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Venice, Madrid, London, Stockholm, Belgrade, Stuttgart,
: these are the cities and the European capitals that the Biennale di Venezia together with six other European festivals has involved in a single project that has won recognition by the European Union within the framework of the Culture Program 2007-2013.
Venice Biennale
, with its Dance, Music and Theatre sections and their directors Ismael Ivo, Ivan Fedele, and Àlex Rigola has initiated the construction a veritable network of the performing arts –the
European Network of Performing Arts (ENPARTS)
–, a pilot project which is being developed over a five-year period, so that Europe, which has been a crossroads and point of convergence for diverse experiences can find unity in the name of the languages of culture. It is also true that the European Union dedicated the year 2008 to intercultural dialogue.
ENPARTS is the first multi-year project, conceived and promoted by the Biennale di Venezia, to be shared and supported by the European Commission. In
, the project continues with two new
, the new performance by Shobana Jeyasingh, the pioneer of a "plural" dance (as it has been effectively defined by Elisa Vaccarino), world premiere in Venice on 13, 14 and 15 June, and
We saw monsters
, by the singular Icelandic artist Erna Ómarsdóttir, will be presented in a new version in Venice on 15 and 16 June. Two new
co-productions: two new chamber operas,
Serial sevens
by Francesca Verunelli and
by Giovanni Bertelli at the Teatro alle Tese, on 10 October.
These new productions will play
on the European circuit
through a network of exchange created by the institutions and the festivals involved. A network that will also be built over the Internet websites with a dedicated program shared by all the partners, while
audio-visual works
will accompany the three performance projects, to document their genesis and results.
Chosen for their affinity of contents and shared objectives, the
six European partners
who will assist the Venice Biennale in the construction of a common program are internationally renowned festivals and institutions, equally committed to the promotion of the performing arts, with particular attention for new languages and for experimentation with new forms of creativity.
Along with the Dance Music and Theatre sections of the Biennale, with its three festivals, the project also involves:
Dance Umbrella
, the historic London festival, a cult venue for contemporary dance lovers which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary edition in 2008;
Dansens Hus
, a Stockholm based foundation whose goal is to secure a place and a sense of urgency for dance in society by presenting mainly contemporary Swedish and international dance and closely related performance art of the highest quality;
Berliner Festspiele
, based in the historic theatre opened by Erwin Piscator in 1963, which has witnessed the development of different disciplines for more than fifty years, with the theatre section represented by Spielzeit Europa;
Bitef teatar
from Belgrade, the most famous international theatre festival in the Balkans, founded in the wake of the avant-garde of the Sixties and more active than ever now, with the strength of its original values and the creative effervescence of a geographical and political area in evolution;
from Madrid, with its attention to the vitality of the new musical generations in Spain and Europe, and one of the most compelling institutions in this field;
Musik der Jahrhunderte
from Stuttgart, which along with its seasonal activity is the promoter of the Eclat festival, a think-tank for new music.
The guide line for the Enparts project over the years will be the development of educational and research activities that promote integration and intercultural dialogue with particular attention to the new generations.
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After such a prolonged period of gloom and doom, it is tempting to read the good news as something other than it is—good news. But in September, the AIA's Architecture Billings Index registered its highest rate of growth in two years. As ARCHITECT's Greig O'Brien notes, "Looking back over 2012, the billings index appears to be mapping the same trend that we've been seeing over the past three years: A growth in billings in the fall, winter, and into the spring, followed by a pullback in billings and work heading into and through the summer."
So keeping in mind that the index has been exhibiting an epicyclical pattern of growth and decline—essentially, billings rise in the fall and winter and then fall back in the summer—there are a few factors that could have a strong influence on whether the overall trend is positive. There's the election, of course. How the market responds to the election of Gov. Mitt Romney or the re-election of President Barack Obama is bound to play a role. Then there's the third round of quantitative easing. Some financial reporters are tempted to attribute the apparent surge in September housing starts to confidence in QE3. The Economist's Ryan Avent took to the pages of ARCHITECT to explain why architects have good reason to feel confident about the effects that the industry might see from QE3.
What Congress does next may decide whether these green shoots grow or fail. The AIA already explained that the fiscal cliff—the decision to stay the budgetary course or to impose sudden austerity through a combination of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts—would have a disastrous impact on the architecture and construction industries. A recent reportbreaks that report down.) President Barack Obama has already pledged that the sequester isn't going to happen, but as we all saw during the standoff over the debt ceiling, markets sometimes respond simply to the possibility of an event.
But the good news from September is still good news. And, thus far, consumers seem to be ignoring the oncoming budgetary issues and continue to shop. Ten days ago, Ben Casselman reported in TheWall Street Journal that consumers are spending more, not less, and a week later The Washington Post's Suzy Khimm wrote a story about how the National Retail Federation is predicting that holiday spending will increase 4.1 percent this year, which is the organization's most optimistic prediction since the beginning of the recession.
But consumers could pull back if this turns into a political crisis, akin to what happened during the partisan fight over the debt ceiling when consumer confidence plummeted. What happens next for the economy could depend on policymakers. That's not usually good news.

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OC EWRI (Formerly HHTG) February 2013 Luncheon
Thursday, February 7, 2013 from 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM (PST)
Topic: Upper Chiquita Reservoir – A public agency perspective on building a 165-foot tall earthen embankment dam and the opportunities associated with inundation analysis and other public outreach
Speaker: Dan Ferons, P.E., General Manager, Santa Margarita Water District
Mr. Ferons has been with SMWD for 27 years. He started his career with the private sector, but moved to SMWD for the opportunity to gain public sector experience. During his tenure with SMWD, the District has grown from 13,000 service connections to more than 56,000 with robust development of the water, wastewater and recycled water systems. He has overseen and managed a number of significant milestone projects, including the planning and construction of the Upper Chiquita Reservoir, expansion of the Chiquita Water Reclamation Plant, design and implementation of the Upper Oso Reservoir Oxygenation System and innovative, urban return flow projects such as the Dove Canyon diversion project and Horno Basin urban collection system. Mr. Ferons holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona and is a Registered Professional Civil Engineer in California.
Matt Thomas, P.E., West Infrastructure Practice Leader, HDR Engineering
Mr. Thomas has 22 years of consulting experience in planning and design of significant water and wastewater infrastructure projects for public agencies throughout Southern California. He joined HDR in 2012. While with his prior firm, he served as project manager for the final planning stages and final design of SMWD's Upper Chiquita Reservoir. This effort included providing detailed technical analyses to support SMWD's efforts for permitting, interagency agreements and coordination, and public outreach. Mr. Thomas holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and is a Registered Professional Civil Engineer in California.
Synopsis: SMWD imports its domestic water supply and is committed to plan and develop water infrastructure facilities to protect and enhance local supply reliability. In response to this commitment, SMWD constructed the Upper Chiquita Reservoir to provide the region with substantial new water reserves to meet customer demand during disruptions of water deliveries to the District. The Upper Chiquita Reservoir is located on the western slope of Chiquita Canyon, just north of Oso Parkway in the City of Rancho Santa Margarita. Completed in October 2011, the 244-million gallon Upper Chiquita Reservoir is the largest domestic water reservoir built in south Orange County in nearly 45 years.
The SMWD was presented with numerous technical and public outreach opportunities during the procurement, design, and construction of the reservoir. This presentation will highlight some of the various issues that SMWD navigated over the course of the project.
Time: Lunch @ 11:50 am; Program ends @ 1:15 pm
Location: Dave and Busters' at Irvine Spectrum
71 Fortune Drive
Irvine, CA (949) 727-0555
Cost: $30 at the door, $23 advance payment by mail or PayPal, $25 registered but pay at the door Unemployed and Students $5 at the door with school ID
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Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) formerly the Hydrology and Hydraulics Technical Group (HHTG)
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thats awesome!Amazing work dude
can you please explain how we should add this line
load=901_net_gfx ? open it(syslinux.cfg) with notepad and place it at the bottom and thats it?
thanks again
If it wasnt you i wouldnt have tried backtrack
The end result of the above is a BT3 module that you can just drop into /BT3/optional (add load=901_net_gfx to syslinux.cfg) directory on a USB stick or SD card.
Thanks Vladsmail for the great tutorial on how to do this properly
I've tested this with a clean install of BT3 without persistent changes, with no problems. Obviously if you already have changes with drivers installed, you may run into some conflicts...
thats awesome!Amazing work dude
can you please explain how we should add this line
load=901_net_gfx ? open it(syslinux.cfg) with notepad and place it at the bottom and thats it?
thanks again
If it wasnt you i wouldnt have tried backtrack
You add it to the end of the line you are using to boot BT3 in syslinux.cfg, e.g. the first line. Check out Vladsmail's tutorial on BT3 modularity for as much detail as you could ever need on this subject.
LABEL xconf1
MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode (KDE)
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz
APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw autoexec=xconf;kdm load=901_net_gfx
Like that?
Which mode should i use?vesa,kde,Experimental? Compiz works btw?
And what about wpa_supplicant?its aks me when i try to configure the network
so, am i right when i say the syslinux.cfg lines should look like this?
i hope soCode:LABEL pchanges MENU LABEL BT3 Graphics mode with Persistent Changes KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz APPEND vga=0x317 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw changes=/changes/slaxsave.dat autoexec=xconf;kdm load=901_net_gfx
(sorry for my broken english)
More like
for a configuration without persistent changes.APPEND vga=785 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw load=901_net_gfx
Don't run xconf, as you will blow away the custom xorg.conf in the module. Just run startx after you log in.
Read through the first part of this tutorial if you want persistent changes, and check out Vladsmail's tutorials on BT3 modules for more understanding of this area.
Can't make it any simpler than that - there is a lot of detailed info on this forum about this topic...
How awesome is this?
I am a veteran linux user and saw the trouble you went thru to get this working.. good job. That being said it didnt look like it would be that fun So I tested out your backtrack3 eee901 module with my acer aspire one (aspire uses intel950 vs the 945) so I knew it might work. And it does!
So far everything looks good!
good job sir.
Thanks! Good to hear - I'm happy if it works at all, let alone works on other hardware at this point in my Linux career :-)
Let me know if you figure out the problems with DRI, although I'm starting to think it's Intel's drivers that are at fault. Either that or the whole kernel needs updating :-(
agree great tute works fine on the eeepc 1000H/XP
Thanks for all your hard work hippocrates!!
Could you please specify in more detail the exact steps in getting this module into the iso and the change in the syslinux.cfg. I can follow instructions but I'm having real difficulties following this as its a little too advanced for me in the current explanation of how to do certain things. I've only been using linux for a week now.
I plan to just have BT3 on a usb stick to run live. I take it I just add your module to the folder you specify and change the cfg somehow and then boot from usb.
Is it this straightforward?
Have you managed to get packet injection working?
Thanks again, you are my new hero!
Its just a hobby that I picked up in the lobby...


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*Rhoki exits Mt Moon and enters Pewter City*
Rhoki: *stretches* Ahhhh! It's good to be back in the city! Isn't that right, Mach?
*To Rhokis side is a Machop with a X-shape scar on it's shoulder*
Mach: Machop! *Smiling*
*Rhoki looks toward the city*
Rhoki: Well, It's time to show those that capture Pokemon whats up!
*Rhoki starts walking toward Pewter City*


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D-backs rally for 5-3 win over Brewers
PHOENIX (AP) _ Martin Prado lined a two-run single in the eighth inning, Wade Miley pitched eight effective innings and the Arizona Diamondbacks ended a three-game losing streak with a 5-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday night.
Miley (6-7) gave up a pair of homers in the first three innings before settling down.
Adam Eaton helped Arizona close to 3-2 with a two-run triple in the fifth inning, Jason Kubel tied it with a sacrifice fly the next inning and Prado capped the comeback with the bases loaded against Jim Henderson (3-3) in the eighth.
Jonathan Lucroy hit a two-run homer and Carlos Gomez had a solo shot for the Brewers.


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Entity System
In this section the basic ideas and details behind CEL are described and explained.
What are Entities?
Every object in the game is represented by an entity. The entity system allows the game programmer (using CEL) to speak to game objects in a consistant manner. Examples of entities are: the player, the world itself, creatures, a candle, objects in general, items, ... It is important to note that entities don't have to represent visual objects. An entity can be a part of a story line (i.e. a quest) that the player has to solve.
Property Classes
One of the most important concepts in CEL is the notion of a Property Class. Attached to every entity we have a list of property classes. A property class describes a specific kind of behaviour or attribute set for an entity. All the property classes together define what the entity really is and can do. In addition to the property classes predefined by CEL you can also write your own property classes (in C++ or Python).
To clarify what you can use property classes for we give a list of the current implemented property classes:
Essentially it is a piece of code (like a C++ class) that you can attach to an entity. They can send out messages.
- pcworld.region: A region represents an area in the engine. It usually contains some sectors with geometry although it is also possible to make regions containing only mesh factories or materials.
- pcworld.zonemanager: The zone manager is a more powerful version of pcregion. It supports dynamic loading for big worlds.
- pccamera.standard: A camera represents what the player sees on screen. A camera is usually in first-person or third-person mode.
- pcinput.standard: This property class represents input from the keyboard, mouse, or joystick. An entity that has this property class attached to it will get messages when input is generated.
- pctools.inventory: The inventory property class contains a set of other entities. An entity which has this property class is capable of containing other entities. This property class can have several attributes that put some limit on what the inventory can contain. The pctools.inventory.characteristics property class is used to define limits for entities (see below). Common limits are weight, size, number of inventory slots, ... but the system is not limited to those. The system is hierarchical. For example, a box entity can have an inventory so that you can put objects in that box. If the player picks up the box then the box including the contents will be in the player inventory. All objects in the world (except for the world itself) belong to some inventory. This is to avoid dangling references. The inventory system goes to great lengths to insure that the maximum capacity of entities inside is not exceeded. This even works for nested inventories. i.e. if the player holds a box and the weight of the box plus contents is near the limit of what the player can hold then you will not be able to add another item to the box.
- pctools.inventory.characteristics: This property class defines the characteristics that some object has in relation to the inventory system. For example, with this property class you can say that the weight of an entity is 10.
- pcobject.mesh: This property class represents a mesh from the engine. Use this if you want a visual representation for an entity.
- pcobject.mesh.select: If you want this entity to receive messages when other meshes (or this mesh) are selected you can use this property class. It is very configurable and even allows you to drag objects along a 3D plane.
- pcmove.solid: If your mesh has a solid representation that needs to be used for collision detection or physics than it must have this property class.
- pcmove.linear: This is the movement system. If you want an entity to move around, have proper collision detection and gravity then you should use this class.
- pcmove.actor.analog and pcmove.actor.standard: These property classes can be used for the main actor. They help synchronise camera, movement system, and animation on the model. The first does multi-directional movement like in platform and action games, whereas the second does turn and move forward movement which is useful for certain cases.
- pc2d.tooltip: This is a convenient property class that allows you to have tooltips. In some games this can be useful for showing information about the actor on which the cursor is resting.
- pctools.timer: Use this property class to get messages when a specific time has passed. Can also repeat.
- pctools.properties: This is a general property class to store properties with an entity. These properties are otherwise not used. It is simply a way to associate data with an entity.
- pclogic.spawn: A property class that represents a spawn point where creatures or other entities can be created.
- pclogic.trigger: A property class that sends messages to the behaviour as soon as some other entity enters a trigger area. Can be useful for doors that open when a player arrives or something.
- pc2d.billboard: This can be used for 2D images on top of 3D world or even for making full 2D games.
- pclogic.quest: This is a powerful and general quest system using a state machine. This is not only useful for RPG games but also for FPS games where a quest can be as simple as 'player presses button' -> 'light goes on'.
- pcmove.pathfinder: The path finder can be used by creatures that are interested in finding out how to move to some location through the level. This property class works together with pcmove.steer in order to actually move the entity around until it reaches the correct destination. This property class also generates events when the destination is reached or the destination cannot be reached for some reason.
- pctools.bag: A bag of strings.
- pclogic.wire: A message conduit. This property class can listen for a certain message on a channel (or entity) and then redirect them as other messages to other channels. It also supports parameter transformation and expressions on those parameters. This is a very useful property class that can be used to connect other property classes so that they act in a coherent manner (for example, listening to a message from the input property class so that you can send out a message to a timer to do something else).
- and more...
Several more property classes are planned like:
- pclocator: The locator is used to keep track of the position of another entity. There can be multiple instances of locator attached to one entity if that entity is interested in more than one entity. When a locator is attached to an entity the entity will receive events when the other entity moves, becomes visible, becomes invisible, or is destroyed. Only the last event is immediate. The others are only calculated every second (default: this is configurable for any locator). The locator is very useful in combination with the pcpathfinder above.
This is only the beginning. More property classes will follow as the game system is further refined. The property class system is a very dynamic and flexible system which allows us to dynamically change properties of entities on the fly. It is possible to add/remove any of the above property classes at any time. This is something that is very hard to do if we were to use the traditional inheritance based entity system.
Property classes are created by getting their property class factory. These are usually implemented in a plugin. You load the plugin at startup of your game and you then create property classes for your entities from that plugin when you need them.
The Physical Layer (PL)
The PL is actually what CEL is all about. It describes the constraints on interactions between entities and also constraints about what an entity can do. The idea is that you attach property classes to an entity. Every property class defines some specific physical attribute or constraint for an entity. The collection of all property classes attached to some entity define what the entity really is. Property classes can be dynamically added or removed from a given entity. Usually the BL will do that.
One important note with this entity system is that one usually doesn't subclass entities. There is only one type of entity and that is provided by the PL. To control behaviour of entities one adds the appropriate property classes instead. The core of CEL doesn't have property class implementations but only provides interfaces which allows a game to create property class implementations. But CEL will come with a set of pre-made property classes which are potentially useful for all/most games.
The PL itself is split into several sub-layers:
- Entity Manager: The entity manager is responsible for creating and managing bare-bones entities.
- Message System: This will allow property classes to send messages to each other.
- Property Class System: Here property classes are managed.
- Persistence Layer: To save/load entities the persistence layer is defined.
A very important part of CEL is the message system. Each entity acts as a message channel on which interested parties can subscribe or broadcast messages. Every message has a message id by which it can be recognized. These id's are hierarchical so that you can easily listen to a collection of messages at once.
Property classes are one of the main generators of messages and can also react to them.
The following table lists a few current messages grouped by the property class by which they are generated (from the list of example property classes above):
- cel.entity.add: An entity was added to the inventory contained within this entity.
- cel.entity.remove: An entity was removed.
- cel.entity.add.this: This entity was added to another inventory.
- cel.entity.remove.this: This entity was removed from another inventory.
- cel.mesh.select.down: Mouse down on a mesh (selection).
- cel.mesh.select.up: Mouse up on a mesh.
- cel.mesh.select.move: Mouse move for a mesh.
- cel.timer.wakeup: Timer wake-up event.
- cel.properties.set: Property has been set.
- cel.properties.clear: Property will be cleared.
- cel.input.<key>.down: Specified command has been activated (i.e. the key associated with the command is pressed).
- cel.input.<key>.up: Specified command has been de-activated (i.e. the key associated with the command is released).
- and more...
More messages will of course follow. This is only the beginning.
The persistence layer in CEL allows games to save and load entity state. In a single player game this can be used for saving the current game state so that the player can later load the game again. In a multiplayer game this can be used in more controlled scenarios to persists parts of the world in a cache or on the network. There are currently two persistence layer: classic (using binary output) or XML.


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It was a typical weekday night after work: Lee slipped off his shoes, climbed into bed with his iPad, and booted up Clash of Clans. The free-to-play strategy game, in which he went by the name "Metamorphaz," had quickly become a favorite stress-reliever for him. After the game's logo faded away, a sprawling virtual village popped into view.
Uh oh. A rival player had gone aggressive, and one of Lee's fellow "clan" members was under attack. Lee tapped a few icons, donating dozens of his troops to defend the friend from a brutal assault of archers and barbarians. Then, he pulled up Clash of Clan's built-in, real-money shop. While the game is free to download, its maker Supercell profits by selling virtual items to the most engaged players. Tonight, Lee's iPad questioned him with a blue pop-up window: "Do you want to buy one Chest of Gems for $99.99?"
Lee could use those gems to immediately fortify his army. He tapped "Yes," almost without thinking. In less than a month of playing around two hours a day, he'd spent nearly a thousand dollars.
Game developers have a word for players like Lee: whales.
"A whale is a player that is willing to invest a significant amount of money in your game," said Jared Psigoda, CEO of the browser game publisher Reality Squared Games, at Game Developers Conference Europe in August. "For most publishers out there … a handful of players make up a significant percentage of revenue, specifically once you get into the mid-hard-core, free-to-play type model."
"The top 10 percent of players can account for as much as 50 percent of all in-app purchase revenue," says Andy Yang, CEO of the mobile monetization research firm PlayHaven.
So who are these people?
Lee — who asked that we not share his full name, or any specific details about his line of work — is a single, 42-year-old businessman from California. He says that his annual income is "in the six figures."
Lee says that spending money on games like Clash of Clans is actually saving him money in the long-run: Before he started gaming, he says he and a small group of friends would go out drinking, sometimes spending as much as $6,000 in a single night between them.
Lee stopped spending money on drinking roughly around the same time that he began playing Happy Kingdom, a Facebook game, with some friends. It was the first videogame he'd ever liked, and he became enraptured. He wound up spending nearly $5,000 in that game before trading it for Clash of Clans, but says that's far less than what he would have otherwise spent on alcohol.
"I actually save money playing these games instead of going out and drinking," he said.
You may never have heard of Clash of Clans, but it's one of the highest-grossing games on the App Store thanks to players like Lee. (Supercell did not return Wired's requests for comment.) In researching the spending habits of Clash of Clans players, delving into the official Supercell forums and starting a thread asking players about their spending habits, I kept coming across the username "Panda."
He, too, declined to reveal his real name to Wired. But "Panda" jumped into the thread almost immediately to brag about how much money he had poured into the game. He's one of the top 10 Clash of Clans players in the world, and he's paid for it. In just over a month, "Panda" said he has put over $7,000 into his Clans village. He has no regrets, claiming that the money accounts for around 7 percent of his total monthly income.
"You don't have to spend less, you have to earn more," he advised other players.
Other Clans players don't approve of players like Panda. "You are buying your way to the top of the leaderboard with no gaming skill required," one player said. "Just how long are you gonna be able to sustain [$7,000] a month for?"
Lee says that members of his own clan also disapprove of his spending habits. But Lee says he just wants to be a good teammate. He's not interested in topping the leaderboards, but loves the feeling of sending his highly leveled troops to help out his fellow clan members.
PlayHaven's Yang doesn't think developers of games like Clash of Clans should lose sleep about having users that pay thousands of dollars for in-app consumables.
"That's like saying a band should feel guilty for having hardcore fans that have spend money purchasing every album, every piece of memorabilia, and religiously attending all of their concerts," he said.
But Lee's and Panda's four-figure expenditures are dwarfed by whales in even more lucrative games.
Vince P., who also asked us to withhold his last name, has been playing the Facebook game Battle Pirates since early 2011. His total spend: over $16,000.
"It does kind of shock me, for sure, that it was that much," said Vince, who goes by the username "Spoon" in Battle Pirates. "And it's all for nothing."
Vince is 45 years old, divorced, with a 16-year-old daughter. He says he makes between $200,000 and $400,000 annually. He looked positively distraught over the situation during a Skype interview with Wired, as he tabulated a list of his receipts. On Dec. 17, 2011 alone, he spent $207. Just two days later, he spent another $415. Later, in a single week in February, he put $700 into the game.
Before downloading that list and doing the math, Vince estimated that he had spent a total of $5,000. That he had spent triple that number seemed to disturb him greatly. He recalled one specific moment from a day at the height of his Battle Pirates addiction, when he was discussing preparing for an in-game tournament with a friend he'd met through the game. Vince and his friend were discussing whether or not to spend $500 on a fleet of ships to position themselves to win the tournament.
"We were seriously talking about dropping $500 on nothing," he says with a sigh. "It's a piece of software that doesn't even exist in real life. It could just evaporate into nothing."
Vince was at one point in the top 100 leaderboard on Battle Pirates. For him, that justified the big cash outlays.
"You want to be the top guy," Vince says. "Once you convince yourself to spend two hundred dollars on it, another two hundred dollars isn't that much more."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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At this years NAMM show MOTU unveiled the latest addition to their range of Virtual Instruments: BPM - Beat Production Machine .
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The American Geographical Society (AGS) conducted a nationwide survey of public attitudes toward and knowledge about geography. The survey ran online from December 12, 2011 through March 31, 2012 with volunteers constantly soliciting adult U.S. residents to participate. The AGS Geographic Knowledge and Values Survey received 4,021 valid responses from people throughout the United States. While not a true random sample, the results are indicative of a sizable segment of the U. S. population─more educated, more female, and less ethnically and racially diverse than the general population─and a true constituency for geography in America.
This is one part of a major study funded by the National Science Foundation. The Road Map Project is a joint effort of the National Geographic Society (NGS), the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE), the Association of American Geographers (AAG), and AGS. The overall goal of the larger project is to improve geographic literacy, a matter of serious concern in the United States today.
The questions cover (a) public values regarding the discipline, (b) public knowledge about the discipline, and (c) public knowledge about real world geography. The results indicate that constituents predominantly:
- Want more geography education to be offered in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the United States.
- Approximately nine out of ten respondents wish they themselves had more geographic education and nearly all want more for their children. To meet this need, respondents favored offering geography courses at every education level, from elementary school to Ph.D. programs in the most elite universities. And, they insist instructors should have formal training in geography.
- Recognize the importance of geography in today's society.
- A very high portion of respondents said they use geographic knowledge and skills in their everyday lives. They repeatedly demonstrated that they use geographic concepts and spatial thinking when engaging with the world around them on local to global matters. Respondents correctly identified professions and government agencies in which geography and its skills would be highly useful.
- Know that geography is about far more than just "knowing your states and capitals."
- Respondents show a sophisticated understanding of the purview of geography, which is defined not by content but rather by its emphasis on spatial reasoning, though many did not know to call it geography. They understand that the discipline covers a wide range of topics, methods, techniques, and technologies.
- However, specific knowledge about real world geography (places and processes) is no better than the dismal levels found routinely in other public surveys of geographic knowledge.
If you would like to know more about this important study, Click here to access the full report!
Funded under subcontract to the National Geographic Society's Geographic Literacy/Road Map grant from the National Science Foundation Prime Contract Number: DRL-1049437


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Namdrol wrote:Fa Dao wrote:Is it possible from a Tibetan medical or spiritual standpoint or any other for that matter that smoking could effect my ability to do visualization?...
Yes, by disturbing your wind/vatta/rlung.
I have been trying to learn to visualize for a couple of year now, but it is as if I lack the ability to do so. Could this be a result of my rlung imbalance? Is it something specific that can be done in order to overcome this problem.
I feel that much of the practice I try to do is ineffective because I can't do the visualisations. Especially the guru yoga of white A.


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Mean Betty: Want to Buy Brangelina's Home?
$13.75 million for a four bed/four bath is a just a drop in the bucket, right?!
-Mean Betty
Mean Betty heard that the housing market was getting better, but the idea of spending $13.75 million dollars on a four bedroom, four bathroom house is just a tad silly, even if it's the site where Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their brood farted slept. Yes, kittens the Brangelina tribe is moving. They're selling their Pacific Palisades home. As it's only one in a number of domiciles they own, you don't have to worry about them going homeless.
Now before you little love monkeys start fantasizing about swimming in their pool, enjoying their ocean views, or playing in their walk-in fridge (how much food does the tribe eat?), this house is split in two! Yes, two pieces. So my little lambkin, if you're in the den and want to go to bed, you might have to scurry through the rain to get back into the house.
Read Mean Betty: Kim Kardashian's Wacky Wedding Moments
Meanie read the description of the house to the butler and he couldn't figure out what the hut looked like. Honestly, Meanie read it a few times herself and got stumped too! We know that it has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and is split in two. The house was built in 1962, so it might still have that retro feel to it. Brad and Angie turned the home from a ranch to a two-story home, and then added a heated pool, a garden and a tennis court.
The outside sounds delish, kittens, but a two-story home that's split in the middle?? If you're on the second floor, do you use a rope bridge to get to the kid's room?
Now kittens, this house does have some history, so that could be why they're asking so much for it. It was Brad's bachelor pad when he split from Jennifer Aniston. If only the walls could talk! Think of all those late night phone convos those two might have had. Did he sneak Angie up the back way to this place?
Brad tried to sell the house once before. In 2009, he put it on the market for the bargain basement price of $18 million. Meanie just can't figure out why it didn't sell, can you?
Mean Betty


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Bruce only got one decent wave. He didn't seem to care at all. He just floated around like a buoy... I wanted to see him go off
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Bruce only got one decent wave. He didn't seem to care at all. He just floated around like a buoy... I wanted to see him go off
did billy kemper just give slater dual middle fingers after he ollied over him hahaha
Shane-o just took out Mick Fanning. Crazy...How amazing would a Slater v Dorian final be? Geritol and Tylenol sponsors.
Or Kelly v Joel for the title.
i always like seeing an underdog like kieran perrow win...would've been really awesome to see knox go out w/ a final win. i've felt like he's been consistently underscored the past few years.
& as awesome as it would be to see parko finally win a title, i feel like slater's gonna pull #12 out of his ass somehow.
Lol at the sponsors comment. I wish I saw spthat slater Ollie, it must have been t the very end of the heat? Also, I wouldn't mind seeing Joel parks win too it's long overdue and he is nasty. The carves at the end of his ill tubes we're powerful.
Go Dane..........
mipe pasters. I took this photo of Dane chillin in 2010.
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last wave of the heat.
thanks brek. Ill check it out when i am home from work. Do you know if I have to watch the entire 40 m heat again or is there a way to scroll through to the end?


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Anthony D'Amico
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Originally from Long Island, New York, Anthony D'Amico is in demand as a freelance musician throughout the New England area. He is a member of the Rhode Island and Boston Philharmonics, and the Portland and Springfield Symphonies. He is principal bass of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Opera Boston. He has also performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Boston Ballet, the Boston and Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Societies. During the summers he has recently served as principal bass of the New Hampshire Music Festival orchestra, and currently participants in the Sebago-Long Lake Chamber Music Festival of Maine.
B.M., Hartt School of Music; M.M., NEC.


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Pop-Culture | Posted by Magda K on 08/11/2011
Hacked Photos Being Used On Adult Websites
A couple of weeks ago, an article on Mookychick highlighted an issue of hacked photos on adult websites. It's a practice that's going on for a little while, but it's starting to trend, and it's misogynist and tantamount to abuse.
Essentially, a crop of websites are hacking into photos uploaded to social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Tumblr – websites that most of us use, and many of us upload photos to.
Pictures of women and teenage girls are being hacked into and published entirely without the girls' knowledge or consent – on adult websites. It appears to be a legal practice, as it largely keeps within the privacy terms and conditions of social network sites.
For teenage girls and women, it's …


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Today is Tuesday, June 25, the 176th day of 2013. There are 189 days left in the year.
Today's highlight:
On June 25, 1973, former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.
On this date:
In 1788, Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.
In 1876, Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.
In 1888, the Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Benjamin Harrison for the presidency. (Harrison went on to win the election, defeating President Grover Cleveland.)
In 1910, President William Howard Taft signed the White-Slave Traffic Act, more popularly known as the Mann Act, which made it illegal to transport women across state lines for "immoral" purposes.
In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted.
In 1943, Congress passed, over President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto, the Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act, which allowed the federal government to seize and operate privately owned war plants facing labor strikes.
In 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South.
In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled 6-1 that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.
In 1988, American-born Mildred Gillars, known as "Axis Sally" for her Nazi propaganda broadcasts during World War II, died in Columbus, Ohio, at age 87. (Gillars had served 12 years in prison for treason.)
In 1993, Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's 19th prime minister, the first woman to hold the post.
In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional, and ruled that HIV-infected people are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In 2009, death claimed Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," in Los Angeles at age 50 and actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 62.
Ten years ago: The Recording Industry Association of America threatened to sue hundreds of individual computer users who were illegally sharing music files online. Former Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox, a symbol of Old South segregation, died in Atlanta at age 87.
Five years ago: A divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that allowed capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12; the ruling also invalidated laws in five other states that allowed executions for child rape that did not result in the death of the victim. A jury in Woburn, Mass., convicted Neil Entwistle of first-degree murder in the deaths of his wife, Rachel, 27, and their 9-month-old baby, Lillian Rose. (Entwistle was sentenced the next day to two life prison terms without possibility of parole.) Wesley N. Higdon, 25, shot and killed five workers and himself at a western Kentucky plastics plant; a sixth victim survived.
One year ago: A divided U.S. Supreme Court threw out major parts of Arizona's tough crackdown on people living in the U.S. without legal permission, while unanimously upholding the law's most-discussed provision: requiring police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons, but limiting the legal consequences. With BeBe Winans singing "God Bless America," a final steel beam was lifted atop a new World Trade Center skyscraper in New York City.
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Brevard, N.C. – The first road trip is the longest road trip of the 2008 season for the Brevard College men's football team, as Head Coach Paul Hamilton and his squad will travel close to seven hours across the state of North Carolina to Murfreesboro to face off with the Hawks of Chowan University on Saturday afternoon at 12 p.m.
This is the third meeting between the Tornados and the Hawks with the Tornados holding a 2-0 series advantage. BC defeated Chowan 10-5 in Murfreesboro in 2006, the football programs first ever victory since its establishment in 2006. Last season the Tornados blew through the Hawks at home, defeating Chowan 45-7 in front of very enthusiastic crowd in Brevard Memorial Stadium.
The Tornados are coming off their first win of the 2008 season and will look to continue to improve on both sides of the ball this Saturday afternoon. The Tornados rushed for 146 yards on 44 carries, picking up two touchdowns by way of the legs of running back John Taylor versus Pembroke a week ago, and will look for the same this week.
The Tornados defense was strong against the run last week, holding Pikeville to only 48 rushing yards for the game. Brevard also forced three fumbles, recovering two, and picked off two passes to help put the offense in great position throughout the game. BC will face a similar style offense and quarterback this week, as Chowan's Webster leads the team in both rushing yards and passing yards on the year.
Junior quarterback Kye Hamilton played well despite the two interceptions, opening the field up by connecting on over 50 percent of his pass attempts for the game including a 36-yard touchdown pass to Donald Hudson in the third quarter.
Again the running game will be put on the shoulders of senior John Taylor, as Taylor had perhaps one of his best overall games in a Tornados uniform last week, rushing 24 times for 110 yards and two touchdowns.
Down back Desmond Wilson played well in the fullback spot, pounding forward behind the offensive line and through the defensive line for short gains which opened up the running lanes off the ends and outside the tackles for Taylor and the BC slot receivers.
The Tornados will look to continue to improve its consistency on the offensive side, continuing to put forth a balanced attack as well as protect the ball.
The Hawks are 0-2 out of the gates in 2008, struggling to put points on the board losing in the season opener to Elizabeth City State 55-3 and then last week to Saint Paul's 13-0.
Offensively the Hawks have scored just three points in their first two games and have yet to find the end zone. Chowan has recorded 334 yards on the ground and 224 yards through the air thus far this season, while picking up nine more first downs (32) then their opponents. Quarterback CJ Webster is leading the way for the Hawks in both rushing and passing, as he has rushed 21 times for 121 yards, an average of 60.5 per game, and has passed for 202 yards on 22-of-71 pass attempts with five interceptions.
Webster's go to guy has been James Fox, as the wide receiver has eight catches for 114 yards over the first two games.
On the defensive side of the ball, the Hawks are allowing an average of 310.0 yards and 34 points per game, with 55 points coming by way of Elizabeth City State in the season opener. The Hawks have forced two turnovers this season, an area that has bothered the Tornados some in their first two contests.
Senior linebacker Jomo Brown is leading the way with 12 tackles on the year, while fellow senior linebacker Quinten Ladson has 10 tackles, five of which are for a loss, and two sacks.
The kickoff time is slated for a 12 p.m., a high noon start, at Garrison Stadium in Murfreesboro, N.C.
You can catch the game via live broadcast brought to you by the "Voice of the Tornados" Rob Walden over the radio at WSQL 1240 AM or over the Internet at www.wsqlradio.com. You may also visit the Brevard College Athletics website at www.BCTornados.com.
Week Three Game Notes - Brevard College vs. Chowan University - September 13, 12 p.m.


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Friday, November 25, 2011
The World Series Of Poker 001: Flush
I made the Rio at about 10:30 PST, and two things became clear the moment I gave my name to the casino desk clerk. First, she definitely saw that I had a room reserved. Second, that room was definitely no longer available. She made a face that I would describe as "Yikes." I'm going to have to put you in a bigger suite, she said. "But it is maybe smoking and maybe not, so maybe it smells like smoke and maybe not. Is that OK?"
It was OK, and when I arrived I found that I was happily on the "maybe not" side of the smoke equation. It was (spoilers) also the only serious piece of luck I'd have. I didn't know that yet, so maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. My suite was in the Masquerade Tower, past an enormous Carnivale jester head suspended from the ceiling between the dancer rail and the Burger King bar, where you can apparently build your own burger. The suite was in the corner, and opened on a wraparound window with a full view of the strip at night. The living room opened on a bedroom, which opened on a bathroom, and each of these rooms by themselves represented the largest hotel room I've ever occupied.
I unpacked -- my possessions sat in the room like a shy boy in the corner of his first party -- and texted CMitch. Mitch was playing cash at the Amazon ballroom. Before you get to hall leading to the ballroom, though, you have to walk past 17 posters advertising Penn & Teller (a spectacular show that I'd seen two years before on my previous Vegas trip) and 230 blanging flashing slots and pokies making droid orgy noises, and the Penn & Teller theater itself. This November, this theater became the site of the biggest show in poker, the final table of the Main Event WSOP, but now it is simply the site of the big Rio magic show, whose performers have lent the theater its name. As it happened, I passed the theater just as the show was letting out, which means I caught a glimpse of Penn Jillette, hair down to his shoulders, posing for pictures with the tourists who had just watched him shoot himself in the neck with a nailgun. Pay your price, get your ticket, make sure you get your souvenir, a little chunk of reflected greatness.
You pass down the hall to the Amazon ballroom, past banners of giants. Daniel Negraneu. Allen Cunningham. Jeff Madsen. Tom Schneider. Erik Lindgren. Previous winners of the WSOP Player of the Year. Who will it be this year? Why...it might be you!! But it won't be me. I'm here for just one event, not nearly enough to rack up the points needed to get into Ben Lamb territory. That's as OK with me as if it were a larger suite of rooms at the casino. I started playing poker regularly in 2005 when I bought in for $50 at True Poker, and all I've really wanted was a shot at a WSOP tournament -- any WSOP tournament. A little chunk of reflected greatness? Maybe it's just that silly. Here's me, just another tourist.
True Poker led to Pacific Poker, which led to Poker Stars and Full Tilt poker, and that's where I stayed until a month ago. That was when both of those sites -- really the only sites left in the US market that mattered -- had been raided by the feds, their funds seized, their U.S.-facing players locked out. Poker was dead in the country that had seen its modern development and birthed it's boom. Poker, against the law in the USA? You may as well deport the Statue of Liberty, that French immigrant, while you're at it. But the death of poker had meant the forced cashout of my funds. I had money on those sites, grown slowly over the years from gradually increasing skill and good bankroll management. I hadn't been able to get my money off Tilt yet -- and, though it was concerning the way they were dragging their heels and not really getting information about the holdup out to players, surely that was a temporary situation. On the happy side I'd had enough on Stars to cover me for trip, hotel, and buyin in one of the smaller tournaments, and Stars paid off quickly and easily, and the check cleared with no problems.
And now, I was going to take my good bankroll management money and blow it all on one shot at glory. By the summer of 2011 I'd played in perhaps thousands of tournaments, so I had few illusions about my chances, even if the level of the play were as bad as I hoped. In order to win a tournament with thousands of runners, you first have to play very well, and then you have to get really really lucky, and you have to keep playing very very well while all the while hoping that you continue to get really really lucky. It's just a fact of tournament poker. I'll put it to you like this: Imagine you get a change to take a bet for all your chips getting a 90% chance to win. You'd take it, right? The answer is 'Yes.' This isn't a trick question. But think of this, now. To take that bet is to lose one time in ten. And to play a tournament with more than a thousand runners is to take that bet more than ten times. Oh and also? You're not going to be getting 90% every time. Not even if you're really good. Sometimes it will be correct to take 40%. 30%. Um...so, yeah, get lucky. That's tournament poker. Be really good, then get lucky. If you're not really good, you don't even get the chance to be lucky. Unless you're Darvin Moon.
Poker players are different than non-poker players in many ways, but in this way particularly: Poker players are far, far warier of the one-in-one-thousand chance at disaster. Us poker players, we've seen thousands of one-in-one-thousand disasters. They're more common than you'd imagine. I think medical professionals probably understand what I'm talking about. My point is that I was flushing my money. But more than that, I knew I was probably flushing the money. I'd explained this to my wife. She and I both decided to let me do something insane anyway.
I walked into what I thought at the time was the Amazon (it was actually the adjacent Convention Hall), and stopped for a second. In a bad novel, I'd inhale sharply at this point. This wasn't a bad novel, so I simply met a madness for which my senses were unprepared while attempting nonchalance. The Rio Convention Hall during the WSOP is full of an Escheresque tablescape of felt and chairs to what feels like the horizonline. If heaven (or hell) were a cardroom, it would be a cardroom with this sort of insane telescopic dreamscape scope. Thousands of tables? Maybe. Probably. Millions of them? Probably not, but with the proper medication you could convince me of it. The first thing I thought was, "This looks like an illusion." And here's the thing: I didn't even realize that this wasn't the only room. The tables are split into sections by color: Yellow, white, black, red, green, tan. Each color split into banks of poker tables, each with its own number suspended above it; 12, 127 289. Thousands of tables? Yes.
One side of the room was devoted to an ongoing tournament, but the other was given to cash games, poor stuck bastards trying to win their lost buyin back and bored tournament jockeys whiling the time away until the next events. Somewhere in that sea of chittering chips and plastic squares sat a friend I'd never met. CMitch, poker blogger and BBT (RIP)regular, who would be playing in my event.
I'm here, I texted. Mitch texted back his coordinates, and I walked there.
"Red shirt, glasses. And I'm behind you." I texted Mitch, then waited for him to check his phone, which he shortly did, and then look behind him, which he did immediately thereafter.
It's spiritually vertiginous to me whenever I meet a blogger. You need to understand this, these are people I actually know. I've met their minds, the selves they've presented to the world, but I've never met them physically. Now here we are, in real life, and now we two, so accustomed to virtual interaction, must content with the physical actuality of one another. Already friends, but also meeting for the first time. This is what technology has made of us. If I ever make a WPBT, parts of my wiring will likely short-circuit permanently from the existential tango. Much like a first encounter with the vast pokeresquitude of the Amazon room, I try to approach this madness for which my senses are unprepared with seeming nonchalance. I have no idea to what extent I was successful. Mitch was the third blogger I've ever met (to answer the question you're likely asking, 1. Hoy and 2. Pauly), and it was odd, the oddness alleviated significantly by the fact that Mitch is about the most laid back and friendly sort of person you could ever hope to meet. Obviously a person comfortable in his own skin, obviously somebody who knew their way around The Poker. I was me. You'll have to ask Mitch what that's all about. Probably I'm not quite the same as the person I am on the page. Perhaps I'm not at all the same, I don't know. I try to act all cool and shit here on the page. In real life, I'm much more stammer-y and awkward.
Mitch bought me a beer from one of the stands out in the hallway, and showed me around. We went to the actual Amazon ballroom (where I saw my first real live Poker Pro Celebrity: Eskimo Clarke) and took me up into the stands of the main stage (colloquially known as the Mother Ship), the sort of neon fever dream that Regis Philbin must have had after eating unrefrigerated taquitos and pulling a 20 hr. shift on the set of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Who wants to be a millionare? Friggin everybody in this whole town. Specifically anybody in this particular room. We'd all come from around the country, around the world, from other dimensions (I'm thinking now primarly of Phil Laak) for precisely that purpose. Mitch and I watched part of the final table. I recognized Elky. He didn't recognize me. A row of studious sorts typed furiously at their laptops. I knew by the odds that at least one of them was probably a friend of mine, but I had no idea which ones. Pauly I'd have known, but I didn't see Pauly. If I had seen him, I would no more have approached him than I'd have tried to take a steak from a Laplander's food dish. These people were focused.
It was time to buy in. Event 48. We walked to the...what was it? Not the cage. Or at least, not a traditional cage. I laid down 13 crisp one hundred dollar bills and two that were kind of folded up and mangy-looking. I'd prepared myself for this moment. An act of insanity. A flushing of fifteen hundred. I could afford it -- but why would I afford it?
I had wondered that to myself, in the months leading up to that moment, as it all came into focus and became real to me.
I've wondered it many times in the months thereafter.
The best answer I can devise is this:
Because I guess I am a poker player of some kind. And because if you're a poker player of any kind, eventually you come here, to this place. Hopefully with your eyes open. I think mine were. As I laid down the bills. I knew my chances, even if I were much more skilled than the field. Not good. And yet, for whatever reason, this is what I felt compelled to do. Even though I knew it was likely that the money was gone -- even though in fact I had already considered it gone in my financial thinking over a month prior -- I still felt good about it. I still do.
I am Julius_Goat. I've played in the World Series of Poker.
6 comments:
- Josie said...
Awesome write up thus far. keep going. Hurry up!
- November 26, 2011 at 8:12 AM
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- November 27, 2011 at 12:41 AM
- lightning36 said...
Nice start to the trip report, Goat. It is a wonder playing in your first WSOP tournament, isn't it?
As for cmitch ... what a great guy! You know the guy is a good dude when the worst you can say about him is that you feel guilty because he keeps picking up the dinner tab!
- November 27, 2011 at 7:30 PM
- cmitch said...
Great meeting you in real life too!!! I didn't recognize you at first because I was expecting a Groucho look-a-like. You are a lot taller and must have recently shaved your mustache.
@lightning - sounds like you owe me a dinner. :)
- November 28, 2011 at 6:55 AM
- Hammer Player a.k.a Hoyazo said...
What a great beginning, Goat. I had pretty much the exact same feelings as you, the first time I came to the Rio during the WSOP, the first time I donked down my cash to buy into and event, and even the first time I met a poker blogger live and in the flesh.
Now get to the poker part.
- November 29, 2011 at 9:04 AM
Air France Concorde
Christa McAuliffe, Concord, NH
Carnaval's Costa Concordia
Concord:::In the "eye of The Beast"
Downey Savings
90s:: "He gets 4 years.", "(His chance is OVER!!)":::2.1.03 (SS Columbia) & 11.26.03 (Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde).
My miracle of Ocean Beach, witnessed by MILLIONS on the West Coast
Mt. Zion:::Slowly being eaten away until one day paradise is gone forever
Carry That Weight
Unit 731::TSUSHOGO
Zastava Koral
"Something happened (which casued the market to fall to 6500.)" Told managers of CalPers funds to sell/manipulated CalPers' holdings?
Allowed the hustlers who got out of the market at/near its peak 90s, into real estate, out at real eastate market peak 05-07 to buy stocks dirt cheap and get back into the market at 6500.
In the course of decay and deterioration of the favor of the people the gods instructed their clone host tools in corporate to make changes to their products and subsequently in people's lives. The switch to plastic/disposable-based packaging is an outstanding example. Another is the extensive use/proliferation of disposable diapers. Whereas diaper services were the norm during the 20th cenutry a change occurred in the 70s/80s and parents began to incurr evil upon their children, and sadly in some cases think they were "earning" off their own infant children!!!
Anyways, why I bring this up is I am watching the South PArk's rendition of Scientology's dogma. They mention Xena, ruler of the last planet.
Recall I said only the true believers in JEsus will last to the end of the 1000 years and be used to colonize the next Planet Earth (with Lucifer, who will initiate disfavor on the new planet).
Don't be surprised if the last Jesus's name WAS Xena. Maybe a stretch but nothing surprises me.
Perhaps the volcano metaphor suggests destruction by subduction. I have mentioned massive, global subduction as a method of demise in the past.
"Poisoning their brainwashed minds." xtainity brainwashed you. Liberalism is the poison.
The gods used xtainity to demonize Lucifer, ensuring people refused to heed the teachings of THE SECOND COMING!!!. Lucifer is the Second Coming of Christ!!!
xtianity is the product of the Apostle's books of the New Testiment and can't be trusted to contain the true teachings of Jesus Christ. Just like each one of you corrupt whores, the gods could have tempted them with immortality if they lied when writing the New Tesatiment. Then the gods dictated verbatim specifically to parlay into the destructive phenominah known as xtianity.
We have seen the gods engage in similar behavior to keep people away from good religions, with the Jews in Palestine and Muslims recently post-9.11, demonizing both.
This is another of the god's wicked curveballs, their reverse positioning tool extensively employed, utilizing positioning to prepare for the Apocalypse and your "consolation prize" of "1000 years with Jesus on Earth".
"1000 years with Jesus" may start at different times for different people::::
Medical advances I mention below may already be invented, courtesy of biotechnology, but reserved for the wealthy.
Proof money is not favor:::Not only will they die before the masses, since their clock began sooner, but some of these individuals may have been "guinea pigs" in the perfection of these advances.
Just clone host fakes who were sold they are the lucky ones anyways.
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Hi Friends,
Does anybody here know about the free tool to generate xml sitemap with no page limitation. As I have been using the sitemap builder's free tool to generate xml sitemap but this time the website is too big. Looking for help.
Thanks in advance
Here is the list of Sitemap Tools that Google recommends.
Hope this is helpful.
I don't know of a free generator that is unlimited, but freesitemapgenerator.com is ok for up to 5000 pages.
But it is only free for a maximum of 500 pages.
The xml-sitemaps.com can be set up to only index folders that you tell it, so if the site is well organised the task can be broken into smaller pieces. Then you caneither combine all the site map files into one or submit them seperately.
Plus if the pages are all linked together then Google will find them during its crawling without needing a complete sitemap.
Do you get those options on the free version?
I agree, and submitting a sitemap doesn't mean that Google will necessarily index all the urls in it anyway.
Any free tool like xml-sitemap.com, will include maximum of 500 pages in XML sitemap. For more than 500 pages you need to make different files like sitemap1.xml, sitemap2.xml, sitemap3.xml and so on. NOw make a sitemap.xml file which include all urls of other sitemap files in same syntax. Then upload all in root directory. There are a lot of websites which offers sitemap generation of more than 500 pages but they are not free, you have to pay for using their services.
I updated the content of most of my websites recently and I made some modifications. Of course I had to update my sitemap. I used the Sitemap Creator of Rankvision.com. It creates a .xml file , no matter how many pages your site has.
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Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Francis Marion University invites applications for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering. The University has developed a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering degree program that will commence in Spring 2014. Initially, the Industrial Engineering major will be housed in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, which oversees programs in physics, pre-engineering and engineering technology. The successful applicant will teach Industrial Engineering courses and will work with the Coordinator of Industrial Engineering to establish the new major. The Physics and Astronomy Department website is: http://www.fmarion.edu/academics/Physics.
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and some teaching experience in an Industrial Engineering program
Start Date: August 2013 or January 2014
Responsibilities: This will be the first engineering program on campus. The successful applicant will teach 9-12 hours per semester of lectures and labs. He/she will be responsible for assisting in the implementation of the Industrial Engineering major and will be able to teach a wide variety of industrial engineering topics.
Location: Florence, SC, is a growing city with a vibrant arts culture. FMU is within easy driving distance of beach resorts and areas of historical interest, including Charleston and Savannah.
Professional Faculty Development: Francis Marion provides generous support for conference travel when presenting. Start-up grant funds and summer research stipends are available on a competitive basis.
Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Application Process: 1) Provide a letter of application (referencing position number 13-41); 2) completed FMU faculty application; 3) curriculum vitae; 4) three letters of recommendation; and 5) copies of all transcripts (official transcripts will be required of the successful candidate).
Send all material to: Dr. David M. Peterson, Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Francis Marion University, PO Box 100547, Florence, SC 29502-0547.
Minorities and Women are strongly encouraged to apply.
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The programs and services in the Division of Student Life are designed to supplement your academic experience and the credentials you build by enhancing your leadership skills. Numerous student services are available to ensure that your experience at TWU will be personally and educationally rewarding. A primary purpose of the Division of Student Life is to assist you with your needs and interests.
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SLEAZE: Miley Cyrus Admits to Singing About Drugs
She's just being MILEY, right? Miley Cyrus has opened about the controversy surrounding her song "We Can't Stop."
The pop star went under fire for the lyrical content and drug references in the hit song. Miley originally denied the drug reference, but now she's retracted that statement.
The song features a line "dancing with Molly," a slang reference to MDMA or ecstacy. Another line talks about "trying to get a line in the bathroom," but the 20-year-old has not openly commented about whether or not the lyric referenced cocaine.
"It depends who's doing what. If you're aged ten [the lyric is] Miley, if you know what I'm talking about then you know. I just wanted it to be played on the radio and they've already had to edit it so much," Cyrus admitted.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year, and Macy's Rising Star winners The Summer Set have a special gift for everyone. The band is debuting the lyric video to their cover of the holiday classic, "This Christmas."
This holiday season, The Summer Set has a lot ot be thankful for. Aside from releasing their album Legendary and winning the Macy's Rising Star competition, the band got to perform at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, joining a star-studded lineup of some of the most legendary names in music.
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LOS ANGELES -- Operators in Los Angeles County will pay lower fees for vending machine health permits rather than seeing them quadruple, thanks to a two-year effort by the California Automatic Vending Council and National Automatic Merchandising Association.
The county had originally proposed an increase in the annual fee from $62 to $275 per machine, based on the county's estimate of the time it would need to invest in inspecting the machines. These fees apply to cold food and coffee venders. In July 2011, the Los Angeles County Environmental Health Department agreed to freeze its existing fee following industry opposition to the proposed increase. | SEE STORY
Following two years of discussions with NAMA and CAVC, the health department recently announced that LAC code Section 8.04.720 has been amended and the annual fees will now be $62 per machine for the first three machines, and $23 for each additional machine that an operating company has in the field.
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spoonwep / spoonwpa ?
I remember testing a java WiFi tool in Backtrack3 that looked really handy compared to remembering all the aircrack commands.
The other day I relised how useful it would be to have that tool at hand, just in case in desperate need of connectivity (is there something for android like this...?)...
...but I couldn't remember what it was called. So I did a search around and found some people asking for what packages are included. I saw they got responses like `Download it yourself and look`. And the FAQ says there is not list.
So I download v5 and had a look. The tool I was looking for is no longer included. I guess that might be good for reduced skid use.
Still, here's a list of packages in version 5 as of 3/9/2011:
http://pastebin.com/Q6fZ3XAf so you don't have to go through the hassle I did.
Now to find a copy of v3 to find what that package was called... can anyone remind me?
spoonwep / spoonwpa ?
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bt5 kde 64bit + acpi + cuda 4.0 / nvidia 270.40 / pyrit
I agree with nemis, what about spoonwep and spoonwpa ?
To show all repository packages you could simply:
update the cache
and show all what's in cacheCode:apt-get update
Also if you read the man of apt-cache you would find how to get additional information of a specific package, to show only installed packages, dependencies and more.Code:apt-cache search ""
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Party Foul Music's "I Heart Party" (The Official Record Label Launch Party)
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Join Party Foul Music's "I Heart Party" to celebrate their official record label launch on Thursday, February 14th at EVR NYC, one of the newest nightlife spots opened in the city.
Doors open at 10pm with Party Foul artist performances from the cutting edge electro-house producer, Alodot & the innovative glitch-hop inspired production duo, New Planet. Both acts have recently garnered attention from the EDM community for their energetic performances as "soon-to-be inductees of the newest generation of electronic music" alongside such formidable talents as Zedd, Porter Robinson, Hardwell and Nicky Romero.
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Like many of you, I have spent the past week or so essentially glued to my television, watching the Olympics. I love sports—playing and watching—and I love this celebration of human spirit and achievement that comes every 4 years. So I don't know why it took me so long to see the gender imbalances in sport.
Many other people have focused on the athletes themselves, whether it be the requirement for beach volleyball players to compete in bikinis, or the fact that Saudi Arabia finally sent its first female athletes to the Games (awesome!). What I'm talking about is the announcing, officiating and coaching.
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Women's basketball player Samantha Winn has been named Tornado Athlete of the Week for the 19th week of the 2008-09 athletic season. Winn dominated the vote, capturing 31 of 47 votes, or 66%.
Winn (Candler, N.C.) led the Tornados in scoring in both of their games last week. Wednesday at Carson-Newman, Winn posted 16 points and six rebounds in a 99-77 loss. Saturday against North Greenville, Winn was the best player on the court, with 21 points and six rebounds in an 81-76 win over North Greenville.
For the season, Winn leads Brevard with 13.9 ppg and is second on the team with 7.8 rpg. The Tornados (5-12, 0-7 South Atlantic Conference) host Newberry College Wednesday night at 6 p.m.
The Tornado Athlete of the Week is determined by a fan poll on the frontpage of BCTornados.com. Candidates for the Tornado Athlete of the Week award are announced and voting opens every Saturday night at 10 p.m. Voting closes on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m.
Week 1 - Brooke Seaman, Volleyball
Week 2 - Bailey Varley, Women's Soccer
Week 3 - Rebecca Schoonover, Volleyball
Week 4 - Nikki Peacock, Women's Soccer
Week 5 - Stanley Jones, Football
Week 6 - Stanley Jones, Football
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Week 8 - Alycia Andrade, Women's Cross Country
Week 9 - Jussi Halonen, Men's Soccer
Week 10 - Jo Tuttle, Women's Cycling
Week 11 - Brooke Seaman, Volleyball
Week 12 - Jami Perry, Volleyball
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Vertical sleeve gastrectomy is surgery to help with weight loss. The surgeon removes a large portion of your stomach.
The new, smaller stomach is about the size of a banana. It limits the amount of food you can eat by making you feel full after eating small amounts of food.
Gastrectomy - sleeve; Gastrectomy - greater curvature; Gastrectomy - parietal; Gastric reduction; Vertical gastroplasty
You will receive general anesthesia before this surgery. This will make you sleep and keep you pain-free.
The surgery is usually done using a tiny camera that is placed in your belly. This type of surgery is called laparoscopy. The camera is called a laparoscope. It allows your surgeon to see inside your belly.
In this surgery:
Your surgeon will remove most of your stomach.
When you eat after having this surgery, the small pouch will fill quickly. You will feel full after eating a very small amount of food.
Weight-loss surgery may increase your risk of gallstones. Your doctor may recommend having a cholecystectomy (surgery to remove the gallbladder) before your surgery or at the same time.
Weight-loss surgery may be an option if you are very obese and have not been able to lose weight through diet and exercise.
Vertical sleeve gastrectomy is not a quick fix for obesity. It will greatly change your lifestyle. You must eat healthy foods, control portion sizes of what you eat, and exercise after this surgery. If you do not follow these measures, you may have complications from the surgery and poor weight loss.
This procedure may be recommended if you have:
Vertical sleeve gastrectomy has most often been done on patients who are too heavy to safely have other types of weight-loss surgery. Some patients may eventually need a second weight-loss surgery.
This procedure cannot be reversed once it has been done.
Risks for any anesthesia are:
Risks for any surgery are:
Risks for vertical sleeve gastrectomy are:
Your surgeon will ask you to have tests and visits with your other health care providers before you have this surgery. Some of these are:
If you are a smoker, you should stop smoking several weeks before surgery and not start smoking again after surgery. Smoking slows recovery and increases the risk of problems. Ask your doctor or nurse for help quitting.
Always tell your doctor or nurse:
During the week before your surgery:
On the day of your surgery:
You can probably go home 2 days after your surgery. You should be able to drink clear liquids on the day after surgery, and then a puréed diet by the time you go home.
When you go home, you will probably be given pain pills or liquids and a medication called proton pump inhibitors.
Your doctor, nurse, or dietitian will recommend a diet for you. Meals should be small to avoid stretching the remaining stomach.
The final weight loss may not be as large as with gastric bypass. And this may be enough for many patients. Talk with your doctor about which procedure is best for you.
The weight will usually come off more slowly than with gastric bypass. You should keep losing weight for up to 2 to 3 years.
Losing enough weight after surgery can improve many medical conditions you might also have. Conditions that may improve are asthma, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, obstructive sleep apnea, high cholesterol, and gastroesophageal disease (GERD).
Weighing less should also make it much easier for you to move around and do your everyday activities.
This surgery alone is not a solution to losing weight. It can train you to eat less, but you still have to do much of the work. To lose weight and avoid complications from the procedure, you will need to follow the exercise and eating guidelines that your doctor and dietitian gave you.
Moy J, Pomp A, Dakin G, et al. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity. Am J Surg. 2008 Nov;196(5):e56-9.
Richards WO. Morbid obesity. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 15.
Woodward G, Morton J. Bariatric surgery. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2010:chap 7.
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By Rikki King Herald Writer
EDMONDS — Construction on a $93.4 million sewage treatment plant in south Snohomish County is nearly two years behind schedule and $400,000 over budget — and the roof leaks.
Work at the site at 6315 Picnic Point Road between Edmonds and Mukilteo is expected to wrap up in the next few months, said Nancy Davidson, capital projects manager with the Alderwood Water &Wastewater District, based in Lynnwood.
The roof on the solids-handling building leaks, and there's still trouble with a major piece of equipment that processes waste, she said.
Without that equipment, the district has had to truck waste from the site to other plants in the region for disposal. That alone cost nearly $1 million in 2012, records show.
Work began in 2008 to double the plant's sewage-treatment capacity. The plant serves about a third of the water district's customers, mostly west of Highway 99.
The project was supposed to wrap up two summers ago.
That was waylaid by disagreements with the contractor, Kennewick-based Apollo, Inc., and damage from an on-site explosion last year, Davidson said.
The Feb. 23, 2012 propane explosion sent fireballs ripping through the site. Five people were injured. Damage was estimated at more than $1 million.
The water district in late January signed a new agreement with Apollo to sort out remaining points of contention, including the leaking roof, Davidson said.
"We agreed this would wrap them all up, and this is how it would be addressed," she said.
The agreement settled a few disputes that otherwise might have ended up in court, according to the water district and Apollo.
"We agreed to disagree on a few areas and found a middle ground to avoid that process," Apollo vice president Dan Briscoe said.
The equipment problems are related to the site's drier, an appliance similar to a conveyor-belt oven. The device heats and dries waste for disposal, fertilizer and other uses.
The agreement removed the drier from Apollo's contract, she said. The water district has hired another contractor to finish that part of the work.
Once the drier is running, it will take a few months for everything to adjust and run smoothly, Davidson said.
Apollo workers hope to fix the roof leak soon, too, Briscoe said.
"It's not a major roof leak," he said. "It's just one in a corner somewhere, and we just have to track it back to where it's leaking from. I think we've got it now."
County fire investigators ruled last year's explosion an accident. The state Department of Labor &Industries later fined an out-of-state subcontractor for violating workplace safety laws. L&I found no evidence of violations by Apollo.
Some of Apollo's workers were among those hurt.
"It was a rough month and a half, two months for all of us," Briscoe said. "That was fairly devastating to us to have that happen to some of our people."
The Picnic Point Road site revamp is the water district's largest construction project in its 82-year history, Davidson said.
"Part of the challenge was building a new treatment plant while operating an old treatment plant still on the site," she said.
The treatment operation covers about 4.3 acres over roughly 10 acres.
The current cost estimate for construction now is at $93.8 million, Davidson said.
The cost overrun is far less than 1 percent of the original estimate, she said.
With design, planning and management expenses and various fees going back to 2001, the new plant cost about $125 million altogether, district administrative services manager Mike Pivec said.
"There were a lot of people who were gainfully employed in that process," he said.
The district hopes to schedule public tours at the site later this year.
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In December 2011, Forbes declared it the ninth-safest city in America.
He is also a columnist for Trader Monthly magazine, and a freelance writer for The New York Post, Forbes and other publications.
In a reassuring twist, Forbes, that Tea Party precursor, called on the government to regulate production, and quick!
And whatever it is that Michelle O has—that which Forbes chooses to call "power"—is not intrinsic to her.
What amused him most was the demeanor of Mr. Forbes; he had expected vituperations from him at every point of his confession.
Rhubarb down at the point at the Forbes Municipal Field, but that's about all.
You proved that fact to me many months ago, said Forbes, with one of his whimsical, inscrutable smiles.
Most likely not, I thought; but I said no more to Mrs. Forbes.
Mr. Forbes, poor Hands's assistant, is away on the shores of the Dead Sea, but we have sent for him by the camel garrison post.
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