The raises that you make should not be impulsive and should have a good reason behind it. Many of the raises at poker are made under impulsion without any thoughts given to it & it afterwards leads the person into loosing out money from his overall winnings. When you play bingo online, you either have a winning card, or you don't, but poker requires a lot more skill in analyzing what course of action to take depending on which cards have been played. Raises should be carefully analyzed and should be clear enough about the main motive.
There may be a situation where you think that your hand is strong enough and you should raise but then also it has to be checked before. If you don't analyze the whole situation correctly your raise can go in vain and would let you loose money from your overall winnings.
There is some gaming information and some key factors to consider before raising which I have written below.
1.Don't raise to take revenge from your opponent.
In the game of poker, you should not get sentimental about your beats by somebody which is a general mistake people commit. If A strikes you 100 $down and you strike B 500 $down total profit is $400 , which is far better if you strike A $150 down and B $ 150 down (total profit is $300). It is the sum total of the profit which will add to your total winnings by the day end. So, there is hardly any reason to take revenge from A.
It is considered alright if you are raising to float a message across to your opponent so that he steps back by giving you an opportunity. There may be opponents who would not react in this manner like the people who have beaten you in the past. So you need to choose people very wisely against whom you would be playing this strategy. If you choose this theory against a person who is very aggressive then you would be left with nothing in your hand at the end of the day's play.
2.Raising from early positions is not a good decision.
You should first analyze all the possibilities tha can arise in the game before raising. Raising from early position is not a sound technique for a poker player. You should raise when you are very certain about your strong hand wherein you are 100% sure of making money.
3.Tendency of raising from late positions.
Mostly it happens that people who loose often by playing from early positions they have a good fortune by playing from late positions but they are unable apply this theory in making profits. You can very well take advantage of raising after your opponents does so. The position has to be a analyzed first whether to raise or to keep a low.
4.The prevailing rule of edge raising choice….
You should only make raises of borderline against the not so courageous opponents and you need to check the probability beforehand of getting the position or not. You can raise and get profits only against the not so courageous opponents.


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Friday Scholarship Guide
Number of Scholarships in College Soccer
The 2018 FIFA World Cup has just been kicked off, giving a global audience across the world exciting weeks to look forward to.
Yes, soccer is the most global sport in the world and consequently, a sport that is available for intercollegiate competition in the US as well.
But that's not the topic of today's edition of the Friday Scholarship Guide - the topic actually is the kind of scholarship money that is available out there for athletes with a certain level on the pitch. Let's look into that in more detail by going through the various divisions, sponsoring college soccer.
Types of Scholarships
First off, and that's really important to keep in mind: not all divisions, sponsoring college soccer, offer athletic scholarships. That doesn't mean it's not an attractive place to go study, compete and graduate. Many schools offer attractive academic scholarships the amount of which can end up being way more than what another school would offer in athletic money.
The 6 large divisions are the following:
NCAA D1
NJCAA D1
Note that NCAA D3 schools and NJCAA D3 schools don't have sports scholarships available!
Soccer is an equivalency sport on the NCAA and NAIA level. This means that coaches may distribute their available scholarship budget to as many players as they like. On the NJCAA level, soccer is a headcount sport with regards to scholarship limits. That means coaches can't give a player, say, a half scholarship, the remaining half of which could then be used for another player.
Scholarship Limits in College Soccer
The above divisions set standards with regards to how much scholarship money may be distributed to the various players. It is important to keep in mind that these scholarship limits are based on the assumption that a soccer program is fully-funded, making available the maximum amount of scholarship budget allowed. That is not always the case, which is why some programs will have a harder time attracting strong(er) athletes than others:
NCAA D1 men's soccer allows a limit of 9.9 scholarships per team.
NCAA D1 women's soccer allows a limit of 14 scholarships per team.
NCAA D2 women's soccer allows a limit of 9.9 scholarships per team.
NAIA allows a limit of 12 scholarships per team, both in men's and women's soccer.
NJCAA D1 recently increased the cap from18 to 24 scholarships per team.
It's important to know that your grades in school (GPA) and test results on SAT and or ACT tests could entitle you to additional academic grants. Read up on that by checking out "2 Academic Focus Areas For Recruits to Boost Their Chances". It says "college tennis" in the article. Just ignore that - there really is no difference :)
Value of Athletic Scholarships
What's the value of a scholarship and what does it cover?
The scholarship covers a number of different costs, although the definition differs somewhat between the various governing associations.
According to NCAA rules, a full scholarship covers "tuition & fees, room & board and course-related books".
According to NAIA rules, a full scholarship covers tuition, mandatory fees, books & supplies required for courses in which the student-athlete is enrolled, and room & board.
According to NJCAA rules, a full scholarship covers tuition & fees, room & board and course-related books (+ up to 250 USD of course material of & one-time transportation to and from the college per academic year).
Simply put, if you are the recipient of a full scholarship in soccer, your total costs of attendance are covered by the school. But don't get all too excited about the idea of getting a full-ride. This is very uncommon, as only a very small percentage of athletes receives such a large scholarship offer: "The Truth About Athletic Scholarships at College"
Case Examples of Soccer Scholarships
Now let's put all the pieces together to give you a better feel for the dynamics of the scholarship search:
Example 1: Say you are a female player (Player A) having had good conversations with a number of coaches from NCAA D-I, NCAA D-II and NAIA schools.
Coach A from a fully-funded D-I school offers a full-ride to you. That leaves the coach with another 13 scholarships to distribute among her players.
Coach B from a D-II school really wants you on the team and makes you a great offer, covering ~90% of all the costs. The team is not fully-funded and only has 7 scholarships instead of the permissible 9.9 available. If you accepted the offer, that would leave the coaching staff with 6.1 scholarships for the rest of the team.
Coach C from a NAIA team (fully-funded) doesn't have much money left, because only 2 players graduate the year you would start enrolling. He can offer you a third of a scholarship and the school costs 30,000 USD/year. This leaves you with 20,000 USD to pay for Year 1 and the coach has the rest of his scholarship money (12 - 0.33 = 11.66 scholarships) tied up among other athletes on the team. He emphasizes however that you can expect a significant raise in Year 2, as the team will be losing 8 players and significant scholarship money becomes available then.
Example 2: Let's assume you are a male player (Player B) who has had great results in the past, but little financial support from his family. A relatively large scholarship is needed.
Coach A from a NJCAA D-I school sees the impact you could have on the team and offers a 100% scholarship. The coach is then left with another 23 scholarships. As NJCAA schools are 2-year universities (community colleges), you could take the offer, develop for 2 years and then transfer to a 4-year university to finish you degree.
Coach B from a NCAA D-2 school wants to recruit you as well and offers a 60% scholarship. Your initial response is negative, as it seems like fairly little compared to the offer from Coach A. But considering a full year at the school only costs 25,000 USD, your family would be OK with covering the remaining 40% of costs, amounting to 10,000 USD (25,000 USD x 0.4).
Not the easiest call to make and your decision will require you look into everything: school, team, your chemistry with the coach, etc.
Key Things to Know About College Soccer
Here are a few things to keep in mind:
In-state, out-of state & international students
There is an important difference depending on where you come from. Schools' tuition fees differ for US students (whether they study at a college within their state of residency or in another state) and international students. The cheapest option is enrolment at college in the state of residency (in-state).
While scholarships are only awarded for one academic year, scholarship agreements are typically extended year after year and cover the full four years of the students' enrolment. It's not unusual that you can "earn" more scholarship money if you perform well on the team.
Scholarship availability
Keep in mind that a college soccer team consists of a very large number of players, easily exceeding 30; typically a good mix of freshmen, sophomore, juniors, or seniors. As a result, there is only so much scholarship money available for the upcoming semesters, depending on the balance of the team. Say for example, there is not a single senior on the team - chances are low the coach will be interested, as she won't have a whole lot of athletic scholarship budget left. A team with 6-8 seniors? Lovely, there might be a nice amount of scholarship money available as the coach needs to replace his graduates!
Hopefully, this article has given you a great kickstart to really get going with your recruiting process.
Look no further, you will find all you need on Smarthlete. Sign up with a free recruiting profile, get discovered by coaches of all divisions and find a scholarship to play college soccer!
Or if you prefer to have somebody support you through the entire recruiting process, complete our Evaluation Form and let's talk about how we can get you recruited to your dream school! :)
June 14, 2018 by Dominic Tinodi
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It is like this: I like SE. I am beginning to feel I like it a bit too much. In order to make sure that participating on SE does not have a negative impact on other priorities, I have decided to put my activity on hold. This brings me to a position in which it is a choice between having my account frozen somehow, or deleting it. I really don't want to delete my account, as I have just made it over 2k rep; I would lose all of my rep, badges and privileges, and have to start all over again from scratch.
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from __future__ import print_function
from django.test import TestCase
from django.test import Client
import mock
import os
os.environ["NUM_BUDGET_YEARS"] = '2'

from ...taxbrain.models import TaxSaveInputs
from ...taxbrain.models import convert_to_floats
from ...taxbrain.helpers import (expand_1D, expand_2D, expand_list, package_up_vars,
                                 format_csv, arrange_totals_by_row, default_taxcalc_data)
from ...taxbrain.compute import DropqCompute, MockCompute, ElasticMockCompute
import taxcalc
from taxcalc import Policy
from .utils import *

class DynamicElasticityViewsTests(TestCase):
    ''' Test the elasticity of GDP dynamic views of this app. '''

    def setUp(self):
        # Every test needs a client.
        self.client = Client()

    def test_elasticity_edit(self):
        import sys
        from webapp.apps.taxbrain import views
        webapp_views = sys.modules['webapp.apps.taxbrain.views']
        webapp_views.dropq_compute = MockCompute()

        # Do the microsim
        reform = {u'ID_BenefitSurtax_Switch_1': [u'True'],
                u'ID_BenefitSurtax_Switch_0': [u'True'],
                u'ID_BenefitSurtax_Switch_3': [u'True'],
                u'ID_BenefitSurtax_Switch_2': [u'True'],
                u'ID_BenefitSurtax_Switch_5': [u'True'],
                u'ID_BenefitSurtax_Switch_4': [u'True'],
                u'ID_BenefitSurtax_Switch_6': [u'True'],
                u'has_errors': [u'False'], u'II_em': [u'4333'],
                u'start_year': u'2016', 'csrfmiddlewaretoken': 'abc123'}

        micro1 = do_micro_sim(self.client, reform)

        # Do another microsim
        reform[u'II_em'] += [u'4334']
        micro2 = do_micro_sim(self.client, reform)

        # Do a third microsim
        reform[u'II_em'] += [u'4335']
        micro3 = do_micro_sim(self.client, reform)

        from webapp.apps.dynamic import views
        dynamic_views = sys.modules['webapp.apps.dynamic.views']
        dynamic_views.dropq_compute = ElasticMockCompute(num_times_to_wait=1)

        # Do the elasticity of GDP simulation based on the third microsim
        egdp_reform = {u'elasticity_gdp': [u'0.4']}
        egdp_response = do_elasticity_sim(self.client, micro3, egdp_reform)
        orig_micro_model_num = micro3.url[-2:-1]

        # Now edit this elasticity of gdp sim
        # Go to macro input page
        egdp_num = egdp_response.url[egdp_response.url[:-1].rfind('/')+1:-1]
        dynamic_macro_edit = '/dynamic/macro/edit/{0}?start_year={1}'.format(egdp_num, START_YEAR)
        #Redirect first
        response = self.client.get(dynamic_macro_edit)
        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 301)
        #Now load the page
        rep2 = self.client.get(response.url)
        page = rep2.content
        # Read the page to find the linked microsim. It should be the third
        # microsim above
        idx = page.find('dynamic/macro')
        idx_ms_num_start = idx + 14
        idx_ms_num_end = idx_ms_num_start + page[idx_ms_num_start:].find('/')
        microsim_model_num = page[idx_ms_num_start:idx_ms_num_end]
        assert microsim_model_num == orig_micro_model_num

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partitionAll :: Int -> Int -> [a] -> [[a]]
partitionAll _ _ [] = []
partitionAll w s xs = (take w xs) : partitionAll w s (drop s xs)

largestProductInSeries :: Int -> [Int] -> Int
largestProductInSeries l xs = maximum $ map (product) $ partitionAll l 1 xs

main :: IO ()
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Kirbie Goes to Hollywood: What was your first job?
I was reading on Oprah.com about different celebs and their first jobs. It's quite interesting if I do say so myself! And this got me thinking: when I look back on my first job once I'm successful, what will I say? Man, mine is pretty hilarious, especially if you know me well.
Mine? I was a janitor. Yes. Kirbie used to be a janitor. But not just any janitor, one at the movie theater. They called us "ushers" but nobody's fooling me - the lack of style, glamour and pizazz this job had made it loud and clear that I was glorified housekeeping.
I remember it very clearly. I had turned 16 and it was time to get a job for the summer. And boy was I trying hard to find a really smancy job at Abercrombie, The Limited or The Gap. Apparently hiring 16-year-olds wasn't a top priority for these places so once it got down to it my mom demanded I get a job - and STAT. "We know the manager of Tinseltown. I'll give him a call. I'm SURE you could get a job there."
I wasn't thrilled, but I figured it would be okay selling tickets in the box office. If anything I could get some free movies out of it, right?
I was so utterly and completely wrong. I walked in for my interview dressed to the nines. I looked like I was going on a casting call. Little did I know that my fair share of juvenile delinquents picked the movie theater to work at during the summers. I remember sitting in the little movie restaurant area for my interview and the guy asking me my work hours. "Um... like 20 hours a week?" "You're hired." He told me we had a uniform - okay, fair enough. Black slacks, black shoes and a tee shirt that he had given me promoting a movie. Mine was an XXL and it sported the movie "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle." Girlfriend looked homeless in this outfit (I was 100 pounds). It was not my idea a first job. Also, I wasn't aware I wouldn't be in the box office. I mean, hello, I know the manager. Upgrade me!
What did this job consist of? You know when you see those kids running around the theater with a broom and dustpan after the movie? Yeah, that was me. We had a schedule of when each movie ended so we could go in and clean up other people's crap. Trust me, I saw some disgusting things in those empty theaters. PSA: Movie theaters are not meant for sexual activity. WATCH THE MOVIE. Not to mention the worst part was emptying the trash in the hallways and taking it to trash chute. We had to throw it up and in the chute and I could barely lift the friggen bag - and it always smelled of popcorn and Diet Coke.
Sure, I got to see the end of several movies. And the shifts weren't bad... and since I virtually went in and changed my schedule every week until I finally moved my hours down from 20 to 10 hours, it wasn't terrible. If anything, I am a stickler for being nice to the ushers, concession stand attendants and box office kids and I downright refuse to leave any trash in the theater. If anyone I'm with leaves something I will ask them to throw it away.
The funny thing is is that this job turned into a family affair! My cousins both got jobs there and through hard work and persistence actually made a successful situation out of Tinseltown. Me? Not so much. However Ashley worked her way up the totem pole for awhile and Chase is pretty much owning the place. So put everything into your job and you'll reap the benefits. (It should also be noted I got my first "real boyfriend" that summer so instead of spending time a the theater I was figuring out any way I could spend more time with him).
Frankly I love the fact I was a janitor, because maybe one day I'll be able to say I went from working at the movies to being in them.


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Along with rides and entertainment, also available is some down-home, good country cookin'! With over 20 different dining options, you can choose from meals like an all-you-can-eat buffet, skillet tater patch, kettle corn, funnel cakes, ham 'n' beans, barbeque, and so many more! So take a break from all the rides and shows and have a nice meal at one of the many dining options in Dollywood!


Forestry plantations across south-east and central Queensland have suffered severe damage from recent flooding.
Forestry Plantations Queensland says many of the plantation roadways have large potholes, debris and leaning trees and some creek and gully crossings have been washed out.
The affected plantation areas include the Fraser Coast, Elliott River, Mary Valley, Beerburrum, Jimna, Yarraman, Pechey- Esk, Passchendaele and Byfield areas.
Forest manager Michael Robinson says recreational drivers and bike riders need to take extra care.
"What we're asking is if they don't need to to be on the plantation roads to avoid them and if they must travel on the roads for business purposes or to access their property, that they take extra care because there'll be increased levels of debris on the roads and the creek crossings and waterways are continually re-flooding as we get further rain," he said.
Mr Robinson says the damage is still being assessed.
"What we've been doing is undertaking a systematic surveillance and audit of all of our roads and identifying where we have safety concerns and environmental damage," he said.
"Where necessary we're closing some roads for public safety but in general what we will be doing is going through a process of gradually repairing the roads."


In some non-New York Toy Fair 2017 news, the Dungeon Master project by Ymarilego is the latest one to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. The project is a tabletop game where you create your own dungeons to play in with others. The project proposes enough bricks for 8×8 stud wide rooms with the lairs being 16×16 studs wide. There are three hero minifigures as well as six minifigures of monsters and villains for you to combat.
This project was supported heavily by the tabletop game community including Wil Wheaton and Geek and Sundry, just to name a few. It now joins The Blues Mobile and SEGA Classic Arcade Machines as the projects to reach the First 2017 Review Stage.


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Wikipedia co-founder launches Wikitribune to fight fake news
The site will pair experienced journalists with volunteers who can fact-check and sub-edit stories.
Nick Summers, @nisummers
04.25.17 in Internet
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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales hopes to tackle fake news with a journalism outfit of his own. Wikitribune will be free to access and use crowdfunding to hire experienced reporters. They'll work alongside volunteers who can sub-edit articles, fact-check stories and suggest new topics for the site to pursue. "This will be the first time that professional and citizen journalists will work side-by-side as equals writing stories as they happen, editing them as they develop, and at all times backed by a community checking and rechecking all of the facts," Wales said.
Wikitribune's existence (and success) will depend on donations from people who believe in its mission and the journalism it's producing. The site will cover traditional news beats, such as UK and international politics, as well as science, technology and specialist subjects chosen by subscribers. "If you take as an example the bitcoin community," Wales said, "they've a very active and obsessed community. There's a lot of news that comes out in the field, and I think they'd love to be able to raise money to hire a journalist and put them on the bitcoin/blockchain beat."
Wikitribune articles will include detailed sourcing and link out to full transcripts, video and audio recordings of interviews. Reader submissions will also need to be approved by a full-time editor before they appear on the site. These two mechanisms will, Wales hopes, create a news culture that is both transparent and accurate, leveraging the expertise of reporters and the news gathering, fact-checking scale of the crowd. Controlling such a large group of people will be tricky, however. Reddit users, for instance, wrongly identified one of the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013.
Wales is optimistic, however. Few people thought that Wikipedia would work, and while the site is far from perfect, it has been able to avoid the false news problem, at least for the most part. The hope is that the same culture generated by Wikipedia's editors will blossom inside Wikitribune. Those values will be helped in part by the site's business model -- with no advertiser funding, the site can avoid the click-chasing and click-bait stories that have plagued other sites and reduced reader trust.
Plenty of technology companies are trying to tackle the 'fake news' epidemic. YouTube is holding workshops in the UK to teach young people how to spot bogus stories. Google is showing fact-checkers such as PolitiFact and Snopes more prominently in search results. Facebook bought a bunch of full-page newspaper ads in Germany with basic reader fact-checking tips. Despite these efforts, the problem persists. Politicians in the UK are holding an inquiry into the rise of fake news, and British newspapers have requested a deeper investigation into the role that Facebook and Google play in its distribution.
Clearly, Wales thinks the answer is a new, better-funded and creatively organised newsroom. Joshua Benton, director of Harvard University's Nieman Journalism Lab, isn't so sure. "There are a variety of people who - if he does this right - will view it as a trusted platform," he told the BBC. "But another 10 to 20 people are not going to 'fix the news'."
Via: The Guardian, The BBC
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I own it, I am fat, I was fat and I may always be what society deems as fat and I am okay with that. There is a stigma among fat people and we all know it but this post is not about that.
Through my weight loss journey I have come across some things that I may not noticed before and I thought to myself, that would be a good idea for a blog post.
When you lose weight people compliment you more – wait was I less attractive when I was fatter?
When you lose weight you gain confidence – is it your own or because people are constantly feeding you compliments?
Weight loss is never a bad thing, but it does mess with your mind. It is a journey, treat yourself with care.


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She was a former teacher, had absolutely zero experience in internet marketing, yet desperately wanted to make a change.
When she was let go from her teaching job, she was put into a very difficult situation. She had no money coming in so was forced to take a job working at McDonalds.
Sometimes you have to share the story to be able to help others.
She was almost ashamed to have worked at McDonalds (no offence to McDonalds).
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The fact that she was able to start an online business in near poverty, with no experience, and go on to make 6 figures is inspirational.
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CITY OF SAINT PAUL GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE UNDER THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
This Grievance Procedure is established to meet the requirements of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("ADA"). It may be used by anyone who wishes to file a complaint alleging discrimination on the basis of disability in the provision of services, programs, or activities by the City of Saint Paul ("The City"). The City's Personnel Policy governs employment-related complaints of disability discrimination. A grievant also has the option to file directly with the Department of Justice or other appropriate federal agency within 180 days from the date of the incident.
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Alternatively, an individual may make an oral request by contacting the ADA Coordinator at (651) 266-8902. The Coordinator will put this request in writing to be signed by the requestor.
In the event that this request for access to services, programs, or activities cannot be resolved, an individual may file a grievance orally or in writing. A written grievance should be filed on the ADA Grievance Form. If it is not filed on the Grievance Form, it should be in writing and contain all of the following information:
The name, address, and telephone number of the person filing the grievance.
The name, address, and telephone number of the person alleging the ADA violation, if other than the person filing the grievance.
A description of the alleged violation and the remedy sought.
Information on whether a complaint has been filed with the Department of Justice or other federal or state civil rights agency or court.
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With an orchestral style, you hold the stick somewhat loosely. Your goal is to bounce the stick head off of the drum. All movement is including arm movement is acceptable. Remember, movement through the air is just as important as the drum stick impact.
For match style, your pointing finger is your focal point.
Your middle, ring, and pinky fingers should dangle closely to the stick. The faster you play, the looser these fingers.
Arm movement is encouraged especially with accents.
Hold each stick head about 7 inches or so above the drum head.
The stroke goes from the starting position, stroke down, bounce off head, back to starting position. Strive for a minimal but pretty drum stroke movement including when moving from one drum to another.
Your focus is on bouncing the stick head off the drum head and drawing out the maximum sound quality of each instrument you strike. Practice stroke variations on each instrument (drum, cymbal, bell, etc.) with various strengths, height, hit through vs. bounce, etc. With each stroke variation, listen to the quality of the sound you are drawing out of the instrument.
Use a marching style to achieve strength and accuracy. A marching style is a great way to build your chops. An orchestral style is used to achieve a more musical sounding play.
With a marching style you hold the stick tighter than with an orchestral style. The goal of a marching style is to try to hit through the drum head with tremendous accuracy and strength. The tighter grip also helps multiple players to play and look the same but you sacrifice a bit of the musicality of playing drums.
For match style, your middle finger is your focal point.
Wrap fingers all the around the stick. Do not hold the stick tightly, but have the feeling of all fingers touching the stick with very little to no gap.
Very little to no arm movement. Exceptions are clearly discussed and agreed upon prior to usage. For example, many marching groups agree to rock your arm back and fourth with open rolls.
Hold each stick head about 1 inch from the drum head. The starting position.
The stroke goes from the starting position, stroke up, stroke down, hit through the drum head, then return back to starting position. Focus on moving the drum stick straight up and down. When playing fast, watch the movement patterns of your drum sticks. A pretty movement pattern makes for a better sounding drum stroke.
Your focus is on hitting through the drum head.
The focal point for a marching grip is the ring finger.


If in Rwanda there are laws against divisionism, revisionism or genocide ideology, it is because there are people with divisionism out there. I have noticed signs of racism during my last visit home or from messages and discussions I have with my fellow country people online. Listen carefully, you will notice too.
You will always spot a racist in Rwanda easily because they all use words like "mwe" or "mwebwe" versus "twe" or "twebwe" especially in every political discussion you engage with him or her.
The divisionist always reason in terms of two camps and tend compares one side from the other. It's very hard to reason such individual in terms of unity of the people.
Early sign of racism is when you hear someone having trouble accepting differing opinion. Our racist takes no one else's point of view. In fact, most of them think that having a different idea is an attack on their "camp".
The racist always thinks the "other" side is bad, inferior, useless, lost or with bad intentions. Belittlement of members of other ethnic groups can be done without explicitly making mention of the ethnic group of the other person or persons. Racist will constantly criticize the opinions of others or even ridicule them.
Very often in Rwanda, when discussing issues of reconciliation and justice, conversation concerning victims of Rwandan tragedy comes at the centre. This is mainly because many Rwandan families lost their members in the past. We all want to honour all of our loved ones regardless of why, where and by who they died. We must refuse to select whom to morn and whom to forget.
Surprisingly, I hear people emphasizing their lost ones as the only victims of Rwandan conflict. It is a sign of racism when someone shows lack of sympathy towards other lost ones.
Only in Rwanda you will hear people publicly deny in front of the victims that lives of other family members were lost or giving reasons or justifications as to why innocent people had to die. History of genocide in Rwandan community is a result of extreme and institutionalised racism of some.
Another sign of worst racism is the attempt to counterbalance or to minimise the impact of the lost of lives in "other" communities. Universally, it is common for racists to have no insight into their own prejudice. This is because they believe their prejudice to be based upon objective grounds.
What racist people forget is that often families of the victims are well aware in full details of what happened to their own people.
In Rwanda, racists don't mind blaming someone for crimes that they know they never did. The blame is given because they are of same ethnic group with those who committed ethnic violence. Instead each individual involved should be accountable for his or her own actions.
Crimes begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all members of same ethnic group. Unfortunately, racists tend to hold others of the same ethnicity "collectively" responsible for crimes that took place in Rwanda.
From collective blame springs presumed thought crimes in Rwanda. This is when someone is charged with the crime of thinking like someone else. One can get suspected of having the same "imitekerereze" [thinking] with bad intent.
Pretending or staying indifferent to the plight of members of society who are of other ethnic group when they suffer injustices is also a sign of racism. You can easily sense when someone feels no sympathy whatsoever towards other people's suffering, poverty, hardship, injustice or disadvantage. It is typical of the racist to see or seek pleasure in the "other" group's suffering.
A racist is someone who believes that mentioning names of our ethnic groups is a crime (In Rwanda it is punishable to 20 years in prison). On one hand, Hutu, Tutsi and Twa are an integral part of us, our culture, our identity, our tradition and history. For some reasons, today some people find it an offense for others to feel and express who they think they are.
On the other hand, a constant reference to someone's ethnic background is also an unmistakable pattern of racism.
In Rwanda, many people find it extraordinary or a miracle that Hutu and Tutsi are living side by side in Rwanda today. But peaceful cohabitation is not new in our country. Rwandans have lived together side by side, in same hills for centuries. They intermarried, shared farms, harvests, wells, schools and problems. So it is not an achievement of the any regime. Peaceful cohabitation was and is still enshrined in our culture.
Not surprisingly, it is rare, today, for a person to admit to being a racist.
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Groups that have consciously and unconsciously adopted the countersubversion model promoted by centrist/extremist theory were quick to call for increased government power to fend off the perceived threat to law and order posed by the armed militia movement. Calls to unleash the FBI were especially strident following the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
A typical example was a Wall Street Journal column by Max Boot who reached back to the countersubversion scapegoating of earlier times. Boot suggested that a wave of serious anarchist terrorism began with opposition to US participation in World War One. According to Boot, "From 1914 to 1917, anarchists set off a number of blasts in New York and Boston. Most didn't cause any major injuries, but a 1917 explosion in Milwaukee killed 10 policemen," Boot then implied that the widespread government repression of the post-WWI period was at least mitigated by what Boot sees as the successful crushing of the dangerous subversive anarchist terror movement. He then draws parallels to right-wing militias of today and suggests their potential for terror can best be handled by granting the government sweeping powers of surveillance and infiltration. But reliable accounts of the period after WWI differ with Boot's description of events. He is using a popular countersubversion myth to justify new state repression.
Even Louis F. Post, the Labor Department official who signed the deportation order for anarchist Emma Goldman after the Palmer Raids in 1919-1920, later wrote a book where he argued that no evidence of a widespread subversive conspiracy among anarchist immigrants ever emerged:
It seemed to me at the time, and the impression has been deepened by subsequent developments, that if there were any alien conspirators in the United States who were at all dangerous to its institutions, its free institutions, the detectives of the Department of Justice did not `hit their trail'….Cases in which there was substantial proof of any unlawful act with sinister intent or guilty knowledge were exceptions-very rare exceptions.
Of course, even if the government had found a criminal conspiracy among so-called "aliens" the broad draconian dragnet of the Palmer Raids would still have been a civil liberties nightmare.
Based on countersubversion myth, and the false portrayal of all members of the armed militia movement as extremists-even terrorist neonazis, the Clinton administration pushed through the "Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996," called by civil liberties activists a "draconian" piece of legislation "which places the Bill of Rights and other constitutional protections at grave risk." This repressive legislation received support from several leading human relations groups that argued it would help curb the threat of violence from the militias. There was no evidence to support this claim, and the bulk of the legislation had been written and rejected prior to the Oklahoma City bombing. The legislation was supported by politicians pointing to militia involvement in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City and the terrorist bombing of the TWA flight that exploded near New York while en route to Paris. There is no current evidence to tie militias to the Oklahoma City bombing or terrorists to the crash of the airplane.
Embracing the conspiracist countersubversion myth woven into centrist/extremist theory justifies state repression. It encourages us to look the other way when militant rightists are gunned down without benefit of trial by law enforcement officers. This has happened repeatedly in recent years, not only with the Weaver family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, in 1993, but also in a series of killings of rightists starting with the farm crisis in the 1980s. These included Gordon Kahl, a rightist tax protester who became a Posse Comitatus organizer, killed in 1983; and Robert Mathews, a leader of the violent White Supremacist group The Order, killed in 1984. Both these people were despicable racists and antisemites, but that did not justify the government's gross misjudgments and casual use of deadly force that resulted in their deaths.
There has also been the use of questionable legal tactics, such as the prosecution on charges of seditious conspiracy of White supremacist leaders in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. The witnesses who testified about the alleged conspiracy were so dubious that the case was rejected by jurors who found the defendants not guilty. During the McCarthy period charges of criminal seditious conspiracy were used in the political witch hunt against communism. When the government announced the sedition trial of White supremacists in Fort Smith, Arkansas, one person to object was Arthur Kinoy, a well-known leftist civil rights attorney and respected constitutional scholar who has argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Kinoy, who had defended persons charged with communist sedition in the 1950's, agreed the White supremacists in the Ft. Smith case were "disgusting," but he said "I'm worried about the charge of sedition against anyone." Kinoy expressed concern with the legal charge of sedition, noting its historical use by the government to attack all dissent, especially on the left.
Silverglate agreed: "I know it is a tricky and emotional issue, but sedition is a very serious charge, and to bring it in the Aryan Nations case at Fort Smith was patently absurd. You can't be cheering when the government brings a charge of sedition against the Aryan Nations crowd and then be complaining when they bring it against your friends.
We must recognize that fear of government repression is not just paranoia. Government officials to this day refuse to admit that negligent bureaucratic brutality at Ruby Ridge, Idaho against the Weaver family and at Waco, Texas against the Branch Davidians could cause any citizen to be distrustful or cynical about government. These were clear examples of government misconduct and abuse of power. The answer to the resurgent right should never be allowing the government to curtail civil liberties. It is wrong philosophically, and it gives the government a huge new club to beat up on leftwing dissidents-the more typical victims of government repression.
This is an excerpt of an article, "Repression and Ideology: The Legacy of Discredited Centrist/Extremist Theory," that originally appeared in Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Report Vol. 5, Nos. 13-14, Jan-Feb., and March-April 1998. Copyright 1998, the West Group.
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Figures from the Pets4Homes website, based on about 150,000 adverts, showed the average price being asked from March to September was £1,883. During the same period last year the average price was £888.
Lee Gibson, from Pets4Homes, said between April and June visits to the website peaked at 20 million a month – double last year's figure.
He said: "I think people had more time at home – and with their children. They knew they could put the time and effort into training a dog. And secondly, there was a need for companionships. For many people lockdown has been a lonely time."
The website acts as an online marketplace, with the dog breeders themselves determining what prices to charge.
"During this period there wasn't a huge increase in the numbers of puppies available – so it's simply the economics of supply and demand," he said.
Claire Calder, from the Dogs Trust rescue charity, said lockdown had created a "perfect storm" for puppy sales with many people thinking this is the ideal time to take on a pet – but she's worried about the future.
"We're expecting a dog welfare crisis further down the line – an increase in abandonment as people go back to work," she said.
"The economic situation also means that some people may find they can't afford to look after a dog."
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