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0 Carly DeMarque | January 05th, 2017 | College - Men's Indoor, MIVA, MPSF, News, Video
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•#5 Pepperdine def. McKendree 3-2, 23-25, 18-25, 25-14, 25-21, 15-11
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Pepperdine makes a huge 0-2 comeback on McKendree, to take their first match of the season in five.
Leading the Pepperdine offense was Michael Wexter with 17 kills, Mitchell Penning added 14 on a .619 hitting percentage and five blocks, while Noah Dyer finished with 10 kills and five blocks.
Pepperdine setter Joshua Stewart recorded a double-double with 52 assists and 11 digs.
For McKendree, Maalik Walker put down 21 kills on a .417 hitting percentage, while Wyatt Patterson added 13 kills hitting for .571. Zach Thompson picked up a match-best 15 digs.
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The No. 5 Pepperdine men's volleyball program came back tough to open the 2017 campaign with a reverse sweep victory over McKendree this Wednesday night in Firestone Fieldhouse. After going down 23-25 and 18-25, the Waves battled back with 25-14, 25-21 and 15-11 set wins to pick up the first win of the season.
Pepperdine (1-0) produced a .350 hitting percentage overall after refusing to hit below the .467 mark in the final three sets. The Waves were good for 67 kills with only 19 errors on 137 swings and added seven aces, 59 assists, 43 digs and 8.0 team blocks on the night.
In response, the Bearcats posted a .339 success rate with 59 kills, while adding four aces and 8.0 team blocks as well.
Serving as the firecracker to light up the Waves offense after coming in for the third set, redshirt sophomore David Wieczorek (Chicago, Ill./Loyola Academy) led the team with 19 kills, just one shy of his career-high output. He was demanding with a .581 hitting percentage.
Senior setter Joshua Stewart (San Jose, Calif./Bellarmine College Prep/Pacific) was instrumental after dishing out 52 assists and posting his first double-double of the season and second career with a tied career-best 11 digs as well.
Also hitting lights out on the offensive were sophomore Michael Wexter (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln-Way West HS), senior Mitchell Penning (St. Louis, Mo./Westminster Christian HS) and freshman Noah Dyer (San Clemente, Calif./Saddleback Valley Christian HS), who all posted double-figure kill efforts.
Wexter was all around with a career-high 17 kills on a .333 success rate, along with a career-topping three aces, seven digs and four blocks. Penning was tough in the middle for the Waves, amassing 14 kills on a more-than-impressive .619 hitting percentage. He added an ace and tied for the Waves-high five blocks alongside Dyer. Dyer added 10 kills in his debut for Pepperdine, while tallying an ace, five blocks and four digs.
Redshirt senior Kyle Suppes (Union City, Calif./Bellarmine College Prep) tabbed a .750 hitting output with a 3-0-4 performance and added two blocks and redshirt junior Weston Barnes (Laguna Beach, Calif./Laguna Beach HS) was absolutely lights out in the back row with nine digs.
The opposition came out with a strong start in the first and second sets, hitting for .269 and .552 percentages as opposed to the Waves .094 and .182 outputs. The offensive led McKendree to 25-23 and 25-18 set wins to start the night off 2-0.
It was at the beginning of the third set that Pepperdine flipped the switch and started crushing the back row. The Waves annihilated the Bearcats 25-14 to start the comeback. In the first points of the set, Wieczorek was raring to go, posting four of the Waves six first points with kills to put the home team up 6-4. After a quick point exchange, Suppes at the service line put the opponents off-kilter and allowed the Waves to gain a quick 11-6 advantage. It was a lead that the Bearcats would be unable to come back from, and a 7-0-8 output from Wieczorek, including big serves from senior Max States (Honolulu, Hawai'i/Solimar Academy) shut the set down.
In the fourth set, both teams were looking to make an early impact. The Waves were able to gain the edge with blocks from Wexter and Suppes and an ace from Wexter to go up 12-6 early. McKendree put in some solid defense to close the gap to two-points, but the Waves were not willing to roll over so easily and three consecutive kills from Wexter, Penning and Dyer put the home team ahead 18-14. Pepperdine closed the door and shut the set down 25-21 on the attack efforts of Suppes to tie the match and send things to a fifth.
The early moments of the deciding set had fans on edge, but after a quick 2-2 tie, Wieczorek's service output, including back-to-back smashes from Wexter put the Waves up 5-2. The opposition was unable to close the gap any further than that, and Wieczorek, Suppes and Wexter helped put the set away 15-11 to provide Pepperdine with the team's first win of the new season.
The Waves will play the No. 2-ranked team in Canada's national rankings on Thursday and Friday (Jan. 5 and 6) this week, beginning with the first match-up tomorrow in Firestone Fieldhouse at 2 p.m.
Follow Pepperdine @PeppVolleyball on Twitter and Facebook for immediate updates and head to PepperdineWaves.com for recaps, results and more.
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Model of the new Tun Razak Exchange with a representative of architects Machado and Silvetti Associates
A new international financial district was launched in Kuala Lumpur on July 30 by Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak. The 28-hectare centre is located in the Kuala Lumpur business area less than one kilometre from the Petronas Twin Towers and targets to draw at least $8.25 billion in gross development revenue over the next four years, the Prime Minister said in a press conference in Malaysia's capital on the launch day.
Najib said the district, named Tun Razak Exchange, or TRX after Najib's father and former prime minister, would attract $1.11 billion worth of foreign direct investment under phase one of construction and create 500,000 jobs when it is completed in 2016. The identity of the first investor and further details will be announced in September, he added.
The project was formerly known as Kuala Lumpur International Financial District (KLIFD) and is part of Malaysia's $444 billion Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) aimed at making the country a high-income nation by 2020.
The hub launch comes after a series of high-profile initial public offerings that have made Kuala Lumpur the most active Asian center for stock debuts this year.TRX also is expected to attract "more than 250 top global companies", partly through special tax incentives, the government said. Incentives include a 100 per cent income tax exemption for 10 years, stamp duty exemption, several capital allowances and 70 per cent income tax exemption for five years for property developers. State-owned strategic development agency 1Malaysia Development Berhad said target tenants include, apart from multinational companies, financial institutions and hospitality agencies. The centre will have a strong focus on Islamic banking and finance, which has grown into a $400 billion industry in Malaysia.
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Making Nikola Tesla a Saint Makes Us All Dumber
Mike Rugnetta over at the PBS Idea Channel has an interesting video about how popular history is made. Specifically, our popular understanding of the late inventor (and internet folk hero) Nikola Tesla. He argues that there are essentially two Teslas: The historical Tesla who did things like promote eugenics, and had very human imperfections, and the mythologized Tesla that so many well-intentioned people have idolized in recent years.
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I touched on many of these ideas earlier this year at the South by Southwest conference, but I came to slightly different conclusions. Rugnetta argues that the mythical Tesla (or what he calls "simulated Tesla") should be left to stand largely unchallenged because the Legend of Tesla serves some greater purpose in modern society. "Maybe like the inverse of Batman and Gotham, Tesla isn't the historical figure we deserve, but the one that we need… or want," Rugnetta says.
I argue that even though popular history is messy, and by its very nature imperfect, we should always be working toward an understanding of historical figures that's as accurate as possible. In all cases, this means accepting that even the greatest men and women of history were only human. Unlike Rugnetta, I don't believe that creating gods of men does society any favors. As new evidence emerges and new research is undertaken, we should always be working toward a more accurate version of history—both in the academic and popular spheres.
One of our great difficulties that we're confronted with when it comes to studying Nikola Tesla specifically is that many of the myths come from his first biographer, John J. O'Neill, who published his book in 1944. Written without any endnotes, the book contains many supposed facts about Tesla's life (like the idea that he never needed to write anything down, or that he died "penniless," both of which are untrue) that would make their way unquestioned into later biographies like Margaret Cheney's Tesla: Man Out of Time. These myths would also make their way into future PBS documentaries, History Channel docudramas, and Matthew Inman's error-riddled webcomic.
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But it's not difficult to see how O'Neill could get so much wrong, when his explicit goal was to deify the man. O'Neill quite literally compares Tesla to a god, which I might humbly suggest is not the most reasonable place from which to start a biography.
Even as he walked among the teeming millions of New York he became a fabled individual who seemed to belong to the far-distant future or to have come to us from the mystical realm of the gods, for he seemed to be an admixture of a Jupiter or a Thor who hurled the shafts of lightning; an Ajax who defied the Jovian bolts; a Prometheus who transmuted energy into electricity to spread over the earth; an Aurora who would light the skies as a terrestrial electric lamp; a Mazda who created a sun in a tube; a Hercules who shook the earth with his mechanical vibrators; a Mercury who bridged the ambient realms of space with his wireless waves-and a Hermes who gave birth to an electrical soul in the earth that set it pulsating from pole to pole.
History is full of complex figures. Henry Ford was a vicious anti-Semite who promoted lies about a Jewish quest for global domination; those men who wrote the U.S. Constitution and extolled the virtues of freedom quite paradoxically owned other human beings; and Gandhi shared his bed with teenage girls (which he claimed was a kind of willpower test). Acknowledging these facts does nothing to take away the various positive contributions that these very flawed people made to society. But we have to start by acknowledging them as fallible human beings who sometimes did terrible things.
Busting myths (about Tesla, or anybody else) should always be the goal of the popular historian. Anything less and we risk romanticizing a past that never was. And as I recently argued at a conference in Sweden last month, romanticizing the past affects our future. When we portray the people of yesterday as living in a black-and-white world, we start to draw the wrong conclusions. Sometimes this romanticization of the past breeds a sense of futility, like in the case of the Apollo space program. Other times our romanticization of something like a lone inventor harms our understanding of how innovation actually occurs, like in the case of the Edison versus Tesla myth.
Exploring history with as much nuance as humanly possible, though, gives me a strange sense of optimism. Tesla wasn't a god who died a penniless martyr. He was a man who lived an interesting and full life, celebrated in his own time. When Tesla's 1899-1900 notebooks from Colorado Springs were discovered in the 1950s, the Tesla Museum in Belgrade actively sought to suppress their publication because they would bust the myth that he never worked things out on paper. The notebook wouldn't be published until 1978, after much in-fighting at the museum. When we reject new evidence that may paint historical figures as more fully formed human beings, everyone loses.
Our modern media landscape (and especially online discussion) isn't exactly known as a bastion of nuance. But it's really our only hope if we want to move into the future with any semblance of clarity. We can turn Tesla into a god all we like, but doing so only sets us up for disappointment. And frankly, makes us all dumber.
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The Scavenger Hunt
The quality of the sunlight was a benevolent gold and timeless. It was the part of summer that seemed to the boy as if every day was bright, warm and twenty hours long. He sat upon the rumpled brown couch, which was older than he was and smelled like dog piss. The late afternoon rays slanted in through the living room window, flashing upon the television screen, making the color picture hard to see. There were countless flecks of dust in the air, gleaming like tiny gemstones.
He was not home alone; his brother was upstairs somewhere, probably reading a book. He did not know where his mother was, or his uncle, but he did not think of it. Outside the rumble of a large engine approached and turned into the driveway. He could hear the tired crunch the gravel into the concrete driveway. The engine died and a large door opened and closed. He heard footsteps approaching, the heavy hard polished sound of a man's dress shoes on a hard surface. The door opened and standing in a halo of sunshine stood the broad figure of his father. The boy smiled broadly, his small child's teeth crowding his awkward face. His father always looked strange in his work clothes; the darkness of his beard, skin and sunglasses, like an Arab, made his white dress shirt look impossibly white. He wore plain black slacks and black dress shoes. The boy surged into his father's arms and kissed the wire scruff of his face.
His father set the boy down and stood in his contraposto way, surveying the room and saying nothing. Over his father's shoulder he could see the shelves that held the family photo albums. They were a variety of colors and arrayed haphazardly. In his young mind the boy felt a painful stab of memory. It was of an argument, which he did not understand, his mother shouting in her shrill way, inches from tears and his father bellowing like a lion. Suddenly his father's powerful forearm shot up-in a flash of suspended time the boy could see his father's army tattoo-and smashed the shelves upward, scattering the volumes of pictures with a terrific crash. The boy did not understand that moment, but there were more fights. The house had the black, invisible and corrosive atmosphere of an armed camp. He recalled another moment in the kitchen in which his mother, father and uncle were arrayed like chess pieces. His father was cornered by the counter but shouting and gesticulating while his mother and uncle stood across the room, shouting simultaneously back, trying to beat his father, his hero, into submission with the volume of their enraged noise. The boy remembered standing in front of his father, in no man's land, wide eyed and silent, trying to comprehend the exciting drama. At one point his mother stepped forward, confronting him and his father with wild eyes, gesturing for the boy to leave. He remembered saying something to her that made him feel sneaky and ashamed. He did not know where it came from but he knew he said it and that it was wrong. His mother's open hand flashed out, smashing him across the face and he retreated to his room in tears. He felt all of these memories in a flash but soon they were gone.
In the other rooms of the first floor the boy could hear his father making a racket. It sounded like a desperate search for something. Drawers were rent open and shut. The closet door in the bedroom down the hall clattered open. He heard his father shouting and cursing to no one in particular. He rushed back into the living room, not looking at the boy and wiping the perspiration from his brow as he powered his way across the living room in haste. He was no longer wearing his sunglasses and the boy could see his father's eyes. They were different; there was too much white and his irises were too small. His father threw open the door and pounded up the fifteen steps of ugly orange shag carpeting. He heard his brother's door open, a brief murmur of conversation and then the door closed. Then his father was in the master bedroom for a long time. The boy turned back to the television and watched as Different Strokes was now on. His boy's mind became quickly engrossed in the plot of the sitcom and he forgot the rumbling for a few moments.
His father burst back into the room. He held a finger to his lips as his swept the boy up in his arms once more. The boy wondered where they were going. It occurred to him that his father had not finished his search and there was one place he had not yet looked, the basement. His father, indeed, carried him through the basement door and down the rickety wooden steps into the cement enclosure. The boy had always been terrified of the basement, particularly at night. He regarded it as the worst place in the world, where bad things lurked. The walls and the floor were a dark steel reinforced concrete. It smelled like mildew from the frequent flooding that occurred due to the high water table. The basement usually resembled a dungeon, but on that afternoon it was warm and filled with the golden light of the setting sun. His father set him down and spoke to him.
"Now listen, Billy, we are going to play a little game, ok?" The boy could smell whiskey on his father's breath. He did not know what kind of alcohol it was but he knew well enough the smell of alcohol.
"OK, Daddy. What's the game?"
"I want you to help me find something."
"But you can't tell your mother or that other bastard, alright?"
"OK, Daddy. I can keep a secret. What are we looking for?" He was five years old and genuinely excited at the prospect of playing a secret and exciting game with his father.
"It's like we're spies and we need to find something to get the bad guys." He mopped the sweat from the bronze Italian skin of his forehead.
"OK, Daddy. Let's get 'em!"
"OK, what we're looking for is a gun. It's not a hand gun, it's a shotgun. Do you know what that is?"
"Sure I do." The boy did know, as he watched shows like The A-Team, and The Dukes of Hazzard all the time and knew what different types of guns were. He knew a shotgun was a powerful gun that looked like a rifle but that you pumped to load. When a shotgun was fired on TV he liked the sound it made, like Dirty Harry's .357 magnum.
"It's not a regular shotgun, but sawed off at the barrel, so it's a little bit shorter than you might expect."
"Have you seen it?"
"No, Daddy."
"Well, you're gonna help me find it. That's the game."
"OK, Daddy."
"If you find it, don't touch it! Just come and find me, OK?"
"OK, Daddy. Listen, as long as we're playing spies and all, can I call you Tony?" The boy asked the question timidly.
"No, Billy. I'm your father. You call me Dad or Daddy but you're not allowed to call me by my first name."
They tore quietly through the basement. The boy, caught up in the excitement of a real spy mission, a scavenger hunt involving a gun, thrust his hand under every cobwebbed cabinet and behind musty shelves, seeking the cold steel of his quarry. He did not know how long it went on but it grew quiet in the basement. He turned to see his father standing, his shirt sleeves rolled up but musty and dirty. He was breathing hard, looking at the floor and mopping his brow. He looked as if he didn't know what to do.
"OK, Billy. Never mind. It's not here. Remember, don't tell anyone about this! OK?"
"Yes, Daddy."
"You're a good boy. Come on, run upstairs and get your brother. Let's go get some ice cream."
"OK, Daddy." He sprinted excitedly up the stairs, his young legs firing like pistons, forgetting the disappointment of the failed search in the excitement of a run down the sunny highway to Carvel for some ice cream. They boy considered what flavor he wanted as his father remained for a moment in the basement, staring at his shoe tops. The boy ran as if his legs would carry him forever. All was right with the world, his Daddy was home, it was summer and there would be ice cream. He wondered, though only for a moment, where his mother was. He wished she was there too to have ice cream with them.
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This week's podcast is 9 Instagram tips – for people who don't want to be "professional" Instagrammers. Whenever I read Instagram advice for bloggers, it tends to be centred around crafting a very stylised Instagram feed, with advice like "if a photo wouldn't make it onto your blog, don't put it on your Instagram." That advice is great for people who are after a more professional-looking Instagram feed, but a lot of the people I've spoken to have said they don't want a stylised Instagram feed, or to change what they're posting.
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The Hateful Eight is a 2015 wester American thriller film which was written and directed by none other than Quentin Tarantino.
The star casts of the film are Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Walton Goggins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Demian Bichir, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Bruce Dern. They played the characters of eight strangers who seek refuge from a blizzard that was in a stagecoach stopover which was some time after the American Civil War.
Tarantino conceived The Hateful Eight as a novel and a sequel to his last film Django Unchained, but then he decided to make it a stand-alone film. The Hateful Eight is available on Netflix now. The story is all about a bounty hunter and his captured fugitive are caught right in the middle of an alarming snowstorm. They are looking for refuge at a tiny lodge and then faces some crazy twist of events there. While racing towards the city of Red Rock after Civil War Wyoming, a bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitives faces with another bounty hunter and a man who claims to be the sheriff. As they hope to find refuge from the storm, they travel to stagecoach stopover. They are greeted there with four strangers, and then the eight travellers realize that they might not ever make it to their destination.
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I never really talk and answered some questions about my mental health. I'm back of my last week ski trip and before sharing the recaps and download all photos, I wanted to share more about my mental health situation. For my new followers too. A day during I searched new bloggers about mental health, I discovered the mental health tag. I loved the idea and questions. Well.
I took Lamictal 25mg on mornings since 3 years. I saw a psychiatrist since about 9 years.
The Lamictal helps to manage my moods in my borderline personality disorder. My general therapy helps me year after year to manage a little better my everyday life. And understand a lot about me.
My family knows (I live again with my parents). The friends that I have (not a lot because of my social phobia) know.
Oh! Yeah! Of course! My anxiety gives me obsessional thoughts who affect my daily life.
My borderline personality disorders affect the fact that I can't always manage my mood like I would like. And I do not have a lot of confidence in other peoples. It's hard for social life.
Some days, when I'm in a depression lows I can to want nothing to do. I live slowly! I'm not able to do things even if I would like to do them.
Snuggles with my cozy blankets, watching a funny tv show, breath, editing videos, look at my Disneyland Paris photos.
I have a new recently thing: booking my future solo trips.
Wrap me in my cozy blanket (literally), watch tv shows, take breaths, drawing, calligraphy, look on the photos of my few past trips. Thinking about what I did and successful despite my anxiety and mental disorders.
Don't stay alone in your suffering and don't think it's your fault.
Skiing, Mickey Mouse and Minnie kisses, funny tv shows/movies, my cat wants cuddles, when I fight anxiety.
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Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced a strategic partnership with the ConectarAGRO Association, a Brazilian nonprofit revolutionizing the way agricultural fields connect to the world by promoting and enabling access to 4G mobile internet throughout the country.
As an industry expert in mobile connectivity solutions, Telit will work closely with solution ecosystem members to develop IoT devices for several agro segments. In addition to a strong portfolio of products and services for agricultural applications, Telit will offer support, from idea to design, as well as testing, certifications and deployment.
Lack of internet signal is one of the greatest challenges facing rural farmers in Brazil. In an Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) hosted webinar, it was stated that only 23% of the Brazilian agricultural space has some level of connectivity. The webinar also covered the significance of digital sciences in contributing to productivity enhancement and recommended taking a comprehensive look at digital platforms and the digital delivery of services.
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Today I want to talk about the advantages of having a critiquing partner. When you are professionally published, you have an editor who reviews your content and tells you what works and what doesn't and what should be removed or added. You also have a copy editor, who checks for spelling and punctuation errors, inconsistencies in spelling names of characters or places, and other such details. If you are an indie author, you have to find someone who can supply those services. You may hire an editor, or you may have a friend who can read with a critical eye and catch both content problems and errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Or you may even feel confident enough in your own ability as a writer to feel you can do without such outside services. However, no matter how skilled you are, you are unwise to be your own editor. It's far too easy to overlook small things—a typo here, a missed punctuation mark there. You also run the risk of being so in love with your own work that you are blind to places where the narrative drags or where a paragraph that is clear to you will not be clear to a reader and needs a bit more explanation. I recommend hiring an editor, especially if you are a first-time author. But for indie authors who operate on a tight budget, have published previously, and simply don't have the funds for an editor, there are other routes you can take. One is to find a competent critiquing partner.
A critiquing partner is another writer with whom you can exchange critiques, someone who will read and critique your material while you read and critique theirs and then exchange comments and suggestions. This can be highly beneficial to both partners. I am fortunate to have such a critiquing partner. She is Diane Sawyer (the mystery writer, not the TV personality). It isn't necessary to partner with a writer in the same genre. I write fantasy novels, and Diane is not a fantasy reader. Though I do read mysteries, I don't write them. We don't find that a hindrance to being able to critique each other's work. We both agree that our work is better as a result of the comments and concerns we express to each other. We agree that we must be brutally honest with one another, and if something doesn't work or make sense or even is absolutely awful, we say so. Of course we also offer praise where praise is due, pointing out strengths as well as weaknesses, and highlighting passages that strike us as especially good. In essence, we function as editors for each other.
–Diane Sawyer, award-winning author of The Tell-Tale Treasure and her newest, just released, Trouble in Tikal, both published in Florida by Southern Yellow-Pine Publishing. Diane was also published by Avalon Books, New York City and Thomas & Mercer ,the mystery division of Amazon Books, New York City: The titles are: The Montauk Mystery, The Montauk Steps, The Tomoka Mystery, The Cinderella Murders, The Treasures of Montauk Cove. With Rose's editorial help, she will next create The Diamond Murders, set in St. Petersburg.
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2020 MLB season win totals, futures manifesto
By Gill Alexander (VSiN host) Follow @beatingthebook
Nolan Arenado
Well, here we are. Call it surreal, a sci-fi movie or whatever, this is the world in which we live now. I wrote the introduction to this piece before the impact of the coronavirus global pandemic took full hold (you'll note the cheerier tone), so please take it in the context in which it was intended — the one in which every MLB club plays 162 regular-season games with standard scheduling. Perhaps we'll end up with a truncated season, in which case we can scale back these thoughts based on equivalent win percentages. Whatever transpires, in my attempt to maintain some sort of normalcy in a suddenly unfamiliar world, here's this season's version of my annual baseball manifesto.
And now, in what has become a yearly tradition, while we wait to find out who this season's NFL offseason champion will be in free agency, here comes my fourth annual VSiN "Point Spread Weekly" Baseball Season Win Totals Manifesto. Move over, betting on service games in tennis! Get out of my way, first to 15 in hoops! If you have six months to marinate on some winners, you're in the room where it happens.
But seriously, as a public service to first-timers, here's why we do this. The greatest fundamental advantage sports bettors have over bookmakers remains the luxury of choosing what and what not to bet. This is true not only as it relates to selecting games to bet on a daily basis. It also applies to making choices with props, futures, in-game wagers and season win totals. But it's also true that to capitalize, it's incumbent on the bettor to recognize where value is.
And that's where Major League Baseball season win totals come in. No betting market consistently provides more opportunity and, just as importantly, more inherent ability to overcome variance than does this annual menu of 30 clubs spread out over 162 courses.
Let's all say it together: Betting on baseball is your brain. Betting on football or March Madness is your brain on crack.
First, for context, I'm a selective 16-8 over the last seven seasons on these plays, coming off a 3-0 cruise job a year ago. A full regular season features 2,430 games, or, for our purposes, wins available. Across regulated and unregulated sportsbooks, regardless of shop, the sum of season win totals among all 30 MLB clubs is almost always higher than what is actually possible.
At initial release, PointsBet had a whopping total season wins pool of 2,467, FanDuel checked in Jan. 8 just under that at 2,461, Caesars tallied up to 2,450 total wins Jan. 13 and the Westgate opened Jan. 18 at 2,440. That speaks to an inherent optimism with sports bettors of which bookmakers are well aware and shade lines accordingly. Going on, say, an Over spree across the board is unlikely to net long-term returns.
As I've discussed on "A Numbers Game" on VSiN and on the "Beating the Book" podcast many times, the Atlantis Casino in Reno had historically released MLB season win totals before anyone else, typically in mid-February. Those numbers would often have no correlation to what would subsequently be offered in Las Vegas in March. With Atlantis' former sportsbook director, Steve Mikkelson, having moved to the Rampart in Las Vegas, CG Technology seized the opportunity to become the first to release in 2018, a particularly curious gambit with its earlier-than-ever Feb. 7 release date. Last year's release then mocked those of the previous year, as Matt Lindeman at Caesars released MLB season win totals Jan. 8. More than two months later, Manny Machado and Bryce Harper still hadn't signed with new clubs, nor had the likes of Dallas Keuchel or Craig Kimbrel, even a mere matter of days before the regular season started. And then came this offseason, when PointsBet in New Jersey released in December only to have others like William Hill quickly follow suit, subsequent Tommy John surgery announcements be damned.
For our purposes, whether at Atlantis in previous years, at CG two seasons ago, at Caesars last season or at PointsBet this offseason, those who release first take on the inherent burden of posting numbers that will be the most subject for exploitation by sharp bettors. Part and parcel with that, those very numbers often won't traditionally serve as a true reflection of widespread availability. In 2018, for example, I could no longer give an Under play on the Kansas City Royals at 76.5 as one of my official picks because, well, even though that's precisely what I bet on Feb. 7, by the time I wrote my baseball manifesto, that number wasn't only gone, it couldn't even be seen in the rearview mirror anymore as the Westgate opened them at 67.5 less than three weeks later.
Here I've listed my four best bets for what we hope is some version of a season. As always, all totals are derived from a current consensus throughout Nevada and offshore.
Colorado Rockies 73.5 Under (-110)
Before the 2019 season, I went Under on the Rockies at 84.5. After a midseason swoon in which they went on an abominable 15-43 run (.271) — a pace if projected over 162 games about three games worse than the worst-in-baseball Detroit Tigers' 114 losses in 2019 — we coasted home to a betting win with 13.5 games to spare, as the Rockies finished 71-91. With Colorado's season win total adjusted to only 73.5 for 2020, one might think I'd shy away from a second straight play on the Under, perhaps even considering a play in the opposite direction. Instead, I see no reason not to take a bearish position on the Rockies again, as a key tenet of handicapping MLB season win totals seems not to have been baked into this number.
First, the Rockies endured a peculiar offseason. For all the years I've written baseball previews, I'm hard-pressed to name a franchise that has triggered more consistent befuddlement. Typically, that has come in the form of the Rockies picking up free agents whose skill sets don't jibe with the prairie-like characteristics of Coors Field. This offseason, my confusion has been caused by the Rockies' almost complete lack of purposeful movement. Not only were they seemingly content to stand pat after a miserable season, but they floated star Nolan Arenado (.315/.379/.583 with a .392 wOBA) in trade talks, only to fail to make a deal. Wonderful. That should put Arenado in a good mood.
Second, this makes Arenado a prime candidate to be dealt at the trade deadline, as I see no way the Rockies will be in anything but sell mode. And that, perhaps more than anything, is why 73.5 wins will prove too many. A key to any MLB season win total play is to properly assess which teams will be in buy or sell mode at the trade deadline. There will be no shame in the Rockies making a play for a bevy of meaningful prospects at that juncture. Their passionate fans deserve no less.
The Rockies' lineup is fabulous at the top of the order, featuring their future Hall of Fame third baseman, flanked by Charlie Blackmon (.314/.364/.576 with a .387 wOBA), Trevor Story (.294/.363/.554 with a .380 wOBA) and David Dahl (.302/.353/.524 with a .364 wOBA). After that quartet, good luck. That reality would be bad enough if home games weren't played at the anomaly that is Coors Field, whose vast dimensions produce many more doubles and triples than any other park. The joys of padding stats at Coors mask a true collective skill set that often creates an almost opposite effect on the road, as the Rockies scored more than a run fewer per game away from home in 2019. In fact, only the Marlins' .284 wOBA on the road was worse than the Rockies' .288. This went a long way to the Rockies being 15 games worse on the road than at home last season, a difference made even more damning by an extremely fortunate expected win total at home per Bill James' Pythagorean theorem.
And then there's the pitching.
Here's what I wrote in my capsule for my Rockies Under play a year ago:
"The Rockies are pinning hopes on right-handed-hurling German Marquez and his 2.47 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, 33% strikeout rate and 5% walk rate in the 113 innings that closed out his 2018 season. Continued fastball command and curveball location low in the zone would go a long way toward that. But I'm selling, not buying, on that. Left-handed hitters posted a .341 wOBA against Marquez in 2018, and I'm not sure if his 3.4% leap in SwStr% from 2017 to 2018 is sustainable. Kyle Freeland had a tremendously fortunate and wholly unsustainable 82.8% LOB rate in 2018, not to mention a kind 8.5% HR/FB rate. I actually expect somewhat of a bounce-back from onetime would-be ace Jon Gray and his 5.12 ERA in 2018, but if I'm wrong and Gray falters after a season in which he was sent down to Triple A in June and failed to make the postseason roster, he is a tradable asset the Rockies will be tempted to deal at the deadline."
With the exception of Gray getting dealt — and this year might be when that finally happens — most of my fears came to pass. Even if Marquez got the worst of fortune with his 4.76 ERA in 2019 (witness his 20.1% HR/FB rate and 68.0% LOB rate), his true performance still didn't put him anywhere near his 2018 homestretch numbers as, despite his SwStr% proving to be sustainable, the K rate fell to 24.3%. Freeland's ERA soared nearly four runs from 2.85 in 2018 to 6.73 in 2019, a number mostly corroborated by a 5.99 FIP. Similarly, his LOB% plummeted from 82.8% to 62.1%, and his HR/FB rate rose from 8.5% to 21.7% in a tour de force of negative regression. And then there's Gray, about whom I've hoped for years that his full potential would be realized. And as predicted, Gray came through with a stellar campaign, logging a 3.84 ERA and career-high 50.4% ground-ball rate.
But the question for all three projected Rockies starters and for Antonio Senzatela, he of the 6.71 ERA last season, is: Which version of each can we expect? I'd simply argue that even if we expect some improvement from all, we're dealing with probably one plus starter in Gray and a trio of mediocre pitchers. That again elicits the even more obvious question of why the Rockies' brass saw fit to do nothing of consequence this offseason to improve the starting staff. I simply don't get it. Ditto for the bullpen, which was not good last year — and that's being kind.
Add to all of this a division in which the Dodgers might be "the greatest club ever assembled," according to Roxy Roxborough on "A Numbers Game," and the Diamondbacks and Padres are generally believed to have improved, and it's another recipe for Rockies disaster.
Prove me wrong, Rockies. A tip of the cap if they do. I'll happily play the Under.
Seattle Mariners 65 Under (-110)
I hadn't intended to include the Mariners in this season's manifesto, thinking I'd get cute with some other more middling clubs, but a voice in my brain kept gnawing at me. Sometimes a team is just so bereft of anything positive that failing to make a bearish play would be irresponsible. As those who listen to "A Numbers Game" know, I often refer to my Under bets on season win totals or individual game totals as bets against human achievement. Well, I anticipate very little human achievement in Seattle this season.
The Mariners famously started the 2019 campaign 13-2, prompting some to compare them to the 116-win Mariners of 2001. The M's proceeded to go 55-92 the rest of the way, prompting some to no longer compare them to the 2001 team.
In Jerry Dipoto, Seattle has a GM who has never been offered a trade he didn't want to make. The problem is that Dipoto's aggressive nature seems tantamount to spinning his wheels. And that might be kind.
Marco Gonzales is the ace of this staff. Let that sentence marinate for a bit. Gonzales is coming off a season in which he had an xFIP of 5.11 and a K rate of 17.0%. To be fair, Gonzales has some profile characteristics that are good enough to have the Mariners committing to him for the long haul — but as their de-facto ace?! You simply cannot be a viable ace in the current offensive climate if you don't miss bats. Yusei Kikuchi projects as the No. 2 starter in 2020. His rookie campaign was abominable, as he posted a 5.71 FIP, 5.18 xFIP and 16.1% K rate, with right-handed bats clubbing a .304/.359/.545 slash line against him with a .374 wOBA. He gave up 36 homers. I can't imagine Kikuchi being that bad again. Surely he'll be shelved if he is. But I also don't see anything to make me believe he has No. 2 starter stuff. Beyond the top of the rotation, Kendall Graveman (career 15.0% K rate) comes over from the Athletics to try to bolster things. So does Wei-Yin Chen from the Marlins (career-worst 6.59 ERA and 1.54 WHIP in 45 appearances in 2019). Call me skeptical with both veterans, as the pitch-to-contact parade continues. In truth, I'm more optimistic about the upside of Taijuan Walker and trust that the Mariners' excitement over Justus Sheffield is justified, but one has to spin this pretty aggressively to hope for great things from this staff. And unless you think Carl Edwards Jr. is the new panacea for the bullpen, a regression to the mean is the most prudent projection one can make for the Mariners' relief corps.
As for the lineup, let's say things go wonderfully: Kyle Seager returns to near 2016 levels of 30 HR, 99 RBI and a .278 BA, Daniel Vogelbach somehow matches what looks to be an unsustainable 30-HR campaign in 2019, Shed Long Jr. maintains pace or builds on his .263/.333/.454 with .333 wOBA performance over a small sample size in 2019, ditto for Kyle Lewis over an even smaller sample size, and Evan White lives up to his status as a first-round draft pick. Even if all that happens, we're probably talking about nothing better than an average offense. What's just as realistic is an offense that will still not have markedly distanced itself from replacement-level production.
When you couple that sobering projection with that of the pitching, along with playing in a division with four clubs dramatically superior to the Mariners, amassing 65 wins over a 162-game schedule seems like a pipe dream.
Los Angeles Dodgers Over 101.5 (-110)
As noted above, when Las Vegas legend Roxy Roxborough was on the show recently, he referred to the 2020 Dodgers as "the greatest club ever assembled." And I'm here to say amen. In fact, instead of a writeup, how about just a list of accolades and stats?
Here's your projected lineup:
— Mookie Betts: 2018 AL MVP, batting champ and World Series champ, four-time All-Star, 30.6 WAR over last four seasons, three-time Silver Slugger Award winner, four-time Gold Glove Award winner, 2016 Defensive Player of the Year.
— Gavin Lux: 2019 Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year.
— Max Muncy: 35 HR each of the last two seasons.
— Justin Turner: Career slash of .292/.372/.509 with a .370 wOBA.
— Cody Bellinger: 2019 NL MVP, 2017 NL ROY, 111 HR in first three seasons.
— Joc Peterson: 112 HR, 252 RBI in four of the last five seasons with at least 400 PA.
— Corey Seager: career .294/.362/.491 slash line with a .361 wOBA.
— Will Smith: .571 SLG% and a .369 wOBA in 196 PA in his rookie season in 2019.
Might that be something you're interested in?
OK, how about the starting staff:
— Clayton Kershaw: 2014 NL MVP, three-time Cy Young Award winner, eight-time All-Star, three-time NL wins leader, five-time NL ERA leader, three-time NL strikeout leader, career 2.44 ERA, 2.74 FIP, 2.98 xFIP, 64.5 WAR, 27.5% K rate.
— Walker Buehler: ace of staff, 2019 All-Star, career 3.12 ERA, 3.10 FIP, 3.32 xFIP, 28.6% K rate.
— David Price: 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner, five-time All-Star, 2014 MLB strikeout leader, two-time AL ERA leader, coming off a 2019 season with a 28.0% K rate.
— Alex Wood: career 3.40 ERA, 3.49 FIP, 3.53 xFIP.
Projected fifth starter Julio Urias is coming off a season during which he posted a 13.7 SwStr%, but I'll leave it at that. I think you get the idea.
Yes, the bullpen has legitimate question marks, with closer Kenley Jensen's best years perhaps behind him. I don't mean to minimize that. But imagine this embarrassment of riches with a massive chip on its collective shoulders created, say, by a team that had beaten them in the 2017 World Series that has since admitted to a gargantuan technology-driven sign-stealing scheme. Tough to quantify? Sure, but in no world am I going to dismiss that.
The Dodgers think their title was stolen from them. I believe that no matter how long or short the 2020 season is, Los Angeles will achieve a level of excellence rare in any season. You never love going over a season win total as high as 101.5 or, in a truncated season, its associated .627 win percentage. A bet like this is as much a bet against a spate of injuries as anything. But if any club is worthy of an Over bet at this number, it's this group, and bet it I have.
Toronto Blue Jays Over 76 (-110)
Not what you expected, huh?
Last June 27, the Blue Jays had an off day to ponder their 29-52 (.358) record. They had just come off a gut-wrenching loss to the New York Yankees in the Bronx after squandering a 5-0 lead, coming back to tie the game in the ninth, only to see Gleyber Torres' walk-off single in the bottom half send the Jays home with their 14th loss in 20 games.
From that point forward, Toronto went 38-43, getting outscored by a mere 13 runs. Obviously, that doesn't make anyone confuse them with the '27 Yankees, but it's the proper base from which to work when projecting them forward in 2020. And projecting them forward I am. With the bar at a very middling 76 (or again, at the equivalent win percentage based on a truncated season), I believe that pairing the Jays' significant offseason moves with a conservative projection of gains from their already promising young batting order will put them over the top.
First, the lineup. The first four spots are filled with talent from baseball families: Bo Bichette (.311/.358/.571 with a .384 wOBA in 212 PA in 2019), Cavan Biggio (16.5% BB rate in 2019), Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (.277/.327/.541 with a .358 wOBA in 343 PA in 2019) and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (.340 wOBA in the second half of 2019). With those four, the Jays should be set for a long time. Add 28-year-old Randal Grichuk, a notoriously slow starter who surged last season to career highs with 31 HR and 80 RBI among other counting stats as he completed his first season of over 500 PA, and 27-year-old Teoscar Hernandez (48 HRs over the last two season), and the Jays' run production should see only upside as they remain firmly on the right side of the age curve.
The brass has addressed the pitching, a far more glaring weakness, in a much more tangible way on the heels of scuttling the overhyped potential and somehow overrated production of Marcus Stroman and Aaron Sanchez. Hyun-Jin Ryu and his career 2.98 ERA, 3.10 FIP and 3.32 xFIP over six seasons comes over from the Dodgers to be the bona fide ace of a staff that checked in last season at 4.79, 4.82 and 4.88 in those metrics (5.25, 4.90 and 5.01 from starters!), respectively. And while Chase Anderson, Tanner Roark and Matt Shoemaker might not trigger a knee-jerk response of fear in opposing hitters, remember — as my friend Joe Peta made a habit of saying in his brilliant season win totals projections from years gone by — that what you're really replacing is the production of that slotting from the previous season. So even if Anderson, Roark and Shoemaker provide league-average production, not an outlandish ask, it would represent a marked improvement from Sanchez's 6.07/5.02/5.09 as a Blue Jay in 2019, not to mention Clay Buchholz's 6.56/5.62/5.18 and Clayton Richard's 5.96/6.28/5.32.
Ryu, Anderson and Roark have spent most of their careers in the NL and now have to face a DH. Ballpark factors also need to be considered, given that Rogers Centre ranked 12th in 2019 in run-production rate and first in HR rate. That compares to, say, Ryu's former home park of Chavez Ravine, which ranked 24th in the former category last season, ninth in the latter. Throw in a bullpen that essentially consists of Ken Giles and a bunch of question marks and I can see how some might spin this in the opposite direction.
But 76 wins is not a massive bar to clear. And it doesn't hurt that the Red Sox won't be as good and the Yankees can't seem to stay healthy. Given all this and some reliable sourcing from within the organization that more than a couple of promising young arms are ready to be called up, count the Jays over as one of my favorite season win total plays of 2020.
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by Felix Petty
27 September 2021, 6:56pm
Burberry put a cheeky spin on SS22
This season, Riccardo Tisci explored the endless realities and fantasies we have at our fingertips each day.
Riccardo Tisci titled this Burberry collection — shown off schedule, in between Milan and Paris Fashion Week — Animal Instinct, and dedicated it to his late mother, who passed away earlier this year.
There's been much made so far this SS22 season of the relevance of the return of the fashion show and all its accompanying spectacle, as if the last 18 months never happened. A desire to scale back and slow down still permeates — there's a need for thoughtfulness as well as the monumental.
But for all that, Burberry's absence was felt at LFW this season. Their star power and scale speak for themselves, but also for London's fashion, too. There is, however, a confidence implicit in stepping back and doing your own thing; in sticking to your own rhythm when everyone is speeding up. Here, Riccardo proved that it was a decision well made. The film they released to launch the collection felt very visceral. It was intimate, stripped back, sensual, performative.
Models walked through a series of environments — mirrored corridors lined with speakers; a room with walls constructed from Burberry trenches squashed flat; an empty warehouse space; a room full of crystalline gravel; a club full of people dancing. The show was soundtracked by the whir of the wind, a rumble of dance music, the click-clack tempo of high heels striding across hard floors.
"I wanted to move through a series of immersive spaces," Riccardo explained, "each of them unique and unexpected in their sound, texture and experience. It's that idea of flicking between the endless realities and fantasies we have at our fingertips each day." Each room seemed to represent a different facet of the Burberry DNA seen by Riccardo, the realities and fantasies of his working life, and Animal Instinct as a summation of his approach to remixing and reimagining it. There was a playfulness to it, too, demonstrative of an ever increasing comfort and confidence in his role.
An idea of the multiplicity and malleability of the heritage of Burberry is also something that Riccardo's been exploring since the very beginning of his tenure at the house. Thinking back to his AW19 show, Tempest, which was staged at the Tate Britain, that directly explored two contrasting sides of Burberry by staging it across two different spaces, one that represented the classical and the aristocratic side of Burberry, and the other representing the label's adoption by subcultures, the street and the urban environment.
Those juxtapositions were in evidence here, but there's a real adeptness in the way Riccardo is deconstructing that heritage now, and adding in plenty of himself, too. These two halves now feel whole in his vision.
There was quite a literal cheekiness, too, in the exploration of these two halves: with some trench coats cut off at the waist on the back, revealing a flash of the butt. Elsewhere this dichotomy was revealed in a revealing black waistcoat at the front that flowed into a very bourgeois cape; or an armour-like corset top at the front become strappy and exposed when seen from behind. It was a neat play, too, on the current flattened fashion world, which only shows you one straight-on angle via the catwalk, never allowing you to see the back of the garment.
This tension between revealing and concealing was at the heart of it all, it even ran through to something more conceptual, like the heritage of the brand itself, and Riccardo's desire to show it off but also subsume it and make it his own.
"To me, this presentation really represents the freedom of our imaginations: how we dream to come alive," Riccardo said, which sums it up nicely.
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Jay Leno says he still hasn't talked to Conan O'Brien, who ended his seven-month run as The Tonight Show host Jan. 22 to allow Leno, 59, to return to late night.
"I haven't talked to him through all this," he tells Oprah Winfrey in an interview airing Thursday. "No, I haven't." Leno says he wanted to phone O'Brien, 46, "but it didn't seem appropriate … I don't know. I think it — let things cool down and maybe we'll talk, you know."
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Kidding aside, Leno calls the entire situation "a mess."
O'Brien's last night Jan. 22 drew a preliminary rating of 7.0, which translates to about 8 million households.
O'Brien reportedly inked a $45 million deal with NBC which prohibits him from starting another TV job until Sept. 1.
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Q: Best way to create a bounding box from a centroid, a width, and a distance? I have the centroid of an operation, the width of the operation (assumed to be on both sides) and the distance of the operation. What is the most efficient way to make a bounding box in Postgres with this data?
For example:
My hypothetical centroid is 0,0. The operation is 4 feet wide on each side. The operation is also 50 feet long. What is the best way for me to create a bounding box from this data?

A: Assuming your hypothetical coordinate pair is encoded in a spatial reference system that has foot as unit, such as NAD83, you just need to create a 4ft buffer and calculate its BBOX using ST_Envelope or ST_Extent:
SELECT ST_Envelope(ST_Buffer('SRID=[YOUR-SRS];POINT (0 0)',4));
SELECT ST_Extent(ST_Buffer('SRID=[YOUR-SRS];POINT (0 0)',4));

Another option is to use the geography data type (metre as unit) to create the buffer and then cast it again to geometry to create the BBOX, e.g.
SELECT ST_Envelope(ST_Buffer('POINT (0 0)'::geography,4*3.2808)::geometry)

You can also use ST_Project to define the corners manually and use ST_MakeBox2D to create your BBOX:
SELECT
  ST_MakeBox2D(
   ST_Project('POINT(0 0)'::geography,4*3.2808,radians(225.0))::geometry,
   ST_Project('POINT(0 0)'::geography,4*3.2808,radians(45.0))::geometry
  )::geometry

Demo: db<>fiddle
WITH j (poi) AS (VALUES ('POINT(-4.50 54.15)'::geography))
-- 1. a random point, e.g. from ST_Centroid.
SELECT poi::geometry FROM j
UNION
-- 2. a 4ft buffer around the point of query 1
SELECT ST_Buffer(poi,4*3.2808) FROM j
UNION
-- 3. an envelope over the buffer created in query 2 (outer bbox)
SELECT ST_Envelope(ST_Buffer(poi,4*3.2808)::geometry) FROM j
UNION
-- 4. Inner bbox created based on a lower left (azimuth 225°)
-- and a up right (azimuth 45°) corner 4ft away from the POI.
SELECT
  ST_MakeBox2D(
   ST_Project(poi,4*3.2808,radians(225.0))::geometry,
   ST_Project(poi,4*3.2808,radians(45.0))::geometry
  )::geometry
FROM j;

Further reading:

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*Buffers in PostGIS

*Caculate point 50 miles away (North, 45% NE, 45% SW)

*Increase the BBOX size but keep the ratio (Lon/Lat)

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This is a modification of our Basic Challah Recipe #1 with Honey and the Small Batch for Rolls. The only major tweaking from the small batch version is the amount of eggs -- 2 instead of one. While the roll version works great for what it's intended for (non-egg-washed dinner rolls), I was finding it a little lame for Shabbat challah. SO we added an egg. Now it's perfect.
The following instructions are copied from my Basic Challah Recipe #1 with Honey directions. Because this recipe is on the small-side, expect to get two smallish challot or one nice big one.
Add eggs and vegetable oil and mix with wood spoon.
If the dough is not holding together as a ball, add a bit more oil or water. If the dough is very sticky, add more flour. The dough is ready when it sticks together as a ball and is not sticky to the touch when you poke your finger in (5-10 minutes of beating). Turn the ball out onto a floured work surface and punch a few times until very smooth.
Punch down the ball in the bowl and remove. Punch out all air bubbles. Braid in your preferred method. Allow to rise 20-30 minutes. Top with an egg wash (I use the yolk and white) and sesame or poppy seeds if you like.
Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. (You can read about my oven temperature methods here... basically I put it at 375 for 5 minutes. Then I turn the heat down to 350 and bake for 10 more minutes. Then I rotate the pans 180 degrees and bake between 10 and 15 more minutes.) You can use a bread thermometer (180-200 degrees) or poke at the seams. If they seem doughy, give it more time. You can always add foil if the top seems like its browning too fast. I often have to foil five- and six-stranded challot because they're so much fatter.
following the recipe -my dough proved for an hour but did not change its size at all?! I baked them and they were a little bit delicious,( Im hoping that with practice they will get even more delicious! ) regardless of the dough not having risen - have I made a mistake somewhere?
I followed the recipe almost to the word... I needed to add a bit more flour though. It's really the best recipe I've used so far..
Hi there! Thanks so much for the comment. I always keep extra flour around as I'm mixing as well... I think a lot depends on the humidity of your kitchen or even outside!
I tried this recipe yesterday and I just wanted to say it's one of the best loaves I have ever made. Wonderful stuff, thank you so much for sharing!
delish! did it again for Sabbath dinner!
This recipe is wonderful, thank you!


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Q: Can we absorb the partition function into the natural parameter vector? Given an exponential family distribution of the form
$$
f_X(x)=h(x)e^{\phi(\theta)^TT(x)-A(\theta)}
$$
with natural parameter $\eta=\phi(\theta)$, sufficient statistic $T(x)$, and log partition function $A(\theta)$. We can absorb the $-A(\theta)$ term into the natural parameter vector by concatenating it:
$$
\phi'(\theta)=\left[\begin{array}{c}\phi(\theta)\\A(\theta)\end{array}\right],\quad T'(x)=\left[\begin{array}{c}T(x)\\-1\end{array}\right]
$$
so that the log partition term disappears. We know that we can compute $\mathbb{E}[T'(x)]=\nabla_{\eta'}A'(\theta)$. Since $A'(\theta)=0$ this would mean that $\mathbb{E}[T'(x)]=[0,0,\cdots,0]^T$ for all distributions in the exponential family, which seems wrong. What is the problem here?

A: The definition of the log partition function,
$$A(\theta) = \log \int h(x) \exp\{\phi(\theta)^T T(x) \}dx $$
makes it clear that given fixed functions $h(x)$ and $T(x)$, then $A(\theta)$ is completely determined by $\phi(\theta)$. In your second parameterization where you've absorbed the log-partition function to the natural parameter vector, the dimension of $\theta$ is one less than the dimension of $\phi'(\theta) = [\phi(\theta), -A(\theta)]$. Thus, the possible space of the natural parameter vector $\phi'(\theta)$ (the natural parameter space) is not an open set: it is a curve. As stated in the comment by @user2939212, the identity $\nabla A(\theta) = \mathbb{E}[T(x)]$ only holds if the natural parameter space is an open set (and so the family is regular).
Cases where the dimension of the parameter vector $\theta$ is less than the dimension of the natural parameter vector are called curved exponential families. For example, a Gaussian$(\mu, \sigma^2)$ where $\sigma = |\mu| = \theta$ is a curved exponential family: the natural parameter vector is $$\eta(\theta) = [\theta^{-1},-0.5\theta^{-2}].$$ The space spanned by $\eta(\theta)$ is a parabola, not an open set.


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Dimon in the Rough: Time to Buy J.P. Morgan Chase?
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The Pro: Brian McMahon, chief investment officer at Thornburg Investment Management and co-manager of the Thornburg Investment Income Builder fund.
The Fund: Thornburg Investment Income Builder owns shares of large, value-oriented companies around the world. Over the past five and 10 years, the fund has beaten 95% and 86% of its peers, respectively.
The Pick: J.P. Morgan Chase
The Case: Long a banking industry darling, J.P. Morgan Chase has had a rough couple of years. After winning plaudits for deftly navigating the global financial crisis, America's biggest bank by assets has been dogged by one scandal after another — from mammoth trading losses of the 'London Whale' to mortgage-related problems at Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, two companies it acquired during the crisis.
In all, the House of Morgan has agreed to pay more than $25 billion in fines. To put that in perspective, the bank's total reported net income last year was just under $18 billion. Even chief executive Jamie Dimon has lost public esteem amid growing skepticism about his brash leadership style and outsize pay.
No wonder J.P. Morgan shares have lagged the market — and industry peers — for the past five years despite earning more than $87 billion in profit.
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McMahon thinks it's time for investors to give the bank a fresh look. "You've got a household name in the U.S … and around the world," he says.
Bad behavior, but good value
Chalk it up to bad timing. J.P. Morgan's legal troubles arrived just as the rest of the broad market began to soar. But investors can turn that into an advantage, says McMahon. With the market up 53% over the past three years, McMahon estimates large company stocks are trading at price/earnings ratios of about 15, based on estimated 2014 profits. J.P. Morgan Chase, which has gained 38% sports a P/E ratio of only about nine. McMahon thinks the stock looks cheap, especially since J.P. Morgan has traded at an average P/E of 11 over the past decade.
Dividend Potential
In March, J.P. Morgan hiked its quarterly dividend to 40 cents from 38 cents. It might have gone further, McMahon says, but the Federal Reserve, still worried about the health of the banking system, has required banks to hold onto cash to strengthen their balance sheets. That can't go on forever. With interest rates likely to rise in the long run — boosting what J.P. Morgan can earn on its $1.3 trillion of checking, savings and other deposits — he expects the company should be able to roughly double what it pays out to shareholders in the future.
Is There Another Shoe to Drop?
The big question: Is the worst of J.P. Morgan's regulatory problems truly over? McMahon thinks so. But there is no guarantee.
"The government keeps hounding them and extracting fines for one thing or another," he says. He's quick to add: "There's the shadow of them just being dogged."
Just last month the former head of J.P. Morgan's China investment banking team was arrested amid yet another scandal, this one focused on whether the giant bank inappropriately hired children of top Chinese officials in order to win business. J.P. Morgan didn't respond to a call for comment by press time.
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