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By CHRISTINA REXRODE
(AP) NEW YORK - Herbalife, the company caught in the middle of a hedge fund dogfight, says it's doing just fine, thanks.
The company, which sells weight-loss products and other dietary supplements, on Tuesday said profit and revenue rose in the fourth quarter, and lifted its outlook for the year. Still, it predicted slower sales growth in 2013 and confirmed reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement had requested information about its business and financial operations.
It's a key earnings period for Herbalife, which has been whipsawed this year by the opinions of two long-sparring hedge fund moguls. Carl Icahn heralds Herbalife as a great deal and last week disclosed a 13 percent stake in the company. Bill Ackman calls it a fraud and is shorting the stock, meaning he's betting it will go down.
In a news release, the company barely made mention of the financiers' smack-down, and credited the quarter's results to strong relationships with customers.
"Obesity and poor nutrition are global public health problems," CEO Michael Johnson said in a statement. "Our distributors are proud to be part of the solution."
The company did say it would be hit by one-time costs of $10 million to $20 million this year, mostly in legal and advisory services to respond to "information put into the marketplace by a short seller," which Herbalife "believes to be inaccurate and misleading."
But if investors and analysts were hoping for something more substantive, they'll have to wait until the earnings conference call on Wednesday morning. It's a chance for the company to make itself heard, in a fight where people outside the company have shouted loudest.
Herbalife peddles products like energy drinks and stress management pills, and recruits people to work as independent sales staffers. On its website, it promises to "change people's lives" _ either by the chance to sell Herbalife products, or the chance to take them. Its claims about some of its products, the company says on its website, have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
Ackman says Herbalife is a pyramid scheme, meaning it makes most of its money by recruiting new salespeople, rather than on the products they sell. Herbalife disputes Ackman's statements and says he's just trying to force the stock down for his own financial gain.
Icahn's big stake in the company is another complication: He's hinted that he might push Herbalife to go private, which would be disastrous for short-sellers like Ackman.
Last month, the wrangling between Ackman and Icahn boiled over into a shouting match on live television _ a rare instance of public upheaval by billionaire financiers.
"I've really sort of had it with this guy Ackman," Icahn told CNBC, while both were interviewed simultaneously by phone.
"This is not an honest guy, this is not a guy who keeps his word," Ackman shot back.
Ackman vs. Icahn has been both a boon and a bust for Herbalife, depending on the day. In the 33 trading days since the new year started, shares have moved more than 3 percent on 11 of them.
Tuesday, Herbalife's shares rose 2.6 percent, up $1 to close $39.74. The company reported fourth-quarter earnings after trading was over, and shares dipped 3 cents.
Net income rose 12 percent to $118 million, from $105 million a year ago. Per share, that worked out to $1.05, edging past the $1.03 that analysts polled by FactSet had expected.
Revenue rose 20 percent to $1.06 billion, from $885 million a year ago. Analysts predicted $1.05 billion.
Herbalife raised its 2013 outlook from late October. It now expects revenue to grow 12 to 14 percent this year _ still down from an 18 percent increase in 2012. That equates to a range of $4.56 billion to $4.64 billion. Analysts expected weaker growth, to $4.53 billion.
Herbalife forecast per-share earnings for the year, excluding one-time items, of $4.45 to $4.65, up from the previous prediction of $4.40 to $4.55. Wall Street's estimate was $4.64.
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If you are given a die and asked to roll it twice. What is the probability that the value of the second roll will be less than the value of the first roll?
Given a die, what is the probability that the second roll of a die will be less than the first roll?
There are various ways to answer this. Here is one:
There is clearly a $1$ out of $6$ chance that the two rolls will be the same, hence a $5$ out of $6$ chance that they will be different. Further, the chance that the first roll is greater than the second must be equal to the chance that the second roll is greater than the first (e.g. switch the two dice!), so both chances must be $2.5$ out of $6$ or $5$ out of $12$.
Here another way to solve the problem $$ \text{Pr }[\textrm{second} > \textrm{first}] + \text{Pr }[\textrm{second} < \textrm{first}] + \text{Pr }[\textrm{second} = \textrm{first}] = 1 $$ Because of symmetry $\text{Pr }[\text{second} > \text{first}] = \text{Pr }[\text{second} < \text{first}]$, so $$ \text{Pr }[\text{second} > \text{first}] = \frac{1 - \text{Pr }[\text{second} = \text{first}]}{2} = \frac{1 - \frac{1}{6}}{2} = \frac{5}{12} $$
It might help to draw a picture:
$$\begin{array}{c|cccccc} &1&2&3&4&5&6 \\ \hline \\ 1&=&<&<&<&<&< \\ 2&>&=&<&<&<&< \\ 3&>&>&=&<&<&< \\ 4&>&>&>&=&<&< \\ 5&>&>&>&>&=&< \\ 6&>&>&>&>&>&= \\ \end{array}$$
Here, the $<$ signs mark the outcomes where the row number is less than the column number, and the $>$ signs mark those where to row number is greater than the column number. It's easy to see from the picture that the number of $<$ (or $>$) signs is $5+4+3+2+1=15$ out of $6^2 = 36$.
In fact, if you look at the picture a bit longer, you might realize that there's an even easier way to count the $<$ signs: the total number of $<$ and $>$ signs equals the total number of all signs ($6^2 = 36$) minus the number of $=$ signs ($6$), and the number of $<$ signs is half of that. Thus, there are $(36 - 6)/2 = 30/2 = 15$ out of $36$ $<$ signs in the table.
Once you've noticed that, it's easy to generalize the result: if you roll two $n$-sided dice, there are $n^2$ possible outcomes, out of which in $(n^2-n)/2$ the second roll will be less than the first. Thus, the probability of the second roll being less than the first is $$\frac{n^2-n}{2n^2} = \frac{n-1}{2n}.$$
For six-sided dice, this works out to $\frac{30}{72} = \frac{5}{12} = 0.41666\ldots$
If the first roll is n, the chance that the second roll will be less is $\frac{n-1}{6}$. Summation over all possible values of n and multiplying by the chance for each value of n gives
$$ \sum _{n=1}^6 \frac{1}{6}*\frac{(n-1)}{6}=\frac{5}{12} $$
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Therefore the total odds are the average of all those roll possibilities so: $$ \frac{\frac{5}{6} + \frac{4}{6} + \frac{3}{6} + \frac{2}{6} + \frac{1}{6} + \frac{0}{6}}{6} = \frac{\frac{15}{6}}{6} = \frac{15}{36} = \frac{5}{12} = \frac{2.5}{6} $$
One way to answer this question is to count the total number of pairs of results and number of pairs $(i, j)$ where $i < j$. The former is just $n^2$, and the latter is just $\binom{n}{2}$ where $n$ is the number of possible results of rolls. Here $n = 6$, so our answer is $$ \frac{\binom{6}{2}}{6^2} = \frac{5}{12} $$ The same idea applies if we wanted to count the probability of an increasing sequence of rolls of length $k$. $$ \frac{\binom{n}{k}}{n^k} $$
The number of total possibilities when two dice are rolled is 36. The sample space for the experiment can be described as the set of ordered pairs in the following sense:
$$\Omega=\{(x, y)|1 \leq x,y \leq 6\}$$
Your question boils down to be able to count the number of ordered pairs where the second co-ordinate is less than the first co ordinate.
So, the answer is $\dfrac{15}{36}=\dfrac{5}{12}$
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How do you count?
The number of ordered pairs, where the $2^{nd}$ co-rdinate is $6$ and the $1^{st}$ co-ordinate is more than $6$ is $0$. Similarly, the number of ordered pairs, where the $2^{nd}$ co-ordinate is $5$ and and the $1 ^{st}$ co-ordinate is more than $5$ is $1$. Continuing this way, the number of pairs will be $0+1+2+3+4+5=15$
I think some of the explanations, though correct, are unnecessarily complex. Out of a total of 36 combinations (6*6), how many are success cases?
If the result of first die throw is 1, we have 0 success cases as it doesn't matter what the second throw is.
If the result of first die throw is 2, there is 1 success case, where second throw is 1
If the result of first die throw is 3, there are 2 success cases, where second throw is 1 or 2
If the result of first die throw is 4, there are 3 success cases, where second throw is 1,2 or 3
If the result of first die throw is 5, there are 4 success cases, where second throw is 1,2,3 or 4
If the result of first die throw is 6, there are 5 success cases, where second throw is 1,2,3,4 or 5
Total # of success cases = 0+1+2+3+4+5 = 15. Probability is 15/36 or 5/12
Easy to test this in many languages like python, Haskell. At the command prompt of Haskell if you type
you will get [(2,1),(3,1),(3,2),(4,1),(4,2),(4,3),(5,1),(5,2),(5,3),(5,4),(6,1),(6,2),(6,3),(6,4),(6,5)]
If you type
you will get 15
\begin{align}&\color{#66f}{% {1 \over 6}\,\times\left(\,{1 \over 6}\times 5\,\right) \color{#c00000}{+}{1 \over 6}\times\left(\,{1 \over 6}\times 4\,\right) \color{#c00000}{+}{1 \over 6}\times\left(\,{1 \over 6}\times 3\,\right) \color{#c00000}{+}{1 \over 6}\times\left(\,{1 \over 6}\times 2\,\right) \color{#c00000}{+}{1 \over 6}\times\left(\,{1 \over 6}\times 1\,\right)} \\[5mm]&={1 \over 36}\left(\, 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1\,\right) ={1 \over 36}\times 15=\color{#66f}{\large{5 \over 12}} \end{align}
Let's look at it: $$<6: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5$$$$<5: 1, 2, 3, 4$$$$<4: 1, 2, 3$$$$<3: 1, 2$$$$<2: 1$$$$<1:$$ From there, there are $15$ possibilities and there are $36$ outcomes of any two numbers on a $6$-sided die rolled (one after the other), which simplifies to $5\over 12$.
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Dear audiophiles: How to make the rear speakers wireless in a surround sound system
We have a 5.1 surround sound system we got as a wedding gift a couple years ago. We never hooked up the two rear speakers because we didn't want to drill holes in the wall or run them across the room.
BestBuy has a device for about $100 to make the rear speakers wireless. I can't find many more options. Anyone know of any? Anything good for the $50 range?
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Wireless systems often have lag associated with them. Usually, I'll tuck the wires into the baseboard and run the wire around the room, taking the long route, and you don't even notice.
If you really want a decent wireless system, it will cost you beaucoup bucks.
@jamieinoc: Yes, this!
Simply put, you don't. Right now there isn't really any good way to do it. Your options are:
1) Hide the wires. If you are very luck, and either have the funds to hire somebody to do it, or are handy enough to do it yourself AND you have the correct setup in your HT room (either with an attic above or crawlspace/basement below) you can run the speaker wires from the AVR, to a wall plate, then to a wallplate (or floorplate), then to a speaker.
2) If that isn't an option, and running the wires in conduit is not a good option (for whatever reason) you can consider a soundbar. Usually they don't do a very good job with rear surround, but it is better than nothing.
Do this only if your carpet is like this:
One more thing for hiding wires is to go under the carpet. This is what I did, but I did install carpet for 2 years and know the mechanics of the carpet, tackstrip and pad. Be careful for pad roll if you try this.
Get some fish tape.
pull up 1-2 inches of carpet along the wall of where you want to run the wire. You want a direct path to your back speakers with little to no traffic. You will remove all funiture in this path temporally. Bend the fish tape so it points up at the end like this, perhaps at a 30 degree angle_/ to keep from snagging on the pad. The tap will push up on the carpet as you run tape. Once on the other side tape the cable to the fishtape and wrap it in plastic wrap to smoothly pull back (you should pull both wires at the same time)
I did run mine in moderate traffic with no issues, the wire is very low voltage and sinks into the pad.
If it's a home-theater-in-a-box type, then don't bother with my suggestion. Otherwise, the only "about $50" solution I can think of is this, and it will have limitations and subject to adjacent radio stations.
Convert rear channel outputs to line level with this:
FM transmitter + you'll have to repurpose an old 5v wall-wart to ditch the batteries:
Receive it at the back with this amp on whatever frequency your transmitter is set at:
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Over the weekend, I was informed by Carlo Filice, chair of the philosophy department, that Professor Everett's colloquium has been rescheduled for this Wednesday, April 24, from 7:00 to 8:45 p.m. in Kuhl Gymnasium in Merritt Athletic Center. In addition, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Heidi Savage will offer commentary after the presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by Professor Filice. I am pleased that this scheduling change eliminates a conflict with our annual Take Back the Night walk, sponsored by the Womyn's Action Coalition, at 6:30 p.m. this evening.
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I've found that you can change the aspect ratio of a radial gradient in Illustrator to create an elliptical gradient, how do you achieve the same effect in Photoshop please?
Create the radial gradient on its own layer, whether directly or through the use of a gradient effect, then convert the layer to a Smart Object using
You now have a gradient that you can resize and transform using the
If your transformed elliptical gradient needs to fill the whole canvas, make it larger than needed in a separate document, then drag it into your working canvas to give you the most flexibility.
The Gradient Tool in Photoshop produces a raster effect (i.e. just pixels applied onto a layer). You can transform the pixels to change the aspect ratio. Here's an example:
This is destructive, unlike in Illustrator, which means once you change the aspect ratio, you are changing the pixels forever (assuming you don't undo).
I found this, and I think it's best option since I don't think you can have automated elliptical gradients. Taken from: http://www.clearps.com/photoshop-forum/index.php/t/16625/
There are many, many ways to do this but here's what I'd probably do:
1) Create a new layer and place it under your photo layer.
2) Fill it with white.
3) Select the eliptical area you'd like "highlighted" or rather, not faded at all with your marquee tool.
4) Select "QuickMask" (or hit Q) and you'll notice a colored mask now around your selection.
5) Go to Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur and adjust the slider to the level of blur you think would work. Click OK.
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CHESHIRE -- What was the earliest indication Wendi Kemp would be a great basketball player? Maybe it was when, as an eighth-grader, she scored a school-record 184 points in one season for Dodd Junior High. The team's next leading scorer totaled only 37.
Or maybe it was when, at the age of 6, she beat her father, Jack, in a foul-shooting contest with $10 at stake and then, after he demanded they play double-or-nothing, beat him again. "She hustled me," Jack griped to his wife, Marge, who told him, "Of course, she did; all she does is shoot baskets."
Actually, it was preordained at birth, a rushed delivery that saw Marge barely make it to the hospital in time. Things were so hectic that Mom was still wearing her sneakers when her youngest daughter entered the world.
"She said she knew then I'd be a basketball player," said Wendi. "I've tried to explain to her that one has nothing to do with the other."
Whatever the reason, Wendi grew up to become perhaps the greatest three-sport athlete in Cheshire High history before graduating in 1982.
Kemp was All-State and All-Housatonic League three times in both field hockey and softball, was All-Housy twice in basketball and an All-State and Converse All-American selection in basketball in her senior year.
Even without benefit of a 3-point shot, Kemp poured in 1,579 points in her career, still the most for a Cheshire girl and the overall school record until scoring machine Matt Curtis came along in 1990.
"She did everything," remembered Kemp's coach, Cindy Hitchcock. "She had a lot of assists and could score from anywhere. And she was little (5-foot-4). She didn't have the height, but she could maneuver around people unbelievably."
Kemp was a standout from the moment she moved into the starting lineup as a freshman. By her junior year, the lightning-fast guard led the old Housatonic League with a 25.1 ppg. average and reached the 1,000-point mark.
During her senior year, Kemp's scoring average dipped only slightly, to 23.8 ppg., but the Rams enjoyed their best season, going 17-5 overall. They lost out to traditional power Lyman Hall in the Housy race, but reached the region semifinals of the Class L state tournament.
There, they collided with defending state champion Hillhouse before a packed house at Maloney High in Meriden. The game is memorable to Kemp for a couple of reasons.
First of all, Hitchcock had them practice against a boys team to prepare for Hillhouse's speed and skill. And the strategy worked, at least in the early going.
"The score was 36-36, and we were hanging with them playing run-and-gun," noted Kemp. "Then they went to a zone and won (74-56). Interestingly, they couldn't beat us at their own game."
Kemp also recalls the pregame introductions, when her Hillhouse counterpart leaned in and told her, "I'm gonna eat you up."
Unfazed, Kemp scored a game-high 19 points and in the postgame handshake line told the girl: "Check the scorebook."
"That was my suburban way of trash talking," Kemp laughed.
Even though basketball was her favorite sport, Kemp accepted a field hockey scholarship to Northwestern, where she eventually earned All-Big Ten honors in both field hockey and lacrosse. In 1992, she was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of fame.
She graduated in 1989 from the UConn law school. Now 49, she has been assistant chief counsel at ESPN in Bristol for eight years.
The tenacious streak from her high school days lingers. Every summer, Hitchcock and Kemp play golf together. Every summer, Kemp assures the bigger, stronger Hitchcock this is the year she'll outdrive her.
"She's very, very, very competitive," said Hitchcock, "but in a good way."
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diziet trying to explain the complexities of sponsorship and intellectual theft
Posted 09 May 2012 - 05:50 AM
btw, you cant censor/lock/remove this. i, and ppl i know, have already SSed it and its timestamp and all of this post, and can upload its existence in its entirety as a couple jpegs whenever we want. unless you want to ban all of us from the site, but that would be pretty silly for unfounded accusations....
[5/8/2012 11:36:40 PM] Diziet: don do you think
[5/8/2012 11:36:49 PM] Diziet: tournament organizers make money by runing tournaments?
[5/8/2012 11:37:15 PM] Diziet: you're being really accusational without really understanding the complexities involved in running a tournament
[5/8/2012 11:38:47 PM] Don: i would understand where youre coming from if you were in the position to tell me if i was right about curse muscling nao out of their own idea
[5/8/2012 11:38:51 PM] Don: am i right?
[5/8/2012 11:39:02 PM] Diziet: you're not
[5/8/2012 11:39:19 PM | Edited 11:40:25 PM] Don: then why did curse stop sponsoring
[5/8/2012 11:39:28 PM] Diziet: if curse was to "muscle out nao"
[5/8/2012 11:39:36 PM] Diziet: aj would delete the nao subforum, blah blah
[5/8/2012 11:40:11 PM | Edited 11:40:32 PM] Don: maybe, can you answer this tho?
[5/8/2012 11:40:26 PM] Diziet: let me give you an anology
[5/8/2012 11:41:49 PM] Diziet: in 2005-2006 cervelo, a bicycle manufacturing company, was sponsoring team CSC
[5/8/2012 11:42:05 PM] Diziet: then in 2007 csc switched to specialized, another bicycle manufacturing company
[5/8/2012 11:42:15 PM] Diziet: cervelo sponsored their own team, cervelo test-team
[5/8/2012 11:42:20 PM] Diziet: till 2010
[5/8/2012 11:42:31 PM] Diziet: then in 2010 cervelo went back to sponsoring another team, garmin-slipstream
[5/8/2012 11:42:46 PM] Diziet: did specialized steal something from cervelo/
[5/8/2012 11:42:54 PM] Diziet: did cervelo screw up team csc?
[5/8/2012 11:43:01 PM] Diziet: no, this is just how complicated relations work
[5/8/2012 11:43:14 PM] Diziet: in the real world, sponsors get switched all the time, etc etc
[5/8/2012 11:44:04 PM] Don: can you answer my question a different way? why did curse drop out from sponsoring nao? i read that its cuz they thought mugems was associated with arenarating?
[5/8/2012 11:44:22 PM] Diziet: [Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:43 PM] Diziet:
<<< this is just how complicated relations work
[5/8/2012 11:44:25 PM] Diziet: [Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:43 PM] Diziet:
<<< in the real world, sponsors get switched all the time
[5/8/2012 11:44:45 PM | Edited 11:44:49 PM] Don: .......
[5/8/2012 11:44:55 PM] Don: why so shady its a pretty simple question
[5/8/2012 11:45:00 PM] Diziet: you being a little kid and accusing people
[5/8/2012 11:45:15 PM] Diziet: curse sponsored NAO for NAO2
[5/8/2012 11:45:19 PM] Don: i can point out what the situation looks like, doesnt mean im right
[5/8/2012 11:45:21 PM] Diziet: curse did not sponsor NAO for NAO3
[5/8/2012 11:45:29 PM] Diziet: what else is there?
[5/8/2012 11:45:36 PM] Don: and they removed mugems status as nao organizer on aj
[5/8/2012 11:46:03 PM] Diziet: as far as I know, curse did no such thing
[5/8/2012 11:46:12 PM] Don: i know for a fact they did, how do you not?
[5/8/2012 11:46:19 PM] Diziet: http://www.arenajunk...signs-from-nao/
[5/8/2012 11:49:04 PM] Don: so, curse stopped for reasons other than this arenaratings shitstorm?
[5/8/2012 11:49:14 PM] Don: and then decided to copy the idea?
[5/8/2012 11:49:46 PM] Diziet: well first of all, online tournaments have been happening in many different games
[5/8/2012 11:49:50 PM] Diziet: for over a decade
[5/8/2012 11:49:57 PM] Diziet: NAO did not invent online tournaments
[5/8/2012 11:50:07 PM] Diziet: NAO did not even do the first online WoW tournament
[5/8/2012 11:50:20 PM] Don: they got 10k viewers and did it right
[5/8/2012 11:50:25 PM] Diziet: yet I do not see you accusing NAO of stealing the idea from others
[5/8/2012 11:51:58 PM] Don: they brought it to wow, if curse wasnt stealing this idea and setup, they would have done it eyars ago
[5/8/2012 11:52:02 PM] Don: they obviously didnt think of it
[5/8/2012 11:52:10 PM] Don: and when they saw how successful it would be
[5/8/2012 11:52:14 PM] Don: they took it over
[5/8/2012 11:52:21 PM] Diziet: obviously
[5/8/2012 11:52:51 PM] Diziet: there's just no reasoning with you right now
[5/8/2012 11:53:06 PM] Diziet: for some reason the NAO tournament organizers aren't making these accusations
[5/8/2012 11:53:19 PM] Diziet: and they're perfectly happy to see many tournaments, as many as possible
[5/8/2012 11:54:20 PM] Don: look they dropped out to make their own because they can and because they will make more money lol its clear as day
[5/8/2012 11:54:33 PM] Diziet: in 2006-2008
[5/8/2012 11:54:37 PM] Diziet: GOM TV sponsored MSL
[5/8/2012 11:54:42 PM] Diziet: a broodwar tournament
[5/8/2012 11:54:50 PM] Diziet: in 2008 they later had their own GSL
[5/8/2012 11:55:08 PM] Diziet: and now they run GSL, a popular sc2 tournament
[5/8/2012 11:55:12 PM] Diziet: why aren't you blaming them
[5/8/2012 11:57:08 PM] Don: listen, what is there to blame, you guys got away with it, its blatant intellectual theft but no one can do anything about it
[5/8/2012 11:57:17 PM] Diziet: intellectual theft
[5/8/2012 11:57:24 PM] Diziet: now you're being obtuse
[5/8/2012 11:57:32 PM] Don: i forget what that means
[5/8/2012 11:57:46 PM] Diziet: opposite from sharp or acute
[5/8/2012 11:58:33 PM] Diziet: [Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:57 PM] Don:
<<< intellectual theft
[5/8/2012 11:58:42 PM] Don: are you saying it wasnt intellectual theft, you are not taking NAO's idea to start an online tournament in wow, an esport that has lying dormant since mlg dropped them
[5/8/2012 11:58:42 PM] Diziet: please argue against NAO on the behalf of Prestige-gaming.ru
[5/8/2012 11:58:54 PM] Diziet: [Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:58 PM] Diziet:
<<< please argue against NAO on the behalf of Prestige-gaming.ru
[5/8/2012 11:59:00 PM] Don: prestige wasnt starting a tourny in the US
[5/8/2012 11:59:01 PM] Don: lol
[5/8/2012 11:59:03 PM] Diziet: so?
[5/8/2012 11:59:07 PM] Don: ....
[5/8/2012 11:59:16 PM] Diziet: [Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:57 PM] Diziet:
<<< you're being obtuse
[5/8/2012 11:59:37 PM] Diziet: http://en.wikipedia....ectual_property
[5/8/2012 11:59:52 PM] Diziet: it would be intellectual theft perhaps if curse, without NAO's permission, used the NAO brand name
[12:00:14 AM] Don: ok you got me on the linguistics, it was their idea... curse didnt think of it
[12:01:00 AM] Diziet: I suppose I could show you chat logs and moderator forum posts cira 2010
[12:01:07 AM] Diziet: that talked about running online tournaments hosted by AJ
[12:01:15 AM] Diziet: but then you'd just start arguing about something else
[12:01:21 AM] Don: well no
[12:01:22 AM] Diziet: please, fight on behalf of Prestige-gaming.ru
[12:01:25 AM] Diziet: against NAO
[12:01:26 AM] Don: id like to think im open to reason
[12:01:31 AM] Don: link me any evidence you see fit
[12:01:55 AM] Diziet: I don't have to link you anything because your accusations are groundless
[12:02:04 AM] Diziet: it's like having to prove that god does not exist
[12:02:15 AM] Diziet: it is up to you first to prove that your accusations are valid
[12:02:19 AM] Diziet: and then for me to disprove them
[12:03:43 AM] Don: theyve just been cooking up the idea for 2 years, eh? just decided to sponsor nao, see that 10k+ viewers would be revenue, had "complicated reasons to drop sponsorship", and started their own...
[12:03:44 AM] Don: dude lol
[12:03:46 AM] Don: come on
[12:04:31 AM] Diziet: revenue?
[12:04:40 AM] Diziet: if you think curse made a penny off NAO
[12:04:43 AM] Don: and they cook up their new tourny behind close doors, no public sign up, just the curse staff picking teams, while the nao was being planned
[12:04:44 AM] Diziet: you're mistaken
[12:05:01 AM] Diziet: if you think curse is going to make money off this tournament
[12:05:03 AM] Diziet: you're mistaken
[12:05:08 AM] Don: are you arguing that consistant 10k+ viewers would not = revenue eventually?
[12:05:12 AM] Diziet: if you think small tournaments make money, you're mistaken
[12:05:17 AM] Diziet: please, ask NAO people
[12:05:25 AM] Diziet: about who got the advertising revenue
[12:05:29 AM] Diziet: in NAO2
[12:05:42 AM] Don: theyre just beginning, im not arguing that they were reaping the benefits yet
[12:06:14 AM] Diziet: don, you're being annoyingly obtuse
[12:06:20 AM] Diziet: throughout this whole conversation
[12:06:34 AM] Diziet: do you not realize there is a reason why NAO staff aren't complaining?
[12:06:47 AM] Don: no i havent talked to them
[12:07:41 AM] Diziet: perhaps you should straighten out your facts first
[12:07:47 AM] Diziet: before throwing wild and crazy accusations
[12:08:24 AM] Don: listen, you could straighten them out for me, but you think it would be like "proving god doesnt exist"
[12:09:15 AM] Don: hey, why do you think the nao staff repped my post?
[12:11:05 AM] Diziet: I don't know, they'd probably meant to hit the report button?
[12:11:49 AM] Don: sidestepping with humor, pretty convincing there
[12:17:14 AM] Don: so youre sticking with the counter arguement that "your accusations are groundless, so im not going to respond to any of them with evidence" thing? and hey i dont blame you, you really dont have to, curse is the evil giant corporation in comparison to the nao, you have already outmuscled them, so... yeah
[12:24:14 AM] Don: you there?
[12:24:39 AM] Diziet: ya
[12:24:48 AM] Don: [12:17 AM] Don:
<<< so youre sticking with the counter arguement that "your accusations are groundless, so im not going to respond to any of them with evidence" thing? and hey i dont blame you, you really dont have to, curse is the evil giant corporation in comparison to the nao, you have already outmuscled them, so... yeah
[12:24:53 AM] Don: is that right?
[12:25:36 AM] Don: what have you been doing, talking with your evil superiors about how to answer these pms?
[12:26:24 AM] Diziet: yeah I'm on the phone with a team of lawyers!
[12:27:18 AM] Don: again, you come PMing me trying to silence my accusations or something, having a serious conversation, and then you just dodge and sidestep and try to use linguistics and semantics
[12:27:37 AM] Diziet: I'm not trying to silence you
[12:27:39 AM] Don: while admitting to submitting no evidence because "we dont need to"
[12:27:44 AM] Diziet: I'm telling you that you're being obtuse
[12:28:03 AM] Diziet: please, go blame pepsi cola for stealing coca cola's idea
[12:28:04 AM] Diziet: of a soft drink
[12:28:11 AM] Diziet: attack steelseries for competing with razor
[12:28:14 AM] Don: jesus christ you know youre doing exactly what i just said right
[12:28:44 AM] Don: you havent answered anything and you havent presented any evidence
why did curse drop out?
[12:29:08 AM] Diziet: shit do I look like the CEO of curse to you?
[12:29:46 AM] Don: are you sayign you have no idea why they dropped out
[12:39:03 AM] Don: diziet whered you go
[12:39:06 AM] Don: want answers here
Posted 09 May 2012 - 05:57 AM
Interesting read...Killuminati. RIP Tupac
Real talk, only need a couple questions answered:
1: How much money did NAO make from stream revenue from last tournament? (This can be used as a reference point as to whether or not curse can actually make money from their own tourney)
2: How did curse decide which teams to pick...Kpul...hello?
3: Kpul?
Edited by Slippy80, 09 May 2012 - 06:02 AM.
Posted 09 May 2012 - 05:58 AM
Posted 09 May 2012 - 06:16 AM
However, since so much misconception exists, let me clarify with the best factual information I've got.
Curse has been supporting e-sports and gaming communities for a very long time. Curse has sponsored a League of Legends team since August 25th, 2011. Curse has already sponsored a League of Legends tournament and is sponsoring a second one, called the Reign of Gaming Invitational this time around May. Transitioning to run the first Arena Junkies Invitationalwas a natural progression.
Why, to draw a parallel to another Blizzards E-sport, Curse is on a similar road to what GreTech, otherwise known as GomTV, has done in 2006 by sponsoring an MSL in Brood War and later in 2008 sponsoring it's first GSL Classic . Why, if you'd like to put the 'blame' on me in this thing, I'd be glad to draw the parallel and put my mug next to these 'evil' figures from GomTV
Posted 09 May 2012 - 06:17 AM
P.S. your analogy to Coke v.s. Pepsi is inherently flawed and you know why.
Posted 09 May 2012 - 07:11 AM
That said, I can't really see how Curse doing an online tournament is "intellectual theft". The NAO crew got the spectator mod and online tournament spark from a Russian online tournament that was held first, right? I could be wrong, I know some Russian bad asses made the spectator mod and as far as I recall they used it to hold an online tournament. But we all know the tournament idea is not a new one and the NAO staff certainly didn't invent it. They just happened to be the first group (that I'm aware of) to dedicate the time/effort/workload to run them consistently.
NAO holding a tournament is awesome/fun/great/fantastic/etc, but it's not like they invented something new and the idea was stolen. Dropping the sponsorship of NAO to hold their own because it may be more profitable is not unreasonable. It may be "selfish" but I mean that's what capitalism is, isn't it?
Skill-Capped was made, then ArenaPwnage/Nerdstompers did something similar. How many Arena Carry/Pilot sites sprung up not too long after the first one? No one likes competition but there's nothing wrong with it, everyone is trying to make a living in the world and selfishness is pretty much synonymous with capitalism.
Of course, those types of businesses I listed above negatively hurt eachother because most people won't use more than 1 of them, so they have to choose, which loses business for the others. HOWEVER, when it comes to Tournaments, unless the tournaments are being streamed at the same time, it's a win for everyone, as you don't "steal" viewers from eachother at all and it's nothing but a positive thing for the community.
Honestly the only thing I would consider wrong or shady about dropping their NAO sponsorship is if they actually did make a "scapegoat" reason for doing it. I personally think being honest about it would be better, just say "Hey <NAO staff>, we've decided we want to sponsor our own tournaments and discontinue sponsoring yours. We still support/respect your tournament and wish you well, this is just something we want to do for ourselves" - or something along those lines. But of course the "scapegoat" accusation cannot be proven or disproven and in the end it doesn't really matter too much, other than it being a rude/disrespectful to sorta throw Mugems under the bus, if it is true.
I don't know why everyone can't just enjoy the fact that various members of the wow/gaming community are taking it into their own hands to create tournaments where other previous organizations (i.e. MLG) discontinued them.
The more tournaments the better, right? I don't think they hurt eachother, correct me if I'm wrong.
Edited by Tosan, 09 May 2012 - 07:14 AM.
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Posted 09 May 2012 - 07:14 AM
Posted 09 May 2012 - 07:14 AM
[5/8/2012 11:59:00 PM] Don: prestige wasnt starting a tourny in the US
What has that got to do with anything :s?
Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:02 AM
mlg drops wow. the scene is dying. prestige has an idea and implements it in russia or whatever. nao coordinates with them and they get the ball rolling here (they are the only god damn ppl doing this, where is curse/aj? where have they been since mlg dropped wow?). nao puts in countless hours and their own money (mostly mugems) to actually make it a success. sponsors get interested, including curse. their hard work is going to pay off, even if they havent made alot of money yet, this is a great start.
curse sees the potential (as in the nao showed us how to do this, this shit gets views, this is a hit, we can do this ourselves), gets wind of a way to drop sponsorship (scapegoating mugems cuz of arenarating accusations, and even if thats not the reason, why the hell isnt it public why they dropped sponsorship?), drops them like a bad habit, and is now set to reap the rewards of the nao's groundwork. behind the scenes, they pre-invite certain teams, and announce it mid nao3. no part of any of this is made public, why?
now sure, its not necessarily the end of the line for the nao. they could coexist, but why did curse abandon their partnership? are they not competitors, now? why not just stay a sponsor and move along with the nao and combine?
because they can make more money for themselves, legally.
curse inv would not exist without nao inv, it was their idea and hard work that became the biggest hope the US pvp community has had since mlg, they abandoned nao, and now they are set to reap the rewards and leave nao in the dust.
i really want both to succeed. competition could be good, or something. that doesnt mean that curse hasnt been shady as hell, nor does it mean that they should have just abandoned their partnership to become their newly disoriented ex-partner's competition out of thin air.
the point is that curse appears to be a bunch of assholes. the point has nothing to do with "intellectual theft," - that is terminology wrongfully used by me.
Hyuru, on 09 May 2012 - 07:14 AM, said:
Edited by Donald, 09 May 2012 - 08:08 AM.
Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:13 AM
Edited by bclol, 09 May 2012 - 08:14 AM.
Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:13 AM
Donald, on 09 May 2012 - 08:02 AM, said:
Honestly you're just splitting hairs at this point. This type of argument reminds me of when people are like "Im the HIGHEST RATED dwarf male arcane mage that plays with a night elf male warrior in the US!"
If you change the criteria enough, you can make anything sound more significant. First is first, Russia? US? I don't see how the distinction matters when it comes to online video game tournaments.
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Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:23 AM
Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:25 AM
Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:28 AM
Does it matter if there is 10 different tournaments, all based on the same idea? More tournaments benefits the community, stop whining.
Edited by Mogias, 09 May 2012 - 08:31 AM.
Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:29 AM
More important is that for a sake of proving thing u posted personal conversation, which is more important than any silly tournament.
Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:36 AM
Baulterexlol, on 09 May 2012 - 08:25 AM, said:
It's an online tournament.....it's not like they're a technology company working on secret projects and Curse came and stole their blueprints to a new Iron Man suit .........
What "cards" are there to see?
I mean I'm not sure why it has to be said more than once, or even once for that matter, but NAO did not invent tournaments.....they're not using "NAO's cards".
I mean let's get real here, all these tournament organizers are really just ripping off the Romans who built the Collisium and started real gladiator tournaments for bad ass mofos.
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Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:40 AM
Pawik, on 09 May 2012 - 08:29 AM, said:
More important is that for a sake of proving thing u posted personal conversation, which is more important than any silly tournament.
Posted 09 May 2012 - 08:57 AM
Tosan, on 09 May 2012 - 08:36 AM, said:
Posted 09 May 2012 - 09:05 AM
I can't even comprehend why you think curse is in it for the money btw, 10k vieuwers is nothing, something like own3d would maybe pay out something like 200dollars/hour (being really generous with this number). There's no way it's gonna cover the costs. All they want is their brandname to be more known, wich, thanks to you, is working out quite well already.
Diziet is 100% right here, and anyone saying otherwise probably has no idea about how the world works.
Posted 09 May 2012 - 09:06 AM
1. It is a perfectly normal habit for companys to look for bussiness avenues that can make them money, if they see a competitor is doing well with a certain non-trademarked service, they will immitate it and try to improve it, that is the most basic foundation of capitalism
2. I have no idea what was in the nao-curse sponsorship agreement, so I (and afaik nobody but the people directly involved) can tell if any promises/contracts were broken. If the contract was based on a tournament to tournament basis (which seems to me the most logical contract), it was curses fair right to not extend the contract, they didn't have any obligations (maybe besides moral ones) to continue the contract. If the contract was a yearly contract & they decided to disband it because muggems alledgedly was involved in arena carries (like, to be fair, most of the people on this site) it was a low blow, but still legal as far as I can see (they don't want to be associated with people willfully breaking contracts with blizzard).
The idea behind a sponsorship usually is trading money for namerecognisciion. In this case, its slightly more complex because curse provided, besides money, also infrastructure, platforms to announce the tournaments (AJ).
3. NAO has no intellectual property WHATSOEVER over holding tournaments, they have taken over the framework used by the russians (prestige-gaming) and they were licenced to do so (judging from comments on the stream & muggems words earlier in this thread).
4. The only party with any intellectual property claims is prestige gaming. They developped the tournament UI (which is a copywritable idea, especially since it was developped by them and non-public) so if the AJ tournament (and thus curse) were to use that user interface, they would be liable for copyright claims (unless prestige-gaming licenses them, just as they have licensed NAO).
5. If you look at this from the ''wow as e-sport'' pov, this tournament is nothing but good, it is bringing wow as an e-sport back to a proffesional (meaning non-player hosted, no matter how good those players did) level. Which means more resources will be spend on it and curse has more places to advertise, which in turn means bigger viewercounts, more money involved & bigger prices for the players.
6. You claim curse ''randomly invited a bunch of teams'' which is exactly what NAO did in the start, it was a tournament-host made decision and I agree with this one. I know all teams on that list, except for the last one listed, because they performed in a NAO tournament.
7. For NAO, it is not sure if this tournament is going to be bad, it might even be good because right now, NAO is a pretty niche organisation with a pretty limited & niche playerbase. Curse has the potential (trough mmo-champion) to interest a whole bunch of new people in the tournament scene, which might then end up on NAO's stream aswell.
8. Your main motives for making this post seem to me mostly because you wern't invited to the AJ tournament, but thats just ad hominem from me
I think I have said everything I have to say here, please feel free to point out any factual errors made by me while writhing this
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As one studies mathematics, how important it is to find various proofs? I mean that if one has to prove for example that conditions (i), (ii), and (iii) are equivalent then is it enough to learn to prove that (i)->(ii)->(iii)->(i) or do mathematicians also think why (ii)->(i), (i)->(iii) and (iii)->(ii)?
Sometimes a direct proof of $(ii)\Rightarrow(iii)$, say, is difficult, and it's easier to prove $(ii)\Leftrightarrow(i)\Leftrightarrow(iii)$ than to prove the ring of implications $(i)\Rightarrow(ii)\Rightarrow(iii)\Rightarrow(i)$. In any case, thinking about the various pairwise implications is likely to give you more insight into the matter than limiting yourself to the bare minimum necessary to establish the result.
More generally, a result may have several very different proofs using very different techniques. In such cases the different proofs are very likely to cast the result in very different lights, thereby illuminating it better than any single proof could. One example is Szemerédi's theorem, which now has proofs using three completely different techniques stemming from three areas of mathematics that are on the face of it very different indeed.
I would say that in general learning the specific proofs is much less important than learning the techniques that they use, in hopes of being able to use them oneself in some other setting. And since the more tools you have, the better, familiarity with more than one approach to proving a theorem can indeed be well worthwhile.
Proving the chain of implications (i)->(ii)->(iii)->(i) is a standard technique used in textbooks, and works perfectly. Why? The trick here is that it loops, so you can extend it to (i)->(ii)->(iii)->(i)->(ii)->(iii)->(i)->(ii)->(iii)->(i), or however long you want.
Assume that one of the conditions is true. Then all conditions after in that chain must be true, since you have proven the implication. But since it loops, all of them have to be true.
Assume one of them is false. Then all conditions before it in the chain has to be false (by contrapositivity). But since the chain loops, all of the conditions must be false.
Hence, since they are all either false or true, they are equivalent.
Certainly, (i)-->(ii)-->(iii)-->...-->(i) will suffice to show that all are equivalent, and if all you want from life is to show this batch to be equivalent, then you will be happy. However, to show that (i) is equivalent to (j) directly may shed more light on the situation. The proof technique above shows how (i) is related to (ii) but does not show a direct relationship between (i) and (iii). Rather the relationship shown is a bit indirect in that you are going through (ii) first. I guess the lesson is that if you show such equivalences in different ways, you will gain different insights in the ways in which the various statements relate. Unfortunately, I do not have an example on the top of my head at the moment, but if I think of one, I will provide it.


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Bee County residents and local artist are invited to participate in the Living History Logo Contest. The contest begins Monday, Feb. 25th and will end Friday, March 8, 2013. Contest forms can be download from the cityofbeevillemainstreet.com or can be picked up at the Joe Barnhart-Bee County Library or at City Hall's information desk.
Logo's must display our history, such as; farming/ranching, chase field naval base, historic homes or buildings, people of Bee County history, railroad, or oil industry. You may use any aspect of our history. Logo's must be displayed on 8.5" X 11" letter size paper and have to include the words: Bee County Living History Celebration. Participants must turn in their logo's to the Joe Barnhart-Bee County Library by or before March 8, 2013. Please write your name and contact information on the back of the logo. Submissions with contact information on the front with logo will be disqualified.
The entry fee to participate is $10.00 per entry. The winner will be determined by the public. Logo submissions will be displayed at Prosperity Bank during banking hours, starting March 12 through March 25, 2013. The public is invited to vote on their favorite logo. There will be voting ballots and a ballot box that the public will use to cast their vote. The winner will be announced on April 6, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. in front of the McClanahan House. The winner will be awarded $100.00 and their logo will be used as the brand for the Bee County Living History Celebration and the designer and the design will be part of our living history. For more information please contact Shirley O'Neil at 361-343-3119.
Visit us at www.cityofbeevillemainstreet.com for full set of specifications and rules.