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Velocity reports on the Seattle cycling scene including local cycling clubs, teams, events and personalities; and seasonal cross-training alternatives to cycling.
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Nils Needs to Go to the Pump Track
The 2-year-old son of Seattle racer Russell Stevenson needs to go to the pump track and daddy won't cooperate. Nils reacts they way any normal cycling-obsessed human would: Russell is in a quandary. Should he: A) Lobby hard to West Seattle parks Department for a mountain bike park B) Build a pump track of his […] [Read More]
Trio Completes First Seattle-Mt Rainier Summit-Seattle Round Trip
Last weekend the Seattle-based trio of Apex Racing teammates Travis Biechele, Jason Connell, and Chris Ragsdale rode bikes from Seattle to Paradise via Longmire, climbed to the summit Mt. Rainier via the standard/Disappointment Cleaver route (with Bill Booth joining them as a 4th on the rope team), then cycled back to Seattle. Although they didn't […] [Read More]
Trio Attempting Seattle-Rainier Summit-Seattle Round Trip
Traditional 4th of July weekend festivities don't include enough epic for the Seattle-based trio of Apex Racing teammates Travis Biechele, Jason Connell, and Chris Ragsdale. Their plan: ride bikes from Seattle to Paradise via Longmire, summit Mt. Rainier via the standard/Disappointment Cleaver route (with Bill Booth joining them as a 4th on the rope team), […] [Read More]
Walsh and Thomas Debrief RAW 2014
It was "third time's a charm" in this year's Race Across the West (RAW) for Seattle's Mick Walsh and his Boulder-based teammate George Thomas. The pair won the 2-man race and set a course record. This was Mick's third RAW attempt, and his second two-man attempt with George. George, the owner of the Race Across […] [Read More]
WA Racers Represent at 2014 RAAM and RAW
Last evening I happened to watch this Atlantic video about the Barkley Marathons, an ultra running "fun run" (??) in Wartburg, Tennessee. The organizer of that event had this great quote about his event: "…you see the extremes of joy that come with sport…that you only get when failure was probable…" I think that quote […] [Read More]
Cycling Hwy 20: First Tracks 2014
Highway 20, the North Cascades Highway, opened for the season Thursday May 8. As the date approached, cycling friends were buzzing with anticipation about the first good opportunity to do the 100-mile out and back across Rainy and Washington Passes to Mazama. High Performance Cycling teammates initially targeted Sunday May 11, but the weather forecast […] [Read More]
25 Years of Bicycle Racing at Seward Park
Seattle's Seward Park Thursday Night Cycling Series celebrates its 25th season this year. The series has been running since 1990 through the efforts of David Douglas. It all started because the Seward Park Community group was looking at ways to cultivate legitimate activities at the park. A Seward Park-area cyclist named Clif Roberson visited a […] [Read More]
Cycle University Celebrates 10 Years
Monday, May 5, Cycle University, celebrated its 10th Anniversary. Led by "Dean" Craig Undem, CycleU has established itself as an integral piece of Seattle's bicycle culture. CycleU is a retail bike shop that also provides coaching services, off-season indoor training, sponsors several bicycle and multisport teams, and is active with youth cycling. Craig Undem is […] [Read More]
Seattle Area Classic: South Sound Tour w/ an Alki Chaser
Late Saturday morning there was a mid-ride deluge that caught many of us off-guard. Yeah, the forecast said rain after 11 AM, but for some reason most of us didn't believe it. I was at the intersection of May Valley and Issaquah-Hobart Road when the raindrops started to fall and I spent the next hour […] [Read More]
"Honoring the Cobbles" of Queen Anne
The invite came from Randonneur and all-arounder Sol Manion. He wanted to do something to "honor the cobbles" in the rugged, legendary Tour of Flanders (last Sunday) and Paris Roubaix (this Sunday). Sol's training often includes short high-intensity trips around Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood, and his legs know those cobbled streets by heart. His proposed […] [Read More]
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SAN FRANCISCO--With his plan to take Dell Inc. (DELL) private, Michael Dell opens a new chapter in his journey from bad boy to bruised veteran of the tech industry, the pioneer who got some things right, and others wrong.
The $24.4 billion buyout deal is his latest big bet aimed at clearing the path in Dell's bid to transform itself into a formidable corporate IT powerhouse, though some analysts say going private isn't going to get rid of the company's daunting market challenges.
Why is the founder and CEO of Dell taking the company private?
"Reputation and greed, in our view," Discern analyst Cindy Shaw said in a note. "We believe Mr. Dell is once again hungry. Thirty years ago, we think he hungered for success and wealth. In 2013, we think he hungers to restore his legacy and personal balance sheet."
Mr. Dell's legacy is marked by a maverick streak and a reputation as a disrupter.
He famously annoyed Steve Jobs by publicly saying in 1997 that if it were up to him to decide what to do with the then-struggling Apple Inc. (AAPL), he would "shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
A decade ago, he strongly suggested that Sun Microsystems was doomed.
Mr. Dell was wrong on Apple and right on Sun, whose CEO, Scott McNealy, had once dismissed Dell as "the greatest spare-parts distributor out there."
That attack was based largely on the business model Mr. Dell cooked up as a teenager, selling PCs out of his University of Texas dorm room--and which helped him shake up in the tech industry and compete against much older and larger rivals such as Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and International Business Machines (IBM).
Mr. Dell kicked off his storied career by selling PCs directly to consumers, doing away with middlemen. And he did it fast, with pretty much no inventory and negligible investment in research and development, relying mainly on the innovations of his two key partners, Intel Corp. (INTC) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).
By the early 2000s, Dell was the king of PCs, besting even H-P, which initially could not keep up with the Texas juggernaut even after the Silicon Valley icon gobbled up Compaq Computer.
Some of Dell's rivals dismissed the company as the Wal-Mart of the tech industry, deriding it as a lowly assembler and reseller of other companies' innovations. But Dell's direct-sales model was so successful that Mr. Dell gambled by taking on the server market. It worked, turning Dell into a server powerhouse, outmaneuvering the once-dominant Sun Microsystems. He then took aim at additional markets, including handsets, networking gear and printers.
Just 10 years ago, Dell was on a roll. Asked by a New York Times reporter about repeated criticisms of the Dell model and direction, Mr. Dell quipped, "I've seen this movie before. Hey, order the popcorn. I'm going to enjoy it."
But then the market changed. PCs lost momentum. Consumers turned to new devices, as seen in the rise of smartphones and tablets.
Mr. Dell still could bank on a lucrative business selling PCs to corporations, but, in search for new growth, he took another gamble by taking aim at the more profitable market for data-center gear and services. To lead this new transformation, Mr. Dell, who had stepped down as CEO while staying on as chairman, returned to the post in 2007.
"We're making a pretty fast transformation," he told MarketWatch in late 2011. "It's working." In fact, it wasn't working fast enough.
Dell's high-margin corporate IT businesses were growing, but the shift meant a slump in sales, aggravated by a dramatically shrinking PC market. Skepticism on Wall Street has been growing, which undoubtedly meant more pressure on Dell and Mr. Dell.
He admitted as much in an email to employees Tuesday, after the buyout deal was announced. "Dell's transformation is well underway," he wrote, "but we recognize it will still take more time, investment and patience."
To be sure, going private would give Mr. Dell more time and money. But in his latest gambit, success is not guaranteed.
"Going private doesn't make the problems go away," Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu said in a note.
Despite its successes in the corporate IT market, Dell is facing stiffer competition in a consolidating market. For example, onetime partners, such as Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems (CSCO) are now fighting it out in the server and networking markets. Business-software behemoth Oracle Corp. (ORCL) became a player in the hardware space after it bought Sun.
Still, Mr. Dell can certainly build on key strengths. Ms. Shaw of Discern offered one scenario in which Dell emerges as a "disruptor."
In it, she said, Dell "hits the reset button, hard, and uses the cloak of privacy to do to enterprise IT what it did to PCs many years ago -- rethink the business model."
"This could hurt traditional enterprise IT leaders in the way it hurt early PC leaders," she continued. "Dell may accept low margins on many or all of its innovative products and services in the short term to build market share, with the side effect of being able to expand margins and thus boost earnings per share growth as it prepares for an initial public offering."
Meanwhile, Dell faces the same dilemma faced by H-P: what to do with its PC business.
After toying with the ideal of junking it, H-P has decided to keep its PC business. Some analysts believe Dell would do the same, even if it means staying in a shrinking and increasingly unprofitable market. That's because of the many benefits of staying in the market, including the ability to keep the Dell brand visible, particularly in corporate IT, said IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell. "No one sees the names of the servers and the back-end infrastructure but the IT guys," he told MarketWatch. "There's something to be said about having that brand in front of your face. That's really important."
But O'Donnell was critical of Dell and Mr. Dell's attitude toward the market segment that made him successful in the first place: consumers.
"They would go through periods when they are serious about it, and then they would step away," he said. "Right now it's a good time to be more focused on commercial than consumer. Longer term, I think it always tends to come back."
But it would seem Mr. Dell is sticking to his current strategy, stressing to employees the plan "to deliver enormous customer value through end-to-end solutions that are scalable, secure and easy to manage."
"I am committed to this journey," Mr. Dell also told his employees.
And the journey may have a long way to go. Dell, who was 19 when he started the company, is turning 48 this month.
"He's a young guy," said IDC's O'Donnell, "and he's got a big future still to go."
And Mr. Dell has many strengths to build on, Discern's Shaw argued, saying in her note: "While we doubt he is as hungry or energetic now as he was in his youth, today he has the advantages of a global footprint, brand-name recognition and connections."
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2010 (Senior): During senior season, played in all 110 sets for the Rams...Led the Rams and ranked sixth in the MW with 397 digs (3.61 per set)...Led the team in digs 20 times in 2010...Set a CSU single-match record with 24 digs vs. Albany (Sept. 3)...Recorded 15 digs or more in 11 matches...Her 28 service aces ranked second on the team...Led the Rams with aces four times...Recorded a career-high three aces vs. San Diego State (Sept. 30)...Earned academic all-Mountain West honors and was named a Mountain West Scholar-Athlete.
2009 (Junior): Played in a career-high 105 sets, seeing action in 30 of the Rams' 31 matches in 2009...Ranked fourth on the team with a career-high 195 digs...Recorded 14 assists and tied a career-high with three assists...Recorded seven matches with double-digit digs, including a season- and career-best 12 digs on two occasions, Sept. 12 vs. Tennessee, and Nov. 5 vs. Air Force...The 12 digs vs. the Falcons ranked as a team match high...Also posted two kills.
2008 (Sophomore): Played in 93 sets and 30 matches...Posted 156 digs, 22 assists, and three service aces...Saw her first time as libero on Nov. 1 vs. Air Force...Recorded a season high of 11 digs in back-to-back matches at UNLV on Oct. 16 and at San Diego State on Oct. 18.
2007 (Freshman): Appeared in 19 matches and 49 sets as a defensive specialist...Had a career-high 15 digs at Utah on Sept. 21...Totaled 95 digs on the year, including three matches with 10 or more.
High School: Lettered four years in both volleyball and soccer...Garnered all-conference honors twice in volleyball and once in soccer...Was a team captain and earned All-Colorado recognition in volleyball from the Rocky Mountain News...Received first team all-academic all-state recognition three times, in both volleyball and soccer...Helped Spartans to state soccer championship as a freshman...Also played for the NORCO club team...High school volleyball coach was Josie Hemmings, her mother.
Personal: Born on Jan. 10, 1989, in Greeley, Colo. ...Daughter of Bruce and Josie Hemmings...Has three older sisters, two of whom also are college student-athletes: Taryn, a soccer player at Denver, and Sarah, a soccer player at Arizona who began college playing both basketball and soccer at Northern Colorado...Full name: Audrey Ryann Hemmings...Is a biological science major at CSU.
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America's preeminent bear tracker backpacks Idaho's most remote wilderness looking for signs of the lost grizzlies of the Bitterroots--and winds up staring at the great bruin's future.
Grizzlies gave my life a purpose. In the 1970s, I began hauling a 90-pound backpack loaded down with a movie camera into Yellowstone and Glacier, and for 7 years I spent entire seasons tracking them. I filmed some 250 grizzlies, and in the process learned their behaviors-when they leave their dens, where they travel, what they eat. I saw, too, how much they need undisturbed wilderness. In 1985, I documented sign of what was probably the last Mexican grizzly in an island range of Chihuahua. And in the early '90s, I led the San Juan Grizzly Search, a 5-year hunt for the last griz in that Colorado range.
Two years ago, we hiked into the Bitterroot's Boulder Creek drainages north of here to identify the best terrain for finding grizzly sign. From atop a ridge 20 miles away, we spotted it: a collection of basins completely hemmed in by steep cirque walls. It would be challenging to get in there, but it looked like just the kind of place grizzlies would favor-an isolated region where they could browse and dig undisturbed.
On that trip, we discovered what appeared to be a single grizzly track-though we found no further evidence to confirm the find. This time, we'll bushwhack up and over high passes and into those remote basins. An actual sighting is a long shot; we're just hoping to see sign, since evidence of grizzly digs in high meadows lasts for years. If we find digs, we should be able to locate a day bed, a shallow depression where a bear sleeps out the heat of the day, and from there, we'll focus on finding hair for DNA testing.
We begin to climb. A hundred yards up the trail, we cross another set of black-bear tracks and some of the best huckleberry patches I've seen in the Lower 48. Buffalo berry and mountain ash grow in abundance, and the wet bottoms are full of cow parsnip and other wild herbs. Brimming with the usual cover of grass and sedge, the root crops of alpine plants, this habitat is a grizzly feast waiting for diners.
The trail contours around a minor summit behind which lie two little tarns called the Cove Lakes. The trail splits here, and in fading light we drop down into the basin and look for a place to camp. A winter avalanche sheered off a broad swath of lakeside trees, which are stacked like matchsticks in the stunted forest below. The drought has dried out the meadow; this area would normally be a swamp. We make do with cold food and slip into our sleeping bags. In the night, a bull elk bugles.
At early light, I poke my head out of my shelter. Larry is already packing up below sunlit cliffs. Chuck is up on the grassy ledges above the lake, looking for grizzly sign.
We find a trace of trail leading north. All evidence of human traffic fades as we walk across the broad basin, following elk and deer tracks. Compared to the steep, glacial topography of the north-facing cirques, this mountainside is gentle. But then the wildlife track disappears in a hillside of slide alder, which entangles us for an hour. Finally, we reach a tiny creek. Our topo map shows that it leads up past a lake to a narrow pass that will drop us into the Oldman Creek drainage.
I believe the reason grizzlies need a land connection to Canada is for genetic diversity. If a group of animals becomes too isolated, genetic birth defects appear and the population can die out. It has happened to a group of lions in a volcanic caldera in Africa.
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The LED fixtures, which are made by GE, emit flickers that are imperceptible to the eye but visible to the phones' cameras. This technology is called Visible Light Communication (VLC) and enables the phone to understand what the light is saying. The lights can also talk to smart devices over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), creating a robust and multiprotocol communication platform.
ByteLight's technology combines information from VLC, Bluetooth and motion sensors inside the phone, and determines exactly where the user is within a few feet.
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The technology could help increase in-store traffic and spending and better connect shoppers and retailers. "The ability to influence the shopper standing directly in front of a product is a huge value moment for the retailer," says Jeff Bisberg, strategic innovation leader at GE Lighting. "At the same time, we will be helping the shopper to make better shopping decisions."
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GE Lumination IS Series LED lights and ByteLight's technology will allow retailers to stream data to customers' smartphones. Top Image: GE's LED testing facility in NELA Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
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However, in states where policymakers have either abandoned or augmented their participation with the national standards agenda, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) has used a federal law from last decade—the "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) Act—to threaten those states over the appropriation of millions of federal education dollars.
"We did not receive federal dollars from Washington when we adopted the Common Core standards," said Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna. In an exclusive interview with IdahoReporter.com in February of this year, Luna added that "we would not lose federal funding if we chose other standards."
Yet in both California and Indiana, the USDOE has leveled threats in the face of those states altering their intended paths with Common Core. Last year when California considered the possibility of suspending student testing for a year (Common Core entails annual assessment testing), the USDOE reacted by threatening to withhold some $15 million in administrative funding from the state.
Tina Woo Jung, spokesperson for the California Department of Education, told IdahoReporter.com that the tension with the USDOE has now been resolved and that California never lost any federal monies.
The USDOE's responses to both California and Indiana involved the threat of actually requiring the states to adhere to the NCLB, or face the loss of federal money. While California's concerns seem to have dissipated for now, Indiana's situation is much more uncertain.
Signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002, the NCLB began requiring individual states to define and achieve their own grade-level academic standards in order to receive federal education money. The law also expanded the federal role in K-12 public education in annual testing, report card standards and teacher certification criteria, among others.
Amid growing frustration with the law, earlier this decade the Obama administration began extending NCLB waivers to individual states, relieving them from some of the requirements of the law.
But a NCLB waiver is now at the epicenter of problems for Indiana: While in March of this year the current Legislature and governor determined that Indiana would opt out of the Common Core agenda, the state had previously agreed that it would participate in the nationwide standards initiative as a part of their negotiation for a NCLB waiver. Now that Indiana has abandoned Common Core, it finds itself at odds with terms to which it committed with the federal government.
"We brought this on ourselves," explained Dr. Brad Oliver, a member of the Indiana state board of education. He told IdahoReporter.com that since January of 2013 Indiana has fallen out of compliance on nine different commitments it made to the federal government in exchange for its NCLB waiver, and while participation in Common Core is only one of them, the state's choice to abandon the agenda is nonetheless a problem.
"We have to get back into compliance with the agreement we made or about $260 million a year is at stake in federal Title 1 education funds," said Oliver. "It's not that we would necessarily lose all that money, but we could lose the flexibility we currently have in how we spend that money. We have got to act quickly and carefully so we don't end up with more problems with the federal government."
Idaho officially received a waiver from NCLB compliance in October of 2012. According to Camille Wells, spokesperson for the Idaho Department of Education, the Gem State did not agree to join the Common Core agenda in exchange for receiving an NCLB waiver. She explained that by the time Idaho made application for a waiver from NCLB, the state had already adopted the nationwide Common Core standards, adding that "other states, such as Alaska and Virginia, have been granted waivers without adopting the Common Core state standards. Therefore, it is possible Idaho would have been granted a waiver without adopting these standards."
Idaho nonetheless relies quite heavily on federal Title 1 education dollars. In fiscal year 2013 it received more than $52 million in Title 1 monies, and in fiscal year 2012 that figure was more than $57 million.
So if Idaho chose to detach itself from the Common Core agenda, would it face threats similar to those leveled against Indiana and California?
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Looks like I'm on the schedule to defend my thesis on Thursday May 1, 2014 in the CAES auditiorium at 2pm local. Wish me luck. Here's a preprint copy if you want to play along.
The code computing lilliefors test for exponentiality is below. The code uses approximations from Lilliefors paper for large N and then uses linear interpolation to find the approximate P-value.
lilliefors.exp.test.stat <- function(x) { n <- length(x) i <- 1:n xi <- sort(x) zi <- xi / mean(x) ti <- 1 - exp(-zi) t1 <- (i / n) - ti t2 <- ti - ((i - 1)/n) D <- max(abs(t1),abs(t2)) return(D) } lilliefors.exp.test <- function(x) { D <- lilliefors.exp.test.stat(x) p <- c(0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 0.95, 0.99) num <- c(0.4550, 0.4959, 0.5530, 0.6, 0.6898, 0.7957, 0.8678, 0.9773, 1.0753, 1.2743) num <- num / sqrt(length(x)) lo <- D >= num hi <- D <= num if (sum(hi) == 0) { p <- 0 warning("p-value too small to interpolate") } else if (sum(lo) == 0) { p <- 1 warning("p-value too large to interpolate") } else { nlo <- max(num[lo]) nhi <- min(num[hi]) plo <- max(p[lo]) phi <- min(p[hi]) m <- (phi - plo) / (nhi - nlo) b <- plo - (nlo * m) p <- m * D + b p <- 1 - p } names(D) <- "Dmax" structure(list(statistic = D, p.value = p, method = "Lilliefors test for exponentiality", data.name = deparse(substitute(x))), class = "htest") }
I am finally dragging my self out of the dark ages and starting to use RSS. My real reason for doing so is to try to keep up with publications from various groups. In particular, I really want a feed from various large publishers (eg. ACM and IEEE) that notifies me when an interesting (to me) journal or conference proceeding is available.
First, the good news: the IEEE Computer Society provides a nice set of feeds for new entries into their digital library: one for journals and another for conference proceedings. However, both feeds have bugs which make them unusable (at the moment) with Google Reader.
The proceedings feed has too many
On a similar topic, kudos to the IEEE Computer Society for providing feeds for the contents of their magazines and journals!
Now, the ACM on the other hand does NOT produce a feed of additions to their library. However, they do post new entries on the ACM Digital Library home page. Why not make a feed available? Dunno, luckily it's easy enough to scrape.
So, for your enjoyment (and mostly mine), feel free to subscribe to my editted feeds from the IEEE Computer Society (journals and proceedings) and additions to the ACM Digital Library. The feeds are updated once per day (early in the morning MST), and they will cease to be when 1) the respective groups fix their feeds (or start providing them) or 2) when they break. YMMV, void where prohibited, etc.
EDIT: I reworked the IEEE CS feeds to dynamically edit the content. This makes more sense than caching the edited copy. So, two new links for conferences and journals.
I am an amateur astronomer (heavy emphasis on the amateur). My wife and I went shopping the other day at a local "variety" store (it's more of a pawn or consignment shop). Anyway, while meandering through the junk piles, we spotted a Meade ETX-70AT with a $50 price tag.
This scope is somewhat more portable than either of my 4.5″ reflectors. Now, if I could just find a night with clear skies AND time to observe. While waiting for that I ran across three excellent books that should be on any amateur (emphasis on the amateur) astronomer's shelf.
The first is "The Stars" by H. A. Rhey (creator of Curious George), and the second is "Turn Left at Orion" by Guy Consolmagno and Dan M. Davis. More about those later.
While doing research on my thesis, I began to look for various tests of statistical distributions. I am familiar with χ2, but this test requires a (seemingly) arbitrary choice of the number and shape of bins. Essentially one takes the observed number of items falling in a range and compares that with the expected number (from the proposed distribution). The width and number of bins is up to the experimenter. Also, I was dealing with very steep curves (they look like an exponential decay). χ2 requires the expected value in a bin to be no less than 5 (more the merrier). This severely impacts the number of possible bins for the test given my empirical distributions.
So, I took a trip to the library and found Conover's book Practical Nonparametric Statistics. In that volume, I found descriptions of non-parametric tests. For example, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. This test checks the vertical distance between an empircal cumulative distribution function (ECDF) and a fully specified test distribution.
They key words here are "fully specified". In this context it means that you can test whether a sample comes from, for example, a exponential distribution with λ=2. If that rate parameter (λ) is computed from the sample, the KS test is invalid.
Lilliefors, on the other hand, modified the KS test for cases where the parameters in the proposed distribution are estimated from the sample. The advantage here is that based simply on the sample data, the distribution can be tested for normality or exponentiality. Unlike χ2, the author cannot manipulate the bin widths/numbers; the entire test is computed from the sample. i.e. it is nonparametric.
The original article by Lilliefors gives a table of p-values, and a function for arbitrary sample sizes. It has been given better approximations by Stephens and also by Mason and Bell. It seems this test is still in somewhat active development. The most recent work I've found is an examination of its asymptotic behavior (see Nikitin).
- Lilliefors, H. W. "On the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for the exponential distribution with mean unknown." Journal of the American Statistical Association. Vol. 64, 1969, pp. 387–389. [jstor]
- Conover, W. J. Practical Nonparametric Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1980. [pub]
- Stephens, M. A. EDF Statistics for Goodness of Fit and Some Comparisons. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1974, 69(347), pp. 730-737. [jstor]
- Mason, A. L. and Bell, C. B. New Lilliefors and Srinivasan Tables With Applications. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation. 1986, 15(2), pp. 451-477. [doi]
- Nikitin, Y. Y. and Tchirina, A. V. Lilliefors test for exponentiality: large deviation, asymptotic efficiency, and conditions of local optimality. Mathematical Methods of Statistics, 2007, 16(1), pp. 16-24. [doi]
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I decided to route a "real" /64 to my house from the co-lo machine and it wasn't as easy as I expected it would be. I fiddled with IPSec, but being behind a double NAT (access point is the first NAT and the DSL router is the second) made that configuration more trouble than I wanted. (btw, ideas for how to make this work are welcome).
So, I ended up using ssh(1) and tun(4) to create a tunnel between my access point and the co-lo machine.
How it works:
On the home access point:
# cat /etc/hostname.tun0
inet6 alias fe80::2 128
dest fe80::1
! route delete -inet6 default
! route add -inet6 default fe80::1%tun0
# cat /etc/hostname.rum0
inet 172.16.0.1 255.255.255.0 NONE
inet6 alias 2001:470:b813:f000::1
# cat /etc/hostname.dc0
inet 172.16.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE
inet6 alias 2001:470:b813:f001::1
This creates a tun interface with a link local address (LLA) of fe:80::2%tun0 and the "other" end of the tunnel is fe80::1%tun0. (note: LLA's are only valid within the context of the interface (tun0 in this case), which is why the % syntax is used). I also add "real" ipv6 addresses to my wireless LAN (rum0) and my wired LAN (dc0).
On the co-lo machine:
inet6 alias 'fe80::1%tun0′ 128
dest 'fe80::2%tun0′
! route add -inet6 2001:470:b813:f000:: fe80::2%tun0
! route add -inet6 2001:470:b813:f001:: fe80::2%tun0
This configures the tunnel interface and adds routes through it (using the LLA's).
Now, back on the home machine:
ssh -4 -f -w 0:0 www.thought.net sh /etc/netstart tun0
The command above creates the actual tunnel and activates the tun interfaces. Shazam!
Alright, so I am in New York City to speak at NYC BSD CON. I had to arrive a day early (Thursday) because I came directly from speaking at SECTor. It's been a crazy week thus far.
SECTor was fun. Two of my co-workers were there, so I had some friendly company, before the conference itself go started. I took HD Moore's "Powersploiting with Metasploit 3.2″ tutorial, which was very well put together and went in depth enough to get me interested in using it for stuff at work. Should be interesting. The conference itself was Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Tuesday, I attended several talks:
- Double Trouble: SQL Rootkits and Encryption (Kevvie Fowler)
- Metasploit Prime (HD Moore)
- More SCADA/ICS Security: Findings from the Field (Mark Fabro)
Kevvie's talk was interesting and I'm very much interested in the forensic impact of his work with SQL server. He's a bit of a Microsoft fan-boy, but that does not detract from the coolness of his analysis. HD's Metasploit talk went over the new features in 3.2 of the framework and what's ahead. Finally, Fabro's SCADA talk is similiar to material I've heard, but he gives an excellent, high-energy delivery.
I missed most of the talks on Wednesday because I had to prepare my presentation, but I caught Deviant Ollam's "Ten things everyone should know about locking & physical security." This is a talk that he gives fairly regularly, but he keeps it up to date and is an excellent speaker. I am totally kicking myself for not visiting the "lockpick village" in the vendor expo area. Doh! Maybe next year.
My talk went well, but it was short. 45min of material done in 30… oops. Time management bit me. Oh well, the audience had good questions and they took 20 more minutes or so.
So, New York. Amazing place. We don't have alot of subways or passenger trains in Idaho, so it's been a bit of adventure learning how to navigate the city. I managed to use the train/subway system to get from JFK to my hotel near Columbia University: $7 and 1.5 hours (not bad). I grabbed some Indian food (something we desperately lack in Idaho) on about 100th and Broadway, and then called it an early evening.
Thursday I spent the morning in the fashion district (and navigating the subway system). My wife (and I) are addicted to Project Runway, and I visited Parsons New School of (fill in the blank) in the 7th Ave/14th St area. I then took a walk through Mood Fabrics. Wow, I'm pretty well convinced that if you can't find it at Mood, it doesn't exist.
I had an interesting thing happen several times during the day. About 5 times, men dressed in black hats and sporting beards (what I associate with orthodox Jewish) came up to me and asked "Are you Jewish?" I replied, "No," because, well, I'm not. Each time after responding, the man would just mutter, "OK" or "Thank you" and then walk away. I enquired about this behavior and was told it was recruiting. This struck me odd… "Are you?" "No" "Ok, bye" doesn't seem like a way to bring in recruits. Turns out, no, or well, sorta. It's recruiting those partially in the "in" crowd (Jewish) to join in the festivities more actively (or so I was told). And no, I don't really feel left out.
Back to the hotel to do laundry then back out to the Havana Central on Broadway for dinner with the NCYBSDCON crowd. Ya know, this is perhaps my favorite conference. It's small, but the people area great and the audience is really receptive. I'm up at 10am tomorrow. Look for the audio and slides to appear on the NYCBSDCON website (2006 is there and you can hear my talk on OpenBSD/sparc64 from there).
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Daiwa SB Investments Ltd. (DSBI), the manager of the biggest Australian bond mutual fund, is buying the debt of Queensland and other states amid a shortage of AAA rated central government securities.
The extra yield the so-called semi-government notes offer over central government debt dropped 21 basis points, or 0.21 percentage point, this quarter to 84, still more than twice the average premium of 35 since 1997, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. The equivalent spread for U.S. municipal debt shrank 11 basis points since Dec. 31 to 50, the data show.
Foreign holdings of Australian government bonds climbed to a record 84 percent last year, increasing the allure of local government debt for Japanese buyers seeking higher yields than those available at home, according to Tokyo-based Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co. (13444) and Nissay Asset Management Corp. The Australian government has A$236 billion ($247 billion) of securities outstanding, compared with A$198 billion for local authorities, led by Queensland and New South Wales.
"Semi-government bonds are cheaper, but still offer value against" federal debt, said Yoshisada Ishide, who manages the $15.5 billion Daiwa SB Short-Term Australian Dollar Bond Open Fund, which has 52 percent of its assets in Australia. "Borrowing costs for states will continue to narrow relative to government debt."
New South Wales and Victoria are rated AAA by Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's. Incoming Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, who won election March 24 in a landslide victory over the ruling Labor Party, has pledged to restore his state's AAA rating, which was lowered to AA+ by S&P in 2009.
The state of Victoria is benefiting from the influx of international buyers as it looks to refinance more than A$7 billion in debt that matures by the end of 2014.
Buying Victoria
Japanese investors comprised 60 percent of turnover in the state's bonds by overseas buyers since July 1, according to Justin Lofting, general manager of treasury at funding arm Treasury Corp. of Victoria. That compares with 40 percent in the 12 months ended June 30, 2011. The state has completed 80 percent of its A$7.3 billion funding program this year, Lofting said in response to e-mailed queries.
The gap between the yield on New South Wales' May 2020 security and comparable federal government notes narrowed to 76 basis points on March 22, the least since Dec. 8, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The spread for Queensland's February 2020 bond fell to 110 basis points on the same day, the lowest since Nov. 17.
Corporate Spreads
Elsewhere in Australian credit markets, the extra yield investors demand to hold corporate bonds instead of government securities was at 245 basis points on March 23, the smallest premium since Nov. 8, a Merrill Lynch index shows.
Benchmark 10-year federal notes advanced yesterday, pushing the yield down one basis point to 4.17 percent, or 193 basis points more than comparable U.S. Treasuries.
The gap between yields on the 10-year notes and similar- dated inflation-linked debt shows investors estimate annual consumer-price gains will average 2.75 percent over the next decade, up from estimates for a 2.44 percent pace at the end of 2011.
The cost to insure Australia's debt against nonpayment using credit-default swaps was 70 basis points on March 23, according to figures from CMA, which is owned by CME Group Inc. and compiles prices in the privately negotiated market. That compared with 31 basis points for the U.S. and 74.5 for Germany.
Australia's dollar, the world's fifth-most traded currency, bought $1.0456 as of 3:51 p.m. yesterday in Sydney, after reaching $1.1081 on July 27, the strongest since it was freely floated in 1983.
Increased Holdings
The extra yield investors demand to buy the debt of local governments in the U.S. declined to 48 basis points on March 21, matching a four-month low. The premium to hold Canadian provincial and municipal bonds was at 70 basis points on March 23, unchanged from the end of 2011.
Daiwa's Ishide said he continues to buy bonds from major Australian states and holds more semi-government debt than half a year ago. His fund is the biggest among the 1,749 that have a focus on a particular geographic region, Bloomberg data show. It has 15 percent of its assets allocated to municipal bonds, according to a report on the company's website citing figures as of the end of February. It has returned 9.9 percent this year, beating 56 percent of its competitors.
Semi-government debt is set to hand investors a 0.4 percent loss this quarter, the first decline since 2010, a Merrill Lynch index tracking Australia's six states and two territories shows. Sovereign bonds have dropped 1.5 percent since Dec. 31, poised for their biggest slide since the three months ended June 2009, compared with a 0.2 percent advance for an index of global government notes.
Record-Low Yields
Perceptions of credit stability in Australia, one of only 12 countries to hold a AAA rating from the three main credit assessors, prompted investor demand for the nation's debt and drove down bond yields to records.
The 10-year (GACGB10) yield has risen 53 basis points since Feb. 1, when it matched a record low of 3.648 percent. The yield surpassed the Reserve Bank of Australia's cash rate target on March 15 for the first time since August. Central bank officials held the key rate at 4.25 percent at a March 6 meeting after two consecutive quarter-percentage point rate cuts late last year.
RBA Governor Glenn Stevens said in a March 19 speech that a lower growth target for China, Australia's biggest trading partner, will still allow one measure of the Asian nation's gross domestic product to exceed the euro area in a few years and match the U.S. in a decade.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said March 23 U.S. monetary policy may be at a "turning point" and the Fed's first interest-rate increase since the global financial crisis could come as soon as late 2013.
Fading Flight
"The flight to quality into sovereign debt is fading," said Hideo Shimomura, chief fund investor at Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management, which manages the equivalent of $72 billion in assets and is a unit of Japan's biggest publicly traded bank. "What investors choose next is likely to be state bonds."
Queensland, Australia's biggest debtor state, has A$77.1 billion securities outstanding, after the Labor government spent A$54 billion to improve infrastructure. The opposition Liberal National Party ended 14 years of Labor rule in the resource-rich state that generates a fifth of Australia's wealth, winning 78 out of 89 seats in Queensland's parliament, according to the electoral commission.
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New South Wales has raised around A$6.5 billion to date toward its required A$10.2 billion for the current year, Tim Hext, head of balance sheet and funding at the state's Treasury Corporation, said in an e-mail yesterday.
"New South Wales's AAA rating, high yields and the Australian dollar story are the main attraction for Japanese investors in the state's local-currency bonds," Hext said.
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