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By Lisa Capobianco
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The Hospital of Central Connecticut Bradley Memorial campus plans to kick off its annual Fashion Gala later this month to raise money for new medical equipment and the new cancer center currently under construction.
The event will take place on Monday, Sept. 30 at the Aqua Turf in Plantsville. Festivities will begin with dinner at 6 p.m., followed by the fashion show and a silent auction. Hospital staff and local residents will model in the latest fall clothes by Chico's Kathy Faber Designs and Modern Formals of Southington.
Rosemary DeFeo, who oversees the fashion show, said she enjoys devoting her time and effort for a great cause.
"I had such a great time modeling for a couple of years in a row, that I decided I really wanted to remain an integral part of it in some way," DeFeo said. "I am looking forward to [September] 30 when I can enjoy a great evening with both our models as well as our attendees."
Besides the fashion show, attendees of the event will have the opportunity to enter two major raffles donated by sponsors. The first raffle offers a 42-inch flat-screen TV while the second raffle offers a baker's dream package, filled with the baking essentials.
Adriana Asciuto, the chairperson for the event, said more than 400 people attended the Fashion Gala last year, and she hopes more people will come this year.
"It was quite successful," Asciuto said. "We were very happy with it."
During this year's fashion gala, the Auxiliary will raise money for the last payment of the new ultrasound machine for the Bradley Memorial campus. But the Auxiliary hopes to raise more money for the hospital's new cancer center.
"It is a wonderful cause," Asciuto said. "We are invested in this cancer center, and the whole community will benefit."
The new 70,000 sq. foot cancer center at The Hospital of Central Connecticut will include all cancer services into one location. From radiation therapy to genetic counseling and testing to nutrition programs and support care, Asciuto said the new cancer center will provide all levels of support for cancer patients to make their experience "less painful."
"It is going to be convenient for the patients and their families," she said.
Anyone interested in attending the event can purchase tickets for $50 at the Bradley Memorial gift shop, located at 81 Meriden Ave.
Hospital hosts fashion gala for cancer center
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Editor's Summary
At a plenary session of the 2012 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Edward Chang touched on recent information technology developments and explored emerging innovations. Vice president of research at hTC Corporation and past research director at Google in China, Chang recalled Googles page ranking for Web 1.0 and subsequent efforts to support mobile access, user-generated content and pushing information for Web 2.0. Advances in human computer interaction, especially sensors in cellphones, enable a higher level of location-based computation. Natural language processing backed by massive data and computation power supports interpretation and even translation of spoken queries to yield semantically and situationally relevant returns. Advances in location-based services permit highly precise data delivery. Cellphone sensors can even monitor stress, detect health changes and provide security alerts. Though privacy is a critical outstanding issue, the combined capabilities of cloud computing, infrastructure, big data, social networks and cellphone sensors are leading to evolutionary and revolutionary changes.
information technology
social web
query processing
mobile applications
location based services
Bulletin, February/March 2013
Special Section
ASIS&T 2012 Plenary Session
Edward Chang: Mobile Opportunities
by Steve Hardin
Many innovations are on the way for users of portable devices, especially smartphones. Edward Chang, vice president for research at hTC Corporation, outlined some of the frontiers of research in a plenary session at the 75th Anniversary ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
Chang, who used to direct research for Google in China, began with an overview of the past few years. Web 1.0 appeared 15 years ago, he said. Google developed page ranking. Then Web 2.0 arrived. In addition to document content, it involved people with the web, permitting them to develop their own content and enhancing connections between people. New search engines, still under development, can do people searching. Were also experiencing a rapid increase in mobile access to the web. There are now more than four billion users. iOS and Android systems are everywhere. But, he said, these changes are more evolutionary than revolutionary. Providers want to sense the user, to make the smartphone smarter. They want to change the information model from pulling to pushing, matching the users to things that are relevant to him or her.
New developments include human-computer interaction improvements as well as many more sensors on cellphones, sensors that report on users and their environments and enable providers such as Google to do context-centered computation. For example, on a mobile device, input methods such as voice or touch are preferred to keystrokes. And because there are output space limitations, a terse summary using natural language is preferred to a list of results.
Changs team built Confucius, a Google Q&A system, to provide high quality, timely answers. They showcased it at the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases in 2010. When it came to market, it faced six competitors already. With future enhancements to Confucius, your smartphone receives a spoken query and delivers an answer using a voice interface. Then the software provides labels for the query semi-automatically. It generates answers on search results using natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Depending on the question asked, it can parse the web pages to zero in on your information request. A simple ranking can provide you with top-ranked answers. And if that cant be done, you can resort to users on the Internet. But there, you need to evaluate user credentials and route questions to experts. Once the question has been answered, the phone can speak the answers back.
Current research topics include things like speech recognition. Questions can be answered using a model-based or a data-driven approach. Certain questions are about opinions. As Chang spoke, hurricane Sandy was approaching Baltimore; he noted that persons asking about the storm could be frustrated because the information they wanted was not yet available.
The reason that voice recognition works better than it used to, Chang said, is because the model-based approach is giving way to a data-driven approach. Thats what Google Translate uses. Google can look for translated documents in the United Nations document collection, and if they exist, the software can return the translated phrase. Thats the data-driven approach. If they can collect data about different data in different accents, they dont need the model-based approach.
Google can achieve this level of quality in translation, he said, because of its massive computation power Google has about 20-million CPUs worldwide. Translation may not be accurate in offline or airplane mode, because it must use the model-driven approach. But a translation request may be sent to the cloud, and the translation then becomes much more accurate. He quoted a 2001 article by Michele Banko and Eric Brill (available at http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P01/P01-1005.pdf) that discussed the advantages of large scale. Test accuracy increases with the size of the training corpus.
A second challenge for voice input, Chang said, is natural language understanding (NLU). Issues such as context awareness (for example, function, location) and dialog design (for failure recovery) come into play. Speech recognition is not just converting speech into text, but understanding the semantics. For example, if you ask about Japanese restaurants in a particular area, the software concludes youre interested in booking something; the accuracy of results increases if that's true.
With wi-fi and GPS sensors, Chang said, location-based services can be provided. Google is developing indoor and 3D positioning and navigation, because most commerce activities occur indoors. Your cellphone may know youre interested in cat food and near a cat food store, and then offers you a coupon to redeem. But coupon providers generally arent on the highway theyre in the mall. If sensors can achieve resolution to about five meters, coupon effectiveness will be greatly increased.
Existing technologies such as GPS, wi-fi and cell towers fall a bit short for indoor positioning. Also, the time to make the first fix can be more than 30 seconds too long for many people. Wi-fi models use wave propagation based on computing the distance from a mobile device to a known access point (AP). But obstructions, wave deflection and noise can affect accuracy. Another wi-fi approach is the signal strength map (SSM) or RF fingerprint. It generates a heat map showing how close a device is to an access point. Chang said its promising but still suffers from noise problems. Its implementation can be laborious, too; it requires site surveys and re-surveys when the AP is broken. There are also privacy concerns.
Googles solution is a patented technology called XINS (pronounced SINS) and what Chang called killer apps. Google started the XINS project a year ago. It involves inertial navigation systems (INS) such as accelerometers, gyroscopes and compasses. It computes a cellphones direction and speed of movement. Once a cellphones position has been accurately plotted, a gyroscope can detect its roll, pitch and yaw. If the angular speed is known, the attitude of the cellphone can be determined too. If the acceleration is known, the velocity, and hence the position, of the phone can be inferred.
Of course, there are technical challenges, too. The INS devices must be inexpensive, and they can be prone to errors. The devices may suffer from precision bias, in which one full rotation does not equal 360 degrees. They can also be sensitive to temperature and noise. Errors are progressively multiplied, Chang pointed out, so even small deviations can result in huge errors. Still, with INS and a good indoor map, with 20 access points, its possible to achieve accuracy within five meters. Integration drift can be a problem, he said, because its effect is cumulative. The vibration energy model (VEM) is predicated upon noting the position of arms and legs as people walk. If Google can model that, Chang said, it can, with proper processing, obtain an accurate direction for a person's movement.
A second problem involves error drift. Proper INS calibration helps with that. But, Chang said, they cant ask users to do the calibration. The service providers must do that. Chang said theyve developed a six-point calibration. If they can calibrate six parameters in three dimensions, they can do the calibration. Its non-intrusive to the user. Once theyve collected more than eight points, they can use a straightforward optimization method, which can form something like a sphere or elongated sphere around the user. Once we can convert it into a true sphere, they can get the needed calibration parameters.
Chang noted that biological and environmental sensors can be added as well. The proper sensors can allow services to predict someones transportation mode walking, running, using an elevator, train, bike, car. A pressure sensor can detect vertical movement with great accuracy. Once service providers do ground truth, he said, they can determine someones elevation as well. In addition, there are health sensors that can be connected to a cellphone. For example, a message can be sent directly to a doctor when a sensor detects precursors to a heart attack. Sensors can monitor stress and serve as a fitness coach. Sensors can also do security alerts. Once a lock has been touched, a photo can be transmitted to your cellphone. Increasingly, sensors are everywhere.
In closing, Chang said mobile opportunities are tremendous. With increasing context-aware computing, recommendations on the information a person needs at a particular time and in a particular place can be made. We can make sure, he said, that people get the transportation information they need, or the music they like. To make it all happen, well need cloud computing, infrastructure, big data, social networks and sensors for cellphones. The coming changes will be both evolutionary and revolutionary.
The question and answer session dealt with a number of topics, but four persons raised issues involving privacy. Big data can have a negative social side. Totalitarian regimes can use it for surveillance. Will applications be developed that will permit users to opt out of providing selected data or choose not to see certain ads? Even the emergency management applications require surrendering information about health. Chang acknowledged that everyone is concerned about privacy. It certainly needs to be preserved, he said. But he added he doesnt have the answer to everyones questions. The issue is being addressed, he said.
Steve Hardin is an associate librarian at Indiana State University at Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State University. He can be reached at Steve.Hardin<at>indstate.edu.
Edward Chang is vice president for research at hTC Corporation.
Articles in this Issue
Third ASIS&T Student Design Competition: The "Truthiness Challenge"
ASIS&T Online Education Initiatives: Driving the Future
James Cretsos Leadership Award: What ASIS&T Means to Me
SIG/SI 8th Annual Research Symposium a Success!
The 23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: A Report
The History of ASIS&T and Information Science and Technology
Evolving and Emerging Research Methods: 2012 ASIS&T SIG/USE Symposium
From Vision to Reality: The Emerging Information Professional
Edward Chang: Mobile Opportunities
Award of Merit Acceptance Speech
A Career in Information Retrieval Research
IA: Slip-Sliding Away: Real World Challenges Await Us
RDAP Review: Looking Out For the Little Guy: Small Data Curation


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Activity note: City walking over generally flat, paved surfaces.
Breakfast: At hotel restaurant.
Morning: Program orientation and introduction to Peru. Meet your group leader and fellow Road Scholar participants during a welcome and introduction session at the hotel. We will review the up-to-date daily schedule and any changes, discuss responsibilities, safety guidelines, emergency procedures, and answer any questions you may have. Please be aware that program activities and scheduled times could change due to local circumstances. In the event of changes, we will alert you as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding. Field Trip to the Archaeological Museum. This is Peru's oldest and largest state museum. It is housed in an old colonial mansion on Plaza Bolivar, in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima. The museum displays a large collection of ceramics, textiles, sculptures, and ancient Peruvian metals dating back to pre-Hispanic times. Some notable pieces in this collection are the Raimondi Stela and Tello Obelisk. Another portion of the exhibits focuses on the country's colonial and Republican periods. In the event that the Archaeological museum is closed we will visit an equally important museum in the city.
Lunch: At local restaurant.
Afternoon: After lunch, visit Lima's historic downtown and the famous Plaza de Armas. Francisco Pizarro, Spain's infamous conquistador and conqueror of the Inca Empire, founded Lima in 1535. When Spain designated Lima the Viceroyalty of Spain in 1542, the city became the wealthiest and most important urban center in Spanish South America. The central area of Lima still retains its original colonial character. Notable historic sites include the beautiful Plaza de Armas, the Governmental Palace, La Catedral, the Church of San Francisco, and the Jiron de la Union. Join in a favorite pastime of Limeños during an afternoon walk along the city's Malecon (waterfront) in Miraflores, enjoying magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean and landscaped parks. The Malecon encompasses 6 miles of parks along Miraflores' rocky seaside cliffs. Paths in the Malecon are commonly frequented by families, joggers, and cyclists; a great recreational site for anyone looking to enjoy some fresh air and green spaces.
Dinner: At local restaurant.
Evening: At leisure. Prepare for check out and flight to Cusco in the morning.
Breakfast: At the hotel
Morning: Transfer to the airport for a morning flight to Cusco. Traditional Inca welcome with coca tea upon arrival at the Cusco airport. Transfer to Ollantaytambo with an en route visit to the Awanakancha Alpaca Center. The Awankancha Alpaca Center is a living museum where visitors can see llamas, alpacas and vicuñas. A demonstration will show how the wool from these South American animals is used to make woven textiles
Lunch: At a local restaurant in Ollantaytambo town.
Afternoon: Field trip to Ollantaytambo ruins with a local guide who will highlight the engineering genius of the Inca. The Ollantaytambo Ruins are not ruins in the traditional sense, but is a town with original buildings of Inca construction where the Inca retreated to make their last stand in the highlands against the Spanish. Running water still flows through the town in aqueducts and the agricultural terraces above the town are still in use. The pinnacle above the town is a small burial ground. Transfer to the hotel and check-in. Discussion with your local guide about Life in the Sacred Valley during the time of the Incas.
Dinner: At the hotel restaurant.
Evening: At leisure.
Activity note: Field trip to Moray: please wear shoes suitable for hiking over uneven rock and grass surfaces.
Breakfast: At the hotel restaurant.
Morning: Morning visit to a local market and on-site discussion on the importance of the Sacred Valley as the 'farmer's market' for the Inca Empire. Identify and learn about the fruits and vegetables that are unique to this region. Select items from the market to be cooked and sampled at dinner. Learn which ancient traditions are still practiced by modern day descendants of the Inca during a visit to a local weaving community at Chinchero. Weaving is a way of life in Chinchero—as important for preserving ancient traditions as it is for earning a livelihood. The town, located on the Inca road between Cusco and Machu Picchu, was an early Inca center built by Emperor Tupa Inca as his country estate. During Inca reign, textiles were woven and offered to mark special occasions, from peace treaties and sacrifices to marriage ceremonies and puberty rites. In Chinchero, local children grow up playing with their mother's spindle and loom; by age six or seven most children learn to weave by watching their elders. They begin by weaving jakimas, or narrow ribbons, before moving on to more complicated pieces.
Lunch: Enjoy a traditional lunch with members of the community.
Afternoon: Continue to Moray an Inca Agricultural research station. Moray is believed to be an Incan agricultural center used to improve high altitude crops – an essential commodity for the huge Incan armies and road building teams essential to support the empire. Return to the hotel. Participate in a cooking session at the hotel and learn to prepare the fresh foods purchased at the market in the morning.
Dinner: At the hotel restaurant.
Evening: At leisure.
Activity note: Participants should try to get plenty of rest the night before in preparation for the very early start on this day. We recommend wearing or bringing a long-sleeved shirt as in the past some participants have complained about "no-see-ums." There is a weight limit of 11 pounds for luggage/backpacks on the Peru Rail transfer to Machu Picchu.
Breakfast: At the hotel restaurant.
Morning: Transfer to the Ollantaytambo Station to catch a train to Aguas Calientes/Machu Picchu. Disembark at Aguas Calientes Station. Board a bus for the transfer up the mountain, on a series of switchbacks, that will take us to the Machu Picchu complex. Field trip to Machu Picchu. Hiram Bingham found Machu Picchu in 1911, with the help of a local farmer who knew about the ruins, while searching for Vilcabamba and Vitcos. He hypothesized that the site was a "citadel," existing for strategic and defense purposes. He also speculated that the site was a refuge for Cusco's Virgins of the Sun, based upon the finding of skulls there, although not scientifically classified as female. Breakthroughs in archaeology since 1985 have, taken as a whole, supported the emerging view of Machu Picchu as a ceremonial and administrative center for a very populous region. Machu Picchu was built, flourished, and fell into demise within a period of 100 years.
Lunch: At a local restaurant in the vicinity of the ruins.
Afternoon: Board a bus and transfer back to Aguas Calientes. Catch a train back to Ollantaytambo Station and transfer to the hotel.
Dinner: At the hotel restaurant.
Evening: At leisure.
Activity note: If you do not want to participate in rafting, you may remain at the hotel. For lunch you will be transferred to the picnic site to eat with the group.
Breakfast: At the hotel restaurant.
Morning: This morning experience the thrill of white water rafting in the Sacred Valley of the Incas! Enjoy great rapids and breathtaking scenery on the Ollanta section of the Urubamba River. This section is easily enjoyed by all levels of whitewater experience. Start at km 84 on the Urubamba to Ollantaytambo route and receive a helmet, life vest, a windbreaker jacket and wetsuit. After changing, there is a safety briefing before beginning the exhilarating run down the river for approximately 2 hours. With our expert river rafters practice the maneuvers required and soak in the breathtaking landscape of the towering Andes mountains, with beautiful Inca terraces amongst the lush vegetation. After this calm practice section on the river hit some thrilling Class II & III rapids through a beautiful canyon with the possibility of finding local wildlife, including the torrent duck and other avian species. At the end of the tour changing tents will be available.
Lunch: Enjoy a picnic lunch overlooking the banks of the river.
Afternoon: After lunch transfer to Cusco. Before reaching Cusco, visit the impressive Sacsayhuaman. The fortress of Sacsayhuaman forms the head of the Puma design of old Cusco. It is a wonder of technical achievement and a testament to human will. It is a mystery how it was constructed, since the stones are not found in the region, and most of the blocks weigh more than a ton. The largest rock weighs more than 300 tons. Sacsayhuaman is constructed of huge polygonal blocks which interlock with one another. The stones are so precisely placed that a knife blade cannot be inserted between them. Interactive session with a musician who discusses and demonstrates the musical instruments of the Inca and the importance of music to their religious ceremonies.
Dinner: At the hotel restaurant.
Evening: At leisure.
Activity note: Flight to Lima is approximately 1.5 hours. The small fishing village of Paracas is located on the edge of the Paracas National Reserve. The drive is about 160 miles or approximately 4 hours.
Breakfast: At the hotel restaurant.
Morning: Transfer to the airport to board a flight to Lima (approx. 1:25 hours) Arrive in Lima and begin transfer to Paracas.
Lunch: At local restaurant, en route to Paracas.
Afternoon: Check-in and time to enjoy the hotel. Unwind at the hotel, set in the desert paradise of Paracas Beach. Lounge in lush palm gardens on the property or plunge into the hotel's 8,000 square ft. pool.
Dinner: At the hotel restaurant.
Evening: At leisure.
Activity note: Occasionally cold fronts consisting of cold winds and rain come north from Patagonia. They last for approximately 36 hours and temperatures can drop as low as 46 degrees. Activities will continue as planned unless the conditions worsen, which is rare. Wildlife can still be seen but may be elusive under such conditions during a cold front.
Breakfast: At the hotel restaurant.
Morning: Enjoy a boat ride to the Ballestas islands. On the way to the small archipelago, take a moment to admire views of "El Candelabro" on a hillside overlooking the bay. The mysterious drawing, reminiscent of a candelabra, dates back to pre-Inca times. While navigating around the islands (visitors are not allowed to disembark), look for fur seals, sea lions, and penguins. The prolific birdlife will be incorporated into a discussion on the abundance of the Humboldt Current as a food source. Return to the mainland and visit Paracas National Reserve. Sweeping up from the Antarctic, the Humboldt Current causes upwellings of plankton-rich water-- the foundation of an ecological pyramid crowned by thousands of breeding cormorants, boobies, gulls and terns, and mammals such as whales, dolphins and sea lions. In addition, during the southern winter, many shearwaters, petrels, and even albatrosses migrate from Antarctica to the Pacific coast of Peru. The Humboldt Current is home to the most productive fisheries in the world, and this area is reputed to be the largest producer of fishmeal on earth.
Lunch: At local restaurant.
Afternoon: Participate in a unique desert sport practiced in the region--sand boarding! Lie down, sit or stand (similar to snowboarding) on specially designed sand boards and ride the golden dunes! The area near Paracas is home to the annual Peru Sand Boarding Cup. Return to the hotel.
Dinner: Farewell dinner at hotel. Celebrate with a barbecue dinner alfresco, under the southern skies.
Evening: Free time.
Breakfast: At the hotel restaurant.
Morning: Free morning to enjoy the amenities of the hotel and the beach. Check out of the lodge before lunch and be ready to transfer to Lima to the airport right afterwards.
Lunch: At a local restaurant en-route.
Afternoon: Transfer from Paracas to Jorge Chávez International Airport for international flights home. There is no overnight hotel stay for this day. If you would prefer a morning flight out of Lima and hotel accommodations please contact the program coordinator at 1-800-866-7111 or email@example.com to book these additional services. This concludes the program. We hope you enjoyed your Road Scholar adventure! When you get home, remember to stay in touch via the Road Scholar Social Network; share memories, pictures, and comments about your recent travels.
Dinner: On your own. There will be options at the airport for you to choose from.
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While abounding of the bank facts you may accept best up in Las Vegas can be advantageous in online bank it's important that you apprehend there are some analytical differences. But with a ability of the facts surrounding your called game, and armed with some bank tips from accomplished online players, you will acquisition online bank not alone a alluring and agitative adventitious bit aswell an befalling to about-face your bank action into a assisting venture.
Critical Rules for Every Game
1. Never hunt afterwards your losses. Don't access your bets because you're accident and wish to get even; alone access your bets as allocation of a pre-determined strategy.
2. Don't action at any bold that you don't understand. Learn it first.
3. Don't action and alcohol at the same. It's harder abundant to win at bank even afterwards blah senses.
Money Administration – General Guidelines
4. You will lose added about than you win and the best you play the added acceptable that actuality is. And it's accurate whether you're talking about easily of blackjack, rolls of the roulette caster or throws of the dice.
5. The key to acceptable is to aerate your wins and to abbreviate you losses.
6. Learn and acquire the allowance at the accurate bold you accept called to play as able-bodied as the best strategies to use in an accomplishment to aerate your accomplishment at that accurate game.
7. Never action with "dear" money; alone action with "excess" money. In added words, never action with money that you will need, or may need, to pay your accustomed active expenses.
8. If you're arena adjoin added players online this is doubly important. The minute you alpha bank with "dear" money the added amateur will faculty your acute accent and play appropriately – about blowing you out of a bet because they apperceive you are added acting with your "dear" money.
9. Set a stop accident bulk and stick to it. Divide your absolute bank backing into four abstracted amounts. Divide anniversary of those amounts into four abate amounts. If you lose one of the abate amounts, change tables or amateur or just yield a break. If you lose your absolute aboriginal allotment, stop bank for the day.
10. Be acclimatized and abstain the gambler's annihilation of traveling into your next allocation because you feel like your luck "just has to about-face around."
11. Plan ahead. If you alpha a bank affair actuate the bulk that you wish to win (be realistic) and if you ability that point put the money abroad and walk.
12. If you are winning, draw some money occasionally from your bank backing and put it into a "do not touch" backing to assure that allocation from added risk.
13. No money administration arrangement will anytime affected the abode advantage over the continued term. You will consistently lose added about than you win. The key is that you accept to win added big bets and lose added baby bets.
Money Administration – Absolute Progression Systems
14. A Absolute Progression Arrangement is one in which you access the bulk of your bets if you win and abatement the amounts of your bets if you lose. To use this arrangement appropriately you accept to authorize a "standard" action unit.
15. Your "standard" action assemblage should be a adequate allotment of the bank backing that you will be alive with for a accurate bank session. For example, if your session's backing is $100, you ability accomplish your "standard" action assemblage $10.00. This way you would be able to play at atomic 10 action contest afore active out of funds even if you absent all 10 contest in a row.
16. These systems acquiesce you to win about ample amounts during a hot band while allowance to abbreviate your losses during algid streaks.
17. A accustomed archetype of this action is to add one-half of the amounts you win to your next bet. For example, at blackjack if you win a duke with your "standard" action assemblage of $10.00 you would add $5.00 to the bet on the next duke for a absolute bet of $15.00. If you win that duke you would add $7.50 to the $15.00 for a bet of $22.50 on the next hand. If you eventually lose a hand, acknowledgment to your "standard" action assemblage of $10.00 on the next duke and alpha the arrangement all over. Of advance in convenance these increases of 50% will be approximate.
18. Addition added complicated arrangement is to consistently accumulate your backing disconnected into a assertive bulk of units and afresh bet one assemblage on anniversary event. As you win, your absolute backing becomes bigger so anniversary assemblage will abound and you'll be action beyond amounts. As you lose, your units, and bets, become smaller.
19. Authorize a arrangement for cartoon some of the accomplishment from your bank backing occasionally to put it into your "do not touch" bankroll. For example, if you bifold your backing you ability yield one-half of the accomplishment to put into the "do not touch" bankroll. If you acquaintance a continued acceptable band application a Absolute Progression Arrangement the accomplishment can abound dramatically.
Money Administration – Abrogating Progression Systems
20. A Abrogating Progression Arrangement is one in which you access the bulk of your bets if you lose and abatement the amounts of your bets if you win. Again, to use this arrangement appropriately you accept to authorize your "standard" action unit.
21. The a lot of accustomed abrogating progression arrangement is the Martingale System. Here you bifold the bulk of your bet if you lose and acknowledgment to your "standard" action assemblage if you win. For example, at blackjack if you bet $10.00 and lose you would bet $20.00 on the next hand. If you win that duke you would afresh abate your bet to the "standard" $10.00 bet for the afterward hand. In all gambling, the Martingale arrangement will consistently abort in the continued run.
22. This arrangement can be actual arresting because during a hot band you are acceptable alone your "standard" action unit. And during algid streaks you are consistently accident bigger and bigger amounts.
23. Remember, draw some money occasionally from your bank backing accomplishment and put it into a "do not touch" bankroll.
Playing Roulette
24. American roulette is one of the affliction bank amateur that you can play because the abode advantage beneath accustomed rules is 5.26% or higher.
25. European roulette offers a lower abode advantage beneath accustomed rules of 2.7% because there are beneath slots with alone one "0″ as against to the "0″ and "00″ in American roulette.
26. All bets on in American roulette accord the abode an advantage of 5.26% with one exception: the "0″, "00″, 1, 2, 3 aggregate bet gives the abode a abundant beyond 7.89% advantage.
27. All roulette action systems await on the inaccurate acceptance that the aftereffect of antecedent spins can adumbrate approaching results. Unless the arrangement is abnormal or fixed, anniversary circuit carries the aforementioned allowance as every added spin.
28. The a lot of accustomed action arrangement at roulette is the abrogating progression arrangement accustomed as Martingale (see #17). As in all added games, the Martingale acclimated in roulette will consistently abort in the continued run.
29. Because of the abundant abode advantage if you are arena not just for action but to win money you ability as able-bodied yield a attempt at the college adjustment bets and achievement that you get lucky.
30. Try a adapted absolute progression arrangement at roulette. Divide the bulk you are accommodating to lose at one roulette affair into 35 "standard" action units. Pick one bulk and bet one assemblage on that bulk (must be at atomic according to the table minimum bet). Abide arena one assemblage on that aforementioned bulk until you either win or run out of your 35 assemblage bankroll. If you win, bet two units on the aforementioned bulk and abide action two units on that bulk until you either win or lose your bankroll. If you win again, airing away!
31. Roulette is a about apathetic affective bold compared to added online games, so it should yield you a best time to lose your bankroll.
32. Do not play roulette as a way to win money; the allowance are too abundant in favor of the house. Play roulette alone as a way to accept fun and canyon the time afterwards accident a lot of money quickly.
Playing Baccarat
33. Baccarat is one of the easiest bank amateur to play and offers a about low advantage to the abode of just 1.06%.
34. There may be as abounding as 12 to 14 players at a table, with the role as broker anesthetized about the table abundant as the dice are anesthetized about a craps table.
35. All players may bet on anniversary duke and the bets are either on the "player", on the "dealer" or on a tie. With the barring of the tie bet, baccarat is abundant like action active or cape on the cast of a coin.
36. Neither broker nor amateur can accomplish any decisions apropos play; the rules of the bold agree what accept to be done with every duke and a abode "dealer" authoritative the bold will absolute the play accordingly.
37. Acceptable bets on the amateur or the broker both pay even money, bare a 5% agency paid either at the time of the bet or if the amateur leaves the table.
38. Acceptable bets on a tie usually pay 8 to 1, afresh bare a 5% commission.
39. In an 8-deck game, the abode advantage is hardly beneath for a "banker bet" and badly college for a "tie bet", so it seems a lot of analytic to bet alone on the banker.
40. As in all online gambling, agenda counting is absurd because the deck(s) is usually confused afterwards anniversary duke in baccarat.
Playing Blackjack
41. Blackjack offers one of the everyman abode advantages at about .60%, but able players can in fact actualize situations area the amateur has an advantage.
42. For the austere amateur there are abounding circuitous strategies that crave time and adherence to master.
43. Never just sit down algid at a table. Blackjack tends to be a bold of streaks, so watch a table for a few easily to actuate if it is a hot or algid table for the players.
44. A "soft" duke is a duke with an Ace that can be counted as either a 1 or an 11 in bulk and still accumulate the hand's absolute at 21 or less.
45. A "hard" duke is a duke with an Ace that accept to be counted as 1 in bulk in adjustment to accumulate the hand's absolute at 21 or less.
46. A alpha or amusing amateur should stick to the about accustomed rules of the basal blackjack strategy.
47. Never be abashed to yield a agenda that ability apprehension you. Consistently play the odds; don't let the abhorrence of a apprehension stop you from demography a agenda if you apperceive it's the advantage with the accomplished anticipation of success no bulk how baby that anticipation may be.
48. Apprehend one of the abounding accomplished books on counting cards if you are austere about blackjack and accommodating to blot a lot of time practicing and perfecting your play. As in all online gambling, agenda counting is of little bulk because the deck(s) is usually confused afterwards anniversary hand. In blackjack, however, with abounding players at a table it may be benign for that one hand.
Playing Blackjack to Win – The Best Moves
49. Consistently breach Aces and 8s as the allowance are acceptable that the two new easily will be badly bigger than either the bendable 12 or harder 16.
50. Angle with a harder 12 or college if the broker is assuming a 4, 5 or 6. The allowance are acceptable that the broker may apprehension on the next agenda or that you will apprehension if you yield addition card.
51. Yield a hit on annihilation beneath a harder 17 if the broker is assuming a 7 through an Ace. Don't be abashed to bust!
52. Consistently bifold your bet if you're dealt an 11.
Playing Blackjack to Lose – The Affliction Moves
53. Never breach 10s because you may actual able-bodied be trading one accomplished duke for two characterless or bad hands.
54. Never yield allowance back the allowance decidedly favor the dealer. Even if you're captivation a blackjack on the duke yourself you will be trading a top anticipation of acceptable a 1.5 to 1 payout in barter for a affirmed even money payout.
55. Never angle with a bendable duke that totals beneath than a bendable 17.
Playing Craps
56. Craps is an absorbing and fast paced dice bold that offers some of the best allowance for players, as low as a 1.41% abode advantage and even lower for some bets.
57. Craps can be a actual complicated bold so if you are traveling to be a austere amateur apprehend and blot a acceptable systems book.
58. Authorize a "standard" action assemblage that is lower than your "standard" action assemblage in a lot of added bank amateur because in craps it's simple to get a lot of money on the table bound during a continued roll.
Playing Craps to Win – The Best Bets
59. If you just wish to adore the bold but play like you apperceive what you're doing, try a actual simple action starting with a new roller.
60. The Don't Canyon band offers about acceptable allowance with just a 1.40% abode advantage.
61. The Canyon Band aswell offers about acceptable allowance with just a 1.41% abode advantage.
62. Place a minimum bulk of your "standard" assemblage bet on either the Canyon Band or the Don't Canyon Band and save the majority of the assemblage to "take the odds" afterwards the point is established. In accomplishing this you will get accurate allowance on that advancement bet with no abode advantage at all.
63. Place a bet on the six or the eight in dollar amounts that are a assorted of six. The abode advantage on this bet is alone 1.52% and if the bulk is formed you'll win $7.00 for every $6.00 you bet.
Playing Craps to Lose – The Affliction Bets
64. All of these bets action absorbing payouts but even those top payouts are not abundant to account the big abode advantage.
65. The "Any 7″ bet, area you bet that the next cycle will be a 7, provides the affliction allowance on the table with a abode advantage of about 17%.
66. The "Any Craps" bet, area you bet that the next cycle will be a 2, 3 or 12, aswell offers bad allowance with a abode advantage of just over 11%.
67. The "Hardway" bets and the "Big 6″ and "Big 8″ bets are aswell poor allowance with a abode advantage of from 9% to 11%.
Playing Texas Hold-'Em Poker
68. The added players there are at the table the college the allowance that at atomic one added amateur has a able abridged hand, so be added alert with your pre-flop betting.
69. Be accurate action a top pre-flop agenda unless you accept a acceptable article as well.
70. Actuate aboriginal the types of players at your table – advancing or alert – and bethink and acclimatize your determinations throughout the game.
71. At amateur area addendum are accustomed accomplish a agenda on any amateur whose tendencies you identify. You may see them after at addition table.
72. Bet or accession with a acceptable hand; don't let added players get chargeless cards that ability accomplish their bordering duke into a able one.
73. Don't be predictable. Alter your play to abash your opponents as to whether you are an advancing or alert player.
74. Don't barefaced about and try to authorize a alert acceptability at the table so that if you do barefaced your opponents will anticipate you accept to accept a acceptable duke and be added afraid to alarm your bluff.
Playing Slots – The Facts
75. The aftereffect percentages for online aperture machines are about bigger than the aftereffect percentages in reside casinos.
76. The numbers appear on a circuit of the auto on a aperture apparatus do not appearance up in any order. The numbers are getting called constantly, not just if the handle is pulled. The numbers to be displayed on the auto are about called at the burning that the handle is pulled or the circuit button is pushed.
77. It's absurd to acquaint if a apparatus is about to hit.
78. A apparatus can go for actual continued periods of time afterwards a cogent jackpot or it could annals several ample jackpots in a row. It's all accidental selection.
79. The bulk of bill you accept to play affects alone the bulk of your bet; it does not access the alternative of the numbers.
80. Aperture machines can be set with altered aftereffect percentages as able-bodied as altered hit percentages.
81. Aftereffect is the allotment of the money bet that the apparatus will acknowledgment to the players over the continued term. It usually ranges from 75% to as abundant as 99%.
82. The hit allotment is the percent of the time that the apparatus will payout some money on a spin. This can alter widely, from beneath 10% to over 90%.
83. Machines that are set to pay off frequently will usually accept added baby payout amounts and beneath ample jackpots.
84. Machines with a top hit allotment (those that are set to pay off frequently) are commonly referred to as "loose" slots.
85. Machines with a low hit allotment (those that are set to hardly pay off) will usually accept added ample jackpots and few baby payout amounts.
86. Machines with a low hit allotment (those that are set to pay off infrequently) are commonly referred to as "tight" slots.
87. There is no universally accustomed "good" aperture machine; it depends on the alone amateur and whether he would adopt abounding baby payouts or a adventitious for one ample jackpot.
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88. Because of the accidental attributes of anniversary alone apparatus no gaming action will plan over the continued run on slots.
89. Afore you alpha a bank affair on slots actuate the bulk you wish to win and boldness to abjure your banknote if you ability that goal.
90. Accept an online website that does not accept a wagering claim that accept to be met afore you can abjure your money.
91. With all added factors getting equal, accept the online website that offers the better benefit to new players.
92. Because the abode has an advantage in slots, arena with baby bets for continued periods is a cinch action to lose.
93. The key to convalescent your allowance of acceptable lies in alive which blazon of aperture apparatus to play.
94. If selecting a aperture to play, abstain those with huge jackpots; the best allowance of acceptable lie in the machines with baby jackpots because their a lot of common payoffs will be of average size.
95. Play alone on baby jackpot machines that action as abounding benign benefit appearance as possible.
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97. Look for slots alms second-screen bonuses or chargeless spins to advance your affairs of winning.
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99. If you ability your pre-determined ambition for accomplishment STOP and banknote in your chips.
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As the spring season approaches with great anticipation, so do a multitude of spring sports and outdoor activities for kids, and the risk for youth injuries becomes even higher. Physical Therapy Center, located in Southington and Bristol, is offering a free seminar to Cheshire parents at the Cheshire YMCA on youth injury prevention and treatment on Tuesday, March 11th from 6:30-7:30pm.
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Tambor is known for his roles on the television comedies "The Larry Sanders Show," "Arrested Development" and "Transparent," the latter of which has won him Emmy's as outstanding lead actor in a comedy series in 2015 and 2016. He is nominated again for that role -- as retired college professor Mort Pfefferman who comes out as transgender. WInners will be announced at the Sept. 17 Primetime Emmys.
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Bute won the fight. \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tAustria's Manuel Fettner soars through the air during the first jump of the third event of the Four-Hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck January 3, 2011.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tSpectators cheer behind England's Alastair Cook during the fifth Ashes cricket test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground January 5, 2011. \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tThe English test cricket team celebrates winning the Ashes test series after they beat Australia in the fifth Ashes cricket test at the Sydney Cricket Ground January 7, 2011.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tRed Bull-Renault driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany celebrates driver's world championship victory on the podium during the awarding ceremony of the Formula One's Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on October 9, 2011. Vettel, 24, became Formula One's youngest back-to-back world champion on October 9 when he finished third in the Japanese Grand Prix. \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tThis overview on September 19, 2011 from the Swissotel looks out at the lighted circuit for the upcoming Formula One Singapore Grand Prix night race in Singapore. The Singapore Grand Prix will take place on September 25. \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tDucati's Damien Cudlin of Australia crashes out of the third practice session of the Australian Grand Prix motorcycling MotoGP race at Phillip Island on October 15, 2011. Cudlin was a substitute rider for Hector Barbera of Spain who is out due to injury. \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tDucati rider Valentino Rossi (L) of Italy, Yamaha rider Colin Edwards (top) of the US, and Honda rider Marco Simoncelli (C) of Italy collide at turn 11 of the Sepang racing circuit during the Malaysian MotoGP on October 23, 2011. Celebrated Italian rider Marco Simoncelli died after the crash that resulted in the cancellation of the race, in the latest tragedy to hit motor sports. The smash occurred just minutes after the race began when the 24-year-old Honda rider's bike veered across the track and into the path of riders Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi. \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tWBO Welterweight Champion Manny Pacquiao (L) takes a left to his face from Juan Manuel Marquez (R) during their title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday November 12, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao defended his WBO welterweight title against Marquez with a majority 12 round decision.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tReal Madrid's German midfielder Mesut Ozil runs with the ball during the Spanish King's Cup football match Real Madrid CF vs Ponferradina on December 20, 2011 at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.


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