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An Education 'Intrapreneur' on the Difficulties Innovating in a...
EdSurge Podcast
An Education 'Intrapreneur' on the Difficulties Innovating in a Conservative Industry
By Jenny Abamu Jan 30, 2018
Photo Credit: Maglara/ ShutterStock
Larry Singer is a CEO, but not the smug type, who's likely to engage you in a long-winded conversation about himself, while you sip on your drink and wait for someone more interesting to come along.
Singer is different. Last week he pitched EdSurge a story about his nonprofit, Open Up Resources, but, after our conversation, we found a story about a struggling innovator. He, like many of our podcast listeners, is a person who wants to do well, but also do good.
I mean, I was so peeved at the publishers who come out there and talk about being education companies, but shareholder value trumps all.
Larry Singer
In this podcast, we talk about his crazy 30-year journey in education, which took him from Pearson to farming, to the nonprofit work he does now. We hope his story—and its imperfect ending—can motivate those of you who are on your career journeys to find work that makes you happy and taps into your passions.
Listen to the podcast or read highlights from the conversation below (which have been edited and condensed for clarity).
EdSurge: Let's talking a little bit about your schooling because, like many other people in the education space, you didn't study education. In 1975 you were studying at the University of Redlands in California, and you got a BA in entrepreneurship. What were you thinking at that time? Why entrepreneurship?
Larry Singer: I went to a college at the university called Johnston College, which had all narrative evaluations, and a negotiated class contract. It was experiential learning.
I wanted a liberal arts degree that other people would think is a business degree. So, for entrepreneurial studies, I took classes like Physics I and II. Then, the third class was Newton and Einstein, and why were they able to break out from all other physicists. In economics, I would do micro and macroeconomics, and then do Smith, Keynes and Marx, and say, "How did the three of them break out?" Not just in business, but what is it that allows people to get breakthroughs in the industries that they're working in or the disciplines that they're working in. That's what I wanted to study.
You graduated around the same time Steve Jobs introduced Apple's first personal computer. Were you influenced by events, like Apple releasing their first personal computer, and IBM doing the same thing? Was it also a big time for entrepreneurship?
It was. In fact, in education, there was a lot of experimentation going on, like at my college. In industry, you saw big titans falling to smart, high-potential young people with ideas.
The bane of my existence in high school was being told, "You have so much potential. All you have to do is work harder, and study and do all your homework." These entrepreneurs seemed like heroes to me. People who weren't following the rules, but who were getting breakthroughs because of it. The question is, how do people who break rules also succeed? That, to me, is what makes an entrepreneur.
So after college, you worked at a computer company then you moved to Texas Instruments. Why go into Texas Instruments? What happened there?
Well, it's interesting. I was with one of the very first software companies, the very first one that wasn't a computer company. I was one of the first sales guys at a time when to get the job, you had to stay on the bar stool for the whole interview without falling off. There was no such thing as qualified people.
When I started in it, we worked with people in every single industry. It became clear to me that those in public sector, in state and local government, in higher ed, and in K-12 had potentially a very different role. These were information industries that collected information about people and then gave services. And yet, they were so far behind financial services and manufacturing in adopting technology that I persuaded the software company that we should have a focus on something that I called SLEDs (state, local and education), which became a fairly standard thing in the tech industry, but we were the very first ones to do it.
But, the software company was not as into, what I would call, Maslow's hierarchy. In this space [SLEDs], you can't go after revenue. You have to go after fixing problems. Then, the revenue comes. They write you checks of the biggest size—bigger than any other industry—if you have solutions, but you can't come to them without a solution. I love that. It was just like what I was studying. TI (Texas Instruments) was making a fortune on Speak & Spells and other stuff, but no solutions. They had the calculators and people were buying them, but people didn't know why and how.
I had an idea that we could start working with the educators and with the textbook publishers. If we could integrate calculator-based activities into the curriculum, then it would improve the math. Then, if that happened, people would buy more calculators. TI seemed like a place that had offerings that were waiting for solutions to be wrapped around it, so it was like the greatest place for me to go.
Where did you get the idea from? How does that even come to your mind?
This hippie school that I went to, everybody there majored in like transpersonal psychology. There had only been one business student ever before me, and it was Peter Cohen, who eventually became president of McGraw-Hill.
Everyone else was trying to figure out how to do good in the world, how to save the environment, how to open the world, end racism how to open the world to gender issues. This was 30 years ago, and people were talking about gender issues.
If you can do good and do well at the same time, it's kind of the ultimate way to express your life, and so I was always trying to figure out how do you take the pieces that are sitting there. I'm not an inventor. I had so many friends who were engineers and super technologist. But I did see these calculators that were doing well. Couldn't they do more if you tied them to the education?
When you were in Texas Instruments, you stayed there for about seven years, did you notice any evolution happening?
One of the things that was happening at that time was mainframes were giving way to client-server computers. Now that might sound esoteric, but a state government can afford to have a mainframe. A school district can afford to have a server. Until that change, the idea of IT working, and information systems and computers for kids for was impossible because that would mean giving up all the control to the state government, or even the federal government, and the politics just wouldn't allow it.
But, client-server computing emerged during that time. All of a sudden, you had people start dabbling in schools with, "What would we do if we could collect data about the kids if we had information about how the tests at the beginning of the year compared to the test at the end of the year? Which teachers were getting the best results? What are they doing differently?" All of a sudden, all of these solutions that every other industry was looking at became possible.
From where I was sitting, what was changing is that people in schools were no longer trying to implement the same model that they did in the '50s and '60s where almost all the kids went into domestic service, or manufacturing or agriculture. Now, everybody was talking about knowledge-based jobs. That was the other big thing that was happening then. As client-server came about, more information-oriented jobs came available in careers. The thought that we need to change the way we prepare kids changed.
For me, this synergy between the new industry tools of IT being available in education and these new needs for knowledge-based jobs, and so education needed to change, just created an opportunity that hadn't been there in 20 years. Everybody agreed there needed to be a change, and it was somehow connected to this, and no one could quite figure out how to do it. Thirty years later, we're struggling with that same exact issue. Even though there's a lot more IT, none of us feel like we're exploiting it completely to help kids.
You started working at Pearson. I'm curious how someone who's a free thinker ended up at Pearson. The company doesn't exactly have that reputation—it's a big corporate entity, and it's so different.
Honestly, while I majored in entrepreneurial studies, most of my career, except for one not-for-profit step when I was working at Harvard, most of my career I've worked at organizations with at least 40,000 employees. So I consider myself what I would describe as an intrapreneur. Where instead of raising capital in the market for an organization, you use budget resources to help the company understand what it really does.
They came to get me from Silicon Valley intentionally to do two things. One is to integrate the 14 K-12 units into one K-12 market facing unit for all these acquisitions they had made. They had tried twice before to merge them and failed. Then, the second thing was to move from a book publisher to a software publisher to take advantage of these capabilities. When they said they wanted those two things, those things are big innovative things. I thought they wanted them, so I went there to them and found out while they really wanted them, the culture really had very significant barriers to make those kinds of changes.
I mean, I was so peeved at the publishers who come out there and talk about being education companies, but shareholder value trumps all. They didn't get the Maslow's hierarchy. If they would've paid attention, they would've gotten higher shareholder value. Instead, since I have left, the stocks have all crashed, and we're growing at a ridiculous rate.
When you talk about the Maslow's hierarchy, what do you mean? What do you mean that they don't get that? What are they not getting?
In my view, the way Maslow's hierarchy works for these big corporations is that if you focus on what your customer needs to be successful and you use the resources your organization focus squarely on meeting that need, and once you figure out how you do it, then you look at the business model that you implement so you can do it profitably and at a good value to the customer.
These are the kinds of things that you're applying to open up resources now?
Correct. Corporations do it backwards. They think, 'There's an opportunity to make money. How do we figure out a product to fit in that space?' You have got to flip it. What do they need first, and how do we satisfy it? Not, what are they willing to spend money on and how can we get it?
So, moving from the corporate to the nonprofit world for you kind of gave you the opportunity to apply your skills but also find a sustainable model in that space?
That's right. So, we have three primary goals. One is to get the highest quality curriculum as widely available as possible, to as many kids regardless of the resources of their school district. That's one. Two is that we do so in a way that creates a self-sustaining business model for us, but also creates an ecosystem of authors and consultants who have the same motivations we do, and that they can be self-sustaining. And that finally, we do it in a way where equitable access is the key.
Recently you guys just had an award that you won. Can you talk about that a little bit, and why that was important?
Just like when I was at Texas Instruments, and the Baldrige Award set criteria of how you think of quality, EdReports has become like the Gartner Group or Good Housekeeping of the instructional resource market, and they define what good is. What we did is we reverse engineered it. We thought their answer to what was good was right. So, how do we build a product that meets their criteria for excellent?
We find the very best authors out there who understood what we need to do. Then, we built a quality control process that just like Silicon Valley's, just like we did at Texas Instruments for the Baldrige Award, a separate of team who understood the objectives, who reviewed and gave recommendations back to the authors of what they needed to do in order to hit the right scores. It wasn't just some esoteric to make it better. The standards in EdReports gave us something clear.
For someone who wants to do good, who wants to be innovative, but also wants something sustainable, what would you give them as advice as they map their own career journeys in education?
First of all, don't try to set a path and be set on it. Be open to opportunities as they come up, and realize that you can kind of twist an opportunity to your objectives. Set life goals, not career goals. Then, find the opportunities for career options to fit your life objectives. Figure out who you are first. They don't define you; you define you. Find the place where you fit.


Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by Nu2Linux, Nov 5, 2005.
1.how do i fix this error? i'd like to use https to access ispconfig.
2.could i delete the directories and database and run the install again and choose http instead of https as a possible workaround?
Seems to be a problem with ISPConfig's PHP5. Do you use a 64bit Linux or a 32bit one? If you use a 64bit Linux that could be the problem.
On the other hand, it could also be a hardware problem (RAM, hard disk), but I don't think so right now.
If I were you, I'd simply install ISPConfig again (but do not delete the current ISPConfig installation, the installer will then realize that it's an update).


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A Muslim man donates land to build Hindu temple in UP
A minority community man donates his land for temple for majority community. This has happened in UP.
He is a Muslim man. He has donated a plot of his land to the Shahjahanpur district administration so that a temple can be constructed.
The land donation is linked with construction of a national high way. The work had come to a halt as the villagers were not ready to allow the district administration to bulldoze it for construction of the national highway.
In effect, project meant to widen the Delhi-Lucknow NH-24 was not able to make a headway in Kachiyani Kera village because of the temple.
Aware of it,Babu Ali came forward and offered one 'bigha' (0.65 hectare) land situated close to the project. Subsequently, after the Shahjahanpur administration agreed, he gave the land so that the temple could be shifted there.
This was revealed by Additional District Magistrate (administration) Ramsevak Dwivedi. National News Agency PTI broke this news today.
"Tilhar Deputy District Magistrate Rashi Krishna said legal procedures to transfer the land to the administration had been completed."

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What's new from the IMDRF (the successor organisation of the GHTF)?
26/27 January 2021
Live Online Training: Process Understanding - Statistical Process Control (SPC) as a tool to get there
At the end of 2012, the International Medical Devices Regulator Forum (IMDRF) replaced the Global Harmonisation Task Force which had been in charge until then of the worldwide harmonisation of requirements for medical devices. In August 2013, we reported in a GMP News about the current stand of the IMDRF activities with regard to the publication of documents.
Since then, further documents from the IMDRF have been released:
Recently, the IMDRF has published two informative documents about the topic "authorisation". The first document (RPS Beta Testing Document) informs about the electronic submission of medical devices. The second document entitled "Points to Consider in the use of the IMDRF Table of Content for Medical Device Submissions pre-RPS" also addresses the question of electronic submission and amends two final documents providing information about the authorisation of In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) and Non-In Vitro Diagnostic products (see below).
Procedural Documents from the IMDRF are also something new. These documents include - among other things - terms of reference, an SOP about the IMDRF (e.g. memberships, documents release, IMDRF presentations). All these procedural documents (terms of reference, presentation and document templates) contain information about how to uniformly communicate with the outside.
By the end of last year, regulatory requirements on auditing organisations conducting audits at medical device manufacturers were amended with competence and training requirements and published as finale documents. In addition, a Unique Device Identification (UDI) guideline has been released as well as key definitions about SaMD (Software as a Medical Device - please also see our GMP News from 3 September 2014). Just recently, in August, information about the authorisation of In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) and Non-In Vitro Diagnostic products was published. Both documents will be supplemented by the informative "Points to Consider" document mentioned above.
The "old" GHTF documents can still be found on the IMDR website. The currently applicable IMDRF documents can be found here.
Conclusion: The publication of IMDRF documents seems to take quite a long time. For that reason, it is appreciable that the old good GHTF document still can be found in the archives.
17/18 February 2021
Live Online Training: Cleaning Validation
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Audit Alternatives of Notified Bodies in Covid-19 Times
FDA Publishes Catalog of Tools for the Development of New Medical Devices
Reprocessing of Medical Devices - Implementing Regulation for Single-Use Devices
Medical Device Warning Letter Statistics for the first Half of the Fiscal Year 2020
FDA Feedback on Combination Products
Marketing of Medical Devices in the UK after the Transitional Period


I would just like to say what a wonderful place Bearwood Golf club is. I played with a friend of mine during July and was very impressed. First off wanting to warm up I was directed to the superb practice range by the excellent professional. The members were very friendly and made me feel welcome. The short but challenging course was a delight to play. The greens were very good, seen as they are on a clay base and are not easy to maintain to a good standard. Afterwhich a pint in the bar afterwards felt like I was drinking with friends. The manager should be commended for the modest but quality operation that he is running. The staff were that good, they could easily run a club like Wentworth.
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Q: Access file content within an Azure Dev Ops/VSTS artifact using REST API I am looking to get the contents of a file I pushed as an artifact to Azure DevOps
I was able to get a json response with a URL to the artifact zip by using this API
https://dev.azure.com/uifabric/cd9e4e13-b8db-429a-9c21-499bf1c98639/_apis/build/builds/8838/artifacts?artifactName=drop&api-version=5.0

However, what I really want is the contents of a file called bundlesizes.json within this zip.
I did come across the Get File API here which mentions an API as follows
GET https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/build/builds/{buildId}/artifacts?artifactName={artifactName}&fileId={fileId}&fileName={fileName}&api-version=5.0

I tried replacing it as follows
https://dev.azure.com/uifabric/fabricpublic/_apis/build/builds/8838/artifacts?artifactName=drop&fileId=bundlesizes.json&fileName=bundlesizes.json&api-version=5.0

However, I get this error

I think what I am missing is the fileId field, where I am not aware what needs to go in. The documentation says fileId is the The primary key for the file. However, I don't know where I can find it.

A: Microsoft doesn't have complete documentation on how to get FileID.
You can take a different approach and download the file using below API. You can get the ContainerID through GET build details.

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namespace google {
namespace cloud {
namespace profiler_internal {
GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_INLINE_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

ProfilerServiceStub::~ProfilerServiceStub() = default;

StatusOr<google::devtools::cloudprofiler::v2::Profile>
DefaultProfilerServiceStub::CreateProfile(
    grpc::ClientContext& client_context,
    google::devtools::cloudprofiler::v2::CreateProfileRequest const& request) {
  google::devtools::cloudprofiler::v2::Profile response;
  auto status = grpc_stub_->CreateProfile(&client_context, request, &response);
  if (!status.ok()) {
    return google::cloud::MakeStatusFromRpcError(status);
  }
  return response;
}

StatusOr<google::devtools::cloudprofiler::v2::Profile>
DefaultProfilerServiceStub::CreateOfflineProfile(
    grpc::ClientContext& client_context,
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        request) {
  google::devtools::cloudprofiler::v2::Profile response;
  auto status =
      grpc_stub_->CreateOfflineProfile(&client_context, request, &response);
  if (!status.ok()) {
    return google::cloud::MakeStatusFromRpcError(status);
  }
  return response;
}

StatusOr<google::devtools::cloudprofiler::v2::Profile>
DefaultProfilerServiceStub::UpdateProfile(
    grpc::ClientContext& client_context,
    google::devtools::cloudprofiler::v2::UpdateProfileRequest const& request) {
  google::devtools::cloudprofiler::v2::Profile response;
  auto status = grpc_stub_->UpdateProfile(&client_context, request, &response);
  if (!status.ok()) {
    return google::cloud::MakeStatusFromRpcError(status);
  }
  return response;
}

GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_INLINE_NAMESPACE_END
}  // namespace profiler_internal
}  // namespace cloud
}  // namespace google

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CALGARY- On a miserable snowy and cold Saturday afternoon at the SAIT campus, the visiting conference leader Alberta Golden Bear picked up a 4-0 decision against Mount Royal.
Back-to-back hat-trick performance from Easton Ongaro carried his Golden Bear side to their third consecutive win.
Both schools played to a stalemate leading up to injury time of the first half where Ajeej Sarkaria broke the deadlock. Off the ensuing Alberta corner kick, an MRU defender attempted to volley the ball out of danger but made a poor connection and had the ball spiral up and behind him. The ball floated to the far post for a waiting Sarkaria who headed the ball in to put up his Golden Bear side at 1-0 heading into halftime.
MRU much like the first 45, began play on the front foot but Alberta again, landed the first blow of the half. Ongaro doubled the Golden Bear lead in the 63rd in brilliant fashion. Receiving the ball in tight space, Ongaro danced past one Cougar defender at a time, inching closer to the net before sliding the shot past MRU keeper Kyran Valley in the six-yard box.
The Cougars almost responded back immediately after the kick-off as Jake Vickers had the best MRU chance of the half. Vickers was sent in one-on-one with goalkeeper Connor James but was rejected by the leg of the Golden Bear net-minder. James handled any other threats to earn his eighth clean sheet of the season.
Alberta found the net for the third time in the 77th minute from a dynamite free-kick.
Ongaro, coming off a brace and hat-trick performances in his past two matches, whipped the ball into the far side of the net for his then second goal.
In the 86th, Ongaro capped off his hat-trick for his league-tying 12th goal of the season. Again, flaunting a bit of skill and dribbling moves before slotting the ball opposite of Valley to end the game at 4-0.
This was a win the Cougars could've used as the Canada West playoff picture is going to be an all-out war, something MRU bench boss Ryan Gyaki recognizes.
He comments, "Today you win, you may be second or be in last place which is a real possibility so it's a very exciting league this year."


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The 100 Season 7 Episode 12 Overview
One of many greatest strengths of this episode is the selection of scene companions. Madi and Luca from Sanctum, Jordan and Hope, Clarke and Octavia. We've by no means actually seen Madi unpack the assorted traumas of her life, simply Clarke worrying on her behalf. It's good for her to have friends she will relate to as equals relatively than adults she's making an attempt to persuade to not fear about her or to suppose she's an invincible warrior. Jordan and Hope's bonding was such a real scene and very well executed by the actors. I'm glad the writers and actors performed it good and simple with a lightweight contact – Jordan was such a good selection to let Hope course of every part she's been via, most of which was alone, like him. And whereas we as an viewers have been considering all of it season, it was actually beautiful to listen to O and Clarke bonding over their adopted daughters. There's typically been one thing of a respectful distance between these two, however in any case this time it's exhausting to think about they wouldn't be shut.
This episode stumbles, although, on the identical problem because the earlier one: Bellamy Blake betraying his buddies is a troublesome promote. There are a number of concessions, with him testing Cadogan (a person he is aware of to be a egocentric fraud), negotiating a deal to save lots of his buddies, and telling them to maintain their voices down in the identical tone of voice he'd use when enjoying safety guard at Mount Climate. However in the end, this doesn't really feel like Echo enjoying alongside to get alongside – he volunteered info dangerous to his buddies, earlier than making an attempt to speak to them alone. It's exhausting to think about a write-around that undoes that, and after his dialog with Echo, it doesn't look like one is coming, as a result of Bellamy's a believer.
I can see how no extra battle or killing could be genuinely interesting to Bellamy Blake, a person who has misplaced far too many individuals he loves and is canine uninterested in all of the demise. He misplaced Abby and Kane, his mentor and father determine stand-in, shortly earlier than this, although I want there have been reminders of that within the textual content of the present. The 100 tried their damnedest to promote us on Bellamy's transformation to true consider final week, and a few of it labored, however it's nonetheless a bit an excessive amount of to swallow. Endangering his buddies when he may have simply saved his mouth shut is a bridge too far for this character.
The episode ends with one thing we desperately want: many of the essential gamers are lastly on the identical planet! Properly, as Echo famous, fairly a number of of the soldiers are all caught someplace else, both Sky Ring or someplace simpler to depart with a much less obnoxious time dilation. However nonetheless, it's a reduction to have most of them in the identical place, and I personally can not wait to look at Invoice "I'm trying to find a battle for no purpose" Cadogan moist his fluffy white house pajamas when he meets Sheidheda
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Style: Which Playing Style Wins At $1/$2?
A couple of years ago in the small hours of a Wednesday morning I found myself playing a rare $1/$2 session at the Venetian. I didn't recognize anyone at the table, but not knowing the regulars in this room I wasn't sure of the tourist-local balance. Since the game seemed pleasantly non-threatening I settled in.
Half an hour later I saw a fast-moving, glittering thing gliding towards the table. Once the thing had moved within my sphere of useful vision it revealed itself to be a young woman. She wore an over-sized ironic trucker's hat with "LA" emblazoned on it in rhinestones, and carried a voluminous bag covered in dazzling sequins. She dived into the bag as she dropped into her seat, flicked three hundreds and a purple Grazie card at the dealer, and sighed heavily. I immediately dubbed her The bLAg Lady, even though I wasn't sure where the capital letters belonged.
The nature of the game changed immediately. The limpy-cally make-a-hand routine was grabbed by the scruff of the neck by The bLAg Lady as she fired out raises, three-bets, and post-flop barrels. I felt like I should trade in my cowboy hat for an orange construction helmet. A combination of my starting hands and the fact I was going to bed in a couple of hours encouraged me to adopt the role of an interested spectator as The bLAg Lady ran the show.
Another heavy sigh and three more hundreds pulled from her eye-searing bag were the first sign things were not going well for The bLAg Lady. Based on the hands she had shown down I estimated she was opening about 30% from up front, pretty much anything on the button, and was auto-betting flops. She was also blazing away on the last two streets extremely light. This strategy was typically getting impaled on the top pairs of two gentlemen in the four and five seats who had been quietly chatting as they drank Stella Artois. I assumed they knew each other, but by their raised eyebrows had never run into a Los Angeles LAG in overdrive mode.
It turns out the second assumption may have been wrong. As the four-seat dragged in another pot with top pair, third kicker, The bLAg Lady turned an interesting shade of pink that clashed horribly with the sequins on her bag. Another three hundreds fluttered towards the dealer as she directed a gimlet glare that switched frenetically between the four- and five-seats. "When did Vegas players quit folding?" she spat irritably.
Doyle's discussion of NLHE in both Super System I and II requires a little decoding (or recoding?) into the language of 2018 poker training sites, but I think it is fair to say that his approach is essentially a loose-aggressive one. This is an interesting curiosity in itself since most NLHE books in the period from around 2005 to 2015 advocate (or, more accurately, claim to advocate) a tight-aggressive style.
For example, in the 2006 book "No Limit Hold 'Em, Theory and Practice," by Sklansky and Miller, the pre-flop recommendations are certainly tight, although one can debate whether they are genuinely aggressive given the recommendations for limping. Nearly a decade later, Ed Miller's "The Course" (2015) espouses an aggressive strategy across all streets. As I discussed in "Opening Ranges and Seduction," I don't regard Ed's pre-flop ranges as particularly tight, but his overall $1/$2 strategy will have you playing much tighter and more aggressively than others in this player pool.
Digging through forum threads and recent video content here at RCP, I think it's easy to get the impression that there is a modern consensus that a loose-aggressive style will make you the most money when playing NLHE. And with sufficient caveats I might even agree. That, however, is not the point that I want to examine in this article. Instead, I'd like to suggest that attempting to play a certain "style" of poker may have unpleasant consequences.
Unfortunately for The bLAg Lady, she was trying to blast people off capped ranges while they were happily drinking Stella and clinging on to see if their top pair was any good at showdown. She may well generate an excellent hourly with this soft ultra-LAG style in some games, but at the table where I met her she might as well have been setting fire to her fluttering hundred dollar bills.
In an attempt to avoid the impression that I sit in my cave rubbing my hands together, gleefully identifying and writing about failures of LAG play, let me offer a completely different case of where sticking to a certain style can be a costly mistake.
So you're sitting there on the button, heads-up in position against the pre-flop raiser and they fire the flop. You determine that your specific holding is in the top 70% of your range and call. The situation on the turn is the same. On the river your opponent shoves their last $150 into you and the knowledge you have acquired from Poker's 1% again dictates that you call.
It's quite possible that you just played this hand perfectly. But if your opponent is a nitty Vegas $1/2 grinder and you called the end with second pair, your river call is pretty horrible. Why? Because nitty Vegas grinders are never firing three barrels here with a hand you beat.
If you are a regular reader of the material here at RCP it is likely that you are trying to get better at poker. Whenever we attempt to improve our skills at anything, it is natural to seek magic bullets and "super systems" that give us sure-fire, straight-forward means to reach our goals. But most areas of intellectual creativity worth studying are simply not like that. In fact I would suggest that adopting and rigidly sticking to any specific poker style is antithetical to the nature of the game.
The great poker players are adaptable, with a fluid range of styles from which they choose the most effective for any given situation. When such players are zoned in and stay one step ahead of the table, the results can be beautifully devastating.


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Major League Additions
Sen. Clinton's re-election campaign has recently added two new prominent staffers, Judith Litchman and Maureen White.
Both backgrounds of both women seem ideally suited for a national campaign. Litchman most recently was with the National Partnership for Women and Families, where she advocated for "women and family legislation," including by lobbying President Clinton and Sen. Clinton.
She was also president of the Women's Legal Defense Fund, where she worked for the passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination act of 1978 and the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988. Clinton Communications Director Ann Lewis calls Litchman "the architect of the Family and Medical Leave Act, which has been relied on by more than 50 million women and men since it was enacted in 1993."
However, in a 2003 story co-authored by Litchman, she wrote that the FMLA doesn't go far enough, and wants the federal government to force employers to give their employees paid leave.
Hillary's campaign will also be joined by Maureen White, who served for five years as the Democratic National Committee's finance chair, where she worked under Terry McAuliffe and Howard Dean. While there, White helped in increase the number of donors contributing to the Democratic Party from 400,000 in 2000 to nearly 2 million today. White is married to New York investment banker Steven Rattner, who has given Hillary over $11,000 in campaign contributions over the last few years.
Bright Economic Future Calls for Extending Tax Cuts
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The Art of Money
Director Mike Nichols on reviving 'Death of a Salesman'
Kai Ryssdal Apr 11, 2012
https://www.marketplace.org/2012/04/11/director-mike-nichols-reviving-death-salesman/
Kai Ryssdal: "Death of a Salesman," with Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, is back on Broadway this year. It's perhaps the iconic American play about a man's work and the disconnect between his dreams and his ability to achieve them.
Today, in our series The Art of Money, what artists and others see when they look at the economy, is Mike Nichols. He's directing the revival. I asked him why, what the play means to him.
Mike Nichols: In a weird way, I think I could say I often think about "Death of a Salesman" because it's central to my life. When I was 14, I found myself reading every word ever written by Eugene O'Neill, something I couldn't do now for millions of dollars if you put them up. I didn't know why I did it, but I liked it.
The next thing that happened was that I had a girlfriend whose mother would give us theater tickets — but I mean fancy. We were at the second night of "Streetcar Named Desire" with Brando and Tandy and the rest. And then oddly, a year later, I mean it was on Broadway a year later, we saw "Death of a Salesman." Those two plays — "Streetcar" and "Salesman" — stayed with me in that I would refer to them as time and life went on. And more and more to "Salesman" and less and less to "Streetcar," because "Streetcar," after some time, no longer seemed to be about now at all. There are no Blanches anymore, but there are Willys.
Ryssdal: That salesman, yes. So it was central to your life. Can we say it's central to these times as well?
Nichols: It seems to be. I think that's exactly right. I think in a strange way, it's truer of now the way Orwellian thought is truer now. You know, de Tocqueville saw ahead — he predicted this in 1840, for Christ's sake. That sentence of his, that if American democracy continues in the way in which it's going, it'll become eventually pure market forces — I think of that every week. We are pure market forces. It's happened. And of course, that's what "Salesman" is about. We're all salesmen now.
Ryssdal: It's hard to think of "Death of a Salesman" today, in this economy and this world that we have, and not think of a lot of what drives Willy Loman, right? Which is envy and wanting to be better and wanting to move up, and then think about the 99 percent and Occupy Wall Street, and how all that just kind of resonates with what's happening on stage at the Ethel Barrymore every night.
Nichols: Yeah, you do think about it. There's no way not to think about it. It's almost like Willy invented it, because all around him, people are mystified by him. Charlie.
Ryssdal: Charlie the neighbor, of course, right?
Nichols: Charlie does real work and as he says in parodying himself, he says, 'My only virtue is that I never cared about anything.' Which is a way of shutting Willy up for accusing him of not caring about this or that. Of course the whole point is that Charlie does care and he teaches his kid that business is business, but also to think of others — something that Willy's not able to afford doing.
Ryssdal: So I was reading a piece about Phil Hoffman, in which he said, you know, this isn't the kind of role you wake up wanting to do every day.
Nichols: It's hardly.
Ryssdal: Yeah, it's almost debilitating, right? By the end of the night. I bet when he comes off stage, he's just, he's done.
Nichols: When he and I argued about how long he would be able to play it, I said — and it was also about being with his kids, as a lot of our decisions are — and I said, hey you'll be with them every day except Wednesdays and Saturdays until 1. And he said, you know that I'll start working, I'll be in the play from the moment I wake up. And I said, yes, I do know that. But you pay a high price. It's a searing part. There's no cheating.
Ryssdal: This is probably an unfair question.
Nichols: I like those.
Ryssdal: Seeing as how you know it by heart, do you have a favorite part of this play?
Nichols: Well I have a favorite line.
Ryssdal: Oh OK, I'll take that.
Nichols: 'How could they whip cheese?' Because I often think things like that. You know, 'What's happening?' Part of knowing about "Death of a Salesman" is knowing that Miller originally conceived it to be happening in Willy's skull — that was what he said. You could say that Miller was the first writer, or certainly playwright, to recognize that we're in two or three places at the same time, almost all the time, in our minds, and that it is always going on. When you can't remember whether you took your pill or not, it's because you were in the movie in your head. It's no economy's fault, because we're doing a lot of things at the same time. But the recognition of that and that the more disturbed, the more you live in very different times — Miller is the first to make it manifest. And this was conscious on Arthur's part that the movie playing in Willy's head is easily as present and as real as the little thin life that he's leading before us.
Ryssdal: Mike Nichols. He directs "Death of a Salesman" with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, it's on Broadway right now. Mr. Nichols, thanks a lot.
Nichols: Thank you.
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Alexandra Redlich was a Corporal in the Royal Australian Air Force. She completed her training in September 2009 and was first deployed in 2010 on Operation Pakistan Assist II. She was discharged and became a reservist in 2016. Alex has been diagnosed with PTSD, depression and anxiety.
For Alex, the first sign that something wasn't quite right came when she returned. Coming back to Australia, she realised that she was experiencing feelings of intense anger.
"When I came back to Australia, I found that I was very angry," she says. She found some aspects of 'everyday' life back home triggered intense emotions. For example, she recalls that going to Woolworths and being in a crowd would suddenly bring up intensely negative feelings.
"I was very young at that stage," she says. "I guess we received this beautiful stigma that if we did get help, we wouldn't go on exercises. We wouldn't deploy again. So, you just sort of kept your mouth shut. And drank. And talked a lot with your friends," she says.
"The lid started to come off the box after I got back from Operation Slipper in 2013," she says. Doing clinics that hopped into Afghanistan brought back intense memories from Pakistan, which then triggered many social anxieties.
She experienced further feelings of anger and anxiety. Eventually, she attempted suicide.
Alex had initially been diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Recently, she was also diagnosed with PTSD. Things improved when she sought clinical treatment and after opening up and talking about it, she was genuinely surprised by the level of support and understanding.
Alex continues to undergo treatment. She is in a better place now and attributes much of it to the fact that she was able to open up, talk about it, and get help.
"There's nothing wrong with asking for help. There are people out there that want to support you and want to help you," she says. "There is so much information out there, and so much research. Go ask, and people will help you and they'll lead you, and start to guide you back to the light.


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Greatest Stars of the 21st Century
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I made a comment on the My1-2-3 Cents Facebook page during Raw that I don't think was interpreted the way I meant it. So I'm going to try and clarify it here. The comment was based around the commercial for WWE's new DVD "Greatest Stars of the 21st Century." I will admit I have not seen the DVD. I was going to wait until I saw it to write this, but it's not a DVD I'm going to go out of my way to see so by the time I would have seen this topic would be past it's freshness date.
The comment I made was, "Should Stone Cold be featured on the DVD since his in-ring career was mostly over by 2002?" In no way need I mean to imply Stone Cold wasn't worthy of being considered in the Greatest Stars category. My query was does a two-year active wrestling stint qualify him for inclusion as greatest for an entire decade. Would Austin be considered a Greatest Stars of the 80s even though he only wrestled in 1989? I agree with his inclusion on the Greatest Stars of the 1990's. Since he was a semi-major player in WCW in the early '90s and then the run at the top of WWF in the late '90s. Steve Austin is truly a star of that decade.
However, even with his run at the top during 2000-2001, I don't feel he should be included on the new DVD. Again, not taking anything away from Austin's accomplishments.
My dislike for Austin being on the DVD may also be rooted in a problem with how WWE treats wrestlers who made a name for themselves in the post-attitude years. As I wrote in a past article, WWE has the tendency to make current stars look inferior whenever a former star is around. True the current stars may not be as big of a draw as the former stars and they never will be if they're treated on-air as second rate.
Austin in 2007
I looked over the chapter listing for the DVD and it does seem to include several guys who rose to main event status during the first decade of the 21st century. I simply think Steve Austin (and the Rock as well) shouldn't be on the DVD as they were already stars and their time inside the ring was limited. That's all I meant with the comment. Not saying Austin wasn't a part of the decade. But showing up randomly and stunnering guys who were trying to get over with the crowd, doesn't make him a "greatest star" in my eyes. Actually that made me dread every time he showed up. But that's another rant.
I hope this has cleared up any confusion my comment made. Again, not downplaying the significance of Steve Austin's career, just limiting the focal point of said career.
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Martin Endersby July 26, 2011 at 3:39 PM
If Chris Benoit is nowhere to be seen on this DVD then its a farce as he was clearly one of the key players in the WWF/E in the first half of the decade.
Seperate the man from the in-ring persona and admit that he was a star.
Glad to see Lesnar and Angle on the cover of the DVD, had a feeling they might be overlooked too for various reasons.
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Unnatural Gimmicks
Layin' the Smurf Down!
Saying the "B" Word
#1, Really? Really?
Getting (Myself) Over
CM Punk is the Fonz Because He Jumped the Shark
Ca$hing In...
Fantasy Friday: Brody vs. Undertaker
Have You Seen This Bro?
A New Era or SSDD?
Trips in Charge
Two Lost Legends
Insufficient Funds: MITB Opinions
You're So Money
Are You Serious, Bro?!?
Take the Title & Run
Punk Wants Wrestling
Are You Joking?
Superstar or Just "That Guy"
Push Me, Please...
Fantasy Friday: Bulldogs vs. Road Warriors
Sisters of Destruction
Wrestling is on a Collision Course...
Every Road Has Potholes
Cena Fired...Again?!?
The Slam Heard 'Round the World
Wasting Wade
Constant Title Defenses Dilute the Title
Non Title, Not Necessary
Fantasy Friday: Michaels vs. Steamboat
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Background: Prior research focused on the impact of being in a partnership on quality of life from a cross-sectional perspective; the impact of partnership histories has not yet been investigated.
Objective: Based on the life-course paradigm and the theory of cumulative (dis)advantages, we address this research gap.
Methods: Using pairfam data, we analyse the influence of partnership histories between ages 14 and 41 on depressiveness, overall life satisfaction, and partnership expectations. We demonstrate the additional value of using life-course clusters over simple sequence characteristics by showing that more detailed and accurate conclusions can be drawn.
Results: Results highlight that both men and women benefited from being in a stable cohabitational union. Gender differences were found among those who were negatively affected by not establishing a stable cohabitational union. Among men, long-term singles were significantly more depressed, less satisfied, and had more negative partnership expectations than their cohort peers. Among women, those with a history of unstable relationships were less satisfied and had more negative partnership expectations.
Conclusions: In line with the theory of cumulative (dis)advantages, the benefits of stable cohabitations were shown to accumulate over time for both genders. The differences found between men and women are convincing in light of research on unequal gender roles within partnerships.
Contribution: We add to prior research by demonstrating the value of conducting a gender-sensitive longitudinal analysis of the impacts of partnership trajectories on quality of life.
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Elih Villanueva tossed a no hitter in the Brothers Baseball Club's 1-0 win over last year's champions, the La Miga Monkeys. He struck out ten, walked one and hit a batter. It is the ninth no hitter in CPBL history, none of them perfect games.
It was the second no hitter for the Brothers this year. Back in June Nick Addition threw a no hitter against the President Lions despite walking six hitters. The Brothers supported Addition with 11 runs. Catcher Huang Chen-Sheng caught both games to become the first catcher in CPBL history to catch two no hitters.
The Brothers scored their only run in the first inning off Zeke Spruil when he walked Chou Su-Chi with the bases loaded. It was the first CPBL loss for Spruil.
July 19, 1991 - Yang Jie-Ren for the Wei Chuan Dragon over the Tigers.
May 8, 1997 - Mark Kiefer for the Sinon Bulls over the Tigers.
June 9 2018 - Nick Addition for the Chinatrust Brothers over the Monkeys.
None of the no hitters has been a perfect game. The above no hitter information courtesy of CPBLstats.com.
It was a tale of two franchises going in different directions. The Orioles lost a franchise record 115 games. Even the hapless St. Louis Browns could not lose that many games, but they only played a 154 game season. The Astros won 103 games to finish with the most wins in their franchise history. They treated this game like an exhibition game, starting their stars (except Carlos Correa) but taking them out early. The Astros came out swinging, which cut the game time to two hours and 20 minutes. Three different Oriole pitchers limited the Astros to just one hit in their 4-0 win, scoring all four runs in the fourth inning.
Jimmy Yacabonis got the start for the Orioles, facing a bunch of Astro hitters anxious to get back home to prepare for the playoffs. Four of the first six hitters swung at the first pitch thrown by Yacabonis. The Astros got their first and only hit off him in the fourth inning, a line drive single by Jose Altuve into centerfield. Yacabonis hit two batters and walked one hitter in the third and fourth inning and was taken out after four. The Oriole relief corp of Paul Fry (three innings) and Mychal Givens pitched a perfect five innings of relief afterward.
The Astros started Charlie Morton, working him for three innings. He struck out four to pass the 200 mark for the season, the first time he has accomplished that feat in his career. He gave up one hit and walked one, both in the second inning.
The pitcher who gave up all the runs was Brad Peacock, who could retire only one of the six hitters he faced. Jonathan Villar, Tim Beckham and Renato Nunez rocketed doubles off him. Villar got such a big jump from second that he could have walked into third after the ball reached the catcher. Chris Devenski was able to contain the damage to four runs, retiring the last two hitters and stranding D.J. Stewart on third.
Game Notes: As they have been doing all weekend the Oriole fans gave Adam Jones a standing ovation with each at bat. In the top of the ninth Jones went out to play right field but after Mychal Givens threw his warm up pitches Joey Rickard came out to replace him, giving the fans another opportunity to give him a standing ovation. At the start of the game Jones ran out to his spot for the National Anthem and no teammates followed him. The crowd again gave him a standing ovation. All the standing O's seemed a bit too much, but Jones was a franchise changer, responsible for putting the O's back in the playoffs when no one thought they had a chance…Jones got to start the game in centerfield but then moved to right field in the second inning. Jones finished the day 0 for 4…Jose Altuve fell short of 200 hits, the last time that happened was in 2013. A long stint on the disabled list prevented him from reaching that goal for a fifth consecutive season…The 200 strikeouts by Morton put him with Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole as three Astro starting pitchers with 200 or more strikeouts. The last time that happened was in 1969 when Larry Dierker, Don Wilson and Tom Griffin accomplished that feat.
Below are the Baseball American Classification picks for the A.L. West.
Kyle Tucker OF (AAA) - Not a lot of success in the major leagues (.138) for the 2015 first round pick. He tore it up in AAA with a .332 average and 24 homeruns. Next year he should be the Astros starting left fielder. He can hit for average and power. His speed is not great which makes a corner outfield spot an ideal fit for him.
Ryan Hartman LHSP (AA) - The late round (9th) 2016 pick had a solid AA season (11-4, 2.69) that leaves him on the edge of the major league roster. His strikeout numbers were excellent with two career high 11 whiff games.
Alex McKenna OF (SS) - The fourth round 2018 pick does not have spectacular tools. He did hit for a .534 slugging average in the New York Penn League with five homeruns. His hits are more geared for splitting the gaps than going over the fence. That makes sticking in center crucial, but he lacks burner speed to play there. More likely a fourth outfielder type.
Gilberto Celestino OF (SS) - The Dominican shows some good speed to play centerfield. His bat lacks power now but once he matures he could find more juice. A double digit stolen base guy that needs to work on his OBA.
Taylor Ward 3B (AAA) - The 2015 first round pick moved from catcher to third base. This seemed to awaken his bat hitting .349 with 14 homeruns between AA and AAA. A 100 plus major league callup turned into a challenge with a .169 average. Too many swings and misses at the major league level (43 K's in 124 at bats), but he can still get a hold of one.
Jesus Luzardo SP (AA) - Tommy John surgery and the Nationals hope to keep a run for the playoffs enticed them to trade Luzardo with Blake Trienen for Sean Doolittle and Ryan Madson. The trade helped the Nationals last year but really benefited the Athletics this year and in the future. Luzardo was in consideration for player of the year after his 10-5, 2.88 ERA run through three levels. For a lefthander to hit mid-90s with his fastball is gold and he has a plus changeup to make that fastball look even better.
Dan Vogelbach 1B (AAA) - Power is his big game. Defense is not part of the equation for him. That power has not really showed in the major leagues. He did hit 20 homeruns in AAA with a .545 slugging. Given an opportunity to hit major league pitching that slugging dropped to .388.
Cal Raleigh DH (SS) - The 2018 third round pick has the ability to hit for pop, showing it with eight homeruns and a .534 slugging percentage in short season. His work behind the plate is a little suspect and may result in a move to first base.
Julio Rodriguez OF (Dominican) - The Mariners shelled out $1.75 million to sign him in 2017. In the Dominican league he showed that price was worth it, popping five homeruns with a .525 slugging. His lack of speed limits him to a corner outfield, though he has enough arm to play right field. Despite his lack of speed he did leg out nine triples and stole ten bases.
Jonathan Hernandez SP (High A) -Signed out of the Dominican in 2013, it has been a long ride in the minor leagues for Hernandez. He struggled in AA (4.92 ERA) after dominating in High A. His fastball hits the mid-90s and hitters have difficulty elevating it. At 22 he is still young enough to develop further and fit as a mid or back rotation starter.
Tyler Phillips SP (Low A) - At 6′5″ the late round (16th) 2015 pick has a good pitcher's frame. His fastball sits in the low 90s and gets lots of ground ball outs. If he can increase the velocity a couple notches he could fit into the middle of the rotation. His secondary pitches (curve and change) lack consistency. Once he hammers in all the nails in his tool box he could be good to go.
Curtis Terry 1B (SS) - The 13th round 2015 pick found his bat repeating the Northwest League. His 15 homeruns and .337 average shows a good bat but at 21 and hitting right handed he could end up a career minor leaguer.
Diosbel Arias 3B (SS) - Hit .366 in short season but at 22 he was old for the league. The Cuban does show gap power but still needs to find a position. Expect him to start the 2019 season in full season ball and settle in at third base.
Hans Crouse SP (SS) - The second round 2017 pick has a mid-90s fastball and excellent slider that get lots of swings and misses. Opponents only hit .179 against him in short season ball, but he found the hitters a little more difficult when promoted to full season (.273). Needs to find his change to stay in the rotation.
Randy Florentino C (Dominican) - He showed a good bat against Dominican pitchers (.309 average) walking more than whiffing (53 to 51). His big test is coming stateside to see how he communicates to pitchers and makes contact against better pitching.
Osleivis Basabe SS (Dominican) - His bat rocked in the DSL (.344) with gap power.
Ronny Henriquez SP (Dominican) - At 5′10″ is height is not ideal for a righthander but he did whiff 79 in 58 innings and limited hitters to a .177 average. He was 5-0 in 11 starts with a 1.55 ERA.
The World Baseball and Softball Confederation has come out with their rankings of the top world baseball teams. The rankings go 73 deep but below is the top thirteen. The Top 12 teams are invited to the Premier 12, which is an Olympic Qualifier event.
Japan picked up 146 points on the United States to close the gap on first place. Taiwan earned the most points in 2018. Latvia and the British Virgin Islands sit at the bottom of the rankings with one point each.
The playoff opportunities in the Nippon Professional Baseball League have all but been decided for five of the six teams. In the Pacific League the top spot appears to be the Seibu Lions. One of the benefits of taking first place is the bye in the first round, the automatic win prior to the playoffs starting and every playoff game in the conference is at your park. It is rare for a first place team not to advance to the Japan Series. The two wild card teams are the defending champion Softbank Hawks and the Nippon Ham Fighters. Last year with Shohei Otani on the team the Fighters did not make the playoffs. In 2016 they were Japan Series champions.
In the Central League the Hiroshima Carp have sewn up the conference for the third year in a row. Last year they lost to the wild card Yokohama Bay Stars in the Central League championship, a rarity in the NPB. They have not won a championship since 1984, the longest drought in the NBP. The Yakult Swallows appear to have the first wild card in hand. For them it will be their first playoff appearance since 2012.
The last playoff spot appears to be a battle between the Yokohama DENA Baystars and the Yomiuri Giants. Last year the Giants did not make the playoffs. You have to go back to 2006 to find a time when the Giants went two consecutive seasons without making the playoffs. The Baystars have had back to back season when they have qualified for the playoffs as the wild card team. Last year they won the Central League championship but were beaten by the Hawks in the Japan Series. On the outside looking in with still a hope is the Hanshin Tigers, but the games are getting scarce and they are more than two games out with 12 to play.
The Italian national team will train in Arizona from September 29 to October 13. During that time they will play games against players from the major league instructional teams. Recognizable names from the Italian national team include ex-major league Chris Colabello, minor league and NPB pitcher Allesandro Maestri and minor league catcher Alberto Mineo.
Shumpei Yoshikawa did not register for the NPB draft in Japan last year, expressing an interest to play major league baseball. No Japanese team drafted him. He pitched in the industrial leagues and the Diamondbacks saw enough of him to pay a $650,000 bonus to sign him. He will report to the instructional leagues in Salt River.
Yoshikawa throws in the low 90s with a splitter and slider. At some point pitching coaches may want him to develop a change. The stuff is far from Ohtani like so don't expect an ace like pitcher. He will fit in the middle or back of the rotation, or could be used in relief. It all is dependent on how he develops his other pitches.
The Nationals do not have a lot of depth in their starting rotation at the upper levels of the minor leagues. They traded most of that depth for Adam Eaton. The Nationals chose to start Austin Voth against the Mets. In 24 starts in AAA he had an ERA of 4.87. In two starts and three appearances with the Nationals his ERA sits at 6.10. In his major league debut against the Mets back in July he gave up seven runs on nine hits in just four plus innings of work. Nats fans came into this game with their fingers crossed.
Voth started the game retiring the first two hitters. His command got a little shaky after that, throwing just one strike in his next 9 pitches to put two runners on. Against Todd Frazier he got the big whiff. After that he only allowed one more base runner in his five innings of work, an infield single to the right of Anthony Rendon, who was playing at shortstop in the right field shift against Michael Conforto.
The bullpen only allowed two base runners, both on walks, giving the Mets just one hit in their nine innings, a 6-0 loss to the Nationals in front of a large group of disappointed bussed in Mets fans.
The Nationals got all the runs they needed when Trea Turner launched a pitch from Corey Oswalt into the left field bleachers in the third inning. Victor Robles had started the inning with a line drive ground rule double that one hopped over the wall down the left field line. It would be the only runs Oswalt allowed in his five innings of work. Like Voth the Mets expect Oswalt to provide them with starting depth next year.
Jeremy Blevins came on to pitch the sixth. Anthony Rendon ripped a double into the left centerfield gap. With two outs and Rendon standing on third the Mets chose to walk Ryan Zimmerman intentionally to face the disappointing Matt Wieters, who is hitting below the Mendoza line while batting righthanded. In his last at bat hitting lefthanded Wieters drove a pitch to the right field wall. This time Wieters crushed a pitch into the left field bullpen. That gave the Nationals a 5-0 lead.
They added their last run in the seventh after Trea Turner walked. He stole second, his 41st of the season and his 122nd career stolen base with the Nationals, tying him with Ian Desmond for most career stolen bases by a National. Bryce Harper then drove a hard grounder down the first base line for a double to put the score at 6-0.
Game Notes: The Nationals have a lot of needs for 2019. The general feeling is they won't be able to address those needs economically if they sign Harper to a large contract. The bullpen needs to be rebuilt, unless they want to rely on youngsters Jimmy Cordero, Austen Williams and Koda Glover. Two starting pitchers may have to be signed. And a catcher needs to be found. If Harper leaves it would also be nice to get a veteran outfielders in case Robles continues to struggle…Jimmy Cordero has been hitting three digits with his fastball. His big issue is command of his pitches. In 15 innings he has walked 10 hitters, two of those intentionally…The Nationals were officially eliminated from the playoffs after Saturday play. In a year they were supposed to walk away with the division they finished third…The walk to Bryce Harper in the first innings was his 125th of the year. That is a Nationals franchise record…The win put the Nats one game over .500. Even though they are out of the pennant race it would be nice if they could finish over .500. They will not finish over .500 against the Mets, coming into the last game of the series against them 8-10.
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Petko Karavelov, född 5 april 1843 i Koprivsjtitsa, död 7 februari 1903 i Sofia, var en bulgarisk politiker och flera gånger premiärminister. Han var bror till författaren Ljuben Karavelov.

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Petko Karavelov studerade i Ryssland, arbetade i förvaltningen under den ryska ockupationen av Bulgarien, var vicepresident i den konstituerande notabelförsamlingen i Tărnovo 1879 och intog sedan en framskjuten ställning i sitt lands politiska liv som ledare för ett "radikalt" parti. I Tsankovs ministär 1880 var han finansminister, och mot slutet av samma år bildade han själv regering.

Efter att hans regering störtats genom furst Alexanders statskupp 1881 begav sig Karavelov till Östrumelien, där han blev gymnasielärare och sedan borgmästare i Plovdiv, men efter att författningen återställts 1883 återvände han till Bulgarien. Han blev president i sobranjen 1884 och efter Tsankovs fall i juli samma år åter regeringschef. Denna post innehade han när Östrumelien förenades med Bulgarien 1885, vilket han ivrigt verkade för, under det serbiska kriget samma år samt ända till kuppen mot furst Alexander i augusti 1886. Hans förhållande till sammansvärjningen mot denne var tämligen tvetydigt; efter den revolutionära regeringens snara tillbakaträdande återtog han emellertid ärendenas ledning, men utan att vilja återkalla fursten, och överflyglades därför också av Stambolov.

Vid sin abdikation i september samma år utsåg furst Alexander honom tillsammans med Stambolov och Sava Mutkurov till medlem av det provisoriska regentskapet, men hans oklara hållning gentemot ryssarna föranledde hans avgång i november. Under den fortsatta kampen med Ryssland betraktades Karavelov med mycken misstänksamhet och behandlades av Stambolov med stor hårdhet; efter upprorsförsöket i februari-mars 1887 häktades han för någon tid, och efter mordet på Christo Beltjev 1891 dömdes han till fem års fängelse. Han frigavs först någon tid efter Stambolovs fall (i december 1894), varefter han åter trädde i spetsen för "karavelisternas" parti; i mars 1901 blev han än en gång premiärminister, men stupade redan i januari 1902 på de finansiella svårigheterna.

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Home > Places to visit in Northern Israel > Tour to the Golan Heights
The Golan Heights is a green and rocky basaltic plateau east of the Sea of Galilee, at the far northern end of Israel. Its unique and spectacular landscapes, historical sites and former battlefields, and various outdoor activities make it one of the most exciting regions to explore in Israel.
History of the Golan Heights
The Golan Heights were formed nearly a million years ago by volcanic eruptions. Its fertile soil attracted humans even in prehistoric times, whose many dolmens are spread across the region to this day. In the first century, Paul passed through the Golan Heights on his way to Damascus, an event that would change the history of Christianity, and to a great extent the whole world. The Golan Height flourished in the Roman and Byzantine periods, settled by Pagans, Christians, and Jews. Over 30 Byzantine-era synagogues found in the Golan Heights attest to the intense Jewish presence in the region in late antiquity. In 1967, following 19 years of Syrian repeated shelling of Israel, the IDF got a hold of most of the region. In 1973 the Syrians attempted to reclaim the region by an intense military surprise attack, but it failed. Israel controls most of the Golan Heights to this day.
Touring the Golan Heights
Since Israel's hold of this region, it witnessed unprecedented development, including in tourism. The region is rich in archaeological sites and some modern battlefields, as well as adventurous hikes, and even a ski resort. Furthermore, its agricultural produce, and especially its cattle farms and vineyards, provide perfect and excellent dinning combinations of meat and wine.
Below are the some of the best tour attractions in the Golan Heights:
Mount Bental – A MUST for anyone touring the region. The former volcano now marks the 1974 ceasefire line with Syria. Its summit offers some truly stunning panoramas of the Golan Heights and the plains of Syria, and a unique opportunity to walk in trenches of an unmanned Israeli bunker. Kibbutz Merom Golan, established in the volcano's caldera, operates a popular hotel and a good steak house (Habokrim). It also offers a horse ride around the caldera, and a fun and exciting ATV buggy tour next to the Syrian Border.
Off-Road Tour in the Golan Heights – A great way to explore the Golan Heights, off the beaten-track, is with a local expert. Driving through nature reserves and former battle fields, getting detailed explanations, and having lunch in a Druze home will be one of your memorable activities in Israel.
Gamla – The camel hump shaped archaeological site towering above the Sea of Galilee was once a thriving Jewish city. However, in the 68 CE, the Roman army besieged, conquered and demolished the site, killing over 5,000 Jews. Labeled as the 'Masada of the North', the dramatic and detailed account of the conquest by first century CE Jewish historian Josephus is matched by dreadful archaeological finds made at the site. Gamla lookout is also a popular place to scout for nesting enclaves of Griffon vultures, as well as the magnificent Gamla waterfall.
Umm el-Kanatir – A site on a spur overlooking the Sea of Galilee was once a prosperous Jewish village whose economy was based on the flax industry. Its fully restored ancient synagogue is the best example of Jewish public shrines in this region from Talmudic times.
Rujm el-Hiri – A mysterious prehistorical complex in the heart of the Golan Heights, that may have been a burial site set according to astronomical order. Reminiscent of the British Stonehenge, Rujm el-Hiri is accessible only by an off-road vehicle yet is well worth the effort.
Nimrod Fortress – Towering above Caesarea-Philipi, the impregnable Nimrod fortress was built by the Muslims to protect Damascus from a potential Crusaders attack. Today, its remarkable remains are a national park, providing the best example of post Crusaders architecture in the Holy Land.
Mount Hermon – At the highest and northern most point of Israel, Mount Hermon is a very popular ski resort in the winter months among Israelis, but is well worth a visit also in the summer. Asides the great diversity of plant life, on a clear day most of northern Israel and parts of Lebanon are visible from its top. No wonder that both Jewish and Muslim tradition place here God's promise to Abraham (Genesis 15). Some also suggest that Jesus' transfiguration (Luke 9) may have happened here as well.
Katsrin – Today's main city of the Golan Heights is named after ancient Katzrin, whose remains were developed into a Talmud Themed village. The city is also home of a charming regional Archaeological Museum, but it's most attractive part is in its industrial zone. Here, tourists are invited for a wine tour at the Golan Heights Winery, buying local Olive, or some beer tasting at Bazelet Hagolan brewery. In its second floor, the Golan Heights visitor center ('Golan Magic') presents an enchanting multi-sensory presentation of the region. Children will also have thrill joining a Chocolate workshop at De Karina Chocolatier, in a kibbutz nearby. If on a Bar-Mitzvah tour, the families are also invited to participate in a making a shofar in a local workshop ("Kol Shofar").
'Valley of Tears' – The popular name given to one the most famous battle sites in the 1973 war, offers also an opportunity to climb on some of the tanks left at the site to this day. A video presentation of the battle, OZ 77 movie, is available in a nearby Kibbutz.
Sussita – The former Pagan city that prospered in Roman times, continued to thrive in Byzantine times, but declined under Muslim rule, and was finally abandoned after a devastating earthquake in 749 CE. Today, its rich remains are been uncovered by a joint Israeli-Polish-American expedition. Nearby. Jesus may have referred to the site in the Sermon on the Mount and probably performed the Miracle of the Swine nearby (Kursi).
Hikes in the Golan Heights
Among others, the Golan Heights offer popular hikes, and especially along water streams. Some can take a full day, require swimming, and even rappelling gear. These are some of the more family friendly popular hikes –
Banias Nature Reserve– A 2-3 hours hike from Caesarea-Philippi along the Banias stream, to the Banias water fall. Nature lovers will also appreciate the natural history museum at Kibbutz Dan (Beit Ussishkin). Behind the museum you can also climb on Syrian tank left where it was stopped in the 1967 war.
Nahal El-Al and Gilabun – A 3-4 hours hike in wet and fun streams of cold and fresh water in enchanting landscapes in the central Golan. Ideal for families and youth groups, especially in the summer.
Majarase – An Ideal hike for family with small children. Set along the end of the Daliot Stream, the shallow and slow flow of water through thick vegetation provides many wet and fun moments, for all ages.
Ayun Stream – A trail next to a set of waterfalls along the Ayyun stream became the first declared Nature Reserve in Israel. A local shuttle to the start point enables a comfortable and family-friendly 2 hours hike down by the streams, with some of the best vistas of Hulah valley.
Hula Lake Park – A must for all nature lovers. Part of the former Hulah swamp that was reflooded and successfully revived the local wildlife. In the spring and autumn visitors can enjoy the enchanting views of flocks of pelicans, storks, and flamingos landing for a night stop. Rental bikes and binoculars are available, as well as a guided tour in camouflaged cart driven by a tractor.
Points of Interest in the Hula Valley
Caesarea Philippi (Banias) and Tel Dan – These two big archaeological tells were once urban and strategical centers. Located at the sources of the Jordan river, both national parks are combined with a nature reserve which offer scenic hikes along the river's gushing waters. Nearby, it is also possible to Kayak on the Jordan River in the summer season. For those fond of prehistory, don't miss Mayan Baruch Prehistoric Man Museum.
Tel Hai and 1997 Israeli Helicopter Disaster Memorial – On the turn of the 20th century a small group of pioneers at Tel-Hai were outnumbered by an Arab attack. Although defeated and all killed, their heroic fight became a symbol for the Zionist movement. Today Tel-Hai is a national park that presents the dramatic battle by an exciting computer-generated virtual show. Nearly a century later, two helicopters deploying Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese border crashed in the air. Their remarkable memorial is a stark reminder of the ongoing struggle Israel to maintain its borders safe.
Tel Hazor, and Chastellet – These two significant archaeological sites in the Hulah valley were settled in different time periods, but represents the significance of the region. Hazor, the biggest of all Canaanite cities, was burned by Joshua and later conquered by the Assyrians. Chastellet was formed by the Crusaders, yet was conquered and destroyed, on the same year it was completed, by Saladin. Aside the rich archaeological finds at borth sites, from Chastellet stretches a dirt road along the most picturesque and wild part of the Jordan River, ending at Bethsaida, near the Sea of Galilee.
A tour of the Golan Heights can be combined in multi-day tour of Israel.
"The Golan Heights is where I feel truly happy and free. Bathing in local springs, eating sweet and fresh cherries, climbing on tanks, or joining a dig, unfolding my heritage.", team member, Edan Geva
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Waterproofing describes the range of services performed to fix leaky basements and crawl spaces. What we do is manage and direct the water by using a variety of techniques. While detecting and identifying the source is the first step, most homeowners are unaware of leaks and cracks until they discover water in their basement or crawl space. By this time the damage has been done but with the repairs and preventive measures that Midstate Waterproofing provides, future problems can be avoided.
Water damage is where water attacks your home by destructive processes such as rotting of wood, growth, rusting of steel, de-laminating of materials such as plywood, and the growth of mold.
We'll eliminate leaks in your foundation and keep your basement safe from damage that too much moisture can do.
We'll work with you to make sure you get the service you need, by assessing the problem and making an honest and accurate recommendation. And after the job is done, we promise to keep in touch with you to make sure it was done right.
Midstate Waterproofing specializes in many different types of water management systems. Depending on whether the water is mostly on the floor or the walls, and what type of foundation you have, our highly trained field inspector will determine the best, most economical method of keeping your basement dry for the life of your home!
Our system is guaranteed for as long as you own the home, as well as one subsequent owner! Stop worrying about the next rain storm! Give us a call today for a Free, No Obligation, In Home Estimate.
Our waterproofing systems are designed to stop water at its source and funnel it out properly. As unfortunate as it is, we are often called in a year or two after other companies finish waterproofing a basement to get the job done right.
For a no-obligation estimate & inspection in the Triad Area, or if you have any other questions/comments email us at info@midstatewaterproofing.com. We will contact you shortly. Or you can contact us via phone at 336-689-7276.


My mailbox stops get me up close and personal with some pretty leaves this time of year….
►Am playing more aggressively at my Euchre Club…it paid off since I got the top score last Monday!
►Heading out the door for the Big Rock Historical Society's BBQ Chicken/porkchop fundraiser: nice not to have to cook and I love the grilled meat, roll, applesauce, cole slaw and baked beans! Just drive thru the school's lot and bring it home.
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love the photo effects and that bbq does sound like a goody, now I shall have to go look up Euchre..
Nice photo edits! I am making my Christmas lists too!
Little things like squeaky windshield wipers can drive one crazy!
Beautiful edits! Glad you decided to share your photos on Orange you glad it's Friday. Thanks for joining and I hope to see you again next Friday. Have a great weekend.
Oh, I love that last photo! Sounds like your week has been packed with activities. The BBQ does sound fun!
Some nice pictures! Excellent autumn color in these beautiful leaves!
Very nice. I like the way you have edited these photos.
Hope that BBQ was tasty and fun.
I've started buying a few gifts already which is big for me because I usually wait till the last minute.
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