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Florida's favorite baseball team? Yankees still rule

By Craig Davis May 26, 2012 01:25 PM

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The Marlins and Rays have some catching up to do for baseball supremacy in Florida. Turns out the most popular team in the state is from out of state.

A poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute found the New York Yankees to be the favorite of 20 percent of Florida baseball fans, compared to 18 percent for the Rays and 15 percent for the Marlins.

The Marlins can take heart that they do rule Southeast Florida with 44 percent, compared to 25 percent for the Yankees.

The results are not at all surprising considering all the transplanted residents from the Northeast and the Yankees? long history of spring training in Florida that predates Babe Ruth. In South Florida, all of their games are broadcast on radio via 640-AM.

Appropriately, the Yankees helped the Marlins inaugurate their new ballpark with two recent exhibition games.

The poll reinforces that it makes more sense for the Marlins to be associated with Miami. Even with two World Series championships, the Florida Marlins never caught on state-wide.

The poll showed the Marlins are the favorite of only 2 percent of fans in North Florida/Panhandle and the Tampa Bay area, 5 percent in Central Florida and 4 percent in Southwest Florida.

Likewise, the Rays are preference of 54 percent in their Bay area vicinity but don?t even register in Southeast Florida.

The Yankees have a strong base of support in each region of the state. The Atlanta Braves, no longer America?s Team since TBS stopped showing their games nationally after 2007, are still North Florida?s team, edging the Yankees 23 percent to 17 percent.

The Boston Red Sox rank fourth in popularity statewide with 8 percent. The New York Mets are a distant also-ran at 4 percent. Even in New York-centric South Florida, only 5 percent favor the Mets.

Photo: Marlins and New York fans combined for the first big crowds at Marlins Park when Derek Jeter and the Yankees played two exhibitions in the new stadium. (Robert Duyos/Sun Sentinel)

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Commercial Real Estate: Property as a Hedge Against Inflation ...

By Anthony Harrington via?QFinance

One of the more frequently cited arguments for investing in property is that "real" assets like property and say, agriculture commodities, hold their value better than paper assets once paper assets start to have their value eroded away by inflation. Commenting on the reasons why commercial property continues to attract investors in 2012 despite falling commercial property values in some major advanced markets, including the UK, property experts Jones Lang LaSalle points out that at present the attraction of fixed assets is being boosted by expectations that global inflation is going to rise over time.

The expectation is that all the quantitative easing that central banks have gone in for in the UK, the US and Japan is "bound" to lead to inflation and to the steady erosion of the buying power of major currencies. The picture, however, is more complicated than simply assuming that all property prices will rise if inflation rises. The gap between property values in the major cities of the world (London, New York) and property in "secondary" and "tertiary" cities is widening all the time as investors, anxious about more financial stress in markets, look for "safe havens".

It is also important to realise that inflation is no friend to the revenue streams that commercial property generates, and which is one of its most outstanding merits in the eyes of investors. As inflation erodes the purchasing power of money it simultaneously erodes the value of the rent that investors receive from property. So there are two factors that work against property rental income in an inflationary environment. There may well be nominal capital growth through periods of high inflation, but what that translates into in terms of real growth is an open question. Writing in FT.Com, Daniel Thomas warned back in June 2011, when fears of deflation had faded and rising commodity prices, particularly in food and oil, were generating rising inflation around the world, that property bulls were getting carried away.

"Investors need to be wary about relying on real estate as the pure inflation hedge that it is sometimes portrayed as," he counselled.

Part of the problem is that when institutional investors in particular are worried about inflation and start selling out of government bonds and fixed interest investments ? areas where inflation is obviously going to destroy returns - they generally look at retail property like shopping malls and at commercial property, with prime office blocks having pride of place in their thinking. In point of fact, as Thomas notes, industrial property such as warehouses and factory premises have historically provided the strongest hedge against inflation, rather than either retail or office space. It is the property class that has the strongest performance correlation with inflation.

Part of the problem, as we have already noted, is that inflation hammers rental income and rents make up an important part of the total returns delivered by property as an asset class. Thomas points out that City of London rents can move between ?40 per square foot to ?70 per square foot, depending on whether the economic cycle is in a boom or a bust phase. He cites analysis from HSBC Bank which finds that there is "little evidence to show that rental income outperforms or matches inflation."

Capital values too, are not linked in any hard sense to the onward march of inflation. Instead they are much more subject to at least two other factors, one being the readiness of banks to lend to potential purchasers and the other having to do with people's expectations regarding interest rates.

There is no argument against the obvious truth that low interest rates are a boon to the entire property sector, but low rates have to be set within the appropriate economic context to be understood. The "fog" in the market that has prevailed through 2011 and the start of 2012 has made companies reluctant to undertake major projects. This includes a marked reluctance to upgrade their head office. Companies are sitting tight. Those that are seeing their current leases coming to a natural end or to an agreed break point are much more tempted to seek a short term renewal of a year or two on their current lease rather than to commit to a major new office purchase or rental.

With landlords struggling to find quality tenants, companies with a good track record can almost write their own ticket with landlords, so short lease renewal terms tend not to be too onerous, which again, reinforces the lack of momentum in the market. As well as removing demand, this trend also shows just how illiquid and difficult investment in real estate can be.

On the plus side, once economies move into an inflationary period, it becomes very much easier for commercial landlords to build automatic inflation linked rate increases into their agreements with tenants. A article by Standard Life, in the February edition of Pensions Age, designed to highlight the attractions of commercial property allocation strategies for pension funds points out that ?upward only? rent review clauses in UK commercial property contracts, and index-linked property leases in Europe, have done a lot to protect and enhance rental income for investors.

One of the stronger arguments cautioning against the idea that property is a reliable hedge against inflation is the performance of the US housing market. Granted, the US housing market is having a torrid time at present and is still in the process of bottoming after the US sub-prime crash. But putting that aside it is worth thinking about a few basic facts. One of the most followed indicators of US residential property values in the US is the Case-Shiller indices for various US cities. Elliott Gue, writing for Investing Daily, cites the Case-Shiller 10-City Home Price Index to show that had home prices in the US kept pace with inflation, they would have had to at least double in the 23 years from 1987, In fact they have gone up by only 150%. That might sound like a lot, but the average annual rate of inflation in the US since 1932 is 3.4% according to the specialist inflation site, Inflationdata.com[1].

An investment of $100,000 in 1932, compounded at that rate would have to achieve ?230,000, or better than 230% growth just in order to keep pace with inflation. Of itself the shortfall between the 150% gains actually achieved by US housing and the 230% required to match inflation over the 23 year period, suggests that property can be considerably less than perfect as an inflation-hedge.

However, the picture for the UK is rather more encouraging. The property specialist Grosvenor, in its Global Outlook: September 2009, noted that the UK IPD All Property Returns (the most followed index on property values) averaged 11.7% a year since 1997, while inflation has averaged 6.8% over that time. While this might seem on the face of it to add credence to the view that property is a good hedge against inflation, Grosvenor adds a cautionary note. There are two kinds of inflation, expected inflation, during periods of low inflation where the general expectation is for inflation to be around 2% to 3%, and unexpected inflation, which occurs when some external shock, such as an oil price crisis, causes a sudden spike in inflation.

Grosvenor argues that property provides a partial hedge against expected inflation, but shows very little resilience in the face of unexpected inflation. In fact property values can crash badly if economies become destabilised by external shocks, as we saw through the 2008/2009 crash, when London property prices fell sharply. From the end of 2003 to the peak of the UK property market in mid-2007, average commercial property prices rose by 43%. This was wiped off almost completely by the end of 2009. Property, as has been demonstrated many times, is vulnerable to cycles of boom and bust, so talk of it as a "hedge" needs to be treated with caution.

[1] Inflationdata.com

Courtesy??Anthony Harrington?via?QFINANCE?(EconMatters author archive?here)


Read the first two of this 3-part series on commercial real estate:
Commercial Real Estate Heading for a Deep Freeze?
Commercial Real Estate: A Two-Speed Market

The views and opinions expressed herein are?the author's own, and do not necessarily reflect those of?EconMatters.

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May revise, Part 3: Educated Guess on the "good news" for K-12 ...

May 15, 2012: John Fensterwald, writing in Educated Guess on Thoughts on Public Education, analyzes the numbers, the policy, and the implications of the "no cuts in K-12 is good news" component of yesterday's released 2012-13 revised CA state budget.

An excerpt:

... Gov. Jerry Brown is not proposing to cut money for K-12?schools ? immediately. But?if voters in November reject Brown?s proposed $8.5 billion tax increase, schools will be a $5.5 billion piece of what the governor has called ?a day of reckoning.?

...Brown ...could have cut Proposition 98 funding for this year by nearly $800 million. But that would have been impractical this far into the year, so instead he is proposing to redesignate the overappropriation as a prepayment toward settling up a debt to schools under an agreement that Gov. Schwarzenegger made with the California Teachers Assn.

One of the quirks of Proposition 98?s funding formula is that the spending commitment to schools can rise even as overall revenues fall. And that is what will happen in the 2012-13 budget. Having fallen substantially in 2011-12, the increase in revenues projected for next year creates a $1.2 billion extra for K-12. But districts shouldn?t count on any of that money coming their way. Brown wants to use $393 million to add to a $2.2 billion fund to pay down the current $9.6 billion in deferrals ? late payments to school districts that are part of Brown?s wall of debt. And he wants to count a $450 million payment to low-performing schools under the Quality Education Investment Act as part of Proposition 98 (it had been paid outside of Prop 98 in other years). Add in a few more adjustments, and, poof!, the money is gone.

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New Media Caucus: Teaching Code through Collaborative ...

Victoria Bradbury
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

Fig. 1 ?? ?Code as Craft? Panel Presentation, Victoria Bradbury, speaking. (Used with permission.)

For many new media artists and educators, coding and teaching are mutually exclusive, ever-evolving crafts. Whether through computer languages or software, we are continually learning and employing new tools. While programming structures enable computers to form a large part of our lives, to most art students, the notion that the medium of code can give form to their work, is a new concept. ?As a professor, I give students the confidence to approach computing in a new way.?I ask them to think beyond the convenient veneer of daily social and academic computer use by?drawing their attention to the limitations of pre-packaged software and the graphic user interface.

Here, I will mention ways that I introduce coding concepts in my introductory computer art classes and discuss a set of special courses that I created in the spring of 2011. ?In these workshops, students explored the creation and implementation of custom software to make art. ?With the objective of creating an interdisciplinary, large-scale collaborative work, students?learned to embrace code as an expressive and craftable medium.

Code and craft are central to my own work, as I often use sculptural materials in tandem with electronics or coded interaction. These images are of my recent Electronic Ginseng project that incorporates sewn drawings, Arduino, and blown glass.

Fig. 2 ??Electronic Ginseng, 2012, Victoria Bradbury, silk, thread, electronics, ? Victoria Bradbury.

Growing up in the 1980?s with a COBOL coder parent, I didn?t perceive a difference between making with digital or physical materials. ??I have always found the transition between the sewing machine and computer code to be a particularly fluent one in my studio. As a teacher, I strive to understand where my students fall on the timeline of digital progress and how this fits into their understanding of craft and new media.? While I have memories of computers before the graphic user interface (GUI), my earliest new media works were made on my family?s first GUI computer, the AppleIIGS (using Fantavision software).? For my current introductory art students who were born around 1993, code has been wholly hidden for their lifetime of computing.

On day one of my Intro to Computer Art course at Ball State University, I introduce the concept of ?code as craft? by discussing the origin of computing as problem-solving through object.? Showing the class a woven rug, I discuss the ancestor of the modern computer, the Jacquard loom. Jacquard?s 1804 loom mechanized the weaving process, allowing designers to program patterns with punched cards that would ?control [the] system automatically so that the loom in effect continually feeds itself with the information it needs to carry out the next row of weaving.? [1] Jacquard?s loom was a direct inspiration to Charles Babbage, credited as the father of the modern computer.? Babbage used Jacquard?s punch card concept in the design of his Analytical Engine; ?the first calculating machine that was capable of being programmed.? [1]

My first Intro to Computer Art project continues to situate the computer as a visceral and performative medium not far removed from the art materials that the students have used before.? We begin the course by ?live-scanning? objects on a moving scanner-bed.? This introduces students to the variability and chance inherent to performativity while a connection is made between physical objects and the final digital work.? As the semester continues, we move to projects in Photoshop, After Effects, and html/CSS (later in tandem with Dreamweaver).? This sequence stems from the need for art students in this required course to develop skills using the software models that have become ubiquitous in art and design.? Andrew Richardson, in his thesis, Truth to Material: Moving from Software to Programming Code as a New Material for Digital Design Practice, discusses the changes that software brought to the field of design. He emphasises the difference between artists using software packages verses programming to create custom works. Richardson writes, ?The development of software as a core part of creative and cultural practice within a single computing environment dominated and unified the approach and process across the creative spectrum, and brought about massive changes to the field of design. Although not universally liked, the influence and ubiquity of [the] shift towards ?cultural software? cannot be underestimated, and the impact of software on culture in general and on graphic design in particular cannot be overemphasized.? [2]

Pre-packaged software mediates our work and translates our analog thoughts and creative actions into the limited range of possibilities offered by the interface. Software dictates what we do, where we click and how we create.? Richardson discusses designers at the onset of computing who were open to incorporating digital tools into their practice, but resisted the primacy of software, saying: ?These designers actively involved themselves directly with the nature and material of digital technology by using programming as part of their practice.? [2]

To open students to new ways of approaching the computer as art, they should be taught to peek under the hood of their digital tools (or at least know there is a hood to peek under).? In an ideal future, computer programming will be taught in early education in tandem with native languages, but the idea that students will arrive in art programs as fluent coders is still far off.? Given this environment, as new media educators, we need to find ways to insert concepts of code into the curriculum. Once student artists learn the basics, they can expand their repertoire and skill sets to shift their practice with evolving semantics. Casey Reas, creator of the Processing language, has said, ?Mastering programming takes many years of hard work, but understanding the basic principles of the medium is within everyone?s grasp.? [2]

Coding concepts can begin to enter the classroom in tandem with software. In an After Effects animation project I emphasize concepts of nesting and parenting.? In web art projects we hand-code html and CSS in a text editor, moving into software only when the students are comfortable with the idea that a website is nothing more than a series of files in folders.? Learning that rich interactive experiences can be created outside of the bounds of pre-packaged software gives the students the confidence to create without it. Reas? Processing and other programming languages for artists, including openFrameworks, Arduino and MAX/MSP/Jitter, have made it more manageable to incorporate coding concepts into the classroom.

Fig. 3 -?Metabellum students, 2011, ? Metabellum.

There are current examples of undergraduate art programs where programming is central to the curriculum, but for many teaching in new media, the infrastructure to teach code in a full-semester course is not fully realized.? In the spring of 2011, my colleague Maura Jasper and I had the opportunity to create several one-credit elective workshops at Ball State that would allow the topics of performativity and code to be explored and practiced in some depth.? Jasper?s course was ?Live Art: Action, Participation and the Everyday? and mine were titled ?Video Live! and Collaborative Electronic Performance with Max/Msp/Jitter.? Our students were drawn from three areas?some from our ?Introduction to Computer Art? courses, others were Jasper?s advanced video majors, and a few were PhD students in electronic music. In my workshops, students practiced programmatic structures and began to think of coding as a choreography of components. The project that developed became an immersive learning collaboration called Metabellum.

Metabellum evolved from a project that was originally developed with glass artist Mark Hursty to coalesce the mediums of video and inflatable sculpture and to mimic hot glass on a grand scale. To begin the collaboration at Ball State, I approached dance instructor Audra Sokol, who had been looking for ways to introduce working with electronic artists to her students.? Sokol invited two other dance faculty, Jenny Showalter and Susan Koper, a musician, Adam Crawley, and five student dancers into the project. In initial discussions we divided the piece into four sections of choreography. We discussed the shape of the air sculptures that each choreographer would use, built prototypes of the forms using plastic sheeting and sewed them in ripstop nylon fabric. The choreographers began to generate movement on the four themes while the coding workshops commenced.

Fig. 4 -?Metabellum Ball Gym Studio, 2011, ? Metabellum.

In dance, the liveness of bodies onstage creates variability in each iteration of a performance.? We wanted this same flux to be present in the code, so I chose to teach Max/Msp/Jitter as the tool to create the software. Jitter offers ?a set of building blocks for creating programs? the user manipulates graphical symbols (called ?objects?), and the embedded, hidden mathematical code moves with them? The user can immediately see? the results of a particular congregation of objects, and accept, reject or modify as appropriate.? [3] The building blocks of Jitter articulate concepts of programming including parenting, nesting, loops, objects and modularity.? It gave us the flexibility to program modules that could be edited as the movement was coded and the piece evolved.

In the workshop classroom, the Jitter platform was introduced and the students began building patches. ?Two students were assigned to each of the four choreographic movements. Their approaches were varied; some used web-cams to create a recursive process projecting the dancers? and audience?s images back on to the scene, some used open GL to generate live 3-D forms, some manipulated their patch using physical buttons and sliders, and others used live-processing on pre-recorded Quicktime videos. We kept the performance loosely scored and many elements wouldn?t be resolved until we were in the performance space.? This modular approach can be likened to object-oriented programming, which Alexander Galloway defines as a ?series of simultaneously generated entities, with each entity possessing its own qualities and actions.? [4] ?Alexander Richardson says, ?Defining objects with their own behaviours which can act upon and interact with other objects? offers important and influential ways of thinking about and structuring code.? [2] And I would add to this, performance. Like the modularity of object-oriented programming, the structure of our project challenged each collaborator to resolve his or her part of the piece so that the elements could come together and still leave room for variability and chance.

Fig. 5 -?Metabellum Ball Gym Studio, 2011, ? Metabellum.

Metabellum was first performed on April 1, 2011, at Ball State?s KDS dance studio. We wanted the audience to identify the relationship between the liveness of the code and the liveness of the dance and inflatable forms. It was important to avoid the perception that the projections were pre-created stage effects or scenery. To make this obvious, the programmers were situated at a conspicuous table downstage.

The group worked on their collaboration over the course of six months.? In the early improvisations, as the choreographers built movement, the electronic artists, sculptor and musician reacted to the dance unilaterally. The interaction between the groups became more conversational as the modularity inherent to the piece allowed it to be presented in two venues outside of the university.

At Ball State, Metabellum?s one-hour format fell between a stage performance and an installation.? The second iteration was presented at Hallwalls Gallery Artists and Models in Buffalo, NY, in May, 2011. This version included two of the four choreographic sections and half of the electronic artists and dancers. The show was in a disused warehouse and the performance lasted for five hours.? This format allowed for a more improvisational mode than the four-part Indiana piece. The third performance was in October, 2011, when part of the group traveled to Brooklyn, NY, for the Triskelion Arts Dance Festival.? In Brooklyn we performed two of the four original sections on consecutive nights.? The small theater setting was different from the Indiana and Buffalo performances.? Here, the electronic artists sat directly on the stage instead of behind a table that separated their bodies and code from the dancers and audience. This difference was experienced as a more reciprocal mode between sound, movement, object, and image.

Fig. 6 -?Metabellum Ball Gym Studio, 2011, ? Metabellum.

In Buffalo, the impact that this code-meets-performance project would have on the students became clear. Because our university is away from a major city, most of the artwork students see is through documentation. Rarely do they get the chance to experience a live performance or installation in a museum or gallery. Despite our classroom efforts to expose them to contemporary practice, nothing can replace first-hand participation in a community of like-minded digital artists.? Buffalo?s Artists and Models put the students among professionals working in the medium of code. They participated in Punch Option 4, a mixed reality fighting game and performance by Timoth Scaffidi, Alice Alexandrescu, Kevin O?Keefe, and Marc Tomco. [5] They saw videos that emerged from custom Jitter patches by Jason Bernagozzi and Eric Souther, and many other programmatic, installation, and performance works. [6] [7] Experiencing these works and meeting the artists moved my students forward in their comprehension of the field and the medium. One student commented on what it was like to be surrounded by people who, in his words, ?think and do exactly what I think about every single day.? He was validated in his aesthetic interests and goals in a way that could not happen in the classroom. The variability of the performances also challenged my students to set up, perform and break down their installation in a professional setting?honing the essential crafts of drills, gaff tape and firewire cables. Video major Kelsey Ebbert said, ?I?ve been so lucky to be a part of three very unique interpretations of Metabellum; each involving a different set of challenges and possibilities for exploring new creative avenues. Travel, troubleshooting, creating and interacting have been just a few of both the stimulating and demanding aspects of this project.? [8]

Fig. 7 -?Metabellum student Kelsey Ebbert, 2011, ? Metabellum.

Those who participated in my workshops or took my introductory computer art class didn?t walk away as fluent programmers, but they did see what could be accomplished, artistically, with code. ?Code as craft transformed their relationship to the digital medium and provided tools for them to continue learning. ?As an artist and professor, I maintain that a more versatile and rewarding approach to computing lies beneath, behind, under, and around the fa?ade of proprietary software in a domain where we engage with code itself. ?The tools in new media may be constantly changing, but the basic concepts are established. ?It?s not Jitter as craft, C++ as craft, Photoshop as craft or html as craft, but code as craft that challenges us to re-present and re-consider the range of media that inform our process.

1. Essinger, James. Jacquard?s Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004).

2. Richardson, Andrew.?Truth to Material: Moving from Software to Programming Code as a New Material for Digital Design Practice? PhD thesis, (University of Sunderland, 2010).

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