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What lies beneath: Detecting sub-canopy changes in savanna woodlands using a three-dimensional classification method
Jolene T. Fisher, Ed T.F. Witkowski, Barend F.N. Erasmus, Penelope J. Mograbi, Gregory P. Asner, Jan A.N. van Aardt, Konrad J. Wessels, Renaud Mathieu
Question: Increasing population pressure, socio-economic development and associated natural resource use in savannas are resulting in large-scale land cover changes, which can be mapped using remote sensing. Is a three-dimensional (3D) woody vegetation structural classification applied to LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data better than a 2D analysis to investigate change in fine-scale woody vegetation structure over 2 yrs in a protected area (PA) and a communal rangeland (CR)? Location: Bushbuckridge Municipality and Sabi Sand Wildtuin, NE South Africa. Methods: Airborne LiDAR data were collected over 3 300 ha in April 2008 and 2010. Individual tree canopies were identified using object-based image analysis and classified into four height classes: 1-3, 3-6, 6-10 and >10 m. Four structural metrics were calculated for 0.25-ha grid cells: canopy cover, number of canopy layers present, cohesion and number of height classes present. The relationship between top-of-canopy cover and sub-canopy cover was investigated using regression. Gains, losses and persistence (GLP) of cover at each height class and the four structural metrics were calculated. GLP of clusters of each structural metric (calculated using LISA - Local Indicators of Spatial Association - statistics) were used to assess the changes in clusters of each metric over time. Results: Top-of-canopy cover was not a good predictor of sub-canopy cover. The number of canopy layers present and cohesion showed gains and losses with persistence in canopy cover over time, necessitating the use of a 3D classification to detect fine-scale changes, especially in structurally heterogeneous savannas. Trees >3 m in height showed recruitment and gains up to 2.2 times higher in the CR where they are likely to be protected for cultural reasons, but losses of up to 3.2-fold more in the PA, possibly due to treefall caused by elephant and/or fire. Conclusion: Land use has affected sub-canopy structure in the adjacent sites, with the low intensity use CR showing higher structural diversity. A 3D classification approach was successful in detecting fine-scale, short-term changes between land uses, and can thus be used as a monitoring tool for savanna woody vegetation structure. Using airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), we show a low intensity use communal rangeland has a great woody vegetation structural diversity than a neighbouring private protected area. A 3D woody vegetation structural classification was necessary to detect fine-scale, and particularly sub-canopy, change in these semi-arid savannas and should be used in preference of a 2D vegetation classification for monitoring.
Applied Vegetation Science
https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12160
vegetation structure
treefall
vegetation classification
population pressure
Local indicators of spatial association
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Fisher, J. T., Witkowski, E. T. F., Erasmus, B. F. N., Mograbi, P. J., Asner, G. P., van Aardt, J. A. N., ... Mathieu, R. (2015). What lies beneath: Detecting sub-canopy changes in savanna woodlands using a three-dimensional classification method. Applied Vegetation Science, 18(3), 528-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12160
What lies beneath : Detecting sub-canopy changes in savanna woodlands using a three-dimensional classification method. / Fisher, Jolene T.; Witkowski, Ed T.F.; Erasmus, Barend F.N.; Mograbi, Penelope J.; Asner, Gregory P.; van Aardt, Jan A.N.; Wessels, Konrad J.; Mathieu, Renaud.
In: Applied Vegetation Science, Vol. 18, No. 3, 01.07.2015, p. 528-540.
Fisher, JT, Witkowski, ETF, Erasmus, BFN, Mograbi, PJ, Asner, GP, van Aardt, JAN, Wessels, KJ & Mathieu, R 2015, 'What lies beneath: Detecting sub-canopy changes in savanna woodlands using a three-dimensional classification method', Applied Vegetation Science, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 528-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12160
Fisher JT, Witkowski ETF, Erasmus BFN, Mograbi PJ, Asner GP, van Aardt JAN et al. What lies beneath: Detecting sub-canopy changes in savanna woodlands using a three-dimensional classification method. Applied Vegetation Science. 2015 Jul 1;18(3):528-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12160
Fisher, Jolene T. ; Witkowski, Ed T.F. ; Erasmus, Barend F.N. ; Mograbi, Penelope J. ; Asner, Gregory P. ; van Aardt, Jan A.N. ; Wessels, Konrad J. ; Mathieu, Renaud. / What lies beneath : Detecting sub-canopy changes in savanna woodlands using a three-dimensional classification method. In: Applied Vegetation Science. 2015 ; Vol. 18, No. 3. pp. 528-540.
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UCF Professor's Research Part of First Mission to Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids
University of Central Florida Physics Professor Dan Britt will help explore some of the oldest asteroids in the solar system thanks to a new NASA mission.
NASA, this month selected the Lucy mission, which will explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids for the first-time. The robotic spacecraft will also explore a larger asteroid within the asteroid belt. Scientists said they believe the Trojan belt is home to some of the oldest remnants of the solar system.
Information gleaned from this mission is expected to help mankind understand the formation of planets and the solar system. That's why the team named its project Lucy – after the female skeleton fossil discovered in 1974, which changed the understanding of human origins on Earth.
The Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., will lead the mission, and Britt is serving on its science team and leading one of its Science Working Groups. Britt, director of the Center for Lunar & Asteroid Surface Science at UCF (https://sciences.ucf.edu/class/), will provide his expertise in physical properties of asteroids and their geology.
"It should be a lot of fun," Britt said. "This mission has six flybys of the asteroids because of its trajectory and it has relatively low risks. Given the information we will be able to collect, it is quite an attractive mission."
Several of the Lucy members are veterans from the New Horizons mission that helped shed new light on Pluto. Lucy is expected to launch from Kennedy Space Center in 2021.
"Because the Trojans are remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets, they hold vital clues to deciphering the history of the solar system," said principal investigator Harold Levison. "Lucy, like the human fossil for which it is named, will revolutionize the understanding of our origins."
Lucy is part of NASA's Discovery Program. The Discovery Program was created in 1992 to sponsor frequent, cost-capped solar system exploration missions ($450 million) with highly focused scientific goals. Past missions include MESSENGER, Dawn, Stardust, Deep Impact, Genesis and GRAIL.
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We can only speculate as to the look on Michael Kay's face as he sat down to his customary breakfast of a chicken parm smoothie and a hot, percolating pot of Postum and received the news that Alex Rodriguez had another hip injury and would miss a chunk of the 2013 season. It would be understandable if Kay spat out his Postum and chicken parm in one gloppy, colorful, repulsive mess when reading that A-Rod had again torn the same hip that was surgically repaired in 2009. This exercise in professional reporting and journalistic excellence was exemplified by Joel Sherman as he said the following on Twitter:
Hear exclusively Alex Rodriguez was playing with re-tear in surgically repaired hip Likely going for another surgery #Yankees
Rodriguez was dealing with hip re-tear during playoffs, tried to play thru. Explains why really couldn't use lower half in swing #Yankees
"Exclusively." Exclusively wrong maybe.
Then the re-tweets began by the reporters who were jumping on a story clearly before it had been verified as Jon Heyman, Jack Curry, Ken Davidoff and the rest of the experts put forth the inaccurate report that A-Rod re-tore the same hip (his right). The stories haven't even been spiritually correct as you can see in this Yahoo posting as Ken Rosenthal is quoted as saying:
A-Rod's injury occurred during the postseason and that he was experiencing pain so severe that he spent a night in the emergency room following one of the ALDS games.
It's the left hip now and no one knew about it until last month when it was diagnosed. A-Rod did complain about a twinge in the surgically repaired right hip in the playoffs, went to the hospital and had an MRI which revealed nothing. The story is fluid which, to translate, means nobody knows anything. They're reporting information as it comes in and relying on sources that don't know what's going on either.
They could try to cover their own behinds by saying that when they said, "re-tear," they were referring to another tear and didn't mean that he'd torn the same hip, but of course that would be an outright lie. You can read the tweets and re-tweets of Sherman here. It's a who's who of ineptitude and crying wolf.
I have no idea who Sherman was quoting and whether he misheard and misunderstood what they said; if they told him the wrong thing and he ran with it. What I'd like to know is when this is going to end with those who are supposed to be dispensing the news rushing to be the first to deliver the story and getting it completely wrong!!! Then their reporting brethren report the same wrong story!!!!
Clearly Sherman, the leader of the hack brigade, learned nothing from his news that the Yankees had acquired Cliff Lee in July of 2010 when they had not acquired Cliff Lee.
Getting the truth is meaningless today and that's not being a reporter, it's being a pop-up ad and/or spammer. Unfortunately there are never any consequences for these repeated, infrastructural gaffes.
As for the Yankees, they're a team that was already on shaky ground when it came to contending for their one and only objective every single year—a championship—and now they not only have to find a right fielder and a catcher, but they need to figure out what they're going to do about third base. I wrote about the host of Yankees issues earlier today and also explained why they're adhering so rigidly to the $189 million by 2014 mandate.
For the future, given the way the A-Rod contract has gone down the tubes, how does this affect the Yankees negotiations with Robinson Cano after the 2013 season? It's Yankees policy not to give a player a contract extension before it's absolutely necessary. This is a George Steinbrenner tactic that they never bothered to change no matter who the player is. It's going to cost them a great deal more money than if they copied the Rays' strategy and tried to sign their players to reasonable deals before it got to this point. But with A-Rod breaking down entirely at age 37, are the Yankees going to give Cano the $200+ million he and Scott Boras are sure to ask for? Could they dare to play chicken with Cano and let him get onto the market with the risk that another team—the Dodgers?—would give him more money than the Yankees?
It's reasonable to be hesitant with the contracts the type A-Rod signed and what Cano will ask for becoming a universally losing proposition, will the Yankees draw a line that they won't cross or will they repeat the risks of the past?
There's no solution out there given the payroll mandates, age, lack of prospects on the farm, and now the injuries. In short, it's a new disaster for the Yankees except, unlike the past, they don't have the capacity to toss money at it to cover it up.
December 3, 2012 Paul Lebowitz Tagged A-Rod, A-Rod hip, A-Rod hip surgery, A-Rod injuries, Alex Rodriguez, Cliff Lee, Dodgers, George Steinbrenner, Jack Curry, Joel Sherman, Joel Sherman twitter, Jon Heyman, Ken Davidoff, Ken Rosenthal, Los Angeles Dodgers, Michael Kay, Postum, Rays, Robinson Cano, Robinson Cano contract, Tampa Bay Rays, Twitter, Yahoo Sports, Yankees 2014	4 Comments
Denial Doesn't Solve The Yankees' Problems
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I'm no fan of Chris Russo as a broadcaster, sports analyst, or human being, but his absence as a partner and counterweight (figuratively—there's no way he could do it literally) to Mike Francesa is sorely missed during the Yankees September swoon. If you listen to Francesa and his guests, this run of poor play is little more than a blip with multitudes of excuses and Fight Club-style group therapy sessions to assuage the small warning light in the backs of their collective heads telling them, "Yes, the Yankees might actually blow this."
Is it a "blip"? The Yankees were 60-39 on July 27th; since then, they've gone 19-23. That's a quarter of the season. That's no small sample to be dismissed. Objectively, they've had one good month this whole season in June when they went 20-7; aside from that, it's been this. There's a disturbing amount of delusional denial within the media of what's happening with this team.
This from Ken Davidoff in the New York Post today:
You can't call this your classic collapse. The Yankees are winning too often, playing too well, to draw comparisons to any of the all-time tank jobs.
Really? Is that the barometer? Because they're not comparable to the 1964 Phillies; the 2007 Mets; the 2011 Red Sox and Braves, then it's not as bad as it seems? It's a ridiculous argument that isn't worth examining the current Yankees circumstances and peeling the layers of other collapses. They're playing too well? Where? Art Howe used to get roasted in the same pages in which Davidoff writes because he explained away the Mets losses with, "We battled." Are the Yankees battling? I suppose they are. But they're also losing those battles.
This overriding theme is the classic excuse of, "It's not their fault." But whose fault is it? The umpires? Other teams for not blindly accepting the Yankees' superiority and letting them win? You can't look down on other franchises and openly promote historic greatness and then complain when the formula doesn't hold true. It doesn't work this way with the Yankees. They don't want to hear excuses from other franchises as they look down smugly from their self-created perch, so they shouldn't be indulging in such weak excuses themselves. The Red Sox, Blue Jays, Twins or any of the other clubs on their supposed powderpuff schedule is going to have sympathy, want to hear about how the playoffs aren't the same without the Yankees or other similar bits of absurdity.
There appears to be a coping structure in place among those whose embarrassment will rival that of the Yankees organization if the team does somehow manage to stumble out of the playoffs; that they're more concerned with the ridicule they're going to have to endure rather than honestly analyze why this is happening. Much like the entire YES Network, the media contingent whose lifeblood hinges on the success of the Yankees, and the fanbase, there's a tacit decision to ignore this reality as if it's going to go away; as if the schedule will save them.
Every Francesa guest has been offering validation to his underlying pleas to tell him and the listeners/watchers that everything's going to be okay with little basis for the assertion other than the schedule. From Peter Gammons to Sweeny Murti to Mark Feinsand to anyone and everyone, they're clinging to what the Yankees were and thinking that it's still what they are. It's the furthest thing from the truth. He sounds like one of his callers. If he had Russo—or anyone willing to stand up to him—it wouldn't pass without protest.
The Yankees' margin of error that is usually in place in September has been wiped out since they blew that 10 game lead and there are not one, but two teams ahead of them in the American League standings. They're tied for first place in the division, and three teams are right on their heels. Mistakes or strategic missteps are magnified when the margin for error disappears. Manager Joe Girardi's strategic moves are under greater scrutiny because they matter. In July, when they were rolling toward the playoffs, one small bullpen call that didn't work wasn't an issue because it was a tiny pebble in the river of that lead. Now there's no river. It's a disappearing puddle. This is how you wind up with Girardi physically looking like Billy Martin after a 5-day bender and losing his composure at the provocation of the instigator Joel Sherman. Girardi has handled himself as well as can be expected and been a professional. That's not going to fly with the masses. They want someone or something to blame.
Francesa's new template is to desperately look at the upcoming schedule and, in an identically ignorant fashion to his annual picking of the Twins in the AL Central since "I awways pick da Twins," is picking and choosing wins and losses. This isn't football where there are factors such as quarterbacking, special teams, matchups, and home field advantages that will make a difference.
The Red Sox won last night because the Yankees didn't capitalize on Jon Lester's wildness. David Robertson's luck in getting himself into and out of trouble didn't work its magic. The idea that the Yankees were going to stroll into Boston and sweep the Red Sox—no matter how poorly the Red Sox were playing—is ignoring how much hatred the key performers in last night's game, Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury, have implanted in their psyches from battles between the franchises over the past decade. That permeates to the clubhouse. The players can feel the buzz in the ballpark and it's going to spur them to play harder. Manager Bobby Valentine, knowing his time as Red Sox manager is dwindling to these final three weeks, also despises the Yankees from his time as Mets' manager and would love to put an addendum on what is likely his final ballroom dance as a big league manager with "helped knock the Yankees from the playoffs" instead of having "Red Sox disaster" standing alone as his managerial epitaph.
Semantics and the cuddly positive reinforcement that the heroes from years gone by like Andy Pettitte will tear off his shirt and go into a Superman act to save the day aren't solutions. They're dreams. The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting it, but that's something no one invested in the Yankees is willing to do.
September 12, 2012 Paul Lebowitz Tagged Andy Pettitte, Art Howe, Billy Martin, Blue Jays, Bobby Valentine, Boston Red Sox, Chris Russo, David Robertson, Dustin Pedroia, Fight Club, Jacoby Ellsbury, Joe Girardi, Joel Sherman, Jon Lester, Ken Davidoff, Mark Feinsand, Mets, Mike Francesa, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, New York Post, New York Yankees, NY Post, Peter Gammons, Red Sox, Sweeny Murti, Toronto Blue Jays, Twins, WFAN, Will the Yankees make the playoffs?, Yankees collapse, YES Network	2 Comments
Jose Campos As The Invisible Key
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Oh, did you wind up here looking for a Jose Campos injury update?
I don't have one.
From what I can gather, no one else does either.
The elbow inflammation that shelved him and wasn't supposed to be serious or long-term has kept Campos from pitching for over two months and, at this point with the minor league season over on September 3rd, he's probably done for the year.
Of course that's only speculation on my part because that's all we have with the silence exhibited by the Yankees on the matter.
It's not just the Yankees that have been mute on Campos, but the YES Network never even acknowledged that he was hurt. You'll get nothing from their in-house blog River Avenue Blues and forget the NY Post's Joel Sherman, Ken Davidoff; WFAN's Sweeny Murti or anyone else who might as well have the interlocking NY tattooed on their forehead as a means of identification as to their true loyalties.
The transformation is amazing. First Campos was the lifeline—the key as it were—to defending a disastrous trade that sent their top hitting prospect Jesus Montero and a pitcher they developed Hector Noesi to the Mariners for Michael Pineda and Campos.
Pineda was meant to be the cost-controlled, high-end starting pitcher to fill out the Yankees' big league rotation and Campos was the young stud at age 19 who the scouts loved and would eventually develop into a top-tier starting pitcher for the club.
Pineda's out for the year. And Campos?
Um…oh….well….gee….ignore him and he'll go away until they can use him? Is that the strategy?
So quick to reference his abilities and that the trade wasn't about Pineda as a single entity, Campos was trotted out again and again to defend the shoddy record of GM Brian Cashman in judging pitchers.
It was Campos, Campos, Campos.
Then he got hurt adding to the embarrassment of the Pineda injury and that they gave away a bat that they were about to trade to get Cliff Lee two years ago and if they had him now could trade as part of a deal for any number of players who are or might be available from Cole Hamels to Justin Upton.
Now they have nothing.
Campos is persona non grata and they won't even acknowledge his existence as long as he's unable to pitch. The media hasn't updated nor have they apparently bothered asking what the story is with Campos; when he's going to return; what the doctor's recommendations were.
Not to worry. If and when he's healthy again, the Yankees will put him on their notably successful pitching program of innings limits, pitch counts and "protective services" that are more akin to extortion than implementations in the interests of the individual. He'll be on the same carefully crafted plan that led to the ruination of Joba Chamberlain as a starter; have stagnated the development of Phil Hughes; led to the horrific control problems and demotion from Triple A to Double A for Dellin Betances; and the injury to Manny Banuelos.
Ian Kennedy turned into a good pitcher…in Arizona.
Then again, why should they need the update on Campos? He was the key at their convenience and when he got hurt, he turned into the invisible man.
July 7, 2012 Paul Lebowitz Tagged Brian Cashman, Charleston RiverDogs, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels, Dellin Betances, Hector Noesi, Ian Kennedy, Jesu Montero, Joba Chamberlain, Joel Sherman, Jose Campos, Jose Campos elbow, Jose Campos injury, Jose Campos update, Justin Upton, Ken Davidoff, Manny Banuelos, Michael Pineda, MiLB, NY Post, Phil Hughes, River Avenue Blues, Sweeny Murti, WFAN, When will Jose Campos be back?, Yankees, Yankees minor leagues, YES Network	Leave a comment
The Santana No-Hitter From Soup To Nuts
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Let's go point-by-point on Johan Santana's no-hitter.
The call at third base.
Umpire Adrian Johnson called Cardinals' outfielder and former Met Carlos Beltran's would-be hit foul when it was fair. He blew the call, but it wasn't as blatant as it's being made out to be, nor was it the opposite of Jim Joyce's blown (and gutsy) call from two years ago on Armando Galarraga's imperfect/perfect game. Joyce called it as he saw it in spite of the situation and not all umpires would've done that. Umpires know the circumstances during a game, but their training is such that they're highly unlikely to openly let it influence a call. It might've been subconscious, but we'll never know one way or the other. Johnson himself probably doesn't know for sure.
It happens though. One of the best and most respected umpires in history, the late Harry Wendelstedt, preserved Don Drysdale's consecutive scoreless inning streak by ruling that Dick Dietz didn't try to get out of the way on a Drysdale pitch that hit him. Drysdale was able to extricate himself from a jam and continued his streak.
It's possible that Johnson was hoping the ball would be foul to keep the no-hitter intact, but that doesn't make it a preplanned decision.
As for the idea that it tarnishes Santana's accomplishment, you can find any instance in baseball and diminish it. Did the 1985 Royals deserve their World Series win after it was helped along by Don Denkinger's mistake on a Jorge Orta ground out in game 6 as the Cardinals were on the verge of winning the World Series and wound up losing that game and game 7? They won game 7 by a score of 11-0 as Bret Saberhagen pitched a complete game shutout. The Royals won the World Series. It wasn't handed to them.
Does the blown call ruin Mike Baxter's catch in the seventh inning? No.
The Cardinals had ample opportunity to break up the no-no after the mistake. They didn't.
Santana and the Mets earned their moment.
The history of the Mets.
With all the great and very good pitchers that have come and gone from the Mets—Tom Seaver, Dwight Gooden, Pedro Martinez, Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez, Nolan Ryan, David Cone, Jerry Koosman, Frank Viola—it's a testament to the luck involved with pitching a no-hitter. That it was Santana who accomplished the feat sweetens the moment more than if it was done by a journeyman who will never be heard from again.
The pitch count.
This obsession with pitch counts served to leave fans worrying about what Mets' manager Terry Collins was going to do with Santana as his number rose further than it ever had in his career. A similar instance occurred with the Yankees in 2010 as CC Sabathia reached the eighth inning with a no-hitter against the Rays and after it was broken up, manager Joe Girardi needlessly said he was going to pull Sabathia rather than let him throw too many pitches, no-hitter or not. Sabathia himself was bewildered and it would've been interesting to see whether Girardi would actually have done it.
It's possible that he would have and the only result would've been to bolster the assertion that he's a puppet of management and slave to his ridiculous binder of arbitrary numbers.
Collins was right in leaving Santana in to finish the game. The players support Collins, but that support could've been destroyed with one paranoid and silly move in taking his pitcher out as he was going for history. Adrenaline carried Santana past any exhaustion and he appeared to get stronger as the game went along. Collins is the same manager who justified his removal of Jose Reyes from the final game of the season in 2011 after Reyes bunted for a base hit to preserve his batting title. It turned out to be Reyes's final game as a Met, but Collins didn't know that then. The club wanted to keep Reyes and Collins basically said after the fact and in response to the criticism that he wasn't going to ruin his relationship with Reyes for one play in one meaningless game. To be sure an old-school manager like Collins didn't like what Reyes did, but he let it go for the good of the franchise. He did the same thing with Santana. Whatever happens from now on, happens.
Social media egomania, self-involvement and what "I" would've done.
The word "I" is in quotes because I'm not talking about myself.
Twitter became a world of the media inserting themselves into the narrative as to how the Santana no-hitter was affecting them as if we care; as if it matters.
Gonzo journalism worked for Hunter S. Thompson because he innovated it and was good at it. Others are doing it now and doing it poorly. Nobody cares how the Santana achievement affects David Lennon, Bob Klapisch, Howard Megdal, Joel Sherman, Ken Davidoff or anyone else.
But it's all about me-me-me-me-me-me. It's ego, arrogance and nothing else.
Yankees' fans were doing it as well. There was an aura of the maintenance of bullying and "dominance" over the "little brothers". The tone was "Yeah, have your moment but remember who's in charge here."
The Yankees are in charge of nothing and until Mets' fans and the organization as a whole pushes back against this perception that the Yankees' money and history is a foundation for such a logically false statement, it's going to continue.
There were also those who said something along the lines of, "I'd take Santana out because the season is more important than one game."
It's not absurd to say that the Mets had to keep an eye on that game and an eye on the rest of the season, but to suggest that it was an no-brainer to pull him is the epitome of the ease of decisionmaking on social media for those who aren't making the decisions. They're not the ones who have to face the player in question (Santana), his teammates, the fans and the media after making such a monumental maneuver. The Twitter experts have all the balls in the world sitting nude in front of their computer and expressing what they think they would've done but would probably not have had the nerve to do; nor would they ever be in a position to do it, rendering the point moot.
It was a great night for the Mets and any amount of contextualization and obnoxiousness isn't going to ruin it regardless of how hard the perpetrators try. They have their no-hitter. It's in the record books as such and it won't be taken away. Ever.
*NOTE: Those winding up here searching for the naked video clip of a Mets player following the no-hitter, I had embedded it but the content was removed from Youtube due to copyright infringement and I deleted it because the video was no longer viewable.
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Lyle Holt was born in Fairfield, WA in 1939 and was raised with his brother and sister on the farm that their great-grandfather established.
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Review sites have taken a pretty big jump in popularity lately. But this is to be expected, as it's in our psychology to seek out social proofing. What is social proofing? In a nutshell, it's a mental characteristic that makes people look to others when contemplating a decision. This is especially true for peers who are in a similar position or group as ourselves.
What this basically means for your business is that customer reviews are a very powerful asset in maximizing conversions and profits. In fact, if you already possess a bunch of nice customer reviews, you are in a great position to leverage that or use it in marketing campaigns to great effect.
That's were review sites such as Amazon, Trip Advisor, Bing Places and Yelp! come into play. They can be somewhat helpful, but if you're relying on them for your reviews, you are actually severely limiting yourself, and they can definitely harm your business, with a substantial opportunity cost.
Although SEO is a highly complex matter, with a myriad of factors influencing your rankings, customer reviews DO increase your rankings by quite a lot. One report pointed out a 50% rise in rankings over a 3 month period. But this is only if you own your reviews! If another site owns them, they may even rank higher for your content than your own site. You obviously don't want that.
Before people buy something, they tend to have a time interval during which they get closer and closer to the final buying decision. Research has shown that people who use long-tail keywords are usually further up the timeline, thus being closer to converting.
Your reviews can be immensely powerful of increasing your rankings for these terms, as it turns out that people will use roughly similar expressions in their reviews than what they've used while searching for a product. The result: more conversions for you, but only if your own site ranks for these keywords… you don't want Yelp! to have all this juicy rank-boosting, right?
Using a review site will mean that potential customers will visit that third-party site first, and in addition to your website, will also see a whole lot of competitors as well! Basically, if you use review sites you are letting potential customers go to another site first. Instead what you are ideally looking for is always bringing traffic directly to you, cutting out the middle-men.
If you own your reviews you can even leverage the content for marketing. You can use reviews to drive even more traffic by repurposing the content in social ads or more.
This is big. Using customer review sites means that as a business owner, you can't monitor and control your own reviews, and people can (and definitely will) leave absurd or fake reviews, hurting your reputation. The competition can also abuse these sites and can make you look bad quite easily. And you can't really do anything about that if you don't have control over it.
Using third-party review sites always carries the risk that you won't be able to properly export your reviews or use them elsewhere, which would be a pretty big loss. If you happen to lose them, it's very hard to replicate the reviews with the same authenticity.
In order to eliminate these problems, you need to take matters into your own hands. And that's why we have created Wiremo, a free and easy review widget for your website that keeps control in your own hands instead of giving it away to third-party sites.
It has a 24/7 support to guarantee that you can use your reviews' powers to the max.
As a quick recap, the main takeaway from this post is that you have to make sure that you host customer reviews on your own site instead of business review sites. This will mean increased (and more targeted) traffic to you, better SEO results - especially for long-tail keywords (which are proven to convert better) and you can also ensure more effective brand reputation management.
What do you think about review sites? We would love to hear your thoughts.


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Q: Truncation on $H^\infty(\mathbb{D})$ vs $H^\infty(\mathbb{D}^2)$ $\newcommand{\D}{\mathbb{D}}$
Let $H^\infty(\D)$ be the space of bounded analytic functions in the unit disc $\D$. For a function $f(z) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty a_nz^n$ we can define its truncation as
$$T_xf(z) = \sum_{n\le x}a_nz^n.$$
$T_x$ is a bounded linear operator on $H^\infty (\D)$ and it is known that $||T_x||\asymp \log x$ as $x\to \infty$ (although I don't know the precise constant in this equivalence).
Similarly, let $H^\infty(\D^2)$ denote the space of bounded analytic functions of two complex variables in the unit disc. Given numbers $a, b \ge 1$ and $x>0$, we can define an operator which acts on $f(z, w) = \sum_{n = 0}^\infty \sum_{m = 0}^\infty a_{n, m}z^nw^m$ as
$$T_{a, b, x}f(z, w) = \sum_{an+bm \le x}a_{n, m}z^nw^m.$$
It is a "truncation" operator which leaves only terms lying in the triangle with vertices $(0, 0), (x/a, 0)$ and $(0, x/b)$.
I can prove that $||T_{a, b, x}||\lesssim \log x$ with constant which doesn't depend on $a$ and $b$ (something like $20\log x$ or so). But what I want to know is can we get any advantage at all by using extra dimension? More precisely

Question. Do there exist numbers $a, b\ge 1$ and $x > 0$ such that $||T_{a, b, x}|| > ||T_x||$?

Negative answer to (a higher-dimensional version of) this question would resolve a certain open problem about spaces of Dirichlet series in a very unexpected way but I can not imagine this to be false so I'm asking it here.
Note that conditions $a, b\ge 1$ are clearly necessary since otherwise $T_{a, b, x}$ may contain $T_y$ for some $y > x$ as a suboperator and the answer would be trivially yes. On the other hand, for some $a, b$ it is not hard to show that this could never happened. For example, if $a, b\in \mathbb{N}$ then I can prove that $||T_{a, b, x}||\le ||T_x||$.

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Andrea Petkovic was the defending champion, but she lost to Angelique Kerber in the semifinals.

Kerber went on to win her first outdoor title, defeating Madison Keys in the final, 6–2, 4–6, 7–5.

Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.

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Section 1

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Section 4

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First qualifier

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Third qualifier

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Sixth qualifier

Seventh qualifier

Eighth qualifier

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Go to the Chinese Fortune Calendar for more information, and to find out how you will fare in 2014.
To find out more about Chinese Astrology, please go to this page here of my peace website. According to Chinese Astrology, a complete analysis of an individual has to take into account not only the month and year of birth, but the natural element, the polarity (Yin or Yang), and the day and hour of birth.
Because Chinese Astrology has 12 animal zodiac signs and 5 elements, there are 60 combinations in a cycle. Once you have had a look at the information on my website (see link above), you can then use a link to the 60 year cycle to confidently look at the "animal" signs and "element" signs of the current 60 year cycle, at this page here.
A unique combination occurs only every 60 years, and the information on the page that I gave the link to find out more about Chinese Astrology will explain what these combinations mean.
Now, please read about the Year 2014 – the Year of the Horse – at this page here – which I find very interesting. Rather than copy the information here, I am posting a link to the relevant website. It gives a picture of this year; that either you join the race or you get left standing by the rails. Be a Leader in terms not so much of working within a structured workplace or organisation, but by expressing your own truth in a civilised way, while making and working toward definite goals or plans.
You can use the link to the 60 year cycle above to find out what animal sign and element that you were born under; for example I was born in the Year of the Water Rabbit.
Here is a link to a good website that gives analyses or descriptions of the mix of Western and Chinese sign – for example you can click on "Virgo Rabbit" horoscope to find their interpretation of the category that I fall into.
Besides being a Rabbit (astrologically speaking in Chinese terms), I am a quadruple Virgo !! No surprises there, to discover that I have four "planets" (including the Sun) in Virgo – the Western Zodiac sign associated with attention to detail, data, and perfectionism.
Note, the above site does not discriminate between a Virgo Water Rabbit and say a Virgo Wood Rabbit, but this page here describes the influence of the different elements for the Rabbit. You can see how a Water Rabbit differs from a Wood Rabbit, and then use that information with what you know about Virgos, if you like.
You can click on one of the Animals at the top to see the elements in combination with that Chinese animal sign, if you are not a Rabbit yourself.
To read more about the Stem – Branch system of Chinese Astrology, try reading this page here. Good luck.
If you know your time of birth, you can use the Chinese Fortune website to enter in the time zone for your place of birth, and enter in your year, day and month of birth, as well as your local time of birth (with longitude of place of birth being optional) – to get a pretty picture of your animals for your Year / Month / Day / Hour.
The Star Whispers site will explain to you the significance of reading the month, day, and hour, and it has a free very useful calculator which works out the data for the aforementioned. If you don't know your Time Zone of the location where you were born, just google it. Starwhispers also shows the current energies at any point of time, which is wonderful. Thank you Starwhispers.
Time Zone is only important if you were born on a Hour or Month boundary, as this page from Chinese Fortune Calendar explains.


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Resource Type: Image | Posted on 28th October 2011 by Liam Physick
One of the images donated to Metal by Eric Shenton. Here a locomotive pulls a train over the famous Bridgewater Canal in Manchester. The Canal had been one of the major transport routes until the advent of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Railway itself started due to dissatisfaction with the canals: their fares were high, they did not cope well with large amounts of cargo, and they were seen as a monopoly in the hands of the landowners: by contrast, the pioneers of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway came from the nascent capitalist class. The Bridgewater Canal Trustees successfully lobbied against the first bill to construct the Railway, but dropped their opposition after the Marquess of Stafford, owner of the Canal (nephew of its founder Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater) was persuaded by William Huskisson to buy shares in the Railway Company. After the Railway was opened, the Canal lowered its fares, and thus managed to maintain its level of traffic, but profits steadily declined due to competition from the emerging railways
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