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Suzuki's first GNCC title
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Rockstar Makita Suzuki's Chris Borich did what no other racer has been able to do in almost a decade. In the rain of the Moose Racing Yadkin Valley Stomp, round 11 of the Can-Am Grand National Cross Country Series, Borich was able to clinch the 2009 series after an intense battle that saw a leader change through almost every turn. Borich was able to narrowly beat FRE KTM's Adam McGill and Nine-time Defending Champion Bill Ballance to take the overall win and the championship.
Ballance presented Borich with his new number one plate on the podium.
"When I started racing, I started out just having fun in the B class," says Borich. "Ballance is a tough competitor. I've been behind him for years and I finally did it. It was a real tight tack out there and I got into seventh place. I didn't know what to do so I just waited for someone to make a mistake."
A light drizzle earlier in the morning turned into a heavier rainfall by the time the 1 p.m. race kicked off, making the red clay track slick. Ballance was the first off the line and roared around the first turn to take the holeshot and lead the beginning of the first lap until McGill took his turn at the front. The three were only seconds apart as they battled with Yamaha's Brandon Sommers and Taylor Kiser. Sommers took the lead away from McGill in the second lap and by the third, Borich was back in the lead with McGill right behind. Borich led until the finish with McGill in tow and Ballance just a minute later.
"When I hooked up with Borich I thought, 'Man, I really want to win, but he has the championship if he does,'" says McGill. "I'm really happy for him. The bike worked really good and I'm definitely ready for the next race."
Ballance handed Borich his new number one plate and congratulated Borich for his win. Ballance has won the championship the past nine years although Borich has tried to unseat him for the past few years.
"He's been the number two guy for years," says Ballance. "He rode great. We'll see what holds for next year. I need to think it over a little bit and see if we will go through it again to see if can go out on top."
Kiser, who started in third and fell to sixth, was able to move up to finish in fourth followed by Sommers in fifth. Yamaha's Donnie Ockerman finished in sixth in front of teammate John Gallagher and Jarrod McClure. Warnert Can-Am's Chris Bithell and Ryan Lane round out the top ten in ninth and tenth places, respectively.
In XC2 Pro-Am, FRE KTM's Josh Kirkland was able stop Brian Wolf's win streak. Wolf came in second, followed by Parker Jones in third.
"The race went pretty well," says Kirkland. "I put my head down and tried to do my best."
Jones started the race in first and the three riders battled with Walker Fowler, in his debut race in the XC2 class until Fowler had mechanical issues. Fowler would end up finishing 17th.
Top Amateur Award went to College A class rider Zachary Strong.
In the morning race, FRE KTM's Angel Atwell was also able to tie up the women's championship by taking second place behind her niece, Kristen Atwell, who took home the GT Thunder Amateur Overall Award. Yamaha's Traci Cecco took third.
"It feels awesome," says Kristen. "After having some disappointing races, this feels great."
Tomblin remarked on the 'changing of the guards,' on the podium, as Cecco, a 7-time national championship congratulated Atwell on the podium.
"This women's class is tough," says Cecco. "I'm happy to be a part of it. I remember winning my first championship. It's an amazing feeling."
"I've been working for this for nine years," says Atwell. "It hasn't sunk in yet, but give me a bit and it will. I'm glad to have the team I have to help get this."
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Pos. | Rider | ATV | Pos. | Rider | ATV | Points |
1. | Chris Borich | Suzuki | 1. | Chris Borich | Suzuki | 282 (8 wins) |
2. | Adam McGill | KTM | 2. | Taylor Kiser | Yamaha | 217 (1 win) |
3. | Bill Ballance | Yamaha | 3. | Adam McGill | KTM | 201 |
4. | Taylor Kiser | Yamaha | 4. | Bill Ballance | Yamaha | 196 (1 win) |
5. | Brandon Sommers | Yamaha | 5. | Brandon Sommers | Yamaha | 188 |
6. | Don Ockerman | Yamaha | 6. | Bryan Cook | Honda | 170 |
7. | Johnny Gallagher | Yamaha | 7. | Don Ockerman | Yamaha | 149 |
8. | Jarrod McClure | Yamaha | 8. | Jarrod McClure | Yamaha | 135 |
9. | Chris Bithell | Can-Am | 9. | Duane Johnson | Honda | 132 |
10. | Ryan Lane | Honda | 10. | Johnny Gallagher | Yamaha | 109 |


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Stop at Pico dos Barcelos, viewpoint from where you can admire a beautiful view over Funchal. Journey to Eira do Serrado, viewpoint (1,094 meters) overlooking the valley of Curral das Freiras, a little village built in the crater of an extinct volcano.
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Tour next stop will be at Monte a village situated in the suburbs of Funchal where you will visit the Parish church. Enjoy the famous sledge ride 'Toboggan' that can take you as far as Livramento. Finish the tour visiting a private wine cellar to tasting of various Madeira wines.
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This trip started off as a disaster. The bus turned up about 10 minutes early and the guide did not check paperwork so a couple called Williams; who had booked a different trip took our place by mistake. At around 14:15 i went to check with the very friendly and helpful "Guest relations" lady, who phoned the tour company and they eventually sent another minibus to do the tour. Due to go at 14:00 went at 15:00. We did the trip in reverse with the wine tasting first. Nice visit , very olde world cellar and interesting tasting the 4 types of madeiran wine. Then off to the top of the nuns valley. No wonder the Madeiran drivers are good as the bad are all dead, going off the steep, narrow roads. Great views from the top, cafe, shop etc. well worth the trip. Then off to the Monte suburb. The gardens are splendid with a great variety of plants, trees etc. Did we want to do the sldge run? 25 euros a couple, and goes downhill for about 2 kilometers down toward Funchal town, pulled by two energetic men. We passed as my wife had done the run 20 years ago and it's no fun on your own. Well worth the money trip.
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the funny thing is the last 2 games both got 4's out of 5 , and where the hell was Ninja Gaiden 1 , I mean come on I love GoW as much as anyone ells maybe more but Ninja Gaiden was a the first real 3rd person action game that did it right and no mention of Gears of War . Sure hate all you want but every 3rd person shooter tries to be Gears . And to have Fallout 3 so far on the list is nothing short of a travesty in my opinion . Where Oblivion and Demon's Souls , take your Rock Band and get it out of there , its not even a real game its music lite
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I can't believe Okami and Shadow of the Colossus made it on this list I thought those games where horrible. When I say horrible I'm Talking ET phone home horrible. U guys should make a worst games of the Decade list then put those two games on it.
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Simultaneous reshaping of OOK and DPSK signals by a fiber-based all-optical regenerator
Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 4, pp. 1430-1438 (2006)
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Simultaneous reshaping of optically time-division-multiplexed RZ-OOK and RZ-DPSK signals by a fiber-based regenerator is numerically demonstrated. The regenerator utilizes the four-wave mixing (FWM) in a highly nonlinear fiber. A parametric amplifier configuration without wavelength conversion of the signal is assumed, in which ultra-fast saturation of the FWM interaction gives stabilization of signal amplitude with the signal phase principally maintained. The regenerator greatly improves the performance of OOK tributaries. Although the regenerator does not have the function of phase regeneration, it improves the DPSK signal quality when the signal power is relatively low where the amplitude noise is significant. Influence of the pump phase modulation on the regenerator performance is also examined.
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(060.2360) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics links and subsystems
(190.4380) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing
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Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Original Manuscript: December 5, 2005
Revised Manuscript: January 31, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: February 1, 2006
Published: February 20, 2006
Masayuki Matsumoto, "Simultaneous reshaping of OOK and DPSK signals by a fiber-based all-optical regenerator," Opt. Express 14, 1430-1438 (2006)
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- W. Shieh, X. Yi, and A. V. Tran, "Label swapping for DPSK encoded labels without wavelength conversion," 2005 Optical Fiber Communications Conference, paper OTuC1 (2005).
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OPLUSTIL, Carmen Paz; NUNES, Rogério; MENDES, Caio and RESISTNET GROUP. Multicenter evaluation of resistance patterns of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp and Shigella spp isolated from clinical specimens in Brazil: RESISTNET surveillance program. Braz. j. infect. dis [online]. 2001, vol.5, n.1, pp. 8-12. ISSN 1413-8670. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-86702001000100002.
Surveillance programs are essential to detect the increase of antimicrobial resistance, and several different programs are being conducted in many countries. The RESISTNET is a surveillance program for bacterial resistance against several antimicrobial agents initiated in 1998 among Latin American countries. In Brazil, several centers were invited to join this surveillance and a total of 11 centers (6 from São Paulo and 5 from other states) participated in the study. All results were analyzed using the WHONET program. A total of 894 Escherichia coli, 386 Klebsiella pneumoniae, 70 Shigella spp and 57 Salmonella spp strains were analyzed in this study from April, 1998, to April, 1999. Susceptibility testing was performed by the disk diffusion method using NCCLS 1998 guidelines for several different drugs. For all strains, imipenem was the most effective drug (100% of the strains were susceptible). Klebsiella pneumoniae presented a high resistance rate to ampicillin (96.4%). The rate of probable ESBL producers among K. pneumoniae strains was 36.3%, most of them being isolated from catheters (58.8%). Among all Escherichia coli strains analyzed, the highest resistance rate was found for trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (46.9%) and the majority of the resistant strains were isolated from urine samples (47.8%). Among Salmonella spp, the resistance rates were low for all antibiotics tested. For Shigella spp strains there was a high resistance to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (80.0%). No resistance to ceftriaxone was observed in these strains. Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance is critical for the successful management of infectious diseases. The results of this survey show significant resistance rates among these bacteria which are responsible for several types of human infections.
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Pope Benedict XVI's historic visit to Britain is in disarray as the costs spiral and doubts increase over the schedule.
The part of the bill that must be paid by the Roman Catholic church is now being put at as much as £14million, twice the earlier estimate, which could lead to events being scaled down or even cancelled.
Meanwhile the new Government has not yet appointed a minister to co-ordinate the trip – the first ever papal state visit to the country – while a new team of civil servants had to be assembled following the outrage over a leaked memo suggesting that the Pope launch a range of condoms or open an abortion clinic.
Preparations have also been affected by the ill-health of Benedict's ambassador to Britain, Archbishop Faustino Sainz Muñoz, who suffered a stroke last month.
One senior figure who attended a meeting of the church's organising committee was heard to say of the visit: "It's like buying a ticket for the Titanic."
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Damian Thompson reveals the turmoil behind the scenes in the preparations for Pope Benedict XVI's keenly awaited visit to Britain — and how the trip has been hijacked by a Blairite cadre
Last week, the Catholic Arch-bishops of England and Wales were summoned to a private meeting in London where they were given astonishing news about Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Britain. The pontiff is due in four months' time (16-19 September), yet preparations were going badly wrong. Some of the major venues, while announced, had still not been booked. And worse, the Church's share of the cost of the four-day trip had veered wildly out of control, from £7 million to a figure nearer £14 million. They later concluded that the centrepiece — an open-air Mass at Coventry airport — was probably going to have to be cancelled. It was a disaster.
There were 'gasps from the archbishops', I'm told. This was the Mass at which the Pope would beatify John Henry Newman. The organiser of the visit, Monsignor Andrew Summersgill, outlined their backup plan: hold the Mass in St Mary's College, Oscott, a sprawling, clumsily modernised neo-Gothic seminary near Sutton Coldfield that Benedict is scheduled to visit anyway. 'We can blame the change of plan on the era of austerity' was the proposed excuse.
Crucially, only 10,000 worshippers could be accommodated at Oscott. Coventry airport can take 200,000 — a figure which is actually much smaller than the number of people who want to attend the beatification of Newman. The archbishops at the meeting immediately grasped the implications of this. They had already collected money for the Coventry Mass — how would they explain that it had been cancelled?
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Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is responsible for developing and acquiring new technologies to address homeland security needs. TSA's acquisition programs represent billions of dollars in life-cycle costs and support a wide range of aviation security missions and investments including technologies used to screen passengers, checked baggage, and air cargo, among others. GAO's testimony addresses three key challenges identified in past work: (1) developing technology program requirements, (2) overseeing and conducting testing of new technologies, and (3) incorporating information on costs and benefits in making technology acquisition decisions. This statement also addresses recent DHS efforts to strengthen its investment and acquisition processes. This statement is based on reports and testimonies GAO issued from October 2009 through September 2011 related to TSA's efforts to manage, test, and deploy various technology programs.
GAO's past work has found that TSA has faced challenges in developing technology program requirements on a systemic and individual basis. Program performance cannot be accurately assessed without valid baseline requirements established at the program start. In June 2010, GAO reported that over half of the 15 DHS programs (including 3 TSA programs) GAO reviewed awarded contracts to initiate acquisition activities without component or department approval of documents essential to planning acquisitions, setting operational requirements, or establishing acquisition program baselines. At the program level, in July 2011, GAO reported that in 2010 TSA revised its explosive detection systems (EDS) requirements to better address current threats and plans to implement these requirements in a phased approach. However, GAO reported that some number of the EDSs in TSA's fleet are configured to detect explosives at the levels established in the 2005 requirements and TSA did not have a plan with time frames needed to deploy EDSs to meet the current requirements. GAO has also reported DHS and TSA challenges in overseeing and testing new technologies. For example, in July 2011, GAO reported that TSA experienced challenges in collecting data on the physical and chemical properties of certain explosives needed by vendors to develop EDS detection software and needed by TSA before procuring and deploying EDSs to airports. TSA and DHS Science and Technology Directorate have experienced these challenges because of problems associated with safely handling and consistently formulating some explosives. The challenges related to data collection for certain explosives have resulted in problems carrying out the EDS procurement as planned. In addition, in October 2009, GAO reported that TSA deployed explosives trace portals, a technology for detecting traces of explosives on passengers at airport checkpoints, in January 2006 even though TSA officials were aware that tests conducted during 2004 and 2005 on earlier models of the portals suggested the portals did not demonstrate reliable performance in an airport environment. In June 2006, TSA halted deployment of the explosives trace portals because of performance problems and high installation costs. GAO's prior work has shown that cost-benefit analyses help congressional and agency decision makers assess and prioritize resource investments and consider potentially more cost-effective alternatives, and that without this ability, agencies are at risk of experiencing cost overruns, missed deadlines, and performance shortfalls. GAO has reported that TSA has not consistently included these analyses in its acquisition decision making. In June 2011, DHS reported that it is taking steps to strengthen its investment and acquisition management processes by implementing a decision-making process at critical phases throughout the investment life cycle. The actions DHS reports taking to address the management of its acquisitions and the development of new technologies are positive steps and, if implemented effectively, could help the department address many of these challenges. GAO is not making any new recommendations. In prior work, GAO made recommendations to address challenges related to deploying EDS to meet requirements, overseeing and conducting testing of new technologies, and incorporating information on costs and benefits in making technology acquisition decisions. DHS and TSA concurred and described actions underway to address the recommendations.
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Coast Guard:
Timely Actions Needed to Address Risks in Using Rotational CrewsGAO-15-195: Published: Mar 6, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 6, 2015. -
Combating Nuclear Smuggling:
DHS Research and Development on Radiation Detection Technology Could Be StrengthenedGAO-15-263: Published: Mar 6, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 6, 2015.
Apr 2, 2015
Homeland Security:
Action Needed to Better Assess Cost-Effectiveness of Security Enhancements at Federal Facilities [Reissued on April 2, 2015]GAO-15-444: Published: Mar 24, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 24, 2015.
Mar 31, 2015
Federal Protective Service:
More Effective Management Needed in Delegating Security Authority to AgenciesGAO-15-271: Published: Mar 31, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 31, 2015.
Mar 25, 2015
Aviation Security:
TSA's Managed Inclusion Process Expands Passenger Expedited Screening, But TSA Has Not Tested Its Security EffectivenessGAO-15-465T: Published: Mar 25, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 25, 2015.
Mar 23, 2015
Border Security:
Additional Efforts Needed to Address Persistent Challenges in Achieving Radio InteroperabilityGAO-15-201: Published: Mar 23, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2015.
Mar 16, 2015
Homeland Security Acquisitions:
DHS Should Better Define Oversight Roles and Improve Program Reporting to CongressGAO-15-292: Published: Mar 12, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 16, 2015.
Mar 10, 2015
Government Publishing Office:
Production of Secure Credentials for the Department of State and U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionGAO-15-326R: Published: Mar 10, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 10, 2015.
Mar 6, 2015
Aviation Security:
TSA Should Take Additional Action to Obtain Stakeholder Input when Modifying the Prohibited Items ListGAO-15-261: Published: Feb 4, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 6, 2015.
Feb 26, 2015
Department of Homeland Security:
Progress Made, but More Work Remains in Strengthening Management FunctionsGAO-15-388T: Published: Feb 26, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 26, 2015.
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A review by Todd Richmond
It seems that every science fiction/fantasy show spawns a
series of related books: X-Files, Highlander,
Babylon 5, Star Trek and now
Stargate. First a major motion picture, then
a weekly television series, and now a number of books based on that series.
Stargate SG-1 is the first book of six, set over a year
after the events in the motion picture. For those not familiar
with the movie, a brief synopsis: Dr. Daniel Jackson, an
out-of-favor Egyptologist, is recruited by a secret military
project to translate some hieroglyphs. The hieroglyphs are the
key to a stargate, an ancient artifact discovered among the
Egyptian pyramids in the early 1900s. With Jackson's help,
they discover how to operate the stargate and send an
expedition, led by Colonel Jack O'Neill, through to
investigate. O'Neill, Jackson and a small group of soldiers
discover an extraordinary civilization on the other side of
the stargate ( a planet called Abydos) ruled by a member of an alien race, the Goa'uld,
that uses human beings as parasitic hosts.
Stargate SG-1 picks up
the story sometime later. Without warning, the Earth's stargate
activates and six hostile aliens step through. The soldiers
guarding the gate drive them off, but not before the aliens
kidnap a female soldier. O'Neill is called out of retirement
to help deal with the new threat. He returns with a team to
Abydos, only to discover that the Abydos gate has not been
activated. Soon it becomes clear that there is a vast network
of gates in place throughout the galaxy, the Goa'uld are far from
extinct and they are still preying on humans. Besides posing a threat
to Earth, the Goa'uld make things very personal by kidnapping
Daniel's wife, Sha're and her brother, Skaara.
Stargate SG-1 does an adequate job of transcribing the
television show. But, unfortunately, that's all it does. Books
based on television shows can be very enjoyable, especially when
they expand on the original and add depth and detail to characters
and events. Sadly, that is not the case with
Stargate SG-1. The book lacks sufficient detail to fully
explain the events that take place here, let alone expand
on the original. The details about the Goa'uld and the
stargates and how they operate are all sketchy at best. The
characters are one dimensional, spouting unemotional dialogue. You
will not get a clear idea of what any of the characters are
supposed to be like from the book -- you're expected to know what
they're like from the movie (or from television show). It's easier,
I think, for actors to show emotion and convey feeling with body
language, than it is for writers to relate them with the written word.
Stargate SG-1 isn't up to the task. If you've seen the
television show, there's no point in reading the book. If you
haven't seen the show, rather than spending money on the book, you'd
be better off trying to find the series on one of your local cable
channels, or renting the film from your local video store.
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Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The European Central Bank will require the euro area's biggest banks to hold a capital buffer of at least 8 percent as it takes charge of financial supervision in the currency bloc, three people familiar with the situation said.
The ECB will ask banks to hold capital equivalent to 7 percent of risk-weighted assets, plus a supplemental 1 percent for the largest institutions, said the people who declined to be identified as the details are confidential. An ECB spokeswoman declined to comment. The central bank is scheduled to publish further details at 9 a.m. in Frankfurt today.
"That's a level many banks could cope with," Dirk Becker, a banking analyst with Kepler Cheuvreux in Frankfurt, said in an interview. "Banks will continue to set aside profit as ECB supervision nears. I don't see a whole lot of share sales, as it is pretty tough to justify issuance."
The ECB is taking charge of bank oversight as policy makers try to prevent a rerun of a debt crisis that was partly sparked by banks' overexposure to sovereign debt. The first step will be to run tests on the balance sheets of 124 banks from Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's biggest bank, to the Estonian unit of Norway's DNB ASA. The operation may force some lenders to seek more capital.
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A key determinant of how much banks will have to raise will rest on how the ECB measures the riskiness of bank assets, guidelines the ECB hasn't yet published and which may differ from how banks currently gauge it. That makes it difficult to calculate which banks may fall foul of the ECB's capital ratio.
Under current Basel III standards, the weakest of the 19 large banks monitored by Bloomberg Industries still have ratios above 8 percent. Commerzbank AG, which had the lowest number among the euro region banks, had a ratio of 8.4 percent.
"The ratio is just the starting point, more will depend on the stress test that is applied on top of them and what happens to the capital ratios then," said Cor Kluis, an analyst at Rabobank International, covering Dutch and Belgian banks. "What will help increase safety of the European banking system is a consistent cross-border view and definitions, which is what we didn't have so far."
The benchmarks planned by the ECB effectively bring forward a European Union standard on the capital ratio that was not due to fully take effect until 2019. The definition of capital in EU rules will toughen year by year through 2019 as currently foreseen, one of the people said.
Three-Pronged Assessment
The ECB is cooperating with the European Banking Authority in a three-pronged assessment of the continent's financial industry.
The ECB will execute a preliminary risk check early next year to identify asset portfolios needing further examination, followed by a full review of the quality of banks' overall balance sheets. The EBA will then help conduct a stress test in the course of 2014 that will study how banks might withstand bouts of market turmoil as well as an assessment of their sovereign debt holdings.
The 8 percent capital ratio demanded by the ECB is lower than the average held by financial institutions around the world when Basel III standards are used.
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The ECB's 8 percent threshold consists of a 4.5 percent common equity tier 1 capital minimum, up from 2 percent under current EU rules. On top of that is a 2.5 percent capital conservation buffer. One additional percentage point of capital against assets would then be required for banks large or complex enough to endanger the whole financial system if they fail.
"The main aim of the asset review is to allow the ECB to gain full visibility on the quality of the assets of the banks which will be under its direct supervision," said Marco Valli, chief euro-area economist at UniCredit Global Research in Milan. "The lack of balance sheet visibility and comparability across countries has been one of the main factors weighing negatively on investors' perception of the riskiness of the European banking industry."
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April 10, 2007 Wait 'Til Next YearLooking at an Elite Eight in a New Way
For a pitcher, there is no room for error during the junior season in college baseball. With 15-18 starts, a pitcher must be dominant and he must be consistent, or Dallas Buck's fate becomes reality. When Buck was a dominating sophomore at Oregon State in 2005, he was expected to be one of the top five picks overall when he came out; a bad junior season where he showed less velocity dropped him below the first round. On February 22, Ross Detwiler began his season's worth of good outings by striking out 13 Dallas Baptist hitters in front of a host of scouting directors. Kevin Goldstein noted the outing , and at that point, only a face plant would have taken the lean Missouri State southpaw out of the first round. Detwiler still has a date within the top 20 picks, and justifiably, as left-handers with his type of velocity and projection are rare. But for kicks, I decided to go back and analyze the Dallas Baptist outing, to make sure we didn't miss something amidst the sexy pitching line. I don't suggest the scouts there missed anything, they--better than anyone--can understand the weaker competition that Baptist reflects (Boyd Nation ranked them as the 85th-best team in the country). In fact, much of Detwiler's season has been characterized by dominance against the inferior, but perhaps none more than the 13-strikeout outing. While Nation has Dallas Baptist ranked as the second-best of Detwiler's opponents, straight schedule-analysis doesn't take into account the specific batters involved. Granted, there is no hope of finding a ranking of every hitter in college baseball, but perhaps intuitively, we know one thing: the best hitters are always found at the top of the order. Few Division I programs have more than three or four hitters capable of playing at the next level, and every coach in America knows to put his best bats at the top. Surely, I thought, this is true for Dallas Baptist as well. Analyzing the game logs of the outing, I found some inconsistencies: Detwiler's lone mistakes in the outing--two hits (including a solo home run) and a walk--were against the first, third, and fourth hitters in the lineup. The first five hitters in the lineup combined to strike out just five times, meaning the Patriots' bottom four hitters combined to go 0-for-9 with eight strikeouts. Naturally, pitchers are always going to do better against the bottom half of the order. Major League Baseball is no exception--last year, pitchers allowed an OPS more than 100 points stingier against the 6-9 spots of the order: Slots AB AVG OBP SLG K% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-5 97010 .282 .355 .460 17.6% 6-9 70331 .252 .311 .393 20.8% In college baseball, the difference between the leadoff and ninth-slot hitters is even more pronounced, so it is extremely important for pitchers to clamp down on the bottom half of the order. Detwiler's great performance against the Dallas Baptist weaklings deserves commendation; not allowing a hit against them limited the number of at-bats he'd have to pitch against the top half of the order. But from a scouting standpoint, I wonder if there is something else to be taken from his splits. Certainly one of the holy grails of sabermetric analysis is adding some black and white to the gray area where a college career ends and a professional one begins. Detwiler's extreme start is really only an introduction to such analysis, which leaves me wondering aloud: are performances against nonprofessional-caliber hitters important when analyzing elite pitchers? At this point, I don't think there is an answer to this question. My guess is that performance against 6-9 hitters is a little important, as it should tell us something about pitchability. If a college pitcher already understands he should attack the strike zone and challenge bad hitters--and in essence, leave himself more pitches to try and fool the genuinely good hitters--then he has moxie beyond his years. On the other hand, if a pitcher struggles against bad hitters, but has the stuff, it is a likely indication of some lack of pitchability. However, in my opinion, what's most important is the ability to consistently get out the best hitters in college baseball. Many hitters in the second spot in college baseball end up in the nine-hole on professional teams--the talent pool will only become more difficult for the elite. Retiring bad hitters should be no problem for first-round arms, but beating the best is why they earn seven-figure bonuses. Below, I will look at how my top eight pitching prospects for the 2007 draft are faring in the aforementioned splits. But before we get to the numbers, let's meet the contestants. Jake Arrieta of TCU burst onto the scene with a fantastic sophomore season, and the big-bodied right-hander likely has not lost his place in the first round. Andrew Brackman has again posted underwhelming numbers this season, but his huge frame and mid-90s fastball will land him in the top ten. We've mentioned Ross Detwiler, one of 2007's biggest risers up draft boards. I like Tulane's Sean Morgan more than most, but he has struck out hitters at big rates his entire career with the Green Wave. David Price needs no introduction; we might as well call him a Devil Ray. As frustrating as Brackman is Rice's Joe Savery, an �ber-athletic southpaw with big stuff that has never matched his freshman results. Arkansas' Nick Schmidt had a better sophomore season than Price, and while his stuff isn't as special, he's better than your average bear. Finally, the annual Cape-made star is UC Riverside's James Simmons, who has topped Wes Roemer in the control-oriented first-round right-hander department. These might not be the first eight starters taken in the 2007 draft, but all of the players in this piece should be off the board before the second round. I'll turn to the numbers before making some conclusions about who might disappoint and who might blow up once they reach professional baseball. Below, we have the eight aforementioned starters ranked by OPS against the 1-5 spots in the order, with numbers against that split as well as the 6-9 slots. 1-5 spots 6-9 spots Name AB AVG OBP SLG K% | AB AVG OBP SLG K% ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simmons 134 .187 .232 .261 26.1% | 94 .138 .165 .181 30.9% Schmidt 135 .185 .315 .222 28.9% | 81 .176 .286 .286 29.7% Price 144 .208 .281 .271 41.0% | 97 .165 .257 .237 41.2% Detwiler 102 .186 .278 .275 30.4% | 68 .132 .253 .147 42.6% Morgan 119 .202 .317 .269 37.8% | 85 .218 .287 .271 42.4% Savery 97 .247 .336 .299 21.6% | 64 .203 .250 .250 18.8% Arrieta 118 .220 .308 .347 31.4% | 72 .264 .398 .361 27.8% Brackman 118 .280 .379 .466 20.3% | 90 .211 .268 .256 26.7% Ignoring the two names at the bottom of the table (where the biggest questions are raised) for now, I was initially surprised to see James Simmons on top of the list. Most of the players on this list are hard throwers with slight command issues, but with only seven walks on the year, Simmons is on top because his OBP-allowed is by far the best. Simmons, Price, Detwiler, and Savery line up with the Major Leaguers as far as the differences in their splits--each has a near 100-point difference in OPS between the two. Savery's low strikeout rate is a concern, while Price's high strikeout rate seems to indicate that all college hitters he faces are beneath his level. Nick Schmdt and Sean Morgan are far closer to even in the two splits, but for reasons I think we can forgive. Morgan simply has had a worse BABIP against the 6-9 spots; if you even it out between the two, he becomes normal again. Schmidt was normal until this weekend, when a seven-slot hitter in Mississippi's lineup went Tuffy Rhodes on him, smacking three of the eight extra-base hits he has allowed on the season. One hitter notwithstanding, Schmidt is normal as well. The Extremes This leaves us with two pitchers as particularly interesting. Jake Arrieta, who according to Boyd Nation's Iterative Strength Ratings has faced the weakest schedule of the eight, was seventh in OPS against 1-5 spots on this list, and eighth against 6-9 spots. He's had a disappointing junior season with his command, but it's noteworthy he has been 104 OPS points better against 1-5 hitters. As mentioned earlier, I would attribute this to pitchability; the big difference in the splits is an increase in walks against the bottom half--Arrieta could stand to trust his stuff more and challenge back-end hitters. While his pitcher's body and three-pitch arsenal haven't dropped him to the second round yet, he has failed to advance his cause much in a weak year for right-handed pitchers. Unsurprisingly, given his career, Andrew Brackman is the unique pitcher in the article. In the middle of the eight-pitcher pack in terms of performance against 6-9 hitters, Brackman was almost 200 OPS points worse than Arrieta against the best hitters in each lineup. Brackman basically makes 1-5 hitters look like a more powerful version of Kevin Youkilis, while 6-9 hitters are comparable to Chan Ho Park (the hitter). While noting the sample size caveats, this is substantial. Due to his 6-foot-10 frame and his equally big velocity, Brackman gets a lot of apologies for two years where he's been distracted by basketball. But if his bonus demands at all resemble the slot he was projected to be drafted in February (top five), I think teams would do best by electing to pass. Drifting back to Detwiler, we see the Dallas Baptist start reflects a lot about his season on a whole. Dominant against all hitters, Detwiler has the largest discrepancy between strikeout rates in the two splits. In the end, the legitimacy of the numbers we looked at today might be determined by Detwiler's strikeout numbers in pro ball. According to these numbers, as well as the defining start of his season, the southpaw's strikeout dominance could subside in pro ball.
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At the official weigh-in for Saturdays showdown against former world champion Daniel Ponce de Leon, ARENAs Cuban featherweight superstar Yuriorkis Gamboa had to get rid off his underwear in order to make the contractual weight of 127 lbs. The Mexican weighed in exactly in the limit as well. For promoter Ahmet Oner this was another sign that his fighter will not remain at 126 but move up in weight to do his next fights at 130 or 135. "Yuri has emphasized a couple of times in the last days that this is his last fight close to the featherweight limit", says Oner. "And I think we all agree that theres nothing left to prove for him at 126. He beat everybody who dared to fight him so its the natural next step to fight his way through the next higher divisions." While co-promoter Top Rank tried to draw the public attention to a possible fight between Gamboa and bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire who plans to move up to 126 sooner or later, "El Ciclon" is eyeing a megafight with another Filipino. "I would love to get a shot at Manny Pacquiao", Gamboa said before the weigh-in. "I always said that I want to prove that Im the best boxer in the world. To be the best you have to beat the best so I hope that at some point I get the chance to do that. I think a fight against Pacquiao at 140 could be fantastic." "I think Gamboa is one of very few fighters who can be a real threat to Pacquiao", adds promoter Oner. "Wouldnt it be great to see these to aggressive fighting machines going at each other with their unique combination of extraordinary speed and power?" But Gamboa knows that he has to take care of Ponce de Leon first before he can phantasize about bigger things to come. Although "El Ciclon" has faced strong opponents from his first pro-fight on, the Mexican power puncher is surely the Cubans toughest test so far. "I know that I have to be careful because Ponce de Leon hits very hard", says Gamboa. "But I hit hard as well and he cannot hit what he wont even see. I will be way too fast for him and overwhelm him with my speed. Still I have to be cautious but Im very well prepared for this fight."
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10/13/2004 6:12:28 AM Permalink[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] argargyarg I'm from B.C. but I went to Edmonton in summer... it's really flat there -NO MOUNTAINS AARRRGGG.[/quote] I'm guessing you've never been to Saskatchewan. -
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10/13/2004 3:45:30 AM Permalink[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] True Tanadian [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] RandomlyIssued dont cross post.[/quote] Never heard that term. Meaning? Sorry dude, Winnipeg.[/quote] Example. I post a thread complaining about lack of air in Alaska, in New Mombasa. Then I post that exact thread in every other forum that I can. Cross posting is evil. -
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10/13/2004 3:36:57 AM Permalink[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] RandomlyIssued dont cross post.[/quote] Never heard that term. Meaning? Sorry dude, Winnipeg. -