The Alberta government is clamping down on payday loan companies and their so-called 'predatory' practices. New legislation means Alberta will go from having among the highest interest rates in the country, to the lowest.
The Alberta government is clamping down on payday loan companies and their so-called 'predatory' practices.
New legislation means Alberta will go from having among the highest interest rates in the country, to the lowest.
Right now, payday loan companies in the province can charge $23 for every $100 loan.
The proposed Act to End Predatory Lending will reduce that charge to $15 and customers will have at least 42 days to pay back the money before the interest starts accumulating.
Service Alberta Minister Stephanie McLean says the act will help lower income Albertans the most.
"Currently lenders are able to charge very high interest rates to Albertans who are the least able to afford it," McLean said in the legislature Thursday.
"This bill will reduce the high cost of borrowing for payday loans and help ensure that alternative financial assistance and short term credit options are available to all Albertans."
Experts say payday loan customers are often the working poor. The annual percentage rate on some of these loans can work out to 600 per cent.
Officials say the bill could bring that rate down to a range of 88 to 130 per cent.
Jeff Loomis of Momentum, a group that works with low income Calgarians, says another proposed change that allows borrowers repay loans in installments will make a big difference.
"One of the big challenges with payday lending is someone would have to pay back the entire amount in two weeks, so for someone borrowing that money and having to pay that entire amount back, it's very difficult … if you're on a limited income," Loomis said.
"By moving to installment payments it makes it so people have more of a chance to get out of a debt trap."
Bill Baker of Cash Money, a U.S.-based payday lending company with 28 Alberta locations, tells CBC News the company is disappointed with the legislation, saying it goes too far.
'"The biggest thing that's concerning is that this is going to limit the availability of short term credit for folks in Alberta," Baker said.
He said it effectively reduces revenue by about 34 per cent and his company may have to close some locations.
Lisa Holmes is president of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association.
She applauds the changes which would require companies to disclose all costs up front and explain financial options available to borrowers.
"The economy in Alberta is not the greatest right now," Holmes said.
"We're seeing more people that are laid off. More people will be accessing these types of loans and so this is an important way to be able to protect them in a proactive sense."
The lower rates could come into effect as early as the summer.


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Hugo van der Goes
Hugo van der Goes (Ghent, ?c. 1440 – Oudergem, near Brussels, 1482 or 1483) was a Flemish painter. He was, along with Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling and Gerard David, one of the most important of the Early Netherlandish painters.
Hugo became a member of the painters' guild of Ghent as a master in 1467. In 1468 he was involved in the decoration of the town of Bruges in celebration of the marriage between Charles the Bold and Margaret of York and he provided heraldic decorations for Charles's joyeuse entrée to Ghent in 1469 and again in 1472. He was elected dean of the Ghent guild in 1473 or 1474.
In 1475, or some years later, Hugo entered Rooklooster, a monastery near Brussels belonging to the Windesheim Congregation, and professed there as a frater conversus. He continued to paint, and remained at Rooklooster until his death in 1482 or 1483. In 1480 he was called to the town of Leuven to evaluate the Justice Scenes left unfinished by the painter Dieric Bouts on his death in 1475. Shortly after this, Hugo, returning with other members of his monastery from a trip to Cologne, fell into a state of suicidal gloom, declaring himself to be damned. After returning to Rooklooster, Hugo recovered from his illness, and died there. His time at Rooklooster is recorded in the chronicle of his fellow monk, Gaspar Ofhuys. A report by a German physician, Hieronymus Münzer, from 1495, according to which a painter from Ghent was driven to melancholy by the attempt to equal the Ghent Altarpiece, may refer to Hugo.
His most famous surviving work is the Portinari Triptych (Uffizi, Florence), an altarpiece commissioned for the church of San Egidio in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence by Tommaso Portinari, the manager of the Bruges branch of the Medici Bank. The triptych arrived in Florence in 1483, apparently some years after its completion by van der Goes. The largest Netherlandish work that could be seen in Florence, it was greatly praised. Giorgio Vasari in his Vite of 1550 referred to it as by "Ugo d'Anversa" ("Hugo of Antwerp"). This is the sole documentation for its authorship by Hugo; other works are attributed to him based on stylistic comparison with the altarpiece.
Hugo appears to have left a large number of drawings, and either from these or the paintings themselves followers made large numbers of copies of compositions that have not survived from his own hand. A drawing of Jacob and Rachel preserved at Christ Church, Oxford is thought to be a rare surviving autograph drawing.
Fall of Man and Lamentation diptych. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Deposition diptych (on canvas). Private collector (left wing); Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (right wing)
Adoration of the Kings ("Monforte Altarpiece"). Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Portinari Triptych. Florence, Uffizi
Trinity Panels. Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland
Adoration of the Shepherds. Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Death of the Virgin. Bruges, Groeningemuseum
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Nia Long Pissed Off People on the Set of 'Empire'
By Jeremy Lambert March 23, 2017
Nia Long broke the cardinal rule of Empire. Don't piss off Cookie aka Taraji P. Henson. More importantly, don't piss off the people who make Taraji P. Henson, Cookie.
Our sources say in the history of the show the hair and makeup people have only filed one formal complaint for mistreatment … and that was against Nia. The hair and makeup people say she was extremely disrespectful … at times deciding she didn't like her look at the last minute and then chewing them out. The sources say there have been numerous guest appearances on the show — "from rappers to Demi Moore, and no complaints were lodged against anyone but Nia."
Why was Nia Long on this show in the first place? She hasn't been relevant since the 90's. This is my favorite part, though.
It is custom on the set when guest stars finish their last scene for the Assistant Director to call it out … "This is (name of actor) last scene," followed by a "thank you" and applause. When Nia did her last scene, Terrence was having some sort of allergic reaction and his lip began swelling. The A.D. was looking for Benadryl when Nia left. It's unclear if the A.D. was distracted or just didn't want to thank Nia, but we're told as Nia walked out she told someone in production she was going to sue the show because the "goodbye" was in her contract. Production sources say it was not in her contract.
Seriously, try not to laugh at that. Can you really put a "goodbye" clause in your contract? I really want to do this. Whenever I leave McDonald's, I want everyone to say "goodbye" to me. I'm going to have it on a napkin that I trick the manager into signing.
We reached out to Nia's rep, who said, "We stand by our comments this morning that Nia has always, and continues to be, a consummate professional on set. In respect to her working relationships with the cast, she came onto this project, in the first place, because of her long-standing friendship and professional relationship with Terrence Howard."
The rep went on to say, "We are not aware of any complaint, suit or case against her from anyone involved in the show, and we find the timing of all of these stories to be very suspicious, given that the series returns tonight."
That's a fair comment. It's like the Warriors complaining about Kevin Durant's return to Oklahoma City. They had over a month to be upset, but the story didn't come out until the night before the rematch. If they were that upset, why did it take them this long to get the story out?
Anyway, watch the all-new season Empire and see if you can spot the real life tension between Nia and Taraji. Or don't, and see if more stories came out in order to boost ratings.
#empire
#nia long
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I recently bought an S15 that has write off history.
I am unsure of what the damage was however the car is 100% straight.
I did a REVS/PPSR check at the time of purchase and it came up with write off history in NSW in 2004 with the type as "Inspected", the car has been registered since then.
Will I have any problem re-registering this vehicle?
Should be fine if it has been registered since. Most likely a financial/repairable write off.
For your sake I hope it's 100% straight cause Dickson can be mean and picky with things.
Did it ever get fixed though? It 'driving straight' isn't really a good indicator of a bent chassis, just of good wheel alignment. It also could have been crashed a second time.
Personally if it'd be me looking at buying a car and it came up as repairable write off, I'd steer clear.


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Claude Castelluccia is a research director (DR) at Inria Rhone-Alpes, where he leads the PRIVATICS team(Privacy Models, Architectures and Tools for the Information Society).
The goals of the Privatics team are to study the new privacy threats introduced by the information society and design privacy-preserving solutions to prevent or at least mitigate them. The project follows a multidisciplinary approach. It focuses on technical and scientific problems, but also considers the economical, legal and social aspects of privacy.
Claude has held visiting research positions at UC Irvine and Stanford University, USA. His current research is on Internet privacy and security with a focus on anonymized analytics, data anonymization, data transparency and Internet-based surveillance analysis. He is also interested in the economical and legal aspects of data privacy.
While the benefits provided by new technologies are indisputable, they unfortunately pose considerable privacy threats that can potentially turn them into a nightmare.
Most of these systems leave digital traces, or meta-data, that can potentially be used to profile/monitor users. Users are unaware of the information that is collected about themselves.
Content on the Internet (documents, emails, chats, images, videos etc) is often disseminated and replicated on different peers or servers.
As a result, users lose the control of their data as soon as they release them.
This talk will discuss about the emerging field of Dataveillance and present some of our latest projects and results.


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Jersey Boys Makes West Yorkshire Debut in Bradford
Posted: Friday 27th March 2015
Let the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons transport you back to 1960s America as the Broadway and West End smash hit musical Jersey Boys makes its West Yorkshire debut at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford from Tuesday 28 April.
Winner of 55 major awards worldwide, including the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Jersey Boys is the remarkable true story of the rise to fame of one of the world's most successful boy bands who wrote their own music, created their own sound, sold more than 175 million records worldwide and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame all before they turned 30!
Featuring all their greatest hits, including Beggin', Sherry, Walk Like A Man, December, 1963 (Oh What a Night), Big Girls Don't Cry, My Eyes Adored You, Let's Hang On (To What We've Got), Bye Bye Baby, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Working My Way Back to You, Fallen Angel, Rag Doll and Who Loves You. Jersey Boys is a story full of heart, humour and 'sheer musical razzmatazz' (The Sunday Express) that you will never forget.


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S. Lewis Johnson Teachings
March 31, 2010 Lynda O 1 comment
Here is a brief excerpt from the first message in S. Lewis Johnson's "Life of David" series, an 8-part series he taught in the late 1970s. He did this series at the same time as the Genesis series, which he makes reference to. He had recently preached through the section on Esau and Jacob, as here he likens Saul to Esau, the more likeable guy that we could relate to — in contrast to Jacob and David. Johnson also makes reference to the Dallas Cowboys' Roger Staubach.
It's possible that a man like Abraham excelled David in faith because when we think of Abraham we think of the great exemplar of faith. He was the great man of faith, and he is the one who is used as the illustration of faith in the New Testament. Probably Elijah excelled him in forcefulness because Elijah was the prophet of fire, and no doubt some could make a good case for Moses excelling him in communion with the Lord. But when you look at David as a versatile man, it's probably doubtful that any of these men excelled David in versatility for he was a man who had numerous talents and gifts given him by God. He was a man of faith. He was a forceful man. He was a warrior. He also was a man who spent a great deal of time in fellowship and communion with the Lord. And so he's a well rounded man of God.
From S. Lewis Johnson's Acts series, Acts 21, on the matter of Paul's attitude towards the Mosaic law:
To put it in the words of one of the finest New Testament commentators, "A truly emancipated spirit, such as Paul's is not in bondage to its own emancipation." We are free to put ourselves under law, for a particular reason, Paul says. But that doesn't mean that we are not free. We are free. We are free to be under the law. We are free from the law, or we are free for the exercise of the law upon occasion.
But, now, when it comes to the gospel that's a different matter. If, for example, our action of being under law compromises the principle of grace, then the apostle will not submit to a legal requirement. And the finest illustration of this is the passage in Galatians chapter 2, and Titus' circumcision. Timothy is desired to be circumcised, in order that they might have ministry and freedom of it. But in Titus' case, where the issue was circumcision as a means of salvation, listen to what Paul says about that.
Galatians 2, verse 1, "Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them, which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage."
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'HAMLET'
The movie's the thing
by Kaori Shoji
Who do you think you are, the Prince of Denmark? Such is the complaint I'd like to lodge with wordy, lordly, self-obsessed people whose introverted grievances often manifest themselves in extroverted acts of harm. Hamlet had always struck me as a curious choice for a hero. It's true he gave some great speeches and avenged the death of his father, but look at the havoc he wreaked in the meantime. When it comes to loyal sons who slay their evil uncles, Simba in "The Lion King" could teach the Prince a thing or two.
Michael Almereyda ("Nadia") shows us a Hamlet who never pretends to be anything other than what he is: a wordy, lordly, self-obsessed son trapped in the web of his own nightmare. The director has undertaken to bring "Hamlet" to the screen for the 50th time in history, only this time the backdrop is present-day Manhattan and Hamlet is a young, hip, filmmaker wannabe. He's so with it in fact, that you want to start calling him "Hammy" but then that would be rude to Ethan Hawke, who plays the role with calculated excellence.
Almereyda wanted to cast someone around 30, which is Hamlet's estimated age and Hawke was his happy choice. Up to now, heavy-duty gents like Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh had grabbed the part, which is one of the reasons why Hamlet had seemed remote and lofty but somehow comical — here was a guy who wore tights in the most crucial moments of his life.
On the other hand, we can identify with Almereyda's Hamlet, who looks like he goes to convenience stores a lot and dines off instant noodles. Submerged in the pulsing, blinking world of digital cameras, cell phones and laptops, Hamlet is the chic and fashionable nerd we all know who's a virtuoso on the keyboard but has trouble maintaining relationships.
The contrast between this figure and his Elizabethan soliloquies (every line in the movie is Shakespeare's own) is at once weird and delightful. T.S. Eliot once compared Hamlet to Mona Lisa as something too familiar and exposed, and therefore impossible to look at. But this picture proves that there's room yet for adventure and tantalizing newness.
The "King" and CEO of multimedia company Denmark Corporation dies and the King's brother Claudius (Kyle Maclachlan) weds the widow Gertrude (Diane Venora). Hamlet, who had been a film student in England, returns to N.Y. for his father's funeral. He resents his mother's hasty remarriage and his uncle's eagerness to step into his father's shoes. Something smells fishy and sure enough, the King's ghost (Sam Shepard) appears from a Pepsi vending machine to inform Hamlet that Claudius is his murderer.
That Almereyda made Hamlet a budding filmmaker is revealing, and there are some scenes that draw obvious parallels between directing and Hamlet's obsessive personality. Hamlet is a prisoner of his own suffering mind, but he's also "imprisoned by Denmark," in this case the media conglomerate which has overloaded his life and the streets around him with digitalized visuals.
In every scene there is at least one reference to a camera lens — the Ghost shows up on the bluish screen of a security video, Hamlet's bedroom wall is decorated with a collage of snapshots. Ophelia (Julia Stiles), that fragile lover of flowers, is never seen with a single live plant but has a collection of floral Polaroids.
All this defines the chrome and smoked-glass texture of "Hamlet": A single touch is likely to leave fingerprints on its slick, chilly surface. And despite Almereyda's claim that the production was fast and cheap, the result only speaks of craftsmanship and elegance, used in exactly the right places. The wardrobe designed by Luca Mosca and Marco Cattoretti, for example, is to drool for: East Village punk artist meets European high fashion in Times Square.
Hawke is wonderful as the snazzy, pouting Hamlet, but the picture is a showcase for new and emerging talent. Look for Dechen Thurman (Uma's brother), the hottest Guildenstern in history, and Karl Geary who plays Horatio with a stunning, vulnerable charm.
Stealing some scenes from the likes of Venora and Maclachlan is Stiles as Ophelia. Of everyone in the cast, she alone seems to have traveled through time from a 13th-century forest to land with the softest of feet upon N.Y. asphalt. Everything about her will remind you of why Ophelia is a metaphor for girlishness, unrequited love and death as something romantic.


Earlier this month, former Alabama defensive tackle Joshua Frazier tweeted that he had had dinner with Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin in addition to others from the organization prior to his pro day. In my report of that news, I mentioned that Frazier probably wasn't the only former Alabama player that Tomlin and company dined with that evening. As it turns out, Frazier wasn't the only former Alabama player at that dinner.
According to Jeremy Fowler of espn.com, Tomlin said Monday at the league owners meetings in Orlando, FL that he remembers dining with about eight former Alabama players ahead of that pro day earlier this month. While we don't know the full list of those players, it's probably a good bet that Tomlin's dining partners that evening included linebacker Rashaan Evans, wide receiver Calvin Ridley, defensive backs Minkah Fitzpatrick and Ronnie Harrison, and defensive lineman and Da'Ron Payne in addition to Frazier. While Frazier is considered a late-round draft prospect, Evans, Ridley, Fitzpatrick, Harrison and Payne are all expected to be drafted in the first 50 overall selections roughly a month from now.
The Steelers sent quite a few people to the Alabama pro day this year and that list included Tomlin, general manager Kevin Colbert, defensive coordinator Keith Butler, defensive line coach Karl Dunbar and inside linebacker coach Jerry Olsavsky. I think I even spotted special teams coordinator Danny Smith there as well during the broadcast of the event, but his presence there can't be confirmed.
While it's not a prerequisite for a Steelers first-round draft pick to have his pro day attended by either Tomlin or Colbert, that's coincidentally been the case with the organization dating back to at least 2010.
The Steelers haven't drafted a player out of Alabama since Colbert arrived in 2000. In fact, former defensive back Deshea Townsend was the last former Alabama player to be selected by the Steelers and that was in the fourth-round of the 1998 NFL Draft. If ever were there a year that streak could end, this year might be it.


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Johannes François Snelleman (Rotterdam, 26 december 1852 – Den Haag, 18 mei 1938) was een Nederlands oriëntalist, ontdekkingsreiziger en etnoloog en daarnaast gedurende 15 jaar museumdirecteur.

Loopbaan
Van 1887 tot 1889 nam hij als zoöloog deel aan een wetenschappelijke expeditie naar Midden-Sumatra met als doel het in kaart brengen van het stroomgebied van de Hari en het onderzoeken van de natuur en de bevolking. Deze door het Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (KNAG) georganiseerde tocht stond onder leiding van luitenant-ter-zee J. Schouw Santvoort; andere deelnemers waren D.D. Veth (zoon van de KNAG-voorzitter P.J. Veth) en A.L. van Hasselt. Over deze expeditie heeft hij later een boek geschreven.

Bij een latere KNAG-expeditie in 1884/1885 in Angola, waaraan Snelleman zelf niet deelnam, kwam D.D. Veth door uitputting om het leven waarna Snelleman samen met P.J. Veth een boek schreef over deze ontdekkingsreiziger en diens expeditie in Zuidwest-Afrika. Later zou Snelleman meewerken aan een serie van 3 boeken geschreven door P.J. Veth met de titel Java, geographisch, ethnologisch, historisch.

Van de vierdelige Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië was het eerste deel in 1896 verschenen onder redactie van P.A. van der Lith. Snelleman begon aan deze encyclopedie mee te weken vanaf het tweede deel heeft (1899) en het volgende deel (1902) verscheen onder gezamenlijke redactie van Van der Lith en Snelleman. Na het overlijden van Van der Lith in maart 1901 kwam het laatste deel (1905) tot stand onder redactie van alleen Snelleman.

In 1901 werd Joh. F. Snelleman, zoals zijn naam vaak geschreven werd, in Rotterdam directeur van het Ethnologisch Museum van Rotterdam (later Museum voor Land- en Volkenkunde en sinds 2000 Wereldmuseum Rotterdam) en het Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" die vanaf 1885 nauw samenwerkten. Begin 1915 vroeg hij als museumdirecteur ontslag aan vanwege gezondheidsproblemen waarna hij in augustus van dat jaar op 63-jarige leeftijd werd opgevolgd door J.W. van Nouhuys.

Onder redactie van H.D. Benjamins en Snelleman was in 1914 begonnen met het werken aan de Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië die in 1917 gereed kwam. Hieraan werd bijgedragen door ongeveer 80 personen waaronder H. van Cappelle, A.A. Pulle, C.F. Schoch en F.A.F.C. Went.

Snelleman heeft naast boeken ook veel artikelen geschreven vooral betreffende de Nederlandse koloniën. Bovendien behoorde hij tot de redactie van het tijdschrift De West-Indische Gids waarvan Benjamins in 1919 een van de oprichters was.

Huwelijken
Zijn eerste vrouw overleed in 1899 waarna hij nog twee keer hertrouwde. Zijn laatste echtgenote was 35 jaar jonger dan Snelleman zelf.

Bibliografie (incompleet)
 Hermann Schlegel, 1884
 Bijdragen tot de kennis der fauna van Midden-Sumatra - deel 1, 1887, samen met andere geleerden
 Daniël Veth's reizen in Angola, voorafgegaan door eene schets van zijn leven, 1887, bewerkt door P.J. Veth en Joh. F. Snelleman
 Industrie des Cafres du Sud-Est de l'Afrique. Collection recueillie sur les lieux et notice ethnographique par H.P.N. Muller, Description des objets représentés par J.F. Snelleman, 1892, samen met H.P.N. Muller
 Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië, deel 2 (1899) als medewerker, deel 3 (1902) onder redactie samen met P.A. van der Lith, deel 4 (1905) onder redactie van Joh. F. Snelleman
 Bijdragen tot de kennis der fauna van Midden-Sumatra - deel 2, 1892, samen met andere geleerden
 De volken der aarde (2 dln.). Amsterdam: Scheltema en Holkema's Boekhandel, 1903
 'Siermotieven van de Geelvinckbaai', in: Elsevier's Maandschrift 16, 1906, pp. 252-256
 Encyclopædie van Nederlandsch West-Indië, 1914-1917, redactie H.D. Benjamins en Joh. F. Snelleman
 Scheepvaart-musea en Rotterdamsche toestanden, 1916
 Het Ethnologisch Museum van Rotterdam, 1917

Externe links
 Midden-Sumatra-expeditie 1877 - 1879
 Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië (online versie op de site van de digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren)

Nederlands antropoloog
Nederlands museumdirecteur
Nederlands encyclopedist
Nederlands persoon in de 19e eeuw
Directeur van Nederlands museum
Wereldmuseum Rotterdam

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These animals' harrowing stories are sending shockwaves around the world. Our investigation made headlines in 34 countries. Our Prime Minister expressed his 'shock' and 'disgust'. But it wasn't followed by any meaningful action.
10 days out from an election and the last thing political leaders want is for their complicity in animal abuse to be thrown into the spotlight. With your help, that's exactly what we're about to do.
We urgently need to send a message to decision-makers that their promises and platitudes aren't good enough. That for every animal who suffers for this industry, for every day a terrified steer is at risk of brutal sledgehammering — we will keep fighting for them.
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It's not the first time Animals Australia investigators have exposed the horrific practice of sledgehammering animals to death in the live export trade. After 12 months, terrified animals are still having their skulls smashed on a nightly basis. Nothing Barnaby Joyce (the Agriculture Minister) has done to date will stop this horror continuing.
With just 9 days until the election, we need your urgent support to disrupt the election campaign with an emergency broadcast for animals. Help us get this online and on TV.
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Published on 19 Jun 2016 Animals Australia
Australia's Federal Agriculture Minister, Barnaby Joyce, has known for YEARS about sledgehammering in Vietnam. In that time, his Department has green-lit shiploads of animals to the region. In light of Animals Australia's recent investigation exposing brutal sledgehammering yet again in Vietnam, he still refuses to suspend trade — putting more animals at risk of horrific cruelty. Tell the Minister what you think of the fact that NOTHING he's done to date has prevented this extreme abuse from continuing: https://www.facebook.com/BarnabyJoyceMP/
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By TRACY YOU FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 11:16, 10 June 2016 | UPDATED: 19:24, 10 June 2016
"Nobody will die if dog & cat are taken off the menu!!!"
Around 30 animal campaigners carried out the protest today in bid to stop Yulin dog meat festival in China
The controversial festival sees as many as 10,000 animals butchered and eaten on summer solstice
A petition signed by over 11 million people has been submitted to the authority, animal charity claimed
During the event, activists called Yulin in rural Guangxi Province a 'scumbag' and 'a total embarrassment' to China
A group of animal activists staged a protest today in Beijing in a bid to stop a Chinese dog-eating festival set to occur later this month.
This must stop: A group of around 30 animal activists staged a protest today in Beijing in a bid to stop the Yulin dog meat festival
The demonstration, initiated by three animal protection groups, submitted a petition allegedly signed by over 11 million people, calling on the Chinese authorities to end the Yulin dog meat festival.
The annual festival, which takes place in south China's Guangxi Province, sees tens of thousands of animals beaten to death, cooked and sold on the market to celebrate summer solstice.
Around 30 activists carried out the protest outside of the Yulin government office as the petition was presented to the authority by three animal charities: Humane Society International, VShine and Beijing Mothers Against Animal Cruelty.
Pictures from today's event show animal campaigners, many of whom brought their own pet dogs, holding signs saying 'Scumbag of China' in English and 'Shame on Yulin' in Simplified Chinese.
Wendy Higgins, the Director of International Media at Humane Society International, said over 11 million signatures had been collected worldwide through the internet to demand the festival to stop.
The petition also included signatures gathered by four other international animal welfare organisations. They are RaiseURPaw in Canada as well as the Duo Duo Project, Care2 and Avaaz from the United States.
The petition has been accepted by officials from the Yulin government in Beijing, according to Ms Higgins.
Peter Li, the China Policy Expert at Humane Society International, attended the protest in Beijing today.
Mr Li told MailOnline:
'There was a huge presence of police, but our hand-in went very peacefully. It was a great feeling to join with our Chinese partner group activists in Beijing today, there was a tremendous sense of determination to get our voices heard to the global media, and to let the world know that many people across China want the brutal Yulin dog meat festival shut down.
He added: 'We gave a show of strength and defiance against the dog thieves and the blatant animal cruelty, to say loudly – you will not steal our best friends!
'I hope that the authorities listen, they really should do as the strength of public upset about Yulin and the trade here in China is really growing.
'Next stop for me is Yulin, where I have been a number of times before, for the grim task of visiting the slaughterhouses before the festival starts.'
Sickening feast: Residents in Yulin tucked in their dinner made with dog meat during last year's festival. Many of the animals, which were caged and beaten before being slaughtered, are thought to be stolen pets!
Xu Yufeng, founder of Beijing Mothers Against Animal Cruelty who were also present at the protest, said: 'Yulin is a total embarrassment to China.
'Its failure to stop mass dog slaughter and mass dog consumption shows that the local authorities are not doing their job to protect the people, especially young children.
'We urge the Yulin authorities to stand on the right side of history and to end the "festival" in the interests of public security, food safety, social morality and China's reputation.'
Another member of the protesters, Pan Danyang from China-based small animal protection group VShine, said:
'This is the third year of our participation in the nation-wide campaign against the Yulin dog meat festival. 'Since we have over the last few years helped accommodate dogs rescued from the dog meat trade, we know Yulin's dog meat market relies on dogs from suspicious sources. 'I hope that Yulin authorities will take actions to stop the dog trucks from going into their city so that the mass slaughter on the summer solstice day won't happen.'
Visitors play with rescued dogs at a shelter ran by Yang Xiaoyun in Tianjin, China, July 8, 2015. Yang said she spent 300,000 RMB (48,248 USD) to purchase 500 dogs to rescue them from dog meat dealers at Yulin's annual dog meat festival last month. She keeps more than 1,000 dogs in her shelters, mostly abandoned or she purchased from dog meat traders. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
To learn more & signn other petitions, please visit the following, just a handful of sites that contain very informative material:-
https://twitter.com/2016yulin
http://stopyulinforever.org/
http://blog.change.org/gb/feed/more-than-19million-people-back-petition-calling-for-an-end-to-the-yulin-dog-meat-festival
http://www.wildlifeplanet.net/stop-the-yulin-2016-festival.html
http://www.wildlifeplanet.net/400-dogs-and-cats-saved-from-slaughter-at-the-yulin-dog-meat-eating-festival.html
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/08/activists-to-picket-chinese-embassy-over-massive-dog-meat-festival/
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3634923/Animal-activists-stage-protest-Beijing-against-China-s-barbaric-annual-dog-meat-festival-sees-tens-thousands-canines-beaten-death-cooked.html
Green Bay man accused of beating, stabbing dog
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By Ted Miller Published: June 3, 2016, 5:57 pm Updated: June 3, 2016, 6:02 pm
Evil Bastard….needs to be put down!!! What's going to stop him getting & abusing another sentient being??? We need an Animal Abuse Registry, a global one that will help stop scum like this from ever owning an animal again!! If a person can beat then slash a dog with a knife, it's not a one-off, it's the owners habitual lifestyle. This man, & those like him have to be stopped…but by who??? Only a Global Animal Registry, accessed by all animal control centres & foster/adopt shelters, can help to stop other animals facing the same fate! If he decides to adopt or foster or gain access to shelters…this guy will just fade into the background with another dog from wherever & beat the shit out of it again! We can only help stop this by demanding a Global Animal Abuse Register; nothing else will work & stop monsters like him, from harming more sentient beings!!
(Photo: Brown County Jail) Jacob Stephanus
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – A Green Bay man is accused of badly beating and stabbing his dog.
According to the criminal complaint, police were called after the suspect, Jacob Stephanus, 27, took the dog to Packerland Veterinary Clinic on Thursday.
The complaint says the white pit bull or boxer mix, between 9 and 12 months old, had several deep cuts, broken teeth, and an eye so badly injured it had to be removed.
Stephanus told the vet the dog was a stray and he was trying to help the dog for several days.
The vet said they didn't look like injuries from a dog fight because there were no bite marks, and were more consistent with abuse.
Eventually, Stephanus admitted it was his dog. He said he was tired after working for 13 hours and got angry at the dog for being excited, and he struck it with a broom handle and slashed it with a knife.
Stephanus is charged with felony mistreatment of an animal. Jail records indicate he was released Friday on a $2,000 bond. "this is ridiculous, what's to stop him doing it again?? NOTHING!!!!!"
News site:–http://wbay.com/2016/06/03/green-bay-man-charged-with-animal-abuse/?cid=facebook_WBAY_TV-2
Set alight, fed drugs and left with a broken neck – one of the worst cases of animal cruelty the RSPCA has ever seen
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"Why should these little shits get away with this by not naming them?? Don't care how old they are, if they can do this…then a few months probation, payment or being disqualified from keeping animals; isn't going to stop their sick urge to hurt a living being. In a way they are being protected by not disclosing their names…which I think is absurd…they did the crime so they should pay the time & be named. They were old enough to do such despicable things, so the public have a right to know who these sadistic POS were!!!"
Chunky after his ordeal at the hands of a teenage gang Credit: RSPCA
ITV REPORT 24 November 2015 at 2:52pm
Four teenagers have been disqualified from keeping animals after torturing a stolen dog in a case the RSCPA described as one of the worst they have ever seen.
Three of the teenagers, aged 15 and 16, admitted kicking and punching the chihuahua cross, named Chunky, before breaking his leg and neck.
They then set him on fire, fed him drugs and dumped him in a rubbish tip in Margate.
Despite his ordeal the dog survived and has now been returned to his owner.
The age of the teenagers means that they cannot be identified.
Chunky has now recovered to full health Credit: RSPCA
This was the most disturbing case I have ever dealt with – by an absolute mile.
The whole thing sends shivers down my spine. The defendants may have been young and confessed to being under the influence of drugs but the cruelty they inflicted on this poor dog was extreme, barbaric and inexcusable.
I will never forget how terrified and depressed he was when I first saw him. The injuries were so severe that despite the fantastic veterinary care and medication he was on, the medication was unable to numb all of the pain, and he suffered for at least six days according to veterinary experts.
– RSPCA INSPECTOR CAROLINE DOE
Three teenagers pleaded guilty in October to cruelly ill-treating the animal in a way which they knew would cause him to suffer unnecessarily, and were all disqualified from keeping all animals for five years, given a referral order for 12 months and ordered to pay costs. One of the youths was made to pay £1,000 and the other two £500.
A fourth youth, aged 16 at the time of the offence, pleaded guilty to the same offences under the Animal Welfare Act, at a trial at Folkestone Youth Court
He was also disqualified from keeping animals for five years and given a referral order for twelve months, plus his father was made to pay costs of £5,800.
Last updated Tue 24 Nov 2015
News Link:-http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2015-11-24/set-alight-fed-drugs-and-left-with-a-broken-neck-one-of-the-worst-cases-of-animal-cruelty-the-rspca-has-ever-seen/
PETITION; Yorkie Dog Beaten Almost to Death Deserves Justice
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"If this women is capable of doing this to a dog, then what's next? A child?? This women needs to be behind bars so she can never hurt any form of human life…ever again!!"
Posted by Kari Maze
Target: Channing D. Phillips, United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
Goal: Prosecute woman who allegedly almost beat small Yorkie to death.
A 6-pound Yorkie was allegedly beaten by its owner. We need to take action to better ensure the person responsible gets the maximum prison sentence so that other animals will be less likely to meet the same fate.
Kristina Washington allegedly beat her Yorkie and then failed to provide it with medical care. The dog was hit numerous times in various areas of its body and it now has multiple fractures. Some of these fractures include 11 spinal fractures, five limb fractures, multiple fractures to its skull, four broken ribs and a broken foot. The dog's left leg was also broken so many times that a part of the bone actually absorbed into the body tissue, making it less likely that the leg will properly heal.
Surgeries done on the animal have already cost in the tens of thousands of dollars. Additionally, the dog needs many more surgeries and the animal may not be able to be saved.
Urge the United States Attorney to bring this woman up on two felony counts for this alleged crime, so that she will likely have to spend 10 years in prison. Beating a 6-pound animal is both disgusting and inexcusable.
PLEASE GO TO THIS PETITION LINK TO SIGN, THANK YOU: http://animalpetitions.org/124608/severely-beaten-yorkie-deserves-justice/
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Attorney Phillips,
A woman allegedly nearly beat a small Yorkie to death. If found guilty, it is important that she is punished to the fullest extent of the law so that other animals will not have to suffer under her ownership.
Kristina Washington reportedly beat her Yorkie and then did not get the dog medical care. The dog was beaten to such a great extent that it has multiple fractures. Some of these fractures include 11 spinal fractures, four broken ribs and even multiple fractures to the head.
Veterinarians are not yet able to guarantee that the animal can be saved. Furthermore, surgeries done to help the animal have already cost well over $10,000 and more money is still needed to do other surgeries.
As a United States Attorney, you have the power to bring this woman up on two felony charges in order to better ensure that she will spend 10 years in prison. I therefore urge you to do everything possible to make sure this woman is punished to the fullest extent of the law for committing this alleged, heinous crime. Anyone who almost kills a 6-pound defenceless animal by beating it deserves to spend a great deal of time in prison.
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Mary Ann Barton
News link; http://animalpetitions.org/124608/severely-beaten-yorkie-deserves-justice/
Teenage thug jailed for 17 weeks after torturing two husky dogs is told by judge: 'I wouldn't trust you with a goldfish'
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"What a pitiful outcome of this degenerate waste of space. It is well documented that those who harm animals; more often than not, end up hurting people. They should have made an example of this POS & enforced more jail time. Animal abusers need to see heavy penalties being dished out; if there is any hope of trying to stop them! Would be ABUSERS need to think of the consequences before they even think about hurting an animal! William Legget admitted "he didn't know when to stop" what happens next time he gets mad, just how far will he go then?….probably too far & an innocent life will end!!"
By KEILIGH BAKER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 19:08, 22 January 2015 | UPDATED: 01:49, 23 January 2015
William Legget, 19, tied a dog up before punching, stamping and kicking it
Then turned on his puppy, which he beat before threatening her with knife
Puppy named Nala suffered a broken hip, jaw, cheek and a fractured skull
Legget said the dogs had been 'naughty' and he didn't know when to stop
Judge jailed Leggett and told him he is 'not a decent human being'
The huskies abused by Legget – Nala suffered a broken hip and Balue (below) was also beaten
William Legget, 19, of Bedminster, Bristol, tied adult dog Balue to a bannister and punched, stamped and kicked her before turning on his puppy Nala, who he beat and threatened with a knife.
The older dog (above) escaped serious injury but Nala suffered a broken hip, jaw, cheek and a fractured skull.
William Legget has been jailed after being caught on CCTV beating and severely injuring his husky dogs, http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/22/24F3A12600000578-0-image-a-3_1421952243911.jpg
District Judge Lynne Matthews jailed Legget for 17 weeks after telling him he was 'not a decent human being'. She said she was 'staggered' by his cruelty and imposed a life ban on him keeping any animals, adding she 'would not trust him with a goldfish'.
She also said the case should be reported to social services after hearing that Legget had a young child. Bristol Magistrates' Court heard the beatings took place at Legget's former home in Gravesend, Kent, in February last year.
Legget appears to have grabbed one of the dogs by the head or neck in this CCTV still
When he was arrested Legget told police the dogs had been 'naughty' and said his only fault was not knowing when to 'stop telling them off.' Judge Matthews said: 'With the puppy it wasn't a slight fracture but the bone has broken away. 'The veterinary surgeon said that break was a result of extreme force. You applied that extreme force.'
An X-ray image of the broken hip bone suffered by husky puppy Nala after a brutal beating from Legget
Broken Bone
Legget admitted three counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal and two counts of failing to protect it from pain, suffering and injury.
John Stokes, defending, said his client had both emotional and behavioural problems but had a partner and a young child to look after.
The huskies abused by Legget – Nala (pictured left) suffered a broken hip and Balue (right) was also beaten
Legget was jailed for 17 weeks. Both dogs have now been re-homed.
News Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2922185/Teenage-thug-jailed-17-weeks-torturing-two-husky-dogs.html


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HSBC UK logo at 2019 Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow (picture Alex Whitehead. SWpix.com)
Blow to British Cycling as it confirms HSBC UK to end sponsorship four years early
Bank with "Together we thrive" corporate slogan invokes break clause as governing body starts search for new backing...
Tue, Feb 25, 2020 13:14
British Cycling has confirmed that HSBC UK is terminating its sponsorship of the governing body, spanning the national team and grassroots activities, four years early.
The announcement was made in response to a report by BBC Sport editor Dan Roan this morning, with the organisation confirming that the bank has invoked a break clause to give notice of its early termination of the contract, which had been due to run for eight years.
According to British Cycling, the decision was taken "due to a shift in UK marketing and partnership priorities" at the bank, whose parent group announced earlier this month that it is cutting 35,000 jobs worldwide following a slide in profits.
HSBC UK officially replaced Sky as British Cycling's sponsor with effect from 1 January 2017, although news of the deal had emerged the previous September, shortly after the Rio Olympic Games.
The sponsorship deal kicked in during a period of turmoil at the governing body, with a UK Sport investigation under way into allegations of bullying and poor governance, and UK Anti-doping conducting a probe into possible wrongdoing.
> Ukad says Jiffy bag investigation was "hindered" and "potentially compromised" by British Cycling
There was also a shake-up in the governing body's senior management, with former CEO Ian Drake already confirmed as leaving by the time HSBC UK's sponsorship went live, with Julie Harrington replacing him in March 2017.
Since then, the organisation has featured more in the sports pages for ongoing tribunal cases than for the exploits of the Great Britain Cycling Team.
Last December, former track cyclist Jess Varnish was given the go-ahead to appeal against the decision of an employment tribunal in January last year that she was not an employee of British Cycling or UK Sport at the time she alleges she was discriminated against and unfairly dismissed from the Olympic programme.
> Jess Varnish given go-ahead to appeal employment tribunal decision in British Cycling case
Meanwhile the medical tribunal into former British Cycling doctor Richard Freeman was adjourned before Christmas due to his health and is unlikely to resume before May.
> Dr Richard Freeman tribunal adjourned on medical grounds – unlikely to resume before May
Commenting on the end of the sponsorship, Harrington said: "On course to get over 2 million people cycling regularly, British Cycling's partnership with HSBC UK has delivered lasting benefits for our sport and for communities up and down the country.
"We will part with HSBC UK as firm friends and, in the meantime, look forward to working with them to support our riders to achieve their best in Tokyo.
"Over the last 20 years, British Cycling has enjoyed extraordinary success - both in terms of winning on the global stage and in using that inspiration to encourage more people to cycle more often.
"We are an ambitious organisation with a proud tradition of setting and hitting big targets and we know that more people on bikes is the solution to many of society's biggest challenges," she added.
"As we look to 2021, we will be actively engaging the market to find a new partner to be part of the next stage of our exciting journey."
News of the early termination of the sponsorship comes in the same week as the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, the final competition for Great Britain's cyclists before the Tokyo Olympics.
The country has topped the medal table in cycling at the past three Olympic Games and in the current four-year cycle receives £29.6 million in funding from UK Sport, second only to rowing.
Funding for the next four years will be dependent on performance in Tokyo, meaning that together with the loss of a major sponsor British Cycling could face an income crisis on two fronts should the medals not come in Japan.
HSBC UK
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I certainly think these pedestrians, drovers, carters and horsepeople shouldn't be haring through the countryside at more than ... oh, wait......


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Does someone from here run this site? It has the exact same layout as dgz (lol at "Apex of Competition"). I think it's actually a decent idea to try as I remember a big complaint people had with posting publicly in yugioh forums was that they didn't want "to lose their edge", though I just grind to 5 each month so I can't actually view any of the content. Layout is just so much uglier than dgz though.
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Yeah, basically as Dennis said. It is notable that in hearthstone you can't have use the same class twice (so you couldn't bring both freeze mage and tempo mage).
Huh, I've actually been doing something similar while I was away from here. I released a similar but more in depth tool for hearthstone here. Obviously it's a little different as it's conquest format and such, but it shouldn't be too difficult to port to yugioh. I'm not really interested in yugioh right now, but if you'd like I can throw you the source code and you could modify it for yugioh. upvotes await for the person who does
Quit yugioh a while ago and haven't been here since, but started playing hearthstone and remembered that dgz had a hearthstone section. Here's a tool I made to optimise deck combinations for tournaments. While they have hearthstone names, you can obviously use this for any card game you want by just changing the match up win rates. Link Pictures [spoiler] [/spoiler] //Copy and pasted from the release on the CompetitiveHS subreddit Allows you to simulate any number of tournaments (swiss into top cut, conquest, best of 5), and then will order the different possible deck choice combinations by percentage of tournaments topped. With this tool you are able to set your own tournament compositions (bias) and match up data, load compositions and match up data which other people have provided, and export the results table (the one in the gui) as a csv (openable in excel). If you do not add any extra tournament composition bias or change the default match up data, combinations of decks will be generated randomly with a Bernoulli distribution (so each combination will have the same chance of being played). If you set a bias for a deck combination of 33%, then when generating the players for each tournament, each player will have a 33% of using that combination. If it does not use that combination, it will generate a random deck combination. The available decks and default match up data are from TempoStorm's meta snapshot 42 (the latest). If you wished to be skilled you could create standard decklists and have [ai's](https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/3zdibn/intelligent_agents_for_hearthstone/) play a large number of games, and then average the win rates for match ups. When two players play, they each select the deck with the best overall matchup based on their and their opponent's remaining decks. When a player wins, that player may not use the winning deck again in a given round (conquest rules). You can also change the number of players in a tournament. The top cut and number of swiss rounds are adjusted accordingly. Clicking "highlight selected bias" will select the row with the selected bias in the results table. This will probably give you an unknown publisher warning, I couldn't add a certificate to it unfortunately. Might try to do that in the future. If you find a bug, just post here or message me and I'll fix it sometime. Edit: Fixed a bug where Patron Warrior was mislabled as renolock.
Been putting off leaving
Inexorably replied to Inexorably's topic in Welcome/Farewell
Yeah man, I haven't been on my Inex skype in like two months but I'll try to get on every once in a while. It would be good to see you sometime. Good luck with everything.
Eh, maybe if it ends up having potential like gishkill it would be an interesting thing to come back too. At the moment though I just want to cut myself off from yugioh very sharply, I really should use the time I spend lurking on other things. It is kind of weird cutting off the last parts of something that has been part of my life for the past 8 years, but that's why I want to do it like this. Thanks, you too. Was nice talking to you.
Inexorably posted a topic in Welcome/Farewell
I never made an introduction topic, but I figured the only way to actually get myself off of dgz would be to make a good bye thread so that people can bitch at me if I don't actually leave. Also if I do end up coming back to yugioh in the next couple years, I guess it'd be nice to see my thought process on leaving originally. Blog post etc, kind of an introduction, but also just how my experience with yugioh was. [spoiler] I started "playing" yugioh back in middle school, in the days of perfect circle. I say "playing" because none of my friends and I really gave a fuck about the ban list, and we only had basic ruling knowledge. It was alot of fun though, and I continued playing into highschool. Upon entering highschool, I was introduced to the meta game by an upper classman completely destroying my skillful FlipMonstersAndTraps.dek with zombies. The rest of the yugioh community there started to show me around the metagame, introducing me to top tiers like LS and slightly more rogue decks like hopeless dragon. I realised that unfortunately the show had lied to me, and the text on a card made it good, not how much one liked it. I also realised that yugioh was fucking expensive. However, the other players of my grade had also found out about the mysterious metagame, and thus an arms race began, with everyone building higher and higher tier decks. I started going to tournaments around this time (probably around 2011ish). It was alot of fun. I didn't do particularly well looking back on it, a good run would end around 7-2 (being carried by malefic skill drain in wind up zektor rabbit format was cool), but it meant alot to me at the time. I started to think more and more about the game, and eventually joined pojo about three months later, looking to learn from people in the malefic skill drain thread. Looking back on it, 90% of the suggestions, including mine of course were horrible. This is because pojo fails to teach new players fundamentals, such as the concept of situational counters. That said, it was still useful for serving as an outlet for information such as the shifts in top decks and card choices that might not be avaliable normally to one who mostly plays in highschool. I went to YCS Long Beach around this time also, a really amazing experience. I'd only been to regionals before this, so seeing 4000+ people playing in a tournament, as well as meeting people who'd flown out here, was quite eye opening. Like, "god damn these people invest alot of time and money into this game". One of my friends I'd gone with ended up playing Billy Brake first round (this was just after Billy's back to back YCS wins with plants if I remember correctly, so there was a lot of hype following him -- he was really one of the only players that my friend group had heard about). My friend proceeded to get destroyed in about 15 minutes of course (I believe he was playing dragunities with a budget extra), but it just served to make Brake into a goal of sorts -- like, "one day we'll be able to play at that level". Fastfoward another year, and I'm suddenly a senior. Alot of the more dedicated players were a year ahead of me, so much of the community at my school kind of died right there. By late 2012, I was bored, and looking for new people to play, I was playing dn more and more, and eventually came across from some people from the /vg/ general. I'd shit around on /sci/ and /pol/ before that so it wasn't my first experience being on a board or anything, but it was my first experience with a general, where the same people would discuss similar goals (i.e winning). The first thing that was very different from pojo was that when an obviously bad card choice was presented, the poster was told to fuck off. This was very, very good for my understanding of the game, because seeing bad card choices ridiculed allowed me to think about why they're bad without having to test them. It also gave a much better mindset for playing the game (from a competitive standpoint) than pojo did -- if you lost, it was your fault (shit ratios, -deck +dragons, etc). While that sounds like a very basic thing, it is another concept (along with that tiers always exist) that pojo should really have a sticky with enforced reading. I began to become more integrated into the /dng/ community, and eventually took up the name 'Inexorably' when I started to play in their tournaments more and more often (I wanted a username without a pojo account, for obvious reasons). It was also around this time that dragon rulers came out. I hadn't played competitively in teledad, so this was really my first experience with a format having such an insane divide between the top tier decks and those below it. I steadfastly refused to play rulers or spellbooks on dn though, as there was no way I was going to be afford the either at the time. Most of the general did the same, with the exception of one. In the beginning of the format a hieratic player was able to challenge the ruler player, but after just one tourney rulers began to win almost uncontested (said player winning 11/14 of the tournaments he participated in). Many of the people in the thread were like me, pet deck players -- we knew about and stayed up to date with the top tiers and such, but just preferred playing our own rogue decks. However, despite being on the casual side of competitive, we still enjoyed winning occasionally, and it was extremely disheartening to have literally zero chance of beating dragons in a match. The series of march 2013 tournaments burnt everyone out, and I ended up dropping the game for about three months, coming back when college started. People say college represents new beginnings, and this was especially true in the case of yugioh. It was a whole new group of yugioh players, and we became friends pretty quickly. I was one of the only ones who'd actually had much experience playing in regionals and the difference in tiers, and no one in our group was playing a tier one deck (september dragons at the time). It was sort of a reset into the kind of yugioh I'd enjoyed in middle school -- we gave minimal consideration towards the metagame, and just did what we found fun. We had heiratics, mpbs, geargia, evilswarm, blackwings, mermails, and other rogue decks. It was the diversity that the show had promised all those years ago. However, then the banlist came, and we proceeded into fire/water format. The mermails I'd been playing for the last nine or so months suddenly became top tier, triggering another arms race of sorts -- I started to beat people consistently with the difference in tiers of our decks, and thus they cast away the decks they'd played for so long and bought into the top tiers. While we couldn't travel to far events because of time, we still went to nearby regionals. Armed with a tier one deck for the first time (albeit with no exciton etc, but still mermails were insane), I got back on dng and started playing more and more, as well as discussing theory and more in depth reasoning with the better players. I figured out I could use excel to calculate probability and improve my mermails which made me really happy in an cuddly as shit way, but it was very cumbersome and I focused more on the technical side of playing, the mirror in particular feeling very fun. I started to think about deck choices in a lower level way too, such as the base concepts of variance, and what cards actually do. I began to write programs to help me deck build (often more fun than actually deck building), as well as write down my thoughts on how yugioh worked at a base level, culminating with this after showing it to a friend from dng and him telling me I should post it. This sort of made me more known, I got offers to write for ARG and Ygo org, and I even got sent the article by some of my irl friends that I'd played with asking my thoughts on it (I hadn't told anyone I was Inexorably, as I still used that as my anon identity online). Sadly this could only last so long. Following fire water format and HAT format, we saw the top decks become shaddol, satellar, and burning abyss -- a complete shift of the meta game comparable to the shift into xyz era, when plant synchro was executed and rabbit, inzektor, wu's rose to the top with photon shockwave. However, unlike photon shockwave's release, I'd gotten more into the meta game, as well as just being attached to mermails after playing them for around a year and a half straight. I kind of lost the will to look up what the new cards did: I didn't have any attachment to them, and my own deck was relegated to 'tops locals once in a while' tier. The arms race I'd started back in 2013 continued without me: everyone else bought the new decks, and so going to locals I would just get bodied repeatedly. I sort of dropped the game after that: I've only played three days in the last 7ish months, one day at a regional and two days for YCS Anaheim where a friend lent me his quilhort deck and I ended up making day two after not knowing what any of the DUAE cards did the day before. While I was happy at the time, it was also extremely disappointing for me. I'd been able to beat many players objectively better than me (going into YCS Anaheim I didn't know what any of the specific cards did in the top decks - I just knew what my friend told me the day before, that dolls make fusions and flip, ba's make dante, and quilhorts search tool). The kind of ideal that Brake had presented back in 2012 plant format was really dead for me at this point. Another regional came up in march, but I started going out with the girl I'd liked for a long time, so I didn't care at all how the regional went. Coding and my yugioh friends had been keeping me in the game, but as I had less and less time to code and go to locals, my reasons just disappeared. Despite this, I've become so accustomed to lurking here and reading that I spend alot of time here just out of habit -- to the point that I'm writing this in order to have some sort of closure so that I have more time for everything else. I never really integrated with the community here much outside of posting programs and math, so I really have no excuse to be using this much time. [/spoiler] Before I'd go I'd like to leave my source code to you guys, in case any of you ever feel cuddly as shit. It's not going to get any use otherwise in any case. I'd been working on making was a program for infernoids, with the outputs detailed here. The source is insanely messy (it's one giant .cpp file that I just wrote in a caffeine-fueled daze), and still has if statements / for loops checking for errors, but I don't see myself fixing it so here's the source and output files. Note that it has leftovers such as arrays of tellar monsters, you can just ignore them. The final thing that I had been working on was sort of a culmination of the programs I'd written previously: I'd been making a program that you either input multiple deck lists and it will tell you which is optimal, or it would change the decklists according to an algorithm based on the first one and then return the optimal decklist. It's currently set for Infernity as that was the last thing I was testing, but it's simple enough to see how the infernity functions were written and to adapt them for a different deck type. This can be found here, InfernityFuture. Edgy name yeah, but I really felt that this could be the future of deckbuilding and the game in general. But if it ends up ever being so, it's going to have to be finished by some one other than me. So yeah, that's all I really had to say. I'm happy I found and lurked this community for so long, the mindset given is very useful to many aspects of life. So yeah, play hard as I'm going home or something. Man that was a shit pun. I'll probably stick around today just in case anyone has questions about my shitty coding style, but after that I'll head off. See you guys in the future maybe.
I suck at math
Inexorably replied to knives1990's topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! General Groundz
It depends. If you only care about your targets, and cards that search your targets (like shadow mist and rota / ecall) it's easy. However, if you're running upstarts / cards that draw it gets really bitchy cause you can draw the targets, PoD into them, PoD into upstart into them etc. If you're caring about combos of different cards it gets almost impossible once you pass 4 different cards involved (24 different combinations being possible to be formed). Note that things like ROTA / Ecall don't count as different cards, it refers to the combo targets (such as caring about megalo, gunde, dragoons, and teus, and for some reason running PoD in water). Once you get to that point it is far easier to just write a script (what I did for Infernoids, and Bazaar did for gishkill) to take a decklist text and output randomized hands (with the cards from upstart / PoD shown) and then check the results from here. This normally has 0.3-0.5% error from the true value when using a sample size of ~50,000, so it's good enough.
your population size is going down when you branch. when you condition on not drawing ahl, then you need to lower it to 34. when its "neither" it goes to 28 since you cant have mask change or goblindbergh in your hand either or that would put you on a different branch... to avoid this complication, calculate the chance of each combination independent of anything else (so population stays 37). then multiply the chances of not having each of these combinations all together. subtracting that from 1 gives you the chance of having at least one of the combinations. there's also a little problem with the samples sizes."g" might represent the chance of drawing 1 or more of something. you will multiply it by "s" that is the chance of drawing 1 or more of something else. yet the sample size will still be 5 for calculating "s". it's not. if you drew 1 of "g" its 4. if you drew more than 1 of "g" it's less. but for the sake of the calculation it should be set to 4, not 5. Thanks for reminding me, that's what I meant in that I couldn't remember if I was supposed to go from 5-4 etc. Yes.
The problem is that he said he doesn't know how to branch, even though using the link that you provided (good link which is why I pos'd) he still needs to branch because AHL is a single card that summons dark law and can't be lumped under Goblin+Rota etc combos on the calculator. I don't mean this in a rude way but in case I misunderstood how to use the calculator correctly, what inputs would you use to calculate the probability (it'd be really useful and convenient for me if that calculator worked for things like this) without branching?
Actually I realized that you still need to be able to apply branching correctly when using ATJdragon's link, so here is how to do it. [spoiler][/spoiler] The probability comes out to 72.88%. I haven't done this in a while so not sure, but for the sample size may need to be 4 not 5. I have finals though so not really going to think about it, and it will affect your probability by 0.785% anyways so don't worry about it.
Patrick Hoban And The Djinn Debate
Inexorably replied to atem16's topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! General Groundz
The debate is, should it be legal? Or should these agreements be legal? ect I think a big problem is that no one has presented a way to distinguish between agreements, and thus it's very hard to differentiate between a sincere / mind gaming agreement. I guess one possible way to do it would be to have a certain clause or phrase attached to the proposed agreement, with penalties involved for breaking it as to discourage from double bluffing etc. The problem is this involves judges, and how do you differentiate between keeping to the literal meaning of the agreement (siding out the djin), and keeping to the inferred meaning of the agreement (let's play games 2/3 without djin in our main decks). I think the second problem can't really be fixed in a suitable manner, and if we want to do agreements at all they should be done very explicitly. I do feel that the community itself holds some power in this -- if the community as a whole supports / discourages something like this, then it could be stamped out? But widespread support is relatively difficult to get, as well as splits between sub-communities.
How do you properly shuffle during siding between duels?
Inexorably replied to breezy24's topic in Yu-Gi-Oh! General Groundz
I understand this issue is your personal pet peeve and the whole theory of shuffling is one of your hobbies. But at some point, can we please just cut to the chase and just get some sort of prescription here for the people who don't want to delve too deeply into the literature. Like in your highly researched opinion, can we just get to the point and get a really good system of shuffling that doesn't take a heap of time and can easily be taught to 14 year olds at locals. "Use the ______ shuffle into x piles of y, followed by the ________ shuffle z number of times. Trust me, Inexorably told me to do it this way and he's really into all those fancy mathy things" It's in the second sentence. I link the articles for those interested in understanding why.
It depends on what you mean by technique. It's a commonly known fact that after seven perfect shuffles, a deck of 52 cards will be ~randomized (as in, all orders are about equally likely). So in theory, if you spend sometime practicing / learning how to do a perfect shuffle consistently, that would be an easy way to randomize your deck. This is discussed in more depth here, as well as mentioned in this MTG article. Also, even though you said no pile shuffling, I feel like this should just be posted, so that people don't try doing this thinking that it's legal and get called out for it: http://fivewithflores.com/2009/05/how-to-cheat/.


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Kevin King and the Houston Bulls?!?!?
By IamMOOSE,
June 23, 2020 in VHL.com Articles
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VHL Rookie
Location: Michigan, USA
Player: Kevin King - Center
Following a series of mailbag questions, which you can view here: https://vhlforum.com/topic/86006-kevin-king-mailbag-qa/, where King made the bold declaration of being potentially a GM in the VHL following his playing career, a source within the family has now revealed which team King is eyeing first for a role as an AGM. It was first rumored that King did not submit any application or hint at the at the time vacant AGM role for his own Las Vegas Aces and it is believed that he was very much in favor of the eventually appointed AGM Twists getting the role. King was expected to have added his name to the now loaded applications post (located here: https://vhlforum.com/topic/85564-vhlvhlm-agm-postings/) where teams can consolidate and pick new GMs/AGMs from a list of applicants on the page but we have yet to see his name.
However, it we can exclusively reveal now that Kevin King has expressed interest in one day beginning his front office career with the Houston Bulls of the VHLM. During a BBQ, King revealed that he appreciates the challenges that come with helping build franchises and from a purely front office perspective, he would love to build up a franchise with only a few championships and see if he could bring more prestige to that organization. King would go on to say that plans and ideas can always change. He's focused on being a player today and hopes to win a Founder's Cup with Vegas this season and would love to remain with the Aces next season, "if that's in the cards."


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Tomáš Lešňovský (* 7. října 1993, Námestovo, Slovensko) je slovenský fotbalový brankář, hráč MFK Ružomberok.

Klubová kariéra
Svoji fotbalovou kariéru začal v MŠK Námestovo. Od dorostu působí v MFK Ružomberok, kde se v roce 2012 dostal do prvního týmu. V podzimní části sezóny 2013/14 Corgoň ligy dělal brankářskou dvojku v Ružomberoku za Srbem Miloradem Nikolićem. V prosinci 2013 byl na týdenních testech v polském klubu Wisła Kraków a v lednu 2014 v jiném polském celku Ruch Chorzów.

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Slovenští fotbalisté
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BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA – More than $53,000 was raised for Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital when Baton Rouge Telco Federal, Campus Federal, EFCU Financial, La Capitol Federal, Neighbors Federal and Pelican State credit unions joined together to host the Baton Rouge Area Credit Union Charity Golf Tournament. The 15th annual tournament was held on October 22, 2018, at the Santa Maria Golf Course in Baton Rouge.
Sponsors hosted tents along the course with food, beverages and games for the golfers. With boudin beignets, brisket quesadillas, jambalaya tacos and more, the tents were a hole-in-one feature of the event. Off the course fun included an award ceremony and over 100 door prizes for golfers to win.
"The idea for the Baton Rouge Area Credit Union Charity Golf Tournament started with a simple question over 15 years ago on how credit unions might work together to raise money for our Baton Rouge community. We have worked with Baton Rouge entities like March of Dimes, Capital Area Agency on Aging, Alzheimer Services and Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital Foundation to raise money for services that directly impact our area. It is amazing to see credit unions working together to make an impact on a community," said founder committee member Brian Ainsworth.
The second floor Pediatric Surgery Waiting Area in the new freestanding hospital will be named in honor of the Baton Rouge Area Credit Unions. Over the last seven years, more than $250,000 has been raised for Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital through the annual golf tournament.
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KELC is a non-profit early learning centre licensed by the Ministry of Education. We care for children 18 to 48 months of age. Our centre operates from 7am to 6pm, Monday to Friday.
We are located on 20 acres of beautiful green space in Kleinburg. Our outdoor facilities as well as our indoor play areas and classrooms allow for exploring, learning and fun! Hot, nutritious lunches are catered by Food For Tots, and morning and afternoon snacks are prepared on site. Our teaching team collaborate to provide an environment that is language and experience-rich.
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How to Schedule Your Ecobee to Go Into Vacation Mode
Craig Lloyd @craigelloyd
Updated September 2, 2017, 3:38pm EDT
If you're going on vacation soon, and don't want to be bothered changing the thermostat as you're trying to wrangle the family, the Ecobee actually allows you to schedule the thermostat to go into an away mode ahead of time.
Setting up a vacation on the Ecobee is essentially just putting it into an away mode, which lowers the temperature settings so that your heating or air conditioning doesn't run as often while you're out of the house. Here's how to set it up.
Start by opening up the Ecobee app on your smartphone and tapping on the menu button in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
Tap on "Vacation".
Tap on the round "+" button in the top-right corner of the screen.
From there, first tap on "Departure date and time".
Tap on "Departure Date".
Select the day that you'll be leaving and then hit "Save" at the bottom.
Next, tap on "Departure Time" and select the rough time that you'll be leaving. You can only choose half-hour increments, so this doesn't need to be exact or anything. Hit "Save" at the bottom when you're done.
Once that's done, hit the back arrow in the top-left corner of the screen and then select "Return date and time".
On the next screen, tap on "Return Date".
Select the day that you'll be returning home and hit "Save" at the bottom.
Next, tap on "Return Time" and select the rough time that you'll be returning. Again, you can only choose half-hour increments, so this doesn't need to be exact. Hit "Save" at the bottom when you're done.
Once that's done, hit the back arrow in the top-left corner of the screen and then tap on "Vacation Settings".
If it's hot outside, turn on "Cool" and turn off "Heat". Do the opposite during the winter.
Where it says "Minimum fan runtime", you can select an amount of time per hour that the fan should run. Otherwise, the fan will run only when the HVAC is fired up. This is great to do if you know that the A/C or heat may not turn on many times (or at all) while you're gone, so at least having the fan running will keep the air from getting stale.
When you're finished, hit the back arrow in the top-left corner of the screen.
Hit "Save" down in the bottom-right corner.
After you hit save, your vacation settings will show up with date you're leaving shown on the screen.
You can tap on it to change around any settings that you want. Otherwise, you're all set and your Ecobee thermostat will automatically be put into Vacation Mode at the time and date you specified.
Craig Lloyd
Craig Lloyd is a smarthome expert with nearly ten years of professional writing experience. His work has been published by iFixit, Lifehacker, Digital Trends, Slashgear, and GottaBeMobile.