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How Santa Clara and LSU Met in the 1938 Sugar Bowl
Nearly a quarter of a million fans attended football games on the first day of 1937. The Rose Bowl drew 87,000; the Sugar Bowl 41,000; the East-West Shrine game 40,000; the first Cotton Bowl 17,000; the Orange Bowl 12,000; and the Bacardi Bowl in Havana, Cuba, had an attendance of 6,000.
Thoughts of an SEC-Sugar Bowl tie-up rose again with a degree of sheer nastiness when Alabama's Coach Frank Thomas brought up the issue less than a week after the LSU-Santa Clara game. Thomas predicted the South "will choke the Rose Bowl to death if the (Sugar Bowl) situation is handled properly." "Properly" to Thomas meant a tie-up with the SEC and the Southwest Conference, with an agreement to reject any and all invitations to Pasadena. Thomas pointed out that seven of the last 10 visiting teams to the Rose Bowl were from the South.
Thomas was irked because Pasadena had passed up his Crimson Tide; the comments were embarrassing to the Mid-Winter Sports Association, which was not anxious to see the demise of the Rose Bowl. Pasadena was respected for the example of what it had built. Pie Dufour wrote plainly and simply, "Let each play and prosper." Then, too, there was the feeling by the Sugar Bowl that a tie-up would not necessarily help in assuring the best game possible each year.
Fred Digby said he felt the Rose Bowl preferred Eastern teams. "The purpose of the Tournament of Roses," he reminded, "is to interest the rich men of the East and induce them to move out of the snow and ice and into the sunshine of southern California. That was the reason Pittsburgh got the bid over LSU and Alabama." Digby added, "But the Sugar Bowlers shouldn't enter into any agreement like the one of the Pacific Coast Conference has with the Rose Bowl. The Sugar Bowlers shouldn't let anyone take control of their classic now that they've put it on a firm foundation after three years of toil."
It was plain almost from the opening kickoff of the first game that the Sugar Bowl would eventually need a larger football stadium. Interest in the game was astounding. The fledgling Sugar had to expand its facility (mainly with temporary arrangements) for each of its first three games. The stadium size would affect the growth of the Sugar Bowl.
There was talk early in 1937 of expanding City Park Stadium, which seated 25,000 to 70,000, and of moving the bowl site there. It was also reported that state authorities were negotiating with the Works Progress Administration for money to erect a 100,000-seat stadium near Lake Pontchartrain. The Mid-Winter Sports Association wanted little to do with either project. Proud that what it had accomplished was free of any political entanglements, the Sugar Bowl wanted to keep it that way.
Tulane had tried to obtain WPA funds to make its football facility horseshoe-shaped; efforts failed because of its private status. Sugar Bowl officials, realizing that Tulane was the best site for their attraction, approached university authorities with a deal. Tulane's north end zone wooden seats would be taken out and a steel stand would be erected, pushing the stadium's permanent capacity to 37,000. With the temporary seating, a crowd of several thousand more could be accommodated.
Tulane loved the idea, but there was one slight hitch: The Sugar Bowl didn't have the estimated $180,000 for the project. The Association wanted the university to loan it the money. Tulane administrators were a bit put out by the suggestion. Albert Wachenheim, Jr., a member of the executive board, recalled, "We had to persuade Tulane that it was to their benefit, too."
Tulane was persuaded to loan a total of $167,768.84, for notes that would consist of a $20,000 payment for each of the following eight years, plus five percent interest. Tulane would bear the responsibility of stadium upkeep, and the Sugar Bowl would continue its rent-free status.
Southeastern Conference officials, in a March session in Atlanta, listened to a warning by league President R.L. Menuct of Tulane that bowl games were growing to a "most menacing extent." The SEC then went on record as sanctioning only the Sugar Bowl and the Rose Bowl and "no other so-called 'bowl' games." The move, in effect, said SEC members would be granted permission to play in no postseason games other than in New Orleans and Pasadena. As the Orange Bowl screamed 'foul' and 'politics,' the Sugar Bowl membership had to feel pretty smug. But Miami and the other bowls would have the last laugh on this matter.
Alabama and LSU were again the premier SEC football teams. The Crimson Tide was the conference champion; the Tigers were a notch behind with one loss. There was some argument over which was the best team, but the Sugar wanted 'Bama for two reasons: 1) It was the champion. 2) LSU had been in the game two consecutive years. Pittsburgh, which brought snickers when it was picked for the 1937 Rose Bowl, was the hottest prospect in the country.
The Sugar wanted a match between the Tide and the No. 1 Panthers. But the Rose Bowl flexed some muscle in these pairings. California was the Rose Bowl host of 1938 and stated it wanted to play a school with "comparable academic standards."
Alabama and Fordham were apparently each given the impression they were the Pasadena choice, but the Tournament of Roses made no announcement.
Fred Digby believed the Rose Bowl was trying to embarrass the Sugar Bowl by delaying their own selection and at the same time attempting to keep Alabama and Fordham out of New Orleans. The Sugar Bowl gave those schools 24 hours to make up their minds: Take the Sugar or gamble on the Rose. When time was up, the Sugar extended invitations to LSU and Santa Clara. The Rose had still not made its selection.
Frank Thomas, who 11 months before was talking about the demise of the Rose Bowl, gambled and won. Fordham gambled and stayed at home.
The biggest jolt of December came when Auburn asked for permission to participate in the Orange Bowl. In granting the request, the Southeastern Conference also voted 8 – 5 to rescind the February resolution which looked favorably only on Sugar and Rose Bowl participation.
Digby, whose views certainly reflected that of the Mid-Winter Sports Association membership, was angry. He revealed that a week before, at the suggestion of Alabama and LSU, the Association seriously discussed the advisability of presenting a plan for a definite agreement with the SEC for a tie-up. At the last minute, the Sugar Bowl was asked to hold the plan in abeyance. Obviously, one of the Sugar's guidelines would have been that the SEC would compete only in New Orleans, and the Conference must have known of Auburn's forthcoming request.
Digby wrote that the Sugar Bowl was now free of any obligation – real or imagined – to the Southeastern Conference. It could now look to all corners of the country to fill its berths.
Recap excerpted from the book "Sugar Bowl Classic: A History" by Marty Mulé, who covered the game and the organization for decades for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.


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How-To: Kat Von D's Hot Makeup
Last night at the Maxim Hot 100 party in Los Angeles, tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg (aka Kat Von D) arrived with stars in her eyes. Or at least, next to them.
I guess I'll just never get used to someone having about 20 or so stars tattooed around her eye area. Not to say it isn't art; I just find the permanence unbelievable — and imagine the pain.
Kat's makeup (which you can enter to win by taking this quiz) was bold, just like her personality. She wore lots of highlighter on her eyes, her lips were red and creamy, and her blush was strong. I really liked her asymmetrical liquid eye liner; however, her shellacked eyebrows were over the top. For product and application suggestions on how you can re-create Kat's hot makeup look at home,
- FACE: Apply a creamy foundation all over and blend well. Then, dab some concealer under your eyes and to any red areas. Next, dust a loose, translucent powder over your face to set the foundation and the concealer.
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"With international arrivals increasing each year, thanks to contributions from the Tanzania Tourist Board and an increase in the number of airlines servicing Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania is one of Africa's new tiger economies." Suzi Yoder, Best Western
Phoenix, Ariz. (PRWEB) July 11, 2014
Best Western International, the World's Biggest Hotel Family®, adds another prestigious hotel to its East African portfolio. The four star BEST WESTERN PLUS Peninsula Hotel in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania opened its doors the first of the month and is located within two kilometers of Sea Cliff Village and the Indian Ocean.
The BEST WESTERN PLUS Peninsula Hotel is a recently built four star property, featuring 45 rooms and located only 30 minutes from Julius Nyerere International Airport (DAR), 7 kilometres from the city centre and the ferry terminal to Zanzibar.
The hotel is perfect for both business and leisure travelers with its close proximity to the beach, local shopping district and some of the area's best attractions; such as Botanical Gardens, National Museum and Gymkhana Golf Club.
For corporate travelers, The BEST WESTERN PLUS Peninsula Hotel provides a boardroom capable of hosting up to 20 people, a business center to assist with business needs and a conference venue that can cater for banquets of up to 90. After a hard day's work, guests can unwind and enjoy the gym and health club. The hotel also offers an excellent all day dining restaurant serving an à la carte menu from the renowned Moti Mahal restaurant brand.
This hotel is extremely comfortable and all rooms offer mini-bar, complimentary Wi-Fi, wide-screen TV's, air-conditioning and well-apportioned bathrooms.
The BEST WESTERN PLUS Peninsula Hotel is indeed the perfect home away from home in the eastern region of Tanzania. The hotel's ideal location, warm African hospitality, superior accommodations, tantalizing cuisine and unrivalled service makes the hotel a stand out in Dar Es Salaam.
"With international arrivals continuing to grow each year, thanks to contributions from the Tanzania Tourist Board and an increase in the number of airlines servicing Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania is one of Africa's new tiger economies. The BEST WESTERN PLUS Peninsula Hotel marks Best Westerns third hotel opening in Dar Es Salaam in the last 4 years and we look forward to many more," said Best Western's Senior Vice President of International Operations Suzi Yoder.
For more information on global development opportunities with Best Western International, please visit bestwesterndevelopers.com.
To learn more about a specific hotel or discover other Best Western hotels across the world, visit bestwestern.com.
Best Western International, Inc., headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz., is a privately held hotel brand made up of more than 4,000* BEST WESTERN®, BEST WESTERN PLUS® and BEST WESTERN PREMIER® hotels in more than 100* countries and territories worldwide. Now celebrating 68 years of hospitality, Best Western welcomes hundreds of thousands of guests nightly. Best Western provides its hoteliers with global operational, sales, marketing and promotional support, and online and mobile booking capabilities. More than 20 million travelers are members of the brand's award-winning loyalty program Best Western Rewards®, one of the few programs in which members earn points that never expire and can be redeemed at any Best Western hotel worldwide. The brand's partnerships with AAA/CAA and Harley-Davidson® provide travelers with exciting ways to interact with the brand. In 2013, Best Western earned our highest level of brand recognition, including our fifth AAA/CAA Hotel Partner of the Year award, second Compuware Best of the Web Gold award, fourth No. 1 ranking in Brand Keys Consumer Loyalty Engagement Index for midscale hotels and seventh TTG Asia Best Mid-range Hotel Brand. Forty-one percent of Best Western hotels worldwide won TripAdvisor Certificates of Excellence for customer satisfaction.
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Stephen L. Schechter Collection - Heritage 8/2007:2125, $29,900 - Allan Collection - Dr. Christopher Allan Collection (cat-matched) - Kagin's 3/2017:1607, $22,325
Ron Guth: The Bechtler family of North Carolina (later Georgia) struck gold coins using local ore in the 1830s and 1840s. They struck gold Dollar coins well before the U.S. Mint did, and the Mint may have looked to these coins for inspiration -- nhot so much for their simple design but as the model for a new, unanticipated denomination.
This variety shows the N of ONE engraved backwards. The engraver may have made an attempt to correct the error, as a faint diagonal of a proper N can be seen beneath the incorrectly engraved N. While this variety is popular, it is among the most common of the Bechtler $1 varieties.
Only one die variety (Kagin 4) features the reversed N.
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posted by Howard Fosdick on Fri 30th Mar 2012 20:33 UTC
Two years ago, Linux guru Caitlyn Martin argued that "Ubuntu is a Poor Standard Bearer for Linux" due to reliability issues. She said that "Other distributions have problematic releases but other major distributions do not have significant problems in nearly every release. Ubuntu does." In her follow-up piece "How Canonical Can Do Ubuntu Right: It Isn't a Technical Problem," she explained how "...the problem I am describing is probably rooted in policy or business decisions that have been made..." and she offered specific ideas on how Canoncial could address the situation. Are these criticisms valid today? Does Ubuntu offer good reliability? Does it deserve its mindshare as the representative of PC Linux?


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Web Critique : Thumbs DOWN for Zubera classifieds
I very seldom actually pan a web site. I'm always looking for the silver lining -- or at least something good about the site. But this one just defies anything good. 171 scripts executed in a single web page ??? 283 http calls on a single web page? You've got to see this... January 22, 2013


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Men's Hockey: UNH knots UVM
February 23. 2013 7:57PM
Casey DeSmith of Rochester turned aside 30 shots to lift the fifth-ranked University of New Hampshire men's hockey team to Saturday afternoon's 1-1 overtime tie with the University of Vermont at Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington, Vt., in Hockey East action.
UNH moves to 17-8-5 overall with a 12-7-4 mark in Hockey East. Vermont is now 10-15-5 overall, 7-11-5 HEA. The Wildcats take over sole possession of first place with 28 points in league play.
Trailing by a goal in the second period, New Hampshire tied the game at 1-1 with a power play tally at 8:53. Trevor van Riemsdyk fired a shot from the top of the point that hit a Vermont defender on its way into the net. Eric Knodel and Grayson Downing assisted on the goal.
Vermont took its 1-0 lead just 56 seconds into the second period. Jacob Fallon fired a puck from between the circles that beat DeSmith high, glove side. Chris McCarthy and Kyle Reynolds assisted.
In a fast-paced open third period, neither team was able to crack the scoreboard. The Wildcats had numerous chances including a Connor Hardowa shot that clanged the pipe just inside of the 11-minute mark, and a grade A bid by Austin Block just before time expired in regulation.
The Wildcats controlled play in overtime recording the only three shots on goal during the extra time.
DeSmith made double-digit saves in the second and third periods and moves to 16-6-5 on the season. UVM's Brody Hoffman stopped 21 shots and is now 10-15-5 on the season. Vermont held a 31-22 shot advantage in the game.
The Wildcats were 1-for-4 on the power play. UVM was 0-1 in the extra-man.


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I've been in the country for Christmas. My mother lives in Orange and a lot of us converged on her house for a few days. She grew up in Blayney and her father and his parents and grandparents all lived in the area, so it was a good time to do some exploration.
My g-g-grandfather, Richard Eason, bought his first block of land on conditional purchase in 1871. He built his house on this block where his children grew up. He later bought the long thin block across the road and the square one diagonally behind the first one. He called the property "Fernside".
These first blocks are recognisable on Google Maps to this day, so I thought it would be easy to find them, and it was. My cousin, Peter, was with us and he had been shown where the house was by our uncle, but he'd never been over the fence to have a look. We stood there and wondered whether there were any remains of the original house. We took pictures of the old gate posts and we were looking at the gate into the opposite block when a ute pulled up.
The current owners of the property were on their way home and had left the gate open so they were just coming around the long way to the house to close it. We ran over to let them know why we were lurking on their property, and told them our story about Richard Eason and his son, John, and grandson Richard, who had all owned the place at some point. The current owner (I will call him Frank) knew all these names – his father had bought the place from "Young Dick". Frank himself had gone to school with my mother's youngest brother, who had been killed when he was nearly 11 in a farm accident.
Frank gave us a lift in the back of the ute up to where the house used to be. Yes, there were still signs – the outline was still there in rocks, and a couple of cement slabs showed a possible site for the dairy. Then he told us to wait here, and drove off.
Where did he go? Would he come back? I was sure he would but I couldn't imagine what he had gone to get. We explored the ruins of the house and took pictures.
When he returned he had a photo in his hand of a man dressed in a three-piece suit standing on his verandah with a couple of dogs. He had a watch-chain and was going bald. On the bag was written "Jack Eason on verandah at Fernside". Jack Eason!!! Pop's father!
We have no pictures of Jack Eason and one of his wife Lily that we are not entirely sure is her. No-one living had ever seen either of them. Jack died in 1933 and Lily in 1930, before my mother and most of her siblings were born. It was a miracle. Frank told us what he knew – it had been his mother's photo, and it was her handwriting on the back. She came into the area after 1933, so Frank didn't know why she had the photo.
We talked about the property. Frank said there was no dam and had always wondered where they got water from. There was an apple orchard; when Frank's father got a letter from the council instructing him to either look after the trees or cut them down, he cut most of them down. The gate to the block across the road was originally directly across from the gate into the main block but his family moved it because it got too boggy in the rain.
The materials for the house were taken away by "Young Dick" to build the house in Blayney where his family, including my mother, grew up. The gate posts had been replaced – the original ones were square and these were round. There had been a lot of gum trees on the property but they'd all got "dieback" in the 1970s. I'd like to have seen it then.
A question we couldn't answer was whether the verandah was on the front or the back of the house. It made no sense to build a verandah facing the hill "and the weather" on the back of the house, but there is no way to be sure.
Frank went to school with my Uncle Ritchie and I would have like to ask him about him, but I didn't. No-one talks about Ritchie. The whole episode was so traumatic for Mum's family that they sold up and moved to Dubbo, and changed religions.
We stood there for some time, talking about what the place must have been like. I talked about the probate and deceased estate (death duty) files I had seen that indicated that the property had been run down when Jack died. He'd sold everything off and was in Condobolin with his daughter when he died. I was working up the courage to ask Frank whether he would trust me to take the photo away to have it scanned.
I did ask, and we discussed my mother's scanner (no good, as it turned out) and whether there would be a photo place open on a Sunday (probably not was Frank's opinion) so I could drop it back to him the next day on our way back to Sydney. We exchanged addresses and he gave me the photo. I will always be grateful for his kindness and trust in me.
If he hadn't left the gate open, and if we hadn't gone over to talk to him, I would never have found this treasure. Sometimes photos appear in the most unlikely places – even in the middle of a paddock!


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I voted xubuntu, as I currently am on a old, used, laptop. Mine is still with Acer for repairs, it's been more than 3 weeks now /o\
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I voted xubuntu, as I currently am on a old, used, laptop. Mine is still with Acer for repairs, it's been more than 3 weeks now /o\
I voted other, since I rarely install an entire suite.
Your laptop isn't back yet??! You have more patience than I. I would've scrapped it and bought a new one by now.
What's the old, used one? Is it terribly old? I love old laptops. :D
Thats a whole story!
So my Acer went to another place as the CPU had failed some tests.
My kids desktop DD died on me the day we were having the first IRC meeting with Jono in #u-w. I got a used 10Go DD, and got it set up with feisty to log in 30 secs before the meeting begun.
This spare parts store was receiving used laptop the next day. I got a Fujistu Lifebook C1010 14″, a pro release, with 512Mo ram, a savage graphics card (composite works out of the box) and 20Go DD. PCMCIA slot for my wifi card, ethernet, battery, no scratch on the screen, everything works. No windows licence.
GNOME runs fine, xfce is a rocket ;)
What kind of browser and mail client do you run on XFCE? I try to find lightweight ones without success.
@ Bob: I use epiphany and evolution, as I had previously installed GNOME. XFCE came with Firefox and Thunderbird, which I do not use. May be try console apps?
Well I've tried to find app that don't use libgnome in order to reduce memory consumption (128 mo only). I'll take a look at links and mutt but i'm not a big fan of command line.
For web browsing, have you tried kazehakase? (in universe).


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Woman: I made up Milford carjacking story as cry for helpBY NANCY BEAN FOSTER
Union Leader Correspondent
November 19. 2012 3:39PM
Police say she cried wolf, but Mari Chapman said it was a cry for help when she claimed she had been a victim of a brutal assault and attempted carjacking last week.
On Thursday morning, Chapman, 33, called police and said that as she was driving on Federal Hill Road near Foster Road, she pulled over to help two people in a black Honda Civic. Chapman alleged that while she was helping the couple, she reached into her Jeep to get the jack and the man attacked her from behind, throwing her to the ground and threatening to steal her car.
Chapman told police, and later the news media, that she fought him off even after he punched her.
She described the couple in great detail, and even gave a partial Massachusetts license plate number for the vehicle police now say never existed.
As investigators continued to question Chapman, the story started to unravel.
'Our investigators kept running into inconsistencies,' Milford Police Chief Michael Viola said. 'But we had to continue investigating it as though a crime had been committed.'
On Monday, an arrest warrant was issued by the 9th Circuit Court in Milford for Chapman on one misdemeanor count of false report to a law enforcement officer. She turned herself in to police Monday afternoon, Viola said, and was released on $5,000 personal recognizance bail.
Reached by phone Monday evening, Chapman said the story she told police and the news media wasn't true.
'I have bipolar disorder and I went off one of my medications,' she said. 'That was a stupid thing to do and I shouldn't have done it, but things have been really bad.'
Chapman said she is currently separated from her husband of 12 years and the arguments between them have been painful.
At the same time, she said, she is caring for her daughter as well as another child, and trying to balance that with working as a newspaper delivery driver.
'A lot of things have been thrown my way,' she said. 'I kept telling my husband and my sister that I hadn't been sleeping well. I was at my breaking point.'
Chapman said that while she was driving her car on Federal Hill last Thursday morning, her mind just went blank. 'It was like I was out of touch with reality, like I was in another world,' she said. And she truly believed at the time she reported the carjacking that the incident had happened, she said, 'but by the next day, I started thinking that something didn't feel right.'
As for the bruise on her face, Chapman said she thinks she got it when she got out of bed, tripped over her dog and fell.
Viola said investigators had questions about the case early on.
'Based on the information we had at the time, we needed to treat this case as we would the report of any serious crime,' said Viola.
Chapman's story created problems both for the police department and for the community, the chief said. 'We tied up a lot of resources investigating this case, resources that could have gone to solving actual crimes,' said Viola. He added: 'People don't feel safe when they hear stories like this.'
Chapman is scheduled for arraignment in Milford District Court Dec. 17.


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In case you were wondering what fellow consumers were complaining about last year, here are the top five areas that irked Americans in 2011, according to a list just released by the Consumer Federation of America and the North American Consumer Protection Investigators:
�Car-related issues: They are traditionally at the top of the list and they topped this list. Among other things, people are unhappy about misleading ads, problems getting vehicles fixed and disputes over leases and towing.
�Credit and debt: Consumers complained about problems with billing, shady credit repair and debt relief operations, abusive debt collectors and predatory lenders.
�Construction and home improvement: Consumers complained about contractors whose workmanship was poor or who failed to either start a job or finish it.
�Shopping: It may be therapy for some, but it was a royal pain for a lot of consumers who complained about deceptive ads and difficulties with rebates, coupons and gift cards.
�Utilities: Who doesn�t get mad at these guys? Whether telephone, cable, Internet, gas or electric, problems with service and bills ensured this group would be high on the list.
Other issues that made the list include online purchases, disputes with landlords, scams, real estate-related issues (from timeshares to home sales), and problems with movers.
The fastest-growing complaint categories were violations of the Do Not Call list, debt collection and home improvement.
In many of these problem areas, consumers could have avoided headaches by doing a better job of helping themselves. Being sure you�re dealing with a registered contractor, for instance, and researching the reputation of a business (before you use it) can go a long way toward heading off complaints. There is an abundance of options when it comes to checking out a business � ask around, online reviews, state and local consumer agencies and the Better Business Bureau.
But some problems will still find you. It might be an issue with a gift card or a poorly trained customer service rep who won�t accept your return. In those situations, you can join the army of complaining consumers. Remember, a well-executed complaint can right a wrong.
Mitch Lipka is a nationally known consumer columnist and runs TheConsumerChronicle.com. He lives in Worcester. You can find him on Facebook at http://on.fb.me/MitchLipka. If you�re having a run-in with a business, think you�re being mistreated as a consumer or have seen something that you think your fellow consumers ought to know about, let him know. You can email Mitch at email@example.com.


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Robert Eriksson needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 68 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
gelki.com logo. see description for more details.
I want u to make a modern logo which must be compatibel with other marketing related media on paper, digital media.t.c. U can look at my homepage:
http://www.gelki.com/ to see how logo is today. U have fairly free hands to do what u want.
My company are helping and making marketing / consulting small business company with ecommerce homepages and printing material for PDF and other desktop related jobs.
- logo must have a horizontal rectangular form.
- logo must be scalebel to small and still look nice.
- logo should also look nice as webb icon on a homepage.
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learningtocount said:These are the only rules that a card counter should except!!! First of on their single deck blackjack games blackjack pays 7 1/2 to 5 instead of 6 to 5!
Second you can double down on any two cards second most important rule!! You are allowed to split aces. The dealer does hit soft 17 giving them a non card counting basic stragedy player only .18% of a disadvantage!!! A card counters advantage can be as high as 1%!!! These rules are usually reserved for the double deck game!!!
learningtocount said:... I don't care how much you spread on 6 to 5 you can not make money on it unless you are the casino or the dealer ...
jimpenn said:Alex...Interesting concept...you may have something here concerning heat. What is your opinion concerning the insurance strategy verses 6D games paying 3/2, Stand or Hit 17, etc. Recently I caught two insursed BJ's in a 6D game in the mid-west and immediately faced early shuffles thereafter.
Have you ever read any professional player's posts that agree with your 6/5 strategy? If so, please forward link.
P.S It was a boy!
AlexD30 said:How can I over bet the bank when I bet $0 on 75% of the hands and have an average of exactly $200 for the flat bets on +2 or above? Actually the overall average for the 100 hands observed but only 25 played is $133. During the hot shoe (best-half) I have an average EV of about 1.5% with an average bet of $200. During the cold shoe I have EV and an average bet of 0 (Zero).
How can I be wrong?
Sonny said:The optimal bets will be based on the Kelly Criterion. Overbetting by a factor of 2 will give you a 100% risk of ruin despite the fact that you are only playing positive counts. You are suggesting that people overbet their bankroll by a factor of 4 in order to make up for "lost" hands (which technically aren't lost at all). Your system is guaranteed to bankrupt players in the long run.
Although I do agree that you can safely raise your bet sizes when you are Wonging, you need to be very careful not to get carried away. As SSR mentioned, the variance will be huge no matter what the count is, and making bigger bets will only make it worse.
stainless steel rat said:how can anyone assess your RoR when your bankroll and playing methodology change on a daily basis? One day you are a pure progression player. Next day an advanced level-2 or level-3 counter. Betting 1/12th Kelly makes absolutely no sense to anyone that is serious about advantage play. Playing with such an incredibly small RoR also means you are playing such that it will take forever to double your B/R... Something like investing $250,000 at a .1% annual rate of return... It works, but it isn't the smartest thing to do...
Personally, I don't believe a word of any of this. Way too many inconsistencies and change of tunes...
stainless steel rat said:Somehow I didn't think you would "get it". No big deal. BTW nobody plays with a 0.000% risk of ruin. The only way to do that is bet zero... but since none of the other math or statements are credible, no need for that one to be either...
AlexD30 said:What would be a meaningful measure of success? Winning a few sessions?. We can establish the session to be 20, 100 or 200 hours. I would say this: One week should be sufficient time to prove my play. Now, the suckers will surface. Some would claim that my methods would validate only in one million hands or even more. I would tell them, thats not math, thats cowardice. There are two methods in mathematics and logic: the complete induction and the incomplete deduction. Based on the latter, if a relation proves to be true for 1 case, for 2 cases, . . . for n cases, then it must be true for (n+1) cases. You dont need to play 1,000,000 hands of blackjack. The hands played in one week will suffice to prove that my trend is going up.
AlexD30 said:Well, I have $250,000 BJ bank, no mortgage, no rent to pay, single (divorced), BMW 750IL paid off .. etc.., and am betting 0.08% of the bank that is K/12.5 when I have more than 1% edge. I am looking for an average $200-$250/hour income. I honestly cannot see the ruin. How can I get ruined when I have 2,500 units and am betting K/12.5 with edge and 0 (Zero) with -EV.
And, have over 30 years experience at the tables
AlexD30 said:Well, I have $250,000 BJ bank, no mortgage, no rent to pay, single (divorced), BMW 750IL paid off .. etc.., and am betting 0.08% of the bank that is K/12.5 when I have more than 1% edge. I am looking for an average $200-$250/hour income. I honestly cannot see the ruin. How can I get ruined when I have 2,500 units and am betting K/12.5 with edge and 0 (Zero) with -EV.
And, have over 30 years experience at the tables
NYB said:..your 15 inch dick
Ray said:Alex- As I see it, when you wong in a shoe game, you are just playing at some theoretical advantage with some average bet. If you flat bet $200, that is your unit and average bet. If you play with an advantage and never vary from that you will win money in the long-run. Otherwise the word bias has no meaning. The only real consideration for you is time/hands played and ave bet must be supported by the correct BR.
What you can't do is relate your method to some other strategy that uses a proportional betting method with a spread. Both are valid but different.
AlexD30 said:
Betting optimum means betting Kelly to maximize the expected logarithm or the growth of your bank. But when the bank is big beyond any reasonable chance to ruin than you looking to generate income as safe as possible. Like having ROR = 0.0000000001%
AlexD30 said:Yes, you are right. You got it
Well, my average bet is always a small fraction of the bank. I actually under bet the bank all the time. I use the bank as leverage. The absolute number of units in my bank let me do that. I am looking to make a certain amount per hour, week, month, year and not to double the bank. If I you have a million bank and 1.5% edge you should be looking to make 100K/year while betting K/25 during the 25 hands of the hot shoe. You will be betting $400 per hand for a total of $10,000 action per hour during the hot shoe and expecting to make over the long run $150/hour. In less than part time work like 660 hours you will be up there to 100K.
You dont have to double your bank. What is the point of doubling? You already are at the saturation point in your bank. Doubling it will not give you more protection from the ROR. Youre already supper protected.
Betting optimum means betting Kelly to maximize the expected logarithm or the growth of your bank. But when the bank is big beyond any reasonable chance to ruin than you looking to generate income as safe as possible. Like having ROR = 0.0000000001%
Ray said:Sounds like Alex leverages his BR like income producing mutual funds. I'll have to agree with Sonny. That approach want get it for us church mice (poor, hungry and invisible).
AlexD30 said:The bankroll is so important such that if you plan to play a 16 hours of BJ on a trip and you know that you have an hourly EV of 1.5 average units with a SD of 20 and a DI = 7 but you only bring with you only 60 units of Bank. You also plan to stop playing when the cash runs out. What are the Expected Earnings for the Trip? One might answer that it is 16 hours of play times 1.5 units equals 24 units. However that assumes that you will get to play 16 hours. With your low bank, your chances of tapping out are approximately 36%! The net result of this is that your EV for the trip is only 19 units. Your low bank has cost you about 20% of the EV potential.
In a nutshell, I would say that one has to use his bank as leverage against the ROR to be able to take full advantage of the entire EV potential
stainless steel rat said:That is so incredibly convoluted... Your bankroll is your bankroll. Your session bankroll is your session bankroll. .....
......., please stop just tossing out buzzwords and instead try to say something that makes some sense...
AlexD30 said:
Blackjack strategies are based upon optimizing Expected Value However, in borderline cases standard deviation ought to be looked at.
AlexD30 said:
2. Another one is: BS calls for doubling Ace-2 vs. 5 in <=9 decks. However in 8 decks, the critical fraction to .0005% of the bank. I calculate that more than 200,000 units of bank are required to make this play. Even in 6 decks, the required bank has to be 576 units.</font>
stainless steel rat said:Hey Sonny:
Ask a proctologist, he can tell you where that number came from. :)
Much of what Alex posts appears to be information taken from a variety of blackjack books, then juxtaposed in ways that make absolutely no sense. It looks good on the surface, but makes no sense when looked at with a critical eye...
Any play that would require a 200,000 unit bank would be _some_ high-risk play. Certainly not A2 vs 5. Perhaps doubling a hard 20 with a huge bet out might require that.
As you have seen, you can get sucked into some impossible discussions when you enter "certain threads". :) Not unlike the other web sites we visit, right? :)
Somehow reading this, one would have to conclude that the standard deviation for doubling A2 vs 5 is _far_ greater_ than 2, even though the best that can happen is you win twice your original bet and the worst is that you lose twice your original bet... Just makes you wonder when Rod Serling's name is going to appear and we begin to hear the theme from "The Twilight Zone" coming from the speakers... :)
AlexD30 said:
f = 2k(e1-e2)/(SS1-SS2)
SS1 = V1+e1^2
SS2 = V2+e2^2
for number of units solve 1/f
stainless steel rat said:That is simply wrong. Sonny pointed out why. A2 vs 5 comes up only once in every 1100 hands roughly (You could get A-2 vs 5 or 2-A vs 5, probability of getting those three cards is 1/13 ^ 3 and since there are two ways to get 'em you multiply by 2.) No way making that play needs a 200K+ unit bankroll. The EV is +.134 for hitting, +.126 for doubling.
Next, nobody bets full kelly. No one advises anyone to bet full kelly. The bankroll fluctuation is too wild to deal with. In your case, you are predicting that the player will bet beyond full-kelly to require that kind of bankroll, according to Sonny's post. When you get to kelly * 2, you will eventually bust out anyway. But even a 13.5% RoR is not acceptable for a professional player, so they lower that by betting a fraction of kelly.
If I could "wong in" every time I would be dealt a hand of A2 vs 5, I'd play non-stop and double every time. +.13 * 2 units is a nice return on an investment for less than a minute's time... If you want, I can run a sim on A2 vs 5 for a couple of billion rounds to show how far one's bankroll could swing in either direction, which would show exactly how big your bankroll has to be (in terms of units) to play that one hand over and over.
In fact, I modified my code and ran this sim for 100M rounds on my slow laptop. The result was:
total hands = 100,000,000 win = 50900122 push = 4490697 lose = 44609181
Which gives an ev of +.124, based on infinite deck. More rounds would likely bring the EV down slightly to the Wizard's number of +.123. I see nothing alarming in the above numbers that would suggest an impossibly large SD to make this play too risky unless one owns half of Fort Knox. You are simply mis-using Cac's post. If you think A2 vs 5 is "too risky" then by all means never double. I am always going to double the hand because every bet I make is going to be less than full-kelly-based...
NYB said:Alex,
Just to clarify; You would rather save the money by not doubling a hand you have an clear advantage on, and "invest" it later when you have a smaller advantage?Even though you have a 2,000 unit BR?
Is that the gist of your latest post?
AlexD30 said:The decision to put out more money should simply be based on upon the same criteria that you made the original bet. Suppose you had a true count that gave you an advantage of close to 6%, and you betting about 75% of your advantage, have a bet of about .045 of your bank on the table. You get a hand that calls for a double in your playing index. However, simply hitting also has an advantage. The question is, how much addititional advantage must you gain from the double in order to justify putting out an additional 4.5% of your bank? You certainly wouldn't want to do it for a gain of .005 difference over hitting or standing.
When only a small capital is wagered, then the difference between two strategies is negligible. However Kelly breaks down when larger amounts are bet. For example, a Kelly player with a big bet out should insure "good hands" even if the expectation on the Insurance Bet were negative. (There is an excellent discussion of this point in the 1986 edition of Griffin's "Theory of BJ"). Similarly, Kelly strategy would dictate passing up many double down bets when the gain from doubling did not justify the increased risk.
stainless steel rat said:What idiot is going to bet 4.5% of their bankroll on a single hand? The RoR is 100%. none of this makes any sense...
AlexD30 said:Of course, Rat, you are again completely in error. What you are saying is that based upon your studies of your "kitchen-table rules and game". At the same time you **think** that I am wrong while you are correct on card counting and beating your kitchen table setup game. Well, still have to bet Kelly. If you get to have a bet 4.5% of your bank when you have 6% edge youre going to be at 13.5% ROR.
You either play Kelly or have no business in BJ. If you want less risk then double your bankroll and have K/2 K/3 or whatever you are comfortable with. Get more units or play at half units of what you have now. You definitely got to bet proportionally with your edge/variance if you want to call yourself a professional. If not, then play slot machines or Keno instead.
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While MercyMe's "I Can Only Imagine" was inspired by the death of lead singer Bart Millard's father, it provided hope, healing and comfort to a country that was still fresh with the scars caused by the attacks of September 11th. Since the world was exposed to MercyMe over a decade ago, they still continue to create music that helps a world in pain.
Their album Welcome To The New (2014), includes the songs "Flawless" and "Greater." They are upbeat tunes that work to combat all the voices that try to put us down and cast doubt into our lives. "We were at church, and some kids were making fun of (my son)," explains lead singer Bart Millard. "And he started singing 'Greater' - 'You are Holy, righteous and redeemed.' I just started bawling. That's the reason we made the record."
Before MercyMe became a prominent name across the country, lead singer Bart Millard was a youth ministry intern in Florida. His grandmother would always call to check up on him, and was always disappointed when Bart picked up the phone. She blatantly voiced her disapproval by saying, "Well, mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" Little did she know, Bart's grandmother's words would play rather prominently into Bart's future career and become his band namesake.
Getting his start in music by taking choir as an elective when his football dreams didn't pan out, Bart started working with his youth group's worship band behind the scenes, mostly doing video and sound. God opened a door for Bart one day when the youth group's lead singer didn't fare so well on stage, and Bart stepped in and aced his audition.
The gig ended up going so well that Bart, along with MercyMe's future pianist Jim Bryson, eventually traveled to Switzerland to play a worship gig. It was during that particular trip that Bart and Jim seriously considered pursuing music full-time.
So Bart, along with his pal, Mike Scheuchzer, who plays guitar, moved to Oklahoma City to form what would end up being MercyMe.
While living in an old, abandoned daycare center that also served as the band's makeshift studio, MercyMe wrote "I Can Only Imagine," which reached far beyond the confines of Christian radio. It was aired widely on pop and country radio stations, and in 2010 became the first song in Christian music to exceed 1 million downloads according to Christianity Today.
However, even with all those accolades straight out of the gate, MercyMe was certainly no one-hit wonder. With the release of the album Spoken For in 2002, both the title track and "Word of God Speak" were huge successes. In fact, "Word of God Speak" was not only named the Christian Song of the Decade in 2009 by Billboard Magazine, but MercyMe was awarded with the "Christian Adult Contemporary Songs' Artist of the Decade" honors, as well.
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DETROIT (AP) — A 66-year-old great-grandfather told police he was filled with anger and alcohol when he shot two women with an assault rifle in a Detroit retirement home, enraged at what he believed were their persistent intrusions into his relationship with another woman.
Mike Reda's videotaped interrogation with Detroit police detectives was played in court Thursday during a hearing at which a judge determined there was enough evidence for him to stand trial on two counts of first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder and other felony charges. He's accused of shooting Deborah Socia, 59, and Maria Gonzalez, 61, on Oct. 20 at the two-story, 80-unit Pablo Davis Elder Living Center on the city's southwest side.
"I was drunk, I was angry," Reda told investigators. "I just couldn't take it no more."
Reda said during the interrogation on the day after the shootings that he was retired, lived alone at the center and had seven children as well as more than two dozen grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He had dated the same woman for several years, but said the two women had befriended her and frequently kept the girlfriend away from him.
He said he'd been drinking brandy and couldn't remember most details of the day, but later in the interview told the two detectives that he approached Socia and another man, Paul Fratangelo, on the center's grounds with his MP5 rifle. Reda said his rifle discharged one time "by accident."
Reda said he then went inside to Gonzalez's apartment, kicked in her door and shot her twice in the head.
He asked detectives twice if the women were alive or dead, and at the end of the interview one investigator told him they were dead. Reda paused, sighed heavily and said, "That's really bad."
Defense attorney Bryan Sherer declined comment before and after the hearing. Friends and family members of the victims also declined comment outside court.
Fratangelo testified that he was sitting on a bench with Socia, smoking a cigarette and talking before dinner, when Reda walked toward them. Fratangelo, 61, said Reda swung his weapon back and forth between the two while ordering Fratangelo to "basically get on my knees and pray."
"I said, 'Mike, not this. Not like this. We're both vets.' I'm basically pleading with my life," Fratangelo said, adding that Reda seemed "on edge" but "very composed."
Fratangelo said Socia asked Reda what he was doing, and he fired his gun one time. Afterward, Fratangelo said he entered the building and tried to trap Reda between two sets of doors. Fratangelo then "bolted down the hall," told Socia's son that "Mike is on a rampage" and to "call 911."
The judge struck down Sherer's argument that Fratangelo wasn't injured or threatened so his client shouldn't be held on the charge of assault with intent to murder.
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NASHUA — "It is a really serious situation I am in," Mayor Donnalee Lozeau told the New Hampshire Union Leader Wednesday, the day after she made claims that she and her husband are the target of a smear campaign by the Nashua Police Department.
Thomas Pappas, chairman of the Nashua Police Commission, called the mayor's words "harsh," referring to her allegation that police trust was abused for personal or political gain.
"I find it disappointing," Pappas said, contending no one within the department is engaged in a smear campaign against the mayor or any public official. Although Pappas said he has some personal thoughts on why the mayor would make those accusations against the police department, he refused to elaborate.
Lozeau said the police department began investigating her husband, David, in 2009 based on a complaint from one individual who was facing criminal charges. Her husband previously sued the individual, whose name she refused to give.
According to the mayor, the unidentified person accused her husband, in his role as a bail commissioner in Nashua, of bid rigging, drug use and misconduct.
Although that investigation included numerous wiretaps and ultimately determined that no crimes were committed by David Lozeau, the mayor said the closed case "came back to life" around the time she publicly criticized Nashua police unions for failing to negotiate new contracts that included health care concessions.
"It also became clear that the police were attempting to investigate me as well," Lozeau said, maintaining she has not engaged in any type of criminal activity.
Lozeau believes at least one person in the police department attempted to start a "smear campaign based on an unfounded investigation to achieve political goals."
Police Chief John Seusing denied the allegations this week that any investigation would be politically motivated, stressing that the department only conducts investigations for legitimate reasons.
On Wednesday, Lozeau said she has not hired a personal attorney in connection with the matter. However her husband, David, previously hired attorney Rick Lehmann of Douglas, Leonard and Garvey.
"I represent David. The mayor does not need a lawyer," Lehmann wrote in an email to the New Hampshire Union Leader. "David is completely innocent, was never charged and never will be charged. If the police did not conclude he was innocent, they would have used that to avoid disclosing information about an ongoing investigation. They did not."
David Lozeau, the mayor's husband of 25 years, resigned as a bail commissioner earlier this year. At the time, a court spokesperson refused to comment on his departure, citing it as a personnel matter.
Lozeau said she was unaware of the police investigation involving her husband until after her State of the City address earlier this year. She learned that 11 separate attempts to wiretap her husband were made by police in December 2009 and January 2010. (See related story, Page A2).Despite these attempts, she said that "at no point did my husband implicate himself in any criminal wrongdoing of any kind."
The mayor said she is willing to discuss the investigation of herself and her husband in a more public manner once she has thoroughly reviewed the facts.
"I have to count on the fact that people in our community know me. I have been a public servant for 20 years now," she said. "If I tell you something, it is the facts. I have always been straightforward."
She acknowledged public disagreements between the mayor's office and the city's police department, especially related to union negotiations and health care concessions by police employees.
"Any investigation that the Nashua Police Department did concerning her husband or anybody else would be done for justifiable reasons," Chief Seusing said this week. "To make any connection between disagreements between the mayor's office and the police department is absolutely false."
Pappas agreed, saying he is hopeful that Lozeau and police officials can resolve this issue, move forward and work together to better serve the citizens of Nashua.


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Under-specified Models and Detection of Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
by Jason Dietrich
Most empirical studies of discrimination in mortgage lending can be criticized for omitted variable bias. With access to data and policy guidelines typically unavailable to researchers, the OCC is in a unique position to assess the importance of omitted variables on fair lending models. This study examines how variables available to the OCC, but often unavailable to researchers, affect estimates from statistical models and identification of outliers for manual review.
The results show that omitted variables have an important impact on both the estimate of the effect of race and on the identification of outliers for review. Further, there appears to be no consistent patterns to the direction of these impacts. This suggests that it is inappropriate to make generalizations about the potential direction of bias based on assumptions about the correlations between omitted variables and race.
Any whole or partial reproduction of material in this paper should include the following citation: Jason Dietrich, "Under-specified Models and Detection of Discrimination in Mortgage Lending," Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, E&PA Working Paper 2003-2, March 2003.
Any whole or partial reproduction of material in this paper should include the following citation: Dennis Glennon and Amos Golan, "A Markov Model of Bank Failure Estimated Using an Information-Theoretic Approach," Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, E&PA Working Paper 2003-1, March 2003.
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DUNLAP — Despite all the hand-wringing, headaches and heartburn in Dunlap Community Unit District 323 about a plan to bridge a $2.1 million budget deficit that includes teacher layoffs, school officials say they have:
► Addressed many of the concerns expressed by residents, parents, students and teachers in writing, on the phone and at three public sessions that lasted a combined four hours.
► Adopted money-saving ideas that came directly from the public.
► Maintained academic excellence in the face of the financial downturn.
► Created a contingency plan to limit the potential for overcrowded classrooms caused by a projected increase in the student population and layoffs of 17 teachers.
► Managed all the changes while maintaining competitive cost-per-pupil operational expenses.
"We're still listening, still working, still trying to fine-tune the plan," said Amy Fairfield Doering, the president of the School Board. "But there are reasons behind every part of the proposal to mitigate the deficit, and the district has to continue to operate. Administration has looked at every possible place to cut, and at some point we have to get past this."
The district listened to concerns about the original proposal at a Jan. 15 meeting at Hickory Grove Elementary School and offered a revised proposal two weeks later. At the suggestion of members of the school community, that proposal restored fourth- and fifth-grade band and orchestra, the sixth-grade middle school concept and the majority of art, business and Family and Consumer Science courses.
The revised plan also implemented an activities fee and eliminated an administrative office secretary and the director of building and grounds position.
Remaining concerns among the public include the doubling in size of elementary school physical education classes, the removal of a study hall in high school that connects an English teacher with students who are struggling with English courses, larger class sizes and the elimination of all but one librarian for the entire district.
Superintendent Jay Marino told the board last week even the remaining concerns can be softened somewhat when details are examined.
For instance, the English study hall currently is serving a small number of students and won't be eliminated, just retooled, according to data Marino presented to the board. Those options are being considered. By not placing a certified English teacher in the classroom to help one or two students, the savings to the district would be $60,000.
A major concern expressed by teachers, parents and students is overcrowded classes in the 2014-15 school year. The perception that the district is bursting at the seams is, however, not entirely warranted, Marino said. Currently, only 11 percent of the 88 elementary school classrooms are near a soft cap; that's 25 students in a classroom for kindergarten, first and second grades and 30 for grades three, four and five, according to data provided by the district. There are 448 available seats in elementary schools across the district.
As financial concerns deepened, the district has been able to maintain strong academic achievement at a cost-per-pupil that lands it in the middle of the list of area school districts. State standardized test scores, college entrance exams and success in Advance Placement remain strong. And at a per pupil cost of $8,947, District 323 is about the same as Elmwood and Canton school districts and well below Washington and District 150, both of which are near $13,000.
"Nobody likes that we have to make some unpleasant decisions," Fairfield Doering said. "But everything has been looked at, and there should be action taken at the March board meeting."
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NILES, Ill., Dec. 13, 2012—Shure Incorporated today announced its second annual "Get the Gig" Artist Relations internship competition. Entries are now being accepted for the summer 2013 program, where one winner will get an "inside look" at the music industry and learn how to outfit some of today's most talented artists and bands with the right equipment to produce the best sound possible — in the studio or on stage.
"If your world revolves around music and you're not afraid to get your hands dirty…you could be our next summer intern," said Cory Lorentz, Artist Relations Manager for Shure. "Our requirements are simple – be hungry to learn and be ready to expect the unexpected. While artist relations has its perks, it's definitely not a 'walk in the park.' There's no such thing as a typical day."
Shure Artist Relations manages the relationships between musical artists and bands and the Company, providing product and technical support and assisting their front of house, monitor, and studio engineers as needed. Fans around the world enjoy music created by Shure artists such as Cage the Elephant, Foster the People, Jason Mraz, Matt & Kim, Mos Def, The Band Perry, The Black Keys, and Toby Keith, among others.
During the summer, the "Get the Gig" intern's responsibilities may include providing support for social media initiatives, helping to manage Shure artist endorsers, assisting in the evaluation of potential endorsers, working with the Company to negotiate endorsement contracts, and coordinating Shure-sponsored events, including clinics and trade shows.
How to Enter: "Get the Gig" Competition Requirements
College juniors, seniors, and recent graduates from the class of 2012, who reside in the U.S., are eligible to enter and take part in up to three rounds of competition to demonstrate why they deserve to be the next Shure Artist Relations intern.
The submission process consists of the following:
Round One (Deadline: January 31, 2013)
• Online application – now open!
• Resume submission
• 140-character Tweet, detailing why the applicant deserves the internship
From the initial pool, 20 applicants will be notified by February 19, 2013, and will advance to the second round.
Round Two (Deadline: February 28, 2013)
• Video audition
• 250-word essay (similar to a blog post)
Out of this pool, the top three candidates will be selected by March 16, 2013, and will move to the final round of competition.
Round Three (Winner Announced: April 5, 2013)
The remaining three candidates will visit Shure Corporate Headquarters in Niles, IL, for the final round — in-person interviews with individuals in Shure's Artist Relations, Marketing, and Human Resources departments.
The "Get the Gig" winner—and next Shure Artist Relations intern—will be notified by April 8, 2013, and will complete the internship program at Shure Corporate Headquarters in Niles, IL, from approximately May 15, 2013, to August 15, 2013. For a chance to be a part of the action, visit Shure "Get the Gig" contest details and requirements and apply today.


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By Alex Stewart, Coleman Foundation Chair in EntrepreneurshipMarquette University, Milwaukee, WI
When I started teaching, or trying to, I scarcely thought about how to use class time. Just lecture, hope for some discussion, give tests; what else was there to it, except perhaps for pacing the content? I thought this would disseminate knowledge to the students. This belief lasted a semester, and collided with the evidence of what students had actually learned. Fortunately, my colleagues helped me see that what we do as instructors in itself is unimportant; what we do matters only insofar as it affects our students' learning.
Really understanding student-centered learning is another matter, however. I've been a slow learner, but been at this long enough to raise some issues. Let's pretend, then, we're in a classroom together, and I'm not monopolizing discussion as I am, necessarily, writing at you here. I ask, what fires up your interests? What activities make you feel you're completely in your element and unaware of time? We'll sketch out these on a board. Where will I try to nudge our discussion? From topics that you care about to discussing class time. Why? Because student engagement drives the good use of class time.
I could not coach you or anyone without knowing what matters to you and what you currently understand. So I would remind us – hopefully you'd tell me – that students learn gradually, with accretions to what they already know. All learning is like a metaphor: we take something we know well as a jumping-off point for something we do not. Our discussion would thus transition from our interests to how we get students engaged about their interests. With some topics it's tough to engage student interests. For example, last week I taught about corporate strategy, a topic remote from the undergrads' experience. So I started by asking who'd worked in a "corporate" office, or worked elsewhere and heard about what "corporate" was up to. We followed with examples of small businesses transitioning to dealing with corporate strategy level issues. My slides were mainly questions, which succeeded in drawing out conversation.
Fortunately, in teaching entrepreneurship it's easy to find personal interests. One student cares about helping abused women; another about solar heating; another about tastier ice cream near the campus. We can take these passions as our starting points, abandoning our preconceptions about their appropriate aims, such as "high potential" ventures, "social ventures" or anything else – unless our particular students have cares in these directions. When we start this way we can engage them in project after project. And in doing this, we do need to think about class time. There are many possibilities (which is good, since students need variety). Here are some examples:
Explaining the course and its projects
This takes time if students are used to passive learning; this probably means all students.
Case discussion.This is where I started when I learned that my lectures weren't working. Cases teach us what students do and do not understand. However, getting students to prepare or to know how to discuss cases is difficult in many schools. Moreover, it can be tough to find cases that resonate with our particular students and writing them is quite a task.
Lecturettes.These can be question-based. For example, in tomorrow's class we'll talk about "how do you learn about competitors?" One direction I'll lead the class, as the chance arises, is seeing that when we know what customers really want we thereby can learn who our competitors are. It's best to call on everyone, with everyone knowing their role … for example, one student can put the material in the context of the restaurant business; another understands cash flows.
Small group discussion.Students need lots of feedback in a non-threatening fashion, and this provides it in their own terms. We should visit the groups, and finish with semi-structured report-backs and our thoughts on the way forward, to keep the groups productive. A twist on small groups is teamwork on projects, especially useful for students whose high school experience made them loners by virtue of having actually studied.1 The work done in teams can be graded for individual contributions: I recommend this.
Student presentations.These don't have to be formal. In fact, I've erred by making them too formal. That way presentations failed to help anyone recognize the strengths and weaknesses and see how to improve the work. Presentations of a sort also occur in small groups. More formally they can take the form of posters and small "fairs" displaying student work. Sadly, presentations are often the only way student voices get heard. Wander up and down a hallway in class time and listen; you'll get the feel for the culture of learning in your college. The ratio of student talk to instructor talk is a good measure of how well our students are learning.
Contact: email@example.com
1 Nelson, C. E. 1996. Student diversity requires different approaches to college teaching, even in math and science. American Behavioral Scientist, 40: 165-175.
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Gigabyte GA-EX38-DQ6 Review
By Propane -
Call of Juarez is a DirectX10 First Person Shooter set in the Wild West of the late 1800s. The game is inspired in part by the movies of the Wild West genre of the seventies and eighties. The game can be played as both single player and multiplayer. The game focuses on realistic graphics and gameplay designed to take advantage of the latest video cards on the market.
- Details: High
- Shadowmap size 2048x2048
- Shadow Quality: Normal
- Anti Aliasing: MSAA 4X
With my setup, Call of Juarez was a lot to handle; however, the results are pretty typical with the other games.


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A statue of the KFC mascot has been found in a river in Osaka, a city official said Wednesday, nearly a quarter century after being tossed in by crazed baseball fans who felt the image of restaurant founder Harland Sanders resembled a key team member.
Read on...
Colonel Sanders pulled from river after 24 years
Now, write a poem about it!
PS Note to Rebecca L-- I took your advice, the feather woman has found herself in a poem. Thank you.


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"These results are quite strange", my colleague told me. He analysed some of the recent climate model results from an experiment known by the cryptic name 'CMIP5'. It turned out that the results were ok, but we had made an error when reading and processing the model output. The particular climate model that initially gave the strange results had used a different calendar set-up to the previous models we had examined.
Comprehensive climate glossary
Recently we received a request for setting up a glossary-only search mechanism, or perhaps one web page with a long list of glossary entries with hot links to full explanations. The glossary that we already have is a good start, but we are all busy and it's hard to find the time for extending this.
But there are also a number of external web pages which provide climate-related glossaries, such as the NOAA (they also have a seperate page for paleo-stuff), the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia, and there is even one by the Australian EPA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, the U.S.), and the Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC, the U.S.). Wikipedia also has a glossary for climatological terms.
For those who seek the explanation for more bureaucratic terms, both the EU and the UNFCCC provide glossaries that may be useful.
Furthermore, there are some nice resources available, such as the Encyclopedia of Earth.
A collection of airborne solid or liquid particles, with a typical size between 0.01 and 10 µm and residing in the atmosphere for at least several hours. Aerosols may be of either natural or anthropogenic origin. Aerosols may influence climate in two ways: directly through scattering and absorbing radiation, and indirectly through acting as condensation nuclei for cloud formation or modifying the optical properties and lifetime of clouds (from the always useful IPCC glossary).
See-also: wiki:Aerosol.
Antarctic Oscillation ("AAO")
Measure of the pressure gradient between the polar and subpolar regions of the Southern Hemisphere. Term was introduced by Thompson and Wallace (2000). More information on the AAO can be found here. See also Arctic Oscillation ("AO").
Anthropogenic Forcing
Forcing due to human, rather than natural, factors. Such factors include increased greenhouse gas concentrations associated with fossil fuel burning, sulphate aerosols produced as an industrial by-product, human-induced changes in land surface properties among other things.


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Reviewed by Daniel P. (age 10)
I think the book is a funny because a boy is trying to take out a bear's tooth. Then my favorite part was when the boy tried to hit the bear's head with a pillow. My favorite character is the boy because he tries to take out the bear's tooth with different things. The best picture is when the boy tries to examine the bear's teeth. Also, the pictures are very colorful.
I recommend this book to anyone that has ever had a toothache.


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Reviewed by JG2 (age 11)
In the beginning I did not want to read the book. Because I thought it was going to be boring. But once my teacher said it was one of his favorite books I thought I would just give it a try. But then once I was done I ended up loving this book because even though the tailor's youngest son inset into being a tailor and he doesn't want to fallow in his father's footsteps. His father will help him along the way through his great adventures!
The most unique thing that I found was that the boys had to make the dress for the archduke's wife them self's for their father can see if his boys are well in of to be a tailor. But the tow older boys wanted to be a tailor and work along their father's side. The youngest son wanted to travel to places he'd never been before.
Last but not least I would want to recommend this book to kids in 4th and 5th graders, because I think if I recommend this book to 4th & 5th graders they would understand it better. And they would actually get in the book and might have self to text or text to text in the book. I think you 4th or 5th grader wouldn't read it because it looks boring but really it isn't. What I'm trying to say is, DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER.


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Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis
how do you know when cystic fibrosis is in its advanced stage in an adult, what are some of the things that would occur
Every patient with cystic fibrosis is different, so each patient must be considered individually. I am assuming that this question relates to CF lung disease.
The most common indicator of advancing disease in CF is the FEV1 on the pulmonary function test. Increasing frequency of admissions or need for antibiotics, inability to gain and maintain weight, decrease in exercise tolerance, worsening evidence of bronchiectasis on chest Xray or CT scan may also suggest progression of CF pulmonary disease. Patients may have worsening of complications such as CF related diabetes control, CF related arthritis, osteoporosis, etc.
With very severe disease, patients develop an oxygen requirement and CO2 on a blood gas may increase, suggesting need for help with breathing, particularly at night, using bi-level ventilation. This is a machine with a face mask that helps supplement a patient's breathing so that they do not need to work as hard. At this point, lung transplant is a consideration.
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Production Rising
Chrysler Group plans to boost production to 2.6 million vehicles in 2013, from 2.4 million last year and 2 million in 2011, said Scott Garberding, senior vice president of manufacturing for Chrysler Group.
"We're adding some capacity, but we're more heavily utilizing everywhere the capacity that we have," Garberding said today in an interview with Tom Keene and Sara Eisen on Bloomberg Television. "Many of our factories in the U.S. today are in fact going at full speed. Our Jeep plants are saturated" aside from a Toledo factory that is revamping for a new product.
Chrysler's sales gain in January extended its stretch of year-over-year increases to 34 months, one short of the 35-month streak that the company had in the period ending December 1994. The company sold 7,154 Darts, up from 6,105 in December. Deliveries of the Dodge Journey sport-utility vehicle almost doubled from a year earlier to 8,179, and the Avenger sedan surged 69% to 9,628.
Lease Returns
In 2009, with the economy in trouble, leases -- which usually last for three years -- dropped dramatically. Americans entered into about half as many new-vehicle leases in 2009 compared with two years earlier. Leasing bounced back strongly the next year, and those leases are about to expire.
GM, Ford and Toyota will lead a U.S. auto market that probably will climb to 15.1 million vehicle sales this year, the average of 18 estimates, from 14.5 million in 2012.
GM shares gained 43% for the six months ended yesterday, as vehicle demand has returned, far outpacing the Standard & Poor's 500 Index's 8.6% increase. Over the same period, Ford rose 40% and Toyota added 45%.
U.S. light-vehicle sales may begin the year with a 14% increase in January to 1.04 million, the average of nine analysts' estimates. The annualized industry sales rate, which is adjusted for seasonal trends, may have been 15.2 million, the average of 17 analysts' estimates.
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Watch out now, Apple. It looks like there's some trouble in paradise. The Cupertino-based company has long prided itself on its superior products, stellar design, and, perhaps most important of all, super devoted customers, most of which were happy to continually shell out big bucks to keep up with latest products releases.
But now, according to a survey conducted by American Customer Satisfaction Index, which was reported by Business Wire, it looks like the company is starting to slip a little. The company still leads the mobile industry, with an 81 percent customer satisfaction score, which is about a 2.5 percent drop from where it stood last year.
This may not seem like a huge deal, but consider that one of Apple's biggest rivals, Samsung, jumped 7 percent this year, landing an overall score of 76 percent customer satisfaction. The gap in perception is narrowing for Apple.
For now, Apple is sitting pretty as the leader of the pack, but also fairing well for itself is Nokia, tied with Samsung at 76 percent. Not doing so well are HTC and LG, both of which fell significantly in the last year, the former by 4 percent and the latter by more than 5. BlackBerry has a 69 percent approval, unchanged from last year.


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Is the FDA Safe and Effective?
Medical drugs and devices cannot be marketed in the United States unless the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grants specific approval. We argue that FDA control over drugs and devices has large and often overlooked costs that almost certainly exceed the benefits. We believe that FDA regulation of the medical industry has suppressed and delayed new drugs and devices, and has increased costs, with a net result of more morbidity and mortality. A large body of academic research has investigated the FDA and with unusual consensus has reached the same conclusion.
Drawing on this body of research, we evaluate the costs and benefits of FDA policy. We also present a detailed history of the FDA, a review of the major plans for FDA reform, a glossary of terms, a collection of quotes from economists who have studied the FDA, and a reference section with many webbed links. A more detailed table of contents follows. We are happy to receive comments and criticisms.
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