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One of the most important offices in the November 2 election are representatives to the local water board. Castaic Lake Water Agency has four seats up for grabs and a full slate of qualified candidates eager to get your vote.
We asked them a short series of questions to give you an idea of what they stand for and how they might approach a couple of issues near to everyone's heart and mind – rate increases and the current sanitation/salination problems posed by enforcement of the Clean Water Act by the L.A. County Sanitation Board.
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For the next few days, we will present the views, unedited, of the candidates for each office. Today, we present the two candidates running for the Division 1 seat on the CLWA board, Ed Colley and Kevin Korenthal.
1. Why are you running for this office?
Ed Colley – I have been honored to serve the residents of Canyon Country and Saugus for the last eight years on the Castaic Lake Water Agency (CLWA) Board. I have learned a great deal about the complexities surrounding the delivery of reliable and quality water supply at a reasonable cost. I have promised in past campaigns to serve our current customers, and I have delivered on that promise. Many communities in Southern California have endured mandatory rationing over the last couple years; customers served by CLWA have only been asked to conserve voluntarily. Our water is too important for political games; our children and grandchildren rely on our making the best possible decisions today. I renew my pledge to ensure that current customers will not shoulder the costs of future development.
Kevin Korenthal – I am running for the Castaic Lake Water Agency board of directors because I feel there is a vacuum that has been created as a result of the big presence of Metropolitan Water District employees on the board. Rather than approaching challenges from the perspective of businesses and other ratepayers, the CLWA appears adamant that solutions that raise rates, compromise quality and do not increase reliability are fine as long as other short-term problems are solved. I draw your attention to the Alternative Water Resources Management plan as an example. I don't believe the Sanitation District or the CLWA have fully leveled with ratepayers through this ordeal.
2. What do you consider your unique qualifications?
EC – I am the most qualified candidate. I have earned a Bachelor and Master Degree in Engineering. I have served as an enlisted man in both the U.S. Army and Air Force. I have earned a commission and served as an Officer in the Air Force as well. After retiring as a Captain, I moved my family to the Santa Clarita Valley in 1995. I have taught for the William S. Hart High School District for 15 years. My skills in understanding complex legal, engineering, and financial issues are highly respected. Because of these skills, and my ability to work with diverse interests in building coalitions, every elected member of the CLWA Board has endorsed my re-election. My re-election is supported by many community leaders as well, including Congressman Buck McKeon.
KK – I am a 30 year resident of Santa Clarita, a local political activist and an advocate of thousands of small businesses around California. As the executive director of a statewide association of public works building contractors, I have been able to see how Santa Clarita's long-term water quality issues are tied to issues of statewide concern. These qualities make me the ideal person to add a new perspective to the board.
3. What would you suggest to address the chloride/wastewater dilemma facing your customers?
EC – Recently my opponent has come to support many of my positions on this issue. When the "Alternative Water Resources Management" (AWRM) Plan was first introduced two years ago, I was the only vote against it on the CLWA Board. In the last few months, my opponent has also come to the realization that this plan, and the implementing Memo of Understanding, is flawed. Currently, I continue to support efforts to find better solutions. I specifically support the creation of a "Technical Working Group" that can be tasked with examining many different possible approaches. I encourage the Sanitation District to form this group, and I will work to ensure that all of the skills available at CLWA are available to the group. Campaign rhetoric will not solve this problem; working together we will find real solutions.
KK – In the short-term, the agency needs to work with the Sanitation District to come up with a source of cheap water that can be used to dilute the water produced when we reprocess sewage water and dump it into the Santa Clara River. We don't need to reduce the chloride by much – perhaps 20 or 30 mg/l in order to meet state guidelines.
But the permanent solution to chloride saturation in our water will require the replacement of certain segments of the system that we use in California to convey water to Southern California. The Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta region of California is where our water is subject to invasion by agricultural runoff, sea water intrusion and decaying plant life, all of which need to be treated once the water arrives at its final destination. Our chloride levels would be lowered by up to 100 mg/l AND our dependency on heavy chemical compounds such as Chloramines would be reduced if that ailing conveyance system were to be replaced.
4. If higher rates or fines are inevitable, in what other areas would you make cutbacks to mitigate the impact on the consumer?
EC – This question is interesting. I do not wait for possible increases before I look for areas where savings and cutbacks are possible. As a vigilant board member, I am always looking for opportunities to lower our costs and keep our rates lower. One recent example of this effort relates to the repayment of the debt incurred in bringing the Santa Clarita Water Company into public ownership. Specifically because of my identification of this issue, CLWA staff is working to reduce the interest payments made by the Santa Clarita Water Division customers. Current staff estimates will allow us to save these retail customers, collectively, between $200,000 and $500,000 per year.
KK – There is no doubt that the Regional Water Quality Water Board is going to try to fine Santa Clarita residents for refusing their ridiculous demands. I don't think we can ignore them, however, rather than acquiescing to their demands, I think we should be offering other solutions, such as the ones I outline above. I will never subscribe to the idea that Santa Clarita ratepayers should be on the line for water quality issues that those ratepayers have already made great sacrifices to correct. There is much work to do and I believe my ratepayer perspective, quick study of complicated issues and sincere desire to balance the needs of the environment with the needs of ratepayers will serve this process well.
Tomorrow, the candidates for Division 2 – Bob Clark and Peter Kavounas – will answer these questions.


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When I was a kid and noticed that the Super Mario Bros. machine in my local pizza place had a 2 player option, I thought it would be brilliant to have two players going at the same time. Took about 10+ years, but I'm happy to see it.
Is it possible to do teamwork in this, or is it basically about screwing the other players over? Actually, I guess the bubble counts as teamwork (and the lifting), but what if the dude never pops the bubble?
Also, I see they continue in their new tradition of Mario making goofy noises EVERY TIME HE JUMPS. Killed the remake of one of the old Super Mario games on my GBA because I began hearing "Oh! Mama mia!" in my sleep.
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I loved the first NSMB. I was pleasantly surprised how it played so well and mixed up previous Mario sidescroller conventions without relying too heavily on the series past. It never felt like I was playing a rehash of an old Mario game once again, it was its own game. So I am very excited that both this and Galaxy 2 were announced at Nintendo's press conference. It looks like I'll very likely pick up a Wii next year.
It's Mario 4D!!!!!
Looks pretty 'meh' to me.
The last Mario game I played was Super Mario Land on the original Game Boy *blush*. This video took me right back there.
Didn't New Super Mario Bros. DS have a two player co-op/ competitive sort of thing?
Was it just me, or did that coin noise seem... like... flat? I mean flat in musical terms, like low. It was kind of annoying and sounded kinda bad. It's mad picky, but it really stood out.
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It looks great, and I'm loving the widescreen look of it. But sometimes it looks like it makes the characters seem tiny so they can fit the other three players on there and give them room to move.
I am really looking forward to this. I loved NSBM on the DS.
This is where thw Wii should be looking at games-wise.
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Looks kind of floaty, like some flash game and also not digging the elevator music.
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This seems like one of the times where motion controls just don't make sense. I mean shaking the controller to perform certain actions just doesn't make sense. I can't imagine it would add anything to the experience other than annoyance. Motion controls, when they make sense in the context of the game, are great but this sounds like motion controls for the sake of motion controls and therefore pretty pointless.
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I played the crap out of the DS game. I am hoping to play this one.
It looks like a lotta fun in 4 player, I see lots of potential shenanigans that way. Good level design is paramount for good MP, and what with it being created by the Kyoto team that did Galaxy and Junglebeat, I do have faith.
Great game for Christmas, but nothing more in my eyes, I hated the DS game with a passion, I finished it on the way home from the store, terrible level design, shockingly bad. Everything was in place for a great game, but it was clearly dumbed down.
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I think the fact that third and fourth players and nameless colored Toads is kind of weird; with the wealth of Mario characters, they couldn't pull two more that they felt would help the flavor of the game? Also, the whole "cooperative/competitive" aspect reminds me a lot of the original Mario Brothers (no, the one before Super Mario Brothers.) So it is neat to see them reach that deep into their roots.
Besides that, this looks fine. Curious to see what price point this comes out at. It'll be a tough sell at full price, even if that's ten dollars less than the "other guys," especially when compared side to side with SMG2.
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while I normally would buy this game, who really wants to spend $50 on a game like this? It's inevitable that it's going to be $50, and in comparison to things like Conviction, Borderlands, Halo, FF13, etc. I can't say it comes close to a decent value
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I could care less at the price point. I'm buying this, no questions asked.
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As good as I'm sure this is going to be, and despite me already commiting to buy it, I really wish this had been on the DS instead of the wii.
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"If you jump on turtles"? Turtles, Jeff? They're koopas, man! HUGE DIFFERENCE, BRO!
Haha this looks fun :D
Is it just me or does this series NEVER get old?
Am I the only person who was disappointed by this? I played a few levels at E3 and it didn't seem to work, and I LOVE Super Mario Bros., so it pains me to say that. You know how in a Mario game when you grab a power-up it freezes for a split-second? Well when that's happening constantly because four people are running around trying to grab things, it's just annoying. I hope they smooth that out before it's released.
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I'm a little worried that I'll acidentally pick people up when running around. When I play Mario games I'm not so much pressing the B button, as I'm letting go of it from time to time to slow down.
It also has the koopalings and they said there's about 80 levels. Can't wait, the different suits sound really fun.
Anyone else think perhaps the choices for the 3rd and 4th characters will be unlockables?
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" SmugDarkLoser: Uhm, I would love to spend 50 bucks on a great competitive/co-op Mario game that spans over 80 levels and is sure to be hours of fun. What's your problem? "
You need sleep.
meh, i dont care
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Thank LittleBigPlanet.
Personally, I felt that NSMB was a terrible game, but this looks to be fixing the major flaws of it. As long as they add thing like exploration and the such....the kind of things that make SMB obsolete and Super Mario 3 and World really fun to play.
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love the ds version, but this would be more at home on a handheld or wiiware.
I'm expecting some kotaku piece to pop up later as well as in the news once this is released where violence is broken out among people playing it where a fight gets started on who wants to play Mario. Overall the game itself looks okay but it seems that there might be limits on the scaling in order to keep all 4 people on the screen.
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how do Nintendo keep getting away with this?
this really doesnt need to be on wii, wish it was on DS
" The last Mario game I played was Super Mario Land on the original Game Boy *blush*. This video took me right back there. "
"@Jimbo said:+1. That game was awesome. "" The last Mario game I played was Super Mario Land on the original Game Boy *blush*. This video took me right back there. "
Great, it looks cool. It's still not what I want from the Super Mario Bros. series, but maybe what I want is too much to ask. If I had a Wii, I'd probably buy it.
" Great, it looks cool. It's still not what I want from the Super Mario Bros. series, but maybe what I want is too much to ask. If I had a Wii, I'd probably buy it. "
Also, the only thing to me that looks like this game can be spoilt is by either Wii motion controls, bad level design, or intense online lag.
Don't worry about lag, there's no online here :)
The motion controls are just fine as described in the article. The level design remains to be seen but it seems pretty cool.
Gamespot E3 Stage Demo
I wish GameSpot had the consideration to at least try and cover some of the booth from the lights around there, Wii games that used the pointer functions just spazzed out when played in their little booth thing (Red Steel 2). Cover those damn "windows" since you have them at all! Unrelated, I know. Game looks good, and I like how they said you can just finish levels straightforwardly or try and reach/find the tougher to get goodies.
Edit: I like how the hidden areas show up. And lol, the Yoshis are awesome, how they can eat and spit out the other players xD
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I see it still has the fucking awesome NSMB music.
"@TooWalrus said:Just outta interest, what do you want from the Super Mario Bros. series?Also, the only thing to me that looks like this game can be spoilt is by either Wii motion controls, bad level design, or intense online lag. "" Great, it looks cool. It's still not what I want from the Super Mario Bros. series, but maybe what I want is too much to ask. If I had a Wii, I'd probably buy it. "
The gameboy version of New Super Mario Bros. was great, and if they kept that 2.5d art style, and let you have an over-world and inventory like SMB3, it could be awesome. Not to mention all of the awesome power-ups that game had. We still haven't seen another game with the raccoon tail, or Goomba's Shoe!
Also, a new SMW could be great. With the 2.5D art style, but wearing capes and riding around on Yoshi would be excellent, not to mention my desire to hit the colored switches again.
" Thank LittleBigPlanet. "
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im still mind-blown by Conan O'Brien's backdrop!
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Looks like a fun multiplayer game. Seems like you can carry others, I wonder if you can throw them into death as well lol
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that guy on GT said the graphics suck bad like its a DS game all blowed up for the Wii :(


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Chaparral soccer player Noelle Sanz signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Alabama.
"I think the accents are awesome," said Sanz, a defender. "Maybe I will start saying 'y'all.'"
In addition to the lingo, Sanz was drawn to Alabama because of the campus atmosphere and the fact that the coaching staff was supportive of her efforts to play internationally.
Sanz was a member of the Costa Rican national team for its game against the United States on Sept. 1 in Rochester, N.Y. She played on the same field as American stars such as Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe.
"I was playing against girls that I watched on TV play since I was 10 years old," Sanz said. "It was just awesome to be on the same field. I was just in awe."
Pumas volleyball player Taylor Johnson signed with Long Beach State because of the opportunity to play both indoor volleyball and beach volleyball, a newly instituted NCAA sport. Johnson has been playing the beach variety since age 11. She also was lured by the chance to work with three-time Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor, an LBSU graduate who lends her expertise to the program.
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This poster used comical imagery to encourage Americans on the home front to produce more war industry products during World War II. It is now in the National Archives at Atlanta's holdings from the war. (Special Photo)
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We are known for our fishing, but this area is also known for its peaceful and quiet scenery along the bay and gulf. Canoeing, kayaking, hiking, bird watching and nature study. In our community we have one swimming pool and two tennis courts.
Located in Panacea Florida on the on Ochlockonee Bay, 40 miles south of Tallahassee.
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Panacea, one of the lesser known coastal communities in Florida, claims a high percentage of undeveloped land in the county with plenty of seafood on the docks daily fresh out of the Gulf of Mexico and the area still retains undisturbed natural splendor. Located in Wakulla County, less than an hour drive from Tallahassee, you will find the community warm and friendly. Panacea was named for the all-potent healing powers attributed to a spring that once flowed near town.
Numerous tributaries flow into the bay and produce fantastic fishing in the fall and winter for trout, redfish and sheepshead. When the waters warm in early spring, the trout head for the shallow grass flats along the shoreline and this is when most anglers' attention turns from tributary fishing to drifting the flats for speckled trout. By early April, schools of baitfish appear in the bay bringing Spanish mackerel and ladyfish with them.
In May, cobia arrive and all species are in the bays by then except tarpon that typically show up around the end of the month or early June. Fishing slows somewhat in summer, except for tarpon. By the end of August and first of September, fishing gets its second wind and remains good through fall and early winter.
If you want to feel more weight on your line, a ride into the Gulf will provide you with some of the best grouper fishing in the state. Black and red grouper are plentiful as well as red snapper, amberjack and king mackerel. Bottom fishing is the most popular fishing method offshore but trolling for grouper has become very popular.
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The mode is the number that appears most often in a set of numbers.
Like the statistical mean and median, the mode is a way of expressing, in a single number, important information about a random variable or a population. The numerical value of the mode is usually different from those of the mean and median, and may be very different for strongly skewed distributions.
The mode is not necessarily unique, since the same maximum frequency may be attained at different values. The most extreme case occurs in uniform distributions, where all values occur equally frequently.
The mode of a discrete probability distribution is the value x at which its probability mass function takes its maximum value. In other words, it is the value that is most likely to be sampled.
The mode of a continuous probability distribution is the value x at which its probability density function has its maximum value, so, informally speaking, the mode is at the peak.
As noted above, the mode is not necessarily unique, since the probability mass function or probability density function may take the same maximum value at several points x1, x2, etc.
The above definition tells us that only global maxima are modes. Slightly confusingly, when a probability density function has multiple local maxima it is common to refer to all of the local maxima as modes of the distribution. Such a continuous distribution is called multimodal (as opposed to unimodal).
In symmetric unimodal distributions, such as the normal (or Gaussian) distribution (the distribution whose density function, when graphed, gives the famous "bell curve"), the mean (if defined), median and mode all coincide. For samples, if it is known that they are drawn from a symmetric distribution, the sample mean can be used as an estimate of the population mode.
The mode of a sample is the element that occurs most often in the collection. For example, the mode of the sample [1, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 12, 12, 17] is 6. Given the list of data [1, 1, 2, 4, 4] the mode is not unique - the dataset may be said to be bimodal, while a set with more than two modes may be described as multimodal.
For a sample from a continuous distribution, such as [0.935..., 1.211..., 2.430..., 3.668..., 3.874...], the concept is unusable in its raw form, since each value will occur precisely once. In order to estimate the mode, the usual practice is to discretize the data by assigning frequency values to intervals of equal distance, as for making a histogram, effectively replacing the values by the midpoints of the intervals they are assigned to. The mode is then the value where the histogram reaches its peak. For small or middle-sized samples the outcome of this procedure is sensitive to the choice of interval width if chosen too narrow or too wide; typically one should have a sizable fraction of the data concentrated in a relatively small number of intervals (5 to 10), while the fraction of the data falling outside these intervals is also sizable. An alternate approach is kernel density estimation, which essentially blurs point samples to produce a continuous estimate of the probability density function which can provide an estimate of the mode.
The following MATLAB code example computes the mode of a sample:
X = sort(x); indices = find(diff([X; realmax]) > 0); % indices where repeated values change [modeL,i] = max (diff([0; indices])); % longest persistence length of repeated values mode = X(indices(i));
The algorithm requires as a first step to sort the sample in ascending order. It then computes the discrete derivative of the sorted list, and finds the indices where this derivative is positive. Next it computes the discrete derivative of this set of indices, locating the maximum of this derivative of indices, and finally evaluates the sorted sample at the point where that maximum occurs, which corresponds to the last member of the stretch of repeated values.
|Arithmetic mean
|Sum of values of a data set divided by number of values:
|(1+2+2+3+4+7+9) / 7
|Middle value separating the greater and lesser halves of a data set
|1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9
|Most frequent value in a data set
|1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9
Unlike mean and median, the concept of mode also makes sense for "nominal data" (i.e., not consisting of numerical values in the case of mean, or even of ordered values in the case of median). For example, taking a sample of Korean family names, one might find that "Kim" occurs more often than any other name. Then "Kim" would be the mode of the sample. In any voting system where a plurality determines victory, a single modal value determines the victor, while a multi-modal outcome would require some tie-breaking procedure to take place.
Unlike median, the concept of mean makes sense for any random variable assuming values from a vector space, including the real numbers (a one-dimensional vector space) and the integers (which can be considered embedded in the reals). For example, a distribution of points in the plane will typically have a mean and a mode, but the concept of median does not apply. The median makes sense when there is a linear order on the possible values. Generalizations of the concept of median to higher-dimensional spaces are the geometric median and the centerpoint.
For some probability distributions, the expected value may be infinite or undefined, but if defined, it is unique. The mean of a (finite) sample is always defined. The median is the value such that the fractions not exceeding it and not falling below it are both at least 1/2. It is not necessarily unique, but never infinite or totally undefined. For a data sample it is the "halfway" value when the list of values is ordered in increasing value, where usually for a list of even length the numerical average is taken of the two values closest to "halfway". Finally, as said before, the mode is not necessarily unique. Certain pathological distributions (for example, the Cantor distribution) have no defined mode at all.[citation needed] For a finite data sample, the mode is one (or more) of the values in the sample.
Assuming definedness, and for simplicity uniqueness, the following are some of the most interesting properties.
An example of a skewed distribution is personal wealth: Few people are very rich, but among those some are extremely rich. However, many are rather poor.
A well-known class of distributions that can be arbitrarily skewed is given by the log-normal distribution. It is obtained by transforming a random variable X having a normal distribution into random variable Y = eX. Then the logarithm of random variable Y is normally distributed, hence the name.
Taking the mean μ of X to be 0, the median of Y will be 1, independent of the standard deviation σ of X. This is so because X has a symmetric distribution, so its median is also 0. The transformation from X to Y is monotonic, and so we find the median e0 = 1 for Y.
When X has standard deviation σ = 0.25, the distribution of Y is weakly skewed. Using formulas for the log-normal distribution, we find:
Indeed, the median is about one third on the way from mean to mode.
When X has a larger standard deviation, σ = 1, the distribution of Y is strongly skewed. Now
Here, Pearson's rule of thumb fails.
Van Zwet derived an inequality which provides sufficient conditions for this inequality to hold.[4] The inequality
holds if
for all x where F() is the cumulative distribution function of the distribution.
The difference between the mean and the mode in a unimodal distribution is bounded by 31/2[5]. In symbols
where || is the absolute value. Incidentally this formula is also the Pearson mode or first skewness coefficient,[6] and shows that this statistic for a unimodal distribution is bounded by 31/2.
The difference between the mode and the median has the same bound.[5] In symbols
It is a common but false belief that from a single observation x we can not gain information about the variability in the population and that consequently that finite length confidence intervals for mean and/or variance are impossible even in principle.
It is possible for an unknown unimodal distribution to estimate a confidence interval for the mode with a sample size of 1.[7] This was first shown by Abbot and Rosenblatt[8] and extended by Blachman and Machol.[9] This confidence interval can be sharpened if the distribution can be assumed to be symmetrical. It is further possible to sharpen this interval if the distribution is normally distributed.
Let the confidence interval be 1 - α. Then the confidence intervals for the general, symmetric and normally distributed variates respectively are
where X is the variate, θ is the mode and || is the absolute value.
These estimates are conservative. The confidence intervals for the mode at the 90% level given by these estimators are X ± 19 | X - θ |, X ± 9 | X - θ | and X ± 5.84 | X - θ | for the general, symmetric and normally distributed variates respectively. The 95% confidence interval for a normally distributed variate is given by X ± 10.7 | X - θ |. It may be worth noting that the mean and the mode coincide if the variates are normally distributed.
The 95% bound for a normally distributed variate has been improved and is now known to be X ± 9.68 | X - θ |[10] The bound for a 99% confidence interval is X ± 48.39 | X - θ'|
Machol has shown that that given a known density symmetrical about 0 that given a single sample value (x) that the 90% confidence intervals of population mean are[11]
where ν is the population median.
If the precise form of the distribution is not known but it is known to be symmetrical about zero then we have
where X is the variate, μ is the population mean and a and k are arbitrary real numbers.
It is also possible to estimate a confidence interval for the standard deviation from a single observation if the distribution is symmetrical about 0.[12] For a normal distribution the with an unknown variance and a single data point (x) the 90%, 95% and 99% confidence intervals for the standard deviation are [ 0, 8|x| ], [ 0, 17|x| ] and [ 0, 70|x| ]. These intervals may be shorted if the mean is known to be bounded by a multiple of the standard deviation.
These estimators have been used to create hypothesis tests for simple samples from normal or symmetrical unimodal distributions.[13] Let the distribution have an assumed mean ( μ0 ). The null hypothesis is that the assumed mean of the distribution lies within the confidence interval of the sample mean ( m ). The null hypothesis is accepted if
where x is the value of the sample and k is a constant. The null hypothesis is rejected if
The value of k depends on the choice of confidence interval and the nature of the assumed distribution.
If the distribution is assumed or is known to be normal then the values of k for the 50%, 66.6%, 75%, 80%, 90%, 95% and 99% confidence intervals are 0.50, 1.26, 1.80, 2.31, 4.79, 9.66 and 48.39 respectively.
If the distribution is assumed or known to be unimodal and symmetrical but not normal then the values of k for the 50%, 66.6%, 75%, 80%, 90%, 95% and 99% confidence intervals are 0.50, 1.87, 2.91, 3.94, 8.97, 18.99, 99.00 respectively.
To see how this test works we assume or know a priori that the population from which the sample is drawn has a mean of μ0 and that the population has a symmetrical unimodal distribution - a class that includes the normal distribution. We wish to know if the mean estimated from the sample is representative of the population at a pre chosen level of confidence.
Assume that the distribution is normal and let the confidence interval be 95%. Then k = 9.66.
Assuming that the sample is representative of the population, the sample mean ( m ) will then lie within the range determined from the formula:
If subsequent sampling shows that the sample mean lies outside these parameters the sample mean is to be considered to differ significantly from the population mean.
The term mode originates with Karl Pearson in 1895.[14]
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The protracted legal dispute between Slaughter and Audrey McCain came to an end Monday, The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/1E2hvkT).
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Why this week's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit needs to pay more than just lip service to human rights and good governance.
- By Daniel BekeleDaniel Bekele is Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
Three notorious African leaders — Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Eritrea's Isaias Afewerki, and Sudan's Omar al-Bashir — are not invited to this week's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. But a number of other long-ruling African strongmen, like Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos, Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, will be there. In fact, over a dozen African countries which will be represented at the summit boast disturbing human rights records of ruthlessly suppressing freedom of expression and freedom of association through harassment, arrest, torture, and trumped up charges and killings.
As President Barack Obama said in an inspiring speech in Accra, Ghana, five years ago, the continent's future is up to Africans, and "Africa needs strong institutions, not strongmen." Like most other African activists, I hoped the United States would recalibrate its security partnership with autocratic African strongmen. I hoped it would follow a balanced policy towards the continent, with development, security, and governance as core pillars, each holding equal sway. Freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful assembly underpin the ability of citizens to exercise so many other rights and hold their own governments accountable. These rights — prized not only in the United States but by millions of Africans — must be at the center of Washington's message to Africa's leaders.
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Or look at my own country, Ethiopia, where only weeks ago, three journalists and seven bloggers were charged with "terrorism" for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the government. They are simply the latest victims of a decade-long crackdown on political opponents, nongovernmental groups, peaceful protesters, and media that dare to even mildly criticize the policies of the ruling party. Meanwhile, the U.S. administration focuses on its security alliance with Ethiopia for its fight against terrorism in Somalia.
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Uganda, another country whose president, Yoweri Museveni, has been in power for decades, has increasingly cracked down on independent media and nongovernmental organizations, particularly at a time when they are reporting allegations of state corruption and financial mismanagement. And Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea celebrated his 35th anniversary in power on August 3 by traveling to Washington for the summit, while illegal arrests, torture, and high-level corruption continue back home.
Even in Nigeria, which has for years boasted a strong, free press and active independent groups, there are signs of slippage as soldiers have carried out campaigns to intimidate and harass some media organizations for reporting on corrupt practices in the military. Nigerian authorities defended this brazen intimidation as a routine security operation when soldiers intercepted and destroyed the deliveries of several national newspapers in May and June. On top of this, a new draft law presented to parliament threatens to cut foreign funding for nongovernmental organizations.
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"This property sits on a half acre. The home is fully furnished and everything except your clothing and food is provided. The home is near Gruene and everything you could possibly want to do in New Braunfels and Gruene. The house is extremely clean and family friendly. There is a large kitchen table to serve your guests and play games. WIFI and cable are provided."
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Gruene Hall is right around the corner. Check out their web site at Gruene Hall for a list of who is playing. Besides the nightly entertainment, there are usually live bands during the day on Saturday and Sunday. Gruene Hall is one of our favorites! Also, enjoy dining along the bluffs of the Guadalupe River at the Gristmill and Gruene River Grill. Mozie's is a fun place to watch sporting events. If you want to go downtown, enjoy McAdoo's or Myrons for seafood and steaks. The Dancing Pony is one of our favorite places to shop downtown and Gruene with Envy has great clothes, jewelry and shoes. Stop by Lone Star Music. They have great T-shirts and you never know who will be stopping in to play a gig!
In the City of New Braunfels with Tubing on the Guadalupe right around the corner. Rockin R River Rides and Gruene River Company are located on Gruene Road and we are right around the corner. Convenient to Schlitterbahn Water Park and Historic Gruene with numerous antique shops and the Oldest Dance Hall in Texas.
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Gnarly Adventurer
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Location: Land of the Hardcore
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Riding Ettiquette
There has been some talk about safety etc following a recent ride where a number of participants fell off due to ice one a corner. Rather than clog that thread with off topic stuff I thought I would start a seperate thread to discuss a number of the issue's raised.
Believe it or not I am a strong advocate of personal safety. Those who know me and know what my employment has been over the years will know why. I worked in a job where severity of incidents was measured in by the number of dead bodies lying around, safety was not an option. It was compulsory.
However unlike the common trend that has emerged in many companys and thinking patterns. I was made responsible for my own safety. I worked alone, outdoors in all weathers, I didnt have someone to molly coddle me along or for me to blame when it all went wrong.
I was encouraged to think!!!! I was taught "Safety is not just an action, it is an attitude".
So onto the ride,
A number of riders fell on a certain icy corner. It has now been expressed by a few that something should have been done to prevent this happening. Someone could have stood on the corner and warned riders, flouro paint warning signs could have been sprayed around etc. Yes these things could have been done, but then where does it end? How long before the corner man system has someone on every bend in the road and flouro paint glowing like nuclear fallout throughout the forest
The question I would ask is, why didnt everyone fall off?
We can either use the luck theory, (I was unlucky and fell off, they were lucky and didnt) and place our destiny in something called luck. Or we can look at what we did on that corner. What actions did I take prior to that (and every other) icy corner. As a group we all knew it was cold. It is after all a mid winter ride. There was frost on the ground and road surface. As a rider I placed that knowledge high into my risk factors for that day.
I watched for shadey areas, I took caution even in areas that didnt have warning signs, I allowed more time for braking. The problem I saw on that particular corner was it looked easy, It was a wide sweeping corner, surrounded by stunning scenery.
I got around it safely by riding across the corner (cutting the corner). Not legal but as the visibilty was good it was far safer in my thoughts to straighten the corner out and use the camber of the road to my advantage. Looking at the skid marks in the pic on the other thread I would suggest the riders who came to grief did not do this.
I am not claiming superiority in this area I am merely putting forward thoughts as to how safer riding can be achieved without having to rely on others to make me safe.
On day 2 I took a tumble on a tight corner in the challenge section, I suppose I could ask for someone to do something about that corner, (and every other corner that someone fell off on) or I could (as I did) look at why I fell off and change what I did so it wont happen again.
Thats my rant, you can get stuck in now
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Glad you posted something up as I have been biting my tongue with restraint, I assumed anyone on that ride should have been capable of reading the conditions and dealing with them and, if you do arse off, then accept that as part of the joy of participation. My friend on the Vee Strom did just that, we spent more time laughing at his retelling of the experience than we did commiserating on the minimal damage to his bike.
I rode everything except the challenge section (Clint wouldn't let me ) on probably the least suitable tyres without any problems. I did go sideways a few times, I did almost not stop a few times and I got slightly stuck on a 4x4 track that I followed Al onto (stupid, I know). But I didn't fall off due to slippery roads and I didn't winge about it.
We were well warned to expect ice, rain, mud & gravel surfaces, so how does coming across such surfaces become a surprise? I can see the need to warn other riders of exceptional obstacles but I don't see a bit of ice as "exceptional".
I can appreciate that to some new riders this was a challenging ride and I congratulate them on having a go and surviving it but they also need to realise the limitations are theirs and they will need to learn some new skills(exactly as the rest of us have). Possibly it comes as a bit of a shock that you can fall off a bike and injure yourself as a matter of course on adventure rides but that is the nature of the beast and the reason we enjoy the challenge of participation.
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Fair Weather Faggot
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Kapiti NZ
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So its ok for an 'experienced' rider such as yourself to come across obstacles that in your opinion should be expected on a ride such as this and leave all the inexperienced riders to learn by the school of hard knocks?
I'm obviously much less experienced than you because I certainly wasnt expecting to hit ice in the middle of a dirt road. Its interesting to note that at least two of the other riders (I don't know the third) who had offs were experienced riders.
Its great that you could laugh with your mate about the off he had. I couldn't really do that in Marty's case because he was in a lot of pain.
When we ride in a group we have an element of responsibility to the other members in that group. If you'd got off you high horse for a moment and put the needs of other potentially less experienced riders before your own and stayed and warned other riders there might have been 3 other bikes and riders that didn't end up on the deck. I certainly would have had a hell of a lot more respect for you than I currently have.
Bored Of The Rings
Joined: Jun 2011
Location: Auckland,New Zealand
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I can post up some of the docs I use at work for your next trip.
There is a Risk Assessment matrix that goes from Green to Red, then you can put in some risk mitigation plans.
someone can write up a step by step plan of the even that can be 'walked thru' by a reviewer then approved by the leader.
Prior to leaving on the trip you can have a " team toolbox talk" go thru the steps, get all parties to sign off on it and then off you all go.
this replaces the methods we used in the past of " just do it"
Studly Adventurer
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Papakura, New Zealand
Oddometer: 599
My views fall somewhere between you and Iain. I tend to agree with him although you might be the better one to have in front of me on the trail.
I suspect that I am a bit different from most adventure riders because while I suppose I could be classed as experienced by now, the fact is that my skills are modest at best. That's what you get when you start your adolescence at around 50.
Consequently, crazy as it sounds, I go out for a ride expecting to come off if the ride is anything other than moderate in difficulty. History has taught me to expect this and continues to do so. Maybe it's simply self fulfilling - I just don't know but I do dress accordingly and so have never suffered any real damage.
The thing about your post that gets my attention is this:- surely the school of hard knocks is the finishing school for all of us. I believe that we can attend all the tuition sessions and watch all the educational videos that we like, but in the end, we only find out what our limits are by pushing them with the inevitable result from time to time. If (repeat if) I am right then the immediate corollary of this is that experienced riders will likely get more severe injuries because they will be travelling quicker when they lose it.
Lastly, I detest dust to the extent that I don't do organised rides much anymore. I guess it's a hangover from Oz but in any case it means that I usually ride by myself even on the group runs. This means that I have to look after myself and am completely used to doing so. I have never expected help from others until I have got myself deep enough in the crap to have to go and ask for it. However having said that, it's also pretty true to say that when the course is a testing one, I am probably close to the back of the field and so have little option.
Bass screwed with this post 08-02-2013 at 02:00 PM
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Why not just laugh at those that fall over, give them a kick & say harden up while you're at it?
Studly Adventurer
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Auckland , New Zealand
Oddometer: 983
If on a group ride I came across someone who had broken down, or had fallen off & made no effort to help I would be a pretty ordinary sort of bloke. Likewise if I saw a situation that could result in an accident or injury to my fellow riders & I did nothing, I would be a really ordinary bugger.
In my experience riders have always helped each other , I have certainly witnessed Crisis sharpening his puncture repair skills while assisting others.
These events are basically a group of mates going out for a ride together, we have to look out for each other, if you want it any other way the few who organise these rides will simply not bother.
trustme screwed with this post 08-02-2013 at 03:13 PM
Studly Adventurer
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Papakura, New Zealand
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What we are discussing here is a pretty run of the mill situation for a winters ride.
At least that's how I see it although I suspect Mark would disagree.
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Location: Kapiti NZ
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and I sorry if you thought I sounded sanctimonious in my first post - I didn't intend to (no apology for the sarcasm though)
Adventure NZL
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Location: New Zealand
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The fact that some blokes would choose to warn others that there was a patch of black ice on the road that has already clocked several riders is hardly a stab through the heart of the adventure riders mission statement...some perspective please lads!
Nobody is suggesting we should being doing a "task analysis" before every ride...that's just beating the controversial health and safety drum in order to overstate the issue....which isn't really an issue at all.
I would take the time to warn others in this situation...others wouldn't, so what. get a grip...nobody's trying to spoil ya thirst for adventure...and as for reading the terrainwe weren't doing the Dakar! This was a fairly sedate fun ride, attended by riders of varying skill levels on all sorts of bikes. Glad you real hard core Daniel Boon/Bear Grills riders got through with no spills...the rest of us were honoured to ride in your dust.
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Gnarly Adventurer
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Location: Land of the Hardcore
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As a few of you know I have assisted with organising a number of rides in the Naki. This topic opens a whole can of worms for me. Do I continue to organise rides? What if someone falls off? Will "Someone should have done something" become the Adventure Rider call
On the Liquifaction Ride a number of bikes (myself included) came to grief on a rurly muddy downhill section on day 2. Strangely there were no riders stopped to warn us of that hazard. In fact one Wellington rider was heard crowing about how wonderful his bike was at being able to get right through that section. He probably wouldnt have come across many hurt riders that day.
Fair Weather Faggot
Joined: Jun 2007
Location: Kapiti NZ
Oddometer: 1,989
No one is saying anyone should do anything
No one is trying to hold anyone accountable
No one is saying ride organizers need to do anything different
I'm simply expressing disappointment that no one chose (please notice the underlined word as its the key to my whole comment) to do anything when a simple courtesy might have prevented some injury.
I hope you are not implying that I was the Wellington rider you mentioned above as I have never been to that ride (much to my disappointment).
And yes I'm happy to admit that I'm a long long way from being the perfect adv rider - I stopped thinking about ice when I left the tar seal as I've never had problems with ice on gravel. I don't know where you get -5 C from - if it had been that cold I would have been in a pub somewhere in front of a fire
Now take a chill pill and get on with organizing the Cape to Cape ride
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it wasn't -5 at 11.30 am in the morning when I met with an untimely unexpected and unwanted ejection on the slippery slimy slope of shame.
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Fair Weather Faggot
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now what was it you rode? - oh yes some old shitter black farm bike with a rangi chain oiler
fancy lunch at the Porangauhau pub some weekend soonish? if so please forward your safety plan to my solicitor and we'll see if we can work something out
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7 Postmarks with options
- 30 1-Click Styles.
- 15 Photo Effects.
- Text effects.
- 7 Postmark & 7 Stamp designs
- Different sized cards.
- Share with Apple Mail, Messages, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter.
- Auto save engine protects card designs.
- Stores undos with the cards.
- Built-in beautiful card organizer.
- Create your own custom 1-Click Styles.
- Gorgeously simplified interface.
- Beautiful on Yosemite & Mavericks.
With Fun Card Studio we poured in lots of usability testing and development, making the application as straightforward to use as possible, from providing live previews for the 1-Click Styles, contextual inspector (shows relevant options to what's selected) to real previews of photo effects, clean toolbar with only the buttons you'll need, live text editing and a real font menu, you know, the one that actually uses the font. Even the sharing panel was redesigned to provide the cleanest and most elegant way of choosing how to 'send' your card.
"We spent a lot of time designing the interface to look and function beautifully on Yosemite, and yet to be just as gorgeous on Mavericks."


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BestformMedellin Short
Combining playful polka dots with intricate floral embroidery and pretty bows, the Bestform Medellin Short is elegant and feminine. Offering generous coverage, this short is designed to flatter and provides a comfortable fit.
Product code: VF-07405
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Contact us at 1-800-991-66861.800.991.6686
$44.99 - $49.99
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