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Dr. M.A. (Marc) Schleiss
Dr. Marc Schleiss is an Assistant Professor in the Geoscience & Remote Department at TU-Delft. He graduated in Applied Mathematics in 2008 at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL) and obtained his PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering at EPFL in 2012. Before coming to Delft, Marc spent 3 years in the Hydrometeorology Group at Princeton University in the United States.
Marc's research activities mainly focus on 3 key themes:
- precipitation microphysics: raindrop size distributions and their retrievals from ground-based and spaceborne weather radars
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Many of us are well accustomed to the old age home concept, but the assistance living cannot be recognized just an old-age retreat, rather it can be adjudged as a peaceful living, with all needs available within the reach and a higher level of comfort that makes the living a memorable experience. Like other assisted living facilities, the Assisted Living Facility in Albuquerque offers a bouquet of amenities and services, which are helping their residents in having the best possible ambiance and support. Some of these services are as follows:
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6 Lessons for Law Firms from Game of Thrones
What can law firms learn from the bloody fantasy epic, Game of Thrones? It turns out that the answer is: plenty! While the real world may be a bit short on dragons and warring kings, the characters in Game of Thrones are acting in ways that professional services firms can get a lot out of. Read these tips and be glad that the White Walkers will stay far away from your office.
#1: Know Who Really Holds the Power
One of the biggest mistakes you can make in Westeros is to think that power rests solely with the people who have crowns on their heads. In truth, the economic power often lies somewhere else, and several kings are really led by their advisers rather than coming up with most of their ideas on their own.
In Stannis Baratheon's kingdom, for example, approaching Stannis himself will get you nowhere—you need to be smart enough to approach the priestess Melisandre instead. In much the same way, law firms that mostly do B2B work should know who the right person is to talk to at the companies you're trying to do business with. Knowing the power behind the throne is a much more effective route to a new client than just trying to start with the points of contact that everyone else knows about.
#2: Winter is Coming
The Stark family's words are "winter is coming." These words are a reminder that hard times are always ahead, and you should always plan for more difficult days. Many law firms started doing bankruptcy business when times started getting tough in 2007 and 2008. Some of those firms found that business was so good that they transitioned to doing mostly bankruptcy work. Now, bankruptcy filings are dropping and continuing a slow slide downward, and those same firms are scrambling for business when they had a boom just recently.
Keep in mind that the economy changes, technology changes, and the state of legal services will continue to change in the years and decades to come. While it's important to specialize and to try to do business where the business is, you shouldn't ever act like the good times will last forever. Don't overextend yourself or make the assumption that your current success is guaranteed to last into the future.
#3: Own Your Weaknesses and They Become Strengths
In the first season of Game of Thrones, the dwarf Tyrion Lannister says to the illegitimate Jon Snow: "Never forget what you are. Others will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you." Being honest about who you are and what your weaknesses are will help you to market yourself in a way that will be authentic and effective.
For example, if you're a practitioner who prefers not to go to trial and who would rather negotiate out an agreement, that would be considered a weakness if you market yourself as a litigation firm. Instead, though, you can choose to market yourself as a negotiation specialist who mediates agreements between parties for people who don't want to go through the expensive and difficult process of going to court.
#4: Make Your Own Destiny
Some of the characters in Game of Thrones make their own destiny, striking out on their own and using their unique talents and strengths in a way that benefits them. Others allow fate to just take them wherever it may, and these characters very often end up in difficult circumstances or dead.
For example, the two sisters Arya and Sansa have very different outlooks on life. While Sansa tends to do what is expected of her, even at great personal cost, Arya strikes out on her own and tries to survive on her wits alone. While Sansa still lives in great material comfort at the palace, she is also at the mercy of everyone there. Arya, on the other hand, is making her own fortune and has even managed to be a leader herself several times.
In professional services, your marketing shouldn't just follow the crowd and do what you "should" do based on what your competitors have already done. Try something new and different, something people aren't doing in droves already. Make your own destiny, and live by your strengths rather than by what is expected of you.
#5: Keep Your Promises—Reputation Matters
This season in Game of Thrones, viewers were shocked when Robb Stark's decision not to wed one of Walder Frey's daughters led to the "Red Wedding," where Robb, his mother, and his wife were brutally murdered. The gruesome Red Wedding was a reminder in the most dramatic way of how badly breaking a promise can backfire.
While it's unlikely that your rivals will engage in cold-blooded murder, consider another example of reputation in Westeros. "A Lannister always pays his debts" is a saying known throughout the Seven Kingdoms, and because of this saying, Lannisters are able to negotiate their way out of problems by promising later payment. When you have a good reputation, you can bank on it—and that kind of reputation is critically important for attorneys who want to market their services successfully.
#6: Be Careful Who You Trust
"Not trusting me was the smartest thing you did since setting foot in King's Landing," says Lord Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish to Ned Stark in the show's first season. One of the biggest things that veteran attorneys say that new attorneys need to know is that it's okay to trust your gut feelings about clients that may not be trustworthy. Often, attorneys say, these are the clients who can eventually lead to problems when they fail to make needed disclosures or do something that causes more trouble than the case was worth.


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Major League Baseball betting
BASEBALL is one of the most popular sports to bet on in the world, with competitions all over the planet pitting elite talent against each other in a sport known as America's favourite pastime.
Invented by civil war hero Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York, the first baseball origins reportedly date back to 1839.
The one thing that makes baseball so popular and has allowed the American public to resound with it so closely is the fact that it can be played by people of all shapes and sizes. The average Joe can pick up a bat, or ping a ball down and do it at the highest level.
You only have to look at Major League Baseball legend Babe Ruth, a portly character in his prime, to see that anyone can give this game a crack, and do it very well.
From humble beginnings, the sport grew into the first professional league in 1871, but it took around 30 years for the sport to really catch on, with teams in just about every major city in the country's east fighting for pennants available in a division of two leagues, the National and American leagues, which both still stand today.
While it was popular, it never really took off until the great Ruth strode up to the plate.
Ruth captured the imagination of the American public, slugging more home runs than any other man in history at the time and leading the New York Yankees to several World Series titles.
By 1950, there was a push to expand the game west and several other teams were born through baseball expansion.
Today, millions of people all over the world tune in to watch and bet on the sport, with thousands of betting markets available.
The World Series is watched by an average of 36 million viewers in America alone, a remarkable figure – more than 10 per cent of the population tuning in at any one time.
The baseball craze has not quite become a world game, but the Japanese are absolutely crazy for it and it would possess the biggest professional competition outside the USA, with several Japanese players making the cross to the MLB.
The sport is also big in South America, with Cuba and also the Caribbean nations enjoying a huge love affair with the sport.
Best bookmakers to bet on baseball and why (American Bookies)
Here at BettingPlanet.com we don't mess around.
We know our readers love a good wager, but they want to make sure they are getting the best deals and value for money on the their bets.
They want reliable online bookmakers who make good on their services and provide the best promotions and deals available on the web.
Look no further.
We've done the work for you, whittling the best offers on the internet down to a trio of bookies who will give you plenty of bang for your buck when you're having your baseball bet.
Tips for placing a winning bet?
Knowing the rules is a good start.
Baseball is a complex sport to begin with and betting on it without knowing the rules can be disastrous.
Having your head around all the teams and players is also a must if you want your baseball betting experience to be productive.
Doing your research is vital. Almost more than any other sport. You need to know who is pitching in the game your betting on.
Baseball teams can use up to four or five starting pitchers throughout their season, in order to preserve their best players and will also use a bull pen of several mid and closer pitchers to relieve their starters.
When betting with the best USA betting sites you need to know who will be on the mound before you bet. We can't stress that enough.
Then you can look into their records. How have they gone recently? What about against the team they are playing?
You want to do your research into the team, what its record is like against the opponent and how it has been tuning up recently.
History matters in baseball and so do the stats.
Make sure you know who will be at the plate as well. You don't want to get caught out by an injury to a star player after you've placed your bet on your favourite team to win a game.
If you are having a crack at the World Series or other futures markets, you will also want to make sure you have kept an eye on all the off season moves. Where have the players gone and which teams project to have improved their teams enough to compete for the coveted World Series title?
Popular baseball betting markets
Head to head or money line: This is the most simple bet in baseball. All you have to do is predict who will win the game, place your bet and then ride your team home. Just remember that games can last several hours, so if you're looking for correct returns, you might want to focus on other markets.
Note: Ladbrokes.com.au and other bookmakers have begun to adopt a new policy on head-to-head betting. Previously, a bet would be informed by the starting pitcher and cancelled if that pitcher failed to play. Now the head-to-head bet is not contingent on the starting pitcher and the bet will continue, regardless of a late starting pitcher change.
Total home runs: With this bet type, you need to predict how many home runs will be hit in the match between the two teams. The bookie earmarks a figure and then you have to decide whether it will be over or under that number. For example, if the bookie's figure is 6.5 home runs, the total match score has to be seven or more for you to collect the overs, or six or less for the unders.
Handicap or run line: The handicapper strikes. The bookie will designate a handicap to the favourite in the game and a head start for the outsider. You then have to decide how the match turns out. The line can tend to be around 1.5 either way, given that baseball is traditionally a low scoring sport. So the favourite will be given a -1.5, with the outsider a +1.5. That means if the outsider loses by one run, you will still win. Conversely, the favourite not only needs to win, but to win by two or more runs for your bet to get home.
Parlays or multi bets: Sometimes the head to head odds just don't cut it. If you're a real pro – or simply think you can clean up with a hail mary, the parlay bet is for you. This type of betting increases the odds, but reduces your chances of winning, by involving two or more results getting home for your bet to salute. Multis tend the be capped at 12 legs, but, if you can get one of those home, you'll probably be able to quit work, as the odds for each result multiply into each other to form a huge dividend.
Futures: Who will win the World Series? MVP? Cy Young? This is where punters can place their stakes and let it sit and wait. You will have to sit on these bets for a long time – unless you place them just before the release of the winner, but it is worth it if you know your stars. More details on these awards below.
Baseball futures, individual medal explanations
2016 World Series market
Once the playoffs have produced victors in the American and National leagues, those two teams go into a seven game World Series that decides the best team in Baseball.
You can bet on the result all year round, and sometimes even lay a bet on the result for the season after, even before the current season is finished.
Chicago Cubs +300
Washington Nationals +550
Texas Rangers +650
Toronto Blue Jays +750
Cleveland Indians +900
Los Angeles Dodgers +1000
Boston Red Sox +1000
San Francisco Giants +1200
Baltimore Orioles +2500
St. Louis Cardinals +2500
Kansas City Royals +2500
Detroit Tigers +2800
Seattle Mariners +4000
Houston Astros +4000
Miami Marlins +6600
Pittsburgh Pirates +6600
New York Mets +6600
New York Yankees +10000
Odds provided by Bovada.lv
Most Valuable Player, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, Golden Glove awards
Baseball's MVP is the most coveted individual award in the sport. It is awarded to the best player in each league. So there are two MVPs each year and they are recognised as standing at the top of the heap when it comes to baseball's finest.
Similar to the MVP, the Cy Young Award is given to the best pitchers in each league. Instigated in 1956, the award honours superstar pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955, and is voted on by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
A player from each league is also awarded the Rookie of the Year and this recognises the best first year player in the particular season. Some of the best players in baseball's history have won this award.
The best manager in each league is awarded the Manager of the Year. It usually goes to the teams with the best record, but not always.
Fielders aren't forgotten in the Major Leagues, with 18 golden gloves – nine in each of the two leagues – awarded to the best fielders at each position. The managers and coaches of each league vote for this award, but they are not allowed to select their own player.
The first team to four wins is crowned champion and awarded the Commissioner's Trophy.
It pits the American League (AL) champion up against the National League (NL) champion.
This used to be decided by season record, with the team in each league with best win – loss ratio going straight to the World Series, but that all changed in 1969 when the two leagues each began running championship series'.
The San Francisco Giants are the current World Series champions, after defeating the Kansas City Royals four games to three in 2014, but the undeniable legendary team is the New York Yankees.
The fabled boys from New York have played in an amazing 40 out of the 109 World Series staged, winning 27 of those.
The St Louis Cardinals are the only other team to hold double figure World Series' crowns, having played in 19 and won 11.
Philadelphia/Kansas City/Oakland Athletics (there's always plenty of franchise movement in the US) are the next best, with 14 appearances and nine wins, but, when you have that kind of relocation, it takes away some of the lustre.
The Boston Red Sox won the first ever World Series in 1903 and have played in 12 and won eight of those, sharing that number with the New York/San Francisco Giants (who made it 20 times).
It's a fantastic tournament to watch and it is even more fun to spice it up with a little wager.
There are hundreds of betting options on both the series and individual games and it is one of the biggest money spinners for bookmakers each year.
You'll find every good online bookmaker we recommend has a market for the World Series, just about all year round.
Here we take a look at some of the popular betting markets on the World Series and provide a little guide to help you pick the market that is right for you.
Bet on who will win the World Series
Bread and butter stuff here. All you have to do is pick the team you think will be crowned the winner of the World Series.
Think that's easy? There are 30 teams in the MLB, 15 in the National league and 15 in the American League. That means there are 30 teams that could potentially win the crown at the start of the season.
Before the season starts is when you'll usually find the best odds, although, when one of the traditionally strong teams makes some major moves in the off season, they will certainly be shorter.
Odds fluctuate throughout the season as teams perform – or don't – and win loss records begin to shape.
You can bet on this market almost all year round. Some betting companies put up markets for next season's World Series almost the moment the final game is played and the current title is won.
Pro punters will key in on these bets and add to them as the season takes shape. But it's also fun to have a flutter on your favourite team and ride their ups and downs throughout the season.
Obviously, the time when it is easiest to pick the winner is right before the first game of the World Series. There's only two teams in it, so you have a 50 – 50 chance of picking the winner.
Good luck.
Sample of what a World Series winner market might look like – choose one, click and lay your bet.
Washington Nationals $7.50
Los Angeles Dodgers $8.50
Detroit Tigers $9
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim $13
St. Louis Cardinals $13
Boston Red Sox $15
San Francisco Giants $21
Seattle Mariners $21
Kansas City Royals $23
Cleveland Indians $26
Atlanta Braves $26
Chicago Cubs $26
Chicago White Sox $26
Oakland Athletics $26
New York Yankees $26
Pittsburgh Pirates $26
Baltimore Orioles $26
Toronto Blue Jays $26
Texas Rangers $34
San Diego Padres $34
New York Mets $34
Cincinnati Reds $41
Milwaukee Brewers $41
Tampa Bay Rays $51
Miami Marlins $51
Arizona Diamondbacks $101
Minnesota Twins $101
Colorado Rockies $101
Philadelphia Phillies $101
Houston Astros $101
How do you wager on the two teams that will make the World Series?
This is where it gets tougher.
There are plenty of combinations here, but basically you have to decide which two teams will play off for the World Series.
The quinella – So which team from the American League and which team from the National League will make it.
That means you have to be across both leagues, know how the teams are performing, keep track of records and know which teams have players who are big game performers.
Or you can make it a pie in the sky pick and go with your gut. That can be effective with these types of futures bets where just about anything can happen.
So you might think the superb Detroit Tigers are a sure thing to make it through the American League. But maybe the San Francisco Giants can go back to back and upset some of the more favoured teams in the National League.
Make your two selections, find them with your online sportsbook and place your bets.
If those two teams end up in the Fall Classic, you win.
Picking the exact result in the World Series
You want tougher?
You got it. Here you have to not only pick the winner of the World Series, but also what the score across the series will be.
The series can go to seven games, but teams only have to win four. So it can be 4-0, 4-1, 4-2 or 4-3.
These markets go up once the two teams set to play off against each other in the World Series are decided.
So, taking the example of Detroit and San Francisco, the Tigers are heavy favourites.
So you snap them up to win, and do it easy 4-1. You'll get in the vicinity of $3-$5 for something like that. The odds will change, depending on how close the two teams are considered to be.
Placing a bet on who will win the World Series Most Valuable Player
Who got game?
Find the man who is going to win the World Series for his team! Well, not necessarily win, but be the key figure in the team's victory (or perform the best – one man has actually won it without his team winning the World Series – Bobby Richardson of the 1960 New York Yankees).
Here you need to pick the best of the best. The big game performer. The man who is going to rise above the opposition and lead his team to the promised land.
This tends to be a pitcher's award.
Twelve of the first 14 World Series MVPs were won by pitchers and pitchers have actually won the series MVP 27 times. Since 1995, pitchers have won the award nine times – that's good going.
Last season, San Francisco Giants gun Madison Bumgarner led his men to victory and was named the MVP.
The award was first presented in 1955 and is decided during the final game of the series by a panel of experts, including officials and reporters who have watched the series unfold.
List of World Series MVPs
2014 – Madison Bumgarner (San Francisco Giants)
2013 – David Ortiz (Boston Red Sox)
2012 – Pablo Sandoval (San Francisco Giants)
2011 – David Freese (St. Louis Cardinals)
2010 – Edgar Renteria (San Francisco Giants)
2009 – Hideki Matsui (New York Yankees)
2008 – Cole Hamels (Philadelphia Phillies)
2007 – Mike Lowell (Boston Red Sox)
2006 – David Eckstein (St. Louis Cardinals)
2005 – Jermaine Dye (Chicago White Sox)
2004 – Manny Ramirez (Boston Red Sox)
2003 – Josh Beckett (Florida Marlins)
2002 – Troy Glaus (Anaheim Angels)
2001 – Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling (Arizona Diamondbacks)
2000 – Derek Jeter (New York Yankees)
1999 – Mariano Rivera (New York Yankees)
1998 – Scott Brosius (New York Yankees)
1997 – Livan Hernandez (Florida Marlins)
1996 – John Wetteland (New York Yankees)
1995 – Tom Glavine (Atlanta Braves)
1994 – World Series not held due to players strike
1993 – Paul Molitor (Toronto Blue Jays)
1992 – Pat Borders (Toronto Blue Jays)
1991 – Jack Morris (Minnesota Twins)
1990 – Jose Rijo (Cincinnati Reds)
1989 – Dave Stewart (Oakland Athletics)
1988 – Orel Hershiser (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1987 – Frank Viola (Minnesota Twins)
1986 – Ray Knight (New York Mets)
1985 – Bret Saberhagen (Kansas City Royals)
1984 – Alan Trammell (Detroit Tigers)
1983 – Rick Dempsey (Baltimore Orioles)
1982 – Darrell Porter (St. Louis Cardinals)
1981 – Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, Steve Yeager (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1980 – Mike Schmidt (Philadelphia Phillies)
1979 – Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1978 – Bucky Dent (New York Yankees)
1977 – Reggie Jackson (New York Yankees)
1976 – Johnny Bench (Cincinnati Reds)
1975 – Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds)
1974 – Rollie Fingers (Oakland Athletics)
1973 – Reggie Jackson (Oakland Athletics)
1972 – Gene Tenace (Oakland Athletics)
1971 – Roberto Clemente (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1970 – Brooks Robinson (Baltimore Orioles)
1969 – Donn Clendenon (New York Mets)
1968 – Mickey Lolich (Detroit Tigers)
1967 – Bob Gibson (St. Louis Cardinals)
1966 – Frank Robinson (Baltimore Orioles)
1965 – Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1964 – Bob Gibson (St. Louis Cardinals)
1963 – Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1962 – Ralph Terry (New York Yankees)
1961 – Whitey Ford (New York Yankees)
1960 – Bobby Richardson (New York Yankees)
1959 – Larry Sherry (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1958 – Bob Turley (New York Yankees)
1957 – Lew Burdette (Milwaukee Braves)
1956 – Don Larsen (New York Yankees)
1955 – Johnny Podres (Brooklyn Dodgers)
Prop and player prop bets on the World Series
Baseball prop bets are markets involving facets of the game that aren't integral to the final result.
These are both team and player. It might be how many home runs a team hits for the series.
Or it will focus on the number of hits or rbis a hitter might record, or the number of strike outs a pitcher might secure.
Sometimes the players are even pitted against each other, as in who will hit more home runs, or who will have more strikeouts. The possibilities are endless.
Props are usually set and forget markets by the bookies, so you can really clean up. The only way the odds change here is if theres a massive bet or a mountain of money, so you can find really strong odds at times.
One of the reasons you should have multiple accounts with different online bookmakers is because of the player prop bets on offer. Each will often have its own specialised market and they will obviously have different odds, so you want to be able to take advantage of this.
Betting on Major League Baseball matches in a nutshell
This will obviously be covered off in more detail in our guide to betting on Major League Baseball, but the same markets apply to each World Series game as the do to each regular season game.
Here's a look at those in a nut shell
Game or match or head to head or money line betting:
You'll find this market on every game of the World Series and it's simply pick the winner. Easy, right? Remember to take note of who is pitching, how they've gone on the season and how they've fared against the particular opponent. Whoever has the better pitcher will be favourite. You'll also find markets for the first five innings, just in case you have no faith in the bullpen.
Run line or handicap bets:
This market gives the favourite a run handicap and the outsider and allowance. In the US, this is usually a + or – 1.5. If it's +1.5, then the team is the outsider and they can still lose by a run and your bet wins. But if it's -1.5 then the favoured team has to win by two runs or more for you to salute at the pay window. There are often alternative run lines that offer better odds.
Over – under bets:
Bets on the over/under total runs can be made on every World Series game. The bookie sets a line on how many runs they think the two teams will score combined and you have to decide whether it will either go under or exceed their line. Just remember, in the World Series, these are the usually the cream of the pitching crop, so there tends to be lower scores as a general rule.
Prop bets:
Just as there are prop bets for the entire series, each game will have them as well. Will a player score a home run? Will player A pitch more innings than player B, and so on. How many strikeouts will the pitcher record.
World Series parlay or multi betting:
Now usually the regular season has a slate of games that you can throw together in a multi bet or parlay. But it's harder with the World Series because it is obviously only one game. So think outside the square. throw another sport or two in there. Have the World Series game, into and NBA game, into a soccer game. You can obviously have several legs, they multiply by each other and enhance your odds. But be wary. lose one leg and your bet is fried.
Live betting on MLB World Series games
Live betting is becoming very popular on MLB games and also great for the World Series. You can watch the odds and then bet when the time is right. Maybe the heavy favourite has conceded three runs in the opening innings and been wound out. Jump on if you think they can reel it in!
The hunt for bonuses and a few tips when betting on the World Series
OK, before we go into anything, if you're going to have a bet, make sure it's within your means. Don't be spending the electricity bill on the MLB World Series winner.
It's not healthy. Use your disposable income once your obligations have been met!
The second thing is to make sure you open multiple online betting accounts with all the reputable sports books.
This way you not only take advantage of sign up bonuses that can include free bets, but you also ensure you can compare odds and get the best available.
Be wary of heavy favourites. This is the World Series! Anything can happen.
Do your research!
Know your teams.
Know your players.
Know your pitchers.
Know your players!
Do your research, check the stats.
Start with the teams recent record against each other and then hit the pitcher. How does he go against the opposition? In the ballpark? Night or day. etc.
Make sure you're around the injury lists. Is one of the stars out? Do some of the players have niggles? You must know this stuff before betting.
But the most important thing is to simply watch a lot of games.
Watch as much as you can. it's the only way you can truly get a feel for what is going to go down.
Most World Series titles
New York Yankees AL 27 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943,
1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962,
1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2009
St. Louis Cardinals NL 11 1926, 1931, 1934 '42, 1944, 1946, 1964, 1967, 1982, 2006, 2011
Boston Red Sox AL 8 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 2004, 2007, 2013
New York Giants NL 5 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954
Philadelphia Athletics AL 5 1910, 1911, 1913, 1929, 1930
Pittsburgh Pirates NL 5 1909, 1925, 1960, 1971, 1979
Los Angeles Dodgers NL 5 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, 1988
Cincinnati Reds NL 5 1919, 1940, 1975, 1976, 1990
Detroit Tigers AL 4 1935, 1945, 1968, 1984
Oakland Athletics AL 4 1972, 1973, 1974, 1989
Baltimore Orioles AL 3 1966, 1970, 1983
Chicago White Sox AL 3 1906, 1917, 2005
San Francisco Giants NL 3 2010, 2012, 2014
Chicago Cubs NL 2 1907, 1908
Cleveland Indians AL 2 1920 '48
Florida Marlins NL 2 1997, 2003
Minnesota Twins AL 2 1987, 1991
New York Mets NL 2 1969, 1986
Philadelphia Phillies NL 2 1980, 2008
Toronto Blue Jays AL 2 1992, 1993
Anaheim Angels AL 1 2002
Arizona Diamondbacks NL 1 2001
Atlanta Braves NL 1 1995
Boston Braves NL 1 1914
Brooklyn Dodgers NL 1 1955
Milwaukee Braves NL 1 1957
Kansas City Royals AL 1 1985
Washington Senators AL 1 1924
List of World Series winners
2015 – Kansas City Royals 4, New York Mets 1
2014 – San Francisco Giants 4, Kansas City Royals 3
2013 – Boston Red Sox 4, St. Louis Cardinals 2
2012 – San Francisco Giants 4, Detroit Tigers 0
2011 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, Texas Rangers 3
2010 – San Francisco Giants 4, Texas Rangers 1
2009 – New York Yankees 4, Philadelphia Phillies 2
2008 – Philadelphia Phillies 4, Tampa Bay Rays 1
2007 – Boston Red Sox 4, Colorado Rockies 0
2006 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, Detroit Tigers 1
2005 – Chicago White Sox 4, Houston Astros 0
2004 – Boston Red Sox 4, St. Louis Cardinals 0
2003 – Florida Marlins 4, New York Yankees 2
2002 – Anaheim Angels 4, San Francisco Giants 3
2001 – Arizona Diamondbacks 4, New York Yankees 3
2000 – New York Yankees 4, New York Mets 1
1999 – New York Yankees 4, Atlanta Braves 0
1998 – New York Yankees 4, San Diego Padres 0
1997 – Florida Marlins 4, Cleveland Indians 3
1996 – New York Yankees 4, Atlanta Braves 2
1995 – Atlanta Braves 4, Cleveland Indians 2
1994 – Not held
1993 – Toronto Blue Jays 4, Philadelphia Phillies 21992 – Toronto Blue Jays 4, Atlanta Braves 2
1991 – Minnesota Twins 4, Atlanta Braves 3
1990 – Cincinnati Reds 4, Oakland Athletics 0
1989 – Oakland Athletics 4, San Francisco Giants 0
1988 – Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Oakland Athletics 1
1987 – Minnesota Twins 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
1986 – New York Mets 4, Boston Red Sox 3
1985 – Kansas City Royals 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
1984 – Detroit Tigers 4, San Diego Padres 1
1983 – Baltimore Orioles 4, Philadelphia Phillies 1
1982 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, Milwaukee Brewers 3
1981 – Los Angeles Dodgers 4, New York Yankees 2
1980 – Philadelphia Phillies 4, Kansas City Royals 2
1979 – Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Baltimore Orioles 3
1978 – New York Yankees 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
1977 – New York Yankees 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
1976 – Cincinnati Reds 4, New York Yankees 0
1975 – Cincinnati Reds 4, Boston Red Sox 3
1974 – Oakland Athletics 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
1973 – Oakland Athletics 4, New York Mets 3
1972 – Oakland Athletics 4, Cincinnati Reds 3
1971 – Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Baltimore Orioles 3
1970 – Baltimore Orioles 4, Cincinnati Reds 1
1969 – New York Mets 4, Baltimore Orioles 1
1968 – Detroit Tigers 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
1967 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, Boston Red Sox 3
1966 – Baltimore Orioles 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
1965 – Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Minnesota Twins 3
1964 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Yankees 3
1963 – Los Angeles Dodgers 4, New York Yankees 0
1962 – New York Yankees 4, San Francisco Giants 3
1961 – New York Yankees 4, Cincinnati Reds 1
1960 – Pittsburgh Pirates 4, New York Yankees 3
1959 – Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago White Sox 2
1958 – New York Yankees 4, Milwaukee Braves 3
1957 – Milwaukee Braves 4, New York Yankees 3
1956 – New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 3
1955 – Brooklyn Dodgers 4, New York Yankees 3
1954 – New York Giants 4, Cleveland Indians 0
1953 – New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 2
1952 – New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 3
1951 – New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2
1950 – New York Yankees 4, Philadelphia Phillies 0
1949 – New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 1
1948 – Cleveland Indians 4, Boston Braves 2
1947 – New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 3
1946 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, Boston Red Sox 3
1945 – Detroit Tigers 4, Chicago Cubs 3
1944 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, St. Louis Browns 2
1943 – New York Yankees 4, St. Louis Cardinals 1
1942 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Yankees 1
1941 – New York Yankees 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 1
1940 – Cincinnati Reds 4, Detroit Tigers 3
1939 – New York Yankees 4, Cincinnati Reds 0
1938 – New York Yankees 4, Chicago Cubs 0
1937 – New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 1
1936 – New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2
1935 – Detroit Tigers 4, Chicago Cubs 2
1934 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, Detroit Tigers 3
1933 – New York Giants 4, Washington Senators 1
1932 – New York Yankees 4, Chicago Cubs 0
1931 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, Philadelphia Athletics 3
1930 – Philadelphia Athletics 4, St. Louis Cardinals 2
1929 – Philadelphia Athletics 4, Chicago Cubs 1
1928 – New York Yankees 4, St. Louis Cardinals 0
1927 – New York Yankees 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
1926 – St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Yankees 3
1925 – Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Washington Senators 3
1924 – Washington Senators 4, New York Giants 3
1923 – New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2
1922 – New York Giants 4, New York Yankees 0 (one tie)
1921 – New York Giants 5, New York Yankees 3
1920 – Cleveland Indians 5, Brooklyn Robins 2
1919 – Cincinnati Reds 5, Chicago White Sox 3
1918 – Boston Red Sox 4, Chicago Cubs 2
1917 – Chicago White Sox 4, New York Giants 2
1916 – Boston Red Sox 4, Brooklyn Robins 1
1915 – Boston Red Sox 4, Philadelphia Phillies 1
1914 – Boston Braves 4, Philadelphia Athletics 0


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In early 2019, the FDA approved Spravato™, an esketamine nasal spray designed to relieve treatment-resistant depression. TMS & Brain Health, in Santa Monica, California, offers Spravato treatment to help you alleviate your depression symptoms and restore your quality of life. If you're struggling with treatment-resistant depression, call TMS & Brain Health or request an appointment online today to find out how Spravato can help you.
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December 11, 2017
The Baseball Hall of Fame is an interesting place; on one hand, Cooperstown is supposed to honor the greatest to ever grace a baseball diamond, yet if you do something that is seen as "immoral" to the game, then it is impossible for writers to give said player a vote. It all comes to down to one's...
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There are several issues that need to be resolved before a ferry terminal is established to take travelers from Key West to Cuba. Attorney David Whitestone, who has lobbied on this issue on behalf of the city of Key West during the last several months, said despite a few ferry companies already having permission from the federal government, Key West does not currently have a ferry terminal where U.S. Customs and Border Protection can clear international ferry travelers.
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New to the overlanding market last year was Nissan's Titan XD PRO-4X Project Basecamp. The stock light-duty truck was endowed with an impressive collection of aftermarket add-ons that included a custom exterior body wrap from Rocket West Off-Road, a host of functional exterior accessories, and a full complement of essential camping necessities.
Project Basecamp's success at attracting heightened attention for Nissan led to the development of the new Armada Mountain Patrol. It rejuvenates the Patrol brand, known around the globe as a series of 4WD vehicles that have been available in a multiple of variant offerings since 1951, although the name has not been used in North America since 1969. Nissan describes the Armada Mountain Patrol as the "the ultimate overlanding family adventure full-sized SUV."
The eight-passenger model made its debut at Overland Expo West recently in the high country of Arizona. We took it motoring along an assortment of off-road trails that ranged from dirt roads to technical 4WD track. We were impressed with its 4WD capability that was illuminated by its competent low range gearing, good ground clearance, respectable approach, and departure and breakover angles. The Mountain Patrol could have a future as an everyday family-hauler, an errand-runner for goods and gear destined for the ranch or the range, or as a summer get-away-mobile to explore the lands where the pavement ends.
Powered by Nissan's 390-horsepower 5.6-liter V-8 engine that is paired with a 7-speed automatic transmission, it has an 8,500-pound towing capacity. A Magnaflow cat-back exhaust system helps the heavy-duty hauler breathe. Auxiliary fuel storage has been provided by RotoPax. "One thing true off-road enthusiasts understand about the Armada Mountain Patrol is its authentic adventure heritage. Every 2018 Armada is inspired by the global Patrol—a vehicle with over five decades of off-roading credibility," explained Brandon White, Nissan North America's director and chief marketing manager. "For that reason, only minimal modifications were made to the factory Armada drivetrain."
A number of custom comfort, convenience, and storage features boost its prowess, including a Lowrance navigation system, an off-road radio system from Rugged Radios, a Rhino Rack aluminum back-bone pioneer tray, ARB pull-out drawer system, Pelican gear cases, Dometic refrigerator/freezer, and Otterbox Venture coolers.
Add-ons from Baja Designs brought a roof-mounted LED light bar, bumper-mounted fog lights, and wheel well lighting. Recovery tools are a 12,000-pound Warn Platinum Series winch, rack-mounted Maxtrax vehicle recovery boards, Hi-Lift vehicle jack, and Rhino Rack shovels. Icon Vehicle Dynamics contributed a heavy-duty coil-over suspension, with extended A-arms. Stunning 17-inch Icon bronze rebound wheels are wrapped in 35/12.25/17 Nitto Ridge Grappler tires that provide aggressive traction.
Camping gear includes a four-person Mt. Shasta roof-topper tent from Cascadia Vehicle Tents, a custom awning from Rhino Rack, and Alps Mountaineering's pop-up tent, sleeping bags, and chairs. Katzkin leather seat covers provide a comfortable and plush ride, while an ARB refrigerator helps keep food cold and fresh.
To help protect the Armada body, vehicle protection equipment from Calmini includes rock sliders, a spare tire swing-away, and custom-fabricated heavy-duty steel bumpers in the front and rear.
Stylish and roomy, all Armadas have a refined interior, as well as an advanced technology suite of available smart safety and security features such as intelligent forward collision warning, intelligent backup intervention, and intelligent around view monitor. Completely revised for its second-generation in 2017, the 2018 version comes in a range of high-content grade levels: SV (starting at $46,090), SL ($50,850), Platinum ($59,190), and Platinum Reserve ($62,190). They are available in both two- and four-wheel-drive configurations, which adds authentic off-road capability (4WD versions have an upcharge of $2,900).
Inside, Armada combines a premium level of materials with a special emphasis on quietness and quick cooling and heating for passenger comfort. The roomy interior has 40 inches of second-row headroom and 41 inches of second-row legroom, allowing riders ample stowage and accommodations for gear. The Armada Mountain Patrol project vehicle is not for sale but is a demonstration model designed to highlight the capabilities of the stock Nissan Armada.


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Dozens of Sonoma County schools participate in International Walk and Roll to School Day
The usual rush-hour traffic along a busy Santa Rosa thoroughfare came to a brief halt Wednesday morning as a dozen schoolchildren and many of their parents rode their bicycles or walked across a flashing crosswalk at Fourth Street on their way to class in solidarity with thousands of others throughout the region.
About 60 Sonoma County elementary and middle schools joined other cities and counties across the nation, and at least 40 countries, for the annual International Walk and Roll to School Day. The event, which coincided with the countywide push for children to walk or bicycle to school on the first Wednesday of every month, was expected to draw more than 8,000 students, according to the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition.
Schools in Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Windsor and Healdsburg also were among those participating on the brisk Wednesday just after sunrise to encourage more active and environmentally friendly methods of travel to school.
In Santa Rosa, the students who attend Proctor Terrace Elementary School took part from two neighborhood meetup points. Many of the children, who ranged in ages from 7 to 11, rode their bikes from one of the locations on the south side of Fourth Street, while a few ambitious pedestrians did their best to run alongside them and keep up for the four-block excursion.
Parents chose the Fourth Street meetup site to bring more attention to a larger effort in the area to reduce vehicle traffic and build buffered bicycle lanes from Farmers Lane to D Street in downtown Santa Rosa. The city's addition of the flashing crosswalk at Talbot Avenue in summer 2018 has helped, advocates say, but their hope is also to improve safety for youngsters who on a normal school day might cross Highway 12 where motorists occasionally ignore or misinterpret the blinking yellow lights.
"The city is being responsive and doing something, but I wish they would do more," said Minona Heaviland, a member of the city's bicycle and pedestrian advisory board. "I want to see them take a little bolder action by calming traffic and making more space to bike in downtown Santa Rosa."
That area of the road saw more than 23,000 vehicles per day in 2017, with peaks during the morning and evening commutes, according to the city's most recent traffic count data. Farther east as motorists head for Highway 12, the numbers grow to more than 34,000 vehicles each day.
The challenges of getting across traffic- ridden Fourth Street is what resident Danyale Hambly, 48, said keeps her from allowing her 11-year-old son, Yoshi Hambly-Jones, from biking to Proctor Terrace school each day. They took advantage of the Walk and Roll event Wednesday to take the pulse of the possibility going forward, despite safety concerns that she said started when more motorists shifted over to Fourth Street once Sonoma Avenue dropped to three lanes to add dedicated bicycle lanes at the end of 2011.
"It's the freeway to the freeway, or downtown," Hambly-Jones said of Fourth Street. "But we're trying to do it (bike to school) more. If we can get ready in the morning."
Rob Sprinkle, the city's deputy director of traffic engineering, said Fourth Street has been prioritized for a full study estimated to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The in-depth analysis, which the city aims to pay for with grants, will allow Santa Rosa to closely examine what adding enhanced crosswalks, bike lanes and widened sidewalks after reducing the number of vehicle lanes might mean for the rest of the area's streets.


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Continued Is the Subject Expandable? Once I create an infographic, I like to create individual blog posts for each step. This enables those that want to get more information on the topic. It also enables ME to determine if I have enough material to write a book. If I can't do a decent blog series, then I'll never be able to…
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I was working on a project which included the transformation of an excel data into a database that could be used for pivot charts & PowerBI. The spreadsheet was already in a format similar to the pivot table so I had to convert that into a database kind of format so that with data labels I was intending to use the slicer in the spreadsheet. So in order to get the transformation, I initially thought of using the HLOOKUP & VLOOKUP
I prepared another sheet that links with the original sheet but uses the data as referenced by the HLOOKUP & VLOOKUP formulas, but I soon discarded this as it was getting difficult to have a diverse implementation of this process.
Next, I searched the internet for a solution on such database indexing & many times, the INDEX function from Excel Appeared & finally I thought of giving it a try. But before that, I need to prepare the references that shall be used by the INDEX function to return the correct value at the correct position. So Now I had to prepare a sequence that could now act as references & so I decided to create something similar to the clock function used in electronic applications such as logical circuits (MUX, DEMUX, etc.).
So I introduced two arbitrary parameters which I called H-CLOCK & V-CLOCK, both these parameters would provide the referencing sequences. Now the problem was how to get such kind of sequence on excel, if you type in value & then drag it on other cells it figures a pattern & then somehow pastes that value on the cells. This could work but I wanted it to go up to a number & then resume from the starting number. Again, the internet comes to the rescue & I learned about a few new formulas which were ROWS, COLUMNS, INT & MOD. The combination of these formulas helped me in getting the sequence that too in a dynamic format if suppose the no. of rows or columns in the original main input sheet changed then the sequence also changed accordingly. I also used the COUNTA formula to regulate the sequence.
Here's Video on how you can create sequences in excel
The V-CLOCK Values control the areas that are fixed & already in format while the H-CLOCK values control the items that are to be unpivoted in this case the Date, Week Number & Quantity. The sequences in both columns are different as you can see from the image below the values in the V-CLOCK start from 3 & end at 15 reiterating multiple times until the sequence is completed while the values in H-CLOCK remain constant until the next iteration commences in the V-CLOCK.
Now using the INDEX function, we can get values of the different cells in the spreadsheet. For the column containing the quantities, I had to use the MATCH function in the INDEX function to give the references to the rows & columns in order to get the values.
All this was about the code but there's a small error! When you drag this coded rows to apply formulas to the lower cells it gets the output as #VALUE once the sufficient references aren't available. As a solution, I had to use IF function with a check that if the value is not blank then it'll display blank else it'll execute the remaining command. Another big obstacle was that sometimes the values in the column for Quantity contains text or other characters so it was essential that I get rid of those things & so I used another IF statement with the ISNUMBER function with an argument that IF(ISNUMBER(cell Ref)=FALSE,(keep it bank),(execute remaining command)) so in this way any characters other than numeric values were filtered out.
In this way, I could apply the formulas & stuff I knew about excel & spreadsheets. I'm certain that this is the long way to get the task done & there might be much easier methods to get this task done. I later discovered that PowerBI already has an UNPIVOT option.
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That's right, your favorite geek conglomerate website is now doing audio movie reviews! The cast of reviewers is subject to change even movie to movie, we have a whole rogues gallery of cinema outlaws, but one thing you can always count on is that these funny and insightful film reviews will always be, in some way, Highly Suspect.
Emily Blunt plays Rachel, an extremely broken woman and serious alcoholic, some two years out from her marriage falling apart and still can't even vaguely get it together. Every day she rides the train to the city, passing by her old house where she can watch her husband and his new wife and child live together happily. But she also observes a beautiful couple who live nearby and fantasizes about their perfect life…until one day she sees the woman with another man…and then the woman disappears. Who did it? Rachel is afraid SHE might have done it during a black out so she has to get straight and play detective to discover the truth.
The Birth of a Nation
Nate Parker produces, writes, directs and plays the role of Nat Turner, a slave who ended up leading a rebellion that killed many white slave owners. All reports are that this is one of the shoe-in best pictures of the year, with Fox breaking the record for deals at Sundance, paying 17.5 million for distribution rights. So what could possibly go wrong? Chris, JC, Elliott and Herman give you the heads up.
The film follows Zach Galifinakis as a night guard at an armored car company who planned and executed one of the biggest bank heists ever. True story. Except for the Zach Galifinakis part. He just plays the guy. But he's helped by Kate McKinnon, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis and Leslie Jones…with a cast like that it can't be all bad, right? It appears our intrepid group of unusual suspects have some differing opinions on that.
Deepwater Horizon
And it's gonna be alllllllright. Chris Herman leads Frank, Jon, and Kyle in this review of the film that plays out the big-bada-boom that was the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the subsequent biological disaster that followed. Not even Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell can save the day this time. But they might save the movie. Check out the review…
The Magnificent Seven
Discussions happen (I imagine): "All of these westerns that we're putting out are so dark. Why don't we make one you can take the kids to? An old fashioned black hats vs white hats western!" So what do they do? Re-make one of those 'fun' westerns, specifically the 1960 classic The Magnificent Seven. Bring on Antoine Fuqua to direct, reunite the two leads from his best movie, Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington, and add in the extremely bankable Chris Pratt and a selection of good character actors…how can it go wrong? Well, we had a mixed reaction to this one but some of us felt it went very wrong. Listen to Chris, Kyle, JC, Herman, and Jon discuss.
The Hollars
You can never really go home again. Or at least if you do, you might find everyone there has turned into exaggerated cartoon versions of people. I don't think that was John Krasinski's intent when he directed and played the lead role in this dysfunctional family film, but that's what Chris, Herman, and Frank thought.
Here, Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes on the titular role, and a voice affection that doesn't seem entirely called for, is this attempt to make the story of this man's life, and the reasons he did what he did, understandable. Frank and Chris get into it deep. Be prepared: this is indeed a very opinionated review not just of the film but of the Snowden controversy in general. And not just about Jo-Jo-Levy's acting choices.
Blair Witch
Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett (The Guest, You're Next) take over the long paused Blair Witch franchise with this long-hidden sequel. Basically, a new bunch of budding filmmakers enter the woods in a quest to discover what happened to the original group…and of course…well…you know. Chris, Frank, Herman, and Kyle tell you all about it. Plus spoiler discussion at the end…
Tom Hanks may not be a great guy to choose to travel with, to be sure, but if he's flying the plane, he'll damn sure save every last one of ya. That's what Captain "Sully" Sullenberger did in 2009 when both engines cut out three minutes after take off and he was forced to make a water landing….something that is usually best described as 'plane crashes violently into the ocean.' But, of course, saving every last person on board with a miraculous landing wasn't enough so he had to be raked over the coals for not managing to get the plane back to the airport. THIS IS HIS STORY. Chris, Herman, and Kyle (now making his first HSR appearance) review.
The Light Between Oceans
Michael Fassbender just got back from the Great War and honestly? He just doesn't feel like talking to anybody at ALL. Which is why he took a position working as a lighthouse keeper out on this tiny island in the middle of nowhere. Sweet, sweet, exclusion. But here comes Alicia Vikander to f&%k it all up by flinging herself at him and making him fall in love…and then, no babies… WHERE'S THE DAMN BABIES? Oh, wait, there's one in that boat that washed up after the storm. Well, honey, that baby probably belongs to someone..FINDERS KEEPERS, MFers. *this can't possibly come back to bite us in the ass*
Kate Mara plays a corporate risk assessor who is called in to observe a scientific experiment possibly gone awry. That experiment is a teenage girl named Morgan. But she's not just any teenage girl. She's the product of a radical synthetic gene experiment, born and raised in a lab, only lately, she's been going a bit wild. And how will Morgan react if Kate decides to shut the program down? One guess, get it wrong and it's back to film 101 for you. Chris, Herman and JC break it down.
Southside With You
It does seem a little soon to do a romantic meet-cute film about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, but here it is anyway. Are they adorable as they seem? Sort of.
Don't Breathe
A group of young people are breaking into houses trying to steal enough to finance an escape from economy-torn Detroit. But then they hear about the big score, the last one they'll need to do: a house out in the middle of an abandoned neighborhood where an old blind man lives who has stashed $300,000. Should be no problem, right? Not when that old man is Stephen Lang. And the film is directed by Fede Alvarez. Chills abound in this thriller. Don't believe the text? Listen to Chris and Rob assure you of scares.
Kubo and the Two Strings
In this dreamy myth-like tale from Laika studios, Kubo is a young one-eyed Japanese boy whose mother and her strict rules have always protected him from the searching gaze of his father, the moon king, and his two creepy aunts. But now she is gone he has to rely upon an overprotective talking monkey and a giant beetle samurai to protect him until he can find three mystical pieces of armor that might protect him against his grandfather's quest to claim his other eye. Sounds kind of crazy? Yes, but in the best way. Ask Chris, Richard, and Herman all about it.
War Dogs
Jonah Hill is a wild man. He sells guns to the US military. Miles Teller is not a wild man. But he makes poor decisions when he's around his old friend Jonah Hill. So he sells guns with him. Crazy shit happens. Payday. Their eyes set on an unrealistically big prize. Chaos ensues. You know the rise-and-fall type of movie all too well by now and this is another one based on true events. But this one is directed by the guy who did the Hangover movies (and pretty much, exclusively party comedies). Make what you will of that. Chris, Herman, Elliott and JC certainly did.
In 1941, two exiled Czech operatives (Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) parachuted into their homeland with one mission: assassinate Hitler's third in command, Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Nazis in occupied Czechoslovakia and the architect of 'The Final Solution'. The problem was, with a tiny resistance force and fears of reprisals, no one was sure what a good idea it was. Chris, Richard, and Kevin debate how good an idea this movie was…
Sausage Party
What happens when Seth Rogen and company get access to an animation studio with the chance to make their own film? A very hard-R, gross-out, sex and food comedy is what happens. And whether that's going to be YOUR thing is anyone's guess. It sure wasn't ours. Listen to Chris, JC, Herman, and Jon to find out why.
Pete's Dragon
Disney won't leave a brand they own untouched, clearly, as they 're-imagine' their 70's live-action/cartoon film Pete's Dragon into the modern-ish (just before cell phones) era. This story of a boy raised in the wild by a giant furry dragon and his new relationship with a human family probably gets all the feels from some. We definitely felt something. Not sure it was what they were looking for. Check out Chris, Frank, JC, and Rob as they curmudgeon their way through this review.
Hell or High Water
Two brothers (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) in west Texas have to save the family farm and it means robbing banks to do it. But a semi-retired good-ol-boy Jeff Bridges is hot on their trail. While this might not sound like a 'grabber' outright, our gang of reviewers (Chris, Herman, and JC) found this to be one of the best of the year.
Suicide Squad
Not all heroes have halos. Some heroes aren't even really heroes. Thus, DC's Suicide Squad, a band of villains forced under threat of head explody to work for the government and stop a meta-threat. Will the villains/heroes succeed? Will Will Smith own the summer again (or at least rent with an option to buy)? Will Jai Courtney be able to act if they let him use his real accent? Will this be another nail in the coffin for DC's current cinematic universe or will it give it sparkling fresh breath? The only way to know is to listen to Chris, Herman, Elliott, Joe and JC on this review.
Jason Bourne
Matt Damon teams back up with shaky-cam fetishist director Paul Greengrass in a return to the Jason Bourne movies as the titular hero finds out yet again there's something he doesn't know about his past and someone to kill because of it. But is it any good? Listen to Chris, Herman, and Jon spill the secrets.
Bad Moms
Mila Kunis has had it. No, not with Ashton Kutcher (though that's gotta be coming soon, right?), but with her entitled children, her dead-beat (fictional) husband, and the society that expects her to be the perfect mom at all times. So what to do? Team up with Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn and go on a party binge. Where were these moms when I was in the singles scene, dammit? Listen to Chris, Elliott, and Herman tty to sweet talk these righteously dangerous ladies.
Emma Roberts joins a 'Take a dare for money' online game to prove that she's not a stick-in-the-mud and ends up cozying up to Dave Franco and having a great time…until suddenly she isn't anymore. I think we stopped having fun at about the same moment. Listen to Chris and Elliott who are joined by two new cast members, Rob and Frank, give you the lowdown on this movie.
Star Trek Beyond
The intrepid crew of the Enterprise get together once again, this time halfway through their five year mission, to battle ennui, space herpes, and the vampires from Lifeforce (or Idris Elba in alien goop, your call). But seriously, we (Chris and Herman) did, on the whole, like this movie…up until they do…aaaigh…I can't say it. Listen to the review. Where we STILL won't tell you what it IS that they do, as it would be a giant spoiler, but…oh god.
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Guide to this report
What this report covers
This annual report explains how the resources entrusted to the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities have been used during the year. It considers the Department of Finance's Resource Management Guide No. 135: Annual reports for non-corporate Commonwealth entities, issued in May 2018; and Resource Management Guide No. 134: Annual performance statements for Commonwealth entities, issued in July 2017.
How information is presented
Key terms and acronyms are explained as they are introduced and are listed at the back of this report.
Tables throughout the report use notations as follows:
- $m means million dollars
- – means either zero or nil
- n/a means not applicable
How to obtain copies
Reports are available in printed form from libraries around Australia under the Commonwealth Library Deposit and Free Issue Scheme. For a list of these libraries, visit the Department of Finance website www.finance.gov.au/librarydeposit.
This report is also available at infrastructure.gov.au/department/annual_report/index.aspx. It is published in a variety of digital formats to make it more accessible, including to people in regional areas and people with disability. It is available online the day after it is tabled in Parliament.
More information
Before making decisions or acting on information in this report, you are advised to contact the department. This report was up-to-date when it was tabled, but details change over time due to legislative, policy and other developments.


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Do you want to help animals find new homes? Do you want to protect them from hunger and bad people?
Everyone should contribute? Become a volunteer of SPCA Montreal.
What is SPCA Montreal?
The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (now fondly known as Montreal's SPCA) was the first animal welfare organisation in Canada, founded in Montreal in 1869 by a group of prominent citizens. First of all, we don't know under whose influence the society was formed. However, its history acknowledges assistance from societies in Paris, England, and the United States.
Mission's objective
At the Montreal SPCA, the volunteers' contributions are very important for the operations of the shelter. Their support and devotion are crucial in helping the SPCA accomplish its mission. They also provide the additional resources necessary for us to continue to expand our services, which exceed the traditional services offered by an animal shelter.
Finally, the first goal of this program is to serve the main clientele of our shelter: the animals. SPCA developed this program based on their needs and those of shelter.
SPCA volunteer program
All daily necessities that are essential to the shelter's operations – such as general shelter maintenance, animal care, administration, clientele service, inspection and ambulances are carried out by hired staff. However, the Canadian SPCA goes beyond these standard services, and thanks to the volunteers' contributions, can expand its actions to help animals.
Animals need food and a clean cage, but they also have needs that are not attended to by our staff. They need us to help them find a good home, to find their owner if they are lost or a temporary home. Due to SPCA Volunteer Program, that established these needs.
Profile of SPCA Volunteer
The Canadian SPCA is seeking individuals who want to give their time to help the animals, and involve themselves with all their heart. These special people are very concerned to improve the environment for animals in our society and to help the Canadian SPCA save more lives.
As a result, the motivation of their involvement is to help the animal, first and foremost!
Basic requirements for all volunteers:
- 18 years old and over
- To be able to commit a minimum of 3 consecutive hours per week
- Possibility to work on a fixed schedule (at the same time each week)
- Be available for long-term commitment
- To have a valid email address
Especially relevant information you can find out on SPCA Montreal volunteer web page.


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A Tarot reading for ugly ducklings everywhere
Many years ago I wrote a series of imaginary readings for well-known historical figures and fictional characters which I called "KnightHawk's Tarot Readings." This collection of readings, which you can find in my book, Tarot Reading Explained, is like a Tarot advice column, as if Dear Abby had used Tarot readings. Each of the readings was performed as though I was doing it for someone sitting across the table from me. After carefully considering a question that the person in mind might ask, I shuffled the deck and dealt the cards into the layout I had chosen. Then I read the cards as they came up.
The readings were intended to be both educational and entertaining (after all, the most valuable learning experiences are the ones we enjoy), but they became more than that. Fictional though they were, these readings often revealed insights that can be valuable for all of us. Recently I recalled one of the readings I did—the one for the Ugly Duckling—and I considered how appropriate its message is for so many of us. As I noted in my comments for this reading:
Ironically, it is common to have been uncommon in our childhood. This is because while there are only a few ways to conform to the social norms, the eccentric paths of individualism are infinitely varied. Later in life we may find our way, especially when we go out into the world and discover other people with whom we share a common bond, but in our youth we are stuck in the strange environment into which fate has thrust us.
This can be especially true for those of us who eventually found our way to alternative interests such as the Tarot, so I decided to reprint this reading here for you, my readers, along with the explanation and discussion of it that also appears in Tarot Reading Explained. I hope you enjoy it and also find some valuable personal truth here.
Duckling Ridiculed by Peers
Dear KnightHawk,
Why does everyone laugh at me and pick on me? I may not be as adorable as my brothers and sisters, but I can't help what I look like or who I am. What can I do?
Humbly yours,
An Ugly Duckling
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Dear Duckling,
Thank you for giving me this opportunity to read for you. I am sorry to hear that you are having such difficulties. It doesn't seem fair does it? I've done the following reading to help you understand your situation better and see how best to deal with it.
- The foundation or background of your situation:
The Star
- What you need to know or do about your problem:
King of Cups
- What may help you:
Seven of Wands reversed
The Star is a card of hope, and it is a beautiful card with which to start your reading. It shows one large, brightly shining star in the heavens surrounded by seven smaller, lesser stars. I see you as that lovely star. You are different, but this card promises a brighter future when your differences will be seen as something splendid.
The King of Cups advises you to learn to control your emotions. Although you may need to be wary of others around you, take care that you do not succumb to fear or anger. This card also urges tolerance of others, even when they are not tolerant of you, and reminds you not to sink to their level. Try to ride above the turmoil of derision in which you find yourself.
The reversed Seven of Wands suggests that maybe you are being too defensive, and that it may help to try to be less so. Others may call you ugly names, but is it worth fighting about? This may not be an issue you need to take a stand on. Remember the promise of the Star card and let their taunts just roll off your back. But if they become too physically abusive, you may want to yield your ground and retreat for a while. Then later, when you are in a better position, you can come back and confront them if you like.
Again, thanks for asking me to do this reading for you. I hope it helps.
Best of luck to you,
I have always had a special fondness for this charming folk tale. I believe that it is such a popular and endearing story because so many of us have grown up feeling different and alienated, just like this duckling who turned out to be a swan. Ironically, it is common to have been uncommon in our childhood. This is because while there are only a few ways to conform to the social norms, the eccentric paths of individualism are infinitely varied. Later in life we may find our way, especially when we go out into the world and discover other people with whom we share a common bond, but in our youth we are stuck in the strange environment into which fate has thrust us.
Besides physical differences—the metaphor that illustrates the theme of this tale—children and adolescents may be ridiculed or ostracized by their peers for being intellectual, shy, awkward, gay, introspective, sensitive, or empathic; or for having unconventional beliefs, attitudes, or interests. But whatever our differences may be, we all hope to become swans once we leave the nest. I know I did, and so I was anxious to do a reading for this unfortunate duckling and thus, in a way, for myself.
You can imagine my joy, then, when one of my favorite cards, the Star, was the first card to turn up in this spread. This card of hope is a wonderful sign for any ugly duckling. That large, bright star high in the sky is different from the other stars, but rather than being out of place, despicable, or ridiculous, it is unique, beautiful, and exalted. What a perfect way for each of us to see ourselves. In fact, I have a friend who created a personal mantra of "I am a shining star." She even framed this affirmation, written in silver letters set against a starry background, and hung it in a place of honor in her home. Indeed, this is an excellent affirmation to use with this card.
Next there was the King of Cups. I see both the King and Queen of Cups as indicating emotional mastery, but the differences between the two, although subtle, are important. One way of considering kings is to think of them as dealing with issues of control and as coping with the world (including society) around us. The queens, on the other hand, tend to deal with issues of support, understanding, and personal relationships. So the King of Cups can signify being in control of our emotions (in this case, fear and anger), especially in the midst of emotional turmoil.
This card also can be about dealing with other people in a diplomatic way. Thus, in this reading, the King of Cups advises "tolerance of others, even when they are not tolerant of you." This is a warning against falling into an all-too easy trap. In emotionally charged situations such as the one in which the Ugly Duckling found itself, it is tempting to reflect back the hate we get from other people—to exclaim, "They are the ones who are wrong!"—but doing so plunges us into a dark side of the King of Cups, that of angry prejudice.
Lastly, the Seven of Wands often indicates taking a stand and defending your position, but reversed, I saw it as both a reduction and a delay of this message. The reversal of this card indicated a diminishment of its typical meaning in that it advised not being so defensive and even suggested retreating from this conflict. It also indicated delay in its message: "Then later, when you are in a better position, you can come back and confront them if you like." At the very least, a reversal can be a questioning of the typical message of a card, and in this case, I asked, "Others may call you ugly names, but is it worth fighting about?" Asking questions like this can be effective in working with a reversed card.
Note that the message of this last card ("you may want to yield your ground and retreat for a while") works very well with what happened near the end of the story of the Ugly Duckling. The young bird, not yet a beautiful swan, flew off to be alone until finally, full-grown, it chanced to see its own reflection in a pond and realized its own beauty for the first time. And so I see a message in this reading for all of us. Perhaps at some point we all need to make a journey of self-discovery with hope in our hearts (the Star) and with malice toward none (King of Cups), forgetting about our self-defensive struggles (reversed Seven of Wands) so that we can just look inside ourselves and find the beautiful swan that we all have within.
Post Script: You can find many more readings like this, along with commentaries on them, in my book, Tarot Reading Explained. And there is also a Celtic Cross reading for Anna Leonowens (the heroine of Anna and the King of Siam and the musical The King and I), which concludes with a shockingly literal final card in position 10! Also, there are many sample readings in my book about Spreads, Tarot Spreads–Get the Whole Story.
As always, I am blown away–like a refreshing breeze blowing through my sometimes cramped and crowded mind–by your wisdom, skill, and compassion.
Love and Light,
I am beginning to teach a beginner's Tarot course this week, and I am including Tarot Tells the Tale as one of the books that helped me the most when I began trying to understand the Tarot. It's a great book, and you use your usual sensitivity to explain sometimes difficult situations we often find ourselves in.


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Paumanok Group and Dennis Zogbi: In The News
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Five Email Mistakes that Direct Mailers Will Recognize
As any direct marketing pro knows, email can be an affordable and increasingly targetable communications tool. And for many direct mailers, email is now part of their integrative campaigns.
What's more, it can give you answers to important marketing questions super fast. Want to test a new offer or product price-point? No sweat. Send out a split-test email blast and in no time the marketplace will tell you what to do.
Another thing I really like about email is that it's very flexible. You can use it to meet all kinds of marketing challenges. For example, you can use email to:
- Get prospects to request a white paper
- Encourage the use of your downloaded software
- Ask for the sale after a free download
- Cross sell your product
- Upsell to higher-priced products
- Generate sign-ups for an online conference
- Garner customer testimonials
And that's just for starters.
Of course, there's a catch … You have to write your email right. That means avoiding the pitfalls that await the unwary — mistakes that any seasoned direct mail pro will recognize and hope to avoid.
Here's a list of five mistakes that I urge you to avoid making:
Mistake #1: Using a weak subject line
It doesn't matter how compelling your email offer is, or how brilliantly your message is written. If your subject line isn't working right, your email will never get opened and your campaign will be a failure. (Just like a bad teaser on an outer envelope will kill a campaign no matter how good the guts of the mailer.)
Subject lines should be kept short. (Never exceed 40 characters including spaces.) This means that every subject line must communicate extremely quickly and have a little punch. Flat or cute is bad. Examples:
BAD SUBJECT LINE: Who's minding the store?