.
"It was a tough loss," Terrell said. "It's never a good feeling, especially when you have several opportunities at the end. We played a good game against a great Oregon team. We had a few mistakes that hurt us. We just really wanted to win. Everybody was really hungry. There was a lot of emotions this week, not knowing that (replacing O'Neill) was going to happen. At the end of the day, we have a lot of season left and a lot to accomplish."
The Ducks shot 42.9 percent (27 for 63) from the field.
Eric Wise had 17 points for the Trojans.
The Ducks were just happy to get out of the arena with a victory, their sixth straight.
"Well, we didn't mean to do that," Oregon coach Dana Altman said of the wild finish. "I was very disappointed in our defense. Offensively, obviously we didn't get the shots we wanted, but we had a 10-point lead there ... and they scored nine very easy points. But we found a way to win. Sometimes you've got to do that. I didn't think we were sharp all night."
Oregon got its usual balanced scoring, as five players finished in double figures: Damyean Dotson with 16 points. E.J. Singler 14 and Carlos Emory, Tony Woods and Dominic Artis each had 10.
The Ducks (15-2, 4-0) opened with four straight conference wins for the first time in 39 years when they started 4-0 in the Pac-8.
"You've got to find a way in some games," Altman said. "We haven't been sharp now the last two games which is a big concern, but we did find a way to win, which is very important on the road. ... Sometimes you've just got to be lucky."
USC led for just 30 seconds of the first half, but got in position to take the lead early in the second half when Terrell hit a 3-pointer from the left baseline, was fouled, then made his free throw to complete the four-point play and cut Oregon's lead to 45-44. In the ensuing minutes, the Trojans had several chances to tie the game or go ahead, but missed shots and turned the ball over.
The Trojans got a boost early in the second half from 7-footer Dewayne Dedmon, who scored seven points in the opening 4 minutes of the second half after going scoreless in the first half.
Neither team shot well in the first half, Oregon making 12 of 29 field goals (41 percent), slightly better than USC's 11 for 28 (39 percent). But the Trojans got a strong first half from Terrell, who rejoined the starting lineup last week.


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Gail M. Mitchell, 49, of 24 Water St., died Sunday, July 21, in her home after being stricken ill.
She is survived by her mother, Helen M. (Blondin) Mitchell of Clinton; a brother, Vernon T. Mitchell Jr. and his wife, Doris, of Lawrence; five nieces, one nephew, several great-nephews and great-nieces, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Ms. Mitchell was predeceased by her father, Vernon T. Mitchell, who died in 2002.
Born and raised in Clinton, she was a graduate of Clinton High School, Class of 1981. She attended Worcester State College.
She was employed for the last several years as a case worker/counselor at Work, Inc., which provides rehabilitation services and develops community-based employment and other programs for individuals with disabilities. Previously, she was employed by the former Zayre Corporation, at its Clinton warehouse location, and later worked as a massage therapist, while residing in California.
An avid Boston Red Sox and San Francisco 49ers fan, she enjoyed spending time on her computer. She loved animals and was especially fond of cats.
A graveside service will take place on Tuesday, July 30, at 11 a.m. in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clinton. McNally and Watson Funeral Home, 304 Church St., is directing arrangements. For online condolences, visit www.mcnallywatson.com.


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Four Trojans Earn Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarships
July 7, 2014
LOS ANGELES - Autumn Altamirano (women's soccer), Michael Godbe (men's swimming), Ceilidh Meagher (women's lacrosse) and Kevin Swick (baseball) have been named recipients of Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarships for the 2013-14 academic year. The four Trojans, who hold a minimum 3.0 grade point average and have demonstrated a commitment to continuing education, campus and community involvement and leadership will each will be awarded with a $3,000 scholarship. A total of 48 different Pac-12 student-athletes will be bestowed the honor, conference commissioner Larry Scott recently announced.
Autumn Altamirano, a captain for the Women of Troy side for two seasons, appeared in 95 career games, making 76 starts. She scored seven goals, while adding seven assists during her four-year career as a versatile, impact midfielder for Troy. The Tustin, Calif., native also excelled in the classroom for the Women of Troy, earning Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention honors each of the three seasons she was eligible for selection (2011-13).
Michael Godbe, a middle distance freestyle swimmer for the Trojans, earned Pac-12 All-Academic first team honors in 2014 with a 3.81 GPA in political science. The selection is Godbe's third consecutive first team selection. Godbe competed in the 2013 Pac-12 Championships in the 500y free, 200y free and 200y fly.
A member of USC's inaugural team, senior captain Ceilidh Meagher represents the Trojans' first-ever graduating lacrosse class. As a junior, Meagher started 11 and appeared in 17 of USC's 18 games. She had two goals and an assist to go with eight ground balls, nine draw controls, and five caused turnovers. In 2014, Meagher appeared in seven games and picked up an assist, four draw controls, and caused two turnovers. Meagher serves as a team captain for the Women of Troy and graduated with a degree in economics from the USC Dana and David Dornsife School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences this May. She will attend graduate school at Stockholm University in Sweden this fall.
Kevin Swick became USC's first Capital One Academic All-American first teamer in baseball this past spring with a 3.83 GPA as a business administration major. The walk-on turned three-year starter finished second on the team in 2014 with a .299 batting average. He drove in 24 runs, while scoring a team-high 27. He started in 50 of the Trojans 53 games this spring, leading the team to their best record since 2005 (29-24 overall) and a fifth-place finish in Pac-12 play. Swick also earned the Male Trojan of the Year award in 2013 and 2014 for exemplifying all the qualities of Trojan. Swick capped off his stellar career as the 22nd round draft pick of the Chicago White Sox in the 2014 MLB First Year Player's Draft.
The Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarships are awarded to student-athletes with a minimum 3.0 grade point average who have also demonstrated a commitment to continuing education, campus and community involvement, and leadership. Since the program began in 1999, the Pac-12 has awarded over $1.5 million for postgraduate study.
To be selected for a Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarship, a student-athlete must:
Have an overall undergraduate minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 (based on a 4.00 scale) or its equivalent.
Be in his/her final season of intercollegiate athletics eligibility in all sports OR be in his/her final year of undergraduate studies, having exhausted athletics eligibility in all sports.
Have performed with distinction as a member of a varsity team.
Intend to continue academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a full-time student in a graduate or professional program at an accredited institution, or in a postgraduate program for which an undergraduate degree is required for admission.
Have behaved, both on and off the field, in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete, the institution and intercollegiate athletics.
In 1999, the Pac-12 Conference created a postgraduate scholarship program to honor outstanding student-athletes from its member institutions who also are outstanding scholars. Each Pac-12 institution selects four student-athlete recipients, two men and two women, through its institutional selection process.


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Tyler and Maggie Heath, siblings from San Marcos, Texas, self-released their independent album, Through the Deep, Dark Valley, in October of last year. It was the culmination of a collaboration that began a couple years ago, when they wrote their first song together — for their mom. She liked it, but more importantly, they liked the process.
The two value working as independents by choice — they produced Through the Deep, Dark Valley themselves — and, based on the sophisticated layering of their songs, I'm not sure how much an outside producer would improve things.
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Witness testifies at accused airline groper trial
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A witness to an alleged groping incident on a cross-country flight testified in federal court Monday that he saw the man next to him "spooning" the alleged victim with one arm around her shoulder and the other underneath a blanket on her lap.
Evan Focht's testimony came during the second week of the sexual abuse trial of Bawer Aksal, a Turkish-born U.S. citizen who lives in North Bergen. It appeared to corroborate at least some of the alleged victim's account of the incident on the United flight from Phoenix to Newark last August.
In direct testimony last week and again under cross-examination Monday, the woman — who is using a pseudonym during the trial due to the nature of the criminal charge — testified she awoke from sleeping to find Aksal fondling her breasts with one hand while he stuck his other hand down her shorts and sexually assaulted her with his fingers.
Questioned by defense attorney Robert DeGroot, the woman described how she fell asleep during a movie and woke up as Aksal assaulted her. He had reached around and stuck his right hand through the arm hole in her blouse and had his arm and hand on her breasts, she said.
"When I woke up and realized what was going on, I flinched backward and said, 'Get off me!'" she said. "He then pulled me closer and whispered, 'Kiss me" in my ear. I was completely confused as to what was going on. I just couldn't believe this was happening."
Focht, a high school English teacher in New York, sat in the aisle seat with Aksal in the middle and the woman in the window seat. He told jurors that Aksal motioned to him to turn off his overhead light in the mostly darkened cabin. He said he hadn't noticed any interaction between Aksal and the woman to that point.
Using three airline seats set up in the courtroom and with Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Walsman playing the alleged victim, he demonstrated what he saw Aksal do next.
"She was still turned toward the window, and the defendant was kind of spooned up next to her so there was no space between him and her," he said. Focht said he saw Aksal's hand under the sweater on the woman's lap, then put his other arm around her shoulder.
"It appeared as though they were a couple," Focht continued. "That's why it was confusing to me because it was so incongruous to the way the flight had been going."
The woman woke up with a start and slammed down the armrest, Focht testified. He said when she motioned to him that she wanted to get out into the aisle, Aksal looked at her as she stood up and casually said, 'Oh, do you want to get out?'"
On cross-examination, DeGroot noted Focht initially told police that Aksal draped the sweater over the woman's lap and moved the armrest out of the way, neither of which Focht admitted actually seeing occur. On re-direct questioning, Walsman emphasized that the rest of Focht's testimony was based on his own observations.
DeGroot also grilled the alleged victim about a text message sent from her phone to an FBI agent that said she would agree to testify in the case if the agent could get an unrelated obstruction charge against her son dismissed. The woman testified her son sent the text.


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- Game 15 • Brown (9-4, 0-0 Ivy League)
- Opening Game of 2011-12 Ivy League Season
- Friday, January 13, 2012 • 7:00 p.m.
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One year after matching the best league record in the program's history to finish in second place and earn the league's automatic berth in the Women's National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), Yale begins its Ivy League season at Brown with its sights set on challenging for its first Ivy League championship since 1979. The Bulldogs are looking to remain perfect in 2012 after closing out non-league play with a New Year's Day victory over Army followed by a dominating wins at Bucknell and home vs. Baruch. Junior guard Megan Vasquez continues to lead the Bulldogs. She raised her scoring average to 13.6 points per game. Sophomore Janna Graf has continued her solid play of late and is averaging 14.0 ppg. and 6.6 rpg over Yale's last five games. Brown enters Ivy League play riding a six-game winning streak. The Bears have not lost a game since a 63-55 home loss to Fairfield on Nov. 30.
Ivy Quest Begins
The quest for the Ivy League championship is now under way as Princeton dominated Penn, 83-48, to tip off the double round-robin schedule on Jan. 7 at Penn. As the only Division I conference without a postseason tournament, the League's 14-game conference slate becomes the "tournament" to determine which Ivy team wins the title and earns an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament. The team that finishes the season in second place earns the Ivy League's automatic bid to the Women's National Invitational Tournament. Yale earned its first-ever WNIT bid last season after finishing a program-best 10-4 in league play. The Bulldogs begin Ivy League play at Brown on Friday. Princeton is the two-time defending Ivy League champion. Yale is pursuing its first Ivy League championship since the 1978-79 season, when the league champion was determined in a mid-season tournament.
Scouting Brown
Brown enters the Ivy League season riding a six-game winning streak, matching defending champion Princeton with the longest winning streak among Ivy League teams this season. The Bears, 9-4 overall, have not lost since a 63-55 loss at home to Fairfield. The Bears are 4-2 at home, losing the season-opener against New Hampshire, 62-57, and the game vs. Fairfield. Brown's home victories have come against Albany, Rhode Island, Providence and Vermont. Brown is the best defensive team in the Ivy League this season. The Bears have held their opponents to a league-low 55.2 points per game. Junior guard Sheila Dixon leads the Bears in scoring (13.4 ppg.), rebounding (5.9 rpg.) and steals (28). Senior captain Hannah Passafuime is second on the team in scoring (13.2 ppg.) and rebounding (5.5 rpg.).
Series History
In a series that dates back to Yale's first season as a varsity program in 1973-74, the two teams have met 72 times prior to this season. Brown owns a 42-30 advantage in the series. However, Yale is 7-5 against Brown during Chris Gobrecht's six previous seasons as Yale's head coach, including an even 3-3 at Brown. Last season, Yale pulled off the first season sweep of Brown since the 2007-08 season. It was the third time that either team swept the two-game season series during Chris Gobrecht's tenure as Yale's head coach. Brown swept the season series in Gobrecht's first season at Yale (2005-06).
2010-11 Series
Yale sophomore guard Janna Graf had the best game of her short career in the first meeting with Brown last year. On Jan. 14, 2011, she recorded career-highs in points (26), field goals made (10), attempts (17), 3-pointers made (6) and attempts (12). Senior Mady Gobrecht was the only other Bulldog to score in double figures. She finished with a double-double with 11 points and 14 rebounds, including 11 defensive rebounds. She also had four blocks. In the rematch at Brown, Yale's Megan Vasquez took control of the game and tallied a game-high 18 points with six rebounds, while Gobrecht recorded her second consecutive double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Michelle Cashen added 10 points and seven rebounds. After leading Brown with 21 points in the opening game of the series, Sheila Dixon was held to just eight points in the rematch. Lindsay Nickel led the Bears with 17 points, while Hannah Passafuime added 14 points.
Five in the Book
It is a pretty safe assumption that Brown's starting lineup is already set for Friday's game against Yale. In fact, Bears head coach Jean Marie Burr has stuck with the same five players at tip off in every game this season. Guards Hannah Passafuime, Sheila Dixon and Lauren Clarke, and forwards Aileen Daniels and Lindsay Nickel have started all 13 games for the Bears. All five are averaging at least 8.3 points per game. Brown is used to rolling out those five players for the opening tip. The same five players started 20 of Brown's 28 games together last season. Only injury or illness prevented that combination from starting every game last season.
Double Trouble
Hannah Passafuime has scored in double figures in 10 of Brown's 13 games this season, including a season-high 18 points. Sheila Dixon has been nearly as consistent, scoring in double digits in nine of 13 games, including a 26-point performance against Providence College.
Connecticut Connection
Brown's Jonathan Parsons, a third-year assistant coach for the Bears, has strong ties to Connecticut. The 2008 graduate of Sacred Heart was a four-year student manager for the men's basketball team while he was a student there. He then served as a volunteer assistant coach at the University of New Haven for a year prior to joining the staff at Brown. He also was an assistant coach for the Connecticut Breeze U-16 AAU program.
Last Time Out
Yale raced past Division III power Baruch, 80-47, in its final tune-up before beginning Ivy League play. Yale closed out its non-league schedule with an 8-6 mark, its best non-league finish since the 1993-94 season (8-4). The point total matches Yale's highest scoring output this season. Janna Graf scored 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds, narrowly missing her second double-double of the season. Michelle Cashen also had 15 points to go with seven rebounds. Freshman guard Sarah Halejian matched her career-high with 14 points and added three steals. The Bulldogs outrebounded the Bearcats 53-37, and turned 16 offensive rebounds into 18 second-chance points. Defensively, Yale was even more impressive. The Bulldogs limited the Bearcats to just 19-for-61 shooting. The 31.1 shooting percentage is the lowest by a Yale opponent this season.
Blowout at Bucknell
On the road for the final time in non-league play, Yale dominated Bucknell to take a 69-48 victory in Lewisburg, Pa. The Bulldogs were led by Megan Vasquez, who scored a game-high 17 points behind 7-for-12 shooting performance. Janna Graf tallied 13 points, five rebounds and a pair of blocks, while freshman guard Sarah Halejian added 13 points and four assists. The Bulldogs put together their best shooting performance of the season, hitting 49.1 percent of their shots (26-of-53), including a season-best 54.5 percent from 3-point range (6-for-11). The Bulldogs were especially efficient in the second half, draining 13 of their 19 shots (68.4 percent). The Bulldogs pulled away from the Bison through the first 16 minutes of the second half, opening up a lead that reached 28 points (67-39).
Survival of the Fittest
Army freshman Olivia Schretzman had a chance to lift Army to a come-from-behind victory, but her eight-foot jumper at the buzzer rolled in and out of the basket, allowing Yale to survive with a 63-62 win on New Year's Day at Yale. Yale saw five players score at least eight points. Michelle Cashen recorded her eighth career double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Bulldogs. Megan Vasquez also scored 11 points. Freshmen Sarah Halejian (9 points) and Arrice Bryant (6 points, 9 rebounds, 3 blocks) also turned in strong performances for Yale. Yale scored 21 of its points off of 16 Army turnovers. The Yale bench outscored Army's reserves 20-0. Army, however, outrebounded Yale 47-41. It is the ninth time in 12 games that Yale has been outrebounded. The Bulldogs are now 3-6 in those games.
More Ivy Recognition
After averaging 13.5 points, 3.0 assists, 2.0 rebounds, and 1.5 steals in leading Yale to a pair of wins last week, freshman guard Halejian was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week on Monday. This is the second Rookie of the Week award for Halejian (Dec. 19). Halejian matched her career-high with 14 points to go with three steals and two rebounds in an 80-47 win over Baruch on Sunday. Last Tuesday, Halejian started her week with a 13-point outing in Yale's 69-48 win at Bucknell. She also matched a personal-best with three rebounds and four assists. In the two games last week, Halejian was efficient with the basketball, shooting a combined 7-for-15 (.467) overall, 3-for-9 from 3-point range (.333), and a stellar 10-for-12 (.833) from the free-throw line. Halejian has scored in double figures in four games overall this season, and she has tallied at least nine points in five of the Bulldogs' last six games, averaging 10.3 points per game over that span.
Yale on YES
The YES Network, the broadcast home of major league baseball's New York Yankees, will feature Yale's men's and women's basketball teams in a two-game, winter TV package. The Yale women's basketball team tips off the Yale on YES package with its Ivy League contest against Dartmouth at the John J. Lee Amphitheater on Friday, Feb. 17. The Yale men's basketball team will close out the package with its home game against Columbi on Friday, Feb, 24. Both games will air live on YES beginning at 7 p.m.
Scoring Points
- The season has reached the halfway mark and Yale has already scored at least 75 points on four occasions, all victories (vs. Holy Cross, at FDU, at Houston, vs. Baruch). Last season, Yale surpassed 75 points only three times all of last season, all in winning fashion (vs. Florida State, vs. Harvard, at Harvard). The Bulldogs went 1-1 in 2009-10 when scoring more than 75 points, losing vs. N.C. A&T and winning at home vs. Columbia.
- Yale finished its non-league schedule with an 8-6 record, closing the slate with a three-game winning streak. It is Yale's best non-league finish since the 1993-94 season when the Bulldogs finished 8-4.
- Yale is leading the Ivy League in assists (14.4 per game), turnover margin (+4.29), assist-to-turnover ratio (0.8), and made 3-pointers per game (6.1).
- Yale is second in the Ivy League in scoring, averaging 65.9 points per game. The Bulldogs are also second in the league in 3-point shooting percentage, hitting 86-of-282 threes (.305), in blocks (3.7 per game), and in steals (10.2 per game).
- Yale has allowed 90 or more points twice this season, losing both games. The Bulldogs lost at Baylor, 109-59, and at Florida State, 92-58.
- The Bulldogs are 4-1 at home this season, 4-5 in games away from Yale.
Milestone Watch for Vasquez
Junior guard Megan Vasquez has now scored 878 career points. She needs just 122 points to reach 1,000 career points. She has four 20-point outings this season, including Holy Cross (23), Marist (21), Houston (22) and Boston University (22). Vasquez scored 322 points in her freshman season and 366 points last season. If she approaches her average of 344 points from her first two seasons, she should reach the 1,000-point milestone at some point during the Ivy League season. In doing so, Vasquez will become the 17th player in Yale's history to reach 1,000 career points. The last Bulldog to reach the milestone was Melissa Colborne, who closed out her career with 1,418 points, fifth on Yale's all-time scoring list. If Vasquez continues to maintain her 344-point pace, she would finish in sixth place on Yale's all-time list with 1,376 career points.
Report filed by Jon Erickson Jr., Yale Sports Publicity


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A little while ago I was presented with the chance to do some testing on a brand new storage array that has come to market from Pure Storage. A lot of the time when doing tests like this the vendor wants to connect to their machines and play with some dummy data and see what sort of numbers that you can get. This wasn't the case with Pure Storage, they offered me a unit to rack in my data center so that they could see the numbers that the array was able to handle while running actual production workloads. Below you will find my findings which I came up with from the Pure Storage array.
The environment the array was connected to plays a very important note in the testing that I did, as the array was connected to a pair of 4 Gig Cisco fiber channel switches. As you begin reading through the numbers below you'll begin to see some less than stellar numbers being reported by SQLIO. These numbers aren't an indication of a problem with the Pure array, but with the fact that we were pushing the ports on the 4 Gig switches to 100% while doing the testing. While servers that were being used have 8 Gig FC ports, and the storage array has 8 Gig FC ports, the Cisco switches in the middle were only 4 Gig ports so this presented a severe bottleneck which couldn't be overcome without upgrading the switches. This shows that just because the storage can handle really high end workloads, which you'll see as you continue to read below, if every component can't handle the workload you'll have performance problems which you may end up trying to blame on the wrong part of the environment.
The first thing that I noticed with the unit was there was actually some thought put into the packaging. Something which I thought was pretty cool before we even got the unit racked was that the unit actually included the correct sized screw driver so that you didn't have to worry about stripping out the screws when racking the unit by using the wrong sized screw driver.
Getting the unit racked was pretty easy. The unit that the sent over was a two shelf unit with one shelf being the controller and the second shelf being the actual storage. According to the Pure Storage website they sent over an FA-310.
Once the system was up and running I started seeing some pretty decent numbers right away. The first thing that I did was to copy the backups onto one LUN on the array, then I did restores from that LUN into the SQL Server. The restores were running at about 180 Megs a second for the larger databases (according to the SQL Server).
You are not using all the space you think you are!
One thing which is really cool about the Pure Storage array is that it does not only data storage, but it also does pattern replacement, data deduplication and data compression all done inline. The biggest data which I was able to get onto the array was some encrypted data so this was about the worse case situation for the array. I was pretty shocked that it was not only able to do some data deduplication and compression, but it was able to do a lot of data deduplication and compression. I loaded up about 68 Gigs worth of mostly encrypted data onto the unit. The total data reduction that I was able to get was 2.4 to 1. The array showed a 5% size reduction due to pattern removal, a 16% size reduction via data deduplication and a 47% size reduction via data compression. The more data reduction the array can do the better. This means that you can store more data on the array, and you can get better performance from the array because there are less blocks to read from the array.
There were some misleading numbers as well once the databases were restored that showed themselves. After I restored the database I grew out the transaction log to the size that it should have been. But because 99% of the file was all 0s at this point the array showed a massive amount of data reduction. As time went on this number got a lot smaller, back down to a much more realistic number. This wasn't a failure of the array but more a situational happenstance as the data on the disk was all 0s the array did exactly what it was supposed to do.
Numbers, Numbers, Numbers
So lets talk about some workload on the unit. To put these numbers into some perspective I've got 22 256Gig flash drives in a single shelf which I'm connected to via four 4 Gig fiber channel cables. For all the tests that I'm doing I'm looking at 64k IO (as that's what SQL does most of the time). Now I didn't use SQL Server to push IO to the unit, because frankly every SQL Server workload I threw at the array didn't push the array hard enough to make it blink.
So looking at some raw SQL IO numbers using a 1000 Meg test file and 2 threads I was able to push ~6250 IOs per second to the array. And this was happening consistently every time I ran the test. There was some small deviations where I got numbers like 6245 and 6255 but everything was right around that same number. These same workload tests were giving me 390 Megs/second of throughput. These first tests were short, just 10 seconds which simulates a bursty application. Making these numbers even more impressive is that these are sequential writes, not exactly the kind of thing that flash drives are known to be good at. Increasing the length of the test didn't do anything to hurt the system either. Moving up to 90 seconds the system still showed ~6250 IOs and 390 MBytes of throughput per second. Now if you've taken my Storage and Virtualization pre-con or class (via SSWUG) you'll know that the max amount of bandwidth that you can pump through a 4 Gig HBA at any one time is ~380 MBytes per second so at this point I'm maxing out my 4 Gig HBAs.
Switching to a random workload with SQLIO didn't slow the array down at all. It's still handling the workload at ~6250 IOs and 390MBytes per second. The latency histogram from SQLIO showed some pretty impressive numbers on top of this. No matter what test I ran with SQL IO the histogram looked basically like the one shown below.
SQL IO Histogram
Making it harder
So that that we've pounded on the system with a file full of white space lets try again, but this time with a file full of data. For these next tests I took a database backup file which was compressed and full of encrypted data and used that file as the test file for SQL IO to run against.
Running my test against this database file which has actual data in it, the numbers look shocking similar to what they were before. ~6250 IOs / second pushing about 390 MBytes per second to the disk. The data histogram looked a little worse than before with only 75% of the IO being responded to within 2ms and 14% of the IO being responded to within 3ms over the duration of the 90 second test window. Now because I like to make storage vendors feel a little pain, lets run the same test with 100 threads and see how the system responds. Now normally for SQL Server to throw 100 IO threads at a storage solution you'll need a huge number of schedulers running otherwise you won't be anywhere near this number of IO threads pounding the disks. With this massive number of threads the Pure Storage array was still able to handle the workload pretty well with the same IO and throughput numbers as before. However the latency histogram tells us a much different story now. Where our requests before were being handled in 1-3ms the latency has gone way up with an average latency of 126ms and a maximum latency of 139ms. While these high latencies were being seen at the server running SQLIO the storage array's metrics were reporting very minimal latency, typically in the 3-5ms range. After doing some digging into the metrics being reported by the array, the fiber channel switch and the test server it became very clear very quickly that our bottleneck in this case wasn't the storage array at all, but instead the fiber channel switch which only for 4 Gig FC ports in it.
Back into the real world
Now that we've seen that the overall environment has some limits on what it can handle lets get back into the real world for a little while (all these tests were done using random workloads). 16 threads is a realistic number of write threads for the SQL Server to be working with. Running 16 threads the Pure Storage array was able to accept the IO and throughput that we have been seeing so far. And the latency, while a little higher than when running with just a couple of threads, is still well within the acceptable range with 99% of the IO being handles between 17ms and 22ms.
Now that we've got the system with a little bit of stress and a realistic workload lets see how it handles reads. Again throwing 16 threads at the system we see basically the same numbers as before. IOs per second about 6250 with throughput of around 390MBytes per second and a nice grouping of latency between 18ms and 21ms.
Now real world servers can be a lot bigger than 16 threads, so lets ramp up a little bit and go to 64 write threads. Testing again the IOs per second and throughput are exactly where they have been. The latency numbers are still looking pretty good. We now have an average latency of 81ms and a maximum latency of 94ms. Running the same 64 threads but this time reading on those 64 threads the latency numbers are right in line with the write numbers with an average latency of 81ms and a maximum latency of 118ms. Again the switch itself has become the bottleneck here which we can see in the screenshot below of the performance latency which shows that the array was seeing latency of less than 5ms at all times.
Storage Latency
Reads and Writes Together
Obviously in the real world reads and writes need to happen at the same time. So for the final SQLIO test I ran 64 read threads and 64 write threads at the same time, for an hour. For this final set of tests using real world database files, all threads were using a random workload and a 10,000MB data file and 64k IOs. This was done by running SQLIO twice at the same, one doing writes and one doing reads.
The interesting thing here is that both the read and write threads showed ~6200 IOs and ~390 MBits per second in each direction which tells me that both HBAs in the server were in use. As for the latency the reads where averaging 81ms with a max latency of 155ms and the writes were averaging 81ms with a maximum latency of 424 ms.
I was able to improve these host side latency numbers by making a few changes to the machine that I was running the tests on. I started by changing the virtual machines driver from the default LSI driver to the VMware Paravirtual driver. The second change that I made was to change the fiber channel paths for the RDM from "Most Recently Used" to "Round Robin". The third change that I made was to change the queue depth from the default of 32 to 128. This increased the IOs/sec that were pushed to the array to ~6350 for reads and ~6350 for writes and allows for ~400 MBs/sec for each reads and writes. The really impressive number is the host side latency number which dropped from a maximum of 424ms to 145ms with the average dropping from 81ms to 79ms.
As Virtual Machine Storage
Another set of tests that I did was to connect the Pure Storage array to a set of VMware vSphere 5.0 hosts and do some Virtual Machine deployments. When doing this I had a single template which was thinly provisioned which I then deployed. As a part of the deployment the virtual machines were configured and rebooted. Each virtual machine took only 37 seconds (some took as long as 39 seconds) to deploy. The template was a 9 Gig template, so this was 9 gigs of sequential reads along with 9 gigs of sequential writes. In other words about the worst thing that you can have flash do, and the Pure Storage array was still able to do a fantastic job with it. I attribute a lot of this to the built in data deduplication which was happening inline so that the bulk of the 9 gigs of data didn't actually need to be written to the storage array at all as it was duplicate data.
If these tests prove anything it shows that in order to max out the performance of the Pure Storage array you'll need to push through a LOT of IO at the unit very quickly, and have an 8 Gig fiber channel infrastructure in place to even think about maxing out the unit. Honestly, based on these numbers even I I had access to an 8 Gig switch I don't think that I'd be able to max out the array. I hope that you found reading this as interesting as I did putting together these numbers,


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Emma Watson & Jaime King: Taylor & Lily Sandwich!
Emma Watson chats up fellow actress Jaime King at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards after-party held at the exclusive Soho House on Sunday (June 5) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 21-year-old Harry Potter cutie and 32-year-old Hart of Dixie beauty chatted up Abduction co-stars — and rumored couple — Taylor Lautner and Lily Collins (they shared an intimate dinner with friends after the ceremony and before the party).
"Emma talked about what it's been like shooting The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Pittsburgh since she's been there for a few weeks," a spywitness tells JustJared.com. "She said it's going to be really sad when the movie wraps because she loves everyone she's working with. Everyone was also talking about where the best places in Pittsburgh were."
Adds the source, "Emma added that she's going back to school this fall as a junior. She's definitely intent on finishing her college education!" (UPDATE: She probably be returning to Brown University.)
Cameron Diaz was also seen arriving and holding hands with on-again boyfriend, Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. Spider-Man's Andrew Garfield shared a few laughs with Twilight couple Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, who dressed down in a ripped t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. Rob had co-presented Reese Witherspoon with the MTV Generation Award earlier in the evening. He shared that he wrote what he had to say down on cue cards on the car ride over to the ceremony but joked that it didn't help "because [he] messed up all of the jokes anyway."
Kristen later walked over to share a table with Emma Stone and a few other girlfriends. Chace Crawford caught up with Gossip Girl pal Sebastian Stan and J.C. Chasez. Captain America's Chris Evans joked around with Topher Grace, who later bonded with Jaime and her husband, director Kyle Newman. Reese Witherspoon grabbed dinner with pal Chelsea Handler after the ceremony and before the party. (Earlier in the evening, Chelsea co-presented the MTV Generation Award to Reese.)
FYI: Watson paired her gorgeous Marchesa dress with Salvatore Ferragamo pumps. She wore another Marchesa dress from the ceremony's red carpet! Jaime is wearing a Burberry, vintage dress, Amrit and Lia Sophia jewels, Stella and Jamie bag, and Chanel shoes.


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A Reference to OpenSSL and JSSE File Formats and ConversionsWednesday, September 28th, 2011
Do you understand how HTTPS works? Most Java developers will answer, "yes" to this question without much hesitation. In general they're correct. Public-key cryptography is such a ubiquitous Internet technology that comprehending the theory behind digital certificates and key exchanges is commonplace.
Configuring Resin for HTTP with either OpenSSL or JSSE isn't terribly complicated either, and the Resin documentation provides a decent reference when you need it. But what most people don't understand is what all those different key-pair and certificate file formats are, which ones OpenSSL uses compared to JSSE, and how to convert from one format to the other.
The objective of this discussion really isn't to show you how to create certificates and configure Resin for HTTPS, although that's included. What I really want to do is review the file formats and encodings used to store keys and certificates, compare and contrast OpenSSL with JSSE, and discuss how to convert from OpenSSL to JSSE and back.


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This is the third in a semi-regular series looking at affordable front projector systems, particularly projectors that don't require a dedicated theater space. So far, we've looked at Sanyo and Mitsubishi projectors. Until recently, I had not considered Sony's SXRD front projectors as candidates, for a couple of reasons. First, Sony projectors were not what I would classify as "affordable," with MSRP's typically starting at $5,000. Plus, the Ruby and Pearl models were really designed for dedicated rooms; they have limited lens adjustments and are not known for exceptionally bright output.
The VPL-HW10, sold under the Bravia brand, changed everything. With an MSRP of $3,499, it certainly fit in the "affordable" category (however, native 1080p projectors have just been announced at less than $1,000, which is really affordable). Also, the light output specs and lens adjustment options on the Bravia looked promising for use in my non-dedicated room. I have been impressed by the picture quality of the higher-end Sony's, so was very interested to take a look at their newest entry-level projector.
- Design: LCoS; Three SXRD Panels
- Native Resolution: 1,920×1,080
- Brightness: 1,200 ANSI Lumens
- Full On/Off CR: 30,000:1
- Lens: 1.6X Zoom
- Inputs: HDMI (480i through 1080p24 and 1080p30), Component Video, S-Video, Composite Video
- Dimensions: 6.75″ H x 16.1″ W x 18.5″ D
- Weight: 22 Pounds
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The Design
The VPL-HW10, like its more expensive cousins, is based on LCoS (liquid-crystal-on -silicon) display technology, which Sony brands as SXRD. Like LCD projectors, LCoS displays use three panels (one for each primary color) to produce an image. Unlike LCD's, which are transmissive (light passes through the panel), LCoS panels reflect light through a series of mirrors and prisms similar to DLP. However, because LCoS uses three panels rather than the single one found in inexpensive DLP designs, no color wheel is needed, which avoids the potential 'rainbow effects" that bother some viewers of DLP sets. A potential problem with both LCoS and LCD-based projectors is that with three panels, misalignment of the panels can result in uneven colors. The VPL-HW10 comes with a panel alignment function previously available only in the top-of-the-line models that can fix minor panel alignment problems.
The VPL-HW10 is a full 1080p projector, with 1920 x 1080 resolution. It uses a 200W UHP lamp which is rated at 1000 ANSI lumens, one of the reasons I was interested in testing out the VPL-HW10 in my non light-controlled room. The Sony has manual zoom and focus controls, and more flexible placement options than prior Sony models. The zoom range is 1.6x, vertical lens shift is 2.4 screen heights, and horizontal lens shift is included as well. This provides a good range of placement options for use in a non-dedicated room.
The VPL-HW10 is a knock-out visually. Like other Sony projectors, it has a sleek, curved high-gloss black shape that resembles a stealth aircraft. Power and input connections are on the right side of the projector, including two HDMI inputs, component video and a D-sub 15-pin PC input. The top panel is unadorned by any buttons, save the manual horizontal and vertical lens adjustment wheels. Zoom and focus adjustments are lens-based.
The thin, fully back-lit remote has relatively few controls, including single-touch buttons that allow the user to switch between three picture modes (Dynamic, Standard and Cinema) as well as three user-defined picture modes. Navigating through the various menus was intuitive and easy for those with even a little projector experience, although I missed having automated zoom and focus controls.
The VPL-HW10 uses Sony's BRAVIA Engine 2 video processing engine (rather than outboard solutions offered by companies like Silicon Optics, Anchor Bay Technologies and Faroudja), and can display 1080p/24 frames-per-second if your video source is capable of outputting 1080p/24. The HW10 allows independent adjustment of red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and magenta, and has three pre-set color settings: High, Middle and Low. You can also set up to four Custom color temperatures. The Sony has an auto-iris, with two automatic and one manual setting, which dynamically increases light output for maximum black level. For most of my viewing, I used the Middle setting, which is supposed to approximate the reference 6500K color temperature, and the Cinema pre-set as I watched most material at night in a darkened room. I experimented with, but ultimately left off the various automatic noise reduction and gamma correction modes.
Placement of the VPL-HW10 was quite easy. I set up the Sony on a portable table behind the main seating position, which at a distance of about 14 feet filled my 84" diagonal screen with plenty of light output. I adjusted the zoom and focus manually without any problems dialing in a good image. Like the other tested projectors in this series, the Sony was very quiet, with no audible fan noise.
My previous impression of the more expensive Sony SXRD projectors was that they produced an image of rich, vibrant colors, reasonable contrast and a film-like picture that was not quite as razor-sharp as some other products. The VPL-HW10 essentially reinforced these impressions, but at an impressive price point. The user-level settings produced better-than-expected black level and brightness for a $3,500 LCoS projector.
V for Vendetta has a variety of color palettes as the film bounces from present to past, along with several nighttime scenes with varying black levels. The Sony threw a very pleasing image, with colors that seemed quite natural. To my eye, shadings in dark areas seemed well defined, with blacks as good as I observed with the LCD projectors I'd previously reviewed. Fast moving images and quick pans seemed smoother on the Sony than those produced by the LCD's.
I'm a late convert to The Deadliest Catch series, but it seems like there's always an episode on, and my cable company also provides on-demand episodes in HD. The Sony did a fine job deinterlacing the 1080i image from the cable box; ships heaved through 30 foot seas, waves crashed over the deck, with no visible break-up of the image. Whatever those deckhands are being paid, it isn't enough. With 480p DVD output from my Oppo, the VPL-HW10 did a very nice job upconverting to 1080p. I didn't notice any stuttering or obvious jaggies with film-based material.
On The Bench (Chris Eberle)
All measurements were taken off the screen (Carada Brilliant White, gain 1.4) from the seating position (10 feet back) using the Sony's Cinema picture mode with the iris set to 50%. Equipment used: EyeOne Pro spectrophotometer, CalMAN Professional 3.3 analysis software, Accupel HDG-3000 signal generator.
Here is the pre-calibration color gamut and luminance chart. I measured both the Normal and Wide colorspaces. The choice is undersaturated or oversaturated. There's no way to get the color points to the Rec 709 reference. The luminance readings were the same in either colorspace.
The out-of-box grayscale and gamma performance isn't too bad. An average Delta E* of 5.2 is a barely visible error. The tracking chart shows that the white balance tends to be a little blue. The average gamma of 1.85 means that most dark scenes will be a bit gray and washed out. The default setting is Gamma 1, Colortemp Low.
After calibrating the Sony's RCP (color management system), the luminance was much improved however, there's no way to move the primaries. The Ideal Secondaries chart shows that when the actual primaries are used to calculate the secondary color position, they line up almost perfectly. Despite the inaccuracy of the color points, the color representation was excellent in actual content.
The post calibration grayscale and gamma were excellent with an average Delta E* of .9. Gamma was also improved greatly by using the Gamma 3 preset. The tracking chart shows a bit of warmth at the dark end (20% stimulus), but this was not visible on gray step patterns or in actual content.
With the iris set to 50% I measured a minimum black level of .0046fL (foot-Lamberts) and a peak white of 13.7041fL. This puts the on/off contrast ratio at 2979.15:1. This is excellent performance. This projector is bright enough to be used with a high-contrast gray screen which would improve the contrast ratio. My 1.4 gain Carada cut down the dynamic range a bit.
As you can see by the above charts, the HW10 responds very well to calibration. Out-of-box performance is above average but calibration will improve it to a high level. Choosing between the two colorspaces, I preferred the look of the Wide one. Normal was visibly undersaturated giving the image a somewhat flat look. Though Wide measured outside the Rec 709 triangle, I found the image punchy and three-dimensional without being overblown.
The Sony VPL-HW10 is an excellent entry-level 1080p front projector. It allows for flexible placement, and produces a surprisingly bright picture for an entry-level LCoS design, making it well suited in a non-dedicated room. Compared to the Sanyo PLZ-2000 and HC 5500, the Sony is more costly, but to my eyes it produced a more pleasing image than the LCD designs. Of course, that is a subjective opinion, as bench tests showed fairly minor differences between the performance of the Sony, Sanyo and Mitsubishi projectors. As always, you should take a test drive before you buy, since personal preferences vary widely.


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Attorneys say the Los Angeles Unified School District has reached settlements in 58 legal claims stemming from alleged lewd acts by two elementary school teachers.
Most of the claims allege a third-grade teacher spoon-fed semen to students in what he called "tasting games."
Attorney Raymond Boucher, who represents several Miramonte Elementary School students, said each claimant will receive $470,000. He would not release the actual sum until it is approved by a judge.
The claims arose from an investigation of a teacher who is now charged with committing lewd acts in his classroom over five years.
The deal would only settle a portion of the 191 pending claims.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
The Los Angeles school district will pay about $27.2 million to settle dozens of legal actions stemming from an abuse case in which a former teacher is charged with lewd acts on students over five years, lawyers in the cases said Tuesday.
District officials did not reveal the amount of the settlement, but attorney Raymond Boucher, who represents several Miramonte Elementary School students, said each claimant will receive $470,000.
District General Counsel David Holmquist said the settlement covers 58 of the 191 claims and lawsuits filed by students and parents against the district after the January 2012 arrest of former third-grade teacher Mark Berndt on 23 charges of lewd behavior at Miramonte.
The 58 people involved in the settlement are all students, he said.
Prosecutors say Berndt played "tasting games" with students in which he fed them his semen on cookies and by spoon, sometimes blindfolding and photographing them. Berndt, who taught for 32 years at the South Los Angeles school, has pleaded not guilty in the criminal case.
The allegations came to light when a drugstore photo technician noticed dozens of odd photos of blindfolded children and reported them to authorities. Investigators said they discovered a plastic spoon in Berndt's classroom trash bin that was found to contain traces of semen.
Boucher said proving some of the claims would have been a problem at trial.
Some children did not have photographs of themselves eating the cookies laced with a milky white substance, or of being fed spoonfuls of it, he said.
In addition, there was no way to prove the substance in photos was semen, he added.
Parents also understood that with so many claims, a jury verdict could bankrupt the district, he added.
"We had to do a balancing act and we understood, if you go that second route and you wind up (with the district) in bankruptcy, these clients will never receive compensation for what they've been through," Boucher said.
Frank Perez, an attorney representing eight students, said parents chose to settle rather than put their children through the emotional upheaval of litigation and to put the case behind them.
Other attorneys blasted the settlement amount as paltry and said they would proceed with their cases.
"This is lifelong trauma," lawyer Brian Claypool said.
Attorney John Manly said the district has not yet explained how the alleged incidents went undetected for so long.
"The district got a great deal today," he said. "There's not been a single explanation of who knew what when."
The case led to a wide-ranging overhaul of how the nation's second-largest school district handles allegations of sexual abuse after it was revealed that previous complaints about Berndt's behavior were ignored.
It also shined a light on how slowly state officials act to censure teachers and led to a flurry of allegations of teacher-student sex abuse in the district and in other school systems.


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As I type this, spring is actually, kind of, sort of, quite nearly behaving like spring. As in, there's sunshine and a breeze instead of gunmetal grey skies and a biting wind. Things smell fresh and muddy and I, for one, like it a lot. I'm feeling sunshiney in the kitchen, too. Our good weather activity level is something just shy of spastic, so I'm breaking out happy, fresh, filling-but-not-heavy recipes.
I'm excited to share a bright and sunny recipe to you today and -oh my goodness- I sure hope it's as pretty where you live as it is here today. I'm a new member of the Kraft Tastemaker program and this recipe comes together in about five minutes using some of the best loved Kraft products available; JELL-O Instant Pudding and PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese. Five minutes to creamy, lemony, cheesecake goodness? You want to be all in here, folks.
I use the PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese 1/3 Less Fat because it's a better-for-you dessert option. Feel free to choose the fat content of your milk according to your own preference: skim, 1%, 2% or whole milk -or, if you're so inclined-soy, almond, rice or coconut milk will all work equally well here.
Whip up a batch of these adorable little single-serving size miniature no-bake cheesecakes tonight and save all sorts of time for going to the park with the kids, taking a stroll with your honey, walking the dog, or just generally enjoying the fact that the world seems to be waking back up from its winter hibernation. I'd say we've all earned a treat!
If you find yourself at my table for brunch one of these days, you'll probably find these delicious and adorable mini-cheesecakes, along with some other great Kraft brunch recipes. As my boys say, every meal needs a dessert or two to be complete!
Lemon Cream No-Bake Mini Cheesecakes
Creamy, dreamy, lemony, no-bake, mini-cheesecakes are as bright and sunshiney a treat as the arrival of Spring!
Whisk together the JELL-O Lemon Flavor Instant Pudding mix with the milk for 3 minutes, or until completely smooth. Set aside.
Using either a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment or a hand mixer, whip the softened cream cheese with the lemon juice and zest until it is loose and smooth. Add the lemon pudding to the bowl and mix until everything is evenly combined and smooth. Divide the mixture between the crusts and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before serving.
If desired, garnish with a generous amount of whipped cream and some decorate lemon peels.
*You can, if desired, make one large no-bake cheesecake from this mixture by using one standard graham cracker pie crust; either homemade or purchased.
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We like lemon cream. We like cheesecake. And we tend to like mini anythings. So you can imagine how much we like these no-bake goodies!
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Bonne Week-End
Saturday, October 27, 2012
First Impressions
23 comments:
Bienvenue a Paris, Carol. You had a productive first day! Veronique (French Girl in Seattle)ReplyDeleteReplies
Not productive enoughDelete
My stamina gave out after 5-6 hrs running :(
Gee..you are there already! And took the time to..:)ReplyDelete
Already an eyeful..
Look at those boots..I don't think they're made for walking:)
Pas mal du tout!!:)
And I am sure I would like Miyou..
Where do you get your énergie!?
Great photos - I feel as if I just returned, too!ReplyDelete
I've watched you come & go there so many times, that the look of Paris is becoming familiar :)
Like the shot of the metro station and the sidewalk cafe. The pastries, too!!Replies
Paris really feels familiar to me...Delete
And then I hear French Girl on the phone yadda yadda yadda in Francais and I know this is not my home yet :)
... wonderful you made a good crossing .. and that you are not here for the freaking hurricane of the century. GREAT TIMING ... love your Miyou routine, looks great ... have fun, stay warm. Karen in CTReplyDelete
I know that path well....stayed many times just off of Motte Picquet on Rue Chevert. Would eat at La Terrasse and stroll down to Fauchon(later LeNotre's) Bought my last glasses on Rue Cler. It is a great area to stay in with Ecole Militaire being so close. Ever been in the little stationary shop across from La Terrasse just behind the metro stop?ReplyDeleteReplies
U R KIDDING Theresa!Delete
I am staying on rue Chevert!!!
No I have never been to the Ecole Militaire
Yes I wrote about the stationary shop here somewhere
That's a LONG stroll to Fauchon from here!
I wish I knew how-to sit down in a cafe to relax but I don't :(
YOu know there is a competition between the two cafes -which is better more 'in'.
My cafe of choice?
Carrefour supermarche - I can linger there for hours...
I take the #8 Metro or the bus 47 (?)
Love the Eiffel tower shoes, just not for walking. I think you are doing splendidly with your new camera. I hope you can sleep well and have a rain-free Sunday.ReplyDelete
Carol, so glad to see this report from Paris. Good to know that you (and that new luggage) landed safely and that you are already sampling Parisian style and tastes.ReplyDelete
(Over here, we monitor the media's weather reports and wonder if the Transit Authority will once again shut down the subway system tomorrow evening as Hurricane Sandy comes to town.)
'Hurricane Sandy'Delete
Where do they come up with these names?
Bon Chance New Yorkais!!
I felt something in the air..........ReplyDelete
you've arrived!
I love Le Grand Epicerie! Their cakes and bakes are so beautiful. I found it hard to photograph them with the glare of the lights. You've done well!ReplyDelete
'Bien venue en France' unfortunately it's suddenly turned cold all over France, but I'm sure that won't bother you. Your first day & already dashing all over the place, trying out your new camera. Great photos, have fun.ReplyDelete
Une belle petite promenade en votre compagnie...ReplyDelete
accompagnée de merveilleuses photos certaines gourmandes!
Gros bisous
You MUST shoot quickly in Le Grande Epicerie, before les dames behind the counter chastise you! I quietly snapped a pic of a beautiful Bresse chicken all dressed up in the poultry case and experienced a little moment of victory. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Many 'little moments of victory' make it so much fun hereDelete
In the end we WIN!!
CHAMPION DU MONDE les Sneaky Shooters!!
You amaze me with your ability to hit the ground running instead of sleeping off jet lag! No jet lag for you: instead your ever-sharp eyes spy those incredible Eiffel tower heels!ReplyDeleteReplies
the week before leaving my body has a mind of it's own and goes on Paris time no questions asked.Delete
Bed by 7-8 pm
Up at 2-3 am
not fun but makes for very easy adjustment once in Paris
We had to wait for our AF baggage a good 30 minutes so time to spy.
Oh YAY, I look forward to your next Paris trip almost as much as my next Paris trip. You remind me that I must practice my stealth shooting before the next trip.....Glad you made it safely with new luggage and camera in action. I look forward to seeing your trip. I had no idea it was that cold there already. I so want to do a winter trip one time.ReplyDelete
First impressions, one of my favorite parts of trips to Paris...the Roissey bus to L'opéra...or to Montparnasse...dozing on the ride, opening eyes to PARIS, pinch me, I'm really here!! I'm getting the impression you're staying on Rue Chevert in the 7th? I was thinking you were going to be staying in the 14th this trip...In any case, glad your trip over went smoothly...ReplyDelete