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Summary of cheese and butter technology
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Fun Days
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Oh my that beautiful green grass. Now that is what I love and like water, I can never get enough.ReplyDelete
Hmm...works for me too.ReplyDelete
Add in a few frisbees, and you've summed up our perfect days, too!ReplyDelete
*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Hippobottomus
That's my kinda fun :) xx00xxReplyDelete
Mollie and Alfie
And those are the best ways to spend the day!ReplyDelete
what a wonderful way to spend your days!ReplyDelete
looks like the pawfect way to spend a dayReplyDelete
You two sure are looking good and happy!!!!ReplyDelete
That does look like a fun way to spend the day!ReplyDelete
Fun days are happy days. Have fun Benny and Lily. Have a marvellous Monday.ReplyDelete
Best wishes Molly
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2013 at 9:23 AM
What a wonderful day you had - my grass is more yellow and parched. Have a great mondayReplyDelete
Happy Days in the green green grass!!!ReplyDelete
Bailey, Hazel & Greta
Wow what a WONDERFUL DAY you two had. All the grrreat stuffs we all LOVE. Nothing like a good ROACH and ROLL in the Cool GREEN GRASS and then enjoying a good drink.ReplyDelete
Being Nation Dog Day today, I sure hope both of you are enjoying your day. I pray there are many more nice days to come.ReplyDelete
Thanks for being a friend
Sweet William The Scot
Ooooooh I wants to go theres! Such purty green grass and luverly sand to make a mess out of!ReplyDelete
You dogs get all the fun, pfftt!ReplyDelete
Lynne :) xx
Sounds like the good life!ReplyDelete
sounds a great time to be had!xx SpeedyReplyDelete
Nothing better than a roll in the grass!ReplyDelete
Hydrate is good… but SNACKS is better.ReplyDelete
DANG LILY YOU HAVE THE GRASS CRAWL DOWN TO A FINE ART!!ReplyDelete
Looks like a great day! Good that you are staying hydrated. Lee and PhodReplyDelete
Love a roll in the grass!ReplyDelete
Stop on by for a visit
The dog days of Summer, huh?ReplyDelete
Love Noodles
Love the green, green grass of home!ReplyDelete
Happy National Dog Day to Lily and Benny. I love to see the two of you having so much fun.ReplyDelete
Janice, Snuggles, Sassy, and Dixie
It sounds like a super fun way to spend the day to us, Benny and Lily!ReplyDelete
Love ya lots♥
Mitch and Molly
A dog's life can be oh so simple and oh so fun!ReplyDelete
No better way, is there!ReplyDelete
Lily Belle & Muffin
Looks like a great time. Thanks for taking usReplyDelete
Looks like a great time :)ReplyDelete
And we wish you all a whole bunch of good days!ReplyDelete
We second what Tweedles says. It makes us smile to see you two out in that beautiful grass enjoying life.ReplyDelete
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Your harness is adorable, Lily! Stay cool! I hope you're both enjoying sweet summer days.ReplyDelete
It doesn't get any better!ReplyDelete
Loveys Sasha
It IS the 'Dog Days' of Summer! Enjoy!ReplyDelete
Wyatt and Stanzie
XXXOOO Daisy, Bella & Roxy
Enjoy and soak it all in friends.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful way to spend the day!ReplyDelete
Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo
Sounds like you're living the life!ReplyDelete
That sounds like the best kind of day. Especially all that grass!ReplyDelete
I wish I could also have such a marvellous fun days as Benny and Lily have!!! There`s nothing like laying on a fresh flavoured grass and tasting tasty treats!ReplyDelete
You're an inspiration!
We all love rolling in the grass every chance we get.ReplyDelete
Morgan, Sebastian , the Porties, Syd and Mac
Benny and Lily had a really wonderful day full of joy and happiness! Do they always spend their free time in such a way? And what do they do indoors, when the weather is not suitable for fun games?ReplyDelete


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Well, isn't this ironic…
Here's a coincidence that will have Democrats chuckling: as the last few ballots are counted across the nation, it looks increasingly likely that Mitt Romney's share of the popular vote was 47%.
The number crunchers at the non-partisan Cook Political Report calculate that Romney's national vote haul will end up somewhere around 47.2%, thanks to yet-to-be-counted ballots in California and New York, according to the Washington Post.
The figure, of course, became infamous during the 2012 Presidential campaign when the progressive magazine Mother Jones released a video of Romney at a private fundraiser, writing off 47 percent of U.S. citizens as "victims" who refuse to "take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
(MORE: Romney: Obama Won By Bestowing "Gifts" On Voters)
The phrase "47 percent" soon became shorthand for Mitt Romney's difficulties — often self-inflicted — in getting past the 'out of touch plutocrat' label his opponents tarred him with. Now, the number has reappeared as an epitaph to the GOP candidate's campaign.
The Cook Political Report calculates, meanwhile, that President Obama's share of the popular vote will likely settle at 51%.
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Skype is looking toward developing markets for its mobile business as the popular voice-over-Internet Protocol service seeks to grow its presence in places where smartphone use is less common.
While Skype can be used on Symbian, BlackBerry, Android, Palm and Windows 6.5 devices, those are not as prevalent in areas such as the Middle East, said Sravanthi Agrawal, communications head for Skype Mobile for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress.
To overcome that obstacle, Skype has developed a mobile client for lower-end phones that do not have Wi-Fi or 3G capabilities, she said. Plus, in many regions — such as the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia — 3G networks aren't built out.
Carriers install software on their servers to handle communications, which with high-end phones is done on the handset, said Mark Douglas, a Skype Mobile product manager. That also conserves more of the phone's battery.
Instead of relying on Wi-Fi or 3G connections, which can occasionally be unstable, Skype piggybacks on the operators' PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) infrastructure, which is more stable, Douglas said. The deal is good for operators, since the Skype client will run on all platforms.
Skype is targeting regions that it terms "calling corridors," Agrawal said, or populations with a high level of education and travel outside their own country, such as people in the Middle East and Latin America and countries such as Mexico and India.
Skype is hoping those people will eschew calling cards in favor of its service and buy SkypeOut minutes, which allow users to call landlines and mobiles. Operators benefit since those mobile customers will need to buy data packages in order to use Skype over the cellular network.
Skype "may not always be the cheapest option in every market, but on average, it tends to be very cost effective," Agrawal said.
Skype is also slowly making progress with operators, some of which fear Skype would take away international calling revenue. It already has agreements in place with Verizon, KDDI in Japan and Hutchinson 3G.
This week, Skype announced an agreement with the Qtel Group, which operates in 17 countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Qtel will promote Skype in Jordan and the Philippines through its Wi-tribe subsidiary, a mobile broadband operator. It also reached a call termination agreement with Qtel.
The promotion will kick off with Wi-tribe giving away credit vouchers for calls to landlines and mobiles. Normally, those calls would require users to buy SkypeOut credits. Computer-to-computer calls are free.
It's Skype's first deal with a Middle East operator. "We feel we have good proof points to show operators we don't cannibalize their revenue," Agrawal said. "We feel pretty good about the fact we can complement the operator's service."
But Skype faces issues in other areas in the Middle East where it has been blocked, either to protect home operators or for other reasons. In some places, the Skype's website is blocked, so users can't download it, although it will work if user can get the program, Agrawal said.
"I think one of the issues we see in that region is accessibility," Agrawal said.
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45 Years Ago: Aerosmith Release Their First Album
When Aerosmith's eponymous debut slipped unassumingly onto record stores in January 1973, most critics could barely tell them apart from fellow longhaired upstarts the New York Dolls.
But while The Dolls' influential debacle of a first album preceded a precipitous glitter-cloud implosion amid platform heels, mascara and hard drugs, Aerosmith's comparatively modest first sighting paved the way to one of the most successful, if likewise upheaval-filled careers in rock and roll history.
First drawn together in 1970 through a mutual appreciation for the late '60s British blues bands, and the Yardbirds' seminal cover of Tiny Bradshaw's 'Train Kept A-Rollin',' in particular (as immortalized on Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 picture, 'Blow-up'), Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer hammered their sound into shape over many months before signing with Clive Davis' Columbia Records.
The resulting first LP only reached No. 166 on the Billboard charts; but its most unusual track – the uncharacteristically melodic and bombastic second single, 'Dream On' – climbed to No. 59 (and No. 1 in their hometown of Boston, and No. 6, three years later, when reissued by Columbia.) Not unlike Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven,' several years earlier, it helped entrench the "power ballad" strategy employed by countless future hard rock bands.
This singular anomaly aside, though, the album was otherwise packed to the gills with altogether tougher, Spartan numbers that, though unevenly executed at times (see 'Somebody,' 'Write Me a Letter' and 'Movin' Out' – all signs of the young group's relative inexperience), laid down the basic, blues-based hard rock blueprint Aerosmith would continually explore and finesse for years to come.
Penned largely by Tyler (indeed, the Tyler/Perry songwriting partnership wouldn't flourish until the following year's 'Get Your Wings'), additional rough-hewn nuggets ranged from the audacious mission statement of 'Make It,' to the precocious jamming on 'One Way Street,' to the white boy street jive of 'Mama Kin' (famously covered by Aerosmith disciples Guns n' Roses, later on), to the groove-tastic, LP-closing romp across Rufus Thomas' 'Walkin' the Dog.'
In sum, while Aerosmith's great potential would only be fully realized by the incredible learning curve showcased on subsequent albums like 'Toys in the Attic' and 'Rocks,' this first LP already held all of the fundamental ingredients needed to get the band where it was going – and is still going today.
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Pigs Mobility Leads Sun Hill Procession
21st April 2018
Sun Hill Infant School celebrates its 50th birthday this year and to kick off their fun day a 'Wonderful Wheels' procession set off from Stratton Bates to the school.
With many wonderful contraptions on show it looked a little like the Wacky Races and the Pigs were leading the way with a specially adorned Mobility Scooter. A temporary trailer contained a willing Piglet who was Willy Wonka for the journey, distributing sweets to any children lining the route.
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Mystery Bidder At French Auction Plans To Return Sacred Hopi Items
An anonymous bidder paid $530,000 for 24 Native American items that went on the block this week in Paris. The auction went ahead despite an appeal by the Hopi tribe to cancel the sale of the items it considers sacred. The U.S. Embassy asked for a delay, and the sale was challenged in court — unsuccessfully.
On Wednesday, it emerged that the mystery buyer was the Los Angeles-based Annenberg Foundation, which said in a statement that it planned to return 21 items to the Hopi Nation in Arizona, and three items to the San Carlos Apache.
"These are not trophies to have on one's mantel; they are truly sacred works for the Native Americans," Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, the foundation's vice president and director, said in a statement. "They do not belong in auction houses or private collections. It gives me immense satisfaction to know that they will be returned home to their rightful owners, the Native Americans."
The Annenberg statement said Weingarten decided to step in and purchase the items after a French judge issued a ruling last week rejecting an attempt by the advocacy group Survival International and the Hopi to block the sale.
The decision was praised by Hopi leaders.
"Our hope is that this act sets an example for others that items of significant cultural and religious value can only be properly cared for by those vested with the proper knowledge and responsibility," said Sam Tenakhongva, a Hopi cultural leader. "They simply cannot be put up for sale."
Here's more on the story from The Associated Press:
"It was a happy ending for the Hopi tribe following a series of legal setbacks in efforts to delay the sale of the masks, arguing that they represent ancestral spirits and shouldn't be sold. The tribe has said it believes the masks, which date from the late 19th and early 20th century, were taken illegally from a northern Arizona reservation in the early 20th century.
"The U.S. Embassy had also called for a delay so that tribal representatives could come to France to identify the artifacts and investigate whether they have a claim under the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, to which both France and the U.S. are signatories."
The sale marked the second time this year that Native American items were auctioned in Paris. Around 70 Hopi items were sold for some $1.2 million in April. As NPR's Tanya Ballard Brown wrote at the time, the "auction [stirred] up controversy on both sides of the Atlantic."
Indeed, the Hopi consider also consider images of the items to be sacrilegious; the AP said it had decided not to transmit photographs of the auctioned items.
And in a story on All Things Considered in August, Laurel Morales of Arizona member station KJZZ, said her work on the story "tested me as a reporter and as a member of my community."
Laurel noted that tribal leaders consider the use of the terms "mask" or "artifact" to describe the objects as offensive. Instead, she noted, "the Hopi call the [sacred objects] Katsina friends, and they are treated as such. The Hopi people use them in ceremonies and dances to call upon the spirits to bring them rainfall, healing and protection."
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We often see math applied to the real world through word problems, and the applications of linear equations are seen throughout all our math courses after Algebra. To understand applications of linear equations we need to have an understanding of slope, how to interpret a graph, and how to write an equation. In upper-level Algebra, we apply systems of linear equations to these problems as well.
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And one of the things students ask me all
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And a lot of the times, you guys, you
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And one of the situations you're going to
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When you're looking at a word problem or
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One thing to be really sure you're aware
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By scale, that means how much
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That's something that's really important
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All those kinds of units are really important
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One of the most common graphs of word
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It's how fast you're traveling.
So a lot of times you're going to be asked
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Another thing I want you guys to keep in
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Keep in mind that the X intercept means
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The day after Christine had vanished before his eyes in a sort of dazzlement that still made him doubt the evidence of his senses, M. le Vicomte de Chagny called to inquire at Mamma Valerius'. He came upon a charming picture. Christine herself was seated by the bedside of the old lady, who was sitting up against the pillows, knitting. The pink and white had returned to the young girl's cheeks. The dark rings round her eyes had disappeared. Raoul no longer recognized the tragic face of the day before. If the veil of melancholy over those adorable features had not still appeared to the young man as the last trace of the weird drama in whose toils that mysterious child was struggling, he could have believed that Christine was not its heroine at all.
She rose, without showing any emotion, and offered him her hand. But Raoul's stupefaction was so great that he stood there dumfounded, without a gesture, without a word.
"Well, M. de Chagny," exclaimed Mamma Valerius, "don't you know our Christine? Her good genius has sent her back to us!"
"Mamma!" the girl broke in promptly, while a deep blush mantled to her eyes. "I thought, mamma, that there was to be no more question of that!...You know there is no such thing as the Angel of Music!"
"But, child, he gave you lessons for three months!"
"Mamma, I have promised to explain everything to you one of these days; and I hope to do so but you have promised me, until that day, to be silent and to ask me no more questions whatever!"
"Provided that you promised never to leave me again! But have you promised that, Christine?"
"Mamma, all this can not interest M. de Chagny."
"On the contrary, mademoiselle," said the young man, in a voice which he tried to make firm and brave, but which still trembled, "anything that concerns you interests me to an extent which perhaps you will one day understand. I do not deny that my surprise equals my pleasure at finding you with your adopted mother and that, after what happened between us yesterday, after what you said and what I was able to guess, I hardly expected to see you here so soon. I should be the first to delight at your return, if you were not so bent on preserving a secrecy that may be fatal to you...and I have been your friend too long not to be alarmed, with Mme. Valerius, at a disastrous adventure which will remain dangerous so long as we have not unraveled its threads and of which you will certainly end by being the victim, Christine."
At these words, Mamma Valerius tossed about in her bed.
"What does this mean?" she cried. "Is Christine in danger?"
"Yes, madame," said Raoul courageously, notwithstanding the signs which Christine made to him.
"My God!" exclaimed the good, simple old woman, gasping for breath. "You must tell me everything, Christine! Why did you try to reassure me? And what danger is it, M. de Chagny?"
"An impostor is abusing her good faith."
"Is the Angel of Music an impostor?"
"She told you herself that there is no Angel of Music."
"But then what is it, in Heaven's name? You will be the death of me!"
"There is a terrible mystery around us, madame, around you, around Christine, a mystery much more to be feared than any number of ghosts or genii!"
Mamma Valerius turned a terrified face to Christine, who had already run to her adopted mother and was holding her in her arms.
"Don't believe him, mummy, don't believe him," she repeated.
"Then tell me that you will never leave me again," implored the widow.
Christine was silent and Raoul resumed.
"That is what you must promise, Christine. It is the only thing that can reassure your mother and me. We will undertake not to ask you a single question about the past, if you promise us to remain under our protection in future."
"That is an undertaking which I have not asked of you and a promise which I refuse to make you!" said the young girl haughtily. "I am mistress of my own actions, M. de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth. As to what I have done during the last fortnight, there is only one man in the world who has the right to demand an account of me: my husband! Well, I have no husband and I never mean to marry!"
She threw out her hands to emphasize her words and Raoul turned pale, not only because of the words which he had heard, but because he had caught sight of a plain gold ring on Christine's finger.
"You have no husband and yet you wear a wedding-ring."
He tried to seize her hand, but she swiftly drew it back.
"That's a present!" she said, blushing once more and vainly striving to hide her embarrassment.
"Christine! As you have no husband, that ring can only have been given by one who hopes to make you his wife! Why deceive us further? Why torture me still more? That ring is a promise; and that promise has been accepted!"
"That's what I said!" exclaimed the old lady.
"And what did she answer, madame?"
"What I chose," said Christine, driven to exasperation. "Don't you think, monsieur, that this cross-examination has lasted long enough? As far as I am concerned..."
Raoul was afraid to let her finish her speech. He interrupted her:
"I beg your pardon for speaking as I did, mademoiselle. You know the good intentions that make me meddle, just now, in matters which, you no doubt think, have nothing to do with me. But allow me to tell you what I have seen--and I have seen more than you suspect, Christine--or what I thought I saw, for, to tell you the truth, I have sometimes been inclined to doubt the evidence of my eyes."
"Well, what did you see, sir, or think you saw?"
"I saw your ecstasy AT THE SOUND OF THE VOICE, Christine: the voice that came from the wall or the next room to yours...yes, YOUR ECSTASY! And that is what makes me alarmed on your behalf. You are under a very dangerous spell. And yet it seems that you are aware of the imposture, because you say to-day THAT THERE IS NO ANGEL OF MUSIC! In that case, Christine, why did you follow him that time? Why did you stand up, with radiant features, as though you were really hearing angels?...Ah, it is a very dangerous voice, Christine, for I myself, when I heard it, was so much fascinated by it that you vanished before my eyes without my seeing which way you passed! Christine, Christine, in the name of Heaven, in the name of your father who is in Heaven now and who loved you so dearly and who loved me too, Christine, tell us, tell your benefactress and me, to whom does that voice belong? If you do, we will save you in spite of yourself. Come, Christine, the name of the man! The name of the man who had the audacity to put a ring on your finger!"
"M. de Chagny," the girl declared coldly, "you shall never know!"
Thereupon, seeing the hostility with which her ward had addressed the viscount, Mamma Valerius suddenly took Christine's part.
"And, if she does love that man, Monsieur le Vicomte, even then it is no business of yours!"
"Alas, madame," Raoul humbly replied, unable to restrain his tears, "alas, I believe that Christine really does love him!...But it is not only that which drives me to despair; for what I am not certain of, madame, is that the man whom Christine loves is worthy of her love!"
"It is for me to be the judge of that, monsieur!" said Christine, looking Raoul angrily in the face.
"When a man," continued Raoul, "adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections. .."
"The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?"
"Raoul, why do you condemn a man whom you have never seen, whom no one knows and about whom you yourself know nothing?"
"Yes, Christine....Yes....I at least know the name that you thought to keep from me for ever....The name of your Angel of Music, mademoiselle, is Erik!"
Christine at once betrayed herself. She turned as white as a sheet and stammered: "Who told you?"
"You yourself!"
"How do you mean?"
"By pitying him the other night, the night of the masked ball. When you went to your dressing-room, did you not say, `Poor Erik?' Well, Christine, there was a poor Raoul who overheard you."
"This is the second time that you have listened behind the door, M. de Chagny!"
"I was not behind the door...I was in the dressing-room, in the inner room, mademoiselle."
"Oh, unhappy man!" moaned the girl, showing every sign of unspeakable terror. "Unhappy man! Do you want to be killed?"
Raoul uttered this "perhaps" with so much love and despair in his voice that Christine could not keep back a sob. She took his hands and looked at him with all the pure affection of which she was capable:
"Raoul," she said, "forget THE MAN'S VOICE and do not even remember its name. .. You must never try to fathom the mystery of THE MAN'S VOICE."
"Is the mystery so very terrible?"
"There is no more awful mystery on this earth. Swear to me that you will make no attempt to find out," she insisted. "Swear to me that you will never come to my dressing-room, unless I send for you."
"Then you promise to send for me sometimes, Christine?"
"I promise."
"Then I swear to do as you ask."
He kissed her hands and went away, cursing Erik and resolving to be patient.
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Last week, we talked about what replacement level is, and why we need it. Now let's talk about who replacements are, and how to find them.
What we uncovered last time is that, rather than being some wholly arbitrary baseline concocted by evil sabermetric geniuses, replacement level (and the consequences of replacement level-based analysis) in fact grow out of something fundamental to the game: the distribution of talent in baseball, and the limited number of roster spots available. So the question becomes, how do we measure the distribution of talent? What are some things we need to make sure we're capturing?
Sabermetrics is a field of inquiry open to just about anyone, and while the field is known for its own share of geniuses, occasionally one comes to it on loan from other fields. Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, but he was also a passionate baseball fan. And Gould noticed something interesting, as recounted in his essay "Why No One Hits .400 Any More."
When we contrast these numbers of the past and present, we encounter the well-known and curious phenomenon that inspired this article: great players of the past often stand further apart from their teammates. Consider only the principle measures of hitting and pitching: batting average and earned run average. No one has hit .400 since Ted Williams reached .406 nearly half a century ago in 1941, yet eight players exceeded .410 in the fifty years before then. Bob Gibson had an earned run average of 1.12 in 1968. Ten other pitchers have achieved a single season ERA below 1.30, but before Gibson we must go back a full fifty years to Walter Johnson's 1.27 in 1918. Could the myths be true after all? Were the old guys really better? Are we heading toward entropic homogeneity and robotic sameness?
As Gould notes, it seems unlike that players of old really were better than players of now. "We live better, eat better, provide more opportunity across all social classes," he said. "Moreover, the pool of potential recruits has increased fivefold in one hundred years by simple growth of the American population." And baseball is no longer a wholly American game; Major League Baseball now can pull the best talent from across the world.
It is difficult to attribute the absence of .400 hitters to changes in the game on the whole—while the league batting average has fluctuated since the game began, it has been reasonably stable over time. And the American League hit .266 the year Williams hit .406, compared to .256 this year and .255 the year before. A decrease, yes, but an altogether modest one. We don't have to guess at the increasing physical improvement of our athletes—we can measure it objectively in sports like track, where an athlete performs against a clock. So why can't see it in baseball? Gould offers this explanation:
In a system with relative standards (person against person) – especially when rules are subtly adjusted to maintain constancy in measures of average performance – this general improvement is masked and cannot be recovered when we follow our usual traditions and interpret figures for average performances as measures of real things. We can, however, grasp the general improvement of systems with relative standards by a direct study of variations – recognizing that variation itself is a decline in variation. Paradoxically, this decline produces a decrease in the difference between average and stellar performance. Therefore, modern leaders don't stand so far above their contemporaries. The "myth" of ancient heroes—the greater distance between average and best in the past—actually records the improvement of play through time.
In other words, what Gould found was evidence that while the best baseball players of today are better than the best baseball players of years past, the worst baseball players have been improving at an even greater rate than the best.
We can observe the same behavior at the team level. Let's look at the standard deviation of team wins by year:
The blue line represents the raw standard deviation; the orange line uses the binomial distribution to model a "true" standard deviation that controls for the number of teams in the league and the number of games played. Both graphs tell a very similar story—the distance between the best and worst baseball teams has shrunk substantially over the history of the game.
What this tells us is that the sort of freely-available talent in 2013 is much, much better than the sort of freely-available talent available in 1913. And this has significant consequences for how we evaluate players when we use freely-available talent as the baseline for our value systems.
There's also been another substantial change in the game. Let's look at the rate of the so-called three true outcomes (walks, strikeouts and home runs) over time:
From 1872 to 1875, the league averaged roughly three percent of plate appearances having a "true outcome." In 2012, over thirty percent of plate appearances ended in the same way. The three true outcomes are so called because they are largely immune to the interference of the fielders (home run grabs off the wall notwithstanding), being wholly in the purview of the batter-pitcher matchup. (Although—and we'll get to this later—it may be better to think of it as the batter-battery matchup.)
The importance of fielding has declined in the game steadily and dramatically over time; by the same token, the importance of pitching has increased as well. At the same time, the number of pitchers has increased dramatically. Looking at pitchers per game:
What we see is a four-fold increase in the pitchers used in a major-league game over the game's history. (It is tempting to draw a connection between the way pitchers are used and the rate of true outcomes over time, and while there are probably other factors in play as well, I suspect there is a causal link there.) Behind this change in pitcher usage is the simple fact that the longer a pitcher is in a game, the less effective he is.
We call replacement players that because they're often used to replace the player a team would otherwise use if they could. But consider a starting pitcher. We know that the better starters will pitch deeper into games, because even though they decline over the course of a game, they start from a higher point and thus can remain effective longer. So if a team has to replace a pitcher who can reliably pitch six or seven innings a game, they won't force their replacement starter to pitch the same number of innings. Instead, they'll figure out the correct amount of innings for that pitcher to pitch in a game given his abilities, and they'll fill in the innings gap with relief pitcher performance. What this means is that a starting pitcher does not have only one replacement in the modern era, even at the level of the single game; he can have two or three or more replacements. Taken together, all this means that the replacement level for pitching is going to shift more dramatically over time than the replacement level for hitting.
This has two consequences. One is that replacement level needs to shift over time in order to properly account for the split between pitching and hitting. The other is that comparing raw performance above replacement for players across different seasons will tend to overrate players from older seasons. We'll investigate both conclusions next week.
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Figure 1. Simplified representation of cytokine interactions during inflammation.
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Figure 2. Inflammation is required for a healthy immune response, but it is also responsible for the pathogenesis of several diseases. The balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines plays a critical role in the body's response to an inflammatory stimulus.
Table 1. Pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators. From Bone et al. [2].
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Mercora doesn't share music - it webcasts it
A former McAfee CEO appears to have found a way around the legal minefield hindering anyone attempting to enter the music sharing market: by a licence to webcast content.
Mercora is a P2P - "person to person", is how it defines the term - network that allows users to share songs without actually downloading them. It's an approach the company dubs "P2P radio".
The software allows users to share and catalogue digital photos, and provides instant messaging functionality too. But it's focus is sharing music. Essentially, it streams the music files on a user's hard drive out onto the Net. Other Mercora users can tune in and listen.
The company's reckons it's safe to do so because it has acquired a non-interactive digital audio webcasting licence as mandated by the notorious Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). "This license pertains to the digital performance rights of sound recordings and the associated reporting and royalty payments to SoundExchange (the independent non-profit organization that represents over 500 record companies and associated labels)," Mercora says.
"We have also obtained all US (and in some cases international) musical composition performance rights through our licenses with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC."
The upshot, it believes, is that "you (the end user) do not have to worry about... the reporting and royalty payments that are due to these various organizations".
Next, the software "ensures that any webcasts you make satisfy various rules governing the statutory licence for non-interactive webcasting". That includes "conforming to the sound recording performance complement, minimum duration for looped programming, identification of song, artist, and album," etc.
This clearly involves a level of randomisation, since one of the company's rules is that users aren't allowed to tell anyone what they're webcasting, or respond to requests for specific songs to be webcast. It's that level of uncertainty in the programming that makes it possible to get away with all this using said "non-interactive" licence.
Mercora's terms and conditions also insist that users may only include songs they've ripped from CDs they own or have acquired by downloading from a legal site.
It all sounds feasible enough, but despite the company's insistence that what it (and its users) are doing its legitimate, it seems oddly unwilling to reveal who's behind it beyond mention of the "executive and technical team that previously was instrumental in building companies such as Netscape and McAfee.com". There's a contact-by-email form, but nothing more concrete.
Looking up mercora.com's domain ownership, we discovered the site is registered to one Srivats Sampath, who founded McAfee and was at one time the anti-virus company's president and CEO. He handled the company's 1999 IPO and its 2002 merger with Network Associates. Before McAfee, he was head of marketing at Netscape.
Sampath's service promises "no ad-ware, spy-ware, or other slimy gimmicks from us". Yet it's unclear where the money's coming from. We calculate Mercora will have paid at least $500 for a year's webcasting license, if it counts as a non-commercial webcaster. The fee rises if it becomes a "small" commercial webcaster or even a commercial organisation.
Where does the money come from? Not the users - the software is free and so, it seems, is using it. With no ads, the cash can't be coming from there.
However that question is answered, Mercora is at least a novel take on the P2P music world brought into being by the original Napster. We have always argued the benefit Napster - in its first incarnation - provided as a way of getting more music to the ears of more people: essentially a college radio for the 21st Century. Had the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) exhibited a more sensible, less knee-jerk reaction to the P2P phenomenon, it's possible Napster might have converted into something not unlike Mercora, funded like so much commercial radio, by advertising yet provided free to the listener.
But perhaps not. In any case, Mercora sounds like it is delivering that concept. Time will tell whether the litigious RIAA will allow it to continue, or what revenue streams will maintain it. ®
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Meet The Igigi – The Ancient Astronauts Who Rebelled Against The Anunnaki
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The Ancient Anunnaki are said to have created the human race by genetically modifying early humans in order to use them as a labor force. But before humans were created, the Igigi were used by the ancient Anunnaki as their main labor force.
It is said that the Igigi –they who turn and see—were the Ancient Astronaut Gods of the younger generation, the servants to the mighty Anunnaki who came to Earth to mine gold.
The terminology used to describe the gods is extremely complicated and still needs much study.- Researchers believe the term Igigi is of Semitic origin and indicates the group of gods in the Mesopotamian pantheon. It is still unclear which ancient gods belonged to the Igigi, but many scholars suggest Mardik –the patron god of the city of Babylon—was one of the Igigi.
Mainstream scholars use the term Igigi to make reference to the Sumerian mythological deities. According to mainstream scholars, mythologically speaking, the Igigi were the younger servants of the Anunnaki who initiated a rebellion against their masters and dictatorship of Enlil. Eventually, the Anunnaki replaced the Igigi with humans.
In the myth of Atrahasis –the Babylonian story of the Flood and a precursor to the flood story in the Gilgameš Ep– the Sumerian paradise is described as a garden where lower gods (the Igigi) were put to work digging a watercourse by their masters, the Anunnaki:
"When the gods like men bore the work and suffered the toil, the toil of the gods was great, the work was heavy; the distress was much." (Source)
"The Seven great Anunnaki were making the Igigi suffer the work." (lines 5-6) (Source)
"When the gods, man-like, Bore the labor, carried the load, The gods' load was great, The toil grievous, the trouble excessive. The great Anunnaki, the Seven, Were making the Igigi undertake the toil."
Ancient Astronaut hypothesis suggests that the Igigi were similar to the Anunnaki, remaining in constant orbit around our planet. They were basically considered as intermediaries between our planet and Nibiru –home of the Anunnaki.
Many believe that the Igigi remained in constant orbit around our planet in giant platforms which processed ores which were delivered from Earth. After processing the minerals, the material was transferred to other ships and eventually transported to the home planet of the Anunnaki.
The Igigi were apparently ever encountered by mankind. It is said that several texts make reference to them, saying the Igigi were "too high up for Mankind," and consequently " were not concerned with the people."
After years of tenuous and hard work for the Anunnaki, the Igigi rebelled against their masters. It is sad that they 'set fire to their tools and surrounded Enlil's great house by night' forcing the ancient Anunnaki to find another source of labor.
This is why the ancient Anunnaki replaced the Igigi after genetically engineering ancient humans creating a greater workforce.
Many authors suggest that the human 'slave race' was created after the ancient Anunnaki genetically modified their genes and that of early humans nearly 500,000 years ago.
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Leighton Ku, Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Center for Health Policy Research, The George Washington University; Jennifer Van Hook, Director, Population Research Institute and Professor of Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University; and Ajay Chaudry, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Robert Crosnoe, Elsie and Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams, Sr., Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts, Departments of Sociology and Psychology, University of Texas at Austin; and Linda Espinosa, Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Missouri, Columbia (ret.)
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Hurricane Earl was a Cape Verde Islands hurricane that swept a path across the Atlantic in late August and early September 2010. It brushed the Leeward Islands before curving north, tracking the Atlantic coastline and making landfall in Nova Scotia. It reached peak strength as a Category 4 storm.
In this article, I will be discussing Earl's steering environment, its seedling easterly wave, the conditions on August 28-29 just before attaining hurricane status, and an eye wall replacement cycle. I will conclude with a discussion of the self-development processes of hurricanes.
Steering Environment
The image below shows Earl's general track during its life in the late summer of 2010.
Earl followed a relatively classic pattern for an Atlantic hurricane, sweeping west-northwest towards the Caribbean before veering north and then recurving northeast, before hitting Canada's Maritimes. The vector wind map below will show why this track occurred.
The steering winds guided Earl; the easterlies in the mid-Atlantic pushed it westward. The lighter southwesterlies over the Caribbean curved it eastward, while the stronger southwesterlies and westerly winds off the mid-Atlantic seaboard caused the recurving towards a more northeasterly direction. Earl first became a tropical storm at about 15N, 35W, where it was being pushed along by fairly strong easterlies. By the time it reached about 16N, 62W, it had reached hurricane force. Except for a brief period of weakening off the mid-Atlantic coast, it maintained hurricane strength as the steering winds guided it up the seaboard towards landfall in Canada.
Easterly Wave
Earl had its genesis in a tropical wave which left the African coast on August 23, 2010.
This image shows the convective cluster associated with the wave; the wave itself was likely located just to the east of this cluster, as upward motion in waves near Africa tends to precede the wave itself. This pattern reverses itself in the central Atlantic and Caribbean. Once the wave reaches the eastern flank of the mid-Atlantic trough, the coupling of upward motion from the wave and the eastern flank of the trough reinforces upward motion, encouraging development.
Favorable conditions for Strengthening
For a tropical cyclone to develop and strengthen, there are six fundamental criteria: (a) sufficient sea surface temperatures (SST); (b) a preexisting disturbance; © at least 5 degrees of latitude away from the equator; (d) relatively low mid-tropopsheric wind shear; (e) a relatively moist mid troposphere; and (f) a troposphere that is unstable with respect to moist ascent.
In the easterly wave, we have (b) and © accounted for. Let's now turn to some of the other necessary ingredients, looking at the time period (August 28) just before Earl reached hurricane strength. Earl was found to be at hurricane strenght by 1200Z on August 29 by a USAFR reconnaissance aircraft.
Sea Surface Temperatures
First, sea surface temperatures must be in excess of 80F/26.5C/299K to sustain further development, ideally with a deep, warm layer beneath the surface. A SST image (below) shows that Earl's path took it over water with SSTs sufficient to sustain development, and it maintained such SSTs all the way until it reached the waters off the coast of New Jersey.
TCHP imagery below also shows that the waters surrounding Earl's location on August 28 provided sufficient deep warm water to sustain further development but not so much as to encourage rapid intensification.
Midtropospheric Moisture
Another criterion favoring development is sufficient moisture in the mid-trophosphere. The water vapor image below shows Earl shortly before attaining hurricane status.
Earl at this time is embedded in an area of the atmosphere which is indicated (via gray shading) to have sufficient moisture in the mid-troposphere, to sustain further development. Indeed, the future path of Earl will keep it in this area of relatively moist air; the dark black patch to the north, off the Atlantic seaboard, is the nearest area of dryer air.
Vertical Wind Shear
A third criterion for further development is benign vertical wind shear.
This image shows that on August 28, earl was in an area of minimal deep layer vertical wind shear, with strengths in the range of 5 to 10 m/s. Shear values of below 10 m/s are considered low enough for tropical storms to intensify. Earl was thus in an area favorable for further strengthening, shortly before it reached hurricane strength on August 29.
On August 28 (shortly before attaining hurricane strength on August 29), Earl was in an area that supported further strengthening, using our 'recipe' for tropical storms.
Eye-wall replacement cycle
The MIMIC imagery shown above as an animated GIF file is the result of a digital manipulation of microwave imagery. Microwave imagery is well suited to showing the thunderstorms that exist in the eyewall of a hurricane as well as those in the spiral bands. In areas without sufficient radar coverage, microwave imagery can help serve as a substitute, and combining multiple images as done by CIMSS above helps us study the dynamics of eye wall replacement cycles.
The image above documents the eye wall replacement cycle which occurred in the early morning hours (GMT) on August 31. The dark red returns of the eye wall thunderstorms that show at the beginning of the loop can be seen to fade away as the replacement cycle occurs that morning. By 0800Z the inner eye wall thunderstorms disappear; meanwhile a new eye wall, further away from the center, can be seen to be organizing.
An eye wall replacement has the effect of initially weakening the storm, as the radius of maximum winds increases. After the new eye wall organizes and contracts, the storm can again gain strength, as the radius of maximum wind decreases as the eye wall contracts around the center.
Tropical cyclones strengthen through a process of positive feedback. The 'ingredients' of tropical cyclone development point to conditions which encourage deep convection to form and persist. We looked at three of these criteria. Warm SSTs encourage a high rate of evaporation of moisture from the sea surface; additionally, by warming the atmosphere above the relatively warm water, it encourages upwards motion and thus convection. The warm-SST fed evaporation feeds moisture to the middle troposphere; dry air entraining into a thunderstorm causes downdrafts to develop as a result of evaporational cooling, which tends to disrupt convection. Therefore a moist middle troposphere, free of dryer air, encourages convection. Finally, relatively strong vertical wind shear disrupts the convection around the center of the storm; weak vertical wind shear allows this convection to persist.
In such conditions, a positive feedback cycle can exist for the cloud clusters, known as conditional instability of the second kind (CISK). As a convective cluster develops, a large amount of latent heat is released, promoting deep convection. This encourages compressional warming in the descending air surrounding the convective cluster. This descending air feeds moisture and air necessary to promote the low-level convergence needed to cause further convection. As long as conditions such as SST, shear and moisture permit this cycle to persist uninterrupted, further convection will occur.


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