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Potash Lifts Outlook, Pressuring BHP
(Potash story updated with the latest details on BHP Billiton's attempts to win regulatory approval of its bid from the Canadian government.)
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan ( TheStreet) -- Potash (POT) gave itself some ammunition Thursday in its struggle either to scamper away from takeover pursuer BHP Billiton (BHP) or force the mining giant to pay up.
Potash reported third-quarter earnings that exceeded Wall Street expectations, but the company's managers also made a boldly optimistic prediction about Potash's profit next year -- an increase in guidance that the company undoubtedly hopes will force investors to revalue the stock higher.
>>Potash vs BHP: The Fertilizer War From A to ZIn early trading Thursday, at least, that wasn't the case. Potash shares were falling 4% to $143.31 on heavy volume. The downward move likely had to do with increasing concern that the Canadian federal government has grown more circumspect about approving BHP's bid for Potash. A report in the Globe & Mail newspaper Thursday morning points out that Ottawa officials appear to be swayed more and more by arguments against foreign ownership of crucial natural resources -- this despite Canada's recent history of letting big overseas concerns buy out independent Canadian miners. (See: Vale's (VALE) acquisition of Inco, 2006.) Uncertainty surrounding the politics of the takeover has investors nervous that Ottawa might scuttle any deal, no matter the price that BHP offers. Ottawa's Investment Canada, the federal agency with jurisdiction over the takeover bid, is scheduled to release its decision next Wednesday, Nov. 3. BHP Billiton had been drawing criticism for making its bid for Potash too late. That's because a serious run-up in crop prices this summer and fall has made farmers flush and eager to load up on fertilizers. The crop rally has lifted the stocks of agriculture companies across the board, including Potash's, with the effect of making BHP's $130-a-share offer look naïve by comparison.
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An antenna aiming or pointing apparatus and method is mounted on a vehicle, which may be moving or mobile, for pointing a directional antenna toward a spacecraft in a nongeosynchronous orbit. Since the vehicle moves, its attitude in terms of pitch, roll and azimuth or yaw change from time to time. As a consequence, neither the spacecraft nor the vehicle have a fixed location. The antenna pointing arrangement includes vehicle-mounted sensors for determining roll and pitch, and a compass for determining, with magnetic correction, the azimuth of the vehicle. In addition, the vehicle pointing system includes a GPS receiver, which produces signals indicative of the vehicle location and the current time. The system includes memory which is loaded from time to time with spacecraft orbital information as a function of time. The memory can be loaded from the internet by wireless Internet or by hard wire when the vehicle is stationary. A processor calculates the time-varying antenna pointing direction taking into account the vehicle attitude and azimuth. The antenna controller points a beam of the antenna toward the spacecraft based upon the pointing direction in vehicle-centric coordinates (190).
1. An antenna pointing method for pointing an antenna on a mobile platform toward a spacecraft for communications therewith, the apparent location of which spacecraft moves relative to a fixed location on the earth's surface, said pointing method comprising the steps of:
storing data representative of the location of said spacecraft as a function of time to thereby produce stored data;
determining a location of said mobile platform from GPS signals;
determining the pitch, roll and yaw of said mobile platform relative to the horizontal and an ordinate direction;
determining the current time from said GPS signals;
from said stored data and said current time, determining the location of said spacecraft at said current time;
from said location of said spacecraft and said location, pitch, roll and yaw of said mobile platform, determining an azimuth and elevation pointing direction from said location of said mobile platform to said spacecraft; and
pointing an antenna beam in said azimuth and elevation direction from said mobile platform.
2. A method according to
storing data representative of the polarization of said antenna on said spacecraft as a function of time, to thereby produce spacecraft polarization information;
from said spacecraft polarization information and said current time, determining the apparent polarization of said antenna on said spacecraft; and
setting the polarization of said antenna beam to about said apparent polarization.
This invention relates to the pointing of directional devices, such as antennas or antenna beams, toward a target, and more particularly to the pointing of antenna beams from a mobile platform toward a non-geostationary spacecraft.
Modern communications systems often use one or more satellite relays to provide communications service to mobile stations. Geosynchronous or geostationary spacecraft are often used as the relays in order to provide communications to fixed locations on the Earth. However, geosynchronous-orbit spacecraft are for the most part located in nominally equatorial orbits at a distance of 22,400 miles from the Earth's surface. At this distance, the signals transmitted by the satellite for reception at the earth's surface tend to be relatively weak. At the fixed Earth location, however, a high gain antenna accurately pointed at the spacecraft may be used to compensate for the low signal level. Whether the spacecraft is geosynchronous or not, when the earth station is a mobile station such as a moving truck or aircraft, the antenna must be directed toward the target spacecraft in some manner. U.S. Pat. No. 6,016,120, issued Jan. 18, 2000 in the name of McNabb et al. describes a system for causing an antenna mounted on a mobile platform to point toward a selected target signal source. As described by McNabb, the system includes a GPS receiver associated with the vehicle, which provides information relating to the current position of the vehicle. The vehicle also includes an arrangement, such as a magnetic compass, for determining a cardinal direction such as North. Thus, the vehicle's location and orientation are (or can readily be) established. A processor associated with the McNabb system calculates the azimuth and elevation to the memorized target coordinates, and points the mobile antenna toward the distant target.
Some spacecraft-based communications systems use low- and medium- or mid-earth orbit spacecraft as relay stations in order to have the advantage of orbiting closer to the earth's surface than geosynchronous spacecraft, and so the signal levels available at the earth's surface from the spacecraft can be expected to be greater than in the case of geosynchronous spacecraft, assuming the same effective radiated power (ERP). Yet further, such low- or mid-earth orbit relay stations have lower propagation delay than geosynchronous relay stations. Thus, low or medium-earth orbiting relay stations can be advantageous. For such spacecraft relay stations, an omnidirectional antenna may be adequate for voice andor narrowband data communications relaying.
The transmission of large amounts of data requires broadband transmission capability, which in turn tend to require, among other things, high antenna gain, corresponding to large antenna aperture. High antenna gain is associated with narrow antenna beamwidths, which means that accurate pointing of the antenna beam toward the spacecraft is necessary. Since the spacecraft is in motion, the pointing must accommodate the motion, or tracking must be applied. Conventional large-aperture antenna techniques as applied to moving spacecraft usually involve beacon-signal or information-signal tracking loops to maintain the main lobe or antenna beam pointed toward the spacecraft. Spacecraft in geosynchronous, mid-earth and low-earth orbits move slowly enough so that ordinary tracking loops can maintain the antenna beam pointing toward the spacecraft. Such tracking loops, however, have insufficient bandwidth to accommodate the large and rapid variations in signal strength occasioned by a mobile platform such as a motor vehicle. Under such conditions, the tracking loop may break lock and spend significant amounts of time re-establishing lock, which results in mis-pointing of the antenna beam during the broken-lock and re-locking intervals. Mis-pointing of the antenna beam, in turn, results in loss of the broadband communication path for the unlocked interval. The unlock-relock cycle may be repeated many times per unit interval under adverse mobile platform environmental conditions, such as operating an aircraft in a storm or a wheeled vehicle on an unpaved road. The McNabb et al. system may not be effective in pointing a mobile antenna at a target spacecraft in the low- or mid-earth-orbit case, because, unlike the situation which McNabb et al. describe, the target location is not fixed. More specifically, the McNabb et al. system cannot provide antenna pointing when the target location is in motion.
Improved antenna pointing systems are desired.
An antenna pointing method according to an aspect of the invention is for pointing an antenna on a mobile platform toward a spacecraft for communications therewith. The mobile platform may be an automobile, boat, or aircraft. The apparent location of the spacecraft moves relative to a fixed location on the earth's surface, as may be the case for a spacecraft in other than a geosynchronous orbit. The pointing method comprises the step of storing data representative of the location of the spacecraft as a function of time, to thereby produce stored data. This stored data may be in the form of an equation defining the location of the spacecraft as a function of time, but might conceivably be in the form of random-access memory (RAM or a non-volatile memory such as ROM which is addressed by time to produce memorized locations, together with an interpolation step. The method also includes the step of determining a location of the mobile platform from GPS signals, and of determining the pitch (inclination), roll and yaw (azimuth direction) of the mobile platform relative to the horizontal and an ordinate direction (North, for example). The determination of the pitch, roll and yaw of the vehicle may be established by conventional sensors in conjunction with a magnetic sensor for determining North or other cardinal direction, with the aid of memorized magnetic declination (or magnetic variation) for the known location of the mobile platform. The current time is determined from the GPS signals, and the location of the spacecraft at the current time is determined from the stored data. The azimuth and elevation pointing angle or direction relative to the mobile platform are determined from the location of the mobile platform and of the spacecraft, and the pitch, roll and yaw of the mobile platform, together with, if necessary, any difference between the orientation of the mobile platform itself and the antenna mounting. Finally, the antenna beam is pointed in the azimuth and elevation angle so determined. The pointing of the antenna beam may be performed by actual slewing of the antenna mounting from the current position to the desired position, or if the antenna is of the electronically scanned type, the antenna beam may be slewed by control of the beamformer. The pointing technique according to the invention may be used to control the antenna pointing at the mobile platform, or a handoff to a tracking system may be made.
In a particular mode of the method according to the antenna, the spacecraft includes an antenna having a selected polarization, such as nominally linear vertical, or linear vertical and horizontal at different frequencies. The method further comprises the step of storing data representative of the polarization of the antenna on the spacecraft, to thereby produce spacecraft polarization information. This stored information may be in the form of a fixed direction reference to the spacecraft axes. From the spacecraft polarization information, the spacecraft and vehicle positions, and the current time, the apparent polarization of the antenna on the spacecraft is determined. The polarization of the antenna beam is set to nominally the apparent polarization of the antenna of the spacecraft. Control may be handed off to a polarization tracking system if desired.
FIG. 1 is a simplified diagram illustrating a mobile platform in the form of a vehicle, and a spacecraft which moves relative to the Earth's surface;
FIG. 2 is a simplified block diagram of an antenna pointing system controller according to an aspect of the invention;
FIG. 3 is a simplified logic flow diagram or chart which illustrates the operation of the antenna pointing controller according to an aspect of the invention; and
FIG. 4 is simplified logic flow diagram or chart which illustrates the operation of the antenna pointing controller of FIG. 3 at the mobile platform of FIG. 1.
FIG. 1 is a simplified representation of the Earth's surface 10. A mobile station 12, which may be stationary or moving, is supported by surface 10, and itself bears a directional antenna 14. Antenna 14 may be a parabolic-reflector type as illustrated, or it may be an array antenna, or some other kind of antenna. Those skilled in the art know that the directional beam(s) of array antennas may be directed in azimuth and elevation without actual motion of the antenna itself, and that some types of antennas, such as the abovementioned reflector type, require physical movement in order to direct the antenna beam(s) 15. FIG. 1 also illustrates a spacecraft 16 in an orbit represented by an arrow 18. The characteristics of orbit 18 are such that the apparent location of the spacecraft as seen from a fixed location on the Earth's surface changes as a function of time. Such an orbit may be, for example, a low-earth-orbit such as is used by Iridium or GlobalStar spacecraft, or it may be a medium-earth orbit, or it might be a Polar or super-high orbit higher than geosynchronous. In addition, a geosynchronous inclined orbit would result in spacecraft locations which change as a function of time, as seen from a fixed location on the Earth's surface.
The invention is based on the realization that in order to properly point an antenna toward a relatively-moving spacecraft from a relatively-moving vehicle, the time must be known, as well as the location of the spacecraft, and the location and orientation of the vehicle. The McNabb arrangement fails for lack of use of known time, and for lack of knowledge of the spacecraft's location at the known time.
In FIG. 2, a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver 110 mounted on vehicle 12 receives signals from GPS satellites in known manner, and produces signals representing vehicle position, the current time (Coordinated Universal Time or UTC), and a one-pulse-per-second (1 PPS) timing pulse, all of which are applied to a processor (DSP) 112. The vehicle position information includes latitude, longitude, and altitude. A vehicle speed sensor 114 produces signals representing the speed of the vehicle, which are applied to DSP 112. DSP 112 also receives signals representing vehicle roll, inclination (pitch) and azimuth angle (yaw) from appropriate sensor(s) 116 mounted on the vehicle. One possible sensor is the Crossbow Model HDX-AHRS, manufactured by Crossbow Technology, Inc., whose address is 41 E. Daggett Drive, San Jose, Calif. 95134. This sensor senses roll, inclination, and azimuth angle, and includes a three-axis magnetometer to make a true measurement of magnetic heading. The azimuth information may be in the form of signals representing vehicle yaw relative to magnetic north; magnetic correction can then be performed in DSP 112 based on the location information from the GPS receiver 110 together with stored magnetic declination data. The GPS, orientation and speed sensors can provide DSP 112 with data at an update rate faster than once-per-second, thereby allowing the antenna pointing system to have near-real-time response.
The location of the spacecraft is determined from orbital information and the current time, where the current time is established by the GPS receiver signals. The orbital information is available on the Internet 118. The orbital information is ordinarily presented in the form of two-line mean Keplerian orbital elements (TLE). The United States Space Command tracks many space objects and provides the TLEs for public use, and updates the TLEs when a predetermined error is reached. The TLEs are readily available on the Internet at web sites such as NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center 104 (NASA/OGI http://oig1.gfsc.nas.gov/). Thus, the TLE data can be transferred from the Internet to the DSP memory (224 of FIG. 3) by hard wire during those intervals in which the vehicle is not in motion, or by wireless mobile Internet connections. The TLEs are valid until the next update is issued, which may be one day or a few days depending upon the orbital characteristics of the particular spacecraft being tracked. Updating of the TLE data in memory should be frequently enough to maintain current TLE information.
DSP 112 processes the sensor signals and the stored TLEs to produce antenna drive or control signals, which are applied to the beam control computer 120 of a phased-array antenna 14, or equivalently to the drive motor(s) of a dish-type antenna, so as to move or adjust the antenna beam or main lobe (15 of FIG. 1) relative to the vehicle 12 in such a manner that the beam or main lobe points at the position of the spacecraft (16 of FIG. 1).
DSP 112 of FIG. 2 performs the tasks of
(a) receiving, storing and time-tagging measured data;
(b) normalizing and correcting measured data;
(c) calculating the position of the vehicle;
(d) receiving and storing spacecraft orbital data;
(e) calculating the spacecraft position;
(f) calculating look angles and polarization angle based on the current time, vehicle position, and spacecraft position;
(g) adjusting the pointing angles in response to vehicle roll, pitch, and yaw; and
(h) outputting antenna pointing data to antenna controller 120.
FIG. 3 is a conceptual block diagram of DSP 112 of FIG. 2 in its environment. Elements of FIG. 3 corresponding to those of FIG. 2 are designated by the same reference numerals. The structure of DSP 112 of FIG. 3 may be implemented as (a) a computer with appropriate input-output (I/O) coupling devices for communicating with the various external devices and sensors, or it may be implemented as (b) one or more specialized cards with one or a few ASIC chips which integrate all the memory, processing and communications functions, or as (c) anything between these extremes. It might even conceivably be implemented as a single solid-state chip. In FIG. 3, DSP 112 includes a register or database illustrated as a block 210, which provides a temporary storage for the currently measured or real-time data from GPS receiver 110, speed sensor 114, and orientation sensor 116. This data is time-tagged for later use. The current time and the 1 PPS clock signals are made available to a clock 212 for synchronization of the system timing therewith. The real-time data is also supplied to a corrected vehicle data generator or software subroutine 216, which, using the vehicle location information and a magnetic declination data memory 218, determines the applicable magnetic correction, and applies the correction to reference the vehicle azimuth to true North. In addition, the corrected vehicle data generator 216 applies any scale factors which may be required, depending upon the sensors, and corrects for any known sensor biases using stored calibration information 222. The corrected vehicle location information is made available to a calculation block illustrated as 214.
Memory 224 of FIG. 3 receives spacecraft orbit data from a data link, illustrated as an Internet cloud 118, and provides the spacecraft information to calculation unit or block 214. Memory 224 can be updated on a preset schedule, as for example at the beginning of a trip and every second day thereafter. Wired or wireless Internet connections may be used.
In addition to spacecraft orbital information, calculation block 214 also receives the current time from clock 212, and vehicle location from sensor 116. Calculation block 214 calculates the spacecraft location for the current time, its direction in azimuth and elevation relative to the vehicle, and generates the antenna pointing information. A substantial portion of the necessary information has already been calculated, as described above.
Standard software, such as shareware TRACKSTAR developed by Dr. T. S. Kelso, and available at http://celestrack.com, is capable of generating look angles (azimuth and elevation) toward a spacecraft from a fixed location at one or more specified times. This type of software can readily be adapted for mobile use, simply by repeating the calculation for each location of the vehicle, using location information which is corrected for vehicle orientation at that location.
More particularly, TRACKSTAR can be adapted to mobile vehicle use by, within calculation block 214, repeating the TRACKSTAR calculation for each vehicle position point. This adjustment is illustrated by the simplified pseudocode
While �START� status=1 {
Read UTC (I) from 212
Read Position (I) from 216
Look_Angle (I)=TRACKSTAR [TLE, Position (I), UTC (I)].
Next I
Where UTC (I) and Position (I) correspond to the Ith data points for the UTC time and vehicle position, respectively. Note that the motion of the spacecraft is included in the TLEs and UTC time input. TRACKSTAR runs on a PC platform running Windows or DOS operating system. DSP 112 can include a Pentium-class PC board with sufficient speed to perform such calculations and to update the pointing command signals at a desired rate, such as once-per-second or more frequently, and thus in a real-time manner.
The result of the pointing direction calculation performed in DSP 112, referenced to the local horizontal plane and ordinate direction, is passed to block 220 of FIG. 3, in which the pointing direction is corrected for pitch, roll and yaw of the vehicle, and if necessary for the distance travelled due to the speed of the vehicle. The correction is easily performed if, in addition to azimuth and elevation adjustment, the antenna platform or controller provides two extra degrees of adjustment freedom, namely for roll and pitch. If this type of controller is used, the roll and pitch adjustment are simply the negative or opposite of the roll and pitch signals, respectively. In this situation, the azimuth setting is adjusted for the corrected value of vehicle heading or azimuth. Since all the data elements are time-tagged, each may be extrapolated to the calculation time or a common time closely related to the current time. The resulting antenna pointing angles or signals can be clocked to the antenna controller 120 either sequentially or synchronously to accommodate the inherent delay of the antenna pointing apparatus. The calculations can be performed on a fixed-periodic basis, or at intervals which vary depending upon the rate of change of the vehicle positions or attitudes as well as upon spacecraft movement.
The calibration information for calibration data memory 222 of FIG. 3 may be generated in any desired manner. One convenient method for calibration is to place the mobile station or vehicle at a known location, with a known orientation. The differences between the calculated location and orientation can be stored as fixed differences or biases which can be simply summed with the calculated values. As with any system, periodic recalibration is advisable.
The magnetic declination correction data within memory block 218 should be loaded with pertinent data, available from NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC, http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/), prior to the start of a trip, and getting the latest updates by way of wired or wireless Internet during the trip. It would be preferable if memory block 218 were to be a combination of memory with processing so that interpolation of the correction value could be performed when the vehicle position falls between data points. As an alternative, DSP 112 could be programmed to perform this function.
FIG. 4 illustrates internal details of calculation block 214 of FIG. 3 in its environment. In FIG. 4, block 302 represents calculation of spacecraft position in Earth-Centered Inertial (ECI) coordinates. To perform this calculation, block 302 receives the TLE data from memory block 224 and the UTC from clock 212. The calculation of the spacecraft in ECI coordinates can be performed in any appropriate manner, as by using the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Simplified General Perturbation (SGP4) model. Simultaneously, block 304 receives the UTC time from clock 212, together with the corrected vehicle location in terms of longitude, latitude and altitude or height above sea level, and calculates the vehicle (vehicle antenna) position in the ECI coordinates. With both the spacecraft and the vehicle antenna locations known in the same coordinate system, the spacecraft-to-vehicle position vector k and the apparent polarization angle are calculated in block 306. The polarization angle calculations cannot be derived solely from the TLE information, but requires additional information relating to the spacecraft itself, which is generally available from the spacecraft manufacturer. In the case of circularly or elliptically polarized spacecraft transmissions, polarization calculations may not be necessary. For linear polarizations, calculation of the polarization angle requires knowledge of the polarization vector e at the spacecraft. It can be shown that the apparent polarization angle ζ at the vehicle is
ABS{} is the absolute-value operator;
p is the polarization vector at the vehicle antenna,
g=k�e; and
r is the vehicle local gravity direction (plumb line), which is determined from the vehicle coordinates. In these equations and definitions, underlined values represent vectors and the symbols �ה and �.� represent vector cross and dot product operations, respectively.
Finally, block 308 transforms the position vector to topocentric-horizon coordinates and generates the azimuth and elevation angles with reference to the vehicle (and local horizontal). The abovementioned look angle and polarization calculations, while tedious to perform by hand, are known and can be found in standard textbooks such as �Satellite Communications,� by Dennis Roddy, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill 1996. The TRACKSTAR shareware program can be used to perform the look angle calculations, and a simple computer program can be used to perform the abovementioned polarization calculations, or their equivalents.
Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art. For example, digital data may be processed in parallel or serial form. It is not necessary to account for apparent polarization when the spacecraft or the vehicle antenna is circularly polarized, as the response of such an antenna is nominally independent of rotational position about an imaginary line connecting the vehicle with the spacecraft. While the invention has been described in the context of an antenna, it could also be used for directing any directional device, such as a telescope or laser.
Thus, the invention relates to an antenna (14) pointing method for pointing an antenna (14) on a mobile platform (12) toward a spacecraft (16) for communications therewith, where the apparent location of the spacecraft (16) moves relative to a fixed location on the Earth's surface (10). The pointing method comprises the step of storing (224) data representative of the location of the spacecraft (16) as a function of time, to thereby produce stored data. The location of the mobile platform (12) or vehicle is determined from GPS (110) signals. The pitch, roll and yaw of the mobile platform (12) relative to the horizontal and an ordinate direction are determined (116). The current time (212) is established from the GPS (110) signals. The location of the spacecraft (16) at the current time is determined from the stored data and the current time. The azimuth and elevation pointing direction from an antenna (14) mounted on the mobile platform (12) to the spacecraft (16) are determined from the location of the spacecraft (16) and from the location, pitch, roll and azimuth of the mobile platform (12). An antenna (14) beam (15) is pointed from the mobile platform (12) in response to the azimuth and elevation pointing directions.
In a particular mode of the method according to an aspect of the invention, the spacecraft (16) includes an antenna (14) defining a polarization in which rotational position relative to a vehicle-to-spacecraft (16) line affects the antenna (14) response. The method further includes the step of storing data representative of the polarization of the antenna (14) on the spacecraft (16) as a function of time, to thereby produce spacecraft (16) polarization information. From the spacecraft (16) polarization information and the current time, the apparent polarization of the antenna (14) on the spacecraft (16) is determined. Finally, the polarization of the antenna (14) beam of the antenna (14) on the vehicle is set to about the apparent polarization.
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Kevin Garnett an undeserved All-Star
As much as I love Kevin Garnett and acknowledge everything he has done for the Celtics' organization, to call him an All-Star this season is a travesty.
Not a T-Mac-level travesty – which was narrowly avoided – or an Allen Iverson-level travesty – which, sadly, couldn't be avoided – but a travesty in its own right nonetheless.
KG has missed 11 games, people. Out of only 40. That's more than a quarter of the season. For somebody to miss that kind of time and still be named an All-Star starter, it's for one of two reasons. 1) He was having a transcendent season during his time on the floor, and should be justly rewarded for it despite missing some time with injury, or 2) It's a fan-voted mockery. And I'll just say Garnett's season has been far from transcendent.
KG is actually having one of the most pedestrian seasons of his career. Not only are his numbers down pretty much across the board (his scoring and rebounding averages are the second-lowest of his career), but his once-unmatched defense has even slipped.
Gone are the days when Garnett had the quickness to defend shorter players on the perimeter; he simply doesn't have the lateral quickness to do it any more. Gone are the days when he would snuff out plays before they even began; he now has enough trouble focusing on his own man. He's still very good defensively, just not great.
Quickly, Garnett has gone from perhaps the single most valuable player in the league to just another piece in the puzzle. And "just another piece in the puzzle's" don't deserve All-Star berths. At least not when they've missed over a quarter of the season.
Garnett's field goal percentage is the highest of his career, but he's done it as a role player. Rarely, if ever, does Garnett create his own shot anymore. Remember in Minnesota, when they used to just dump it on the blocks to KG and let him go to work, waiting for whatever miraculous concoction of a post move he'd come up with next?
Not anymore. Now he's a seven-foot catch-and-shoot guy. He's a glorified Mark Blount. (Very glorified, admittedly.)
And role players don't deserve a spot on the All-Star team. Not when they've missed over a quarter of the season.
Don't get me wrong. Garnett's absence has proven his profound effect on whether the Celtics win basketball games. I know they are an infinitely better basketball team with KG in the lineup, even the oft-hobbling version, than they are without him. Garnett's return to the lineup should solidify the C's rotation, bolster its starting lineup and boost its bench. His presence should help shore up Boston's defense and return its 'Ubuntu' offensive philosophy.
But to call him an All-Star? In a season that has seen him miss more than a quarter of the games? In a season that has seen him be far from dominant on either end of the basketball? In a season that has had more people wondering what the hell is wrong with KG than thinking about how well he's played?
No, that shouldn't have happened. Regardless of how much I wish Garnett deserved his All-Star berth, I can't. I just can't.
I'd be lying.
20 Responses to "Kevin Garnett an undeserved All-Star"
You make a lot of claims, but you don't do much to support them. The only numbers that you use in this article are "11" and "40", pointing out that he has missed a quarter of the season. That's fine. And you're right that role players don't deserve spots on All Star teams. The thing is, if you actually look in-depth Garnett is pretty clearly still the best player on one of the best teams in the league. He still leads the team in just about every advanced stat I can find, the team's effectiveness still suffers visibly and dramatically without him even now that we have a brand-named back-up for him, and the team still visibly plays DRAMATICALLY different when he's on the court in both style and productiveness. Garnett's return isn't the case of a "role player" coming back to "shore up" a defense…it's that of a team desperate for their best player to return so that they can get back to playing at the level and tenor that they're used to. Garnett is still an obvious All Star, even in his attenuated state, because quite frankly the best player on the best team in the league deserves to make the All Star game…even if he misses a quarter of the season (enough time for it to be abundantly clear what his importance is to that squad)…
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You say that you are using the eye test…the problem with that is that everyone has different eyes, so that means that there's no such thing as "the eye test", that's just another name for your opinion. And that's fine, everyone is entitled to their opinion. But to pass off your opinion as "truth" or "proof" isn't a good way to support an argument.
You scoff at my use of advanced stats, but in reality all I'm using them for is to support my "eye test". My eye test tells me that Garnett , even in his injury-returning state, completely transforms our defense from "average-or-below" to "best in the league". That isn't something you mention as an aside or minimize. Considering that defense is THE focal point of this team, that the only reason this team has championship aspirations is because of their defense, then being the key and focal point to said defense alone would make Garnett probably the most important player on the team.
And that's not even considering offense, where again Garnett's impact is obvious to my eye test. By far the most successful offensive sets that the Celtics run are 2-man sets featuring KG. The out-top pick-and-roll with Pierce that is almost guaranteed to get one of them a good shot, the side pick-and-roll with Rondo that either results in an open shot for them or a teammate as it collapses the defense, the pin-down pick that KG sets that either opens up Allen/House for wide-open wing/elbow treys or leaves Garnett in favorable position to score down low. These aren't "small" parts of the offense…when the team is playing well, they are the STAPLE of the offense. And despite Perk's improvements and Sheed's shooting/passing abilities, they are things that just can't be replicated when Garnett isn't in the game.
That's what MY eyeball test tells me. And as mentioned before, the advanced stats just support my opinion. It's why KG has the highest PER or win shares/min on the team, it's why his +/- is so good, it's why the team's scoring differential is 9 points better when he's on the court than when he's off. It's why the team was 21-5 when he first got hurt and is 6-8 since then. He is the best player, the straw that stirs the drink, on what is the best team in the league when he's healthy. He pretty clearly deserves to be an All Star.
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Dr. Z-
Kevin Garnett is my favorite basketball player since Larry Bird, and even I don't think he's the best player on this season's Celtics team.
As far as advanced statistics go, they MAY be an upgrade over traditional stats, but either way, there are too many intangibles in the game of basketball and advanced statistics are often counter-intuitive and too DON"T support the eye test. The eye test, or watching the games is really the only way to make judgements. You may not agree with Jay's assesment, but his comes from watching every Boston Celtics game this season, and not some arbitrary stats some mathematician concocted.
I agree with Jay; KG is NOT deserving of an All-star birth. Offensively, he truly has become a role players. Though he averages over 15 ppg, his offensive role really isn't much different from that of Kendrick Perkins. Other players, such as Rondo or Pierce, have to make plays for KG to get him open shots, because he has lost the ability to create his own offense.
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Again, the stats that I used were only to support my own "eyeball test", and I also watch every Celtics game. If it just comes down to a "this is what I think", "no this is what I think" contest that's fine, but it just seems more productive to me to have some quantitative facts that we can point to and use as support.
As for the stats being arbitrary or concocted, again, we don't have to use any that you have a beef with. You don't like PER? That's fine. Win shares doesn't float your boat? Cool. Same with Roland rating, or whatever else one you can think of. But I do think it's worth noting that all of them tell the same story…even in the counter-intuitive situations that you point out, rarely do you have a case where just about all of the advanced stats across the board say the same thing and have it really be shocking or difficult to support.
But even if you leave those stats out, things like the defense giving up 91.8 points/game on 43.8% shooting with Garnett and 98.9 points on 46.2% without him…those aren't stats that you need a mathematician for. And again, if something shows up pretty clearly on my eye-test, shows up in even the most rudimentary numerical analysis, and ALSO is supported by the more advanced stuff…to me that's a lot stronger than just saying, "well my eye test disagrees" and leaving it at that.
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KG, is a far superior shooter than Perkins, so he gets more pick and pops, but the rest of his offense comes from fast break buckets, putbacks, alley-oops and dump-down layups. As far as the screens and pin downs go, Perkins does all of the same things, the only reason KG might be SLIGHTLY more adept at is because he has the respect of the officials who won't call moving screens on him like they will on Perkins.
Defensively, KG is by far the best team and help defender, but his 1-on-1 D has noticeably slipped this season. At this point, Perkins is unquestionably our best 1-on-1 post defender.
Of course, that's not to say Perkins is as important as KG. KG is clearly a team leader who forces everyone to play at a higher level. BUT, that doesn't mean personally he is still playing at such a high level and deserves an All-star bid. In my mind, Perkins, Rondo, and Pierce are all far more deserving of all-star spots than KG.
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Once again, the dreaded numbers that you hate don't support your assertion. I agree that KG is doing a lot of scoring on pick-and-pops…in fact, that was exactly my point before, that when KG is healthy the pick-and-pop is a staple of the Celtics offense. But 70% of KG's shots are jumpers, so he is doing much more of that than he is getting fast break buckets or dump-down layups. My point was never that Garnett's offensive contributions were him alone…merely that his contributions can't be replicated by anyone else on the team. Just like Rondo's offense can't, and Pierce's offense can't…offensively, all 3 of them have done the most damage this year while playing off of each other.
Defensively, this isn't a contest even with Garnett slowed from what he used to be. I would rather have Perk guard Howard, or Shaq, or any other huge/explosive scoring center…a population that includes at most 10% of the big men in the league. The other 90% of the bigs, which includes just about every power forward and a good chunk of the centers in the league, I'd rather have Garnett on in 1-on-1 situations. And team-wise, as you point out, Garnett is still by far the best defender that we have and the only reason that Thibs' defensive scheme works.
On the whole, when both offense and defense are factored in, there aren't any other Celtics that have meant more to the team's wins than Garnett. I have no problem with Pierce and Rondo also being on the team, in fact I hope that's how it works out. But to say that Garnett doesn't deserve to be an All Star or that he's a role player now, despite all of the quantitative and observational evidence to the contrary, that's what I don't agree with.
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Dr. Z- Thanks for all the comments, I love talking shop and I could argue sports all day! Clearly, you are a well-informed fan and know your stuff when it comes to the Boston Celtics.
Still, I tend to disagree with your conclusion, so I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. But I will say I think the stat you said about 70% of KG's shots being jumpshots supports our argument. KG shoots so many jumpers now because, for whatever reason, he's not as efficient or productive down low as he used to be. He shoots so many jumpers because he doesn't create offense anymore, but shoots off the pass far more often.
Perhaps out argument just comes down to semantics, anyway. You are arguing for his inclusion to the all-star team based on his VALUE to the Celtics, which can't be disputed, while we are arguing for his exclusion from the team because of his PRODUCTION for the Celtics this season. Depending on what your definition of an "all-star" is, inevitably you'll come up with a different roster.
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It's been fun, thanks to both of you for letting me talk basketball. Almost nothing I like better than that. As for your post, KG shooting 70% jumpers doesn't support your argument. KG ALWAYS shoots about 70% jumpers or more. Last year 72% of his shots were jumpers, the year before 73%, the year before that 77%, etc.
One difference this year is that could support your point is that a slightly higher percentage of KG's shots are assisted than before (82% this year, vs 74% last year, vs 68% in '08). But as I said to Jay above, that could easily be an effect of the team wanting him to be a finisher as opposed to an initiator as Rondo has come into his own to handle a larger amount of the offense initiation. There's a difference between DOESN'T create as much and CAN'T create as much individually. Seems to me that the pick-and-pops/pin downs lead to high percentage shots for a larger number of people than anyone going iso…so it's hard for me to find fault in something that leads to high percentage scoring for the team.
As for the value vs production argument, I would say that Garnett has been (at the least) a key member of the Celtics for 23 of their 28 wins this year. Not only is that the vast majority of their wins, it is also more wins than all but 3 other teams in the NBA. If he's produced enough to contribute in such a strong way to such a large number of wins, I don't see how # of games played can really be used as an argument against him.
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Again, your counterexample is a straw man because it fails the most basic test: is it consistent. Varejao has a higher +/- than LeBron, but his PER is hugely less. His win shares are hugely less. His Roland Rating is hugely less. Any one stat, in a vacuum, can (as has been pointed out) give counterintuitive results that upon further analysis can likely be easily explained.
But that isn't the case for the Celtics. Garnett has a small lead in PER. Garnett has the lead in win shares/minute. Garnett has the lead in +/-. Etc. All of these stats, that all come from different angles, all come to the same result.
And again, it doesn't have to rely sole-ly (or even primarily) upon composite advanced stats. Basic team stats also support the huge difference Garnett makes. The eyeball test is cool, but we both have described what our eyeballs tell us and our eyeballs don't agree. Failing that, I would think quantitative analysis would be a logical second step. If you don't like my numbers, give me something else to work with besides just "my opinion is different than yours, and there isn't anything in the world that can make me think otherwise." I mean, how the heck are we supposed to have a constructive discussion like that? Unless "agree to disagree" is just the outcome that you prefer?
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I sit across from you.
Often wondering to myself,
If you saw me?
You were always with her.
The woman with red lips.
Or was it a gaudy lipstick?
Were you with her
Or were you just friends?
Did those lips paint yours red too?
The red paint
Brought dread in me often.
He used to wear it sometimes.
My father would make me let
Him paint mine red.
How do I tell you this?
How do I come and sit next to you?
How do I tell you to save your pink from her red?
After all,
Red has always scared us.
The Great Punjab Hotel, Bombay.
This building is my favourite building so far. I've seen the other old ones and the others with rounded corners as well but, this building is just so beautiful that every time I go past it, I cannot take my eyes off it. Mind you, I'm no architecture geek or even an enthusiast but, I think time has made me one. Or rather, incidents have made me one. The thing about history is that traces of it that can be seen live are in the form of buildings, some as beautiful as this one.
In the more modern or Euro-fetishised ways, this building won't stand a chance at even being compared with those pseudo-Athenian buildings (like the exhibition hall on the same road as this one) but, its more about what they talk about. This building, I think sums up what I love about Bombay and what I know Bombay to be. It is old, decaying and untouched in places and still stands in a glory that is unfathomable. The kind of old that Bombay has spells more starkness, more reality than other monuments or buildings in other cities one has seen before. Old here is real. Its dusty without any need for a refurbishment or any plastering for the eye. Old here exists as it is irrespective of the fact whether the eyes that glance at it are really looking or are just closed.
The picture's from one Saturday when the entire day was spent walking in town with the heart leaping with joy at the sight of every old building – be it the Fire Temple at the end of the road or the library across and also ignoring the fact that I cross them every single day. I remember spending more than an hour sitting at the bus top right opposite this building. I really do love everything about it – the giant and old (not necessarily decorated) facade, the many balconies with each room, the blue plaster on each balcony, the singular wooden chair in each balcony as if there would never be 2 people sitting there!
Death and Mythology
The one piece of news that's making the rounds internationally this morning is the death of Robin Williams. Reading about his death, the only thought that came to me was how well fitting was his death into the cliche – a comedian succumbing to depression – the contradiction innate to human life. For someone, who really doesn't keep herself updated with news around Hollywood or Bollywood, it came as an utter shock (another typical reaction, I'd like to believe!) that someone with a persona or rather, image like Williams succumbed to depression of all things. Yes, alcoholism and other addictions are common weaknesses (if not vices) of people in such fields but, there is always some sinisterity and mystique built around deaths such as Williams'.
While reading an old interview of his, where he is known to talk more in detail and lucidity about his battles with addiction and depression as opposed to an upcoming film, I came across these lines of his on the American grief industry
"I think people want it. In a weird way, it's trying to keep hope alive."
What he points out to is the difficulty and weirdness that comes with mourning in private or experiencing grief in private over a public figure. I believe what he says here, however, doesn't only apply to public figures in their most literal interpretations. The way with grief is such or has been experienced in such a fashion that tends to dissociate the deceased's public and private existence – reducing the private side to a glorious myth which then gets transferred to the public.
I cannot speak for others but, I know for one that even the way the Indian society deals with grief is similar to an industry that seeks to 'mythologise' the dead. Ignoring all ideas about death and the afterlife or any theories on reincarnation, the Indian way of looking at the mythology of the dead resonates with the proverb of hanging a garland over the picture framed and hung on the wall. That is to say that the grievers tend to make an altogether rosy image of the dead. Not that it is a bad thing, one can always understand it as looking at the glass as half full. However, what I find intriguing is the different attitudes with which people treat or react to different types of death. That is to say, the dead is perceived as it is if they die old and have seemingly lived a full life. If, however, one dies at an age or stage of life which is perceived by the masses as young and (an) unfulfilled (life), There will always be a mystery around relatively young deaths.
What drives people to glorify the dead only of course, after one dies, is seemingly difficult to point out. Is it the prospect of their own death looming someday that scares them or retribution? Or is it the fascination of stories? Who knows!
While some stories are hungrily devoured, not giving the characters a rest nor the plot, there are always those that are meant to be savoured one page, one instance at a time. Memoirs are such. They are meant to be enjoyed gradually, like sipping wine and reveling in the slow warmth that the liquid releases once inside the mouth.
Pamuk's memoirs in 'Istanbul' of his having lived the city, identifying the characters of Istanbul as a collective entity rather than a sum of masses is what is the most striking style of writing. From what I believe, writing comes out best when it comes not from a superficial, pseudo-academic understanding of the subject, it being the city here but, from living the subject. One must note here that I do not, in any way, intend 'living the subject' to be a deeply philosophical insight but, merely as the writer's style to note the simpler facts about the subject as opposed to glorifying the external. For one to write a more honest account like Pamuk's, I believe one needs the time and openness to experience and immerse oneself in the colours (might be grey!) of the city one wishes to write about. Then, there's also the fine difference between letting the city naturally, gradually, inundate the writer with its pace on the one hand and the deliberate attempt that many mistake to be natural in order to 'save' time and believe themselves to have experienced the city. Maybe the latter is the first step towards the former, more nuanced style of writing. However, I do believe that it is the ability and openness of one to really 'see' things that bring out such memoirs. Probably, its this slow-cooking of observation and experience because of which Pamuk's analysis always has a lasting impression on the reader.
Anyway, the point behind this post isn't to analyse the entire memoir on Istanbul but, to merely record the connection I draw between a part of Istanbul (both, the city and the book) and a poem I recently re-read. This is a poem by Omar Ali, who generally wrote poems on Bengal, reading which again today reminded me what Pamuk calls Huzun in Istanbul. This poem called 'The Lonely Man' is, in my opinion, one of those literary pieces that aren't meant to be analysed from a strictly academic understanding (I'm sure they still will end up doing that!). Instead, Ali's writing is meant to be just read and without any 'expert' analysis, the reader can understand what was meant to be conveyed lies in the simple words he uses. Reading the poem, all I was left was Pamuk's huzun, re-emphasising the beauty of honest expression. Read for yourself-
He was sitting alone:
sad, weary
with a tear – stained face.
I asked him: why?
He looked at me silently
and kept quiet.
I asked him again: why?
again he looked silently
into my eyes
and said nothing.
Then he got up and went away
leaving behind his silence
Type cast
The scariest and most depressing thing that I've seen till now? When people's desire to live succumbs to the pressures of circumstance. When they start accepting themselves as part of a certain category, a group, a type. When they lose their ability to fight, to question their 'fate'.
I realise it was this that made me squirm in the face of norms. I didn't know that then that tug in the stomach, that unnatural feeling like I didn't belong stemmed from this inability to compromise with what's 'given'. I remember a friend (and the family often) once asking me the reason behind my inability to stick to one thing; specialisation and shit like that and wondered whether I was scared to accept that I can be a know-it-all in one compartment. But, I realise today its not that. It is fear but, fear to be run over by that kind of mentality, fear to become close minded and not be able to see and experience the expanse of the universe. Even as I write this, I feel sad, a pain in my chest for those who refuse to accept that they can change their 'category', their 'type'.
Will I blame it on capitalism and form a shitty theory like that? I don't think that I want to
And, the boy cried wolf!
Without all the fanciness of education and scholarly privilege, the most basic of childhood experiences will tell you the (un)importance of sexuality as something that should publicly define one. Theroux in one of his books had described the Indian society perfectly for me! Paraphrasing the same, he'd called the Indian society comprising of frustrated and closeted people who truly exist/live behind closed doors. Pardon the drama but, reading that always gives me the image of a throng of people, dressed exactly the same walking with their heads down but, their faces covered with the 'Anonymous' Guy Fawkes masks. The mere functioning in the society has been reduced (god knows since when!) to the mere appearance and the need to conform with what is the collective right or the moralistic Indian way, the truth (even if the damned statue of truth, sach ki moorti, itself has been blindfolded, who cares, right?). However, in the behind-closed-doors way of functioning, one thing that was made clear long ago; sex is something we all indulge in but, that is only for those tied in the holy relationship of a marriage and anything else outside is not acceptable! Where this clearly laid the understanding that sex and sexuality are private matters, people were left gaping and political parties petitioning against an actress who expressed her understanding of premarital sex being fine! Oh, how that led to all aunties getting into relentless gossip sessions, seemingly uncomfortable with the audacity of the actress and the uncles to 'respectably' glare at the television sets while the news anchors went bonkers talking about the controversy. For us, its okay to have teasing sex scenes in cinema but, otherwise in 'reality' such (read: the ones open about sex) people are those belonging to the scarlet category. No morals, for sure! Even though I can go on and on about how this reflects the understanding of what we perceive sexuality to be and whose sexuality wins the power battle, I'll state the relevant inference I draw from these point- the fact that the contradictions of Indian society can be seen in the fact that while it is not okay to talk about sex, or had it been possible for the thought police, even to think about pleasure and sex; it is important for the same aunty jis and uncle jis to know about one's sexual orientation. If one truly believed in the idea of sex being personal/privatte, shouldn't sexual orientation be left just as it is, personal choice?
Raised in the grand and free democracy that Indians call India, I assumed from all this education in school etc., that sexuality is something personal, if one may please that is. And, no, I do not think that its a completely Westernised thought and the Indian culture is about something more reserved. Reserved and dignified, we are? Then, that does call for one to live the kind of life one chooses to live? No, not talking about Sen's development is capability but, the old man isn't all that wrong, is he? Maybe a little vague for the Science and Maths crazy country of mine but, well all the acharyas and saints also did occupy physical and philosophical space here, all right!
So, is Indian culture/existence all about fear? Fear of loss of power? Are we homophobic simply because we're forced into the complacence of the behind-closed-doors way of life? And that's why, as Foucault pointed out, we termeverything alien to the routine as insane? Simply because it challenges the social structure of power and masculinity?
There are so many hypocrisies that are part of the Indian experience that most, if not all, have succumbed to these norms and kept their seething angst inside. This itself, in my opinion is another way of living hypocritically. On the other hands those like me who choose to be too vocal about their beliefs (ideals, for some) and constantly question (be it their own parents) the validity of the norm/custom, we are not really appreciated, to say the least.
In class we keep on talking about the semantics. The other day, there was a lecture on the different ways in which Ravana has been depicted in art. Religion giving me the kicks, ignoring one of the usual migraine attacks, I went for this lecture. The venue was one old gallery by the name of No. 1 Shanthi Road.
The lecture was by Dr. Paula Richman and bits of it (as she 'unofficially' stated) can be found on YouTube.
Anyway, the reason for my writing this post was the Tibetan art on display at the gallery. Due to lack of space and time, I could not speak with the artist. The artist was a young girl who had come all the way from Tibet in order to spread the word about the individual stories of the Tibetan freedom struggle. The world knows very well about the Tibetan struggle for freedom against the Chinese government. But, this knowledge or awareness gets limited as a knowledge of the collective, ignoring the individual stories that form the collective.
She had depicted individual narratives of self-immolation by many Tibetan people as a sign of protest, on pieces of paper with burnt edges, using ink and water colours for the narrative.
One narrative that particularly captured my attention was that of a 20-something man who immolated his body for freedom and his corpse was then taken away by the Chinese government. The artist had depicted this man's story/struggle painting the Chinese government in the shape of a black/dark grey cloud with a few hands visible in the mass, taking away the corpse by way of a scarf/banner of dark(black)-ness. While the cloud was up in the sky, the ground showed the candlelight vigil of the other Tibetan people demanding the return of the corpse. The artist had painted the vigil as being conducted by many differentiable individuals painted white in colour.
Think my fascination with this particular piece is due to the constant questions of citizenship that keep on buzzing in this head. The constant questions around whether democracy is a farce, whether we truly are multicultural, whether we truly are cosmopolitan, easily got translated in this narrative. Goes the WikiLeaks way questioning the legitimacy of the state when it's operations are no less discreet than the mafia, if one may please?


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|Wed, 01-06-2010 - 5:16pm
Feeling kind of *blah* here w/the cold and gray and need some motivation. Please share what you've done in the name of frugalness this week.
|Wed, 01-06-2010 - 11:03pm
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|Wed, 01-06-2010 - 11:23pm
My kids were begging and pleading to get something from Chik-Fil-A after school, so I used promotional coupons for free sandwiches to get them a treat.
I also cleaned out my glove compartment and found a coupon for free Italian ices.
|Fri, 01-08-2010 - 4:27pm
1. made the kids luch snacks from scratch,no store bought this week.
2.canned pears that were 2nds but still good, great for the kids lunches, had jars already and used
|Sat, 01-09-2010 - 2:53am
This week....
We went to the library for the first time (and its only a few blocks from the house).
Cloth diapered Jacob unless we left the house,
which was only to go babysit and make money.
Went out with my mom this morning, and went to Jump A Lot (indoor bounce house) and its free until Jacob is 18 months.
Stuck to our meal plan.
Haven't gone to the grocery store. So far since the 1st only spent $41 on groceries.
|Sat, 01-09-2010 - 10:11pm
went to the fabric store today and got material to make two dresses for each of the granddaughters....all from the clearance section at 50% or more off
brought my lunch to work all week
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Crest Financial Protests Clearwire's Delay Of Vote On Sprint-Clearwire Merger And Urges Clearwire Board And Stockholders To Reject Sprint's New Offer
HOUSTON, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Crest Financial Limited, the largest of the independent minority stockholders of Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR), protested today's decision of the Clearwire Board of Directors to adjourn the Clearwire special meeting to consider Sprint's increased offer price of $3.40 per share.
According to David K. Schumacher, Crest's General Counsel, "Sprint's decision to increase its offer price and request an adjournment reveals that Sprint was unable to secure a majority of the non-Sprint, 'minority' stockholder votes—even though Sprint attempted to pack that 'minority' with stockholders that are commercially tied to Sprint and Clearwire have already agreed to vote in favor of the merger and sell their shares to Sprint even if the merger is rejected."
Schumacher added: "Clearwire is acting in its usual stockholder-unfriendly way by adjourning the special meeting to grant Sprint the ability to pose a new, still inadequate offer. This is a consistent theme of this Board: Do everything possible to secure an undesirable merger with Sprint at a below market price. Stockholders should demand that the Clearwire Board finally act in the best interest of ALL shareholders, not just in the interest of Sprint."
Crest said that it has sent a letter to the Clearwire Board of Directors urging them to resist Sprint's new offer so that Clearwire can pursue direct offers through a competitive process once the bidding war over Sprint is concluded. Crest's letter to the Clearwire Board says: "Sprint's new offer for Clearwire still significantly undervalues Clearwire and its assets and provides no protections to minority stockholders. This incremental but grossly inadequate increase together with this morning's sudden adjournment of the stockholder vote on Sprint's first offer for Clearwire only confirms what we have been saying for some time: Clearwire is the prize, and Sprint is trying to buy Clearwire on the cheap and lock-up Clearwire's value before Sprint itself is purchased by SoftBank or DISH. That lock-up is patently unfair to minority stockholders. You can and must refuse to abet Sprint in its ongoing scheme."
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Video: Interactive augmented reality for Google Glass
When Google began sending out Glass to all the chosen applicants earlier this year, the company put special emphasis on the notion that the recipients experiment with the device in as many ways as possible. One Glass developer took that suggestion to heart and has posted his results in a new video that shows off a couple of new tricks capable with the wearable computer.
Brandyn White, a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, focused most of his efforts on illustrating the augmented reality potential of Glass. In several instances, White demonstrates the ability to overlay real world images with mirror image on Glass that can be virtually updated with new information.
In a post on his Google+ detailing the experiment, White wrote, "It's still a work in progress but it demonstrates that AR is possible using Glass, despite the common perception that it isn't… We'd like to see others get started using AR on Glass and tried to give the right level of technical info."
Later in the video, White also shows how several Glass device can be used in conjunction. First he attached an additional Glass eyepiece to the other side of his glasses frame, essentially giving him binocular Glass vision. Then he's shown stacking another set of similarly modified Glass devices on top of the first, putting four mini displays in front of him that apparently respond to voice commands simultaneously.
White's experiment appears to show the augmented reality possibilities of Glass may only be constrained by the ingenuity of developers. You can see the demonstration in the video below.
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A lightning strike literally knocks a man off his feet in Julian, California.
The clouds were rolling in tuesday near lake cuyamaca when…
Lightning knocks hans nansen off his feet.
"We are at Chambers Park on Lake Cuyamaca."
He was out here with a friend when they saw lightning on the horizon.
"That's why I had my phone out. I said, 'I'm going to catch some of these cool strikes."
"We weren't standing here in the rain going, 'Woohooo! It's raining and thundering.' No, we seemed pretty safe. There was blue sky above us."
I made him take me back out there. of course it started raining.
Hopefully lightning doesn't strike twice.
"I was standing right, right here. Those are the trees right there on the video.
"And boom, I mean, it had to have hit right here.
"It knocked me back. My phone went. I ended up back there somewhere."
Too close! I felt that!
Take a look again. nansen says the electricity dinged his phone.
"I could feel it. I could taste it. whoa! taste? Yeah, it was kind of a metallic, yeah."
"I saw that bolt go into my shoe."
Which might explain why his girlfriend isn't standing too close to him now.
He can laugh now. he's lucky he lived.
"I wasn't happy. It was pretty scary."
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After days of market declines investors are paying more attention to credit risk and the tightening or correction of financing availability. FOMC cut 50 Bps its benchmark discount rate to 5.75%, leaving the Feds fund rates at 5.25%, though a positive impact of Friday�s trading close, it was not enough to bring a breath to the economy. On August 21st, Federal Reserve Chairman and Treasury Secretary are meeting in New York with the head of the US Senate Banking Committee to estimate possible risks, understand the implications of policies and the eventual corrections. Global markets have suffered as the American economy shows sings of transitioning from a flexible, aggressive an predatory lending spam to a more sustainable and conservative path; analysts agree that it�s not yet a credit crisis it�s more of a liquidity squeeze, yet, confidence is vulnerable and the future of these risk management instruments is questionable. www.fineconomics.blogspot.comComment originally posted on August 21, 2007 5:32 PM
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Investor confidence in Germany, as measured by the ZEW Centre for European Economic Research, fell to -6.9 from 10.4 in July, the lowest since December. The headline index reflects six-month expectations for the German economy, of participants in the financial markets. But given who it surveys, it probably overstates the impact on the economy.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) raised interest rates for the fourth time since March due to increasing inflationary pressures. The benchmark one-year lending rate will increase to 7.02% effective tomorrow, and the one-year deposit rate 3.60%. The economy grew by 11.9% in the second quarter from a year earlier. In raising lending rates less than deposit rates, the bank seems to be targeting inflation not growth. The Ministry of Finance will issue 600 billion yuan worth of special government bonds as part-financing for the transfer of foreign exchange from SAFE to the new sovereign wealth fund. Also, on Monday the PBoC announced retail investors will be allowed indirect access to Hong Kong's stock market.
Australia's budget surplus increased to A$17.3 billion ($13.9 billion) in the year ending June 30. In May the government forecast a surplus of A$13.6 billion. It promised A$2.5 billion for medical research and new hospital equipment, and A$1 billion for universities. The government currently lags behind the opposition Labor Party, making higher public spending a useful option in run-up to elections.