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Re: Rest of Baseball - 2018
they either have to lower the mound or limit the amount of pitchers per game
no other way around it
Why are pitchers to blame here?
With no data to based this next opinion on, it feels that with the increase in salaries, batters seem to care less about putting the ball in play, and more about knocking the ball into outer space.
Every day, every game, for the past 20+ seasons, it seems like there's a situation where if the batter were patient or mindful of not going for the home run, there would have been more runs scored, more people on base, etc.
Seems like we had more professional hitters in previous eras (at the same time, that was the height of steroid-ball)...so...maybe batters were never as good as the pitching to begin with?
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Quote from: hbionic on June 21, 2018, 11:21:17 PM
I really doubt it has anything to do with care level. Teams are smarter with situational pitching and fielding than ever before, and on the hitting side they've realized that putting the ball in play isn't necessarily the most important thing for winning. That's why the team with the worst batting average is in first place. It matters less than people thought. This whole advanced stats revolution has been about finding things that are more highly correlated with winning than the traditional statistics.
It's the smart way to win but it's boring as farg. Like watching Floyd Mayweather.
Barring some hitting innovation that I can't even imagine, it'll only change if the rules change to encourage more hitting.
When you collect more information, you find new ways to win. It's happening in all sports. The result won't always be more boring (it seems to encourage more risk taking in football and basketball), but in the case of baseball, that's how it worked out.
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Talk radio here was on about banning the shift as a partial remedy.
A progressive front-office man for a winning team is talking about pitching, the Tampa Bay Rays and the future of the sport he loves. The more he talks, the more obvious it becomes.
The future scares the hell out of him.
He has "no problem" with the Rays per se, he says. He understands what has led them to trot relief pitchers out there to "open" (but not "start") the game three or four days a week. What he wonders, though, is this:
Has anyone in charge of this sport thought through the long-term reverberations of this otherwise creative and thoughtful innovation?
"I'm not a purist about much," this executive says. "But I think baseball is going down a bad road… because part of what baseball is about is the starting pitcher matchup. For as long as baseball has been played, you looked in the paper and asked, 'Who's pitching today?' It's part of the attraction of our game. If it's just going to become a collection of guys throwing 50 pitches, we've lost something as a sport."
When a Max Scherzer or Gerrit Cole spins off an epic 15-strikeout, 2-hit kind of evening, that's baseball theater at its greatest. But when it's seven pitchers combining for a three-hour, 36-minute, 15-strikeout, two-hit kind of evening, "that's mind-numbingly bad baseball," this same exec says.
"I don't think we're going down a road we should want to go down," he says. "But I don't think we have the courage to stop it."
The courage to stop it. I've been rolling those words around my brain since I first heard them. And when I do, I keep asking the same question: Is this really where baseball is heading?
Could there really be a time, five or 10 or 20 years down that road, when "Starting Pitcher" is no longer a description of an actual job? In 2038, is it possible that folks will think of a "starting pitcher" the way folks in 2018 think of jobs like "milkman" or "Blockbuster store manager?"
And if that's true, how dangerous an idea is that – not as baseball strategy but as entertainment strategy?
Let's say this again. For 100 years, the first question everyone asked on the way to a ballpark was always: "Who's pitching tonight?"
But suppose the answer in 2038 is: "Everybody," or "Who the heck knows?" Would some of those people then just change their minds and stay home and binge a little Netflix?
So I've spent the last week or so asking people around baseball – nearly a dozen managers, GMs and executives of generally successful, forward-thinking teams – one of baseball's most important questions:
What is the future of the Starting Pitcher?
Here is what they see in their crystal balls.
LONG LIVE THE ACE
It starts with The Ace. It always has. And if baseball is going to survive as a compelling form of entertainment, there is still a school of thought that it always will.
"I remember when I was in college, I went to Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia," says Astros GM (and Penn grad) Jeff Luhnow. "And the reason I went to that game was to watch Steve Carlton and Dwight Gooden, two of the dominant pitchers in the National League. I know I paid a lot of money – for a college student. But if it was Reliever X pitching against Reliever Y, I'm guessing I wouldn't have been likely to do that."
Hey, good guess – because three decades later, the allure of that sort of match-up, Cy Young dueling Cy Young, is still one of the best things baseball has going for it.
The NBA has hitched its entire league to star players who hold the ball in their hands 100 times a game. So now ask yourself: What's the closest thing baseball has to Steph against LeBron?
It's Max Scherzer versus Clayton Kershaw. It's Corey Kluber versus Justin Verlander. It's Chris Sale versus Luis Severino. No other stars in this sport get to show off just how dominant they are 100 times a night. It's the essence of baseball – and always has been.
"Looking back when I pitched," says longtime Braves ace John Smoltz, "you couldn't help but notice who you were pitching against. I mean, if you know you're pitching against Pedro Martínez…you can't help but hyper-focus.
"I just don't think it's physically possible," Smoltz goes on, "to pitch 35 times in the regular season at the level you pitch in the postseason. But when you're up against Pedro and you know that all you can give up is maybe one run, it elevates you to the level of a playoff game."
Asked if everything felt different on the days he faced a guy like Pedro, Smoltz says it all in two words: "Oh yeah."
So is baseball really willing to lose that? That star power? That postseason aura in June? That one stage it can construct for its biggest stars to go toe to toe?
"To me," says Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers' president of baseball operations, "those types of guys – the Scherzers, the Klubers, the Kershaws, the Sales – will always be valuable. They were valuable looking back at baseball in the past. They're extremely valuable in the present day. And they'll be extremely valuable looking ahead."
Just look at what Luhnow and the Astros have constructed in Houston. Nothing else about the way the Astros operate could possibly be described as old-fashioned, or even conventional. But their starting rotation? It's such an old-school, made-for-October group, it's a rotation the '95 Braves or '66 Orioles would have been proud to roll out there.
Is that telling us something – that this team, the Houston Astros, built itself around that type of rotation in its quest to win another World Series?
"Yes," Luhnow says. "But it's almost impossible to pull off."
The Astros are as avant-garde a set of outside-the-box thinkers as you'll find in this sport. But their rotation is pure classic rock: Two former Cy Youngs (Verlander and Dallas Keuchel)….A former No. 1 pick in the country (Cole) "who will probably win (a Cy Young) soon himself," Luhnow says…. The young, dazzling, ever-improving Lance McCullers Jr….And, in Luhnow's words, "one of the great comeback stories in baseball" in Charlie Morton.
It's the kind of rotation, the GM admits, that his front office always aspired to build – and then they actually made it happen. These guys chew up innings. They pile up swings and misses. They take their turn every fifth day. They're living the dream, every franchise's dream.
But is this how his pitching staff will always be constructed? Jeff Luhnow is making no promises of that.
"The aim," he says, "is just to get outs. So if (in the future) you have two dominating starters and a lot of good relievers, maybe you do something different, like Tampa is trying to do right now."
Which brings us to the other end of this paradigm …
OPEN ARMS IN TAMPA BAY
The Tampa Bay Rays don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the future looks like for 29 other franchises. They're doing what they have to do. And neither their franchise nor modern civilization has collapsed, just because they've basically dispensed with the idea that they even need a starting rotation, in the traditional sense.
"If we had five Chris Archers or Blake Snells, we wouldn't be doing this," says their club president, Matt Silverman.
But they don't. And they won't – not this year anyway. So two or three out of every five days, they send a relief pitcher to the mound to "open" the game for three to six outs. Then they basically match up for all the other outs, while trying their best to manage innings, protect young arms and still compete.
To the amazement of millions of humans whose brains are stuck in 1977, this has not been a disaster. In fact, it has mostly been a stroke of (gasp) genius.
Since May 19, when they first began using Sergio Romo – and later others – as their "opener," before turning the game over to a multi-inning arm, the Rays have racked up the best ERA (2.87), opponent batting average (.205) and opponent on-base percentage (.282) in the entire sport.
It isn't stunning that much of the rest of the baseball world has spent the last five weeks recoiling in shock and denial over how they've done that. But to the front office that devised this approach, it's just another logical step in modern baseball thinking.
"I don't see this as anything revolutionary at all," Silverman says. "It's almost a continuation of the evolution of roles in the bullpen. It's a potential next step of how you manage innings and manage a pitching staff."
So is this the wave of the future? We found a lot of resistance to that idea, on every level. And one of the biggest skeptics is a fellow who used to be pretty much the face of the Rays, Joe Maddon.
The Cubs manager sees the Rays as a team that is "doing this out of necessity – and they're doing a great job with it." But will their success push the rest of the sport in this direction? Maddon shakes his head forcefully.
"I don't think that will ever happen," he says. "I really don't, unless there's some kind of new training technique that permits relief pitchers to throw that often, that well. It's just not going to happen. The way the game is structured, you need this really reliable starter to go X number of innings to get you through the season and not absolutely obliterate arms. Either that or you have new rules that permit you to shuffle guys between triple-A and the major leagues. Those are the kind of things that you may have to do.
"But I don't ever see (rotations as we've always known them) going away. I don't. I think it's impossible, actually."
We've heard those same concerns from other corners. But the Rays don't see how the challenges of keeping their pitchers healthy change, just because the innings they're appearing in happen to change.
"It's the same challenge as managing your pitching staff if you're managing it conventionally," Silverman says. "I don't see a difference there. We have the same concerns and the same level of TLC with these pitchers, whether they're starting the game and throwing 100 pitches or closing the game. It's all the same.
"Let's say a reliever is used primarily as an 'opener.' He's going to pitch the same workload as if he's pitching the seventh or eighth inning of a game. It's the same workload management. It will be matched to historical levels and what we think he can accomplish."
Oh, they've had some games reel out of control on them – when they drag into extra innings or when their "opener" unravels in the first inning. But again, they don't see how that's different from the havoc other teams are forced to deal with in games like that.
Heck, they don't even accept our master premise, that a team without true "starters" is less interesting or entertaining.
"You have fans coming to the game saying, 'Really? Sergio Romo is starting a game? What is this?'" Silverman says. "I think it's kind of interesting. I think it actually adds some intrigue. And every opponent that we're playing – their TV and radio guys are spending [a lot of time] talking about it. It's something new that's part of the conversation of baseball."
Ah, but is it the centerpiece of the future of starting pitching? That's where this debate gets fiery.
WHERE ARE WE HEADING?
So let's haul those Ouija boards out of the closet. It's time to predict the future. Not surprisingly, it looks vastly different to baseball men with vastly different perspectives – some of whom prefer not to identify themselves. Here are the highlights of what they foresee:
TEAMS WILL STOP TRYING TO DEVELOP ACES – "What scares me," says one exec, "is, what's going to happen to our first-round picks in 15 years? If Max Scherzer was coming up with the Rays, maybe they turn him into a 50-pitch type of guy."
Another exec, and not one ever referred to as "old-school," could also see that happening – but still finds the whole thought preposterous.
"You're an idiot," he says, "if you have a Max Scherzer and you shorten him to two or three innings. I kind of hope teams do do that – because it's really dumb… It's dumb because you're giving up the other four-to-six innings you'd get at that quality, and because of what it means for your bullpen the next night and the night after that. So you're giving up a significant advantage, not only for winning that night's game but also the next night's game."
BAD NEWS FOR FREE AGENTS – Once upon a time – by which we mean like two years ago – the good old, league-average, inning-eating starting pitcher was an excellent, lucrative gig. And then last offseason happened.
So Lance Lynn sat around all winter without a job. Alex Cobb sat around all winter without a job. Aníbal Sánchez sat around all winter without a job. Etc., etc.
Well, it wasn't just Lynn, Cobb, Sánchez and 100 agents who were wondering what that was all about. It was pretty much everyone. But now that picture is beginning to clear up. Last winter was just providing one more window into how new-wave baseball front offices view the value of that sort of starting pitcher.
"Teams now value quality over quantity," says one of the execs quoted earlier. "They used to value quantity over quality. So two, three, four, five years ago, guys got paid a lot more money to take down those 190-210 innings a year."
THE "NON-ROTATION" IS CHEAPER, PERIOD – You don't need an MBA from Harvard Business to do this math. What costs a team more – paying five veteran starters to get the franchise through the season or paying, say, two veteran starters, and filling in the rest of the "starts" with the cast of "Meet the Bullpen?"
It's a simple equation. So let's spell it out for you in real-life 2018 payroll dollars.
Cubs rotation (Lester, Darvish, Quintana, Hendricks, Chatwood): $78 million
Rays "non-rotation" (Archer, Snell, Eovaldi, Romo, Stanek): $11 million
"I don't think you'd get one guy from the management side – who knows this is just financially cheaper – to admit it," Smoltz says. "But it is. It's financially cheaper."
A FUTURE WITH NO SUCH THING AS A TRUE STARTER? – An AL GM with an expensive starting rotation offers that startling prediction – of an entire sport looking at the Rays' success and embracing it, full-speed ahead.
"I do think we're getting a glimpse of the future of pitching," that GM says, "with some of the recent experimentation. While things will surely evolve, I suspect there's a future reality that includes a staff that's predominately built around pitchers who are expected to get nine to 15 outs."
So is he actually predicting we will see a time when "starting pitcher" becomes an almost obsolete job description?
"Yes," he says, simply.
But is that how most of his peers see it? Nope. Not the execs we've surveyed anyway. But here is what they do see….
A FUTURE WITH "THE HORSE" AND THEN FILL-IN-THE-BLANKS – Let's make this clear. A world with no true starters is not what most people in the game predict. But do they continue to see a world with 150 true starters (i.e., the traditional five starting pitchers per team)? Frankly, many of them see that long-time model crumbling – and sooner than you'd think.
"Personally," says Andrew Friedman, "I don't believe there are 150 starters on Planet Earth that can reach a certain threshold (of performance). The ones who do are very helpful to teams winning games. But what about the ones who fall short of that bar? Instead of crossing our fingers, I think there are more proactive ways to put your team in a better position to help win baseball games."
Brewers GM David Stearns envisions a similar blueprint.
"I think the `horse' starting pitcher will always be in demand," Stearns says, "and will always be a desirable and highly valued player in baseball. I do not see that changing. But I do think the industry is always looking for ways to supplement when you don't have that big starting pitcher. And I think that's what we've seen throughout the league.
"So we shorten up starters (and how many times they go through the lineup). We go with an `opener.' We rely on more multi-inning relievers. I actually give teams a lot of credit, for looking for outside-the-box solutions. All we're looking to do is get 27 outs the most effective way we can get them."
But is that all baseball has become now – a math equation? And if it is, should the sirens be wailing in Rob Manfred's office 24 hours a day?
"Look," says one exec, "we're going to continue to look for ways to find every ounce of value we can find within the rules we're playing under. That's what we get paid to do – to find every edge we can to help us win. But if they change the rules, we'll play by those rules – and look for other ways to win."
So is it time for baseball to address the rules that apply to starting pitchers, too? We've heard a lot of talk from the commissioner lately about the need to balance the analytics explosion in the name of making his sport a more entertaining product. But how could baseball possibly change its rules to prevent all 30 teams from using an "opener?"
The answer, says one exec, is roster limits.
"If they ever give us a 26th man," he says, "there had better be a requirement for how many hitters and pitchers you have to have…or you could see teams go to 15 pitchers. And that's just a recipe for terrible baseball."
So welcome to Rob Manfred's world – a world now overflowing with issues just like this one. Never before have baseball's front offices been populated by more innovative thinkers. And that's mostly a great thing. But is some of that thinking beginning to choke the entertainment out of the nightly show? If it is, that's a dangerous thing.
And what if the next great casualty of all that deep thinking is the disappearance of Scherzer versus Kershaw, Verlander versus Kluber and the eternal, must-see Battle of the Aces? Is that a threat to the sport that's so ominous, it might require the sport to act? Stay tuned.
"The one thing positive about the Rays," says the exec quoted at the beginning of this piece, "is, if they give Sergio Romo or somebody like him 50 starts, maybe it will open the door for rules to counteract that. I hope so – because nothing, to me, is not an answer."
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"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."
--C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Chase Utley plans to hold a news conference Friday in Los Angeles and announce that he will retire at the end of the 2018 season, sources told ESPN.
Utley plans to play out the rest of this season, but will not return in 2019, when he is in the second year of a two-year, $2 million contract.
He joins former teammates Jayson Werth and Shane Victorino, both of whom recently announced that they were done playing. Utley's announcement comes 10 days before the Dodgers will make their only appearance in Philadelphia this season. The teams will play a three-game series at Citizens Bank Park from July 23-25.
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i'd watch much more baseball on tv if there were 10 homers every game.
Quote from: phattymatty on July 17, 2018, 11:55:05 PM
there almost are....this year will obliterate the all time home runs per game record
We're going to 10 homers a game out of 12 total hits.
josh hader was MAGAing before it was cool
Apparently the Braves announcers didn't like Chase Utley's batting practice attire.
The Mets asked Matt Harvey (returning to NY for first time with Reds) to make his press conference at 3:45 or 4:15 to avoid Mets manager Mickey Callaway's PR at 4.
He made it at 4.
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"SWING AND A MISS. STRUCK HIM OUT!"
Watching Dodgers/A's tonight. Nice to see Oakland Colosseum packed as there are usually more tarps than fans. Ton of Dodgers fans in the house. Started a "Let's Go Lakers" chant and the Oakland crowd quickly shut them down.
"Well where does Jack Lord live, or Don Ho? That's got to be a nice neighborhood" Jack Singer(Nicholas Cage) in Honeymoon in Vegas.
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Anzati
The Anzati are a race of humanoids which closely resemble mainline human stock, at least externally. To many beings in the galaxy, the Anzati are more myth than reality. Although outwardly similar to humans, internally their composition differs greatly from that of pure human stock. Many would claim that the primary difference is that the Anzati have no pulse to speak of, while others would point to the fact that the Anzati have proboscii hidden inside their cheeks that can be extended out from their nostrils. These proboscii are used to consume the brain of the Anzati's victim. The Anzati place their face nose-to-nose with its victim, and the proboscii are then extended into the victim's nostrils and then into the brain, where they consume the brain and all its life energies. The Anzati refer to the brain and its energies as "soup", a reference to the Sea of Memory that is believed to surround the planet Anzat.
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Focus Magazine
A Baylor University Student Publication
Double Shift
Keeping Baylor clean and safe
Story and Photos by Megan Rule
The sun rises slowly, filling the Texas sky with gorgeous shades of pink, blue and orange. The dew begins to melt off the grass as the warmth of the morning kisses the cold night air goodbye. Building doors are unlocked as the parking garages begin filling up. Hallways are filled with the aroma of coffee beans brewing as students slowly but surely fill the Baylor Bubble. Residents and visitors alike admire how beautiful the Baylor campus is, all thanks to the work done throughout the previous day and night by people like Maria Picazo and Leticia Garcia, members of the custodial team at Baylor.
"I don't think everybody realizes how much we do in our department," Rose Provost, custodial director for Aramark at Baylor University, said. "It's so much more than what people think. It was interesting, we had a manager that transferred over to us and they were like, 'We had no idea all that you guys do.' They had not a clue."
Maria Picazo, Leticia Garcia and Rose Provost put up a "Closed for Cleaning" sign outside a bathroom and discuss a plan for cleaning and sanitizing it.
Picazo works as a day shift supervisor and has been in this position for the past eight years, while Garcia oversees the custodial department at the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) and has worked here for seven years. Provost was able to speak very highly of the work done by both women, emphasizing that both stand out among the overall 170 employees. Provost also said these two women were nominated for the Ring of Stars, an employee award program with Aramark, a company that provides food service, facilities and uniform services for clients, that highlights stand-out employees and sends them on a paid week vacation. Unfortunately neither Picazo nor Garcia were selected, but there are always more years, Provost said.
"I nominated both of them last year and they didn't win, but we're going to nominate them again next year," Provost said. "What our company does is a paid week's vacation and they fly them out – last year it was Florida – and it's a whole week long. They get to pick events – snorkeling and cruises – and then of course we have our motivational events and dinners. Both of these ladies were elected for that."
Garcia started her time at Baylor working the night shift before moving to her current position overseeing the BRIC. Garcia's favorite part of working is the collaborative teamwork that all employees place an emphasis on. She enjoys working in a position with a company that dedicates time to sprucing up people's lives. Garcia recalled one year when Baylor custodial staff volunteered to fix up the baseball stadium that her son plays at. They updated the lights, fixed the paint and even gave the stadium new restrooms, which really excited the kids. Every year the staff picks a place and a day to volunteer and fix up, adding to the teamwork and familial mentality.
Garcia drives a buffer, a machine used to maintain and polish non-carpeted floors, in the BRIC. This is a machine she often uses to keep floors clean and shiny and maintain the sharp appearance of the BRIC.
"It looked very pretty, all the kids were very excited saying, 'Hey, look. It all looks new,'" Garcia said. "It was a very happy moment. Everything looked better."
Provost said the staff focuses on promoting themselves within and encouraging employees to grow. She said it's exciting to see people who want to grow and move up in the ranks. Picazo and Garcia nodded, in agreement. They spoke about how they try to keep their groups and staff engaged and make things fun on a daily basis, with games and competitions. They all hold the same values of teamwork and keeping everyone safe, and they communicate these ideas to their teams to show how important this job really is.
"I like this company because everybody tries to focus on teamwork and the employees all want to make the customer happy," Garcia said. "That's why I like it. Everyone has the same idea: keep it clean, keep it safe."
The work done by the custodial staff helps keep Baylor clean and safe, killing germs and ensuring campus is always sanitary.
Picazo and Garcia both have families of their own that they take care of when they get home, so the work isn't over the moment they pull out of the Baylor campus. Picazo has two kids, a 12-year-old and a 9-year-old. Garcia has four kids, a 17-year-old, a 15-year-old, an 11-year-old and a 7-year-old.
"I see all of our employees enjoy what they're doing because it is a tough job, and they're here more than they are at home," Provost said. "We try each and every day to make things as fun as possible. Obviously we have to do our job."
Picazo leaves work at 3:30 p.m. and goes straight to pick up her kids and bring them to their grandmother's house for an afternoon snack. After everyone eats, Picazo drives from soccer practice to piano practice and back. Once everyone is finished with after-school activities and finally home around 8 p.m., they eat dinner. Wednesdays the family attends religious education classes at the church, says rosaries and goes to Mass at 7 p.m. before going home for dinner. The kids love hearing stories from her childhood back in Mexico, she said.
"Every time that I come to work, I think of my family because they are the ones I want to work for," Picazo said. "Every day they see that we can do it. I want to be an example for my children and for my family in Mexico."
Garcia also leaves around the same time to pick her kids up and drive them to tennis practice before going home to cook dinner and do homework with them. She said she tries to have them in bed by 8:30 or 9 p.m., but the popular video game Fortnite serves as an enemy.
Garcia mops in the lounge area before people arrive for work. Mopping regularly helps maintain the sanitation and cleanliness of the BRIC, keeping them scratch free and killing germs from the bottoms of people's shoes..
Between busy schedules, managing groups of staffs, raising families and just dealing with the ins and outs of life, Picazo and Garcia adopt an incredible philosophy of positivity. Garcia said she believes that every day, as long as you're happy, the little problems in life don't show. Picazo emphasized this, saying that everything has a way of getting done, whether it's bills or taxes or the family. In spite of the hectic, busy, stressful lives they lead working so hard with the custodial team, these two women have an admirable outlook on life.
"You may have a lot of problems that you're thinking about, but like Leti said, once you come to work you need to put your eyes on the task that you're doing every day and leave the problems for your own time," Picazo said.
The Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative, off Research Parkway, fosters interdisciplinary research and is the home of Leticia Garcia's team.
All in all, both women continuously expressed how proud they are to be part of a team at Baylor, and expressed gratitude for how welcoming the staff was when they respectively joined years ago. Provost smiled and said she wished she could clone these two women because they're both such valuable assets to the team and take their work so seriously.
"It's a really important job," Picazo said with a tear in her eye. "So many people don't think it is that important, but it is. That's what I tell my team, this is something really important. Sometimes they feel like, 'Oh, it's just cleaning.' I tell them no, please, it is really important what we are doing no matter if anyone tells you something different."
Provost said these women are at work more than they are at home, and loves celebrating employees like Picazo and Garcia that serve as front line staff who excel in what they do. They influence their teams well and encourage everyone to work hard and take their work seriously.
Outdoor view of BRIC building, facing Research Parkway. The building was first built in 1944 with a General Tire Wartime Plant. The building was acquired in 1995 and in 2013 the modern glass building opened.
Everybody has problems, Garcia said, but it's just a part of life. When you put a smile on your face, though, it changes the emotions of those around you, Garcia said.
Spreading positivity to the team and the Baylor family that walks by every day is just one way Picazo and Garcia make the jobs fun for their team. They emphasize the importance of the work done by the custodial staff, telling their team that cleaning thoroughly brings safety to everyone by protecting Baylor's health. If no one cleaned, germs would be everywhere, infecting the campus. This is why, Picazo and Garcia said, working as a team with a common mindset is so important, and their favorite part of the job. The teamwork of the custodial staff is what keeps the rest of the Baylor family healthy and safe.
"We're like a cake," Picazo said. "You can't just have milk; there's more ingredients. I can't be flour and the whole cake. We need teamwork to make a good cake with eggs and milk too."
A Day in the Life of Maria Picazzo and Leticia Garcia
Maria Picazo
Morning Arrives at work for the day shift
3:30 p.m. Leaves work to pick up kids and bring them to their grandmother's house for a snack
5:00 p.m. Drives kids to soccer and piano practices
7:00 p.m. Attends religious education classes and Mass on Wednesdays
8:00 p.m. Arrives home after a long afternoon of activities and gathers family for dinner
Leticia Garcia
3:30 p.m. Leaves work to pick up kids
4:00 p.m. Drives kids to tennis practice
Evening Cooks dinner for family and helps kids with homework
8:30 p.m. Begins putting kids to bed
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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings Partner J. S. Christie, Jr. Selected as Fellow of American College of Employee Benefits Counsel
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that Birmingham partner J. S. "Chris" Christie, Jr., who chairs the firm's Insurance Practice Group, has been selected as a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (ACEBC). Mr. Christie will be inducted during the group's annual meeting in September.
The ACEBC selects employee benefits attorneys as Fellows based on their significant contributions to the advancement of the employee benefits field. Fellows have a minimum of 20 years of experience in the practice area. Dedicated to elevating the standards and advancing the public's understanding of the practice of employee benefits law, the ACEBC states that Mr. Christie's "record of notable achievement and dedication reflects the type of activities that the College was created to honor."
"We congratulate Chris on this well- deserved honor and recognition," said firm Chairman Beau Grenier. "Chris is highly regarded in the area of employee benefits law. His many contributions help our clients navigate the increasingly complex issues that impact today's employers."
Mr. Christie is a member of the firm's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Litigation, Labor & Employment, and Health Care practice groups, and serves as Co-Chair of the firm's Pro Bono Committee. He represents employers, plans, HMOs and insurers in ERISA matters and other employee benefits litigation. Mr. Christie also represents hospitals, physicians and managed care organizations in healthcare matters. He has handled numerous class actions, multi-district litigation cases and other complex litigation.
Mr. Christie earned his J.D. from Duke University School of Law. He also has an M.A. from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and a B.A., with honors, from Rhodes College.
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Q: Select TTL for an element in a map in Cassandra Is there any way to select TTL value for an element in a map in Cassandra with CQL3?
I've tried this, but it doesn't work:
SELECT TTL (mapname['element']) FROM columnfamily

A: Sadly, I'm pretty sure the answer is that it is not possible as of Cassandra 1.2 and CQL3. You can't query individual elements of a collection. As this blog entry says, "You can only retrieve a collection in its entirety". I'd really love to have the capability to query for collection elements, too, though.
You can still set the TTL for individual elements in a collection. I suppose if you wanted to be assured that a TTL is some value for your collection elements, you could read the entire collection and then update the collection (the entire thing or just a chosen few elements) with your desired TTL. Or, if you absolutely needed to know the TTL for individual data, you might just need to change your schema from collections back to good old dynamic columns, for which the TTL query definitely works.
Or, a third possibility could be that you add another column to your schema that holds the TTL of your collection. For example:
CREATE TABLE test (
  key text PRIMARY KEY,
  data map<text, text>,
  data_ttl text
) WITH ...

You could then keep track of the TTL of the entire map column 'data' by always updating column 'data_ttl' whenever you update 'data'. Then, you can query 'data_ttl' just like any other column:
SELECT ttl(data_ttl) FROM test;

I realize none of these solutions are perfect... I'm still trying to figure out what will work best for me, too.

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Group effort to get Oregon fir tree to West Lawn of U.S. Capitol deserves thanks
Many helped Oregon gift a noble fir tree to decorate the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol during the holidays.
Group effort to get Oregon fir tree to West Lawn of U.S. Capitol deserves thanks Many helped Oregon gift a noble fir tree to decorate the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol during the holidays. Check out this story on statesmanjournal.com: https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/editorials/2018/11/13/group-effort-get-oregon-fir-tree-us-capitol-deserves-thanks/1988919002/
Salem Statesman Journal Published 3:08 p.m. PT Nov. 13, 2018 | Updated 3:37 p.m. PT Nov. 13, 2018
Clear plastic panels will allow spectators on the route to see the top 24 feet of the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree. An additional 8 feet was added this year to expand the view.(Photo: CAPI LYNN / Statesman Journal)Buy Photo
This week, Duck and Beaver fans, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, boomers and millennials, and new and longtime Oregon residents alike united downtown to cheer for a silvery noble fir tree.
The now-72-foot long tree, which weighs more than seven tons, made a whistle stop in front of Oregon's Capitol before it begins a 3,000-mile trailer ride to the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., where it will be lighted for the holidays.
It's not often a crowd on the steps of Oregon's Capitol agree on anything. But during this inordinately chilly moment in time, Oregonians stood together and celebrated the mammoth fir tree cut from the Willamette National Forest.
The gift from Oregon to our nation appears ready for the trek. Plastic panels allow spectators along the way to view the top 24-feet of the tree adorned with ornaments handmade by Oregonians and other gifts from the Beaver State, including a bag of hazelnuts. The tree is cradled to prevent it from slipping and sliding during the journey.
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It has been wrapped with a 250-gallon vinyl bladder (bag) and sealed with a wax ring to keep it watered during the 17-day trip. Soaker hoses placed over the tree are designed to prevent branches from drying out during the trek.
The noble officially started at 82-feet in height, but its trunk has been cut to accommodate the trip in the trailer.
It is only the second time Oregon has been invited in the 47-year history of the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree program, and there are many who deserve thanks.
Willamette National Forest is sending a crew to escort the truck and trailer and has done a yeoman's job of getting the tree ready. Federal law enforcement personnel will provide 24-hour security. Community firefighters along the route will refill the bladder bag to keep the tree from becoming brittle.
The tree has been feted with a parade in Sweet Home, and the ranger district there needs to be acknowledged for its work in supplying the tree. Sweet Home residents got the ball rolling by first signing the two 50-foot banners on each side of the trailer.
There is a team from Montana, who helped prepare Oregon's fir for transport, that performed the same job last year for a Montana-born tree. Architect of the Capitol in D.C. also sent along an arborist supervisor to monitor the work.
There are too many sponsors to name, but they, too, deserve recognition for appreciating Oregon's opportunity to pay tribute to our nation's capital and making the trip possible.
The drivers, fuel, and trailer, have all been donated, too, to ensure that the trip from the Oregon Trail to the Joint Base Andrews in Maryland goes off without a hitch. Oregon's job is done then as the tree will be prepped and decorated by locals before the Dec. 5 lighting ceremony.
Oregon has much to be proud of. This tree represents the stalwart spirit of our state. We acknowledge all of whom have made this donation possible, and thank them for their unassailable support to promote Oregon.
Follow the tree: U.S. Capitol Christmas tree nestled in trailer for 3,000-mile journey from Oregon
Carol McAlice Currie is the opinions editor for the Statesman Journal. Reach her at ccurrie@statesmanjournal.com or 503-399-6746.
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Liebherr's HS 8300 HD, the world's largest duty cycle crawler crane, recently had its premiere on a jobsite in Bavaria. It is the first Liebherr crane for the construction machinery market to be equipped with the innovative hybrid drive Pactronic®.
The HS 8300 HD combines the traditional robust design of Liebherr's range of heavy duty cycle crawler cranes with state-of-the-art-technologies. Thus, the efficiency of the machine is significantly improved during practical application. For a further increase in performance the crane is fitted with hydraulic free-fall winches offering approximately 50 tonnes of line pull.
Since the end of 2014 the company Wanner & Märker has been using the new duty cycle crawler crane for gravel excavation in one of their three quarries. The jobsite is located in the South of Germany, close to the city of Ingolstadt.
The proportions are remarkable. The machine, with an entire weight of more than 350 tonnes, operates on the site with a 44 m long main boom and a dragline bucket made by Rädlinger. The digging depth is approximately 26 m, the unloading height about 15 m. Apart from the dimensions of the HS 8300 HD, which dwarf other duty cycle crawler cranes in comparison, the machine impresses with its innovative hybrid drive allowing an increase in turnover at the jobsite by up to 25%.
The HS 8300 HD is the first construction machine on the market to be equipped with the Pactronic® system developed by Liebherr. This innovative hybrid drive based on hydraulics offers both economic and ecological advantages. Surplus energy is stored and subsequently regenerated so increasing the material handling capacity while at the same time significantly reducing fuel consumption.
The hybrid drive is already a proven technology. It has been used in Liebherr's mobile harbour cranes since 2010 and has contributed to the consolidation of the world market leader position of this product line. The proven technology of the hydraulic accumulator ensures low maintenance requirements and maximum reliability. The reduced energy consumption considerably reduces emissions therefore causing much less environmental pollution.
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The Senate last week did something it hasn't done in a while: pass a funding bill for education and job training programs before the new fiscal year started. Time will tell whether the bill will go to the president's desk before the start of fiscal year (FY) 2019 on October 1.
On August 23, the U.S. Senate passed the FY 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill, which funds many community college priority programs. The bill was combined with the Department of Defense appropriations legislation into a massive, $857 billion "minibus" appropriations bill (H.R. 6157). The bill must now be reconciled with its House counterpart, which should be considered on the floor sometime after Labor Day.
While several minor changes were made to the Senate bill during floor consideration, none directly impacted programs most important to community colleges. The most notable challenge came in the form of a budget point of order raised by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming), chair of the Senate Budget Committee, that, if successful, would have stripped a $100 increase to the Pell Grant maximum from the legislation. The point of order was based on the fact that the Pell boost would raise mandatory spending in future years without offsetting the cost. (Pell Grants are funded by a mix of "discretionary," i.e., appropriated, funds, and mandatory funds that are provided automatically.) Sixty-eight senators voted to waive the Enzi point of order — eight more than the required 60 votes — so the Pell Grant increase remained in the final bill.
It will not be surprising, however, to see future Pell Grant increases met with similar points of order in coming years.
The LHHS/Defense minibus (a bit of an oxymoron given the overall size of the two spending bills) passed the Senate by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 85-7, making it the latest exemplar of one of the smoothest appropriations processes in recent memory. In a press release accompanying the bill's passage, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), the appropriations committee chair, noted that the full Senate has not passed 9 of the 12 regular appropriations bills by the end of August since 1999. Furthermore, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed all 12 of the FY 2019 funding bills by a combined vote of 363-9.
This is largely a result of the significant increases to overall defense and non-defense spending for FY18 and FY19 that Congress passed last year, which eases partisan tensions. There is a corresponding desire by congressional appropriators to come as close to possible to passing all of the appropriations bills by the start of the fiscal year on October 1, particularly with the November elections looming. It will be difficult but not impossible for Congress to meet the October 1 deadline.
AACC's advocacy will focus in the coming weeks on achieving a final LHHS bill that combines the best aspects of the House and Senate versions. Community college leaders are urged to make their voices heard to help achieve that goal.
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Nakhon Si Thammarat is een Thaise provincie in het zuiden van Thailand. In december 2002 had de provincie 1.533.894 inwoners, waarmee het de 8e provincie qua bevolking in Thailand is. Met een oppervlakte van 9942,5 km² is het de 18e provincie qua omvang in Thailand. De provincie ligt op ongeveer 780 kilometer van Bangkok. Nakhon Si Thammarat grenst aan de provincies/landen: Songkhla, Phattalung, Trang, Krabi en Surat Thani. Nakhon Si Thammarat heeft een kustlijn van ongeveer 225km.

Provinciale symbolen

Klimaat
De gemiddelde jaartemperatuur is 29 graden. De temperatuur varieert van 20 graden tot 37 graden. Gemiddeld valt er 2533 mm regen per jaar.

Religie
De belangrijkste religie in Nakhon Si Thammarat is het theravadaboeddhisme (93,1 procent). De moslims vormen de grootste minderheid (6,2 procent).

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Bestuurlijke indeling
De provincie is onderverdeeld in 21 districten (Amphoe) namelijk:

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 Thailand in figures 2003 - Alpha research co.ltd. 2003
 Het National Statistical Office

Zie ook
 Thailand van A tot Z

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Don Loffler: Holden Historian
By Michael Stahl, 19 Aug 2016 Features
Latin linguist's literary life lampooning Lion lore
Latin linguist's literary life lampooning Lion lore.
DON Loffler considers himself the "luckiest man alive". Now 76, he has retired from a distinguished career as a teacher of Latin and German at the prestigious St Peter's College in Adelaide and now writes books about historic Holdens.
Loffler's first book, She's a Beauty: The Story of the First Holdens, was published in 1998 as a comprehensive 246-page history of the 48-215 (aka 'FX') and FJ. Laden with facts, pics and tidbits, the green-covered tome was an admirable accomplishment.
"Put it in the bin," Loffler sighs. "I did my best with that book, with the information available at the time, but quite a bit of it proved to be inaccurate. I got lots of feedback – so many wonderful responses, and lots of extra photos – and in 2006 I republished a complete revamp of that book, the 'New Enlarged Edition'."
Loffler's investigations, especially in his (and Holden's) home town, led him to discover lots of popular misconceptions and inaccuracies about early Holden history.
"There's all sorts of fictions, like that [PM Ben] Chifley unveiled the first Holden off the line. Total rubbish. The first Holden came off the line on October 1, 1948, under huge secrecy in the factory. Chifley just unveiled a production Holden on November 29."
Loffler's obsession with Holden began, as usual, in childhood. "I was nine years old when the Holden came out in 1948. I have the most vivid memories of the drama of that car appearing. I had an instant love affair with the Holden. I was already interested in cars per se, but this affair never left me.
"It transformed motoring in Australia. People like my parents, who bought their 48-215 in 1953, for the first time we were liberated to travel interstate. We would never have done that in the 1928 Chev, which we traded in. And there were lots of families like the Lofflers."
Had he ever been disloyal and owned anything else? After a long pause, he says: "This is almost scandalous. I never owned one! Until 2007, when I bought a barn-find 1953 48-215. I drove that around for five years until I fell in love with an FJ Special. I have that and a Honda HRV.
"But I was totally disloyal. I was madly keen on VW Beetles. I owned five of them, one after the other, then I had a VW 1500 sedan, then a special-import 1500 S Variant twin-carb. But the flame for Holdens never died!"
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"pH" is chemical shorthand for "hydrogen ion concentration" .. Less than 7 is acidic and more that 7 is basic (alkaline). The most healthy ph is 7.0 or 7.2, which is neutral to slightly alkaline.
PH paper is available from many sources. It is readily available from health food stores for about $10 for a 15 foot long roll. Measurement is very easy. You simply tear a half inch strip from the roll, wet it on the tip of your tongue, and compare the color to the chart on the side of the box.
The most significant reading is taken in the morning upon arising and before anything is eaten or drunk. This will provide a daily reading of your healing process. If your body is acid, it is not healing well.
Our bodies are made acid by two primary causes, eating meat, and stress. In my case, if I deviate from a good raw food and juice diet, my ph becomes immediately acid. A day or two on a good diet, and I have a very healthy ph again. I know some people who do not get good readings in the morning. They find that their ph is much better in the afternoon when they haven't eaten or drunk anything for two hours.
PH measurement is such a good indicator of your progress in treating your cancer effectively that I recommend it to you heartily.


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import java.util.*;

/**
 * Example 130 - Printing a Concordance Using Iterables
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class ConcordanceUsingIterables {

    static SortedMap<String, SortedSet<Integer>> buildIndex(String filename) throws IOException {

        Reader r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
        StreamTokenizer stok = new StreamTokenizer(r);
        stok.quoteChar('"');
        stok.ordinaryChars('!', '/');
        stok.nextToken();

        SortedMap<String, SortedSet<Integer>> index = new TreeMap<String, SortedSet<Integer>>();

        while (stok.ttype != StreamTokenizer.TT_EOF) {
            if (stok.ttype == StreamTokenizer.TT_WORD) {
                SortedSet<Integer> ts;
                if (index.containsKey(stok.sval))
                    ts = index.get(stok.sval);
                else {
                    ts = new TreeSet<Integer>();
                    index.put(stok.sval, ts);
                }
                ts.add(stok.lineno());
            }
            stok.nextToken();
        }
        return index;
    }

    static void printIndex(SortedMap<String, SortedSet<Integer>> index) {
        for (Map.Entry<String, SortedSet<Integer>> entry: index.entrySet()) {
            System.out.print(entry.getKey() + ": ");
            SortedSet<Integer> lineNoSet = entry.getValue();
            for (int lineno: lineNoSet)
                System.out.print(lineno + " ");
            System.out.println();
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        SortedMap<String, SortedSet<Integer>> concord = buildIndex("WeekdayNametoNumberHashMap.java");
        printIndex(concord);
    }
}

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Vote Yes on Feb. 5 for the $6.5 million referendum!
The sport of wrestling has taught me many life lessons. Wrestling cultivates discipline, mental toughness, a competitive spirit and a drive to succeed. These qualities are forever instilled in me and have sharpened me in all areas of my personal and professional life.
With this new shift and the popularity of girls participating in the great sport of wrestling we must update our facilities. The current facility set up is not ideal for the coaches or athletes. There is no privacy among the coaches, boys and girls. There is only one set of bathrooms and showers within the locker room, which is not ideal for anyone involved.
The industrial technology department would greatly benefit from this project as well. If this project got funded, it would allow students to be excited about signing up for shop classes and joining afterschool clubs. Not only would these shop classes provide an excellent curriculum, but the students would learn skills that would help them in all areas of life.
One of my favorite quotes can be applied to this entire project: "Unless you continually work, evolve and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has," said Cael Sanderson, four-time undefeated national champion at Iowa State University and U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist.
Please vote Yes on Feb. 5 to positively change lives of our youth!


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Давид Копршива (; , Прага) — чешский гребец. Серебряный призёр Олимпийских игр 2004 года.

Карьера
В 2004 году в Афинах завоевал серебряную медаль в гребле в парной четверке, вместе с ним гребли Якуб Ганак, Томаш Карас и Давид Йирка.

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Серебряные призёры летних Олимпийских игр 2004 года


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Supporting the future of physical therapy
Anne and Rolf Kuhns
Over the summer, Rolf and Anne Kuhns made a major estate gift to the Department of Physical Therapy, expanding on the endowed chair and the scholarship fund they established in 2006.
"We recognized, both of us, that our experience at the University of Florida was a great gift," said Rolf, a 1972 graduate of the UF physical therapy program. "We're basically returning our wealth to the university, who gave it to us."
Rolf and Anne came from humble beginnings. The University of Florida was the only university they could afford, through the help of tuition scholarships and stipends. Fortunately, both were able to graduate debt-free.
When the Kuhns received their first request to give back to the university, they happily gave what they could comfortably afford — $5.
However, in the 40 years since their UF graduations, the Kuhns have steadily built up their wealth.
Anne graduated with a bachelor's degree in music education in 1969 and was the first UF student to graduate with a master's degree focused on computer science in education. When Anne joined the Walt Disney Company in 1976 as a programmer, she steadily excelled in a field dominated by men in an era where society had other expectations for women. She worked her way through the organization for 37 years and was eventually Vice-President, Chief Information Security Officer.
Anne and Rolf Kuhns in December 1975 when Anne graduated with her master's degree.
For someone who always wanted to work in a hospital setting while in school, upon graduation Rolf partnered with Peter Lord in Orlando and eventually became owner of the physical therapy private practice. Over the years, Rolf steadily owned and operated private practices in Orlando and went on to hold administrative positions for national rehabilitation companies.
"We've always been savers," Rolf said. "As a result, as we built our wealth, the ability to give back to the university increased, and we've gradually done that."
The Kuhns' recent estate gift will expand on the endowed chair, which was the first endowed chair in the College of Public Health and Health Professions.
"Their planned gift came during times of uncertainty," said Krista Vandenborne, PhD, PT, Chair of the UF Department of Physical Therapy and UF Distinguished Professor. "We are certain that this contribution will create tangible changes, help us continue to build the department's impact, and set the stage for the future of the physical therapy program."
Additionally, the Kuhns established the Rolf and Anne Kuhns Endowment for Physical Therapy fund back in 2006 and have been steadily supporting and promoting clinical excellence in UF DPT students ever since.
"We thought times are different and financial situations are different, but the thought is still the same — that somebody out there cares to help ensure that we're investing in our future," Anne said. "We want to recognize and reward good clinical and academic behavior, and at the same time let students know that somebody out there cares."
This year, Brittany Wienkers, UF DPT class of 2021, received the Rolf and Anne Kuhns Scholarship award. "I hope to someday give back to the University of Florida in the way the Kuhns are helping students like me," Wienkers said. "Having experienced the amazing impact this scholarship has had on my own education and being recognized for my hard work, I hope to someday give back to the Department, similarly to how the Kuhns have supported me."
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Basic Uses of GIS
GIS Contributor | July 18, 2013 August 6, 2012 | Spatial Analysis
Guest GIS Contributor Justine Nofal writes about some of the basic types of spatial analysis using GIS.
A GIS (geographic or geospatial information system) allows you to record a base map with a geospatial referencing system such as longitude or latitude and then to add additional layers of other information. Importantly that information is identified using the same geospatial referencing.
The GIS then allows the individual layers, or themes as they are called to be linked. Analysis of the information can then be undertaken using the statistical and analytical tools that are provided as part of the GIS. By providing spatial analysis of suitably coded data it is possible to provide striking, visual representations of data. These representations can often reveal patterns and trends that might otherwise have gone unnoticed without the use of GIS techniques.
• What is GIS?
• GIS Glossary
• Types of GIS Data
• Types of Error in GIS
• What is Metadata?
Visual representations of this type can also be extended further so that more considered and objective means of measurement are applied. Such approaches allow macro views to be taken in many fields. Epidemiologists are interested in the global spread of disease occurrence; criminologists are interested in local, national and international patters of criminal activity whilst geologists are interested in physical formations to predict earthquake activity and the availability of resources such as oil and gas. None of these disciplines would be able to work as they currently do without the ability to apply analytical tools to otherwise disparate sets of data in the way a Geographical Information System permits.
The Uses of GIS
Summarized below are some of the more common and basic uses of GIS.
The central function of a geographic information system is to provide a visual representation of data. It is estimated that 80% of the data we consider has a geospatial element of some form. GIS provides a means for that data to be stored in a database and then represented visually in a mapped format. Simply understanding where things are is a first step in understanding spatial patterns and relationships.
In the example below, simply mapping out the geographic features helps the viewer to understand where the wells are around a lake.
Simple Map.
Proximity Analysis
A proximity analysis is an analytical technique that is used to define the relationship between a specific location and other locations or points that are linked in some way. It is used by many commercial organisations to identify sites suitable for business outlets. The technique will consider different factors such as social and economic demographics and the presence of competitor outlets. For an accurate proximity analysis the various themes to be used must all use the same referencing system otherwise accuracy may suffer.
Proximity analysis can be used to answer several types of questions that include:
How far is it between point a and point b? The simplest type of proximity analysis calculates distances between two vector points.
On average how far is one point from a set of other points or conditions?
What is the closest point in terms of time or cost taken to reach that point?
What is the straight line distance between a single point and other selected points in that layer?
How far are the points or edges of the nearest polygon?
Buffering
A technique called buffering is commonly used with proximity analysis to indicate the sphere of influence of a given point. Buffering involves creating a zone around a given point, line, or polygon (area) of a specified distance. Buffering is useful for creating a zone around a given geographic feature for further analysis using the overlay method. For example, a 1000′ buffer could be generated around a school to then use overlay analysis to find out how many libraries are within 1000′ of that school.
Buffer examples in GIS.
Find Clusters
Using multiple algorithms it is possible to select a group of unrelated points on a theme that match a set of criteria. A cluster could include members where distance between them is less than a specific amount or areas where there is density of points greater than a specific level. Typically a GIS will require multiple levels of iteration before the correct algorithms are identified.
Typical clustering models include:
Connectivity models – the simplest that depend upon simple distance based relationships
Centroid models – where inclusion in a cluster is determined by identifying the mean value of the cluster that is most appropriate to the point being considered
Distribution models – where inclusion is determined by the application of a statistical distribution theory such as the normal probability
Density models – using techniques specially identified for GIS work that link areas with specific densities of an event or population such as racial profiles in a given area
Subspace models – this technique allows the element to be included into a cluster by considering specific attributes of that element
Group models – those models where an algorithm cannot be established to demonstrate a shared link where they are in effect linked manually
Find Nearest
A technique that can be used to measure the distances between a point and the edge of a specific element that has been defined as a polygon using vector points. Nearest neighbour algorithms have been the subject of intense research since the 1980s and new approaches were defined by academics such as Benezecri and Juan in 1982. The algorithm defined focuses on identifying points that are either maximal, minimal or median members of the data set.
What's in an Area?
A basic analysis that allows a given area from one later to be overlaid onto data from other themes. A good example would be – what type of soil do we find in the school grounds or what type of industrial uses has this area been put to in the past 50 years.
There are two methods of performing this type of analysis:
Feature overlay – a simple technique to drop single or multiple points into an area
Raster overlay – best used when characteristics of multiple themes are required to be examined because each area is referenced and combined on a grid basis
The technique best used to identify a location for a new retail outlet. The technique has been developed from theoretical methods used to explain observed conditions to an algorithm for identifying optimal locations. The algorithms used tend to focus on either maximal, minimal or median members of a given dataset.
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These children grow far too quickly. One minute you are urging them to smile by pulling ridiculous faces and making silly noises playing peekaboo behind a blanket and the next they are playing on their own. Riley is more than happy to sit and play with his toys without much encouragement.
Last week didn't present me with many opportunities to take photos. A busy week with work and a weekend of cleaning meant a weekend spent pretty much indoors, apart from a brief interlude to get the boys hair cut. Riley spent most of the time undoing all of my cleaning and taking the toys out that I had only just tidied away. Children are so frustrating!
In amongst his destruction of my clean drawers and shelves he found the box of fuzzy felt which we got for him when we went on holiday in January last year and had never shown an interest in before. He was very keen this time to get stuck right into it. He spent almost a whole hour making different types of dinosaurs with different colours, different heads, feet, and bodies.
It does remind me that sometimes spending time at home is just as good as spending time outside. Not going out every week and exploring or doing different things isn't the end of the world, its the quality time you spend with your children that makes memories.
What a glorious weekend we have just had. The sun has been shining and it even hit 17 degrees.This is almost unheard of in Dundee in March! With beautiful blue skies we had to make the most of it.
We now have a new favourite park – Monikie Park, we went there last weekend and Riley asked to go back again this weekend. I decided to take a picnic with us this time. Riley, as always refused to eat the sensible food and tried to plead his way to a packet of crisps. We compromised and eventually he ate half of the roll.
The sun had brought lots of people out and the park was much busier than it was the previous week, but even still Riley had lots of fun running free.
Last week we didn't make it much further than seeing the ducks and the adventure playpark so this time we took a walk down to the reservoir. We took a walk up one half of the reservoir and had to head back. It was lovely, but the nice weather had brought out the midgees, at points it was almost unbearable to walk through, although Riley didn't seem bothered. I am still a bit itchy from the bites, they do like to feast on my blood!