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The future of TV isn't in an HBO boardroom or on the CBS lot in Studio City; it's not sitting on Aaron Sorkin's laptop or buried deep in Dan Harmon's Tumblr archive. It's next door to a Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood—the corner lot of low-slung real estate that online-video juggernaut Machinima calls home.
Inside, the decor is pre-post-collegiate: arcade games, fanboy swag, and the occasional wafting odor of recently nuked pizza pockets. One executive's office features a wall sculpture of Han Solo encased in carbonite. The place brings to mind the world's largest man cave.
Yet it's one of the biggest online video producers there are. In December 2012, Machinima-related properties scored 262 million unique viewers worldwide and 2.6 billion video views. In the previous 12 months, the network was viewed more than 20 billion times. During 2012's E3 videogame convention, it racked up 14.4 million unique views on one day alone and 455 million total video views for the week. For nine of the 12 months in 2012, ComScore's Video Metrix service ranked it the number one independent channel on YouTube.
Not bad for a never-ending highlight reel.
Machinima traffics in videos of people playing videogames, often with voice-overs by the players. In the past three years, these have become one of the dominant forms of entertainment for males between the ages of 18 and 34. And Machinima has the market cornered. "They've done a great job of taking the value of the Internet, targeting a specific group with a specific kind of content, and monetizing it," says Dan Rayburn, an analyst at business consultancy Frost & Sullivan. "Those guys have been killing it."
And they did it all without much of a homepage. The site, Machinima.com, is almost the exact opposite of a network platform; it's essentially just a placeholder linking to several discrete YouTube channels, each devoted to a different kind of video. There's Respawn, about first-person shooter games; Realm, about fantasy and role-playing games; Sports; VS, which covers the world of competitive gaming; and a channel devoted largely to videogame trailers. Outside of gaming there's Prime, which hosts original entertainment, like a web series about ultraviolent arm-wrestling and a foul-mouthed prank show made in conjunction with Ashton Kutcher's production company, Katalyst Network. Machinima also has a full Adult Swim-like animation block in which it streams gamer-themed series with titles such as Battlefield Friends, Sanity Not Included, and Gamer Poop. "Team Respawn," a group of hosts on the Respawn channel, recently announced a new spinoff, which will showcase at least five livestreams featuring players from around the world and airing seven days a week.
Machinima gets almost all of this content from video-making enthusiasts around the world. It has enrolled more than 6,000 people, each of whom operates an independent channel. Here's how it works: People post videos on YouTube. They market themselves and build an audience. If they reach a certain viewership threshold or their content achieves some undefined level of professionalism, Machinima asks them to become a network affiliate. Beyond that, 130 people have ascended to hallowed "director" status. Rob Jones, Machinima's vice president of gaming programming, likens it to a farm system in sports—and indeed, aspiring auteurs speak about getting called up to Machinima as though it's the big leagues.
Once Machinima signs someone as a director, it gets to claim those YouTube views as part of its aggregate viewership numbers. In return, directors can take advantage of the company's substantial marketing apparatus and growing independent ad sales force. Machinima skims a percentage; it won't say how much. "We always want to make sure we are offering a solid deal, because it's such a competitive market," says Ryan Wyatt, Machinima's 26-year-old head of live programming and eSports.
A director's content sometimes gets promoted to the regular lineup on one of the Machinima channels—usually Respawn or Realm, which have the highest traffic thanks to the visibility of first-person shooters and role-playing games. "It's part of a larger cultural shift in gaming," Jones says. "This generation doesn't watch television in the same way. They want to create. We're giving them something that television isn't."
Respawn occupies a large bull pen in the Machinima offices. A huge whiteboard on the wall lists the week's programming. Every day there's at least one show made in-house and several, indicated in blue marker, that come from the directors' program. In late July those included such selections as "Top 10 Kills" and "MW3 Top 3 Fails" (a reference to the wildly popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3). A show called Passive Aggression, in which a group of gamers attempt to win first-person shooters without killing anybody, has been popular for the past few months. Sometimes shows last only 10 to 12 episodes before fizzling out. Sometimes they last for years.
From Niche to Network
The tradition of making videos out of gameplay has its roots in '80s computing subculture. But machinima has evolved into an art form for a broad swath of the gaming masses. Here's how it made the big time. —Cameron Bird
Commodore 64
Young coders begin cracking copy-protected computer games to program their own intros. They move on to 8-bit home computers, giving rise to the "demo scene."
Stunt Island
The flight simulator from Disney Interactive features a tool that allows players to film and edit footage of their aerial feats. A CompuServe-era text file serves as the online encyclopedia of gameplay tips and tricks.
Id Software's first-person shooter is released and includes robust systems for modding levels and recording gameplay.
Id's Quake accommodates player-created utilities like Remaic, which allows modders to change camera views in real time while watching playback videos.
Big Debut
Machinima.com launches, calling itself a hub for a "new form of ultra-low-budget computer-generated filmmaking that's set to revolutionize the world of movies." The site's first film, Quad God (made with the Quake III engine), is inspired by John Woo and runs 33 minutes.
Best Picture
The first Machinima Film Festival rolls into Mesquite, Texas, and Anachronox: The Movie—based on the RPG of the same name—takes Best Picture.
Red vs. Blue
A creative collective called Rooster Teeth releases episode one of Red vs. Blue, a machinima comedy starring color-coded soldiers from the Xbox game Halo.
Bold Purchase
Allen DeBevoise, a computer animator on the original Tron, buys Machinima.com, seeing it as a possible MTV of videogame culture.
Machinima.com migrates to the video website and offers its first original series for the platform: Pathfinders.
Major Release
Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series, coproduced with Warner Bros.' direct-to-video division, becomes available on iTunes.
Record Views
The first episode of Mortal Kombat: Legacy, a live-action dramatization of the fighting game, is released. It's grown into Machinima's most watched creation of all time with 18.4 million views.
Growing Pains
Machinima receives $35 million in venture capital on top of $14.5 million in three previous rounds. In December it cuts editorial staff by 10 percent while announcing hiring across sales, marketing, and product divisions.
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Images Courtesy of: Commodore 64: Evan Amos; Doom, Remaic: Bethesda Software; Red vs. Blue: Rooster Teeth Prod; YouTube: Machinima; Major Release: Warner Premiere; Growing Pains: Warner Bros Digital.
Unlike conventional TV, where the idea is for directors to get onto a network and stay there as long as possible, the ultimate goal for Machinima directors is to build a brand and then establish an autonomous (though still affiliated) channel. Machinima is perfectly happy to develop these guys, let them go off on their own as "partners," and then take a small percentage of their ad revenue. There's always a new crop of directors to nurture.
It's a medium where content providers can be whoever they want. Take Toby Turner, who got his start making commercial parodies while a student at the University of Florida. After graduation, he moved to LA to take a job doing search engine optimization. In the meantime, he started posting comedy videos on YouTube. But it was his "stumblethroughs," posted under the handle TobyGames, that made him a Machinima star. "I was one of the first people who didn't take it too seriously," he says. "I had a different outlook on the idea of gameplay videos. I was just trying to re-create what my brother and I had when we were younger." He posted episodes of his series, Toby Sucks at Gaming, nearly every day, and a year later he had a hit. Today he runs three separate channels, which together let him earn a living. "I don't have to have another job," he says. "I can focus on entertainment and just keep the machine going. I wake up every day and think, my God, how is this happening?"
CEO Allen DeBevoise would say that it's happening because Machinima operates like the Internet instead of a traditional TV network. "It's not as though we're swinging for the fences every time," he says. "It's a set of concentric circles. Traditional media goes for everyone right up front, as opposed to thinking about it more organically."
Still, he dreams of the day when Machinima will be able to develop its own Game of Thrones or Walking Dead, that breakout hit that blows up into the larger culture. "That's certainly our ambition," he says. "But we'll do it in a more rational way. We're not going to spend $5 million an episode and order 13 episodes; we can't play that game."
Not yet, anyway. But Machinima has begun hosting original series, with budgets approaching those of cheaper basic-cable-channel shows. In the run-up to the launch of Halo 4 last November, it coproduced a live-action web series with Microsoft Studios called Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, which garnered 26 million views in just over five weeks. Immediately after that, it launched Blood and Chrome, a full-dress prequel to the hugely popular Battlestar Galactica reboot. Suddenly Machinima is starting to look less like a multichannel YouTube network and more like an actual TV network. And for a company that's built on the fast-twitch reflexes of young gamers, that means growing up.
It turns out growing up can be hard.
The word machinima goes back more than a decade. A portmanteau of machine and cinema, it was coined to describe the animated clips people made by harnessing the power of videogame engines. At the turn of the 21st century, many of the practitioners of this nascent art form posted their work on a website, Machinima.com. The site sat there, hosting videos and providing support but not making money. It was, in other words, ripe for the plucking.
Along came Allen DeBevoise, a computer animator who'd worked on the original Tron movie. A former coworker showed him some of the Machinima animation; DeBevoise liked what he saw from a technical standpoint and admired how quickly the company was able to pump out videos, but the content seemed a bit niche to him. And then he had his big idea. "They thought about it as an inexpensive way of doing animation," he says. "I looked at it and saw an opportunity."
Games were growing more sophisticated and cinematic, and fans were growing more rabid about them. Underneath that fertile cultural loam, DeBevoise thought, sat the seeds of a media business the likes of which didn't come along that often—a 21st-century answer to MTV. "I thought, well, broadband will rise," he says. "And there's this funny video format called machinima—it's not really the game itself, just like the music video isn't really the music itself. We can build an entertainment lifestyle brand out of that culture."
For months Machinima muddled along in obscurity. Technology hadn't caught up to DeBevoise's idea. Then Google bought YouTube and online video went mainstream. "We started thinking of YouTube the way a cable network thinks of a satellite provider," DeBevoise says. It was, in essence, a pipeline. Showcasing Machinima content there, rather than on a web address that no one knew or cared about, was an easy decision.
Soon Machinima was hosting and promoting videos about Halo and several other popular videogame franchises: Call of Duty, Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto, and any number of sports and driving games. When smartphones and tablets appeared, DeBevoise, now Machinima's CEO, suddenly found himself operating a legitimate media business on a global scale. "The old model in the US was that there are 100 million households, and you go home and watch your television when the broadcasters and networks tell you to," he says. "We're now in a world where we're global, and we show up on whatever device you care about. If you're on a mobile device, a connected television, a computer—it doesn't matter to us. It's a billion devices rather than 100 million homes." Still, he says, "we never predicted these kinds of numbers this fast."
Must-Play TV
While TV networks have struggled to capture 18- to 34-year-old males, Machinima has swooped in. The company transformed itself into a network with 6,000-plus channels and more than 23 billion views in 2012. And it's all hosted on YouTube. Here's a rundown of its premium channels.—C.B.
There haven't been a lot of sad days in the history of Machinima, but Friday, December 14, 2012, was one. That morning, management announced it was terminating several employees, most of them in-house video producers and content creators, including five of the six employees who make Inside Gaming, one of the multichannel network's longest-running programs and among the web's most reliable, if amateurish, sources for videogame news and comedy. The crew members simply cleared off their sci-fi-swag- covered desks and disappeared. It was a tough pill, especially since they hadn't been laid off because of financial problems.
If anything, the company was doing better than ever, with annual revenue in the "high eight figures," as DeBevoise puts it. In fact, the same week as the firings, Machinima announced that it was hiring Debbie Menin, then lead of entertainment and travel at Yahoo, to head its television operations. Shortly thereafter came the news that Machinima would also be hiring salespeople for its international advertising division. It had already launched a Spanish-language edition of Inside Gaming as well as a Portuguese version shot in Brazil. The company announced a second season of an original video series called Mortal Kombat: Legacy, which it was producing in partnership with Warner Bros. Machinima was playing games with the big boys now.
"We hate to see anybody go," said Jay Sampson, Machinima's executive vice president of global ad sales and marketing, a few weeks later, "but it happens a lot in Hollywood—one show gets canceled and another goes into production. We're moving away from these YouTube 1.0-style shows to do more serialized, episodic, high-quality programs. It's always unfortunate to have team members displaced, but it's just an evolution of how premium content is becoming more prevalent on the web."
One unspoken advantage of moving away from those "YouTube 1.0-style shows"—and one that Machinima is understandably staying mum on—is the commensurate quieting of director dissent. Over the past year or so, there's been a trickle of high-profile departures by directors who objected to Machinima's contract, which locked some of them into a lifelong arrangement. Meanwhile, in recent months Machinima has been partnering with traditional cable networks to create content designed to boost fan interest. In 2011, to coincide with the season-two premiere of The Walking Dead, it did a web series that got more than 6 million views. In November, National Geographic Channel asked Machinima to create a "Doomsday-themed" video to cross-promote its new show Doomsday Preppers. Machinima hired its most popular directing partner, a Georgia guy who goes by the name of FPSRussia and spends most of his video time blowing things up with a frightening array of military weapons. Doomsday Preppers was the highest-rated premiere in the channel's history, with more than a million viewers. The FPSRussia video, on the other hand, garnered 5.5 million views. (In a tragic irony, FPSRussia's partner and producer was found shot to death in his office in January, surrounded by guns. The police are investigating the death as a homicide.)
This, more than anything else, points to the company's future. There are even hints that premium subscriptions may be in the offing. "People will engage with really high-quality content, and they're willing to pay," says Geoff Yang of Redpoint Ventures, one of Machinima's largest investors. "Machinima's programs have up to now been free. But the business models will be forced to change and evolve. It's probably healthy."
Scott Robison, head of production for Machinima Respawn (where he's known as Mr. Sark, his Xbox gamer tag), agrees with that sentiment. Robison, 36, is older than the average Machinima employee and worked in TV for more than a decade before moving to the web. With a grown-up channel comes grown-up choices, he says: "Machinima is starting to tighten its tie and get things in order. We've got to get organized. It's an incredibly narrow path that you have to walk. The trick is to be honest, but you also need to somehow get Doritos to give you $10 million."
The layoffs that happened in December, Robison says, were part of that tie-tightening. As beloved as the Inside Gamers were in the office, their show wasn't adding nearly as much value to the company as a well-rated partner like Tobuscus or FPSRussia, not to mention a high-end web series in the Battlestar Galactica franchise. "The bottom line is there's more money at stake," he says. "Machinima feels more like a company trying to take things to the next level than a bohemian Internet video fun house." No one knows what the man-cave will look like once the renovation dust clears, but there will be a lot more inside than just videogames.
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I am having trouble understanding how x°=1, for any value of x.
I can understand it algebraically:
x^m ÷ x^m = 1
x^m ÷ x^m = x^m-m = x°
∴ x° = 1
But I cannot understand how any number multiplied by itself 0 times would give 1? It doesn't make much sense logically to me. Can anyone explain how this works (bearing in mind i am 15 - so not too complicated please)?
Thank you.
Last edited by Daniel123 (2007-05-23 21:05:44)
well, easiest way to think about is to look at it like a series:
as you go down the series, you divide by n, n/n = 1
as you go up the series, you multiply by n, 1/n*n = 1
example there, as you go down, you divide by 2, 8->4->2->1->0.5->0.25
same going up, the only number that makes sense is 1.
the only time it doesnt really apply is in 0^0, but to keep it consistent, we say that 0^0 = 1 aswell, although often, youll just see it as undefined aswell.
Last edited by luca-deltodesco (2007-05-23 21:16:41)
The Beginning Of All Things To End.
The End Of All Things To Come.
This 0^0 thing really confuses me. It needs to be 1 to be consistent with Luca's sequence, but then it breaks this one:
0^3 = 0
0^2 = 0
0^1 = 0
0^0 = 1?
And to add even more confusion in there, as well as arguing whether it's 0 or 1, some people say that it's neither. But then those people argue about whether it's undefined or indeterminate.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
Ok so i can now see why x°=1
but you have totally confused me with the 0^0 thing!
Thats given me something to think about!
Im just wondering, in other bases, e.g. base-6, would 0 have the same value? I find it imposible to understand other bases.... and just out of curiosity, why did we choose base-10? Would mathematical rules still be the same if other bases were used?
To understand other bases I made a simple little "base counting" flash thingy here: Binary, Decimal and Hexadecimal Numbers
(Look for "Why not try it yourself?", and then make the thing count for you in base-2 then base-3 etc up to base-10)
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
Typically, 0^0 is left undefined.
As for bases, think of numbers simply as symbols. So we start out defining "1" as the symbol for the first number (integer). Then we define the symbol "2" to stand for 1 + 1. And "3" simply means "2 + 1", or rather, "1 + 1 + 1". And so on.
So it makes no difference whether you use 0101 to represent 5 in binary, or 387 to represent 322 in base 9. They are just symbols and nothing more.
We most likely use base 10 because of the 10 digits (fingers) we have. But other cultures have used things such as base 60 in the past.
Why do computer scientists always get Halloween and Christmas mixed up?
'Cause 31 (Oct) = 25 (Dec)
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
Thanks both of you it has really helped my understanding
Typically, 0^0 is left undefined.
The exponential series equates it to one, which I believe is the limit, rather than zero.
Neither here nor there really
Ignoring official laws, I'd say x^0 where x is a number, is typically 0, because take a. a multiplied 0 times is:
.... Or nothing. Proven.
I shall be on leave until I say so...
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I'm not sure if this thread has been posted before even though I've seen some similar posts (if yes, mods please merge them when you're free, thanks! ).
I've seen this in another forum and I think it's a good idea to gather all the useful online resources pertaining to the topic of our discussion in a single thread.
Here're some of the URLs:
A complete English translation of SGYY by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor with commentary by Dr Rafe de Crespigny
Online Chinese version of SGZ without Pei Song Zhi's commentaries. Good for Chinese readers but useless for people who don't know Chinese.
Another online Chinese version of SGZ, but this time, there's Pei Song Zhi's commentaries.
Online Chinese version of the Book of Later Han (containing biographies and other stuffs pertaining to the Eastern/Later Han period, i.e. starting from Liu Xiu till the end of Liu Xie). Some sections of it maybe useful as cross-referencing materials when analysing the Three Kingdoms Period.
Online Chinese version of Zi Zi Tong Jian. A historical compilation by Sima Guang. Some sections of it maybe useful as cross-referencing materials when analysing the Three Kingdoms Period.
A website describing briefly each of the Chinese dynasties. Good for beginner who wants to know about Chinese history, including the Three Kingdoms Period.
The Later Han Military Organization by Rafe de Crespigny
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When: 6:30pm Thursday April 2nd, 2009
Where: CBS Interactive – 235 2nd Street San Francisco, CA
RSVP: Diving into the Yahoo! Open Stack
Join the SF PHP Meetup for an exploration into the Yahoo! Open Stack and learn how to leverage Yahoo's platforms and scalability to build your next application. We will examine the components that make up Yahoo's open stack: developer tools (YUI), data apis (YQL, BOSS), social apis, and the application platform (YAP).
- Overview
- What is the Yahoo! Open Stack?
- Developer Tools – YUI, Tutorials
- YOS SDK for PHP
- Data APIs – YQL, BOSS …
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Nimitz Strike Group Stops in Pearl Harbor
- Training & Education
Just a few days shy of the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor, Sailors and Marines manned the rails of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) as they entered the harbor Dec. 3.
Passing by the USS Arizona memorial, the crew on board Nimitz paid tribute to their fallen comrades in the hallowed waters below.
"It really is surreal," said Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class Daniel Routhier, assigned to the "Wolf Pack" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 75, one of eight squadrons assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11, embarked on Nimitz.
Routhier, who has experienced paying honors to Arizona before, said doing so gave him an immense amount of pride in the Navy, and in being able to continue the tradition of saluting the memorial.
Interior Communications Electrician 2nd Class Michalle Boyce manned the rails of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) while passing the Arizona in 2004, and has volunteered to do so with every opportunity she has since been given. Boyce's grandfather served on the USS Oklahoma during the attack, and being able to render a salute to the Sailors lost in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack has become a point of personal pride.
"Every time I stand up there I feel goosebumps when we pass the Arizona," Boyce said. "It is a very powerful experience."
Nimitz, along with embarked Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 11, CVW- 11 and Destroyer Squadron 23 made the brief stop while headed home after an eight-and-a-half month deployment to the U.S. 5th, 6th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibilities (AORs).
"I am especially proud of our crew, and all the work they have done over the duration of this deployment," said Rear Adm. Michael S. White, commander, CSG 11.
Upon departing Pearl Harbor, Nimitz is scheduled to continue east toward San Diego, before returning home to Everett, Wash., before the end of the year.
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Paragraphs must have the same indentation -- that is, line up at their left edge. Paragraphs that start indented will result in indented quote paragraphs. For example:: This is a paragraph. It's quite short. This paragraph will result in an indented block of text, typically used for quoting other text. This is another one. Results in: This is a paragraph. It's quite short. This paragraph will result in an indented block of text, typically used for quoting other text. This is another one. __ quickref.html#paragraphs Text styles ----------- (quickref__) __ quickref.html#inline-markup Inside paragraphs and other bodies of text, you may additionally mark text for *italics* with "``*italics*``" or **bold** with "``**bold**``". If you want something to appear as a fixed-space literal, use "````double back-quotes````". Note that no further fiddling is done inside the double back-quotes -- so asterisks "``*``" etc. are left alone. If you find that you want to use one of the "special" characters in text, it will generally be OK -- reStructuredText is pretty smart. For example, this * asterisk is handled just fine. If you actually want text \*surrounded by asterisks* to **not** be italicised, then you need to indicate that the asterisk is not special. You do this by placing a backslash just before it, like so "``\*``" (quickref__), or by enclosing it in double back-quotes (inline literals), like this:: ``\*`` __ quickref.html#escaping Lists ----- Lists of items come in three main flavours: **enumerated**, **bulleted** and **definitions**. In all list cases, you may have as many paragraphs, sublists, etc. as you want, as long as the left-hand side of the paragraph or whatever aligns with the first line of text in the list item. Lists must always start a new paragraph -- that is, they must appear after a blank line. **enumerated** lists (numbers, letters or roman numerals; quickref__) __ quickref.html#enumerated-lists Start a line off with a number or letter followed by a period ".", right bracket ")" or surrounded by brackets "( )" -- whatever you're comfortable with. All of the following forms are recognised:: 1. numbers A. upper-case letters and it goes over many lines with two paragraphs and all! a. lower-case letters 3. with a sub-list starting at a different number 4. make sure the numbers are in the correct sequence though! I. upper-case roman numerals i. lower-case roman numerals (1) numbers again 1) and again Results in (note: the different enumerated list styles are not always supported by every web browser, so you may not get the full effect here): 1. numbers A. upper-case letters and it goes over many lines with two paragraphs and all! a. lower-case letters 3. with a sub-list starting at a different number 4. make sure the numbers are in the correct sequence though! I. upper-case roman numerals i. lower-case roman numerals (1) numbers again 1) and again **bulleted** lists (quickref__) __ quickref.html#bullet-lists Just like enumerated lists, start the line off with a bullet point character - either "-", "+" or "*":: * a bullet point using "*" - a sub-list using "-" + yet another sub-list - another item Results in: * a bullet point using "*" - a sub-list using "-" + yet another sub-list - another item **definition** lists (quickref__) __ quickref.html#definition-lists Unlike the other two, the definition lists consist of a term, and the definition of that term. The format of a definition list is:: what Definition lists associate a term with a definition. *how* The term is a one-line phrase, and the definition is one or more paragraphs or body elements, indented relative to the term. Blank lines are not allowed between term and definition. Results in: what Definition lists associate a term with a definition. *how* The term is a one-line phrase, and the definition is one or more paragraphs or body elements, indented relative to the term. Blank lines are not allowed between term and definition. Preformatting (code samples) ---------------------------- (quickref__) __ quickref.html#literal-blocks To just include a chunk of preformatted, never-to-be-fiddled-with text, finish the prior paragraph with "``::``". The preformatted block is finished when the text falls back to the same indentation level as a paragraph prior to the preformatted block. For example:: An example:: Whitespace, newlines, blank lines, and all kinds of markup (like *this* or \this) is preserved by literal blocks. Lookie here, I've dropped an indentation level (but not far enough) no more example Results in: An example:: Whitespace, newlines, blank lines, and all kinds of markup (like *this* or \this) is preserved by literal blocks. Lookie here, I've dropped an indentation level (but not far enough) no more example Note that if a paragraph consists only of "``::``", then it's removed from the output:: :: This is preformatted text, and the last "::" paragraph is removed Results in: :: This is preformatted text, and the last "::" paragraph is removed Sections -------- (quickref__) __ quickref.html#section-structure To break longer text up into sections, you use **section headers**. These are a single line of text (one or more words) with adornment: an underline alone, or an underline and an overline together, in dashes "``-----``", equals "``======``", tildes "``~~~~~~``" or any of the non-alphanumeric characters ``= - ` : ' " ~ ^ _ * + # < >`` that you feel comfortable with. An underline-only adornment is distinct from an overline-and-underline adornment using the same character. The underline/overline must be at least as long as the title text. Be consistent, since all sections marked with the same adornment style are deemed to be at the same level:: Chapter 1 Title =============== Section 1.1 Title ----------------- Subsection 1.1.1 Title ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Section 1.2 Title ----------------- Chapter 2 Title =============== This results in the following structure, illustrated by simplified pseudo-XML:: <section> <title> Chapter 1 Title <section> <title> Section 1.1 Title <section> <title> Subsection 1.1.1 Title <section> <title> Section 1.2 Title <section> <title> Chapter 2 Title (Pseudo-XML uses indentation for nesting and has no end-tags. It's not possible to show actual processed output, as in the other examples, because sections cannot exist inside block quotes. For a concrete example, compare the section structure of this document's source text and processed output.) Note that section headers are available as link targets, just using their name. To link to the Lists_ heading, I write "``Lists_``". If the heading has a space in it like `text styles`_, we need to quote the heading "```text styles`_``". Document Title / Subtitle ````````````````````````` The title of the whole document is distinct from section titles and may be formatted somewhat differently (e.g. the HTML writer by default shows it as a centered heading). To indicate the document title in reStructuredText, use a unique adornment style at the beginning of the document. To indicate the document subtitle, use another unique adornment style immediately after the document title. For example:: ================ Document Title ================ ---------- Subtitle ---------- Section Title ============= ... Note that "Document Title" and "Section Title" above both use equals signs, but are distict and unrelated styles. The text of overline-and-underlined titles (but not underlined-only) may be inset for aesthetics. Images ------ (quickref__) __ quickref.html#directives To include an image in your document, you use the the ``image`` directive__. For example:: .. image:: images/biohazard.png results in: .. image:: images/biohazard.png The ``images/biohazard.png`` part indicates the filename of the image you wish to appear in the document. There's no restriction placed on the image (format, size etc). If the image is to appear in HTML and you wish to supply additional information, you may:: .. image:: images/biohazard.png :height: 100 :width: 200 :scale: 50 :alt: alternate text See the full `image directive documentation`__ for more info. __ ../../ref/rst/directives.html __ ../../ref/rst/directives.html#images What Next? ---------- This primer introduces the most common features of reStructuredText, but there are a lot more to explore. The `Quick reStructuredText`_ user reference is a good place to go next. For complete details, the `reStructuredText Markup Specification`_ is the place to go [#]_. Users who have questions or need assistance with Docutils or reStructuredText should `post a message`_ to the `Docutils-Users mailing list`_. The `Docutils project web site`_ has more information. .. [#] If that relative link doesn't work, try the master document: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html. .. _reStructuredText Markup Specification: ../../ref/rst/restructuredtext.html .. _post a message: mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com .. _Docutils-Users mailing list: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/docutils-users .. _Docutils project web site: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
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David Gorgani | KF 17 | Dominican Republic
As readers of this blog, you're all surely familiar with the controversy surrounding microlending. Of course, it's easy to criticize the high-interest backdrop of loans that are designed to help the poor lift themselves out of poverty.
As you have probably read in this very blog, there are many explanations for this trend (see this post by Julie Kerr (KF16) for examples of why providing this capital is no cheap task, and this post by Kate Bennett (KF15) for an example of the alternatives for marginalized poor that need capital.) But I'm not writing this post to discuss interest rates, I'm writing this post to discuss the many other services that MFIs provide. Regardless of how you feel about microlending as such, it's hard to deny the positive effects of the multitude of other services provided by MFIs worldwide.
What kinds of services, you ask? Well, the list is long, remarkably innovative, and best of all, tailored to the realities of the unique communities in which each MFI operates. In addition to the almost standard money management and business management training, take for example:
BRAC Liberia's health training for community leaders, to subsequently provide health assistance to their communities in the form of identification of illness, basic treatment, and referral to the appropriate clinics.
ASI's provision of income tax training to low-income populations in and around New Orleans.
Hluvuku-ADSEMA's leasing of agricultural machinery (specifically tractors) to micro agribusiness and subsistence farmers during the harvesting season in Mozambique, in an effort to reduce the cost of crops that are typically harvested by hand, with the ultimate goal of helping local produce compete with cheaper imported produce.
Esperanza International's provision of Spanish literacy courses targeted specifically to the Creole-speaking Hatian population in the Dominican Republic.
So I know what you're thinking. Kiva is straight-up microcredit, right? Just loans, no additional services? Well, yes and no. Just like any institution, be it for-profit or not-for-profit, Microfinance Institutions have a bottom line. By supporting them with capital at 0% interest (i.e. through Kiva) you're supporting their entire portfolio, and thus expanding their ability to provide these (mostly free) additional services.
It's also important to note that Kiva is very picky in choosing its Field Partners. As the world's most-visited microlending website, many MFIs want to join the ranks of Kiva's Field Partners and the increasing number of field partner applications gives Kiva the luxury of choosing based in part on these factors:
Client Protection Principles. All of Kiva's Field Partners are required to endorse the Smart Campaign's Client Protection Principles, which are designed to remove the dark side of microfinance (e.g. overindebtedness, unfair pricing schemes, lack of transparency, etc) from the equation. Kiva has also begun a process of ensuring that field partners are complying with these principles, which many of us Fellows are currently implementing in a pilot phase.
Social Performance. Through Kiva's Social Performance evaluations, lenders have the ability to tailor their loan portfolio based on which of the seven principles are most important to them.
The bottom line: local MFIs provide local solutions to local problems, both financial and otherwise, and by supporting socially-conscious local institutions with capital at 0% interest (i.e. through Kiva) you're supporting their overall portfolio.
Just like any form of international development, microfinance has its flaws. However, if you choose where to lend wisely (which Kiva makes it easy to do) you're not only supporting the clients receiving your loans, you're also supporting institutions that strive to improve the quality of life of their clients with many services in addition to loans.
David Gorgani is a Kiva Fellow serving in the Dominican Republic, helping ASPIRE get started as a Kiva Field Partner, helping Esperanza International with borrower verifications, and attempting to learn salsa and merengue on the side.


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Country singer Randy Travis is in critical condition at a hospital in Texas, according to his publicist.
The 54-year-old, six-time Grammy winner is suffering from complications of recently acquired viral cardiomyopathy and was admitted Sunday.
Travis' publicist released this statement Tuesday:
The latest news from around North Texas.
Contrary to reports, Randy Travis has not undergone heart surgery. Travis is being treated for viral cardiomyopathy. Travis was admitted into a Texas hospital on Sunday and underwent placement of an IMPELLA peripheral left ventricular assist device for stabilization prior to transferring hospitals.
The Grammy winner remains in critical condition.
"We are very thankful to the fans for their love and support during this time," says Randy Travis.
Cards and well wishes can be sent to:
Randy Travis
266 Blanks Road
Tioga, Texas 76271
Movie producer Justin Lowe told NBC 5 that Travis' tour bus is parked across from Baylor Heart Hospital in Plano and confirms Travis had surgery there.
Lowe and so many others are now pulling for Travis's recovery.
"He's a great guy, awesome guy, and great actor," said Lowe, who added that he's been working on shooting a country-themed movie with the legendary singer. "He's the greatest country singer, ever. We hope he gets well soon."
Travis may have a tough health battle ahead. Travis' sister-in-law, Teresa Traywick told People Magazine, "Our prayers are going out to him because my husband just had a heart attack last year, so it is in their family."
Traywick went on to say, "Their mother passed away at an early age with her heart, so it is like these boys are following right in their footsteps."
Fellow singers are tweeting well wishes.
Sending healing strength and love to you this morning @randytravis -KU — Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) July 9, 2013
And Plano native Lance Armstrong added:
Thoughts go out to @randytravis. Heal up soon my man! One of country music's greatest voices ever. — Lance Armstrong (@lancearmstrong) July 9, 2013
Travis was in the middle of a tour. While he remains hospitalized, his tour is on hold.
What is Cardiomyopathy?
"Cardiomyopathy is the term for any disease of the heart muscle that interferes with the heart's ability to pump blood with sufficient force," according to Johns Hopkins Medicine. Travis' condition, which is viral, was caused by an infection in the heart.
Dr. Mark Thompson, a cardiologist at Methodist Dallas, said viral cardiomyopathy is a serious condition. Cardiomyopathy is "a disease that leads to the heart becoming dilated, becoming weak and becoming ineffective at pumping blood through the body," he said.
Forms of treatment include a transplant or a device that helps the heart function.
"A lot of times, cardiomyopathy is not something you can easily recover from," Thompson said.
Travis' Tough Times and Turnaround
The illness is a continuation of a tough run for the "Three Wooden Crosses" singer after a handful of recent high-profile appearances, including a performance during the Country Music Association Festival's nightly concert series.
Travis had also performed at the memorial service for slain ex-Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in February.
Travis pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in January following his arrest last year when he was found naked after crashing his Pontiac Trans Am.
Travis was sentenced to two years of probation, fined $2,000 and given a 180-day suspended jail sentence. He was required to spend at least 30 days at an alcohol treatment facility and complete 100 hours of community service.
In August 2012, he was cited after a dustup at a church in the parking lot of Prestonwood Baptist Church.
In November, Travis said through his attorney that he had put together a personal program to get sober. He had also returned to the recording studio.
"He's had a tremendous impact on country music and continues to have an impact on the people he's influenced," said Chris Huff, a KSCS-FM DJ.
NBC 5's Kendra Lyn and Ray Villeda contributed to this report.


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There is a discussion on the Star-News blog about Monrovia being in the best shape to win its first championship after like, seven or eight finals trips. I'm sorry to say it, but they're not getting to the finals.
Mid-Valley rankings 1. Monrovia, 2. San Dimas, 3. Azusa, 4. Baldwin Park, 5. Paraclete, 6. San Marino, 7. Village Christian, 8. Arroyo, 9. Gladstone, 10. La Puente.
Message to Monrovia: I post these rankings to show the championship is going to be San Dimas and Paraclete. Sorry MTown, Paraclete is a different animal and its a shame that because they lost to some very tough teams, they will probably get the No. 4 seed when the playoffs start, which means they will knock off No. 1 Monrovia in the semis. I'm guessing No. 2 San Dimas will beat Baldwin Park for the VVL title, knocking Baldwin Park behind Paraclete, and moving Paraclete to No. 4. There is no way Azusa is losing to anyone in the Montview, so they're locked in at No. 3. Just as San Dimas and Northview found out last year, the rankings can work against you. Monrovia should play someone like Azusa in the semis, but with Paraclete looming at No. 4, I'm afraid they won't get to stop San Dimas again, Paraclete will.