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"Human beings are a superstitious lot; we see patterns everywhere. But as Hand makes clear in this enlightening book, it all comes down to the math." ―Jennifer Ouellette, The New York Times Book Review
"Very engaging . . . If you wish to read about how probability theory can help us understand the apparent hot hand in a basketball game, superstitions in gambling and sports, prophecies, parapsychology and the paranormal, holes in one, multiple lottery winners, and much more, this is a book you will enjoy. I will go further. The statistician Samuel S. Wilks (paraphrasing H.G. Wells) said that 'statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.' With that laudable goal in mind, The Improbability Principle should be, in all probability, required reading for us all." ―John A. Adam, The Washington Post
"[A] lucid overview of the mathematics of chance and the psychological phenomena that can make probability seem counter-intuitive to so many . . . Hand has written a superlative introduction to critical thinking, accessible to everybody, regardless of mathematical ability." ―New Scientist
"[An] ingenious introduction to probability that mixes counterintuitive anecdotes with easily digestible doses of statistics . . . Hand offers much food for thought, and readers willing to handle some simple mathematics will find this a delightful addition to the 'why people believe weird things' genre." ―Publishers Weekly
"Lively and lucid . . . an intensely useful (as well as a remarkably entertaining) book . . . It can transform the way you read the newspaper, that's for sure." ―Salon
"[Hand] leads readers through this unfamiliar land of probability and statistics with wit and charm, all the while explaining in layman's terms the laws that govern it . . . We predict there's a very good chance you'll enjoy this book" ―Success
"Enlightening and entertaining . . . an erudite but utterly unpretentious guide . . . ably and assuredly demystifies an ordinarily intimidating subject" ―Kirkus
"In my experience, it is very rare to find a book that is both erudite and entertaining. Yet The Improbability Principle is such a book. Surely this cannot be due to chance alone!" ―Hal R. Varian, chief economist at Google and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley
"Considering that The Improbability Principle comes from the keyboard of David J. Hand, it was perhaps inevitable that it would be a certain winner!" ―John Pullinger, president of the Royal Statistical Society
"Written by one of the world's preeminent statisticians, The Improbability Principle provides you with a sense of what chance and improbability really mean, and engenders an understanding that uncertainty rests at the core of nature. I highly recommend this book." ―Joseph M. Hilbe , president of the International Astrostatistics Association and ambassador for the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology
"As someone who happened to meet his future wife on a plane, on an airline he rarely flew, I wholeheartedly endorse David J. Hand's fascinating guide to improbability, a subject that affects the lives of us all, yet until now has lacked a coherent exposition of its underlying principles." ―Gordon Woo, catastrophist at Risk Management Solutions and author of Calculating Catastrophe
"The Improbability Principle is an elegant, astoundingly clear, and enjoyable combination of subtle statistical thinking and real-world events. David J. Hand really does explain why 'surprising' things will happen and why statistics matters." ―Andrew Dilnot, coauthor of The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life
About the Author
David J. Hand is an emeritus professor of mathematics and a senior research investigator at Imperial College London. He is the former president of the Royal Statistical Society and the chief scientific adviser to Winton Capital Management, one of Europe's most successful algorithmic-trading hedge funds. He is the author of seven books, including The Information Generation: How Data Rules Our World and Statistics: A Very Short Introduction, and has published more than three hundred scientific papers. Hand lives in London, England.
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I bought this book based on a review in a magazine, thinking it would be too lightweight for me, but it would be a good, quick read that I could then pass on to others in my family who have not got the same comfort with math I have. I didn't expect to "learn" very much, simply see how the author approached the subject of probability and hope it was good enough to explain to my mother why she doesn't win the lottery every week (but having a ticket was better than not), explain to my brother why the seemingly impossible coincidences were actually not as improbably as he thought, and explain to my wife why two dice rolls at the craps table are likely to be certain numbers more than others.Read more ›
No formulas are used in this book. To be honest, I found that a bit disappointing being an avid mathematics enthusiast. However, it seems clear that the author's objective is to drive his point home in the simplest and most widely accessible way possible. And in this he succeeds admirably.
The author, a professor of mathematics with specialization in statistics, writes very clearly in a friendly, engaging and often lively style. Because if its wide accessibility, I believe that this book can be enjoyed by any interested readers, no matter what their background. Science and mathematics enthusiasts, like me, although possibly disappointed by the lack of mathematical minutiae, should still be in for a treat. I enjoyed this book immensely.
Well, I could perhaps further squeezed and simplified everything into one line of words; that is, "From time to time s***s will happened, right in front of you. So let's just move on" :)
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The book starts with its main contradiction, only a seeming contradiction and one of many explained away within these pages: How is it possible that extremely unlikely things happen, and not only happen, but happen over and over? Hand gives satisfying answers, but besides being a book about extraordinarily improbable events, this is also a book that explains probability in general. Take the law of inevitability: Something has to happen. In a lottery, each possible ticket has so tiny a chance of winning that you might think it a miracle if yours is the one chosen. But what _is_ certain is that some ticket will be picked to win (or if not, the stakes will be raised for the next draw when there will be a winner). It is thus dead certain that an improbable event will occur. There's the law of truly large numbers: if there are enough possible opportunities, any outrageously unlikely event can happen. If you toss a coin enough times, and have a near-eternity to do so, you will get a run of a hundred heads; it simply has to happen. These are understood strictly with probability theory, but we have also to supplement our "understanding" of rare events by human foibles. The law of selection, for instance, says that you can make probabilities as high as you like, in retrospect. It's like shooting arrows into the side of a barn and then painting bullseyes around each one. All of us are liable, too, to confirmation bias; we notice events that reinforce what we wish to believe and we disregard data that does not fit. Prophets and astrologers harness this tendency all the time. And sometimes we use bad equipment for our research. Federal law has specific and strict rules for every die thrown in a casino, but dice you get in a Monopoly set are far from such strict engineering and they have bias; research into psychokinesis, the ability to control die tosses, has been criticized because it used ordinary dice.
Readers of Hand's book will have a happy tour of many aspects of probability, delivered by a guide who is knowledgeable and funny. Even if some of the math gets by you, the astonishing stories are sure to impress you, like the ones about people who have won the lottery more than once. Spare a little sympathy, however, for Maureen Wilcox, who in 1980 bought lottery tickets in both the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. She picked all the right numbers, too. Except the numbers she picked for Rhode Island won in Massachusetts, and vice versa.
The examples are dull, recycled, and mostly uninteresting. The concepts seem too basic for the length of the book. And in the end it just is not interesting. Pass on this one.
When I read one star reviews, I often wish the reviewers would tell me what they did enjoy, so that I could calibrate their review and, potentially, so that I could find something better. So here I'll do that. Here are two books of similar nature, both of which are far better than The Improbability Principle:
1, The Drunkard's Walk, by Leonard Mlodinow
2, Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Taleb
No formulas are used in this book. To be honest, I found that a bit disappointing being an avid mathematics enthusiast. However, it seems clear that the author's objective is to drive his point home in the simplest and most widely accessible way possible. And in this he succeeds admirably.
The author, a professor of mathematics with specialization in statistics, writes very clearly in a friendly, engaging and often lively style. Because if its wide accessibility, I believe that this book can be enjoyed by any interested readers, no matter what their background. Science and mathematics enthusiasts, like me, although possibly disappointed by the lack of mathematical minutiae, should still be in for a treat. I enjoyed this book immensely.
This book has Amazon's "Look Inside" feature and I recommend you preview it's contents before buying.
Hand explains that theses and similar coincidences are explained by the 'improbability principle', which he elaborates upon in the book. He asserts that extremely improbable events are commonplace; a consequence of a collection of more fundamental laws which all tie together to lead inevitably and inexorably to the occurrence of such extraordinarily unlikely events. According to these laws, and the improbability principle, the universe is in fact constructed so that these coincidences are unavoidable: the extraordinarily unlikely must happen; events of vanishingly small probability will occur. In The Improbability Principle Hand endeavors to resolve the apparent contradiction between the sheer unlikeliness of such events, and the fact that they nevertheless keep on happening.
Hand admits that improbability principle is not a single equation, such as Einstein's famous equation, but a collection of strands which intertwine, braiding together and amplifying each other, to form a rope connecting events, incidents, and outcomes. The main strands are the law of inevitability, the law of truly large numbers, the law of selection, the law of the probability lever, and the law of near enough. Putatively, anyone of these strands is sufficient, by itself, to produce something apparently highly improbable, but it is when they combine and work together that their real power takes hold. Hand insists in the Epilogue that when these laws - the intertwining strands - are put together, virtually every simply unbelievable coincidence may be explained.
Just at the point where one expects Hand to illustrate intertwining of the strands, and event connections, he quickly concludes the book by merely listing a number of extraordinary events by which we should be unsurprised, given the improbability principle. He disappoints by abdicating an expected detailed example of at least one illustrative instance of how various strands may braid together to connect exemplary unrelated events. His detailed expositions of the law of inevitability, the law of truly large numbers, the law of selection, the law of the probability lever, the law of near enough, their apprehension by the human mind lay the foundations for the expectation. This reviewer has found one such illustration - but prefers to await the author's genius to produce several better ones.
In the recent book My Universe - A Transcendent Reality author Alex Vary describes 'impossible loops' that may underlie and explain the inevitability of remarkable coincidences. In Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter expounds on the intricate coincidences of and recursive interplay of mind, matter and universe. David Hand may well have considered how the improbability principle explains Hofstadter's paradox which he entitles 'which came first - the ribosome or the protein?' Hofstadter observes that in order for a ribosome to be made, certain kinds of proteins must be present, and rRNA must be present. Of course, for proteins to be present, ribosomes must be there to make them. Each ostensibly pre-exists the other. This and similar coincidence paradoxes are resolvable when they are considered in the context of communication, interplay and exchanges engendered by impossible loops, perhaps in concert with the improbability principle.
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By Keith Eric Grant, PhD, NCTMB
As midsummer's day approaches each year, it marks the reappearance of one of my favorite micro-communities. For one week in June, Scandinavian dancers and musicians gather in the redwood forests just inland from the Mendocino, California coast.Teachers of regional dances and fiddle tunes are brought in from Sweden and Norway, and other teachers and participants arrive from across the United States. It is a community marked by the respect and encouragement given to each student struggling with the nuance of a dance or tune, and by the ways in which all contribute to the week. Part of what I contribute are my skills with muscle and tissue, which help keep a number of my fellow participants more comfortably dancing and fiddling. Given the motions of what we are about, my fingers may work deep into the muscles of the anterior torso, hip, and gluteals of those asking for my help.
I stress these bodily areas for their great importance to movement and posture,1 and because, as I've discovered via a number of e-mail discussions, many massage schools apparently give only summary attention to these areas. In my mind, this is a very serious omission for those hoping to more than momentarily ameliorate the tensions and pains of their clients. It is not enough to simply move our work over painfully tight areas, because the pain and tightness can be secondary to the shortness and adhesions of another area.7 Consequently, it is important to understand the basic patterns by which maintained tension leads ultimately to dysfunction, and to work to relieve these patterns.
Vladimir Janda grouped muscles into postural and phasic muscles.2 Postural muscles are oriented toward static support and tend to shorten when stressed; phasic muscles are oriented toward movement and tend to weaken when stressed. These two types of muscles are key in understanding two common patterns of muscle dysfunction: upper-crossed syndrome and lower-crossed syndrome.2,3 In upper-crossed syndrome, the pectorals, upper trapezius, and levator scapula (postural muscles) become short, while the deep neck flexors, rhomboids, and serratus anterior (phasic muscles) become weak. In lower-crossed syndrome, the iliopsoas and erector spinae become short, while the abdominals and gluteals become weak. In both syndromes, weak muscles can be strenthened by exercise only after the shortened muscles have been released. While forward-pulled shoulders may result in weak, lengthened and taut rhomboids, habitual anterior flexion can compress the ribs and cause weak and short abdominals. Thus, relieving back pain may require releasing and lengthening the entire anterior torso, as well as releasing shortened posterior muscles.
Dance kinesiologist Sally Sevey Fitt notes the extent to which our cultural habits affect our muscles and body.4
Bodyworker Erik Dalton similarly calls us a "society of flexion addicts."3 Fitt further discusses the symptoms resulting from tightness of the anterior torso muscles pectoralis minor and serratus anterior.4
From the perspective of his concept of "anatomy trains," Tom Myers discusses the clinical implications of the superficial front line. He notes the effects of a maintained "startle reflex" pattern of shortening of the anterior line along with cervical extension.6
It is tempting to see these considerations as applying only to clinical massage. Yet, apart from sudden injuries, the tensions held from day to day presage the eventual pain-producing dysfunctions. When the tensions are coaxed out in a timely way, via gentle stroke and jostling, the need for remedial work can often be avoided. Working the right areas means making the mental jump from static anatomy on pages of books to the moving anatomy of the actual human body. It is a leap we must take to be effective in the long run.
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The deadline for the Company's warrant holders to exercise their warrants in April 2014 has now expired. The Company has received exercise notices from warrant holders for the issuance of a total of 2,255,000 shares in the Company. The shares are expected to be issued and registered in the Norwegian Central Securities Depository ("VPS") before the start of trading on April 30, 2014. The new shares to be issued are not tradable until they have been issued and registered in VPS and this has been confirmed through an announcement by the Company.
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Northland is a producer of iron ore concentrate, with a portfolio of production, development and exploration mines and projects in northern Sweden and Finland. The first construction phase of the Kaunisvaara project is complete and production ramp-up started in November 2012. The Company expects to produce high-grade, high-quality magnetite iron concentrate in Kaunisvaara, Sweden, where the Company expects to exploit two magnetite iron ore deposits, Tapuli and Sahavaara. Northland has entered into off-take contracts with three partners for the entire production from the Kaunisvaara project over the next seven to ten years. The Company has also finalized a Definitive Feasibility Study ("DFS") for its Hannukainen Iron Oxide Copper Gold ("IOCG") project in Kolari, northern Finland.
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Back in February, while attending a track meet at Montlake, Allen was able to visit the campus and with the Husky football coaches and that visit has piqued his interest enough to keep the Dawgs at or near the top of his list of schools.
"I'm from that area originally, so I had been up there before, but it was mainly for games," Allen said. "I really loved the campus and I feel like since I'm sorta from there already, it won't be that hard to adapt. I have family up there and I visit there a lot, so it's pretty comfortable for me up there."
As far as visiting Washington again, Allen had hoped to make the Junior Day event as well as the spring game, but was unable to, so he plans to come back up in the summer.
"I've actually been looking at camp dates and when it would fit best into my schedule," Allen noted. "I'm definitely planning to get up there and see the school again and also meet with the coaches. If I can get up and do a workout for them at their camp, that would be even better."
As far as a list of favorites, Allen said he isn't ready to make one quite yet, but said several have started to separate themselves and Washington is included in that list.
"I'm not really ready to name a bunch of schools yet, but Washington is definitely a school that is keeping my interest more than some others," Allen admitted. "I know I want to get out and see Arkansas for sure and maybe some others as well. The schools I'm looking to visit this summer are really the ones I'm most interested in at this point, but I'm not really ready to name leaders."
Allen said he still hasn't come up with a timeline, but that he hopes to take his official visits before he makes his decision.
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Application virtualization solutions allow quick and easy deployment of applications to employee PCs and external PCs. They simplify PC lifecycle management tasks and create better efficiencies in using and managing applications on desktops.
Application virtualization can be further improved beyond a single application to encompass a complete workspace, better addressing modern IT requirements. We call this application workspace virtualization or workspace virtualization.
Both technologies are very useful for today's PC world. Moreover, the marriage of the two can allow for order-of-magnitude improvements in the way PCs are managed and used in the future.
In this article, we will examine the features of workspace virtualization, and its applicability to diverse enterprise scenarios such as application deployment, disaster recovery, and creating a managed enterprise "island" on employee-owned and subcontractor-owned PCs
Traditional "desktop" virtualization technology implements a virtualization layer between the operating system and the PC hardware (see Figure 1). This enables several operating systems, each with its associated applications and data, to run on a single piece of physical hardware.
Some desktop virtualization solutions are server-based, enabling many virtual desktop images to run on a single server and accessed from a PC client or thin client through a VDI protocol. The main advantages of server-based desktop virtualization are a reduction in the client hardware costs, centralization of the client OS management, reduction in desktop support costs, and increased data security. However, they suffer from issues of peripheral connectivity (scanners, printers, etc.) and multimedia support (audio, graphics), and require a low-latency connection between the client and the server. Offline functionality is also not available.
Other desktop virtualization solutions are client-based, enabling users to run a separate virtualized operating system on their client PCs. The advantages of client-based desktop virtualization are improved manageability, offline capability, and support for application migration, but it too suffers from several drawbacks: A large footprint for the virtualized image (typically several gigabytes) due to the inclusion of a full operating system image; a considerable performance penalty compared to running applications natively on the host PC due to the virtualization of hardware resources; and the need for an additional (and expensive) OS license for the virtualized environment.
A separate approach to improving manageability and easing deployment of corporate environments is application virtualization (see Figure 2). Application virtualization implements a virtualization layer between an application and the operating system.
The main advantages of application virtualization are solving application compatibility issues, simplifying application deployment and easing OS migration. There are two main drawbacks to this approach: First, most solutions virtualize each application in its own "bubble," isolating it not only from the installed applications on the host, but also from other virtualized applications. The end result prevents virtualized applications from interacting with one another or launching each other. This prevents applications suites such as Microsoft Office, for example, from embedding an Excel worksheet in a Word document or a PowerPoint presentation. Second, most application virtualization solutions require an offline packaging process called "Application Sequencing." This process is partially manual, still considered something of an "art" and does not always end successfully, adding a degree of complexity and uncertainty to the application deployment process.
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You think you know what's in your data. But do you? Most organizations are now aware of the business intelligence represented by their data. Data science stands to take this to a level you never thought of – literally. The techniques of data science, when used with the capabilities of Big Data technologies, can make connections you had not yet imagined, helping you discover new insights and ask new questions of your data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sarbjit Sarkaria, data science team lead ...
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WebRTC is bringing significant change to the communications landscape that will bridge the worlds of web and telephony, making the Internet the new standard for communications. Cloud9 took the road less traveled and used WebRTC to create a downloadable enterprise-grade communications platform that is changing the communication dynamic in the financial sector. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Leo Papadopoulos, CTO of Cloud9, discussed the importance of WebRTC and how it enables companies to focus...
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Who will Broncos start at quarterback? RG3 and Josh Gordon enter season as unknowns for Browns RG3 and Josh Gordon enter season as unknowns for Browns Jets, Fitzpatrick not expected to strike deal soon Jets, Fitzpatrick not expected to strike deal soon Report: Cowboys' Gregory enters treatment facility Report: Cowboys' Gregory enters treatment facility Steelers may be fine even if Le'Veon Bell gets suspende... Steelers may be fine even if Le'Veon Bell gets suspende... Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More NFL Nickel defenses on the rise as NFL's critical battles move to the slot Photo: Drew Hallowell/Getty Images Philadelphia cornerback Brandon Boykin led the NFL with six slot interceptions in 2013. by Doug Farrar Add Favorite Favorite Added Twitter Email Posted: Wed Aug. 13, 2014 Through the long history of the NFL, offenses and defenses have engaged in cycles of attack and retreat. There's been a Bear Front for every Wing-T, a zone blitz for every West Coast concept. And lately, from the high school level up, offenses are stretching the field to its figurative breaking point, and defenses to their literal breaking points, with multi-receiver sets and motion that would have been inconceivable a generation ago. In the last decade, NFL offenses have adopted ideas from college spread offenses and put them to use in record-setting displays of scoring and tempo. In response, NFL defenses are pulling linebackers and defensive linemen off the field to use extra defensive backs -- and they're not just doing it on obvious passing downs. In fact, you could say that the specialized passing defenses of yesterday's NFL are the base defenses of today -- and tomorrow. NFL AFC East preview: Patriots favored again, but the gap may be closing by Chris Burke 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More In 2011, NFL teams lined up with three or more receivers 49 percent of the time, per Football Outsiders' charting metrics. In 2012, that number climbed up to 51 percent, and last season, it rose to 56 percent. A future in which the three-receiver set is the norm has arrived. Correspondingly, defenses have upped their usage of nickel defenses, the set in which five defensive backs patrol the field (generally at the expense of a formerly indispensable linebacker). Teams ran base (with four defensive backs) 48 percent of the time in 2011, 45 percent in '12 and 40 percent in '13. Nickel sets increased from 40 to 44 to 49 percent over that same three-year span. Nickel is the new base defense, a changing of the guard that was an inevitable offshoot of an uptick in offensive creativity. Rising Stars: Sammy Watkins, Buffalo Bills The Buffalo Bills made a splash when they traded up to select Sammy Watkins with the 4th pick in the 2014 NFL Draft. The young receiver is ready to reward the team's faith in him with a big rookie season. Double Nickels on the Dime: The new reality Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, who's coached defenses in various forms and fashions since the 1970s, recently told me that the idea of a fifth defensive back as more than a fifth wheel isn't really new -- but it's certainly a recent point of focus. NFL Hiring of Gary Kubiak already paying dividends for Ravens offense by Don Banks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More "Teams are more apt to be wide open in general [on offense], so there will be more numbers," he said. "But the third-down stuff and the nickel stuff has always been important, and that nickel cornerback was always important. Or the safety coming off the bench, or the cover linebacker you use. That's been around a long time. "There's been so much passing game in the last 10 years, and I think the nickel -- it's half the game. Half the game, you're in nickel or some kind of substitution defense. So, it's whichever way you want to look at it; maybe that's base and the other part is substitution now. We're divided about 500 plays to 500 plays year in and year out, and it's a big deal. That's why [on defense], we have more than 11 starters. We've got 15-16 starters that we see, and you can tell, depending on the opponent and the situation in the game, how many of those guys we'll move in and out, and feel comfortable doing that." MORE: Pete Carroll remembers high school classmate Robin Williams Vic Fangio, who coaches the defense for Carroll's arch-rival San Francisco 49ers, recently detailed his own take on the importance of the fifth defensive back and who generally pays the price from a snap-weighted perspective. "That's a position in today's game ... [that] plays a lot. Our starting nose tackles here the last few years, Isaac Sopoaga and last year Glenn Dorsey -- our fifth defensive back has played more than those guys have. You've really got 12 starters on defense [now] -- you've got your 11 in your 3-4 package and when you go to your fifth DB, he's also a starter. That guy has played upward of 60 percent for us in the last few years." Photo: Rob Carr/Getty Images Jimmie Ward proved to have the total package in his first NFL preseason game. The 49ers were one of two teams that used first-round picks in this year's draft on players who should play a lot of slot coverage. This was an unthinkable conceit just a few years ago, but teams are bowing to the new realities. San Francisco took Northern Illinois defensive back Jimmie Ward 30th overall, and the Denver Broncos selected Ohio State's Bradley Roby with the next pick. Both players can play multiple positions, though Ward was listed as a strong safety and Roby a cornerback. Ward, in particular, will be asked to play the slot role for a team that has done quite a lot of that in recent years. Cornerback Carlos Rogers had 391, 437 and 438 slot coverage snaps in the last three seasons, leading the league in 2012 and '13. And the 49ers, who play with a 4-2 concept up front a lot of the time, used at least five defensive backs on 59 percent of their snaps last season. NFL Jimmie Ward (right) is a ballhawk from all sorts of defensive positions. The All-22: 49ers' Jimmie Ward the face of a changing defensive reality by Doug Farrar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More The Broncos will probably use Roby inside and outside, depending on the health of slot corner Chris Harris -- they went with at least five DBs on 69 percent of their defensive snaps last season, and their pass defense took a major hit when Harris was lost for the postseason in the team's divisional playoff win over the Chargers. Harris suffered a torn ACL in the third quarter of that game, with the Broncos up 17-0. Immediately, Philip Rivers went after Quentin Jammer, Harris' replacement, and Denver found itself fighting desperately to eke out a 24-17 win as Rivers abused Jammer with the help of rookie receiver Keenan Allen. Denver took Roby, in part, because there's no margin for error at the slot position anymore. Building the Perfect Beast: The ideal nickelback Though some teams implemented three-cornerback and three-safety looks in the 1990s and early 2000s (the Green Bay Packers did so in the Mike Holmgren and Fritz Shurmur era, as NFL.com's Bucky Brooks points out here), a team's slot defender used to be the guy without a true position. Perhaps too small to mix it up with outside receivers or too slow to engage in trail speed battles with downfield burners, this cornerback was a substitution player at best, and an expendable chip at worst. Now, the typical nickel corner is a pure starter and is treated as such. And this player has a unique skillset. MORE: All-Overrated Offense, Defense | All-Underrated Offense, Defense Matt Bowen, who played safety in the NFL from 2000 through '06 and now writes brilliantly about Xs and Os for Bleacher Report, told me flat-out that in the modern NFL, the slot defender might be the most important defensive back on the field. In 2005, when he played with the Washington Redskins, Bowen was part of defensive packages that defensive coordinator Gregg Williams called "Ruby," in which there were three defensive linemen, two linebackers and six defensive backs. Williams used the late Sean Taylor as the point man in the defense -- the multi-position safety/corner hybrid -- because Taylor had such freakish athletic ability and field sense. Now, players like New Orleans' Kenny Vaccaro and Arizona's Tyrann Mathieu carry on that legacy in different ways. And as Bowen said, there's so much to that position; you're ideally taking equally from cornerback and safety skillsets and basically creating a new archetype NFL Orlando Scandrick owns up to mistake with refreshing honesty, openness by Joan Niesen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More "To play nickel now? I think it's really hard. You have to play the two-way go [option routes in which the receiver can turn inside or outside based on coverage] inside the numbers, you have to be able to tackle, and you have to be able to blitz. And blitz is a technique, just like playing man-to-man or running routes. You need practice at that. You can't run in there straight up and down like a pencil, or you'll get decapitated. Because as the nickel, sometimes you blitz, and the tackle is set up on you. How do you beat him? You've got to get him back on his heels -- you set him up, almost like a basketball player driving to the hole. "All that stuff takes practice. It takes reps. So, those new nickels in today's NFL? They're football players. They have to do everything. It's not just, 'OK, we've got a small DB; let's put him in the slot and we can hide him there.' No, no. I think the nickel right now, in terms of the secondary -- he may be the most important position on the field. In my opinion, if you don't have a [good] nickel [defender], you can't win." MORE: Fantasy Football Preview: Top 300 players, projections, rankings Harris, who has played in the league since 2011 and has been Denver's slot weapon since Day 1, has said that his position provides new reads for quarterbacks to grasp, adding to his positional value. "I know just from talking to Peyton [Manning], when he's trying to figure out a defense he looks right at me to tell him exactly what type we're in," Harris said. "So I'm constantly moving around, showing Peyton different looks, showing him that I'm blitzing and then dropping back in coverage. So since I know that he's always watching me and trying to figure it out, that's a huge position. Nickel is definitely a huge position which a lot of quarterbacks are looking at to find what type of defense we're in. Pretty much, that's all we run. That's pretty much our main defense, really." Photo: Joe Amon/Getty Images Chris Harris has defined his value -- with his presence, and in his absence. Even those teams that don't run a lot of nickel are looking to find specific attributes for those players. The Seahawks used five or more defensive backs just 43 percent of the time last season (which you can do when you have Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor), but defensive coordinator Dan Quinn said that he and the team's coaching and scouting groups value those attributes more than ever. Even when you have a once-in-a-generation secondary, you never know when the fifth guy will come in handy. "There's special coaching that goes into that player," Quinn said. "He plays near the line of scrimmage, he's got run fit techniques that he has to do, so he's a really valuable guy. And he has to have special quickness to play inside, because so many of the guys who play in the slot have that quickness, where maybe a taller, longer guy doesn't have that kind of matchup stuff. He's unique, so when we're evaluating players, we'll say, 'OK -- he's a corner who can play nickel.' And when you're looking for guys who can add versatility, it's nice." Audibles Podcast: Fact or Fiction In this clip from the SI.com Audibles Podcast, Ben Eagle, Doug Farrar and Chris Burke discuss how the emphasis on pass interference will impact the game. One is the Loneliest Number: Covering from the slot Remember what Bowen said about the nickel defender setting up tackles like a basketball player would? Well, that basketball metaphor also works when talking about coverage. Nickel defenders have to cover tight ends more and more often thanks to super-athletes like Jimmy Graham and Vernon Davis who are basically power forwards with receiver's hands. These days, though, it's not just tight ends and slot receivers those defenders have to deal with. Offensive coordinators looking for an edge are putting their top receivers in the slot more often than ever. NFL Calvin Johnson, A.J. Green, Dez Bryant lead list of NFL's best receivers by Doug Farrar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More In 2013, according to Pro Football Focus, the Chicago Bears put Brandon Marshall in the slot 43.8 percent of the time -- 266 out of 608 routes. The Green Bay Packers put Jordy Nelson in the slot 52.1 percent of the time (he was a nightmare for opposing defenses there) and the Arizona Cardinals had Larry Fitzgerald in the slot on 289 of his 599 total routes (48.2 percent). As Greg Cosell of NFL Films told me last year, there are specific reasons for this new wave of mega-slot guys -- offensive coordinators want to see just how on the ball these new defenses are. And it all comes back to skillset. "It becomes difficult to match up, because a lot of cornerbacks are purely outside corners -- they don't play in the slot," Cosell said. "They're not comfortable playing two-way gos, and you get those in the slot. A lot of cornerbacks grow up playing outside. If they're playing man, they're comfortable with the sideline as a defender, basically. They know that they can play that way, and they're comfortable with certain techniques that you can only play on the outside. There are a lot of good corners who just are not comfortable playing inside. "Let's say you're playing man-free coverage -- if you're doing that [in the slot], you have no help to the outside. There's a lot more room to defend, and it's just harder." Quinn agreed. "It's nothing to flex the tight end out, or flip the receiver and the tight end, so the tight end is in the slot. That [slot defender] is unique, and he's got to be able to play on a number [slot receivers]. There are man-to-man techniques on bigger and smaller players. We train a number of players at that spot, because we know how important it is. You need depth there, just like you need depth at the other positions." NFL Fixing the QBs: Will Andy Dalton ever learn to thrive under pressure? by Doug Farrar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More Depth in the secondary can be quite a valuable commodity. The Pittsburgh Steelers played dime coverage (six defensive backs) on an amazing 45 percent of their snaps in 2013, and there were times, especially in their playoff loss to the Colts, when the Kansas City Chiefs used dime as their base defense. Bowen estimated that depending on the gameplan, the Redskins under Williams would use "Ruby" and other kinds of extra-DB base concepts 30 percent of the time at the very most. Last year, the Bengals led the league with five or more defensive backs on the field 74 percent of the time. Former Cincinnati Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer took the head coaching position for the Minnesota Vikings in the 2014 offseason -- the Vikings ran nickel or more 68 percent of the time in 2013, ranking second in the league. They acquired former Panthers cornerback Captain Munnerlyn in the offseason, and guess what Munnerlyn will be doing a lot in 2014? "It doesn't matter where I play as long as I'm on the field making plays," he said in March, soon after the Vikings signed him to a three-year deal. "I'm the starter at cornerback and slide into the nickel when [opposing offenses] come out in 11 personnel and when they have three receivers in the game, so I'm excited about my role. I'm excited about my role and I'm ready to step up even more and just show some of the young guys how to be a pro. I had to learn from somebody, and now it's my time to be a teacher." 5 things I think I think: Minnesota Vikings Peter King and The MMQB tour stops in Mankato, Minnesota to check out the 2014 Vikings. The Chicago Bears selected Brock Vereen out of Minnesota to serve a similar purpose -- though he'll play safety, he showed in college that he could roam all over the field. NFL Arrival of Revis, Browner signals new approach for Patriots secondary by Don Banks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More "That's why we worked so hard to get in position to draft a safety in Brock Vereen, a player that has played multiple positions in the back end of the defense, in terms of playing outside, in the nickel slot and at safety," Bears general manager Phil Emery said after the pick was made. "We see him as a safety. We feel that will be his best pro position. He certainly has the physical tools for it, in terms of the athletic upside. He certainly has the mind for it, in terms of his football and his instincts. And he certainly has the toughness for it. He's got good experience under his belt. He's been a productive player and we're looking forward to his contributions at safety." Kick Out the Jams: The NFL's best slot defenders NFL Saints receiver Brandin Cooks might have more roles than you think. The All-22: How Brandin Cooks could redefine New Orleans' offense by Doug Farrar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 More In 2013, Richard Sherman led the league with eight interceptions. He put that number up on 547 snaps and 57 targets. Impressive, to be sure, but what about the season put together by Eagles slot cornerback Brandon Boykin? On 353 snaps and 75 slot targets, Boykin picked off six passes and allowed an opponent quarterback rating of 57.8. Chris Crocker of the Bengals was the only slot guy to allow a lower passer rating (48.2), and he thrived in Mike Zimmer's schemes in Cincinnati. He'll do the same in Minnesota, as the Vikings signed him on Aug. 4. The aforementioned Chris Harris has been one of the most underrated defenders in the league for a while now -- in the slot last season, he picked off three passes and allowed no touchdowns on 393 snaps and 56 targets. Walter Thurmond played very well when the Seahawks went to nickel last year, and the Giants signed him in the offseason to expand and enhance their own multi-dimensional concepts -- Big Blue runs as much three-safety stuff as anyone in the NFL. Where is this all going? Will the NFL eventually honor slot defenders as All-Pros and Pro Bowlers? Will these players find themselves selected in the first half of the first round of a draft? Will they ever get the big money that the best outside guys do? That's to be seen over time, but one thing's for sure -- NFL defenses have been critically altered in the last few years, and that plug nickel is worth far more than ever before. Fantasy Draft Primer: Best draft practices Sports Illustrated's lead fantasy writer Michael Beller reveals his three rules to live by on draft day. More NFL


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Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley reiterated a Buy rating and $112 price target on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) following Q3 results.
Walkley said "With our recent surveys indicating growing consumer awareness and channel willingness to pay more for new larger-screen iPhones, we still anticipate a very strong iPhone 6 upgrade cycle."
He added "... we believe consumers slowed the pace of iPhone upgrade purchases during the iPhone 5 and 5s product cycles, and we believe the extended replacement rates combined with new larger-screen iPhones position Apple with its large installed base for record iPhone 6 sales. Further, we believe Apple will charge a premium for these larger-screen iPhones resulting in stable gross margin trends for overall Apple but with a higher gross margin dollar contribution due to an increasing revenue mix from higher ASP iPhones."
The analyst lowered his 2014 Annual EPS estimate to $6.26 and made no changes to his 2015 Annual EPS estimate. He lowered his 2014 Annual Revenue estimate to $179.7B and made no changes to his 2015 Annual Revenue estimate.
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