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Small Communities, Big Ideas: Fast-Tracking Innovation for Equity in Education
Eileen Yang
Senior Manager, Corporate Relations
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted education for some 50 million U.S. public school students and their families, in ways we won't fully understand for years to come.1 In low-income and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, it created a cascade of crises grounded in deep-seated and largely unchallenged inequities—from housing and food insecurity to lack of computers and WiFi access. Yet as teachers, administrators and school staff stretched themselves to the breaking point to support vulnerable students and families, a larger conversation in educational circles was brewing: Could the pandemic-induced disruption offer a unique opportunity to reinvent K-12 education? Could schools emerge from COVID-19 more inclusive, equitable and culturally responsive?
For Genentech, these questions were compelling. We have long focused our charitable contributions and local partnerships on initiatives that advance diversity in STEM fields, and we are deeply committed to equity in healthcare and education. As the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants and a first-generation college student, I know firsthand the pivotal role education and workforce development programs played in my childhood and trajectory from Yale undergrad to philanthropic strategist at Genentech. I also understand the stigma associated with being a recipient of these programs, and the critical need for them to be equitable, culturally responsive and engage communities as partners and co-creators in asset-based approaches.
Could the pandemic-induced disruption offer a unique opportunity to reinvent K-12 education? Could schools emerge from COVID-19 more inclusive, equitable and culturally responsive?
These priorities were top of mind for me and my corporate giving colleagues in the spring of 2020. Through conversations with local teachers, educators, parents and students, we learned that schools in underserved communities were doing heroic work innovating, iterating and improvising to keep pupils and families safe and healthy, provide extra support to the most vulnerable and continue their educational mission in the face of unprecedented challenges. While each school district was unique, they were all working to address systemic inequities and barriers to educational advancement exacerbated by COVID-19. They were brimming with ideas and novel approaches to address these issues, but there was no mechanism to share learnings or scale successes.
Designing Solutions
We knew that educational specialists in "design thinking"—a problem-solving approach emphasizing empathy, iteration and end-user co-creation—had been exploring how to help schools navigate uncertainty long before COVID-19. Upon seeing the potential impact this human-centered approach could have in these communities, we teamed up with the experts at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford d.school) to explore the possibilities. For over ten years, the d.school's K12 Lab has been bringing design tools and approaches to elementary, middle and high schools, and their team was already hard at work helping educators navigate complex challenges brought about by the pandemic. As Sam Seidel, Director of K-12 Strategy and Research at the d.school framed it, "design thinking can help school districts better understand the strengths and needs of families, and use those insights to co-create new programs that ameliorate immediate crises exacerbated by the pandemic, while also bringing creative new approaches to addressing long-term inequities in the education system."
Our talks with Stanford culminated in Reach for the Upside, an innovative collaboration between Genentech, the Genentech Foundation and the d.school to help underserved Northern California school districts fast-track innovation to increase equity in education. Through Reach for the Upside, Genentech and the Genentech Foundation provided $3.2 million in funding, and Stanford d.school delivered their design-thinking expertise and tools to those selected to participate. A pool of 35 organizations were invited to apply, and ultimately 11 design teams were chosen consisting of 8 school districts and 3 education-focused nonprofits that support school districts. We focused on a mix of urban, suburban and rural schools with a significant percentage of high-need, BIPOC students and a track record of innovation and leadership. Ultimately, projects funded through this initiative have the potential to positively impact 442,000 Northern California students, more than half of whom are BIPOC, as well as their teachers, families and communities in 31 school districts across 16 counties.
No one has ever asked me what I thought about what I'm learning. This is the first time—you all are creating something and asking my opinion. This is incredible!
In February, we launched Reach for the Upside through a series of seven biweekly "design-sprint" workshops, conducted over Zoom, with participating teams of administrators, teachers, parents, students and community stakeholders. The teams received coaching from Stanford d.school instructors and experts on best education practices during the pandemic from Ed Trust West, culturally responsive family engagement from NYU Metro Center, measuring program success from Results Lab and social and emotional wellness from the California Department of Education. We challenged the teams to think big—and that is exactly what they did.
Finding the Upside
Among the Reach for the Upside grant recipients: Two school districts that are developing innovative programs and partnerships to promote equity and opportunity in education.
The Northern Humboldt Union High School District wanted to address racial inequity, especially as it affected the experiences of Native American students and their families in the mostly white district. One example: Students were being penalized for missing school to attend tribal ceremonies.
The design team, which had three indigenous members, including Dr. Virgil Moorehead, executive director of Two Feathers Native American Family Services, has embarked on a comprehensive racial equity program centered around an anti-discrimination policy, inclusive curriculum, cultural celebration and multi-generational mentorship program. "This work," says Rachel Watson, a design team member and 20-year teaching veteran, "could be the most transformational thing we've done."
Nonprofit San Joaquin A+ is partnering with the Lodi Unified School District, Delta College and the Lodi Winegrape Commission to design an early college/high school career and technical education (CTE) curriculum to prepare students for careers in the winegrowing and hospitality industries. The program is a win for all involved: an innovative solution to the skills gap and need for greater diversity in the talent pipeline, a financially rewarding career path for many young people who stay in the area after graduation and a much-needed economic boost for family farms.
"Genentech's giving enabled innovation without directing it and gave process, resources and structure to groups that would not normally interact together on a shared vision," says Carolyn Gramstorff, an equity-centered school design consultant who worked with the team. "It's so important to trust the folks who are closest to the pain and the problems to find solutions for their own communities. That will lead us in the right direction."
Snapshot of Two Projects
Diverse stakeholders transforming communities
Taking a step back from the daily pressures of COVID-19-era education, the design teams worked out new ways to address issues causing real harm: issues like racial inequity in special education, a severe shortage of teachers of color, mistreatment of Native American students and the burden of intergenerational poverty. For many teams, the most critical part of the process was the empathy work, like going into communities to ask students, parents and teachers what they needed and to listen to them share their experiences with racism, poverty and trauma. By keeping those impacted at the center of the design process, we were able to elevate the voice of teachers, parents, students and other community members and empower them to design authentic solutions that address their specific needs. The result: 11 transformative and deeply human projects (see sidebars), funded with grants for the 2021-2022 school year and founded on the belief that things can get better if people have a true voice in the policies and programs that impact them.
One of many moments during the workshops that stays with me: A student said, "No one has ever asked me what I thought about what I'm learning. This is the first time—you all are creating something and asking my opinion. This is incredible!"
We think that that student, and all the students, parents, teachers, administrators and community stakeholders who participated are incredible. We are deeply grateful to the Stanford d.school and our nonprofit partners for making the launch of Reach for the Upside a success. We hope that educators, policymakers and funders throughout California and across the country will be as inspired as we are by this work and join us in our mission to promote equity and opportunity for all.
1 National Center for Education Statistics. Back to School Statistics. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372 Accessed May 26, 2021.
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package org.locationtech.geowave.adapter.raster.adapter.merge;

import java.awt.image.SampleModel;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Set;
import org.locationtech.geowave.adapter.raster.adapter.RasterTile;
import org.locationtech.geowave.adapter.raster.util.SampleModelPersistenceUtils;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.index.ByteArrayUtils;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.index.Mergeable;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.index.VarintUtils;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.index.persist.Persistable;
import org.locationtech.geowave.core.index.persist.PersistenceUtils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.SuppressFBWarnings;

public class MultiAdapterServerMergeStrategy<T extends Persistable> implements
    ServerMergeStrategy,
    Mergeable {
  private static final Logger LOGGER =
      LoggerFactory.getLogger(MultiAdapterServerMergeStrategy.class);
  // the purpose for these maps instead of a list of samplemodel and adapter
  // ID pairs is to allow for multiple adapters to share the same sample model
  protected Map<Integer, SampleModel> sampleModels = new HashMap<>();
  public Map<Short, Integer> adapterIdToSampleModelKey = new HashMap<>();

  public Map<Integer, RasterTileMergeStrategy<T>> childMergeStrategies = new HashMap<>();
  public Map<Short, Integer> adapterIdToChildMergeStrategyKey = new HashMap<>();

  public MultiAdapterServerMergeStrategy() {}

  public MultiAdapterServerMergeStrategy(
      final SingleAdapterServerMergeStrategy singleAdapterMergeStrategy) {
    sampleModels.put(0, singleAdapterMergeStrategy.sampleModel);
    adapterIdToSampleModelKey.put(singleAdapterMergeStrategy.internalAdapterId, 0);
    childMergeStrategies.put(0, singleAdapterMergeStrategy.mergeStrategy);
    adapterIdToChildMergeStrategyKey.put(singleAdapterMergeStrategy.internalAdapterId, 0);
  }

  public SampleModel getSampleModel(final short internalAdapterId) {
    synchronized (this) {
      final Integer sampleModelId = adapterIdToSampleModelKey.get(internalAdapterId);
      if (sampleModelId != null) {
        return sampleModels.get(sampleModelId);
      }
      return null;
    }
  }

  public RasterTileMergeStrategy<T> getChildMergeStrategy(final short internalAdapterId) {
    synchronized (this) {
      final Integer childMergeStrategyId = adapterIdToChildMergeStrategyKey.get(internalAdapterId);
      if (childMergeStrategyId != null) {
        return childMergeStrategies.get(childMergeStrategyId);
      }
      return null;
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void merge(final Mergeable merge) {
    synchronized (this) {
      if ((merge != null) && (merge instanceof MultiAdapterServerMergeStrategy)) {
        final MultiAdapterServerMergeStrategy<T> other = (MultiAdapterServerMergeStrategy) merge;
        mergeMaps(
            sampleModels,
            adapterIdToSampleModelKey,
            other.sampleModels,
            other.adapterIdToSampleModelKey);
        mergeMaps(
            childMergeStrategies,
            adapterIdToChildMergeStrategyKey,
            other.childMergeStrategies,
            other.adapterIdToChildMergeStrategyKey);
      }
    }
  }

  private static <T> void mergeMaps(
      final Map<Integer, T> thisValues,
      final Map<Short, Integer> thisAdapterIdToValueKeys,
      final Map<Integer, T> otherValues,
      final Map<Short, Integer> otherAdapterIdToValueKeys) {
    // this was generalized to apply to both sample models and merge
    // strategies, comments refer to sample models but in general it is also
    // applied to merge strategies

    // first check for sample models that exist in 'other' that do
    // not exist in 'this'
    for (final Entry<Integer, T> sampleModelEntry : otherValues.entrySet()) {
      if (!thisValues.containsValue(sampleModelEntry.getValue())) {
        // we need to add this sample model
        final List<Short> adapterIds = new ArrayList<>();
        // find all adapter IDs associated with this sample
        // model
        for (final Entry<Short, Integer> adapterIdEntry : otherAdapterIdToValueKeys.entrySet()) {
          if (adapterIdEntry.getValue().equals(sampleModelEntry.getKey())) {
            adapterIds.add(adapterIdEntry.getKey());
          }
        }
        if (!adapterIds.isEmpty()) {
          addValue(adapterIds, sampleModelEntry.getValue(), thisValues, thisAdapterIdToValueKeys);
        }
      }
    }
    // next check for adapter IDs that exist in 'other' that do not
    // exist in 'this'
    for (final Entry<Short, Integer> adapterIdEntry : otherAdapterIdToValueKeys.entrySet()) {
      if (!thisAdapterIdToValueKeys.containsKey(adapterIdEntry.getKey())) {
        // find the sample model associated with the adapter ID
        // in 'other' and find what Integer it is with in 'this'
        final T sampleModel = otherValues.get(adapterIdEntry.getValue());
        if (sampleModel != null) {
          // because the previous step added any missing
          // sample models, it should be a fair assumption
          // that the sample model exists in 'this'
          for (final Entry<Integer, T> sampleModelEntry : thisValues.entrySet()) {
            if (sampleModel.equals(sampleModelEntry.getValue())) {
              // add the sample model key to the
              // adapterIdToSampleModelKey map
              thisAdapterIdToValueKeys.put(adapterIdEntry.getKey(), sampleModelEntry.getKey());
              break;
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  private static synchronized <T> void addValue(
      final List<Short> adapterIds,
      final T sampleModel,
      final Map<Integer, T> values,
      final Map<Short, Integer> adapterIdToValueKeys) {
    int nextId = 1;
    boolean idAvailable = false;
    while (!idAvailable) {
      boolean idMatched = false;
      for (final Integer id : values.keySet()) {
        if (nextId == id.intValue()) {
          idMatched = true;
          break;
        }
      }
      if (idMatched) {
        // try the next incremental ID
        nextId++;
      } else {
        // its not matched so we can use it
        idAvailable = true;
      }
    }
    values.put(nextId, sampleModel);
    for (final Short adapterId : adapterIds) {
      adapterIdToValueKeys.put(adapterId, nextId);
    }
  }

  @SuppressFBWarnings(
      value = {"DLS_DEAD_LOCAL_STORE"},
      justification = "Incorrect warning, sampleModelBinary used")
  @Override
  public byte[] toBinary() {
    int byteCount = 0;
    final List<byte[]> sampleModelBinaries = new ArrayList<>();
    final List<Integer> sampleModelKeys = new ArrayList<>();
    int successfullySerializedModels = 0;
    int successfullySerializedModelAdapters = 0;
    final Set<Integer> successfullySerializedModelIds = new HashSet<>();
    for (final Entry<Integer, SampleModel> entry : sampleModels.entrySet()) {
      final SampleModel sampleModel = entry.getValue();
      try {
        final byte[] sampleModelBinary =
            SampleModelPersistenceUtils.getSampleModelBinary(sampleModel);
        byteCount += sampleModelBinary.length;
        byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedIntByteLength(sampleModelBinary.length);
        byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedIntByteLength(entry.getKey());
        sampleModelBinaries.add(sampleModelBinary);
        sampleModelKeys.add(entry.getKey());
        successfullySerializedModels++;
        successfullySerializedModelIds.add(entry.getKey());
      } catch (final Exception e) {
        LOGGER.warn("Unable to serialize sample model", e);
      }
    }
    byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedIntByteLength(successfullySerializedModelIds.size());

    for (final Entry<Short, Integer> entry : adapterIdToSampleModelKey.entrySet()) {
      if (successfullySerializedModelIds.contains(entry.getValue())) {
        byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedShortByteLength(entry.getKey());
        byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedIntByteLength(entry.getValue());
        successfullySerializedModelAdapters++;
      }
    }
    byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedIntByteLength(successfullySerializedModelAdapters);

    final List<byte[]> mergeStrategyBinaries = new ArrayList<>();
    final List<Integer> mergeStrategyKeys = new ArrayList<>();
    int successfullySerializedMergeStrategies = 0;
    int successfullySerializedMergeAdapters = 0;
    final Set<Integer> successfullySerializedMergeIds = new HashSet<>();
    for (final Entry<Integer, RasterTileMergeStrategy<T>> entry : childMergeStrategies.entrySet()) {
      final RasterTileMergeStrategy<T> mergeStrategy = entry.getValue();
      final byte[] mergeStrategyBinary = PersistenceUtils.toBinary(mergeStrategy);
      byteCount += mergeStrategyBinary.length;
      byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedIntByteLength(mergeStrategyBinary.length);
      byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedIntByteLength(entry.getKey());
      mergeStrategyBinaries.add(mergeStrategyBinary);
      mergeStrategyKeys.add(entry.getKey());
      successfullySerializedMergeStrategies++;
      successfullySerializedMergeIds.add(entry.getKey());
    }
    byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedIntByteLength(successfullySerializedMergeStrategies);

    for (final Entry<Short, Integer> entry : adapterIdToChildMergeStrategyKey.entrySet()) {
      if (successfullySerializedMergeIds.contains(entry.getValue())) {
        byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedShortByteLength(entry.getKey());
        byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedIntByteLength(entry.getValue());
        successfullySerializedMergeAdapters++;
      }
    }
    byteCount += VarintUtils.unsignedIntByteLength(successfullySerializedMergeAdapters);

    final ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.allocate(byteCount);
    VarintUtils.writeUnsignedInt(successfullySerializedModels, buf);
    for (int i = 0; i < successfullySerializedModels; i++) {
      final byte[] sampleModelBinary = sampleModelBinaries.get(i);
      VarintUtils.writeUnsignedInt(sampleModelBinary.length, buf);
      buf.put(sampleModelBinary);
      VarintUtils.writeUnsignedInt(sampleModelKeys.get(i), buf);
    }

    VarintUtils.writeUnsignedInt(successfullySerializedModelAdapters, buf);
    for (final Entry<Short, Integer> entry : adapterIdToSampleModelKey.entrySet()) {
      if (successfullySerializedModelIds.contains(entry.getValue())) {
        VarintUtils.writeUnsignedShort(entry.getKey(), buf);
        VarintUtils.writeUnsignedInt(entry.getValue(), buf);
      }
    }
    VarintUtils.writeUnsignedInt(successfullySerializedMergeStrategies, buf);
    for (int i = 0; i < successfullySerializedMergeStrategies; i++) {
      final byte[] mergeStrategyBinary = mergeStrategyBinaries.get(i);
      VarintUtils.writeUnsignedInt(mergeStrategyBinary.length, buf);
      buf.put(mergeStrategyBinary);
      VarintUtils.writeUnsignedInt(mergeStrategyKeys.get(i), buf);
    }

    VarintUtils.writeUnsignedInt(successfullySerializedMergeAdapters, buf);
    for (final Entry<Short, Integer> entry : adapterIdToChildMergeStrategyKey.entrySet()) {
      if (successfullySerializedModelIds.contains(entry.getValue())) {
        VarintUtils.writeUnsignedShort(entry.getKey(), buf);
        VarintUtils.writeUnsignedInt(entry.getValue(), buf);
      }
    }
    return buf.array();
  }

  @Override
  public void fromBinary(final byte[] bytes) {
    final ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes);
    final int sampleModelSize = VarintUtils.readUnsignedInt(buf);
    sampleModels = new HashMap<>(sampleModelSize);
    for (int i = 0; i < sampleModelSize; i++) {
      final byte[] sampleModelBinary =
          ByteArrayUtils.safeRead(buf, VarintUtils.readUnsignedInt(buf));
      if (sampleModelBinary.length > 0) {
        try {
          final int sampleModelKey = VarintUtils.readUnsignedInt(buf);
          final SampleModel sampleModel =
              SampleModelPersistenceUtils.getSampleModel(sampleModelBinary);
          sampleModels.put(sampleModelKey, sampleModel);
        } catch (final Exception e) {
          LOGGER.warn("Unable to deserialize sample model", e);
        }
      } else {
        LOGGER.warn("Sample model binary is empty, unable to deserialize");
      }
    }
    final int sampleModelAdapterIdSize = VarintUtils.readUnsignedInt(buf);
    adapterIdToSampleModelKey = new HashMap<>(sampleModelAdapterIdSize);
    for (int i = 0; i < sampleModelAdapterIdSize; i++) {
      adapterIdToSampleModelKey.put(
          VarintUtils.readUnsignedShort(buf),
          VarintUtils.readUnsignedInt(buf));
    }

    final int mergeStrategySize = VarintUtils.readUnsignedInt(buf);
    childMergeStrategies = new HashMap<>(mergeStrategySize);
    for (int i = 0; i < mergeStrategySize; i++) {
      final byte[] mergeStrategyBinary =
          ByteArrayUtils.safeRead(buf, VarintUtils.readUnsignedInt(buf));
      if (mergeStrategyBinary.length > 0) {
        try {
          final RasterTileMergeStrategy mergeStrategy =
              (RasterTileMergeStrategy) PersistenceUtils.fromBinary(mergeStrategyBinary);
          final int mergeStrategyKey = VarintUtils.readUnsignedInt(buf);
          if (mergeStrategy != null) {
            childMergeStrategies.put(mergeStrategyKey, mergeStrategy);
          }
        } catch (final Exception e) {
          LOGGER.warn("Unable to deserialize merge strategy", e);
        }
      } else {
        LOGGER.warn("Merge strategy binary is empty, unable to deserialize");
      }
    }
    final int mergeStrategyAdapterIdSize = VarintUtils.readUnsignedInt(buf);
    adapterIdToChildMergeStrategyKey = new HashMap<>(mergeStrategyAdapterIdSize);
    for (int i = 0; i < mergeStrategyAdapterIdSize; i++) {
      adapterIdToChildMergeStrategyKey.put(
          VarintUtils.readUnsignedShort(buf),
          VarintUtils.readUnsignedInt(buf));
    }
  }

  // public T getMetadata(
  // final GridCoverage tileGridCoverage,
  // final Map originalCoverageProperties,
  // final RasterDataAdapter dataAdapter ) {
  // final RasterTileMergeStrategy<T> childMergeStrategy =
  // getChildMergeStrategy(dataAdapter.getAdapterId());
  // if (childMergeStrategy != null) {
  // return childMergeStrategy.getMetadata(
  // tileGridCoverage,
  // dataAdapter);
  // }
  // return null;
  // }

  @Override
  public void merge(
      final RasterTile thisTile,
      final RasterTile nextTile,
      final short internalAdapterId) {
    final RasterTileMergeStrategy<T> childMergeStrategy = getChildMergeStrategy(internalAdapterId);

    if (childMergeStrategy != null) {
      childMergeStrategy.merge(thisTile, nextTile, getSampleModel(internalAdapterId));
    }
  }
}


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Q: probability in roulette! So I have read how to play roulette...still a little confused, and now I'm faced with a probability question about it which makes the problem a little harder. Please help me reason this where possible.
Let's say you're in a debt of $500.
You have $250 and you're going to use that to try to pay back your debt. What are the advantages of:

*

*Betting all on black

So if I bet all on black, I have a 0.5 chance of winning \$250 (and then having $500). So simply advantages are quick return if I win...and just being bankrupt otherwise. Probably a risk not taking.

*

*Betting $50 on black 5 times (and if you haven't won, then you're just bankrupt).

Would this be an expectation question? I can make X~Bern(p). Would I have to use any conditional cases here?

*

*Betting in increments of $x until you make it all back or you go bankrupt.

A: If you really want to pay off your debt and insist on gambling to do so, choice 1) is your best bet. There's something called the house edge, which basically says that if you play the smartest way possible (which doesn't really come into play with roulette...), then the house, on average, is almost guaranteed to make a certain percentage of your money every time you spin the wheel.
Because of this, option 1) is the most likely to let you walk away with the most money possible. Choices 2) and 3) lead very naturally to a well-studied idea called the gambler's ruin, which is the mathematics behind why making sequences of bets, when the house has an edge, will eventually make you go broke.
To think about option 1) where you actually have a 50% chance of winning (0 and 00 don't exist in this world) you indeed have a 50% chance of walking away with $500. If you try to bet twice, you only have a 25% chance of winning both rounds, 25% chance of going bust, and a 50% chance of walking away even. Even if the bets are smaller, you can see that this doesn't compare favorably to a 50% chance of winning just once.
The advantages of choices 2) and 3) would be free drinks and all the fun you can handle! Until you go broke, that is...

A: Your roulette odds are fair (contrary to Vegas where they include extra 0 and 00 in favor of the house).
So if you bet once you have 50% chance to win.
If you bet by increment of $50 you still have 50% chance to win. If we look at the expected value for your bets it will look like this:
-------|-----|------------
       |-50  | 50
P(X=x) |0.5  |0.5
-------|-----|------------

so -50*0.5+50*0.5=0 that means that however you play you will end up with no change.
However, if we look at Vegas odds,  it goes like this: there 38 spots (18 black, 18 red and 2 green). Betting all on red or black gives you 18/38=0.473% chance of winning.
if we go on betting by chunks of 50:
-------|-------|-------|-----
       |-50    | 50    |
P(X=x) |0.526  |0.473  |
-------|-------|-------|-----

your expected value is -2.65 which means, you will lose on average $2.56 on each bet. This is a very simplicity approach without looking into Markov's Chain for  the Gambler's Ruin.

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McCallum, Methvin & Terrell Recieves Top Tier Ranking from U.S. News - Best Lawyers 2017 "Best Law Firms"
McCallum, Methvin & Terrell is pleased to announce that the firm has been honored by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers in its 2017 edition of "Best Law Firms" as a Metropolitan Tier 1 Law Firm in the area of Commercial Litigation.
The U.S. News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer reviews from leading attorneys in their field and the review of additional information provided by law firms. Clients were asked to provide feedback on firm practice groups, while addressing expertise, responsiveness, understanding of a business and its needs, cost-effectiveness, civility and whether the respondent would refer another client to the firm.
U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers also named the following McCallum, Methvin & Terrell attorneys as the "2017 Best Lawyers in America":
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Robert G. Methvin, Jr.
James M. Terrell
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Before the days of Top Chef and celebrity chef TV fame, there were the legendary restaurateurs like Tony May who was instrumental in shaping the landscape and direction of New York's culinary scene. Starting with operating the Rainbow Room in 1968 to creating the first fine Italian dining establishments, Palio and San Domenico that earned a coveted 3 stars rating from the New York Times. His foresight and modern thinking and reinterpretation of contemporary Italian is what made him so successful in one of the most competitive industries in the city. While culinary talents reign in the May genes, over the last half decade he established the more contemporary SD26 with his vivacious daughter Marisa, who is excited about their five year anniversary in the Flatiron district and is looking forward to the next 20 years.
"We're very excited for our 5 year anniversary it's been such an amazing journey. We were very lucky to have had a 20 year run on Central Park South, and when our lease was up we wanted to build a younger, sexier, more contemporary San Domenico that would take us through the next 20 years. We didn't want to forget the past but we wanted to shed that formal image we had built and we've been very embraced by the neighborhood. We built an incredible wine bar, an open kitchen with a chef's table, a salumeria, and a balcony to bring in the feeling of a theater. Our chef Matteo Bergamini has been with us from the beginning starting at the Central Park South location and then training in formal French under Daniel Boloud to coming here and has been instrumental to the success of the restaurant which is the continuity and personal touch that makes us stand out. If you don't take risks in life you will never know. In the 5 years we have always stayed true to who we were and what we've built in the city as restaurateurs. You really have to keep an open mind and evolve and change in this industry as the customer evolves.


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Fondata nel 1972, con l'apertura, all'interno del Palau Blaugrana, del Palau de Gel, la squadra prese parte fin dalla prima edizione, nel 1973, alla Superliga Española. Il primo titolo nazionale lo vinse nel 1986-1987, bissando il successo l'anno successivo. La squadra senior fu poi sciolta per decisione del presidente Josep Lluís Núñez, che mantenne solo l'attività giovanile. All'inizio degli anni '90, però, la squadra fu ricostituita, ed il terzo titolo giunse nel 1996-1997. A questo ne sono seguiti altri due: 2001-2002 e 2008-2009.

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An article published in the L.A Times started a sequence of events that has now resulted in Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) agreeing to a settlement of $275,000 for its violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule.
The Privacy Rule forbids all covered entities – and their employees and business associates – from disclosing health information of patients to unauthorized persons. Whenever there is suspicion that regulations are not being followed the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) conducts an investigation and compliance review.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was tipped off to potential Privacy Rule violations after two senior SRMC leaders met with the media and provided details of medical procedures performed on a specific patient. This unauthorized disclosure of the patient's protected health information to the media was a direct violation of the Privacy Rule.
Patient consent must be obtained in writing before any PHI can be disclosed to a third party and this was not the case at SRMC. The OCR discovered that information had been intentionally provided to the media on three separate occasions. The media disclosure exposed PHI to the greatest audience, although the OCR also discovered information about the patient's condition, diagnosis and treatment had been emailed to the entire staff. Furthermore, employees were not sanctioned for disclosing this information as was stated in its internal sanctions policy.
Shasta Regional Medical Center has agreed to pay a settlement of $275,000 to the HHS for the HIPAA violations and must implement a corrective action plan. The plan ensures that SRMC implements the appropriate controls to protect PHI, such as updating policies and procedures to ensure that PHI is always protected and training the staff on its obligations under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
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Susan W. Herring received her B.S. in Zoology and her Ph.D. Anatomy at the University of Chicago, Illinois, where she studied the comparative cranial anatomy of pigs and their close relatives. Feeling the need to work with live animals, she moved to the College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago as an NIH postdoctoral fellow, where she developed techniques to record masticatory muscle activity and jaw movement from unrestrained animals. Herring remained at University of Illinois at Chicago until 1990, rising to Professor of Oral Anatomy and Anatomy. In 1990 she took up her current position as Professor of Orthodontics and Oral Biology, now Oral Health Sciences, at the University of Washington, Seattle. Herring's work on the biology of the craniofacial musculoskeletal system has been continuously funded by NIH for over 35 years. She has served on the editorial boards of multiple journals and held office in several societies, is a fellow of AADR and AAAS. Herring is the recipient of the 1999 Craniofacial Biology Research Award from IADR.
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This article incorrectly said that American University senior Melanie Mirowitz accrued $500 in penalty charges after missing payments on her credit card bill. Mirowitz missed one payment on a bill of $500.
Credit card reform has companies treading lightly on campus
Students weigh in on new credit card rules
George Washington University students give their opinion on new legislation that will affect how credit card companies can market their products on college campuses.
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Credit card reform came too late for 20-year-old Tamaira Shaw.
The junior at the University of the District of Columbia got a preapproved credit card from Bank of America in the mail her freshman year of college. It had her name on it and a $500 limit, and she took it as a license to spend. Within three days, she bought a cellphone, clothes and textbooks - and maxed out her card. Her mother is still helping her pay off the balance - plus hundreds of dollars in finance charges and fees.
"They randomly sent it to me," Shaw recalled this week as she started another semester at UDC. "I was just excited."
The landmark federal legislation that overhauled the credit card industry is reaching into college campuses to protect students like Shaw as they return to school and attempt to juggle not only their education and social lives but also how to pay for it all.
The law, which was passed in 2009 and phased in this year, bans issuers from providing credit cards to people younger than 21 unless another adult co-signs for it or the student can show an independent source of income. It also prohibits the companies from offering students freebies, such as T-shirts or pizza, in exchange for signing up for a card on campus or at school events, and college groups are required to make public any partnerships they have with card issuers.
Consumer advocates have long criticized the industry for wooing young people who often don't realize the risks involved, sucking them into a vicious cycle of debt. "Their goal is to hook you on credit," Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director of the advocacy group U.S. PIRG, said of the industry's business model.
The new credit card law was designed to target what lawmakers dubbed "unfair or deceptive" practices by issuers and implemented the most sweeping change in the history of the industry. Among the most aggressive provisions were banning interest rate increases on existing balances and prohibiting issuers from raising rates when their customers miss payments on an unrelated account, such as a mortgage or an electric bill. The final phase of the law, which took effect Sunday, limits penalty fees and requires gift cards to be honored for five years.
The legislation spells out unique protections for young consumers, an attractive market for card companies seeking to grow their business. According to the student loan company Sallie Mae, about 42 percent of college students have a credit card. In 2008, the most recent data available, college students graduated with an average credit card debt of more than $4,100, up from $2,900 four years earlier. And only 15 percent of freshmen had a zero credit card balance, plummeting from 69 percent in 2004, Sallie Mae said.
"If you were a student and you could fog a mirror, you could get a credit card," said Adam Levin, co-founder of Credit.com and former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.
Many students use credit cards for legitimate reasons, such as buying textbooks and meals or building a credit history. But lawmakers and consumer groups have attacked issuers for inappropriately marketing to students by holding giveaways on campus, mining alumni association databases and negotiating lucrative partnerships to provide university-branded credit cards. Several large issuers have been dialing back their promotions. Chase said it stopped using student mailing lists in 2006 and ended marketing on campuses and at athletic events by 2008.
Bank of America said it no longer sets up marketing tables at colleges, but it still maintains partnerships with about 700 alumni associations, athletic departments and some Greek organizations to offer college-branded credit cards to recent graduates. For example, it has a $2.8 million, seven-year contract with the Georgetown Alumni Association and its student credit union, which gives it access to the groups' mailing lists and pays a $50,000 bonus if the bank signs up 1,800 accounts in a year. On its Web site, the alumni association says the contract helps students because it pays for reunions, grants and scholarships, as well as a Sept. 11 memorial garden. The contract bans on-campus marketing and limits the number of direct-mail and e-mail campaigns.
Other Washington area universities, including Catholic University and Howard University, have similar agreements. A spokeswoman for Howard said the school is renegotiating a credit card contract with its alumni affairs department to ensure that students do not take on unnecessary debt, but she declined to elaborate. The college has also launched two financial-literacy programs for students, she said.
Under the new law, card issuers must submit any contracts they have with collegiate groups to the Federal Reserve, which will compile a report detailing the nature of the relationship. A Fed representative said the central bank is reviewing more than 1,000 agreements. Consumer advocates said they hope the legislation will increase transparency for such partnerships.
Still, sometimes even the strictest oversight cannot stop students from making mistakes.
Melanie Mirowitz, 21, a senior at American University, said she got a credit card with the blessing of her parents. They thought it would be a good idea to help build her credit history - as long as she used the card responsibly, she said. But paying the bill slipped her mind for a few months, and she racked up $500 in penalty fees.
"That wasn't a good conversation," said Mirowitz, who now tries to pay her balance on time each month. "They don't really explain it to you how it impacts you."
AU law student Steve vonBerg, 30, said his credit card initiation occurred shortly after he graduated from college. He racked up $7,000 in debt to fund a start-up business, which eventually shut down. It took him four years to pay off the card, he said.
Now older and wiser, he offered this advice to the new crop of students learning to juggle their budgets: "Don't take it into bars with you. Realize it's not free money."


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Nothing says romance like a hand-in-hand walk on a seemingly endless, warm and peaceful beach. With an annual average of 361 sunny days and 35 miles of white powdery sand, couples looking for a special getaway visit Pinellas County on Florida's Gulf Coast. From romantic waterfront restaurants to intimate spas to secluded sand dunes, Pinellas County is packed with quiet corners ideal for connecting with that special someone.
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Start your trip with warm sand between your toes on a stroll in the solitude of Fort De Soto Park. Found off the Pinellas Bayway, just a 25-minute drive south of St. Petersburg, the park is made up of five peaceful, interconnected islands with more than 7 miles of waterfront. You could also spend a romantic night under canvas at the park's designated campsite.
For couples who like to end the day gazing into each other's eyes over a candlelit dinner, Pinellas County offers a wealth of options. From casual, waterfront eateries specializing in locally caught seafood to fine dining with a European twist, there's something to satisfy most romantics' palates. Bon Appetit Restaurant, in Dunedin, for example, features indoor and outdoor tables with sunset views over St. Joseph Sound and Honeymoon and Caladesi Islands. They have a special romantic "Table for Two" menu that includes champagne and chocolate-dipped strawberries.
If a day walking the beach or exploring the streets of Clearwater or St. Petersburg leaves you and your significant other in need of some rest, keep the romance going with a relaxing couples' spa treatment. Ease the stress of a busy day with a therapeutic, side-by-side massage at The Safety Harbor Resort and Spa. Overlooking Old Tampa Bay on the east side of Pinellas County, the spa has 50- or 80-minute Swedish-style massages for couples.
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For a true get-away-from-it-all romantics' excursion, you can leave the real world behind and disappear together to an unspoiled island for the day. Pinellas County has several to choose from, but few are as pristine as Caladesi Island, west of the town of Dunedin. Start your trip with a 20-minute ferry ride from Honeymoon Island before landing on the white sand and wandering among the dunes and palm trees. For even more alone-time, take a kayak on the designated waterways among the mangrove trees.
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A startup backed by a Tesla investor promises a flying car model, the U.S. federal semiconductor aid asks for more funding, and Amazon will layoff almost 20,000 employees.
That's all the tech news that's trending right now, welcome to Hashtag Trending. It's Monday December 5 and I'm your host, Samira Balsara.
Alef Aeronautics, a startup backed by a Tesla investor announced that it will be able to take off into the air vertically and fly similar to a helicopter up to 110 miles on a single charge. In addition, the company revealed it plans to deliver these vehicles by 2025. CNBC reports Alef's Model A will cost $300,000 and presales are currently open, with interested customers able to pay just a $150 deposit to get on the waiting list, or $1,500 for a "priority" spot on the list. The design plan for the car includes a carbon-fibre body with an open, mesh-like top that houses four propellers on each side. Once the car begins flying vertically, the vehicle will turn on its side, with the two-seat cockpit swivelling, allowing the propellers to steer it like an oversized flying drone.
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the top booster for federal semiconductor aid in the U.S. said the country should invest $20 billion to $30 billion in semiconductor design and research and development through 2030 on top of the $52 billion in chip manufacturing subsidies that were approved by Congress in July. The SIA said additional funding is needed to ensure it doesn't lose its leadership in chip design to other countries. The association said the funding could result in SIA additional design-related sales of about $450 billion over the next ten years while also creating 23,000 new design jobs.
Amazon plans to let go almost 20,000 employees across the company over the next few months. These layoffs will impact distribution centre workers to corporate executives, a report in Computer World revealed. Employees at Amazon are ranked from level one to level seven, and staff at all levels will likely be affected. Twenty thousand employees are the equivalent of about six per cent of corporate staff, and about 1.3 per cent of Amazon's total 1.5 million workforce including global distribution centre and hourly workers.
Taylor Swift fans are suing Ticketmaster over the mess from its November 15 ticket sale for her Eras Tour. Fans are suing the company for "fraud, price-fixing, and antitrust violations," accusing it of "intentional deception" that allowed resellers to purchase most of the tickets and sell them at extremely high prices. According to The Deadline, the lawsuit alleges that Ticketmaster wasn't strict enough with resellers and allowed them into the presale event in order to collect extra fees on resold tickets. The lawsuit asks for the court to hit the company with a civil fine of $2,500 per violation.
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Thats all is needed to explain and describe the grandeur of this beautiful city and Palace. We were in Udaipur for a wedding and couldn't help but work on a story dedicated only to this remarkable city. We could see the entire city from one end of the palace while the other end showed the gorgeous panoramic view of lake Pichola.
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Eni announces the production start-up at Lucius oil field in Gulf of Mexico deepwater
San Donato Milanese (Milan), 19 January 2015 – Eni announces the production start-up from the Lucius Field in the Gulf of Mexico deepwater, 240 miles south of the Louisiana coast, United States.
Lucius, which is in approximately 7,000 feet of water, has a production secured through 6 subsea wells tied back to a moored production handling spar connected to the shore via dedicated oil and gas pipelines. The spar has a design capacity of 80,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) and 450 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscfd) of gas. Once all wells are ramped up, Eni's share of the Lucius daily production is expected to be approximately 7,000 boed.
The Lucius field was discovered in November 2009 and the subsequent development project was sanctioned in late 2011. Eni owns a working interest of 8.5% in the field operated by Anadarko. Eni also holds a 30% working interest in the nearby Hadrian South gas field operated by ExxonMobil, which is a subsea development tied back to Lucius spar, and is expected to produce 300 MMscf/d at plateau, with startup expected in early 2015.
The Greater Hadrian area, which includes the Lucius and Hadrian South fields, represents a core asset for Eni's future production, since it is expected to provide approximately 20,000 boed equity of combined production at its peak.
In the US, Eni owns interests in 200 leases in the Gulf of Mexico and 530 leases in unconventional plays (shale gas and shale oil) onshore Texas. In addition, Eni owns interests in 100 leases in the North Slope of Alaska, which include 100% of Nikaitchuq and 30% of the Oooguruk oil fields.
Eni's current net production in the US is approximately 100,000 boed, 75% of which is operated.
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« : April 03, 2004, 03:48:43 AM »
Sergio Leone was a second unit director on this, and is also an uncredited director. Christopher Frayling has said that this is the only pre-Dollar film where you can see the stylist Leones work, making it much more interesting than his other peplum films. He also mentioned that Leone directed the italian version, while Robert Aldrich(the credited director) shot the american version. I don't quite understand this. Did they shoot two films simultaneously like they did with "Dracula" (Lugosi version) and "Druids" (with Christophe Lambert)? One italian and one english version. Or does it mean that Leone shot all the footage that was shot in Italy, while Aldrich only shot in studio in America.
By the way, has anyone seen this film? How is it? Is it possible to find on dvd? It seems like it is an essential item in every Sergio Leone dvd collection.
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« #1 : April 05, 2004, 12:54:17 PM »
I have a video of this film,although it's a heavily cut version[I think uncut it runs around 170 mins,my version is 114 mins],I don't think it is available on DVD.It's basically a highly entertaining but extremely corny Biblical epic with lots of fairly tame sex and violence like Cecil B.DeMille's films[Samson and Delilah,etc.].From what I know Leone's major involvement was in the lengthy battle scene about two thirds of the way through,which remains a stunning sequence with some great camerawork.I like the film despite it's silliness and to my mind it's better then Colossus Of Rhodes.It deserves a DVD release[uncut].
I don't think there were two versions shot,but I'm not sure.As far as I know the film was shot in English,maybe Leone supervised the Italian dialogue?
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« #2 : February 21, 2010, 02:59:03 AM »
I watched this last night on a German R2 DVD.The image quality varied because it was compiled apparently from a high quality shorter print and a lesser quality longer print. I think it still missed a few snippets here or there (the PAL runtime listed was 143min) but at least it was all in the correct aspect ratio.
As for the film itself, the supposed Leone-directed battle scenes in the middle were clearly the best part. I also particularly liked the introductory sequence. The end scenes were sadly tame even for that era and were a far cry from Leone's vastly better scenes of city destruction in the "Colossus of Rhodes". For anyone who likes these biblical epics, I'd recommend a viewing; for Leone fans, it's always nice to see examples of his very early career.
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« #3 : October 07, 2011, 06:44:54 PM »
This has played a few times over the course of the last year on Fox Movie Channel in a widescreen three hour version. There's nothing in the film that looks like anything Leone has done, at least not to me. Maybe others who are more finely tuned to his style can say differently. Supposedly, he was never comfortable directing big action scenes leaving those to his AD's. Still, I like this movie a lot despite not being religious in any way at all. It's a good story filled with a lot of gorgeous women and a wagon load of familiar Italian genre stars like Giacomo Rossi Stuart and Anthony Steffen among them. I'll post the exact running time of this version once I've burned it to DVD-R later tonight.
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Just checked the running time and the widescreen version that's been airing on Fox Movie channel runs 2 hours and 35 minutes.
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http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s4448sodo.html
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Thanks for posting that. Savant has a very interesting footnote to the article that should be burned into every boardmember's skull:
In some reference sources, Italian Sergio Leone was erroneously listed as a co-director of The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah. According to interviewer Pierre Sauvage's account in Alain Silver and James Ursini's book What Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich? Leone was an assistant director only briefly. Aldrich visited the second unit, found nothing happening and Leone "loafing", and fired him on the spot. Although Leone was known to embellish his accomplishments to interviewers, so did most everyone else in movies...
It may be that nothing in the picture is Leone's.
« #7 : April 12, 2014, 04:41:14 AM »
No, he did some 2nd unit directing. But 2nd unit directing normally means to do what the director says one to do.
Aldrich said that he fired him at one point when he visited the set and nothing was happening all day. Actually Aldrich's and Leone's memories are very, very different about what had happened.
Just checked the Aldrich Interview book. In 1963 he said that Leone "didn't do anything really" and that he fired him after about 4 days. And that "in the Italian version credits there are all kinds of other gentlemen who had nothing to do with the film."
In 1976 he said about Leone that "he was loafing and terrible".
The story why and how he fired him is quite funny.
Sounds to me like nothing in the finished film is by Leone. If it's a choice of believing Aldrich or Leone, much as I love the big guy's work, I'd believe Aldrich.
But Leone said he worked 8 weeks on the film. Quite a difference between 4 days and 56 days.
The big action scenes in Sodom & Gomorrah are at least expertly done. Which I can't say for similar scenes in FOD and DYS.
Anyway, Aldrich said that in his films the DoPs have exactly to do what he tells them. "It's never a dialogue where we decide together. I tell my photographer exactly what he has to do". I doubt that he cared less for the 2nd unit work. So, whoever actually shot it, it is surely Aldrich's stuff in any respect. (which reminds me of a certain western by signore Leone)
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Cinesavant reports today that Explosive Media is bringing out a rescanned, complete version on blu for December release in Germany. It is supposed to be English and Italian-friendly, with dubs in those two languages included on the release. Erickson says something about understanding the extent of Leone's involvement with the film, although I'm not sure if that means he's going to pass the knowledge on to us, or, if so, in what language he'll make his understanding known. I guess stanton is going to have to get a copy and let the rest of us in on it.
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Guillen Ramón de Moncada (1166-Oloron, 1224) was een zoon van Willem van Moncada en van Maria van Béarn. In 1193 huwde hij met zijn nicht Guillemette van Castelviel, die de baronnie Rosanes en de stad Martorell meebracht als bruiddschat. Hij vestigde zich in Tarragona, maar raakte daar op gespannen voet met de plaatselijke bisschop, die ten slotte op bevel van Willem in 1194 werd gedood. Hij werd geëxcommuniceerd en zijn goederen werden bestuurd door zijn zoon Willem Raymond. In 1214 volgde hij zijn kinderloos overleden tweelingbroer Gaston op als burggraaf van Béarn. Om de excommunicatie te laten herroepen diende hij grote schenkingen te doen en beloven deel te nemen aan een kruistocht. Willem poogde tijdens zijn regeerperiode de belangen van de Aragonese kroon veilig te stellen in het noorden van Pyreneeën.
Hij werd de vader van:
 Willem Raymond, zijn opvolger,
 Raymond, stichter van de heerlijkheid en baronnie Saint-Maurice van Marsan.

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Il doppio del Challenger La Manche 2012 è stato un torneo di tennis facente parte dell'ATP Challenger Tour 2012.

Pierre-Hugues Herbert e Nicolas Renavand erano i detentori del titolo, ma hanno perso nel 1º turno.

Laurynas Grigelis e Uladzimir Ihnacik hanno battuto in finale Dustin Brown e Jonathan Marray 4–6, 7–6(11–9), [10–0].

Teste di serie

  Martin Emmrich /  Philipp Marx (quarti di finale)
  Dustin Brown /  Jonathan Marray (finale)

  Jamie Delgado /  Ken Skupski (semifinali)
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...and I must say, that I really quite like it. The tint is somewhat cool and muted, and brightens the picture while keeping it crisper than most of the other filter options. And I especially dig the thinner-then-usual black border.
X-Pro II and Lomo-fi are still my top two faves, respectively - but newcomer Brannan just might nudge past all those other filters - and stake its claim on third place.


As a player, Steve Nash defied convention. An undersized, relatively unheralded Canadian point guard out of Santa Clara who remade his game over and over, the multi-MVP Nash is the forefather of the pace-and-space era that now dominates the NBA. Naturally, his investment portfolio is atypical of what you might expect from a pro athlete. And when it comes to members of the 30 Most Entrepreneurial Athletes who are making waves in multiple sports, none has a higher profile than Nash.
Nash made news this year for partnering with Apple on a basketball analytics and training app called HomeCourt. But Nash was one of the first prominent pro athletes of his generation to dip his toes into European football. Alongside Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver, Nash is a shareholder in RCD Mallorca, a pro team in La Liga's Segunda División. Nash has become such an effective marketer of soccer in America that it wouldn't be too surprising if younger fans knew him for that instead of his storied hoops career.
WHAT'S NOW: While HomeCourt is entering a crowded space of instructional fitness and voice apps, it has a big advantage: It comes prepackaged on Apple phones. Nash also has a history in the venture capital space, partnering in 2010 with Michael Duda to launch Consigliere Brand Capital—which is now the marketing agency Bullish.
WHAT'S NEXT: HomeCourt will be an interesting company to watch for the next 18 months. Besides Nash, prominent investors include Mark Cuban, former Sixers GM Sam Hinkie and Jeremy Lin, suggesting a potentially high level of visibility in such a crowded space. Right now, RCD Mallorca is in eighth place in the Segunda; if they ever reach the highest level, it's worth noting that La Liga's two most valuable teams, FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF, are valued at around $4B each.


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The Begin of Earth
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Although Darwin's Theory of Evolution was formulated with insufficient data to support his claims on the existense of differences of the organisms, his theory is still regarded as one of the greatest contributions to science. It is manualy because it suggests that organisms evolved from one ancestry.
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Emilio Barucco (né le  à Bene Vagienna dans le Piémont et mort le  à Turin) est un joueur italien de football, qui évoluait au poste de gardien de but.

Biographie
Emilio Barucco n'a joué durant sa carrière de footballeur que dans deux clubs, l'US Torinese et la Juventus, pour qui il a évolué pour deux saisons entre 1921 et 1923.

Avec les bianconeri, il défend pour la première fois les buts de l'effectif le  contre l'Hellas Vérone (victoire 3-1). Il joue son dernier match le  contre l'Esperia Football Club. Au total, il a encaissé 19 buts en 14 matchs disputés avec les juventini.

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Footballeur italien
Joueur de la Juventus FC
Naissance à Bene Vagienna
Naissance en novembre 1898
Décès en janvier 1982
Décès à Turin
Décès à 83 ans


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Ca' Giustinian Dubois Querini  (« Maison Giustinian », le terme Ca' vient du dialecte vénitien qui signifie « maison »
équivalent du mot casa en italien) est un palais situé à Venise  dans le sestiere de San Polo, sur le Grand Canal.

Histoire de la famille
Les Giustinian, ont commandé à Gabriele Bella soixante-six œuvres qui dépeignent la vie quotidienne dans la sérénissime au . Elles furent acquises à la fin du  par les Querini pour leur palais de Trévise. Depuis la création de la Fondation Querini-Stampalia en 1868 par le dernier héritier, Giovanni Querini-Stampalia, elles sont à demeure à la Pinacothèque Querini-Stampalia dans un palais du campo Santa Maria Formosa.

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Palais dans le sestiere de San Polo

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Chris McGinty recalls the sporting side of Scoil Damhnait in the early "Sixties" and his sporting memories of the time.....
On a lovely September morning in the early '60's I started my secondary school education in Scoil Damhnait. I can vividly recall setting out from my home on my second hand bicycle which had been given to me by my dear aunt Mary from Ashlem. I cycled across the Sound bridge, took the next turn left and into the secondary school which was situated on the historic grounds of the old Achill railway station.
The following year we transferred to a brand new school in Polranny which was built to cater for bigger numbers.
As I parked my bicycle I was mesmerised by the number of mini buses arriving from all corners of Achill. What an array of vehicles: Michael Mac's bus from Lower Achill, Paddy O'Malley and Josie Cooney's bus from Upper Achill, Doran's bus from Dooniver, Doogort and Valley and Martin "Hop" and Sonny Gallagher's bus from Currane, all spring to mind.
This was the start of a new era for me. All the students got to know each other over the course of the next few days. From my class in National school in Achill Sound half of the pupils transferred to the "tech" and the other half bar one went to the secondary school. The other pupil went to St. Jarlath's in Tuam.
I used to cycle home for my lunch and among my abiding memories of those times are the sponsored programmes which I heard on the radio, including Mitchelstown Creameries, Lucozade, Dear Frankie and the famous Walton programme with Leo Maguire exhorting people that if they wished to sing a song to "do sing an Irish song". I could tell the time by the radio as each programme had a fifteen minute slot.
Life in the sixties was a mixture of school, family and football.
But my passion was football.
Although Scoil Damhnait was catering for the academic needs of students it also provided a sporting outlet for them.
During my first year there, the school entered a team in the Colleges Colleran Cup. The Achill Club had won a County Juvenile Football Final and with a blend of the new entrants and the older boys in the school, things looked promising. The arrival of Roscommon star John S. Kelly, who played in the All Ireland Final in 1962 against Kerry, to teach added to the expectations. I remember the first training session under him with everybody giving their all trying to impress him so as to get on the team. His coaching tactics and pep talks were a revelation.
Our first colleges match was against Newport in Newport. We won the match and I remember the team being brought up to the Newport Hall for tea and sandwiches. The teachers looking after each team got both sets of players to engage in fisticuff s with boxing gloves on. It was toe to toe stuff with nobody going backwards. We progressed through the championship and played the semi-final against Westport CBS. After that match we were taken up to the Caffola Café for tea and sandwiches. The Jute Box in the corner was a great novelty in those days. The same song Guantanamera was played over and over again. We hadn't a clue what the words meant as they were in Spanish but it's another abiding memory. In the final that year we played St. Gerald's of Castlebar who had a large number of Mayo minors playing for them. There was great excitement in the school on the day but sadly we were beaten by a bigger and more experienced Castlebar team.
Success again eluded us in my second year. But it's strange how things work out and it's often talked about, how people make connections through the GAA. We played St. Phelims from Ballinamore, in Castlebar and beat them on a score line of 5.5 to 5.4. Years later I played with Cavan full back J.J. Martin for my Dublin based Club Thomas Davis and JJ had played in that match. JJ along with Joe Fadian and Sean Grealish played in the All Ireland Senior Club Football final for Thomas Davis in 1992.
In my third year following the experience gained in the two previous years there was a growing confidence in the school that perhaps we could eventually win a Colleges final. We played Newport in Keel in hailstones. It was so cold we could not even open the laces of our boots after the match. We had no body warmers in those days. We eventually reached the semi final against St. Marys of Boyle and the game was played in Charlestown. They were a very strong team and had been playing at a higher grade the previous year so on the day we were given very little chance of succeeding. We made every effort to muster a full squad for the match. Anyone missing from school was collected whether they were sick or working on the bog. We started in whirlwind fashion and scored 2.5 in the first fifteen minutes. As expected St. Marys were not going to go down without a fight and slowly but surely they played their way back into the match. With a minute to go they were one point up. What happened next was only equalled in the All Ireland Football Final of 1982 when Seamus Darby scored a winner for Offaly in the dying moments of the game, snatching victory from the five in a row chasing Kerry team.
Scoil Damhnait had one last attack. Gerald Needham won the ball in midfield and kicked a high ball in towards the square to Cyril McGinty from Ashlem. J. D. McGreal from Dooniver and I shouted to him to break it out but it broke sideways and the awaiting Michael Masterson (Jetgar) with his long legs toe pocked it into the corner of the net for a famous victory. Years later I heard the move being described (in terms of the player's professions) as the ball being won by a Barrister, passed to an Accountant and scored by a Millionaire. It was a magical moment and we were in our third successive final.
There was an incident in the match in which one of our players got a kick where it hurts most. The story goes that some years later this player got chatting to a man with curly ginger hair outside the courthouse in Charlestown and thinking he recognised him asked if he played against Achill College in the sixties. The man replied that he had to which the Achill man retorted that you must be the man who kicked me in the wrong place. The curly haired man asked him how many children had he and he said four. "Well no harm done then" said the ginger haired man.
Alas Lady Luck frowned on us for the third time in three years and we were beaten in the final by Westport.
Nevertheless I enjoyed every minute of playing football for Scoil Damhnait. I often think of some of the lads I played with during my time at the secondary school and after, players like J.D. English, J.D. McGreal, John Toher, Ger Needham, Cyril McGinty, Brendan Burke, Michael Masterson, Kevin Kilcoyne, Aengus English, Tommy McHugh, Tommy Lynch, Tommy "Mike" Gallagher, Brendan Gallagher (Currane) and Manus O'Donnell.
I was imbued with a love for Gaelic games from an early age. I remember listening to Micheal O'Hehir on the radio. Who wasn't motivated and enthused by his commentaries as he enthralled the nation Sunday after Sunday? He introduced all the county players from all over the country to us and made them household names. Subsequent to my school years I came in contact with three of the great Galway three in a row winning team of the sixties. Noel Tierney, the full back, came to the Sound Hall and presented us with our County Juvenile medals. I played against the great Jimmy Duggan in an epic County Minor Football Final which Achill won against Claremorris. In later years my direct opponent in a London championship match, when playing for St. Marys of Kilburn, was my childhood hero Martin Newell.
The sixties, as we all know, were difficult times growing up in Achill. We had to endure the heartache of our fathers and older brothers being forced to emigrate so as to earn a living and provide for the mothers and children left behind. We are well placed to empathise with today's young people and others who have lost their jobs and have to emigrate to find work, due to the current harsh economic climate.
It was a vibrant time also for us youngsters willing to learn and ambitious to do well. We are grateful to Padraig Sweeney who set up the secondary school in Achill. They were exciting times called the "The Swinging Sixties" with the arrival of the showbands, The Clipper Carlton, The Capital, The Royal and many more. I recall Doc Carroll reaching number one with his song Old Man Trouble. Sporting memories include Achill winning three County A Football titles in the one year, the aforementioned Galway three in a row All Ireland winning football team, getting up at three o'clock in the morning to listen to the Cassius Clay/ Sonny Liston World heavyweight title fight (which only lasted seconds), Manchester United winning the European Cup and watching England play Germany on television, in the World Cup, in McLoughlins pub. There was hope on the political landscape with Sean Lemass sowing the seeds of future prosperity for the country.
I am grateful to the teachers, John O'Keeffe, Mary McGinty RIP, J.S. Kiely, Sean O'Malley and the founder of Scoil Damhnait, Padraig Sweeney RIP who taught me and afforded so many of us the opportunity to be prepared for the World. Achill people are justifiably proud of Padraig's achievements. The students he taught are not only spread throughout Ireland but all over the World. It is sad that our country is in such economic turmoil at present. People with the type of leadership and vision shown by Padraig Sweeney are needed to get us out of the current dilemma.
When I return to visit my birthplace and pass by the School memories keep flooding back to what were truly some of the best days of my life.
Chris McGinty.


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