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10 Tuesday PM Reads
Posted By Barry Ritholtz On July 16, 2013 @ 4:30 pm In Financial Press | Comments Disabled
My afternoon train reads:
• Dow Theory 'Buy' Signal Still in Play, But on Watch (MoneyBeat [1])
• Gold Rises for Sixth Time in Seven Days as Dollar Falls (Bloomberg [2])
• Four Factors the Fed Faces on Bond-Buying Exit (WSJ [3]) see also For the Fed, Europe Represents the Road Not Taken (MoneyBeat [4])
• Whose side is your financial adviser on, anyway? (theguardian [5])
• Never Give Stores Your ZIP Code. Here's Why (Forbes [6])
• Who's dependent on food stamps? Cheapskate corporations (msnbc [7])
• More Proof The Big Six Of Publishing Are Run By Morons (Mike Cane's xBlog [8])
• Why Are Hollywood Movies So Long? (priceonomics [9])
• Microsoft's Surveillance Collaboration: Voluntary Aid, or New Legal Tactic? (MIT Technology Review [10])
• Iceberg: Antarctica loses Chicago-sized chunk of ice (Christian Science Monitor [11])
What are you reading?
The Dollar: A Love Story
Source: MoneyBeat [13]
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[1] MoneyBeat: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/07/16/dow-theory-buy-signal-still-in-play-but-on-watch/
[2] Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-16/gold-drops-for-third-day-as-investors-await-bernanke-testimony.html
[3] WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324348504578609951521236118.html
[4] MoneyBeat: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/07/16/for-the-fed-europe-represents-the-road-not-taken/
[5] theguardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/us-money-blog/2013/jul/16/financial-advisor-fiduciary-help-consumers?CMP=twt_gu
[6] Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/06/19/theres-a-billion-reasons-not-to-give-stores-your-zip-code-ever/
[7] msnbc: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/12/walmart-whos-dependent-on-food-stamps-cheapskate-corporations/
[8] Mike Cane's xBlog: http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/more-proof-the-big-six-of-publishing-are-run-by-morons/
[9] priceonomics: http://priceonomics.com/why-are-hollywood-movies-so-long/
[10] MIT Technology Review: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517151/microsofts-surveillance-collaboration-voluntary-aid-or-new-legal-tactic/
[11] Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0712/Iceberg-Antarctica-loses-Chicago-sized-chunk-of-ice?nav=127-csm_category-topStories
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Medical Smart Cards Find Their Niche
Unified health systems and limited infrastructure offer opportunities to medical-IT innovators.
Most countries, including the U.S., lack integrated online patient-record systems. Patients visiting new doctors need to fill out paper medical-history forms. What's more, over time, records can become spotty, incomplete, and difficult to access. This leads to both inefficiencies in the medical-record system, which cost money, and medical mistakes, which can cost lives.
Researchers and entrepreneurs hope to change that by giving each patient a smart card containing his or her complete medical history. This approach may prove difficult to implement in the U.S., owing to security fears and compatibility issues, but the technology has the potential to transform health care in countries that have unified health systems, or where there's inadequate infrastructure for sharing records in other ways.
Researchers in the U.K. have developed the MyCare card, which is roughly the size and shape of a credit card, with a fold-out USB plug. Another project, SmartCare, first implemented in Zambia, has recently expanded to Ethiopia and South Africa and demonstrates the potential for card-based systems in parts of the world with limited infrastructure.
The MyCare card was developed at City University London; the software for it was developed at Coventry University and is open-source. The fact that anyone can download and view the code, and anyone can contribute to efforts to improve or expand on it, confers advantages.
Developers could create new software that interfaces with the data on the card—for instance, to automatically recognize incompatible prescriptions and display a warning to pharmacists. Open-source software may also provide increased security, because the software can be scrutinized openly for serious flaws. Security is a major issue surrounding medical ID cards, which store potentially sensitive private information. People fear the possibility of losing their entire medical history as easily as they might lose a wallet.
The MyCare card is also meant to interface as easily as possible across a variety of computers and operating systems. Rather than requiring installation on a computer, the card's software runs directly from the card itself.
At the current stage of development, PINs and some degree of encryption protect the data on the card. Panicos Kyriacou, head of the project at City University London, says that more secure encryption will be implemented further along in the development process.


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© Copyright 2015 Albany Herald
LEESBURG --- At Mile 25 of a 26.2-mile marathon, you will commonly hear a runner tell you that their arms, legs and soles of their feet feel like they're about to explode.
And that their mind isn't far behind it.
Just a little more than a mile left, they tell themselves. Come on ... you can do it. You didn't run this far to turn back now. You can see the finish line. It's just over that hill. Boost it. Push it. Find that ninth, 10th or 45th wind — whatever it takes. Just so long as you make it.
Now imagine that Mile 25 is nothing more than the halfway point. That you still have 25 more to go. That this grueling trek — the likes of which so few of even the most accomplished runners can undertake, much less complete — is only beginning.
Sounds a little crazy, right?
Well, that's because it kind of is.
Welcome to the wonderful, painful world of the 50-mile ultra-marathon — a world Lee County's Josh Fix is getting to know quite well these days.
Just call him Southwest Georgia's Superman.
"He's insane. He's definitely insane," laughed Amy Fix, Josh's wife and an avid runner in her own right — of normal, mortal distances, that is. "But he's just one of those natural athletes who can go out and do something like that and not think twice. Normal people would need to train months, maybe a year, for a marathon or half-marathon. Not Josh. He can just wake up and do it."
Fix, a 36-year-old math teacher at Lee County High School, took on his first 50-mile race Oct. 15 in Atlanta — the annual North Face Endurance Challenge Ultra Marathon, which attracts some of the top runners from across the country.
Fix, however, had never run a longer distance than a marathon before undertaking the challenge — and low and behold, he finished in second place, and even led for almost half of the race.
"I heard about the race sometime last year, and I immediately made it a goal of mine," he said during an interview with The Herald a week after his second-place finish with a time of 7 hours, 57 minutes and 36 seconds — that's a pace of just under 10 minutes a mile on hilly, rocky and brutally rough terrain at Pine Mountain State Park. "I had never run a distance like that in my life— and even when I was training for the race, I only ran about 20 miles a couple of times at the most — so I wasn't sure how I'd do. But I was sure about one thing: I knew I had the fitness to finish."
Not only did Fix finish, he turned more than a few heads in the process.
"There was this collective reaction, I think, from the race organizers (and those who are around that endurance racing scene), of, 'Who in the world is this guy?' " Fix said.
When the race was over, Fix returned the next day to the race site with Amy — who was running in the North Face 5K event with a friend — and he happened to make his way back to the racing tent after finding a stray kitten that he hoped he could find a home for by having the race organizers make an announcement over the loudspeaker.
"When I came up and explained I had found this kitten and I wanted to see if anyone there was interested in taking it home, the guy from North Face (outdoor apparel company) turns to me and said, 'Hey, you're that guy who took second place yesterday in the 50-mile race, aren't you?' " Fix recalled. "He said, 'That was really impressive what you did, and the guy who beat you is one of the top pros in the country. You should really consider coming out to our big end-of-the-year race in San Francisco.'
"I was pretty floored. I felt like kind of a small fish in a little pond just going to that race, and now here was this guy telling me he thought I had a chance to compete with (some of the nation's best)."
Hours before Fix sat down with The Herald to tell his story in October — a story that begins in Muscatine, Iowa, takes a cross-country detour to Durango. Colorado, before eventually winding up in Southwest Georgia — he received confirmation from North Face that he'd been successfully entered into the Dec. 3 The North Face Endurance Challenge Championship in San Francisco.
"It's been kind of a surreal ride," Fix said as he looked over the confirmation email on his cell phone. "I'm not a real natural athlete or a gifted runner. I'm just a guy who likes to run, and I work really hard at my fitness. You hear about these guys who win marathons who run four-minute miles — well, that's never going to happen for me. I have a good cardiovascular system, and I can maintain a steady pace for a long, long time. And I love an adventure. Those are my strengths."
Fix's love for pounding the pavement was born as a youngster in his hometown of Muscatine through his adoration of his uncle, Kevin Cooney, an accomplished marathoner and mountain climber who successfully scaled Mount Everest in his heyday.
"He was my mentor, and I really looked up to him and all his friends who did endurance racing," Fix said. "I've always loved the outdoors, and he was an outdoorsman and a hiker, and we've always shared this bond over stuff like that."
Fix — believe it or not — didn't run track or cross country in high school; he was a soccer and football player, and both of those seasons competed with the others. Instead, he remembers going to 5Ks (3.1 miles) and 10Ks (6.2 miles) with his uncle as a young boy — even as early as elementary school — and that "I would always finish real well in my age group," he said.
When Fix graduated from high school, he moved West to live with his uncle and attend college at Colorado University, although because his SAT and ACT test scores weren't as good as he — or Colorado University — would've liked, he floundered in Boulder for several years after arriving, going to night school and working odd jobs to maintain.
One of those odd jobs? He was a semi-pro mountain biker who competed in local races.
"You didn't make very much money. In fact, I think the most I ever won was, like, $75," Fix said with a laugh before adding that his second-place finish in Atlanta last month paid $600. "That was the most money — by far — I'd ever won in a race of any kid. I was, like, 'Wow! This is great.' "
Fix eventually enrolled in CU, but left after two years for Fort Lewis College just south in Durango, Colo., after learning that one of his friends was involved with the cross country program there. He wasn't offered a scholarship to join the team — after all, he had no accolades to his credit at any competitive level of running — but soon began turning heads at Fort Lewis the same way he did in Atlanta.
"I was a walk-on my junior year, but by the end of the season, I was the team's top runner," Fix said modestly after some prying and assurance it was OK to brag on himself. "It was all starting to fall into place for me. Running was what I was good at, and it just took a while to realize that."
But Fix's life took an unexpected detour around the time he graduated when he became involved with a girl, who is now his ex-wife and mother of his son, Lane, a student at Deerfield-Windsor. Fix's ex-wife was an Albany native whom he met while attending Fort Lewis, and in 2000, the couple moved back to Georgia to be closer to her family. It was around this time, Fix says, that he "took a complete sabbatical" from running.
"Looking back, it was probably the demise of our marriage because I don't think either of us realized at the time we didn't have enough in common to (make it work in the long haul)," he said. "She wasn't into running, and once we got divorced in 2006 and I started running again, I realized how much happier a person I am when I'm out there running, exercising and just doing something that I love."
Fix, who earned his degree in mathematics at Fort Lewis, worked both as a teacher in the Dougherty County School System and the Georgia Department of Education, and said building his career and raising his son took up most of his time when he first arrived in Southwest Georgia.
But after his divorce, he made time to rekindle his romance with running.
"I'd made some friends in an athletic group and we'd go out on long rides, or runs. And when I first started back in 2007, I was about 20 pounds heavier than I'd ever been, and I was the fat kid who was always trailing at the back and they were dropping me," said Fix, who added that none of his new friends knew about his previous athletic background. "But after about four or five months, I got back into shape, lost the 20 pounds and they're suddenly like, 'Who is this dude? He's killing it all of the sudden.' "
Soon, Fix was the one leading the pack.
On the weekends Lane was at his mothers, Fix would take long drives to the picturesque North Georgia mountains and "just get lost — disappear completely," he said, on long peaceful, six-, seven-, sometimes 8-hour bike rides along trails that he didn't care where — or if — they ended. He'd find himself falling into deep thought about life and where exactly his was headed.
"This is more true with running now, but on these rides, it's where I would go to sort things out in my head, think about life, my goals, things like that," Fix said. "I found I was far more content than ever before in my life, and it was all due to the fact I was healthy and exercising again."
It was around this time he met Amy, who was part of his newfound athletic group. And it was in Amy he found all that he was missing.
"We were going to a mountain bike race one weekend and a part on my bike had broken and the guys in my group were like, 'Hey, Amy has the same bike, let's ask her if she will lend you the part you need,' " Fix recalled. "So that gave way to me having to return it, and eventually I asked her out. I wasn't really looking for anyone or another relationship at the time — I was just worried about Lane and taking care of us — but I soon realized that not only do we have similar interests and beliefs, but she understands what makes me happy. And if I said to her, 'Hey, I want to go off on a 100-mile bike ride,' she'd either say, 'Can I join you?' or 'OK, have fun!' "
Amy and Josh got married and moved to Leesburg not long after their courtship began, and the exercising together hit a feverish pitch along the way.
"We rode centuries together the first year we were together," Josh said. "And then I started back running, as well. I won the (local) Chili run three years in a row, and I would take my son Lane in a jogger stroller with me when I'd race. He loved it."
So with a new lease on life — and new job working as a math teacher at Lee County, which he started last year — Fix felt on top of the world, which is one of the reasons he decided to tackle his first ultra-marathon this year.
And Amy was ready to watch, cheering on her man every step of the way.
"I never doubted for a minute he could finish the race, and I was overjoyed at how well he did considering he even led it for about 23 miles," she said. "Still, second place — for your first 50-mile race — is just amazing. He had the mindset he was going to do it, and that's just the kind of guy he is once he puts his mind to it. I remember seeing him at different points in the race, and he looked great. I, or any normal person, would've been dead. But he didn't look tired. He didn't look defeated at any point. He looked strong the whole way."
Amy then paused before adding with a laugh: "I mean, it's 50 miles. It's not normal to run that long, and he did it. He's just a freak."
The only runner to beat Fix was a guy named Hal Koerner from Ashland, Texas, and by all accounts of Koerner's past finishes in these types of races, he's one of the best distance runners in the country. Fix said Koerner passed him around the halfway point, but that he never lost focus of his ultimate — and solitary — goal: just finish.
"I stayed hydrated, ate M&Ms, and bananas and chocolate expresso beans — whatever I had to do to keep my energy up," said Fix, who was then asked if there was ever a point when he thought he may not make it. "Well, I knew my body. I knew that I could run for six hours at a time and be OK. Toward the end — maybe around the 45th or 46th mile — my legs started to really hurt, but believe it or not, you still get that runner's high. And just knowing I was that close to accomplishing something .... you don't quit when you're that close."
Amy said when Josh crossed the finish line and they realized he'd finished second, the first thought that came to her mind was, "Holy crap!" she said with a laugh. "His goal going into it was just to finish, and here he was in second place. I can't tell you how proud of him I was."
Even more amazing? Josh and Amy, who also share a love for roughing it and going camping whenever they have a chance, didn't stay at a posh hotel or even one with a bed during their trip to Atlanta. Instead, they arrived the night before, camped out in tents and each of them got about 4-5 hours of sleep.
"Our friends were like, 'Are you sure you don't want to stay in a hotel before such a big race?' " Amy recalled. "And we were like, 'No, (being outdoors) is better than any hotel. It's what we love to do."
Josh is now two weeks away from tackling a field of the best endurance runners the United States has to offer, but this math teacher from Lee County isn't scared one bit.
Because after a trying last decade, he's finally found peace in his own mind on the running trail — and the trail of life.
And after Atlanta, he now knows what he's capable of.
"In Atlanta, there was one fast guy. I was the best in Georgia, and he was the best in the nation," Josh said. "But in San Francisco, there will be five of him I'll be running against. And that's OK. I'm ready."
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Frankly I would be most surprised if DW finishes at all (apart from it is new project and there is so little testing). Looks like their pilots played it safe just to qualify. I'm sorry, but that is not the purpose of a race in general.
Simple calculation on 24 hours race shows they can't be even in the LMP2 middle (with half pitstops).
Anyway despite I'm quite pessimistic, let's see what happens in the race, may be it will be something revolutionary


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City police recover 2 guns, bringing total for year to 52
City police officers said Thursday that the total number of guns recovered this year rose to 52 with the discovery of two more on Tuesday.
Police were dispatched that afternoon to the area of Fox Terrace and Gray Street for a report of several shots fired. Officers searched the area, and did not find any suspects or victims, but did locate some shell casings.
A citizen advised officers that she had seen two men drop something into a leaf pile in a backyard on Edgar Street. Police searched the yard and found two handguns.
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Man due in court on felony charge in beer-theft try
A Poughkeepsie man accused of trying to steal several cases of beer from a grocery store is due in court on a felony charge, authorities said.
State police charged Cory C. Babon, 22, with third-degree burglary, a felony, on Tuesday. Troopers responded to the A&P supermarket off Route 44 in Pleasant Valley at 12:28 a.m. for a reported burglary. A store manager told police he was clearing the store prior to closing and saw a person carrying several cases of beer. He confronted the person, who fled the store, state police said.
Troopers saw the person near McDonald's. After a short foot pursuit, police arrested Babon at 1:30 a.m. He was arraigned in Pleasant Valley Town Court and sent to Dutchess County Jail. Bail was set at $10,000 or $20,000 bond. He is due to return to court Nov. 21.
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A woman who admitted she broke into a Town of Poughkeepsie home to steal prescription drugs has been sentenced to prison time, Dutchess County Court Judge Stephen L. Greller said.
Town resident Anissa Rhodes, 21, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison plus five years post-release supervision for second-degree burglary, a felony. Rhodes admitted she broke into the home in April and into two more homes, Greller said. She was ordered to pay a surcharge of $375.


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Striking differences in man-made vs. natural catastrophes
Striking differences in man-made vs. natural catastrophes
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"Since financial disasters are entirely man-made, in principle they should be easier for governments to deal with than natural disasters, which cannot be controlled. Do you agree?"
I don't. Financial disasters are less predictable than natural disasters.
Those who expose the financial system to major risks can often shift their own risks to others; the depth and breadth of a financial disaster can be expanded by contagion; and it may be impossible to protect innocents from becoming victims of a financial disaster without helping the malefactors who caused the problem.
Predictability: The ability to minimize the damage stemming from a disaster depends in good part on our ability to predict its occurrence early enough to react in ways that reduce the damage. While the predictability of many natural disasters (such as the recent earthquake in Haiti) is low, in some cases it is fairly high and rising as the science improves.
For example, in the Mt. St. Helens eruption in May 1980, seismic activity forewarning an eruption occurred some two months earlier, and government-imposed restrictions on access to the danger area based on these early indications limited the loss of life.
Meaningful predictability of financial disasters, on the other hand, is nil. While there are always astute individuals who foresee that trouble is brewing, their knowledge is not translated into government actions to mitigate the damage. A major reason is that counter-opinions may be as widespread and as influential. The counter-opinions, furthermore, are supported by many who are profiting from the activities that are leading to disaster, and who are likely to belong to organized trade groups.
Underlying financial disasters, in other words, are malefactors who profit from the activities that lead to disaster, obstruct any efforts to restrict these activities, and attempt to shift the cost of the disaster to others. There is no counterpart in natural disasters.
Perceptual bias: Human beings in general have a tendency to disregard or undervalue low-probability events that would have severe adverse consequences. This bias probably is protective on balance, because if we focused on every low-probability hazard that might befall us during the day, we would never get out of bed. Nonetheless, the bias plays an important role in both natural and financial disasters.
Consider homebuyers deciding whether to move onto an attractive flood plain that over a long period has averaged a devastating flood every 50 years. The probability that a flood will occur in any one year is thus about 2 percent. Based on experience over many such situations, we know that after some years pass without a flood, people will begin to move in.
The longer the period without a flood, the more people behave as if the likelihood of one has gone down, though there is no rational basis for this belief. This behavior is reinforced by positive contagion: the fact that some have done it successfully encourages others to follow.
The perceptual bias in the buildup to a financial disaster is even more powerful. Consider mortgage lenders who can make a lot of money writing loans for subprime borrowers so long as home prices continue to rise at a rate that is twice the long-term average.
The longer the high rate of appreciation continues, the more lenders jump in the game, as if the longer period increases the likelihood that the price bubble will go on indefinitely. Yet the reality is that the longer the above-normal rate of price appreciation continues, the closer is the date when the bubble must burst.
Positive contagion plays a role here, too: That bank is making a lot of money in this market ... why not us?
The perceptual bias of lenders confronting the subprime market is stronger than that of home purchasers confronting a flood plain in the following sense. If it were known with certainty that there would be a devastating flood in, say, five years, few homebuyers would buy in.
However, if it were known with certainty that the house-price bubble would not pop for five years, lenders would not be deterred at all. They would assume that they could make much more money in the five years than they would lose in the sixth, especially if they can shift most of the loss onto others.
Risk-shifting: Ignoring the potential losses from a future disaster is rational to the degree that such losses can be shifted onto others. Some risk-shifting goes on in the case of natural disasters in the form of subsidized insurance to those exposed to natural hazards, or free assistance rendered after the disaster hits.
But such risk-shifting is small potatoes compared to what can happen in the buildup to a financial disaster.
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There are as many Christmas traditions as there are families that celebrate this festive Christian winter holiday. Here is look at some of the most popular traditions and the folklore behind them.
The Christmas Tree
Nothing says Christmas time more than a fragrant young fir tree adorned with twinkling lights, smiling angels and bright colored ornaments. The legend of the Christmas tree can be traced back to the early 8th century, when an English missionary named Saint Boniface interrupted a group of pagan men about to cut down an oak tree to be used for a human sacrifice. In felling the tree, Saint Boniface revealed beneath it a young fir tree. He told the pagans that this sapling, with its branches pointing upward toward Heaven, represented the Holy child.
The legend of Saint Boniface was codified in 1539, when the records of the Cathedral of Strasbourg mention erecting a Christmas tree. During the later half of the 16th century, other churches began erecting Christmas trees -- small fir trees decorated with apples, dates, nuts, and other sweet treats. By the 17th century, the tradition had migrated into people's homes. Today more than 30 million live Christmas trees are sold in America each year.
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Posted on: December 30, 2009 12:42 pm
In a Less Than Desirable Situation, Mets Sign Bay
Jason Bay agreed in principle to a four year, $66 million contract with the New York Mets on Tuesday, officially ending his season-and-a-half stint with the Boston Red Sox. While GM Theo Epstein never explicitly stated that the Sox were out of the bidding war with Bay, the writing was on the wall. Epstein signed veteran outfielder Mike Cameron to a two-year deal, and used the money that would have gone to a long-term deal with Bay to sign right-hander John Lackey.
The Bay signing has wide-ranging implications for several clubs, but the actual move should raise some perplexing questions. Of the free agent hitters available at the beginning of this off-season, Bay was second best behind Matt Holliday. Bay wanted to stay in Boston and the Red Sox hoped to keep him. But Bay insisted on the prospect of a fifth year of any type of contract, and the Sox remained resolute against it. When the Mets came calling with a similar four-year deal to what the Sox were offering plus a vested option for a fifth, Bay accepted the deal that he had been looking for.
But once the Sox had signed Cameron and Lackey, they were effectively out of the discussions for Bay. The Sox are less than $10 million away from the luxury tax limit for the 2010 season, and re-signing Bay would have put them over that limit. The St. Louis Cardinals have focused solely on re-signing Holliday, thus removing one potential buyer for Bay. The Angels, Mariners and Yankees also went after other players and dropped out from the Bay sweepstakes as well.
In the end, it appears as though the Mets were bidding against themselves. Due to a rash of injuries last season that sidelined seemingly the better half of their lineup for extended amounts of time, the Mets were in desperate need of a power-hitting outfielder, and it showed in the negotiations with Bay.
One of the biggest snag-ups about Bay was his defense, which often went unnoticed in the strange dimensions of Fenway Park. With no designated hitter in the N.L., Bay will have to play the outfield until he is 35 or 36, a prospect that deterred the Sox, especially for $16 million a year. Bay also displayed an unfortunate inability to connect on off-speed pitches and was prone to very cold slumps.
The Mets' new CitiField is quickly becoming known as a right-handed hitters nightmare. Just ask David Wright: his home run total dropped from 33 in 2008 (the last year in Shea Stadium) to 10 at the new CitiField. Bay has spent most of his career in the N.L., so there should not be a terrible layover while he tries to become acclimated with new ballparks and pitchers, but the Mets would be foolish to expect a home run total in the high 30s from Bay.
But at least the Mets got their man. For the Red Sox, the search is on for some spark in the middle of the lineup. They remain the number one buyers for third baseman Adrian Beltre, who is an excellent fielder with some offensive upside. But if Beltre is the answer, that means that Cameron and Florida Marlins cast-off Jeremy Hermida will patrol left field for the '10 campaign. Combined with speedy Jacoby Ellsbury and the mediocre J.D. Drew, the Sox may field an outfield that has a legitimate shot to account for less than 30 home runs.
Other names are possibilities, such as ex-Yankee Xavier Nady, who would be a decent option in the outfield, but injuries limited him to only seven games in 2009. If the Sox were unwilling to go after Bay, they will definitely stay clear of Holliday, which means that any other move would have to come via a trade. And if the Sox were unwilling to unload the farm system to acquire Roy Halladay, then the same can likely be said for the Padres' Adrian Gonzalez.
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Red Sox - Take a Page from the Nationals' Book
The Boston Red Sox recently completed a three game series against the Washington Nationals in the nation's capital. The Sox took two out of three against the lowly Nationals in a relatively unremarkable series – with one exception.
Thanks to the droves of the fans of Red Sox Nation that follow the Sox all across the country, the Nationals recorded three consecutive days of their biggest crowds ever at Nationals Park.
Nationals Park opened for the 2008 season and drew an average of 29,005 fans per game. Due in part to the struggling, but mostly the fact that the Nationals (in case you haven't noticed) are really bad, attendance has dropped to 22,343 per game.
Opening after 34 years without baseball in D.C., Nationals Park was a $611 million investment made to bring America's Pastime back to the capital. While the Nationals organization is currently in very dire straights and could glean a great deal from observing how the Red Sox operate, they have one thing that the Sox should pay close attention to.
A shiny, new ballpark.
There are a great deal of baseball purists who relish the antiquity of Fenway Park, the last remaining mainstay from old-time baseball. Every Red Sox fan knows the tale of the historic landmark.
It opened in 1912, just days before the Titanic sank, and has housed baseball legends for nearly a century. The list of Hall-of-Famers is as remarkable as the park they played in.
And in the large picture, Fenway Park remained very much unchanged. Only recently, since the John Henry/Tom Warner/Larry Luccino partnership bought the Red Sox, has the dynamics of the park changed. Yet with all of the changes and face-lifts, Fenway remains one of the smaller parks in the league, but with more demand for tickets than any other city.
I have only been to one other park besides Fenway (where I have visited about a dozen times), and it was the Nationals Park in Washington. The stadium is absolutely stunning, and not just because of the flat-screen televisions that are scattered at every turn.
Nationals Park features everything that fans and players would put into a "suggestions for improvements" box at Fenway. In addition to a much more clean and spacious interior, the concessions and restrooms are more modern and much more available. The walkways, entrances and exits are designed to get massive amounts of people in and out of the ballpark as quickly as possible.
Almost the entire Sox roster had never been to Nationals Park before, and all were taken by the modernity of the place. Some were saying that the visitors' clubhouse was bigger and better equipped than the home clubhouse at Fenway.
I appreciate the nostalgia of Fenway Park as much as anyone, and nothing can replace the memories of the old stadium. But it is time that the Red Sox put the Friendly Confines to rest and build a stadium that reflects two recent World Series titles and a bevy of young talent.
The Sox recently sold out their 500th straight game at Fenway. The popularity of the Red Sox has stretched so far that there will always be a demand for the tickets, and as soon as John Henry & Co. add more seats, they immediately get bought up and sold out.
The Sox plan for a new ballpark should be centered on opening in 2013, which means that the original Fenway will be in operation for exactly 100 years. The new stadium can have more seats and concessions, but with roughly the same dimensions of the old park, including the Green Monster and Pesky's Pole.
If the new park had only 5,000 more seats, that would mean that over 400,000 more people would be able to see the Sox play. We all love Fenway, but it is not going to last forever, and they should take advantage of the 100 anniversary as a was to market a new park and show the fans that they truly appreciate Red Sox Nation.
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Posted on: May 4, 2008 6:07 pm
Red Sox Recap 5-4-08
The Red Sox completed the sweep of the Rays at Fenway. Some thoughts on the game:
Jon Lester delivered another impressive starting performance, and kept the Rays at bay while the offense steadily put up enough runs to come away with the win. With Lester's performance, he lowers his ERA to 3.94. Josh Beckett now has the highest ERA among the Sox starters at 4.19. The Sox five starters' combined ERA is a very impressive 3.69 (77 runs in 187.2 innings). Lester has played a much bigger role in the starting rotation than was anticipated in spring training. He has the most innings pitched among all of the starters and has recently been pitching very well late into the games. Over his last three games, he has only allowed two runs over 20 innings pitched for a sparkling 0.90 ERA. He did allow three walks today, and his season strikeout-to-walks ratio is a little over 1 to 1. (By contrast, Beckett's strikeout to walk ratio is 4.25 strikeouts per walk.) But if he only continues to give up four hits and one run and work deep into games, the Sox can live with the walks.
If the starting pitching is going full steam in the right direction, then the bullpen has run out of gas. With today included, the Sox relievers have given up 57 runs in 103.1 innings, which results in a 4.96 ERA. Manny Delcarmen struggled again, giving up one run while he was in the game, and was charged again when Hideki Okajima allowed an inherited runner to score. With Delcarmens' 7.29 ERA, he is coming dangerously close to challenging Mike Timlin for the highest ERA among the relievers. Recently, Terry Francona pulled Delcarmen from the game after only facing a few batters, much as he did today, and Delcarmen threw a water jug back onto the field once he got back to the dugout. The bullpen has, and will continue to get, good performances from Jonathan Papelbon and Okajima, no surprises there, and David Aardsma has done a good job as the seventh inning man. Javier Lopez's work has been sporadic, but on the whole, a good effort. The rest of the bullpen has been completely unreliable, and those three or four guys that are performing well cannot pitch every time the Sox have the lead, and leave the other four arms in the bullpen to mop-up duty. Delcarmen was supposed to be the reliever who filled in for Papelbon when he had pitched in back-to-back games, but Francona would have no confidence putting Delcarmen in with the lead in the ninth inning.
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Colorado author Adam Makos, 32, has spent much of his life listening to — and chronicling — the memories of men a half-century older than him.
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Towards microlocal analysis of waves
Some Background from time series analyisis
- The periodogram vs the power spectrum
- functions cannot be band-limited in both time and frequency. But we CAN try to localize the function's support in both domains (approximately) [HW problem 1: prove the first statement.]
- stationary versus non stationary signals.
- time series versus space series: stochastic processes
- The short time Fourier Transform
- wavelets and multiresolution analysis
Let f(t) be a temporal function defined on the real line. Then we know that
Or let f(x) be a spatial function defined on the real line. Then we know that
Now when we make a measurement, ANY measurement, it is impossible to directly measure f(t) or f(x). What we actually say we measure is f at discretely sampled point:
Now the power spectrum of the underlying function is , which we don't (indeed cannot) know. On the other hand we can certainly calculate the discrete Fourier transform of our sampled data: . This is just the FFT or DFT of the data. But what is ?
The absolute value squared of the FFT or DFT is call the periodogram. At best it is an estimate of the power spectrum. Only in the event that the number of sampling points goes to infinity does the periodogram approach the actual power spectrum of the function. Often the periodogram is a terrible representation of the power spectrum since we get it by assuming that the real time series is our finite chunk of data cloned over and over again (periodic extension). This introduces discontinuities in the periodogram associated with the abrupt change in the data at the end of each chunk.
An example of a nonstationary time series. The top figure is the time series, the bottom figure is the periodogram. Which moment is obviously varying with time? HW 2: explain the difference between the periodogram and the power spectrum.
An example of a spatially random process. No different fundamentally than a time series. In general we refer to such phenomena as stochastic processes, whether they are time series or space series
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HW 3: compute the spectrogram of the tiltmeter data File:Judahlevine.txt. Investigate the influence of different tapers, window lengths, zero padding and overlap of the tapers.
Numerical aspects of time-frequency analysis
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Matplotlib a feature-full python library that will make you forget matlab
this is our basic tool, the spectrogram Note in particular window argument is nontrivial.
Here are a python file showing how to compute spectrograms from audio files.
File:Spectrogram.py And here is the data file that goes with it. It's 4 MB. gong audio file . It's a wmv audio file, so you can listen to it and see how your intuition compares to the plots. Download the audio file and after you've installed the python libraries you should be able to do the following:
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The ./ thing is only needed if . (the current working directory is not in your path).
[1] Here's a link to some wave files representing whistlers, which are dispersive atmospheric EM waves.
a more systematic approach
intro to the Wigner distribution in geometrical optics
Or, more appropriately for classical time series analysis, the Wigner-Ville distribution
HW 4 Using the given Python implementation, wigner.py, compute and analyze the Wigner transformation of the tiltmeter [revised!] data.
Review of Geometrical Optics and the eikonal equation
HW 5: reexamine the derivation of the scalar equation for electromagnetism. If you assume from the outset that the permittivity (take permeability to be 1) is a function of space and time, then what scalar 'wave equation' do you end up with?
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Local plane wave analysis
Here you see that even somewhat complicated wavefront may be locally a plane wave
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Does this always work? Not without careful generalization in cases for which multiple waves cross at the same point. Watch this video to see incoherent and coherent waves.
The answer is coherence prevails, but only in the far field, due to something called the van Cittert-Zernike theorem (vcz) which we will talk about later.
Geometrical optics fails for multiple phases
Waves in Dispersive, Heterogeneous or Random media
Have a look at this movie. It involves waves propagating in a bounded random medium excited by a point source. These are data, no simulations. Your eye can pick up wavefronts buried in random looking junk that would be (manifestly) difficult to do computationally.
The big picture: waves in homogeneous media or piecewise homogeneous media are not too hard provided you have only a single wavefront. Even if you allow for dispersion (which is equivalent to allowing for attenuation), in which case there are some subtle Kramers-Kronig issues, the path to success is clear.
Once you allow for multiple wavefronts you run into the problem that Geometrical Optics (GO) fails at those places where wavefronts cross, since it ignores interference and the phase is not uniquely defined.
Worse yet, once you allow for highly heterogenous media (by which I mean that either the medium is continuously variable, or there are so many parts, that it's impractical to consider representing it as piecewise, then you're forced to deal with some rather elaborate mathematics, unless you are content with very coarse averages or bulk measurements.
The upshot is that in a random medium it is likely impossible to define things like phase and group velocity since there may not exist a local wavenumber.
Microlocal analysis
from Wikipedia: In mathematical analysis, microlocal analysis is a term used to describe techniques developed from the 1950s onwards based on Fourier transforms related to the study of variable-coefficients-linear and nonlinear partial differential equations. This includes generalized functions, pseudo-differential operators, wave front sets, Fourier integral operators, oscillatory integral operators, and paradifferential operators.
from Richard Melrose's lecture notes: Microlocal analysis is a geometric theory of distributions, or a theory of geometric distributions. Rather than study general distributions – which are like general continuous functions but worse – we consider more specific types of distributions which actually arise in the study of differential and integral equations.
An important concept is the singular support of a function (wikipedia): Singular support
In Fourier analysis in particular, it is interesting to study the singular support of a distribution. This has the intuitive interpretation as the set of points at which a distribution fails to be a function.
For example, the Fourier transform of the Heaviside step function can, up to constant factors, be considered to be 1/x (a function) except at x = 0. While this is clearly a special point, it is more precise to say that the transform qua distribution has singular support {0}: it cannot accurately be expressed as a function in relation to test functions with support including 0. It can be expressed as an application of a Cauchy principal value improper integral.
For distributions in several variables, singular supports allow one to define wave front sets and understand Huygens' principle in terms of mathematical analysis. Singular supports may also be used to understand phenomena special to distribution theory, such as attempts to 'multiply' distributions (squaring the Dirac delta function fails - essentially because the singular supports of the distributions to be multiplied should be disjoint).
A generalization of this to distributions is the wave front set.
some examples. Here is a numerical determination of wave propagation directions (on the right) versus a full solution to the Helmholtz equation on the left.
even simple boundaries can give rise to chaotic scattering if the rays mix sufficiently
Even 4 scattereres can give rise to chaotic effects
The boundary created by the different colors is called a Wada Boundary
The bunimovich stadium
how rays diverge in a closed system
if you wait long enough
scalar diffraction
In the following picture you see the circular standing waves on a back side of a dime with a point source on the opposite side. In other words these waves are in the geometrical shadow of the time and exists only because of diffraction effects (i.e., a breakdown of classical ray theory).
Here is a standing EM wave created on a glass slide cover.
some movies of scattering and diffraction
first wavefront healing from a single finite scatterer
next dispersion caused by repeated scattering
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The van Cittert-Zernike theorem (vcz)
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Good points! Lets see Hatton one more time.
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I'm all about a Ricky Hatton comeback, it's not like he's 45 coming off 2 KO losses.
I love a comeback, things like comebacks, hard luck stories, beating the odds, etc, all those cliche things are why I love boxing so much I imagine.
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Why not give it a go, if he's clean and in fighting shape. He could come back and win a belt or two, who knows. He always came to fight, so I would love to see him fight again, put him in with Jose Luis Castillo, if he can't beat him, he can retire knowing that he gave his all, but that it is over.
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i dont think he should. you cant poison your body like he has and expect to do well at boxing. its as simple as that.
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IF..........he is a "proud man" he'll stay retired! If you can't compete at the top after being a contender why subject yourself to more damage. This guy got beat up pretty bad and was not just stopped he got hurt! I used to be amazed at how heartless fans were about fighters they routed against now I'm seeing fans of their favorites wanted them to return and be punching bags for the kids coming up!
This young man can't punch, he's been hurt badely in his last bouts and basicly has NO defense and looks like a "club fighter" when the bell rings.
The Rocky in the movies was IN the movies leave this guy alone and I hope he finds something to do thats safe and makes him content! Ray.
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he is my all time fav fighter AND I WOULD NOT wanna see him fight again
once drugs have entered the pic a career is done honestly he wasnt even prime against floyd or pac
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Ricky is healthier in boxing than out of it but there's no point in him fighting if his punch resistance has gone. He needs to test himself.
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are we sure boxing needs another past it alcoholic coke head? what could he possibly bring?
He'd beat up bums and get killed by any above average fighter. if he comes back, stay in england and beat up on pub brawwlers.
Bettr yet make weeblerII happy and lets see mayweather hatton 2 with the referee of weebler and ricky's choice.
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|Blood flow-restricted training does not improve jump performance in untrained young men.
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|The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of blood flow-restricted training (BFRT) on jump performance in relation to changes in muscle strength. Seventeen untrained young men were assigned into either BFRT or normal training (NORT) groups and performed low-intensity [30-40% of one-repetition maximum (1RM)] resistance exercise (horizontal squat, 3-4 sets × 15-30 repetitions) twice a week for 10 weeks. The BFRT performed the exercise with their proximal thighs compressed by air-pressure cuffs for the purpose of blood flow restriction. Squat 1RM, muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) of quadriceps femoris, and countermovement jump (CMJ) height were measured before and after the 10-wk training period. Squat 1RM increased greater in BFRT than in NORT (19.3% vs. 9.7%, P < 0.01). Although the CSA increase was independent of groups, it tended to be larger in BFRT than in NORT (8.3% vs. 2.9%, P = 0.094). On the other hand, CMJ height did not change after the training (P = 0.51). In conclusion, the present study showed that BFRT induced muscle hypertrophy and strength increase, whereas it did not increase CMJ height in previously untrained young men. It is suggested that BFRT is ineffective in improving jump performance.
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ArtEAST members have signed a letter of intent to lease Lewis Hardware for a future arts center.
Lease negotiations will proceed with the building's owners in the next week, artEAST Executive Director Karen Abel said.
The group started a grassroots fundraising operation prior to the June 4 Issaquah ArtWalk to raise $20,000 needed to proceed with signing the lease. The group raised that well in advance of their June 11 deadline, thanks to generous donations from the community, Abel said.
ArtEAST organizers have been eyeing the vacant Lewis Hardware storefront at 95 Front St. N., across the street from their Upfront Gallery, 48 Front St. N. Only recently did it become clear they couldn't pass up the opportunity to grow and reach their goal of one day owning an arts center to better serve the community, Abel said.
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NEW YORK – At a press conference hosted by the World Car Awards (WCA) at the New York International Auto Show, an expert panel comprising 66 of the world's top automotive journalists weighed in on today's top global automotive trends.
The key automotive market trend findings of a scientific study conducted by Prime Research include:
Enthusiasm about the fully battery-electric vehicle is further waning, while plug-in hybrid technology is increasingly seen as the most promising alternative powertrain technology. Downsizing and improved internal combustion engines are the top trend for 2014 and beyond. Light-weight technology is on the rise. And safety-related driver assistance systems are a key topic, while skepticism prevails towards fully autonomous driving.
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Mathes also noted that light-weight technology, which was considered of least performance in last year's survey, has moved upwards from tenth to fifth rank — a clear sign of its growing significance.
The experts also voiced strong opinions on connectivity; 79 percent of them believe the topic already is or soon will become a key factor in evaluating a car. Safety-related systems are generally regarded as more significant than comfort and convenience features. Regarding infotainment systems, audio streaming from personal devices like iPhone and MP3 players is clearly preferred over radio-based options like satellite radio or webradio. Email and chat functionalities are seen critically by the experts.
– "In-car connectivity will be a key topic in 2014, and advanced safety assistance systems continue to gain importance." (Dr. Rainer Mathes , President, Prime Research)
– "In the view of our experts, the battery-electric vehicle holds little promise to solve the mobility challenges of the future anymore." ( Jens Meiners , Director, Steering Committee, World Car Awards)
– "The plug-in hybrid is seen as the most important alternative powertrain solution in the future." (Dr. Rainer Mathes , President, Prime Research)
Detailed findings and quotes from the survey among the top 66 global automotive journalists can be found in the full study, "The Digital Car" which is available for download at www.wcoty.com.
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