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St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday is finding his way on base every game, so much so that he's a week away from setting a record for consecutive contests reaching safely to start a season since 1900. From a pure fantasy baseball aspect, however, he's still underachieving. Holliday begins Tuesday on the outside of the top-40 outfielders on the ESPN Player Rater, hitting for average but on pace for a mere 10 home runs, 76 RBI, 6 stolen bases and 57 runs scored. Those numbers won't win fantasy leagues.
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Simon Weisenthal's greatest contribution to the world was his dogged pursuit of Nazi criminals who escaped punishment at the end of World War II. His second greatest contribution was his reminder that despite being described as "the Good War" or "a just war," not enough good was ultimately done, and comparatively little justice was meted out. Some of the most prominent and heinous architects of mass murder simply got on with their lives, and some were the recipients of largesse — jobs, travel assistance, even money and government protection — that was denied to the people who endured their cruelty. And we tend to forget that for every high-ranking sadist or mass murderer who was imprisoned or executed after the war, thousands more who assisted them directly (through action) or indirectly (through silence) were never even called to account.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. A Florida jury has convicted Houston millionaire John Goodman of DWI manslaughter and vehicular homicide after a drunk driving crash that killed a recent college graduate.
The River Oaks native ran a stop sign andcrashed his $250,000 Bentley into 23-year-oldScott Wilson'sHyundai two years ago. Wilson's car was pushed into a canal and he drowned.
Goodman walked away from the accident, claiming he saw no sign of Wilson s car.
I looked around as hard as I could. I did the best I could do, Goodman testified.
Goodman also said he was not drunk when the accident happened, but that his luxury car malfunctioned. He claims he drank a lot after he left the accident scene, because he found a bottle of liquor in a nearby barn.
I went over and proceeded to grab a bottle of the liquor and I drank it, thinking it would help with my pain, Goodman testified.
Authorities, however, said Goodman s blood-alcohol level was .20 the night of the crash well over the legal limit of .08.
Jurors didn't buy Goodman's story.
These two type of defenses are sort of unbelievable, and because of that I m not surprised at all over the conviction, said 11 News Legal Analyst Gerald Treece.
Goodman's attorney said he will appeal.
It is our belief that multiple errors were committed during and before the trial that, in effect, denied our client s ability to get a fair trial, said Roy Black, Goodman s attorney. We intend to file an appeal so that our client can receive the just and fair proceeding to which he is entitled by law.
Treece predicted Goodman might get a lesser sentence even though he caused a young man s death.
If alcohol or drugs takes a part in that, that often factors into the sentencing in a positive way not a negative way, Treece said. That s because all of us know people, maybe ourselves, who have been impaired while they were driving. It s not the same as taking a gun out and shooting people, and I think the crime will not lead to a 30-year punishment that s the maximum.
Goodman will besentenced on April 30.
Footnote: Perhaps the most bizarre twist in the trial, which included a parade of rich and famous witnesses,came when Goodman adopted his adult girlfriend Heather Hutchins ostensibly to protect a large trust fund from a lawsuit by Wilson s family. In the end, though, he decided to go ahead and reach a settlement with the family, but the details were not released.
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May Peleg, a transgender woman, told Ynet that "Israel's transgender community has been discriminated against all year, both by the gay and lesbian communities, and by the general public. We are only now starting to enjoy rights that gays and lesbians received 30 years ago," she said.
Yuval Topper and Mattan Erez, the two first gay biological fathers in Israel told Ynet: "We hope that our son can grow up in a better place than where we did," adding that the Interior Ministry still refuses to recognize Mattan as their son's biological father.
Opposition Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich carried a speech saying, "I have been a supporter of this community for years. I support equality for all mankind, regardless of race, faith, sex or socio-economic status."
Shay Deutsch, the chairman of the LGBT association in Israel told Ynet that "despite the recognition by the media, the community still sffers from many problems such as cases of suicide, teens that are expelled from their homes and transgenders who cannot find work. The State still does not give us equal rights," he said.


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Cincinnati — Bob Uecker was in great spirits Thursday as the Milwaukee Brewers opened their 2011 season against the Cincinnati Reds.
And why not?
Last year was an ongoing nightmare for the Hall of Fame radio voice, beginning with pancreatic surgery in January, followed by open-heart surgery in April and again in October, a follow-up procedure that Uecker said saved his life.
Despite those setbacks, Uecker was back in the radio booth for his 56th consecutive opening day as a player and broadcaster.
"And I'm still not in the starting lineup," he joked.
A year ago this time, Uecker knew he was headed for heart surgery. He hoped to make it through the season, but when his condition deteriorated, the decision was made to do it in late April. It would be three months before he returned to calling games on WTMJ-AM (620), the Brewers' flagship radio station.
His recovery went anything but smoothly, however. He developed a staph infection at the site of the heart valve replacement, causing it to begin leaking again. Uecker was preparing to take a postseason trip to Florida when he decided instead to go in for a checkup.
"Had I not gone for that checkup, I would have died, no doubt," said Uecker. "You could see it was leaking (on the scan). Where the staph infection was, I was pumping blood into my heart chamber."
Uecker said it was disheartening to have the second surgery because "you knew what it was going to be. I had just had it. They had to cut through the wires that were holding my chest together from the first surgery."
Uecker has gained back most of the 24 pounds he lost after those two surgeries and looks and feels much healthier. He is back to swimming again every day, his favorite physical exercise.
"I'm back to 190 pounds. That was my 'sitting weight' when I played," he said, again displaying his trademark sense of humor.
"I feel better; I feel stronger. My chest is still a little sore. I'm off all the 'bad' medications I was taking."
One of those medications caused Uecker to be extremely sensitive to sunlight, resulting in actual burning of his skin in places despite using lots of sunscreen. Still intact is his self-deprecating humor as he recalled never being in an opening day lineup.
"I couldn't even make the starting lineup in an old-timers game," he said. "The father-son-daughter games, I didn't make those lineups, either."


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Today news came down that the NFL and the former NFL players have reached a agreement in the lawsuit on concussions. Now I am not sure if it is a good deal or not for the players, I would say it is not but that's just my two cents. I do think that it brings up a different question altogether in what does the NFL know about it's game and how damaging the effects are. Football is a violent game and has risk which everyone knows but is there more the NFL knows and does not want to share because they don't want to lose money? If you think that a league would not put it's guys at risk your wrong because we are talking about billions of dollars here. Yes Billions folks and that in itself is part of the problem it is so much money. Money like most drugs you have to get and make more and more to get you that high again. I just want to know the bottom line of how dangerous the game is or is not and then people can make their choices' about playing. I have got the opportunity to hang with some NFL players and they told before how much they hurt after the game. After talking with some of those guys it because a little more real how tough of a game football is. I played some football in high school and loved it and If I had a kid I would let them play in high school but not sure I would start them too young on the game. I should also say I love college football and the football in general I just hope no info is being covered up
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Friday's session of Gujarat Assembly saw discussion on the issue of malnourishment in the state, where it emerged that 34,280 children do not receive adequate nutrition.
A question in the matter was asked by Congress MLA from Viramgam, Tejashree Patel, where she inquired about taluka-wise number of children suffering from malnutrition. The state government replied that there are 34,280 children in ten talukas of Ahmedabad who are emaciated.
At , Daskroi has maximum number of such kids, followed by 4,840 in Viramgam and 4,510 in Dhandhuka. Barvala (879), Ranpur (1,423) and Mandal (1,559) are the talukas with least number of such children.
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After Glitches in Test, Law Graduates Who Took Bar Exam Offered a Small Consolation
ExamSoft Worldwide, which provides software for the bar exam, is settling a class-action lawsuit, offering about $90 per affected person.
May 21, 2015, Thursday
Big Law Firms Winning More of Intellectual Property Work
The heavyweight law firms outflanked their smaller rivals by being more adaptable in billing arrangements and using flexible staffing, a study found.
May 20, 2015, Wednesday
The Sweet Science of Syrup
Paul Weyant of Crown Maple in Dover Plains, N.Y., helps maintain a complex system of taps, pipes and tubes used in producing maple syrup.
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Slightly Higher Percentage of Law School Graduates Landed Legal Jobs, Report Says
The four percentage point increase from 2013 appears to be a result of fewer law school graduates in 2014 rather than a better hiring market.
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About 20 percent of 2010 graduates have jobs that do not require a law license, a new study shows, and only 40 percent are working in law firms.
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Salaries for first-year lawyers at big firms have been stuck at around $160,000 since 2007, according to the National Association for Law Placement.
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An AARP group surveyed 2,492 people ages 45 to 70 who had been unemployed and found about half had managed to find work.
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Many law school deans have begun to openly question the mechanics of the test, and some states are even exploring other options.
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Geographical proximity to a major legal market may be a good predictor of "big law" career success, a new study shows.
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HoopsHype Ukraine rumors
Alex Len's grandparents can hear the gunfire from their home in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists have been in fierce fighting with Ukrainian forces. Local police have abandoned his hometown, leaving gangs to roam the streets and terrorize residents. A half-world away, the 21-year-old center is showing he belongs in the NBA, displaying the skills that led the Phoenix Suns chose him fifth overall in the 2013 draft. "When I play it's like a different world, just basketball," he said. "Definitely off the court it's sad. ...Two years ago it was one country. Now all of a sudden people divide, separate themselves, like we're different." USA Today Sports
He has brought his mother to live with him. His grandparents came for a short time, but the culture change was too much for them, he said, so they returned home. "My grandparents right now are right in the middle of a war zone," he said. "I tried to get them to stay over here, but you know how old people are. For them it was too big a change." No one in his family has been hurt in the fighting, Len said, "thank God." USA Today Sports
And back home, the fighting goes on despite a supposed cease fire in a war Len knew was "getting worse each day." He chooses no side. "I'm Ukrainian and I won't go against Russia, too. I'm right in the middle," Len said. "I just want peace for everybody. I just don't want people to die." USA Today Sports
The cautious Fratello will not be drawn into predictions or thoughts about Ukraine's chances in this group so soon before the draw for the tournament was made clear, and especially before he has a good idea on the composition of his team's roster. "If you ask how many games can we win in this group, I think the preparation is going to be very important, for any of these teams," he said. "If I could tell you right now who is going to show up and play for us in the summer, it would make it easier to talk about my team." TalkBasket
"Some NBA players will come [to Eurobasket] others will not, but we don't have that many NBA players in Ukraine. "We used to have Slava [Viacheslav Kravtsov] in the NBA, who is now playing in China and we have a young player right now, [Phoenix Suns center] Alex Len, who has not yet played for the national team. TalkBasket
Mike Fratello will remain as head coach of Ukraine National Team for the entire 2015. Sportando
Fesenko says he wants to reclaim an NBA job so he can bring his mother, wife and other relatives to the United States from his hometown in Ukraine, the divided, strife-torn Eastern European country in which Fesenko was born on Christmas Eve 1986 and raised. His hometown of Dnipropetrovsk is far from the disputed portions of Ukraine, a four-hour drive that has brought refugees but no fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists to the industrial central region of the country where his mother and wife live. Fesenko and his wife were married in June. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
He is a half-world away from a home he last visited in August, but he's reminded of the conflict every time he thinks of a neighbor who was killed when a Malaysia Airlines jet mistakenly was shot down over the country in July. "It was really tragic. That's when it actually finally hit me that it's for real," Fesenko said. "That it's not somewhere out there." Minneapolis Star-Tribune
He estimated he spends three or four hours a day communicating on Skype with family and friends to keep up to date on what's happening with them and with his country. "It's a huge concern for me," he said. "If the conflict will resolve itself, I'll be the happiest person in the world." He was asked if it was unsettling to watch his country being split by the crisis. "It is. I think war is the outdated solution to any conflict," said Fesenko, a 2007 second-round pick by Philadelphia who was traded to Utah and played four seasons for the Jazz. He hasn't played regularly in the NBA since 2011. "It's just ridiculous and stupid and I'm very worried about my mom, my wife, all my friends. Two of my friends already enlisted in the army and I really don't want that to happen. I'm all up for fighting the good cause, but I just don't want to lose any of my childhood friends." Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Jorge Sierra: Guard Pooh Jeter tells HoopsHype he worked out for the Lakers last Wednesday. Landed in L.A. Tuesday after playing World Cup in Spain. Twitter @hoopshype
Los Angeles Lakers decided to offer a tryout period to Ukrainian point-guard Pooh Jeter. The player ended World Cup in Spain with 15.4 points and 5 assists per game. Sportando
James Harden scored 17 points, Stephen Curry added 14 and the unbeaten U.S. national team wrapped up pool play with a 95-71 victory over Ukraine on Thursday at the Basketball World Cup. Anthony Davis finished with 12 points for the Americans, who were still waiting out the final results from Group D in the Canary Islands to determine who they would play Saturday night in Barcelona. They would draw the fourth-place finisher in the round of 16. The Americans were never in any danger of losing in the second half after seizing control just before halftime against a methodical Ukraine team coached by former NBA coach Mike Fratello. USA Today Sports
Madrid will announce EuroBasket 2015 hosts on September 8. Croatia, France, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Israel and Turkey are on the list of possible host countries. The Board of FIBA Europe decided to relocate 2015 EuroBasket from Ukraine. The decision has been officially announced earlier. The situation in Ukraine has not changed drastically in the last months so the decision seemed inevitable. TalkBasket
Mike Fratello on coaching the Ukraine national basketball team: One day they call you and tell you that there's gunshots and bombings in the middle of Kiev, that it's on TV. Then you call the Federation and they tell you nothing is happening and everything is OK. Some of these players live in Donestk or they have families there. Some of them have lost their jobs. They are worried about their lives and jobs. It's difficult. Mundo Deportivo
Amid the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, former NBA head coach and current analyst Mike Fratello and his staff are remaining with the Ukraine men's national team for the upcoming World Cup. The staff includes Brooklyn Nets assistant Joe Wolf, who oversees Ukraine's basketball development, along with longtime NBA coaches/executives Bob Hill and Jack Nolan. Wolf, who is attending Team USA practices this week, said he had no reservations about returning to Kiev for a third consecutive year. "We just stay away from the eastern part of the country," he said, "and we're gone a lot during the training. We play three games in Lithuania, have three games in Kiev, play France, Spain. We play this team (USA), too, Sept. 4 in the World Cup in Bilbao." Sacramento Bee
Emiliano Carchia: Ukraine will have pole position if they decide to host Eurobasket 2017 Twitter @sportando
Emiliano Carchia: FIBA Europe will announce new race for hosting rights, they will accept applications till 31 July Twitter @sportando
Emiliano Carchia: Eurobasket 2015 will change format and will have playoffs with 16 teams already after 1st round Twitter @sportando
Emiliano Carchia: Eurobasket 2015 will NOT be in Ukraine, according to Latvian Federation. Twitter @sportando
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Few places have received more accolades in recent years than Austin, the city that ranked first on our list of the best big cities for jobs. Understanding what makes this attractive, fast-growing city tick can tell us much about what urban growth will look like in the coming decades.
Austin's success is not surprising since, in many ways, it starts on third base. Two of its greatest assets result from the luck of the draw; it's both a state capital and home to a major research university. read more »
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Cities today have more political clout than at any time in a half century. Not only does an urbanite blessed by the Chicago machine sit in the White House, but Congress is now dominated by Democratic politicians hailing from either cities or inner-ring suburbs.
Perhaps because of this representation, some are calling for the administration and Congress to "bail out" urban America. Yet there's grave danger in heeding this call. Hope that "the urban president" will solve inner-city problems could end up diverting cities from the kind of radical reforms necessary to thrive in the coming decades.
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Americans have their "American Dream" of home ownership. Australians go one step further. They have a "Great Australian Dream" of home ownership. This was all part of a culture that celebrated its egalitarian ethos. Yet, to an even greater degree than in the United States, the "Dream" is in the process of being extinguished. It all started and is the worst in Sydney.
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In past iterations, we saw many fast-growing economies--some adding jobs at annual rates of 3% to 5%. Meanwhile, some grew more slowly, and others actually lost jobs. This year, however, you can barely find a fast-growing economy anywhere in this vast, diverse country. In 2008, 2% growth made a city a veritable boom town, and anything approaching 1% growth is, oddly, better than merely respectable. read more »
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During most business downturns, nimble private business owners search for countercyclical industries to which they adapt. During this business downturn, the construction industry finds itself frantically looking for anything countercyclical. Private construction, almost completely driven by the credit market, has stopped, and public construction, driven by tax revenue, has also stalled. Religious institutions, however, seem to be continuing incremental growth and building programs, giving evidence to some people's answers to spiritual questions being asked today. read more »
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In the quest to sufficiently reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it is crucial to "get the numbers right." Failure to do so would, in all probability, mean that the desired reductions will not be achieved. Regrettably, much of what is being proposed is not based upon any comprehensive quantitative analysis, but is rather rooted in anti-suburban dogma. read more »


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ANKARA (REUTERS) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday local elections had given him a mandate to "liquidate" the enemies he sees as contriving a corruption scandal and would go after their international activities and sources of funding.
In his first parliamentary speech since his ruling AK Party dominated March 30 municipal polls, Mr Erdogan said "traitors" responsible for a stream of graft allegations and the illegal tapping of thousands of phones would be brought to account.
Mr Erdogan accuses Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally now based in the United States, of orchestrating the graft scandal to undermine him. Mr Gulen's Hizmet network claims millions of followers and holds influence in the police and judiciary.
Mr Erdogan has accused the movement of running a "parallel state", spying on thousands of government officials over years and leaking manipulated recordings in a bid to unseat him ahead of last month's elections.
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The main suspect in the murders of Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew will remain behind bars on a parole violation while the investigations into the slayings continue.
William Balfour, who was married to the Oscar winning singer/actress' sister Julia, was arrested last month (Oct08), following the grisly murders, and held by police on a parole violation.
He went before the Illinois State Parole Review Board on Monday (10Nov08) to determine whether there was enough evidence to charge him with a violation or murder.
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Pune: Traffic signals always play a vital role in smooth movement of crowd on the roads. The growing city of Pune witnesses traffic congestion every day. According to the pedestrian safety instruction survey results of different chowks by Save Pune Traffic Movement (SPTM), none of the chowks have an average rating of 7.5.
This clearly indicates that all chowks are substandard in every aspect. Around 49 chowks were surveyed by the SPTM.
Team dna tried to trace the junctions which have less signal time duration or are defunct.
Perilous walk
Puneites are unaware of the fact that they are living in a unsafe zone of the traffic system, where it is almost impossible to reach your destination without taking risk. Consequence of such risks can really be fatal and could even lead to death. Unless the authority takes stringent steps to re-install the traffic signals properly, Puneites would continue to live through such a perilous traffic system.
Goodluck Chowk the 'Safest'
Pedestrian crossing signal does not work at the SwatantryanNagar Traffic signal at Aundh-Ravet road stops working at times, which makes thing difficult for the traffic police to control the junction. The traffic signal at Goodluck Cafe junction has the best rating of 8 by SPTM which makes it the safest and most convenient junction.
Place: In front of Vega Centre
Time given to cross the road: 5 seconds
At 15:43:45 pm in Swargate, we started crossing the road. We had just taken four steps when the signal turned red and the time read 15:43:50. The vehicles started moving speedily towards us. It was astonishing to see that only five seconds were given by the planners to cross the heavily congested road which has a width of 60 feet.
It is impossible to cross the road within the stipulated time period.
Karve Road
Place: Ayurveda Rasashala
Time given to cross the road: 7 seconds
The signal in front of Ayurveda Rasashala allows you to cross only one fourth of the distance in a time duration of 7 seconds. At Ayurveda Rasashala Chowk, I started at 16:38:38 and the signal stopped at 16:38:45. This junction which connects four omnidirectional roads does not allow pedestrians a safe passage as the chances of in coming vehicles is very high.
It is impossible to cross the whole road in the stipulated time period.
Karve Road
Place: Mruntynjayeshwar Mandir
Time given to cross the road: 10 seconds
In front of the Mrutyunjayeshwar traffic signal where the time allotted was 10 seconds, we started crossing the road at 17:05:58. We had just covered one fourth of the road when the time was 17:06:08. The biggest problem here is that vehicles tresspass on the zebra crossing. The vehicles were great contributors in increasing the complications of the junction.
It is impossible to cross the complete road in the available time. Not even half of the distance can be covered.
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Place: Rastrabhushan chowk
Time give to cross the Road: 2 seconds
The one at Rashtrabhusan Chowk with a very small distance to cross has a time-duration of 3 seconds. But once we started crossing the road, we could only take merely two steps and the vehicles started moving. We started at 14:44:49 and when the signal stopped the time was 14:44:51. We found hawkers near the zebra crossing trying to cross the road with their stuff.
It is impossible to cross the road within the stipulated time.


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Police arrested a man and charged him with killing a woman who had advertised masseuse services on Craigslist, law enforcement officials announced today.
Philip Markoff, 22, of Quincy, Mass., who was arrested at approximately 4 p.m. today, was also charged in an attack on another woman who had advertised sexual-related services on Craiglist, police said.
He was charged with murder in the shooting death of Julissa Brisman at the Copley Marriott Hotel April 14. He was also charged with armed robbery and kidnapping in an alleged attack on another woman April 10 at the Westin Hotel, according to a statement released by the Boston Police Department.
Markoff is a Boston University medical student who was originally from upstate New York and was engaged to be married, police sources told ABC News.
Police were executing a search warrant at Markoff's Quincy home this evening, sources told ABC News.
The arrest came just hours after Warwick, R.I., police released new pictures of the man they believe is responsible for the attempted robbery of a woman at a Holiday Inn there last week.
Police in both Boston and Rhode Island have said they believe the attacks may have been carried out by the same person.
Earlier today, investigators released a clear photograph of the suspect taken during the most recent attack in Warwick. A series of images show the suspect inside the Holiday Inn Express Hotel last Thursday evening, the scene of an attempted robbery of a woman.
The man seen in the pictures taken in the hotel closely resembles the man seen in a surveillance camera photo that was released after Brisman was found dead in a Boston hotel just days earlier.
Detectives also have a match among plastic zip-tie cuffs used to bind all three women.
Two law enforcement sources told ABC News that the plastic restraints were being investigated after they were used to bind the hands of the victims.
"Detectives are aggressively pursuing a number of promising leads," Boston Police Department spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll told ABC News earlier today, refusing to comment on the plastic cuffs.
The man captured on a series of surveillance cameras in Boston's upscale Back Bay was a 20-something, clean-cut blond man who was seen leaving a luxury hotel where police said Brisman, a masseuse, was shot and killed just moments before in her room.
Brisman's death is the second in a series of crimes against women who police say advertised on Craigslist.
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Then, Tuesday night, April 14, Brisman was killed at the Marriott, just next door.
Finally, late Thursday night -- an hour south in Rhode Island -- there was a similar attempted robbery.
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Boston police are working with police in Rhode Island to determine if the cases are connected.
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A method and system recommends items such as products and services to consumers. Rating on items are received from consumers as a sequential stream of data. A thin singular value decomposition is updated, one rating at the time, while receiving the ratings. A prediction of a recommendations of particular items for a particular consumer is based on the updated singular value decomposition while receiving the ratings and updating the singular value decomposition. The ratings are discarded after the updating so that a size, structure, and content of an underlying preference matrix is unknown.
1. A computer implemented method for recommending items to consumers in a recommender system, comprising the steps of:
receiving a stream of rating on items from consumers via a network;
updating sequentially, by a computer, a singular value decomposition of a preference matrix using the stream of ratings, in which each rating is processed one at a time and independent of any other ratings, while receiving the ratings, and wherein the updating is a sequential rank-1 update of the singular value decomposition to produce a thin SVD, and wherein the preference matrix is X, and wherein the singular value decomposition factors the preference matrix X into two orthogonal matrices U and V, and a diagonal matrix S≐diag(s), such that USVT=X, and UTXV=S, where T represents the SVD transform, the elements of s are singular values and columns of U and V are left and right singular vectors, respectively, and further comprising:
arranging non-negative elements on the diagonal of S in descending order, and a first non-zero element in each column of U is positive so that the thin SVD is unique; and
discarding all but a predetermined number of the r largest singular values and the corresponding singular vectors so that a product of the resulting thinned matrices, U′S′V′≈X, is a best rank-r approximation of X in a least-squares sense, and a matrix U′TX=S′V′T;
predicting recommendations of particular items for a particular consumer based on the updated singular value decomposition while receiving the ratings and updating the singular value decomposition; and
displaying the recommendations for the particular consumer on a graphical consumer interface via the network.
2. The method of
receiving the stream of ratings asynchronously in a random order.
3. The method of
adding, changing, and retracting the ratings from the singular value decomposition of the preference matrix.
4. The method of
discarding the ratings after the updating so that a size, structure, and content of the underlying preference matrix is unknown.
5. The method of
6. The method of
7. The method of
8. The method of
9. The method of
translating the ratings to center the ratings on an origin of the singular value decomposition.
10. The method of
interpreting singular value decomposition as a Gaussian covariance model of the ratings that express correlations between the ratings of the consumers.
11. The method of
12. The method of
13. The method of
displaying the recommendation in real-time on the graphical consumer interface while receiving and updating.
14. The method of
15. The method of
executing the receiving, updating, and predicting in a plurality of client computers connected via a network to enable a distributed and decentralized recommender system.
16. The method of
This invention relates generally to consumer recommender systems, and more particularly to revising preferences in such systems.
As shown in
The prediction function uses a tabular database, i.e., a preference matrix 103, of stored 110 customer-scores 101 to make recommendations. For example, consumers score items such as movies and books. It is not unusual for the number of entries in the table 103 to be enormous, e.g., 103 rows of items and 107 columns of consumers. Generally, most entries 104 in the table 103 are empty with unknown scores, i.e., unrated items. Hence, the table is "sparse."
In an operational recommender system, the entries in the table 103 need to be revised, with rows, columns, and individual scores constantly being added, edited, or retracted as consumer indicate their preferences. These revisions can arrive asynchronously from many distributed sources at a very high rate. For example, movie rating evolve rapidly over a very short time, perhaps a day as a new movie is released.
Efficient methods for storing, updating, and accessing preference tables are sought constantly. Estimating a reasonably efficient, compact, and accurate prediction function is an even harder problem that has attracted much attention in the fields of data mining and machine learning.
Nearest-neighbor search methods, which effectively match against raw data, remain popular despite high search costs and limited predictivity. More sophisticated prediction methods are often defeated by the very high dimensionality of the data, high computational costs of model fitting, and an inability to adapt to new or retracted data. Moreover, with extremely sparse tables, the data are often insufficient to support accurate parameter estimates of those methods.
Typically, a dense subset of the table is constructed using responses of a focus group, and the prediction function is extrapolated from those responses. The very high dimensionality of the problem has partly motivated explorations of multi-linear models such as a singular value decomposition (SVD), both as a compressed representation of the data, and as a basis for predictions via linear regression. Linear regression models generally have lower sample complexity per parameter than non-linear models and can thus be expected to have better generalization.
The SVD and related eigenvalue decomposition (EVD) lie at the heart of many data analysis methods. They are used for dimensionality reduction, noise suppression, clustering, factoring, and model-fitting. Several well-known recommender systems are based on the SVD.
Unfortunately, determining the SVD of a very large matrix is a treacherous affair. Most prior art recommender systems need to be taken off-line, as shown in
In addition, the traditional SVD does not produce uniquely defined results when there are missing values 104, as is the case in most recommender systems. Adapting to new or retracted data is also an issue, though it is well known how to append or retract entire columns or rows, provided that they are complete. This is not the case when the data arrive in fragments of rows and columns.
Updating 30 the SVD is generally based on Lanczos methods, symmetric eigenvalue perturbations, or relationships between the SVD and the QR-decomposition, e.g., as computed by a modified Gram-Schmidt procedure. The last category includes some very fast methods, but is vulnerable to loss of orthogonality.
For example, the left singular vectors can be determined in O(pqr2) time. If p, q, and r are known in advance and p>>q>>r, then the expected complexity falls to O(pqr). However, the precision of the orthogonality is not preserved, and satisfactory results have only been demonstrated for matrices having a few hundred columns, which is too small for practical applications.
The prior art does not consider missing values 104, except insofar as they are treated as zero values. In the batch-SVD update context, missing values are usually handled via subspace imputation, using a computationally expensive expectation-maximization procedure.
First, an SVD of all complete columns is performed. Next, incomplete columns are regressed against the SVD to estimate missing values. Then, the completed data are refactored and re-imputed until a fixed point is reached.
This is an extremely slow process that operates in quadratic time and only works when very few values are missing. It has the further demerit that the imputation does not minimize effective rank. Other heuristics simply fill missing values with row- or column-means.
In the special case where a preference matrix is nearly dense, its normalized scatter matrix may be fully dense, due to fill-ins. One heuristic interprets the eigenvectors of the scatter matrix as the right singular vectors of the scatter matrix. This is strictly incorrect. There may not be any imputation of the missing values that is consistent with eigenvectors of the scatter matrix. For the very sparse problems, as considered by the invention, this objection is mooted by the fact that the scatter matrix is also incomplete, and its eigenvectors are undefined.
Therefore, there is a need to provide a method for revising preferences in a recommender system with incomplete data in an on-line manner.
The invention provides a class of sequential update rules for adding data to a "thin" SVD, revising or removing data already incorporated into the SVD, and adjusting the SVD when the data-generating process exhibits non-stationarity, e.g., when market dynamics drift or when consumers' tastes change.
The method according to the invention handles data streams of consumer-item ratings, where scoring fragments arrive in random order and individual scores are arbitrarily added, revised, or retracted at any time.
These purely on-line rules have very low time complexity and require caching for only a single consumer's ratings. All operations easily fit in a CPU's on-board memory cache, even for very large data-sets. By identifying the singular vectors and values with a data covariance, the invention obtains an imputative update that selects the most probable completion of incomplete data, leading to low-rank SVDs that have superior predictive power when compared with the prior art.
Recommending, i.e., imputation of missing values, is extremely fast. The system can be used in a fully interactive movie recommender application that predicts and displays ratings of thousands of movie titles in real-time as a consumer modifies ratings of a small arbitrary set of probe movies. With the invention, my thin SVD itself is the consumer preference model, instead of some large, yet sparse, underlying preference matrix 103, as in the prior art.
The system "learns" as it is used by revising the SVD based on consumer ratings. Consumers can asynchronously join, add ratings, add movies, revise ratings, get recommendations, and retract themselves from the model.
System Overview
In no particular order perhaps, random, preference scores are received asynchronously as fragments of ratings 201. Each rating is processed, one at the time, independent of any other ratings, as described below.
The rating fragments are used to update 210, i.e., add, change or retracted a "thin" SVD 204, in any order. After each rating have been consumed into the SVD, it can be discarded, so that the ultimate size, structure and content of an underlying preference matrix unknown. In fact, my invention does not need to compute or store the underlying matrix, as is done in the prior art.
My task is to determine a best running estimate of the rank-r SVD 204 of the underlying data matrix, without actually any storing or caching of the fragments of the ratings 201 or the matrix itself, and to predict 220 recommendations 203 of particular items for particular consumers, only from the thin SVD 204, on demand, while receiving ratings and updating the SVD. Initially, the SVD 204 can be empty, or a null SVD. An optional step to "bootstrap" the SVD is described below.
To this end, I provide a set of rank-1 sequential update rules for the SVD 104. The update rules provide very fast additions, retractions, and element-wise edits, fast enough for linear-time construction of the SVD 104. The update is exact, but the SVD 104 is an estimate, because many entries are unknown. In other words, the underlying matrix is extremely sparse.
In addition, the true preference matrix may have a rank greater than r. In this case, the Gauss-Mark theorem gives a least-squares optimality guarantee for the rank-r approximation.
When faced with missing data, I use an imputative update that maximizes the probability of a correct generalization. My method is much faster, and at least as predictive as prior art off-line batch SVD methods.
The rank-1 update can be used in a full-scale movie recommending system with a graphical consumer interface, as shown in
The Thin SVD
Generally, a singular value decomposition factors a matrix X into two orthogonal matrices U and V, and a diagonal matrix S≐diag(s), such that USVT=X, and UTXV=S, where T represents the matrix transpose. The elements on the diagonal of S are called singular values, and the columns of U and V are called the left and right singular vectors, respectively.
If these matrices are signed and arrange such that the elements s on the diagonal of S are non-negative and in descending order, and the first non-zero element in each column of U is also positive, then the SVD is unique, ignoring any zero singular values.
The SVD has an optimal truncation property. If all but a predetermined number of the r largest singular values and the corresponding singular vectors are discarded, then the product of resulting thinned matrices, U′S′V′≈X, is the best rank-r approximation of X, in the least-squares sense. This is the thin SVD 204. For this reason, the matrix U′TX=S′V′T, i.e., the projection of X onto r orthogonal axes specified by the columns of U′, is an excellent reduced-dimension representation of the incoming ratings 201.
Consumer Taste Space
If X is a tabulation of the consumer-item ratings 201, then the subspace spanned by the columns of U′ is interpreted as an r-dimensional consumer taste space. Ratings of individual consumers are located in the test space according to the similarity of their ratings. The relationship between a consumer's ratings, represented as a column vector c, and the corresponding taste-space location p is c=U′p, and p=U′Tc.
If the column vector c is incomplete, then various imputation methods, described below, can estimate p, and hence a completion of he vector c. This is the basis of my thin SVD-based recommender system 200. I can also identify consumers with similar tastes by their Euclidean distant to the location p in the taste space.
Item Taste Space
Similarly, a item taste space V′ contains items arranged by the consumers that like the items. Often, these spaces are useful for subsequent analysis, such as clustering, visualization, market segmentation, and pricing of new items.
The thin SVD 204 is most informative when the data fragments 201 are first translated so that they are centered on the origin of the thin SVD 204. In this case, the thin SVD 204 can be interpreted as a Gaussian covariance model of the ratings that expresses correlations between consumers' tastes, i.e., the ratings 201. Centering allows proper Bayesian inference about typicality and missing values, as well as statistical tests to verify their Gaussianity.
Centering aside, the main practical impediment for using the thin SVD 204 is the cost of determining the thin SVD. State-of-the art methods are typically based on Lanczos or Ritz-Raleigh iterations. Run-time can be linear in the number of non-zero elements in the data. However, those methods require multiple passes through the entire dataset to converge in an batch process, and are not suitable for my on-line system 200.
Sequential SVD updating, according to my invention, focuses on modifying the known SVD of data X to obtain a new SVD of the data with an appended column ([X, c]). Exact, closed-form update rules build a rank-r SVD of a low rank p�q matrix by sequential updates in linear time (O(pqr) time for the entire matrix, making a single pass through the columns of the matrix. This means that the data need not be stored.
For a p�q matrix X and the desired SVD of minimum rank r, my method updates the entire SVD in O(pqr) time, which is linear with respect to the size of the inputs and outputs, while prior art updating methods are quadratic in the size of the outputs, or must make multiple passes through the data, or they must iterate to convergence.
The method 200 according to my invention contains this as a special case and inherits its very favorable performance. Here, the rules generalize to provide the remaining operations needed for the true on-line system 200 that includes downdating, i.e., removing rows and columns, revising, i.e., changing selected values in a row or column, and recentering.
In the on-line system 200, keeping the SVD 204 centered is an acute problem, because the mean of the data is constantly drifting, partly due to sample variation, and, more importantly, due to statistically significant phenomena such as changing tastes among consumers over time.
Updating the SVD
Updating, downdating, revising, and recentering 210 are all instances of rank-1 updates. Given column vectors a and b, and a known SVD USVT=X 204, the updating determines the SVD of X+abT. Typically, b is a binary vector indicating which columns are modified, and a is derived from update or downdate values (c), revision values (d), or a mean value (m), which is subtracted from all columns. These operations are summarized in Table A.
All database operations are expressed as rank-1 modifications of the thin SVD 204, USVT=X, to give the SVD of U′S′V′T=X+abT.
Appendix A describes how any such low-rank modification can be solved via operations in the low-dimensional subspaces specified by the known SVD 204. The basic strategy is that the thin SVD 204 is expressed as a product of the old subspaces and a not quite diagonal core matrix, which can be rediagonalized by left and a right rotations. These are small-matrix operations, and thus fast.
Applying the opposite rotations to the old subspaces updates the SVD 204. Even this step can be made fast by accumulating small rotations over many updates instead of applying them to the large subspace matrices. Thus, for my rank-r thin SVD 204, the dominant computations scale in r, which is typically very small relative to the size of the data.
As shown in
Through careful management of the computation, the update rules can build an exact SVD of a p�q rank-r matrix in purely linear O(pqr) time, when the rank is small relative to the size. This is shown in
When the true rank of the underlying matrix is greater than r, my thin SVD 204, necessarily, gives an approximation. Each update increases the rank of the SVD by 1, until a pre-specified ceiling is reached. At this point, the update becomes inexact because the last singular value has to be dropped, giving the optimal fixed-rank approximation. Typically this singular value has a very small value, and the approximation errors cancel out over many updates. In practice, my method can have a numerical accuracy competitive with prior art Lanczos methods.
Because my method is so fast, it can always build a rank-2r model and use the rank-r submodel, which is typically accurate to machine precision. When analyzing elicited responses, such as consumer ratings, the values themselves are notoriously unreliable because consumers show poor repeatability, with ratings wandering up to 40% of the scale from day to day. Therefore, a good low-rank approximation of the data, such as with my system enables, has a higher probability of correct generalization than a medium-rank prior art models that perfectly reconstructs the data.
All of the operations described herein, not just the update, have low computational complexity and work on the pure streaming-data fragments 201, with no storing of the underlying preference matrix, as required in the prior art. Updates require only the current SVD 204, the index of the current consumer or item, and the vector 201 containing the new ratings. Even for underlying matrices with thousands of rows and columns, the updates can keep all data in the CPU's on-board memory cache, making for very fast performance.
Imputation and Prediction
As stated above, ratings tables are typically incomplete. Most entries are unknown. Missing values present a serious problem for prior art processes based on matrix factorizations, because the decompositions are not uniquely defined. Even if a single value is missing, then there is a continuous orbit of unique SVDs that are consistent with the remaining known entries. The imputation problem, i.e., how to predict 220 missing values, plays a key role in determining the SVD 204 and in making the recommendations 203.
Most prior art SVDs first perform a small SVD of a submatrix that is dense, second regress against the SVD to impute missing values in some adjoining part of the submatrix, third perform a larger SVD of the dense and imputed value, and fourth repeat until all missing values are filled in.
Those methods have quadratic complexity, and the result is very sensitive to the choice of regression method and order of imputations. Other methods are based upon an expectation-maximization process, and have similar complexity and sensitivity to initial conditions. Approximation theory teaches that when learning in an on-line setting with a finite memory, some sensitivity to data ordering is unavoidable.
The strategy to minimize this sensitivity during my sequential updating is to select updates that have a highest probability of correctly generalizing, usually by controlling the complexity of the SVD while maximizing the probability of the data.
My system exploits the fact that the singular values and left singular vectors comprise an EVD of the data's covariance matrix. Under the fairly weak assumption that the data are normally but anisotropically distributed, the SVD 204 can be interpreted as a model of the data density, and the SVD updating is a sequential updating of that density.
Adding a complete vector is equivalent to updating the density with a point. Adding an incomplete vector 201 is equivalent to updating the density with a subspace whose axes correspond to the unknown elements of the vector. If the SVD is thin, then the predicted value can be further constrained to lie in the intersection of the data and missing value subspaces.
Na�ve imputation schemes, such as linear regression, select the point in the missing value subspace or intersection subspace that is closest to the origin, essentially assuming that some unknowns are zero-valued. Such imputations are not likely to be true, and generally reduce the predictivity of those models when incorporated into the SVD.
Clearly, imputation requires some prior or learned knowledge. In Appendix B, I describe a fast imputative update for use when values in a ratings vector c are unknown, but assumed to lie within a known range. This is commonplace in ratings data.
I provide the imputation with the density of previously processed data. If one considers all points in the intersection subspace according to their likelihood, vis-�-vis the data density with a uniform prior probability, then the posterior probability mean estimate of the missing values is given by selecting the point that lies the fewest standard deviations from the origin.
Appendix C describes how this probabilistic imputation is determined. For SVD updating, the full imputation of the missing data elements is not needed. The subspace coordinates of the imputed point are sufficient. My imputation greedily minimizes the growth of the rank of the SVD, thus reducing the complexity of the model. This imputation gives very good results in tasks, such the recommender system 200.
The imputed ordinates are essentially predictions of how a consumer would rank all items, determined as a linear mix of the ratings of all other consumers, weighted by the correlations between their ratings and the few known ratings of the current consumer.
However, there is a potential problem with density-based imputation. In very rare cases, when the intersection space is very far from the origin, a large but improbable vector could be added to the SVD 204. If it is known a priori that such vectors are impossible, i.e., the values are restricted to a small range, then such constraints can often be expressed as a Gaussian prior probability and a maximum a posterior probability imputation made via least-squares methods.
In the context of the thin SVD 204, this is equivalent to assuming that all of the truncated singular values have a very small predetermined value ε, instead of zero value. This is equivalent to a Bayesian formulation of principal component analysis. As a result, the imputed vector is smaller but could lie slightly outside the taste space. I can accommodate this by either an exact rank increasing update, or an approximate fixed-rank update.
Bootstrapping the SVD
The more "mass" in the singular values, the more constrained the imputation is by previous inputs, and therefore the better the estimated SVD. This poses a problem in the beginning, when my thin SVD 204 has almost no scores because only a few consumers have rated a few items.
In practical applications, consumers typically rate less than 1% of all items, so there is little chance than any item has been rated by more than one consumer until the system has been used for a while.
An optional way to work around this problem is to store the first few hundred submitted ratings 201 in a temporary matrix, and then to re-order the ratings so that they are dense in one corner of the matrix. Sorting the ratings can do this. The SVD 204 can "grow" out of this corner by sequential the updating 210 with the fragments of rows and columns 201.
When it finally becomes necessary to predict values, i.e., the method has no more complete rows and columns, these imputations are reasonably well constrained. My scheme defers imputations until they can be well constrained by previously incorporated data. It also enables factoring of extremely sparse preference matrices.
Results for collaborative filtering an extremely sparse array of consumer-item scores and determines predictions of the missing scores are now compared.
Sarwar et al. collected a 93.7% empty matrix containing ratings of 1650 movies on a 1-5 scale by 943 consumers, see "Application of dimensionality reduction in recommender system—a case study," ACM WebKDD 2000 Web Mining for Ecommerce Workshop. ACM Press, 2000. Those scores were split 80%-20% into training and testing sets. They filled missing elements in the training matrix with the average rating for each movie, centered the matrix, and then computed a series of thin, sparse Lanczos SVDs. They found that a rank-14 basis best predicted the test set as measured by mean absolute error (MAE), and mean squared error.
As shown in
Then, the incremental imputative SVD according to the invention was applied to the raw training dataset. The method according to the invention found a 5-dimensional subspace that had an even better prediction accuracy 402 of 0.7910 MAE, 1.0811 SD. In each of 5 disjoint train/test splits, the incremental method produced a compact 4- or 5-dimensional basis that predicted at least as well as the best, but much larger Lanczos-derived basis.
My scores are competitive with published reports of the performance of nearest neighbor based systems on the same data set. However, my method uses much less storage, and offers fast updating and predictions. Surprisingly, the incremental SVD according to the invention indicates that the five largest singular values account for most of the variance in the data.
In all trials the resulting predictor is within 1 rating point of the true value more than 80% of the time, and within 2 rating points more than 99% of the time. This is probably more than accurate enough, as consumers often exhibit day-to-day inconsistencies of 1 to 2 points when asked to rate the same movies on different days. My incremental method also has the practical advantages of being faster, requiring only 0.5 gigaflops versus 1.8 gigaflops for the Lanczos batch method.
The invention enables on-line updating of the SVD as new movies or viewers are added to the matrix. Prior art collaborative filtering systems typically require large overnight batch processing to incorporate new data.
Instant Recommender
Because the SVD basis is small and the computational load is light, a practical real-time collaborative filtering system can be constructed using Java, shown in
To query the system, a consumer selects a small number of movies by "dragging" their titles 501 into a rating panel 502, where each can be rated by moving a slider 503 along a sliding scale. Predicted ratings of all the other movies and a sorted list of recommendations are updated and displayed in real-time. As the slider 503 moves, sliders 504 next to all other movie titles move. It takes an average of 6 milliseconds to re-rate all movies, so the feedback is real-time.
One advantage of instant visual feedback is that a consumer can see how strongly the predicted rating of any movie is correlated or anti-correlated with that of the movie whose rating is currently being varied by the consumer.
Second, if the system makes a prediction with which the consumer disagrees, the consumer can drag that movie into the rating panel and correct the system. After a few of such iterations, my system quickly yields an over-constrained estimate of the consumer's location in taste space, leading to improved recommendations and a more informative ratings vector to be incorporated into the SVD.
When the consumer is done, the current ratings are used to update the SVD basis. The consumer can also obtain a persistent identifier so that he or she may revisit, revise, or remove ratings at any time.
Distributed Collaborative Filtering
In one implementation, the system 200 can combine the updating and recommending in a stand alone Java application. Updates take an average of 50 milliseconds. As a real-time, interactive application, the method according to the invention can execute on a distributed client computer, instead of on a centralized server as in the prior art, while the basis is constantly updated. Adding new movies and consumers grows the basis.
As shown in
Effect of the Invention
The invention provides a family of rank-1 SVD revision rules that efficiently enable a "thin" SVD to "mimic" database operations on what otherwise be an underlying matrix of consumer-item scores. These operations include adding, retracing, and revising rows, columns, and fragments thereof.
In addition, the SVD can be recentered as the mean of the data stream drifts. The interpreted operations are fast with minimal storage requirements. The method is fast enough to execute as a real-time graphical interaction with a model of communal tastes in stand-alone or distributed systems.
Although the invention has been described by way of examples of preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that various other adaptations and modifications may be made within the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, it is the object of the appended claims to cover all such variations and modifications as come within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
A Low-Rank Modifications
Let U diag(s)
Let P be an orthogonal basis of (I−UUT)A=A−UUTA, the component of A orthogonal to U, as one would obtain from the QR-decomposition
Setting y=0 effectively downdates the
The special structure and near diagonality of
Consider a nonzero rectangular volume V of possible updates specified by opposite corners y and z. Let zi be the ith element of z. Assuming a uniform measure in this space, the volume's second moment is
This approach becomes more powerful when the uniform measure dx in equation (2.12) is replaced with a more informative measure, e.g., the running estimate of data density dN(x|0, Σ) discussed below. The integrals are solvable in closed form. If Σ is a dense (nondiagonal) covariance, even symmetric bounds become informative.
Probabilistic imputation Consider adding a vector c with missing values. Partition into c● and c∘, vectors of the known and unknown values in c, respectively, and let U●, U∘ be the corresponding rows of U. Imputation of the missing values via the normal equation
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Labor Day marked the traditional end of summer, but area police departments aren't breathing a sigh of relief.
Studies have shown that crime typically increases during summer months, but Sandusky and Perkins police departments say their arrest rates stay similar throughout the year.
"Actually we stay fairly active year round. The crime doesn't stop because winter comes," said Sandusky Assistant Chief Charlie Sams. "We have the same types of crime year round but you have an increase of different types of activities in the summer."
He said there is more outside activity and the department gets more noise complaints in the summer because more people have their windows open.
Perkins Police Chief Tim McClung said Perkins has steady crime rates as well.
"Everybody wants to say that the summer months are so busy, but we just stay pretty consistent year round," McClung said. "Now with the waterparks and all the shopping, we stay pretty consistent."
McClung said that wasn't always the case.
"Back in the '80s, as soon as Cedar Point closed, it got really, really quiet until the Christmas shopping season," he said.
Like Sandusky, Perkins sees a spike in different types of crime during the summer. McClung said accident reports, especially along U.S. 250, increase in the summer.
In 2006, August had the highest number of car accidents in Perkins with 99, followed by July with 60 and March with 45.
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ST. FRANCIS, Wis. The Milwaukee Bucks new-and-improved frontcourt has made it clear on more than one occasion whattheir goal is this season: Protect the rim at all costs. "We're going to start a block party," new center Sam Dalembert said last week, grinning. "That's my vision for the team," Larry Sanders said Monday. "No matter what combination of bigs, we'd be able to protect that rim." And last Saturday against the Pistons, the Bucks looked like they were well on their way to that goal. With 14 blocks to their name in Saturday's game, Milwaukee held Detroit to shooting just 41 percent from inside the arc, especially locking down the paint to anyone not named Andre Drummond. Sanders had five blocks. Dalembert and rookie John Henson had four. Even Marquis Daniels added one from the backcourt. It was a much-improved performance from the team's eight-block total in its preseason opener a good start to "the block party". But blocks weren't the only encouraging statistic on the ...
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But Freel is "the man without a spot" I think even casual fans would not be upset with him going, although Phillips leading off reeks of a good way to get him to start struggling.
But Freel is "the man without a spot" I think even casual fans would not be upset with him going, although Phillips leading off reeks of a good way to get him to start struggling.
Go Gators!
Originally Posted by Falls City Beer
Hellllllo Oakland.
"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
Freel is the kind of scrappy that Beane loves
Go Gators!
Originally Posted by Caveat Emperor
That's the key. The Reds need a partner for a "baseball" trade. Surplus relief pitcher for a leadoff guy. I don't see a viable starting pitcher unless we package Larue or Kearns with Freel. Unfortunately most teams are unwilling to make this kind of trade so early. Gotta see what shakes out first.
My feeling is that a trade may happen in a month, but not before, and if one were to occur before, we would not be happy with the results. The Reds wanting to trade when other teams need to be talked into it does not bode well for a good trade for the Reds.
Thank goodness for baseball.
Perhaps a bit off subject but has anyone else noticed that the 7 hole seems to be a rocking chair spot in this line up? Kearns was a world beater in that spot and now Phillips is. Meanwhile Kearns seems much more human in the 5th hole.Originally Posted by KronoRed
Anybody have any explanations or theories why the 7 is seems to be such a good spot in this order?
Oakland is one of a few teams that I could see fitting here. Most teams wouldn't be willing to give up much for Freel because they undervalue him, much like O'brien and Narron did. Teams believe he can't go everyday.
This is the time. The real Reds organization is back.
Aside from Adam Dunn and Edwin Encarnacion, there isn't a single guy in this organization above the A level that I wouldn't consider moving if the right deal came along.Originally Posted by PickOff
The guy the Reds should be looking to move along with Freel in order to maximize return on a trade, IMO, is Joey Votto. Adam Dunn's longterm future is at 1st base, whether the organization is going to admit it to themselves or not. That means Votto is out of a job in a year where, if he continues to rake at AA, he could be expected to get his first cup of coffee in the bigs. A packaged trade of Freel, LaRue, and Votto could set up interesting possibilities of a multi-team deal that brings the reds back prospects or a major league pitcher.
It might be too soon with him, though (Maybe let him have a full year of big-time play so that BA can trumpet him up in next year's prospect book)- but he's an intriguing trade chip at the Reds disposal.
Championships Matter.
24 Years and Counting...
I'm with you. It would be hard to imagine the Reds getting commensurate value for Dunn or EE and you need Dunn as an anchor. Since Dunn is clearly a 1baseman, moving Votto makes very good sense.Originally Posted by Caveat Emperor
Krivsky knows he needs to trade for pitching, it is just a matter of when. Hopefully, he will be able to maximize the return. With Big Bob's mandate to win sooner rather than later, I'm not sure he would trade for prospects, however. Not until Bob is convinced the Reds can compete. Bob wants to get butts in the seats now so he can generate the revenue to make Cincy a perenial contender.
Thank goodness for baseball.
Would the Mets have any interest in Freel? Matsui isn't exactly revered in Shea as of late; his wild inside the park homers aside. I'm not sure who exactly we could package to get Aaron Heilman (maybe Valentin/Freel?), but it seems to be the Mets only big question mark is at 2nd, and Lord knows we have plenty of those.
Originally Posted by ThatPitchIsDunn
I'd be interested to see the price from the Reds for Aaron Heilman. He's not even starting for the Mets, and he's easily better than Milton or Williams. I'm sure the Rangers could use an upgrade over Jimenez at 2B, but last time I checked they don't really have much to offer in the pitching department.
Originally Posted by Highlifeman21
John Danks, Thomas Diamond, Edison Volquez, Eric Hurley(who I think could be beter than the DVD trio in TX).. They have some good pitching prospects..
Also Armando Galaragga sent to them in the Soriano trade..
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Originally Posted by cincyinco
Would any of those prospects be ready for 2007-2008 at the latest? I'd say roughly by 2008, it needs to be go time for these Reds, or else they'll never compete. I'm just scared that if we start to collect "prospect", they'll never pan out.
I'd move any single player on the roster for Dontrelle.
"Don't trust any statistics you did not fake yourself."--Winston Churchill
Could it be argued that right now, the team has a bigger need in getting better bullpen arms than starters?
...the 2-2 to Woodsen and here it comes...and it is swung on and missed! And Tom Browning has pitched a perfect game! Twenty-seven outs in a row, and he is being mobbed by his teammates, just to the thirdbase side of the mound.
How long is Kinsler out? As soon as he gets back, he's the starting 2B of the present & future.Originally Posted by Highlifeman21
I can't see them trading one of their blue chip arms for a rental 2B.
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