Replies to post #472123 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[walleye]

Zeev do you have any near term summer time market thoughts.

is this a sell in may and go away. or the beginnings of a summer rally with the usual fall decline.

thanks

[JimQuinceH]

Zeev, I've got a signal for a "Change Of Direction Point" for June 13th. The market should be up (on balance) from now until June 12th.

Jim

[gravity]

Sometimes it's good to see from whence we've came:
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Posted by: Zeev Hed
In reply to: captaintime who wrote msg# 253 Date:7/7/2002 7:41:56 PM
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I took my profits on SNDK, and may jump back in if it retreats to the sub $12 area, I would say a good chance for a run to just under $15. AAPL, I am still in, and here I am looking for at least 20% ($19.25), but if the rally expands nicely, it could go to the $22 or so area.

Zeev
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[extelecom]

ot, Mobile masts signal rain showers
The signals from mobile phone masts have been used to measure rainfall patterns in Israel, scientists report.

A team from the University of Tel Aviv analysed information routinely collected by mobile networks to make their estimates.

Writing in the journal Science, the researchers say their technique is more accurate than current methods used by meteorological services.

The scientists believe the technique can also measure snowfall, hail or fog.

"It may also be important because if you know there is heavy rainfall - you can warn about floods," Professor Hagit Messer-Yaron, of the University of Tel Aviv, told the BBC News website.

The team's method exploits the fact that the strength of electromagnetic signals is weakened by certain types of weather and particularly rain.

Signal strength

According to Professor Messer-Yaron, the effect was commonly seen in the days before cable television.

"Whenever there was a storm outside, you had a bad picture on your TV," she said. "This is well known."

To make the measurements the researchers analysed data collected automatically at mobile base stations around Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.

It was win-win because we got both coverage and accuracy
Professor Messer-Yaron
The data is a by-product of mobile network operators' need to monitor signal strength.

If bad weather causes a signal to drop, an automatic system analysing the data boosts the signal to make sure that people can still use their mobile phones.

The amount of reduction in signal strength gave the researchers an indication of how much rain had fallen.

When they compared their estimates with measurements from traditional monitoring methods, such as radar and rain gauges, they discovered that the readings from all three closely matched.

But overall the new technique seems to give more precise measurements than radar and was able to monitor a greater area.

"It was win-win because we got both coverage and accuracy," said Professor Messer-Yaron.

Rain gauge

Researchers in the UK and the rest of Europe have already demonstrated similar achievements.

And scientists at the Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG) - part of the University of Nottingham - have also shown that the delays in signals from global positioning satellites are a good measure of atmospheric humidity.

However, the team from Tel Aviv University believes one of the advantages of its method is that it can measure rainfall at the surface and the technique therefore gives an accurate picture of the weather on the ground.

At the moment, meteorological services have to use rain gauges, which are expensive and therefore not widespread.

But the information necessary for this novel approach is effectively free, continuous and comes from a dense network of masts that already span almost the entire globe.

Professor Messer-Yaron believes the technique could act as a cheap and valuable complement to existing systems for meteorological services.

The next step for the team is to make use of the mobile phone users themselves - to start analysing their signal data to see if even greater accuracies can be achieved.

To do this, Professor Messer-Yaron must work out how to differentiate between changes in signal strength that are due to mobile phone users moving around and those that are due to weather conditions.

"This is a scientific challenge that is still ahead of us, but I believe it is possible," she said.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/4974542.stm

Published: 2006/05/05 12:04:12 GMT

[brister]

ELOS reports tuesday morning rather than Monday morning
/ CORRECTION - Syneron Medical Ltd.

YOKNEAM, ISRAEL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 04/25/2006 -- In the news release, "Syneron Medical to Announce First Quarter 2006 Financial Results on May 9, 2006," issued Monday, 04/24/2006 by Syneron Medical Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELOS), we are advised by the company that the first sentence of the first paragraph should read "Syneron Medical Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELOS), an innovator in the development, marketing and sales of elos™ combined-energy medical aesthetic devices, today announced that it will release its financial results for the first quarter of 2006 before market opening on Tuesday, May 9th 2006" rather than "Syneron Medical Ltd. (NASDAQ: ELOS), an innovator in the development, marketing and sales of elos™ combined-energy medical aesthetic devices, today announced that it will release its financial results for the first quarter of 2006 before market opening on Monday, May 9th 2006" as originally issued. Complete corrected text follows.