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- 48 years old
- Date of birth: Jul 21, 1952
- Place of birth:
Newtrenton, Indiana, United States
- Date of passing: Feb 7, 2001
- Place of passing:
Cynthiana, Kentucky, United States
|Let the memory of Della Jane be with us forever
"love and missing you with all heart and soul"
"Mom, you're my angel, always watching over me, You gave all you had to give, Thinking that's the way it should be, You guided m,e along life's path, In your gentle ways, Teaching me to love myself, with your motherly praise, During trying days in my life, Your love pulls me through. Thank you mom for loving me the way you did. Happy Birthday Mom, loving and missing you everyday <3"
"really missing and wishing you was here. could use someone to talk to today. love you with all my heart."
"We just put our pool up and I was thinking how fun it would've been if u were here to jump in. I was just remembering how we use to take Blake to the city pool when he was little. Im so lost w/out u! Daddy gave me the answering machine tape with your voice on it and somehow it taped a conversation with Susie and Blakes in the
background! I play it a lot! I miss you so much Mommy!"
"just thinking about you today while i was cleaning the kids rooms and just wanted to say... i love you and missing you everyday of my life."
"Miss you so much and so thankful for the short time we were family"
"Mommy I miss you so very much!! Losing you and telling you good-bye was the hardest thing I've ever had to do! You were such a beautiful, loving and caring woman and a wonderful mother! Your death affected so many not just our families, you touched so many people! I love you Mommy!"
"mom you are missed so much everyday. and I love you always."
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Winners for the VOW Awards November, 2014
Saturday, November 8, 2014 Canadian Voice of Women awarded four outstanding women for their activism. For more information about the awards click here
Ray Acheson was awarded the Shirley Farlinger Award for Peace Writing. Ray is a young Canadian woman always helpful to the VOW team when we are at the UN. In 2014, Ray gave our group an introductory talk about the scope of her work, so in line with VOW's anti- nuclear weapons strivings. Her writings are exceptionally clear, authoritative, and MUCH valued internationally.
Bio of Ray Acheson: Ray is the Director of Reaching Critical Will. She monitors and analyzes many international processes related to disarmament and arms control. Ray is the editor of RCW's reports and analysis of UN meetings and of several publications on subjects such as nuclear weapon modernization, myths and risks of nuclear power, and challenges to nuclear disarmament. She is on the Board of Directors of the Los Alamos Study Group and on the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Ray's activism goes well back to her early high school days. She has always been passionately interested and concerned with international affairs. After receiving an Honours BA from the University of Toronto in Peace and Conflict Studies she moved to Boston where she worked at the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies with Randall Forsberg as an associate editor of the Arms Control Reporter.
From there she joined WILPH as an intern in their RCW office New York and soon after assumed the role of director. She also received MA in Politics from the New School for Social Research in New York.
Ray's work on disarmament issues is highly regarded by both the diplomatic community and by civil society organizations. She travels extensively to meet with government officials and NGOs in moving these critical discussions forward and RCW's publications are relied on as a timely, accurate source of information in this field.
FRAN THOBURN received the Muriel Duckworth Peace Activist Award.
Fran is the only activist remaining from the Grannies who founded the original Raging Granny gaggle in Victoria in l987. She never expected that she was starting a movement that now encompasses all of North America and beyond.
Fran, the youngest of the original gaggle, was an American who came with an impressive history. Her great-grandmother had been a suffragette who also helped runaway slaves along the underground railroad to Canada in the American Civil War. Her maternal grandmother had smuggled birth-control items from England to distribute among poor women.
Fran earned a degree in psychology and teaching certificate and became active in the civil-rights movement and anti-Vietnam War protests, which led to her heading for Canada with her four children, where she quickly became a Canadain Citizen. In Toronto, she helped start a Women's Health Centre and trained as a medic, believing it was her job to empower street women as well as treat them.
In the mid-eighties, Fran moved to Victoria, where she wrote and produced a radio show on peace issues before becoming a founder of the Victoria Grannies. She has always remained strongly involved in peace and environmental issues. Even before the Grannies surfaced, Fran was a member of NERT (Nuclear Emergency Response Team) which used a metronome to check unsuspecting visitors for signs of nuclear contamination.
As a newly minted Granny, Fran took the Grannies to coffee houses, trying to educate the audience. When this didn't work, she was quick to encourage the Grannies' new style – singing satiric songs instead of preaching.
Ever an activist, Fran launched her canoe alongside other Grannies in their first Granny naval exercise, leading a fleet of very frail vessels against visiting American warships. Since only national states were allowed to have a navy, she registered "the Raging Granny Anti-Nuclear Armada" under the Societies' Act.
Fran has always favoured dialogue rather than confrontation. Before the Battle of Clayoquot in 1993, which pitted the logging companies against environmentalists, Fran arranged meetings between Grannies and the BC Minister for Forests, and then invited the forestry company to send a representative to talk things out over tea.
Fran is also an accomplished writer. She produces the leaflets on peace, justice and the environment which the Grannies hand out at regular street "gigs". She is the main speaker at their annual lantern commemoration of Hiroshima.
Most importantly, Fran has challenged the Grannies to live the message they convey. Without preaching, she sets us all an example. A long time vegetarian, gardener and environmentalist, Fran quietly eats healthily from her own supplies at meals when many other Grannies succumb to the lure of chocolate cake. Where possible, she avoids air travel because of excessive fuel consumption and air pollution. She rarely uses her car; instead she goes by bus or walks with crutches – at an astonishing speed.
Fran has always said it was the birth of her grandchildren that reinvigorated her passion for peace. So she spends a lot of time with them and volunteers at her local school, believing that we all have a message to pass on.
Fran continually inspires her colleagues into action by her example. Without her, there would probably be no Raging Granny movement. Following Muriel Duckworth's example, she continues to strive for peaceful solutions to the problems of the world.
Phyllis Creighton also received the Muriel Duckworth Activist Award. An editor, ethicist, and writer, Phyllis' work for disarmament, especially nuclear disarmament, is strong and persistent. Phyllis has also been unstintingly active in many justice/peace organizations for 25 years.
Phyllis Creighton was on the board of Science for Peace, which she represented on the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and on the Hiroshima Day Coalition. She was an invited speaker at the 2001and 2005 World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She served on the steering committee of Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, and still pursues peace and justice with the Toronto Raging Grannies.In the past several General Synods of the Anglican Church, she has successfully presented motions of her own on landmines, nuclear weapons, and depleted uranium. What follows is a fuller description of ten peace-focused organizations with which she is actively inked:
** Toronto-Volgograd, from 1983, a citizen diplomat initiative that was instrumental in getting Toronto twinned with that Russian city, which was known under the Soviets as Stalingrad
** Project Ploughshares (the peace coalition of the Canadian Council of Churches), on whose board and executive she represented the Anglican Church of Canada (1987-88, 1990-98)
** International Peace Bureau, to which she has been an elected consultant since 1991, and was North American regional rep., 2000 – 3 (the world's oldest and broadest federation of peace organizations, now based in Geneva. IPB was founded 1891, Nobel Peace Prize 1910. It has more than 225 member groups.)
** No Weapons in Space, of which she is treasurer (from 2002)
** Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), member and active in its project to delegitimize war: speaker in the VOW three-person panel against war, held in the Church Centre, New York City, at the time of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 2004 meeting, as well as judge in VOW's Mock Court putting war on trial, its presentation at the time of the 2005 CSW
** Mayors for Peace, in which she has been a citizen activist promoting at City Hall its 2020 Vision Campaign for nuclear weapons abolition and an invited participant at the MfP Conference in NYC, May 2005
** World Conference against A & H Bombs held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1-9 August), at which she has twice been an invited speaker (2001, 2005)
* * Raging Grannies, a well-known Canada-wide "mafia" originating in Victoria, B.C. (1986), in which she has been active from 1990
** Science for Peace (SfP), board member from 1993, and vice-president (2005-6); collaborator in and initiator of numerous SfP briefs on defence, foreign affairs, security, nuclear weapons abolition, missile defence, and peace policies, from 1994
** Mayors for Peace, in which she has been a citizen activist promoting at City Hall its 2020 Vision Campaign for nuclear weapons abolition and an invited participant at the MfP Conference in NYC, May 2005
Metta Spencer received the Anne Goodman Peace Education Award. For most of her life, Metta has engaged in a combination of notable academic and activist pursuits in support of a world of greater understanding, infused with non-violence. Her teaching, writings, and abundant organizing skills keeps her active still with no signs of let up. Peace education with its inherent value of changing hearts and minds away from deeply rooted patterns of dominance and threat is richly part of her long peacemongering history.Spencer (b. 1931) is an emeritus professor of sociology, University of Toronto, editor of Peace Magazine, and past president of Science for Peace, an organization of scholars and scientists.
Now a dual US-Canada citizen, she was an activist even during her student days at Berkeley. While writing her Ph.D. dissertation on student politics in India, Spencer also campaigned for anti-Vietnam War candidates and marched in demonstrations carrying her three-year old son on her back. She received a Ph.D. in political sociology from the University of California in 1969.
From 1967-69 she held research and teaching posts at Harvard and in Boston, then returned to Berkeley for two years to study anti-semitism and teach.
From 1971 until retiring in 1997, Spencer taught at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, sometimes heading its sociology department. Her introductory textbook, Foundations of Modern Sociology, was published in ten editions that have been read by an estimated one million students worldwide.
In 1989 she initiated an undergraduate degree program in peace and conflict studies, coordinated it, and taught its core courses. Between 12 and 35 of its students graduated each year. After retiring, she continued offering a course on negotiation and nonviolence four more years.
In 1982 as the disarmament movement surged, Spencer called a meeting to form CANDIS (Canadian Disarmament Information Service). In a chapel at a downtown Toronto church, press conferences were held, banners were painted, and piles of leaflets lined the walls for the crowds of visitors.
CANDIS's calendar of peace events became Peace Magazine, which Spencer still edits from her home with several volunteers. Of the 2,500 copies per quarterly issue, some go to paid subscribers and some are given out to students or at public meetings. It often includes transcripts of Spencer's interviews. (See the magazine's complete 31-year online archive at peacemagazine.org.)
Spencer has held office repeatedly in Science for Peace, serving as its president in 2012-14 and once more now as vice-president. She organizes a series of weekly lectures at the University of Toronto, about 85 of which are archived as videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/Science4Peace/videos.
She has been teaching an undergraduate course without stipend each year entitled "Public Health in a Nuclear Age," which deals with nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, with numerous expert guest lecturers. This year it will be open without charge to the general public and advertised widely. Currently she also chairs the Science for Peace working group on nuclear weapons, whose members perform public informative actions.
She represents Science for Peace in the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, is a lifetime member of the Canadian Pugwash Group, and belongs to the Canadian Voice of Women. In 2013 she concluded a three-year term on the steering committee of the International Peace Bureau.
Based on 28 years of meetings and travel in Russia, Metta Spencer published The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy, in 2010. (See transcripts and audio recordings at Russianpeaceanddemocracy.com.)
For a list of Metta's other publications and projects, see the curriculum vitae on her web site, mettaspencer.com.

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Parts of Speech : Essays on English
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1901 · New York
by MATTHEWS, Brander
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Tina Fennimore opened her house in Westham Drive, Pevensey, to the public to raise funds for Eastbourne Lifeboats.
The Christmas lights were turned on and Tina held events including games and mulled wine and refreshments.
The event raised £457.53 and Tina hopes the figure will rise as more people view the lights and pop a donation through her letterbox.


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|Musical Style: Epic Metal
|Produced By: Matt Smith
|Record Label: Metal Ages/Ulterium
|Country Of Origin: USA
|Year Released: 2003/2013
|Artist Website: Theocracy
|Tracks: 10
|Rating: 95%
|Running Time: 68:29
It is a well-worn gripe in metal and hard rock circles: The 2003 self-titled Theocracy debut (on Metal Ages Records) could have used better production. Not that this diminishes the albums fundamental strength- the high quality songwriting in which the group made its "epic melodic power metal with progressive overtones" sound best known. The choir-like vocal melodies, catchy choruses, symphonic keyboards and orchestral arrangements that go hand in hand deserve every bit as much acclaim. Nor does it take away from the fact it was a "one man band project" in which founding member Matt Smith handled all aspects of the writing and recording process, including lead and choir vocals, rhythm, lead, acoustic and bass guitar, keyboards, orchestration and drum programming.
I always considered the programmed drums not to sound bad - they bypassed much of the thinness and one dimensionality associated with drum programming - but also lacking was the spontaneous creativity a human drummer might bring to the table. In similar fashion I assessed production as commendable for a self-financed and one man band release (and cut the artist some slack accordingly)- also keeping in mind that, not unlike much of the metal community, I felt things deserved to be improved upon at the same time.
Theocracy might have gone on to bigger and better things, turning into a full piece band and signing with Ulterium Records for its critically acclaimed follow up albums Mirror Of Souls (2008) and As The World Bleeds (2011). As the years passed, however, Smith longed to re-release the debut for two reasons: 1) To correct the already noted production issues 2) It had gone out of print and turned into a hard to find collectors item. Hence, the fall of 2013 Ulterium Records re-issue of Theocracy with the programmed drums replaced by Theocracy drummer Shawn Benson, re-mixing done by Smith and mastering Mika Jussila (who has worked with Stratovarious, Nightwish and Edguy).
Said improvements bring about several immediate noticeable results. First, production comes across in the brighter, crisper and all around cleaner manner. Specifically, the re-issue proves heavier with its emphasis on better-defined rhythm guitars that helps give the project an added metal-based feel. Keyboards stand out further in the backdrop as well. Second, the work of Benson on drums makes a decisive difference from how he lends greater punch and presence to the low-end and kicks up the tempo in the process. It cannot be understated the technical presence a real drummer brings to the table - listen closely and you will find fills and rolls, cymbals and kick drum not present on the original - not to mention the fact Benson is quite the talented timekeeper.
What has not changed is the inspired songwriting, with the upgrades in question making said songs stand out that much further. My favorites remain the three eleven minute epics, with "The Serpents Kiss" highlighting an intricately sweeping chorus and protracted instrumental section (which finds Smith exhibiting his searing lead guitar abilities) and "The Healing Hand" five distinct "parts" that serve to uphold the complex but creative environs at hand (too many time signatures to go into adequate detail). "Twist Of Fate" also breaks down (this time into three "parts") in taking the overall heavier direction while maintaining the technical basis. The commonality between the three is notable melodies that remain fresh with repeat listen.
Speaking of which, high-spirited tracks "Ichthus" (with its choir-vocal harmony arrangements) and "Theocracy" (the towering Theocracy signature track) ooze of melody. Likewise, mid-paced pieces "Mountain" (heavier and underpinned by church organ) and "The Victory Dance" (reflecting some medieval flavorings) are catchy all the same. When Theocracy stretches, it can also deliver an all-out speed metal romp in "New Jerusalem" or even taper things for the emotional semi-ballad "Sinner".
Great songs make for a great album and such is the case here. The choice songwriting at hand helped turn Theocracy into such a notable release and later created demand for its re-issue. Said re-issue comes highly recommended due to, again, improvements in production and drum performance. Hence, if you own the original then I encourage making the upgrade in that the difference between the two versions is night and day. If not (and either are new to Theocracy or a long term fan) then you cannot go wrong by making the re-issue a necessary purchase.
Track By Track
Opening interlude piece "Prelude" maneuvers its short (1:36) distance to keyboards and orchestration.
"Ichthus" kicks in at once, resonating heartfelt energy with its full throttle double bass and signature Theocracy layered vocal melodies in abundance. Chorus is over the top with its galloping essence. In the end, "Ichthus" delivers big melody in abundance and proves a fitting introduction to the epic Theocracy sound. Lyric snippet:
Forced into the catacombs
Unite to praise the King of kings
They fear a revolution
And the power that He brings
Heaven's sons stand as one, as believers
In the blood of Christ
Even in death we have true life
"The Serpents Kiss", first of the albums three epics, opens gently and slowly with piano leading the way. A deluge of guitars step forward after a minute, forcing things ahead assertively until obtaining a huge, sweeping chorus interwoven with keyboards and choir-like vocal harmonies. The song, otherwise, centers itself around a five and a half minute instrumental interlude running the gamut from guitar harmonies to technically done guitar leads to a montage of preacher voices in the backdrop. This one puts the epic in epic metal in no uncertain terms. Lyric snippet:
Father bring us back to you
We're lost sheep, afraid, confused
Tangled in the snares that grow
Along this road of pain we chose
And though we've wandered far away
We've turned around and lost our way
Though we are the prodigal,
With open arms for us you still await
A mournful church organ gets "Mountain" underway before guitars take over in full force. The song sets a mid-paced clip the rest of the way, emotional in leaning with a sublimely feel reflected in the catchy chorus (very engaging, almost commercial in capacity). A progressive slant presents itself in the manner in which "Mountain" occasionally decelerates to a slower direction. Lyric snippet:
I cannot fight this battle on my own
Have mercy
I'm fallen weakness clothed in flesh and bone
Consume me
I stand in awe of who You are
And what I feel I cannot explain
Forged in the flame, broken again
Rise to the top of the mountain with You
The world disappears
Into the valley below me
As I'm lost in the glory of You
Signature song "Theocracy" shines in all its stately and opulent glory. Fittingly, orchestral arrangements start the show with tempo soon to pick up in an outburst of double and heavyset guitars. An imposing demeanor highlights "Theocracy" moving forward, reflected in how a bass guitar interlude descends into a poignant bridge melded with quieter guitars and later chanted vocal arrangements give way to the grand and regal chorus. Theocracy at its finest. Lyric snippet:
Rather, use me to be Your hands down here
A mirror to reflect your glory into hurting eyes
And let me see the world with vision clear
And not through selfishness and lies
For if I am consumed with my own cares
What right have I to speak the words
Thy Kingdom Come?
And if I am consumed with my own will,
What right to pray Thy Will Be Done?
Epic two, "The Healing Hand", breaks down into five "parts" - "The Gift", "Restoration", "Adulation", "Betray" and "Eternity" - each of which serves to detail the meaning and ultimate purpose of Christ. The key is how they do so in an intelligent manner without coming across contrived or overbearing.
I always rated "The Healing Hand" among my favorite Theocracy songs (alongside "Laying The Demon To Rest" from Mirror Of Souls and "I Am" from As The World Bleeds) in reflecting a progressive slant with its numerous time and tempo changes. The five "parts" in question almost come across as separate songs melded together to form a complementary whole (sort of like some of Neal Morse's epics). Now, I do not wish to go into too much detail, but "The Healing Hand" runs the gamut from driving metal passages to quieter ones in which guitars lay low to guitar harmony based instrumental sections to choir-like vocal melodies to worshipful overtones and more. The upshot is that despite its length and complexities the song fails to become trite due to the focus on melody at hand. Lyric snippet:
See the multitudes surround this man of miracles
The key to life they've found, He is the Son of God
Hear the suffering people cry for healing from this man
As they reach out to touch a supernatural hand
"Take my scars, heal my wounds, give new life to me"
The cry cleanse my stains, kill disease, Master, make this sickness die
Endless power, fueled by faith, restoration in one touch
Miracle, supernaturally disease is crushed
The Holy Hand becomes the Healing Hand
Classical instrumentation and acoustic guitar introduces "Sinner". The song moves its remaining length in the form of a semi-ballad, reflective in capacity with poignant verses interspersed with occasional metal-laced guitars and luxurious chorus carried at the more emphatic tempo. I particularly enjoy how over its final minute "Sinner" picks up the initiative as assertive guitars move to the forefront of the mix. Lyric snippet:
Shame covers me
What was light has turned to dark
Pain torments me
Where there once was something holy
Now beats my blackened heart
Sin has tangled me
My life is broken and I bleed eternally
Grief's controlling me
So I cry out to the only one who can bring
The healing that I need
Back to up-tempo with "New Jerusalem", as close as Theocracy gets to speed metal with its effervescent momentum and impetus. Plenty of double bass, as one might imagine, can be found (Shawn Benson gets quite the work out here) in addition to worshipful chorus aligning with the strident scene. Interestingly, things slow to a crawl at the end as choir-like backing vocals play a lead role. Lyric snippet:
By the grace of the holy one
I am free from this world of desolation
Free from greed, lust and selfishness
To nevermore be a slave to this wicked flesh
By the ultimate sacrifice
I'm alive, yet transcend this life
From this old world of death burning down
Now I walk through the ashes unto holy ground
"The Victory Dance" merges medieval flavorings with metal guitars to create an imposing effect. Almost anthem-like, the song gives rise to a majestic feel with its multi-layered chorus (very catchy and engaging on first listen) and intricacies of form (more progressive underpinnings can be found). A borderline commercial aspect can be found as a result. Lyric snippet:
Seven scares turned to ashes
Faces of madness melt into victory
Trial by fire, my burden
Burned in refining flames of purity
Seven steps into darkness
Mortal and crownless
Eternal victory
Altar flames rising, burning higher
And straight through the fire
I'm dancing the victory dance
Final epic "Twist Of Fate" bases itself around the valleys of life and how by both learning and growing from them we can ultimately reach the mountains that ensue. Correspondingly, the song breaks down into three separate "parts": "Descent Into the Valley Of The Shadows", "Passage Through The Valley" and "Ascent Unto The Mountain".
Musically, I rate "Twist Of Fate" the near equal of "The Healing Hand" but trending heavier territory: There is more of a metal basis at hand in running the same progressive gamut- all the while exuding a high level of melody despite the length. The song almost comes across as a journey with the "valley" parts distinguished by a darker and dire sound and the final "mountain" part slightly tempered with an added victorious and uplifting feel. It adds up to Theocracy at its epic and progressive best. Lyric snippet:
Spirits swarm around me: I feel it
They war against the one who dwells inside
Fate does not exist, I know it in my soul,
And strife to have that same faith in my mind
Tonight I sleep upon a bed of nails it seems
For once again I am a field of war
But it has long been written,
All things work together perfectly for me
For I have been reborn
Review by Andrew Rockwell
Track Listing: "Prelude" (1:36), "Ichthus" (4:40), "The Serpents Kiss" (11:56), "Mountain" (4:48), "Theocracy" (6:01), "The Healing Hand" (11:36), "Sinner" (6:09), "New Jerusalem" (5:10), "The Victory Dance" (5:02), "Twist Of Fate" (11:31)
Matt Smith - Lead Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards & Orchestration
Shaw Benson - Drums


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Sounds like a Zig Ziglar speech coming, doesn't it? Being optimistic is commendable and enjoyable not to mention good for the soul. I meet hopeful people every day, but many are derailed when their hopes fail to become the reality they were envisioning.
Interestingly, there is a big difference between being optimistically hopeful and putting our full trust in the promises of God. In Matthew 19:26 Jesus said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Note the addition of the two words, "With God". That puts the emphasis of our hope on a different set of shoulders and helps us realize that the great I AM is able…able for whatever needs to be done that brings God glory.
I pray this Advent Season is for you and many across this globe a time of experiencing God and all the benefits of His peace, presence, and promises. Think about what we have been through the past 30 days: an election that left us exhausted and then shocked, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and that is just what comes to mind in a moment.
Trying to live like Mary in a Martha world is stressful! We need God. God is able. God is loving. God is a very present help in time of trouble. And the best news of all? God has come near to us in a manger in the person of Jesus our Christ who will never leave us nor forsake us. O come let us adore Him!


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Gorgeous big shoulder bags for mothers
Handbag always do double jobs as a professionally fashion accessory and a saver of personally treasures. This prominent ladies fashion accessory utilized by all age groups of ladies but carrying style is different according the life steps. Today, I am going to talk about just mothers' handbags those are designed in exclusive enormous form with many pockets in which they can save their and babies' needed items such as diaper, feeding bottle, baby' outfit, chocolates, biscuits etc. That' reason mother always wants to buy multitasking bag that can perform many functions.
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Are You A Job Search Sniper?
Aug 17 2011 in Featured, Job Search Strategy, reCareered Blog by Phil Rosenberg
Are you a job search Sniper … or a shotgun?
In the thousands of you that I speak with, I've learned that most of you want to be (and think you are) a job search sniper. Inherently, you value and you "get" the value of a targeted search.
However, in practice, most all of you are still job search shotguns.
Here are some clues if you're really a job search shotgun:
- You apply to jobs through job boards
- You've sent your resume to all or most of your contacts
- You ask people if they know of anyone who's hiring (even hiring for a specific position)
- You're depending on recruiters to find your next job
- You describe yourself as a generalist (and think that's desirable in your search)
- You rely on your network to find your next opportunity
This awesome infographic by Don Garrett of Resume Not Required gives a wonderful illustration to both approaches.
Infographic courtesy Don Garrett originally posted at http://resume-not-required.com/
Those of you who exhibit these job search tactics are job search snipers:
- You target a specific list of companies (50 or less)
- You spend less than 10% of your time on job boards
- You focus on getting "ahead of the curve" with your target company hiring managers
- You concentrate on problems, and ignore posted jobs (because you're too late for them)
- You've stopped looking for a job and instead look for problems
- You look for inside company information that gives you an edge over other candidates
So honestly, which one are you? A sniper? Or a shotgun?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Brown Jordan celebrates 70 years of design leadership with a paint box of fresh new colors for its Tamiami collection. A marvel of simplicity and grace, Tamiami made its debut in 1961 and immediately struck a chord with mid-century designers and the public alike. Featuring a streamlined aluminum frame and vinyl straps in a cross-lace pattern, the Tamiami collection will now offer both straps and frames in a selection of twelve vivid colors.
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Over at The Spirit World they may not post a lot, but the posts are damned brilliant. Great matches with drinks you probably haven't tried and even some matching dishes to boot.
The latest post is no exception and just too good to pass up. Mahali's Sky (named after a giraffe) and Thai Mussels, I can't think of a more perfect fit of drink and food. This is definitely one of those "impress your friends" type of combinations.
Mahali Sky and Thai Mussels - [The Spirit World]
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
Mahali's Sky and Thai Mussels
Served up by Rick Dobbs at 10:20 AM
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- Rick Dobbs said...
Whoever posted, I accidentally deleted your comments. Sorry.
I do try a lot of the drinks (I've tried every drink I've posted here for sure). I rarely even get tipsy though. You can taste without getting trashed.
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Dagashi Kashi Butamen will be available on February 22 and is flavored with mentaimayonnaise (mentai is salted, spicy pollock roe).
Dagashi Kashi Baby Star Ramen will be available on March 14 and will taste like coconut curry; despite its name, the product is a crispy noodle snack.
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Two starkly different paths for U.S.-China relations have become apparent as Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao hold their summit meeting in Washington this week. The first path is one of cooperation and actions that build trust and create mutual benefits. The second is continuing the current downward drift in relations with ever-expanding mistrust and conflict.
However, the fact that the United States and China have many common interests does not mean that we will inevitably pursue them. Nor does China's rising economic and military power mean inevitable conflict, as fatalistic doomsayers in both countries are arguing.
The United States and China are now so entangled with each other economically that conflict — whether escalating trade protectionism or belligerent rivalry for spheres of influence or military provocation — inflicts major harm on both countries. And there are so many global problems that require U.S.-China cooperation if the world is to find solutions — including climate change, energy scarcity, nuclear proliferation, genocide and pandemics — that we have large incentives and responsibilities to cooperate.
The central problem in the U.S.-China relationship right now is mutual mistrust. Large numbers of Chinese in and out of the government believe that the United States is out to stop China's rise and is actively seeking to overthrow the government. Even as many Chinese see America as a declining power, they also see America's strength and react to U.S. criticism of China through history's lens of China's occupation and "humiliation" by Western countries and Japan.
Large numbers of Americans fear or feel frustrated by China's rapid economic rise, particularly at a time of our own economic difficulties. As a growing economic power, China's military is also growing. Many Americans fear this growth, given the uncertainty about China's military objectives and China's increasing assertiveness, especially in the Pacific region, and its voracious appetites for energy and natural resources (which the United States shares).Continue reading the main story
Although China is a one-party, authoritarian state where numerous human rights abuses take place, China is not a monolith. The reality on the ground is that China is multifaceted and constantly changing. Hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty. Many political dissidents are being harshly repressed, but day to day, most Chinese have wide freedom in their lives, and there have been many positive reforms in China's legal system.
Cheerful entrepreneurial energy is everywhere. People in the government and the citizenry have and express many diverse viewpoints. The work I do in China puts me in constant contact with Chinese reformers both in the government and outside the government, and their numbers appear to be growing. China's leaders understand that the country faces huge domestic challenges resulting from unbalanced growth, and are largely focused on addressing those.
There is one way to dispel the mutual mistrust that currently exists in the U.S.-China relationship: acknowledge it, and work together to produce concrete results that demonstrate each side's good faith and the benefits of cooperation over conflict. Our leaders need to tackle the large issues that contain the potential for conflict and opportunities for cooperation, with parallel dialogues by leaders and experts outside of government.
People-to-people exchanges need to be expanded to produce a firmer foundation for positive U.S.-China relations. It isn't naïve to think that these things are possible, although it is certainly naïve to think they will be easy.
The United States needs to give China incentives to follow a beneficial developmental path — incentives that inevitably will include both carrots and sticks, both reassurances and pressure, but that take place within a framework of cooperation and growing trust.
China, in turn, needs to take actions in the economic sphere that assure the United States that it will be a fair competitor, abide by international legal norms, provide more reassurances about its growing military power, and play a stronger global role in addressing challenges such as North Korea.
As the secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, said last week, there are some things that China wants from us that we will do only if China does some things that we want. We also need to remember that there is a Chinese version of the same point: There are some things America wants from China that China will do only if the United States does some things (or refrains from doing some things) that China cares about.
The summit will be a key test of whether American and Chinese leaders have it within their power and capacity to forge a cooperative relationship that benefits both peoples — and the rest of the world.
Paul Gewirtz is a professor at Yale Law School and director of The China Law Center. He served in the Clinton Administration and worked on the two summit meetings between President Bill Clinton and China's then-president, Jiang Zemin.Continue reading the main story


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30th August 2006, 10:45 PM
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Stop minraising
Looking through a few of the hands that have been posted recently, the minraising phenomenon seems to be getting more and more pronounced. In this thread, I hope to detail exactly why the majority of the time it's a bad play, and to note the couple of exceptions.
In analyzing why it's a bad play, we need to first ask ourselves why do we raise at all? There are three main reasons, which will apply in varying degrees according to the situation.
1) For value, that is to get more money in the pot while we believe we are ahead.
2) To push others out of the pot.
3) For information.
In most circumstances, minraising only acheives objective 1) above, and it does it generally less successfully than a more standard sized raise.
Minraises have little to no chance of pushing anyone out of the pot
, for the obvious reason that they only have to call a small amount more in relation to the pot size, and hence are getting good pot
. We make money from our opponents mistakes in poker, and by minraising we are simply not giving our opponent the opportunity to make a mistake, as we are giving him odds to call with a huge range of hands.
You gain no information from minraises
. Simply for the reason stated above - that minraises can be called by a huge range of hands because they're getting odds to call. Thus you're not acheiving objective 3) of raising.
Let's look at an example hand:
Hero is in MP with AA (1000
Villain is in BB with ?? (1000 chips). Very standard, by-the-book player.
Blinds 10/20
Folds to Hero, who minraises to 40. BB calls.
Our raise has achieved very little
. We have succeded in getting more money in the pot while we are ahead, however we have no information on BB's holding as he is justified in calling with two cards here. Ever hear the old saying about how Aces will either win you a small pot or lose you a huge one? Minraising here only emphasizes this problem. If BB doesn't hit a flop hard, it's easy for him to fold as he only has 40 chips invested and is out of position. If he does hit, however, because you've gained no information about his holding preflop, you aren't going to know much about it until you've invested a lot more money into the pot.
Flop comes KhTh3c. Villain bets 60. Hero raises to 120.
Again, our raise is useless. If villain calls here (which most of the time he will) he could be calling with a huge hand, a big draw, or Ace high. Because Hero only minraised preflop, villain could be holding anything, KT, K3, T3, 33, 22, A8, and so on - take your pick. If villain reraises here he could have a huge hand, or could have interpreted your minraise as a weak steal. You have no information to act on further into the hand, and will be either investing chips without a clue where you stand, or will be making a ridiculously weak fold.
If we'd raised more preflop, we could rule out the ragged two-pair hands, random drawing hands like J9, Qh6h etc, and possibly 33, reducing Villain's range hugely and making our future decisions in tha hand far easier. By playing a hand badly in the early stages, you will often end up leaving yourself with a choice between the proverbial devil and the deep blue sea later in the hand. This is why preflop and flop play are the most crucial parts of Hold 'em, because good play early in a hand generally leads to easier decisions later.
I could go further into the hand, but you get the point, I'm sure.
As far as I'm concerned, there are only two reasonable circumstances in which minraises are appropriate. The first being in late tournament stages at a very weak table where a minraise is all it generally takes to steal the blinds. If players are as likely to fold to a minraise as a 3BB raise, why invest the extra BB? Secondly, it's reasonable as a kind of pseudo-slowplay with a huge hand that is very unlikely to be drawn out on, something like KK on a K73r flop. If you feel people are likely to hang around, then it's worth trying to leech a little more money from them and swell the pot early on.
But the above situations are rare - so stop minraising!
30th August 2006, 11:02 PM
twizzybop [2,379]
I fully agree, the mini raise establishes nothing. You gain 0 information by it. I have seen people UTG mini-raise with AA's in hopes of what? This what I normally hear. I raised with the AA's or we can even say KK's, QQ's because they "Hope" someone will re-raise them so they can re-re-raise the re-raise? Yet this opens the fact that if everyone at the table calls the mini-raise there is no info about any of your opponents hole cards.
Then I see the mini-raise used when a bunch of people limp, someone makes a mini-bet on the flop, yet while there are 3-4 others to act after them. They will gain 0 information when everyone just calls cause they have the
pot odds
to do so.
Another one of my favorites, mini raise for fear of a flush or a straight draw. Why give the flush and straight draw chases very correct odds to call.
The mini raise is almost as useless as watching someone limp with a top ten hand vs 3-4 limpers.
Again you don't gain any info by mini raising or limping with a top ten pre flop hand.
Great post by the way
30th August 2006, 11:09 PM
Jack Daniels [13,425]
Online Poker at:
Da Bears
Both of you make excellent points in your posts. Excellent post Chris. And yes, for the record, I am stating that I basically agree with everything Chris said.
30th August 2006, 11:18 PM
ChuckTs [13,653]
I agree - mostly. Online, at a full table, with everyone, or most people with healthy stacks, minraises don't achieve nearly what a normal 3-5BB raise does. I actually hate them, and laugh at anyone who does them. I hate seeing some players here that I know to be playing for a while post a hand with say AJ for a minraise from EP with the blinds at 30/60. One thing I found strange and actually shocked me was seeing how Harrington had little to no problem with minraises. He actually suggested them, stating that you raise with AA for
-4 BBs in EP with AA (quote me if I'm wrong, but it's something like that). Of course his strategy is meant for big buyin (ie 10K) tourneys, but even so the raise doesn't accomplish what a normal 3BB raise would. Your thoughts on Harrington's opinion? Mine are genuinely confused; I don't see how he can see a minraise as a good play, with the exception of mixing your play up.
One situation in which minraises are fine is heads up. The suggested raise from action Dan is 2-2.5BBs, but I mostly stick to 2.5 to 3 online since players will call with most cards for a minraise.
31st August 2006, 8:14 AM
scifell [45]
Online Poker at:
full tilt
Just to play the devil's advocate:
Doesn't my minraise (only raise possible) give me information and help push others out of the pot when I play limit holdem? How is this different?
Lets say I make a minimum bet on the flop that is way less than the pot. Shouldn't someone with a decent made hand raise here, and only the draws and weak hands call? You have either gained information or you are gaining from thier mistake of not betting bigger when they should have- and with a draw, wouldnt either result benefit me?
31st August 2006, 8:28 AM
Freakakanus [3,351]
Excellent post, and one lesson that I think I have actually finally learned. I know that I call with any two cards to min raises especially if I'm in one of the blinds. Those usually end up being the big winners especially when you catch 2 pr with some junk hand and crack someones Aces!
31st August 2006, 8:39 AM
ChuckTs [13,653]
re: Poker & Stop minraising
Originally Posted by
Just to play the devil's advocate:
Doesn't my minraise (only raise possible) give me information and help push others out of the pot when I play limit holdem? How is this different?
The difference is that in limit you don't have a choice. The optimum play for a holding of AA isn't minraising, it's raising more; enough to get good value from the hand, and enough to isolate the hand to 1 or 2 players. You have that choice in NLHE, but in LHE, you don't. In limit, it is also coincidentally much harder to isolate a hand to 1 or 2 people than it is in NL - and I'm sure you can guess why...
Originally Posted by
Lets say I make a minimum bet on the flop that is way less than the pot. Shouldn't someone with a decent made hand raise here, and only the draws and weak hands call? You have either gained information or you are gaining from thier mistake of not betting bigger when they should have- and with a draw, wouldnt either result benefit me?
DM's thread is more about min
, and not min
- they are different. I think what you're describing is more like a probe bet (a highly useful tool). Say you're in a limped pot with 10/20 blinds. 5 people and 100 chips total in the pot. You've got 66 and the board comes T72. Everybody checks to you, and you throw out a 25-50 chip bet (aka a probe bet; usually 1/4 to 1/2 the pot) to gain some information, and hopefully take down the pot. If you get a call that you feel is week, then maybe another bigger turn bet will win you the pot. If you get check-raised, then you can dump your hand. But with a 20 chip (minbet) bet, people will probably even call with overcards, or a gutshot. Maybe someone with A2 calls, and where do you stand now? Maybe he called with a 7, maybe a weak ten, maybe a draw.....who knows. With a bigger bet, you can tell that he probably won't be drawing to overcards, nor will he have called with a deuce. You won't really know where you stand in the hand with that tiny of a bet.
The way I see it, the point is that minraises (especially online) don't do any of the 3 objectives that DM mentioned, and raising at least 3BBs is definitely a better option.
There goes another ramble......kinda lost track there; hope it makes sense
31st August 2006, 9:01 AM
Dorkus Malorkus [12,432]
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Originally Posted by
Just to play the devil's advocate:
Doesn't my minraise (only raise possible) give me information and help push others out of the pot when I play limit holdem? How is this different?
The fact that you don't have a choice in limit, and the fact that you have more and better options available in no limit. In limit, it's a given that the ranges of hands you can assign players with is larger than in equivalent no limit hands, given optimal play.
In limit, you have TPTK on a ragged two-flush board, and you bet. You are correct in betting, as you have the best hand and obviously want to get money in while ahead. However, the guy with the flush draw is justified in calling in most cases because of pot odds. You have no real opportunity to allow villain to make a mistake here.
No limit gives you more opportunities to make your opponents make errors, and more opportunities to extract information from our opponents than limit, which is a more mechanical game. Why not take these opportunities when they are presented? Limit and NL are two completely different games, and your statement is kinda like someone saying "You should always play A2xx in Omaha because it's a good O8 hand".
Implied odds are also a huge factor. 74s is more likely to call a preflop minraise when he stands to double up an already large stack than if he expects to win at most 5 or 6 BBs if he hits a flop.
31st August 2006, 2:14 PM
t1riel [6,727]
Online Poker at:
Not Banned
I think some players miniraise online becuase it's easy to click on the raise button instead of typing or adjusting the amount you want to raise. I do it every once in a great while. Miniraising on gives the other opponents pot odds to call. Then again, most players online don't understand the concept of pot odds so anyway...
1st September 2006, 5:11 AM
mrsnake3695 [1,597]
Poker at:
Someone mention Harrington talking about mini-raises. I believe he was talking about it in the context of mixing up your game so other players can't put you on a hand. This is more important in live games than internet games since on the net you move more frequently and most people don't pay attention anyway. I agree with the original post that most of the time mini raises are useless, I don't think harrington suggested that it is the right play to mini-raise AA or any other hand, just a range of bets/raises to mix up your game.
1st September 2006, 6:35 AM
stretch833 [128]
Online Poker at:
party, titan
See, now this is the reason I enjoy this forum so much! I never thought about this until reading DM's post. I am very guilty of doing this, but now I see why it is not the right play in most cases. Thanks DM!!
2nd September 2006, 7:20 AM
Threesixes [631]
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Good post. One more time I will do it is late in a tourney when I have a monster. AA or KK usually.A big raise is going to scare people out and no raise leaves too many in. When I do this I'm actually trying to represent a poor attempt at a blind raise and looking to get re-raised. Many times I'll get re-raised by say KJ or KQ type hands. Even ace rag. Then I set them all in and they usually dont fold. You have to have a feel for the table of course.
2nd September 2006, 1:32 PM
buckster436 [15,127]
Online Poker at:
full tilt
NL Holdem
Originally Posted by
Excellent post, and one lesson that I think I have actually finally learned. I know that I call with any two cards to min raises especially if I'm in one of the blinds. Those usually end up being the big winners especially when you catch 2 pr with some junk hand and crack someones Aces!
I agree with Freak here, if im in one of the blinds a Mini_Raise does nothing and ill call it 90% of the time with any 2 cards, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.. buck
2nd September 2006, 7:57 PM
Irongirl01 [40]
re: Poker & Stop minraising
really good post. I know Ive been guilty of it. I think people do it because if you bet 4x bb you get no callers. You are more likely to get callers by going 5x to 6x then 4x.
Now my question? If someone has miniraised and there is say two callers, what kind of hands do you reraise with and how much should the reraise be. Say bb is $20 the miniraiser has bumped it to $40. Two limpers and the blinds yet to act too. say you are 5th position. there is $150 in the pot (3x $40 plus the BB at $20 and the sb at $10).
3rd September 2006, 6:27 AM
wsorbust [2,429]
Online Poker at:
I agree. I've seen the increase in min. raisers on every hand grow in the past months. To me, its a sure sign of being a noob. Doing ANYTHING every single time renders a person predictable and the move useless.
7th September 2006, 8:03 PM
chipslap u [110]
Poker at:
Ultimate Bet
Hold Em
All a min raise does is tell an observant player that you have a decent starting hand and encourages them to call and see a flop.
If I'm in the big blind and it is min raised to me I have been known to call with 27os.
I have busted so many big hands seeing min raised flops and catching with extreme marginal hands like 79.
The min raise never looks for the beat. That is why it so often is.
If you have a big starting hand like say KK and you want action isn't it better to limit the number of players calling into the hand by at least raising 3 or 4 times the bb.
A min raise almost always gives good pot odds to see a flop.
8th September 2006, 1:49 PM
bootleg [27]
Online Poker at:
NL Holdem
I have to agree with the lack of information and achieving nothing with the min raise when blinds are small but I have also seen the threesixes scenario when someone has a monster and they will min raise to get people in and raise the pot. The problem with the min raise to draw people in is also inviting for someone to outdraw you, I've tried this move a few times and have gotten outdrawn with rags so I've stuck with raising 3-4x the blind or not raising at all.
The only situation where a min raise might be acceptable is when blinds are really high late in a tournament...
9th September 2006, 12:21 AM
chipslap u [110]
Poker at:
Ultimate Bet
Hold Em
I have seen the min raise used effectively once. The guy that won the UB million freeroll a few months ago used it to finish of the last 4 players.
He min raised every pot he played which were most of the hands dealt. The players either dumped the blinds and folded or called with marginal hands and folded to his next bet all in. The one that called was buried to a pair of flopped 6s. The guy frustrated the others to make bad decisions, the last 2 went all in after his min raise and he turned over monsters both times.
The blinds were huge at that point and do to noone challenging his min raises early they all found themselves as 5-10 times underdogs to him.
The only time I ever use the min raise is if in a middle to late position where there is less than 4 -5 players to act. I only do this with AA or KK as I want a reraise with full intent to put them all in. Usually only one or maube 2 of the remaining players will call or reraise which allows my hand to remain in a dominant position preflop.
As many of you know the more hands in before the flop the lower the winning percentage all hands receive. Even aces can dip several percentage points below 50% as a strong hand.
Usually I limp or min raise late hoping to get a raise to me so that I may force bigger action or hold a better position after the flop and set the pace.
12th September 2006, 4:53 AM
Online Poker at:
NL Holdem
Prime Example
Here's an example of why minimum raises are bad, mmmm-kay? (Because donks like me will call! )
No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (10 handed)
Button (t1500)
SB (t1500)
BB (t1500)
UTG (t1500)
UTG+1 (t1500)
UTG+2 (t1500)
MP1 (t1500)
MP2 (t1500)
MP3 (t1500)
Hero (t1500)
Hero is CO with A
, 6
UTG raises to t40
2 folds
, MP1 calls t40,
1 fold
, MP3 calls t40, Hero calls t40,
2 folds
, BB calls t20.
(t210) 6
, 2
(5 players)
BB checks,
UTG bets t20
, MP1 calls t20, MP3 calls t20,
Hero raises to t80
, BB folds, UTG calls t60, MP1 folds, MP3 folds.
(t410) A
(2 players)
UTG bets t100
, Hero calls t100.
(t610) J
(2 players)
UTG checks,
Hero bets t200
, UTG calls t200.
Final Pot:
Results in white below:
UTG has 3d Kd (one pair, aces).
Hero has As 6s (full house, aces full of sixes).
Outcome: Hero wins t1010.
You're probably wondering why I didn't bet more on the river...I was just trying to figure out an amount that I knew villain would call. This was the first hand of the game, but after watching this guy play further on in the game, he probably would have called an all-in.
12th September 2006, 6:11 AM
Jack Daniels [13,425]
Poker at:
Da Bears
Originally Posted by
(Because donks like me will call! )
Yeah, donk. Right. Donk, donk, donk. NOT!!
Originally Posted by
UTG has 3d Kd (one pair, aces).
Why would he have called anything?
12th September 2006, 7:06 AM
Online Poker at:
NL Holdem
re: Poker & Stop minraising
Originally Posted by
Jack Daniels
Yeah, donk. Right. Donk, donk, donk. NOT!!
Why would he have called anything?
I know right? And he raised! Can't figure out if he thought he was "sweetening the pot" with that stellar hand, or if he really thought it would scare people off. For the record his name was odaddyo (on Poker Stars). I encourage you all to look him up!
12th September 2006, 12:59 PM
Dorkus Malorkus [12,432]
Poker at:
lmfao @ the river call.
10th October 2006, 2:54 AM
Marklar [186]
I'm suing the online
poker sites
for having the minraise button available (okay not really) I always call a min raise if i have a hand I want to play. Somtimes it ends up costing me and sometimes i win a small pot (but thankfully for his useless and complete waste of time while clicking on the min-raise button, i was able to get a little more chips) Sometimes if I connect to something on the flop i start firing away then end up losing to AA. Then get laughed at by everyone else and I say "well what am I supposed to do?"
When someone min raises I'm putting them on a hand like JT or KJ, KQ unsuited, etc.
But I do think it is a complete waste of time and it frustrates the *(&# out of me when someone in late position does it because we gotta wait as we have everyone else call the min raise, because who's going to fold? :P
10th October 2006, 4:23 AM
Stefanicov [1,633]
Poker at:
Mni raises suck ive been caught many times recently with mini raise from sb and like a donk reraise with medieum hand only to be put in.
22nd January 2007, 3:12 AM
Bombjack [2,390]
Online Poker at:
I'm coming to the end of Sklansky & Miller's
No Limit Hold'em Theory and Practice
(NLHTP). I gather that Sklansky's known for his ultra-tight approach in Limit, but all that seems to go out of the window in this book. I was surprised by some of the things they write, for example Sklansky now seems to love min-raising and limping in on the button.
Originally Posted by
Sklansky & Miller (p.267)
Say you have
in early position in a nine-handed $5-$10 game. You've been playing mostly with an $800 stack, but you just won a big pot and now you have $1500 in front of you. With the smaller, $800 stack, you would usually limp in with the hand. But now your stack has doubled, you might be better off min-raising: making it $20 to go.
Mostly your opponents will react to your min-raise exactly as if you had limped. They're not likely to fold their "limping" hands just because you raised. Some players may get scared and just call with a hand they would have raised if you had limped. Others might raise a little more often to challenge your "weak" raise. But usually you'll simply have doubled the stakes. If that's what you want, don't let any know-it-all tell you that it's a bad play. Min-raise away.
Also, a bit off-topic, but on the subject of limping on the button:
Originally Posted by
Sklansky & Miller (p.128)
[Re: being first to enter a pot in late position] Limping can definitely be ok. Some macho types will tell you never to limp first in from LP. But that advice belongs to limit games or tournaments. In deep stack cash games, limping, even on the button, will frequently be a fine play.
Not saying this must all be correct because it's in a book, but it's another point for discussion.
22nd January 2007, 5:26 AM
JimboJim [2,154]
Poker at:
Thats pretty much saying (with a better example) what i was saying in another thread about the min-raise. Now the button limp I dont agree with if you have a decent hand. A high PP might be good because an isolated Big Blind might pair the board and bet but if you have AQ AJ, A10 or such you might be able to get then to call a 3-4x BB raise with a lower hand.
22nd January 2007, 1:53 PM
Bombjack [2,390]
Online Poker at:
The reason they say button limping is OK is because with a strong post-flop hand, you don't really want the blinds to fold pre-flop. Typically the blinds are a very small proportion of the pot size (as opposed to Limit where they are usually a significant percentage), and you're getting the chance to play a pot against these players from position. If you're a better player than them, this will be +EV pretty much regardless of the cards. The big money mistakes are made after the flop, and raising just allows the blinds to play perfectly and avoid making the big post-flop mistakes.
22nd January 2007, 5:09 PM
alan1983 [641]
re: Poker & Stop minraising
Actually i think min raising preflop from early position has a lot of certain favorable situations.
But its when theres a lot of limpers, and you min raise, that i dont get. Everyone will call anyway.
As for postflop it has its uses too.
22nd January 2007, 5:29 PM
F Paulsson [5,651]
Originally Posted by
But its when theres a lot of limpers, and you min raise, that i dont get. Everyone will call anyway.
In a tournament, this is bad. In a cash game, it doesn't have to be.
22nd January 2007, 5:36 PM
alan1983 [641]
yeah havent played much cash games if any. Would say having suited connectors be one of those cases? Thats one case where id imagine min raising in cash game. Or low pocket pair...
22nd January 2007, 5:57 PM
F Paulsson [5,651]
Often suited connectors and pocket pairs, yes. The point of the raise isn't to drive anyone out, it's to make it easier - twice as easy for only the cost of the big blind - for you to actually stack someone off in the case where you hit a monster (straight, flush or set). Of course, this isn't something that you should only do sometimes with these hands, because any "always" in NL is going to get you in trouble pretty soon.
The short of it is just that you're raising the stakes for this particular hand, by one notch. Or you're forcing everyone in the hand to play with relative stacks half as big. Choose your perspective.
22nd January 2007, 9:03 PM
blankoblanco [6,135]
NL Hold 'em
Erick Lindgren says he likes to use preflop minraises once in a while. It's a cheap way to gain control of the hand, and, if used infrequently, it can really throw your opponent off as to what you have.
22nd January 2007, 10:48 PM
Bombjack [2,390]
Online Poker at:
I've actually started to see tons of min-re-raises pre-flop, which are confusing to play against. Sometimes it's with AA where they're raising for value but not wanting to price you out. Other times they have drawing hands like QJs and maybe want to draw cheaply, gain some fold equity if they bet, build the pot for if they hit, and allowing you to alert them to a big pair if you 4-bet it.
2nd February 2007, 4:40 AM
doodydota [37]
Shoot me I'm a newbie.
Originally Posted by
F Paulsson
In a tournament, this is bad. In a cash game, it doesn't have to be.
I've started playing poker with little respect for the minraise, because as explained in the first post, it does not achieve any of the stated goals of a standard raise.
However, under certain circumstances there might be some advantages to minraising.
I've experimented with it at 6 max cash games against multitabling TAGs. I'd minraise now anytime I would have normally just limped.
Having multitabling TAGs at my table I often steal their blinds at little cost, since the multitabling TAGs just autofold crappy starting hands. This will make up easily for those times I'd have to fold the minraise to a re-raise.
It does mess up their HUD stats, since I will have maniacal pre-flop raise pecentage. This might help setting up a lose-maniacal image.
It will losen the play up. People will get annoyed by it and start looking for an opportunity to 'punish' me.
What do you think? Is this fishy?
2nd February 2007, 3:30 PM
Xife [449]
Online Poker at:
re: Poker & Stop minraising
In deepstack cash games I have minraised preflop with low pocket pairs following a bunch of limpers.. I do this playing the pocket pairs only for set value, and if they hit chances are someone will take a stab at the pot seeing as it's twice as big. I've seen a lot of donkish players call an all in with top pair just becasue the pot was a decent size from the min raise...
Forgive me if this has been stated already as I've only skimmed over the posts
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Now this one's been in my draft folder for a long time because Lana Del Rey's style is hard to define. She's got a whole image on stage but when she's off-stage, she's quite laid-back. I did the best I could to find certain aspects I think are worthy of mentioning.
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The Sum of America's Libya Policy
President Obama's Elegant Speech Indicated Stalemate OK for Now
On 3/28 we posted in reaction to Obama's speech: "Masterful, nuanced, intelligent articulation of Libya policy by president will enhance stature, mute critics. He is okay w/temp stalemate."
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Six Months ago today the Haiti earthquake happened.
Continuing to pray with a heavy heart for the country, the people, the workers, the families. . . .
Ala nou kontan
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How glad we are
that we don't hold you,
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I was with my friend Clint (aka @difted aka videographer extraordinaire ) last week in El Salvador.
We first met on a trip to Haiti in 2009 with Compassion.
Clint posted a video this morning ( from that trip in 2009)
it so captures the beauty of Haiti and her people. . .Thank You Clint!
Continue to pray & give to Haiti