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"We are pleased to report that our partnership with Amazon at National Landing is moving full steam ahead," said JBG SMITH CEO, Matt Kelly. "With the execution of these agreements and recently legislated state and local government commitments to invest approximately $2 billion in the region's transportation, education and housing infrastructure, we are ready to welcome Amazon's first National Landing employees in the coming months."
In January 2019, the Virginia General Assembly overwhelmingly approved incentive legislation associated with HQ2 to fund $195 million toward critical infrastructure improvements, including second entrances to the Crystal City and to-be-constructed Potomac Yard Metro stations, a pedestrian connection linking National Landing to Reagan National Airport, an expanded VRE station and substantial improvements to Route 1. These investments are in addition to $570 million of regional government commitments for transportation infrastructure and transit improvements, and they follow the regional compact from mid-2018 to invest $500 million annually in Metro system improvements.
In March 2019, the Arlington County Board also unanimously approved a $23 million performance agreement with Amazon. Both packages provide post-performance incentives for Amazon to create up to 37,850 jobs with an average annual salary of $150,000 and occupy at least six million square feet of office space in Arlington County.
The General Assembly also recently approved a major education investment package that includes funding of $250 million toward Virginia Tech's planned $1 billion Innovation Campus to be located in National Landing and $125 million planned for new Master's degree programs in computer science and related fields at George Mason's Arlington campus.
In addition, the County of Arlington, the City of Alexandria and the Commonwealth of Virginia have collectively dedicated $225 million to fund a range of low-income and workforce housing initiatives over the next decade.
JBG SMITH and National Landing
National Landing is the newly defined interconnected and walkable neighborhood that encompasses Crystal City, the eastern portion of Pentagon City and the northern portion of Potomac Yard. Situated across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, National Landing is a well-located urban community known for its adjacency to Reagan National Airport and walkable environment featuring offices, apartments and hotels. JBG SMITH currently owns 6.2 million square feet of existing office space, 2,850 units of existing multifamily space, and controls 6.9 million square feet of additional development opportunities in National Landing, excluding Amazon's land purchase.
In addition to the Amazon project, JBG SMITH has broken ground on Central District Retail, a 109,000 net rentable square foot entertainment and shopping destination that will serve as the retail heart of National Landing. JBG SMITH also expects to start construction on 1900 Crystal Drive next year, currently in design for two residential towers with shops and green spaces at the base. The retail components of these two projects are expected to deliver almost 150,000 square feet of street-level retail featuring an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, specialty grocer, restaurants, bars, and other experiential offerings. Although the base case for the 1900 Crystal Drive development assumes multifamily construction, the project could switch to office in the event of a substantial or full building pre-lease.
About JBG SMITH
JBG SMITH is an S&P 400 company that owns, operates, invests in, and develops a dynamic portfolio of high-quality mixed-use properties in and around Washington, DC. Through an intense focus on placemaking, JBG SMITH cultivates vibrant, amenity-rich, walkable neighborhoods throughout the Capital region, including National Landing where it now serves as the exclusive developer for Amazon's HQ2. JBG SMITH's operating portfolio currently comprises approximately 19 million square feet of high-quality office, multifamily and retail assets, 98% of which are Metro-served. It also maintains a robust future pipeline encompassing approximately 20 million square feet of mixed-use development opportunities. For more information on JBG SMITH please visit www.jbgsmith.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements contained herein may constitute "forward-looking statements" as such term is defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance. They represent our intentions, plans, expectations and beliefs and are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties. Consequently, the future results of JBG SMITH Properties ("JBG SMITH" or the "Company") may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. You can find many of these statements by looking for words such as "approximate", "believes", "expects", "anticipates", "estimates", "intends", "plans", "would", "may" or similar expressions in this press release. We also note the following forward-looking statements: in the case of our construction and near-term development assets, estimated square feet, estimated number of units and in the case of our future development assets, estimated potential development density; potential government incentives; planned infrastructure improvements and education investments; and the economic impacts of Amazon's HQ at National Landing on the DC region, and National Landing. Many of the factors that will determine the outcome of these and our other forward-looking statements are beyond our ability to control or predict. These factors include, among others: adverse economic conditions in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, the timing of and costs associated with development and property improvements, financing commitments, and general competitive factors. For further discussion of factors that could materially affect the outcome of our forward-looking statements and other risks and uncertainties, see "Risk Factors" and the Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 and other periodic reports the Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For these statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or any person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this section. We do not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to our forward-looking statements after the date hereof.
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Ever have an argument with a friend or a spouse. At first you think what they are saying is wrong, only to find out later you were the one who misjudged them. Beliefs are like that. They tend to narrow our perceptions so that whatever we see, or hear is first filtered through them.
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Now They Want to Dissuade You from Buying an iPhone 8September 22nd, 2017
The length and breadth of fear mongering about Apple knows no bounds. So on one day they are telling you that you shouldn't even dream of buying the iPhone X because it is a new, untested product. Things might go wrong, Face ID might flake out and recognize canines instead of humans, so you'll be stuck.
Well, maybe not, because you could always login in with your passcode, same as you do after the unit restarts.
I suppose you could cite the iPhone 5s and Touch ID as an example of being a tad glitchy. In those days, it was a little slower to react, and some people reported that it would become less sensitive over time. I recall having to recalibrate the unit every few weeks or so to more accurately detect my fingerprints. But iOS updates helped address most of the issues.
So if Face ID has some problems, I'm sure Apple will be quick to fix them. But remember, they have worked on this technology for several years. It wasn't something tossed in at the last minute, as some online pundits have claimed, because Apple couldn't embed Touch ID beneath the edge-to-edge OLED display.
Indeed, one Macworld writer demands that Apple must bring back Touch ID, if only as an alternative.
In all fairness, there's nothing wrong with people waiting for a version two product. Besides, why pay extra for the iPhone X when you can buy the regular iPhone 8 series for lower prices and get the same level of performance and most of the features?
All right, some reviewers regard the iPhone 8 as dull, although the level of changes is similar to other incremental updates from Apple.
On the other hand, some of those online commentators are thus suggesting that you set Apple's mainstream iPhones aside and buy the iPhone X when it ships. Say anything to reduce sales.
All right, you may have to wait for a while. Although it's supposed to be released on November 3rd, few doubt that supplies will be short. It doesn't matter if those ongoing rumors about production hangups are true or not. The iPhone X has been in the publicity hopper since last year. There's lots of demand for it, and tens of millions are no doubt prepared to pay upwards of $999 for one. It helps if your carrier or dealer can set up a payment plan, or you can just put it on your credit card and manage the balance with your monthly payment.
One article begins by questioning the "split release" of the two iPhone lines, but the reasons are too obvious to waste much space about. It wasn't a marketing decision, and if Apple could have 20 or 30 million copies of the iPhone X on hand for a September delivery date, you can bet they would have shipped them now instead of later. It's obviously not being hoarded for later release for some insane marketing reasons that will only end up depriving Apple of potential income.
Do I have to say more?
That said, I've not seen any suggestions as to whether Apple plans to release preliminary iPhone 8 sales figures come Monday for its first weekend of availability. The prevalent claim is that there will be plenty of inventory in stock, and you'll have no problem finding the configuration you want. It won't be a recurrence of the situation that prevailed last year when there was far more demand for the iPhone 7 Plus than Apple expected, and thus it took weeks for supplies to catch up.
The real question is how many people will forego a cheaper iPhone to buy the more expensive model. As I said, most of what you'll have with the iPhone X is on the iPhone 8. You won't get an edge-to-edge OLED display with virtually unlimited viewing angles. You won't get a large screen smartphone in a smaller case for easier carrying, and you won't have Face ID.
Whatever the iPhone 7 did, the iPhone 8 will probably do it better to varying degrees. But if you own an iPhone 7, it may not even make sense to upgrade, but that's usually true for annual product refreshes of this sort. Two years is fine.
But the iPhone X will provide an opportunity for Apple to experiment with the new technologies, and it's very possible next year's iPhones will all sport OLEDs and Face ID, with or without edge-to-edge configurations. It's possible that, as Apple makes production more efficient, and OLED is still difficult to manufacture, prices will come down to something more comparable to "lesser" iPhones.
In the meantime, the usual Apple critics will simply state that other smartphone makers had most or all of the iPhone's features a year or two earlier. So Apple is just playing catch up.
But how many of those products had a facial recognition scheme that couldn't be defeated with a digital photograph? It wouldn't be the first time that Apple has waited to perfect or nearly perfect a new technology before installing it on a new product.
Remember that the Apple Watch Series 3 is not the first smartwatch to have LTE capability, but how many of those other gadgets are worth more than two seconds of your attention?
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SpiritWars: The Revolution Awakens- Budget Videos
Compare with the original trailer. . . It's like our earthly efforts compared with the Heavenly realities!
"It's real, all of it. . ."
All the seemingly legendary occurances in the Bible and even the most out-there spiritual visions as portrayed in the MO Letters, not to mention the missionary adventures of all our brethren around the world are simply not made up, but are every bit the real thing!
"The Force is calling to you. . . Just let it in."
Could be translated as The Holy Spirit is calling you. . . Just invite Jesus in!
I didn't think much of this movie but the trailer is almost better and more meaningful and even more legendary than the actual film itself. I see so much in this– the upside-down logic of the Illuminati that pits the Empire as God's Kingdom and the rebels sometimes as the ones who follow the enemy's plan in the spirit. . . In which case you might even view the fact that the Family was sort of anaihalated when Ricky died and that was the same time the last film was released. Now we have a new slew of warriors returning to the Lord wanting to fight and make up a new Revolution (which the Enemy looks at as the Empire of God if you follow me here) saying "I will finish what you started."
All that deep stuff aside, the spiritual war is calling to you! Be a Jedi for Jesus and take up the Word of God which is like your light saber only waaayyyy stronger! Let's fight the Enemy together in this last generation.


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Strathclyde Suite
Posted by Jackie on February 4, 2010
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February 4, 2010 at 1:28 am
Looks like you attended a really awesome event! Some great photos of the fun! Rock on!
February 4, 2010 at 8:04 pm
rock on indeed! 🙂
love the colors
and all the heads
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Mounting risks in 2020, despite central banks' best efforts
04 October 2019
Next year will be one of increasing downside risks, despite the best efforts of central banks to prolong the 10-year old global expansion. Looking solely at the performance of financial assets year-to-date (equity and credit spreads), one might believe that central banks have almost unlimited powers to produce economic growth. This high level of confidence by the market is unsurprising given the successive, and highly successful, rounds of monetary intervention since the global financial crisis.
However, even central bankers themselves are beginning to question the extent of their own powers and shifting focus onto fiscal stimulus as the appropriate next phase of macroeconomic policy. In June, the president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, spoke of the need for "recreating fiscal space by raising potential output through reforms and public investment…to maintain investor confidence." I think it is too optimistic to expect near-term fiscal bazookas; serious spending packages backed by legislative approval in the US and the EU are at best 1-2 years away. Fiscal stimulus will not arrive in time to help 2020 growth.
Meanwhile, global manufacturing, which began to slow down in 2018 but showed some signs of recovery in 2019, appears to be taking a turn for the worse again amid festering trade tensions. The uncertainties created by zig-zagging trade policy has already begun to constrain US business investment and capex; and if the trade war is not put to rest, the next dominoes to fall could be consumer confidence and employment. The pain is already reverberating through export-led markets in Europe and Asia and beginning to be reflected in ISM data in the US.
Over the longer term, financial assets and corporate margins are both at risk, with progressive left political forces gathering steam in the US and the UK. The push for redistribution of wealth and income is also demographically driven, so one could even say that the path of travel is inevitable. The logical outcome of all this is a rebalancing of value between financial asset prices and real economy prices - the divergence can be seen in the chart below. This reversion to the mean may begin as soon as 2020-21 depending on elections in these two countries. The takeaway for investors is that they may hope for the best but should be ready to make a sharp turn in case the party comes to abrupt and untimely end.
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For a coffin to be showcased within your tea leaf indicates that it is time to be patient especially when looking at things including money.
The secret is stop and also consider other people in your own life. If you are having problems learning what you really want from your life, now might be a good time to sit down to meditate onto it.
The coffin, as connected to death is associated with trying to hide away to escape reality.
The actual coffin is a symbol for times of tension. The coffin represents humbleness, endurance and self-sacrifice. This symbol may also symbolise work or even study. It's rather a sign of possibly.
Inside your teacup you can have:
Comprehensive meaning of seeing a coffin in your teacup...
The semblance of a coffin does not always foretell a death. Usually it means a tedious illness, and shows that great care should be taken. It also denotes probable failure in business. Coil.—A coil of twisted rope or wire denotes complications in your affairs from which it will be very difficult to extricate yourself. You will need the help of others. Two hands will not suffice to get you out of your troubles.


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It is not surprising that New York Knick knockabout Carmelo Anthony had expanded his list of NBA teams for which he was willing to play.
He is old and has never really done much of anything for the two teams for which he has played, the Denver Nuggets and the Knicks.
All of us become a little less particular when it seems that nobody is interested.
Anthony was demanding a trade to a contender, as his efforts at being the cornerstone of a championship team has yielded nothing but pipe dreams.
Anthony had a no-trade clause in his contract, which basically meant that the Knicks, who have done nothing and gone nowhere since mortgaging their future to obtain Anthony from Denver in 2011, had to get Anthony's approval of any trade in which he was involved.
Well, as P.T. Barnum of Barnum and Bailey Circus fame used to say, "There's a sucker born every minute," and Anthony has found that sucker in the Oklahoma City Thunder, who view him as the replacement for Thunder bolter Kevin Durant.
After playing 16 seasons in the NBA, Anthony has yet to go beyond the second round of the playoffs, although one credit he must be granted is that with the exception of his rookie season, when he was apprehended at the airport with marijuana in his backpack, he has been a model NBA citizen. Taking advantage of his superstar status, the result of being the number one NBA draft pick coming out of university at Syracuse, all he had to say was that he had lent his carry-on to a friend and it was case closed.
Anthony has also been consistent in taking the court. With the exception of his first in New York and 2014 – 2015, Anthony has played no fewer than 50 games in a season.
He has preserved his health by resting on defense, say some, which has enabled him to post a career average of 36.2 minutes per game. He was often seen, anytime the ball was not in his hands, standing with his hands on his hips to catch his breath.


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I watched some of the National Book Awards on C-Span, and I saw a balding Rick Moody sitting right behind the podium. Garrison Keillor got up and his head filled the screen.
A Girl not even out of High School got up and spoke about attending Bennington College's summer camp for young writers, and I thought the next generation of writers is learning that writing comes from a workshop and mentoring through Professors.
What struck me in a deep way was how unimportant it all was. That American Literature in that form and with those people is truly dead. Hemingway and Faulkner are mythic in that those kind of writers no longer exist.


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Dover welcomes guests, visitors and friends as it has for many hundreds of years as the first place of arrival when travelling by sea from mainland Europe. The White Cliffs is the iconic image when arriving in the UK and stretches along the coast line of Kent.
Soaring above is the massive medieval castle of Dover developed by Henry II in the 1100's as an impressive meeting place for arriving Kings and Queens. Dover Castle has provided safety and security for the people of Kent protecting the shores and its people since then.
Underneath the castle are miles of tunnels originally for housing troops and the local people in times of war
For something different hire a boat, fishing or tour and have a great few hours observing the sea and wild life from local captains who are well informed and able to bring the local history alive sharing their experiences. Consider rounding off your day with a delicious succulent hog roast and include the fish caught during the day barbecued and served with some of Succulent Pigs variety of side dishes.
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Ever have your iMac display a gray screen with a flashing question mark? How about the universal no sign? What about the time it started beeping and wouldn't start up. Macs aren't perfect. Sometimes things go wrong and they break. Whether its something you did or not, things happen. To figure out what is wrong, you have to decode these error messages. Here's what they mean and what to do about them:
Macintosh Startup Errors in OS X:
1. Screen is black, no power, nothing:
The unit isn't receiving power to turn itself on. Check the battery and charger. Hold down the power button for 5 seconds until you are sure the computer is off, then try to restart it. If it still refuses to power on, then it's a hardware problem requiring service. Either the logic board or the DC board is damaged. If it powers up with a charged battery but not A/C, its the DC board.
2. Screen is black, the power light goes on but computer does nothing:
This means either the Power On Self Test (POST) has failed or the Boot ROM has failed. You have a hardware problem. The computer is receiving power but doesn't want to turn on. Most likely cause is logic board damage. In my experience, this is common with liquid damage / spills shorting out the motherboard.
3. Screen is black with a flashing power light once per second:
Check your RAM and make sure it's seated properly. This means that either the computer isn't seeing its RAM or that the RAM is bad.
4. Screen is black with the power light continuously flashing 3 times with a pause in between:
Check your RAM. This means that the Mac is seeing it's RAM but doesn't like what it sees. Reseat the RAM and try again.
5. Gray screen with a circle and slash (the International "no" sign):
This means your Mac could not load it's boot routines (EFI). Try booting from an external drive or the OS X DVD. If that works, then you need to reinstall OS X. If you can't reinstall, the hard drive may be bad. A PRAM reset may also fix this by resetting the Startup Disk.
6. Gray screen with flashing folder and question mark:
This means your Mac can't see the hard drive or an OS X volume. Either the drive's connection is bad, there is no installation of OS X or the drive itself is shot. Try booting from an external drive and see if you can see the drive.
7. Gray screen with a flashing globe:
Your Mac is set to boot from a NetBoot Server and is looking for it. Check the network connections if it doesn't find the server after a reasonable amount of time.
While these error symbols are primarily seen with Intel Macs, on the Power PC side, they also translate. The difference between the two of the is the icon size and picture of the symbol. Power PC Macs will also let out beeps instead of flashing the power light to signal RAM issues. Lastly, Power PC's don't have EFI in their boot routine. They use Open Firmware.


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The difficulties associated with intelligence analysis are often attributed to the inadequacy of available information. Thus the US Intelligence Community invests heavily in improved intelligence collection systems while managers of analysis lament the comparatively small sums devoted to enhancing analytical resources, improving analytical methods, or gaining better understanding of the cognitive processes involved in making analytical judgments. This chapter questions the often-implicit assumption that lack of information is the principal obstacle to accurate intelligence judgments.1
If you think about it, the CIA analyst2 and NFL GM are engaged in a similar task: analyzing new information about disparate variables (the athleticism and production of college players), then projecting how the addition of specific units of observation (the players) to a complex system (an NFL team) will affect relationships within a larger ecosystem (the team's standing within the NFL).
This is a flawed process. If you're a fan of an NFL team, I'm sure you can identify many player evaluations and draft picks that went awry for you team.3 But can the process be improved?
The Goal: Improved Player Evaluation
There are two elements at work in the process of gathering intelligence and formulating predictions: the information itself, and the model used to interpret the information.4 In other words, we filter truths (data) through our beliefs (models) in an attempt to obtain knowledge (good predictions about football players' future performance). 5
Show Me Your Model
If we're going to improve the player evaluation process, we need to look at both components. Beliefs basically boil down to our conceptual framework. Data goes in, gets processed by our beliefs, and gets spit back out as a decision or prediction. For our purposes, models come in two varieties: Narrative driven or Data driven.
The Implicit Narrative Driven Model
This concept-driven, or "soft" model has natural appeal. It's rooted in the same narrative structure that underpins not only the human mind, but culture and society as well. 6 Our brains compensate for an overwhelming amount of information by creating explanatory stories, or narratives. This is the type of model that many analysts use: observe the players, and interpret what's seen based on an internal conceptual framework. But these concepts or mental models are not always accurate, nor are they best way to formulate predictions.
The problem is that "the nature of soft systems means that their models are generally incomplete and have other inadequacies."7 Interpreting information using a narrative model that resides in one's mind is problematic because there's a really good chance it won't make sense to someone else. Also, the same data fed into different mental or narrative models will likely produce very different predictions.
Furthermore, there's a problem of feedback and correction- because the model resides inside myself, it's very easy to resist, discount, or overlook information that contradicts my model. This is a bad way for a large organization to go about analyzing information.
For examples of this, I refer you to old school NFL scouting, wherein "scouts cannot be wrong because their observations are personal," even though they "seem to know very little about what type of players are currently playing in the league."8 In other words, their narrative models aren't keeping up with reality.
Big Brother takes it a step further:
"In the absence of any agreed-upon analytical schema, analysts are left to their own devices. They interpret information with the aid of mental models that are largely implicit rather than explicit…. Analysts are often surprised to learn that what are to them self-evident truths are by no means self-evident to others, or that self-evident truth at one point in time may be commonly regarded as uninformed assumption 10 years later." 9
The Explicit Data Driven Model
Data driven, externalized models have several advantages over narrative models. Model components are explicit, use agreed upon definitions and parameters, and are more easily communicated from one person to another. So "anybody" can apply a data driven model and generate the same, or similar, predictions. Think this might be helpful if you're trying to get a room full of scouts to evaluate players consistently?
Furthermore, the data driven model exists outside of the analyst, so a criticism of it isn't a criticism of the analyst.10 In practical experience, it's much easier for a group of people to wrestle with a data driven model than a concept driven one.
Likewise, mathematical tools like linear regressions can be used to quantify relationships between outcomes and predictors to determine which were most to credit or blame for the accuracy of a prediction. This addresses the feedback and correction problem experienced in a narrative model: there are "objective standards for judging the quality of analysis, inasmuch as the conclusions follow logically from the application of the agreed-upon model to the available data." 11
In the world of football, analysts of all stripes are challenged in this regard. The sheer number of variables, the complex interactions between them, and the incomplete nature of the available data pushes us towards using Narrative models. But insofar as we can pull ourselves towards the Data Driven end of things, we'll have an advantage in that our models will be more accessible, and thus more amenable to post prediction validation and corrective scrutiny.
So, in order to improve player evaluation, using an explicit data-driven model seems like our best course of action. Now, what about the information we feed into that model?
Variably Cloudy
The two types of models I've outlined lend themselves to naturally process information differently.
Narrative-based conceptual models are good at "making sense out of" vast amounts of vaguely defined variables. But they're susceptible to influence by extraneous variables and do a poor job of understanding which variables have the biggest influence on generating predictions. More on this later.
Data driven models however utilize discrete, well defined variables. This is really the key distinction to keep in mind throughout the rest of this article. I'll explain it this way:
- The goal of player evaluation is to predict which players will be the most successful in the NFL
- Well defined variables12 make it possible to run controlled data experiments and establish strength of correlation between variables
- Inconsistently defined or differently understood variables do not
- Data driven models utilize (require) well defined variables
- Narrative models do not. They may start with well-defined variables, but are highly prone to definitional slippage
- Data driven models can be cross checked and refined more easily than narrative models
- Therefore data driven model generates better and more consistent predictions in the long run
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The first reaction to "improving predictions" is "get more information", right? We see this in real life, in both the Intelligence community14 and the NFL, where teams employ a burgeoning pool of scouts, evaluators, and private investigators.
But is all this information actually helpful? The short answer is no. See the quote at the beginning of this article; the CIA itself has no problem gathering scads of data. But most of it isn't useful, because they lack the ability to properly analyze it.
Consider this experiment.15 A group of experienced horse race handicappers was each presented with a set of 88 horse-performance related variables, and asked to identify the 5, 10, 20, and 40 that were most important to their predictive model. Then they were presented with data from real (but unknown to them) horse races. First they were presented data for their top five variables for each horse in the race, and asked to predict the order of finish. Then they were given the data for their top 10 variables and asked to re-predict the order of finish, and so on.
The handicappers' predictions were just as accurate with only 5 bits of information as they were with 40. More information did not improve the accuracy of their projections. What did change? Their pre-race confidence in their predictions:16
The cautionary takeaway for NFL teams (and for you, O Fantasy GM): more information can make you more confident, but not necessarily more accurate. At five data points, the accuracy of the handicapper's model and the belief s/he had in its accuracy were in sync. As the handicapper obtained more data, the accuracy of their predictions stayed the same, but they believed they were getting more accurate. Think this might make an NFL decision maker take an unnecessary risk, or overestimate their own prowess?
The CIA sums this up nicely:
"Once an experienced analyst has the minimum information necessary to make an informed judgment, obtaining additional information generally does not improve the accuracy of his or her estimates. Additional information does, however, lead the analyst to become more confident in the judgment, to the point of overconfidence." 17
Do I Know You?
So why do handicappers desire more information if it doesn't improve accuracy? The CIA explains:
"Experienced analysts have an imperfect understanding of what information they actually use in making judgments. They are unaware of the extent to which their judgments are determined by a few dominant factors, rather than by the systematic integration of all available information. Analysts actually use much less of the available information than they think they do."18
So analysts are taking in lots of data, but don't realize they're only using a small part of it. Worse, they don't realize which data elements they're actually using. Can this issue be corrected?
No. Thanks for reading.
Just kidding. Of course it can. The main point is that beyond a certain point additional information increases confidence19 but not accuracy. However, that doesn't mean it's not possible to make good predictions.
The secondary point is that narrative driven models fare poorly in terms of understanding which information they're actually using. Another experiment illustrates this principle. A group of stockbrokers was asked to predict the future performance of a basket of securities. Afterwards they were asked to explain which variables (P/E earnings, volume, support/resistance, etc.) they used to make their prediction. Their recollection of which variables they used, and which ones they prioritized, differed drastically from what they actually used. 20
So what's an analyst21 to do? Before running out and watching film cut ups of every prospect in the nation, figure out what type of information to gather, and how much of it. In the context of football, this question could provide enough content for a website. 22 But let's answer the question more universally.
Decision Making in the Absence of All Information
A prevailing theory of intelligence work – and NFL player evaluation – is that more information is better. We've already demonstrated that's not the case, but when using a narrative based model, there's an additional danger to too much information: building mosaics.23
Or rather, a mosaic theory of analysis, wherein every available scrap of information is gathered and assembled to see if it "tells a story that makes sense." This is one of the primary shortcomings of narrative based models: this process is "more art than science."24This approach purports that each bit of data (a) has value, (b) is like a puzzle piece, and that (c) some clever analyst will assemble the pieces into a coherent picture, or mosaic.25
Neat theory, but it isn't true. Our brains are more likely to work backwards, starting out with a picture in mind, and then finding the puzzle pieces to fit it.26 So gathering every bit of available information isn't useful in a narrative approach to analysis.27 With a data driven model, it's much easier, but not always necessary, to accommodate large volumes of data: once the model is built, it's very easy to pour new information into it. More on this in a bit.
The Doctor Will See You
What's a better method of data collection? One example comes from the medical field, where it's been found that there's little correlation between data collection and accuracy of diagnosis. In fact, clinicians can get stuck collecting data, and either fail to move to the diagnostic phase, or make diagnoses that are suboptimal or incorrect. Conversely, physicians who focus on generating and testing hypotheses produced superior (and quicker) diagnoses despite gathering less information overall.28 This should sound familiar; remember this earlier quote from the CIA? "Once an experienced analyst has the minimum information necessary to make an informed judgment, obtaining additional information generally does not improve the accuracy of his or her estimates."
Predictive analysis should be approached similarly: Observe symptoms, formulate a hypothesis, and then test it. If the hypothesis is supported, a diagnosis (prediction) is offered. If not, repeat. The key element in medical practice is that "Collection is focused narrowly on information that will help to discriminate the relative probability of alternate hypotheses."29 So the best medical diagnosticians are gathering "just enough" data to form a hypothesis, then they test that hypothesis. New information can and will be discovered in the course of testing the hypothesis, which is then fed back in to the diagnostic model.
The great thing about a data driven approach is that we don't have to first watch all the film of every player or gather all the available stats. We can start by noticing symptoms (hey, big college receivers seem to catch a lot of TDs), formulate a hypothesis (size and TD soring are related), test it (analyze size & scoring data for college and NFL players) and make a diagnosis (size matters). Others can re-test or challenge our diagnosis, and as new information emerges the diagnosis (prediction) can be refined. If we find more size and scoring related stats – maybe from next year's batch of new players – we can run them through the model very easily to see if it's still valid.
Riddle Me This
So our intrepid analyst has gone about gathering information in a manner consistent with focused hypothesis testing, now what?3031 What type of new information should he pay attention to? Let's distinguish four types of incoming data:
- Additional detail about already accounted for variables. This type of data doesn't increase the accuracy of the model. It just creates a false sense of confidence, which can be dangerous. For all of us, this is one of the central hazards of draft season: repeated exposure to the same information.
Maybe Noise, Maybe Signal
- Information about new variables not previously considered. This one takes some explaining. In a narrative driven mental model, new information often has little or no value, since the analyst is relying on a small set of observations32 to form their prediction. In an explicit data driven model, information about new variables may or may not be useful. While it's technically true that all new information increases the accuracy, for example, of a linear regression, it's also advisable to utilize parsimonious models33. If a new variable doesn't significantly enhance the accuracy of a model's predictions, it may be ignored. Why? The more variables added to a model, the greater the number and complexity of assumptions within the model. This makes the model less generalizable and harder to test and adapt. For an example, revisit the medical diagnosis discussion: new data collection is only necessary if the research hypothesis was invalid.34 At some point, more information no longer changes the diagnosis or the patient's treatment plan. In other words, the "scientist must decide at what point the gain in the explanatory power of the model no longer warrants the additional complexity of the model."35 So when new variables come to light, they can be tested to see if they substantially improve the model. If yes, they can be incorporated; if not, they can be set aside. This is not the case in a narrative driven mental model that assigns value to every observation. Every observation must be accounted for, which either drives the mental model to such extreme levels of complexity and esotericism that it's predictive utility is degraded.36, or leads it to selectively pick out the puzzle pieces that form the pre-conceived picture for which the analyst was searching.37
- New information about observations already considered in the model. For example, maybe a player improved his 40 time significantly at his pro day vs the combine. Using the updated value in the model may materially affect its prediction.
- Information about the strength of relationships in your model's variables. This is also important. The model (because it's external and empirical) can be tested, challenged, and refined. Perhaps the initial model includes weight, speed, and draft position equally weighted. But additional research reveals that one variable should receive more weighting than the other two. This is what I meant when I said "the evolution of stats based analysis is always falling forward."38 This is also where a lot of data driven analysis can be improved; we may have a good idea of which variables are important, but not how much they matter.
So what have we learned? Traditional narrative-based approaches to analysis and prediction are fraught with drawbacks. The best approach to intelligence work – and player prediction – is to use an explicit, empirical framework to focus data collection relative to hypothesis testing. This process is easily replicated, better accepts critique and improvement, and yields more robust predictions.
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- Looking at you, Jack Ryan (back)
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- Epistemology (back)
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- Money in the Banana Stand (back)
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- Lookin at you, Jack Ryan (back)
- CIA (back)
- Penn State IRP (back)
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- NSA cell phone spying for $100, Alex (back)
- Dr Paul Slovic (back)
- By 'confidence' I mean their personal belief that their prediction would be accurate; not the 'statistical confidence' of the prediction (back)
- CIA (back)
- CIA (back)
- The feeling of confidence, not statistical confidence (back)
- Dr Paul Stover (back)
- Looking at you, Jack Ryan (back)
- RotoViz FTW! (back)
- Saying "paralysis by analysis" would be too cliché (back)
- Wikipedia bitches (back)
- Looking at you, Jack Ryan (back)
- Oops (back)
- and maybe not possible; roughly 25K college players, of which 3500 or so could be draft eligible (back)
- Elstein & Schwartz (back)
- CIA, emphasis added (back)
- Looking at you, Jack Ryan (back)
- Pool time! (back)
- And maybe doesn't even realize which observations those are (back)
- Just Simple Enough (back)
- see what I did there? (back)
- Introductory Stats (back)
- What does wine tasting have to do with football? (back)
- To be fair, data driven analysts can also start with an end result in mind and find data to fit. The difference is that it's much easier to refute bogus data-driven work than bogus narrative-driven work. (back)
- Interview with Zach Law (back)


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Learn Africa to reward academic excellence
Learn Africa Plc, has concluded plans to organise this year's Learn Africa-NECO Excellence Awards, which recognises and honours distinguished National Examination Council (NECO) candidates, schools and teachers in the country in all states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Chairman of the organisation, Chief Emeke Iwerebon, said the effort was in accordance with its corporate tradition of promoting academic excellence, while urging schools and candidates to look out for the announcement of this year's award winners.
He said the company established the Learn Africa Education Development Foundation in 2012, to support the development of the education sector, through the provision of infrastructure and engagement in philanthropic activities that promote learning.
"Consequently, it instituted the annual Learn Africa-NECO Excellence Awards for students, teachers and schools at the senior secondary level. The objective was and remains to underscore the importance of excellence in education to our national development, as well as encourage hard work, diligent scholarship, and healthy competition amongst students, teachers and schools," he stated.
Iwerebon added that the awards recognise the top three candidates at the June/July Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) conducted by NECO at the national level, and in every state, including Abuja.
He expressed delight about the overall best candidates in mathematics, English language, biology and history, adding that while the teacher from the school that produced the winning candidate is rewarded, all the schools that produced winners receive free books from the foundation.
"We make bold to say that the successes recorded at the SSCE are not without the contributions of our New Concept Mathematics, and New Concept English, our ever relevant textbooks on mathematics and English language at the secondary level respectively."
He called for an increase in funds allocated to the education sector, in order to deal with glaring deficiencies in school facilities, access to high quality instructional materials, and teacher training.
Iwerebon also stressed the need for parents to show greater interest in the upbringing of their children, by monitoring their activities, emphasising good moral values, and cooperating with the school authorities, adding that the provision of conducive learning environment, attractive remuneration for teachers among other initiatives would help in preparing students for great success in examinations and their future careers.
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Separate Roles of FAN1 and Fanconi Anemia Proteins in DNA Interstrand Crosslink Repair and Human Disease
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DNA interstrand crosslink (ICL) repair is vital for cellular proliferation and survival. Defects in the repair of DNA crosslinks have been associated with congenital abnormalities, bone marrow and kidney failure, liver dysfunction, and cancer. DNA nucleases play a significant role during the repair of ICLs and they function at multiple repair steps. Here, we assessed the contributions of FANCD2/FANCI-Associated Nuclease 1 (FAN1) to the repair of ICL lesions and studied the consequences of its deficiency, which results in rare chronic kidney disease - Karyomegalic Interstitial Nephritis (KIN). FAN1 is a highly conserved nuclease from yeast to humans. It was first identified in an RNAi screen for proteins necessary for ICL repair and also as a direct interacting partner of FANCI/FANCD2 (ID2) complex of the Fanconi anemia pathway. Using cells isolated from human KIN patients and Fan1-deficient mice, we showed that ICL repair function of FAN1 is non-overlapping with Fanconi anemia proteins, yet redundant with SNM1A, an exonuclease that was previously implicated in ICL repair. Furthermore, the Fan1 knockout mouse model recapitulates many of the phenotypes observed in human KIN patients, including renal karyomegaly and liver dysfunction. Fan1-deficient mice displayed hypersensitivity to ICL-inducing chemotherapeutic drugs and developed bone marrow failure following the treatment. We also demonstrated that formaldehyde and acetaldehyde are likely not the endogenous damaging agents that lead to KIN in the absence of FAN1. In parallel studies, we explored the possibility of rescuing ICL sensitivity of Fanconi anemia patient cells through an inhibition of non-homologous end joining repair (NHEJ) factors. Using both genetic and chemical approaches, we showed that NHEJ suppression could not compensate for the lack of FA pathway in the repair of ICLs.
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Have you heard about the trucking company that calls up the enforcement agency and invites them over to inspect its equipment? It may seem counterintuitive, but for the second year in a row, Harbour Link Container Services did just that, inviting the Delta Police Truck Enforcement Unit over to its yard to inspect a good portion of its truck and container chassis fleet.
Tim McGee, general manager of Harbour Link, told me he'd rather schedule the inspections and have them conducted in his own yard than unscheduled at roadside, which can be disruptive to his fleet's operations. The advantages are many. It allows any necessary repairs to be conducted in the company's yard; the fleet can schedule inspections for a slow period (Chinese New Year in this instance); it's a less confrontational environment for truck inspectors and drivers; and units can be inspected while drivers are off-duty. And doing it in this manner, the inspections take on a more educational, rather than confrontational, tone.
"Two constables were on-site, walking through the inspections with drivers," Tim told me. "They were explaining what they were looking for. Each inspection took 45 minutes to an hour-and-a-half for a truck and chassis. They took the time to show them what they were looking for."
The entire exercise also allows Harbour Link to build up some goodwill with local enforcement agencies and the public. Tim called the media and invited them to attend the inspections in hopes the public will learn of the company's proactive approach to safety. Last year was the first in which Harbour Link invited enforcement officers to inspect its trucks at its yard. Then, the company was given a laundry list of items it needed to improve on; things like out-of-adjustment brakes. This year, Tim said those items were markedly better. Most of the problems identified this year were more minor in nature – things like missing reflective tape, which were easily remedied on-site.
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Our son Jackson was born 16 1/2 weeks premature, 1 lb. 4 oz, in June 2006. Pictures and posts and email updates from throughout, combined in one volume!
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Although household blasts from gas escape are rare, as much as three hundred residents die yearly from gas escape poisoning. Odor-free and color-free, natural gas is a customary residence fuel. Gas companies introduce a nontoxic matter called Mercaptan to create a rotten egg or sulfur stench for effortless gas leak discovery by our smelling capability. Home gas detectors discover gas leaks and offer peace of mind to any person with a diminished smelling capability.
Plumber Las Vegas recommends people to act quickly and follow the precautions underneath in an event of a gas leak:
Abandon the residence without delay and phone your gas provider from a nearby resident property.
Do not switch on or switch off electric appliances or light controls, or activate telephones. This might trigger tremendous blowups.
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Small-scale haberdashery for the miniaturist and doll-maker
Dollshouse Buttons
2mm, 2.5mm and 3mm tiny brass buttons made with a tiny dot pattern border to match our tiny round buckles.
BUT51 - 2mm
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BUT53 - 3mm
£1.25 per strip of 10 of a size (as shown in picture)
All sizes conveniently priced the same.
These tiny unplated brass buttons have two holes and are less than half a millimetre thick, which is considerably thinner than other dollshouse buttons sold elsewhere.
Even the tiniest 2mm can be sewn on with one strand of fine sewing thread using the finest beading needle available (recommend size 13). See example below.
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Sheet of 50 (of a size) for £5.25 (enlarged to show detail)
Click on the picture to see a close-up of the 2mm buttons used on the White Rabbit's waistcoat
These tiny buttons are best removed from the strip using nail clippers; if any tag remains rub with a nail file/emery board.
Please note that these buttons are UNPLATED raw brass - so they will tarnish (go darker) with age if not sealed.
And if they are wet they will eventually rust, (not that they should ever be used on such a project).
They can be painted a different colour with enamel paint or nail varnish which will help seal them, or simply seal with a spot of clear varnish.


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Ageism and age discrimination shouldn'thappen in the workplace—but they are a fact of life for older workers. Many employees at traditional retirement age or older are fit, healthy, and perfectly capable of continuing to work. Many have years of expertise and knowledge. But persistent opinions and misconceptions about aging lead to discrimination by younger bosses or co-workers.
Ageism can be annoying but benign, such as a joke about a slow older driver. Or it could happen in more serious ways, such as a layoff from a long-term job a few years before an employee wanted or expected to retire.


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