Frequent Boston Symphony Orchestra guest conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos begins a two-week stint tonight in a program including the world premiere of Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, a BSO co-commission written by Marc Neikrug and featuring BSO principal bassoonist Richard Svoboda. Neikrug, who is also an active pianist and conductor, has written works for many of the country's major orchestras. Opening the program is Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, and closing it are the Suites Nos. 1 and 2 from Manuel de Falla's sparkling and evocative The Three-cornered Hat. BMInt posed some questions to the concerto soloist.
BMInt: Do you consider the bassoon a cheerful or a poignant instrument?
Richard Svoboda: Both. It is commonly known as the clown of the orchestra and Shostakovich called it the soul of the orchestra.
Is it as plaintive as the oboe and English Horn?
Anything they can do we can do better.
Are there personality traits associated with bassoonists?
As a broad generality, bassoonists tend to be laid back and not take themselves too seriously.
While there are a fair number of bassoon concerti from the 18th and 19th- centuries, and we all know Mozart's and Weber's, what caused the explosion of bassoon concerti in the 20th and 21st? Wikipedia lists 140.
The 19th century was pretty grim for bassoon concerti, but the 18th century was hopping. Vivaldi alone wrote 36 or 37 and Mozart wrote three, although sadly only one of his survives. If we could return to that kind of heyday we'd have a real explosion today.
The clarinet is probably the favorite instrument of contemporary composers after the piano. They apparently like its speed, accuracy and registers. Is there anything the clarinet can do which the oboe can't, aside from questions of range? Can you play phrases that are as long as the oboe?
I'm not sure I want to weigh in on a clarinet/oboe which is better dispute. The oboe is about two feet long. I can play a two foot long phrase so long as it isn't too slow.
Perhaps not surprisingly, I did know this.
When Neikrug talks about employing idiosyncratic material for the instrument, that doesn't surprise you either, presumably. What does he mean, and do you agree?
I imagine he means that the music fits the bassoon, and that composers before him have already used the bassoon is similar ways. I would absolutely agree. With the exception of all the shakes in the final movement. No other composer to my knowledge has ever made such extensive use of this technique before with the bassoon.
What do you like about the piece and what should we listen for?
I like the wonderful variety in the piece: variety of color, mood, style. Marc Neikrug makes such great use of the orchestra. The first movement is a great emotional ride for the bassoon and orchestra. I really like the sad, crying melodic lines of the bassoon in the second movement. The last movement has a rather sophisticated jazz vibe going and of course all of those crazy shakes. The cadenza is over the top, and everything is whipped into a great frenzy to end it.
Composer Marc Neikrug has had an international career for 30 years. He has written chamber music, symphonic music, music-theater and opera. Major performances have taken place with the New York, Los Angeles and Buffalo Philharmonics, as well as the symphonies in Pittsburgh, Houston, Atlanta, Cincinnati, New World (Miami), St. Louis, Washington DC, Chicago, Utah, Dallas, Phoenix, New Mexico, the Minnesota and Cleveland orchestras, and the St. Paul and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras.
His works have been performed internationally, by the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, the BBC Symphony, London Synfonietta, English Chamber Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Berlin Radio Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony, Liege Orchestra, Lisbon Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Osaka Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. Festival performances have been at Ravinia, Tanglewood, Hollywood Bowl, Aspen, Angel Fire, La Jolla, Marlboro, Menlo, London's South Bank, Aldeburgh, Berlin Festival, Franfurt Festival, Schleswig Holstein, Zurich, Melbourne, Tokyo's Music Today, and Jerusalem.
Among noted performers of his music are Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Alan Gilbert, David Zinman, Leonard Slatkin, Lawrence Foster, Oliver Knussen, James Galway, Pinchas Zukerman, Maximilian Schell, John Turturro, and the Emerson, Vermeer, Tokyo and Orion Quartets. His music-theater work Through Roses was commissioned by London's South Bank Festival with the National Theater. Since its premiere in 1980 it has had hundreds of performances in fifteen countries and has been translated into 11 languages. There are three CDs on Deutsche Grammaphon, Enya, and Koch International.
There have also been two films produced: a documentary by Christopher Nupen, and a feature film directed by Jurgen Flimm and starring Maximilian Schell. Los Alamos, an anti-nuclear opera written in 1988, is the only American opera ever commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Its American premiere was at the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Neikrug has been composer-in-residence at the Marlboro, Santa Fe, Angel Fire, Bravo Vail, and La Jolla festivals. Works have been recorded on Deutsche Grammaphon, Koch International, Stereophile, Laurel, and Enya records. His publishers are G. Schirmer and Chester Music.
Richard Svoboda has been principal bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players since 1989. He is currently on the faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music and the Tanglewood Music Center. He has also taught at the Sarasota Music Festival, the Grand Teton Orchestral Seminar, the Popkin-Glickman Bassoon Camp, and the Symphony School of America, and has given master classes throughout the world. Prior to his appointment to the BSO, he performed for ten seasons as principal bassoonist of the Jacksonville Symphony. He studied with William Winstead, George Berry, and Gary Echols. Mr. Svoboda appears frequently with chamber ensembles, as orchestral soloist, and in recital. Among his solo appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra have been performances of John Williams's bassoon concerto The Five Sacred Trees with the composer conducting, as well as Weber's Concerto for Bassoon under the baton of Seiji Ozawa. A Nebraska native, Mr. Svoboda graduated with high distinction from the University of Nebraska, where he received a bachelor of music in education degree. He is married and has four daughters.


Received a nice e-mail from Bob Ladd, Manager and Chief Engineer of WCNZ today. Very welcome as I have sent several letters to this station over the years without success. WCNZ is one of the most regular of any U.S. station at my place, if not THE U.S. station with the most consistent signal. WCNZ can be heard regularly in the winter season, even on my modest longwire antenna at home. In addition to 1660 kHz, the station also broadcast on 1410 kHz as WMYR carrying Relevant Radio.


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20 Questions with RVB
Ray, play the board not the player. Bob Anderson
We interviewed 5 Times World Champion and Dutch legend Raymond Van Barneveld to give you guys more of an insight into one of the biggest players on the world stage:
How many years have you been playing Darts? I've been playing since 1984 so it's been around 33 years
When did you first discover you were any good? In 1984 I won a big major tournament in The Netherlands - The Rotterdam Open and later that year I was playing for Holland at the 3 Nations Cup.
What is your biggest accomplishment so far? 5 World titles and 3 World Cup singles titles, so to me I won 8 World titles in my career, which I would say is an accomplishment.
If you could give any advice in the key to your success - what would it be? You have to dream where you wanna go from here, I had many dreams where I was seeing myself lifting trophies. Secondly, I would say that you need to do all you can do to achieve that dream - so practice, be fit and play as much as you can.
What would be your ultimate achievement in the future? Winning a 6th World title would be great!
How do you prepare pre game? 3 hours before the match I practise on the day just to warm up, I listen to some music, read a magazine and do some meditation.
What is your biggest challenge, and what do you do to manage this challenge? I sponsor a team of young talented darts players, but I struggle to find time so I'm hoping to find time to coach them in the future.
Who would be your inspiration within the industry or in sports? Johan Cruyff and in Darts I was always a big fan of Eric Bristow and Bob Anderson.
What was the best advice you were ever given? Bob Anderson told me when we are sharing a room during World championships in Lakeside 'Ray play the board not the player'.
If you weren't a professional darts player, what would you want to do? POSTMAN HAHA
Quick fire random questions:
What is your favourite animal? Cat
What would be your favourite food? Japanese Sushi and teppanyaki food
What is your favourite movie? The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
What's your favourite song that ISN'T your walk in song? I Wish it would rain down - Phil Collins
How would you describe yourself in one word? IAmABornWinner
What was the last gift you gave someone? A car
What were you like in high school? Very shy
What's the last thing you watched on TV? Series all the time Sons of Anarchy is the best
What is the funniest thing that has happened to you recently? My 50th Birthday party and my Grandson Mason he always makes me happy
What advice would you give your younger Self? Be patient if you work hard your time will come
Thank you Chizzy!
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Last Sunday I played an RPG for the first time with my son (5). We played Hero Kids by Hero Forge Games.
He was excited and had a lot of fun. We played with minimized rules (Hero Kids uses only some D6) and he was the only player.He chose the strong kid with the axe as a character and named him Axel the Brave, with me playing Axel's friend, Magnus the Healer, as a NSC. Axel and Magnus went to search for a missing priest, descended into a damp cave, defeated the spiders there, solved the challenge of a bear ghost and finally saved the priest from some skeleton swordsmen and a dragon.
It took about 35 minutes of play and we had a lot of fun. Next Sunday there is again the time for adventures!


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How Century 21 Is Giving Back to Local Communities
Exclusive Insights
Peter Mosca
By Peter L. Mosca, Director of Public Relations, Century 21 Real Estate
During this time of intense anxiety, tragic loss and growing concern for others, many people are overcoming their own stress and pain by pouring positive energy into their local community with acts of support and kindness. Of greatest note is the painstaking work of our hospital and healthcare workers, grocery store supply chain professionals and police, fire and first responders who are risking their lives to keep us safe and healthy.
One of those first responders is Thomas McGowan with CENTURY 21 New Millennium in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He is not only continuing to conduct his real estate business in his own town, but he is also helping to save lives 300 miles to the north by volunteering to serve as an EMT in Queens, New York, one of the hardest-hit districts during this global pandemic. As a Lieutenant at Virginia-based LifeCare Medical Transports, McGowan and his team deployed to New York a few weeks back with eight ambulances and 16 fellow EMTs.
Currently, he is leading a strike team that, when called upon to relieve overworked EMS employees with 911 calls and medical transports, provides advanced and basic life support—and, they do so working 12-hour shifts with their own PPE, bleach, and spray bottles, knowing full-well these items are in short supply in New York City. As Mike Miedler, president and CEO of Century 21 Real Estate noted, "Thomas is one of the true heroes performing a truly selfless act. We value and appreciate him at Century 21 Real Estate and so does our country."
The sense of responsibility and community from all walks of life is intensifying, as people are stepping up and delivering life's basics like joy, water and food to people who need it most. Take Julie Lurie of CENTURY 21 Mack Morris Iris Lurie in Morganville, New Jersey. Julie and her team, in partnership with the local store Bagel Talk, delivered scrumptious trays of bagels, cream cheese, muffins, and cookies to the less fortunate with the last tray given to the Marlboro Township Police Department.
Then there's the ongoing community efforts of Robert Purtell of CENTURY 21 Purtell Realty in Amsterdam, New York. Recently, Robert and his team secured seven days' worth of food for 250 families partnering with Friehofer Bakery to supply over 200 cases of bakery products every week to the less fortunate at the AMEN Soup Kitchen.
Like John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote, "all you need is love" and Ivis Suarez at CENTURY 21 Myers Realty in Auburndale, Florida brought that to life for a special client in true C21® extraordinary fashion. Ivis had buyer clients who were told by their lender that they would not be able to close on their purchase without being married. Ivis and her team went into action. With no large groups allowed and no available venues, the CENTURY 21 Myers Realty office surprised the couple with a beautiful wedding in their Auburndale office, decorated, and provided food and witnesses. They closed on their home that day.
Home is truly where the heart is. At Century 21 Real Estate, giving 121% to the people and communities in which we live and work is baked into the DNA of our 131,000 sales professionals worldwide. These selfless individuals are proud members of the CENTURY 21® System and we are even prouder to value and appreciate them as "family."


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CPM 2008-01
MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
LINDA M. SPRINGER
January 2008 Pay Adjustments
The President has signed an Executive order to implement the January 2008 pay adjustments. (See Attachment 1.) The Executive order authorizes a 2.5 percent across-the-board increase for the statutory pay systems under the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 5303 and locality pay increases costing approximately 1.0 percent of payroll under 5 U.S.C. 5304, reflecting the overall average pay increase of 3.5 percent required by section 740 of Division D of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008. This memorandum reviews relevant portions of the Executive order and provides general information on the 2008 pay adjustments for the General Schedule (GS) pay system and certain other pay systems and schedules.
2008 Salary Tables and Effective Date
We have posted the 2008 salary tables on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's (OPM's) Website at http://www.opm.gov/oca/08tables/index.asp. The 2008 pay rates will become effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2008 (January 6, 2008).
The General Schedule and Other Statutory Pay Systems
The Executive order provides an across-the-board increase of 2.5 percent in the rates of basic pay for the statutory pay systems--the GS, the Foreign Service schedule, and certain schedules for the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Special base rates for law enforcement officers at GS grades 3 through 10 also are increased by 2.5 percent. (These law enforcement officers are assigned the "GL" pay plan code.)
Executive Schedule
Under 5 U.S.C. 5318, Executive Schedule (EX) rates of pay will be increased by 2.5 percent (rounded to the nearest $100) and will become effective on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2008 (January 6, 2008). The EX salary table is available on OPM's Website at http://www.opm.gov/oca/08tables/indexSES.asp.
Under 5 U.S.C. 5382, the minimum rate of basic pay for the Senior Executive Service (SES) rate range will be adjusted to be consistent with the increase in the minimum rate of basic pay for senior-level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376 ($114,468 in 2008). The applicable maximum rate of basic pay for the SES will be $172,200 (EX-II) for SES members covered by a certified SES performance appraisal system and $158,500 (EX-III) for SES members covered by an SES performance appraisal system that has not been certified. An SES member at the minimum rate of the SES rate range must receive a pay increase of 2.5 percent in January 2008, since an SES member may not receive less than the minimum rate of the SES rate range. An agency's determination to adjust the rate of basic pay for an SES member that is approved by the end of the first pay period in January 2008 (January 19, 2008) may be made effective as of the first day of that first pay period (January 6, 2008). Determinations to adjust SES pay that are approved after January 19, 2008, will become effective at the beginning of the next pay period following the approval. OPM's regulations for setting and adjusting SES pay are available at 5 CFR part 534, subpart D.
Senior-Level and Scientific or Professional Positions
The minimum rate of basic pay for the senior-level and scientific or professional (SL/ST) rate range will be increased by 2.5 percent ($114,468 in 2008), which is the amount of the across-the-board GS pay increase. The maximum rate of basic pay for the SL/ST rate range is the rate for EX-IV ($149,000 in 2008).
Administrative Law Judges
The Executive order reflects a decision by the President to increase the rates of basic pay for administrative law judges (ALJs) by 2.5 percent, rounded to the nearest $100. The rate of basic pay for AL-1 will be $149,000. The rate of basic pay for AL-2 will be $145,400. The rates of basic pay for AL-3/A through 3/F will range from $99,500 to $137,600, as shown in the table under "Administrative Appeals Judges," below.
Administrative Appeals Judges
Under 5 U.S.C. 5372b, the rates of basic pay for administrative appeals judge (AAJ) positions must be set at a rate not less than the minimum rate of basic pay for level AL-3 and not more than the maximum rate of basic pay for level AL-3 of the ALJ pay system established under 5 U.S.C. 5372. OPM's regulations at 5 CFR 534.603 link the structure of the AAJ pay system directly to the structure for level AL-3 of the ALJ pay system. The AAJ pay system includes six rates of basic pay--AA-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. These rates correspond to the rates of basic pay for AL-3/A, B, C, D, E, and F of the ALJ pay system, as shown in the following table:
AAJ Pay
ALJ Pay
Rate of Basic Pay
AA-1 AL-3/A $99,500
AA-2 AL-3/B $107,000
AA-3 AL-3/C $114,800
AA-4 AL-3/D $122,400
AA-5 AL-3/E $130,100
AA-6 AL-3/F $137,600
Locality Payments
The President's Executive order establishes the amounts of the 2008 locality payments for GS employees. Attachment 2 provides a table showing the 2008 locality pay percentage and total percentage increase in each locality pay area (reflecting the combined effect of the 2.5 percent across-the-board increase and the applicable increase in the locality pay percentage). Also provided is a chart showing an example of how the 2008 locality rate and total increase are computed for an employee in the "Rest of U.S." locality pay area. (See Attachment 3.)
Locality Pay Extensions
On November 2, 2007, the Director of OPM issued a memorandum on behalf of the President's Pay Agent (the Secretary of Labor and the Directors of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and OPM) that extends the GS locality payments to ALJs, employees in SL/ST positions, and certain other non-GS categories of employees again in 2008. By law, EX officials, SES members, and employees in certain other equivalent pay systems are not authorized to receive locality payments.
Locality Pay Areas in 2008
There are no changes in locality pay areas effective on the first day of the first pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2008 (January 6, 2008). Locality pay area definitions are posted at http://www.opm.gov/oca/08tables/locdef.asp.
2007 Annual Review of Special Rates
We are issuing a separate memorandum announcing the results of the 2007 annual review of special rates.
Aggregate Limitation on Pay
The aggregate limitation on pay for calendar year 2008 will be $191,300 (equivalent to the rate for EX-I). SES members and employees in SL/ST positions who are covered by a certified performance appraisal system are subject to a higher aggregate limitation on pay of the Vice President's salary ($221,100 in 2008). (See 5 U.S.C. 5307 and 5 CFR part 530, subpart B.) Information on obtaining certification of performance appraisal systems is available at http://www.opm.gov/ses/certification.asp.
2008 Premium Pay Caps
Under 5 U.S.C. 5547(a) and 5 CFR 550.105, GS and other covered employees may receive certain types of premium pay in a biweekly pay period only to the extent that the sum of basic pay and such premium pay for the pay period does not exceed the greater of the biweekly rate payable for (1) GS-15, step 10 (including any applicable locality payment or special rate supplement), or (2) the rate payable for EX-V ($139,600 in 2008). In certain emergency or mission-critical situations, an agency may apply an annual premium pay cap instead of a biweekly premium pay cap, subject to the conditions prescribed in law and regulation. (See 5 U.S.C. 5547(b) and 5 CFR 550.106-550.107.) We have posted the biweekly premium pay caps on OPM's Website at http://www.opm.gov/oca/pay/html/08GSCap.asp. (We will notify agencies in a separate memorandum about any reauthorization for 2008 of the premium pay cap authorized by section 1105 of Public Law 109-163 that may be applied to employees who perform work while in an overseas location that is in the area of responsibility of the commander of the United States Central Command, in direct support of or directly related to a military operation (including a contingency operation as defined in 10 U.S.C. 101(13).))
Post Employment Restrictions
Agencies are required to notify SES members and other individuals who are paid at a rate of basic pay equal to or greater than 86.5 percent of the rate for EX-II ($148,953 in 2008) that they are subject to certain post-employment restrictions in 18 U.S.C. 207(c). (See 18 U.S.C. 207(c)(2)(A)(ii).) OPM's regulations requiring notification of post-employment restrictions are available at 5 CFR part 730. Agencies may continue to use the sample notice OPM provided in its memorandum of January 6, 2004 (CPM 2004-01), to notify an SES member or other individual that he or she is subject to the post-employment restrictions in 18 U.S.C. 207(c). (Agencies will need to update the salary threshold and effective date, as appropriate.) The sample notice is available at http://www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/2004/2004-01_attach1.asp.
Order for Processing Pay Actions
The general pay adjustments that take effect in January 2008 must be processed before any individual pay action (e.g., a within-grade increase or promotion) that takes effect on the same date. General pay adjustments include across-the-board increases under 5 U.S.C. 5303 and increases in locality payments or other geographic adjustments, special rate supplements, and retained rates. If multiple individual pay actions become effective on the date of the January 2008 pay adjustment, those actions must be processed in the order applicable to the employee's pay system (e.g., the simultaneous action rule for GS employees in 5 CFR 531.206).
Pay Administration
We are providing the following examples of pay computations to assist agencies in administering the 2008 pay adjustments for GS employees:
Examples of January 2008 Pay Computations -- See http://www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/2007/08PAYCOMP.ASP.
How to Compute Rates of Pay -- See http://www.opm.gov/oca/pay/HTML/computerates.asp.
How to Compute FLSA Overtime Pay -- See http://www.opm.gov/oca/pay/HTML/computeflsa.asp.
Internal Revenue Service Guidance
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Publication 15, Circular E, Employer's Tax Guide (revised January 2008), will show the 2008 wage bracket income tax withholding tables for both single and married persons who are paid on a biweekly basis. IRS will mail Publication 15 to employers, and this publication also should be available at IRS offices in January 2008. (Call 1-800-829-3676 to order copies.) IRS publications may be downloaded at http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html.
For additional information, agency Chief Human Capital Officers and/or Human Resources Directors should contact their assigned OPM Human Capital Officers. Employees should contact their agency human resources offices for assistance.
cc: Chief Human Capital Officers
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Canada at the Table - From Poker and Sportsbook, to Slots/Casinos, Bingo and Lotteries - Place Your Bets by Ralph Garcea | MicroCap Review
From PRINT EDITION MicroCap Review Spring 2018 Issue
By Ralph Garcea, Echelon Wealth Partners
www.echelonpartners.com
We are initiating coverage on the Online Gambling/Lotteries sector.
A $75B+ Market by 2025: According to gaming industry consultants, H2 Gambling Capital ("H2GC"), the global online gambling industry's (including online poker, casino, sports betting, bingo, lotteries and skill-based, and other games) gross gaming revenues ("GGR") has grown from ~US$8.2B in 2003 to US$44.3B in 2016. GGR is defined as rakes plus bonuses, promotions, overlays and loyalty rewards, less prizes or winnings. We estimate that the combined global online gambling GGR could grow to ~US$75B by 2025 for a compounded annual growth rate ("CAGR") of ~6.1%. The overall global gambling market (including land-based and tribal casinos) is expected to exceed $600B by 2025. We estimate that online gambling should go from ~8% of overall GGR in 2010 to ~20% by 2025; and that mobile should go from ~12% of online GGR in 2010 to 55%+ by 2025.
Poker is Sexy, but Sportsbook and Casino is Where the Money's at: H2GC estimates that for 2016 alone, the GGR splits by segment were: sports betting (49%), casino (26%), state lotteries (9%), poker (6%), skill and other gaming and commercial lotteries (5%), and bingo (4%).
Bingo is the Least Volatile: Long-term structural growth in online gaming is mainly driven by: (1) increasing mobile penetration; (2) demographics/social change; and (3) the ongoing shift from brick and mortar to online. We believe online bingo has attractive fundamentals compared to sports betting and poker, namely, a sticky customer base with stable margins and a niche focus on the female demographic. We note that the UK is the largest market in the Online Bingo segment with ~11% of the global market.
Lotteries Just Scratching the Surface: For 2015, the World Lottery Association estimates that sales across the four game categories of draw-based games (55.9%), instant games (25.2%), sports games (parimutuel, 7.2%), and sports games (fixed odds, 11.7%) were US$260.9B, up 2.7% y/y. Global lottery sales by region were as follows: EMEA (32.8%), Asia/Pacific (38%), North America/Caribbean (26.2%), Latin America (2.6%), and Africa (0.4%).
A Blockchain / ICO Can Revolutionize the Industry: Evidence has shown that a high number of gaming and gambling companies have used blockchain technology to raise money and fund startups. In total, more than US$4B has been raised via ICOs, according to Autonomous NEXT. Business Insider reported a $500M ICO to build a floating cryptocurrency casino in Macau. Gambling with cryptocurrencies – as opposed to fiat money – can currently be conducted without the need to provide identification documents, or in some cases, without the need to create an account.
Free-to-Play Social is Growing Too: Online Social Casino gaming is broadly defined as "free-to-play" online Poker, Slots, Bingo, and Table Games on desktop and mobile devices. Eilers & Krejcik Gaming ("EKG") estimates that the global social casino gaming market reached $4.3B in 2017 (+11.5% y/y), and should grow at a CAGR of 5.5% to reach $5.3B by 2021.
Valuation: The Canadian Gambling/Lottery sector trades at a C2018E EV/Sales of 3.3x and EV/EBITDA of 10.2x versus its Global Gaming comparables at an average of 3.2x and 11.0x, respectively.
Stars Group Inc (TSGI-T/TSG-US, BUY, $40 PT): The Stars Group has a stranglehold on the global poker marketplace, which comprises only 6% of total iGGR, and is continuing to roll out its BetStars product and PokerStars Casino offering, with the former in its infancy stage. We expect TSGI to continue organically and inorganically investing in its sportsbook product as it looks for the right catalyst to grow the business.
Jackpotjoy (ITX-T/JPJ-LON, BUY, $20 PT): Jackpotjoy should grow to £225M+ in 2018, with Vera&John adding £75M+. Approximately 80% of revenues come from regulated jurisdictions with the UK and Nordics representing ~80% of total revenue. JPJ is primarily a bingo focused company, with ~66% of revenues represented from this gaming vertical, with casino representing 28% of its revenues. Growth in mobile has been impressive and now represents roughly half of total revenue and more than half of new customer acquisitions.
Pollard Banknote (PBL-T, BUY, $24 PT): According to La Fleur's, the worldwide instant ticket sales market comprises over 60% of total lottery sales in the US. Pollard has grown into a leading supplier that competes head-to-head with two large global competitors – IGT and Scientific Games. PBL's revenue is derived from long-term contracts (typically 3 to 5 years) with renewal extensions of several years. Online lottery offerings (known as "iLottery") will be an important pillar for future growth, particularly in the US where only a handful of jurisdictions sell lottery products online. PBL's acquisition of Innova Gaming Group closed in August 2017, and PBL recently announced the acquisition of International Gamco.
Online Gambling Status in the US: The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 ("UIGEA") "prohibits gambling businesses from knowingly accepting payments in connection with the participation of another person in a bet or wager that involves the use of the Internet and that is unlawful under any federal or state law." UIGEA specifically excluded fantasy sports that meet certain requirements, skill-games and legal intrastate and intertribal gaming. Currently, out of the 50 states and 5 inhabited overseas territories, only 8 have legalized some form of online gambling – Nevada, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, US Virgin Islands, Georgia, Illinois, and New York.
Sports Betting Update: The U.S. Supreme Court ("SCOTUS") heard oral arguments in early December 2017, and is set to rule by June 2018 on the legality of sports betting in the US outside of Nevada (and Delaware, Oregon, Montana). The State of New Jersey challenged the validity of the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act ("PASPA") prohibiting betting on sports, and the upcoming SCOTUS ruling could provide the catalyst to introduce sports betting on a state-by-state basis.
Industry Consolidation: We have seen plenty of M&A activity across both the online gambling (Paddy Power/Betfair, Ladbrokes/Coral, GVC/BWIN) and lottery (IGT (IGT-US, NR)/GTECH, Pollard/Innova) sectors. We expect this activity to continue as companies look to fill platform and geographic gaps in their offerings. Most recently, Ladbrokes agreed to a £4B takeover by GVC (GVC-LON, NR) – which would yield a fast-growing, diversified, international online and retail sports betting led gaming group with over 90% of net revenues generated from locally regulated/taxed markets. From a Canadian perspective, the notable consolidation in 2017 was that of NYX Gaming Group by Scientific Games for $500M. In 2016, NYX acquired the leading B2B sportsbook operator in OpenBet in a deal valued at $383M. Average takeout multiples in the gaming sector in recent years have ranged around ~3x revenue and ~11x EBITDA. We believe the global gaming industry is still very much fragmented, and with a challenging regulatory environment, further consolidation is the only logical solution forward.
Editor's Note:
Mr. Garcea joined Echelon in January 2017 and has more than 21 years' experience in senior positions at major domestic and international firms (Scotia, Credit Suisse and Cantor Fitzgerald), as well as boutiques (Haywood, NCP and GMCI). He is a top-ranked research analyst, well regarded for the depth and breadth of knowledge he brings to bear on his coverage of Canadian technology, gaming and industrial companies across a broad range of market capitalizations. Over the years, he has received top three rankings from Brendan Woods, Greenwich, Starmine and Thomson Reuters surveys.
Before becoming a sell-side analyst, he was a research engineer for Bombardier Aerospace, using computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools for the optimization of noise and vibration control in aircraft (worked on the Dash 8-Q Series). Ralph subsequently joined Belgium-based LMS International (acquired by Siemens in November 2012 for ~€680M), a developer of CAE tools, as a business unit manager for Michigan-based LMS North America to manage sales, marketing, and services efforts.
Mr. Garcea holds a Bachelor's degree (Honours) in Engineering Science (Aerospace) from the University of Toronto and an M.B.A. (Honours) from the Schulich School of Business at York University. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
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Teng Tools have been supplying technicians in industry and the automotive trade for over 30 years. Today the range includes over 3,500 items and is sold in over 40 countries around the world including Europe, Africa, Australasia and America.
Our association with motor sport and particularly speedway is well known with nearly all the top riders and teams choosing to use Teng Tools.
Central Wheel Components (CWC) are celebrating 5 generations of the same family owning and running the Company over the past 3 Centuries. 2017 saw the company celebrate its 120th anniversary.
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Until 2007, when they relocated their cruiser factory to Thailand, we supplied Triumph Motorcycles with up to a thousand spoked wheels a week.
With 120 years of trading under our belt, we have amassed a vast amount of knowledge and expertise and consider no job too small or too specialised for our skilled workforce.
The decision was made 10 years ago to enter the world of Motocross Wheel Building. From our earliest days in this sport it was evident that the potential was enormous. We established our own brand "SM Pro Wheels" and the rest is history.
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Danger UK go way back to 1985, when we produced our very first Heavy Duty Custom printed Motocross Graphics set. The product was the very first of it's kind and soon the word was out and everybody wanted their very own custom looking team bike. Since then Richard Thrower (Danger UK) has added many more products to the range, from Motocross graphics to Speedway bike cover, Kart graphics, One-Off custom Race Wear, Pit mats, Trophies, Ant-Shatter Car Reg plates and much more. All our products are made using slightly different methods to all of the copy cat companies that come along, giving us the edge over our growing competition.
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We have enjoyed regular collaboration with Curtis Concept Design where combined skills and ingenuity has produced some radical prototypes and contributed to sustaining the necessary pace of change in how riders, teams and promoters approach the use of aesthetics to optimise advertising as well as use of composite technology to assist with weight saving and aerodynamics through our extensive use of composite materials in the sport.
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Poll: Voters know little of Moreland probe
A new poll finds voters are largely unaware of a federal probe into potential meddling by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office in a panel established to root out corruption in state government.
Poll: Voters know little of Moreland probe A new poll finds voters are largely unaware of a federal probe into potential meddling by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office in a panel established to root out corruption in state government. Check out this story on lohud.com: http://lohud.us/1opkgJV
JSPECTOR@Gannett.com Published 11:01 a.m. ET Aug. 11, 2014 | Updated 11:43 p.m. ET Aug. 11, 2014
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center left, is surrounded by the media in Freeport, N.Y. Cuomo was there to announce a new program to help victims of Superstorm Sandy, but ended up fielding questions about the political storm regarding his top his disbandment of the Moreland Commission on government corruption.(Photo: Frank Eltman AP)
Two-thirds of voters told pollsters they were unfamiliar with the federal probe.
Cuomo disbanded the panel in March as it investigated more than a dozen potential corruption cases in the state Legislature.
Cuomo leads GOP opponent Rob Astorino in the latest polls, but his favorability rating has taken a hit.
The U.S. Attorney is reviewing the cases referred to it after the commission was eliminated.
ALBANY Voters believe that corruption in state government is a serious problem, but few know about a federal probe into potential meddling by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office in a corruption-busting panel, a poll Monday found.
The Democratic governor has been under intense scrutiny in the media and from his GOP foes over the last three weeks about his office's role in allegedly scuttling attempts by the Moreland Commission he appointed into investigating his allies.
Yet two-thirds of voters said they were unfamiliar with the issue, a Siena College poll found. Upstate voters were slightly more familiar: 36 percent said they were aware of the investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
The flap, however, did lead to a five-percentage-point drop against his Republican opponent, Westcheser County executive Rob Astorino, although Cuomo still retained a 32-percentage-point edge.
Cuomo led Astorino 58 percent to 26 percent.
"Albany insiders and political junkies are certainly talking lots about Moreland, Bharara, investigations, and the like, but most New York voters are spending their summer not following any of that news," Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said in a statement. "Voters see corruption as a serious problem, but not one they pay a lot of attention to."
Sixty-three percent of voters said they didn't have enough information about the Moreland Commission's disbandment in March by Cuomo to make a decision on whether there was any criminality.
Cuomo dumped the panel as it investigated more than a dozen potential corruption cases in the state Legislature, mainly surrounding possible misuse of campaign cash.
The commission's work is now being reviewed by Bharara. Astorino has sought to seize on the Moreland mess, but the poll showed he had made few inroads, in part because his fundraising as lagged and hasn't allowed him to get attack ads on the air.
He trailed Cuomo by 60 percentage points in New York City, 25 points in the downstate suburbs and 14 points among upstate voters, the poll said. And 57 percent of voters said they had no opinion of him.
Cuomo's favorability rating, though, dropped from 57 percent to 36 percent, down from 61 percent to 35 percent last month. His job performance rating also fell slightly to 44 percent to 55 percent, down from 50 percent to 49 percent.
Jobs remained the number one issue for voters at 28 percent, followed by taxes at 21 percent, education at 20 percent and government corruption at 17 percent, the poll said.
Democratic incumbents in the other two statewide races on the ballot held commanding leads over their Republican opponents, the Siena poll found.
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli led Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci by 34 percentage points, while Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had a 27 percentage-point edge over John Cahill, a former aide to ex-Gov. George Pataki.
The Siena College Poll was conducted August 4-7 to 863 likely registered voters. It had a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.
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Il est important de bien choisir votre instructeur...Il devient votre mentor, votre gourou et votre ouverture vers un environnement nouveau. Certains des instructeurs ont choisi d'enseigner par passion à temps partiel et d'autres ont plutôt choisi d'en faire leur carrière.


Agronomist and Operations Director Damian Farris grows the cannabis used in CBD preparations, food products, and even beer at Colorado's largest licensed hemp farms.
Back when Farris was a teen in the early '90s, he first read The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer's seminal work about the multiple uses of the then-prohibited hemp plant. "That was one of the most influential books I've probably ever read," says Farris.
Thanks to Colorado overhauling its cannabis laws in 2012 to allow for hemp cultivation along with recreational sales, Farris' company presently contracts farmers to grow hemp near where he spent time growing up in Fort Collins, as well as near other agricultural towns across Colorado: Campo in southeastern Colorado; Hooper and Antonito in the San Luis Valley; Otis and Wray on the Eastern Plains. For the last couple of years, Colorado Cultivars has been the largest licensed hemp grower in Colorado -- and the United States.
Its CBD extractions are used within wellness products: Colorado Cultivars produces white label products at its Boulder location for -- or distributes the raw ingredients to -- around 30 different companies. The company also distributes its own products under the name Moonrise Boulder. Farris says, "We have developed that to kind of showcase our ability to white label and create different formulations for clients. Our main focus is bulk production."
In addition to several other companies, Colorado Cultivars' seeds are processed and then added to products marketed by Evo, sold as seed oil and protein powder by Nutiva, and brewed into a beer made by New Belgium Brewing named, appropriately enough, The Hemperor.
Farris says he's "always been fascinated by cannabis -- and hemp specifically." In 1998, he assisted a cannabis caregiver in Oakland, California, who was working with cancer patients. Between 2009 and 2011, he ran a medical marijuana dispensary, Top Shelf Colorado in Fort Collins, before a city ban put the shop out of business. He says it soured him somewhat on the city's voters and the medical marijuana business, but not on hemp.
After Amendment 64 passed in Colorado in 2012, Farris says, "I started walking fencelines, again, and railroad tracks and irrigation ditches -- places where I'd seen hemp previously." He says the majority of the grain varieties which he grows for seeds originated in Colorado.
In 2014 (the first year cultivation was allowed), Colorado Cultivars planted around 30 grams of feral hemp seeds which Farris had accrued. After that year's harvest, Colorado Cultivars had enough seeds -- and cloned plants started in an indoor facility -- to sow 294 acres in 2015.
In 2018, the company has planted about 1,250 acres of grain-producing plants and about 250 acres of high-CBD varieties. Farris expects an increase in seed volume: Colorado Cultivars has purchased two grain bins in Eaton, which can hold 500,000 pounds of seed each.
Also in Eaton, the company extracts CBD, using ethanol, from the plants. Farris says he's working on breeding plant varieties which will be able to produce both both seeds and CBD abundantly -- thereby eliminating some of the labor attendant with planting the CBD-rich varieties.
In a field a few yards away from the intersection of two county roads in Eaton, Farris walks up to an unfenced, 11-acre stand of hemp just starting to produce seeds; the plants are densely packed together, some already towering three or more feet above Farris, who's 6'3". The THC within the plants is nearly undetectable, says Farris, reaching around .014 percent by weight.
Farris also points out a separate field of CBD-rich plants which are spaced five to seven feet apart from their centers, so the plants will be able to bush out and bud with enough room between them; he says there are close to 60,000 plants in the 58-acre field. The strain he's growing produces 14 to 18 percent CBD, with a low, 0.2 to .25 percent THC content -- perfectly legal within the definition of industrial hemp.
Farris says local farmers have welcomed the additional, grain rotation crop, and law enforcement has been cooperative. (He has even conducted an informational tour for Senator Michael Bennet at one of his fields.) From his pickup truck, Farris points out organic corn "looking awesome," where organic hemp grew the previous year -- and vice versa: "These [farmers] have an opportunity to get a lot more money than they would with corn, and just, in general, heal their land and provide a healthy crop for people to eat."
Or drink? Farris appears within a video produced by New Belgium about its beer, The Hemperor HPA. New Belgium brews the beer using Colorado Cultivars' hemp hearts -- the insides of the de-hulled seeds -- which Farris says add a "creaminess" to the beer. As part of the novelty of the brew, New Belgium attempted to match the smell of cannabis plants using non-cannabis ingredients. "That was their goal," says Farris. "When somebody opened or poured it, it would smell like someone opened a dank bag of herb. And they achieved that goal, for sure."
Farris, 41, has achieved a goal of his, as well. Asked if he ever imagined himself growing fields of hemp in Colorado, after reading The Emperor Wears No Clothes all those years ago, he responds, "I hoped. In, like, my biggest fantasies, I figured I'd have to go to Europe -- and I figured I might be in my 60s, 70s, before it was possible. To do it right in the area I grew up in is just so cool."
Challenges: The federal -- if not state -- illegality still surrounding cannabis, which makes banking, crop insurance, and financing difficult -- or impossible -- to obtain. Farris says, "Farmers that we work with, several banks have -- once they hear that they're doing hemp -- [the banks] say if you do hemp, then we will not fund any of your non-hemp projects. So that's a big problem."
He adds, "Farming is financed. There are very few people who pay up front. And without that ability to get the crop financed, that limits what can happen. . . . Crop insurance is also a big problem, because farming's very expensive and it's very volatile." In northeastern Colorado, hailstorms are a threat. "Hemp, corn, and beans get completely destroyed by hail," says Farris.
There's also the market for organic hemp foods from domestic seed sources, he adds. "There's just a huge opportunity, right now. I would say 99.8 percent of all hemp food is coming out of Canada."
Needs: Farris says a change in federal law is needed, noting, "De-scheduling hemp, and being treated as just any [other] agricultural commodity."
There might be a greater demand eventually for hemp stalks for paper, fiber, or building materials. But, for now, the stalks are plowed back into the fields. So far, the high cost to bale the hemp versus the low market market price for the stalks makes it economically unfeasible to market. What's needed? "Local infrastructure with the equipment in place to handle the agricultural side of the volume."


Cheeseburgers and filing my taxes, yes please!
The concept of temptation bundling is a great way to find motivations for the "shoulds" of life, those activities you should get done, but continue to put off. Temptation bundling is the act of pairing an activity you look forward to, like eating a juicy cheeseburger, with an activity you're less than enthused about, perhaps filing your taxes. The combination of the tempting activity and the dreaded activity make you feel more eager to do the dreaded activity.
I first learned about temptation bundling by, ironically, practicing temptation bundling. Fully engaged in New Year's resolution mania, I once again am pushing myself to reach 10,000 steps a day, a challenging feat for anyone with a desk job. I live in Wisconsin, the average temperature in January is 20 degrees. This means indoor walking. As a treadmill-less person, I walk laps up and down long hallways. BORING! All the Taylor Swift and Adele music in the world couldn't make a 20 minute lunch time walk appealing. Until I discovered podcasts. I can listen to witty conversations, learn something new, be mentally engaged and even look forward to my next walk/podcast lunch break.
During one of my first walk/podcast breaks, I began listening to Freakonomics Radio. They featured Katherine Milkman, Ph.D. She's an assistant professor at the Wharton School. She co-authored the paper, Holding The Hunger Games Hostage at the Gym: An Evaluation of Temptation Bundling. Now this sounds like the coolest research paper ever written! Who doesn't love The Hunger Games? Milkman and her team ran a nine week experiment to test if temptation bundling encouraged action. In their experiment, reading addictive fiction books (the tempting activity) was paired with gym attendance (the "should" activity that may require a push to do). Participants in the experiment were assigned to one of three groups. One group was assigned an iPod preloaded with four audiobooks identified as addictive, page turners, like The Hunger Games. The iPod and the audiobooks were kept at the gym and could only be used during workouts. The next group was able to download one of the suspenseful books on their own iPod. They were encouraged to listen to it only while at the gym. The third group, the control group, was given a certificate to purchase any book and given no encouragement about when or where to read the book. They were only encouraged to go to the gym.
Researchers found temptation bundling worked! Participants who had gym-only audiobook access attended the gym 51% more than the group that was only encouraged to exercise and 29% more than the group that was encouraged to restrict their audiobook listening to only at the gym.
I organically stumbled on a temptation bundle that was pretty similar to the study, listening to podcasts and walking. What other activities can I temptation bundle? Chopping veggies for the week and throwing a kitchen dance party? Or maybe grocery shopping and catching up with a friend? What do you think might pair well together?


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Lilly es un borough ubicado en el condado de Cambria en el estado estadounidense de Pensilvania. En el año 2000 tenía una población de 948 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 754 personas por km².

Geografía
Lilly se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas .

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Según la Oficina del Censo en 2000 los ingresos medios por hogar en la localidad eran de $27,917 y los ingresos medios por familia eran $38,750. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos medios de $29,063 frente a los $18,929 para las mujeres. La renta per cápita para la localidad era de $15,984. Alrededor del 7.8% de la población estaba por debajo del umbral de pobreza.

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Das Kırklareli Fen Lisesi () in der türkischen Stadt Kırklareli wurde am 31. Juli 2002 gegründet und ist ein vierjähriges allgemeinbildendes mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium.

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Neben der verbindlichen Fremdsprache Englisch erlernten bis vor Kurzem auch zwei Klassen Deutsch. Diese Klassen haben die Schule im Jahr 2008 bereits absolviert und derzeit gibt es keine Deutsch-Klassen an der Schule. Ansonsten werden die Unterrichtsfächer Mathematik, Physik, Geometrie, Biologie, Sport, Chemie, türkische Literatur, türkische Grammatik, Geschichte, Erdkunde, Philosophie, Religion und Demokratie-Erziehung unterrichtet. Im Vergleich zu anderen weiterführenden Schulen ist die Stundenanzahl am Kırklareli Fen Lisesi in den mathematischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Fächern höher.

Gymnasium in der Türkei
Kırklareli
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Gymnasium in Europa
Organisation (Provinz Kırklareli)