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A Los Angeles Primer: An Introduction
In 1967, Dennis Hopper and David Hemmings (whom you'll remember as the troubled young photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up") made a plan to reveal Los Angeles. "London is supposed to be the swinging city," the 25-year-old Hemmings told Roger Ebert, "but Los Angeles has the opportunity to become the next great city of the world. What Dennis Hopper and I are going to show in our Los Angeles Primer is, we hope, an exhibition of what is happening in Los Angeles. Some of the artifacts that make the city a work of art. Cheap restaurant glasses that, in a century, will be collector's items. Street signs. Buildings. And the people."
"Will he and Hopper use photographs?" Ebert wrote.
"Yes, where they are appropriate."
"And the actual objects?"
"Yes, the actual objects in some cases. And the people, too, who are the real artwork of this city."
"But surely you aren't going to put people in an art gallery?
"Just you wait and see."
Thirty-five years later, Hemmings reminisced to Stuart Jeffries of The Age:
"Did that really happen?" asked Jeffries, understandably.
"If you wanted to report that we did, Dennis would back me up."
Hemmings and Hopper have gone, as has the Los Angeles on which they meant to prime us. Yet some Angelenos saw the city as having already turned sour even then. Others now look back to a colorful variety of last great Los Angeleses: sun-bleached twenty-minute beachward drives; paradisical quasi-suburban childhoods; punk rock and junk food. These remembered cities, like Hemmings' and Hopper's, don't look much like the one I live in. None align perfectly with the place Clive James alternately marveled at and ridiculed in his postcards for the Observer, nor the one whose built environment Reyner Banham celebrated in "The Architecture of Four Ecologies." And how much do any of them have in common with the setting of novels like John Fante's "Ask the Dust," Christopher Isherwood's "A Single Man," and Richard Rayner's "Los Angeles Without a Map," or the empty settings painted by David Hockney and Ed Ruscha?
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No two people have ever lived in exactly the same Los Angeles. Sheer size has something to do with that, not to mention practical boundaries. With four million inhabitants and 500 square miles in within its bizarre-looking official border alone, the city takes on barely thinkable proportions when you include everywhere someone might live and still call "Los Angeles." This dilution of effective residency does strange things to the city's psychology; ask someone who claims to hate living in Los Angeles where exactly they call home, and half the time it lays as far from downtown as Parsippany, New Jersey does from Manhattan. Parsippanites, like everyone else, blame their frustrations on many things, but not, surely, that they live in New York.
You could argue, as cinephiles do about Hemmings himself, over whether Los Angeles delivered on its youthful promise. A decade before "The Simpsons," Matt Groening self-published a comic book, later to become a Los Angeles Reader strip, called "Life in Hell." He meant to provide an introduction to Los Angeles, a project like Hemmings and Hopper's optimistic one of the 1960s, but reflecting the notably less exuberant mood of the late 1970s. Growing up, I pored over all the "Life in Hell" comics I could get in the Seattle of the nineties, a city dosing the national zeitgeist with equal parts Nirvana, Microsoft, and Starbucks. Seattle was "young," "high-tech," "edgy," "hip," and "livable." Los Angeles was, well, hell. Yet the waves of emigration to Los Angeles from every other city in America, Seattle included -- from nearly every city in the world -- never stopped. Openly loathed yet so obviously attractive; that town had to have something going for it, and something unusual indeed.
New Yorkers' famous complaints about their town express the resilient pride of the masochist. Complaining Angelenos always sounded different to me, deeply resigned but promisingly so. Infuriating traffic, semi-breathable air, and a mindlessly grasping population, no matter how despairingly evoked, prompted no actual desire to leave. One can indeed craft one's own private hell here, especially in the Sisyphean lower tiers of the entertainment industry. But for every Angeleno doing so, many more appear to live in, if not heaven, then at least somewhere with considerably better food than the underworld. Even that sub-Hollywood gofer has his pleasures, exist though he may in a socially, industrially, stylistically, psychologically, linguistically, and geographically different Los Angeles than I do. My immediate neighbors, for the most part permanent, temporary, or officially nonexistent immigrants from Korea, Mexico, and Central America, experience a different city altogether. If we feel unwilling or unable to visit each other's Los Angeles, so much the worse for everyone involved.
The always multiplying, subdividing, subjective experiences and perceptions of Los Angeles make for an infinitely more interesting city to write about than any single, objective place. Hence my own project, a book which takes the name of "A Los Angeles Primer" and extends its spirit to the many Los Angeleses of the 21st century. Each week, this column will adapt an essay on one aspect of the city from the book-in-progress.
A San Franciscan friend told me that, if I tried to write about San Francisco after only a few years there, a tide of locals of thirty, forty, fifty years' standing would soon rise, demanding to know where a Johnny-come-lately gets off observing their hometown. Los Angeles, by surprising contrast, gives equal weight to the perceptions of a disoriented arriviste and a native hardened by decades of sun and thousands of freeway miles. They each have their own Los Angeles, as I have mine, as you have yours, and as every famous observer has had theirs. If any piece of understanding can lay the foundation of a useful Los Angeles primer, there it is.
Portions of this essay originally appeared on colinmarshall.org.
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JONATHAN TROTT inched England towards their historic series triumph and was at
the centre of a big spat along the way.
With England needing to bat for around 120 overs in their second innings to
make the Fourth Test safe, Trott was the perfect man of the job.
He likes nothing more than blocking and grinding and occupying the crease for
huge periods of time.
But, when he survived an appeal for a catch behind off Ishant Sharma when he
had scored 43, India's patience boiled over.
Sharma had a verbal pop at Trott and then Virat Kohli piled in with some
choice words. It did not affect Trott, of course, and he simply blew a kiss
and leaned calmly on his bat.
TV relays showed he did not touch the ball, either.
Later, spin bowler Ravi Ashwin stopped in his delivery stride and warned Trott
for leaving his crease — with the clear implication that, next time, he
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Trott had already risked the wrath of the home team by whacking a four, hockey
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Trott was perfectly entitled to jog over and hit the ball, of course, but a
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Trott finished day four on 66 not out and, with Ian Bell having reached 24,
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The day began with India dispaying some bizarre tactics. Instead of attempting
to score quick runs and get bowling at England again, No.8 Ashwin turned
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The populist politician Pim Fortuyn beat off all-comers, from Vincent van Gogh to Johan Cruyff, in a poll yesterday to find the "greatest" Dutch person in history.
The populist politician Pim Fortuyn beat off all-comers, from Vincent van Gogh to Johan Cruyff, in a poll yesterday to find the "greatest" Dutch person in history.
The controversial result of the month-long contest which drew hundreds of thousands of votes in the Netherlands came just two weeks after the killing of Theo van Gogh - the great-grand-nephew of the Dutch Master - which sparked a wave of anti-immigrant feeling.
Mr Fortuyn, 54, became the first victim of a political assassination in Holland in more than 300 years, when he was gunned down by an animal rights activist on 6 May 2002, nine days before a general election.
With nationalist feeling running high, the right-wing icon left even William of Orange, glorified as "Father of the Fatherland", as an also-ran.
As a parliamentary candidate, Mr Fortuyn broke the mould of Dutch consensus politics by promoting a strong anti-immigration stance. Openly gay, his sharp mind, combative style and campaigning against bureaucracy endeared him to much of the public who had grown unhappy with the backroom dealings in The Hague.
The contest prompted a massive public response as people cast their votes via telephone or internet, spurred on by celebrities who took turns to champion one of 10 final-round candidates. Mr Fortuyn was declared the winner with 115,000 votes, compared with 111,000 for William of Orange.
Willem van Oranje, as he is known to the Dutch, had to accept second place despite being the man who led the Netherlands to independence by spearheading a Protestant revolt against the Catholic Spanish in the 16th century. Willem Drees, the architect of Holland's post-war welfare state, and still affectionately known as "Father Drees", was a distant third, along with the footballing icon Johan Cruyff.
William of Orange supporters may turn to the American model to have their candidate declared the winner after the television company KRO, which oversaw the vote, admitted that late ballots favoured their man. When the result was declared, Mr Fortuyn, who never held public office, led by around 4,000 votes, but late voting cast a different picture with the "Father of the Fatherland" winning by more than 31,000.
Rembrandt van Rijn
The ultimate Dutch Master, Rembrandt is a giant figure in the history of art, whose enormous body of work launched Holland's Golden Age in the 17th century. His works, which today command huge prices, were enormously influential within the artist's own lifetime. He used his singular brushwork, incomparable use of colour and mastery of light and shadow radically to change the way people viewed one another. He portrayed religious figures as human, and humans as soulful and poetic. Though his life was marked time and again by tragedy and trouble, his art grew ever more light and soaring. The only sibling of a large family to receive a formal education, he dropped out of college to pursue painting in a move that delivered him fame and fortune. His legacy includes a remarkable series of self-portraits, almost a hundred of them (including some 20 etchings) which were executed throughout his long career. Together they give us a remarkably clear picture of the man, his looks, and - more importantly - his emotions, as age, misfortune and sorrow etch wrinkles and lines in his face. In all, Rembrandt produced around 600 paintings, 300 etchings, and 2,000 drawings.
Vincent van Gogh
Despite being second only to Rembrandt in the roll-call of Dutch Masters, Van Gogh has become a paradigm for posthumous recognition. He had little or no success during his lifetime and relied on his brother for money. He produced all of his work during a single decade before succumbing to mental illness (possibly bipolar disorder). Aged 37 he committed suicide. Today, several of his works rank among the most expensive in the world.
Anne Frank
The diary she kept helped the world to put a name and a recognisable face to the anonymous millions who died in the Holocaust. It records the experiences of the Frank family and friends hiding in an Amsterdam attic from July 1942 to escape Nazi persecution. They were betrayed two years later and Anne died of typhus in a concentration camp in March 1945. The diary has sold more than 25 million copies in 55 languages.
Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff was the ultimate exponent of the football philosophy known as Total Football. As a player, he was known for his grace, reflexes and mesmeric ball skills. The latter gave rise to the Cruyff turn, a dazzling trick even elite footballers struggle to emulate. His career spanned 48 caps and 33 international goals, and highlights include winning the European Cup three times (1971-3) with Ajax, a hat-trick of European Player of the Year awards and leading Holland to runners-up spot in the 1974 World Cup.
Rutger Hauer
Bruekelen-born Hauer made the move to Hollywood in the 1980s on the strength of a string of psychopathic roles, including a blond android intent on killing Harrison Ford's hard-boiled detective in Ridley Scott's seminal sci-fi movie Blade Runner. He terrified a generation of drivers with his portrayal of a serial killer in the horror classic The Hitcher. After making a string of straight-to-video action movies, he cashed in on his hardman image by starring in a host of big-budget adverts.
Ruud Lubbers
Prime minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994, and politically a conservative, Lubbers was regarded by many as an heir to Margaret Thatcher. Born in Rotterdam, he studied economics at the Erasmus University under the first Nobel Prize laureate in economics, Jan Tinbergen. He is the country's longest-serving prime minister, and after leaving office became the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Disc jockey
The King of Trance was modestly billed at this summer's Olympics as the biggest DJ in the world. That's quite a fillip for Tijs Verwest, whose fans insist: "Listening to his music is like going on a awesome roller-coaster ride." This year, Tiësto has had a world tour, produced two albums, and performed at the opening of the Athens Games. He topped it off by claiming the world's top DJ award for the third year in a row.
Mata Hari
Dancer and spy
Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, a Dutch exotic dancer who was accused, convicted and executed as a spy during the First World War. Born in Leeuwarden, she moved to Paris after a failed marriage, where she posed as a princess from Java and had affairs with a string of powerful men. She famously declared at her trial: "Harlot, yes. But traitress? Never!"
William of Orange
Father of monarchy
William, Prince of Orange, led a Dutch revolt against the Spanish in 1568 that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the independence of the Netherlands. A wealthy nobleman, William became unhappy with the Spanish persecution of Dutch Protestants, and turned against his former masters. The Dutch national anthem, known as "The Wilhelmus", commemorates him.
Priest and scholar
Born in Rotterdam, Erasmus was an ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He was acquainted with most of the scholars of Europe and his circle of friends was especially large in England; it included Thomas More and Henry VIII. Erasmus's works are mainly satirical and critical. Erasmus was finally brought into open conflict with Luther, and attacked his position on predestination in On the Freedom of the Will.
Sylvia Kristel
Sylvia Kristel starred in the title role of the 1974 movie Emmanuelle, a soft-porn exploration of the sexual awakening of a young European in Thailand that spawned a never-ending series of spin-offs. The daughter of strict Calvinist parents, Kristel has registered an IQ of 164, and completed her higher education by the age of 15. However, she took up modelling at 17.
Hieronymus Bosch
The prolific Dutch painter was a master at depicting sin and human moral failings. His works contained complex and highly original symbolic figures and iconography, some of which became the inspiration for 20th-century surrealists. Among his most famous works is The Garden of Earthly Delights, which shows Paradise, Earth, and Hell, with depictions of fantastic punishments.
Paul Verhoeven
Film director
Among the few Europeans to make it in the Hollywood film industry, Verhoeven is best known for violent and special-effects movies such as Starship Troopers, Robocop and Total Recall. His other films include Basic Instinct. He started making obscure documentaries while in the Dutch navy. His first major success came in 1969 with the television series Floris, starring his compatriot Rutger Hauer.
Baruch Spinoza
Born in Amsterdam to a family of Portuguese-Spanish Jews, Spinoza was to become one of the great rationalists of 17th-century philosophy. He is considered the founder of modern biblical criticism. Known as both the "Greatest Christian" and the "Greatest Atheist", Spinoza contended that "God" and "Nature" were two names for the same reality. His local synagogue rewarded him for his work by expelling him.
Hendrik Berlage
The father of modern Dutch architecture, Berlage advocated a return to simplicity of form and clarity of line. His theories can be seen most clearly at work in the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (1898-1903) and the Diamond Workers' Union Building (1899-1900). An admirer of Frank Lloyd Wright, Berlage greatly influenced the Amsterdam School of architecture, and modern urban planning.
Willem Barents
Willem Barents was the Dutch navigator and explorer who gave his name to the Barents Sea. In the late 16th century he made three pioneering voyages in search of the North-east Passage. On the third voyage, his vessel became trapped in the ice and he was compelled to winter in the north. His crew left the ship in two open boats on 13 June 1597 and most escaped, but Barents died on 30 June.
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit
Born in Danzig, Prussia (now Gdansk, Poland) Fahrenheit spent much of his life in Amsterdam, in his adopted country of the Netherlands. He spent his career making meteorological instruments and invented the first mercury thermometer in 1917. He also invented the hygrometer (which measures atmospheric humidity) but is best known for lending his name to the temperature scale.
Fanny Blankers-Koen
Olympic medallist
The "Flying Housewife" became a Dutch legend when as a mother of two she won four gold medals at the 1948 London Olympics in the 100m, 200m, 800m hurdles, and the 4x100m relay. At the time, women athletes were frowned upon. No woman has surpassed her tally of four golds on the track and she was named Athlete of the Century in 1999, five years before her death.
Jan Sweelinck
A composer and organist, Sweelinck was among the most influential and sought-after teachers of his time. He wrote over 250 vocal works, including motets and madrigals, but is best known for his 70 keyboard works, which include monumental fugal fantasias, concise toccatas and well-ordered variation sets. Amsterdam's music school, the Sweelinck Conservatorium, is named after him.
Hendrikje van Andel
Oldest woman
Hendrikje van Andel was declared the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of Records in July this year. A retired Dutch needlework teacher with a passion for football, she celebrated her 114th birthday in a retirement home in the northern Dutch town of Hoogeveen. She ascribes her longevity to her diet: "I eat a herring and drink a glass of orange juice every day."
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- Rapists: Villains who commit rape.
- Reactionary Villains: Villains who desire or intend to turn the world back to the way it was once before.
- Reality-Butchers: Villains that have successfully destroyed entire universes, dimensions, or realities. These are arguably among the most destructive and chaotic villains.
- Reality-Warpers: Villains that control reality and can, quite literally, do anything they wish.
- Redeemed Villains: Villains that have "turned to good." This can include those who were and are no longer possessed by an evil force or those who have decided to join the hero.
- Remorseful Villains: Villains who feel guilt, remorse and/or sorrow for the crimes they have done.
- Reptilian Villains: Villains who are reptiles or include reptilian features, motifs, or powers.
- Revolutionary Villains: Villains who are focused entirely upon the future.
- Rich Villains: A villain who has lots of money.
- Right-Hand: The personal assistant and adviser to a major villain, often their second–in–command. Right-hands can serve as major villains in their own right.
- Robot: A mechanical villain; a humanoid android or robotic beast. All Non-biological beings.
- Rogue Villains: A villain who works alone. They commit their evil without any help from henchmen, or an army.
- Sadists: Villains who take pleasure from making people suffer.
- Sadomasichists: Villains who love causing pain to themselves.
- Satanism: Villains that practice Devil-worship.
- Satan: The in-universe depiction of Satan or its closest counterpart. The source of Evil, who controls all demons and malevolent beings, and most often ruler of Hell.
- Scapegoat: A villain that is punished way more than he or she would actually deserve, which is the exact opposite of a Karma Houdini.
- Scythemen: Villains whose primary weapons are scythes or sickles.
- Seeker of Vengeance: A villain who wants to avenge one or more of their colleagues or relatives, or seeks to get back at someone who wronged them.
- Serial Killer: A villain who kills individual people over a period of time.
- Shape-Shifter: A villain who can change their appearance at will.
- Shieldmen: Villains who commonly use shields to defend themselves, and often as a weapon.
- Singing Villains: Villains who are in musicals or sing one or several songs during the course of the story.
- Size Shifter: A villain who can change their size to bigger or smaller.
- Slashers: A special type of mass murderer found in slasher films.
- Slavedrivers: Villains who force others into physical labor or own living sapient beings.
- Slaveholders: Villains who take part in the act of owning and using slaves.
- Slimes: Slimes are villains who are made of or can transform into slime, goo, or another viscous material. They tend to be amorphous and large in size.
- Snuff filmers: Villains who combine murder and film into an even more serious crime.
- Spiritual Destroyers: Villains who either oppress the followers of a faith or try to corrupt said faith, tempting its followers to abbandon the path.
- Social Darwinists: Villains who believe in "survival of the fittest" and often seek to create a society or world in which only the most ruthless of individuals would exist to father the next generation.
- Sociopaths: Villains who suffer from clinical sociopathy: they lack a moral sense of right or wrong, are unable to sympathize and feel no guilt over their actions.
- Sophisticated Villain : Villains who are higly refined, and always use there manners.
- Sorcerer: A villain who masters magic, mostly Dark Magic.
- Sorceress: A villainess with innate magical power, without being a witch in the litteral sense of the term.
- Spear Users: Villainous warriors whose primary weapons are spears.
- Spoiled Brats: Usually younger villains who want something they can't have or consider that everything is due to them.
- Successful Villain: A villain who success his or her ultimate goals.
- Supervillain: The opposite of a superhero, who has incredible and unique abilities, either through actual superpowers or use of gadgets. Supervillains make numerous appearances and often will win against the hero on occasion.
- Supremacist: A villain who believes his or her species / ideology / religion is inherently superior to all others.
- Supreme Being: Similar to Satan, this is the in-universe depiction of the traditional monotheistic God of most western religions as a villain.
- Staff Wielders: Villains whose power derives from a staff.
- Stalkers : Villains who like to stalk certain people, eitheir by obsessive or murderous reasons.
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- Villains who Don't Speak: Villains who didn't say a word, reasons because they refuse talk or because they don't have a language to speak.
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- Villains with Dual Personalities: Villains who have a split personality.
- Villains with Superhuman Strength: Villains who possesses super high levels of strength than normal strength.
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|This is a discussion on Re-entry tournaments (seem like rebuys to me) within the online poker forums, in the Tournament Poker section; I've been looking at some of the poker tournament schedules in Las Vegas, and for the $100 and under games, every single one that I've
Re-entry tournaments (seem like rebuys to me)
I've been looking at some of the poker tournament schedules in Las Vegas, and for the $100 and under games, every single one that I've found is a re-entry tournament. It's been a while since I've played poker at all... is this the new thing now?
Personally, I don't like rebuy tournaments. They're crazy in the beginning and the larger bankrolls can essentially buy their way past the beginning stages. What about re-entries? Doesn't the same thing happen? These are not multi-day tournaments, so isn't a re-entry essentially the same as a rebuy?
Any hints on how this might change strategy for someone used to no rebuys? I suppose tighten up while things are crazy during the first hour?
Thanks. Any help is appreciated!
They aren't rebuys they are re entry to the tournament and not really similar.
Re entries are completely different to rebuys. If you bust one; and re enter straight after or before the late registration ends and you will rejoin as another entrant at a different table.
They are good for both the recreational players and the better players. Recreational players will keep playing bad thus donating more $$$ to the prize pool. The better players will have an edge so if they run bad and bust they can re-enter the same tournament.
Rentry tournaments, you pay the rake on every entry whereas rebuys you do not. Typically you get less rentries than you get rebuys. One of the latest twists in bigger tournaments is that you can choose what chip stack to play with, for example, starting stacks are T$40K, you pay/play day 1A and end up with T$38K, pay/play day 1B ending with T$32K, so now you can either buyin again at start of day 2 for starting stack or play with day 1A stack. I suspect play on day 1 will get a lot wilder as this format takes over so bigger tournaments can hit their guarantee.
re: Poker & Re-entry tournaments (seem like rebuys to me)
Many casinos as well that offer re-entry tournaments if there are alternate lists, you will go to the end of the alternate list if you re-enter, where as in a rebuy trny you just sit in your seat and continually buy chips
OK... I see the difference now. So essentially with a re-entry, the difference from a rebuy is that you:
(1) Repay fees;
(2) Go to the back of the waiting list;
(3) Get reseated.
OK, I think my game can handle that. I can even see a huge benefit: if you get knocked out early, you have an opportunity to play again.
How about this situation: if you get knocked out right near the end of the re-entry period (let's say it's one hour), and there is another tournament starting at a card room next door, would it be better to start fresh at the other card room as opposed to buying another entry at the current room?
Starting from the beginning while everyone else has an hour up on you seems like a disadvantage to me. Then again, sometimes just breaking even after an hour isn't so bad. Anyone have any seasoned advice in this area? I seem to remember reading somewhere that re-entry after too much time has gone by is -EV versus using that money to start a fresh tournament.
Thanks again! CC has the most knowledgeable poker players around!
Now, the good thing is that unlike a rebuy they have to go and "re-enter" the tournament as a new player and they will be reseated in a new table/seat. So it can be less likely that you will have to deal with them again if they bust.
the pluses for you are the same as a rebuy where you can buy in with a smaller investment into a larger prize pool if you dont re-enter yourself.
I think re-entry tourneys are better than rebuys for players that don't like the crazy rebuy aggressive players since they can be reseated away from you.
If you're the one that rebuys and re-enters then as said before everytime you re-enter you pay the house again.
re: Poker & Re-entry tournaments (seem like rebuys to me)
You've got to be real careful from a +EV perspective with re-entry tournaments.
My local casino allows this for every one of their tournaments and they usually allow 4 full hours (8 levels) though sometimes it will be 2 hours depending on a few variables that I won't bother naming here.
Consider at $310 buy-in tournament that yields 400BB starting stacks with 30 minute levels. By end of the re-entry period a re-entry stack is 13BB (I see people re-enter here all the time by the way – haha).
Anyway, if we assume that we will re-enter and we average our starting stack, we will be starting with 48-50BB per re- entry at a price of double the entry fee. My local casino runs about a 14% rake which is probably on the high end but…
Let's assume $260/$40/$10 for our example here with 100 entrants (which probably includes 20-30 re-entries). The prize pool would be $26,000 and 10 would be paid. A 10th place finish would yield ~$988 and 1st place would be ~$8,300; mean cash would be $2,600.
We know a cash only occurs at best 20% of the time – therefore 80% of the time we lose. If we consider 10 tournaments with two entries each would cost us $6200 in buy-ins, if we cash 20% of the time we would return $5200 on average. This also says nothing for the fact that a re-entry stack starts 1/8 as deep as an entry stack which is going to drastically affect our cash percentage.
Now if we did 1 to 3 re-entries for every 10 tournaments the numbers are probably +EV, the only variable being when you cash, when you do not, and how big you cash. But at the end, re-entry events are a sucker bet that attracts lots of suckers.


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Asus Enters Single Board Computer Market with Tinker Board
Subject: General Tech | January 29, 2017 - 12:53 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: asus, tinker board, Rockchip, rk3288, cortex a17, Raspberry Pi, sbc, 4k, kodi, xbmc
Asus is jumping into the single board computer market with its 90MB0QY1-M0EAY0 Tinker Board. With a physical layout matching the latest Raspberry Pi 3, the Tinker Board offers up faster hardware including support for 4K H.264 video decode.
The single board PC offers up the following I/O options:
- 4 x USB 2.0
- 1 x Gigabit Ethernet
- 1 x HDMI 2.0
- 1 x Micro SD (UHS-1)
- 1 x Micro USB (for power)
- 1 x Audio (192 Hz / 24 bit)
- 40 pin header (28 pin GPIO)
- 1 x CSI (camera)
- 1 x DSI (display)
- PWM and S/PDIF solder points
Asus has opted to use a 32-bit ARM processor to power the device rather than the 64-bit SoC found in the Raspberry Pi 3. Specifally, Asus is using the Rockchip RK3288 which features four ARM Cortex A17 CPU cores clocked at 1.8 GHz and a Mali-T764 GPU. The SoC is paired with 2GB of LPDDR3 memory and wireless radios for 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0.
Compared to the Raspberry Pi, the Asus Tinker Board has twice the RAM and allegedly twice the processing power with GeekBench score of 3,925 versus the Pi's 2,092. The Mali-T764 GPU is capable of 4K H.264 (and 10-bit H.265) video decoding which makes it better than the Pi which can only do 1080p in hardware. The cores are clocked faster on the Tinker Board but obviously do not support 64-bit instructions. The increase of system memory is perhaps the biggest boon for those looking to use it for a cheap desktop or media streamer. And for those using analog audio, Asus has included its own audio solution that is, at least on paper, much better than the Pi's.
The Asus SBC reportedly uses up to 5 watts of power with an average power usage of 2.25 watts when playing back a 1080p video with a HDMI display attached.
The Tinker Board at launch is compatible with Debian OS and Kodi media playback software.
The physical layout matches that of the Pi meaning it should be compatible with cases and is potentially a drop in replacement for products powered by a Pi so long as it can supply enough power.
It is currently available from British retailer Farnell for £45.83 ($56.91) or £55 ($68.30) with VAT. It does not appear to be avaiable on this side of the pond quite yet but you can import it if you want to get your hands on it.
More competition in the single board PC space is a good thing, but I do wonder how successful the Asus Tinker Board will be. It is faster, but it is also nearly twice as expensive as the Pi. A lot is going to depend on how well it is received by the software and modding communities and how well Asus supports that Rockchip processor with various Linux distributions and applications at launch and over time. The Pi's VideoCore IV GPU is closed source and getting information from Broadcom is a pain, but at least it is a known quantity at this point and the boards using it (like the Pi) have the market share and community support to get things working with it. I am also curious how well the audio solution works and whether or not the Gigabit Ethernet port can actually hit gigabit speeds.
What are your thoughts on the Asus Tinker Board?
Raspberry Pi Foundation Updates Compute Module With Faster Processor
Subject: General Tech | January 22, 2017 - 12:11 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: Raspberry Pi, compute module, Raspberry Pi 3, broadcom, iot
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is introducing an updated Compute Module that puts the single board computer for embedded devices more in line with the performance of the newest hobbyist Raspberry Pi 3.
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 is a pin compatible successor to the Compute Module 1 (there is no CM2) that, according to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, offers twice the RAM and 10-times the CPU performance.
Note that while the Compute Module 3 may be able to be a drop in upgrade / replacement for devices powered by the first generation CM1, it uses more power, puts out more heat, and is 1mm taller so while it is pin compatible it may not work in all devices if their module slot space, power supply, and airflow / heatsinks are not up to the task.
The Compute Module 3 is a small single board computer with a SO-DIMM connector that can slot into embedded and IoT products. It is powered by a Broadcom BCM2837 with four ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores clocked at 1.2 GHz and a dual core VIdeoCore IV GPU clocked at 400 MHz. The processor is paired with 1GB of RAM. As far as onboard storage, the Compute Module 3 will come in two SKUs: the CM3 with 4GB of eMMC or a CM3 Lite without pre-installed eMMC and solder points for manufacturers to add their own eMMC or micro SD card slot. The VideoCore IV GPU supports 1080p30 decode of H.264. Users wanting hardware decode of H.265 and/or 4K support will have to look elsewhere. As is usual with Broadcom, exact specifications of the BCM2837 (especially their GPU) are kept close and quiet, unfortunately.
The exact ports and I/O from the Compute Module 3 will depend on the device and what manufacturers implement and wire to the connectors on the SO-DIMM slot. However, looking at the CMIO3 development board (96 Euros, $116 USD) shows that the CM3 supports GPIO, USB, micro USB, CSI (camera interface), DSI (display interface), HDMI, micro SD, audio, and networking.
The Compute Module 3 can run Windows IOT Core or any number of Linux distributions compatible with ARM processors.
The Compute Module 3 is $30 while the "lite" variant without eMMC is $25. A kit including the development I/O board and both CM3 SKUs is $200. NEC has already announced it will be using the new Compute Module 3 in their digital signage and displays. Other applications include Smart TVs, home automation, and industrial control systems as well as hobbyist projects and robotics.
The RasPi gets better looking, or at least the camera does
Subject: General Tech | April 25, 2016 - 02:24 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: IMX219, Raspberry Pi
The camera kit for the Raspberry Pi has just received an update, both the IR and visible light modules will now ship with an 8MP sensor, a nice jump from the current 5MP module. Even better for a system designed specifically for low cost solutions is the news that the price will remain unchanged and the new camera will cost you the same as the previous. The Inquirer reports that one of the main reasons for the change is that the OmniVision OV5647 sensor previously used can no longer be sourced. If you use your Raspberry Pi for applications requiring a camera, you should look at your current projects to see if the jump in resolution provide by the IMX219 sensor will benefit you.
"Fortunately, we'd already struck up conversation with Sony's image sensor division, and in the nick of time we're able to announce the immediate availability of visible light and infrared cameras based on the Sony IMX219 8MP sensor at the same low price of $25.""
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Modder replaces eMMC chip in Google Nexus 5 with 64GB version @ The Inquirer
- Google Appears To Be Working On Bringing Android Apps to Chrome OS @ Slashdot
- Here Come the x86 Hacker Boards @ Linux.com
- Windows 10: Microsoft fears borkage from auto updates and 1,000 users agree @ The Inquirer
- Microsoft, Google bury hatchet – surprisingly, not in each other @ The Register
- DXRacer King Series (OH/KX28/NB) PC Gaming Chair @ Modders-Inc
Would you like some fresh Steaming Raspberry Pi?
Subject: General Tech | March 21, 2016 - 01:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Raspberry Pi, kick ass
Not only is powering a Raspberry Pi with a steam engine incredibly impressive, its make a lot of sense to use during the winter in Sweden. A pair of propane blowtorches is used to heat the water to steam and the pressure created is used to turn a simple two cylinder engine which in turn is used to turn a simple DC electric motor which then powers the Pi. If the power goes out you might not be able to browse the internet on it, but this Pi will keep running as long as you have water and propane. You can follow the link from The Register for videos and notes, although they are in Swedish, hopefully Skype add that language to their instantaneous translation service soon.
"A Swedish schoolboy has built a miniature steam engine to power his Raspberry Pi. It is a piece of absolute engineering beauty."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- A Logic Named Joe: The 1946 sci-fi short that nailed modern tech @ The Register
- Anti-Hack: Free Automated SSL Certificates @ Hack a Day
- Updategate: Microsoft U-turns on Intel Skylake and leaves Lumia owners in the lurch @ The Inquirer
- Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings @ Slashdot
- ACTIVEON CX Gold @ TechwareLabs
- Facebook, WhatsApp farewell BlackBerry @ The Register
- Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers @ [H]ard|OCP
- NETGEAR Nighthawk X4S R7800 AC2600 Wireless Router @ Missing Remoe
Raspberry Pi Zero Released for $5
Subject: Systems | November 26, 2015 - 04:51 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Raspberry Pi, raspberry pi zero
The Raspberry Pi Zero is a new version that lowers the cost of gigahertz-class computing devices to just $5. It is based on a 1.0 GHz ARM11 core from Broadcom that is about 40% faster than the original Raspberry Pi. It also has 512MB of RAM, which is a lot for embedded or hobbyist applications. In fact, it doubles the original Raspberry Pi Model A (and is on part with the Model B). Storage is handled by a microSD card slot, as is the case with every previous Raspberry Pi except the Compute Module.
They also offer an alternative to the $5 price tag. If you pick up the print edition of MagPi magazine #40, which is the Christmas 2015 issue, you will receive a free Raspberry Pi Zero. The Raspberry Pi Foundation says that they printed 10,000 copies of this magazine. This is probably much more interesting than a CD-ROM demo of Battlezone II.
Due to high demand, I'm not sure when you can expect to get one though.
Western Digital PiDrive Kit Easily Adds 1TB of Storage to Your Raspberry Pi
Subject: General Tech, Storage | October 15, 2015 - 09:05 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: western digital, Raspberry Pi, external hard drive
Western Digital recently made storage simpler when it comes to the Raspberry Pi micro computer. The aptly-named PiDrive Kit allows you to easily pair the company's 1TB 2.5" hard drive with the SFF PC.
Released last week, the PiDrive Kit consists of a 1TB laptop-style mechanical hard drive, a custom Micro USB cable, a microSD card, and a 5V USB AC power adapter. The hard drive has a micro USB 3.0 port (though the Raspberry Pi only supports 2.0 speeds) for data and power. One end of the cable connects to the drive. The cable then breaks out into three cables which connect to one of the Pi's USB ports, the Pi's micro USB power input, and the USB wall adapter. This allows the drive and Raspberry Pi to be powered off of one USB connection.
Looking up the model number from the WD website, it looks like the hard drives are part of the company's Passport Ultra line. The biggest bottleneck is likely to be the USB 2.0 interface, especially when it comes to burst speeds though. The included micro SD card (WD does not specify capacity or speeds) can be used to test out alternative operating systems or to test out setting up the external storage in Linux without messing with your main development install.
If you are using a Raspberry Pi Model B+ or a Pi 2 Model B and need a hefty terabyte of storage, WD has a simple option that is currently for sale on their website for $52. I'm sure enthusiasts will find uses for the massive storage upgrade beyond what micro SD can offer (at the moment).
Is it time to dust off the Pi?
Jamming WiFi on the cheap
Subject: General Tech | October 13, 2015 - 01:07 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: security, Raspberry Pi
With a Raspberry Pi and a cheap WiFi dongle a researcher has shown an effective way to completely block 2.4Ghz transmissions in a 120 metre radius. By disabling the backoff wait time, aka Short Interframe Space (SIFS), which is accomplished by firmware modification the WiFi dongle will continually resend a frame and block any device with a higher bitrate. This will block WiFI, Bluetooth and most IoT devices including security systems. They did not provide the source code used in this procedure, so you won't be able to block your friends for your own amusement but security researchers can reach out to the inventor for access to see if there are ways to circumvent this vulnerability. The story at The Register also has some information on TKIP vulnerabilities and possible ways to block transmissions on the 5GHz band.
"The wireless security boffin presented his work at the BruCon conference last week and revealed his weapon of choice is a bargain WiFi dongle bought off Amazon that, when paired with a Raspberry Pi and a small amplifier, can block 2.4Ghz transmissions for up to 120 metres."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Microsoft delivers Windows 10 Build 10565 with Skype and Uber integration @ The Inquirer
- The USB Killer, Version 2.0 @ Hack a Day
- Micron pulls up its flash SOCs, slurps up Tidal @ The Register
- Google Cardboard VR gets Street View walkthroughs and updated SDKs @ The Inquirer
- Dell buys out EMC in mega-super-duper $67 BEEELLLION deal @ The Register
- Apple updates iMac line-up with 4K and 5K displays, Skylake processors @ The Inquirer
- Top boffin Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion, and more @ The Register
- The Intel Channel Symposium 2015 @ TechARP
Kids these days and their Raspberry Pi's
Subject: General Tech | August 27, 2015 - 02:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: nifty, Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi and its various flavours have been out for a while now and we have heard of a variety of projects developers and hobbyists have come up with but this story from The Register has them all beat. With a little Googling and a lot of creativity and inspiration there are kids out there creating all sorts of new uses for the little device. One 11 year old was a little worried about her Grampa and used a Pi along with PHP and HTML to pair a device with a webpage which can bring up a web browser for him, allow simple texting capabilities and to photos to make sure he is still OK. Others have created a scanner to keep track of scores in netball or to make sure that the sushi they grab from a restaurant's conveyor belt isn't getting too old. Give kids a chance to create and what they come up with will blow you away.
"Completely at home with Raspberry Pis, these kids Google around for the things they don't know how to do - because when you're 11, you don't know what you can't do. They are inventing the future, and for them it's just child's play."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Best Lightweight Linux Distros @ Linux.com
- Your smartphone can be a 3D scanner, say boffins @ The Register
- Amazon Underground offers paid apps for free - but with a sting in the tail @ The Inquirer
- Password 'XXXXairocon' pops Wi-Fi routers from ASUS, ZTE and others @ The Register
- Ins0mnia: iOS flaw lets applications run for ever in a bad way @ The Inquirer
- It's official: Apple's next iPhone will be unveiled on 9 September @ The Inquirer
- Tech ARP 2015 Mega Giveaway #5 : Mi 10400 mAh Power Banks
Running x86 on the classic Raspberry Pi as well as the Pi 2
Subject: General Tech | May 29, 2015 - 03:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Raspberry Pi, x86 emulator, eltechs
Eltechs has been very successful at building emulators for the Raspberry Pi, until now focusing on the newer ARMv7 versions of the low cost systems. They have just finalized support for previous versions of the the Pi running ARMv6, reputedly at speeds almost matching the code running on native hardware. If you are developing on the Raspberry Pi or Pi 2 you should follow the links on the Slashdot article as there is currently a sale on the ExaGear Desktop software, $14.95 for the Pi 2 and $9.95 for the Pi.
"Russia-based Eltechs announced its ExaGear Desktop virtual machine last August, enabling Linux/ARMv7 SBCs and mini-PCs to run x86 software. That meant that users of the quad-core, Cortex-A7-based Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, could use it as well, although the software was not yet optimized for it. Now Eltechs has extended ExaGear to support earlier ARMv6 versions of the Raspberry Pi."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Avago buys Raspberry Pi chipmaker Broadcom in landmark $37bn deal @ The Inquirer
- Google's Cardboard 2.0 virtual reality device is a triumph for humanity, said no one sane, ever @ The Register
- Micro Focus looks to COBOL future with Java, .NET and Linux integration @ The Inquirer
- .sucks-gate: How about listening to us the first two times, exasperated FTC tells ICANN @ The Register
- The Canon EOS 5DS, EOS 5DS R & XC10 Technology Report @ Tech ARP
Xenon Flashes Make a Case for a Raspberry Pi 2 Case
Subject: General Tech, Systems | February 12, 2015 - 08:00 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: raspberry pi 2, Raspberry Pi
It did not take long to find a problem with the Raspberry Pi 2. As it turns out, the Pi 2 contains a power regulator chip that is susceptible to bright sources of light. The light will force electrons to move when a metal is struck by enough photons with the correct, per-photon energy, which is its frequency/color, and that will be perceived as a voltage (because it actually does cause a voltage).
In the Raspberry Pi 2, this manifests as a voltage drop and the device immediately powers down. This was first discovered by Peter Onion on the Raspberry Pi forums while he was taking photographs of his Raspberry Pi 2. He noticed that each time he snapped a photo, the Pi would shut down. Liz Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation promptly confirmed the issue and wrote a long blog post explaining what actually happens. She borrows Peter's joke from the forum thread, that the Pi 2 is camera shy, and explains that "everyday light sources" will not cause this to happen. She then explains the photoelectric effect, the role of the above pictured U16 chip, and the issue itself.
I definitely appreciate Liz Upton and the Raspberry Pi Foundation, founded on the premise of education, taking the time to explain their bugs from an educational standpoint. That said, it is easy to lose sight of your goal when you have a product to defend, and I am glad that it did not get in the way.
A final note: this will not damage the Pi 2, just cause it to crash and power down. The only real problem is that shutting down your device mid-task will crash your task. If that is a write to the SD card, that will likely corrupt that write.
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