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Teaching the basics of running via the experiences of a geezer who has been running and walking for over 40 years, including the completion of four marathons and training for a fifth marathon.
May 2, 2007
I'm tired!
From 8:00 Tuesday morning until 11:30 pm Tuesday night, I was on my feet carrying heavy boxes and some furniture helping my son move to a different house. The only break I had was eating a light supper and a minute or so here or there to get a drink of water. I won't be doing any running until Saturday, and then maybe not then if I have a slow recovery from today.
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- robison52 said...
YIKES! Just discovered I'll be helping Grandma Cady move to a new apartment at the end of May, about the same time I'll be running the "Come Run in the Sun 10k"" therefore your post of your body's tired condition is scary!! Typical how everyone wants to move in the Spring!!
- 5/02/2007
- Allen said...
One thing that really helps is to have all of her stuff in boxes before the move -- helps the move to go faster.
- 5/02/2007
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By Ainsley Thomson and Jason Douglas
LONDON–The U.K. treasury said Friday it will start using profits from the Bank of England's bond-buying stimulus program to pay off billions of pounds of government debt. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and BOE Governor Mervyn King agreed the BOE will start handing over cash held by the central bank from next year, the treasury said in a statement. The BOE has bought 375 billion pounds ($599 billion) of U.K. government bonds under its stimulus program, also known as quantitative easing. The bonds are held in the BOE's asset purchase facility, which had accumulated GBP23.8 billion of surplus cash from the interest paid on the bonds. That is likely to rise to GBP35 billion by March 2013, the treasury said. That cash will now be transferred to the treasury and used to pay off government debt, the treasury said. "This is about the best way of managing cash held by the state. It's not sensible to build up cash in a savings account when there's an overdraft to be paid off in the current account," said a person familiar with the matter.
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I bought pre-sale tickets for the concert in San Francisco. It is suppose to get us in early for better seats. What time do we get in? There is nothing I can see on my tickets that show any early entry info ???
Heads up everyone…the Bay Bridge will be closed for service from Aug. 29th to Sept. 3. Please use an alternate route if you are planning on using the Bay Bridge to get to the concert. Detouring the last minute will set you all back an hour or more. L-O-V-E
Does anyone know how fan pre sale early entry for general admission works?
i'm so gonna scream like a little girl when i see him on stage. ^_^
i bought mine on ticketmaster.com
got my tickets…5 to be exact. can't wait!!!!
I got some tickets!
I was told WOMAN is the code, but it keeps saying seats are unavailable! AH! What is going on? Is everyohne else having a difficult time with this?
I was told "give"… but it isn't working… anyone have the password??
Thanks for the code- the presale starts at 10am.
does anyone have the presale code? i never got the email….
does anyone know the presale code? looking forward to this concert!!
"GIVE" but I cant get it to take it
Does anyone know the presale code? I haven't received an email yet?


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2017 Washington State Senior Games
July 8 - July 30, 2017
The Washington State Senior Games, now in its 21st year of running the largest Olympic-style multi-sport event in Washington, will be held in July 2017 at various sites throughout the South Sound. Almost 2,000 participants will take part in the next Washington State Senior Games. The Washington State Senior Games is an OPEN state and out-of-state participants are welcome.
The Washington State Senior Games is an all-volunteer 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing a forum that initiates and encourages camaraderie through athletic competition and the Olympic spirit. The event assists in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and promotes positive healthy activities for the participants, their families and the communities where they live.
The purpose of the Washington State Senior Games is to keep seniors healthy and productive. Participation in the Senior Games is a year-round effort to enhance wellness. Our mission is to promote health and fitness throughout the year for people from 50 years of age to 100+ through participation, competition and education.
We encourage all seniors to get off the couch and exercise your body and your mind. Join us for fun, fellowship and some friendly competition. Sign up with a friend and start training today at your local YMCA, health club, fitness center or in your own home.
The Washington State Senior Games is a registered non-profit organization that relies on individual and corporate financial contributions to help provide these games. If you wish to contribute to the future of this 50 and over athletic competition, send your tax-deductible donation to the following address:P.O. Box 1487
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Fraser Island
Trip Start
Apr 30, 2004
Trip End
Jan 28, 2005
Eager to begin our two day tour of Fraser Island we were sat on the wooden bench outside the caravan park with ten minutes to spare until our 8am pick up.
It's October, the sky is early morning powder blue, there's not a breath of wind and opposite parrots are perched on the telegraph poles; we're a long way from home.
When the bus pulled up it was green, square and looked like some sort of military vehicle, with its fat chunky tyres and towering wheel base. There appeared to be no way aboard until a hydraulic door on the back lowered, revealing a set of attached steps, and on we went.
Our driver and guide, Peter, drove the 4 wheel drive unimog (that's what he called it) straight onto the ferry, and an hour later we drove off and right onto the beach at Moon Point on Fraser Island.
From its most northerly tip at Sandy Cape, Fraser Island stretches 124km to its most southerly at Hook Point and ranges in width from 5km to 27km. It's the worlds largest sand island with over 600 metres of sand hidden below sea level and the highest point being a dune called Mount Bowarrady at 244 metres.
Reputedly Fraser contains more sand than the Sahara Desert, who knows.
Despite all the sand, Fraser is covered in vegetation and has an incredible range of habitats, and travelling across the widest part between Moon Point and Happy Valley we saw many of them during the morning.
The road was just a deeply rutted, single lane, sound track, which due to a complete lack of rain was very soft and extremely difficult to manouevre in. The unimogs suspension and tall wheel base was tested to its limits.
We bumped and shook our way through coastal mangrove swamp, areas of Banksia trees and tree ferns and as we neared the centre we were in full on sub tropical rainforest, all this with nothing but sand to grow in.
We were able to stretch our legs in the Yidney Scrub, which being the only area of virgin rainforest contained some magnificent specimen trees including 200 year old kauri pines, brush box, blackbutt and satinay.
Satinay is one of the worlds most water resistant timbers, and trees from Fraser were used for the sidewalls of the Suez Canal. Also, Brushbox was used extensively throughout the Sydney Opera House.
Having started in 1863, logging didn't cease on Fraser until 1991. The northern part of the island became National PArk in 1971, and in 1992 the whole island was listed as a World Heritage Site.
More than 300 species of native animals live on Fraser, but most are nocturnal and difficult to see. The largest is an Australian wild horse called the Brumby, which are also extremely tough to spot as there are only 4 left.
The diversity of habitats in a relatively small area make Fraser one of the worlds top bird watching venues and is home to 325 different soecies. From the sea eagle to the king parrot its twitchers paradise.
After a pleasant, included in the price, lunch at Happy Valley, we finally made it onto the eastern coast beach, which is 70 miles long and doubles as the islands main road.
It was bizarre as we headed south, bouncing along the beach, all manner of 4 wheel drive vehicles passing in the opposite direction and PAcific Ocean waves breaking hypnotically on our left. The water looked incredibly inviting but swimming here is a pastime for overdosed adrenalin junkies. If the nortorious undertows and riptides don't get you the man eating sharks will. It's fish city just off the beach and with a steep drop off its shark heaven. Great whites and Tigers would have your leg for lunch in a moment.
Throughout the trip Peter is miked up and with 15 years of working on Fraser under his cap, he has a wealth of knowledge and fascinating stories that he imparts, with an equal measure of enthusiasm and humour.
An hour down the beach, Peter persuaded the old unimog up the beach and parked. Everyone offloaded and began the 2km tramp across a huge sand dune to Lake Wabby. The sand is so fine and soft it squeaks as you walk.
Another unique feature of Fraser is its 52 frshwater lakes and around 80 freshwater streams and creeks. THe island is sat on a vast freshwater reservoir known as a groundwater table or water lens which is responsible for these oases.
Lake Wabby is small, green and very refreshing. Surrounded on three sides by eucalypt forest, the fourth side is all sand dune. The water is very clear and home to large salmon tailed catfish and small kreft turtles.
We spent an hour swimming and wishing we'd bought a boogie board with us, as another group who had were surfing from the top of a high and steep dune straight into the lake. Peter later informed us that in recent years several tourists had been paralused doing this (it's quite shallow), so maybe it was just as well we didn't get a go.
The square green bus drove us back to Happy Valley where we moved into our very basic but clean accomodation.
Later, after another good meal and a jug of beer a number of people headed down the unlit sandy track to the beach, in the hope of spotting one of the wild dingoes who roam around after dark. The dingoes are wild dogs that are not to be approached, and its illegal now to feed them. Years of feeding and harassing by tourists, culminated in 2001 with the death here on Fraser of a nine year old Brisbane boy. Despite the pprotest of the aboriginal and enviiironmental groups 30 of the estimated 160 dingoes were destroyed soon afterwards.
Fraser is also home to a large number of snakes, some of which are deadly. We didn't walk the unlit track to the beach.
Expenses (A$2.5/pound): Fraser Island Trip $370.50, Beer $8.50.
Friday October 8th - Day 164
With the sand being so soft we had a fairly early start to make the most of the firmer stuff uncovered at low tide. We drove to the most northerly point of our trip, Indian Head. The oncoming traffic was busy, as were the numerous beachside campsites.
In excess of 350,000 visitors arrive annually to get a taste of this incredible environment and try a bit of camping, fishing, walking and 4WDing.
Indian Head was named by that old sea dog Captain Cook in 1770. As his ship sailed up the length of the east coast, local aborigines (Cook called them Indians) followed it, eventually gathering on the highest point to spy a better look at the strange object in the sea. Cook, on seeing all these Indians together, muskered every ounce of inspiration and came up with the name Indian Head.
Carbon dating of artefacts shows indiginous people were resident in the area around 300AD, and these aborigines called it K'gari (island of paradise). In 1770 Cooky discovered this part of OZ and thinking it was attached to the mainland named it Great Sandy Peninsula. In 1822 Captain Edwardson corrected Cooky's shoddy mapwork and renamed it the Great Sandy Island. In 1858 it was changed to Fraser's Island in memory of the castaways Captain James Fraser and his wife Eliza. Today it's called Fraser Island as Aussies like to shorten all names, I suppose eventually it'll be known as F.
As seems the norm, the aborigines were treated appallingly and their demise began when the timber getters arrived in 1862 along with diseased merchant seamen carrying alcohol and opium. Numbers quickly declined and in 1904 the remaining 150 aborigines were removed and sent to mainland reserves.
After trudging to the top of the volcanic outcrop that is Indian Head, we were rewarded with breathtaking views in all directions. We saw numerous whales out to sea, dolphins, sea eagles and brahminy kites. Looking down to our left was a shallow bay with white sand, turquoise water and row after curved row of breaking waves. Up to their waists in the water were several beach fishermen, and from our way up high vantage point we could see the large dark shadows of manta rays under the surf and more alarmingly just beyond the waves an 8 foot tiger shark patrolling parallel to the beach. It was fantastic, but pointless to try and shout to the fishermen as they weren't in any danger, unless they started swimming out and besides with the howling wind they wouldn't have heard us.
Many tourists hire small 4WD vehicles to come to Fraser, but back on the soft sand we came across one vehicle that had broken down and one that was stuck and we were relieved we'd picked the hassle free and bomb proof unimog tour.
Travelling south again we stopped for photos at the coloured sand cliffs, where different minerals have turned the sand strange colours, the Maheno shipwreck which, was a passenger liner on its way to Japan to be scrapped that was washed ashore in 1935, and Eli creek, which at 6.6km is the longerst on the island and has a flow rate of 4.5 million litres of fresh water per hour.
A packed lunch at Central Station was followed by a walk in another rainforest area before we were driven to LAke Birabeen, where we spent the rest of our afternoon.
Lake Birabeen was stunning. Large blue and surrounded by white sand and colourful stripey reeds. We were lucky as Peter got us their first so we had half an hour to swim and explore in relative peace before 5 more coaches turned up and it was as busy as Bondi at Christmas, as the saying goes here.
By 5.30pm we'd been ferried and unimogged back to our campsote and we thanked Peter for what had been a quality tour to an incredible island.
It was all a bit rushed after that. In order to save a nights accomodation we'd decided before going to Fraser to book an overnight bus to Airlee Beach. But wearily getting our rucksacks out of storage and with sand in the undies it seemed a daft plan. But we followed it through and by 8.30pm we were sat on the bus saying a silent farewell to whaletastic Hervey Bay.
Expenses: Taxi 9, Dinner 10.95


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I cover the business of sports for Forbes.
In their book Stumbling on Wins, economists David Berri and Martin Schmidt use statistical analysis to argue against a lot of commonly accepted wisdom in the world of sports. Among their findings: Shooting percentage and turnovers are undervalued measurements in basketball, while earned run average is vastly overrated in baseball. Here are 10 myths the authors bust.


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This is a good suggestion. As I know about problems (not only for newbies) some time ago I startet to create a matrix, called GCCG = Garmin Content Compatibility Guide. There should be announced, which kind of map and which additionally files are working on which device as one step to help users to update and better use their devices.
It is necessary that many user tell us all facts about their devices to fill this spreadsheet with correct data.
In the attachment you find my draft. Some words are in German because I made it for a German forum, but when I have a bit time and this draft finds your interest, I can make an English version.


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The Salvation Army New Zealand has launched a Canterbury Earthquake Appeal in order to swiftly respond to the area's humanitarian need. If you'd like to support The Salvation Army's relief efforts, click HERE to donate.
From our National blog:
The Salvation Army in New Zealand is responding after the city of Christchurch was struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake today – the second in less than 6 months. At least 65 people are known to have been killed and hundreds are trapped in the debris.
By late afternoon The Salvation Army was assisting more than 1,000 people. Locals are being temporarily housed in large marquees that were already on site for a flower show.
Continue reading at The Salvation Army USA Blog.
You can also watch an interview with Spokane, WA Salvation Officer and New Zealand native, Captain Kyle Smith.
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Craig Shapero had een nieuw logo ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit89 ontwerpen ingezonden door18 freelance designers.
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I'm getting wrecked hard by Elegon adds (cosmic sparks). Anyone got any tips for them?
I'm getting wrecked hard by Elegon adds (cosmic sparks). Anyone got any tips for them?
After building up some threat you can easily CC them. AoE stuns are great for example (leg sweep is your friend). After stunning them just run away or even better, have a warlock set up a portal so you can travel faster and don´t let a lot of them hit you within the circle, that´ll obviously be the worst. In general notice that the raid should try to kill all pillars at the same time, that will also greatly reduce the amount of adds. I take it you´re a BM? You can almost completely kite them using Dizzying Haze, this will allow you to stay away from them while building up high amounts of threat.
Yep, dizzying haze from afar and leg sweep if they get close. The great thing is that we have a huge 'burst threat' ability in Keg Smash, so it's very easy to just hit that then kite without fear of losing aggro on anything (before stuff dies that is).
Pull them with dizzying haze, kite and when they've all spawned Clash them followed by a Leg Sweep after that stun ends. They should all be dead by then
Dizzying Haze is amazing here, I am able to grab all the adds of the other tank just by throwing a some Dizzying Hazes at his mobs and out threating them, which is lucky cos it means I don't have to mess around dropping my statue taunting and then cancelling my statue again.
What other tips do you guys have for someone who's about to tank Elegon for the first time? Should I glyph Guard for this?
No, you take a fair amount of physical damage from the boss and when tanking the adds in P1 and also when rounding up the adds in P3 to P1 transition. Just make sure you are tanking the adds in P1 on the boss untill they are about 60% so that the dps can cleave and help push P2 faster and then get the add to the edge and wait until it's 25% before moving it out. If you move too soon the dps will struggle to get it down quickly but if you move too late then it will start AoEing the raid when it still has the damage buff.
Try it if you don't believe me, but I have killed the boss and I can tell you that you get meleed hard by both the boss and the add in P1. Losing a key mitigation skill to soak a magic attack or 2 that can be trivialised by good use of other CD's is a pretty poor trade off imo.
Maybe I'm just bad at aiming my Barrel Toss, but I never seem to be able to kite them by just using that. It never seems to generate enough threat, even if it hits(applies the debuff)


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The Horse Forum
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The Surprise Foaling Thread for Hunny 4 Attachment(s) So, a few weeks ago my lovely girls tummy dropped quite fast and her bag started filling. I of course went into mom mode and began to panic about my baby girl. One of my friends at the stable who has a lot of experience with babies and all things horse assured me that yes, she is pregnant. Now it's calving season here so trying to find a large animal vet that is free is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Good luck for me, the equine clinic had an opening...early morning on a Saturday. This happened a week ago from last Saturday. The vet gave me some alarming news, the baby is big, and at that time my darling was going to be due in 6-8 weeks. Now to put this into terms for everyone else to understand, I feel like the terrified, sick to my stomach mother of an expecting daughter that no one knew was expecting until she was almost due. I have had my horse since last July, so she was pregnant when I picked her up. At this point, all I know is that the stud was a paint, my friend that went with me to look at my horse before I bought her said that he was a great looking horse. I don't remember because of course I has my new horse goggles on and saw nothing but my girl...(don't judge me:P) So here are some photos of her with 6-8 weeks to go! I will post photos weekly so you can all see how she looks :) Oh! and she is a 5 year old MO fox trotter mare, and I use her for trail and long distance riding. She is a first time mommy and so am I, so any advice or calming strategies are NEEDED! (I'm still freaking out a tad) and the baby already has someone who will give it a good home as I don't have the funds for two horses. Baby will be going to a great friend of mine that loves horses and horses love her :) |
Yup, it does indeed appear your girl is in the motherly way. You have plenty of time to get ready. Read up and prep a kit for foaling....so she can freak you out and do it totally without you while you finally take a pee break one day. Good luck!! Posted via Mobile Device |
lol that made me laugh :) I am just so worried because the vet said it was a large baby at that time and she still has a few weeks to go! how much bigger can it get?! Plus she will be having it during finals time :/ so you can imagine that I will be bald by the time this whole experience is over because my hair will have been pulled out by my stressful fingers! The funny thing is that I have never panicked before about anything. I work in a hospital and have seen and done it all and have always had a level head. Been on a ride before and never panicked when something freaky goes wrong. and now my mind is in mass chaos... |
Looks like you will be studying for finals next to your mare. Looking forward to pictures of another healthy mom and foal next month :D |
384 Attachment(s) You will all be fine in the end, it's all part of nature. Yes, I can hardly wait for baby pictures! |
Is this the one that's in foal to the paint you were told was a gelding? I'll be keeping fingers crossed hoping for an uneventful birth and waiting for pictures :D. |
yes smrbobs it is. the magical paint "gelding" that magically made a baby... |
5-7 weeks to go~ 2 Attachment(s) Ok so I took these photos yesterday, but her 5-7 week date was last Saturday. I am still riding her, she gets antsy if she doesn't go for a ride! I was nervous to ride her at first, but she won't have her exercise being me walking beside her-she likes to go on a good foxtrot trail ride :) So here is mama with 5-7 weeks left! |
Aww she's so pretty! Can't wait to see her foal! |
Subbing to see more pics! Congrats :) |
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They're ba-ack!
"Teen Mom" will be back for its third season on Tuesday, July 5, with original teen moms Amber Portwood, Catelynn Lowell, Farrah Abraham and Maci Bookout (pictured) all set to return, MTV announced on Thursday, May 4. The network also announced that the docu-series has been green-lit for a fourth season.
The "Teen Mom" stars will also take part in a series of PSAs as part of the decade-long "It's Your (Sex) Life" campaign. Amber. Catelynn, Farrah and Maci will talk candidly about sex, pregnancy and prevention in the PSAs that support the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. To watch each girl's interview, click here.
Season 3 of "Teen Mom" will go even deeper into the girls' lives as they "confront old wounds, struggle to further their education, face strained relationships and strive to give their children the best life possible."
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Three card brag
Origin | English |
Alternative names | Brag |
Type | Gambling |
Players | 4–7 |
Skills required | Counting |
Cards | 52 cards |
Deck | Anglo-American |
Play | Anti-clockwise |
Playing time | 5-10 min. |
Random chance | Medium |
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Teen patti, poker |
Three-card brag is a 16th-century British card game, and the British national representative of the vying or "bluffing" family of gambling games.[1] Brag is a direct descendant of the Elizabethan game of Primero[2] and one of the several ancestors to poker, just varying in betting style and hand rankings.
A variant of the game is very popular in Trinidad, India, Bangladesh and Nepal, where it is known both as "flush" and teen patti (literally 'three cards' in Hindi), played with numerous local variations. At large gatherings and especially during festival times, it is the game of choice since many people of different skills can play together and have fun. It is also a very popular game among British fairground showmen, who usually get together at the bigger fairs and play for quite high stakes.
Everyone antes, and players are each dealt three cards face down. There is a single round of betting, with action starting to the left of the dealer. Each player has the option of betting or folding. If there was a previous bet, the player must contribute at least that much more to the pot. (Unlike usual poker betting, a player's previous money contributed to the pot is ignored.) This betting continues until there are only two players left, at which point either player may double the previous bet to "see" his opponent. At this point, the two hands are revealed, and the player with the better hand takes the entire pot. If there is a tie, the player who is seeing loses.
For example, with four players A, B, C and D, this situation could occur: Player A bets 2 chips, B folds, C bets 2 chips and D bets 2 chips. In order to stay in, A would have to bet another 2 chips (at least).
- Four-card brag: Players are dealt four cards, and must then choose which card to throw away (place at the bottom of the deck) in order to create the best combination. The game is then played in the same way as three-card brag.
- Seven-card brag: Seven cards are dealt, players must choose three cards to play from their hands, or make two hands, with only a successful winning of both hands winning the pot.
- Nine-card brag: Nine cards are dealt, players sort these into three sets. Four antes are played, one for each set, and a main pot. Each set is then played out, usually without further betting. The winner of each set takes one lot of antes; if a player wins all three sets they receive the main pot as well, otherwise it remains for the next hand. Players must always play the next best available set they have made. Often a player may be able to make two good sets and a poor third (e.g. prial, straight, ten-high), so players that do not think they will be able to win all three will order their hands to leave themselves with a strong third set to protect the main pot.
- Thirteen-card brag: Thirteen cards are dealt, from which players must choose three cards to play. Another variation involves making four hands (or the most possible over a certain standard) from the thirteen cards. Four of a kind can also be played, and is usually rewarded by an additional fee to be paid by the other players, apart from any original stake. Players then show their respective best hands, then second best hands, etc., with each winning hand scoring that player a point, or points. Score is kept on a cribbage board, and is usually either a sprint of 10 or so holes, with one point scored for each winning hand, or played over the full length, or street, of the board, with 4 points awarded to the best highest hand, 3 points to the best second-highest hand, etc. Players not on the board by the time someone wins may have to pay double. Winnings are either a pre-arranged fixed amount from each loser to the winner, or paid proportionate to how far behind the winner they finish. Any player winning all four hands in any round is said to have crashed, and automatically wins the entire game. In some regions the game is known as 'Crash'.
- Bastard brag: Three cards are dealt to each player, and three face-up communal cards are dealt (in some versions only two are face up, one is face down). Players take turns at exchanging one or all (but not two) of their cards for any or all of the communal cards. Play continues until one player 'sticks', or 'knocks', meaning that they are happy with their hand. All the remaining players then exchange one last time before hands are compared. The player with the lowest hand is out, or loses a life.
- The name may originate from several of the rules making the player feel like cursing. Knocking on the first round is prohibited, forcing anyone dealt a good hand to break it up, knocking isn't allowed directly after an exchange, rather instead of an exchange, i.e. you have to make a good hand, and then wait for your next turn to stick. Players can't exchange two cards at once, perhaps preventing the immediate accumulation of a good hand, with the card needed to complete the hand maybe taken by another player before the next opportunity.
- Fifteen card Brag: A normally non-gambling related variant, played as a family game. Each player is dealt fifteen cards, from which they make five three-card tricks. Each player must then lay their tricks down in order, highest first. The winner is the one who wins the most tricks. This variant has a much higher likelihood of more powerful tricks, due to the extra cards.
Some of these rules can also lead to games, especially heads-up, becoming tactical, with players avoiding making their best hand until their hand is forced into that last exchange by another player sticking, risking that the card that completes their hand isn't taken by another player in the meantime.
Hand ranks[edit]
The hand rankings, from best to worst, are: three of a kind ("prial"), straight flush ("running flush"), straight ("run"), flush, pair, high card. The best prial is 3-3-3, followed by the usual order of A-A-A, K-K-K, etc. In variations allowing four-of-a-kind, 4-4-4-4 is the best 'box', followed by A-A-A-A, K-K-K-K, etc. The best running flush or run is A-2-3, A-K-Q, followed by the usual order of K-Q-J,etc. The flushes, pairs, and high cards have rankings identical to poker (aces high).
A pair will beat three-quarters of hands, but must watch out for unexpected runs and flushes. Prials and running flushes are extremely rare but are more common in versions of the game in which a hand is chosen from more than three cards. Unlike in other forms of poker, a run beats a flush. Because of the mathematics involved, three card flushes are more likely than three card straights, while the reverse is true of five-card (poker) hands.
Hand Ranks of Three Card Poker | |||
Rank | Description | Frequency | Probability |
Three of a kind | Three cards of same rank | 48 | 0.22% |
Straight flush | Three suited cards in sequence | 48 | 0.22% |
Straight | Three cards in sequence | 720 | 3.26% |
Flush | Three suited cards | 1,096 | 4.96% |
Pair | Two cards of same rank | 3,744 | 16.94% |
High card | None of the above | 16,440 | 74.39% |
Total hands | - | 22,100 | - |
Probability of Queen high or better is 69.59%
Betting blind[edit]
Players also have the option of playing blind (betting without looking at their cards). A blind player's costs are all half as much as an open (non-blind) player's. However, an open player may not see a blind player. If all other players fold to a blind player, the pot remains, everyone re-antes, and the blind player gets to keep his hand for the next round (in addition to the new one he is dealt). At any time, a player with two blind hands may look at one of them and decide whether to keep it or throw it away. If he keeps it, he throws away the other hand and is considered open. If he throws it away, he keeps the other hand and is still blind. If everyone folds to a blind player with two hands, he must throw away one without looking.
Another unusual custom of Brag is that the deck is rarely shuffled. Unless a hand is seen and won by a prial, the cards from the hand are just placed on the bottom of the deck, and the next hand is dealt without shuffling.
See also[edit]
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of Card games, p. 31, David Parlett ISBN 0-19-869173-4
- ^ The complete Hoyle's games, p. 207, Edmond Hoyle, Lawrence Hawkins Dawson ISBN 1-85326-316-8
External links[edit]
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Brag. |
- Detailed Rules for Brag by John McLeod
- The hand-book of games by H.G. Bohn at Google Books


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Creating Simple Interactive Visualisations in R-Studio: Subsetting Data
Watching a fascinating Google Tech Talk by Hadley Wickham on The Future of Interactive Graphics in R – A Joint Visualization and UseR Meetup, I was reminded of the manipulate command provided in R-Studio that lets you create slider and dropdown widgets that in turn let you dynamically interact with R based visualisations, for example by setting data ranges or subsetting data.
Here are a couple of quick examples, one using the native plot command, the other using ggplot. In each case, I'm generating an interactive visualisation that lets me display as a line chart two user selected data series from a larger data set.
[Data file used in this example]
Here's a crude first attempt using plot:
hun_2011comprehensiveLapTimes <- read.csv("~/code/f1/generatedFiles/hun_2011comprehensiveLapTimes.csv")
plot(lapTime~lap,data=subset(h,car==cn1),type='l',col=car) +
lines(lapTime~lap,data=subset(h,car==cn2 ),col=car),
This has the form manipulate(command1+command2, uiVar=slider(min,max)), so we see for example two R commands to plot the two separate lines, each of them filtered on a value set by the correpsonding slider variable.
Note that we plot the first line using plot, and the second line using lines.
The second approach uses ggplot within the manipulate context:
ggplot(subset(h,h$car==Car_1|car==Car_2)) +
geom_line(aes(y=lapTime,x=lap,group=car,col=car)) +
In this case, rather than explicitly adding additional line layers, we use the group setting to force the display of lines by group value. The initial ggplot command sets the context, and filters the complete set of timing data down to the timing data associated with at most two cars.
We can add a title to the plot using:
ggplot(subset(h,h$car==Car_1|car==Car_2)) +
geom_line(aes(y=lapTime,x=lap,group=car,col=car)) +
scale_colour_gradient(breaks=c(Car_1,Car_2),labels=c(Car_1,Car_2)) +
opts(title=paste("F1 2011 Hungary: Laptimes for car",Car_1,'and car',Car_2)),
My reading of the manipulate function is that if you make a change to one of the interactive components, the variable values are captured and then passed to the R command sequences, which then executes as normal. (I may be wrong in this assumption of course!) Which is to say: if you write a series of chained R commands, and can abstract out one or more variable values to the start of the sequence, then you can create corresponding interactive UI controls to set those variable values by placing the command series with the manipulate() context.
Data Driven Story Discovery: Working Up a Multi-Layered Chart
How many different dimensions (or "columns" in a dataset where each row represents a different sample and each column a different measurement taken as part of that sample) can you plot on a chart?
Two are obvious: X and Y values, which are ideal for representing continuous numerical variables. If you're plotting points, as in a scatterplot, the size and the colour of the point allow you to represent two further dimensions. Using different symbols to plot the points gives you another dimension. So we're up to five, at least.
Whilst I was playing with ggplot over the weekend, I fell into this view over F1 timing data:
It shows the range of positions held by each car over the course of the race (cars are identified by car number on the x-axis, 1 to 25 (there is no 13), and range of positions on the y-axis. The colour, uninterestingly, relates to car number.
If you follow any of the F1 blogs, you'll quite often see references to "driver of the day" discussions (e.g. Who Was Your Driver of the Day). Which got me wondering…could a variant of the above chart provide a summary of the race as a whole that would, at a glance, suggest which drivers had "interesting" races?
For example, if a driver took on a wide range of race positions during the race, might this mean they had an exciting time of it? If every car retained the same couple of positions throughout the race, was it a procession?
Having generated the base chart using the ggplot web interface, I grabbed the code used to generate it and took it into RStudio.
What was lacking in the original view was an explicit statement about the position of each car at the end of the race. But we can add this using a point, if we know the final race position*:
ggplot() + geom_step(aes(x=h$car, y=h$pos, group=h$car)) + scale_x_discrete(limits = c('VET','WEB','HAM','BUT','ALO','MAS','SCH','ROS','HEI','PET','BAR','MAL','','SUT','RES','KOB','PER','BUE','ALG','KOV','TRU','RIC','LIU','GLO','AMB')) + xlab(NULL) + opts(axis.text.x=theme_text(angle=-90, hjust=0)) + geom_point(aes(x=k$driverNum, y=k$classification))
Let's add it using a different coloured mark:
+geom_point(aes(x=k$driverNum, y=k$grid,col='red'))
(Note that in the above example, the points are layered in the order they appear in the command line, with lower layers first. So if a car finishes (black dot) in the position it started (red dot), we will only see the red dot. If we make the lower layer dot slightly larger, we would then get a target effect in this case.)
The chart as we now have it shows where a driver started, where they finished and how many different race positions they found themselves in. So for example, we see BUE rapidly improved on his grid position at the start of the race and made progress through the race, but SUT went backwards from the off, as did PER.
Hmm… lots of race action seems to have happened during the first lap, but we're not getting much sense of it… Maybe we need to add in the position of the car at the end of the first lap too. Unfortunately, the data I was using did not contain the actual grid/starting position (it just contains the positions at the end of each lap), but we can pull this data in from elsewhere… Using another dot to represent this piece of data might get confusing, so let's use a line (set the symbol type using pch=3):
+geom_point(aes(x=l$car, y=l$pos, pch=3))
Now we have a chart that shows the range of positions occupied by each car, their grid position, final race position and position at the end of the first lap Using different symbol types and colours we can distinguish between them. (For a presentation graphic, we also need a legend…) By using different sized symbols and layers, we could also display multiple dimensions at the same x, y co-ordinate.
//in racestats, convert DNF etc to NA
ggplot() + geom_step(aes(x=h$car, y=h$pos, group=h$car)) + scale_x_discrete(limits =c('VET','WEB','HAM','BUT','ALO','MAS','SCH','ROS','HEI','PET','BAR','MAL','','SUT','RES','KOB','PER','BUE','ALG','KOV','TRU','RIC','LIU','GLO','AMB')) + xlab(NULL) + opts(title="F1 2011 Hungary", axis.text.x=theme_text(angle=-90, hjust=0)) + geom_point(aes(x=l$car, y=l$pos, pch=3, size=2)) + geom_point(aes(x=k$driverNum, y=k$classification,size=2), label='Final') + geom_point(aes(x=k$driverNum, y=k$grid, col='red')) + ylab("Position")
A title can be added to the post using:
+opts(title="YOUR TITLE HERE")
I still haven't worked out how to do a caption that will display:
– [black dot] "Final Race Position"
– [red dot] "Grid Position"
– [tick mark] "End of lap 1"
Any ideas?
The y-axis gridline on the half is also misleading. To add gridlines for each position, add in +scale_y_discrete(breaks=1:24) or to label them as well +scale_y_discrete(breaks=1:24,limits=1:24)
So what do we learn from this? Layers can be handy and allow us to construct charts with different overlaid data sets. The order of the layers can make things easier or harder to read. Different symbol types work differently well with each other when overlaid. The same symbol shape in different sizes and appropriate layer ordering allows you to overlay points and still see them data. Symbol styles give the chart a grammar (I used circles for the start and end of the race positions, for example, and a line for the first lap position).
Lots of little things, in other words. But lots of little things that can allow us to add more to a chart and still keep it legible (arguably! I don't claim to be a graphic designer, I'm just trying to find ways of communicating different dimensions within a data set).
* it strikes me that actually we could plot the final race position under the final classification. (On occasion, the race stewards penalise drivers so the classified result is different to the positions the cars ended the race in. Maybe we should make that eventuality evident?)
PS as @sidepodcast pointed out, I really should remove non-existent driver 13. I guess this means converting x-axis to a categorical one?
Working Visually with the ggplot2 Web Interface…
We're all familiar with line charts and pie charts, but how might we create new ways of visualising data. One way, is to play…
Over the weekend, I was doodling with an online, GUI driven hosted version of the ggplot graphing library for the statistical analysis language R: Jeroen C.L. Ooms (2010). yeroon.net/ggplot2: A web interface for the R package ggplot2
This service lets you upload a file and then using a handful of menu options create a wide variety of chart types. It also generates the corresponding ggplot/R commands so you can recreate the charts in your own R environment.
Because R is built for doing stats, ggplot has access to a powerful set of data transforming routines that can be applied to the data set you want to visualise. This includes being able to group data elements, plot different facets on different charts in a lattice style display, colour and size nodes according to a particular column and so on:
The data set I had was of the form related to (no surprises) F1 timing data. The columns included things like the driver name, car number, lap number and lap time, and stint number (each stint for a car is separated by a pitstop). Each row corresponded to data from a single lap for a single car. Which is to say, looking down the rows, we see driver names repeat (once for each lap they completed); or looking down the stint column, we can filter out rows that just correspond to the first or second stint for each driver. Which is to say: the data has structure, and can be viewed in a variety of ways.
So for example, in the following chart, we can plot for each driver (each separate graph, specified by treating the car number as a facet) their fuel corrected laptimes (y-axis) over the course of the race (lap number on x-axis). The colour of each point is determined by the pitstop column value which identifies whether a car has pitted on that lap:
The chart was created in six steps: one to upload the data, one to create a scatterplot layer and four menu selections (x, y, facet, colour).
As well as specifying facets, we can also group data rows to display them on the same faceted graph. Here, I group the data by car (so we will see a separate line for each car), and facet by stint:
Hopefully, you'll see how it's possible to explore a wide range of views over the data, cutting it up in all sorts of ways, quite easily. At a glance, we can get a view of different aspects of the whole data set, and start looking for surprising features that might be worth closer investigation. Because it's quick to create different views over the data, we can quickly get an overall picture of how the data values are arranged.
There are issues of course: whilst the facet and group options provide one way of arranging the data, I don't think there's a way of filtering the data using the web interface (for example, to show the times by stint for cars 1 to 5). Adding support for filters (that is, data/subset operations) would make the web interface far more powerful as an interactive visual analysis tool, methinks, for example using the sort of dialogue used to specify filters in Gephi.
That said, I've now added Ooms' ggplot web interface to the list of visualisation sites (along with IBM Many Eyes, for example), that I can use for getting a visual overview of a dataset quickly and easily. If you want to give it a go, you can find it at: http://www.yeroon.net/ggplot2/
Here's a quick video overview if you need more convincing:
Playing With R/ggplot2 Online (err, I think..?!)
Trying to get my head round what to talk about in another couple of presentations – an online viz tools presentation for the JISC activity data synthesis project tomorrow, and an OU workshop around the iChart eSTeEM project – I rediscovered an app that I'd completely forgotten about: an online R server that supports the plotting of charts using the ggplot library (err, I think?!): http://www.yeroon.net/ggplot2/
Example of how to use http://www.yeroon.net/ggplot2/
By the by, I have started trying to get my head round R using RStudio, but the online ggplot2 environment masks the stats commands and just focusses on helping you create quick charts. I randomly uploaded one of my F1 timing data files from the British Grand Prix, had a random click around, and in 8(?) clicks – from uploading the file, to rendering the chart – I'd managed to create this:
What it shows is a scatterplot for each car showing the time on the current leader lap that the leader is ahead. When the plotted points drop from 100 or so seconds behind to just a few seconds behind, that car has been lapped.
What this chart shows (which I stumbled across just by playing with the environment) is a birds-eye view over the whole of the race, from each driver's point of view. One thing I don't make much use of is the colour dimension – or the size of each plotted point – but if tweak the input file to include the number of laps a car is behind the leader, their race position, the number of pitstops they've had, or their current tyre selection, I could easily view a couple more of these dimensions.
Where there's a jump in the plotted points for a lap or two, if the step/break goes above the trend line (the gap to leader increases by 20s or so), the leader has lapped before the car. If the jump goes below the trend line (the gap to the leader has decreased), the leader has pitted before the car in question.
But that's not really the point; what is the point is that here is a solution (and I think mirroring options are a possibility) for hosting within an institution an interactive chart generator. I also wonder to what extent it would be possible to extend the environment to detect single sign on credentials and allow a student to access a set of files related to a particular course, for example? Alternatively, it looks as if there is support for loading files in from Google Docs, so would it be possible to use this environment as a way of providing a graphing environment for data files stored (and maybe shared via a course) within a student's Google Apps account?


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Relay will run from 7 p.m. Friday, May 7, when opening ceremonies begin and will end at 7 a.m. Saturday, May 8.
Volunteers (l-r) Ruth Hice, Kim Wall, Kelly Hughes and Gail Rooks paint the town purple with ribbons and posters in the run-up to Relay for Life last week.
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Kelly & Kim have done another great job this year. Pulling together an event like Relay for Life takes an inordinate amount of time and effort. The entire committee is to be commended. This event raises a lot of money for cancer research and help for local cancer patients. Well done, everyone!
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Richard Machowicz stood in his room, hungrily eyeing his bedside table.
He removed his tactical pants, revealing an olive drab thong. On his ass, he had a tattoo with the Chinese symbol for 'awesome' on it. He reached for the bedside table, which had inside it his favorite toy: the deagle brand deagle.
He loaded it with a new clip of .50 BMG boolets with heat-seeking armor-piercing casings. He looked at the hunk of Israeli steel in his hand as he racked the slide. The sumtuous lines. The sexy shape. He could resist it no longer.
The warming lubricant he kept next to it beckoned. He covered the oversized pistol in it, and inserted it far into his dirt star. His moan was like that of a mighty lion, if it crapped elephant rounds and pissed Trappist Beer. The slide reached his prostate, which caused baby blood to ooze from his penis. Mack enjoyed this, and his nipples turned into .50 BMG rounds themselves. His penis turned into an M82, which began shooting wads of cum as large as a .50 BMG boolit. He started shouting "STOPPING POWAH!" and the cum boolets destroyed his lamp by his bed. He shouted at the top of his OPERATOR lungs, "ONE HIT AND ITS ALL OVER" as he continually shot holes in his wall with cum rounds.
Upstairs, Nutnfancy was boning a sheepdog in its ass with his entire fist. He enjoyed removing it and smelling the sheepdog feces on the end of his fist. He kept the feces in duracoated bags, and would often make long, rambling, erotic videos of him shoving his mitts into the often bloody colons of sheepdogs.
When he heard Mack's penis M82 fire, he instantly knew he could receive sweet tender love from his Desert Eagle. He quickly threw on his TNP shirt (leaving his lower half completely stark naked), grabbed his ultra-lightweight glock, and ran downstairs as quick as he could.
Nunfancy broke down Mack's door, and rushed into his room. He said, 'good evening, sheepdog' and instantly threw off his shirt and reached for his Glock. Mack farted out enough lube for Nutn to coat his glock with, but he said,'No thanks, I brought my own." Digging into his man breasts, Nutn pulled out a small container of coyote brown duracoat. He jumped onto Mack's bed (which was made out of M40 sniper rifles) and began inserting his duracoated glock into his ass.
Both of them shouted various obcenities at each other, regarding the choice of implements for badass military masturbation. Nutn shouted "GLOCK IS BEST, LIGHTWEIGHT GOOD ACCURACY HURR", to which Richard angrily (and hornily) replied "IT DOESN'T HAVE ALL THE STOPPING POWER I NEED!" Nutn came almost instantly when he farted enough to push the gas vents on his glock past and rack its slide. With that, he reached into his ass and removed the shameful firearm, aimed it at Mack's chest, and fired. A small torrent of lube, feces, and sheepdog mess flew out of the barrel. The glock instantly exploded, sending shards of polymer into Nutn's face, chest, and arms. He writhed and screamed in agony as his precious pistol/dildo blew up in his hands. Mack, however, was not unwounded. The 9mm bullet hit him in the chest. He began bleeding tiny barrets from the bullet hole profusely, but his expression remained unchanged. "Lol its k', he said, without a hint of irony in his voice, 'only 9mm'.
Suddenly, a breaching charge blasts threw Mack's apartment wall. RTT-CQB man fastroped horizontally through the gaping hole, and kicked Nutnfancy's already disfigured face with his tactical muhreen-core boot. Like Nutn before him, RTT-CQB man was not clad in pants. He had a massive M4-shaped boner (although it was miniscule in comparison to Mack's manly meat M82 monument), and he shoved it into Mack's gaping wound. RTT-CQB man blew his load in seconds, and it caused his penis to jam! He pulled back on the charging handle of his assault rifle phallus, and loaded a new clip of jizz boolits into the lower reciever (which was where his nuts should have been). He then splooged and dumped all over Nutnfancy, who had been crying and howling in agony the entire time and had rolled onto the floor.
All this time, Travis Haley had been dynamically fisting himself with a tactical shotgun outside Mack's window. Inside the bushes, he would frequently spread his anus so wide, he could fit an entire target of a knife-wielding woman into it. As soon as RTT-CQB man shit all over Nutn's bloody wounds, Travis, like the rest of the combat-ready men, came fifty rounds from his extended-clip nuts.
Nutnfancy, missing an entire hand, bleeding profusely from the forearms, face, chest, and groin region from the shrapnel his precious glock had become, and covered in RTT-CQB man's feces and muhreen-core dick butter, crawled through the breached wall. He immediatley ran into Frankie Paintballa Bennett, who pointed at his grotesquely distorted hand, and asked, "is that a FAMAS?". Nutn sobbed in agony as Frankie licked Nutn's bloodied nude body. Before long, Frankie's face was covered in blood, feces, and semen. He shouted, 'GIVE ME A CLIP SO I CAN DO SOME DAMAGE' as he thrusted his backwards cap into Nutn's gaping hand wound. Nutn howled in agony, and Frankie, obviously aroused, came so hard his semen seeped up past his waistline and all over his shirt and hands.
Mack, who had experienced five orgasms since first inserting the deagle into his rear end, punched RTT-CQB man so hard, he flew one billion light years to a planet made up of Army Rangers, who enslaved the muhreen and would frequently use his mouth as a latreen. Not done, Mack ran outside, and kicked Travis, Frankie, and Nutnfancy so hard in the nuts their heads exploded with jizz. He dragged the bodies inside and cooked the corpses with a duracoat sauce and ate them hungrily for dinner. It was the best meal he ever ate.
live stream up featuring me butler and jake
I cant wait to hear what happens with codemonkey's forest adventure.
our stream features:
I'm watching.
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That sounds like a shitty DSiWare game or something. Codemoney's Forest Adventure!
I have created a picture that i think accurately sums up our experiance tonight.
Just left the stream because butler started showing 1 guy 1 jar
"I actually wonder what it would feel like to get rammed in the ass by a horse" -Butler, 2011
I swear to god.
If you guys ever stream One guy one horse again, i'm going to find you people and kill you all.
And I hate Dark Descent now for making me stay and watch.
I hate you people.
I left the stream lol
Shit I missed 1 Guy 1 Jar? What a shame, I love that video.
wait i have geemaeilz
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Finally got on Google+. My name's Spencer Redman.
FUCJK I BROKE THE FIRST ONE, send one to email@example.com
I'll do that right now.
Wait shit how do I send invites?
Im already on there, firstname.lastname@example.com
Someone wanna send me an invite? firstname.lastname@example.com (Last name is pronounced hoe).
Posting in the new thread, hurr durr
Woke up at 11 am.
The main body of that thing he posted is going to be in BF3
oh god that reminds me
"holosights double your sight"
Don't Ak74s have side folders and not underfolders?
Guys if you just got g+ post a link to your profile so we can all add you into an IFAP circle
I was almost expecting Chris Costa to come storming in with a TACTIC00L MAGPUL CARBINE
IFAP circle sounds dirty.
Explored a river valley with Derubermensch this morning, found a neat stone carving of a mermaid!
I wish my town had cool shit like that.
Where is this?
It's a huge reservation/nature center at our Chagrin River, people often leave bizarre messages and artwork in the stones. The river's quite shallow and has lots of caves, hills, rapids, and neat stone formations by the coast
Oh, that is pretty awesome.
Finally got the fucking title. Paypal is really annoying...
But can you guess who is who!?!?!?!?!?
It has to be approved
Actually I was about to ask who was who.


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Homi Kharas argues that global food inflation is a result of increasing oil prices and a lack of sustained agricultural investment, not speculators or inept governments.
Food prices have risen to record highs for the second time in three years. Some blame the hedge fund speculators who have funneled large amounts of money into futures contracts in food markets. They argue that market mechanisms are broken and need fixing. Others blame their governments (look at the riots in the streets of several developing countries) and find fault in the political systems, corruption and cronyism that have robbed them of the resources to afford higher food prices. Their solutions are political. Still others look to pervasive poverty and high income inequality as the reason why food price volatility is of such concern. They focus on the social aspects and solutions.
This separation into markets, politics and social stability is actually a useful frame for understanding how food prices affect developing countries and what needs to be done at a policy level. The issues are of course interconnected but too often the discourse becomes confused as one thread leads to another and the logic gets tangled.
As an initial point, it's worth stressing that the crux of the food price challenge is about price volatility, rather than high prices per se. It is the rapid and unpredictable changes in food prices that wreak havoc on markets, politics and social stability, rather than long-term structural trends in food prices that we can prepare for and adjust to. And it is also worth noting that volatility cuts both ways—prices go up and down. The only reason food prices are going up so much this year is because they came down so fast after reaching 2008 peaks. Both rapid increases and rapid declines in food prices can create problems.


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Cheti Chand is the New Year of the Sindhi Community and is observed on the first day of the Sindhi Chet month (March – April). In 2017, the date of Cheti Chand is March 29. The corresponding month in traditional Hindu calendar is Chaitra. The day is believed to be the birthday of the Lord Varuna, the God of Water. Symbolically, water – the vital essence is worshipped. Varun Dev is also believed to have incarnated as Sai Uderolal or Jhulelal to protect Sindhis.
Cheti Chand falls on the new moon day in the month of Chet. There is also a popular belief that Varun Dev appeared as Uderolal on the first day of Chet month to save Sindhis from the tyranny of a ruler who wanted to destroy the Sindhi culture and Hinduism. In popular Sindhi legend, Uderolal protected Hindus of Sindh from persecution at the hands of the 10th century tyrant Mirkshah.
Thus, Cheti Chand also marks the birthday of the community's most venerated religious figure Ishtadeva Uderolal Jhulelal.
On Cheti Chand, aarti is performed for Jhoolelal Sain, the Sea God of the Sindhis, and Guru Nanak Dev.


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- Title: Little Red Boy
- Premiered: 2008-06-24
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This is my fourth "good" amv. Good is amv starts from Sin City Prologue when i start knowing something about making amvs. But this vid is third version of same amv. Idea is simple. Great song from South Park the Movie (Metallica - Little Boy You're Going To Hell) when Kenny is going to hell + Alucard from Hellsing. Yeah, Alu is not a little child but a big monster. But Kenny is demonic too, and Alucard not going to hell, he make Hell on Earth. And in easy way this is thats what i want to show. Alucard's Hell :). But... this is not stupid tv show, i don't need to say great philosophy why i use this song and this anime. This is action clip showing character of Alucard in a little bit curved mirror - contrast between Alucard and Kenny.
I spend two months on making this vid. I know this amv is really short. But maybe i need to make this amv. I think i make really good work with effects, dynamic, motion. First time in my life i am happy beacause of this how looks my vid. :) But of course maybe i am wrong. :P When you watch you will decide.
I write this is third version of same amv. In first version i make in 2003, second in 2005-6. I dont know how but i lose both of them. Both of this versions i made from Hellsing TV (this from year 2000 or something like that :P). First version i make in WMM - yeah, now i am a bit happy beacause i think i know how its must look, terrible - second in AP6.5 but without any moviemaker skills. Now when i get new version of Hellsing - Hellsing Ultimate... i know i made really good work...
What can i say more... I made it in AP6.5... i use a little bit too AAE and GIMP.
I hope you will like it...
Enjoy :)
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A 4 year old could coach better than Mike D did.
That said, I think Woodson should do fine. He demands more respect from his players and he said "I will make damn sure to hold these players accountable" which has the be the best quote he could have said in any press conference after taking over for Mike D who never held players accountable.
Many of our losses were due to lack of accountability by the head coach and what i saw from the first game of the Woodson era is that he has a quick leash if someone plays stupid...(Landry Fields was pulled right after a dumb turnover)
"The Knicks are back" - Amare
Woodson would have been a better pick than D'Antoni. He was never a good fit for the type of basketball that NY was traditionally known for. But once you pick a coach you've got to give him tools to be successful. The question now is how long before Knicks fans turn on Woodson as they have every coach since Pat Riley?
That's the cynic in me. Optimistically speaking, Woodson seems like he'll make better use of Stats in the post and as Melo's shooting improves we'll get a few wins out of it. I don't know how much long term success we will have with Carmellomire. Should be fun to watch.
Why? I'm not crying about MDA leaving, just commenting on how quick everyone was taking this 1 win under Woodson as some sort of proof that MDA was a bad coach. Woodson now has an opportunity to try to win the coaching job here and I hope he does because that would have meant he turned this team around. As a Knicks fan, I want to see my team win but as someone who has followed this franchise for way longer than I care to admit, I see a trend; one that started when Dolan stole his father's company. I don't see this franchise ever being successful until Dolan backs off and just signs the damn checks and stops interfering with the GM and coach.
Get a new owner!!!
As someone who has watch this team for eons...I see a team thats pretty deep in talent...something we didn't have for a long while now. I also see that we finally have a defensive minded coach to go along with all the offensive talent we have. If you can't see the pluses in that, or can't bring yourself to be excited about that...then I don't know what you've been watching all this time.
I'm not worrying about Dolan atm, there is nothing I can see him doing right now that will mess up the Knicks. I think people just want to complain just to be complaining. Lets just be optimistic going forward. If Melo, stat/ woodson starts mucking up the joint...then they deserve what comes with that. Until then...I'm not going to imagine failure, even thou others seem to be used to that.
If we could have gotten DWILL for Melo i would've did that straight up.
I have a problem with this "accountability" thing. What does it mean?! OK, so D'Antoni sat Melo and Sat in 4th Q against Philadelphia on Sunday, and he was criticized for it. Was he making them accountable for not playing D? OK, so Woodson pulled Fields out last game, does he have the balls to do the same to Melo and Stat, in 4th Q?
If he's really going to enforce this accountability thing fairly on D (meaning sit them down), Melo and Stat might as well bring their own beach chairs to the game.
We'll have to see how this "accountability" goes, or is it just bull.
it could be bull but look at the history. Mike Woodson was thrown out of Atlanta because he started to get in the face of Josh Smith, who is always a cry baby and is known to give people a hard time. Woodson was too hard on him....Mike D is the exact opposite he is just too soft and lets players roll over him.
We need a coach with enough balls to bench Amare or Melo when they do something stupid that changes momentum. and a coach that will teach melo and amare what to do and not do IN THE GAME.
Mike D did bench thos two guys but how many times did he leave them in when they were absolutely terrible? How many times did he leave Melo in even after Melo was jacking up dumb shots and committing stupid turnovers because of his frustration. And still playing Amare after he would give no effort on defense or rebounding?
Woodson, in my opinion, would not allow these guys to get away with no-effort type basbetball and Mike D did because he was too laid back.
I hope Woodson is dead serious and he said it numerous times that he will hold players accountable, even before any news reporter mentioned it so you know he has to focus on that.
"The Knicks are back" - Amare
whats probably going to happen after this season is Mike will stay on as Knicks head coach next season and he will bring back Isiah as an assistant. Phil or Jerry have no clout or whatever to impact Dolan enough to bring them here.
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Mike Woodson is coaching fundamentally sound ball.
-He's going to our strengths. This builds confidence and consistency because the team builds an identity and has something solid to fall back on during times of duress.
-His substitution patterns are solid, where we can build chemistry with two separate units. This allows us to come at the opposition in waves.
-He preaches accountability. Need I say more?
So far, Woodson is a breath of fresh air. Finally after years I can count on doing things fundamentally sound as to not beat ourselves. It allows for a better product and evaluation as the fluid dynamics are reduced from the past.
Woodson's approach as many can agree to also puts the onus on the Star, High paid players, and not adherence to a system. This exaggerates the intangibles like leadership and sacrifice needed to be the best.
No complaints from me except...
what took so long?


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By now you will be aware of the recent US Supreme Court decision concerning Myriad's gene patent.
The decision is of interest, more perhaps because of the profile of the debate among the pro and anti gene patent camps from which it arises.
Over the next few days and weeks we expect to see some hand waving regarding the decision. What is most important now is that the commercial implications are understood for what they are - without overcooking or under seasoning them.
This is what we see:
1. A limited class of genes are now not patentable: naturally occurring genes, including genes isolated from nature, are now no longer patentable in the US.
2. However, the decision is not a ban on gene patents: a gene patent application that covers a nucleic acid that is chemically distinct from a naturally occuring gene is still allowable, and a patent on such an application is still valid and enforceable. A cDNA ('complementary DNA') is one example of a chemically distinct class. Others might include derivatives of naturally occurring genes such as fusions, fragments, mutations or constructs that do not occur in nature.
3. Genetic testing and diagnostic patents are not now necessarily invalid: patents which only cover a naturally occurring gene will be invalid. But most gene testing patents and patent applications also cover claims to diagnostic methods, and products of those methods, including cDNA versions of naturally occurring genes, all of which remain as patentable subject matter in light of the decision.
4. Therapeutic patents based on gene technology are unaffected: most of the relevant patents and patent applications contain claims directed to genes that encode substances not found in nature. So these patents and patent applications are unaffected by this decision.
5. Patents to transgenic or transformed organisms are unaffected: patents and patent applications having claims to living organisms, tissues and cells that include a gene - even a naturally occurring gene - remain allowable and enforceable.
6. The decision is limited to those with business interests in the US: Yes, the US is clearly the most significant market for biotech companies no matter where located. But it is important to recognise that the decision does not apply in other major markets such as Europe, and emerging markets in Asia.
Some concluding remarks - while the decision is significant for changing the long understood position that isolated nucleic acids are patentable no matter whether naturally occurring, from the commercial perspective it more importantly points to a continuing need for patent applicants to diversify claim strategy.
Do not focus patent claims solely on nucleic acids. Make sure you cover the other patentable aspects of gene inventions that are unaffected by the decision, including those products and processes mentioned herein.
With this approach, we see the decision as having limited impact on most life science and biotech businesses. Indeed Myriad will not disappear merely because of this decision, and nor will other gene testing companies.
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