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The Penguin Was designed by Paul Spooner and made by Matt Smith in June 2003 There are also 30 original Spooners out there somewhere They are easy to tell apart as the Fourteen Balls version is cast in Tin  is rather heavy and Stamped 2003 . Anyway the Penguin flaps his wings in a flying motion . As I mentioned he is cast in tin and lives on a Douglas fir box.                                    The model is 50mm x 50mm x 120mm high.

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Moldovian Delegates Get Wine Business Tips from Lodi

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Delegates from the country of Moldova were in Lodi Wednesday, getting a tour of the business side of wine making and marketing.

Members of the country’s chamber of commerce toured the Barsetti Vinyard in Lodi.

Moldova is looking to get a better grip of the wine making and marketing process after Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin embargo on the country’s wine shipments to Russia significantly reducing their sales to Putins country.

“It was great to have them here and share our knowledge. Hopefully they can take it back home and help business,” Janice Barsetti Gray said.

Moldova is enduring economic hardship and hopes that wine exports and agri-tourism will change things, and allow them to become a wine connoisseur destination.

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United Airlines sends Schoolboy Q’s dog to wrong city

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(CNN) — Rapper ScHoolboy Q once said, “Only thing I got is my girl and my dogs.”

Friday night, however, United Airlines put that statement to the test after they accidentally flew the rapper’s dog — Yeeerndamean — to the wrong city during a layover.

The rapper expressed his dismay and anger toward the airline on Twitter.

“You guys r idiots @united HOW U PUT MY DOG ON THE WRONG FLIGHT???? I need answers,” he wrote.

ScHoolboy Q, whose real name is Quincy Matthew Hanley, said he was traveling with his dog from Missouri to Burbank, California. But during a layover in Denver, the airline mistakenly switched his dog with another.

The rapper arrived in Burbank to find someone else’s pet. His dog had actually flown to Chicago.

“My little dog been moving around since the A.M., prolly has pee and number 2 all in his cage smh,” the rapper said in a text message to CNN.

“….I plan on suing,” he added.

United Airlines says the dog is being well cared for.

“We’re working as quickly as possible to reunite the pet with their owner later this evening. We have reached out to our customer and sincerely apologize for this mistake and are providing a refund. Pets are part of our customers’ family, and their safety and wellbeing is of the upmost importance to us,” the airline said in a statement.


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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Thoughts on the Election

The 2016 campaign is over and I think it is safe to say that the result is not quite what a lot of folks expected. Full disclosure: I didn't vote for either of the major party candidates. So, I think I can speak on the result with somewhat of a neutral view.

I believe the last few months have uncovered some things about our country that most of us either didn't see, or simply refused to see. Throughout the primaries and on into the general election there were things said and done that should never be said about or done to another person. I know that there have been some pretty nasty campaigns in our nation's history, but that is no excuse for what came out of this election. That is one thing that saddens me.

Another thing that makes me sad is what I saw in the church. I saw people who claim to be followers of Jesus demean others who are made in the image of God, all because they supported another candidate. Questioning the faith of someone just because they don't wear the same political jersey is not what Jesus had in mind when he told to us love our brothers and sisters. Many seemed to forget that our first allegiance is to the King of Kings and not to a person or party. I have said it before and I'll say it again; some have sacrificed the gospel on the altars of political influence and prosperity.

I am also saddened by some of what I have seen in the days after the election. People on both sides are doing and saying things that they would condemn and have condemned in the folks on the other side. Folks on the winning side are decrying those who are chanting, "Not my president," while forgetting that some on their side said the same thing not very long ago. Others are committing acts of harassment and violence against those on the "other side."

 Americans have forgotten that we are all part of the same nation. We have divided along many lines and made it quite easy for power hungry demagogues to gain power by preying on our fears and convincing us that some of our fellow citizens are bent on destroying us. Even worse, those of us who claim to follow Jesus have forgotten that not only are we fellow Americans, but most importantly we are part of one body. Instead of hurting because one part of the body is in pain, we are telling other parts of the body Christ that they are useless and we don't need them. As the Apostle Paul said, that is ridiculous! How can we expect the world to listen to us when we are not showing love to those in our spiritual family!

Judging from the past year, we have a great opportunity to show those who are watching the truth, goodness, and beauty of Jesus by the way we treat each other and by the way we treat the least of these in our society. The problem is that we have not been doing a very good job of that lately. May God change our hearts and help us to live like who we say we are.

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Sky Garden Farm in Paradise

[Game] Sky Garden Farm in Paradise

Sky Garden Farm in ParadiseSky Garden Farm in Paradise is an addicting casual farming game for mobile phones and tablets

Join the world of fairy tales with amazing characters where you will become a fantasy gardener above the cloud. Raise a garden of flowers, harvest seed of plants, grow amazing plants in unique pots, explore the world of paradise Skyland
Are you ready for a new adventure? Let’s go now and don’t forget to share your wonderful garden with friends to have more fun!
Hey, let me tell you a story! Red and Jack were close friends, sharing the same passion for flowers. One day, the Wolf of the neighborhood tried to steal their flowers at night and… got caught. The Wolf offered some magic beans and magic potions for liberation. Followed his instruction, the couple grew a giant beanstalk into the Skyland and so began the story of gardeners above the Sky Garden, Farm in Paradise
POTS COLLECTION: Pots are beautiful yet powerful, collectible and upgradable! Can be traded with other neighbors in their happy township market
PLANTS We have flower’s family (Sunflower, Rose, Lavender, Daisy, Lotus, Tom’s Lily), fruit family (Apple, Lemon, Watermelon, Ship, Grape, Blueberry, Strawberry, Banana, Orange, Apricot, Potato, Kiwis, Cranberry, Pineapple, Coconut and many tropical plants..) and special family (Snowflake, Hay, Gold, Cotton, Baby’s Breath, Ginger, Tea, Bubble) on the SkyLand
PRODUCT & MISSIONS: Use your Bug Machines to make juices, fabrics, gemstones then deliver them across always-hungry towns village with the help of minion Owl birds and even The King’s Royal Wagon
TRADE & ORDERS: Exchange flowering plants, juices, fabric, etc with friends through your in-house shop, farmers market for a big fortune
SOCIAL: Fix your worldwide friends machines, filling special delivery for Royal, Air Ship and looking for ladybugs, fireflies everywhere on neighbors farm to upgrade your Pots
MINING: Using besoms to collect magical Hay Virals for the Mole, he will help you find lost treasures. The Mole can dash through deep tunnels with dynamites to find exotic treasures
GUILD: Invite and play together with people around the world. Donating, Sharing, Chat gossip or even Holding a harvest festival in your hay’s village on the SkyLand
Contact us inside the game by going to MENU > SUPPORT
The game requires access to the following Permissions
WRITE/READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is required to save and load in-game user’s data
PLEASE NOTE! the game is free to download and install. However, some game items can also be purchased for real money
LANGUAGES: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian , Indonesian
VNG Game Studio is the studio behind the success of the Editor Choice’s zombie shooter game : DEAD TARGET: Zombie;DEAD TARGET
Place pots in combo on the same cloud level to get a bonus when harvesting. More information of pots stored in the Library
Catch and gather clan of ladybugs in your Sky Garden,Farm in Paradise village and neighbors to upgrade Pots and Bug Machines
Do not miss Daily Lucky Draw for random gifts every day. Use Finn, Tom wisely
Collect Building Materials from Daily Features for upgrading Constructions: magical Silo, magical Barn, mini hay Warehouse on the SkyLand
Go to neighbor’s township and repair neighbor’s machines for hearts
Collect unique Decors (scarecrow, chimes, charm, tom’s cat, hay-fever minion) and mount them under the clouds to get more Garden’s Value points
Be a gardener villager, a real farmer, a businessman by using your gold wisely, gather your minion friends to township guilds to grow fast together
Sky Garden: Farm in Paradise is always updating new features, return every day for new experiences

Sky Garden Farm in Paradise user reviews :

I love the game and I would like to continue playing but my sister started to play it on my phone before I had a chance to and when I try to restart it its practical impossible. I have s7 edge and I have used my application manager to reset it deleted the file on my phone uninstalled it and erased it from my Google play store multiple times in that order but nothing happens every time I get on the game and sign in as a guest it takes my back to the one my sister played. And I have tried the Facebook thing.

Lost my whole game after spending real money on it. First started a guild which no one could join. Then went to go into my game again and I lost everything no contact from support about my issue, also phone number in game support you can’t call. ID #1381459
  • VNG GAME STUDIOS July 19, 2016
  • Dear friend, You can relogin the game via social network (Facebook). Btw, could we have your clan ID, we will have a look on your account asap.

Addictive I have not stopped playing since i downloaded this game. Now to make sure i don’t miss anything i have this game installed in 3 devices lol. I love it that you don’t have to wait too long for things and there’s a chance to get diamonds. Coins. Pots without using real cash.

Last Update July 13, 2017 :

We bring to you new version with:
 New Flower Festival Event is coming to town.
 Improve the quality of in-game Artworks. The game is now look more beautiful!
 Fixed many previous bugs.
Many big features are coming soon. Please stay tuned!

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.: Home > Advances in Crop Science and Technology > 2014 > Volume 2 Number 4 > Endale Hailu 1 *, Gezahegne Getaneh 2 , Tadesse Sefera 1 , Negussie Tadesse 1 , Beyene Bitew 3 , Anteneh Boydom 1 , Daniel Kassa 1 and Tamene Temesgen 1

Faba Bean Gall; a New Threat for Faba Bean ( Vicia faba ) Production in Ethiopia

Endale Hailu 1 *, Gezahegne Getaneh 2 , Tadesse Sefera 1 , Negussie Tadesse 1 , Beyene Bitew 3 , Anteneh Boydom 1 , Daniel Kassa 1 and Tamene Temesgen 1
1 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, P.O.Box 2003, Ethiopia 2 Addis Ababa University, Salale Campus, P.O.Box 2003, Ethiopia 3 Debre Birhan Research center, Ethiopia
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Faba bean ranks first in its production volume and cultivated land among pulse crops cultivated in Ethiopia and it is valuable as the cheap source of protein in most Ethiopian diet. It also plays a significant role in soil fertility restoration and in export market. Production of the crop is, however, constrained by several pests. The objective of this study was to find out the distribution and intensity of newly occurred epidemic faba bean gall disease and other diseases affecting faba bean in the major growing areas of central and northern part of Ethiopia. The survey was made in 2013 main cropping season (in September) along the main roads and accessible routes in each surveyed district at every 5-10 km intervals as per faba bean fields available. Five samples were taken in each faba bean
field by moving “X” fashion. The mean prevalence of faba bean gall, Ascochyta blight, Chocolate spot and rust were 48.5%, 63.6%, 94.6% and 1.9%, respectively. The mean incidence of the formal all diseases were 15.4%, 30.3%, 42.4% and 0.1% in their previous order. Based on severity scale, mean disease severity of Ascochyta blight and chocolate spot were 1.9 and 1.5, respectively. Mean severity of faba bean gall and faba bean rust were 6.4% and 0.1% were recorded in their order. The disease was more sever in Amhara region with mean disease severity of 22.2% followed by Tigray and Oromiya region which had 11.3% and 7.8% severity value, respectively. The newly observed Faba bean gall disease was found the most devastating and widely disseminated in the area within a few years since its occurrence. The production of the crop is highly challenged and farmers are frustrated by the nature of the disease. Farmers witnessed the appearance of the disease three years ago in 2011 in Oromiya. They observed fast dissemination and increasing coverage of the pathogen in time and space. In fact the disease is epidemic and more  serious  from  the  record  and  the  information  from  Faba  bean  growers  in  the  surveyed  areas.  The  epidemic  conditions of the disease have significant implication on the production of Faba bean and on the country’s economy. This survey information helps to consider the disease as serious pest in Ethiopia and in development of management options. In the future, ecology and biology of the causative agent, yield loss due to the diseases, breeding for disease resistance/tolerance and management strategies should get attention

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Disease; Faba bean; Faba bean gall; Incidence; Prevalence; Severity

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Download Website Updated 11 Feb 2013 GNU C library

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Gutenprint (formerly Gimp-Print) is a collection of printer drivers for Unix/Linux that currently supports over 1400 printers. It emphasizes quality and flexibility, offering a wide variety of options to meet most printing needs. It includes a CUPS driver, an IJS-based Ghostscript driver, Foomatic data, an enhanced Print plugin for The GIMP, and other printer maintenance utilities. It can be used equally well for fast printing of text or critical printing of high quality graphics and photographs.

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Linux NTFS provides Linux kernel drivers, a multiplatform NTFS library, and tools to create, resize, clone, rescue, query, label and fix NTFS volumes, and to undelete, resize, list, and query files for the filesystem used by Windows XP, 2003, 2000, NT4, and Vista. It also provides support for the Logical Disk Manager (LDM) that controls Windows' Dynamic Disks and is used to create software mirrors, stripes, and RAID.

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Phoenix Festival

Long Marston Airfield

Stratford-upon-Avon, England 07/14/95

The Songs

Drifter's Escape, I Want You, All Along The Watchtower, Tears Of Rage, Silvio, Tangled Up In Blue, Mama You Been On My Mind, One Too Many Mornings, Seeing The Real You At Last, Rainy Day Women #s 12 & 35

The Library has two recordings.
The first is a very good stereo audience recording. Clean, complete, and problem free. Dubbed 10/12/96. 90 min.
The second is taken from an amatuer video. There is a rough edit that results in the clipping of Silvio, the omission of Tangled Up In Blue, and the clipping of the beginning of Mama You Been On My Mind. 90 min. Dubbed 01/16/98. The video source is available on a 120 min. VHS.

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Friday, March 25, 2011

Austinmer Beach

Here's a new guide to a place that I have had my eye on for a couple of years now (still haven't made it down there). It's Austinmer beach on the South Coast. I've seen a few pictures from here and it looks like a cracking location. Please check out Steve Arnold's excellent photoguide to this stunning location.

Enjoy the photo guide to Austinmer Beach

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Supernova Quilt-Along: Making the Back

Welcome back to the Supernova Quilt-Along! By now I’m sure every last one of you has a completed quilt top, right? : ) Of course you do! Okay then, today we’ll be piecing the back.

I have a love/hate relationship with making backs. Love: The design possibilities, and the fact that you can make a quilt back in an evening. After spending so much time on a quilt top, you gotta love the instant gratification of the back. Hate: Dealing with gargantuan pieces of fabric. I tend to sew large cuts of fabric like a drunken sailor. That often includes the cursing.

But like it or not, making the back is a necessary part of creating a quilt. Even if you farm out your quilting to a professional, you will almost always need to provide the back yourself. So it helps to consider the back an opportunity to add to your design, rather than just another chore.

I usually have two goals when it comes to making a quilt back: 1) Use up as many scraps, excess blocks, and existing stash fabrics as I can. 2) Create a design on the back that echoes or compliments the design on the front. I also consider the back a chance to be a little more improvisational and free-flowing than I was on the front. Let’s face it, there’s just less pressure back there. If you end up hating it, you can always just fold the quilt with the front facing out. Problem solved!

So when it came time to piece the back for my Supernova, I started with some excess sub-units that I had on hand. I changed my mind about using these on the front, so now they were just hanging out on my design wall, lined up in a row, waiting to be useful. And do you see what I see? Yes! Zig zags!

I decided to extend the zig zag across the entire back of the quilt. To do that, I needed 9 sub-units. Since I already had four, I started by piecing the remaining five and sewing them all together, side by side, into one long row, as shown above.

Next, to complete the zig zag points, you’ll need some flying geese units.

Remember how we made the “half-goose units” during the first piecing step? You’ll make your flying geese units in the same way, except that when the half-goose unit is done, just add another square to the other side, as shown above.

Trim and press, and you should end up with something that looks like this.

Make 1 flying geese unit for each point of the zig zag. If you use 9 sub-units, like I did, you’ll need a total of 8 flying geese units, plus one half-square triangle on each end. So here are mine, all sewn and added to the design wall, in the appropriate spots to complete the zig zag.

To complete the zig zag, cut some 3″ by 10.5″ rectangles from your background fabric. Sew the flying geese units alternating with the rectangles, into one long strip, as shown above. Sew that row onto the zig zag row. Now, I won’t lie to you: Matching up bias seams all the way across on such a long row is not an easy task. Start by lining up the seams in the middle of the rows, pin, and work your way out toward the sides. My seams are far from perfect in a number of spots. But I was so enamored with how this giant zig-zag looks that I didn’t even care. Repeat with the bottom zig zag points.

Once I had the focal point of my back—the jumbo zig zag—done, I was ready to finish off the back. To do that, I laid out the front of the quilt face down on the floor. Then I just started spreading fabric over it to create the back. Doing it this way means you’ll get the size of the back right, and you can keep an eye on placement of various design elements in relation to the front. I started by laying down my zig zag, placing it off-center toward the bottom of the quilt. Then I added some strips from my Supernova scrap pile, as well as some Metro Living yardage from my stash. (Love, love, love Metro Living.) I then filled in the holes with my background fabric, Kona Coal.

Sewed it all together, and ta da, one completed quilt back! (Sorry for the truly awful photo.)

Supernova back

If you don’t want to tackle the zig zag, there are plenty of other design options for your back. Katie, who has already completed the quilt-along(!), did a great strip-pieced back (more details here). This is a perfect use for any leftover 3″ strips you might have.

Supernova bonus HSTs

And if you did the bonus HSTs while you were piecing your sub-units, that’s another design possibility. There are so many cool ways you can lay out HSTs—the possibilities are endless.

Supernova Quilt back - a Plus quilt

Or you could get really ambitious like Elizabeth, and make another whole quilt top for the back. Look—so awesome! Elizabeth and Katie, over-achieve much? : )

Quilt backs are a place where almost anything goes, and where you don’t have to do much planning. Just go for it! That freedom makes for a fun design process, no matter how you feel about giant pieces of fabric. I hope these suggestions have given you a jumping off point for your own unique pieced back. Can’t wait to see all of your backsides in the Flickr group!

Next week, we’ll have our final post in the series: Quilting and finishing. I’ll have some suggestions for different ways you can quilt your Supernova. That post will also be the site of our exciting final link-up! This is where you can show off your completed quilt. (Remember, completed quilts only—that means quilted, bound, the whole shebang). The linky will be open until May 12, and everyone who links up a completed quilt by then will be eligible to win the Castle Peeps FQ pack. Good times! See you then.

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  1. Elizabeth D.
    Elizabeth D. says:

    You know me, over-achiever 🙂 I love what you did with your backing, it looks just stunning, and I love how you worked in your scraps. This backing looks simply amazing!!!

  2. Tiffany
    Tiffany says:

    Wow – you def. put a lot more work into a back than I do. I get as many yards as I can to make it big enough, sew them together, and it's done. Thanks for sharing the inspiration tho… will add this to my "to try" list 🙂

  3. Lee Heinrich
    Lee Heinrich says:

    I can't believe I'm actually caught up. Unpossible! And I feel the same way about backings. Add to it the fact that I'm usually really REALLY eager to get the quilt done already so I don't spend a lot of time on the back.

    I loved Kati's (from the blue chair) post about making a backing by stitching then cutting and rotating etc. Here is the post.

  4. Julie
    Julie says:

    I love your zig zag back Lee, fabulous! I'm a fan of piecing my backings too, for the variety it adds and the chance to use up those scraps!

    I have a quick question though, I thought we had until the 12th to finish and link up? The schedule said April 28th would be the final post and we would have 2 weeks from there. Just wanted to get my timeline straight so I can rearrange some things if I need to. Thanks!

  5. Fabric
    Fabric says:

    Love the zig zags! Gorgeous!

    I was under the impression that we would have two weeks to complete the quilt and link it up. I'm hoping that's still the case. 🙂

  6. Marlene @ KISSed Quilts . com
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    A few tips regarding quilt backs from a long-arm quilter.
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The Rating System

All opinions are my own. We are all different. What I may think is great, you may this terrible. Don't let my opinios stop you from exploring the vast world of horror in all media.

~Mind Blowing: Search for this movie immediately. It can only be described as pure greatness and possible an instant classic.

~So Good: Highly recommended because for one reason or another it stands out above the usual fair. Put the movie on your radar as it wont disappoint.

~In the Middle: The movie is a nothing special, average affair. It may entertain in the short term but it will be easily forgettable in the long haul.

~Warning: This movie is a cliched driven slop of familiar territory. Only watch if you're really of fan of this type of material.

~Steaming Pile: The movie is absolute garbage, a complete bore, and not worth the time or effort.

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Starring: Ted Chan,
Director: Gilbert Chan

Rumors of a vengeful spirit of a women spread through the military barracks and one of the soldiers believes he will be the next victim.

My Take:
A slow moving thriller in the typical, formulamatic J-Horror fashion.

Rating: In the middle

Watched: Netflix DVD

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Can't keep on top of the clutter. I realized yesterday that I have to start buying the giant jar of peanut butter. We go through the small one in four days. Soap bars disappear quickly, and I must change the roll of toilet paper once a day.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

The church sale was ok. I picked up some clothing along
with a few other items. I spent $6 and after getting
home realized they overcharged me by .50 cents.
Oh well, still sooooo much cheaper than buying new!

Here was my bargains-

Bag #1
.25 cents for all.
3 sweaters and 2 pairs of pants.

Bag #2
.25 cents for all

3 sweaters (one brand new with price tag of $17 on it!)
and a pair of shorts.

Bag #3
.25 cents for all

T-shirt, 2 pairs of pants and a button sweater.

Bag #4
.25 cents for all

1 t-shirt, 2 longs sleeve shirts, 2 pants, 1 pair of shorts

Bag #5
.25 cents for all

4 short sleeved shirts and a pair of pants.

9 Christmas wicker baskets.
$1.00 for all.
Thought these would be great to fill with cookies for gifts.

one fitted sheet and one Dukes of Hazzard flat sheet
.10 cents each
(I priced the 1982 Dukes of Hazzard flat sheet on Ebay going for $40!!)

Panasonic 5.9 GHZ cordless phone $2.00
(boys threw our phone. Although it works
it's difficult to see the caller ID)

2 candles .10 cents each
1 candle .50 cents
1 wooden box organizer .10 cents

3 strands of icicle garland
.25 cents for all

Tonight we'll probably head over to Walmart and
get a new basketball net. Then come home
and start cutting up a 5 gallon bucket of scrap metal
Tony got from work. He has all his coworkers
save any scrap metal from jobs for him.

If it's not raining tomorrow morning we'll
take the scrap metal over to the recycling center and then
head to the flea market on the South end. I think it opened
last weekend but we couldn't go due to having
the on call pager.

Look, a kitty bathtub, lol.
Only kidding, it's a toy mini skateboarding bowl.

Went out earlier this evening and bought another basketball net.
No clue as to why one would steal the one we have when they
only cost $1.99 at Walmart. Tony made it a little harder
to steal this time around by adding zip ties all around
the rim and net and he also raised the basketball pole
up. They'll need a step stool and a knife to get it off.

Got all the metal cut up and ready to scrap tomorrow.
I have no guess as to what I think we'll get from it
as I haven't really seen how much there is.
I'll get a photo tomorrow of what we are recycling.
Then let y'all know how much it is worth.
If there's a will there's a way to find
some pocket money for free.

My Crohn's started flaring back up tonight.
Wish I knew why it comes and goes like it does
even on medication. It's got me literally running to
the bathroom and my belly is throbbing and
inflamed to the point it throbs even more
if I talk because of using stomach muscles.
I was just telling everyone how well I was doing.

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Writing for Shoes – A Snazzy Way to Increase Productivity

Do not let it be said that writing in obscurity has no rewards.

Write on and walk on in new shoes.

Today is my 450th blog, which means that another semicentennial milestone has been reached. When fifty blogs have been posted, something miraculous happens at my house: shoes fall from heaven!

The Celestial Shoe Reward Committee (who I think have a divine connection to Amazon.com) must have been in a particularly generous mood this time as they dropped forth not one—but two—pairs of boots. Both cool. Both stylish. Both comfy. What more could a girl want? OK, maybe three pairs, so better write more.

For your ogling pleasure, here’s Pair # 1 by Beverly Feldman.

The “Base Boot” by Beverly Feldman, comes in black and brown and runs true to size.

Flattering almond-shaped toe.

The boots are hand-stitched in Spain with the embroidered flowers and butterflies colored in pale gray and purple hues. The one-inch heels makes them a breeze to walk in all day.

These boots are pretty as a picture!

They look like they belong in a garden. So does the shoe box they come in.

I would like a dress made out of this print.

Pair #2 is by ZiGiny:

The “Trixi” boot by ZiGiny comes in black, brown, and tan. This brand runs small. Order a full size larger.

The Victorian styling with the Celtic kiltie detail is a nice touch. The 3/4 inch heels are as comfy as a slipper. The side zipper makes them easy to slip on and off without undoing the laces.

I’ve added a pair of vintage Musi shoe clips for even more pizazz.

Last words of writing advice: Never underestimate the motivation factor of a new pair of shoes.

P.S. Note to the Celestial Shoe Reward Committee: Have you seen the Clic Clac booties by Christian Louboutin? Perhaps for Blog #500? Doesn’t hurt to ask…

The Clic Clac shoes are so spectacular I could weep…

The Louboutin Clic Clac lace ankle booties are a work of art.

  • diane heine stipp said:

    Nice shoe choices. I totally love the clic clac shoes. The black ones would look sensational with my Reuion dress !!!!

    Saturday, March 5, 2011
  • Hi Diane,

    And they cost ONLY $1,300! Bootleg versions are all over the Internet for around $200. (But I don’t believe in counterfeit products.)
    Check out the new photo above. Here are Hollywood ladies wearing the shoesm. What does your dress look like? Frou-frou? Minimalist? Va-va-va-voom?

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Fuck this Video Too is an independent vx1000 skateboard video featuring: Jeff Stevens, Nick Suarez, Brendan Keaveny, Drew Verdugo, RICO, Spencer Prati, Andy Mack, Christian Bourne, Big Tuna, Truman Hooker, Noah Lora, Vinny Dalfio, Little Tuna, Justin Greer, Cody Subido, Buckshire, and Q Perez.

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Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF)2014

Between 16th  till 17th October 2014 I was invited and participated 24 hour comic strip marathon as a part of this year’s LakesInternational Comic Art Festival (LICAF) in Kendal, Cumbria.

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It was led and organaised by ever more magnificent Dan Berry and other notable names who joined in were Kristyna Baczynski ,Sarah McIntyreJack Teagle, Joe Decie, and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. I was very thrilled and honoured to get involved in this, being recoganised among the establishment.

Here is me with Warwick and Joe working away,
Borrowed from Sara's twitter feed.Probably my only chance standing next to the famous author of Understanding comics and the 24hour comic marathon creator Scott Mccloud

The support by the festival organizer and the castle green hotel where we stayed and worked were absolutely amazing and it is worth pointing out that comparing to the most famous lot such as the one by Angouleme 24h BD session every January, The LICAF tried to make a difference by giving us sufficient time to prepare ourselves in favour of good quality story-lines. The result was a spectacular bunch of differences in styles and stories.
Here is my tale: Anywhere Road

What I underachieved and achieved

I have to say, when I compare myself among all those lots, I did many things wrong and a little wasted the opportunity to create a beautiful little book. I was also the very last one to finish the work too…stressing Dan and making the printers wait for my pages.Very embarrassed at the end.

However this was a tale which takes place in the UK rather than my usual setting in Japan. Although I’ve lived in the UK for 22 years in total I still feel at ease talking about the issues and themes based in Japan but I find it very limiting creatively.
In short I don’t like to be regarded as an author who only talks about his country of origin and never shows an interest in the country he has adapted.

I need to start something different.

I’m always interested in various social issues in the UK, and it was my first attempt to talk about it. Of course I’ve failed many things in here including story, but I’m happy with this challenge and I feel the result here shows me the future direction I could take on.

To boost my confidence, certain people bought copies and my peers didn’t see the story too strange or too incorrect. I thought ‘huh! Maybe I could do this?’

Illustration Exercise- East London Hackney 8pm

 When I was students at art schools I was terrible at backgrounds and hated it and always doing characters with blank backgrounds.Now I love doing scenery, though I'm still really crap at it.

For Andrzej Kilimowski, my illustration tutor at the Royal Colleg of Art

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During 2001-2003 I was taught by Andrzej Klimowski, the professor of Illustration at Royal College of Art.He is a London born Polish artist who established himself with surrealistic but very mesmerising poster designs and book cover illustrations for Harold Pinter and Milan Kundera's works. Andrzej is retiring from his post at the Royal College this summer so I have done a quick strips in respect to his contribution.

Illustration Exercise - the Beach

A bit weak...It is basically the original drawing wasn't suited for the art direction. It was a wrong choice of characters and composition.I must get rid of the idea of perspective.

Illustration Exercise - My dippy soldiers

Tried something British related. About boiled egg and toast.I always liked the idea of calling these small cut pieces 'soldiers'. They say, 'cut the toast into soldiers'.


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Halloween pumpkin carving patterns symbols

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Any carved pumpkin always looks amazing and not only during the day, but also could illuminate your garden or house at night. Below we offer a lot of different examples to help you create an awesome pumpkin decoration and to surprise all your guests. You could find as very scary pumpkins as pretty and nice ones. There are many very simple and fun patterns, which you could try to carve yourself at home and even create a whole set of crazy pumpkins. Besides you could also see several wonderful pumpkins, which look like as real art works. It is impossible to imagine a fun Halloween without cool pumpkins. A decorative pumpkin is one the main symbols of this day and that’s why almost every house is usually filled by various interesting pumpkins every Halloween. Pumpkin carving is the most popular way to change you pumpkin in a great holiday decoration.

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Please meet Kobi, our 2 year old Havanese pup and my furry friend! Smile Journaling reads: Kobi, your name means ‘joy’ in Japanese and there couldn’t be a better name to fit your demeanor and the happiness you have brought us.  We love your smiling face, jaunty walk, your crazy dog runs and tilt of the head as you listen to us.  You have been perfect for us as we enter the retirement stage of our life as you bring many smiles and increased energy.  We love you!

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Connie Prince = Project 2013: October - twig, leaves,

Wendy Tunison - Pet Parade - rawhide bone, small wood heart, white dog tag,

Twin Mom Scraps - Puppy Love - hearts (recolored), "I love my Dog" word label,

Aprilisa Designs - Fur-ever Friends - stay button, orange mat frame, broomstick frame,

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Doctor Who: Podshock Live Show Reviewing 'A Christmas Carol' Scheduled

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Doctor Who: Podshock will be once again be taking to the net on Boxing Day, Sunday (26 December 2010) for a live-over-the-net show reviewing the latest episode (special) of Doctor Who, A Christmas Carol

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In addition to its academic interest, game theory has received attention in popular culture. A Nobel Prize-winning game theorist, John Nash was the subject of the 1998 biography by Sylvia Nasar and the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind. Game theory was also a theme in the 1983 film WarGames. Several game shows have adopted game theoretic situations, including Friend or Foe? and to some extent Survivor. The character Jack Bristow on the television show Alias is one of the few fictional game theorists in popular culture. [1]

A theory of agent communication in games was developed by Eric Werner [1]. The theory extends the von Neumann framework by providing a formal theory of the intentions of players, as well as the basis for a semantics and pragmatics of agent languages used in inter-agent communication.#References

Although similar to decision theory, game theory studies decisions that are made in an environment where various players interact. In other words, game theory studies choice of optimal behavior when costs and benefits of each option are not fixed, but depend upon the choices of other individuals.

Representation of gamesEdit

The games studied by game theory are well-defined mathematical objects. A game consists of a set of players, a set of moves (or strategies) available to those players, and a specification of payoffs for each combination of strategies. There are two ways of representing games that are common in the literature.

See also List of games in game theory.

Normal formEdit

A normal form game
Player 2 chooses left Player 2 chooses right
Player 1 chooses top 4, 3 -1, -1
Player 1 chooses bottom 0, 0 3, 4
Main article: Normal form game

The normal (or strategic form) game is a matrix which shows the players, strategies, and payoffs (see the example to the right). Here there are two players; one chooses the row and the other chooses the column. Each player has two strategies, which are specified by the number of rows and the number of columns. The payoffs are provided in the interior. The first number is the payoff received by the row player (Player 1 in our example); the second is the payoff for the column player (Player 2 in our example). Suppose that Player 1 plays top and that Player 2 plays left. Then Player 1 gets 4, and Player 2 gets 3.

When a game is presented in normal form, it is presumed that each player acts simultaneously or, at least, without knowing the actions of the other. If players have some information about the choices of other players, the game is usually presented in extensive form.

Extensive formEdit

Main article: Extensive form game

The extensive form can be used to formalize games with some important order. Games here are presented as trees (as pictured to the left). Here each vertex (or node) represents a point of choice for a player. The player is specified by a number listed by the vertex. The lines out of the vertex represent a possible action for that player. The payoffs are specified at the bottom of the tree.

In the game pictured here, there are two players. Player 1 moves first and chooses either F or U. Player 2 sees Player 1's move and then chooses A or R. Suppose that Player 1 chooses U and then Player 2 chooses A, then Player 1 gets 8 and Player 2 gets 2.

The extensive form can also capture simultaneous-move games. Either a dotted line or circle is drawn around two different vertices to represent them as being part of the same information set (i.e., the players do not know at which point they are).

Types of gamesEdit

Symmetric and asymmetricEdit

Main article: Symmetric game
An asymmetric game
E 1, 2 0, 0
F 0, 0 1, 2

A symmetric game is a game where the payoffs for playing a particular strategy depend only on the other strategies employed, not on who is playing them. If the identities of the players can be changed without changing the payoff to the strategies, then a game is symmetric. Many of the commonly studied 2×2 games are symmetric. The standard representations of chicken, the prisoner's dilemma, and the stag hunt are all symmetric games. Some scholars would consider certain asymmetric games as examples of these games as well. However, the most common payoffs for each of these games are symmetric.

Most commonly studied asymmetric games are games where there are not identical strategy sets for both players. For instance, the ultimatum game and similarly the dictator game have different strategies for each player. It is possible, however, for a game to have identical strategies for both players, yet be asymmetric. For example, the game pictured to the right is asymmetric despite having identical strategy sets for both players.

Zero sum and non-zero sumEdit

Main article: Zero-sum
A Zero-Sum Game
A 2, −2 −1, 1
B −1, 1 3, −3

In zero-sum games the total benefit to all players in the game, for every combination of strategies, always adds to zero (or more informally put, a player benefits only at the expense of others). Poker exemplifies a zero-sum game (ignoring the possibility of the house's cut), because one wins exactly the amount one's opponents lose. Other zero sum games include matching pennies and most classical board games including go and chess. Many games studied by game theorists (including the famous prisoner's dilemma) are non-zero-sum games, because some outcomes have net results greater or less than zero. Informally, in non-zero-sum games, a gain by one player does not necessarily correspond with a loss by another.

It is possible to transform any game into a zero-sum game by adding an additional dummy player (often called "the board"), whose losses compensate the players' net winnings.

Simultaneous and sequentialEdit

Main article: Sequential game

Simultaneous games are games where both players move simultaneously, or if they do not move simultaneously, the later players are unaware of the earlier players' actions (making them effectively simultaneous). Sequential games (or dynamic games) are games where later players have some knowledge about earlier actions. This need not be perfect knowledge about every action of earlier players; it might be very little information. For instance, a player may know that an earlier player did not perform one particular action, while she does not know which of the other available actions the first player actually performed.

The difference between simultaneous and sequential games is captured in the different representations discussed above. Normal form is used to represent simultaneous games, and extensive form is used to represent sequential ones.

Perfect information and imperfect informationEdit

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Main article: Perfect information

An important subset of sequential games consists of games of perfect information. A game is one of perfect information if all players know the moves previously made by all other players. Thus, only sequential games can be games of perfect information, since in simultaneous games not every player knows the actions of the others. Most games studied in game theory are perfect information games, although there are some interesting examples of imperfect information games, including the ultimatum game and centipede game. Perfect information games include chess, go, mancala, and arimaa.

Perfect information is often confused with complete information, which is a similar concept. Complete information requires that every player know the strategies and payoffs of the other players but not necessarily the actions.

Infinitely long gamesEdit

Main article: Determinacy

For obvious reasons, games as studied by economists and real-world game players are generally finished in a finite number of moves. Pure mathematicians are not so constrained, and set theorists in particular study games that last for infinitely many moves, with the winner (or other payoff) not known until after all those moves are completed.

The focus of attention is usually not so much on what is the best way to play such a game, but simply on whether one or the other player has a winning strategy. (It can be proven, using the axiom of choice, that there are games—even with perfect information, and where the only outcomes are "win" or "lose"—for which neither player has a winning strategy.) The existence of such strategies, for cleverly designed games, has important consequences in descriptive set theory.

Uses of game theoryEdit

Games in one form or another are widely used in many different academic disciplines.

Economics and businessEdit

Economists have used game theory to analyze a wide array of economic phenomena, including auctions, bargaining, duopolies, oligopolies, social network formation, and voting systems. This research usually focuses on particular sets of strategies known as equilibria in games. These "solution concepts" are usually based on what is required by norms of rationality. The most famous of these is the Nash equilibrium. A set of strategies is a Nash equilibrium if each represents a best response to the other strategies. So, if all the players are playing the strategies in a Nash equilibrium, they have no incentive to deviate, since their strategy is the best they can do given what others are doing.

The payoffs of the game are generally taken to represent the utility of individual players. Often in modeling situations the payoffs represent money, which presumably corresponds to an individual's utility. This assumption, however, can be faulty.

A prototypical paper on game theory in economics begins by presenting a game that is an abstraction of some particular economic situation. One or more solution concepts are chosen, and the author demonstrates which strategy sets in the presented game are equilibria of the appropriate type. Naturally one might wonder to what use should this information be put. Economists and business professors suggest two primary uses.

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The first use is to inform us about how actual human populations behave. Some scholars believe that by finding the equilibria of games they can predict how actual human populations will behave when confronted with situations analogous to the game being studied. This particular view of game theory has come under recent criticism. First, it is criticized because the assumptions made by game theorists are often violated. Game theorists may assume players always act rationally to maximize their wins (the Homo economicus model), but real humans often act either irrationally, or act rationally to maximize the wins of some larger group of people (altruism). Game theorists respond by comparing their assumptions to those used in physics. Thus while their assumptions do not always hold, they can treat game theory as a reasonable scientific ideal akin to the models used by physicists. However, additional criticism of this use of game theory has been levied because some experiments have demonstrated that individuals do not play equilibrium strategies. For instance, in the Centipede game, Guess 2/3 of the average game, and the Dictator game, people regularly do not play Nash equilibria. There is an ongoing debate regarding the importance of these experiments. [2]

Alternatively, some authors claim that Nash equilibria do not provide predictions for human populations, but rather provide an explanation for why populations that play Nash equilibria remain in that state. However, the question of how populations reach those points remains open.

Some game theorists have turned to evolutionary game theory in order to resolve these worries. These models presume either no rationality or bounded rationality on the part of players. Despite the name, evolutionary game theory does not necessarily presume natural selection in the biological sense. Evolutionary game theory includes both biological as well as cultural evolution and also models of individual learning (for example, fictitious play dynamics).

The Prisoner's Dilemma
Cooperate Defect
Cooperate 2, 2 0, 3
Defect 3, 0 1, 1

On the other hand, some scholars see game theory not as a predictive tool for the behavior of human beings, but as a suggestion for how people ought to behave. Since a Nash equilibrium of a game constitutes one's best response to the actions of the other players, playing a strategy that is part of a Nash equilibrium seems appropriate. However, this use for game theory has also come under criticism. First, in some cases it is appropriate to play a non-equilibrium strategy if one expects others to play non-equilibrium strategies as well. For an example, see Guess 2/3 of the average.

Second, the Prisoner's Dilemma presents another potential counterexample. In the Prisoner's Dilemma, each player pursuing his own self-interest leads both players to be worse off than had they not pursued their own self-interests. Some scholars believe that this demonstrates the failure of game theory as a recommendation for behavior.

Hawk Dove
Hawk (V-C)/2, (V-C)/2 V, 0
Dove 0, V V/2, V/2

Unlike economics, the payoffs for games in biology are often interpreted as corresponding to fitness. In addition, the focus has been less on equilibria that correspond to a notion of rationality, but rather on ones that would be maintained by evolutionary forces. The most well-known equilibrium in biology is known as the Evolutionary stable strategy or (ESS), and was first introduced by John Maynard Smith (described in his 1982 book). Although its initial motivation did not involve any of the mental requirements of the Nash equilibrium, every ESS is a Nash equilibrium.

In biology, game theory has been used to understand many different phenomena. It was first used to explain the evolution (and stability) of the approximate 1:1 sex ratios. Ronald Fisher (1930) suggested that the 1:1 sex ratios are a result of evolutionary forces acting on individuals who could be seen as trying to maximize their number of grandchildren.

Additionally, biologists have used evolutionary game theory and the ESS to explain the emergence of animal communication (Maynard Smith & Harper, 2003). The analysis of signaling games and other communication games has provided some insight into the evolution of communication among animals.

Finally, biologists have used the hawk-dove game (also known as chicken) to analyze fighting behavior and territoriality.

Computer science and logicEdit

Game theory has come to play an increasingly important role in logic and in computer science. Several logical theories have a basis in game semantics. In addition, computer scientists have used games to model interactive computations.

The modal logic of gamesEdit

The modal logic of games integrates the von Neumann's definition of information into the semantics of modal logic. The properties of the accessibility relationship between possible worlds or plays in a game were shown to be directly related to the information conditions in a game. This allowed the definition of a more general class of games not definable in von Neumann's framework.(See E. Werner, #References)

Political scienceEdit

Research in political science has also used game theory. A game-theoretic explanation for the democratic peace is that the public and open debate in democracies send clear and reliable information regarding the intentions to other states. In contrast, it is difficult to know the intentions of nondemocratic leaders, what effect concessions will have, and if promises will be kept. Thus there will be mistrust and unwillingness to make concessions if at least one of the parties in a dispute is a nondemocracy.[2]

Game theory has been put to several uses in philosophy. Responding to two papers by W.V.O. Quine (1960, 1967), David Lewis (1969) used game theory to develop a philosophical account of convention. In so doing, he provided the first analysis of common knowledge and employed it in analyzing play in coordination games. In addition, he first suggested that one can understand meaning in terms of signaling games. This later suggestion has been pursued by several philosophers since Lewis (Skyrms 1996, Grim et al. 2004).

The Stag Hunt
Stag Hare
Stag 3, 3 0, 2
Hare 2, 0 2, 2

In ethics, some authors have attempted to pursue the project, begun by Thomas Hobbes, of deriving morality from self-interest. Since games like the Prisoner's Dilemma present an apparent conflict between morality and self-interest, explaining why cooperation is required by self-interest is an important component of this project. This general strategy is a component of the general social contract view in political philosophy (for examples, see Gauthier 1987 and Kavka 1986). [3]

Finally, other authors have attempted to use evolutionary game theory in order to explain the emergence of human attitudes about morality and corresponding animal behaviors. These authors look at several games including the Prisoner's Dilemma, Stag hunt, and the Nash bargaining game as providing an explanation for the emergence of attitudes about morality (see, e.g., Skyrms 1996, 2004; Sober and Wilson 1999).

There are fewer applications of game theory in sociology than in its sister disciplines, political science and philosophy. A game theoretic analysis of interactions among prisoners is conducted by Kaminski (2004).

History of game theoryEdit

The first known discussion of game theory occurred in a letter written by James Waldegrave in 1713. In this letter, Waldegrave provides a minimax mixed strategy solution to a two-person version of the card game le Her Template:Fact. It was not until the publication of Antoine Augustin Cournot's Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth in 1838 that a general game theoretic analysis was pursued. In this work Cournot considers a duopoly and presents a solution that is a restricted version of the Nash equilibrium.

Although Cournot's analysis is more general than Waldegrave's, game theory did not really exist as a unique field until John von Neumann published a series of papers in 1928. While the French mathematician Borel did some earlier work on games, von Neumann can rightfully be credited as the inventor of game theory. Von Neumann was a brilliant mathematician whose work was far-reaching from set theory to his calculations that were key to development of both the Atom and Hydrogen bombs and finally to his work developing computers. Von Neumann's work culminated in the 1944 book The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern. This profound work contains the method for finding optimal solutions for two-person zero-sum games. During this time period, work on game theory was primarily focused on cooperative game theory, which analyzes optimal strategies for groups of individuals, presuming that they can enforce agreements between them about proper strategies.

In 1950, the first discussion of the Prisoner's dilemma appeared, and an experiment was undertaken on this game at the RAND corporation. Around this same time, John Nash developed a definition of an "optimum" strategy for multiplayer games where no such optimum was previously defined, known as Nash equilibrium. This equilibrium is sufficiently general, allowing for the analysis of non-cooperative games in addition to cooperative ones.

Game theory experienced a flurry of activity in the 1950s, during which time the concepts of the core, the extensive form game, fictitious play, repeated games, and the Shapley value were developed. In addition, the first applications of Game theory to philosophy and political science occurred during this time.

In 1965, Reinhard Selten introduced his solution concept of subgame perfect equilibria, which further refined the Nash equilibrium (later he would introduce trembling hand perfection as well). In 1967, John Harsanyi developed the concepts of complete information and Bayesian games. He, along with John Nash and Reinhard Selten, won the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1994.

In the 1970s, game theory was extensively applied in biology, largely as a result of the work of John Maynard Smith and his evolutionary stable strategy. In addition, the concepts of correlated equilibrium, trembling hand perfection, and common knowledge[4] were introduced and analyzed.

In 2005, game theorists Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann won the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences. Schelling worked on dynamic models, early examples of evolutionary game theory. Aumann contributed more to the equilibrium school, developing an equilibrium coarsening correlated equilibrium and developing extensive analysis of the assumption of common knowledge.

  1. has an extensive list of references to game theory in popular culture.
  2. Experimental work in game theory goes by many names, experimental economics, behavioral economics, and behavioral game theory are several. For a recent discussion on this field see Camerer 2003.
  3. For a more detailed discussion of the use of Game Theory in ethics see the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry game theory and ethics.
  4. Although common knowledge was first discussed by the philosopher David Lewis in his dissertation (and later book) Convention in the late 1960s, it was not widely considered by economists until Robert Aumann's work in the 1970s.

Textbooks and general reference texts
  • Bierman, H. S. and L. Fernandez: Game Theory with economic applications, Addison-Wesley, 1998. (suitable for upper-level undergraduates)
  • Fudenberg, Drew and Jean Tirole: Game Theory, MIT Press, 1991, ISBN 0-262-06141-4 (the definitive reference text)
  • Dutta, Prajit: Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice, MIT Press, 2000, ISBN 0-262-04169-3 (suitable for undergraduate and business students)
  • Gibbons, Robert (1992): Game Theory for Applied Economists, Princeton University Press ISBN 0-691-00395-5 (suitable for advanced undergraduates. Published in Europe by Harvester Wheatsheaf (London) with the title A primer in game theory)
  • Gintis, Herbert (2000): Game Theory Evolving, Princeton University Press ISBN 0-691-00943-0
  • Miller, James (2003): Game Theory At Work, McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-140020-6. (Suitable for a general audience.)
  • Osborne, Martin J.: An Introduction to Game Theory, Oxford University Press, New York, 2004, ISBN 0-19-512895-8 (undergraduate textbook)
  • Osborne, Martin J. and Ariel Rubinstein: A Course in Game Theory, MIT Press, 1994, ISBN 0-262-65040-1 (a modern introduction at the graduate level)
  • Rasmusen, Eric: Games and information, 4th edition, Blackwell, 2006. Available online [3].
  • Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green (1995): Microeconomic Theory, 1995. Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-507340-1. (Presents game theory in formal way suitable for graduate level)
Historically important texts
Other print references
  • Camerer, Colin (2003) Behavioral Game Theory Princeton University Press ISBN 0-691-09039-4
  • Gauthier, David (1987) Morals by Agreement Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-824992-6
  • Grim, Patrick, Trina Kokalis, Ali Alai-Tafti, Nicholas Kilb, and Paul St Denis (2004) "Making meaning happen." Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 16(4): 209-243.
  • Kaminski, Marek M. (2004) Games Prisoners Play Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-11721-7
  • Kavka, Gregory (1986) Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-02765-X
  • Lewis, David (1969) Convention: A Philosophical Study
  • Maynard Smith, J. and Harper, D. (2003) Animal Signals. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852685-7
  • Quine, W.v.O (1967) "Truth by Convention" in Philosophica Essays for A.N. Whitehead Russel and Russel Publishers. ISBN 0-8462-0970-5
  • Quine, W.v.O (1960) "Carnap and Logical Truth" Synthese 12(4):350-374.
  • Skyrms, Brian (1996) Evolution of the Social Contract Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-55583-3
  • Skyrms, Brian (2004) The Stag Hunt and the Evolution of Social Structure Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-53392-9.
  • Sober, Elliot and David Sloan Wilson (1999) Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-93047-9
  • Werner, Eric (1989) "Modal Logic of Games", WISBER Report B48, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.[4]
  • Werner, Eric (1988) "Toward a Theory of Communication and Cooperation for Multiagent Planning", Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Proceedings of the Second Conference, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, pp. 129-143 [5].

Template:Tnavbar Topics in game theory

Normal form game · Extensive form game · Cooperative game · Information set · Preference

Equilibrium concepts

Nash equilibrium · Subgame perfection · Bayes-Nash · Trembling hand · Correlated equilibrium · Sequential equilibrium · Quasi-perfect equilibrium · Evolutionarily stable strategy

Dominant strategies · Mixed strategy · Grim trigger · Tit for Tat

Classes of games

Symmetric game · Perfect information · Dynamic game · Repeated game · Signaling game · Cheap talk · Zero-sum game · Mechanism design

Prisoner's dilemma · Chicken · Stag hunt · Ultimatum game · Coordination game · Matching pennies · Minority game · Rock, Paper, Scissors · Pirate game · Dictator game

Minimax theorem · Purification theorems · Folk theorem · Revelation principle

Related topics

Mathematics · Economics · Behavioral economics · Evolutionary game theory · Population genetics · Behavioral ecology · Adaptive dynamics · List of game theorists

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Yet Another Coffee Table

I know what you're thinking.  How many coffee tables does this guy need?  Let's just say I drink a lot of coffee.  Plus I can't pass up a steal on a midcentury piece like this.  I found this table at an estate sale about a month ago.  I paid $4 for it.  Unlike most of my finds, it didn't require a full restoration.
The feet were fairly corroded.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

A Major(s) Find

I found this Thermo-serv mug featuring Farrah Fawcett Majors from 1977 for 50 cents at an estate sale this past weekend.

Midcentury Coffee Table

Earlier this Summer, my wife and I attended the garage sale of a friend of hers.  One of her sisters was selling yet another Mid-century coffee table in less than ideal condition.  It was topped by a matching glass top that was cracked.  We ended up buying the piece for $7.  I brought it home and began restoration.

The first to go was the glass top.  There was nothing I could do with it and I think even if hadn't been cracked, I would have gotten rid of it since I liked the look of the table better without it.

After disassembling the piece, I taped off the white tile inlays (sorry, apparently, I failed to get a picture of the top prior to disassembly!)

The leg looked like a dog had chewed it

Completely sanded

After adding a few coats of Minwax Provincial stain and polyurethane.

The dog bites are barely noticeable

In place in our living room.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

A Very Cool Midcentury Estate Sale

Today was the annual Canterbury Place Subdivision sale in Affton.  It's been a tradition to attend it for at least the past 10 years.  While it isn't a grandiose as it once once, it still delivers great finds and today was no exception.  No to be fair, this estate sale was actually in the subdivision next to Canterbury Place, Saxon Manor.  At one time, Saxon Manor also held it's subdivision-wide sale on the same day and you could spend the entire day roaming the joined neighborhoods.

At one time, garage sales were a good source for midcentury items, but as that generation ages, sadly the best source has become estate sales.  This sale was private, so the prices were reasonable and the crowd was low.  Here are a few of the finds I made (and a few I had to let go).

First up is this fun Danish Modern barware set. Labeled E60 St Park Ave, it features a mixing spoon, a garnish fork, bottle opener and ice tongs.  Oh, and a fine gentleman complete with top hat and cane dru...ahem...sleeping in a rubbish basket.  He was priced at $1.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

A New Vista

I went to an estate sale in Affton with a specific piece in mind.  I've been looking for a Midcentury Modern piece which I could convert into an audio/video component cabinet.  I saw this picture on

What's in a Name?

It's not often that I get more mileage out of the same find, but the cache of photographs I found of Shirley White proved even more interesting when I began researching the photographer who took them.

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Gloucester Wedding Photography | Cruisport, Gloucester, Mass | Meaghan & Charles

We had the privilege of working with Meaghan's family a few years ago for her brother Josh and Maid of Honor Jillian's wedding (yes, her brother married her best friend :-) ...) and it was such a pleasure to work with them again! When Meaghan opened the door to her hotel room, the first thing I noticed was her smile.  It went from ear to ear and stayed there all day.  You couldn't help but smile when you looked at her, because she was just oozing happiness. It was an absolute honor to be witness to two people so perfectly in love with each other!  Thank you for including us!  Love and luck to you both!!! We hope to see you again soon!

Venue: Cruiseport Glouster
Bakery: D'Amici's Bakery

Meaghan wore her grandmother's ring for her special day.

I think Meaghan gets her smile from her mom and dad :-)  Look at them beaming on the way to the wedding.

They're married!

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Review: Star power can't correct awry path of 'Passengers'

By: jake coyle The Associated Press
December 21, 2016 Updated: December 21, 2016 at 4:40 am
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This image released by Columbia Pictures, Chris Pratt, left, and Jennifer Lawrence in a scene from the film, Passengers." (Jaimie Trueblood/Columbia Pictures/Sony via AP)

Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen; directed by Morten Tyldum; 105 minutes; PG-13 for sexuality, nudity and action/peril

We seem to be shooting our best movie stars into outer space with alarming frequency. George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon and now Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt have all been rocketed out of the stratosphere.

Perhaps they're trying to make the best impression possible with alien life forms. Maybe they're seeking to colonize new worlds of moviegoers. In any case, the stars never have looked so starry.

And the movies - "Gravity," "Interstellar," "The Martian" - have been among the better blockbusters in recent years. Space isn't just the last frontier; it's the new Western.

But in Morten Tyldum's "Passengers," Pratt and Lawrence have been handed a faulty flight log. Pratt plays Jim Preston, one of a few thousand people in suspended animation on the Aurora, a spiraling starship hurtling through space on autopilot, headed toward a distant colonized planet, Homestead II. But after a particularly big asteroid dings the ship, Preston's pod opens 30 years into a 120-year trip. He's a bear woken from hibernation too soon. Despite his efforts to restart the process, hitting the snooze is out of the question.

For anyone who has found themselves unreasonably wide awake in the middle of the night, Jim's nightmare will have a ring of familiarity. But his math is grimmer. With 90 lonely years to go, he's essentially been roused to his death. The otherwise desolate ship is his coffin.

Jim goes through various stages reconciling himself to his fate. He pleads with the ship's corporate-speak computers. He busies himself playing basketball and chatting with a robot bartender, Arthur (a chipper Michael Sheen), who has curiously been programmed to polish glasses and lend a sensitive ear to any customers for the decades-long journey.

After a year, Jim's gaze turns toward the sleeping passengers. One catches his eye. Who should be there, locked under glass, but Jennifer Lawrence. Later, the film's other late-arriving character (Laurence Fishburne) will give voice to the movie's sexist, sleeping beauty fantasy.

A suicidal Jim, after wrestling over the decision for months, finally decides to wake up the woman he's already fallen for, a journalist named Aurora Lane - which sounds like the moniker of either a street or a porn star.

The decision - tantamount to murder - is a cosmic mix of creepy, amoral and understandable. And it's a credit to Pratt's expansive good-naturedness that "Passengers" doesn't completely torpedo at this moment. Lawrence, too, is such a great screen presence that we can almost simply enjoy the pair speeding through space. But the thinness of her character only furthers suspicions of the film's questionable gender politics.

A creepy courtship follows, though neither Tyldum nor Pratt is much interested in pursuing the darkness at the center of its premise.

There's room in the galaxy for less thoughtful forays into deep space, especially ones that pair such engaging actors. But what has ultimately self-destructed in "Passengers" is its central metaphor.

It's about how the act of falling in love dooms companions to a single fate, sentencing them, for better or worse, to a lifetime together. It's a clever enough conceit, doomed by a bungled meet cute.

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RESPONSE – Multi-agency response for reporting of GBV in maternal health services – is a two-year project co-funded by the European Commission under the Daphne Programme, that aims to increase maternal health teams response to gender-based violence (GBV). Capacity building activities are being implemented in partner countries to support disclosure of events, referral to specialised services and safety planning for women accessing maternal health services. The activities take place in the following five EU countries: Austria, Germany, France, Romania (project coordinator) and Spain; with the support of GBV researchers and policy experts at the University of Bristol, UK, for the project evaluation.

Our work?

This project builds on the Daphne supported IMPLEMENT Project (2014-2016) in which 4 of the RESPONSE partners participated in (Austria, France, Germany, Romania, and UK-trainers). We will use the IMPLEMENT Training Manual developed to target GBV identification in emergency departments and adapt it to train maternal health teams to respond to GBV through their numerous contacts with women accessing maternal health services.

Why our work is important?

Research shows that women survivors of GBV use healthcare services more than women who are not victims. As well, healthcare providers are professionals whom women survivors of GBV would most trust with their disclosure of abuse. Therefore, routine perinatal care visits offer a crucial opportunity for identification, safety planning, referral and reporting of gender-based violence in pregnant women who are at high risk during this vulnerable period. Unfortunately, these skills are severely lacking in the training of medical, nursing and midwifery students and staff who work in maternal health clinics.

This publication has been produced with the financial support of the Daphne Programme of the European Union under grant agreement no JUST/2015/RDAP/AG/MULT/9746 . The contents of this website are the sole responsibility of the RESPONSE project team led by the Babes-Bolyai University (UBB) and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission.


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Cut glass with scissors

April 11, 2007

Apparently you can cut glass with scissors under water. And by cut glass I mean swap out pieces of glass with other pieces of glass as you pretend to cut it. Or magic. That also works.

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