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Steve Jobs Biography Is About To Release Soon
The authorized biography of Steve Jobs is going to release on coming Monday. But before the official release of Walter Isaacson's new book some copies have been distributed among some news outlets. And most expectedly the gossip news have been started to leak out. The famous Huffington Post has published some parts of the book. Read more
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Death of Steve Jobs nourishes IPhone mania
On Friday, Apple store got by the iPhone 4 S craze as million of Apple fans flocked to the nearest store. All of them hopes that they could own the last iPhone that Steve Jobs created.
The iconic chief executive's death caused a more somber air than usual to a number of Apple shops rejoicing the launch of the iPhone 4S, with fans placing flowers alongside the long lines waiting to buy.
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Apple Iphone got some help from Steve Jobs
Apple 4S went on sale after the death of Steve Jobs. People buy the latest iPhone as a tribute to the former Apple boss.
Hundreds of fans queued around city blocks in Sydney and Tokyo so that they could be one of the first to get their hands on the iPhone 4S, which has some resemblance with the previous iPhone 4 but has a better camera, faster processor and well-received voice galvanized software.
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Apple 4S got a boozed in sales with some help from Steve Jobs
On Friday, an estimated million people had placed their order for Apple's latest iPhone. The said product is apparently the last product that Steve Jobs introduced to the world before dying.
Orders for the iPhone 4S, appearing on store shelves this Friday, exceeded Apple's previous one-day record of 600,000 sales for the iPhone 4, which pushes the company's shares up 4.3 percent to $385.50 on the Nasdaq stock market.
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Smartphone war got halted by death of Steve Jobs
Both Samsung and Apple delayed their smartphone war as they pay respect to Apple's co-founder's death.
An unconfirmed private funeral is currently undertaking for Steve Jobs. Apple implied that there are no public funerals.
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Summer holidays are right around the corner and you are wondering what you are going to do with your kids all summer long. You want them to spend more time in the backyard but at the same time you need to keep them entertained, not an easy task. One of the ways that you can do this is with a backyard soccer field. Let us show you how to make a soccer field in your backyard.
First thing you're going to have to do is get your yard prepped and ready. You may not have a full sized regulation soccer field but that's okay. All you really need is a rectangular space in your yard. Then you are going to have to get rid of any debris there might be that is in the way.
Soccer fields don't have ditches, holes or hills and all of those things can cause a child trip and fall. If you have holes in the ground then fill them in with topsoil and sand. Put this filler into holes and add a bit of water to make sure that it is compacted down. You are going to have to wait a couple of days before it is fit to walk on and settled properly. Now you are going to need put some grass on this part of the lawn.
You can grab a couple of stakes and use them to mark out the corners of the field. You can measure them out with a tape measure to make the lines are even and the lengths are matching. You can wrap string around the stakes to double check and make sure the whole thing is even and you have perfect 90 degree angles at the corners. Once that is done you can start spray painting out the field, don't forget that you need a midline in the center of the field.
Depending on the age of your children that will decide the size and materials of the goals that you put up. Also you want something that is proportionate to your yard. You can get a 4 x 6 goal for kids around 5 and as they grow you can make the goal bigger. You want to use plastic, it is lightweight and easily moved. If you have some very serious soccer players in your family then you might want to get some goals that have metal frames and have them anchored in the ground.
Your kids can have a great summer honing their skills and playing their favorite sport right in your backyard, be careful though your yard may become the most popular place in the neighborhood.


Tim Gideon Beats Pro by Dr. Dre from Monster Outfitted with flip-up ear cups and a detachable cable to suit the modern DJ, the Beats Pro by Dr. Dre from Monster offers high quality audio performance.
Excellent audio performance with strong, but not overwhelming, bass response. DJ-style flip-up ears for mixing. Detachable cable and jacks on each ear piece.
Expensive. Not comfortable when worn for long periods of time.
Outfitted with flip-up ear cups and a detachable cable to suit the modern DJ, the Beats Pro by Dr. Dre from Monster offers high quality audio performance.
The Beats Pro by Dr. Dre. At $449.95 (direct) is a serious pair of headphones designed for the modern DJ. The ear cups flip backwards to free one ear, the cable is detachable, and jacks on both ear cups act not only as inputs, but as outputs to send audio to a friend's headphones. The Beats Pro sounds excellent—there's plenty of bass, but the high frequencies are accurately reproduced, as well. The potential deal breaker for standard users and DJs alike: they're heavy and not comfortable when worn for long periods.
Weighing in at nearly a pound (15.2 ounces), the Beats Pro comes in black or white models that each feature healthy doses of brushed metal on the ear cups and headband. The lowercase Beats logo is emblazoned in red on each ear, and the interior of the headband and ear cups is a cushioned black material. There's a 3.5mm jack at the bottom of each ear cup—it doubles as both an input (from your sound source) or an output to send audio to another pair of headphones. The connection for other headphones, however, is loose and could easily detach if you move around (this is because the jacks both have a twist-to-secure feature that only seems to work with the included cable). The cable itself is the signature Beats red, thick, and coiled at the bottom. Not only is a ¼-inch adapter included, but it comes fastened to the coil so you never have to go looking for it; just snap it on to the 3.5mm tip whenever you need it. Also included with the headphones: a protective pouch and a cleaning cloth with "advanced Aegis Microbe Shield technology" so microbes will never come between you and your music.
Another advantage of the detachable cable is the long-term economic benefit. The first thing to suffer wear and tear on an otherwise functional headphone pair is the cord, so when this cable eventually goes, you're looking at having to replace a cable versus an entire pair of (expensive) headphones. The Beats Pro comes with a one year warranty.
As our Head Acoustics frequency response tests indicate, the Beats Pro packs a powerful low frequency response. Interestingly, compared with the Editors' Choice Denon AH-D1100 ($199.99, 4.5 stars), the Beats Pro is not quite as bass-heavy. This is interesting for a couple reasons: I actually prefer the sonic performance of the Denon headphones (and usually I am not a fan of extremely bass-heavy options) and Monster Beats headphones are typically known for their heavy bass. Regardless, the Beats Pro is still heavier on low-end than, say, the Editors' Choice B&W P5 Mobile Hi-Fi Headphones ($299.95, 4.5 stars) from earlier this year. The P5, like the Beats Pro, offers an excellent sound signature, but is quite different, with a more subtle approach to low-end, especially sub-bass frequencies.
It should come as no surprise that the music I found most suited for the Beats Pro was modern pop—whether I was listening to Kanye West or Animal Collective, the crispness of the mixes stood out, as did the deeper bass lines and drum hits. Orchestral music was also pleasant on the Beats Pro, though sometimes things felt overly bright on higher register strings and percussion—not in an way that was overly problematic, it was simply noticeable. It's hard to argue with the overall sonic performance—the Beats Pro does justice to the entire frequency range, boosting the bass without letting it take over the show.
Unfortunately, the thing that stood out most for me, aside from the excellent sound quality, was the uncomfortable fit. Now, I could have a head that simply isn't ideally shaped for this particular set of headphones, but I doubt it. I wear plenty of different pairs on a regular basis, and the Beats Pro is definitely a trip down memory lane to my dad's ancient Koss stereo headphones that felt just slightly better than a vice clamp on your skull. Monster could use a lesson from competitors like Denon and Bose when it comes to making headphones that offer comfort over long periods. Even short sessions didn't feel great—the headband applied more pressure on the top of my head than I enjoy, and the ear cups, though they are large, felt like they were compressing my ears to fit them inside the seal. Again, I could just have big ears, but this is not a problem I regularly face in headphone testing.
If you are a DJ looking for a top-notch, professional-level pair of headphones with all the extra features a DJ might want, the Beats Pro is definitely worth checking out. The extra jacks, flip-up ears, and high quality audio output all add up to justify the admittedly high price. If you don't need these flourishes, however, I might skip the Beats Pro in favor of a lighter-weight or more comfortable option. The far less expensive Denon AHD-1100 is a similar-sounding competitor that just happens to be comfortable, and our Editors Choice in its price range.
Bottom Line: Outfitted with flip-up ear cups and a detachable cable to suit the modern DJ, the Beats Pro by Dr. Dre from Monster offers high quality audio performance.


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Q: Find intersection of three planes? Find the intersection of
$2x_1+x_2+x_3-3=0$, $2x_1+x_2+4x_3-6=0$, $2x_1+x_2-2=0$.
So I calculated the determinant of the three planes and it's equal to zero, then I calculated the cross product between the two first planes and it gave me $3x_1-6x_2$
The thorem in the course book says that if the determinant of the three planes is equal to zero, and cross product it's not zero, then there's two posibilities if $r_4-up_4-vq_4=0$ then the three planes intersect in a line $l$ and $l=\{(x_1,x_2,x_3):SX=up×q\}$ and S is a point in the line.
What is $r_4$, $up_4$ and $vq_4$ ? Thanks for your help.

A: These three planes are pairwise non-identical and non-parallel so they will meet in a point, or a line or they will form an open prism.
If you write it like  $Ax=B$ and if $\det|A|=0$, the planes will either meet in a line or the will form an open prism. If you find the edges of pairwise planes by finding cross products of their normals $\vec n_1, \vec n_2, \vec n_3$. If edges are identical/coincident the planes will meet in a line. If edges are non coplanar planes will form a prism.
But more simply here if you put (3) in (1) and (2), you get $x_3=1$  and $x_3=2$ contradiction (an inconsistency). So these three Eqs. are inconsistent and hence they form a prism. In a prism two plane meet leaving out one, so no solution (inconsistency).

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How do you store your knives? If it's loosely in a drawer, you might want to reconsider your knife storage.
What's the Difference between Convex and Beveled Shears?
This image is a perfect and very clear visual. I get told by beauticians quite often that they don't know what type of shears they even have!
Do I drop my tools/utensils off at the Farmers Market and pick them up the following week?
No need! Rich sharpens on the spot! Same day sharpening while you wait. And Farmers Markets are a perfect setting. When you arrive at the Farmers Market, make Rich's trailer your first stop. Check in and drop off your items with Rich. Walk around the market and check out the other great products/services vendors have to offer! Come back when you're done and your items will (in most cases) be ready! Depending on how busy the market is and how many items you have, Rich usually quotes about a half hours time to complete your sharpening order.
How should I bring my knives to the Farmers Market?
Wrapping your knives in a kitchen towel or newspaper with a rubber band around them is a common technique. If you are a return customer, you can use the knife sheaths supplied by Rich.
How should I keep my knives sharp after sharpening?
There are a few tips that can help keep your knives sharp. Never put your knives in the dishwasher, always hand wash. Use a wood or plastic cutting board, never cut on glass or countertop. Keep your knives in a knife block or in sheaths, not loosely stored in a drawer.
How do I bring my lawn mower, electric hedge clipper, or chainsaw blade to the Farmers Market?
Blades need to be off the machines to sharpen with the exception of electric hedge clippers. Rich needs the electric hedge clipper blades left on the machine so he can advance the blades on each side to sharpen. Otherwise, please have lawn mower and chainsaw blades off the machines for sharpening. You can wrap tools in newspaper or an old towel or bring in a cardboard box for carrying purposes.
How do I take off a lawn mower blade (and put back on)?
Many of my customers are very intimidated by removing their lawn mower blade. It should be in most cases, quite easy! To take the blade off, tilt your mower on its side. There should only be one bolt you need to take off to remove the blade. If you're still intimidated, you can find step by step instructions on google, or youtube. To put the blade back on, you can also refer to online tutorials. But please note if you put the blade back on upside down, your mower will not cut grass properly.
How do I know when my knives need to be sharpened?
Well, that's mostly up to your personal preference! If you can't remember the last time your knives were sharpened (5, 10, 20 years?) that might be your first indicator it's time for sharpening! Rich's favorite tip is if you can't cut a quarter inch slice of a tomato without "mushing" it up, your knife needs sharpening. Cutting through chicken breast or veggies should be almost effortless. And remember, a sharp knife is safer than a dull knife.
How do you sharpen knives? I don't want my knives damaged!
Rich uses a slow revolving water cooled stone to sharpen knives. This sharpening process will not damage or ruin the temper of your knife. The slow revolving speed and water used on the stone prevent any heat or friction. Rich also uses guides while sharpening to ensure the proper angle on each side of the knife.


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Teng Fei (; Pequim, 23 de janeiro de 1988) é uma jogadora de polo aquático chinesa.

Carreira
Teng disputou duas edições de Jogos Olímpicos pela China: 2008 e 2012. Em ambas as ocasiões finalizou a competição no quinto lugar.

Naturais de Pequim
Jogadores de polo aquático olímpicos da China
Jogadores de polo aquático nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2008
Jogadores de polo aquático nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2012

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Q: Change to delete Default Icon of UITableViewcell in Swift I want to change the image of the delete button that is displayed in the TableViewCell.

I would like to change the image of this button, not the one on the right.


I got mine last Black friday offert, and i don't regret. It's a great monophonic synth, with deep routing matrix thanks you can go close to sounds of modular synths. But it can sound deep and agressive, or soft and clean. Intuitive and easy to work, easy and fast to get cool sounds.
Shall I give a little push then?
Here's a CMS bassline sample. Recorded the other day for no reason other than taking note of what I got going then, inaccurately mixed on headphones.
Nice work! If half my jams came out sounding like that, I'd be happy! Is it 100% CMS, or just the bassline? Either way, I dig it. Very reminiscent of The Prodigy (Jilted Generation era). This isn't helping quell the desire, haha.
Just the bassline and of course there's fx on it. The beat is MD.
I still need a final answer, but if I get the job I'll get a new synth and was looking at the Circuit, is that discount code shareable?
Yeah, that's getting the thumbs up from me also!!!
The code is the same for everyone can be found online easily.
Full price on Novation site is $499 USD, so it would be $250 USD at the discounted rate.
Ive not bought nowt in ages. Apart from the crossbow.
i had one a while ago … for £199 is a good price.
i liked to have 2 versions of same patch , but one would have the external input 'open' , you can do nice snappy gating while keeping the same tone.
using seq2 on a set of parameters while seq1 did the notes. (i think velocity was used for 0-127).
using seq3 for external cv etc worked well , 3 unique sequencers i think.
learn the shortcuts for recoding only patch changes onto an existing pattern.
as patches are stored on the grid (but there is no colour coding) , i suggest you try and group types of sound in a similar area on the grid , e.g bass drums in a line … makes it much easy to patch flip and keep the general tones of the melody.
i think i preferred it to manther.
ability to save sound patches.
easy to patch flip per step.
more flexible sequencer (directions etc).
229 USD for those in Australia, which is around 300 AUD.
Still haven't found it, fancy pointing me in the right direction?
Yeah here are some minor UI downsides to me. Session slots can be color coded at will (a session is a set of patterns and links to an associated patch preset / patches are stored globally and all are available to all sessions). But the patches can't be color coded and when the patch slot matrix fills up it becomes hard to remember what's where.
I also find it unhandy that there is no visual clue for pattern slots that do or do not contain something, let alone color code them. You have to remember which pattern slots you used in a particular session. When jamming and rehearsing muscle memory builds but this could be facilitated better.


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The Chase for .400 is (Kind of) On
Never mind no one's come within 40 points of finishing a season at a Williamsian level in the last decade. In 2020, someone taking a serious run at one of baseball's most coveted numbers is more complicated than current batting average trends.
By: Kevin Chroust, Bryan Holcomb, Lucas Haupt
The Arizona Diamondbacks were 20 games out of first place and 5 ½ back in the wild card when Ketel Marte singled to left in the bottom of the third inning of a 12-6 home loss to Miami on September 17. It didn't mean a thing.
That may still be the case. But the breakout MVP candidate's last plate appearance of the 2019 season helps frame a question it seems we can only seriously ask in modern baseball when the potential structure of the coming season is as fantastical as the idea of someone doing something that hasn't happened in nearly 80 years.
That single put Marte's June through September home batting average at exactly .400.
That's Scenario 1.
Scenario 2: On Oct. 2, 2016, Joey Votto went 1-for-4 in a 7-4 loss to the Chicago Cubs for a Reds team that lost 94 games. An eighth-inning groundout dropped his average in his final 81 games of the season to exactly .400.
Scenario 3 doesn't need to be as cute: Ichiro Suzuki hit .423 from July 1 on in 2004.
At first, we thought players might be spending their entire 2020 season hitting in similar conditions. Regardless of geography, we're now looking at every player having a significantly shortened season with the summer months dominating the schedule. Might those of us non-octogenarians finally live through the day-to-day excitement of checking the morning paper's box score our phone notifications as the chase for .400 plays out in September? One can hope. But one can also put numbers on it.
The Historical Reality of Batting .400 & The (Sorry) State of Contemporary Batting Average
Quoting Stats Perform MLB analyst Lucas Haupt when conceiving this story: "If only we could find Willians Astudillo a full-time job."
That is to say: Batting average has for at least a decade become less of a priority, and valuing those who don't strike out is a thing of the past. Teams are instructing players on how to better hit balls over fences, not between infielders or to the opposite field, and this has helped turn the chase for .400 into even more of a fairytale.
The best single-season batting average since Josh Hamilton hit .359 in 2010 was DJ LeMahieu's .348 mark in 2016. Tim Anderson's MLB-leading .335 mark in 2019 was the worst single-season league high (fractionally worse than Derrek Lee's 2005 .335) since Eddie Murray hit .330 in 1990.
The league-wide strikeout rate has increased every year dating to 2008 and the swing-and-miss percentage has increased each year since 2010, so we've got fewer balls in play and a lower likelihood of these guys lucking into a few hits a week.
This matters because it's historically supported that players who strike out with any regularity have no practical chance of hitting .400. There have been nine individual seasons in the live-ball era of qualifying players batting .400 or higher, accomplished by six individuals. Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby did it three times with the best average. He's also the only player on the list to accomplish the feat with a strikeout rate of at least 7%:
Live-Ball Era K% of .400 Hitters
1941 Ted Williams, Bos .406 4.5
1930 Bill Terry, NYG .401 4.6
1925 Rogers Hornsby, StL .403 6.4
1923 Harry Heilmann, Det .403 6.4
1922 George Sisler, StL .420 2.1
1922 Ty Cobb, Det .401 3.9
So here's our real problem: All these guys are dead. No one swinging a baseball bat on Planet Earth right now is striking out at any of those rates. In 2019, among qualifying batters, cracking the 10% mark was less common than sprinters cracking the 10-second 100 meters:
2019 Qualifying Batters Lowest K Rate
Hanser Alberto, Bal .305 9.1
David Fletcher, LAA .290 9.8
Michael Brantley, Hou .311 10.4
Yuli Gurriel, Hou .298 10.6
Kevin Newman, Pit .308 11.7
Miguel Rojas, Mia .284 11.8
Jean Segura, Phi .280 11.8
Josh Reddick, Hou .275 12.0
Alex Bregman, Hou .296 12.0
Adam Frazier, Pit .278 12.3
Luis Arraez hit .334 and had a 7.9% K rate, though his 366 plate appearances weren't enough to make him a qualifying batter. But the idea of what constitutes a qualifying batter in 2020 is something we'll come back to.
If we look back to the last players to strike out at Williams' level, we have to go back to the turn of the millennium in a peak offensive era when contact hitting still mattered. And even then, we're looking at a sample of five players, and four of them are related:
Last 5 Players to Strike Out at Rate of 4.5% or Lower
2001 Juan Pierre, Col .327 4.2
1998 Tony Gwynn, SD .321 3.6
So no, these aren't exactly trends that foreshadow the second-coming of Hornsby. But his era was particularly ripe for high batting averages, and players cared about contact. Player trends, though, are only part of this. We can't settle for looking at the Jose Altuves and Charlie Blackmons of the world only in recent historical context because we've never had a season quite like 2020 is shaping up.
If 2020 is guaranteed to be one thing, it's an anomaly in baseball history, so we've got to try to measure and compare it as such.
The Impossible Is Less Impossible Over 80 Games
Now that we've done everything we can to destroy our premise, it's time to repair it as best we can and make the argument for why this could actually happen.
There are a number of factors to consider, some of which would be more relevant if MLB were to reverse course and elect to have certain teams play almost entirely in Arizona and Florida. We're going to focus on those that have to do with the length of the season and the months in which it will be played. But average is average, right? So why would a shortened season matter?
Recall: Ichiro hit .423 from July 1 to the end of the 2004 season. That's 51 points higher than his best single-season average, but it's also a more accurate representation of what this season will look like.
Somewhat contemporarily, we think of the pursuit of .400 with Tony Gwynn and George Brett as examples. We tend to recall Gwynn hit .394 in a strike-shortened 1994 season. He played in 110 games. But Brett also played a shorter season when he hit .390 in 1980. He missed a month of the season and played in 117 games. Ted Williams played in 143 in 1941 when he hit .406 in a 154-game season (though his 606 plate appearances would have still qualified him for the batting title even in a 162-game season). But no player has seriously flirted with .400 while playing closer to full season as we know it in the 162-game context. There's a much smaller sample size of players, but among those who have played in 160 games, Todd Helton (2000) and Ichiro (2004) share the all-time mark at .372.
Say MLB teams were to play half of that in an 80-game regular season. That means leaders will only need 248 plate appearances to officially qualify for the batting title. This is significant because the probably of batting .400 goes up as at-bats go down. Using binomial distributions, a .350 hitter would have about a 7% chance of batting .400 over 225 at-bats and roughly a 1% chance with 500. A .333 hitter would have about a 2% chance over 225 ABs.
This is what the probabilities look like for three different averages between 200 and 500 at-bats:
Probability of Batting .400
.300 Batter
200 0.001637 0.028360 0.080470
You'll occasionally hear someone say Gwynn would have done it in '94 if they'd kept playing. That is of course possible, but math says otherwise. The longer you try to maintain something that is improbable, the less likely it becomes that you'll succeed in beating the odds. So it makes sense that we're continually let down after getting our hopes up for a .400 season:
Latest Date Hitting .400+ Since 1969
(Batting title qualifiers only; latest date for each player)
Player Games
AB Thru
H Thru
K% Thru
Total K%
9/4/1980 George Brett, KC 99 384 154 .401 3.9 4.3
8/2/1993 John Olerud, Tor 105 365 146 .400 8.2 9.6
7/20/2000 (Game 1) Nomar Garciaparra, Bos 75 278 112 .403 7.9 8.3
7/17/1997 Larry Walker, Col 92 343 138 .402 12.8 13.6
7/14/1997 Tony Gwynn, SD 87 356 143 .402 3.3 4.3
7/13/1983 Rod Carew, Cal 64 254 102 .402 8.2 9.0
7/10/1977 Rod Carew, Min 81 317 127 .401 7.9 7.9
7/5/1993 Andres Galarraga, Col 64 255 102 .400 14.0 14.4
It's fun to look back on seasons like the above eight, but one thing we shouldn't ignore is how we just can't seem to find someone within the last 20 years that's made a compelling case for .400.
That changes if we get more specific to the 2020 reality and look at 80-game spans rather than how long from the start of the season to the end of the season a player was able to maintain a .400 average. The average games played for those eight situations is 83.4, and all of those players were 80 team games into their season at the last point they were batting .400.
Let's now look at the most recent single-season individual 80-game spans:
Most Recent 80-Game Spans with .400+ Batting Avg. & 248+ Plate Appearances
2016 Joey Votto, Cin .402 6/30 - 10/1 348
2010 Josh Hamilton, Tex .401 6/6 - 10/3 339
2007 Chone Figgins, LAA .401 6/1 - 9/18 363
2004 Ichiro Suzuki, Sea .426 7/7 - 10/3 378
2000 Todd Helton, Col .402 5/27 - 8/21 348
2000 Nomar Garciaparra, Bos .400 4/17 - 8/06 342
1997 Tony Gwynn, SD .401 4/11 - 7/16 361
1997 Larry Walker, Col .401 4/14 - 7/15 352
1993 John Olerud, Tor .401 5/14 - 8/10 346
1985 Wade Boggs, Bos .402 7/7 - 10/3 376
1980 George Brett, KC .428 6/2 - 10/4 361
1977 Rod Carew, Min .406 4/17 - 7/21 358
1969 Roberto Clemente, Pit .401 5/29 - 08/28 329
If we had 80-game seasons every year, we wouldn't be writing this article because someone almost certainly would have followed Williams to .400 already.
Votto has done it within the last four seasons, but it's important to note the improbability of one of these spans occurring. Dating to 1969, there have been 141 instances of 80-game stretches on which a player hit .400 or better. That seems like a lot. It's not. It's taken 624,210 individual single-season spans in which a player had 248+ plate appearances for that to happen, so 0.226%. But that's considering 80-game individual stretches. For more accurate numbers for the 2020 reality, we should look at 80-game team spans.
If we consider qualifying batters over spans of 80 team games dating to 1969, 0.0349% (210 of 601,560) have had a .400 average or better. Keep in mind, this includes various overlapping 80-game spans for single players in a traditional baseball season. But this still isn't specific enough. Because league-wide batting average increases after April and May, we need to consider the time of year.
Starting July 1, there have been 28 instances of .400 or better from 39,299 qualifying spans over 80 team games in the last 50 years. That's 0.0712%. And keep in mind, this percentage includes all qualifying hitters, not just hitters we'd deem to have a chance at batting .400.
Based on a historical half-season estimation of 185 qualifying batters at 248 plate appearances, this collective group would have a 1.5% chance of producing a .400 hitter in 2020.
It's encouraging to see that there is actually a chance of this happening, and it for some might be more tangible because of recent history such as Votto's 2016 finish. But we've been ignoring something obvious for 2,000 words now.
The league batting average in 1941 – the last season a qualifying player finished at or above .400 – was .262, and the last time we surpassed that league-wide average was 2008 (.264). Of the seasons dating to 1941 in which the league average was .262 or above, these are the league-wide batting champs:
MLB Batting Champs Since 1941 with League Average of .262 or Higher
MLB AVG
Batting Champion
Players .350/+
1999 .271 Larry Walker, Col .379 2
2000 .270 Todd Helton, Col .372 5
1996 .270 Alex Rodriguez, Sea .358 1
1994 .270 Tony Gwynn, SD .394 5
2006 .269 Joe Mauer, Min .347 0
2007 .268 Magglio Ordonez, Det .363 2
2004 .266 Ichiro Suzuki, Sea .372 2
1950 .266 Billy Goodman, Bos .354 1
1979 .265 Keith Hernandez, StL .344 0
1993 .265 Andres Galarraga, Col .370 3
1980 .265 George Brett, KC .390 2
2005 .264 Derrek Lee, ChC .335 0
1953 .264 Carl Furillo, Bro .344 0
2003 .264 Albert Pujols, StL .359 2
1977 .264 Rod Carew, Min .388 1
2008 .264 Chipper Jones, Atl .364 2
1948 .263 Stan Musial, StL .376 3
1949 .263 George Kell, Det .343 0
1941 .262 Ted Williams, Bos .406 3
This is to say Ted Williams was not like his contemporaries, but also that no one since the Red Sox left fielder has been able to distance himself from the pack quite like he did. Without a Williamsian variance or an Ichiro-like presence in baseball, we probably need a significant boost in league average to have a run at this.
But there is a bit of encouragement in that shortened 1994 season. Yes, Gwynn hit .394, but it's also worth noting that five players hit .350 or better. This makes mathematical sense given what we learned about binomial distributions above. It's also interesting to note the league-wide average in the shortened season jumped to .270 from .259 in 1990-93. We could say this was the start of the offensive boom – and there would be truth in that – but that's a sharp increase and would be ignoring the fact that it did drop slightly to .268 over the next three seasons. Again, sample size matters.
Now, the 2019 league-wide batting average was .252, which is another step in the wrong direction. The league-wide average from July 1 on was .257.
Possibly a better way to look at this is with AVG+, which can be used to calculate the percent departure a player is from the league average. It uses 100 as a baseline and either adds or subtracts from that the percentage above or below the league average for a given timeframe. If we look at AVG+ for 80-game spans beginning July 1 or later and assume last season's .257 average from July 1 is a good baseline, we find that a player would need an AVG+ of 155.6 or higher to bat .400. So how common is this historically? In the last 50 years, we have a two-man list over 155:
80-Game AVG+ of 155 or Higher Beginning July 1 or Later
(Excludes players' overlapping spans at or above 155 and displays date of highest AVG+)
AVG+
2004 Ichiro Suzuki, Sea .429 .270 158.8 7/8 - 10/3
1980 George Brett, KC .424 .269 157.6 7/5 - 10/1
Even Williams in 1941 would have been fractionally under 155. So regardless of league average, it takes a truly historic departure from the norm to even approach .400. But if 2020 is guaranteed to be an anomaly, is it really such a stretch to think anomalies won't come from that?
The Florida and Arizona Project
When we conceived the idea for this piece back in April, it seemed like a very real possibility we'd be playing the regular season in non-traditional parks. MLB has moved away from that, but local governments are going to have the final say on whether baseball is played in their cities, states or countries (Canada), which means we still may have certain teams moving homes.
With that, here's how we'd project a total shift back to Arizona and Florida leagues to impact offense. A lot goes into this, including park dimensions, temperature, humidity, elevation and historical performance:
xAVG
xOBP
xSLG
xOPS
xISO
xK%
Cactus .267 .337 .462 .798 .195 21.6
Grapefruit .255 .324 .437 .760 .182 22.2
Not surprisingly, the conditions in Arizona are more in line with an offensive spike. To compare it to recent history, a shortened Cactus League setup would potentially bump batting average 15 points from last season's .252 mark (which interestingly was up from .248 in 2018). Last year's K rate was 22.4%, so we'd likely see a dip there.
Recall we stated there's a 1.5% chance of someone batting .400 in 2020. That's assuming teams play in their traditional parks. If we rewind a few weeks and were to play in a Cactus League environment, that increases to 6.9%.
And because the Cactus League AVG+ equivalent would be 150, we'd have more qualifying spans in the last 50 years. Namely, we'd have Wade Boggs, Votto, Gwynn and Barry Bonds added to the list of Ichiro and Brett:
1985 Wade Boggs, Bos .409 .265 154.3 7/5 - 9/29
2016 Joey Votto, Cin .397 .258 153.8 7/2 - 10/1
1993 Tony Gwynn, SD .410 .270 151.7 7/2 - 9/28
2002 Barry Bonds, SF .404 .267 151.4 7/2 - 9/28
This list of course makes us question whether we have a player who fits this profile in Major League Baseball at the moment. It makes one wonder what those players in their prime would do in 2020. But it also makes one wonder who might step up and take us for wild, if asterisked, ride.
As for the obvious names, Jose Altuve's a .359 July hitter since 2014, and his .388 July average last season wasn't even in the top five, so we might have something intriguing to follow by August. Mookie Betts has hit .342 from July on the last two seasons. Christian Yelich hit .400 in July 2018 and .357 from July 1 on.
Tim Anderson hit .357 from July 1 on his way to the 2019 batting title, but he also struck out in 21.1% of those plate appearances. Could Anthony Rendon make a run at it in his new park? What about Ketel Marte after his breakout 2019 in which he hit .356 with a 12% K rate from July 1 on?
Or is it someone less recognizable like Hanser Alberto or Jesse Winker or Luis Arraez? Arraez hit .334 in his first MLB season. The Twins second baseman struck out 7.9% of the time. Sure, that was in 92 games, but in 2020, that's more than enough to make us wonder and more than enough to count.
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Woodridge Capital Partners and Colony Capital buy The Ritz-Carlton, Kapaulua Resort
Woodridge Capital Partners, Colony Capital and Colony Financial have bought The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua Resort. No financial terms were disclosed. Deutsche Bank provided the financing for the transaction. Based in Maui, Hawaii, The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua Resort is a resort hotel that features 463 guestrooms and two golf courses. It will continue to be run by The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.
MAUI, Hawaii–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua Resort was sold today to a partnership between Michael Rosenfeld's Woodridge Capital Partners, LLC and Colony Capital, LLC and its affiliates including Colony Financial. The AAA Five-Diamond Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua is a stunning destination resort on the Island of Maui, which was again voted "Best Island in the World" by Conde Nast Traveler for the 19th consecutive year. The property is situated on 54 oceanfront acres, within the world famous Kapalua Resort renowned for its two championship golf courses and award-winning restaurants. The new owners intend to make further investment to enhance the resort which will continue to be operated by The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C.
"The combination of The Ritz-Carlton brand, a welcoming and nurturing Hawaiian culture and the nature and magic of Maui will make an unbeatable combination," stated Thomas J. Barrack, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Colony Capital.
The luxury resort features 463 guestrooms, including 107 residential suites, with expansive pools overlooking the dramatic Maui coastline and the Island of Molokai. The resort was built in 1992 and underwent a $190 million renovation in 2007 including the introduction of The Ritz-Carlton residences. The property offers three in-hotel restaurants and a lounge complemented by a pool bar and café and an outdoor restaurant, The Beach House, that sits adjacent to neighboring D.T. Fleming beach, is considered one of the finest in the United States.
"We have great respect for the traditions of the islands," said Rosenfeld. "With its special character, remarkable location and precious natural resources, The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua is a rare property that would be nearly impossible to duplicate today."
The resort's spacious rooms and suites, all with lanais, and 207,000 square feet of meeting space, including 35,000 square feet of indoor meeting space and 172,000 square feet of outdoor space, make it a premier venue for luxury events and corporate meetings in Hawaii. A large spa, fitness center, tennis facilities and 4,600 square feet of retail and convenience shops complete the resort.
A unique aspect of The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua is Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ambassadors of the Environment program offering an environmental and cultural education center.
Acquisition financing was provided by Deutsche Bank.
About Woodridge Capital Partners
Founded by Chief Executive Officer Michael Rosenfeld, Woodridge Capital Partners, LLC ("Woodridge"), is a Los Angeles-based real estate development and investment company, and through its affiliates, are owners and developers of a broad range of residential, hotel, resort, and commercial real estate projects throughout the United States. Woodridge's holdings include The Fairmont San Francisco Hotel, The Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii and The Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. They received the 2008 Single Asset Transaction of the Year Award by the Americas Lodging Investment Summit and the San Francisco Business Times Hotel Deal of the Year Award. www.woodridgecapital.com
About Colony Capital, LLC
Founded in 1991 by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Barrack, Jr., Colony Capital is a private, international investment firm focusing primarily on debt and equity investments in real estate-related assets and operating companies. The firm has invested $54 billion in over 32,000 loans/assets through various corporate, portfolio and complex property transactions. Colony has a team of more than 400 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York, Boston, Scottsdale, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Beirut, Hong Kong, and Seoul. For more information, visit www.colonyinc.com.
About Colony Financial, Inc.
Colony Financial, Inc. (NYSE:CLNY) is a real estate investment and finance company that is focused on acquiring, originating and managing a diversified portfolio of real estate-related debt and equity investments at attractive risk-adjusted returns. Our investment portfolio and target assets are primarily composed of interests in: (i) real estate and real estate-related debt, including loans acquired at a discount to par in the secondary market and new originations; and (ii) real estate equity, including single family homes held as rental investment properties. Secondary debt purchases may include performing, sub-performing or non-performing loans (including loan-to-own strategies). The Company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust, or REIT, for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
About The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C., of Chevy Chase, Md., currently operates 86 hotels in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean. More than 30 hotel and residential projects are under development around the globe. The Ritz-Carlton is the only service company to have twice earned the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, an award that originated in 1987. Its purpose is to promote the awareness of quality excellence, recognize quality achievements of companies and publicize successful quality strategies. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company won the award in 1992 and 1999. For more information, or reservations, contact a travel professional, call toll free in the U.S. 1-800-241-3333, or visit the company web site at www.ritzcarlton.com/Kapalua. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR).
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You are here: CD Of The Month // 2013 // John Mayer - Paradise Valley
At the heart of the appeal of Paradise Valley is the excellent musicianship and some of the strongest songs Mayer has written. What you may miss in Mayer's rocket power electric guitar playing is more than made up with exquisite musical detail; from the pedal steel guitar playing on "You're No One 'Til Someone Lets You Down," and the melodicism of Mayer's playing on "Wildfire," to the bluesy riffs he spits out on a cover of JJ Cale's "Call Me The Breeze," the songs are skillfully arranged and played. Songs like "Waitin' On The Day," and "I Will Be Found (Lost At Sea)" may be unassuming however they are heartfelt and gorgeous.
The album features a pair of high profile collaborations. Frank Ocean, who returns the favor of having Mayer play on Ocean's Channel Orange, sings on "Wildfire." At a minute and 28 seconds though, it's too short. As usual, Ocean sounds fantastic and Mayer's harmonies with him work well together. "Who You Love" – Mayer's duet with his girlfriend Katy Perry - may be critically written off by some as a contrite and schmaltzy song, but it's a classic "soft-pop" song.
On Paradise Valley, John Mayer has settled and matured more comfortably into the soft side of his voice and songwriting that began on Born And Raised. Lyrically, he's still soul searching yet with increasing optimism. Here's hoping though, his next outing will center him back a bit towards the more upbeat and energetic songs he's equally gifted at writing and performing.
Released: August 20, 2013 on Columbia
Review by Bruce Warren August 19, 2013
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November 8, 2019 • Written by Mario Dalessandro
Kentucky Governor's Race Could Be Decided by State Legislature
Gov. Matt Bevin and Attorney General Andy Beshear
Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers created more election controversy, stating the legislature could decide the hotly contested governor's race.
The comments came shortly after Gov. Matt Bevin refused to concede to Attorney General Andy Beshear, who led by roughly 5,100 votes when all of the votes were counted.
There is less than one-half of 1% separating the two candidates.
Gov. Bevin formally requested an official recanvass of the election results.
Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced she will forward the recanvassing request to the State Board of Elections.
The county board of elections will convene on November 14 at 9:00 a.m. to conduct the recanvass.