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In the previous post I briefly mentioned my dislike of the five-game series format currently used in the Division Series and formerly used in the LCS. But what is the real difference between a five and seven game series? If we make some simple assumptions about team quality, how often will the better team win a series of X length? Common sense tells us that the longer the series, the more likely the better team will win, but let's attempt to quantify that. (Actually, it's not attempting, since given the assumptions that I will make, the answers are simple probability, and it's also tough to classify it as an "attempt" since many people have done it before).
First, let's start with the assumptions:
* each game result is independent of the other games in the series (this assumption is likely weaker for the post-season than for the regular season, as the series status has a great influence on how the manager approaches the game, particularly with regards to pitcher usage).
* there is no home field advantage
* the probability of a win for the teams is the same from game-to-game--we are not making any allowances for the aforementioned home field advantage, the identity of the starting pitcher, etc.
With these assumptions in place, we can use the binomial and geometric distributions and the principles behind them to crudely model series of X length. Throughout the rest of the piece, I will refer to "better" or "correct" outcomes. Please understand that I am using these terms in conjunction with the stated assumptions--we know the precise probability of each team winning, and therefore we absolutely know which team is better and ideally will win the series. Obviously, in real life situations we do not know with certainty which team is better. Which is the point--if a playoff format does a poor job of rewarding the better team when we are certain about its identity, it will be even less efficient at that task when we don't know which team is better.
First, let's look at the probability of a team winning the series, given that it is of X length. This can be done with the binomial distribution. For example, for a seven-game series, we simply add up the probability that a given team will win all seven games (even though they will not all be played), six out of seven, five out of seven, and four out of seven. This is the probability that they will win the series.
I will present the probabilities for each interval of .01 in W% between .51 and .65. I have limited the range because realistically in playoff series we will rarely see matchups in which one team is a heavy favorite over the other. The most unbalanced realistic playoff matchup would pit a .700 team against a .500 team, with an expected W% of .700. And that is assuming that the team's sample W%s are their true talent W%s, which would be unlikely for a .700 team. Again, these W%s are the expectations for a single game between the two teams.
I figured the probabilities for series ranging in length from one to fifteen games. I went up to fifteen games because fifteen games was the actual length of the World's Series in 1887, even if the series was not treated with the full championship reverence of today's World Series:
I bolded the 53% line because I'm going to use it as the "average" playoff series--I realize this table is tough to read with fifteen different scenarios. The explanation for why I chose that particular W% is explained below--it's not profound by any stretch (*).
One takeaway from this chart is how silly it is when folks talk about locks to win a playoff series. Even in a situation in which one team has a 65% chance to win each game (which is a big mismatch in the playoffs--a .500 team against a 105 win team or a 90 win team against a 112 win team using Log5), that team only has an 80% shot at winning a seven-game series. Even if you more than double the series length to fifteen games, there's still an 11.3% chance of an upset.
When sabermetrically-inclined people say that the playoffs are a crapshoot, this is the kind of thing they're generally talking about. It's not that you have no way of knowing which team is better or estimating the degree to which they are, it's just that even in a case where you have clear superiority, the short length of the series makes an upset quite feasible.
It was quite amusing during the Roy Halladay sweepstakes to hear commentators talk about how the Phillies were a lock to win the pennant if they got Halladay. Just like it was amusing to read about how the Cubs were going to march right through the weak NL to the pennant last year, or how the Tigers were going to trounce the Cardinals in the World Series. I wish I knew one-twentieth as much about baseball as those folks think they know.
Let's express that table in a more useful form by showing the marginal probabilities for each extension of series length. For example, the team that wins 51% of their games will win a one-game playoff 51% of the time. Expanding to a three game playoff will lead to them winning 51.5% of the time, an increase of .5%. If we expand to a five game playoff, they will win 51.9% of the time, an additional increase of .4%. This will enable us to see the benefit to lengthening series in terms of ensuring the better team wins:
As you can see, the added benefit starts diminishing quickly and for the normal range, essentially levels out after you make the move to seven games. Of course, these are the marginal outcomes, so longer series are still "better"...but less so with every additional pair of games.
Since the marginal benefit levels off after lengthening to seven games (for the nearly even matchups at least--the more lopsided matchups continue to show significant increases), it seems like as good of a point as any at which to stop.
Of course, I have approached this solely from the perspective of encouraging correct outcomes. This is not the goal of a league--if it was, there would be no need for any kind of playoffs at all. The league is going to act in a way so as to maximize its profits. Which is well and good, but I am examining this from the personal perspective of what I'd like to see and/or what will produce the best outcomes.
There is one thing that overlaps between my perspective and the economic interests of the owners, and that is the desire for a competitive series. Close series encourage higher ratings, and longer series means more ticket revenue. For a fan, there's nothing more exciting that a decisive game for the world championship after a hard fought series. While I have a strong preference for better outcomes, I can't completely suppress the desire for a winner-take-all finale.
So, given the underlying assumptions of this post, let's look at the probabilities of a decisive game, given a series of X length. This is done with the geometric distribution, and I have included the formula (**) because I think many fewer people are familiar with it than the binomial distribution--just speaking for myself, I know the binomial function by heart but have to look up the geometric function just to be safe:
A five-game series with a fairly normal matchup will produce a game five about 37% of the time; a seven-game series about 30% of the time. So for a roughly 1% increase in the likelihood of the better team winning, you give up decisive games in 7% of your series.
The next step, moving from a seven-game series to a nine-game series, would result in roughly the same increase in the likelihood of the better team winning while sacrificing another 4% of series without a grand finale.
All told, it shouldn't be too surprising that the probabilities here can be read to suggest that MLB has correctly identified the series lengths that provide the best combination of practicality, uncertainty of outcome, and producing desired outcomes. The extra benefit in terms of desired outcomes from expanding to longer series is relatively small, and is offset by a larger percentage drop in the expected proportion of series with decisive games.
Finally, let's take a look at the potential value of home field advantage in a five-game series. I previously looked at World Series HFA (i.e. seven-game series), and the same principles will apply here. I have not looked at the empirical data in this case and will only be discussing theoretical results.
First, we can use the geometric distribution to calculate the percentage of series that are expected to go X games, assuming that each game is a 50/50 proposition (in other words, not considering HFA):
Just as is the case for a seven-game series, the probability of a full-length series and one short of it are equal. This makes logical sense, of course; in order to create this situation the first three games must have produced a 2-1 series. There is a 50% chance that the team that has already won two wins, ending the series and a 50% chance that the team behind forces a decisive game.
Unlike a seven-game series, it is impossible for the team with on-paper home field advantage to play more road games than home games, as the format is 2-2-1 (Obviously, I'm talking about the current format; I'm aware that it was sometimes different in the past). Theoretically, on-paper home field advantage results in a true home field advantage 62.5% time, and the other 37.5% of the time there is no HFA for either team.
In order to add HFA into the mix, we need to identify all the possible series sequences, which I will not reproduce here. Suffice it to say that from the perspective of the winning team, there is one series sequence that produces a three-game series (WWW), three that produce a four-game series (WWLW, WLWW, and LWWW), and six that produce a five-game series.
I will assume a home field W% of .573, which is the empirical World Series statistic. I believe that the "true" parameter is likely lower, for reasons discussed in the earlier post, but I'll use the sample statistic for the sake of discussion. Retaining the assumptions of evenly matched teams and independent game outcomes, the probability of the team with on-paper HFA winning a five-game series is 52.66%, compared to a 52.31% chance in a seven-game series. So HFA is theoretically more important in a shorter series (no surprise, but we've estimated the degree).
It should also be noted that we would expect the empirical home field advantage in a five-game series to be even stronger because in those series, the on-paper advantage usually goes to the team with the better record. The same applies to LCS games, but not to the World Series as on-paper home field advantage is chosen without regard to the specific teams competing.
That's it, except for the asterisked digressions.
(*) There is no particularly compelling reason to use 53% as a default W%; I just wanted a line that you could focus on that was reasonably telling, because the whole table is a bit much.
Anyway, I chose 53% because in the World Series (for 1923-2008 with a few years excluded), empirically the mean W% of the team with the better record has been .635, and the team with the lesser record has a mean of .594. Regressing 30% to .500, this results in .595 and .566. Log5 tells us that a .595 team should beat a .566 team 53% of the time. And there you are.
(**) The geometric distribution gives the percentage of time a certain number of failures (x) occur before a certain number of successes (r) occur for a binomial process. In the case of a baseball series, r is the number of wins for the victor in a series (3 for a five-game series, 4 for a seven-game series, etc.), x is the number of wins for the series loser (in a five-game series with a decisive games, x = 2; for a seven-game series with a decisive game, x = 3). We also need to know the probability of a success (P), and calculate the number of combinations using the combination function C(x + r - 1, x).
To find the probability of a decisive game for the series as a whole (with either team winning), we need to do a calculation for each team, which is why the results are summed below--one for the winner and one for the loser. Let G be the number of games in a full length series, W the number of wins for the winning team in such a series, L the number of losses for the losing team in such a series, and P the probability of one of the team winning an individual game. Then the probability of a decisive game is:
For example, the probability of a seventh game in a series (G = 7) in which one team has a 55% chance of winning each game (P = .55) is (W is 4 and L is 3, of course):
One other thing to note is the expected number of games in a series. This is found by taking summing G*P(G) for all possible series outcomes. So in a five game series, the expected number of games is:
3*P(3 games) + 4*P(4 games) + 5*P(5 games)
Reverting to the assumption that each game is a 50/50 proposition, the expected number of games in a five-game series is 4.125. The expected number of games in a seven-game series is 5.8125. You can see that there are diminishing returns going on; despite lengthening the possible length of the series by two games, our expectation is that the actual number of games will only increase by 1.6875 games.
The probability of a decisive game hints at this as well, but this is another way you could attempt to quantify the real observed benefit of lengthening a series.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
More Mundane Comments on the Playoff Structure
In the previous post I briefly mentioned my dislike of the five-game series format currently used in the Division Series and formerly used in the LCS. But what is the real difference between a five and seven game series? If we make some simple assumptions about team quality, how often will the better team win a series of X length? Common sense tells us that the longer the series, the more likely the better team will win, but let's attempt to quantify that. (Actually, it's not attempting, since given the assumptions that I will make, the answers are simple probability, and it's also tough to classify it as an "attempt" since many people have done it before).
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As you rightly note, the series status has a great influence on how the manager approaches the game, particularly with regards to pitcher usage. The chiefest merit of a somewhat longer series is not any increased likelihood of the "better" team winning, but being able to see competition between the teams that actually played the season rather than a Reader's Digest three-starter (or even four-starter) abridgement thereof. Seven is probably the practical limit, but the 5-game series should be expanded. (There is also the issue of minimizing the effect of a singular, fluke event--from a bad hop to a bad umpiring call--but that's another can of worms.)ReplyDelete
Eric, that is a very good point and one I plan to touch on a little bit in the next installment (which may not appear for a while).ReplyDelete
I too prefer to see teams compelled to use their entire pitching staff as they do during the regular season rather than playing a different game in October. Keeping the series length at seven but eliminating off days would address this concern, but MLB would probably not like the economics of it.
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A great semifinal Saturday at the ACC tournament -- 10 thoughts
1 -- After watching the replay numerous times, I think Kendall Marshall charged on the winning basket against N.C. State in UNC's 69-67 win. That one should have been waved off, as Marshall lowered his shoulder and made contact on the drive.
2 -- I don't think N.C. State's Richard Howell was clearly fouled, however, on the last play of the game. That was the correct no-call. It looked more like a scrum and Howell never had total possession of the ball.
3 -- Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said after his team lost 62-59 that Florida State's Michael Snaer was the best competitor in the ACC.
4 -- If I'm Roy Williams, I don't play John Henson against Florida State unless Henson is absolutely 100 percent without pain in that aching left wrist. Ultimately, I think the Tar Heels have a No.1 NCAA seed either way, and FSU is so physical the chance of re-injury is not out of the question.
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6 -- If Seth Curry's 40-footer at the buzzer had gone in to tie that game and send it into overtime, he would have joined Christian Laettner, Austin Rivers, Jeff Capel and a couple of others on the short list of greatest Duke buzzer-beaters of all time.
7 -- How far off the radar has Duke's Andre Dawkins fallen? He played 17 minutes Saturday and had no points and no assists.
8 -- Florida State's 33-point win over UNC in the teams' only previous meeting will loom large Sunday, although everyone will say it doesn't matter. It does matter in that it has to give the Seminoles major confidence.
9 -- The Wolfpack would have had to call a timeout to get C.J. Leslie out of the game between his fourth and fifth fouls (which came 32 seconds apart -- the final one with 8:03 left). So while I blame the coaching staff for not keeping up with Leslie's fouls well enough and/or not communicating that to head coach Mark Gottfried, that was also Leslie's fault for committing a silly foul on an overly aggressive defensive play right after he had picked up his fourth one.
10 -- UNC and Duke both deserve to play in Greensboro next week for their first two games in the NCAA tournament. UNC as a No.1 seed and Duke as a No.2. I think N.C. State is in the tourney as well now and will get a seed around No.11 or so.
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Marshall didn't lower his shoulder--he turned sideways in order to be able to create more space. Apparently you would rather listen to the whines of the Wolfpack conspiracy throrists than watch a replay.
And Curry's shot would have been waived off--fortunately, one of the officials saw the 4 steps he took before launching it.
Do your homework before postying, please.
- March 10, 2012 at 8:30 PM
The ACC and it's Referees are a complete JOKE! "...refs are supposed to exude a sense of impartiality." But we often forget that the ACC is "lead" by John Swofford, who happen to graduate from UNC AND worked for UNC. Many wonder why the ACC's OVERALL quality has tumbled over the years. Why don't someone do something about this?...Here's more on the ACC refs:
- March 10, 2012 at 8:43 PM
Hey Anonymous 8:30 PM, your are blind if you think Marshall was moving sideways. Please let me know before you get on the highway so I can pull over - I don't want to be on the highway the same time as you are.
Also, what is "posting?"
- March 10, 2012 at 8:45 PM
go to statefansnation.com and just read
- March 10, 2012 at 9:15 PM
Marshall admitted he was certain he could get away with a foul after the game. Look up his quote! Refs have let UNC and Duke get away with anything AND the players know it. These are the results you get.
Slow and non-physical games. People criticizing ACC refereeing. Less basketball game attendance except for UNC. Fans from other conferences saying the ACC is crap now. ACC being less competitive outside of the ACC outside of UNC and Duke. Players (UNC and Duke) knowing that the can push the envelope in many various ways. Foul, walk, travel, or whatever.
Welcome to the conference of haves and have nots! Welcome to the "soft" ACC!
- March 10, 2012 at 9:16 PM
Anon. 8:30 pm, Scott is exactly right about Marshall's foul. He lowered his shoulder, drove it intentionally into Alex Johnson and floored him, to clear his way to the basket; only his shoulder went sideways! Scott is honest: for all of Howell's angry protest, that last moment no-call was correct.
I also agree with Scott on pt. 4 (on Henson). As for Duke, a classic example of "you live by the three (in some games), you die by the three (in others)".
Back to the Wolfpack: they definitely earned their NCAA invite.
- March 10, 2012 at 10:06 PM
Just watch the video.
- March 10, 2012 at 10:13 PM
By the definition of a block/charge, the Marshall no-call was closer to a block than a charge, but I think a no-call was appropriate. As for the Curry heave, am I the only one who saw him grab the ball and take off running without a single dribble? If you get a chance, watch it again. He just started running and then threw up the shot. There is no way it could have counted...although he walked pretty bad in the UNC game before making a 3 near the end of the game and they didn't call that one.
- March 10, 2012 at 10:49 PM
The little UNCheat moniker is pretty tired . Come up with something more creative to describe the stellar basketball program hat has een run without a hint of impropriety since Frank McGuire left around 1962. As to the officiating, the most absurd thing was to double the amount of time on the clock from .6 to 1.2. The game is 40 minutes. In the course of that 40 minutes, the clock stops and starts what maybe 100 times. If we added up every second or millisecond either way it probably ends up equal. In this case, there was clearly .6 of a second on the clock by the time the official signaled timeout and the clock was stopped. So, it makes it pretty annoying for someone to argue that Howell was fouled as the players fought over the loose ball. Anyway, congrats to State for a hard fought game. It will be good for the conference for them to have a legitimate team, which they will have under Gott.
- March 10, 2012 at 11:16 PM
State fans will complain about the calls, but when will you be honest and question why the coaching staff left their most productive player in the game with 4 fouls with over 8 minutes to go...then you turn the ball over on two straight trips down the court. Bone headed plays...
- March 10, 2012 at 11:19 PM
The view of the replay from the basket angle clearly showed the State player "humping" Marshall. He thrusted his mid section into Marshall as much as Marshall lowered a shoulder. Great no-call. And if the refs give Duke and NC all the calls how can it matter with them winning by double digits many times?
- March 10, 2012 at 11:44 PM
The ACC refs showed their UNC & Duke bias for the whole nation to witness today. Leslie's 4th foul and Marshall's last basket were identical plays, but both calls went UNC's way. The UNC player who stole the last pass landed out of bounds (no call) and Howell was fouled hard across the chest and arms (no foul). ACC Ref who called everything against NCST down the stretch tells Gottfried to "shut his Fing A** up. Can you imagine a Ref telling that to K or Roy? Then the last plays of Duke game - Rivers obvious push off (no call), Plumlee across end line while defending inbounds pass (no call), and Seth's 3 steps on shot (no call). If something isn't done, expect MD & GT to B1G, FSU & Clem or VT to SEC, and UVA, NCST to Big12 or Big East.
- March 11, 2012 at 12:32 AM
anonymous....you are an idiot...no way teams leave the conference. Please just go away and quit your whining.
- March 11, 2012 at 1:25 AM
If you think that Marshall's drive was not a charge, then OBVIOUSLY the charge whistled on Leslie for his 4th foul was wrong too. There's no other way to justify it except being a complete UNC homer. If Leslie's move was a charge (it wasn't) then Marshall's drive was DEFINITELY a charge (it was.)
Both calls were blown. Leslie's 3rd and 5th foul were legit, but his fourth was garbage, as was the no call on Marshall.
I agree that there should not have been a call at the end, the State player never had possession of the ball. State also had a dreadful turnover right after a TO in the last minute. Still, Marshall clearly lowered his shoulder and the defender was more set than the defender was against Leslie, who did not lower his shoulder.
Absolutely no way you can be unbiased and agree with the refs in both of those situations.
I wonder how much of today had to do with the memory of 'Karl Hess.' NCSU deserves better.
- March 11, 2012 at 1:57 AM
The NCSU fans were howling just as loud about how Justin Watts' foot "had" to be on the end line as they were about the Marshall no-call. But then someone posted a series of photographs taken in rapid succession by a News and Observer photographer clearly showing (a) Watts' feet weren't even close to the line and (b) a referee was about 3 feet away looking directly at Watts' feet. Without those photos, Scott Fowler would have had 11 points in his column, the 11th being that the refs blew the call on whether Watts was on the end line. And with Marshall's foul, two referees were looking directly at the play and both made the same no call. The day when the Observer publishes a Sports Section without an error is the day that Scott Fowler can second-guess a play were two officials were looking directly at the play and made the same call. Grow-up Fowler and stop this nonsense about how the referees are biased in favor of the better team. Is the Pulitzer Prize panel biased in favor of the New York Times or does the New Times have better writers than the Charlotte Observer?
- March 11, 2012 at 3:46 AM
It was pretty obvious on the broadcast that Watts wasn't out of bounds. There was another play where an NCSU player 'saved' the ball under his own basket and it bounced out of bounds first before going right to a Heel for a lay-in. It would have been UNC's ball either way but if the call had been correct at least NCSU would have been able to set their D.
I'm guessing the NCSU fans crying about Watts don't have HDTV ;) Either way, there were plenty of other 'questionable' calls that went against State to not have to cry about a legit good play by Watts.
- March 11, 2012 at 5:35 AM
Buncha Crybabies!!!! You Lose, We Win get over it. Go Heels! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, Ric Flair
- March 11, 2012 at 10:00 AM
Winners never whine and whiners never win. If State wants to get back to the top of the ACC they need to focus on basketball. People have been complaining about refs since the 1950's. I remember people calling dick Paparo "duke" Paparo. It time to shut up. There can be a foul called on every possession in bball. I don't want big east games played in 40s and 50s. I don't want thug ball. Coaches who teach that or bring it into the league need to quit whining. Why would an nba talent stay in college ball when you have mugga ball going on all over the confernce with a chance to get hurt. Teams with less talent resort to "aggressive" play like state this year and then whine when they get called for it. Go get more talented players and quit whining.
- March 11, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Instead of complaining about officials, how bout Scott Wood makes more than 1 shot or hits a 3. In their losses, he's been awful. Fix that before complaining. Sidenote: Curry walked on the 3. It's the 5 millionth time either Curry or Rivers has walked and it hasn't been called.
- March 11, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Lets not forget how much the networks stand to lose if Carolina v Duke is not the championship game. If the game is close they'll get the calls. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise.
- March 11, 2012 at 11:30 AM
All you had to do to see how far the ACC has fallen was watch the Syr.-UConn Quarterfinal game in the BE. Tough, physical play with only real fouls called, not the ticky-tack, wussy variety as in the ACC. Crowd totally engaged, standing and shouting for the last 10-12 min. And the BE is only the 3rd best conf. this year. H. Barnes, called the best Freshman last year is waaaaaaay too soft for NBA-should stay another year.
Despite his size, strength and quickness he is afraid to drive and prefers launching rainbow 3's from 25 ft., like yesterday.
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this is weired. I just downloaded and updated my set of xfce ebuilds (i am using gentoo) via http://dev.gentoo.org/~moloh/ebuilds/. But now nothing happens when i right click my desktop. This is bad - not fatal but bad. Does anyone know what this means?
Is xfdesktop running? (when you see a wallpaper, it doesn't mean xfdesktop is running).
ps ax
tells me it is, i killed it via xfdesktop --quit and started it again witout anything passed to it. besides the Terminal immediatly losing its transparacy there was no change. at least i didn't notice... how can i tell that xfdesktop is working properly?
I just ran an upgrade on debian etch, and have the same symptoms and more. :-|
In my case xfdesktop is not running
jiml@ladsdev01:~$ xfdesktop
-bash: xfdesktop: command not found
ladsdev01:/home/jiml# apt-get install xfdesktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package xfdesktop
ladsdev01:/home/jiml# find / -name xfdesktop -print
I'm thinking
Should havr been:
ladsdev01:/home/jiml# apt-get install xfdesktop4
my terminals are still not transparent and still lack menus, but that is for another post
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Summary of August's Manchester Spring User Group Meeting
The August Spring meeting was held on Tuesday 11th August at the same venue as June's meeting. The location was the the excellent University of Manchester Core Technology Facility which has free parking immediately outside the building, just press the buzzer and mention the Spring User Group and they let you in. The evening was introduced by Guy Remond of Cake Solutions who laid out the agenda.
The first talk was by Cornel Foltea of Cake Solutions entitled:
Hello World! (OSGi debugging in IDEA)
Cornel started out by giving a little overview of OSGi including a walk-through of the layered approach that the Open Service Gateway Initiative takes. He pointed out that it's key objectives were:
- modularization
- versioning
- services
- access control
Then Cornel went on to talk about what OSGi features IntelliJ's IDEA currently offers (a MANIFEST.MF editor and OSGi facet detection) and how to create a "Hello World!" application OSGi-style. The heart of this is the BundleActivator interface that you need implement to provide
start and
stop methods called by the OSGi application server (make sure you have downloaded the OSGi framework jar and add it to your classpath first):
package com.cake.dmsd.primer;Then you need to create the jar's MANIFEST.MF file to look like the following:
import org.osgi.framework.BundleActivator;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;
public class HelloWorldActivator implements BundleActivator {
public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
System.out.println("Hello, World.");
public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
System.out.println("Goodbye World.");
Manifest-Version: 1.0Next he talked a little about setting up a remote server 'Debug Configuration' to allow IDEA to connect to the debug port of the dmServer (think this picture paints a thousand words!) - note the port number of
Bundle-Name: Helloworld Bundle
Bundle-Activator: com.cake.dmsd.primer.HelloWorldActivator
Import-Package: org.osgi.framework;version="1.4.0"
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-SymbolicName: helloworld
Bundle-Version: 1.0.0
5005 and the fact that one of the parameters is
Then he showed screenshots of shelled out to a console to start up the dmServer in debug mode by running:
./startup.sh -debug 5005Once that was running the next step was to telnet to the dmServer running on the local machine and install the previously created bundle:
telnet localhost 2401This step gives us a bundle ID (111 in Cornel's example) which refers to the specific instance of the bundle that we have just installed. This ID means that we can start and stop the bundle in the future using
start 111 and
stop 111 from the dmServer telnet console.
After Cornel's talk there was a little break which contained a mention of the Manchester Spring User Group sponsors: UMIC, Hays IT, Skills Matter, SpringSource & Cake Solutions and the new sponsor of the event: Keith Dauris of FDM Group (and it's associated FDM Academy).
The next talk was by Dave Syer and his talk was:
Spring 3.0 and Spring Batch Quick Tour
The first half of Dave's presentation was on the new features of Spring 3.0 and it was an excellent way to quickly get an idea of the type of stuff that's coming very soon. Spring 3.0 is the first version of Spring to only work on Java 5 and above, meaning that even more annotation support can be included. It's also introducing the Spring Expression Language (influenced by Unified EL++), full REST support and declarative scheduling & background task execution.
The Object <-> XML Mapping (OXM) has been revised to offer better support for REST stateless mappers and SQL XML access. The JDK PropertyEditors are being superceded by a revised binding & type conversion infrastructure. If you don't like writing your Spring bean configuration in XML then you are in luck with Spring 3.0 - you can now write it in Java (although I thought the idea of the config _not_ in Java was that you could change it without recompile? Maybe it would have been better to offer non-XML config via something like Groovy?)
Full REST support is now available (with a custom filter to help support PUT & DELETE) which includes annotations to be able to extract values from within the URL:
@RequestMapping(value="/rewards/{id}", method="GET")By using multiple
public Reward reward(@PathVariable("id") long id) {
@PathVariable annotations you will be able to offer some pretty 'deep' URLs, meaning that you won't be held back by the normal servlet mappings. Dave mentioned that someone was using some shell scripts consisting of wget/curl and pipes to create some pretty complex business logic. Non-HTML representations are also offered 'out of the box' so it's very easy to offer JSON, XML, ATOM, etc. without using complex URLs or query strings.
Scheduling has been given a complete overhaul in Spring 3.0, with enhanced
java.util.concurrent support and a new TaskScheduler with triggers (a little like a simplified Quartz). There is a new
@Async annotation (indicating that this method should be run in the background) along with an
@Scheduled annotation for CRON-triggered methods.
Commons Attributes has now been removed along with traditional TopLink and Struts 1.x (subclass-style). Traditional MVC controllers are now marked as deprecated along with JUnit 3.8 support (as why would you not want to use JUnit the annotated way?) and several other outdated helper classes.
Expect a GA release of Spring 3.0 sometime after August, and a 3.1 release in Q4 2009.
Dave's second presentation was on Spring Batch, which he has been the project leader on for the past three years (version 2.0 was released back in April). He started with an overview of the architecture, saying that the Batch Infrastructure layer contains reusable low level stuff: flat files, XML, database configuration. The Batch Core layer contains the quality of service (QoS), audibility and management information and the Application is your business logic.
He said that in it's most basic form it was a "glorified state management system" and then proceeded to describe some of the key objects that make up the heart of Spring Batch (item oriented processing, the Step, Job & JobLauncher classes). The Quality of Service features are interesting as they allow you to detect job and item failures and then deal with them in one of three ways: try it again (transient), ignore it and maybe retry it later (Skippable), or mark it as needing manual intervention (Fatal).
Dave then gave a brief overview of a number of different strategies in which you can introduce multi-threaded behaviour to get your jobs done faster, these included:
- Sequential Execution
- Multi-threaded Step
- Parallel Execution
- Remote Chunking
- Partitioning
Dave then gave us a little teaser with a run through of a rather useful-looking Spring Batch Administration interface, allowing you to view and manage your 'jobs' and the 'executions' of those jobs providing full details all the way down to stacktraces if the execution failed. This really did look like an extremely useful tool and one that will make Spring Batch much easier to 'sell' to management. Here are a few screenshots (kindly provided by Dave himself):
That was the official end to the evening, but SpringSource were buying the first round in the Bowling Green pub afterwards, so the majority of attendees carried on the discussions there (thanks for the beer SpringSource!).
Note: Both Cornel's and Dave's presentations can be found over on the Cake Solutions Blog.
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Stat: There are about 3 million new cases of pubic lice treated in the United States each year.
What is it exactly? Pubic lice is also called "crabs." It is caused by very tiny insects that live in the pubic hair and feed on human blood. The scientific name for pubic lice is Pediculosis pubis. Pubic lice are not the same as body lice.
About how many people have it? There are about 3 million new cases of pubic lice treated in the United States each year. It is unknown how many people have it at any one time.
How is it spread? Pubic lice are often spread through sexual contact, though genital contact or sexual intercourse is not necessary for transmission. In a few cases, pubic lice have been spread through contact with bed linens, towels, or clothes because lice can live for 24 hours off a human body. It is unlikely, though, that this can be spread by toilet seats because lice do not have feet designed to walk or hold on to smooth surfaces.
Animals do not get or spread pubic lice.
What are its symptoms? The primary symptom is itching in the pubic area. The itching is caused by an allergic reaction to the lice bites and usually starts within 5 days after infection. Some people get blue spots where they were bitten.
Scratching may spread the lice to other body parts with coarse body hair, such as the legs, armpit, mustache, beard, eyebrows, and eyelashes.
How is it diagnosed? Self diagnosis is possible, but difficult. May require microscopic examination of a skin scraping or biopsy.
Is it treatable? Yes. There are lotions and shampoos that will kill pubic lice. You can get these from a doctor or at a drug store. Some of these medications should not be used by pregnant or breast feeding people, or by young children. Be sure to check with your doctor if you have any questions.
When a person uses these medications, they must also clean anything that might have lice on it. They should put on clean clothes and wash all dirty clothes, bed linens, and towels in very hot water. If something can't be washed, it needs to be put in a sealed plastic bag for 2 weeks to make sure the lice are killed.
The person might still itch even after the lice have been killed because the skin takes time to heal. Something like calamine lotion may help during this time.
Is it curable? Yes, but you can get infected again. If you are infected, make sure all of your sexual partners are treated at the same time that you are treated.
Can it affect fertility? There are no known effects of pubic lice on fertility.
Can it cause death? Pubic lice do not cause anything more than discomfort and inconvenience, though people who scratch the bites may get a secondary bacterial infection.
How can we protect against it? The vast majority of pubic lice cases occur from sexual contact, so the best way to avoid pubic lice is to abstain from genital contact. Unfortunately for people who do participate in genital contact, there are no known ways to protect from pubic lice, including condoms. It is very rare for two people who have been checked by a doctor and only have sex with each other to get pubic lice.
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Reiki treatment does not attack disease. Rather, it supports the person experiencing the disease by gently encouraging his or her system toward its unique state of balance. Since there is so much in life that pulls us off kilter, Reiki's rebalancing can be useful at any time. However, the balancing effect of Reiki can be particularly valuable—and palpable—when people are undergoing necessary, but invasive, medical treatments. Reiki will not interfere with any medical treatments, but Reiki's ability to influence the system toward balance may lighten the side effects and increase tolerance to arduous medical treatments.
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The field of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is receiving increased attention in conventional medical environments. Research has shown that by 1997, nearly half the American public was using some form of CAM, and usage continues to rise (Eisenberg 1993, 1998). These studies and others that have been done subsequently indicate that many patients supplement their conventional medical care with CAM on their own, without involving their physicians. Another study found that people seek CAM not out of dissatisfaction with conventional medicine, but because CAM more deeply reflects their values and beliefs. Energy medicine is particularly popular, and is largely regarded as non-invasive and low risk.
The National Institutes of Health created the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) specifically to study "a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine". (See http://nccam.nih.gov/health/whatiscam). With few exceptions, such as the unapproved use of pharmaceuticals, health care practices that are not part of conventional medicine did not develop within the scientific paradigm. Most CAM practices trace their roots to traditional, indigenous medical systems such as Ayurveda (India), Chinese medicine, Tibetan medicine, African medicine and Native American medicine, which predate science as we know it. The foundations of traditional medical systems cannot be defined by scientific parameters, and it is interesting to note that their developments build on rather than refute earlier knowledge. One can, for example, practice rudimentary but sound acupuncture on the basis of the first acupuncture text, the Nei Ching Emporer (Yellow Emporer's Inner Classic), which was recorded 2000 years ago from an oral tradition twice as old.
Although a scientific understanding of CAM is needed, science is grappling with the puzzle of how to use linear methods to test extremely complex traditional medical systems that utilize treatments based on simultaneous assessment of multiple interactions. A useful scientific understanding of CAM can only be built on the profound understanding of foundational CAM principles. Many respected researchers are questioning whether reductionist techniques can adequately investigate holistic systems.


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SOMERVILLE, Mass. - Led by Stefanos Galouzis' (Watertown, MA/Watertown) three goals and one assist, the University of Massachusetts Boston men's soccer team opened their 2011 season with a solid team effort as the Beacons (1-0) defeated Suffolk University (1-2) by the final score of 6-2 Wednesday evening.
Galouzis' seven points marked a new career-high for the reigning Little East Conference Rookie of the Year. His first goal of his sophomore campaign gave the Beacons a 1-0 lead in the 29th minute of the contest. He would then set-up the Beacons second score of the night less than three minutes later when he connected with Reyn Johnson (Mangilao, Guam / St. John's School).
Dan Purchia (Winchester, MA/Winchester) closed out the first half, with the Beacons third goal, and unassisted play in the 37th minute. After the break, Galouzis found the back two more times to extend the Beacons lead to 5-0. Assisting on each one of the goals was Victor Rosario (Newton, MA/Newton South) and Victor Hugo Costa (Malden, MA/Medford).
Suffolk ended the Beacons shutout bid in the 66th minute on an Andres Cohen goal. The Rams earned their second goal of the night nine minutes later on an unassisted score. UMass Boston capped off the night with a Kevin Jago (Quincy, MA/Archbishop Williams) goal. Purchai assisted on the play to end the night with three points. (1g, 1a).
In goal, Brycen Dowd (Mansfield, MA/Mansfield) was solid his 2011 debut, making a combined three saves to earn his first win of the year. James Potter totaled seven saves for Suffolk.
On the night, UMass Boston got-off a total of 23 shots in the rain soaked match. For Suffolk their offense totaled 10 shots. The Rams also held a 9-4 advantage in corner kicks as well.
Men's soccer returns to action on Saturday when they travel to Farmingdale State University in New York. Start time is scheduled for 1 p.m. and will be the first-ever meeting between the two programs.


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WASHINGTON, April 22 (UPI) -- Roughly 30,000 vehicles, mostly golf carts and buggies, were recalled Tuesday by maker E-Z-GO due to safety issues.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which announced the recall via press release early on April 22, the "steering wheel nut may not have been tightened sufficiently, reducing the driver's steering control."
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According to CPSC, the following vehicles, consisting of E-Z-GO, Cushman and Bad Boy Buggies models, are subject to recall: "E-Z-GO TXT Fleet golf cars; E-Z-GO Freedom TXT, Shuttle 2+2 TXT and Valor personal golf cars all with one bench seat and one rear-facing seat; E-Z-GO Express with two bench seats and one rear-facing seat; E-Z-GO Terrain with a cargo bed; Cushman Shuttle vehicles; and Bad Boy Buggies HD, LD, LTO, and LT Safari utility vehicles."
All the vehicles were manufactured in Augusta, Georgia, by the E-Z-GO Division of Textron -- an industrial conglomerate headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. The suspect vehicles were all sold between August 2012 and February 2013. Owners of vehicles covered in the recall can contact local dealerships to arrange for a free repair.
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Loveland Fire and Rescue firefighters Matt DeDecker, right, and Paul Brown, back, explain some of the features of a fire truck to Loveland residents, front from left, Julie Mowen, Caris Mowen, 7, and Seth Mowen, 4, during a 100th anniversary celebration for the department Saturday at the fire training facility.
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Front from left, Greg Mastriona dances onstage with his daughter, Madisun, 10, along with Bailey Flores, 10, Kendra Brownell, 7, and Aurelia Miramontes, 10, as the band "Deep Cover" plays a song as part of the Berthoud Day festivities on Saturday at Berthoud Park.
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Brighton resident Rod Begger, right, and his son, John, check out classic cars on display during the Goodguys Colorado Nationals car show on Friday afternoon at The Ranch. The show continues today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and features more than 2,000 hot rods, cars and trucks as well a vendors, exhibitors and a swap meet. Visit http://www.coloradonats.com for more information.
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If your company is preparing to take on real-time data analytics, prepare for some significant changes in the realm of network administration. Real-time analytics deliver powerful BI and insight, but also bring some considerable challenges to the network and compute infrastructures. Real-time analytics is valuable for evaluating website traffic, social media happenings, dynamic marketing and much more.
There are no shortages of platforms for taking on real-time analytics, also called data streaming. Most are part of the Hadoop ecosystem, which you're probably familiar with if big data and analytics is already a part of your organization's operations. But Hadoop isn't built for real-time analytics. There are five major players in this arena that network administrators and other IT professionals need to be aware of.
Apache Spark
Spark has set the real time data streaming world on fire, literally. It's probably one of the most popular products out there, meaning you can get a lot of help, insight, and advice from the open source community forums. Apache has thriving developer groups, and the members are quite enthusiastic about helping newbies out and answering their questions.
Spark is probably the most well-known of all streaming analytical platforms. This open source framework runs in memory and across clusters. It does work with the Hadoop ecosystem, but it is not necessary to have or use Hadoop in order to leverage Apache Spark. Spark can run on top of Hadoop YARN. It is able to read streaming data directly from the HDFS. Spark is notable for its in-memory processing capabilities, graph processing, and its promise in the realm of machine learning. It is in use in many notable companies, including Yahoo!, Intel, and Groupon. The network administrator will appreciate the relative leanness of Spark.
Apache Storm
Almost as popular as Apache Spark, Storm is another open source, real time analytical platform that allows for streaming data and works with the Hadoop ecosystem. Storm is used for all sorts of real-time analytical operations, including machine learning, continuous computation, and others. Perhaps the strongest selling point for Storm is that it is compatible with a wide variety of programming languages. Like Spark, Storm runs atop Hadoop YARN, and is capable of being used with other products, like Flume. It is already in use in organizations like Spotify, Yelp, and WebMD. If you are a network administrator who also does some coding, you'll appreciate the compatibility options that come with Apache Storm.
Apache Samza
Far lesser known than either Spark or Storm is Apache Samza. This is a distributed stream processing platform that is based upon a couple of other popular Apache products: YARN and Kafka. Samza delivers a simple API that is callback based and much like the more easily recognizable MapReduce. Samza comes with some perks like snapshot management and fault tolerance, and is quite a durable and scalable product to consider.
Amazon Kinesis
For network administrators working in companies that are already taking advantage of some of Amazon's other data related products and services, Kinesis is a good option. It is also a real-time processing and data streaming platform, built to work in the cloud.
Kinesis is designed to work with other Amazon products and services through connectors, including S3, Redshift, DynamoDB, etc. This product comes with a complete library, the Kinesis Client Library or KCL, which gives you the ability to develop applications and take advantage for streaming data to go into dashboards, deliver alerts, or even engage in dynamic pricing activities.
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Many software vendors are developing their own real-time analytical platforms, or are partnering with open source projects like those at Apache. If your vendor recommends a specific streaming platform, that's probably the best to use with their products. But many options, like Spark and Storm, work with numerous other products, so you aren't forced to use anything in particular.
If you're already partnering with specific vendors, your best bet is to find out what real-time platform they have developed or are partnering with. Some vendors are utilizing the Hadoop ecosystem and taking advantage of the open source communities like Apache, while others are engaging in their own development projects, hoping that their big data analytics platforms take off.
The most important part of choosing a real-time data analytics platform is looking for one that offers true enterprise-level features and functionality. The network administrator needs to be aware that almost all of these big data analytics products come with most of the security features defaulted to off. That means that security and other underlying features have to be deliberately turned on.
You can't always depend on your data analytics team to do that, because they're focused primarily on the analytics, whereas it's up to the network administrator and systems administrator to sweat over things like performance configurations and security settings.
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