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"It's important to be aware of what's going on in the world and to think about how you can start to make a difference, even when you're a kid."
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 June) –The lead convener in the Global Campaign on Women, Peace and Security dubbed
MANILA – "We are ready to share our experiences in the hopes of inspiring similar stories of success for
All UK partners delivering humanitarian aid to the Philippines are now required to assess the risk of violence agains
In June 2013, AP R2P released a new policy brief in the third volume of its policy brief series in 2013.
Rape jokes, such as the one recently made by comedian Vice Ganda, are more than just ill-advised humor and reflect Ph
The Department of Interior and Local Government enjoined all local governments to conduct activities towards ending v
The president of Medecins Sans Frontieres pressed Papua New Guinea's new government to address its epidemic levels of
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"There will be no significant rehabilitation or reconstruction of war-torn societies without women," the
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Samar women were given recognition for their efforts to keep peace in the towns of San Jorge, Matuginao, and San Jose
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Improving women's access to jobs and economic opportunity could significantly boost worker productivity in the Philip
Women members of civil society groups clad in black shirts and holding bananas staged a protest-rally in front of the
Authorities in the Philippines are reporting a sharp uptick in the number of gender-based violence cases over the las
The government has kicked off efforts of Localizing the National Action Plan (LNAP) on Women, Peace and Security in t
Three Nepalese officials visited Kalinga to share their country's peace and security situation and its impact on wome
Members and officials of the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders - International Civil Society Action Network (GNWP
The Philippines is on track in achieving the Millennium Development Goals particularly in education, health, women an
The Commission on Human Rights in the region is set to lead a conference and workshop on March 23-24 in Marco Polo Ho
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Cases of domestic violence against women and their children saw an increase of 91% in 2010 compared to 2009 figures,
The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict and a political movement in the Philippines today agreed to
In order to improve and sustain programs for the rights and welfare of women in the province, there is a need to asse
The Philippine National Police (PNP) women's desk here has noted a dwindling number of cases of violation against wom
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A convenor of a non-governmental organization of Filipinos of mostly Muslim heritage on Monday expressed that Muslim
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Institut Charles Viollette (ICV) is a partner of the AGIR program for its expertise in enzymatic engineering and characterization.
Collaboration with the Süssmuth Group (Technical University of Berlin) for the characterization of DNB101 and the study of biosynthetic pathways
Collaboration with with Calibr, a non-profit drug discovery platform that is a division of Scripps Research, for the exploration of the anti-infectious potential of its bacterial collection.
DEINOVE is also supported by a large number of clinicians from the Georges Pompidou, Lariboisière, Cologne University, and other hospitals to advance its research.
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Medpace acts as CRO and oversees Phase II study that will test DNV3837, its most advanced antibiotic candidate, for use against Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI).
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The awards show dedicated to the worst movies has finally released its nominations for 2011. They've added a brand new category: Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D! Our prediction: The Last Airbender will clean house.
Here are the nominations:
Worst Picture
The Bounty Hunter (Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media)
The Last Airbender (Paramount/Nickelodeon Movies)
Sex and the City 2 (Warner Bros/New Line/HBO Pictures)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment)
Vampires Suck (20th Century-Fox/Regency Enterprises)
Worst Actor
Jack Black in Gulliver's Travels
Gerald Butler in The Bounty Hunter
Ashton Kutcher in Killers and Valentine's Day
Taylor Lautner in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Valentine's Day
Robert Pattinson in Remember Me and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Worst Actress
Jennifer Aniston in The Bounty Hunter and The Switch
Miley Cyrus in The Last Song
The Four "Gal Pals" (Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis & Cynthia Nixon) in Sex and the City 2
Megan Fox in Jonah Hex
Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Worst Supporting Actor
Billy Ray Cyrus in The Spy Next Door
George Lopez in Marmaduke, The Spy Next Door and Valentine's Day
Dev Patel in The Last Airbender
Jackson Rathbone in The Last Airbender and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Rob Schneider in Grown Ups
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Jessica Alba in The Killer Inside Me, Little Fockers, Machete and Valentine's Day
Cher in Burlesque
Liza Minnelli in Sex and the City 2
Nicola Peltz in The Last Airbender
Barbra Streisand in Little Fockers
Worst Screen Couple / Screen Ensemble
Jennifer Aniston and Gerald Butler in The Bounty Hunter
Josh Brolin's Face and Megan Fox's Accent in Jonah Hex
The Entire Cast of The Last Airbender
The Entire Cast of Sex and the City 2
The Entire Cast of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel
Clash of the Titans
The Last Airbender
Sex and the City 2
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Vampires Suck
Worst Director
Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer for Vampires Suck
Michael Patrick King for Sex and the City 2
M. Night Shyamalan for The Last Airbender
David Slade for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Sylvester Stallone for The Expendables
Worst Screenplay
The Last Airbender (written by M. Night Shyamalan, based on the TV series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko)
Little Fockers (written by John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey, based on characters created by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke)
Sex and the City 2 (written by Michael Patrick King, based on the TV series created by Darren Star)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer)
Vampires Suck (written by Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer)
Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Clash of the Titans
The Last Airbender
The Nutcracker in 3D
Saw 3D
For more information head over to the Razzies website. Which is also boasting a brand new youtube channel with this cute run-down of celebs accepting or talking about their Razzie noms, from Halle Berry (for Catwoman) to Sandra Bullock (All About Steve).


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Upcoming stealth action game Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be released on old and new platforms. How different will they look?
Konami released a handful of comparison images from the different versions of the game, explaining how the PS3 and PS4 versions stack up as well as the Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions.
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No, Konami did not release images that compared the PS4 and the Xbox One versions. However, Konami did reveal that the PS3 version runs at 720p (scaling internally) at 30 frames per second. The PS4, however, has a resolution of 1080p and a frame rate of 60fps.
The Xbox 360 is 720p at 30fps, while the Xbox One version is 720p at 60fps. Compare that to the PS4 version's 1080p resolution—if that kind of thing matters to you. Well, this isn't the first game to run on 720p on the Xbox One, and it probably won't be the last!
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The second-ranking official on the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness Project to predict terrorist attacks says critics of the effort have misinterpreted its goals and the nature of the technology it will use.
The second-ranking official on the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness Project to predict terrorist attacks says critics of the effort have misinterpreted its goals and the nature of the technology it will use.
The TIA project has its roots in previous Pentagon programs to build machines that think like human beings. For more than a decade, the department has studied computers that could help the military predict enemy troop movements and better wage war. TIA would build on these efforts with a system that would inspect private information about people living in the United States to try to uncover patterns of terrorist activity. The project is under attack by privacy advocates and lawmakers who say it's tantamount to domestic spying.
Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is running the TIA project, have been tight-lipped about it-in fact, they've been sued in federal court for refusing to release records. But in recent interviews with Government Executive, TIA Deputy Director Robert Popp showed how TIA would rely on the artificial intelligence work of earlier projects as well as the inspection of databases that has inflamed TIA's critics.
TIA's goal is to predict terrorist attacks before they happen. The system would scan private and public databases, as well as the Internet, for transactions that might be associated with a terrorist attack. Those transactions might be credit card purchases, airline reservations, purchases of chemicals or rental car records. TIA also would translate foreign Web pages into English to find key words and phrases that might suggest an attack.
Critics charge that TIA would search thousands of databases and collect records about mostly innocent people. They say this so-called data mining practice is of dubious scientific value because it would yield many false positive results, incorrectly fingering people as terrorists. Also, if TIA stores the data it collects, it would become a prime target for computer hackers and American adversaries.
But Popp said TIA would rely less on data mining than many opponents think. Terrorism experts, using studies of past attacks and confiscated terrorist writings, are developing a series of templates, or likely attack scenarios. Those templates would help TIA determine what databases to investigate. TIA would not cast a wide net, he said. Rather, using the templates as a guide for specific information, it might only search dozens of databases, he said.
As an example, the Sept. 11 template might look like this: Hijackers use civil aircraft to destroy an office building. TIA would use data mining to scan an "infospace," looking for, perhaps, airline ticket purchases, hotel reservations, visa applications and money transfers between bank accounts.
Popp's comments are the first of any DARPA official to counter the opposition to TIA. The project's director, John Poindexter, whose conviction for lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra investigation was later overturned, refuses to conduct interviews. Popp's response, as well as the history of the TIA project and its ancestors, shows the system is predicated on complex and controversial theories that DARPA has investigated for years. The officials who lead TIA also can be traced to the projects that gave rise to it.
Thinking Machines
In 1989, DARPA started working with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., to develop "automatic decision-making" practices to aid the military in times of crisis and planning, documents show. It was among the first in a series of DARPA projects aimed at teaching computers to think more like people, and to make analyses and decisions on their own. Doug Dyer, the project's manager, now works in the Information Awareness Office, the umbrella group for TIA and other projects Poindexter directs.
The Rome lab is a frequent contractor for DARPA research, a spokesman said, and is currently performing work on the TIA project. Officials at the lab wouldn't comment on the nature of their research. Popp was a visiting scientist at the lab several years after Dyer's project began.
In the late 1990s, DARPA's work on artificial intelligence picked up steam with a project called the High Performance Knowledge Base (HPKB). Its goal was to create technology to build databases of tens of thousands of rules and observations about a variety of subjects, and it focused on warfighting. Documents show that DARPA engineers believed that powerful data mining technologies already in use to detect credit card fraud and predict consumer purchasing behavior might be applicable to the project. An evaluation paper by Defense scientists used the phrase "knowledge is power" to describe HPKB's philosophy. That phrase became the official slogan of Poindexter's Total Information Awareness Office.
Several companies helped test the project-including software firm Alphatech, one of Popp's former employers. DARPA initiated a follow-on project to HPKB called Rapid Knowledge Formation (RKF), that tried to improve the interaction between thinking machines and the human beings that teach them.
A main component of RKF research was helping human database builders correct observations the machines made, in order to avoid errors and expand its knowledge. "Our vision is that scientific, technical and military experts would encode massive amounts of knowledge into reusable knowledge bases," Murray Burk, the RKF project manager, said at a DARPA conference in 1999. Burk, now assigned to DARPA's Information Exploitation Office, was a project manager at the Rome lab for 14 years.
Burk said RKF engineers wanted "reusable theories" that could be used "for answering a broad range of questions and solving a large number of problems." The terrorism templates TIA envisions also are reusable theories that try to answer questions about future attacks.
The RKF project is ongoing and is part of the Information Exploitation Office. However, it was housed in the Information Systems Office, which was closed in October 2001, after the Sept. 11 attacks, a DARPA spokeswoman said. Other programs in that office also looked at artificial intelligence and knowledge databases. Some of them were moved into Poindexter's group after the Sept. 11 attacks, when that division became DARPA's focal point for counterterrorism research. Some of them also are now TIA components.
TIA predates Poindexter's arrival at DARPA. At the 1999 conference where Burk described RKF, J. Brian Sharkey, then a DARPA program manager, delivered a presentation entitled "Total Information Awareness." He said the effort was not an approved program, but rather "a technology focus… and a starting point for reshaping the direction of existing programs and launching new efforts in the future."
The description of TIA's scope jibes with the goals of the other DARPA projects, according to Sharkey: "The primary question is: 'How far can we push automation through the development of intelligent search and inference agents, to take the burden of finding relevant evidence that the human can reason about?" TIA was also part of the Information Systems Office.
Sharkey also created the Genoa project, a decision-making tool to be used by the Defense Intelligence Agency. Poindexter says he has worked closely with the project for the past seven years. Genoa II, its heir, is now part of TIA. Prior to working on Genoa, Sharkey was a manager at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, a pioneering network technology firm. Popp was also a senior scientist at the firm overseeing DARPA projects and research.
DARPA rotates its projects on a regular basis, and reorganizes its different offices often. But many of the same companies and entities work on several agency projects. DARPA critics point to these connections and label the agency "an old boy's network." However, there are few scientists in the country with the expertise these projects require. Many of them have worked for DARPA. Much of that work now finds a home in TIA.
Beer and Diapers
Most of the scientific skepticism about TIA concerns data mining. The term is ill-defined, but is well illustrated by an often-cited case.
A number of convenience store clerks, the story goes, noticed that men often bought beer at the same time they bought diapers. The store mined its receipts and proved the clerks' observations correct. So, the store began stocking diapers next to the beer coolers, and sales skyrocketed.
The story is a myth, but it shows how data mining seeks to understand the relationship between different actions. It's used to detect credit card fraud by looking for anomalies, transactions that don't match a customer's usual habits.
TIA critics say data mining is an imperfect science, and that the more transactions that are scanned, the higher the probability there will be false positives.
Popp said the notion that false positives would impair TIA is a "red herring."
"We're not trying to define a norm and then find anomalous behaviors or outliers to that norm" as in fraud detection, Popp said. "Our approach in TIA is to not rely on data mining to look for anomalous patterns."
Instead, the attack templates narrow down the data to be mined. TIA would search a "sweet spot" of maybe a few dozen databases, not hundreds or thousands. Research by DARPA's terrorism experts, as well as a study being conducted by the Rand Corp., suggest this focused approach is possible, Popp said. TIA would rank its findings with designations such as possible, likely or certain terrorist activity, Popp said.
A computer scientist who specializes in data analysis, and who asked to remain anonymous, said this approach is flawed. It's important to remove human biases and use mainly data to make the templates, he said. Otherwise, the system "recognizes only those scenarios the [experts] had the creativity to come up with."
Because there is so little knowledge about how terrorists operate, TIA could only spot clusters of events that resemble what people think an attack looks like, the computer scientist said. "I am skeptical of the idea that anyone can paint a useful, predictive picture of the general class of terrorist attacks," he said.
Popp said new templates would be added as experts learn more about terrorists' tactics. "We hope to see over time…an 80/20 phenomena, where roughly 20 percent of the templates will provide 80 percent of the value," Popp said. Of course, that requires knowing what the terrorist behavior patters are.
One technologist familiar with TIA's work thinks that's impossible. When it comes to terrorism, "there is no pattern," said Chris Westphal, chief executive officer of Visual Analytics, a data mining software maker that worked with DARPA on TIA-related technologies in the late 1990s.
Westphal said data mining can spot patterns as long as the templates of behavior consist of stable variables, such as numbers. The approach works well for determining what people are at risk for certain diseases, he said.
But terrorists are dynamic human beings. Westphal's company created behavior templates to help the U.S. Customs Service catch drug smugglers at the Mexican border. The processes yielded "a ton of false positives," he said, because human behavior is hard to measure.
Westphal, who said his company trademarked the phrase "total information awareness" before DARPA appropriated it, said Visual Analytics won't work with the agency anymore because TIA has "blurred the lines" of data mining.
Seeing the Future
The TIA project is now in jeopardy. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has introduced legislation to stop funding for the program until the administration makes a full report on its scope and budget.
DARPA won't build a TIA machine, but rather will hand over its design to some other agency. Defense's inspector general has reported that TIA officials have briefed the Defense, Homeland Security and Justice departments on the project. A spokesman at the FBI said officials also met with Poindexter's group, and that the bureau is open to creating a "memorandum of understanding" about the use of TIA.
A number of computer scientists contacted for this story doubted TIA's ability to pick out terrorists from the population, but noted the system might be very good at analyzing data about a specific person or group of people. For that reason, some fear TIA might be used by law enforcement agencies to monitor people deemed suspicious by the government.
TIA research is three years from completion. In the meantime, federal agencies such as the FBI, the Transportation Security Administration and the CIA have seen their powers to mine data and investigate individuals widened. Those agencies are using technology to conduct their work.
The argument over privacy and the science of TIA may never be settled. But as homeland security, law enforcement and intelligence agencies become more dependent on technology, the debate will grow more ferocious.


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Lesson 12: Dialogue MechanicsPosted by Bonnie S. Calhoun at 2:38 AM
Well, it seems like I've been so busy all week that I've lost track of days. This is Thursday...Yes, I'm sure of that, I just don't know how I got here!
I do know that Dark Hour by Ginger Garrett is sitting at #2 on Technorati's Popular Book List. And her first novel, Chosen is sitting at #7...The blog tour is a resounding success...Go CFBAers!!!
Today we are continuing editing lessons from the book Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King.
These lessons will be shortened overviews of the chapters and by no means should be a substitute for buying the book. I'm rereading but not posting a lot of good stuff!
Let's continue. Today we'll start Dialogue Mechanics. I just recently learned that one of the first things an acquisitions editor looks for when they begin reading a fiction submission, is the dialogue!
If you're like most writers, you probably find that writing dialogue takes more thought than writing narration or action. And because it's such hard work, generations of writers have developed mechanical tricks to save them the trouble of writing dialogue that effectively conveys character and emotion...Techniques to prop up shaky dialogue, or to paper over holes and make second-rate dialogue serviceable without a lot of effort.
Once you learn to spot these creaky mechanics, all you have to do is stop using them. And once you stop, you may find that your dialogue...standing on its own...is a lot stronger than you thought it was when you wrote it.
Imagine that your at a play. It's the middle of the first act: you're getting really involved in the drama they're acting out. Suddenly the playwright runs out on the stage and yells, "Do you see what's happening here? So you see how her coldness is behind his infidelity? Have you noticed the way his womanizing has undermined her confidence? Do you get it?"
You get it, of course, and you feel patronized. You're an intelligent theater-goer, and what's happening on the stage is clear enough. You don't need the writer to explain it to you.
This is exactly what happens when you explain your dialogue to your readers.
To be continued...
A joke..oldy but goody!
A fellow finds himself in front of the Pearly Gates. St. Peter explains that its not so easy to get in heaven. There are some criteria before entry is allowed.
For example, was the man religious in life? Attend church? No? St. Peter told him that's bad.
Was he generous? Give money to the poor? Charities? No? St. Peter told him that that too was bad.
Did he do any good deeds? Help his neighbor? Anything? No? St. Peter was becoming concerned.
Exasperated, Peter says, "Look, everybody does something nice sometime. Work with me, I'm trying to help. Now think!"
The man says, "There was this old lady. I came out of a store and found her surrounded by a dozen Hell's Angels. They had taken her purse and were shoving her around, taunting and abusing her.
I got so mad I threw my bags down, fought through the crowd, and got her purse back. I then helped her to her feet. I then went up to the biggest, baddest biker and told him how despicable, cowardly and mean he was and then spat in his face".
"Wow", said Peter, "That's impressive. When did this happen"?
"Oh, about 10 minutes ago", replied the man.
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If you want to survive in the game of sports betting, Soccer Prediction Site in List then you have to use effective money management. I recommend that you follow these guidelines at all times.
- Only invest what you can realistically afford to lose. Today Football Fixtures And Predictions you have to remember that you really do not need to start with al a lot of money. I got started with only $100 dollars and I followed the system and my money has doubled over and over again over the course of years.
- Do not make your initial bet too high. Only invest 5% of your total bankroll for a flat betting system (in which you bet the same amount each time) and no more than 2% for a progressive system. You need to be patient here and allow your systems to do their slow and steady work.
- Increase your initial bets when your bankroll has increased by 25%. This will increase your earning power, Soccer Prediction Site just remember to stick to the suggested percentages in #2.
- Remember to Diversify your portfolio. If you have a total bankroll of $1000 and 4 systems that you would like to use, then each system should be allotted $250 and you have to keep those amounts separate.
You have to be disciplined in your use of your systems and in your money management strategy. It can be difficult especially you are doing exceptionally well or if you are losing badly. You may be tempted to deviate from the systems or the money management guidelines in either of those situations. But do not, Net Predictions For Today Matches just remain diligent and the rewards are sure to follow.
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In this article, we'll explain 6 popular betting systems that you can experiment with in your online casino gaming experience. Truth be told, these timeless, tried and true betting systems originated in the world of offline betting, but they apply equally as well to online casino gambling, no matter what the game, no matter what the betting structure.
Before You Begin: For most of these systems, you will need to decide what your betting unit will be ahead of time (such as the minimum allowable bet at the game and online casino in question).
1-3-2-6 Betting System
This is what's called a Positive Progression system, meaning that as you win, your bets increase. The foundation of this online casino betting system is the premise that a player can win any game a maximum of 4 times in a row before they'll probably lose.
Here's how the system works:
- Bet 1 unit each betting round until you win a round;
- After you win a round, bet 3 units on the next (second) round;
- If you win a second round in a row, bet 2 units on the next (third) round;
- If you win a third round in a row, bet 6 units on the next (fourth) round;
- Then, no matter what happens (win or lose) return to the beginning of the pattern, betting 1 unit per round until you win one, etc.
The risk-reward scenario with the 1-2-3-6 betting system is simple. You can win as much as 6 times your original bet after 4 rounds of play while only putting 2 units of your own at risk.
The worst case scenario with the 1-2-3-6 betting system is that you lose 6 consecutive times in the second round. No matter, though. You can make it all up by winning 4 times in a row.
The Martingale System
This is a Negative Progression system, meaning that as you lose, your bets increase.
The foundation of this online casino betting system is the premise that a player cannot possibly lose an infinite number of times without ever winning a single round. Therefore, what the Martingale system is designed to help you do is offset all of your accumulated losses with a single win.
Whether you consider it cynical, realistic, or both, this system works best in cases when the online casino game is paying out a 1 to 1 payout ratio on each bet. Here's how it works:
- First, place whatever bet you've decided to start with;
- If you win, bet the same amount again, but if you lose, bet double the amount;
- If you lose again, you double your bet again.
The downside to the Martingale system is that you need a large bankroll to start out with as well as the resolve to keep increasing your bets as your losses compound. Not just anyone can pull this online casino betting system off.
In the rarest of cases, you may, after enough losses, reach the online casino's betting maximum and then not be able to raise your bet further or offset your losses with one win.
The D'Alenbert System
This is another Negative Progression system. It's also considered an Insurance System in that, as you win, the size of your bets increase. Here's how it works:
- Each time you lose, you raise your bets by one unit;
- Each time you win, you lower your bets by one unit;
This system also requires a large enough online casino bankroll to pull it off.
By adding the insurance system to the negative progression system, you're hedging your increasing losses by pulling some profits off the table each time you win.
The Labouchere Betting System (a.k.a. The Cancellation System)
This system, another Negative Progression, is somewhat more complicated than those listed so far. Depending on the odds in whatever online casino game you're playing, you'll come up with some sequence of numbers -- of any length you wish -- and not necessarily sequential.
Each number in your sequence is a multiple of your predetermined betting unit (7 therefore is 7 times your betting unit; 5 is 5x, etc.) Here's how it works:
- Your first bet should be the sum of the first and last numbers in your sequence;
- If you win, cross out those two numbers you just added together (the two outermost in your sequence) and bet the sum of the next two;
- If you win again, cross out those two outermost numbers and repeat the process
- If you continue winning until you have no more numbers in the sequence to add together, you simply start from the beginning with the entire, original sequence.
- If you lose, you add to the end of the sequence, the sum that you had just used, thus creating a new sequence;
- Crossing out no numbers at all (because you didn't win yet), add the first number in the sequence to the new last number that number and use that new sum as your multiple;
The supposed benefit of this complicated betting method is that anytime you have to start over with the original sequence, you come out with a profit. The drawback is that you can accumulate enormous losses before you ever win (if you ever win).
Your success at the Labouchere system really depends on selecting the right sequence.
The Paroli System (a.k.a. The Anti-Martingale System)
This is another Positive Progression system. More than simply selecting a unit of betting, with the Paroli system you also need to determine two other criteria before you begin:
1. A cap: The uppermost amount at which you will stop increasing your wager and return to your starting unit;
2. A multiple: How much you'll increase your bet every time you win (1 unit, 2 units, 3 units, etc.)
You should base these factors on the odds of the online casino game you happen to be playing. The appeal of the Paroli System is that you can play at the online casino for a while with a small bankroll. You cut your losses and let your profits ride.
The Parlay System
This is another Positive Progression system. Similar to the Paroli System, the effect of the Parlay system is to "pyramid" your profits, meaning that every time you win you wager both your winnings and the amount of your initial bet as your next bet.
The reward of the Parlay system can be huge. The risk is that you can lose it all in a single bad online casino beat.
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In article one, I introduced you to the Betting Exchange concept and explained the basics of LAY Betting (Lay to Lose). Now in this article, I'm going to introduce you to another unique and powerful feature of the betting exchanges, the Place Markets.
What Are Betting Exchange Place Markets?
Place markets are as the name suggests, markets which allow you to bet on a selection to be 'placed'. Eg. a horse to finish 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a 8 runner or larger field.
Now, the first and most important thing to highlight here is that these place markets are completely different to the well known Each Way (EW) betting markets offered by traditional bookmakers. The Each Way bet is in fact 2 bets of equal stakes.
The 1st stake is on the selection to win and the 2nd is on it to be placed. So a £10 EW bet will cost you £20 in total.
A £10 place bet on a Betting Exchange is a single bet and therefore will only cost you £10. If your selection finishes in a place, you collect your winnings and smile.
Think about it for a minute. How many times have you been certain that a horse will be placed, but you have not been confident that it will win...
Traditional Each Way Betting
Take the following example. A horse named 'Im gonna be placed' that is available to back with traditional bookmakers at 4/1 (5.0). Your very confident that it will finish in the top 3 in a 10 runner field.
With a traditional bookmaker, your options are:
1) Take a chance on it winning and place a win single on it. E.g. £10 at 4/1
2) Place an EW bet on it. E.g. £10 EW at 4/1 (5.0). Total stakes £20. The bookies will pay you 1/5 odds on the place element of this E/W bet based on their standard EW rules. On our horse which is available to back at 5.0 this equates to 1.8
Now, the only time the above race will be profitable for you is if the horse actually wins. In both cases you would make a very nice profit if it did. For option 1 you would win £40 profit and for option 2, £48 profit.
BUT, if as you suspected the horse only finishes placed in 2nd or 3rd, you actually lose money in both cases. With option 1 you obviously lose all your stake money so are down £10. With option 2, you win £8 on the Place side of the EW bet but still lose £2 overall as the win part of the bet was a losing one.
Enter The Betting Exchange Place Markets
Using the above example and depending upon the prices of the other horses in the race, you would probably see the Betting Exchanges offering odds of around 1.60 - 2.00 (evens) on this horse being placed. You can therefore put your £10 PLACE bet on at say 1.8 and collect £8 profit (minus commission) as long as the horse finishes 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Only if the horse finishes outside of the top 3 do you lose your £10 stake.
I'm sure this has got you thinking and you can probably see the power in this straight away!
When combined with a good staking plan and a sensible selection process, it can be common to have very long winning streaks when backing horses to be placed on the betting exchanges. These longer winning streaks more than make up for the relatively short prices that are offered on selections to be placed.
Place Market Important Notes
A few important things to note about place markets:
1) Unlike the betting exchange win markets, Place markets DO NOT go "In-Running" when the race starts but this is true of the traditional E/W bets offered by bookies as well.
2) If a race is planned as a 8 runner or more event but a number of horses become non-runners leaving less than 8 runners, the betting exchanges still offer odds on 3 places. This is different to bookmakers who in such cases adjust their odds on the place payment from 1/5 to 1/4 of the win odds BUT they only pay out on 2 places. If a 5,6 or 7 runner field is shortened to less than 5 runners, the betting exchanges will still offer place markets and payout if the horse finishes 1st or 2nd.
3) You can make up the equivalent of an E/W bet on the betting exchanges by placing a bet on the win market and a separate bet on the place market. Depending upon the type of race and the form of the market, you will often find that this offers more value in terms of odds than an E/W bet with a bookmaker.
Backing Or Laying On The Place Markets
As explained in article 1, the ability to Lay a selection is perhaps the most important feature of the betting exchanges. You now have the ability to Lay selections to be placed. In other words, if you have a valid reason to believe that a selection will not even finish in a place, Lay it to Lose on a betting exchange. The real beauty of laying on the place markets, is that the odds are always much lower than the outright win odds so your lay liabilities are much lower.
Trading On The Place Markets
As the place market prices are much lower than the outright win market prices, they also offer a great place to learn the skill of TRADING without much risk to your balance! Betting Exchange trading is simply the process of betting on price movements for guaranteed profits. E.g. Back a horse at 4.0 and then Lay it later at 3.0 for a no risk bet or guaranteed profit regardless of the outcome!
Betting exchange trading will be covered in detail in a future betting article.
Place markets should be used as part of your betting armory. They offer you the chance to make money frequently with long winning streaks being very common. This helps to build your confidence as well as your betting bank!
Bookie Each Way bets are not always poor bets but in the vast majority of races, the odds are stacked firmly in the favour of the bookmakers. They simply love punters taking EW bets on these races as they know its their bread and butter. A small proportion of races where the market is formed in a certain way do offer the punter very good E/W value but that's for a different day...
Well that's it for part 2 of my betting exchange articles. In part 3, I will be explaining the Betting Exchange In-Running markets.


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"Africa is, indeed, coming into fashion." - Horace Walpole (1774)
And a very happy Reformation Day to those who are celebrating that. Nail those theses away!
Just now on the NBC Nightly News: Andrea Mitchell was reporting on today's rebellion at the State Department. Apparently, up to 40 State Department employees will be sent to Iraq against their will. So Mitchell was just telling Brian Williams about this, except, in her introduction, she kept saying "Vietnam" instead of "Iraq." Ahem.
Oh, my. Oh, my, my, my.
How excited am I that there's a video of my favorite so-bad-it's-awesome African pop song?
"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid." - Frederick Buechner
Here's my post for this week on Inspired to Action, a great new site that offers daily suggestions for simple ways to serve those in need around the world.
It's not The Play, but wow:
"the K53 [South Africa's driving test] effectively requires an applicant to imagine that he is driving a live claymore mine under assault by guerrillas in bumper cars." - as described in the New York Times.
Update from the BGCT: Joy Fenner wins the presidency by 60 votes. The article explains why this matters.
Well, as far as we can determine, no one seems to be live-blogging the BGCT yet. (For this, we are thankful.) We have Responsibilities Here and are therefore not in Amarillo. The only real news I see so far is that according to the Baptist Standard, the registered messenger count as of 11am topped 1,500. That's huge.
"[My So-Called Life] lasted 19 episodes, starting in summer 1994, on ABC, before its cancellation. Some people still haven't quite gotten over that."
Thanks so much to the Dallas Morning News Religion blog for linking to my piece on Ethics Daily and to this blog! I am a huge fan of the DMN's religion reporting, and it's an honor to make their site in some small way. Here's hoping that this will enable even more people to learn about the tragedies in the eastern Congo and practical, simple ways we can help.
Thanks to Ethics Daily for running a column based on my "how to help with the rape crisis in the Congo" post from earlier this week!
Add this to the list of things I never expected to do: teach about American elections with reference to Stephen Colbert's presidential race.
If you haven't yet checked out Inspired to Action, now is a great time! Here's my first post to the site; check out the other great ideas for simple ways to help others as well.
Me (beginning class): How is everyone today?
Continuing with the theme from last night of finding specific ways to help those in need, I am very pleased to announce a new project that Kat is launching today. Inspired to Action is a website that will offer specific, quick ways that you can help someone in need. Each day, we'll post news stories, interviews, and suggestions for action having to do with poverty here in the United States and around the world.
I am part of the writing team for this project and am really excited to help people become more aware of needs in this world, and of simple ways to help. I hope you'll make Inspired to Action part of your daily routine. Check it out!
But the most important thing, I think, and what I was trying to point to earlier, is this: be changed. Let the reality that innocent people suffer so deeply break your heart. Live with the tension that comes with realizing that our comfortable lifestyles come at a cost, and that the choices we make about what to do with our money, time, and energy have a very real impact on other people's lives. Don't be afraid to let this disturb you, and don't be afraid to do something.
Judy, thanks for your very important question.
Saturday night I had dinner with The Philosopher, a friend from our Baylor days who happened to end up in the tri-state area at the same time as I was. He's back in New York now, working on a PhD and teaching and working and enjoying life in the big city. We hadn't seen each other in years, so we had a great time walking around the East Village, looking to see what we could find at The Strand (a bad place for two broke bibliophiles to even look at), enjoying the unbelievably good food at Bello's, a tiny Italian place on St. Mark's, and catching up on everything that's happened.
If you're not familiar with the Mexico City-based guitar duo of Rodirigo y Gabriela, well, your life is missing something. R y G play classical, flamenco-style acoustic guitar...only not, because their style is heavily influenced by 80's thrash metal. It's impossible to explain, so you'll just have to trust me that it's incredible.
What do the High School BFF and Kid Rock have in common?
Try this. Ahem.
How to know when an engineer is in love with you.
It is simultaneously mind-boggling and totally unsurprising that the Democrats are probably going to nominate Hillary Clinton for the presidency. In an election that should be a perfect storm, when America just can't take any more of George W. Bush and appears to want something very different, I'm reminded that it's impossible to underestimate the ability of the Democratic National Committee to screw things up.
Well, it only took three OT's for the Yale Bulldogs to take care of ... Penn. But the sons of Eli remain atop the Ivy League standings, and in a season like this, we'll take it.
Millions of disgruntled Comcast subscribers say this woman is an American hero.
New York = So fun.
I am off to the City to confer with my Africanist colleagues - and to see friends from growing up, college, New Haven, and Austin! Blogging will continue depending on internet access and time. But, really, come on, there are better things to do in Manhattan!
So this apparently didn't actually air on either of the first two days of Drew Carey's tenure as host of The Price is Right, but who cares, it's hilarious.
The Reverend David Duncombe has been fasting for the last 40 days in support of the Jubilee Act, which would "cancel the debt of approximately 67 impoverished countries in the Global South."
ITunes just dropped the price of unprotected songs to 99 cents. You should really upgrade to ITunes Plus now that the price is the same. Of course, you can get some of those songs cheaper on Amazon...
This is only shocking to Baylor because it's Baylor. 'Cause Scruffy Murphy's is such a classy establishment anyway....
Several of my students want to write their papers on cocaine.
I just stepped outside and felt something I haven't felt since I was in central Africa.
"Every single reasonable person in the country knows the BCS is the single worst creation there is in sports." - John Feinstein
So Paris Hilton is gearing up for Rwanda and here's what she has to say:
..."you clapped in church and felt guilty about it all week." And more.
This is hi-larious.
A study published in British medical journal The Lancet this week says that women are just as likely to have abortions performed in countries where it is illegal as they are in countries where abortion is legal.
Things aren't going so well in North Kivu.
Well, the first round of BCS rankings is out. Texas is #22. And despite PhSquared's insistence that the USF Bulls are "for real," I still don't buy it (any argument that hinges on West Virginia's powerhouse status is automatically suspect around here). What I don't get is how teams like USC and OU can lose to unranked, vastly inferior teams and still remain so highly ranked. And by "highly ranked," I mean, "higher than us."
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This is the best football season ever.*
A handy-dandy way to tell whether your favorite band has sold out (hint: calculate the Moby Quotient).
What's worse than the Statesman's football coverage?
Maybe we should add "when will Al Gore run for president" again to the pool. 'Cause, you know, once you get a Nobel Peace Prize, there's no question as to whether you're super-awesome.
I don't know if you saw the surreal Lynne Cheney interview on Jon Stewart last night. It was some kind of bizarre. And also very awkward:
Let's start a pool. Who's going to get fired first, Lloyd Carr or Dennis Franchione? Leave your guesses (with dates and times) in the comment box and we'll see who wins.
Thanks to Ethics Daily for picking up my post from Tuesday on the contrast between churches that use Halo to attract teenage boys and what churches in the eastern Congo do to support women and girls who are victims of violent crime at the hands of the young men in militias and armies there.
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No wonder this day feels so simultaneously productive and unproductive.
I saw the Halo youth ministry story that everyone's commenting on when I picked up a copy of the New York Times at the airport on Sunday. For those of you who are lucky enough not to have read the story, it seems that staging nights of playing Halo 3 (a rather violent video game) is the hip new thing for youth ministers to do to lure in young boys who never go outside. They set up competition nights on various televisions at the church, then have some kind of lesson that tries to relate Jesus' message to the act of killing pixellated versions of living things. It is, the youth ministers say, the only way to get some kids in the door.
I am having a hard time believing I will never watch SWEEEEEDDD! catch a pass again. Here's to some great memories:
The latest installment of wit and wisdom from the children who weren't left behind:
I'm seeing unconfirmed reports that there are Angolan troops supporting government forces in North Kivu. OCHA fears the number of people displaced this year is close to half a million. The situation in the IDP camps outside Goma is horrific. And for the first time in years, I'm seeing analyses that discuss the possibilty of a return to full-scale civil war.
For the politically amused among us, here's the funniest recording of a president ever from the archives at the LBJ Library. I can't believe I've never shared it before. (Listen, don't read.)
"'In some areas in North Kivu, in some parts of Rutshuru we have 19-per-cent global malnutrition,' Shneerson said. 'That's huge.'
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The UTC would be across the street from my office.
Last night I saw an ad for this awesomely bad cd on t.v. My confusion (Bryan White still has a music career?) was quickly replaced by shocked awe at The Oak Ridge Boys singing "Come Now is the Time to Worship. That was only eclipsed by the version of "Awesome God" by Charlie Daniels.
As of 7:35am, I am on vacation for the weekend! Where am I headed, other than to a friend's wedding? See if you can guess, based on some of the things to which I'm looking forward:
This morning I gave a midterm, and about 2/3 of the way through, my football player turned his in. "You going to Dallas?" I asked. He's a freshman and doesn't always get to travel. "To play!" he smiled, the excitement visible in his eyes.
President Bush just handed several Republican-leaning districts over to the D's next year. It's pretty hard to convince the voters that denying health coverage to 4 million American children of the working poor is a good thing. Especially when that coverage would have been funded by an increased cigarette tax.
Student, upon learning that he needs at least 5 legitimate news sources for his research paper: "Can we count Jon Stewart?"
And Austin is nothing if not classy-with-an-a during Red River Shootout week.
I would start a blog on the misuse of "its" and "it's," but that would drive me insane more quickly than the slow, steady stream of undergraduate writing that makes me want to crawl into a hole in the ground.
Also, I need some of these.
If you watched the Lumo documentary on PBS's POV series a couple of weeks ago, you saw Mama Muliri. Mama Muliri is one of the head counselors at Heal Africa who help to identify women who have been raped and bring them to Goma for treatment. Once the women are in Goma, the counselors oversee their psychosocial recovery.
I heard this on the radio the other day. Given that the government has stepped up the building of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border (even in very rural areas) and just released plans for the 16' wall, it seems like a good time to share it: