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In this Warren Buffett piece I'm seeing linked approvingly, we once again find our brave hero Warren Buffett making the courageous and selfless argument that millions of nouveau-riche folks who aren't nearly as wealthy as him – yes, yes, him too, but mostly the nouveau-riche folks beneath him – all need to be taxed more. (To understand the straightforward mathematics that are likely to be motivating this viewpoint, see this post of mine.)
Luckily – because I am too lazy to read it all – the key passage comes at the very beginning:
SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. "This is a good one," he says enthusiastically. "I'm in it, and I think you should be, too."
Would your reply possibly be this? "Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent." Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.
Everyone on the Internet, especially those who have nothing whatsoever to do with finance or investing but like to read and write about rich people and money a lot (such as Slate's business and economics correspondent Matthew Yglesias) just nodded their heads in agreement. Because Buffett is obviously correct. Investors will behave the same regardless of the capital-gains tax rate.
I'll just note that Actually, No It's Not True, at least according to standard correspondence-school/pop-finance theory 101. Has everyone just forgotten? After all:
An investment has a risk. For taking risk, you're supposed to get a return. The bigger the risk, the bigger the return. And so, whether you decide to invest, depends on whether you think its return outweighs its risk.
So say your friend comes to you with that investment, and after intense study you decide it's worth the risk – just barely – if the after-tax return is X% or more. Then your friend informs you the after-tax return is indeed exactly X%. Will you buy it? Yes, you will: it meets your bogey. But if taxes are raised, that X% return goes down – and now you won't buy it, because the risk is the same, but the reward is not, so it's no longer worth it. So contra Buffett, you will too just leave your cash in your savings account (or seek a different investment anyway, e.g. tax-free munis, if nothing else…), at the relevant margin.
Of course, I'm not saying I buy into this textbook pop-finance 101 risk-reward theory of investing lock stock & barrel. And from his piece, clearly Buffett doesn't either. But it would be interesting to learn just which part of the above limited application of it he thinks is untrue. Perhaps he thinks people only care about returns in a relative way, i.e. vs other investments, so, as long as the friend's investment gets the same return as stuff with Similar Risk, it's all cool. Or perhaps, similarly, he thinks everyone conveniently mentally calculates all their risk-return curves in pretax dollars.
These do salvage Buffett's assertion (sort of; there is still the issue of munis). But these would be weird, idealized, oversimplified things to think – every bit as much as the 'risk-return' theory itself. After all, in the real-world there are fixed costs, frictions, stickiness, and relationships involved with all these decisions. Somewhere, for everyone, there is what I think of as a "Meh" barrier: Would you make a 30-minute phone call to increase your portfolio's return by 10%? OF COURSE! Would you make that same phone call to increase it by 0.00001%?
Somewhere in between those two investments is a "Meh" barrier, a not-worth-the-brain-damage threshold.
So there is a pretty intuitive and straightforward story one could tell which goes like: As taxes (or for that matter, any other frictions or regulations or paperwork or costs or other barriers) increase, more and more investment options/changes will tend to hit peoples' "Meh" barriers. And in aggregate that will tend to curb capital investment.
Now, if Buffett doesn't agree with that – and from the piece one would think that he doesn't – it would be interesting to learn why. It might in fact be because, as such a large money manager, for all intents he never actually hits those barriers, and indeed he would make a phone call (or rather, press a button) for that extra 0.00001%, because – for him – maybe that's a lotta money.
But for regular investors? Mostly, it's not. Ironically, this would mean that all the people pointing at Buffett and saying 'He's such a large investor so he knows what he's talking about' have it exactly backwards. Maybe he's such a large investor that he's simply out of touch with the constraints and frictions that affect most people.
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Buffet's not a finance guy, he's an investor. His investment strategy is pretty straight-forward. He's been pitching it in public for years.
a) Find a really good deal, the kind that's a no-brainer.
b) Put your money there.
There's not a lot of no-brainers. Buffet hasn't made a lot of investments. His Meh barrier is really high. A deal for him is either worth doing at pretty much any price (but be sure to get a good one!) or it's not worth bothering to take a call over. That's the kind of investment attitude that his article displays, and sure enough it's not particularly sensitive to small changes in marginal returns.
I bet marginal post-tax returns have a much bigger effect on small businesses, small investors, entrepreneurs, and loan underwriters than they do on billionaires and celebrities. And those "little people" in turn have a much bigger effect on the economy.
So how does all this hypothetical taxing or non-taxing of investment capital play out with mutual fund managers who simply pass through to holders a fund's capital gains/losses, or with the deferred-tax retirement account crowd, neither of whom, I suspect, will be bothered (influenced?) by whatever might be the result of all this hoo-hah.
Also, I'm fascinated by your use of initial capital letters. Do you have a system or a rule?
Re: the "a trusted investor comes up to you" scenario:
unless the investor is from a foreign country, we can pretty well assume based on context that when he says "this is a good one", he means "this is a good one *even after* taxes are factored in". If the deal were so borderline that its "goodness" depended on whether or not you factored in taxes, it'd be pretty retarded to call it "a good one" (unless of course he's trying to rip you off).
Way I see it, if taxes make people think more about investments, that's great. Right now investments are viewed pretty much like slot machines by a lot of people. There's a total disconnected between "put money in, get money out" and the actual products/services their investment is actually buying. (There was an Onion article to this effect long ago. Cisco stocks plummet; investors become outraged upon learning that Cisco is an actual company making actual products and not just a stock traded for its own sake. Something like that.)
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Think about the return Buffet gets from a 30 second phone call to his editorial ghostwriter.
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With a $6 million prize fund, Dota 2 is now one of the world's biggest sports
- By Sebastian Anthony on May 21, 2014 at 2:45 pm
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Valve's annual Dota 2 tournament — The International — is now one of world's biggest sporting events. Thanks to the Valve's most excellent shepherding of both the game and the 5-versus-5 MOBA genre, an ingenious crowdfunding scheme, and the continuing growth of spectator esports, The International now has a total prize fund of over $6 million. The winning team will take home somewhere in the region of $3 million. To put that into perspective, that's more than all but the top sports professionals take home in a year. The Masters golf tournament, one of the world's top sporting events, only offers around $1.6 million to the winner, from a total prize fund of $9 million. Dota 2 is now officially playing in the big leagues. How did Dota 2, which only left beta testing last year, become one of the world's biggest sports in the world?
If you haven't played Dota 2 before, here's a brief description of the game. It's free to play, for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Each game lasts for around 40 minutes, with two groups of five players working cooperatively to destroy the enemy's base. Each player picks from around 100 heroes, each with different spells and abilities. During the game, your hero gains experience and gold, which can be spent on gaining levels (and thus abilities) and magic items (which increase your strength, your speed, etc.) It is probably the best game ever made, if you're into cooperative gameplay, but with the caveat that it has one of the most punishing learning curves ever devised. I have played the game and its predecessor (DotA) for around eight years — and I'm still not very good.
The International is an annual tournament, now in its fourth year, where the top Dota 2 teams fight to be crowned the best in the world. In its first two years, Valve put forward $1.6 million of its own money as a prize fund, with $1 million going to the winning team. Last year, Valve introduced the compendium, an interactive digital guide for the tournament that cost $10, with $2.50 of each sale going towards the prize fund. This boosted the prize fund by around $1.2 million, to $2.8 million — again making it the largest esports tournament in the world (League of Legends had snatched it back from the first Dota 2 International with a $2 million prize fund).This year, Valve again used compendiums to crowdfund The International 4 (TI4) — and the response has been… well, the figures speak for themselves. Within a single day, TI4 had surpassed TI3's prize fund. By the end of day three, the prize fund had reached $4 million. The growth slowed down after that, but it still managed to hit $6 million within 10 days. At its current trajectory, the prize fund should easily exceed $7 million by the time TI4 actually rolls around (July 18). We may even see figures as high as $9 or $10 million, bringing The International above the prize pool of the Masters golf tournament.
How did Dota 2 become one of the world's biggest sports?
How did Valve more than double (and perhaps triple) the size of the prize fund between TI3 and TI4? For the most part, it's probably down to the sheer number of people playing Dota 2. This time last year, Steam reported around 325,000 concurrent Dota 2 players; today, following the end of a prolonged beta in July last year, that figure is around 800,000. In terms of monthly active users, that figure jumps to around 8 million.The other factor is the growing popularity of esports in general. While gaming tournaments have always existed on the small scale, it wasn't until gaming went online in the '90s and '00s that large, global, heavily sponsored tournaments started to emerge. Huge, highly competitive communities formed around games like StarCraft and Warcraft III, eventually resulting in the foundation of big institutions like World Cyber Games and Major League Gaming in 2000 and 2002 respectively.
Ultimately, though, the recent surge in esports popularity is entirely down to spectators. Games like Dota 2, StarCraft II, and League of Legends all have a built-in spectator mode that allow people to watch games online. This is not only a great way of learning new tricks, but also for following your favorite esports players/celebrities.
And then, of course, there's Twitch. Twitch, which was only launched three years ago, is now one of the world's most popular websites. The entire premise of Twitch is that millions of people stream their gaming, and tens of millions more watch those streams. Dota 2, LoL, and other multiplayer games are massively popular, but so are single-player games. In short, there are a huge number of gamers who want to watch esports — and when you have a large audience, as with NFL, baseball, or soccer, you can be sure that the big bucks will follow.
Now do you see why YouTube is acquiring Twitch?
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If you're interested in Dota 2, The International, and esports in general, Valve's recently released Free to Play: The Movie is a good place to start. It chronicles the first International tournament, which took place in Cologne in 2011. It's embedded below in full.
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and mom said me playing video games would equate to nothing…
Yea i know what you mean, i had so many fights with my parents because of gaming and now……6mil$ prize funds for an on line game, and this is only the beginning, the big players have not yet entered in this.
did you not watch the documentary u fools? HAVE U LEARNT NOTHING? ONLY RICH KIDS AND NUBS PLAY PRO ESPORTS
only rich kids? Dendi's team won the first international and he came from extremely humble roots.
upto I saw the receipt four $8937 , I accept
…that…my mom in-law had been truley bringing in money part time from their
laptop. . there brothers friend haz done this for only eight months and
resantly cleard the morgage on their place and bought a top of the range Lancia
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http://www.mrseb.co.uk/ Sebastian Anthony
Yep, my parents were the same. But look at me now, mum!
To be fair, esports aren't yet at the point where LOTS of people can survive purely on professional gaming income. There's money at the top, for the few teams that can place in tournaments like TI4 — but for everyone else, there's very little money at all. (So they still have to work a day job, etc. which stops them from training properly for esports.)
Glenn Scott
Yes. They call that the Olympics. ;)
just another combat wombat
Nope, they call it The International.
I'm afraid your mom is right, keep in mind esports like dota 2 is extremely competitive and only few players can make a decent living out of it. Me and you my friends, we don't play video games for anything but entertainment.
You and I have very different personalities… I'm very competitive. I play to win.
Yeah, sure. Let me know how well you do in the International! His point still stands, there is no money at all unless you're at the top, and you're not. So momma is still right.
Justin = Dendi, it's really him commenting. You never know….
News Flash: Most people are like that, you're not a special snowflake. Could you potentially be the next bi E-Sports player? Possibly. But it's a huge chance that you'd be banking your whole life on. You'd be putting schooling aside for the chance at an E-Sports career, and if you fail, you'll be so far behind in life that things will feel hopeless. It's a massive risk that has extremely little odds of paying off.
I wish it were that simple, but unfortunately its not. For example, in Free To Play, it shows 3 great players who went all out on gaming, and it payed off for them. However, it did not show how many other people have probably tried to do similar things as the people featured in the documentary, but it did not work so well for them. Very few people actually make it big, and it is a huge risk to put everything on the line and try for a career like that.
Dear Lord, I hope you're joking. Deciding to go into a winner-take-all "profession" is like deciding to become a professional lottery player because there are people out there who have played the lottery and made tens of millions.
Hint: If less than 10,000 people are making a decent living from some job, then you aren't going to miraculously be one of them.
Interestingly enough, my career is based around Risk Management. I would think gaming is a supplemental income for the large majority of gamers. Nobody is saying quit your day job.
And while it's unlikely, there is no reason why I can't be in that 10k elite gamer crowd. Those who say they can't and those who say they can are both often right.
> Nobody is saying quit your day job.
Except that for anyone who is trying to reach to the top ranks, that's pretty much a requirement. Or given the youth of these players – sacrificing educational opportunities that they will not see again.
> And while it's unlikely, there is no reason why
> I can't be in that 10k elite gamer crowd.
No reason why you shouldn't win that lottery, either. I'm not saying that it's not extremely attractive, especially to young people. After all, who interviews lottery losers? All you hear is from the winners. As well, you get adulation, which young people are desperate for.
But that doesn't meant that the cost to all but an insignificant portion of the players isn't negative. More importantly, a lottery only makes you poorer for the experience. The false promise of gaming (and for 99.99% it is false) devours the the opportunity at the prime of your life to build the basis of what might otherwise be a productive life.
Unlike a lottery, you're not just sacrificing a few hundred dollars. Instead, you're probably sacrificing several million dollars over a life time. And that's not even counting the countless youth that don't bother to apply themselves much earlier because they're convinced they'll make it as a gamer/rock star/sports star (all winner take all jobs) and get cut out even before they get serious.
If they want to improve DOTA 2 open a server in Mexico. East Coast US should be for people who speak English. Sorry but if I can't communicate with you, it's hard to play.
http://www.gamemela.com vicky john
I agree with @dc …Even several indians are playing this game.. why cant valve open a dota 2 server in india …
India certainly seems big enough for a server. Most Indians speak English though don't they? The problem I have is with people on a US Server who don't.
When Valve sees that there are enough Indians playing the game to justify the cost of that, then they will.
Well you'd think Valve would find a server location in Mexico anyway.
I lived in Guatemala for a few years, which I realize isn't in SA, but it is Spanish speaking and internet was pretty decent (similar to Florida). I was working for a US company unfortunately so I didn't learn enough Spanish to chat even though I lived in the country. Since at work everyone spoke English…
Valve will eventually, there just isn't enough people playing from Mexico currently. I can't even remember the last time I ran into one in Dota 2. South American's though, I get them in 95% of games.
Those aren't Mexicans you're usually playing with, even though the language seems similar… They are mostly South American's, and more specifically, Peruvians and Ecuadorians usually. They actually do have their own server, but due to SA having even shittier internet infrastructure than the US, Valve has had a hard time finding a server location that gives good ping for them, most of the time they get routed to the US and then back to the SA server, if they play on SA. Thus they end up just choosing the US servers, since it's actually lower ping for many of them, sadly.
Hopefully Valve will be able to find a solution, but there aren't many choices in South America.
I was just hoping they would play on a Mex. City server rather than East Coast USA. I sympathize with their plight, but really can't understand them. And it seems like they have an attack and die type mentality. And that habit of pinging people who don't attack and die…..
Marc Guillot
I love videogames as much as the next guy, but are we seriously calling them "sports" ?
i think it should just be called gaming aswell should chess etc be called gaming. but i don't think the grammar is that strict that it requires a physical competition.
What is your definition of Sports?
Marc Guillot
I always though that Sports is the same than Deportes on latin languages, games with physical exertion played by athletes : football, tennis, basketball, … the kind of games we see on the Olympics.
But I have looked on the dictionary and I see that Sports is a much more flexible word than our Deportes. I'm surprised.
Sorry, my fault.
well you have to move the mouse and touch the keys somehow
sports game not just muscles but also brains. and DOTA2 equivalent to chess strategy game, make you brain warm. so yeah this is sport
Matt Menezes
The FedEx Cup, a golf tournament, gave a $10 million dollar prize to first place. Jim Furyk won it a couple years ago – I saw him at dinner at Jacksonville Beach last summer. It's crazy how the net worth of many people in that restaurant wouldn't touch what he made in that one tournament…
Ivor O'Connor
Where does the money come from?
Matt Menezes
Steam, the makers of the game, throw the tournament and account for a lot of the prize.
Ivor O'Connor
There needs to be some other financial system to support this huge gaming world…
Which money? The article explained where. Players of this game by a "Compendium", which is an interactive digital book inside the game client, that has tonnes of neat features related to the tournament, and a leveling system to earn prizes. A quarter of the money from each sold, goes towards the tournament. Millions have been sold.
Ivor O'Connor
I suppose I don't get it. It makes me sad. I think of all those kids that have large parts of their lives stolen. Maybe this is just the sad years. That sometime in the future they will tie useful skills into computer games. It is so far away though I don't see it.
What constitutes one's life being "stolen"? Is living life not about doing what brings you joy? The throughout history, the older generation always tends to think the different things the new generation is going, is wasteful, since it isn't what they experienced, but it's merely ignorance.
Many kids today have lots of social issues, and games are there as a crutch or coping mechanism for many, or even a way to help their social issues. Games like Dota 2 promote communication, it's a TEAM game, there is active voice chat within each match to talk to your friends or teammates.
Physical sports don't tie any more useful skills than this does. At best, they provide team work skills and forethought improvement.
Ivor O'Connor
Yes and no. Playing computer games might indeed allow you to pass away a large part of your life being happy. Less costly than the movies, casinos, what not. Going to $200 concerts has little merit. Drinking and playing card games sucks. Nor is reading escapism novels any better. Chess sucks too. I think those are all signs of a problem.
Not everybody in every generation think that new different things are wasteful.
What has happened to building things? There are ham radio clubs. There are black smith programs. How about crewing at the yacht club? Real things. Not play grounds of your imagination that have no lasting value.
Sports to me means something that makes you sweat and breathe hard. Not bowling, throwing darts, and baseball, Sports should help keep you healthy. It can be carried too far. Look at the average triathlete. They tend to get carried away training and it becomes an addiction as bad as computer game playing.
Maybe there needs to be a class on living your life fully. So people avoid going down these paths.
Don't be such a faggot.
Ivor O'Connor
"Don't be such a faggot."
Reminds me of a time long ago I was traveling with a friend who happened to be gay. We were driving on sunset in West Hollywood when this guy all dressed up walked across the intersection smiling at us like he had won the lottery. I said something that was not at all polite offending my friend probably to this day. I think I used the word you just used.
Anyways game playing is an addiction and I think there should be laws against it. Like they have laws against smoking, alcohol, and everything else. Don't let kids play games!
Sam Cerulean
I was a Pro Gamer for about 10 years, I played in over 20 Tournaments from BF1942, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Socom 2, COD4 and MW3, I've played on both Console and PC competitively and I applauded the days of Championship Gaming Series and the beginning of MLG. However probably quite uniquely I was also training for the Olympics to be a Swimmer and I outright state that Gaming will never be a sport.. eSport whatever and neither should it be!
However swinging your wrist back and forth with a Mouse and Keyboard.. or Twiggling your thumbs for 6-8 hours every day is in no way an achievement, I wasn't proud of it and for the reward you get there are massive drawbacks and it's really not worth it believe me.. outside of your community you mean nothing an neither does your achievements. The only thing I gained from competitive game was leadership, communication and quick thinking however I massively also lost out socially and I wish I could turn back the clock. IT IS NOT A SPORT
You can't compare those FPS games with a strategy-based game like Dota.
Joel Hruska
Of course you can.
I can compare an aardvark to a toaster. Not very effectively, mind you (aardvark's are terrible at making toast). But any two video games can absolutely be compared, especially when discussing things like the IMPACT of esports and the question of how "sportlike" they are.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk/ Sebastian Anthony
Sure, it's a pretty insular thing at the moment, but esports are growing. Thanks to barcrafting and Twitch and other ways of spectating, esports are growing _quickly_. It won't be long until the prowess of gamers is recognised outside the very small circle of gamers.
IMO, it's as much a sport as chess. I agree, 'sport' might not be quite the right label. But it takes skill, it's competitive, and people appreciate the massive amount of effort that it requires to excel. Now it's just about growing that group of appreciative people :)
Sam Cerulean
I think it depends on each individual community tbh, Call of Duty was by far the most childish, vitriolic and serious. But there's always great a few great characters you meet out of the masses of drones.
I find Games on the PC somewhat more mature and well rounded funnily enough. If competitive gamers were more rounded people in general it wouldn't be so bad. That's what made the Halo scene so amazing was there was so many characters.
If people don't feel like they need to make it their life obsession to Win and people go back to having fun whilst competing I can see hope. I defiantly feel like many of these Pro Gaming idols should emphasis the importance of getting things in perspective because there's a lot of lost wannabee's out there.
The only reason they mean nothing outside the gaming community for e-sports, is because it's still fairly small… It's not big enough for the general public to see it as something worthwhile as they do with something like Football or Baseball. But simply saying "don't do it", isn't going to change that. What's going to change it, is supporting it an having it grow. This is a sport of the mind instead of the body, that doesn't make it any lesser of an achievement.
You missing out socially is your fault, not gaming's. You can be social, but still be a gamer. In fact, most of these pro-gamers have great social lives.
There was a time when Swimming and Chess weren't seen as true sports and weren't taken seriously or respected by the community, but as their popularity increased, it gained recognition, as will gaming.
Sports is just an entertainment industry now. So if esports is generating viewers then by all means let it be a sport.
Personally, I don't see a huge difference between gently swinging a golf club and moving a mouse over a pad. Yet golf is a sport.
Chris Cavell
yea but its not real sports, its artifical sports(though it dosen't eve deserve to be called sports. i play alot of sports, and do video gaming as well, and never have i said that video gaming is sports. for all those that think video gaming is sports, are brainwashed and influnced by others.
Sorry, it IS a sport. Is it an ATHLETIC sport? No. It's a MENTAL sport, as well as a strategic one. Today, the word sport is not so narrow.
Don't be jealous because you're timing was off, bitch.
Ivor O'Connor
I watched the entire link "Free to Play: The Movie". The game is anything but "Free to Play". I totally agree with Sam Cerulean's remarks below. It is so tragic to see kids lose their lives.
Sorry that their interests and goals are not the same as yours. Who are you to judge them based on their passion?
Ivor O'Connor
Obviously some people may have physical handicaps. They may be on their death bed. Or some other reason preventing them from living a meaningful life. However those are the few. Most people are healthy and should avoid games like they would avoid drugs. Even if they feel they are total losers.
What the fuck did I just read?
Ivor O'Connor
Are you addicted to games? Do you need a personal intervention? Is this your way of reaching out? :)
1) No, and 2) Do you feel a need to judge people based on what they choose to do with their time?
Ivor O'Connor
Letting kids live in a world where they think it's Ok to waste away their lives is not doing them or anybody else any good. I'm the type that calls a spade a spade unless my life would be endangered by speaking the truth. These poor kids need reality.
Jessica Henson
After seeing the preview for the first time while watching some games on twitch a pretty long time before it
came out I immediately knew it was going to be an amazingly well produced documentary but also that it would tear on my heart strings watching the players face such hardships. the release date just could not come soon enough once i saw the clip in the preview where Dendi talks about how for someone with a lot of pain the best way to get away from it is to completely immerse yourself in something and be fully dedicated to i and that, for him, that something was gaming; it was Dota.
Though I already knew the outcome of TI1, I found myself feeling deeply emotional about each player's story and was on the edge of my seat much of the time rooting them all on.
Sure, not everyone can be a winner and the number of players on top tier teams that win consistently and bring in the amount of prize money they can actually live on is extremly tiny compared to the number of players trying to make it in the competitive scene (GosuGamers, an online gaming community site which has continually updating team rankings including every game played, lists 384 teams on its global rankings. That's 1,920 players. [source: http://www.gosugamers.net/dota2/rankings#team If we go by, say the top 20 teams in the world potentially bringing home relevant amounts of prize money for placing at tournaments, for every one of those players there are 96 who aren't winning prize money), when watching this documentary and following each of the three players in their struggles I don't see the "tragedy" of "these kids losing their lives," that you perceived.
Dendi, playing for Na'Vi in the movie, still plays with the same team today which is still a top (and my favorite!) team (though with them not exactly playing their best recently, combined with the impeccable gameplay we've been seeing from chinese teams lately, both from established teams and teams like NewBee who, comprised of former LGD players, just months ago exploded on the scene and are currently ranked #1 in the world, Na'Vi is currently only ranked #11). His team won 1st place and the million dollar prize at TI1 as shown in Free to Play, sending him home with $200,000. Na'Vi has placed in countless tournaments since (A complete list of tournaments at which they've won prize money as well as the amounts can be found here: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/dota2/Dendi). Na'Vi placed 2nd at both TI2 in 2012 and TI3 in 2013, taking home $250,000 from TI2 and $632,370 from TI3. Dendi has won $455,615.8 from 43 different tournaments between 2010 and the present, which averages out to over $100,000 a year during his gaming career so far. Plus, the scene at the end of the movie where Dendi goes fishing again for the first time since his father's death…idk about anyone else but that had me in tears. Doesn't sound too tragic at all.
Hyhy, playing for Scythe Gaming in the movie, is no longer active in the competitive Dota2 scene, last playing for themalaysian team MUFC at The Asia 2012 held in December 2012, he then left Dota to play League of Legends on the team Singapore Sentinels from January to October 2013, remaining inactive since. Though the prize money
he won during his career is certainly nothing nearly as impressive as the level of winnings Dendi has reached, but Hyhy definitely did well for himself nonetheless, especially considering that the prize pools for most of the tournaments he participated in as well as the number of tournaments he participated in were also far from the level of players like Dendi [Source: http://www.esportsearnings.com/players/2584-hyhy-lim-han-yong. I attribute this to the fact that e-sports have blown up in popularity and the prize pools have increased so much over the past few years that they aren't even comparable to the prize pools in prior years. All of the tournaments in which Hyhy was a player on a winning team from 2007-2010 had small prize pools. It wasn't until TI1 in 2011 that he played at a tournament with a large prize pool. It is also worth noting that Hyhy being from Singapore, him and the multiple teams he played for did not have the opportunity to participate in many tournaments relative to teams like Na'Vi based in Europe. With those considerations in mind, Hyhy did take ohome some decent prize money. In 2008, Hyhy played for Zenith who took 1st place at the Electronic Sports World Cup, taking home $2,600. As seen in the movie, Scythe placed 3rd at TI1 and Hyhy took home $30,000. In 2012, Zenith took 6th place at TI2, sending Hyhy home with $7,000. During the time Hyhy League of Legends with the team Singapore Sentinels, they placed 2nd at both the spring and summer 2013 GPL tournaments, with Hyhy taking home $3,571 in spring and $4,117 in summer. Over the course of his entire career, Hyhy has won $49,425 in 11 different tournaments. Averaged over the 6 years he was active, this would be $8,238 a year. Certainly nothing to quit your day job over, but I still see no tragedy there.
Fear, playing for Online Kingdom im the movie, is one of the oldest Dota players, having been recognized as the best dota player in the world back when he was playing Dota1 and as one of the strongest players in the western scene more recently. If it weren't for the countless,
frequent roster changes of the team EG (Evil Geniuses), which he currently plays for and has spent the majority of his career playing for, he would have been able to lead his team to many more tournament wins. Online Kingdom placed 7th at TI1, sending him home with $4,167. His team has won prize money at plenty of other tournaments, which can be viewed here [source: http://www.esportsearnings.com/players/2610-fear-clinton-loomis/results_by_year#2012, but what really shows that playing professional Dota was far from a tragedy for Fear is what's happening in the scene NOW. With some stability achieved in the roster for EG, they currently rank #2 in the world [source: http://www.gosugamers.net/dota2/rankings?page=1#team! That's no easy feat, especially for an American team contending with top Chinese teams for the highest ranked spots. With TI4 just around the corner, it remains to be seen how far Fear will be able to take his career.
Where is the tragedy??
Ivor O'Connor
Very eloquent Jessica. You can get caught up in this much like somebody could get caught up watching soap opera. Many house wives do. And they enjoy meaningful conversations with each other about the shows. Look at how many people gave a snap about who killed JR in Dallas. I'd rather not have our youth which could be doing so much more with their lives getting entangled in these games, soap operas, the military, religion, or drugs. Yet with everything seemingly produced in other countries, no free schooling like in most other first world countries, and student debt that never goes away kids are turning to these stupid !#@% games. No responsible adult should condone it.
Though on the other hand if these kids are playing games they will not be breeding. There are too many people on this planet already! (I had to think of something positive to say even though it is out in left-field.)
Jessica Henson
here is where I'd like to draw on my education in sociology and question your idea of 'so much more with their lives' and where it comes from, and furthermore the societal pressures to conform to this preconceived notion of what young adults are 'supposed' to be doing and the resulting lack of real 'choices' they have… but I can tell you aren't open-minded by any means and my attention would be better served elsewhere. I wish you the best of luck in life and can only hope you never raise children.
Ivor O'Connor
If you can't see more than wasting their formative years playing computer games I'm not the one with problems. Perhaps you will one day raise your own kids and begin to realize just what it is I'm talking about. I'd like to see your expression when you catch on.
Looking forward to learn this game :P
Jessica Henson
play timbersaw : )
:P i was thinking to start with legion commander :S. You play with timbersaw ?
Jessica Henson
that's not a terrible plan : ). haha yeah i play timbersaw, or try to at least. Originally just because his little backstory/personality was my favorite. Like how he was all nervous/twitchy and paranoid seeming and would say stuff like, "Trees! Why did it have to be trees?!" But after actually playing a bit I liked his attributes and found him decently simple to get started on (which apparently isn't everyone's experience) haha my bf would tell me how he doesnt like playing him cause he STILL misses trees all the time trying to timberchain…somehow i mastered that pretty quick, at least i'm able to timberchain to safety…still can't quite get down the timberchaining through an enemy hero to a tree beyond them, causing lots of damage. i'll get there though
: )
haha good, well i hope you will be super pro with timbersaw soon :)
haha hey what is your name on steam ? i am playing this game for 2 weeks now :)
Jessica Henson
it's curselessgift but i havent played in months. my bf is going to TI4 (couldnt go when he got tickets because of my job but of course now that i could go the tickets are going for like $1000) buy anyways ill probably be playing more while he's gone
ok friend request send my name on steam is genghis khan. wow cool yr bf is playing in TI4 , i am also looking forward to watch live games to learn things :)
Chris Cavell
I wouldn't call dota 2 a sport, Dota 2 is not a sport. Comparing dota 2 to sports, is like comparing microsoft to to food outlets, it dosen't work like that. I myself am a avid gamer, but never will i compare video gaming to sports, if i am correct. the definition of sports is 'an activity involving PHYSICAL EXERTION and skill in which an
individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment'. before you question, i capatilised the two words that clearly define sport. Some reporters need to think twice about the headlines and words they use, because when other people like myself see this, i feel disspointed and annoyed that they would refer this game and others as a 'sport', it would also anger sports people as well who see this.
Its an Esport
Ivor O'Connor
Perhaps we need something like AAA for gamers. I imagine parents would pay as much as they have to get their kids off games. This is a new market calling out for solutions no matter what the cost. Making life fun enough that their kids do not go down this dark path.
After reading your comments I can't help but think that perhaps you suffer from an intellectual disability and I shouldn't pick on you. I think its in all of our best interest that your "position" is addressed.
The same generation that you decry "wasting" their lives, and squandering their potential is at the same time the best educated generation in human history bar none.
its a fact that these video games are heavily entrenched in Universities for the simple expedient fact that having the intellectual skills to play these games often correlate to having the same "skills/talents" for excelling in the classroom.
It's odd to think that someone from one of the generations who blessed us with uncontrolled carbon usage, financial deregulation, and the expansion of entitlements coupled with the erosion of any effective taxation could have the audacity to claim the generation trying to deal with the mess that was made are wrong for doing pretty much any of the things they do.
But then again you approach this thread with the same ignorant self indulgence that characterized your generation as the generation of the self. if you aren't a boomer or the following Gen-X then I feel even worse for you. At least they have the excuse of cultural context for their sense of entitlement.
The rest of us will be playing our video games, building teams and communities, and making the world better.
Ivor O'Connor
Who are you? Oh, a gamer who is insulted by the truth. Go back to your game and don't think about what you could do if you weren't addicted.
It's true the younger generation is the smarter generation. The older generation has attempted to fuck us over because they do not want to be known as a weak and stupid generation. I've started making 7 figures about two years ago by doing things that are considered "Stupid" nowadays. I see nothing wrong with gaming, You are just mad at the fact that your low end non college degree job now pays you less than being a pro gamer.
Ivor O'Connor
Tren, as in "Trenbolone". You wouldn't be some drug addled young kid taking steroids and naming himself after the steroids he takes? Naw, you would not say things like:
I inject Tren
I eat Tren
I think Tren
I sleep Tren
I Tren Tren
Just shows more proof about what games do to kids.
I like how you avoid everything and go straight for my username ;). So now you're saying that playing games makes kids take "Steroids"? Interesting, I can tell you have a very low intelligence level. But you could take a step back and instead of saying "Steroids" you could say HORMONES. Hormones are gonna be a way of the future soon anyways for treating things, since for every hormone you could eliminate 10+ other drugs that are not hormones.
Don't stress out on a username though buddy ;). Or don't also stress out on kids making more money playing a video game ;).
Ivor O'Connor
Yep. I looked at how you said the older generation is "weak and stupid". I thought the word "weak" was a strange choice of words. Who has cared about strength since we were on the school grounds. And theoretically we as a race are getting weaker and weaker with each generation because it is no longer a factor in survival. The other topic, intelligence, was just silly blather. Each generation adapts to cope with the realities presented to it. If you were a physics professor 50 years ago you could probably do most math in your head to a few digits. Look at Richard Feynman for example challenging and winning against the physics grad students at Cal Tech or Princeton. He could do about any math problem in his head to about three digits faster than the kids with calculators. Put him in front of an android tablet though and he would be put to shame by this current generation of kids.
So the lack of intelligence made me curious about just where the heck you are coming from. A quick review of your past comments made it clear you are interested in steroids and getting stronger by using them. I'm sure you don't think anything is wrong with doing that. Just as you don't think anything is wrong with how kids get addicted to games. I'm all for letting idiots kill themselves. Unfortunately in today's society the idiots do not die but instead become a burden for the rest of us. So the next best thing is to raise questions about gaming and steroid use and make it uncool. Lemmings pay attention to what is uncool.
lemmings was a fun game.
so what's the meaning of life then, you seem to know, enlighten us.
Ivor O'Connor
That is one of those metaphysical questions almost everybody ponders since Plato and the start of recorded history. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics Others find all they need in the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns0IHCj2q-E
If you notice most people in the sciences come to a very similar conclusion. There are many roads that lead to the same conclusion attained by applying the golden rule and thinking for oneself…
and that answer is a life devoid of any form of leisure?
Ivor O'Connor
There are many forms of constructive leisure available to you. No need to take drugs, err, games unless you have very few alternatives available to you…
what are your drugs… er… forms of leisure?
Ivor O'Connor
Not saying I do any of these things but they seem like fun. Hiking. Running. Exercise classes. Talking with other people. Helping family. Gardening. Keeping up with technology, history, and current affairs.
i dont see how any of those things are any different from videogames as a pastime.
Ivor O'Connor
You do a video game and you get real good at clicking on things and learning the various strengths of heros and such. You get to know a few people online too. Or if you are in one of those Chinese game factories you might get to know quite a few people that you bunk with but that is the exception.
Hiking results in getting to know reality. You must learn the geography. Usually you go with some people and you get to know them better. You get exercise. You get to eat usually some place different. You get a sunburn! All of the activities I listed can be shared with everybody else who is in the real world. They are compounding experiences that make you much more well rounded than somebody that plays games all the time. Playing games, like this dota game, appears to be highly addicting and every player interviewed there seems to have lost contact with their family. That is not healthy despite what you may think. And every game seems to try to be as addicting as possible. So when somebody finally breaks free then they realize how their life has been stolen from them.
i dont see how videogames and physical health are mutually exclusive, what about games like dance dance revolution? i know a lot of gamers who love dance dance revolution, is that close enough to your runner's high? sorry, my apologies if that triggers your addiction.
just a thought: as someone so completely opposed to videogames (and presumably other forms of entertainment) could you possibly be the one who needs to be rounded out? to me your life seems awfully one note.
Ivor O'Connor
Actually I've seen the game dance dance revolution. I would not mind learning how to play it.
I'm not opposed to all forms of entertainment. Just not drugs, alcohol, and computer games like DOTA. I think if games became more physical so kids could only play them for a few hours a day at most it might be a good fit.
As far as cause and effect there are many family problems where the kids turn to drugs, alcohol, and games. However once there, regardless of the reason, it is very hard to get back out. I imagine about as hard as kicking cigarettes.
i guess i just wonder why it matters to you how other people choose to enjoy themselves? you exercising, talking with your family and keeping up on current events may make you feel good as a person, but they have no positive effect on everyone else in the world.
what you choose to do is no better than playing videogames, only different.
i think your phrase "i imagine" sums up your argument pretty well.
Ivor O'Connor
Fortunately I'm not addicted to anything so I can only imagine how hard it is for these idiotic kids to get off games. You think games are worse than nicotine?
as far as gamers who have lost contact with their family, are you sure you havent gotten the cause and effect backwards? i know several gamers who have found in videogames not just community, but people that they would call family.
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Literature Gets Graphic
For a few generations of readers, comic books were their first taste of literature. Stories of hardened detectives, noble superheroes, deadly monsters and even normal teenagers filled their imaginations and emptied their pockets of lunch money. Today, it's those readers' children, grandchildren and perhaps even great-grandchildren who are studying comics and graphic novels at Pomona College.
"It seems that everyone's dads read comic books when they were young, but I don't know of too many people my age who can say the same of themselves," says Allison Dubner '09, who's currently enrolled in Assistant Professor of English Meg Worley's Graphic Novels class. "However, when people hear that I'm taking this class, they come out of the closet to a certain extent."
Worley first offered her Graphic Novel class as a Critical Inquiry (ID1) class last semester, but is now teaching it as a regular class that is cross-listed as both part of the English and Media Studies departments.
"Graphic novels have a lot to offer in terms of allowing students to analyze not just the words; it puts a lot more emphasis on the visual rhetoric and the way narratives are paced," says Worley, a polyglot whose other subjects of interest include the Bible as literature, Chaucer, medieval literature and linguistics, and children's literature. "For example, in The Death of Superman, there might be 100 pages of people punching one another, but there's [also] a subtle commentary about how narrative works throughout that."
The class is split up into several modules, including graphic memoirs, superheroes and historic retellings, featuring books like Daniel Clowes' Ice Haven, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen and Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers.
In the memoirs section, for example, Worley "wanted to test this notion: Why are these things called graphic novels? Most of the big-name crossovers [like Persepolis and Fun Home] aren't novels, and yet they're the ones benefiting the most from the term graphic novel." Other topics of conversation range from the very definition of a comic (Does an illustrated sequential story must have words to be a comic?) to sound effects and "the way an artist can portray non-visual things in two-dimensions on paper," says Worley.
While comics have a rich and storied history, the first graphic novels--which can be hard to define, but usually have a long, novel-like story or are anthologies or collections of comic book series--are considered to have come out in the 1970s, and really found their footing in the mid-1980s. Art Spiegelman's Maus and Maus II, a two-part Holocaust memoir featuring cats and mice as Germans and Jews, have become mainstays on high school and college course syllabi. Fun Home was named a 2006 best book by The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Amazon.com and others, and American Born Chinese was a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. Watchmen was named one of the 100 best novels of all time by Time magazine, and the film version opened last weekend with $55.7 million in ticket sales, the third largest March opening ever.
John Dorian Harewood '12 signed up for last semester's class because of Watchmen, which he read last summer after seeing the enigmatic film trailer. "I loved the experience [of reading Watchmen] so much that when I saw a seminar class on graphic novels was being offered at Pomona, I was extremely excited to sign up."
Dubner, whose only graphic-novel experience before the class was Maus, cites Watchmen as her favorite book from the class thus far. "I was surprised by the complexity that appeared in a superhero book. Watchmen is filled with moral ambiguity, and I really loved the ethical and philosophical discussions that the book prompted in our class. I never thought it would be so difficult to define 'superhero.'"
Worley says her students range in their fandom. "Last semester, I had four or five students who were big manga [Japanese comics] fans, four or five students who were artists who liked drawing comics of whatever kind, and then I had two students who had never read a comic book." This semester, she has more men than women in the class, and a third are big comics fans, while all have read manga.
Drawing Their Own
One unique aspect of the ID1 class, which focuses more on writing, was that Worley had her students create their own comics. "When they first saw it on the syllabus, there was a lot of squawking," recalls Worley. "About half the class was like, 'I can't draw! What am I gonna do?' And I said, 'Calm down. As the semester goes along, I think you'll find a bunch of different alternatives that you can pursue.'"
Worley showed them web comics like XKCD, a comic about math, language and technology that's comprised of stick figures, and Garfield Minus Garfield, which erases Garfield from his owner Jon's life, demonstrating Jon's existential angst. Students stopped fretting and started creating.
The students' comics ran a gamut of techniques and genres. Some were autobiographical, some were literary adaptations. Some students drew their pieces by hand; others compiled photographs into collages. Several comics are on display outside of the English Department Office in Crookshank currently, and we've also included PDFs of some of the comics in the sidebar.
"The real goal is for students to have some more tools to [use to] think about whatever their intellectual interests are," says Worley. "I'm not trying to convey some information like I would in a medieval literature class, for example, that they can then go use for other things. I want them to think about the way that narrative works, the way the visual rhetoric works."
And it's this combination of visuals and story that grabbed Harewood. "The eclectic selection of graphic novels we read in Professor Worley's class illustrated the vastness of the medium in terms of creativity. There is a cinematic quality that many comics have that is reminiscent of a movie, but there is something to be said for the still image and for being able to navigate through the comic at your own pace the way you would a book."


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Council, freshman lead Knights past Garner
Northern coach Ronnie Russell used a five-point flurry from a freshman he recently plucked from the junior varsity squad to help put away previously unbeaten Garner 73-67 on Tuesday night.
Northern's Ricky Council II led all scorers with 25 points, but the five points in rapid succession toward the end of the third period by Knights freshman Emmett Tilley gave the home team a 56-51 lead heading into the final frame.
It was Tilley's first varsity game, but he was hot when the Knights needed a lift.
Russell said he had to elevate both Tilley and T.J. Bell from the jayvee team since point guard T.J. Crutchfield is on crutches with a broken ankle, and another player was not in the lineup because he hadn't been getting the job done in the classroom.
The Trojans stayed on the Knights' heels all night, buoyed by 21 points from Demarcus Sanford.
The little things did in the Trojans, Garner coach Eddie Gray said.
"Turnovers and free throws," Gray said. "We didn't make our free throws, we missed easy shots inside and our guards didn't play very well. We made too many turnovers in crucial times in the game."
Northern also was sloppy at times, but Council said the Knights' familiarity with each other is what carried them over the hump.
"We practice every day hard, and we know each other like the backs of our hands," Council said.
Defense was the thing, Russell said.
"We changed from a zone press to a man press, and I think that helped us out right there at the end," Russell said.
Justin Baird's only basket of the night for Garner tied the game at 60 with a little more than five minutes left in the game.
It was 61-61 after both teams made free throws.
Bell found Northern's Kentrell Barkley hanging around the basket for a layup, and Ryan Arundale's free throw gave the Knights a 64-61 lead.
Barkley later made two free throws to give the Knights a 67-63 advantage with 1:38 to play.
After a timeout, Northern came up with a steal, and Arundale turned it into a 69-63 lead.
Northern 73, Garner 67
GARNER — Demarcus Sanford 21, Julius Barnes 10, Jasper Stallings 8, Sammy Saunders 14, Foster Dubar 6, Kyreece Mills 6, Justin Baird 2.
NORTHERN — Ricky Council II 25, Jaquan Harris 9, Kentrell Barkley 19, Ryan Arundale 7, Dillon Leovic 4, Kourtney Farrow 4, Emmitt Tilley 5.
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Devoted math teacher Richard Eleazer dies
Longtime area math teacher, community volunteer and high school football announcer Richard Eleazer died Tuesday. He was 59.
Eleazer taught high school math for more than 25 years, most recently teaching at Incarnate Word Academy, said longtime friend MaryLou Loidl, who met Eleazer when both worked at Taft High School in 1983.
Eleazer taught at Incarnate Word Academy for more than five years and led students in various clubs, helped lead the school's team in state academic competition and was a mainstay in sports and extracurricular activities, Loidl said. Before coming to Incarnate Word, Eleazer taught at the Taft, Ingleside and Gregory-Portland high schools.
"You're talking about a man who gave his life to education and kids -- they loved him and he loved working with them," Loidl said. "He was a man of integrity beyond measure and his love for kids shined into the classroom every day of his life."
Eleazer seldom if ever missed a school sporting event and spent extra hours in the classroom tutoring anyone who asked, including former students coming home from college. He also was the public address speaker at Gregory-Portland and Taft football games.
Students were devastated to learn Wednesday that Eleazer collapsed at Joe Cotten's parking lot after traveling to Robstown to watch an Incarnate Word baseball game, Loidl said. It wasn't clear Wednesday night whether he died from a stroke or heart attack. The school brought in grief counselors Wednesday and students covered his blackboard in his aphorisms and regular jokes.
"Mr. Eleazer lived for his students," 2004 Incarnate Word Academy graduate Austin Buchan said in a letter posted to the school's Web site. "We were his passion. This man poured his very being into every classroom he entered. His big heart and gentle presence were unmistakable."
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In the New York Times report that NATO has escorted Taliban leaders to talks in Kabul, there is a slight but eye-catching overemphasis on the importance of withholding the names of the Taliban. The Times cites a request from U.S. and Afghan officials that the names be withheld for fear of retaliation against the Taliban delegates by Pakistani intelligence or other Taliban. But a moment's reflection informs us that the Taliban leaders' associates know exactly who they are — and there are plenty of cell phones in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It cannot be a secret for long who went to Kabul.
Strictly necessary or not, the security warning to the Times appears oddly pointed, fingering the Pakistani intelligence agency with an uncharacteristic lack of dissimulation about Pakistan's quality as an antiterrorism ally. It is attributed to an Afghan official, but it comes across as representative of general concerns held also by the U.S. There seems to have been no attempt by Obama's officials to leave a different impression. Intentionally or by default, the security warning serves as the rhetorical cutting of a tether: the end of a politically unifying narrative about the Afghan conflict and the beginning of something else. What that something else will be is not clear, but the central role of the Taliban in this strategic hinge point is informative.
The Times and others have picked up on the fact that the "discussions [in Kabul] appear to be unfolding without the approval of Pakistan's leaders … The Afghan government seems to be trying to seek a reconciliation agreement that does not directly involve Pakistan." If the U.S. is backing this play — and our concern about secrecy for the Taliban negotiators suggests we are – that's a major development in our policy. Revealing such developments obliquely through oracles and signs is becoming a tiresome pattern with the Obama administration. It certainly doesn't burnish our image of integrity as a global power. And as the Times points out, with masterly understatement, this particular policy shift "could backfire by provoking the Pakistanis."
I agree with Max Boot that the military situation in Afghanistan is not such as to force the Taliban to negotiate. But the apparent import of the outreach to the Taliban is divorced from that consideration. This looks like evidence of an emerging policy initiative to exclude Pakistani influence from the reconciliation talks, independent of security conditions in Afghanistan.
If that is a misperception, it's an awfully big and significant one to leave uncorrected. The U.S. headlines have been full of Pakistani perfidy for weeks now; my impression from the Obama administration's effective silence has been that it has no interest in counteracting the animus that naturally arises in the American public in the face of such themes. In a rare editorial last week, Ryan Crocker, former ambassador to Pakistan and Iraq, was moved to defend the difficult situation of the Pakistani government, urging the U.S. administration not to turn its back on partnership with the struggling democracy. He appears to be swimming against the tide of headlines and administration policy.
Something that requires no divination to understand is the goal of the Taliban. Long War Journal's Threat Matrix blog reports that the Taliban website, Voice of Jihad, has posted a demand that the U.S. guarantee in writing to withdraw its troops on a specified timeline (i.e., July 2011), as a good-faith gesture toward reconciliation talks. It's hard to ignore the uncanny similarity of this demand to Hezbollah's demand for the same guarantee from a prospective Maliki government in Iraq. Maliki's Hezbollah-backed coalition with the radical Shia cleric al-Sadr is emerging as a fait accompli in Baghdad, in spite of U.S. opposition; the Taliban cannot be pessimistic about their own chances with reconciliation talks and a withdrawal timeline.


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The following photos have been released by the U of M police department regarding an armed robbery on campus Wednesday.
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(Memphis) Police are looking for two men who busted into a dorm on the University of Memphis campus and robbed a student at gunpoint. It happened at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Police say two men armed with a gun busted into a dorm in the Carpenter Complex.
A young woman was forced to hand over personal belongings, but she was not injured in the robbery.
"Her mom said her TV and laptop got stolen," Memphis student, Blake Bell, said.
Bell knows one of the four women who live inside the dorm where the robbery took place.
He says the school didn't text him for an hour after the incident.
"I kind of wish I would have known about it earlier so I could have locked the doors," Bell said.
Late this afternoon, school officials went around to the dorms.
"They knocked on our door and told us to be safe to lock our windows and lock all of our doors," he said
One of the girls who lived in the dorm and was robbed told us she was so concerned about the incident that she and one of her other roommates have moved to a different dorm.
Despite the armed robbery, just about every student we spoke with said they still feel their campus is safe.
"Usually things feel very safe on campus. You don't really hear of problems. You get the occasional issue every now and then, but it's usually at night-time not two in the afternoon," UM student, D.J. Stephens, said.
But they are still going to exercise extra caution after today's robbery.
"I'm walking in pairs always keeping my phone on me in case of emergencies," student Zo Vu said.
Police urge students to walk in pairs, and report any suspicious activity.
If you have any information on the crime you are asked to contact 901-678-4357.


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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Humble Smarty is now 2 for 2 as a 9-year-old after drawing clear by 4 1/4 lengths in the $60,000 Nodouble Breeders' at Oaklawn Park on Sunday. Star North finished second in the six-furlong race for Arkansas-breds, while it was another length back in third to Breckenridge.
Humble Smarty made his first start of the year last month at Oaklawn, and won a six-furlong optional claimer in 1:10.60, earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 94. He returned to action in the Nodouble, broke well, and was pressed by Toga's Storm through an opening quarter of 22.24 seconds. Humble Smarty ($4.40) shook his pace rival on the turn, continued to lead through a half-mile in 46.11, and darted home under Alex Birzer, covering the distance in 1:11.19.
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* Jockey Calvin Borel, who is returning from a wrist injury, remains one win shy of career victory 5,000 after his three mounts at Oaklawn on Sunday failed to win. He is named to ride one horse here Thursday, in the seventh race for trainer Lon Wiggins.
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I will win the pick six on Thursday because I am a handicapping genius and I am also very sexy!
70 races, wow! Congratulations to a game old-timer. Mary, this is the 2nd article where you have mentioned the "key role" played by Humble Smarty's owner after the dam died. But you never explain just what the "key role" was...
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10.6: Rotating
Learning Objectives
- Find the image of a point in a rotation in a coordinate plane.
- Recognize that a rotation is an isometry.
Sample Rotations
In this lesson we will study rotations centered at the origin of a coordinate plane. We begin with some specific examples of rotations. Later we will see how these rotations fit into a general formula.
We define a rotation as follows: In a rotation centered at the origin with an angle of rotation of , a point moves counterclockwise along an arc of a circle. The central angle of the circle measures .
The original preimage point is one endpoint of the arc, and the image of the original point is the other endpoint of the arc:
- Rotations centered at the origin move points ______________________ along an arc of a circle.
- For a rotation of , the central angle of the circle measures ____________.
- The preimage point is one endpoint of the _________________ and the image is the other endpoint.
Our first example is rotation through an angle of :
In a rotation, the image of is the point .
- and are the endpoints of a diameter of a circle.
This means that the distance from the point to the origin (or the distance from the point to the origin) is a radius of the circle.
The distance from to the origin equals the distance from ________ to the origin.
- The rotation is the same as a "reflection in the origin."
This means that if we use the origin as a mirror, the point is directly across from the point .
A _____________________________ is also a reflection in the origin.
In a rotation of , the coordinate and the coordinate of the __________________ become the negative versions of the values in the image.
A rotation is an isometry. The image of a segment is a congruent segment:
Use the Distance Formula:
- A rotation is an ___________________________, so distance is preserved.
- When a segment is rotated (or reflected in the origin), its image is a _________________________________ segment.
The next example is a rotation through an angle of . The rotation is in the counterclockwise direction:
In a rotation, the image of is the point .
- and are both radii of the same circle, so .
If and are both radii, then they are the same ______________________.
- is a right angle.
- The acute angle formed by and the axis and the acute angle formed by and the axis are complementary angles.
Remember, complementary angles add up to ________________.
You can see by the coordinates of the preimage and image points, in a rotation:
- the and coordinates are switched AND
- the coordinate is negative.
In a rotation, switch the _________- and _________-coordinates and make the new coordinate _________________________.
A rotation is an isometry. The image of a segment is a congruent segment.
Use the Distance Formula:
Reading Check:
Which of the following are isometries? Circle all that apply:
Example 1
What are the coordinates of the vertices of in a rotation of ?
Point is (4, 6), is (–4, 2), and is (6, –2).
In a rotation, the coordinate and the coordinate are switched AND the new coordinate is made negative:
- becomes : switch and to (6, 4) and make negative (–6, 4)
- becomes : switch and to (2, –4) and make negative (–2, –4)
- becomes : switch and to (–2, 6) and make negative
So the vertices of are (–6, 4), (–2, –4), and (2, 6).
Plot each of these points on the coordinate plane above and draw in each side of the new rotated triangle. Can you see how is rotated to ?
Reading Check:
1. True or false: A rotation is always in the counterclockwise direction.
2. On the coordinate plane below, create a point anywhere you like, and label it .
Then draw a second point that is the image of point rotated .
3. On the coordinate plane above, draw a third point that is the image of your original point rotated .
4. Is a rotation an isometry? Explain.
5. Is a rotation an isometry? Explain.
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How to browse the web on your Apple TV with AirWeb
Apple doesn't offer their Safari web browser on the Apple TV. However, if you have an iPhone or iPad with AirPlay ad the AirWeb app from the App Store you can easily and conveniently beam an optimized web browser right to your Apple TV. What's more, it's by far one of the best ways I've found to browse the internet on a television.
Note that AirWeb is compatible with the iPhone 4s and above as well as the iPad 2 and above. You can use the iPhone 4 but it isn't pretty and you'll need an additional cable attachment.
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Once you've gotten AirWeb installed on your iPhone or iPad, it will take you through a bunch of prompts that show you how to set up and use it. If you already know how to use AirPlay mirroring you should b good to go.
In order to navigate AirWeb, tap on the question mark in the lower left corner of the control screen to view all the shortcuts. For starters, just tap in the address bar at the top and go to a website. From there you can poke around, open a new tab, and more.
When it comes to scrolling, AirWeb supports to main forms, the first being to scroll with two fingers. In my experience I've found this to be a little awkward on the iPhone. It works perfectly find on the iPad however. I much prefer the second method which is to long press on the screen and tilt your iPhone or iPad up and down to scroll. I find this to be more natural and much easier to do without paying attention to the device in your hand.
If you quit AirWeb or disable mirroring, the in-app browser or AirWeb should save all your tabs so next time you mirror, everything is right where you left it. You can also add bookmarks for fast access to your favorite sites right within AirWeb.
I've found AirWeb to be great for times when I'm showing someone something and we don't all want to crouch around my iPad. Or times when I just want to lounge around in the living room and don't have my iPad handy. I just beam my content right to the big screen from my iPhone with AirWeb.
If you happen to try AirWeb out, be sure to let me know what you think in the comments. If you've found another way to browse the web from your Apple TV, feel free to share that too!
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How to browse the web on your Apple TV with AirWeb
Nice! But when I pull up iMore, it was a bit tricky to log in, finally got a plain text page that said success and then refreshed and was logged in. Then, trying to navigate to a story (this one to comment) I get a 404 error.
EDIT: Restarting the app seemed to fix it, but submitting any comment throws up an error/code page. Any thoughts to why? I will try some other sites, but this may be a case of good to browse, not good to interact with (comment, etc)
For iPhones 5 and up, not much as they are 16:9 aspect ratio. But for the 4S and iPads, it will eliminate the pillar boxes as they are 4:3 aspect ratio. That's the obvious visual difference. Also the gesture controls.
I think it's a really cool app, a great an intuitive way to browse the web using the Apple TV, it really annoyed me to mirror safari on the Apple TV cuz I had to constantly look at the phone... What's the point? The app is great I encourage everyone to give it a try.
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Effective April 30th, 2013 the US Custom and Border Protection (CBP) has automated Form I-94 (arrival/departure record)at air and sea ports of entry to the US. I-94 paper form, issued by CBP when you enter the US, will no longer be provided to an international traveler upon arrival. CBP will continue to issue paper I-94 records at all land borders and at secondary inspection.
It is not going to impact your re-entry as long as your visa is valid, your I-20 was recently endorsed with a travel signature and you are maintaining an F-1 status. The paper I-94 form will not be attached to your passport by the border control officer. Instead, an electronic record of your entry will be created but not provided to you. However, your I-94 information will now be made available online.
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It may (especially at the initial phase of implementation) affect your future benefits. Therefore, we recommend the following steps:
Once you have entered the U.S., you will be able to access your I-94 admission record and information online though the following link: http://www.cbp.gov/I94. You will be required to enter your passport and entry information in order to obtain your I-94 record. This record will continue to be available to you while you remain in the U.S. Once you depart the United States, this online record will no longer be available for you to view.
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Czarcie Kopyto (Devil's hoof) - Double bass pedal from Poland
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Re: Czarcie Kopyto (Devil's hoof) - Double bass pedal from Poland
I have a Trick Dominator and the compression spring has an interesting bounce to it. I'm using it to work on a technique that involves stringing together heel-toe triplets on a single pedal into running double bass patterns when using both feet.
It has a slightly different sound than when playing heel-toe doubles sequentially. The interesting thing is that "pause" you have when playing doubles with heel-toe (I think of them as accents, galloping metal with an emphasis on every other kick :)) is less prominent when playing those triplets.
It struck me more because I got these pedals a few days back and achieving a sound like that (which I haven't really seen employed by other people) seems like a positive step for me.
The feel is there, I lack consistency with the triplets. I used to play heel up, but heel-toe seems like an easier way to generate more speed with less effort. Would like to include a short section on that aspect in a review video I'm planning.
Just wanted to throw that in there, seeing that a lot of people think the compression spring is just like an expression spring, or is inferior. Seeing is believing, of course.
Jeff Almeyda, might be a language issue! Sorry to hear about your Demon Drives, that's horrible.
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