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Centennial Spoiled: Yankees Beat Red Sox
I can't even begin to imagine what life was like 100 years ago. People my age were getting ready to fight in the First World War, the Titanic sank like a stone to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, and gas cost 7 cents per gallon.
Oh, and Fenway Park opened. And while many things have changed a century later, the home of the Boston Red Sox has not. Fenway has such a rich history and what some people may not know is that the 100-year-old ballpark once belonged to the Red Sox most hated rivals.
That's right. The Yankees once owned Fenway Park.
When the Yankees signed Babe Ruth, the deal included a $300,000 loan backed by a mortgage on Fenway Park. Ergo, not only did the Yanks receive Boston's best player, they owned Fenway Park at the time.
But the Red Sox eventually gained back ownership of their home. And yesterday Boston's favorite sons honored their ballpark's centennial with a beautiful pregame ceremony – and to a Yankee fan like myself – an even more beautiful 6-2 loss to the Bronx Bombers…or should I say the New York Highlanders.
A lot to go over here. First of all…
Pregame Respect
The Red Sox celebrated Fenway's 100th year with a wonderful ceremony before the game. Countless players from the days of old were brought back and honored, not unlike the last game at the old Yankee Stadium in September, 2008.
I have to admit, watching it gave me goosebumps. The Red Sox fans are just as passionate and as sentimental about their players (past and present) as the Yankee fans are. The history is another comparable aspect of both teams. Obviously a comparison can be drawn, considering the long and storied existence of the Red Sox and Yankees.
Personally, I got a little teary-eyed when I saw legends Bobby Doerr and Johnny Pesky in wheelchairs, being wheeled out to the field by recently-retired Red Sox Tim Wakefield and Jason Varitek.
Doerr and Pesky mean so much to their franchise, and it was nice to see them get the ovation they did.
It seemed the loudest reaction of the afternoon went to ex-manager Terry Francona. Tito came out and Fenway became unglued. I think the Boston faithful truly miss him, and would rather have a smart leader at the helm of the team (like him) rather than what they have now in Bobby Valentine.
Towards the conclusion of the ceremony, the Red Sox offered (an awkward) toast to the fans and to the ballpark. Longtime Yankee nemesis Pedro Martinez saluted the crowd, then he and Kevin Millar grabbed microphones, and had some words while everyone went bottoms up.
"Who's Karim Garcia?" Martinez asked, referencing the Game 3 brawl the Red Sox had with the Yankees in the 2003 ALCS.
"One more time," Millar shouted. "Cowboy up!" – his catchphrase during the '03 and '04 playoffs.
After that bizarre exchange of words, the ceremony ended. And with the Red Sox sporting the uniforms the team wore in 1912 – and the Yankees donning the vintage Highlander outfits, the game began.
Ivan Nova
What can you say about this young stud, other than that he has been the Yankees' most consistent pitcher thus far. Ivan Nova tossed six strong innings and gave up just two earned runs on seven hits.
He didn't issue a walk and struck out five batters.
Nova has really done a lot of good for himself, only three starts into this young season. It's obvious he is locked in and focused; mixing his pitches, attacking batters with his slider, fooling hitters with his curve, and getting them to groundout with that tricky sinkerball.
What's more, he isn't killing himself with walks. He's only issued two free passes this season – and both base-on-balls came in the same game (last Sunday vs. the Angels). He isn't going out there and beating himself, to say the least.
With the win, Nova has now been the winner in his last 15 decisions, going back to last June – he hasn't lost since June 3, 2011. His streak is the second-longest in Yankee history, behind Roger Clemens who won 16 consecutive decisions back in 2001.
Now at 3-0 with a 3.00 ERA for the year, Nova will have at least one more start this month (Wednesday April 25 @ Texas). If he manages to beat the Rangers, who are one of the hottest teams on the planet right now, I think it'll be safe to say Nova is undoubtedly going to go on to have a wonderful year; possibly a Cy Young Award candidate when it's all said and done.
It never hurts a pitcher to get off to a great start.
Long Ball
Derek Jeter reached base on an error by Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia in the top of the first; as a matter of fact, "Luis Castillo" trended on Twitter because of the miscue. Alex Rodriguez came up later in the frame, smacking a single to bring Jeter to the plate.
But from that point on, it was a home run derby, Highlander-style.
Nick Swisher took Boston starter Clay Buchholz deep in the second inning, an opposite field homer over the Green Monster. Later in the frame Eric Chavez took Buchholz's offering over the centerfield wall.
And he wasn't done.
Chavez homered in his next at-bat, another shot that just cleared the wall in center. It marked the first time since Sept. 18, 2005 that Chavez smacked two home runs out of Fenway Park. He previously accomplished the feat as a member of the Oakland A's.
After Chavez's homer barrage ended, it was Rodriguez's turn. A-Rod absolutely slaughtered a ball over the Green Monster, out of the park and onto Landsdowne Street. It marked Rodriguez's 631st career homer, and with it he passed his old teammate Ken Griffey, Jr. on baseball's all-time home runs list.
A-Rod is now in fifth place on the all-time homers list. In front of him? Now, only Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds.
You'd think that would be enough taters for one day, but it wasn't.
In the top of the sixth, Russell Martin got a hold of one, smacking a home run over the monster and hitting the Sports Authority billboard. It was Martin's first home run of the year, and it was all the Yankees needed to beat Boston.
What surprised me the most was that each home run the Yankees hit today was a solo home run; not one runner was on base when each hitter went yard.
Buchholz gave up all five solo blasts – and it wasn't the first time this year a Boston starter surrendered five round-trippers in a single game. Josh Beckett gave up five home runs to the Detroit Tigers on April 7.
It's encouraging to see the Yanks hit some bombs, but there's an old saying about "living by the home run and dying by the home run." They cannot be reliant on the long ball all year, but I suppose if you get an exemplary start, as Nova gave them today, it doesn't matter.
This was a big win for the Highlanders…Yankees today. Beating the Red Sox the day they celebrated their ballpark's centennial: that's huge.
Imagine if the Yankees had hosted the Red Sox instead of the Baltimore Orioles in the final game at the old Yankee Stadium – and the Red Sox had beaten them. What kind of feeling would every Yankee fan have had?
Probably a very sick feeling. And that's probably the feeling the Boston fans had today. As for the Yankee fans…it's just another reason to gloat; another notch in our belts.
It was a major battle won for the pinstripe patrol, but the war is far from over. In fact, the soldiers will be right back out on the battlefield today at 4:00.
Freddy Garcia (0-1, 6.97 ERA) will lead the Yankees into battle, facing off with Boston starter Felix Doubront (0-0, 5.40 ERA).


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Today is my birthday, which I have no problem sharing with Benjamin Franklin. He would have been 306 today—a good thing in that it reminds me of how young I am—a sprite 57 in comparison to Ben. The word sprite means for me a soul alive, which comes from the Latin spiritus, or spirit. I believe in the soul and its forever existence.
One of the things I like to do, not just on my birthday, is to spend time in bookshops, preferably with shelves and shelves, stacked floor to ceiling with used books. I love the words, sentences, paragraphs, feel of old paper on my fingers, the cover art and smell of the soiled pages. I find books that I hadn't read since I was a child; books I had heard about but had never read; books full of ideas from people who may be dead now but their ideas, like their souls, still live on; first printings of first editions that no one would care about but me. Lately, I have a place I go to buy these forlorn books four-for-one-dollar. Sometimes, I read them right away. Other times, I re-find a book in my home library when life just happens to remind me of it.
One such book is a 1931 textbook (revised 1939 ed.) which boasts in its preface: "The editors believe that nowhere else will be found gathered in a single volume for use in high school the variety and the charm of the present-day selections in the fields of the modern short story, the recent personal essay, the new poetry, biography, and the one-act play." I keep the book atop an antique, flip-top school desk in my house, along with a copy of Dale Carnegie's Lincoln the Unknown (1932) and an edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (1895), which I bought for change and is signed by "Frederic Blair Johnson 31 January 1899" in India ink, with fine attention to penmanship, in the front cover. From one man's library 113 years ago to mine. From Stevenson's soul to mine. Not exactly communing with the dead, mind you, but I'm just sayin'.
The revised 1931 textbook that I found, American Writers, contains a story which I found appropriate to reread today, excerpted by the editors from Ben Franklin's Autobiography, a story entitled: "A Boy's Plans for Self-Improvement." We can all learn from Franklin, in many respects. He was kind enough to write down a great deal of the ups and downs of the processes he followed in becoming the educator that he now remains. Here is an excerpt from the story that I hope will inform, please and maybe even persuade you. –SB
[Cross, Tom Peete, Reed Smith, Elmer C. Stauffer and Elizabeth Collette, ed. American Writers. 1931. "Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) A Boy's Plans for Self Improvement [From the Autobiography, 1771]." Ginn and Company, 1939.]
[At this time Franklin was twelve years old and was learning the printing trade in his brother James's shop in Boston.]
A question was once, somehow or other, started between Collins and me, of the propriety of educating the female sex in learning, and their abilities for study. He was of the opinion that it was improper, and that they were naturally unequal to it. I took the contrary side, perhaps a little for dispute's sake. He was naturally more eloquent, had a ready plenty of words, and sometimes, as I thought, bore me down more by his fluency than by the strength of his reasons. As we parted without settling the point, and were not to see one another again for some time, I sat down to put my arguments in writing, which I copied fair and sent to him. He answered, and I replied. Three or four letters of a side had passed, when my father happened to find my papers and read them. Without entering into the discussion, he took occasion to talk to me about the manner of my writing; observed that, though I had the advantage of my antagonist in correct spelling and pointing (which I owed to the printing-house), I fell far short in elegance of expression, in method, and in perspicuity, of which he convinced me by several instances. I saw the justice of his remarks, and thence grew more attentive to the manner in writing, and determined to endeavor at improvement.
About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator [A famous English periodical which was highly thought of in Franklin's day because of the polished essays of Addison and Steele, which appeared in it. It was founded in London in 1711.]. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted [Lacked.] a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses, since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rime, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and complete the paper. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method [The method of Socrates was to lead his opponent on gradually, by question after question, until his opponent himself finally uttered or admitted the truth that Socrates wished to prove.]; and soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method. I was charmed with it, adopted it, dropped my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer and doubter. I found this method safest for myself and very embarrassing to those against whom I used it; therefore I took a delight in it, practiced it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions [In argument a concession is the admitting of a point claimed by one's opponent.], the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not extricate themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved.
I continued this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words "certainly," "undoubtedly," or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, "I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so"; "It appears to me," or "I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons"; or "I imagine it to be so"; or "It is so, if I am not mistaken."
This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting; and, as the chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive, assuming manner, that seldom fails to disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat every one of those purposes for which speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving information or pleasure.
For if you would inform, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men who do not love disputation will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error. And by such a manner you can seldom hope to recommend yourself in pleasing your hearers, or to persuade those whose concurrence [Agreement.] you desire.


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Food Hubs, Turkey Price-Cutting, and More in Food Policy This Week
A roundup of news clippings we're reading that affect the way we eat.
From Farm to Table, Infrastructure is the Answer
In the most recent issue of Orion magazine, Rowan Jacobsen explores the concept of "food hubs," a recent favored buzzword of the local food movement. According to the USDA, food hubs offer "a combination of production, aggregation, distribution, and marketing services" to farmers, helping them expand their markets and customer base. Jacobsen visits with several farmers who are focusing on infrastructure development to make their artisan goods and get those products to market. He learns that though infrastructure is the less sexy side of local food, it is crucial to growing the movement beyond farmers markets and CSAs and pushing it into the mainstream.
New York City Food Insecurity Continues to Increase
In a new report, the New York City Coalition Against Hunger reveals that the number of food insecure residents of New York City has increased since relevant Census data was last collected in 2008. The 2010-2012 figures show a 2% increase, or about 200,000 more people categorized as "food insecure.' Overall, 1.4 million New Yorkers are food insecure. When broken down by borough, the statistics show that 28% of Bronx residents are in this category, and about 11% of residents in each Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. These numbers include children and senior citizens. Emergency food providers, meanwhile, continue to worry that limited resources will prevent them from fully serving all the New Yorkers who are in need of consistent food access.
Map Shows Which States are Most Affected by Food Stamp Cuts
In related news, a helpful map from Pew gives a visual to statistics related to cuts to the food stamp program. The map shows for each state how many residents are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, what their average benefits are, and how many residents are affected by the most recent round of program cuts. It also counts the number of children, senior citizens, or people with disabilities who are affected. Generally the southern states are hardest hit, with Mississippi seeing the highest rate of impact at 22% of residents.
Turkey Economics Explains Why Turkeys are Cheaper on Thanksgiving
Just before Thanksgiving, this article in the New York Times looked at why turkey prices drop around that turkey-centric holiday instead of shooting through the roof. There are a few possible explanations. One is that lower turkey prices draw in more customers, who would then purchase a larger number of items in addition to the cheap turkey. Similarly, stores could undercut one another by offering lower and lower turkey prices in an attempt to draw more of their competitor's customers. Either way, if there aren't enough turkeys to go around, then price-cutting on turkeys could be a moot point.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The legal issues surrounding the emotionally charged Boston bombings case are sparking a lot of debate.
One of the most controversial issues deals with the suspect's rights. Despite being in custody, Dzhokar Tsarnaev has not been read his Miranda rights.
Since the Boston Marathon bombings and the dramatic manhunt that followed, Americans have bonded over their desire for swift justice.
When the 19-year-old Tsarnaev was finally captured, authorities acknowledged that they did not read him his Miranda rights.
"I wasn't surprised," Jacksonville attorney Eric Roper said.
Roper is a defense attorney in private practice and also a member of the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps, or JAG. He says the only way to get around reading Miranda rights to a suspect is to determine the suspect is an imminent risk to the public. Otherwise, Mirandizing is mandatory.
That law applies to everybody. If you are in custody, you do have the right to remain silent, whether you're read the Miranda rights or not. The problem, Roper says, is that's often a trigger for a suspect to clam up.
"If they do invoke either their right to remain silent or to have a lawyer present, then most likely the intelligence gathering function is over," Roper said.
There is great political pressure in this case to get as much information from the suspect as quickly as possible.
"They cannot let that political pressure influence their actions," Roper said. "Otherwise there is a real risk that the prosecution would be put in jeopardy."
The American Civil Liberties Union is even weighing in about the decision not to Mirandize the suspect, stating, "Every criminal defendant is entitled to be read Miranda rights. The public safety exception should be read narrowly."
The statement goes on to say, "We must not waver from our tried-and-true justice system, even in the most difficult of times. Denial of rights is un-American and will only make it harder to obtain fair convictions."
There was some pressure Monday to declare the suspect an enemy combatant, which would also affect his rights and cause him to be tried in military court.
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Conservation and management problems of high seas fisheries are not new to the UN system. During recent years the pressures on high seas fisheries brought about by relentless and sustained over-fishing practices have grown considerably. Delegates at the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) agreed upon a legal framework for the management of high seas fisheries, but the regime proved unworkable because the negotiators left conservation and management problems to be resolved between States at the regional and subregional level. As pressure on fish stocks grew in the late 1980s and early 1990s, bringing about the collapse of some valuable and important commercial species, the international community was forced to confront the problem of global over-fishing.
One forum that focused on the issue of global overfishing was the Preparatory Committee for the UN Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED). After long and difficult negotiations, participants at the Earth Summit in Rio agreed to "convene an intergovernmental conference under UN auspices with a view to promoting effective implementation of the provisions of the Law of the Sea on straddling and highly migratory fish stocks."
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McIlroy and Woods Abu Dhabi Bound in January
The world's top two players, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, will head an all-star cast of the biggest names in golf at the eighth annual Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship - running January 17-20 at Abu Dhabi Golf Club.
After dazzling local galleries when paired over the opening 54 holes of this year's tournament, McIlroy, a two-time Major winner and the current world number one, and Woods, widely-recognised as the most high-profile player in the sport's history and a 14-time Major winner, will head the battle for Abu Dhabi's prestigious falcon trophy and a share of the event's US $2.7m prize purse.
"Confirming Rory and Tiger, the world's top two players and a duo with well-documented respect and admiration for each other's talents, represents a significant coup and demonstrates how far the Championship has come in its relatively short history," said Faisal Al Sheikh, Event Manager, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi), the Championship organiser.
"Rory and Tiger are true giants of the game and represent only our opening salvo – we are actively working to bring another world-class field to Abu Dhabi and further player announcements will be made in coming weeks."
A member of both the European PGA and PGA Tours, Northern Ireland's McIlroy shot to the summit of the sport's rankings earlier this year following a string of victories culminating in a staggering eight-shot victory in August's US PGA Championship at Kiawah Island – the Ulsterman's second Major. With four Tour wins in 2012, McIlroy subsequently played a central role in Europe's historic Ryder Cup defence at Medinah Country Club in Chicago, Illinois.
"I've come close a few times in Abu Dhabi now – hopefully it's my turn," McIlroy revealed via a live telephone link at the event's official launch at five-star The St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort – the Championship's new official hotel partner.
"This will be the first time I've headed to Abu Dhabi as world number one and I'm determined to keep the wins coming and cement my ranking. The strength of the field means there will be a ton of world ranking points on offer so Abu Dhabi will be a really significant tournament that sets the tone for the year. I had a great tussle with Tiger nine months ago and I'm sure he'll be in contention again. We've spent a lot of time playing together this year and it's always fun challenging the best. I've made no secret of the fact he's a hero of mine and there's nothing better than tussling with your heroes."
Having signalled his falcon trophy intentions with an imperious, bogey-free third round of 66 on his Abu Dhabi debut, a resurgent Woods was unable to halt the glory march of eventual winner England's Robert Rock. After memorably performing a traditional Emirati ayala dance prior to this year's opening round, Woods is eager to find his groove when he returns to the emirate in three months time.
"I had heard so much about Abu Dhabi in the past and I was very impressed by the crowds, the organisation and the overall atmosphere," said Tiger. "I really enjoyed my time in Abu Dhabi and I wanted to return, particularly as I played well and came so close last year. I'd love nothing more than to win in January and start the season in the best possible way."
With the Woods-McIlroy effect ensuring this year's Championship shattered its own four-day attendance record by attracting more than 82,000 spectators to the National Course, the event's title sponsor, HSBC, believes the stellar cast lined up for January will further cement the tournament's billing on the international golf calendar.
HSBC Global Head of Sponsorship and Events Giles Morgan said: "Next year marks our tenth anniversary as a major international sponsor of golf and this is a great way to kick off a landmark year for us. In the last decade we are proud to have sponsored 30 tournaments around the world and the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship is right up there as a major global event and an important showcase for golf in the Middle East."
Simon Cooper, Deputy Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Middle East & North Africa, added: "The Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship has become the traditional curtain-raiser to the new season and the past couple of years have seen the event establish itself as the jewel in the crown of Middle Eastern golf. As a centre of international trade, Abu Dhabi is a very fitting location for this high profile HSBC event. With the support of local governments, this region is now a major player on golf's global stage - 2012's event witnessed the strongest field ever assembled in the Middle East - and we're anticipating an even stronger line up for 2013."
One of the family-friendly tournament's key off-course attractions, the 12,000m² Championship Village, will once again bring a fantastic range of activities, attractions, prizes, games, competitions and live performances to complement the National Course action.
Fans will be able to enjoy the popular HSBC Interactive Zone, which offers a variety of sporting activities reflecting the diversity of the bank's global sports sponsorships and allows participants to test and hone their swing and putting techniques, while non-golfers can spend time in the creative area.
Several innovative promotions introduced this year are also back. As well as a family-friendly picnic day on Friday 18 January, the popular 'Dress in Red Day' returns on Saturday 19 January. Any visitor with red in their outfit - whether something simple like a red hat or even red accessories – enters free on the Championship's penultimate day. Additional crowd-pulling initiatives will be unveiled in coming weeks.
With Championship tickets priced at AED50 (US$13.3) for a daily pass and AED150 (US$ 40) for a four-day pass, Emirates Golf Federation members and children under-18 – when accompanied by an adult – enter free. HSBC customers can redeem exclusive ticket offers by simply presenting their cards at the entry gate during tournament week. Premier card holders can redeem family ticket access, while regular card holders can claim two daily tickets.
Tickets are available via the event's official website – www.abudhabigolfchampionship.com - as well as online at www.timeouttickets.com. Customer service can be contacted through the ITP toll-free hotline 800 4669, or for international visitors, +971 4 444 3459. Tickets can also be bought at the gate throughout the Championship.
To boost the event's social media penetration, revamped Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship Facebook and Twitter pages are already active and will feature a host of competitions, as well as regular updates about the tournament and field.
To woo international visitors, Championship organisers have also launched a series of attractive visitor packages which are now available via Golf In Abu Dhabi – www.golfinabudhabi.com. The packages include Championship tickets and the opportunity for visitors to extend their stay and play Abu Dhabi's diverse golf courses. Packages also include Championship season passes, airport transfers and hotel-Abu Dhabi Golf Club transfers.
The Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship is backed by a high-profile sponsorship line-up that includes: The St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort as official hotel partner; Nike as official apparel partner; Cadillac as official car partner; Etihad Airways as official airline partner; as well as CNN, Gulf News and Golf Digest Middle East as media partners.
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Hi everyone! I am new to the programming thing, all that I know so far I know from reading java PDFs. I really need help and I don't have programmers around i can go to. I am a musician and I also record music. I need a program to time my studio sessions but I want to build it myself, I think it would help with learning Java. I started a project (StudioTimer) but I am stuck. The timer must be able to do following start, pause, resume and stop. It must also display time started, elapsed time and time stopped. Also it should have a text field to type client's info and must also be able to export all data to a text file, and that includes all time being displayed and clients info.
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Nairobi - Kenya rebuked Britain, the United States, Australia and France on Thursday for issuing warnings about travel to this east African country and particularly its main port city after a series of attacks there.
Kenya called the alerts "unfriendly", saying they would increase panic and play into the hands of those behind the gun and grenade assaults.
Kenya has blamed bomb blasts in the capital Nairobi and the main port city Mombasa this month, as well as other attacks, on the al Qaeda-linked Somali group al Shabaab.
The Islamist movement killed at least 67 people including foreigners in a raid on a Nairobi shopping mall in September, saying it was in revenge for attacks on its fighters by Kenyan troops in Somalia.
The warnings may further damage Kenya's tourism sector, one that President Uhuru Kenyatta said is "on its knees" following the raids in the capital and along the Indian Ocean coastline.
Karanja Kibicho, the principal secretary at the foreign affairs department, said Kenya was assuring its visitors of "utmost security and safety", and lamented the advisories by countries also involved in its fight against the militants.
"The advisories therefore are obviously unfriendly acts coming from our partners who have equally borne the brunt of global terrorism and no doubt understand the repercussions of terror menace," Kibicho said.
"The challenges arising from acts of terrorism require concerted efforts to fight it and not behaving in a manner that accelerates it by causing fear and panic."
Kenyan authorities say they do not know of any imminent threats.
Western diplomats have privately said Kenyan security forces - which receive aid and training from the United States, Britain and Israel among others - are weakened by inter-agency rivalries that hamper intelligence work.
Britain's Foreign Office told its citizens they should avoid travel to Mombasa and the surrounding area because of "recent terrorist attacks and the continuing terrorist threat in the area," unless travel was essential.
The U.S. Embassy warned its citizens of the continued threat of "potential terrorist attacks in the country," citing targets include hotels, nightclubs and malls.
Kenya said Australia and France issued similar warnings.


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The world may be oohing and awing over all the wonderful uses we're finding for graphene, but there's another super-material vying for the spotlight. Vanadium dioxide might eventually become a household name because in addition to revolutionizing electronics, researchers have now discovered it can be used as an artificial muscle 1,000 times stronger than our own.
Despite the unfortunate acronym of VD, vanadium dioxide is actually a wonderful material that works as an insulator at low temperatures, but suddenly becomes an efficient conductor at 67 degrees celsius. It's made possible by a change in the material's physical structure that can be harnessed to create movement, and eventually researchers believe VD could lead to faster and more energy-efficient electronics, as well as tiny machines and eventually robots that are more than strong enough to beat down a human uprising.
A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have build an extremely tiny muscle motor made from vanadium dioxide that's able to launch objects 50 times heavier than itself over distances five times its length. Pound-for-pound, the tiny spring-like device is 1,000 times more powerful than a human muscle, and it moves faster than the blink of an eye.
So while the slow and methodical robots competing at the DARPA challenge this past weekend let us all breathe a collective sigh of relief that the robot rebellion is nowhere near, this latest breakthrough is a solemn reminder that it's still inevitable. [Berkeley Lab via Newlaunches]


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If Meg Whitman loses her bid to become California's next governor, will any other candidate spend $142 Million of her (or his) own money to run for political office? Time will tell. But recent history shows that throwing big money around during this mid-term election is a trend.
According to Kantar Media researchers, $3 billion has been spent on television advertising alone during the 2010 campaign. That's $300 million more than was spent on the 2008 Presidential and Congressional races, and $600 million in TV advertising that was bought during the last mid-term election of 2006.
Individuals and groups who have money now have more political power than ever because of this year's Supreme Court ruling that free-speech rights trump campaign spending limits.
Some of the races are well documented. One example is Harry Reid's battle to hold onto his political life in Nevada. Another is the oil industry's efforts to kill, or at least substantially delay, California's landmark global warming law.
But the new realities extend to the very local level as well.
In San Francisco, the supervisor who represents the city's well-heeled Pacific Heights area is being termed out of office after losing a court challenge.
So Michela Alioto-Pier organized an independent expenditure committee to fight the election of her heir-apparent Janet Reilly, who happens to be the wife of a political power broker in the city.
Because of the new realities, Alioto-Pier raised almost $200,000 with two phone calls. One brought a $141,000 contribution from a man who made a fortune in real estate, and the other coaxed $50,000 from a San Francisco socialite.
Alioto-Pier defends her effort, saying it's about the future of the city. To most other people, though, it's more about the future of politics, as a whole.
It's always been about 'who you know.' Now, it's more about who you know with lots of money, or access to it.


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Biennial. From a distance, the dark color of The Watchman is as black as the moonless night sky, but on closer inspection you can see its rich purplish burgundy cast. Seductive towers of flowers for bees and butterflies make an excellent backdrop for pink, red, yellow or white flowers. Instructions inside packet for making old-fashioned hollyhock dolls.
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From the book "New Hampshire Women" A collection of portraits and biographical sketches of daughters and residents of the granite state, who are worthy representatives of their sex in the various walks and conditions of life. Published by The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, J.G. Patterson, Jr. President, ©1895
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Paz de la Huerta by Mario Sorrenti for Playboy Magazine
No stranger to getting naked in front of the lens, actress Paz de la Huerta celebrates nudity once again for the iconic Playboy Magazine. Shot by famed photographer Mario Sorrenti, Miss de la Huerta poses nude, without makeup for the January/February issue of the publication. For the accompanying article Paz is interviewed by gallerist-turned-museum director Jeffrey Deitch. The text will have to wait.. but feel free to check out the full shoot in our gallery above while you wait. (NSFW)


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STERLING — Classes are back in session in Sterling, with RE-1 Valley students going back to school Wednesday and St. Anthony Catholic School students heading back today. That means changes for drivers as pedestrians and school buses hit the roads.
In press release sent out Wednesday, Sterling Police Department warned that "with school back in session there will be a lot of children walking or riding their bikes to school and their safety is paramount."
To ensure the safety of both students and drivers SPD is asking drivers to use extra caution on area roadways by:
• Adding extra time to their morning and evening commutes to accommodate extra traffic;
• Following speed limits, especially in school zones;
• Paying close attention to school bus warning lights; and
• Being extra vigilant of students who are walking and riding a bike to school.
The press release also offered a reminder about driving around school buses, noting more than 23 million students nationwide ride the bus to and from school.
"Motorists are reminded that when a school bus is displaying flashing red lights, those traveling in both directions must stop, except on divided highways," SPD stated in the release. "Children are our most vital assets and the inconvenience of taking a few extra seconds to stop for a school bus is insignificant compared to jeopardizing a child's life."
Additionally, the department asks parents to supervise their children at bus stops and encourage safety when loading and unloading on a school bus. They also remind motorists who are transporting children to and from school to ensure children are safely restrained in seat belts, booster seats and child restraints.
"We wish all local students, teachers and school staff a safe and happy beginning of the school year," SPD said in the press release.
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The Lever Rooms were rooms located at many places at Hogwarts Castle, with a lever in the centre of them.
In 1992, Peeves made the platforms to cross the Dungeon Pit disappear, and Harry Potter had to go to these rooms in order to put them back and go to Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington's five-hundredth Deathday Party.[1]
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Kelsey Charisma is a young stay-at-home wife, who started writing short, erotic stories for her husband as special treats to whet his appetite while they read them aloud.... Her husband encouraged her to publish her work for other couples that may want to share fantasies—though, they're fun to read alone, too.
Thanks to fans discovering her, and then rushing out to purchase more tantalizing books after a first taste, Kelsey Charisma is a bestselling erotica author with several novellas that reached top bestsellers lists. Currently she's writing her next sizzling fantasy for all her avid readers worldwide.


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Voted "Best Vintage Clothing Store" on toronto.com's internet poll, Gadabout is an amazing repository for all that is vintage. Gadabout houses an extensive collection of vintage clothing, accessories, and fabrics including household textiles, blankets and rugs. In addition, the store carries ephemera, nostalgia and curios. Our Manly Man Corner is famous for its variety and oddities.
Clothing dates from the late 1800s through the 1970s (some 80s available but it's not vintage yet) and is in impeccable condition. (We don't carry any t-shirts or denim.) The store is a delight to the eye, a lift for the spirits and lots of fun. Visit often, new arrivals weekly.
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I do not have actors' names for the movie for which I am searching. I think it was done in the late 1990's or early 2000's. In the first scene a truck on a country/road in a Latin American country comes to a border checkpoint. The border agent takes a picture of one of the passengers, who unbeknownst to him is a revolutionary leader.
Later, the border agent works for this country's police force and is hunting for this revolutionary. The agent has a daughter who takes dance lessons from the revolutionary leader's girlfriend. The agent falls in love with her not knowing her ties to the man he is hunting. Eventually the revolutionary is tacked down through his trash by a medicine he is using for a skin condition.


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Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal threw his weight behind the government effort to rollback the Second Amendment on Tuesday.
"I spent a career carrying typically either a M16, and later a M4 carbine," McChrystal told MSNBC's Morning Joe. "And a M4 carbine fires a .223 caliber round, which is 5.56 millimeters, at about 3,000 feet per second. When it hits a human body, the effects are devastating. It's designed to do that. That's what our soldiers ought to carry."
"I personally don't think there's any need for that kind of weaponry on the streets and particularly around the schools in America. I believe that we've got to take a serious look — I understand everybody's desire to have whatever they want — but we have to protect our children and our police and we have to protect our population. And I think we have to take a very mature look at that."
The unofficial don of the anti-Second Amendment movement, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, enthusiastically supported McChrystal's call to disarm the American people.
"Stanley McChrystal is a guy who has more credibility than I ever will have in terms of guns and the damage that guns can do," he said during a round table discussion. "He's devoted his life to public service. But Stanley McChrystal can be as good a spokesman as can the five of us."
McChrystal's comments on Morning Joe were not one-off. Later in the day, the former commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan went on The Daily Show to call for taking firearms away from civilians. "I don't want them on our streets, I don't want them in our schools," McChrystal told host John Stewart. "I don't think that most people are prepared to carry them."
McChrystal's push to deny so-called assault weapons – semiautomatic firearms with cosmetic military attributes – to law-abiding citizens is part of a hysterical call to limit the Second Amendment following the murders at the Sandy Hook school in Connecticut.
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and husband Mark Kelly, a former astronaut, have announced the launch of their Americans for Responsible Solutions initiative, an effort to raise enough money to go up against organizations supporting the Second Amendment.
Giffords was the victim of a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, in January, 2011, and her effort to counter the NRA and other gun rights organizations is reminiscent of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, formed after White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot during an attempt to assassinate president Reagan.
Also on Wednesday, New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie said the government needs to do more about gun violence, mental illness, and substance abuse.
"If all we talk about is just controlling guns, which we should talk about, then we're not doing enough," he told CBS This Morning. "In New Jersey, we have the second toughest gun laws in America already," but those are not enough to limit the Second Amendment, Christie said. He also blamed video games for violence.
Yet despite the television appearances and the concerted effort by the corporate media to forge a consensus opposing the cornerstone of the Bill of Rights, Americans are buying guns and stocking up on ammunition in record numbers.
Time reported on Wednesday that "lawmakers in Washington are preparing for an extended debate over new gun-related legislation, and gun owners are stocking up on goods they fear could be banned," thus revealing once again a wide divide between the political class and citizens.
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) – Colorado theater shooting defendant James Holmes will return to court in late January for a hearing on prosecutors' request that he undergo additional psychiatric examination.
The judge set the new date Wednesday. The hearing was to take place this week, but the judge postponed it after saying the prosecution had made contradictory statements about its request.
Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in the 2012 attack. Holmes' trial has been postponed indefinitely while attorneys argue over whether he should get further psychiatric evaluation.
He underwent a sanity evaluation in the summer but the findings haven't been made public.
The hearing is now set to begin Jan. 27. It could last up to five days, including arguments on a separate defense motion to bar some trial testimony from crime scene reconstruction experts.
Holmes appeared in court Wednesday with disheveled hair and a fuzzy reddish beard. He said nothing.
Defense lawyers, meanwhile, said they haven't decided whether to appeal a New York State Court of Appeals ruling that New York-based Fox News reporter Jana Winter doesn't have to testify on a side issue in the case.
Citing anonymous sources, Winter reported last year that Holmes sent his psychiatrist a notebook containing violent images.
The defense said whoever spoke to Winter violated a gag order. They want Winter to identify her sources so they can be disciplined.
Because Winter is in New York, a Colorado subpoena ordering her to testify cannot be enforced without the approval of a court there. New York's highest court ruled last week that New York's shield law protects her from the subpoena.
Separately, another judge has agreed to consolidate a lawsuit filed by a shooting victim against the theater owner, Century Theatres, with 15 others suits against the company stemming from the shootings.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Denver by Stefan Moton, who suffered a spinal cord injury resulting in quadriplegia. The theater owner has said it couldn't have foreseen the attack.
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Hardy few will tackle all 5 Flying Pig races
Runner: 'It's exhilarating just knowing you can do it'
Some runners are going beyond the standard 26-mile route for the Flying Pig Marathon.
A hardy few will run the event's one-mile race Friday, along with the weekend's 5K, 10K, half-marathon and Sunday's full marathonExtreme .
"It's a funny distance because it's awful at the end, but it's also exhilarating just knowing you can do it," said runner Greg Doench, who's taking on the full slate of races.
Sports psychologist Barbara Walker said the feeling connects long-distance runners.
"I can't say that it's unhealthy unless they haven't trained for it," Walker said.
But if all a runner wants to do is train, Walker said, that could be a red flag.
"Are they missing some family events? Are they skipping some things, are they skipping work? Are they not taking care of themselves?" Walker said.
Exercise addiction can attack a person mentally and physically, making the brain feed on endorphins released by physical activity.
"Your brain gets woken up to a particular level of alertness, if you will," Walker said.
But that shouldn't discourage anyone from exercising, she said.
When done properly, anyone can go the distance.
"I've done 26 (marathons) altogether, and the Pig is one of the best races in the U.S.," Doench said.


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Utica Community Schools is Michigan's second largest school district.
Student achievement in the district outpaces all county, state and national averages. The district's graduation rate is 13 points higher than the state average and students are staff are regularly honored for excellence.
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Supporters of a ballot initiative to eliminate the death penalty in California are beginning to gather the signatures necessary to qualify it for the November 2012 ballot.
Polls show many Californians have no moral objections to the death penalty, so this initiative makes a series of strong, practical, fiscal arguments.
Among them: the death penalty is so difficult to administer that it's an "empty promise" in California (we have it on the books, but don't much use it). It's more costly to have the death penalty than not. The state could save tens of millions of dollars in the budget by eliminating it.
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Sounds good, until you read the details of the initiative and discover that, in an anti-death penalty measure of all things, there's a jarring example of bad budget policy.
Specifically, the initiative takes money out of the general fund -- which is to say, out of the famously distressed and unbalanced state budget -- and puts it into a special fund called the "SAFE California Fund."
Over four years, from 2012 to 2016, a total of $100 million would be taken from the budget for this fund. These funds, according to the text of the initiative,
"shall be used exclusively for the purposes of this Act and shall not be subject to appropriation or transfer by the Legislature for any other purpose."
What are the purposes? To speed the solving of cases of rape and murder.
Who could argue with such a good cause? No one -- which is why it's smart politics to have this sort of thing in the act.
But it's terrible policy.
The act gives the attorney general -- not the legislature or governor -- control over the money, essentially giving a state official the ability to influence how local police departments allocate resources.
Most significant, it ties the hands of the legislature and by extension the public.
What if lawmakers, responding to public opinion, want to use this state money to offset cuts in the university systems that are preventing some Californians from being able to afford college?
The answer is: they can't. Which is why this isn't just a death penalty initiative. It's a budget initiative that provides savings with one hand -- and then takes money away from virtually every other function of government.
This, of course, isn't new. Initiatives routinely do this sort of thing -- which is one reason why California is in perpetual budget crisis.
The good news? There's still time for backers of this initiative to delete this provision and refile this initiative.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Last year, I googled the phrase "What is this good tingling sensation in my head", or something to that effect, and came across an interesting forum thread. It contained many different posters who all had one thing in common- they all experience a seemingly undocumented or ignored case of tingles in the head.
This isn't so much of a complaint regarding serious pain or discomfort though- quite the opposite in fact. This sensation is good at least and marvellous at best when you experience really intense ones. I would know, because I happen to be a "sufferer" of this ecstasy.
You get tingles when you (symptoms):
- Listen to specific people talk (usually soft-spoken, well-spoken voices or lispers)
- Listen to the radio or podcasts when these people are talking.
- Watch certain TV programs, or YouTube videos, like instructional ones, infomercials, adverts, historical or factual programs.
- People talking in a foreign or indigenous language. Xhosa and Afrikaans are two of mine.
- Get tickled lightly, especially on the back or shoulders.
- When someone strokes or plays with your hair softly.
- When you listen to certain soft or distant, and usually repetitive, sounds like a bouncing tennis ball, trickling water, or construction noises like tapping hammers.
- Listen to types of music.
These are some examples, and there are likely many other triggers that result in the sensation, and it's been said that many, if not most or all, people experience this, but only some actually observe it, are aware of it, or experience it to a greater degree than others.
I will likely post about more triggers and so on separately, and try some out for research purposes, as well as upload some sound clips and such so you can listen and see if you experience these effects.


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Beginning with a generous endowment from alumna Dorothy Dunklee Gavin '43, the Center was founded to promote research that would illuminate the family unit.
That success, explains CRF director Sally Powers, flows from the interdisciplinary network of researchers that convene at the Center—a network that Powers and the team continue to build.
Every year, the Center's steering committee selects six new faculty members who are conducting family-related research to take part in the Family Research Scholars Program. The Scholars participate in a year-long seminar that includes intensive grant guidance, individualized methodology training, peer mentorship, and expert consultation. The program assists scholars as they put together major grant proposals. Financial manager David Bosch explains that, considering most Family Research Scholars are pre-tenure and submitting a national research grant application for the first time, the success rates, or "hit rates," for these proposals are "striking"—63 percent for primary National Science Foundation (NSF) applications (over a national average of 22 percent) and 32 percent for primary National Institutes of Health (NIH) applications (over a national average of 18 percent).
"At CRF, researchers know they can expect and receive individualized attention, strategies, research advice, technical expertise, external and internal networks of other researchers touching on what they are investigating—it is truly a nexus for family researchers," says Associate Director Wendy Varner.
Beginning with a generous endowment from alumna Dorothy Dunklee Gavin '43 (pictured above), the Center was founded to promote research that would illuminate the family unit. Researchers look at the structure and functioning of families—from both biological and social standpoints—and how the family can impact health, society and the greater environment. Conducting research through this lens allows for a unique kind of collaboration; social science and natural science intersect within the scope of the family. In honor of that convergence, the Center is housed in both the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
"The mission was really to try and pull together a network of family researchers on campus. It's very rare, actually, that faculty and researchers will think of themselves primarily as 'a family researcher'—it's not a discipline. It's an interdisciplinary sort of term," explains Powers.
The CRF has also expanded to provide support for graduate and undergraduate students interested in family research through the Student Research Grants and Awards Program. Every year, the Center awards merit-based fellowships for students to work on a research project with a faculty mentor. The CRF also grants travel awards to support students who are presenting their research at far-away conferences, and support for students to receive methodology training. The Center provides more than $50,000 each year in student research funding.
To ensure faculty affiliates have success in reaching the public and policy-makers with their research results, the CRF works with the Center for Public Policy and Administration, the Department of Sociology, and the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program Public Engagement Project—a series of seminars and workshops devoted to helping researchers more efficiently engage with their communities about their work. Powers explains that it is often difficult for scientists to connect their studies with the people who are interested in them.
"We hope to be a link between the researcher and the communities that might use that research," says Powers.
Neuroscientist Lisa Scott, Psychology, is an example of a Family Research Scholar who was extremely successful with support from the CRF. As a new investigator, Scott was awarded $675,000 from the NSF to study infant perceptual learning and how perceptual experiences can impact brain development. That same year, she also received $2 million from the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences to lead a start-up project entitled "Visual Expertise in the Laboratory in the Real World." She regularly attends CRF's "I'm a PI: Now What?!," which is a workshop series designed to help new Principal Investigators adjust to their new role.
Powers and the team are proud of the momentum the Center has gained and continue to listen to their scholars in order to learn how to build on the rich strengths of family researchers at UMass.
"I think that's our greatest success—keeping our eye on what faculty think would grow their research and trying to meet those needs," says Powers.
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FARMINGTON, Mich. – A missing woman is found dead inside the Farmington home she shared with her boyfriend.
The 29-year-old woman went missing from the 23800 block of Colchester on February 23rd. According to police, friends of the victim all reported not hearing from her since she left a party on February 22nd to pick up her boyfriend from work. During an investigation, officers discovered what appeared to be bloody plastic inside the victim's home. At that time, the boyfriend was taken into custody.
Detectives interviewed the boyfriend, who confessed to having a verbal argument with the woman that turned physical. Officers executed a search warrant at the home and the woman was found deceased inside the home.
The boyfriend is now in police custody and awaits arraignment and formal charges from the Oakland County Prosecutors Office.
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Standard Error Concept
A. One of the most useful concepts in statistical practice is the "standard error" concept. This term was originally defined by British statistician Udny Yule in the early 20th century. ASTM E2586, Practice for Calculating and Using Basic Statistics, defines standard error as "The standard deviation of the population of values of a sample statistic in repeated sampling, or an estimate of it." The term "uncertainty" is closely related to standard error and has been given considerable treatment in recent decades. Standard error measures random error in a reported statistic: the kind of error due to random sampling variation in repeating a test under the same conditions. Uncertainty is a broader concept that considers additional components of potential error besides random error. ASTM E2655, Guide for Reporting Uncertainty of Test Results and Use of the Term Measurement Uncertainty in ASTM Test Methods, describes the use of the uncertainty concept as applied to a test result.
Practitioners and decision makers who use data are typically more concerned with statistics than with individual measurements in a set of data. Users of data want to see means, variances, ranges, proportions, maximum or minimum values, percentiles or other statistics. What is often not fully appreciated is that statistics also behave in a random fashion similar to individual measurements, and this is measured by the standard error. When a sample mean is reported, it is not the "true" average but an estimate of it. The sample statistic may be somewhat higher or lower than the unknown true value. The standard error of the mean measures how different the true mean might be from the statistic that is reported. More generally, we can speak of the "standard error of the estimate" anytime an estimated statistical quantity is reported. When a single statistic is calculated, it is possible to calculate the standard error of the estimate. Generally, the larger the sample size, the smaller the standard error of an estimated quantity.
To see how this works, consider a sample mean. From a sample of size n, the sample mean and standard deviation are calculated. In reality there is a true mean, ?, and true standard deviation ?, and these are unknown. The sample gives us the estimates and S. If we were to sample repeatedly from the population/process from which the sample came and calculate the sample mean again and again, the standard deviation of the distribution of means would be the true standard error of the mean. Theoretically, this is Equation 1:
Since we only have one estimated mean, and we do not know the true ?, we can only estimate the standard error as:
The error in a reported result is called sampling error, and this is measured as an absolute deviation from the unknown true value. Thus, for a mean, the sampling error can be thought of as the deviation | - ?|. Approximately 68 percent of the time the sampling error will be at most one standard error in size; and 95 percent of the time it will be at most two standard errors in size. We can state this more concisely as:
with 68 percent confidence (3)
with 95 percent confidence (4)
This gives the user of a statistic some idea of the magnitude of the difference that might have been realized in practice, how the sample size affects the possible error of the estimate and with what approximate probability (confidence). Here we are assuming a sample size of 20 or more and are using the theory of the normal distribution. Some readers will also recognize this as akin to the construction of a confidence interval for an unknown mean. A full treatment of confidence intervals is discussed in ASTM E2586 and an earlier DataPoints article on this topic has been published.1
Suppose in a sample of size n = 20 the sample mean and standard deviation were found to be 162 and 11.5, respectively. The estimated standard error of the mean is from Equation 2: 11.5/4.47 = 2.57. Thus, the potential for an error in the reported result is no more than ±2.57 (68 percent confidence) or no more than 2(2.57) = ±5.14 (at 95 percent confidence).
One of the most commonly used statistics is a simple proportion. There is a sample of objects size n, and we observe each object for the occurrence of an attribute. Each object either has or has not the attribute. This is the situation, for example, in quality control sampling or in public opinion polling. The statistic, denoted , is the proportion in the sample having the attribute. The true and unknown proportion of all objects is p. The theoretical standard error of the estimate is:
In practice we never know the true p so we substitute the statistic and obtain an estimate of the standard error. Using Equation 5, the estimated standard error is:
When this technique is used with a political or marketing research poll, the quantity 2SE() is referred to as the margin of error for the poll. Suppose in a sample of n = 200 inspected metal components, 23 were classified as defective. The estimate of the process proportion defective is = 23/200 = 0.115 or 11.5 percent.
The standard error of this estimate is, using Equation 6, is 0.0226 or 2.26 percent. Should we want to claim an approximately 95 percent confidence in the possible error in the result we should report the result using two standard errors or as 11.5 percent ±4.52 percent. In any case we should at least report the standard error (2.26 percent) along with the estimate.
Standard error formulas are available for several common cases in ASTM E2586. Other cases and methods are available in the literature of statistical science.
1. Stephen N. Luko and Dean V. Neubauer, "Statistical Intervals, Part 1: The Confidence Interval," ASTM Standardization News, Vol. 39, No. 4, July/Aug. 2011.
Stephen N. Luko, United Technologies Aerospace Systems, Windsor Locks, Conn., is an ASTM fellow; a past chairman of Committee E11 on Quality and Statistics, he is current chairman of Subcommittee E11.30 on Statistical Quality Control.
Dean V. Neubauer, Corning Inc., Corning, N.Y., is an ASTM fellow; he serves as chairman of Committee E11 on Quality and Statistics, chairman of E11.90.03 on Publications and coordinator of the DataPoints column.
(Originally published in the Nov./Dec. 2012 Standardization News.)


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Diplomacy, it's said, is war by other means. Politics is an amalgam of both -- diplomacy and war.
That reality shapes the dynamic of the current drive by Gov. Jerry Brown to clear the general election field for his ballot proposal to shrink the state budget deficit by enacting temporary increases in higher-income and sales taxes.
Brown believes that his proposal has the best chance of passage if it is the lone tax measure on the November ballot.
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Multiple tax initiatives on the same ballot could stymie California voters and, time and again, it's been shown that, when in doubt, Californians tend to vote "No."
It took a while for the governor to craft a proposition that had a chance of passing muster with both the state's business community and labor unions. Brown worked hard to get business groups to at least stay neutral on his proposal. That was the diplomacy part.
But two other competing tax plans started circulating for the November ballot. And the stage was set for war.
By the way, proposition overload -- and voter confusion --will not be limited to just this November's election. By statute, all ballot measures are now required to be placed on the general elections ballot.
One proposal, the so-called "millionaires' tax," has been backed primarily by the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) -- a small union, normally overshadowed by the politically powerful California Teachers Association (CTA), the California Nurses Association, and the Courage Campaign, a progressive, social-media savvy, grass-roots advocacy group.
All are valuable Brown allies and influential Democratic Party constituencies; they demanded a smaller sales tax hike and a larger tax increase on the wealthy than Brown's plan provided.
Wealthy civil rights attorney, Molly Munger (the sister of Charles Munger, who financed Proposition 20, the recently successful congressional redistricting initiative), has so far kicked in about $3.4 million of her own money to qualify a proposal to raise about $10 billion a year, mainly to fund education, through increasing personal income tax rates for almost everyone.
After months of wooing and cajoling, Brown was unable to clear the field.
Meanwhile, reported the Sacramento Bee, the California Chamber of Commerce announced its opposition to both the millionaires' tax and the Munger initiatives, "but remained silent on the governor's own plan, tacitly giving his proposal a boost as he tries to thin the field."
In the face of declining poll numbers and stronger, more visible public support for the millionaires' tax, Brown chose a détente with his liberal allies, by adjusting his proposal to slightly increase the income tax rates on upper brackets and cutting the proposal's half-cent sales tax levy in half.
This has taken one opposing initiative out of play, but the Munger initiative is still very much on the table.
It remains to be seen whether any amount of arguing, cajoling and begging will persuade Munger to shelve her effort. There is also a question of whether the income tax rate adjustment in the revised proposal will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and turns business against the governor's plan.
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St. Catherine's, Sinai and the Burning Bush?
Dear OrthodoxWiki Friends,
May the Peace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you. I work as a tour guide in Egypt and have been many times to the blessed monastery of St. Catherine in Mount Sinai, but I've got some questions, could you please help me to find their answers?
- How can we prove that the " Burning Bush" in Mount Sinai, is the original one?
- what kind of a tree is it?
- where can I find a comperhensive article about the monastery of St. Catherine?
Always Glory to God. God Bless you and thank you for your help!
- Seeing as no one has responded yet, let me take a few stabs at this. 1. We have it on the authority of oral tradition. I'm not sure how to prove this scientifically. 2. I've heard some talk about the kind of tree (bush) before - I would check a good, Western-style Bible commentary here. 3. Our OrthodoxWiki article on St. Catherine's is at St. Catherine's Monastery (Sinai). You can explore the links from there, or try Google. Hope that helps! Fr. John 13:37, August 5, 2006 (CDT)
- P.S. I'm going to leave this in "unanswered questions for a little while to see if anyone else wants to fill in some of the gaps.
- We had this recent discussion about the same topic here. The Arabic name is the same used in Luke 6:44 (bramble bush العليقة). --Arbible 13:52, August 5, 2006 (CDT)
- Rubus Sanctus. --Arbible 14:03, August 5, 2006 (CDT)
St. Chrysostomos' homily on the Finding of the Cross
Can this homily be found on the internet in the original language or a translation in english or latin ? I did not find it. Thanks - Pat
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I was wondering if anyone here might know the History of The Cathedral Church of The Holy Resurrection in the Bronx, New York.
My Jurisdiction knows the land was sold my Dimitray Propheta (Archbishop Walter Propheta's father) to Church of The Holy Resurrection, Inc. in 1930.
I would like to know what Jurisdiction this Church was affiliated with and who it was under when Archbishop Propheta became Dean of Priests there in 1958.
This will greatly assist me in the history of The American Orthodox Catholic Church, (Propheta) I am compiling.
Thank you.
Bishop Mark markp_13601 at yahoo dot com
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I hope this gets posted. I am searching for anyone who may have information as to whether or not Archbishop Walter Myron Propheta of The American Orthodox Catholic Church was ever consecrated as Hierarch by Archbishop Bodhan Schpylka of The Ukranian Orthodox Church.
Thanks for your help. - Bishop Mark, markp_13601 at yahoo dot com
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I am an American Roman Catholic, and I recently visited the Balkans. I attended a Greek divine liturgy in Athens. As a Catholic, I am confused by the antidoron. I didn't understand the concept until I read the article here, but I am still confused by the practice. Many people were taking the bread, eating it as they walked or placed it in their pocket. Some even threw pieces to the birds. As a Catholic, I was surprised. Is this common practice? Is feeding the pigeons with it acceptable? Also, should I have taken the antidoron as a Catholic. Although I did not receive communion, could I have under Greek doctrine? I am sorry for so many questions but I am very curious and this seems to be the best place to ask. If anyone is on IRC, I would love to discuss my observations. -- Psy guy 17:26, February 7, 2006 (CST)
- Hi Psy Guy,
- Briefly, the bread is considered blessed, so it should not be thrown away into the garbage. However, it is often considered acceptable to feed it to the birds or pour leftover crumbs under a bush where it won't be trampled underfeet or some other suitable place. Local practices vary, but in many places Antidoron serves a double purpose as a kind of "hospitality bread" that visitors can receive when they do not take the Eucharist. In some parishes, this bread will be given to visitors. Since our churches are not "in communion" with each other, you should not take Communion in an Orthodox church. Some priests may make an exception in cases of dire necessity. If you visit an Orthodox church (and an occasional visit can, according to Catholic teaching, fulfill one's "Saunday obligation") please pray for true reconcilliation between our churches as you witness the pain of separation. Thanks for your interest in all of this, and God bless, — FrJohn (talk)


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The Last of Us: American Dreams – more concept art emerges
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