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A common myth surrounding professional gamblers is that we don't parlay, but a more accurate assessment would be that we don't parlay often. An equally true statement is that we love parlays. We love them because the odds are incredibly in our favor.
Sportsbooks also love parlays because they make way more vig on parlays than on straight wagers. Sound strange? How can a proposition be both hugely favorable to books and professional gamblers at the same time? Let me explain.
While most sportsbooks struggle to achieve the Theoretical Hold Percentage of 4.55 percent on straight wagers, three-team parlays routinely achieve Practical Hold Percentages over 12 percent.
Basically, you're paying at 6-1 on a proposition with true odds of 7-1. Assuming oddsmakers have made a reasonably effective pointspread, or assuming bettors typically pick correctly 50 percent of the time (both of which are true statements), it is easy to see why sportsbook managers encourage parlays. Nothing gets your hold percentage up like a healthy diet of parlay action.
Here's the math:
((7+1) - (6+1)) / (7+1) = (8-7) / 8 = 12.5%
If the bookie math is throwing you, consider from a player's perspective that a three-team parlay has eight possible outcomes, seven which favor the house and one which favors the player. Hence the true odds of 7-1. However, the standard pay out for a three-team parlay is 6-1.
That overlay (the difference between the payoff and the true odds) is the house vig. One full point overlay on eight possible outcomes, or 1/8 equals 12.5 percent. That's the house commission on three-team parlays. As you add teams to your parlay, the theoretical hold for the house skyrockets as follows.
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I heard it said once that once a book is out in the world, the characters no longer belong to the author, but instead the reader. I didn't pay much attention to this tidbit at the time and frankly, as an author, I wasn't quite so certain I believed it. I rarely think about my readers, all of you out there sitting down with a copy of one of my books and diving in. I have a hard time thinking about someone getting lost in the characters that I create as I do on occasion when I'm reading a particularly great book. Reading becomes harder when you're a writer, I'm sure many of you have heard a writer say that before. It's not so much that we're constantly critiquing the works, it's just harder to lose yourself in a story.
So back to that statement… I don't know that I tend to feel particularly possessive about other people's characters very often. But it has happened. Most recently it happened when I finally succumbed to Hunger Game mania and I dove in. Within a week I had downed all three books and I felt quite thankful that I had waited as long as I did so that I could gorge on all the books instead of waiting for their release as I had done with the Harry Potter books.
But it was after I had read the books and I was sitting in the theatre with my niece watching the movie. She hadn't seen it and I had taken the advantage of my sister being in town to watch my kids so I could take her daughter to see it since she is also a lover of the books. I became agitated in the movie, annoyed at some of the younger audience members who giggled and snickered during some particularly tender moments. And I realized in that instant why, it was because I was offended that they weren't getting it, they were making these moments cheap and belittling them. Because those were MY characters. That was MY Katniss and MY Peeta and they could just leave if they couldn't appreciate what was going on on the screen. Now granted much of the emotional progression of the characters was missing from the movie for the sake of time, but still the movie does a lot very right.
Every now and then you read books. Magical books that dig inside you and burrow deep into your soul. Characters that hang on and refuse to let go. Lots of books are great, wonderful even, but some books go beyond just a good story. Their worlds become so real, so engrossing that to leave them is nearly painful, as if you're grieving a dear friend. I don't want to leave the world of the Panem, of Katniss and Peeta and Gale and Haymitch. I don't want to walk away from them. I felt this when the Harry Potter series ended. Satisfied with the way the story was told, but also a great sadness that the tale was over, that my journey with the characters had come to an end. Of course I can re-read them, but nothing ever feels the same as that first time turning the pages as fast you can (or clicking the kindle button as was my case) and grabbing on to every word so as to not miss one morsel of story.
I don't know if I ever accomplish that as a writer. I don't know if I have any readers out there who have been that engrossed in the worlds I create. Mine aren't as unique and original as those you find in books with a more fantasy bent. But when I read books like these, they make me want to be a better writer, make me want to strive to create characters that haunt readers all the way into their dreams, that make readers clutch the book to their chest and sigh heavily when its all said and done because they're sad to leave the characters and the world in which they dwell.
So how about you? Can you easily lose yourself in the world of books? What are some of your favorites that have totally captured you and made it hard to leave the characters?
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I wouldn't say I easily lose myself if a book world, but when i do I also get quite proprietary. I'd have to say Jamie and Clare from Gabaldon's series, Eve and Roarke from JD Robb's series, and Bella and Edward from the Twilight series (I know a lot of people hate Twilight, but not me) stand out as sucking me in.
Love this point of view!
I also went through the pangs of watching Hunger Games surrounded by pre-teens. In fact, I tried a second time, and it was worse!
I get lost in every good book that I read. Although some more than others but most every book. LOTR, Twilight, Hunger Games and Harry Potter were strong ones but maybe because they were at least 3 books too. Once the characters get into my head, I'm in another place.
Those two exact series. *LOL* I loved the Hunger Games books much better than the movie, but I'm all for the boy with the bread, so he better not be heckled. *LOL*
Books like these DO make me want to be a better, to write like that. That type of emotional as well as literal journey.
I felt this way when I read Delirium. I felt very swept into the book; and Allie Condie's books are so lyrical, they're just a treat to read.
I think the other series I am caught up in and if it was ever a movie, I'd be very into it or very emotionally involved in the picks: Hush Hush series by Becca Fitzpatrick.
I definitely felt immersed in the Hunger Games world. Katniss et al were MY people! I didn't feel that so much with the Harry Potter books, although I did enjoy them.
I felt it with the Outlander series. And with a couple of TV shows lately. -
I've said it before and I'll say it again… probably my all-time favourite book: The Pillars of the Earth. I was consumed by the story and the characters… Jack and Aliena, Tom and Ellen, the incredible research Ken Follett did into the way of life 900 years ago. Truly a great read. I also really enjoyed the Earth's Children series by Jean M. Auel; I found the characters and setting compelling. And Harry Potter…just an all around wow! I did enjoy the Hunger Games, more than I liked Catching Fire and Mockingjay.
Yeah, I think this is one of the reasons series–even a great one–sometimes have trouble translating to the screen. I love the Janet Evonivich books (One for the Money, etc). I enjoyed the movie, but it didn't translate as well because the that on-screen chemistry between actors is just so hard to nail down. I met a woman at RT this week, and she was so indignant that the guy who played Joe wasn't even Italian. It was hysterical!
I tend to become involved with most books I read, however the best books are the ones that make me feel. I cryed when Doby died in Harry Potter,again when a favored character died unexpectantly in The Hunger Games,I cryed alot while reading Gone With the Wind and while reading The Doll Maker.


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I have Created this UserControl for those who are looking for DataGridView paging functionality. So many times we are using DataGridView in our Windows application with paging. So my intention for this article is to show User Control creation and To provide DataGridView with paging functionality.
Although Creating paging functionality is very basic. but i want to show you features of UserControls through this article and i think this would be the best topic to learn user control. People already know about DataGridView and Paging so there won't be any additional knowledge required to understand the functionality.
Let me show you first how this control will look like, this way you know that what you are going to develop.
I hope you already know about how drag and drop your button, label or textbox control on your window forms. You may have added so many Forms in your project. similarly you can Add new UserControl from "RightClick on project >Add > New Item". Or if you want to create UserControl for that can be used by other application then you can Add New Windows Form Control Library Project. Once you build your application it will provide you DLL(Dynamic Link Library) file to use in other projects.
As you can see above we have couple of button controls, one textbox control and one DataGridView control. We have set DataGridView Dock property to Fill so it will look perfect even if we change the width and height of our UserControl. On bottom side we have created one TableLayoutPanel Which will be used to arrange our buttons and textbox properly. TableLayoutPanel Dock property is set to bottom with fixed height. so it will not break our design even after resizing the control. After changing look and feal of the user control, you can now proceed for the code behind part of the control.
I think this introduction is enough for now. Let's check code of DataGridView UserControl.
We need to expose some properties in UserControl so other people can modify it. Example : Width of DataGridView, Height of DataGridView, Button Text, PageSize, DataSource etc.
Let we start with looking at the code of exposing UserControl properties. First of all we will look at the most important properties like PageSize.
private int _PateSize = 10; public int PageSize { get { return _PateSize; } set { _PateSize = value; } }
PageSize property is very important and without that we can not set how many rows we would like to see per page. We have set default value of pagesize to 10. if you do not set the value of the page size then it will display 10 rows per page.
Now next will look at the DataSource property of the control. this control consist of the DataTable that we have bind with the DataGridView. alghough this is not much important property but we have created in case user want all the data instead of paged data.
private DataTable _DataSource; public DataTable DataSource { get { return _DataSource; } set { _DataSource = value; } }
Other properties like Width and Height is also important to set size runtime. alghough user can change width and height of the control using design time but we can add it as a property so runtime it can be set.
private int _Width; public int ControlWidth { get { if (_Width == 0) return dataGridView1.Width; else return _Width; } set { _Width = value; dataGridView1.Width = _Width; } } private int _Height; public int ControlHeight { get { if (_Height == 0) return dataGridView1.Height; else return _Height; } set { _Height = value; dataGridView1.Height = _Height; } }
just for your note, i have added some validation for Height, Width Button Text property. We need such validation to reduce possibility of error message. If user try to get Height value before setting it then it will gives you incorrect result (value 0). so we have added such validation in above properties.
And at last we will expose button text properties. Normally we are familier with paging button as First, Previous, Next and Last but instead some user want to display that control with different text like greterthen(>) or Lessthen(<) sign. so that can be set by below properties. Although below four properties are not much important but it's depend upon the choice of user.
private string _FirstButtonText = string.Empty; public string FirstButtonText { get { if (_FirstButtonText == string.Empty) return btnFirst.Text; else return _FirstButtonText; } set { _FirstButtonText = value; btnFirst.Text = _FirstButtonText; } } private string _LastButtonText = string.Empty; public string LastButtonText { get { if (_LastButtonText == string.Empty) return btnLast.Text; else return _LastButtonText; } set { _LastButtonText = value; btnLast.Text = _LastButtonText; } } private string _PreviousButtonText = string.Empty; public string PreviousButtonText { get { if (_PreviousButtonText == string.Empty) return btnPrevious.Text; else return _PreviousButtonText; } set { _PreviousButtonText = value; btnPrevious.Text = _PreviousButtonText; } } private string _NextButtonText = string.Empty; public string NextButtonText { get { if (_NextButtonText == string.Empty) return btnNext.Text; else return _NextButtonText; } set { _NextButtonText = value; btnNext.Text = _NextButtonText; } }
Now Let's Look at the Second portion of our code, i.e. Binding of the DataTable with the DataGridView. Here we need to filter our data according to current page. We also need to change the textbox information that shows where our current page is.
public void DataBind(DataTable dataTable) { DataSource = dataTable; dataGridView1.DataSource = ShowData(1); }
When user bind the DataTable with the our customized DataGridView, we need to show them very first page from all the data. so we have pass parameter 1 in the ShowData private function. Above function will internally call the ShowData function and it will Create new DataTable dynamically.
private DataTable ShowData(int pageNumber) { DataTable dt = new DataTable(); int startIndex = PageSize * (pageNumber - 1); var result = DataSource.AsEnumerable().Where((s, k) => (k >= startIndex && k < (startIndex + PageSize))); foreach (DataColumn colunm in DataSource.Columns) { dt.Columns.Add(colunm.ColumnName); } foreach (var item in result) { dt.ImportRow(item); } txtPaging.Text = string.Format("Page {0} Of {1} Pages", pageNumber, (DataSource.Rows.Count / PageSize) + 1); return dt; }
ShowData method have different portion of the code. First of all it will take pageNumber as the parameter. Suppose user requirest for the 3rd numbe of page then first of all it will check for how many records from DataSource it need to return. ShowData function will return DataTable with the DataRow count as PageSize. In case you have last page with 5 records then DataTable will be filled with 5 DataRows only. Let's look at the above code one by one.
if you see the 3rd line of the ShowData function, we have used DataSource which contains all the records of in form of DataTable. To fire a LINQ query on the DataTable first of all you need to cast it as Enumerable. AsEnumerable will convert our DataTable into Enumerable type. then you can apply indexed based Where condition. (s,k) in the where condition denotes DataRow(s) and Index(k) respectively. if user request for the 3rd page and page size is 10 then startIndex would be 20. on 3rd page we need to show data from 21 to 30. But DataRows are stored as index based so we need to fetch records from 20th to 29th (20th and 29th row will be included). So the where clause says that retrun the records starting from 20 to (20+10=30). But on right size operation we have used (<)greterthen sign insted of (<=)greter then or equal to. so 30th record will not be return.
Then next foreach loop will create DataColumns in DataGridView. if you do not create datacolumn in the DataGridView then it will not show you the data correctly.
And on the last foreach loop we are importing required rows in new DataTable i.e. dt. We can not directly add item like dt.Rows.Add(item) because that datarow is already associated with other DataTable. So here we have used dt.ImportRow(item).
When user click on the First button we need to display the first page starting form 0th index to PageSize. As you can see in the btnFirst_Click event we have added checking for _CurrentPage. if user is already on the First page, clicking the first button doesn't make any sense. So we have added one MessageBox showing the information. if _CurrentPage is not first page then we set it to first and then call the ShowData function internally and bind the DataSource of DataGridView.
private void btnFirst_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { if (_CurrentPage == 1) { MessageBox.Show("You are already on First Page."); } else { _CurrentPage = 1; dataGridView1.DataSource = ShowData(_CurrentPage); } }
Next button will navigate the DataGridView data on the next page. So DataGridView updates it data accordingly. when user click the Next button lastPage will be calculated becuase, if user is already on the last page then we should prompt some message that your requested page is not exist or you are already on the last page, you can not navigate to the next page. if requested page is not the last page then we increment the CurrentPage and call the ShowData function.
private void btnNext_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { int lastPage = (DataSource.Rows.Count / PageSize) + 1; if (_CurrentPage == lastPage) { MessageBox.Show("You are already on Last page, you can not go to next page of Last page."); } else { _CurrentPage += 1; dataGridView1.DataSource = ShowData(_CurrentPage); } }
Previous button will navigate the DataGridView to the previous page. it means if you are on the 3rd page then clicking previous button will show you the data of the 2nd page. we also need to make sure if user is already on the first page, there is no previous page of the first page. if requested page is not the first page then decrement the _currentPage value and call the ShowData function.
private void btnPrevious_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { if (_CurrentPage == 1) { MessageBox.Show("You are already on First page, you can not go to previous of First page."); } else { _CurrentPage -= 1; dataGridView1.DataSource = ShowData(_CurrentPage); } }
Last button click event will navigate the grid data on the last page. To check if user's last requested page is already last page we have to store it in some variable. we have created one local variable previousPage to store the previously requested page. if previous page and the last page index is the same then we should prompt a message saying that user is already on the last page. If user reqest is not for the last page then just pass the last page index to the ShowData function.
private void btnLast_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { int previousPage = _CurrentPage; _CurrentPage = (DataSource.Rows.Count / PageSize) + 1; if (previousPage == _CurrentPage) { MessageBox.Show("You are already on Last Page."); } else { dataGridView1.DataSource = ShowData(_CurrentPage); } }
As you can see in all our button click event we have some Information messages. if you want to customize those messages then you also need to create properties for information messages. I leave this excersice on those who are beginner.
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Bloomberg Sets New York City Civic Corps
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Corporation for National and Community Service have announced that New York City will receive a $5.85 million, three-year AmeriCorps grant to support the NYC Civic Corps, which is the center-piece program of NYC Service – the Mayor's comprehensive initiative to promote a new era of volunteerism in New York City and direct volunteers toward the City's areas of greatest need. NYC Civic Corps is a first-of-its-kind program where members work at nonprofits and public agencies to help those entities use more volunteers and use volunteers more effectively to assist New Yorkers in need. During the first year of the program, Civic Corps members expanded the volunteer capacity at 56 organizations throughout the city, allowing those organizations to engage 44,641 new community volunteers. Those new volunteers performed more than 400,000 hours of service and served more than 450,000 New Yorkers.
The first year of the NYC Civic Corps was funded with AmeriCorps grant funding made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The new funding announced today will allow the City to fund the program for an additional three years. Additionally, the Mayor and the Corporation for National and Community Service announced that 16 additional nonprofit organizations in New York City will receive AmeriCorps grants. The Mayor and Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Patrick Corvington were joined at the announcement in the Blue Room of City Hall by the City's Chief Service Officer Diahann Billings-Burford, Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey, New York State Commission on National and Community Service Chair Susan Stern, and Teach for America Executive Vice President of Public Affairs Kevin Huffman.
"Thanks to this Federal grant, we will be able to continue the NYC Civic Corps program for the next three years," said Mayor Bloomberg. "This first-of-its kind program has been an incredible success, with less than 200 Civic Corps members helping more than 50 nonprofits add more than 44,000 volunteers – and those volunteers served more than 400,000 New Yorkers. So the work of 200 served more than 450,000, and that is why we say our Civic Corps serves as a 'force multiplier' in the community service world. I want to thank the Corporation for its willingness to invest in this idea, which had never been tried before, and for its continued support of nonprofits here in the City that is the national leader in community service." "While our economy is starting to grow again, far too many people in New York and across the nation are suffering," said Corporation for National and Community Service CEO Patrick Corvington. "Meeting today's economic and social challenges requires tapping the most precious resource we have – the energy and talents of our people – and that's what AmeriCorps is all about. The grants we are announcing today will support thousands of AmeriCorps members across New York who will use service a solution to some of the toughest problems facing our communities – teaching and tutoring youth, expanding health services, providing job training and financial literacy, preventing substance abuse, weatherizing homes, supporting people with disabilities, and much more. I congratulate all the organizations in New York that are receiving AmeriCorps grants for developing strong proposal and rising to the top in a stiff competition, and thank all those who will answer the call to serve by joining AmeriCorps and one of these worthy programs."
NYC Civic Corps members helped build or expand volunteer programs at a wide range of organizations throughout the five boroughs. At the New York City Housing Authority, Civic Corps members worked to create and expand a program where volunteer residents worked to make housing complexes more sustainable. At Year Up, Civic Corps members expanded a mentorship program for at-risk youths. Working with Common Cents, Civic Corps members helped provided service opportunities at hundreds of City public schools. Civic Corps members also led the City's efforts to recruit volunteers to assist in H1N1 vaccination efforts.
Nearly 400 public and nonprofit organizations and 800 individuals applied to be a part of the firstever NYC Civic Corps. Members and host organizations were selected through a rigorous application process, screened by both the AmeriCorps VISTA program and a City committee formed by NYC Service.


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The Security and Exchange Commission is looking deeply into Pfizer's (NYSE:PFE) aggressive tax-avoidance scheme, and has sent the firm a letter asking how it could earn record profit abroad with domestic losses, while generating 40 percent of its sales in the United States. It seems the trick is to put its cash in low-tax jurisdictions.
Exact Sciences Corporation (NASDAQ:EXAS) shares could go up if its test that targets early detection of colon cancer really works, says Barron's. Trial results are expected early in 2013, and if favorable, the test could be allowed to be sold in 2014. The firm's annual revenue might exceed $500 million or even $1 billion by the end of this decade, if the test gains wide acceptance. But first things first.
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Science is simply a process for examining the world, and anyone can do it, even if you don't have a lab coat. If something has an effect or influence, you can try to examine it using the tools of science — so when someone announces that gods cannot be detected by observation or experiment, they are saying they don't matter and don't do anything, which is exactly what this atheist has been saying all along.
So I visited Pharyngula hoping to read something incisive and clever like that. Alas, 'twas not to be. Instead, he has a post ranting again about feminism, mocking Michael Shermer and erecting massive straw men in order to belittle anyone who disagrees with him.
The crux of the rub, and I suspect a big part of what triggers any women's issues post into a mine field, are statements like this:
Most importantly, if you think feminism, that is equality for men and women and opposition to cultural institutions that perpetuate inequities, is irrational, let's see you explain your opposition rationally.See, I think that the vast majority of rational people, particularly those in the nontheist community, fully support legal equality between men and women. And we acknowledge that there are cultural expectations – gender roles, if you will – that women and men may or may not choose to embrace, and we should be tolerant of and celebrate those differences.
The thorny part comes in just to what degree this is all really relevant in our modern day. Some women, like Rebecca Watson, are utterly convinced that our society is a "patriarchy" that perpetuates the sexual objectification of women, and that such things aren't really a significant issue for men because, well, men are in control since it's their patriarchy. Or something. Other women, like Maria Maltseva, have considerably more moderate views on such issues.
The thing is, we don't all agree on the severity or relevance of this sort of thing. We don't all agree that there actually is a "patriarchy" in modern America. We don't all agree whether ads featuring scantily-clad men or women, in an attempt to appeal to our biology to drive the free market, are indicative of any kind of broad social problem. We don't all agree that, at least in modern America, the areas where women still experience inequality deserve more attention than the areas where men experience inequality – areas such as life expectancy, medical research funding, homelessness, widespread acceptance of male genital mutilation, suicide rates, victims of violence, workplace deaths, domestic violence and family court biases. Some of us have a hard time caring when the Rebecca Watsons of the world complain about sexy women in commercials and being awkwardly invited on a date when in other countries, women are treated like cattle (some of us like, I dunno, Richard Dawkins).
The problem is, though, that in the mind of PZ Myers, Watson, and the those of that ilk, there is no room for measures of disagreement. If you're not totally on board their train, then you are the enemy. You are, as PZ describes it, an "anti-feminist". No – you are not allowed to broadly support women's legal equality and support their right to accept or reject certain normative gender roles while disagreeing about the extent and/or severity of these issues in modern Western civilization. You either swallow the whole doctrine, or you are part of the problem.
And, that's why I stopped reading Pharyngula. If I wanted dogmatism, I would have stuck with religion. At least they give out free crackers.


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Physical Properties of Ionic Compounds
Recall: Ionic compounds are compounds made up of two oppositely charged ions, a cation and an anion.
Take a look through your kitchen and you'll probably find two seasonings that look very much alike: salt and sugar. However similar these two may look, chemically, they are entirely different beings. Salt (NaCl) is an ionic compound whereas sugar (C12H22O11) is a molecular compound. You can observe some differences in their properties with a few simple tests. First, heat up a pan on the stove and sprinkle some salt into it. No matter how hot you heat the pan, the salt will not melt due to the high melting points of ionic compounds. However if you were to heat sugar, you would notice melting very early on. Another property of ionic compounds is that they always form crystals. While sugar does form crystals as well, not all molecular compounds do. Next, let's observe what happens when you dissolve them in water. If you were to make two separate solutions, one of sugar-water and one of salt-water, you would find that you are only able to run an electrical current through the salt-water solution. This is because ionic compounds are able to conduct electricity when dissolved in water. While these two common seasonings may be different chemically, they both sure taste great in your food!
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1. Think to the molecular structure of ionic compounds. What allows them to form crystals?
2. Think to the molecular structure of ionic compounds. What allows them to conduct electricity when in solution?
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The thing is that they look like they suck, as far as playsets go. I already have a Droid Factory Playset, it looks like the exact same mould and crane, just different colours and a different hook attached.
Can anyone that owns either of these playsets please tell me that they are worth it. Their prices online are usually around $100, and that's loose and without the figures. I'll probably buy them just to complete my collection though.
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Formed in 1879, Leinster have an enviable record when it comes to winning tournaments. Currently ranked the highest in the European Rugby Club Rankings Leinster have won four PRO12 four times, most recently beating Glasgow Warriors in the 2014 Pro12 final, and have been the champions of Europe three times. They have qualified for the inaugural European Rugby Champions Cup and will look to have as big an impact there as they have in previous tournaments.
The current professional team was formed in 1995 but the history goes way back to the amateur era and many former Leinster player has gone on to wear the green jersey of the national Irish team.
Currently playing at the RDS Arena in Dublin the squad include several famous players including Rob Kearney, Jamie Heaslip and Cian Healy. Notable former players include Brian O'Driscoll, Australian legend Rocky Elsom who had a huge impact during his time at the club, Brad Thorn, Jonathan Sexton and Felipe Contepomi.


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Forbes: How did you come up with the idea of a newsletter devoted to aggressive growth?
VJ: When I joined Forbes in 1997, I was editing the Forbes Special Situation Survey. While I was doing this I read some research on momentum investing. I wanted to combine momentum investing with growth investing and came up with the idea of Forbes Aggressive Growth Investor.
Investors who followed your advice, then, would be about even today if they had begun investing when you launched the letter two years ago?
Yes. We don't look good compared to treasury bills, but compared to equity indices, we look great.
Your portfolio has 50 stocks. How do you come up with those 50?
We use a sophisticated quantitative model created by an outside firm that advises money managers. The firm runs a series of regressions and determines which variables are most valuable in predicting future performance. They weigh these variables, constantly tweaking the weightings. For instance, earnings expectations might take on greater value in predicting future performance than net profit margin, even though there are 70 variables in their model. Based on the analysis, the firm will rank the stocks from 1-100. About 20% of them, 600 stocks, are ranked 1-20, which are considered "buys." The system is good for differentiating a stock that is rated 1 and another rated 80, but it can't really detect differences between a stock rated "one" and another rated "five."
How do you overcome that problem?
We at Forbes then apply fundamental analysis, narrowing the list of stocks from 600 to 50. We look at price earnings ratios, price-to-book and price-to-sales ratios. Price-to-book is my favorite because it has been shown in academic studies to be best at showing if a stock is underpriced or overpriced. We look at market risk, the company's business, who their suppliers are. We also have to determine how many stocks from each sector to include in the portfolio.
Although most stocks are far off from their highs, many still seem expensive based on measures such as price-to-earnings (P/E). Does that make looking for aggressive growth stocks more challenging?
It does. Some stocks still have very high P/E, price-to-book and price-to-sales ratios so they could be considered very expensive. Yet our model tells us that even though they are overpriced, they continue to go up in value. So we take into account things like growth in earnings, price momentum, and changes in analyst ratings.
So high P/E stocks are okay?
Sometimes we will include high P/E stocks, but we take that into consideration. We have a bias toward more value stocks.
Looking at some of the companies you have recommended, they don't seem like "aggressive" growth companies. Greenpoint Financial, York International, Bandag, the tire and rubber company?
That is something we get complaints about. Many think our picks are too value-oriented and not aggressive enough. But we don't think people should focus on one or two stocks. Instead, they should be well-diversified. If you want seven stocks, choose them for various sectors, not just from one sector.
Why, then, are you called the Forbes Aggressive Growth Investor?
It's aggressive in that we take price momentum into consideration and earnings momentum. And it's aggressive in that turnover is high–about six stocks per issue are added and removed. So in one year we turn over 72 stocks–a turnover rate over 100%. If you were a mutual fund manager that would be aggressive. But we're actually going to change our name, beginning next year: We're dropping the word aggressive, so the letter will be called the Forbes Growth Investor. But that won't change at all the way we pick stocks. We're changing the name for two reasons: The first is because "aggressive" is a word that scares people. Second, the word "aggressive" means different things to different people. We've heard from readers who say their definition of speculative is technology issues with no earnings and most of our companies were too stable, they thought, to fit the definition. Also, our aggressive growth portfolio has a standard deviation of 6.3%, a measure of volatility. Look at the S&P 500 during the same period. Its standard deviation was 5.0%, so ours–which has one-tenth the number of stocks–doesn't have that much more risk. It's very well diversified. For nearly the same level of risk, you get much higher return.
How do you determine when to sell?
When a stock's ranking falls below the 50th percentile, we could take it out.
But it seems that there may be a disparity sometimes, between the quantitative model that you use and the fundamental analysis. Are there times when your analysis may determine that the stock should no longer be in the portfolio, even if it still comes up in the top 20 of the model you use?
Yes. We often drop stocks based on their fundamentals. Green Mountain Coffee, for instance, was in our portfolio for two months. During that time it rose 161% and it isn't even a tech stock! We dropped it in December 2000. We felt it was tremendously overpriced.
What other stocks have been stand-out performers for Aggressive Growth Investor?
Landstar returned 51% in seven months. We dropped it in May 2001. Canadian Pacific returned 37% in four months and we dropped it in April 2001. Comdisco, now selling for less than $1 per share, gave us a 33% return in two months. We dropped it in January at $16. We dropped it because its ranking significantly deteriorated in a short period of time. We also noticed that there were significant downgrades in the stock's ratings; expectations of future earnings were starting to deteriorate.
Of the eight sectors you follow, which have done well and which have done poorly?
Since inception, the best performing sector was Consumer Noncyclicals–up 24.2%. Next best was Consumer Cyclicals, up 2.9%. The tech sector is down 21% since inception.
Yet you like technology stocks these days. Why?
A couple of days after the terrorist attacks, we issued an advisory recommending that people get into tech stocks now, because we feel that some of the implications of the attack was that it would affect companies that move around inventory and have logistical problems. So we chose to focus on companies that rely on intellectual capital, not physical capital. So we like software stocks which have done well since then.
In September, you issued a report where you indicated that there were signs that the economy had bottomed and was poised to recover. Then came September 11. How did that affect your portfolio?
Besides technology, we started adding our exposure to consumer noncyclicals. We dropped Boeing after the attack, and later Cendant, which we felt would take a long time to recover. Cendant was a great stock prior to the attack–but it has exposure to hotels and car-rental services. Boeing is much bigger commercially than in the military. Another company, Titanium Metals, we kept in the portfolio. Titanium is used for manufacturing airplanes, and the stock got killed. But we decided that the stock price had overreacted. Titanium, after all, can be used in military aircraft too.
What about energy stocks and the effect of the problems in Saudi Arabia?
We follow the energy sector and we have oil stocks there. But we aren't too worried about impact on oil, because if Saudi Arabia falls into hostile hands and oil is no longer available, it will be a short-term problem. We can get oil from Russia, Mexico, Venezuela and other countries. And there is a determined effort to get oil from the Caspian basin as well. We also think that there a good chance that our oil supply from Iran will increase in future years, since relations are warming.
Let's talk about the Forbes Special Situation Survey.
This is more like a research report. We look at only one stock per issue and we come out monthly. We look at the stocks solely on a fundamental basis and we're not running a portfolio.
How many recommendations would you have open at any one time?
About 14 to 18. Our goal is to select stocks that will outperform over a 2-year period. In the recent past we focused more on value stocks; however, we have recommended stocks that have no earnings. A recent recommendation is Amazon. We think Amazon would be profitable now if it had not expanded into so many areas and into Europe. Its core business–books, videos and CDs–is already profitable.
So what makes a company worthy of being considered a Special Situation?
It could be a company that has seen its stock price plummet in reaction to bad news where there was an overreaction–like Tyco International. A few years ago there was news about an accounting fraud. A short-seller broke the news and there was fear of an S.E.C. investigation. We thought their accounting could be considered aggressive, but unlikely that it was fraudulent. Sure enough, the S.E.C. cleared it and the stock price rebounded strongly. That was a special situation. I define "special situation" as any company that is significantly underpriced.
How do you determine if it is underpriced?
We do a discounted cash-flow analysis. We make conservative assumptions and if we can derive an intrinsic value that is above the market price, it's a candidate. We apply one basic model to estimate future revenue, so we make an assumption about revenue growth rate, operating profit margins and derive the cash flow expected; and discount that at the weighted average cost of capital which we try to overestimate.
So you take a worst-case approach?
Exactly. If management says revenue growth will be 20%, we'll say what if it grows at 10%? So we do a worst-case analysis to find a minimum intrinsic value.
How many stocks do you track here?
We track any publicly traded company with sufficient liquidity. The ones that come to our attention are those where there has been some recent event that makes it newsworthy–such as lower-than-expected earnings–and stock priced has dropped. We don't do as much screening on this model as on aggressive growth, though we do look at the companies that get high rankings on the aggressive growth model. Sometimes I start my screening there.
Are there some stocks that would be appropriate for Aggressive Growth and not for SSS?
Yes. SSS subscribers tend not to have highly diversified portfolios. They want the names of one or two stocks in which to invest a signicant amount of money. We think people should diversify, but we also know that many people concentrate their portfolio in a few positions. For those people, we tend to be more concerned about the riskiness of the stocks we recommend.
So the stocks with the higher risk are the ones you recommend for a diversified portfolio. And those investors would read your Aggressive Growth letter?
Yes, but investing in those stocks is safer because those investors have a diversified portfolio. If you add a very risky stock to your portfolio, you can reduce the risk of the portfolio. We look at standard deviation and the beta of stocks, but the beta is meaningless unless you plan to hold the stock in a diversified portfolio. If you look at a stock in isolation, just look at the standard deviation. If you had that stock in a portfolio, the standard deviation would fall because the correlation coefficient between the stock and the others is less than +1. Here's an easy way to look at it: If you own Ford and GM, you can reduce the risk of your portfolio by diversifying and adding Qualcomm, a riskier stock.
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Perl is a far more secure language than C. The single biggest historical security problem has been the buffer overflow. (Microsoft is making a valiant attempt to make poorly designed macro scripting surpass it, but they still have a ways to go. Even with SirCam spewing private files everywhere, it was a buffer overflow exploit, Code Red, that got the press...) The buffer overflow is very simple. The programmer allocates a data structure, assumes that they allocated enough and doesn't validate that assumption. Therefore someone can exploit it by just throwing out a lot of data to get past the buffer, and then put something in the section past the buffer. OK, now that is the theory. You know from their ubiquity that they are hard to avoid in C. Now try to write one in Perl. Give up? Well some here know how to do it, but most do not. It certainly isn't something you tend to do by accident in Perl. This bug, the single biggest security problem year in, year out, is one you don't get if you use a language that does dynamic allocation of data structures and run-time bounds checking followed by reallocation if need be. A bug that is virtually impossible to avoid in assembly, C, C++, etc is very hard to write in Perl, Java, Lisp, Smalltalk, etc. (Incidentally the right way to avoid it in C is to write a library that does dynamic allocation of data structures and only use that library. You won't be hearing about buffer overflows in qmail any time soon...) Now security holes in perl, do they exist? Undoubtably. The last big one was over a year ago, when it was discovered that suidperl would call sendmail as root, and you could get a root compromise by having the wrong thing in your environment variables. (A nice portable local root exploit. Lovely.) However perl's security record on the whole has been very good. In fact good enough that you get things like Perl in Top 50 Security Tools ... How about security holes in Perl code? Oh, yes. All of the time. The single biggest cause is letting something get near the shell without validating the input. It doesn't matter how good Perl is internally, if you let the shell get garbage in, you can get amusing garbage out. Things like: *ahem* I just have to put a filename that starts with "| " and it will be executed as a program. I could mail your sysadmin your password file with a warning for a subject. Or I could get mean about it... There are a lot of gotchas like that. But most of them are caught for you automatically by Perl if you just use taint checking and are restrictive about what you validate. (Hint: Validate by passing stuff according to rules that are guaranteed to be absolutely safe. If you try to just catch exploits you know about, you will fail.) So if you care about being secure, you can be fairly good about it in Perl with reasonably little work. Of course the last 5% of the way is not so easy...
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RIA Announces Genesis Systems as Newest Certified Robot Integrator
In order to become certified, integrators go through a rigorous process which includes an on-site audit, safety training and hands-on testing of key personnel among other important criteria.
(Ann Arbor, Michigan - August 27, 2012) Genesis Systems Group is the newest robotic integrator to receive the new Certified Robot Integrator designation from the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry's trade group.
"We are very happy to welcome Genesis Systems to our growing group of Certified Robot Integrators," said Jeff Burnstein, President of RIA. "In order to become certified, integrators go through a rigorous process which includes an on-site audit, safety training and hands-on testing of key personnel among other important criteria. Based on feedback from the industry, we believe that achieving certification will be valuable to integrators looking to showcase their capabilities and experience to users and suppliers alike.
"Additionally, the program allows integrators to benchmark their own processes against best industry practices, allowing them to identify areas in which they can improve. This also helps the industry by strengthening the overall integrator channel," Burnstein explained.
The new RIA Certified Robot Integrator program was officially announced in late January at the Robotics Industry Forum in Orlando. A total of eight integrators have now received the RIA Certified Robot Integrator designation.
Each certified integrator will need to be recertified every two years. Detailed information on the certification program and the certified robot integrators can be found on a special section of Robotics Online. Integrators interested in becoming certified also can contact Jeff Burnstein at 734/994-6088.
Here is what Genesis said about the new program:
"Genesis Systems Group is a long-term participant in the RIA and will continue to be for many years to come. Integration of robots to automated manufacturing solutions is our exclusive business. Our practices for documentation, training, and support of our customers are critical for our mutual success. The importance of these services is not always evident to our growing global client base. The RIA Certified Robot Integrator designation provides our potential customers an objective method of evaluating their supply base. This certification is an important step in our pursuit of global business."
Founded in 1974, RIA now represents more than 290 robot manufacturers, system integrators, component suppliers, end user, consulting firms, research groups, and educational institutions. RIA is best known for its biennial Automate Show & Conference (next event slated for January 21-24, 2013 in Chicago); the ANSI/RIA National Robot Safety Standard and annual National Robot Safety Conference (September 24-26, 2012 in Indianapolis); and the annual Robotics Industry Forum (February 20-22, 2013, Orlando). The association also provides quarterly robotics statistics and has a content-rich Robotics Online website attracting hundreds of thousands of visits a year from throughout the world. For more details on RIA, visit Robotics Online or call 734/994-6088.
"Robotics customers, of course, still need to conduct their own due diligence on the suppliers they select," said Burnstein. "RIA cannot guarantee the work of any integrator or recommend which integrators to choose. We have more than 50 system integrator members and look forward to having more of them go through the certification process in the near future."
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I've been a SimCity player since the very first version, so naturally I had to check out the latest edition of SimCity, which is SimCity 5 (the 2013 edition).
DirectX is required for this game, and when I ran the installer it failed once it got to the DirectX installation for some reason throwing up the following error: DirectX Setup Error: An internal error occurred.
Once you hit OK, the installation just stops and there isn't any more information.
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すべてはケベックシティ(カナダ)の近郊の小さな町、ベ・サン・ポールで始まりました。1980 年代の初め頃、ベ・サン・ポールでは色とりどりの衣装をまとったキャラクターの一団が街を練り歩き、竹馬、ジャグリング、ダンス、火吹き、音楽などの芸を披露していました。彼らこそ、ジル・サンクロワが組織したストリートパフォーマンスのグループ、Les Échassiers de Baie-Saint-Paul(ベ・サン・ポールの竹馬乗り)でした。すでに街の人々はこの若いパフォーマーのグループに心を動かされ、魅せられていました。パフォーマーの中に、後に Cirque du Soleil の設立者のひとりとなり、CEO となるギー・ラリベルテもいました。
From 1994 to 2002, Jean-Jacques Pillet, choreographer and stage director, worked as the artistic associate of Jean Grand-Maître, the world-renowned choreographer from Quebec, collaborating in creation, as well as supervising and restaging various productions of his works.
His responsibilities with M. Grand-Maître led to opportunities to work as a choreographer and teacher with many leading dance companies in North America and Europe, including L'Opéra National de Paris, La Scala de Milan, the Stuttgart Ballet, the Munich Opera Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal and Den Norske Opera Ballet. In 1992 the Susan Dellal International Dance Competition in Tel Aviv honored him with its Best Dancer award.
From 2003 to 2005, Jean-Jacques was the artistic coordinator of the Cirque show Varekai, directed by Dominic Champagne. In 2007 he worked on the opening ceremonies of the Outgames in Montreal and for the Quebec singer Diane Dufresne. His also choreographed the Italian production, Tablò, staged by Serge Denoncourt, the prominent playwright and theatre director from Quebec.
Jean-Jacques' choreography for Quebec-made films includes the latest movie by director Olivier Asselin, Un Capitalisme Sentimental, as well as Macadam Tango, directed by Lyne Charlebois and Laura Cadieux la Suite, directed by Denise Filiatrault.
"I get a lot of inspiration from theatre," says Jean-Jacques. "But also from the sculptures of Auguste Rodin and Arturo Giacometti, which embody motion in stillness. My goal in ZED is to try and serve the subtext of the piece through acrobatics and choreography without ever falling back on choreographic flourishes. What interests me is to choreograph an emotion rather than a movement."


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It's March, and this blog dabbles in Redskins coverage, so here's a picture of Donovan McNabb suiting up for Syracuse in the Big East Tournament:
That was back in '96, when the Orange were still Orangemen. How racist!
We've touched on McNabb's basketballery before, but I didn't realize how skinny he was back then. He looked kind of like a young Allen Iverson. Now he looks like an old overweight quarterback. The difference being 15 years and maybe 30 pounds.
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7 songs to summarize Super Bowl XLVII
by Tyler Munro
February 4, 2013
The Super Bowl was last night and it was an absolutely great game. But let's say you weren't watching. Maybe you took advantage of America's game to catch a movie or to read or to do something else super lame. We're here to help. Here's a quick summary of what you missed in music video form.
Johnny Cash – I Talk To Jesus Every Day
Ray Lewis maybe (probably) killed a dude, but ask him about it and he'll defer to his fail-safe: religion. Because when he's not missing tackles or crying on the sidelines, Ray Lewis can be counted on his bizarre, at times incessant preachiness. God got Ray Lewis to the Super Bowl, not John Harbaugh. How dare you even think otherwise? (But no, Ray Lewis might have been the best ever to play his position, regardless of how irritating and old he was throughout this year's playoffs).
Kanye West – Big Brother
A little six degrees of separation here: Kanye West wrote this song about living under Jay-Z's shadow. Jay-Z is married to Beyoncé, who performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The game was between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers. The Ravens are coached by John Harbaugh; the 49ers are coached by his younger brother Jim. John's team won the Super Bowl. Jim's might soon follow. Maybe then they'll actually hug.
Propagandhi – Fuck the Border
Lots of football fans convince their significant others to watch the game with them under the pretense of great new commercials. The problem? We barely got any of them in Canada. Sure, The Motive seemed intriguing, but maybe we wanted to see Bar Rafaeli smooch some dweeb or Volkswagen's controversial "white people speaking with Jamaican accents" ads. We got Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Lebron James and Bob Oedenkirk's Samsung commercial as a consolation, but isn't it time we Canadians demanded better?
Shaquille O'Neal singing Beyoncé's Halo
Don't lie: you were singing it too.
Bad Religion – Supersonic
Did you see Jacoby Jones blur past the defense off the kick return to start the second half? Yeah, neither did the 49ers. That dude was absolutely flying and ended up setting a Super Bowl record with a 109-yard return.
Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
The more than 30-minute power out that struck the New Orleans Super Dome almost threatened to put on asterisk on a great game. But despite a valiant effort the Ravens held off a surging San Francisco team, making the tedious wait between plays little more than a footnote in the history books.
Men Without Hats – Safety Dance
The 49ers would-be storybook comeback was all for naught after a shitty pass (and disputable non-call on a hold) all but solidified a Ravens victory in the waning seconds of the game's 4th quarter. What iced it was a two point sacrifice from Harbaugh comma John, who had punter Sam Koch shave seconds off the clock before getting nailed for a safety. On the next play he kicked it beautifully (making up for a horrible punt earlier in the half) forcing the 49ers to return and icing the win for Baltimore.
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hammer a small nail where I did both in steps 1 and 2one near the butt of the gun and the other at the muzzel of the gun
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Just saw these 10 screenwriting tips from Billy Wilder when a friend shared the link from Gotham Writers website:
- The audience is fickle.
- Grab 'em by the throat and never let 'em go.
- Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.
- Know where you're going.
- The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
- If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
- A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They'll love you forever.
- In doing voice-overs, be careful not to describe what the audience already sees. Add to what they're seeing.
- The event that occurs at the second act curtain triggers the end of the movie.
- The third act must build, build, build in tempo and action until the last event, and then—that's it. Don't hang around.
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Saddleback College athlete breaks state record
Saddleback women's hammer thrower Julia Reedy broke the California junior college record on Friday at the Tiny Lister Invitational at Cal State Los Angeles.
Reedy's toss of 58.56 meters broke the old record set by Saddleback's Liz Tepe last season.
Reedy had been improving in every meet and was within four feet of Tepe's mark heading into the meet on Friday. She then went out and shattered the record by over five feet, setting the new standard with a toss of 192 feet, 1 inch.
Tepe set the state record a season ago at the very same Tiny Lister Invitational when she threw the hammer 56.92 meters (186-8) on April 14, 2012.
Saddleback now holds the top two throws all time in California women's hammer history, and also has the top men's throw of all time with Remy Conatser in 2012 (66.26 meters, 217-4).
Reedy is a sophomore thrower from Mission Viejo High. She finished fifth in the state as a freshman last season at the state meet.
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and police in the Philippines have jointly busted a ring of four alleged hackers in Manila with connections to a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippines police said last week.
FBI agents, who have been investigating hacking of telecommunication companies in the U.S. and in the country since 1999, have uncovered a "paper trail" of various bank transactions allegedly linking the local hackers to the cell in Saudi Arabia, whose activities include financing terrorist activities, CIDG said in a statement.
The operation last week followed a complaint from AT&T, which suffered losses of up to US$2 million as a result of a hack of its system, the Philippines police agency said.
The Philippines police said that Muhammad Zamir, a Jemaah Islamiyah member, paid the suspects to hack the trunk-line of different telecommunication companies including AT&T. Revenue derived from the hacking was diverted to the account of the terrorists, who paid the Filipino hackers on a commission basis through local banks, CIDG said.
Jemaah Islamiyah is an Islamic militant group that has been active in South East Asia and is said to be linked to some terrorist attacks in the region, including the Bali bombing in 2002.
AT&T and the FBI were not immediately available for comment. AT&T said last week that there was an attempt to obtain information on a number of AT&T customer accounts, but said it did not believe that the perpetrators of the attack obtained access to users' online accounts.
Zamir was arrested in Italy in 2007 by FBI operatives but his group continues to be active, and was later tagged by the FBI to be the financial source of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India on Nov. 26, 2008. After Zamir's arrest, an unnamed Saudi national took charge of the operation of the group, and also maintained links with the group of hackers in Manila, CIDG said.
In March, FBI requested the assistance of CIDG Anti-Transnational and Cyber Crime Division after it found that the terrorist group had targeted AT&T in the U.S., and the same group of Filipino hackers was involved, CIDG said.
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