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England rule India- again
If you type the words "business intelligence expert" in Google. you may get the top ranked result as http://goo.gl/pCqUh or Peter James Thomas, a profound name as it can be as it spans three of the most important saints in the church.
The current post for this is very non business -intelligence topic called Wager. http://peterjamesthomas.com/2011/07/20/wager/
It details how Peter, a virtual friend whom I have never met, and who looks suspiciously like Hugh Grant with the hair, and Ajay Ohri (myself) waged a wager on which cricket team would emerge victorious in the ongoing test series . It was a 4 match series, and India needed to win atleast the series or avoid losing it by a difference of 2, to retain their world cricket ranking (in Tests) as number 1.
Sadly at the end of the third test, the Indian cricket team have lost the series, the world number 1 ranking, and some serious respect by 3-0.
What is a Test Match? It is a game of cricket played over 5 days.
Why was Ajay so confident India would win. Because India won the one day world championship this April 2011. The one day series is a one day match of cricket.
There lies the problem. From an analytic point of view, I had been lulled into thinking that past performance was an indicator of future performance, indeed the basis of most analytical assumptions. Quite critically, I managed to overlook the following cricketing points-
1) Cricket performance is different from credit performance. It is the people and their fitness.
India's strike bowler Zaheer Khan was out due to injury, we did not have any adequate replacement for him. India's best opener Virender Sehwag was out due to shoulder injury in the first two tests.
Moral – Statistics can be misleading if you do not apply recent knowledge couple with domain expertise (in this case cricket)
2) What goes up must come down. Indeed if a team has performed its best two months back, it is a good sign that cyclicality will ensure performance will go down.
Moral- Do not depend on regression or time series with ignoring cyclical trends.
3) India's cricket team is aging. England 's cricket team is youthful.
I should have gotten this one right. One of the big and understated reasons that the Indian economy is booming -is because we have the youngest population in the world with a median age of 28.
or as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India
India has more than 50% of its population below the age of 25 and more than 65% hovers below the age of 35. It is expected that, in 2020, the average age of an Indian will be 29 years, compared to 37 for China and 48 for Japan; and, by 2030, India's dependency ratio should be just over 0.4
India's population is 1.21 billion people, so potentially a much larger pool of athletes , once we put away our laptops that is.
the total population of the United Kingdom was 58,789,194 (I dont have numbers for average age)
Paradoxically India have the oldest cricket team in the world . This calls for detailed investigation and some old timers should give way to new comers after this drubbing.
Moral- Demographics matters. It is the people who vary more than any variable.
4) The Indian cricket team has played much less Test cricket and much more 20:20 and one day matches. 20:20 is a format in which only twenty overs are bowled per side. In Test Matches 90 overs are bowled every day for 5 days.
Stamina is critical in sports.
Moral- Context is important in extrapolating forecasts.
Everything said and done- the English cricket team played hard and fair and deserve to be number ones. I would love to say more on the Indian cricket team, but I now intend to watch Manchester United play soccer.
Cyber Attacks-Protecting your assets and people from cyber attacks
Cyber Attacks-Protecting your assets and people from cyber attacks
Everyday we hear of new cyber attacks on organizations and countries. The latest attacks were on IMF and 200,000 accounts of Citibank and now the website of the US Senate. If some of the most powerful and technologically advanced organizations could not survive targeted attacks, how effective is your organization in handling cyber security. Sony Playstation, Google Gmail, PBS website are other famous targets that have been victimized.
Before we play the blame game by pointing to China for sponsoring hacker attacks, or Russian spammers for creating Bot Nets or ex Silicon Valley /American technology experts rendered jobless by off-shoring, we need to both understand which companies are most vulnerable, which processes need to be fine tuned and what is the plan of action in case your cyber security is breached.
Which companies are most vulnerable?
If you have valuable data, confidential in nature , in electronic form AND connectivity to internet, you have an opening. Think of data as water, if you have a small leakage all the water can be leaked away. To add to complexity, the attackers are mostly unknown, and extremely difficult to catch, and can take a big chunk of your credibility and intellectual property in a very short time.
The best people in technology are not the ones attending meetings in nicely pressed suits- and your IT guy is rarely a match for the talent that is now available on freelance hire for cyber corporate espionage.
Any company or organization that has not undergone through one real time simulated cyber attack or IT audit that focuses on data security is very vulnerable.
Which organizational processes need to be fine tuned ?
Clearly employee access even at senior management needs to be ensured for both technological as well as social vulnerability. Does your reception take the name of senior management if cold called. Do your senior managers surf the internet and use a simple password on the same computer and laptop. Do you have disaster management and redundancy plans.
A wall is only as strong as its weakest brick and the same is true of organizational readiness for cyber attacks.
What is the plan of action in case your cyber security is breached?
Lean back, close your eyes and think your website has just been breached, someone has just stolen confidential emails from your corporate email server, and complete client as well as the most confidential data in your organization has been lost.
Do you have a plan for what to do next? Or are you waiting for an actual cyber event to occur to make that plan.
Hacking Hackers
This is a ten step program to fight hacking attacks. You may or may not choose to ignore it, laugh at it, or ponder on it.
1) Internet security is a billion dollar business which will only grow in size as cloud computing approaches. Pioneers in providing security will earn considerable revenue like McAffee , Norton did in the PC era. Incidentally it also means the consulting/partner group that is willing to work with virtual workers and virtual payments to offshore consultants.
2) Industrial espionage has existed from the days the West stole Gunpowder and Silk formula from China (and China is now doing the same to its software). The company and country will the best hackers will win. Keep your team motivated mate, or it is very easy for them to defect to the other side of the (cyber) wall.
3) When 2 billion people have access to internet the number of hackers will grow in number and quality much more rapidly than when only 100 million people across the world had access. Thanks to Google Translate, Paypal, Skype video Call, Tor Project, and Google Voice i can and have collaborative with hackers almost in all geographies. You can only imagine what the black hats are doing.
4) Analyzing hackers is like reading Chinese Tea Leaves. If you have experienced analysts, you will slip up. recruit the hackers in the dormitory before China recruits them using Lulz Security as a bogus cover. or USA recruits them as cover for spreading democracy in the Arab countries.
5) get your website audited for security breaches. sponsor a hack my website contest. before someone else does it for you.
6) Fighting hackers was always tough. But now we have part time hackers , people with perfectly respectable jobs who look like Mr Andersen and hack like Neo from the Matrix. Every kid once wanted to be a firefighter. Every geek dreams of the one ultimate hack.
7) if you cant beat hackers, join them.
8) the more machine data is generated, the more you need external experts and newer software interfaces. Investing in open data, datasets is good. Keeping Bradley manning naked in his cell is bad. ignore the bad PR at your own cost.
9) Stop blaming China for every hack attack. You are a techie not a politician
10) Hack hard. Hack well. If someone hacks you, you will need to hack them off offensively unless you just want to be an easy mark for the rest of your lives. Counter -hacking expertise needs to be strengthened and groomed. hacking is an offense not just a defense game.
I need more data to make a decision
I need more data
To take a decision
Keep your panties on
We need more precision
It is the owners money
That pays for your bills
You can go elsewhere
If you want primal egoistic thrills
People are precious
Money comes and goes
The Older you get
The lesser greed shows
Is this too much information
To overload your comprehension
Analysis led to paralysis
But time wont wait for your permission
We need better models
We need them now
The cost of delayed decisions
can hurt us and how
We will pay thousands
of dollars in annual fees
To earn or save millions of dollars
Now, If you please
Still here, but slightly offended
By coming straight to the truth
Every body swings and misses
From Barry Bonds to Babe Ruth
Data is all around you
and so is all the money
You keep ignoring decision management
and you will lose your shirt, honey.
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Save the Data
I just read an online cause here-
Some of the most important technology programs that keep Washington accountable are in danger of being eliminated. Data.gov, USASpending.gov, the IT Dashboard and other federal data transparency and government accountability programs are facing a massive budget cut, despite only being a tiny fraction of the national budget. Help save the data and make sure that Congress doesn't leave the American people in the dark.
I wonder why the federal government/ non profit agencies can help create a SPARQL database, and in days of cloud computing, why a tech major cannot donate storage space to it, after all despite US corporate tax rate being high, US technological companies do end up paying a lower rate thanks to tax breaks/routing overseas revenue.
In the new age data is power, and the US has led in its mission to use technology to further its own values even especially in Middle East. The datasets should be made public and transitioned to the private sector/academia for research and re designing for data augmentation with out straining the massive deficit /borrowing/ fighting 3 wars. Of particular interest would be datasets of campaign finances and donors especially given large number of retail/small donors/internet marketing in elections as it will also help serve as an example of democracy and change. Even countries like China can create a corruption/expense efficiency tracking internal dashboard with restricted rights to help with rural and urban governance.
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- Data.gov and other transparency sites to be shut down due budget cuts (flowingdata.com)
- Empirical study of real-world SPARQL queries (ivan-herman.name)
- Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut (readwriteweb.com)
- Watchdogs Criticize Federal Data Dashboard Accuracy (informationweek.com)
- The benefits of remote computing may be winning over skeptics (thegazette.com)
Interview Anne Milley JMP
Here is an interview with Anne Milley, a notable thought leader in the world of analytics. Anne is now Senior Director, Analytical Strategy in Product Marketing for JMP , the leading data visualization software from the SAS Institute.
Ajay-What do you think are the top 5 unique selling points of JMP compared to other statistical software in its category?
JMP combines incredible analytic depth and breadth with interactive data visualization, creating a unique environment optimized for discovery and data-driven innovation.
With an extensible framework using JSL (JMP Scripting Language), and integration with SAS, R, and Excel, JMP becomes your analytic hub.
JMP is accessible to all kinds of users. A novice analyst can dig into an interactive report delivered by a custom JMP application. An engineer looking at his own data can use built-in JMP capabilities to discover patterns, and a developer can write code to extend JMP for herself or others.
State-of-the-art DOE capabilities make it easy for anyone to design and analyze efficient experiments to determine which adjustments will yield the greatest gains in quality or process improvement – before costly changes are made.
Not to mention, JMP products are exceptionally well designed and easy to use. See for yourself and check out the free trial at www.jmp.com.
Ajay- What are the challenges and opportunities of expanding JMP's market share? Do you see JMP expanding its conferences globally to engage global audiences?
We realized solid global growth in 2010. The release of JMP Pro and JMP Clinical last year along with continuing enhancements to the rest of the JMP family of products (JMP and JMP Genomics) should position us well for another good year.
With the growing interest in analytics as a means to sustained value creation, we have the opportunity to help people along their analytic journey – to get started, take the next step, or adopt new paradigms speeding their time to value. The challenge is doing that as fast as we would like.
We are hiring internationally to offer even more events, training and academic programs globally.
Ajay- What are the current and proposed educational and global academic initiatives of JMP? How can we see more JMP in universities across the world (say India- China etc)?
We view colleges and universities both as critical incubators of future JMP users and as places where attitudes about data analysis and statistics are formed. We believe that a positive experience in learning statistics makes a person more likely to eventually want and need a product like JMP.
For most students – and particularly for those in applied disciplines of business, engineering and the sciences – the ability to make a statistics course relevant to their primary area of study fosters a positive experience. Fortunately, there is a trend in statistical education toward a more applied, data-driven approach, and JMP provides a very natural environment for both students and researchers.
Its user-friendly navigation, emphasis on data visualization and easy access to the analytics behind the graphics make JMP a compelling alternative to some of our more traditional competitors.
We've seen strong growth in the education markets in the last few years, and JMP is now used in nearly half of the top 200 universities in the US.
Internationally, we are at an earlier stage of market development, but we are currently working with both JMP and SAS country offices and their local academic programs to promote JMP. For example, we are working with members of the JMP China office and faculty at several universities in China to support the use of JMP in the development of a master's curriculum in Applied Statistics there, touched on in this AMSTAT News article.
Ajay- What future trends do you see for 2011 in this market (say top 5)?
Growing complexity of data (text, image, audio…) drives the need for more and better visualization and analysis capabilities to make sense of it all.
More "chief analytics officers" are making better use of analytic talent – people are the most important ingredient for success!
JMP has been on the vanguard of 64-bit development, and users are now catching up with us as 64-bit machines become more common.
Users should demand easy-to-use, exploratory and predictive modeling tools as well as robust tools to experiment and learn to help them make the best decisions on an ongoing basis.
All these factors and more fuel the need for the integration of flexible, extensible tools with popular analytic platforms.
Ajay-You enjoy organic gardening as a hobby. How do you think hobbies and unwind time help people be better professionals?
I am lucky to work with so many people who view their work as a hobby. They have other interests too, though, some of which are work-related (statistics is relevant everywhere!). Organic gardening helps me put things in perspective and be present in the moment. More than work defines who you are. You can be passionate about your work as well as passionate about other things. I think it's important to spend some leisure time in ways that bring you joy and contribute to your overall wellbeing and outlook.
Btw, nice interviews over the past several months—I hadn't kept up, but will check it out more often!
Biography- Source- http://www.sas.com/knowledge-exchange/business-analytics/biographies.html
Anne Milley
Anne Milley is Senior Director of Analytics Strategy at JMP Product Marketing at SAS. Her ties to SAS began with bank failure prediction at Federal Home Loan Bank Dallas and continued at 7-Eleven Inc. She has authored papers and served on committees for F2006, KDD, SIAM, A2010 and several years of SAS' annual data mining conference. Milley is a contributing faculty member for the International Institute of Analytics. firstname.lastname@example.com


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In recent years I have seen an increase in accidents involving horses and cattle that escape pastures, pens or other enclosures and wander onto a highway causing serious accidents. All who own horses have experienced the sickening feeling of knowing your livestock is "on the loose." If a horse escapes and wanders onto the highway causing a serious accident (and it seems to always happen at night) are you, the owner, automatically liable for any injury or damages, even if you make certain the gate was closed and the fence was in good repair?
Before answering this question we must understand the difference between strict liability and negligence. Strict liability is absolute liability and does not require proof of carelessness, neglect or fault. Black's Law Dictionary defines strict liability as not depending on actual negligence or intent to harm, but is based on the breach of an absolute duty to make something safe. Negligence, on the other hand, does not impose absolute liability and only establishes liability if you were careless or neglectful.
The concept of strict liability is most associated with manufacturers of products. If you purchase a product, such as a lawn mower, and you use it as intended, and become injured, the injured party must only prove that the product was used as intended and caused harm. The injured party does not have to prove negligence or carelessness on the part of the manufacturer.
However, the law of strict liability also has application for damages caused by animals. The application has been limited in that the law distinguishes between domesticated animals and wild animals. Domesticated animals are dogs, cats, horses, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, etc. Wild animals are lions, tigers, venomous snakes, gorillas and the like.
A general statement of the law is that strict liability, that is fault without regard to wrong doing, is imposed on the owner of wild animals. Negligence, which requires proof of carelessness or wrong doing, has historically been applicable to domesticated animals (There are exceptions to all of these rules: For example, a domesticated animal that has previously shown signs of dangerous propensities, may be held to the strict liability standard, however, for purposes of our discussion, we will not discuss the exceptions).
Simply stated, if you own a lion, and it gets away, you are absolutely responsible for any and all damage it may cause. However, as the law currently stands, if your horse gets away, you are only responsible if the injured party can prove neglect or carelessness on your part. For example, if you left the pasture gate unlatched or if the fence was in a state of disrepair to the point that an animal could easily escape, you are responsible.
As you can see there is a great difference between strict liability and negligence. If you are a horse owner, you, of course, want the negligence standard to apply which would clear the owner of any responsibility in the absence of neglect or carelessness. This is the law in most states.
There has been an attempt in recent years to change the law as it pertains to domesticated animals from the negligent standard to the strict liability standard. Such an attempt was recently made in the case of Lefebvre v. Bielak, PICS No. 13-1355, 2013, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. The Plaintiffs in Lefebvre were driving their car down the highway when a cow began to cross the road.
Lefebvre struck the cow causing property damage to the car and serious injury to his wife. Lefebvre then sued Bielak, the owner of the cow and alleged strict or absolute liability on behalf of Bielak.
Bielak countersued Lefebvre claiming strict liability was not applicable and that Lefebvre was speeding and did not have his car under control. Thus, the battle lines were drawn. Lefebvre argued strict liability or absolute liability regardless of fault against Bielak. Bielak denied strict liability and claimed Lefebvre was negligent for driving too fast and not having his car under control. The Court was faced with a decision on whether or not strict liability or negligence applied to the case. Obviously, the Court's opinion could have a dramatic impact on the law in regard to domesticated animals which escape their enclosures.
The case presented an issue of first impression in Pennsylvania, that being the imposition of strict liability on the owner of livestock for injuries arising out of an automobile-livestock collision.
The Judge ruled that in an automobile-livestock collision, liability will result only where the owner lacked due care in failing to confine the animal.
The Judge, in ruling that strict liability does not apply, analyzed other Pennsylvania cases, many of which were rendered when most Americans did not own cars. The leading case on the law denying strict liability is the case of Tassoni v. LeBoutillier, 130 Pa. Super. 303, 196A 543 (1938). In Tassoni, an unattended horse dashed onto the highway shortly after midnight and collided with an automobile driven by the injured party. The Plaintiff alleged that the horse owner negligently failed to keep his horse properly confined and off the highway. The Court in Tassoni held that the horse owner would not be held responsible for injuries caused by the horse unless the horse owner was guilty of negligence in the manner of controlling or not controlling the horse.
In Tassoni the horse owner was found negligent in not controlling the horse properly, but negligence had to be proved and was not absolute.
The Court went on to cite Sections 518 of the Restatement of Torts which defines liability for harm done by a domestic animal that is not abnormally dangerous. Under the Restatement of Torts, the owner is subject to liability for harm done by the animal but only if, (1) the owner intentionally causes the animal to do the harm; or (2) the owner is negligent in failing to prevent the harm. Thus, it is clear, that the standard is that of negligence and not strict liability.
In a later case, Bender v. Welsh, 344 Pa. 392, 25A2d 182 (1942), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the negligence standard in a situation where a horse suddenly emerged from a shadow and was struck by an automobile at 11:00 p.m. The horse, which was kept in a pasture adjacent to the road, had escaped after pushing out a portion of the fence.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court viewed the facts in a more modern fashion and held that a jury, under certain facts, could infer negligence if the owner does not show to the jury's satisfaction that a horse was properly confined. The Supreme Court stated, "Horses which are properly confined ordinarily do not escape. Hence the presence of an unattended horse on the highway is sufficient evidence to allow the jury to infer negligence on the part of those whose duty it was to restrain him … In these days of rapid automobile transportation, the extreme hazard to drivers and passengers of animals straying unattended on the road at night cannot be over estimated. The driver is placed in a well-nigh helpless position because of the tendency of an animal to spring out of the darkness in front of a car when blinded or hypnotized by its headlights. Against this contingency, drivers should be protected, by having our roads clear of such obstructions, and every owner of livestock should make an earnest endeavor to so control their movements with due care that the lives of others may not be thereby endangered."
In conclusion, although the Courts have not yet applied strict liability to domestic animal-highway accidents, it is clear that the owner must establish that he used due care to confine his animals. It is important that the owner makes sure that all fences and stalls are properly maintained and secure and that all gates are latched and/or locked. Anything less will result in liability and exposure to the horse owner.
Enough legal talk–it's time to hitch horses!
Ken is a practicing attorney in Myerstown, Pennsylvania, where a good bit of his practice involves negligence cases. He and his wife, Karen, own Sunny Hill Farm Belgians, and they have been exhibiting their six-horse hitch for several years at most major shows in the East.


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(CNN) -- Twenty-one U.N. peacekeepers detained by Syrian rebels this week could soon be released, representatives for the United Nations and a Syrian opposition group said Friday.
"All the parties" have agreed to a release of the 21 held since Wednesday, and the U.N. peacekeeping agency has dispatched a team to help collect them, U.N. spokeswoman Josephine Guerrero said.
But the effort was called off Friday due to darkness, and the team will try again on Saturday, Guerrero said.
Rebels had detained the peacekeepers, identified by the Philippine government as Filipino, in a Syrian village near the Golan Heights.
Syrian opposition coalition President Moaz al-Khatib said Thursday that the rebels took the peacekeepers for their own safety due to fighting there. The peacekeepers reportedly are unharmed.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based Syrian opposition group, said Friday that the peacekeepers are expected to be released between 10 a.m. and noon Saturday in Syria, citing one of its rebel contacts.
The release is contingent on a cease-fire between government forces and rebels around the village of Jamlah, where the peacekeepers are said to be held, the group said.
Government forces shelled the area Friday, according to the Syrian National Coalition, the principal Syrian opposition group.
The rebels will hold Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime responsible "for any harm that would happen to the U.N. employees," a statement from the coalition said.
Late Friday, a man who said he was one of the peacekeepers told the Arabic news network Al-Arabiya via Skype that he expects to be released Saturday.
"The reason for the delay is the shelling," he told Al-Arabiya. "We were about to be released this evening, but the shelling resumed. All 21 peacekeepers are safe and treated well."
CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the interview.
Earlier this week, a video posted on the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' YouTube website showed six of the peacekeepers sitting in a room. CNN couldn't immediately verify the authenticity of the video.
In it, one peacekeeper gives a statement to the camera:
"We are here safe in this place. We are here because while we are passing through position (unintelligible) to Jamlah, there were bombing and artillery fires. This is why we stopped and, civilian people tell us, for our safety, and distributed us in different places to keep us safe. And they give us good accommodation and give us food to eat and water to drink."
The rebels have said the peacekeepers entered the village near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, an area where peacekeepers should not be and where intense fighting has been raging for days between rebels and government forces.
The rebels initially said they suspected the peacekeepers were trying to aid their enemy -- the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The United Nations said the peacekeepers were on a "regular supply mission."
Two other videos that rebels posted on YouTube present the rebels' point of view.
In one, a rebel insists that the peacekeepers will be held until al-Assad's forces withdraw from the village of al-Jamlah.
The other video shows rebels walking near several U.N. trucks. "This U.N. force entered Jamlah village to assist the regime ... and (the U.N. is) claiming that they are here just to stop the clashing," a rebel says.
Members of the U.N. Security Council condemned the detention of the peacekeepers.
The unrest in Syria began in March 2011, when al-Assad's government began a brutal crackdown on demonstrators calling for greater political freedoms.
The protest movement eventually devolved into an armed conflict, one that has devastated cities and towns around the country and spurred more than 720,000 Syrians to flee to neighboring nations, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
This story was reported by CNN's Richard Roth from the U.N. and Hamdi Alkhshali from Atlanta, and written by Jason Hanna in Atlanta. CNN's Amir Ahmed contributed from Atlanta.


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We look forward to serving you in our completely new restaurant designed by co-owner and head chef, Brad Hammond!
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KATY'S is pleased to announce that beer and wine will be available for the enjoyment of your dining.
Whether it's an old favorite or a never-before-tried dish, we promise to keep creating wonderful new recipes based on fresh, local, organic and delicious ingredients!
But, don't worry….we'll continue to serve the dishes which you've all come to know and love. Just a few of those are:
signature burritos (pork, chicken, beef or vegetarian)
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Wondering what to have for dinner? Look no further than KATY'S for a perfect meal for one or many. Dine with us or call ahead to pick up and enjoy in the comfort of your own home.
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From an intimate gathering, corporate function or an extravagant event…please see Katy about our extensive list of wonderful foods to choose from to make your event truly customized and unique!


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The latest composite leading indicators (CLIs) from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) suggest that some moderation in economic expansion lies ahead in the OECD area.
The CLI for India increased by 1.6 point in December 2006. Its 6-month rate of change was up for the fifth month in a row. The CLI for Russia rose by 0.5 point in January 2007, but its 6-month rate of change shows a downward trend since April 2006. In January 2007, the CLI for Brazil increased by 0.3 point, while its 6-month rate of change has been relatively stable since April 2006. No update is yet available for China since the February 2007 news release where its CLI showed a strong 5.9 points rise in December 2006 and its 6-month rate of change increased for the third consecutive month.


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Rig'Em Right Swamp Doctor Floating Blind Bag
Built for the serious waterfowler, Rig'Em Right™ has built its Swamp Doctor™ Floating Blind Bag tough and simple for easier waterfowl gear transport. Stowing and retrieving gear from the Swamp Doctor is easy thanks to its doctor-style, wide-mouth opening. Made of tough 600D nylon, this bag features padded sides to cushion gear inside and keep the bag floating if it falls in the water. Packed with tough metal hardware, including the heavy-duty main zipper closure, for long life. Bag features an external pocket with weatherproof zipper for smaller gear and an external mesh pocket for wet gear. Tough webbing handles and a padded, adjustable shoulder strap make transport easy. Dimensions: 16''W x 11''H x 9''D. Imported.
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For daily and weekly Bible readings: The Lectionary Page is a liturgical calendar with links to the lessons from the Episcopal Lectionary (BCP – Book of Common Prayer) and the Trial Revised Common Lectionary (RCL). Click on this link, scroll to the date, and click on the BCP link or underlined name to follow the readings of the day.
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St. James Men's Group-The Men's Group meets each Saturday morning at 9:00am to read aloud and discuss appointed selections in the Holy Bible and related resources. We learn about the circumstances of biblical events, their significance, and the people involved. We encourage all men of St. James in Amesbury to join the group. You'll like it! The customary meeting place is the St. James Parish's Chandler Hall though lately we've hosted meetings at members' homes. Call Arthur Yarranton at 978-346-4749 (email@example.com) or Mort Gilbert at 978-388-3831 (email@example.com), if transportation is needed. Regardless of location, morning beverages and baked treats are in the offing.
Our Women of Faith - This women's group will resume in the Fall of 2014 with a new format. Tentative plans are to possibly read the book: Paul – A Man of Grace and Grit by Charles R. Swindoll. Meeting time is to be determined. Check this page again for updates as more information is available. If you have general questions, please contact the office at 978-388-0030.


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Graduation 2003
Saturday, May 17
1:00 p.m. at
Safeco Field
Safeco field is located on First Avenue South and Atlantic Streets in downtown Seattle. There will be sufficient seating for all guests and tickets will not be required. Parking is available in the Safeco Field Parking Garage ($5.00 parking fee) on Atlantic Avenue, just south of the ballpark. Graduates and their guests will enter Safeco Field through the Home Plate Gate where guests will proceed to the Main Concourse (Level 3).
Graduates must arrive by 12 noon and report in cap and gown to the Field Concourse (Level 1). Graduates will be directed to the staging area where they will line up for the procession. Ushers will be on duty to direct graduates. Please arrive promptly at 12 noon as the procession for the ceremony will begin promptly at 1:00 p.m.
The graduation ceremony is coordinated by the Deans' Office in cooperation with the Student Graduation Committee. Contact Mari Sue Johnson at (206) 398.4302 or firstname.lastname@example.com for assistance. Disabled seating is available, but limited in space. One person may accompany a disabled person in this area.
Please note that only graduates will be permitted access to the field concourse and no one will be permitted on the field.
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- Delta Air Lines to drop West Virginia airport from route map
- Southwest joins JetBlue in raising fares, blames fuel costs
Rodent repellent in flier's bag sends four to hospital
Four Transportation Security Administration workers were hospitalized this morning after rodent repellent in a passenger's bag caused a noxious odor at Boston Logan International Airport.
That's according to The Associated Press, which writes:
Authorities say 15 TSA workers were evacuated from a bag room at Terminal A shortly after the odor was noticed at about 8:20 a.m. on Monday. Four were brought to a hospital as a precaution complaining of eye and throat problems or headaches.
The all clear was given shortly after 10 a.m. after the chemical in the bag was determined to be camphor.
No passengers were affected in the incident, which occurred at Boston Logan's Terminal A. Terminal A tenants include Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines.
Authorities did not give the passenger's name, but said the flier was one half of a couple flying to Beijing. The passenger was questioned but not charged, according to AP.
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ITEM: Oppenheimer, J.R. and G.M. Volkoff. On Massive Neutron Cores. Physical Review 55, 1939, 15 February. Pp 374-382. Original printed wrappers. Very nice copy. Scarce. $350
ref: JF Ptak Science Books Post 1354
People tend to think of black holes as a Stephen Hawking-era phenomenon while the facts of the matter are that they began perhaps hundreds of year earlier, probably with Cambridge John Michell (1724-1793), back in the year of the end of the American Revolution, 1783 (and perhaps before). His famous experiment (known as the "Cavendish Experiment") was really only rediscovered in the 1970's in Michell's correspondence with Henry Cavendish. In those pages he hypothesized that there may evolve a star so massive (which he referred to as a "dark star' in Newtonian theory) that light itself might not be able to escape fro it, that the escape velocity for the light could never be reached, and that its phenomenal gravity would make the star impossibly dense. This was very similar to the dark star hypothesis of Simon Pierre de Laplace in his epic Exposition du Systeme du Monde which was published in 1796. Karl Schwarzchild's 1916 paper using Einstein's relativity paper of the same year discussed the possibilities of singularity (the Schwazchild limit of the diameter of black holes), as did (the beautiful) Subrahmany Chandrasekhar (one of the last men able to know everything) in 1928.
In hunting for a number of Richard Feynman papers here at the warehouse I happened to find this extraordinary effort by J. Robert Oppenheimer and G.M. Volkhoff in the 15 February 1939 issue of America's greatest journal contribution to physics, The Physical Review. Here (along with a preceding paper by Richard C. Tolman, issued in the same issue just above Oppenheimer, which were the analytic analysis used by O+V to base their estimates of nuclear forces) was established the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkhoff limit, which stated that if the state of evolution of neutrons forming a degenerate Fermi gas of extremely dense masses in neutron stars was more massive than .07 solar masses that it would collapse into a black hole or exotic/quark star; if the mass was below that limit, the star would not collapse due to the degeneracy pressure of neutrons and the strong force. The black hole part was left really to a second paper of 1 September 1939 (the day that the Nazis attacked Poland and the fighting began in World War II in Europe) when Oppenheimer teamed up with Hartland Snyder to write "On Continued Gravitational Contraction", when the two wrote about the singularity of the event. the paper met with little appreciation at the time, though the two papers today have lead to some of the most progressive ideas in 21st century astrophysics.
J. R. Oppenheimer and G. M. Volkoff Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California Received 3 January 1939; published in the issue dated February 1939
"It has been suggested that, when the pressure within stellar matter becomes high enough, a new phase consisting of neutrons will be formed. In this paper we study the gravitational equilibrium of masses of neutrons, using the equation of state for a cold Fermi gas, and general relativity. For masses under 1/3⊙ only one equilibrium solution exists, which is approximately described by the nonrelativistic Fermi equation of state and Newtonian gravitational theory. For masses 1/3⊙<m<3/4⊙ two solutions exist, one stable and quasi-Newtonian, one more condensed, and unstable. For masses greater than 3/4⊙ there are no static equilibrium solutions. These results are qualitatively confirmed by comparison with suitably chosen special cases of the analytic solutions recently discovered by Tolman. A discussion of the probable effect of deviations from the Fermi equation of state suggests that actual stellar matter after the exhaustion of thermonuclear sources of energy will, if massive enough, contract indefinitely, although more and more slowly, never reaching true equilibrium."


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A line skirts have been on trend now for quite sometime and I can imagine even more so for this upcoming spring season. You may have seen me wear many a line skirts recently, so you may be surprised to know that it actually has taken me very long to warm up to wearing these lovely pieces. The problem I came across was finding the right top that worked with it.
After reading some of your comments in my previous post and on Facebook, I've found that many of you are having the same issues and haven't worn these skirts because of that. This is a problem that can be easily solved through another Chic Sheet. In today's post I will sharing my favorite ways to wear this skirt.
The 3 ways I've found that work best for this type of skirt, is wearing it with crop tops , sweaters & casual tees.
Crop tops are great for those warmer days you want to wear your skirt. But make sure to pair the skirt with a crop top that is structured or fitted with only a hint of skin between your top and skirt. This will keep your outfit looking tasteful and classic.
Sweaters are my next go to pairing for a line skirts. This would work well for winter weather or if you want to wear your skirt at night and keep warm. A few things to keep in mind when wearing this type of top is 1. the fabric of the sweater should not be thick 2. always tuck in the sweater into the skirt. Both of these tips will prevent any unwanted bulk!
Lastly, if you want a more everyday take on wearing an a-line skirt pair it with a causal tee. This is a great way to wear this skirt without looking too dressy. With this option, make sure to tuck in your top as well .
Find more of my A-line skirt outfits in these previous posts :
Power & Style, Somewhere in Between,Rain Romance
Watch my past videos featuring A-line skirts:
How to Wear Gold Jewlery, What to Wear to a Winter Wedding


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Motor Control
Using Sensorless Control to Catch a Spinning Fan
by Aengus Murray, International Rectifier
Over the years, engineers have turned to brushless DC drives with Hall sensor feedback due to their simple control circuitry. However, advancements in sensorless control offer designers alternative solutions.
A permanent magnet (PM) motor is the motor of choice for variable speed fans in air-conditioning applications. A traditional single-phase induction motor can operate with an efficiency as low as 20 percent when run at variable speed. In contrast, a permanent magnet AC motor can run with an efficiency of at least 85 percent. The high efficiency not only saves energy, but also enables a smaller motor design since the PM motor dissipates a lot less heat. The power rating of the fan is relatively small compared to the compressor power rating, but its energy consumption is still very important since it runs continuously. U.S. air-conditioning manufacturers need to maximize the system efficiency over the full cooling range since the calculation of the Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER) rating is a weighted average of the efficiency over a range of cooling powers. Japanese manufacturers are now paying more attention to the fan efficiency since recently introduced government standards measure seasonal efficiency rather than the efficiency at rated cooling.The traditional permanent magnet fan motor uses Hall Effect sensors for position feedback. A brushless DC motor generates trapezoidal shaped back EMF waveforms, as shown in Figure 1. Over a 60-degree electrical period, the voltage between one pair of windings is substantially constant, and the motor behaves just like a DC motor. As the rotor magnet turns, different pairs of windings will enter the flat-topped portion of their back EMF waveform. The Hall Effect sensors detect the position of the rotor magnet and provide the signals to the commutation circuit to select the appropriate pair of windings. Varying the voltage across the windings using pulse width modulation (PWM) controls the speed. The commutation and PWM control circuits require just a few logic gates, which makes the control hardware very inexpensive. In small fan motors, the power, control and Hall sensor components are typically all on a small circuit board mounted on the back of the motor.
Figure 1. Trapezoidal back EMF motor commutation sequence
Sensor Versus Sensorless
The simplicity of the control circuits has resulted in the widespread use of brushless DC drives with Hall sensor feedback. However, a number of performance and reliability issues have caused manufacturers to look for alternative solutions. One problem is the torque glitch caused by the non-ideal behavior of the brushless DC motor during commutation. In Figure 1, the motor winding currents shown are rectangular with an almost immediate transition of current from one winding to the next at commutation. However, the real motor windings have inductance; therefore, there is delay in the transition of the current between windings. This delay becomes more significant at higher speeds as the back EMF in the incoming winding opposes the increasing current while the back EMF in the outgoing winding supports the decay of the current. The resultant dip in motor current generates a torque glitch at every commutation sequence. The torque glitch generates unwanted acoustic noise that has become more of an issue over the years as designers have continuously improved fan designs to minimize the wind noise. The problem is worse because inaccuracies in the alignment of the Hall sensors mean that the torque glitch magnitude varies between commutation points. The reliability of the Hall sensor assembly is another problem, especially in larger fans where the Hall sensor has to be mounted on a separate circuit board, close to the rotor.
Figure 2. Sinusoidal sensorless control algorithm
Technology Advancements
Advances in electronic circuit integration have enabled the introduction of more sophisticated control algorithms to solve the aforementioned issues. One innovation is the introduction of sinusoidal voltage control to eliminate the torque glitch at commutation. This requires a change in the motor design so that it generates sinusoidal back EMF waveforms. The application of sinusoidal voltages to the motor windings produces sinusoidal currents and smooth torque. This approach is very common in industrial servo drive systems, but only using a high-resolution position sensor such as a resolver. However, interpolating between Hall sensor switching points using a phase-locked loop produces the high resolution angle information needed to synthesize a smooth sine wave shape. A number of fans are available today with an embedded low-noise control circuit.Another innovation is the elimination of the Hall sensor by using the motor windings voltage feedback signal, commonly called sensorless operation. When driving a brushless DC motor with a six-step commutation sequence, one winding is unconnected, so the zero crossing of the back EMF can provide a commutation signal. However, while this improves reliability, it does not solve the acoustic noise problem associated with six-step commutation. An indirect measurement of the back EMF is possible with sinusoidal current control based on the motor circuit model. The two-phase circuit model in the equation below simplifies the calculations since the rotor flux functions include simple sine and cosine terms. The stator winding voltage equations consist of the voltage across the inductance and resistance and the back EMF generated due to change in rotor flux coupled by the windings.
Figure 3. Start up while turning at 300 rpm and ramp up to 1,800 rpm
The aforementioned algorithm operates over a wide speed range, but cannot operate down to zero speed. The problem is that at near-zero speed, the back EMF signal is much too low to detect and is non existent at start up. A special start-up sequence slowly ramps up the frequency of the winding currents to some minimum speed using frequency integration to estimate the rotor angle. Appropriate selection of the starting current generates the correct torque to accelerate the rotor at the same rate as the frequency ramp. However, even if the initial accelerating torque is too high, the phase advance of the rotor angle will reduce the torque until they exactly track. The starting sequence works well when starting from zero speed; however, when starting a fan load, you cannot guarantee that the fan will not already be rotating. It is quite likely that the wind will drive the outdoor fan while it is unconnected. The speed can be very high when there is a typhoon or hurricane, and the application of the normal starting sequence would create a very large torque disturbance. In this case, the speed and direction of the outdoor fan must be determined before startup is attempted. If the fan is turning in the reverse direction, the controller applies braking torque before starting the fan in the correct direction. The controller detects the initial speed and direction by closing the current control loops with zero torque and flux reference. The feedback loops force the applied stator voltages to track the winding back EMF so that no current flows. The rotor position estimator thus acquires the back EMF signals and derives rotor position and angle. This allows the controller to acquire the fan speed and direction without introducing torque disturbance. If the fan is already turning in the correct direction, as shown in Figure 3, the current controller starts operating in normal mode, and the motor accelerates to the target speed. If the fan is turning in the reverse direction, then the controller turns on the three lower inverter transistors, thus braking the motor. Once the motor stops, the controller starts the motor using the normal starting sequence and accelerates the motor to the target speed.
About the Author
Aengus Murray joined International Rectifier in 2005 and is involved in product marketing and motor control development efforts. He has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in motor control. Murray has also worked at Kollmorgen Industrial Drives, Dublin City University and Analog Devices Inc. If you wish to contact Murray, e-mail: email@example.com
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