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Sparket: The Social Betwork™ offering is now closed and is no longer accepting investments.
INVEST IN SPARKET: THE SOCIAL BETWORK™ TODAY!
A Wagering Platform Built For The Modern User
Sparket has created The Social Betwork™, an innovative igaming platform helping our operating partners grow their live event wagering volume and reach. We provide a bet-on-anything platform allowing users to place bets within their communities (Betworks), from professional sports to e-sports, reality TV, award shows, golf tournaments, and more. We are currently in-market with our preliminary free-to-play partnerships and approaching Gaming Labs International (GLI) certification 33, which is a major milestone towards regulatory approvals for future real money wagering software. Our technology is patent pending with the USPTO, and is built with an eye on integrating Web 3.0 and blockchain technologies by decentralizing the entire wagering process. This will enable trusted users to provide event metadata and confirm outcomes as we pursue our mission to democratize live event wagering.
Our platform appeals to broad audiences with user-friendly design and the ability to customize bets against your community (rather than the house), improving the experience for our users.
In 2018, the Supreme Court overturned the ban on sports betting, and since then it has become legal in 34 states and people have wagered over $100 billion (Source | Source).
As our free-to-play partnerships gain traction and generate revenue, we have already set up contracts with major wagering businesses, including a year-long engagement with Cahuilla Casino.
A Revolutionary Platform Facilitating Live Event Wagering
We built The Social Betwork™, our proprietary pool-wagering system, as a B2B igaming service for our operating partners. Our vision is to help wagering businesses differentiate their products through our customizable platform to expand their reach in the new golden age of sports betting. We are moving beyond traditional sports to underserved demographics by including betting for esports tournaments, private golf events, and reality TV shows.
The Problem & our Solution
Bringing Legalized Sports Betting To New Users
Even as sports betting expands, existing sportsbook platforms underserve significant demographics. We're seeing users often jump from app to app with limited loyalty. In addition, these platforms are not intuitive for new users at a time when many people will engage with sports betting for the first time.
We are democratizing live event wagering by having users bet against the community rather than the house, which holds more appeal for first-time wagerers. Instead, we generate revenue by taking 1% of all bet volume (handle) coming through our platform, plus software and licensing fees. Our platform is designed with no barriers to entry for new users and customizability to help our operating partners differentiate their products. With our self-setting odds system, the operator simply takes a commission on all bets rather than taking exposure on the action.
Any business that is looking to build a community, grow their audience, and deepen their brand loyalty can do just that by choosing Sparket.
The Market & our traction
A Massive Emerging Market and Strong Partnerships
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Since the Supreme Court overturned the federal ban on sports betting in 2018, there has been over $100 billion wagered in legal sports betting (Source). In only a few years, the market has grown from only Nevada to 34 states, with major market opportunities in states like Ohio and California, still yet to come online (Source).
We've already had initial proof of concepts in private beta with thousands of users via free-to-play contests in partnership with casinos, golf clubs, and esports tournaments. Our successful trial event at the Cahuilla Casino led to a year-long contract. We've already achieved our first month of 5-figure revenue (August 2022) even before launching our real money partnerships. We also completed the UCLA Venture Accelerator program at the Anderson School of Management.
Building the Future of Sports Betting
Our patent-pending technology has been tested and we have contracts in place with operating partners, putting us in the position to potentially go live for real money wagering with our expected GLI 33 Certification. We believe this will allow Sparket to become one of the only certified sportsbook technology of its type. We envision Sparket paving the way forward in the newly legalized multi-billion dollar sports betting market, and we've built our platform with an eye on Web 3.0 and blockchain to take advantage of future growth opportunities. Join us, as we democratize the live event wagering industry!
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Aaron Basch
CEO, Treasurer, Director
Aaron Basch earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science, and a master's degree of education in mathematics from UC San Diego. After working with Math for America as a mathematics teacher for five years, he went back to school to earn his master's degree of financial engineering from UCLA. Prior to Sparket, Aaron served as the executive director of risk and finance at MotoLease, an alternative vehicle financing company. Mr. Basch is a proven financial operations manager who improves processes and systems through data driven initiatives to increase productivity, revenue, and margin in a fast-paced working environment. Aaron is both a sports and esports fan, he played collegiate level sports and has been top ranked in multiple esports games. He has also built and operated his own ethereum blockchain rigs in his office.
Evan Fisher
COO, President, Director
Evan Fisher spent 8 years at Google, focusing on product user experience, as part of a startup in Google X, and previously leading a team of finance professionals. Prior to Google, Evan received his MBA from Columbia University with an emphasis on Entrepreneurship and Finance. He began his career in the energy industry after completing undergrad at USC. Evan's skillsets lie in product / program management, having driven complex initiatives to completion and leading large teams. He also has a keen mind for statistics and operations. Evan is a huge sports fan and enjoys playing tennis, chess, and basketball in his free time.
Alex Ispa-Cowan
Alex is a senior software engineer based out of Puyallup Washington. Alex has been in software development for over 7 years with full stack experience and an expertise in Javascript React. He is passionate about the Sparket mission, helping build it from scratch from an idea to a platform that has served major partners. In his spare time you might find him hiking, biking, snowboarding, or one of his biggest passions: playing guitar.
Matt is an award-winning art director, designer and illustrator whose work can be found throughout the United States, Canada and the EU. Whether it's a nation-wide ad campaign, apparel in NBA, NHL or MLB stadiums, packaging on national retailer shelves or artwork displayed in galleries, chances are you've seen a glimpse of Matt somewhere. Throughout his career, Matt has cultivated a valued list of clientele that includes: Disney, Activision/Blizzard Entertainment, PetCo, Home Depot, 20th Century Fox, Cartoon Network, Nintendo of America, numerous professional sports franchises.
Cisco Arias
Cisco is a veteran of the silicon beach start-up scene, working on the technical side of start-ups right since 2010. Cisco loves solving problems and circumscribing his architecture with the reactive manifesto. He's an expert bringing business ideas into software. He previously worked at Docstoc which he helped build into a company that was acquired by Intuit.
Sally Bernard
Advisory Board, Business Development
Sally is a Tasmanian born, Australian native, who landed in Las Vegas over two decades ago and has never looked back. Since then she has built an abundant network of trusted business relationships, and the fortunate opportunity to master gaming technology sales during her corporate tenures with gaming giants such as IGT and Konami. In her free time, Sally is creating/collecting NFTs, investing in Crypto and dabbling in 3D printing. She now owns and operates 2 businesses, and is on the Sparket Advisory Board for Business Development.
Loren Gill
Advisory Board Member
Loren Gill is the Founder and CEO of LD2G Enterprises, LLC and the leader of multiple businesses including hospitality & gaming consulting and advisory services, business development partnerships, and equestrian related ventures. Prior to launching his own entrepreneurial enterprises, Gill served as the Chief Executive Officer for San Manuel Band of Mission Indians – a federally recognized tribe located in Highland, California and spent 25 years, in various locations across the United States in the gaming and hospitality industry.
Michelle Gerson
An accomplished Marketing Leader with entrepreneurial experience, Michelle has 12+ years in driving high-impact B2B and B2P demand generation marketing programs for tech companies like FloQast, MomentFeed, CHD Expert, and Hydropoint, and consumer brands like Sprint, IBM, Cambro Manufacturing, Volvo CE, Diageo, Equis Staffing, and others. She has a proven track record in driving sales and organizational growth among client businesses by introducing programs that generate and close leads, both domestically and globally, in multiple languages via multiple channels. Michelle has been honored as a Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS by the Software Report.
Marcus Yoder
Marcus has top executive-level experience including Chief Commercial Officer for a gaming technology company, COO and co-founder of social media startup; executive director-level roles for software companies; and senior manager for Big Four consulting firm. Expertise in leading companies into new global markets. Highly customer-focused as a senior business strategist—driving corporate revenue, building strategic alliances, innovating marketing and product campaigns, and negotiation/diplomacy with government entities and key stakeholders.
Blue Quisquis
Advisory Board, Native American Relations
Highly accredited Strategic Advisor, CIO, and Economic Self-Sufficiency Advocate with over 20+ years of collective experience. Blue holds a strong leadership background in diverse fields, including Technology, Entertainment, Food, Indian Gaming, Native American Cannabis and Hemp, Economic Development, and Education, and my actionable efforts all stem from my rooted passion for instilling positive community transformations that future generations can benefit from. Due to career commitments and large certificate inventory involving management, commissioning, innovative technology, surveillance, and entrepreneurship, he has received awards and has been on several media interviews such as the Indian Country Today Media Network and the Robin Swan Show.
Dane Henderson
Dane started his career in the esports and gaming Industry in the early 90's at Westwood Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Midway. Running game tournaments has given him experience promoting and marketing a variety of events that include comedy shows, concerts, and even charity events at The Autism Tree Project. In addition to his work at San Diego State University, he's also a board member at the Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships, a nonprofit public charity organization dedicated to changing the world for the better through education.
Ilia Bulavintsev
TL. Software Engineer
Sparket's resident tech geek has extensive experience in software development including as a Sr. Software Developer at Alibaba group. Ilia uses his expertise in Golang to create robust and secure backend systems. He loves building products that make users' lives easier and adds fun to their day.
Rael Enteen
Rael serves as the Vice President of Content at the Washington Commanders NFL team. He is an established digital and social media professional with management skills, extensive sports knowledge and experience as a writer, editor, web producer and content strategist. Demonstrated ability to significantly improve web traffic, social media reach/engagement and content monetization. Real is an experienced international public speaker with stops in London, Dubai, New York and San Francisco.
Andrew Brandt
Andy is a results-focused Technology Leader with proven history of facilitating successful product development efforts and getting products to market. Over 20 years of software development experience, with a particular expertise in developing enterprise systems and real-time transactional platforms. As a technology executive, been involved in IPOs for three separate software companies.
Robin Richards
Robin is a serial entrepreneur, startup investor, and philanthropist. His impressive career includes founding Lexi International Teleservices, founding president and BOD MP3.com, CEO Vivendi Universal Net USA, and founder of 6 other campanies. He advises Sparket and their founders on entrepreneurial matters.
John Wholihan
John was one of Sparket's initial advisors. As the Director of Marketing at Kentucky Downs, John has experience improving casino marketing, operations, guest service, incremental revenue, and EBITDA. He has more than 15 years of Las Vegas, Tribal, destination, and local property experience. He serves as an advisor to Sparket.
Chris Pigozzi
Marketing Team Business Advisor
Possessing an unwavering passion for public relations and sports, Chris found a unique and exciting opportunity on board the marketing team at Sparket. Ever vigilant for both professional and social synergies, Chris leaves no stone unturned when it comes to the maintenance and development of The Social Betwork™.
Sparket: The Social Betwork™
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Investment Incentives and Bonuses*
Time-Based:
Friends and Family Early Birds
Invest within the first 72 hours and receive 15% bonus shares
Super Early Bird Bonus
Invest within the first week and receive 10% bonus shares
Early Bird Bonus
Invest within the first 2 weeks and receive 5% bonus shares
Amount-Based:
$1,000+ | Social Betwork™ Champions
Invest $1000+ and receive branded Sparket: The Social Betwork™ swag and a virtual avatar upgrade (anticipated in 2023).
$5,000+ | Sparket Group Admin
Receive a custom branded group within the Sparket web application where you are the admin: invite your betwork and set up customized wagering pools. Includes admin console analytics.
$10,000+ | Premium Investors Club
Join our existing $10k+ investors with quarterly access to our founding team, input on product direction, and roundtables to shape the direction of the company
$25,000+ | Diamond Investors Club
Access to all of the above perks plus an additional 5% bonus shares
Existing platform users will receive 5% bonus shares.
*In order to receive perks from an investment, one must submit a single investment in the same offering that meets the minimum perk requirement. Bonus shares from perks will not be granted if an investor submits multiple investments that, when combined, meet the perk requirement. All perks occur when the offering is completed.
The 10% StartEngine Owners' Bonus
Sparket: The Social Betwork (TM) will offer 10% additional bonus shares for all investments that are committed by investors that are eligible for the StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc. OWNer's bonus.
This means eligible StartEngine shareholders will receive a 10% bonus for any shares they purchase in this offering. For example, if you buy 100 shares of Common Stock at $1.25 / share, you will receive 10 additional shares of Common Stock, meaning you'll own 110 shares for $125. Fractional shares will not be distributed and share bonuses will be determined by rounding down to the nearest whole share.
This 10% Bonus is only valid during the investors eligibility period. Investors eligible for this bonus will also have priority if they are on a waitlist to invest and the company surpasses its maximum funding goal. They will have the first opportunity to invest should room in the offering become available if prior investments are canceled or fail.
Investors will receive the highest single bonus they are eligible for among the bonuses based on the amount invested and time of offering elapsed (if any). Eligible investors will also receive the Owner's Bonus and the Existing platform users bonus in addition to the aforementioned bonus.
The Company might incur Irregular Use of Proceeds that may include but are not limited to the following over $10,000: Salary payments made to one's self, a friend or relative. Vendor payments.
Sparket Inks Strategic Partnership with USBookmaking
Nevada-based USBookmaking inked a strategic partnership with Sparket, an innovative sports betting application. Announced on Tuesday this week, the partnership seeks Omni-channel user engagement, including pari-mutuel sportsbook for esports wagering, and more.
Xpoint appointed as Sparket's geolocation partner
The partnership will allow Sparket to provide its patent-pending Social Betwork software in a regulated, secure digital environment that meets all state and federal regulations, while also 'turning the geolocation digital utility into an asset that generates value'.
Cahuilla Casino Hotel early adopter of the Social Betwork™ for the Big Game
The innovative Cahuilla Casino and Hotel has partnered with Sparket's Social Betwork™software to offer free to play wagering pools for the Big Game. Users can participate online leading up to the event and in person on gameday. Sparket offers select partners its software via multiple channels.
Sparket's Startengine campaign closes this week, so now is your LAST CHANCE to invest in The Social Betwork™. Our company and the industry as a whole continues to grow rapidly, and we encourage you to check out the Updates section of our page for a recap of everything we've done since launching our crowdfunding campaign. We've been overwhelmed with the support of over 60 investors and would love to add YOU to the list.
Sparket Selected as a Stadia Ventures Finalist!
Big News! Sparket was selected among hundreds of startup applications as one of ten finalist companies who will make their pitch at Stadia Ventures Spring 2023 Finalist Pitch Day at the Enterprise Center on January 26th! The St. Louis Blues are hosting this exclusive event, and Stadia Ventures is bringing together over one hundred senior sports and esports leaders with investors and business executives to select their Spring 2023 cohort.
Sparket's Major Partnership with WagerWire!
As previously announced, Sparket entered into a partnership agreement with WagerWire to help expand both companies' innovative offerings. It's a natural fit allowing Sparket to offer after-market trading to our platform. Yahoo Finance recently featured an article about the partnership, which you can read here.
With less than two weeks left to invest in Sparket on Startengine, now is your opportunity to join the 60+ investors who have joined our campaign to help build The Social Betwork™!
Sparket January Release Notes
Sparket's tech team continues to deliver key product updates. Please find below our latest release notes, as we now shift our full focus to our integration with GAN technology to deliver our product into the STN Play app for our partner Red Rock Resorts (NASDAQ: RRR).
January 2023 Release Notes
PrizeOut Integration: Sparket has partnered with PrizeOut, enabling us to offer an automated mechanism for users to redeem their Sparks (digital currency) for real prizes like Amazon gift cards directly within the product. Any of our partners can now utilize this functionality for their free to play contests
Referral Program: Following on to our enhanced social sharing functionality released in Q4, we now have the capability to offer referral bonuses to users who share Sparket with their communities ('betworks'). When a user shares on social media and someone clicks the link and joins, they are credited as the referrer. Once that new user places their first bet, the reward is given.
Advertising Space: Sparket has launched its first advertising space, allowing partners to embed an image and URL within the application and track traffic and conversions through it. We'll use this to gather data and for monetization in the coming months.
Sports Betting Industry Continues Momentum into 2023
As we turn the page into 2023, the sports betting industry as a whole continues to see great momentum:
- Ohio was the latest state to go live for sports betting, and initial data show strong volume for the state
- New York, which went live in 2022, has experienced over $16 billion in legal bets and brought in almost $700m in tax revenue for the state
- Up next is Massachusetts, which expects to launch retail and online sports betting within Q1 2023 and become the 33rd state to go live since 2018
With our recent Gaming Labs International sportsbook certification and operator partnerships, Sparket is poised to make waves in this growing industry in 2023. Join us in building the Social Betwork™ today!
Sparket Announces Partnership with WagerWire!
Sparket is excited to announce our latest partnership with WagerWire, an innovative marketplace where bettors can buy and sell previously placed sports bets. Initially WagerWire will license Sparket's bet-on-anything software to promote branded contests and events to their extensive social media audience. Ultimately, there is significant synergy between the two companies, as WagerWire's technology could add a key element (in play wagering) to Sparket's product offering.
Sparket's Startengine Campaign Extended!
We're excited to announce that we've been able to extend our equity crowdfunding campaign into January after reaching over $150k invested across 50+ investors on the StartEngine platform. If you were busy over the holidays and haven't had a chance to check out our latest updates, we'd love if you took a look. We've made some major announcements in Q4 since launching our campaign. Feel free to reach out to us directly or via the comments section if you have any questions.
From the entire Sparket team, we are humbled and grateful for your support. Wishing everyone a healthy, safe, and prosperous New Year!
Hello! Recently, a change was made to the Sparket: The Social Betwork™ offering. Here's an excerpt describing the specifics of the change:
Issuer is extending the campaign end date
What a Q4 for Sparket! Are you in??
Sparket has achieved key milestones across product, partnership, and investment in Q4. We are so grateful for each of you for your support in 2022, and would like to extend a special welcome to our 50+ new crowdfunding investors this quarter. Below is an updated recap of what we've achieved since launching on the StartEngine Platform.
Partnership agreement signed with Station Casinos (NASDAQ: RRR) to integrate into their 1m user platform (press)
GLI 33 Sportsbook certification (press) (case study)
2022 G2E Innovation Challenge Winner (previous finalist at SBC Americas, Sigma Americas)
Reached over $130k raised on StartEngine with support from over 50 investors
Launched key product updates covering enhanced social features, login flow, and automated notifications
Achieved our second month of 5 figure revenue, with additional partnerships in the pipeline
The broader industry continues to see significant growth, with major states of Massachusetts and Ohio about to come online for sports betting
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season, from the Sparket family to yours <3
US Sports Betting Industry Poised for a Record Breaking 2023
A recent report highlights the rapid expansion and growth of sports betting in the US, with Ohio and Massachusetts the latest major states to legalize sports wagering.
"Looking ahead to 2023, dozens of markets across the country will experience revenue and handle growth leading to a nationwide increase in handle and revenue of 21% and 27%, respectively. In total, PlayUSA expects states to generate nearly $120 billion in handle and nearly $9 billion in revenue in 2023."
With our recent Gaming Labs International Certification and partnership announcements (including Station Casinos - Nasdaq RRR), Sparket is truly in the right place at the right time. With our StartEngine campaign wrapping up shortly, we'd love if you'd consider joining us or doubling down!
Stack Owner's Bonus & Rewards!
Members get an extra 10% shares in addition to rewards below!
Multiple investments in an offering cannot be combined to qualify for a larger campaign perk. Get rewarded for investing more into Sparket: The Social Betwork™.
Social Betwork™ Champions
Sparket Group Admin
Premium Investors Club
Join our existing $10k+ investors with quarterly access to our founding team, input on product direction, and roundtables to shape the direction of the company.
Diamond Investors Club
Access to all of the above perks plus an additional 5% bonus shares.


The late, great actor Robin Williams once said, "Spring is nature's way of saying – Lets Party!", and he is right. Spring is a time when the whole country celebrates weather. We resurrect those New Year Resolutions that have been dormant, oh since about January 10th. The dark days of winter are literally over and daylight savings has begun allowing many in the grind to enjoy some outdoor daylight after work. We all celebrate Mother Nature during spring and after this past winter, there is no better way than spring skiing.
Reason 5 – We love spring skiing because its not cold! Lets be honest, powder days are epic but powder days when ice is sticking to your face and the chairlift is swinging is not fun. Skiing in warm weather has so many comfort advantages. For starters you can wear sunglasses instead of goggles. I always enjoy wearing my nice polarized beach shades vs big bulky goggles. You just feel more outdoors with less gear on your head. Same goes for your hat. During the spring you can pitch the hat and go without or wear your favorite baseball hat. Turn it backwards as you charge down the hill and turn it to the front when you are on the lift to protect your face from the powerful rays at 8000 feet. We love spring skiing because its warm.
Reason 4 – We love spring skiing because there are no crowds. The shoulder seasons in the mountains are always the best. April is a great time to ski because all the weekend warriors are tired of driving to the mountains for the past three months. They are excited to stay home and do what they do – cleaning, gardening or eat and drink – America's favorite pastime. This leaves the parking lots empty at ski resorts, which means no more hauling your gear a half mile to get to the lift. No more waiting in lift lines, food lines and most importantly at the bar, its go time! Spring skiing in some ways is the way resorts reward their most loyal followers, well at least the resorts outside of Utah that have some balls to stay open in April. We love spring skiing because there are no crowds.
Reason 3 – We love spring skiing because of Retro Ski Day and Pond Skim. Most mountains have a day where all the skiers wear throwback or vintage ski sweaters, gators, CB Jackets & anything else from the 80s and 90s. It's a lot of fun and typically followed up with a band on a mountain patio. Many mountains schedule this for their closing day so you might have to ride out the season to enjoy Retro Day. Any legit mountain will also throw in a pond skim, like the Cushing Crossing at Squaw Valley.
Reason 2 – We love spring skiing because its cheap. Many mountains have reduced prices in the spring and most allow you to ski April and May for free if you purchase a pass for the following season. That's quite a deal when you consider a daily lift ticket at one of the major mountains in the US is around $130. If you can knock out 3-4 spring skiing days, come December your season pass is already half paid.
Reason 1 – We love spring skiing because it's a great opportunity to spend time with family and friends. There is no freezing wind battering your face. There are no snowbanks or shoveling duties. The roads are dry making the commute to the mountain super easy. There is hero snow all over the mountain allowing intermediate skiers to look and feel like experts. It's just an easy time to be in the mountains without all the hustle. Back at the cabin you can drop a Duraflame log into the fireplace and fire up the grill on the deck. In the spring you can leave the sliding glass door open while you cook and entertain your guests.
We love spring skiing because it's Mother Nature's way of saying "Lets spend some quality time together … and party!".
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Without the drama of last year this message board has been remarkably quiet. Now that Football season is officially over I think it's time to turn our attention to the upcoming hoop season and get some good discussion going.
Who do you think will be a surprise this year?
Last year's D1 champion Londonderry lost 3 of their 4 top players and will be really young this year. Not sure they have the horses to repeat.
Runner-up Pinkerton University lost arguably their best player to prep but, should still be loaded to make another run.
Central and Memorial both look like they could compete for a championship.
Could North be that surprise team in 2016? Not likely but, I would have said that last year as well.
Last year's D2 champion Brady is a lot like Londonderry, they lost their best two players who they relied heavily on. They have Joe Bell back but, with the strength in D2 this year, it will be tough for them to get back to the ship.
Portsmouth, Lebanon, and West (even losing Motu to prep) are loaded! In my opinion, these teams could play with anyone in D1.
The 4th spot at UNH is wide open. One could make a case for any one of six different teams that could have a shot.
Last year's D3 champion Pelham lost a great player to graduation but return the best player in the state not playing prep. In D3 that is a game-changer. Add to that a solid supporting cast and I don't see Pelham losing a game again this year.
Runner-up Conant just reloads every year (9 final appearances in the last 11 years) baring an upset – it looks to me like a rematch.
Campbell has given these two a run recently but, they don't look quite as strong as in the past few years.
Kearsarge will be big but, can they run with the top teams?
Wilton-Lyndeborough is coming off a magical season and is returning a strong team but, I'm not sure how they replace Jordan Litts.
Runner-up Epping looks to be strong again. They should be there in the end.
Sunapee is always tough but, loses half of their dynamic duo to prep school this year. Do they have enough to get back to Plymouth?
Did Portsmouth-Christian add enough talent with the transfer of Kylani LaFleur to get to Plymouth.
Just my thoughts, feel free to call me an idiot.
I see you are holding judgment until after the Coaches for a cause games but, the Londonderry v Lebanon game was the only lower division team that I thought would definitely beat their D1 opponent. That is a really tough match-up for Londonderry.
I guess well see how things shake out on Saturday.
Re: Who do you like this year?
With all due respect to the major piece that Londonderry lost last year, they were extremely talented ball players, but Coach Stanton still has, in my opinion, the front runner for Division 1 player of the year in Jake Coleman. When crunch time came last season Coleman was the one providing the big offense, with floaters in the paint and NBA range 3's. Londonderry will be as good as Jake Coleman this season, and I predict that will be very good.
After watching some fall leagues and workouts I believe the top 4 in Division I could be tighter than what most are expecting. Londonderry in fall league was not the same team as last season. Had difficulty down in Andover this fall. Exeter and Nashua each have a knock down shooters in Holmes and Frechette but not much of a supporting staff. Pinkerton Geo has replaced Geo, while certainly not at the same level that will help them> they return Rizzo and Morris who is much bigger stronger and now has an all-around game. I think he will be top player of the year candidate after watching the scrimmages. However, I am hoping that Trinity will be in the running with the return of Walsh and Trickett and newcomer Jordan Santos with have an immediate impact.
With all respect to Jake Coleman, Londonderry is going to struggle to break top 8 this year. He can't do it himself, and the remaining cast of Radford, Gaw, McDonald, and the younger Corey don't have enough experience/firepower.
Top 4 D1 teams are Central, Memorial, Pinkerton and North in no particular order. Outside of that foursome, Bedford, Merrimack and Trinity all have game, and will be strong competitors.
Watch for Central's Jaylen Leroy to be 1st team All State. And any of Pinkerton's big Seniors ( Rizzo 6'3", Morris 6'4", Olson 6'6", or Romick 6'4") know how to play the game and could throw in 20 on a given night.
Going to be a fun Season!
Londonderry looked better than Merrimack tonight. Merrimack no go to guy (that I saw). Londonderry battled, Coleman hit some really tough shots. Struggled to defend Lebanon guards. Not a big difference between Londonderry Manchester West Merrimack and Trinity.
T&F, you know who I like to be the surprise team of D2!
Plymouth, Timberlane, John Stark and Kingswood.
How did I do Bosco?
Jake Coleman is the real deal. . . no reason to really argue it, he will prove it on the court this season.
Coach Stanton was revered for what he did in turning around Londonderry's program. Well, this is the first year he is playing without house money, his entire team has only played for him and no other coaches. I think he and Londonderry will finish top 4 and show the great job he has done.
Bosco. . . I am going to guess Timby is on the top of your list for D2.
I have to agree with you. Jake Colman is the real deal but, so are KJ Matte and Keith Brown. KJ essentially matched Jake's scoring while directing the Lebanon offense from the point for the head to head win. All Keith did was drop 41 on an athletic Central defense that was ready and waiting for him. These 3 will have to be in the group of favorites for Player of the Year.
Coach Stanton is doing a fantastic job with this team. I was on record that Lebanon would definitely win, but it was a lot closer than I though. I fully expected Jake to have a major impact but, was really surprised by the rest of the team.
If this tournament is any indication, Londonderry could very well make a run to UNH in what appears to be a down year in D1.
Just saying. Jason Hughes. Just saying.
Division 1 - Although I would love to pick Connor Walsh - After watching scrimmages it will be Brennan Morris of Pinkerton - I was surprised how much he improved from last year. Jake Coleman will be 2nd. After watching the fall league games I I do not see Londonderry winning back to back. The top of Division I could be anyone's guess. Some of these teams seem to have one go to player this year which could cause the preseason standings to take a hit - one player out due to illness or injury and its a whole new ball game.
Division II - KJ Matte - Lebanon. Others have talked about Joseph Bell of Bishop Brady , I have not seen him play recently to give him the nod.
Division III - Keith Brown A lot of talk even before the season starts how Pelham does not belong in Division III. I actually feel for this kid. Whenever I see mentions of how good he is....I always hear the comment - It's NH D3.
"I think Nathan Hale could be a POY candidate if the Titans finish in the Top 5."
Hale had 34 points in North's big OT win over Salem.
POY - Wide Open. Hale is as good a bet as anyone, Rizzo from Pinkerton deserves consideration, Jalen from Central as well. Too many others at this point. Really Really should go to whoever leads their team to the best record because the field is so open.
Never mind that POY is wide open, but when the winner is announced it can still raise some eyebrows. There is a point system in place and the player who gets the most first place votes doesn't always win. A player who garners 4 to 6 1st place votes could lose to a player who receives 2 to 4 first place votes. It's a complete point system where the 2nd place and 3rd place votes can determine the POY. Given this point system, the fact there is no real stand out POYs like the last couple of years, then the race for POY is really wide open.
Also, after the 1st night of action, at this point the race for the D1 Ship is just as wide open as the race for POY.


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Opinion: DeFi has seen a 2,300% rise to $12 billion in assets locked in DeFi protocols over the past twelve months — what do projects need to do to stay ahead?
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is an ecosystem of financial applications on Ethereum that enables traditional financial services such as lending, borrowing, trading and asset management. In DeFi, no one entity (like a bank) controls your assets — these services all exist in a fully self-custodial environment.
There is now over $12 billion in assets locked in DeFi protocols. That's a 2,300% rise in the last 12 months.
"Last name Ever, first name Greatest." Drake, "Forever."
Defensibility is what creates the most value for companies and protocols. It's what enables them to become the greatest. If you can't protect the value you create, it's clear that you will not be able to capture any of that value for your own investors and stakeholders.
While 70 percent of the value in tech today may be driven by network effects, i.e. an increase in value due to an increase in participants, network effects by themselves are not a sufficient way to sustain a competitive advantage when it comes to DeFi applications and the 24/7 liquid capital markets they enable (excluding Ethereum as the underlying platform).
"What is, for example, the defensibility or the long-term value of a marketplace which cannot rely on users' lock-in, and therefore has lower/no network effects? What if because users own their own transaction history and reputation data they could switch to another platform seamlessly?"
- Louis Coppy, partner at NinePointCap
In other words, the permissionless, open-nature of DeFi protocols means they cannot rely on stakeholder lock-in on the supply or demand side. Therefore, network effects, the moat du jour for all modern tech companies, are much more limited.
But if not network effects, then what? This article isn't concerned with what causes token prices to rise and fall. Instead, we seek to build a framework for thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of a protocol's defensibility. How to build a platform defensible enough to become the Greatest Ever?
"Thinking of a master plan cause ain't nothing but sweat inside my hand." Eric B & Rakim, "Paid in Full."
Competitive advantages (capital, relationships, team, timing, unique insight, etc.) can give a protocol an early lead ahead of the competition, but it's not enough to stay ahead.
An excellent example of this is Bancor, an on-chain liquidity protocol that enables the automated, decentralized exchange of crypto assets on Ethereum. Bancor had "a first-mover advantage" as the first crypto automated market maker (AMM) when it launched in 2017, and "a capital advantage" (capital is never a moat, other than as a corollary of "economies of scale") following its $153M token sale.
However, new AMM DEXes came to market afterwards, such as:
Balancer ($1.2B fully diluted market cap, $8m 24h volume) and
Uniswap ($2.7B fully diluted market cap, $277m 24h volume),
They have since overtaken Bancor ($67M market cap, $1M 24h volume) by orders of magnitude in terms of token market cap, value locked, trading volume and any other KPI that you wish to use.
You should leverage all the competitive advantages you can to kickstart your protocol's flywheel, but you will need to craft your defensibility master plan to take advantage of such early success.
The various ways of deterring competition are called, in different contexts: barriers to entry, sustainable competitive advantages, defensibility or, colloquially, moats.
While it is exceptionally early in the development of DeFi, there are two moats that are early contenders for being the most important: brand (trust) and skin in the game (ecosystem strength). We believe these elements to constitute a protocol's true "unforkable state".
Brands are consensus systems through which reputation and narratives emerge from users sharing their impressions. One of the fundamental functions of a brand, therefore, is to signal quality, by getting the relevant player (the protocol's founding team, key stakeholders, etc.) to play an iterated game instead of a single move game. In this sense, brands are the cumulative reputation of a platform's interactions with its stakeholders and broader community.
Consequently, trusted brands are earned over time, not bought off the shelf. When it comes to DeFi, as ironic as it may sound and at least until a protocol matures past its progressive decentralization stage, a protocol's brand is about its trustworthiness: do you trust this platform and the key people behind it?
Building a trusted DeFi brand has two core components: social and technical.
Why should I trust the people building this protocol? Does this platform align with my ethos and values? A lot of this comes down to signaling.
Take Compound, the open money markets protocol, for example. Robert Leshner, the founder, is a very active member of the broader DeFi community, making angel investments into other platforms, and publicly discussing governance proposals and industry trends. Several Silicon Valley establishment VC funds like a16z back Compound too. Its brand is "Silicon-Valley elite," which you can interpret however you wish, but for many, it will mean that the founder isn't going to run away any time soon. Can the same be said for clones without similar sweat equity or reputation on the line — as per anon founders like SushiSwap?
Synthetix, the open synthetic asset issuance protocol built on Ethereum, is another interesting example. Havven (its original name) was called a scam by many in the Ethereum community a few years back. Synthetix is now seen as part of the DeFi establishment and received investment from the quintessential crypto-establishment fund, a16z.
Where Synthetix succeeded in building its brand was through the founder Kain, and the broader team who engaged the Synthetix community directly and acted as transparently as possible at all times. Although the tokenomics (the ultimate DeFi OG pumpanomics contract) certainly helped bootstrap interest in the platform, really it was the founding team's consistent and transparent communications strategy that helped Synthetix build a trusted relationship between the protocol and its community.
If we are to learn anything from the incredible rise of Yearn (the DeFi yield aggregator built on Ethereum) it is that community alignment, in particular, the idea of a "fair launch," is an incredibly powerful tool for quickly building a trusted brand that people want to get behind.
In the case of Yearn, we actually saw a form of network effect in play. As each new user publicly asserted their support for Yearn and its ethos, belief in the protocol compounded, resulting in more and more value accruing to each of the YFI stakeholders (holders of its token, $YFI, through value locked in the protocol as well as price appreciation, and to Yearn users through more efficient pools as they increased in scale).
Social network effects, like those seen in Yearn, can be very powerful. At the same time, there is a time component to a trusted brand. Staying "on brand" comes from consistency over time.
Just as quickly as Yearn rose in acclaim as the ultimate community built (and owned) DeFi platform, its untainted reputation is starting to lose its veneer. Social network effects are like "sand": "In small quantities, sand dissipates in a breeze. But if you layer enough sand down on top of itself, it becomes hard as stone." Yearn's brand hasn't yet blown away in the breeze, but it is clear that more work is required for it to become a truly trusted brand. A DeFi platform's brand can only truly become rock solid when it is no longer affected by single points of failure such as the actions of the founding team. Until then, founding teams must put in the work to keep adding layers of credibility to reap the rewards a trusted brand can later. And distribute the responsibility amongst the protocol's stakeholders as much as possible. Every action counts.
Building up a trusted brand in a technical sense is not easy. Focusing on protecting your users' assets is a good start. Liquid investors tend to classify the riskiness of a protocol (outside of whether it is audited or not) based on the length of time the protocol has gone without a hack. In a similar way that the social elements of a brand build up over time ("to become hard as stone"), there is a Lindy Effect at play when considering a brand's technical trustworthiness: the longer a protocol has gone without any kind of technical breach, the longer it is likely for that to continue. Trust compounds over time.
Just because there is a flaw in your code, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't be trusted. Similarly, if you have just launched, it doesn't mean you start with a zero balance in your "trust" account. Builders can develop greater trust in their approach quicker by open-sourcing the code, creating incredible developer documentation, engaging the community in bug bounties, running incentivized testnets and generally being as open and as communicative as possible whenever problems arise.
Plotting the current relative social and technical brand strengths of the leading DeFi platforms we get something like this:
"Community is about ownership — feeling not just that I am part of something bigger than myself, but that I have some skin in the game. It doesn't matter so much whether that stake is economic or not — in fact, I think non-economic stake (e.g. reputation) can be a much bigger motivator." Lane Rettig, former Ethereum Core, currently part of Spacemesh.
When we have real skin in the game — when we have upsides and downsides — we care about outcomes in a way that we wouldn't otherwise. We act differently. Essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb says that skin in the game is all about symmetry: "the balancing of incentives and disincentives…" This idea of balancing incentives and disincentives is powerful when considering the open and permissionless financial services enabled by DeFi.
DeFi systems contain direct and indirect stakeholders, each of whom will have different motivations, and therefore diverse incentives. In both cases, symmetry is essential, and contribution is the critical frame: how can a protocol be designed that incentivizes the most value to be exchanged between a protocol and its stakeholders? Close alignment between stakeholders and protocols is a recipe for a powerful moat.
Direct stakeholders include liquidity providers (LPs), the demand side, developers, token holders, etc. You can think about direct stakeholders in terms of the classical definition of community. They have primary exposure to the ups and downs of the protocol's success.
Assessing skin in the game for direct stakeholders is not a precise science, and we are yet to develop effective metrics with long-term predictive value. Taking the lead from the adage that "you can't improve what you don't measure," we can start by thinking about what we can measure.
Relevant data points include diversity and frequency of community-led contributions on GitHub, the number of community-built tools, the number of "quality" community interactions on Discord, the levels of community engagement in governance (comments on forums, number of proposals) and the proportion of the network staked (2-sided liquidity network effects are considered separately). Such activity can be used as data points to build up a reputation for the relevant contributors, which can then be rewarded in economic and non-economic terms by the protocol and the initial stakeholders.
Uniswap has made a lot of its early users very happy by way of allocating 60% of its tokens to the community. Another way of thinking about skin in the game for direct stakeholders is in terms of how Cialdini discusses the powerful rule of reciprocity in his book Influence.
The reciprocation rule essentially states that if someone gives something to us, we feel obligated to repay that debt. The buying power of each of Uniswap's unexpected winners may be small on an individual basis but extremely powerful on an aggregated basis. Time will tell. At the same time, Uniswap's supply-siders, the LP community, are a financially-motivated bunch that may not be so susceptible to the psychological burdens implied by the reciprocity rule's allure, meaning that they cannot be guaranteed to stay around forever, particularly if the incentives are more attractive elsewhere.
We saw an example of the relatively weak skin in the game of the Uniswap supply-siders (albeit prior to the launch of $UNI) by virtue of the SushiSwap saga. The Coinbase blog documents the rise and fall of SushiSwap in great detail, and includes this excellent diagram:
What we can learn from SushiSwap is that incentives can have impressive short-term effects, in terms of drawing in both supply and demand. However, without sufficient skin in the game for the key direct stakeholders, these effects can be fleeting.
Interestingly, what "saved" SushiSwap from complete annihilation was the impact of FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, stepping in to support the protocol after news of SushiSwap founder, Chef Nomi's less than graceful exit became public. Sam had material skin in the game due to Alameda's capital locked in the network. Moving control of the protocol to a multisig that included public figures like Larry Cermak, the director of research at The Block Crypto, also added some credibility, as such public figures were staking their reputation publicly by agreeing to be involved, giving them skin in the game in the success of the governance proposals to be taken.
Despite the success of SBF and the multisig holders in overseeing the Sushi liquidity migration away from Uniswap, the launch of $UNI shortly thereafter removed much of the incentives for those not connected to Alameda to continue supporting the project. Clearly, community contribution must go beyond simple liquidity provision or demand for the service on the platform, to equate to real skin in the game. As a result, protocol incentives must be more precisely calibrated than just rewarding governance tokens to early supporters.
Chef Nomi's exit illustrates the detrimental impact of key stakeholders not showing symmetry in their commitment to the protocol. Long-term commitment to anything has to go both ways if it is to work. Food for thought (excuse the pun) is how well Sushi might have done if Chef Nomi averted his worst instincts sooner by distributing control of the protocol to key stakeholders. This could have given Sushi a chance to evolve more organically. After all, governance is not only about defining control, but about enabling systemic evolution.
Switching gears, Chainlink is an example of a protocol with a highly engaged group of direct stakeholders. While we can all see that Chainlink's token price is what largely incentivizes its "marines," it's important not to roll our eyes too much at this incentive; Chainlink's highly engaged community has encouraged other protocols to integrate with Chainlink and take advantage of the Chainlink marines. It has become a self-fulfilling cycle, whereby more integrations increases the price of $LINK, which incentivizes its marines further, and so on until the sweet nectar can be extracted no more. This seems to be an extension of the rule of reciprocity, such that those who get rich from the success of a protocol's token feel like that they must repay such a gift.
We are fervent supporters of the burgeoning ownership economy where instead of "a platform's inner circle of founders and investors taking home the value, users are able to earn the majority of value generated from their collective contributions." This is a modern interpretation of "The Bill Gates Line," which sets out what a platform is, and why Facebook isn't one.
Ensuring that direct stakeholder groups have skin in the game when it comes to the success of your protocol is arguably the most powerful moat a protocol can build. While not the core subject of this article, it is becoming more apparent by the day that a protocol's biggest barrier to a fork is to maximize the "voice" of its stakeholders. Maximizing stakeholders' voice makes them more likely to believe that they can suggest changes that would increase their benefit of the platform. This increases their skin in the game, as they would have more to lose by leaving. The best way to maximize voice is through effective governance.
Consequently, we want to see more examples of successful community incentivization, governance and participation. Designing incentives that reward long-term skin in the game and deeper participation are ways to avert some of the mercenary effects of industrialized liquidity mining that we currently see on the market. Time-weighted rewards are a good recent development, and rewards based on dynamic reputations that take into account many disparate contributions is a development I'm particularly looking forward to.
Indirect stakeholders are B2B relationships, or more precisely protocol-to-protocol (P2P), i.e. the other protocols that the protocol in question integrates with. These relationships are distinct from direct stakeholders, as indirect stakeholders typically only have secondary exposure to the ups and downs of the protocol's success.
Again, in terms of skin in the game, it is the contribution of the relevant B2B/P2P relationships to each other is what matters — in other words, how much does each protocol benefit the other? These kinds of situations are the rare occasions where 1+1>2.
Uniswap is a leading example in this category. You can think about the importance of Uniswap's sUSD pool for Synthetix, and the role that Uniswap has played in providing liquidity for many other upstart protocols. Such other protocols benefit from Uniswap's liquidity and are therefore incentivized to see Uniswap succeed in turn, and send more value (through volume, or brand kudos) its way. A good example is Zapper enabling UNI farming natively through its dashboard.
Other examples include Ren's integration with Curve. Ren has brought hundreds of millions of dollars of Bitcoin onto the Curve platform. Both Curve and Ren are incentivized for each other's platform to succeed and do well. As a result, their respective communities are incentivized to support each other with bug catching, governance proposals and so on.
Although Compound's direct stakeholders (outside of its VCs) do not have the strongest skin in the game (virtually no protocol currently does), Compound has strong defensibility in terms of the symbiotic nature of its many integrations with the likes of Binance, Coinbase Wallet, Dharma, Instadapp, Multis, Argent, Coinbase Custody, Bitgo and Fireblocks. We also see this in terms of the Dharma team actively participating in the Compound governance through submitting, developing and testing a new interest rate model. Another example being Instadapp's one step CDP to Compound integration. There is symmetry involved in these integrations, since the better Compound becomes, the better it is for the end-users serviced by the integrators like Instadapp, Dharma, et al.
Skin in the game via protocol relationships, symbiotic composability — in other words, is one of the most powerful moats we've seen to date in DeFi.
Plotting the current relative strength of the direct and indirect stakeholders of the leading DeFi platforms, we get something like this:
As set out at the start of this article, network effects in DeFi are weaker than in traditional tech.
There are two types of relevant network effects at play in DeFi:
2-sided liquidity network effects (more supply-sider capital means lower slippage for the demand side, which incentivizes more supply-siders and vice-versa and so on, etc., etc.)
bandwagon network effects in terms of a belief in something, e.g. Yearn's approach to governance and its fair launch.
As we've seen over the last few months, 2-sided liquidity network effects don't create defensibility in crypto. When suppliers and users can move freely, marketplaces such as exchanges lose defensibility. Bandwagon network effects can be powerful when harnessed well, but ultimately can be considered as part of a protocol's trusted brand effects.
Economies of scale effects are a measure of how well costs can be saved at scale. Economies of scale will undoubtedly be a powerful moat for the leading DeFi platforms in the future, as scale makes gas optimization and transaction batching (among many other things) more efficient. Yearn is one of the few examples in this regard, since its pooled capital scales in gas efficiency. It is still a weak moat, however, given how freely such capital can leave the platform.
As a reminder, builders should consider the following when planning their DeFi moats:
Trust (Social)
Communicate publicly and transparently with your stakeholders
Act in accordance with the protocol's stated ethos and values
Trust (Technical)
Protect your user's funds
Open source your tech
Communicate publicly and transparently about risks and failures
Skin in the Game (Direct Stakeholders)
Engineer reciprocity in all protocol <> stakeholder relationships; symmetry is important
Build a stakeholder-owned platform with a governance model that optimizes for long-term incentives and contribution
Think about how to give back to the community in terms of status, reputation and having a voice
Skin in the Game (Indirect Stakeholders)
Think about how to give back to the platforms that have integrated with your own protocol
Think about how best to engage your indirect stakeholders
How to give them even more skin in the game by exposing them to more of the ups and downs of the protocol's success
The aim of the game is to get into the top right quadrant below, and to do so you must maximize your stakeholder base's skin in the game and build a trusted brand.
A parting caveat is that a moat is only good for so long as a competitor is competing for the same job to be done. Christensen's "jobs to be done" theory is a mindset exercise for how to step into your customer's shoes and understand what elements of performance they actually care about in a product, versus which elements they don't. For example, Uniswap is doing an excellent job right now at facilitating token swaps in an incredibly low-friction manner.
However, given how nascent the DeFi industry is, a protocol's job to be done will evolve over time due to changing customer demands. DeFi protocols must also take care to support all their stakeholders, such as supply-siders. We understand that the underlying DeFi protocols, as well as the interfaces that interact with them, will need to adapt in the coming months and years — that's a given.
Moats, therefore, are never static, or said another way, moats are not a sufficient ingredient for success, but they are necessary. For now, building and maintaining a trusted brand and ensuring that your key direct and indirect stakeholders have sufficient skin in the game appears to be the best framework we have.
Thanks to the valuable contributions of Batu from Binance, Freddie Farmer of DeFi farming fame, Ross Middleton from Deversifi, Jack Laing and Michael O'Rourke of Pocket Network, and my teammates and partners at Eden Block for their many discussions and feedback on this article.
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Q: Run Cron PHP script Every Minute Except 5 Minutes Out Of Day Right now I have my cron running a php script every minute of every day. But I am looking to have it skip 5 minutes out of the day to allocate to downtime to truncate the sql table associated with it and perform other routine maintenance.
How might I go about this?

A: This skips the last 5 minutes of the last hour of the day. The first entry runs every minute for the first 23 hours of each day. The second entry runs only on the first 55 minutes of the 24th hour of the day.
*     0-22     *     *     *     <command>
0-54  23       *     *     *     <command>

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A very commonly performed action in bodybuilding is the drop set. In which, you do your working sets. Then on the last set, you go to failure, drop the weight, go to failure, drop the weight, go to failure, and repeat however long.
There's no doubt that this feels like it's effective. What I'm wondering is, is there is any research to back all this up? Do people who do drop sets actually build muscle at a faster rate? Or is it a matter of diminishing returns, and all this is doing is adding more work with very little reward?
Apparently when volume is equated dropsets sill produce double the hypertrophy.
Another study shows that dropsets can increase strength, hypertrophy and endurance while cutting training time in half.
To investigate the effects of a single high-load (80% of one repetition maximum [1RM]) set with additional drop sets descending to a low-load (30% 1RM) without recovery intervals on muscle strength, endurance, and size in untrained young men. Nine untrained young men performed dumbbell curls to concentric failure 2-3 days per week for 8 weeks. Each arm was randomly assigned to one of the following three conditions: 3 sets of high-load (HL, 80% 1RM) resistance exercise, 3 sets of low-load [LL, 30% 1RM] resistance exercise, and a single high-load (SDS) set with additional drop sets descending to a low-load. The mean training time per session, including recovery intervals, was lowest in the SDS condition. Elbow flexor muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) increased similarly in all three conditions. Maximum isometric and 1RM strength of the elbow flexors increased from pre to post only in the HL and SDS conditions. Muscular endurance measured by maximum repetitions at 30% 1RM increased only in the LL and SDS conditions. A SDS resistance training program can simultaneously increase muscle CSA, strength, and endurance in untrained young men, even with lower training time compared to typical resistance exercise protocols using only high- or low-loads.
weights is all about time under load. the more time your spend under load the better.i used to train with a body builder who did drop sets. you end up with a lot harder workout. i tend to find just setting yourself goals of hitting the norm 10/10/10 limits your ability to push yourself. doing drop sets lets you really workout until failure. even better is drop sets with a spotter.
im going on personal experience on how i was shown to train. i saw results. this also could have been to to the fact i had a spotter who pushed me to the very last rep. we didnt do drop sets throughout the entire workout but they are a great change to your routine. and muscles react better to change.
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First Look : Priya Krishnaswamy's Gangoobai (Trailer, Synopsis)
Posted: January 2, 2013 by moifightclub in cast & crew, cinema, film, first look, Story / Plot / Synopsis, Trailer
Tags: Ankita Shrivastav, Behram Rana, first look, Gangoobai, Gopi Desai, Meeta Vasisht, NFDC, Nidhi Sunil, promo, Purab Kohli, Raj Zutshi, Rushad Rana, Sarita Joshi, synopsis, trailer
Gangoobai stars Sarita Joshi, Purab Kohli, Meeta Vasisht, Raj Zutshi, Gopi Desai, Rushad Rana, Nidhi Sunil, Behram Rana, Ankita Shrivastav & Aparna Khanekar. It's written, edited & directed by Priya Krishnaswamy. The film is produced by NFDC.
The script was among the six short listed scripts for NFDC's screenwriting lab at Locarno Film Festival in 2009.
And here's the official synopsis…
Gangoobai, a childless, elderly widow, has lived her whole life in the tiny colonial hill station of Matheran, set in the spectacularly beautiful Sahyadri mountain range about 4 hours' drive from Mumbai.
Her world consists of tending to her beloved flowers and working as domestic help in a few homes, among them that of the wealthy Hodiwala family who own a weekend bungalow in Matheran, an eco-sensitive zone where no vehicles are allowed, not even bicycles.
Gangoobai's quiet life is suddenly disrupted when, one day, she sees the Hodiwala's teenage daughter wearing a magnificent designer Parsi sari of white Chinese motifs embroidered on a background of purple silk.
The old woman falls instantly in love with this exotic, expensive, custom-made creation — and longs to own one herself.
Driven by this unlikely obsession, Gangoobai manages, against all odds, to save the money over 4 years of hard work and despite some wrong judgments, and finally finds herself in the big, polluted, overcrowded city of Mumbai — an urban nightmare she is utterly unprepared for.
Here, filled with fears and misgivings, she is pleasantly surprised to find that people are the same everywhere, despite all outward appearances to the contrary, and that even the hardest heart can be transformed by kindness and love.
Finally, one day, Gangoobai collects her designer sari and attains her dream, only to face ultimate failure and betrayal at home by one whom she holds closest to her heart.
Yet, her essential goodness and unfailing generosity to life redeem the destruction of her dreams, and set her life on a path that surpasses anything that she could ever have imagined.
First Look : Mangesh Hadawale's Dekh Indian Circus (Trailer)
Posted: October 19, 2011 by moifightclub in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, first look, Trailer
Tags: Busan film festival, first look, Mangesh Hadawale, Nawazuddin Siddique, promo, Tannishtha Chatterjee, trailer
Mangesh Hadwale made his debut with a marathi film called Tingya which was well received. And now he is ready with his first hindi feature Dekh Indian Circus. It stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tannistha Chatterjee and recently premiered at the Busan Film Festival.
Jackass Kumar is the host of MasterChef India (Promo). 2mins of just nothing!
Posted: September 21, 2010 by moifightclub in bollywood, first look, songs & videos, television, video
Tags: Akshay Kumar, MasterChef India, promo, Star Plus
Last time he cooked, we had Chandni Chowk To China. This time he is on the small screen. Akshay Kumar is the host of the MasterChef India, to be aired on Star Plus. The first promo of the show is out. Its more than 2minutes long and says nothing! Wow! Now, that needs some serious talent. Well done. Can someone please enlighten us about the brains behind the promo ?
First Look : Abhinav Kashyap's Dabangg (Trailer) – Wanted Redux ?
Posted: July 22, 2010 by moifightclub in cinema
Tags: Arbaaz Khan, Dabang, Dabangg, first look, promo, Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Theatrical trailer, trailer
One more directorial debut. Abhinav Kashyap, writer and brother of Anurag Kashyap is ready with his directorial debut – Dabangg. It stars Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan and marks Shatrughan Sinha's daughter Sonakshi Sinha's debut.
We had heard lot of good things about the script and the film but when we got to know about the cast, were very skeptical about it. And surely we werent expecting this..it looks like Wanted Redux! Plus, Salman Khan's firangi accent with seeti maaro dialogues and a story which is set in hinterland of North, with a filmy treatment that looks like typical South spice – complete mish-mash! But as the distributors say, hit hai sirji, hit hai! Naah, we are not the audience!
Thanx for the tip Sreeni_k.
First Look : Utt Pataang (trailer) starring Vinay Pathak, Mahie Gill, Sourabh Shukla & Mona Singh
Posted: July 13, 2010 by moifightclub in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, first look, songs & videos, Trailer, video
Tags: first look, Mahie Gill, Mona Singh, promo, Sourabh Shukla, Srikant Velagaleti, trailer, Utt Pataang, Vinay Pathak
We had no clue about this film. Who made it, when, where, why and how! Found this promo while surfing the blogosphere. And it looks damn interesting. Starring Vinay Pathak, Mahie Gill, Sourabh Shukla and Mona Singh, its directed by Srikant Velagaleti. Shot on a budget of 4 crore….its the indie gang!
Sudhir Mishra's next – Dil dar-ba-dar or Yeh Saali Zindagi ? Watch a clip from the film & you decide!
Posted: July 4, 2010 by moifightclub in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, film, first look, News, songs & videos, video
Tags: Arunoday Singh, Chitrangada Singh, clip, Dil darbadar, film, Irrfan Khan, promo, Shantanu Moitra, Sudhir Mishra, Swanand Kirkire, title, Yeh Saali Zindagi
We are back! Yes, we know you guys missed us a lot. But what to do, we were busy with life. A separate post coming up soon on matters of life and more.
Sudhir Mishra is ready with his new film, starring Irrfan Khan, Chitrangada Singh and Arunoday Singh. Woohoo! Set in Delhi, its written by Manu Rishi. Though we dont know much about the story of the film yet but it seems to be on the lines of Mishra's Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahi.
But Mishra is confused on the title front. The film was earlier titled Dil dar-ba-dar or DDBD! But it seems, by popular demand now the title might be changed to Yeh Saali Zindagi. Wondering why ? Because…
Zindagi pe tera mera kisi ka na zor hai…
hum sochte kuch aur hai….woh saali sochti kuch aur hai….
yeh saali zindagi…yeh saali zindagi…..
Yes, that's the lyrics of the title song of the film. Its by Swanand Kirkire and music is by Shantanu Moitra. Sudhir has also released a small clip from the film to give you a feel of the film. Do watch and help him decide, whats better – Dil Dar-ba-dar or Yeh Saali Zindagi ?
Our vote goes for DDBD! Plus it seems like an ode to the cult classic Om Dar-ba-dar. If you haven't seen it yet, you seriously have missed something. But then, Yeh Saali Zindagi seems catchy too, and if the duo Swanand-Shantanu has delivered a tkiller title track like Khoya Khoya Chand again, then YSZ would be damn good! Aha, we are also getting confused. Why blame only poor Sudhir Mishra for getting in that confused state! Plus any buzz for an indie film is always good!
First Look : Abhay Deol & Sonam Kapoor starrer Aisha (trailer)
Posted: June 16, 2010 by moifightclub in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, film, first look, pics, songs & videos, Story / Plot / Synopsis
Tags: Abhay Deol, Aisha, Amrita Puri, Anil Kapoor, Arunoday Singh, Cyrus Sahukar, Devika Bhagat, first look, Ira Dubey, pic, promo, PVR, Rajshree Ojha, Sonam Kapoor, still, synopsis, Theatrical trailer, trailer
After much countdown, the first theatrical trailer of Aisha is out. Its directed by Rajshree Ojha, produced by Anil Kapoor and PVR Pictures. Music Director is Amit Trivedi and stars Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Ira Dubey, Arunoday Singh, Cyrus Shahukar, Lisa Haydon and Amrita Puri. Written by Devika Bhagat, its based on Jane Austen's novel Emma. Have a look and don't forget to leave your comments.
And here is the official synopsis of the film…
Aisha is a girl with a simple diktat – everyone's business is her business. Arjun is a boy with even a simpler set of beliefs – Aisha should mind her own business. Caught in the Delhi upper class world with its own set of social rules, Aisha navigates her world with a great sense of style and even greater optimism. Caught in her web are her best friend Pinky, the small town girl Shefali, the west Delhi boy Randhir and the hunk Dhruv. Aisha will make sure everyone dances to her tune. And all Arjun wants to do is disentangle that web and get Aisha out of an impending sticky mess. Who will succeed and who will succumb? Welcome to Aisha's fabulous world where playing cupid is as easy as 123…if only that Arjun would stay out of her way!
First Look (Teaser) – Priyadarshan's Khatta Meetha starring Akshay Kumar
Posted: June 11, 2010 by moifightclub in bollywood, cast & crew, film, first look, songs & videos
Tags: Akshay Kumar, first look, Khatta Meetha, Priyadarshan, promo, teaser, trailer
Time to leave your brains at home, again! At the rate at which Priyadarshan makes movies, we are thinking of opening a brain deposit counter. Might be a good business idea. What say ?
Anyway, the two maha-duds have come together again. And its called Khatta Meetha, directed by Priyadarshan and stars Akshay Kumar. Is it a remake again ? Don't care much but if someone knows, do enlighten us. Here is the first teaser trailer of the film.
First Look : Vikramaditya Motwane's Udaan (Trailer) & why is the text plagiarised!
Posted: June 4, 2010 by moifightclub in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, film, first look, News, plagiarism, songs & videos
Tags: anurag kashyap, Cannes, first look, promo, Rajat Barmecha, review, synopsis, trailer, Udaan, video, Vikramaditya Motwane
The first trailer of Vikramaditya Motwane's Udaan is out. And its pitch perfect. The trailer exactly tells what the movie is all about.
And now the problem! Why is the text in the trailer straight lift from one of our favourite trailers of last year – Where The Wild Things Are! If you dont believe us, just play the video. Inside all of us is HOPE. Inside all of us is Fear. Even the way it comes on screen, is the same. After Cannes, we had to see this ? Can any soul enlighten us ? Who cut this trailer ? Someone surely is Un-certain of few things! Beware!
For our review of Udaan, poster, pics, synopsis and all the jazz from Cannes, click on this post and follow the links given in the post.


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Q: Passing API Key to importJSON Function Script for Google Sheets I am attempting to import data from WordsAPI using importJSON, a custom Google script function in Google Sheets from Github. It's easy to import information from an API that does not require authentication. However, the WordsAPI requires a key and I can not figure out how to pass the key to the function. My best guess is:
=ImportJSONAdvanced("https://wordsapiv1.p.mashape.com/words/example/examples", "wordsapiv1.p.rapidapi.com", "<MYKEYHERE>", "/examples/", "noInherit,noTruncate,Headers")
But, this results in an error: Bad value (line 220).
The relevant section of the code is below. Go to the ImportJSON.gs at Github for the complete code.
function ImportJSONAdvanced(url, fetchOptions, query, parseOptions, includeFunc, transformFunc) {
  var jsondata = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, fetchOptions);
  var object   = JSON.parse(jsondata.getContentText());

  return parseJSONObject_(object, query, parseOptions, includeFunc, transformFunc);
}

I've read through the documentation regarding authentication at the WordsAPI site and they suggest the following code snippet:
// These code snippets use an open-source library. http://unirest.io/nodejs
unirest.get("https://wordsapiv1.p.mashape.com/words/soliloquy")
.header("X-Mashape-Key", "<MYKEYHERE>")
.header("Accept", "application/json")
.end(function (result) {
  console.log(result.status, result.headers, result.body);
});

I have also read through the Google Apps Script documentation on Authorization for Google Services, but it doesn't mean much to me. Is it possible the problem is ImportJSONAdvanced uses POST and the WordsAPI wants GET? If that is the case, how can I modify the code to make it work?
Thank you for reading. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Edit: Based on @chuckx comments and additional help. I added the following at line 255 to the original code.
/**
 *
 * Wrapper for WordsAPI
 *
 * @param {url} the URL to a http basic auth protected JSON feed
 * @param {api_key} the api_key for authentication
 * @param {query} always = ""
 * @param {parseOptions} a comma-separated list of options that may alter processing of the data (optional)
 */
function ImportJSON_words(url, api_key, query, parseOptions) {
  var header = {
    headers: {
      'X-Mashape-Key': api_key,
      'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
  }
  return ImportJSONAdvanced(url, header, query, parseOptions, includeXPath_, defaultTransform_)
}

It works.

A: First of all, note that the documentation explicitly states that ImportJSONAdvanced() cannot be called from a spreadsheet (i.e. as an in-cell formula):
 * An advanced version of ImportJSON designed to be easily extended by a script. This version cannot be called from within a
 * spreadsheet.

Furthermore, the arguments you provide in your best guess don't align with the argument documentation for ImportJSONAdvanced(). For reference:
 * @param {url}           the URL to a public JSON feed
 * @param {fetchOptions}  an object whose properties are options used to retrieve the JSON feed from the URL
 * @param {query}         the query passed to the include function
 * @param {parseOptions}  a comma-separated list of options that may alter processing of the data
 * @param {includeFunc}   a function with the signature func(query, path, options) that returns true if the data element at the given path
 *                        should be included or false otherwise.
 * @param {transformFunc} a function with the signature func(data, row, column, options) where data is a 2-dimensional array of the data
 *                        and row & column are the current row and column being processed. Any return value is ignored. Note that row 0
 *                        contains the headers for the data, so test for row==0 to process headers only.

Of interest is the fetchOptions argument, which is passed to UrlFetchAPP.fetch(url, params) as the params argument. According to the documentation, params is an object which can contain a headers parameter, which can be used to set the headers for the HTTP request.
So, one approach is defining your own Apps Script function which wraps ImportJSONAdvanced() and prepares the required header.
function ImportJSON_WordsAPI(path, query, parseOptions) {
  var url = 'https://wordsapiv1.p.mashape.com/words' + path;
  var fetchOptions = {
       'headers': {
           'X-Mashape-Key': '<MYKEYHERE>',
           'Accept': 'application/json',
       },
  }
  return ImportJSONAdvanced(url, fetchOptions, query, parseOptions, includeXPath_, defaultTransform_);
}

And then, use the function in a cell like this:
=ImportJSON_WordsAPI('/words/soliloquy', '/results', 'noInherit,noTruncate')

Warning: none of this is tested since I don't have access to WordsAPI.


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Santrofi's 'Alewa' adjudged one of the Biggest Albums in 2020
Highly reputable music critics have already declared Santrofi's 'Alewa' to be one of the best albums of 2020. Now, the numbers have spoken, the data has assembled into integers and decimal points in Pan African Music's (PAM) end-of-year music review.
PAM is a France-based major music digital distributor for independent music dedicated to promoting music from the African continent and diaspora.
"Alewa" was named among other albums from gigantic artistes on the continent encompassing Stonebwoy (Ghana), Hailu Mergia (Ethiopia), L'esprit de Nyege (Uganda) and Burnaboy from Nigeria.
Santrofi, devised from the mythological precious bird from the Akan language — is a collective of spirited and celebrated young musicians assembled around bass player Emmanuel Ofori whose credentials include playing with highlife heavyweights Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band.
The album, "Alewa" is an organic and well-crafted experiment, in an era where many African musicians attempt to seduce a Western audience by making their music pop.
While Ghana still predictably serve as home to flourishing highlife music, the genre's worth saving still need practitioners and advocates who are willing to propel it forward. Highlife music boasts a long, rich history — about 100 years — of transformation, adaptation, tumult and triumph. From radical-bashing pundits to brave and bold composers, highlife music has remained alive even as prognosticators routinely predict its demise.
Santrofi, the vintage-inspired Ghanaian highlife band, gives us a glimpse into a serene world, a real breath of fresh air that reminds us to uphold Ghanaian highlife.
The debut album is a mixture of culturally rich and authentic Ghanaian highlife music brewed with melodic beats, blues, jazz, funk, groovy percussion and silky vocals served in a Ghanaian pot.
Alewa is an album of love songs—the oldest subject in the book—but it's filled with other significant themes – racial segregation and discrimination, unity in diversity, jealousy, economics and other cultural happenings in society. In it, 'Alewa' builds a self-contained world that luxuriates love—both sonically and lyrically—while still hinting at some of our age's deep-seated flaws.
Last year was without question one of the most challenging years for the music industry. Santrofi had its share as the band's booked concerts in over 20 European countries were cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic; this was after a successful tour in 2019.
Source: Emmanuel Jewel Peprah Mensah
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