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Poker Strategy - Omaha Play.

Recently, a player asked about his play of an Omaha High Low hand. He asked if he played it right. In my view, he played every street wrong. The only way to play the hand worse at any point was to fold. The point here is not to rag on a series of poor choices, but to emphasize how you need to act to extract value from situations, not passively accept what value that other players will just give you. You can't be a beacon, a shining example of success, if you don't let your value shine.
    Omaha Hi/Low $0.50-$1
  • Seat 1 ($54.15 chips)
  • Seat 2 ($14.50 chips)
  • Seat 3 ($25.05 chips)
  • Seat 4 [Ad4sAc2s] ($42.15 chips) -- has the dealer button
  • Seat 5 ($14 chips)
  • Seat 6 ($24.70 chips)
  • Seat 7 ($51.30 chips)

  • Seat5 posts ($0.25)
  • Seat6 posts ($0.50)
  • Seat3 posts ($0.50)
The first thing to note here is that there is an extra blind being posted by a new player. Seat5 is behind the button, but the game is only seven handed. With an extra posted blind, virtually any hand Our Player chooses to play should be raised before the flop from the button. When there is that extra dead money out there, it is simply terrible to give two people free rides, and the small blind a cheap look, when you have a playable hand in best position.
    Seat7 folds, Seat1 calls $0.50, Seat2 calls $0.50, Seat3 checksOur Player calls $0.50, Seat5 calls $0.25, Seat6 checks.
Here we have the most basic mistake in Omaha. Our Player had the best of it at this point, but did not raise to put more money in the pot when he had the best of it. In fact, he had five opponents but only two had to put in a bet the size he did. This makes no logical sense. The point is to make other people put in money when you have the best hand, not the other way around.
    Flop: Qh6c7c
    Seat5 bets $0.50, Seat6 calls $0.50, Seat1 folds,Seat2 calls $0.50, Seat3 calls $0.50, Our Player calls $0.50.
As horrible as the preflop call is, this is worse. Seat1, the person who opened under the gun and thus (all other things being equal) is most likely to have the best hand, or in this case A2xx, folds. Our Player's hand looks even better now. Additionally, it was the small blind who bet. If Our Player raises, we might get a reraise, which will lead to a much bigger pot, or everyone else folding and getting a pot with a lot of dead money in it. Either is fine. Merely calling and again minimizing the pot has no advantages. Also, Our Player has the ace of clubs. He must raise here. If it comes a big club on the turn or river, we certainly don't want an opponent to either bet a small flush, or bluff because no one but the small blind has shown strength. Ideally the original bettor will reraise with a hand that Our Player dominates (like AQ42).

Of course, the key problem remains that there was no preflop raise which makes further play a lot of clueless bumping around in the dark involving a smallish pot, rather than easier to read action involving a larger pot.
    TURN: Qh6c7c8s
    Seat5 bets $1, Seat6 calls $1, Seat2 raises to $2, Seat3 calls $2Our Player calls $2, Seat5 calls $1, Seat6 calls $1.
Here we have a real hatred of money call. What was Our Player waiting for? His hand is as good as it is going to get. If one player has a straight, we can't beat that for high, but presumably some of the other players are drawing live to flushes or full houses or bigger straights. We need to get value out of them now, because if they miss their draws on the river they aren't going to pay.

Even in the worst case scenario, where Our Player is getting 1/6 of the pot, there are five players, so if the betting is capped at $4, and Our Player got 1/6... Our Player would only lose .67 cents ($20 bet from five people, 1/6th = $3.33). Compare that to if Our Player gets 1/4 of the pot (1/4 of $20 = $5) where he wins $1, or where he gets half the pot (1/2 = $10), where his profit is $6. Clearly the loss you have when you get a sixth is more than made up for in the times you get 1/4 or 1/2 the pot.
    RIVER: Qh6c7c8sQs
    Seat5 checks, Seat6 bets $1, Seat2 calls $1, Seat3 folds,Our Player calls $1, Seat5 checkraises to $2, Seat6 calls $1,Seat2 calls $1, Our Player calls $1.
How does Our Player's action here make any sense? What does he think these people have, based on how they bet. Seat6 called the turn but now bets? Seat5 bet the flop and turn and now checks, and then checkraises? Seat2 raises the turn and now calls the new bettor? How can Our Player possibly put any of them on A2, let alone more than one? If we get quartered four way, we lose nothing. If we get 1/6 four way, we lose $1.50. If we get half, we win $4. To not raise, Our Player has to think it is nearly three times more likely that he will get 1/6 than he will get 1/2!

Even the terrible play previous rounds should not have left Our Player so in the dark that he could not conclude that at least two of these players were playing high hands.
    Seat5 shows 7s7h6sKh
    Seat6 shows 6d9hQc6h
    Seat2 shows 4d2c5hJs
    Our Player shows Ad4sAc2s
    Our Player wins low $11.15, Redhanded01(is that seat 2,5 or 6?) wins high $11.20.
Most tellingly, presuming this was not Our Player's second hand in the game, he should have observed the above players previously, which now makes not raising pre-flop to be even worse. The way each played these garbage hands should make Our Player aggressive on the button with even some fairly mediocre hands like A39J.

Online Omaha HiLo games continue to be populated with some of the worst poker playing in the galaxy, and that poor play comes in many forms, including hopelessly passive weak-tight play.

Hopefully Our Player will learn from his mistakes on this hand, but sadly such straightforward, hyper-profitable situations don't come up often. When they do though, it is critical that you "let it shine" and get your money in when you massively have the best of it.

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Just going to quote the book. I'm just going to write was planned because i'm not sure which venues existed and which ones were games dependent. Archery was planned at Seneca College, King City. 50k

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The bid books arrived. They are in excellent condition! The books also came with the CD with the bid books on them and it is still sealed! The case is amazing, will try to post pictures soon. No flaws or marks at all.

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Summer Olympic Games Bid - Paris 2012 - Olympics Bid Book http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/380954980917?roken=cUgayN

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Most of these are from the bid websites

London 2012 Candidature File: http://www.sportdevelopment.info/index.php/component/sectionex/738-london-olympic-candidate-file

Krakow 2022 Applicant File: http://www.krakow2022.org/en/media/downloads

Oslo 2022 Applicant File: http://www.ol22.no/en/documents-and-downloads

Rio 2016 Candidature File: http://www.rio2016.com/en/organising-committee/transparency/documents

Tokyo 2020 Candidature File: https://tokyo2020.jp/en/plan/candidature/index.html

Tokyo 2016 Candidature File (Not the one Eternal and TNMP gave me): i.usatoday.net/sports/olympics/_2009/documents/s090213_tokyo_bid.pdf

Lillehammer 2016 YOG Volume 1: www.idrett.no/nyheter/Documents/YOG2016_Lillehammer_VOL1.pdf

Gold Coast 2018 CWG Volume 2: www.gc2018.com/flux-content/GC2018/pdf/VOL2.pdf

I think this is Lviv's 2022 Applicant File: gu-arch-loda.in.ua/documents/catalogs/lviv2022eng.pdf

Sochi 2014 Candidature File: http://ebookbrowsee.net/so/sochi-2014#.U9Q7QGbodcs

Toronto 2015 Pan American Games: images.toronto2015.org/system/asset_pdfs/906/original/bid-book.pdf

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Whoever wants Tokyo 2016, here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gn4a37mm9sw1nsm/Tokyo%202016%20Candidature%20File.pdf?dl=0

Plus, I'm interested in Tokyo's 1992 candidature file, and of course, Nagoya '88. Not to mention Athens 2004 and San Juan 2004

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I think Tokyo was only interested in bidding for 1992, I doubt they even made a candidature file.

The truth is, as a result of opposing statements made by the Tsukuba Expo '85 committee that have been made public by error, the bid has been...abandoned. It never made it to the IOC's hands by the deadline in early 1986.

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Apologies, but the Newzoo 'boxed versus digita'l charts may be confusing. The digital sales include DLC and micropayments, even within the console data bars. In their recent quarter earnings reports, Nintendo (number one selling console in 2020) and EA (top 3rd party console publisher) revealed digital full game sales on just consoles at 47.2% and 56% respectively. So for a true 'digital vs boxed', maybe we should compare like for like. Digital full game downloads are getting there but there is still a large population of console gamers who prefer the physical product (a rare phenomenon within all media).
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My father, Neal, a World War II and Korean War veteran, lives in a small assisted living facility in Florida.

Despite his age and a heart attack earlier this year before the pandemic in which our family thought we lost him, he continues to thrive and do amazingly well in the facility where he lives. And so far, despite the spike in COVID-19 in Florida recently, there has not been one incidence of COVID at his facility.

The best answer I can give you is the small house design of his facility where his living area is contained to his own private room, where he has a small number of fellow residents and where they live essentially in their own autonomous neighborhood that follows strict adherence to infection control protocols.

But is there even greater evidence, research or data that corroborates what my instincts tell me? As a member of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home Coalition, the grassroots group that stood up in June in response to the Home’s COVID-19 tragedy, that answer is crucially important as our group appeals to the state for a much-improved future Soldiers’ Home.

To answer that question, I recently participated in a national webinar sponsored by The Green House Project, a national nonprofit that promotes a small house design concept with family-like alternatives to traditional institutional care.

The topic was how senior housing designs can reduce the transmission of COVID. A panel of senior living architectural experts looked at how a decentralized small house design and outdoor spaces can reduce the incidence of COVID.

The panelists noted that small home designs are much better equipped to deal with the pandemic than larger environments and have fared much better than their counterparts in the mitigation of COVID.

The Green House — a small house model — is a concept that appeals to me greatly. Conceived in 2003 by Dr. William Thomas, a Harvard-trained geriatrician, the focus is on providing elders with more autonomy and deeper social interactions but within a close-knit family-style, household setting. The Green House also has its own private entrances, like you’d find with your own home, and doesn’t have the foot traffic, open floors and corridors you find in traditional nursing homes with all the touchpoints that can spread disease.

The model also results in higher satisfaction levels and there are fewer health problems such as depression, a big factor when you are working with the veteran community, which has higher incident rates.

When our coalition recently conducted a “reimagining” exercise to jot down what we would like to see in a new Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, we noted the necessity for a small house model with private rooms, private bathrooms, homestyle features and amenities that appeal to a diverse veteran population.

Constructing a new Soldiers’ Home will not be an easy feat, considering the scope of services needed for a veteran population that today predominately ranges from an aging legion of Vietnam-era baby boomers to future generations of post 9/11 veterans, many of whom have experienced multiple combat deployments.

A design put forth in 2012 by Paul Barabani, the former superintendent of the Soldiers’ Home, used many of the Green House concepts. Our coalition has asked the state to now upgrade that design to leverage today’s latest Green House trends, along with an enabling outdoor environment and an adult day health care program.

Green House homes come in many different styles to fit either rural, suburban or urban design settings. The key is a small home concept where residents live in “homes” or “neighborhoods,” each with their own living accommodations with unfettered access to outdoor space. Each “home” comprises, on average, 10 private bedrooms and bathrooms clustered around an airy and open-style kitchen and dining and living areas.

Here is the rub, though. As you might expect, the designs cost exponentially more than traditional facilities. Cost nationwide has been the number one reason why more Green Houses are not built. Once you get past the building costs, however, operational costs for Green Houses are comparable to those of traditional nursing homes.

At my Dad’s place, dinner is freshly cooked and dished up family style. These days he eats in a dining room, socially distanced from other residents. He goes outside often to a beautiful environment with flowers, trees and bird houses. He has attentive care providers and medical experts who know him as intimately as any of his children. He is safely enjoying his golden years, even if in isolation due to the greatest pandemic in our lifetimes.

But my father has the means to pay for such care. Like many from his Great Depression generation, he was frugal throughout his entire life, and he made sure to save up for the day when he would need extra help and skilled nursing. Never wanting to be “institutionalized” in a nursing home, he saved every penny for this day. Every senior citizen should get the same quality of care my dad receives.

Over the years, government funding has been dismal for nursing home construction and although there has been some support in Congress for loan programs for the development and construction of a small home design concept, the support from taxpayers has not been there.

Coalition members fear the state likewise will not hear our voices when it comes to conceptualizing and then constructing the kind of long-term care facility that our veterans and truly all senior citizens deserve. And my biggest question is the one hardest to answer: Will our fellow citizens be willing to do what it takes financially to reach our vision?

John Paradis, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, lives in Florence and writes a monthly column for the Gazette. He can be reached at

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At Jake’s in Northampton: Taking the grease out of the spoon and adding a little bit of kale

  • The Pork Belly Benedict dish at Jake's in Northampton consists of two poached eggs with crispy pork belly, sauteed greens, shaved shallots, roasted garlic and Cheddar cheese. It is topped with hollandaise on toasted sourdough bread with a side of dressed greens. Gazette Staff/Andy Castillo

  • Cook Oscar Rosado cuts potatoes in the restaurant's prep kitchen. Gazette Staff/Andy Castillo

  • Yuri Klypka-Simpson, a cook at Jake's in Northampton, slices pork in the downtown restaurant's prep kitchen. Gazette Staff/Andy Castillo

  • Jake’s cook Yuri Klypka-Simpson slices pork. Gazette Staff/Andy Castillo

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  • A breakfast dish of avocado, sourdough toast and eggs, served with home fries at Jake's. Gazette Staff/Andy Castillo—

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With each bite of the Pork Belly Benedict that’s served at Jake’s restaurant in downtown Northampton there’s a hint of maple and roasted garlic in the dish’s two poached eggs, which are topped with cheddar cheese and seasoned with shaved shallots.

And when the eggs break, the hot yoke pours down over a crispy slab of pork and sourdough toast, mingling mellow flavor with the plate’s briny saltiness. It’s a classic breakfast dish, but Jake’s fine dining approach to traditional fare makes it special.

“We make the most of simple ingredients,” says Christopher Ware, 35, who purchased Jake’s seven years ago with his childhood best friend, Alexander Washut, 34. The two grew up in Northampton and frequented the popular King Street eatery, which opened in 1976, when they were kids. Back then, Ware says, Jake’s standard breakfast and lunch dishes served a devoted clientele.

Today, those standards — scrambled eggs, pancakes, hash and burgers — share the menu with dishes with haute cuisine flair like the Bay State Burro with Monterey Jack cheese, spinach, kale, crumbled jalapeno corn bread, herb roasted potatoes and house-made black beans. Or the Kale Salad with avocado, roasted walnuts, chickpeas, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, sourdough croutons and lemon tahini vinaigrette.

At Jake’s, “you can get more than bacon and eggs,” says Victoria Kozera of Hatfield. She’s sitting at a sunny table near the front entrance while waiting for her car to be repaired at Ernie’s Garage on King Street. She used the errand as an “excuse to come to Jake’s for a really good breakfast.”

The changes Washut and Ware made when they took over clearly have kept customers enthused. On weekend mornings the line stretches down the sidewalk to the corner of King and Main Streets. Sitting at a table next to Kozera, Sally Crowther of Northampton says she’s a been a loyal customer for decades.

“We’ve known it as a Northampton fixture,” she says.

Such continued success has Ware and Washut setting their sights across the river. A second Jake’s will open on Cowls Road in North Amherst by September.

Attention to detail

It’s a quiet Tuesday morning, and the restaurant is filled with customers like Kozera and Crowther who are reading newspapers and chatting quietly over coffee. In a small kitchen near the back, a half dozen line cooks and waitstaff quickly fill orders. Downstairs, a team of prep cooks slice potatoes and cure meats, preparing ingredients that will be served in coming weeks.

All the food at Jake’s is made with techniques aimed at enhancing flavor, say Ware and Washut. The pork is brined in a house-made spice mixture for 17 days, tomatoes are roasted slowly in fresh herbs and olive oil at 275 degrees for 24 hours, and shaved butter is frozen so that it evenly disperses into batter.

“That’s why, when we bake our biscuits, they explode — they’re light and fluffy, and have all these layers,” Washut says. He learned that recipe, and many others, while cooking at Brigtsen’s Restaurant in New Orleans.

Neither Ware nor Washut attended culinary school. Instead they acquired their skills working in restaurants throughout Massachusetts, New York, and New Orleans.

“Across the board, if you were going to characterize (the menu) as one thing, it’s just good, honest, scratch made cooking,” Washut says.

Ware attributes Jake’s breakfast menu’s flavor palette to attention to detail.

“We look for ways to elevate the food, so people eat it and say ‘this is really good, but I don’t really know why,’” he says. “When it comes to the cooking process, we think about stocks and evaporation, and how sometimes the salt molecules are still in the water molecules as they evaporate, so you might lose some sodium in that dish, perhaps.”

‘Never breakfast ...’

Ware, who has a degree in biochemistry from Skidmore College, grew up on Drewsen Drive in Florence, and remembers eating dinners, high quality and of Italian influence, at Washut’s house on Florence Road. They met when they were 5 years old, went to Ryan Road School together, joined the same Cub Scout and Boy Scout troops, and frequented area breakfast joints like Florence Diner and Jake’s, which was a favorite because of it’s rustic atmosphere, Ware says.

Of all the dishes served at Jake’s back then, Ware says, he most vividly recalls the restaurant’s house burger.

“It was that classic flat top with some American cheese and just the right amount of grease, on a small bun, Ware says. In high school, you could probably eat four of them, and you loved it. With a plate of chips and some pickles it was perfect. That’s all you wanted,” he says. “I love diners. I always have. I love the feel. I love the booths. I love the juke box. I love all of it.”

Sometimes, Ware says, he and Washut would joke that one day they’d own a restaurant together.

“We said ‘never breakfast. Never breakfast.’ Lo and behold, here we are, and it will be seven years this November.”

These days, Ware says “we joke and say ‘we loved Jake’s, we wanted to keep the feel of Jake’s, but we wanted to take the grease out of the spoon and add a little bit of kale.’”

Yes, they have recreated the foods they remember eating at Jake’s during high school, but now those burgers are served with house-made sauce and “big slabs of grilled onions” on brioche buns.

Seizing the moment

In high school, Ware got his start in cooking at a catering company in Florence working under Pengyew Chin, who currently owns Pengyew Catering, and later worked at Northampton Brewery with Washut. Later, after Washut had worked in New Orleans while Ware was at Skidmore, they cooked together again in restaurants in Martha’s Vineyard.

When Jake’s went up for sale in 2011, one phone call — from Washut’s mother reporting she’d seen an ad in the restaurant’s window — prompted Washut to leave a sous chef position at Riverpark restaurant in New York. Ware quit his job as head chef at Northampton Brewery.

“From when my mother called me to say that Jake’s was up for sale, which is embarrassing and hilarious, to when we actually signed the lease, it was like five days,” Washut said. “It was crazy, and I mean crazy.”

For the first few years, Washut noted, they routinely worked 20-plus hour days.

Over time, as the pair taught others their cooking process, they gradually moved out of the kitchen and into managerial roles, Washut says, gravitating away from day-to-day cooking operations.

In Amherst, where they’re hoping to open with the same menu — with the addition of French fries — and limited hours next month, Washut and Ware intend to return to the kitchen and work behind the grill once again. A grand opening, with hours from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., is scheduled for September.

Compared to Northampton, “the biggest difference is that the space looks different. It’s much more modern, and has an industrial look,” Ware says, noting they’ll have a bigger kitchen but a slightly smaller seating capacity.

They will be located in the mixed-use Trolley Barn building in the Mill District of North Amherst. Jake’s takes the place of Bread and Butter restaurant, which closed over the winter.

“We’re going to be there, backing the openers. The first six months will be interesting, finding that rhythm, and what works and what doesn’t for this space,” Washut says. “Getting the machine running again, it will be fun.”

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Jake’s Biscuits

2 cups all purpose flour

½ cup unsalted butter, frozen, grated on large hole of box grater

2 tablespoons baking powder

1 ½ teaspoons salt

2 1/2 tablespoons sugar (slightly more than)

¾ cup buttermilk

½ cup whole milk

Sift the dry ingredients together in large bowl (very important).

Add the frozen grated butter, milk, buttermilk into the dry ingredients and begin to mix by hand (Do not over mix. Be gentle.))

Roll out the dough to 1 inch thick, fold it over, turn and repeat 3 to 4 times to make layers in the biscuits.

Cut the dough into rounds using designated cutter.

Biscuits can either be cooked fresh or frozen for later. The measurements listed above are converted from the restaurant’s weight based measurement system and might not be exact.

To cook from fresh:

Pre heat oven to 325 degrees, place biscuits on parchment paper lined sheet tray and bake for about 20 minutes, rotated 180 degrees once half way through baking time. Check biscuit for doneness by gently breaking one apart and seeing if the inside is fully cooked. If not, continue cooking in 5 minute increments until done.

To cook from frozen:

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Place biscuits on parchment paper-lined sheet tray and bake for about 30 minutes, rotated 180 degrees once half way through cook time. Check biscuit for doneness by gently breaking one apart and seeing if the inside is fully cooked. If not, continue cooking in 5 minute increments until done.

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The LG Optimus G was released a couple of months ago, and was a statement from LG that it would no longer be seen as a mid-range smartphone manufacturer. The company took its time with this one, focusing on a few key areas that it felt would set this phone apart from the wildly crowded Android smartphone pack, where Samsung has been recognized as the leader. The phone is available on both Sprint and AT&T for $199 with a two-year contract. The question is, did LG deliver? On the surface, it seems to have checked all the right boxes, what with 4G LTE, quad-core processor, Corning Gorilla Glass 2, and a 4.7-inch True HD IPS Plus display. Is it enough? Follow along with us in our full LG Optimus G review for the answer.

LG Optimus G Crystal reflection

When you first see the LG Optimus G, it doesn't look like anything special. It's not bad by any means, but it's just a minimalist approach to hardware design. It's simple and thin, with a shiny rear panel called Crystal Reflection (we're reviewing the Sprint model.) You have a micro USB port, power and volume buttons, and that's pretty much it. Clean and simple.

LG Optimus G display review

Once you power it up and see the display, then it all starts to make sense. The hardware is all about letting the OS and its features shin on this gorgeous LG display panel. The 4-inch 1280 x 768 LCD display is nice and sharp, offering 7% more screen resolution that the 1280 x 720 displays found on other smartphones. It's also a proper LCD with RGB pixels, which is highly appreciated. Colors aren't horribly over-saturated as can be seen on some AMOLED displays, and text looks fantastic.

LG Optimus G camera review

The Sprint version of the Optimus G has the same 13-megapixel camera sensor that's found on the global version of the device, whereas the AT&T version sports an 8-megapixel shooter. What we found is that, while our Sprint model takes fine pictures, they aren't as sharp as what you'd get on the 8-megapixel cameras found on the AT&T version, or on the iPhone 5, or HTC One X. The images seemed to be more soft and lacking full range of color.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is the flavor of Google's OS that you can expect to find on the Optimus G, although we're told a Jelly Bean update is coming at some point in the future. LG has tried its best to set itself apart with some customization to Android, but of course, it's ultimately up to the carriers as far as what they'll allow. You can still move things around, and customize your home screens and the app launcher, and on the Optimus G you can also change the icon for an app to whatever you'd like. Maybe a picture of your spouse to represent your messaging app.

Tap on the "+" at the top right of the display, and you can add icons and widgets on your home screens. Some of this can start to get confusing, and you really do have to poke around and just figure some stuff out.

One interesting LG feature is "Quick Memo," which allows you to scribble on screenshots from anywhere in the OS. If you've used S-Memo on a Samsung device, it's like that, but here you just use your finger when jotting down notes. You enter this mode by pressing both volume buttons at the same time.

LG also gives you a quick settings feature, which you access through the notification shade, right at the top. This is highly appreciated, as it lets you manage things like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, brightness, and many more, from anywhere. One negative here is that this, too, is all up to the carrier. For example, on our Sprint model, you can easily toggle the Personal Hotspot feature right from the quick settings bar if you'd like, but on the AT&T model, you can't.

QSlide is another nice feature, allowing you to multitask by, say, watching a transparent video while you do other things like text, check email, etc.

With the LG Optimus G, you get the first smartphone to rock the 1.5 GHz quad-core "Krait" Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor. It also packs in 2 GB of RAM alongside an Adreno 320 graphics processor. If that's all gibberish to you, then let's just say that this phone is fast. You'll have a hard time finding performance flaws on the Optimus G, even when playing the most demanding of graphically-intense games.

The LG Optimus G has a great 2,100mAh battery powering it, and that means it should last you all day. We haven't had it die on us with regular usage, including web browsing, email, SMS, and light gaming. The battery seems to last about 11-12 hours, and you can enable Eco Mode, which clocks down the processor when there's no heavy lifting to be done, which would give you even longer battery life.

LG Optimus G box

In our opinion, LG has succeeded in creating a lust-worthy Android smartphone for the first time. The Optimus G is deserving of the title "flagship" due to its fast processor, 4G LTE radio (although you'll have a hard time finding an LTE signal on Sprint, but that's not LG's fault,) fantastic display, and build quality.

The display is one of the best we've seen on a smartphone, and the device itself is worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as other popular Android devices, like the Samsung Galaxy S III. In many ways, it's simply a better device. It's a shocker, we know, but it appears that manufacturers other than Apple and Samsung can make an amazing smartphone, and in our personal opinion, the Optimus G is the best Android device for your money as of this writing.

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Toyota's Sienna Woodland Edition is comfortable, capable and seriously good-looking.

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There is no reason your ride to the campsite can't be a luxurious one, and with the Toyota Sienna Woodland Edition, it will be. This exclusive version of the Sienna features a new colorway for the line — Cement — which is most notably found on Toyota's TRD-level pickups and SUVs. But don't let its beauty fool you. With its long list of features, the Sienna is up for whatever adventure you have planned. Whether you want to load it up with camping gear, hitch up your bike and head to the trail or just take a joy ride, the Sienna Woodland Edition will not disappoint.

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How to Re-Wax a Canvas Jacket the Right Way

If you’re lucky enough to own one, you need to know how to re-wax it properly — instead of just buying a new one.

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Before there were synthetic fabrics, before Gore-Tex and “weatherproof breathability”, there was thick cotton and a can of wax. Early sailors realized that wet sails caught the wind better than dry sails, but wet sails were too heavy and slowed the ships down. The solution was rubbing oil into the sailcloths, making them more efficient and also water repellent so they stayed light in the rain. The sailors started cutting jackets out of the oiled sailcloth for themselves, wearing early editions of the rain jacket, but these primitive designs, made with linseed oil, became stiff in the cold and faded in color. Then, in the early 20th century, manufacturers developed a process for impregnating cotton with paraffin wax. The new material made for flexible, warm, durable and waterproof clothing that was quickly adopted by soldiers, outdoorsmen and sailors.

Since then a slew of synthetic, breathable and waterproof fabrics have been developed — and used in those lightweight North Face jackets everybody wears. But a few companies have stuck with waxed cotton, which remains much more suited to workwear and carries the look and history of a real outdoorsman; don’t expect the paper-thin liner of your standard synthetic zip-up to survive when you’re cutting down a tree.

One of those companies is Filson, which got its start in Seattle in 1897 outfitting prospectors on their way to the Klondike Gold Rush. The company still offers waxed cotton jackets for their customers — their flagship jackets are made of heavy tin cloth, named from when tin was the most resistant, commonly used metal. A couple years ago, we met with Michael Skauge — then the retail manager of Filson’s New York operations — to learn how to re-wax a heavy cotton jacket.

Clean and prep the jacket

You can tell a jacket needs to be re-waxed by its appearance. The areas where the wax has been worn out will appear lighter than the oily, dark patches around seams and indentations. Presumably, if you need to re-wax your jacket, you’ve been wearing it outside, so you may want to clean it before you re-wax it. However, Skauge warns that you normally shouldn’t try to clean the jacket because “spot cleaning will lighten certain areas as the wax is washed out”.

So if you want to remove the grime and smell after a season of use, the best move is to soak the entire jacket in cold water or hose it off completely. Don’t use any soaps or detergents. This isn’t your t-shirt; machine washing a wax jacket ruins the material.

Apply the wax

Once the jacket is dry, lay the jacket out on a table and grab a canister of paraffin wax or soy wax (soy wax is typically used on lighter jackets); wax jackets are normally sold with the correct wax. Some guides will tell you to heat the wax and use a paintbrush to brush it on, but this is a jacket, not a paint-by-numbers. Skauge suggests simply using your hands to work that wax into the jacket.

“The heat from your hand helps loosen up the wax. Paraffin melts at about 100 degrees and change [it’s actually 99 degrees], so your body heat will loosen it and your hand will work it into the fabric,” said Skauge as he rubbed wax into his own jacket. “This is something you can do in the field, but not below 40 degrees without warming it up somehow. You could use a camp stove.”

Heat the applied wax

Heating the wax will melt it into the cotton fibers, completely saturating the fabric. Oddly, this step is optional; just know that unheated waxed jackets are lighter in color and appear a bit chalky after the wax has dried. After some use the chalkiness will wear off and you’ll be left with a lighter, “dry jacket”.

Heating the jacket, however, is recommended for maximum durability and wax saturation. Skauge uses a heat gun on full blast to work in the wax, but a hair drier will work he says — it’ll just take more time. A fully waxed and heated jacket will appear dark and have a similar sheen to leather.

Dry and wipe

Once you’re satisfied with the re-waxing, hang the jacket to dry overnight. In the morning, your jacket will feel a little greasy. This is okay; you’re just feeling the excess wax. It means the tin cloth is completely saturated and you did your job properly.

“On a molecular level, once it soaks in you’ll have oil on top because the oil is wicking out of the jacket. If you don’t want that, you can wipe it with a dry cloth or literally hose it off”, said Skauge.

Wear it

That’s it. It’s a strikingly simple process. Skauge says to re-wax annually or as needed, and that his store offers services for washing and re-waxing if you want help with the process.

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  • Difficulty Level : Medium
  • Last Updated : 14 Jun, 2019

Recently got interviewed with amazon Hyderabad for SDE1.

1) Given a BST, along with left and right pointer for a node, it has forward and backward pointers, convert the tree into Doubly linked list using these extra pointers.

2) A = {5, 3, 8, 9, 16}
After one iteration A = {3-5,8-3,9-8,16-9}={-2,5,1,7}
After second iteration A = {5-(-2),1-5,7-1} sum =7+(-4)+6=9
Given an array, return sum after n iterations

3) Write a function which compress string AAACCCBBD to A3C3B2D
and other function to generate from the compressed.

First f2f)
1) Check given BT is BST

2) The cost of a stock on each day is given in an array, find the max profit that you can make by buying and selling in those days

3) In matrix A[m][n] each row is sorted and each column is sorted, write a function which checks whether a number exists in this matrix or not.

4) Given a string, find the longest sub sequence which contains only unique characters.

Second -f2f)
1) Convert a BT into SUM BT(each node values = sum of left and right node)

2) “I get thousands of emails daily”, find all anagrams in each email and print the count of all anagrams in each email.
My solution was using a trie and a hash function to increase the counter at each node in the trie.
Hash function will return the given word in a sorted manner, he asked me to code which was tedious but gave a rough draft.
Initial set up cost would be big but the same trie can be used for any email by making all counters to zero.

Third f2f)
1) He talked almost for 45 min regarding my project and asked how we implement it. I was also working on web services in my current company, so they were more interested in asking questions there and want to know how well I implemented there.

2) A design question of chess int board[8][8] each value in the matrix represents a character. 1-9 number represents all whites and 11-19 represents all blacks.
Given a pawn at (x,y) print all possible moves. Assume whites are index 0 and blacks are at index 7.

Fourth f2f)
1) There is ternary tree in two dimension space(one plane). Print all elements that are visible from right side of the plane(If you see along y axis plane)
eg) In the following answer would be (1) (5) (8)

2) Print these elements in a zig zag order, first level1 and then level n, level 2 and level n-1 and so on.

In simpler words print rightmost ending element in each level of a ternary tree.
My approach was take two queues, enqueue root in Q1 and while dequeueing enqueue its childeren in Q2, while shuffling elements from one queue to another store the last element in doubly linked list.
While printing, use this double linked list, remove from head and then tail, till it becomes empty.

Fifth f2f)
1) Find jth element in ith row of a pascal triangle

1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1… and son on. pascal(4,2) should return 6.

pascal(int i , int j){
  if(i<0||j<0) return 0;
  if(i==0 &&j==0) return 1;
  if(i==0 && j!=0) return 0;
  return pascal(i-1,j-1)+pascal(i-1,j);

complexity is bad and I am not grouping the solution once calculated of sub problems

2) Implement your own hash function with keys as strings and values is of type Object
initially I told BST with insertion deletion of order log(n), then he told me to think and answer then I told self balancing BST and he asked me to implement,

3) Evaluate a mathematical expression 2*3+(5-6/2), something like this, with operator priority.

Each f2f interview will be of 50-60 min. In each f2f round they will ask reason for change, and about your current project. You should answer perfectly regarding your current project and don't blabber something and all, they will ask good questions in the current project as well.
These questions might take up more than 15-20 min and in the rest of the time you have to answer 2 question in DS for minimum and code them as well.
If you answer you will get one more question which is an advantage 🙂
First he will explain the question and gives you sometime.
You need to explain the solution first, if he likes it, then he will asks you to write production code and takes the paper.

Each interview is not like a level in amazon, they won't share feedback neither with you nor with other interviewers.

After the interview process is done all those who took your interview will sit and judge (That's what HR told me 😀 )

All the interviewers were friendly, finally I got a call from HR saying that I was selected 😀

Thanks to Geek4Geeks 😀

This article is compiled by Bharath jhadey. Many Many congratulations to Bharath for his selection. If you like GeeksforGeeks and would like to contribute, you can also write an article and mail your article to See your article appearing on the GeeksforGeeks main page and help other Geeks.

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Things to Know For Efficiently Working with a Psychic

The realm of energy is gaining a lot of recognition nowadays. Even science has begun to agree that everything around us is nothing but energy. Based on this theory, many transcendent or non-physical healing practices are taking place today. Psychic sessions are one of these practices. Psychic professionals do not only help with healing but many other aspects nowadays.

If you are planning to hire a psychic, you can explore the service details of Saint Louis Psychics online. The team of experts is recognized for providing entrusted and highly cooperative psychic sessions to its valued clientele. But before that, here are tiny pointers that you should know before hiring a psychic!

Set Expectations Right

Often it is said that a psychic will tell you what you require and not what you demand. The valued information that comes to you is authentic and divine. They work by communicating with energies and realms beyond the physical or human reach. So the words you hear often come via them and not from them. So having a very rigid expectation in mind about what you will receive is going to confuse you.

Embrace the New Ways

So, this is one of the biggest challenges people face. Not everybody believes in the energy world or divinity, which is absolutely fine. But if you are looking forward to seeking help from a psychic, it is important you let them lead. Unless you are collaborative and open to their practice, they will not be able to provide you with the right information.

Devil Is In the Divine Details

Pay attention to the details in your session. If you are attending for the first time, carry a notebook. The details will help you get a sheer clarification about what you need to understand or act upon. A proper psychic will be able to tell you unexpected and credible details.

Don’t Hesitate To Leave a Session That Feels Wrong

No matter how recognized a psychic is, an authentic individual in this field will never straight away predict someone’s death or an upcoming jackpot. These readings do not work that way. The symbols, signs, and symbols are authentic, honest, and subtle.

These experts utilize their extra sensory perceptions for healing, gathering information, reading minds; connect to the deceased, and more. To find out about the best Psychic in New York, start your research online today.

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Top-Rated  Tourists Attractions In Nebraska

Top-Rated Tourists Attractions In Nebraska

In spite of the fact that it is nicknamed the Cornhusker State, Nebraska has much something other than corn to offer. Situated in the Great Plains, Nebraska flaunts transcending ridges, all the way open fields, sensational stone developments, and clamoring urban areas. Notwithstanding the capital of Lincoln, there is a scope of picturesque spots you won’t have any desire to miss. Always enjoy the top-rated and delightful places in Nebraska with our spirit airlines reservations and get the special deals. Remember to include that cattle rustler culture and legacy to encounter the full intrigue of Nebraska. From farms to urban goals to irregular side of the road attractions, this rundown of best places to visit in Nebraska has something that will please everybody.

Strategic Air and Space Museum

With more than 300,000 square feet of shows, the Strategic Air and Space Museum means to give intuitive, instructive, and fun displays to rouse and hone youthful personalities. Here you can visit the 60 Days of Science show where you will find intelligent shows in various fields of science like science, science, and material science.

Chimney Rock

At the point when voyagers traveled west through the Great Plains in the nineteenth century, there was one inconceivably significant milestone they looked for Chimney Rock. The sandstone arrangement is in excess of 300 feet tall, and it is situated in the North Platte Valley. Notwithstanding being a basic milestone on western excursions, Chimney Rock held huge for Native Americans and even Mormons. Therefore, the Chimney Rock National Historic Site isn’t to be missed.

Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium

Despite the fact that zoos are infrequently the most energizing thing to see or do in an express, the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha is a special case. This one of a kind office is home to the world’s biggest indoor desert, the biggest indoor wilderness, and the biggest nighttime display.

Lake McConaughy

Known as the greatest lake in Nebraska, this is the biggest store in this four-state locale. Here you can relax around in their common white sand seashores, set up camp by the shore, go looking for the best catch of the day, and appreciate a wide range of open-air diversion.

Sandhill Crane Migration

Consistently in the Platte River Valley, there is an abnormal occasion that acquires endless guests from the whole way across the United States. The sandhill crane movement happens in the spring and the fall. In the spring, the sandhill cranes fly north, and they fly south in the fall. While this airborne movement is run of the mill of numerous sorts of flying creatures, what makes this incredible is the size. In excess of 80 percent of all sandhill cranes make the relocation following a similar way.

Haymarket District in Lincoln

An exuberant climate, extraordinary eateries, and reestablished authentic structures all consolidate to make the Haymarket zone a great spot to visit whenever of year. Guests can meander the trimmed block roads and friend in windows of diverse shops, or stop in for espresso and snacks at any of the various bistros and cafés. The reestablished water tower and town clock are a few the touring attractions here.

Chimney Rock National Historic Site

Assigned as a National Historic Site on August 9, 1956, this is one of the most visited vacation destinations in Nebraska. Stack Rock used to be alluded to by Native Americans as Elk Penis. Find the advanced show that will take you through 187 pictures that record the antiques and works of art of the Overland Trail understanding.

Cowboy Trail

In the Niobrara River Valley, in what is known as the state’s Outback Area, is the Cowboy Trail. This path was made right where the relinquished Chicago and Northwestern Railway Corridor used to run. Today, the rails-to-trails pathway extends for just about 200 miles. It is a center for a recreational open door in the state, and guests can climb or cycle along the finely squashed rock and limestone way. There are an amazing 221 extensions that line the path, yet the supposed Valentine Bridge is an incredible quarter-mile long and makes for a great photo foundation.

Ponca State Park

The Missouri National Recreational River Resource and Education Center houses instructive and recreational exercises, for example, an intelligent presentation of the recreation center’s history just as 20 miles of trails for explorers, bikers, and hikers. In the event that you are a devoted golf player, you can likewise appreciate the Highland Oaks Public Golf Course.

Buffalo Bill Ranch

The man who got known as Buffalo Bill in the nineteenth century visited the world with a western-themed appearance. Wild ox Bill’s genuine name was William F. Cody. Cody’s house was in North Platte, and it is presently known as the Buffalo Bill Ranch Historical Park. Today, you can visit his nineteenth-century house called the Second Empire. You can likewise respect the amazing measure of Buffalo Bill memorabilia, quite a bit of which rotates around his popular Wild West Show. To finish everything off, the state park flaunts outdoors, climbing, and cookout spots.

Harold Warp Pioneer Village

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To Be a Better Leader at Work, You Need to Embrace Your Vulnerability.

Your leadership creates the culture in your business. I have discussed the ‘structural’ importance of culture in my article The Yacht Test. And when you decide to be a better leader at work, your teams will improve too.

What does a successful leader look like these days, then? This is the question that the research professor and author, Brené Brown – whose TED Talk went viral with nearly thirty-eight million views – asks in her latest book, Dare to Lead. Her answer might be a little surprising.

She begins by acknowledging that leading is scary. She acknowledges that it takes guts and courage to be vulnerable in business. But it is how we deal with fear that becomes the crucial problem to be solved by budding leaders.

Because the most daring leaders do not insist on their own superiority, infallibility, or brilliance. Rather, according to Brown, they accept their weakness, vulnerability, and potential for fault – to the benefit of their business, their own leadership, and the culture, well-being, and strength of their whole team. To be a better leader at work, that’s what you need to do too.

Here, we’ll look at two of the main techniques that Brown outlines in Dare to Lead – which focus on working effectively with your team.

Daring to be Vulnerable

Firstly, a little about Brown’s work. Her arguments are based on a seven-year study, which brought in 150 leaders, fifty organisations made up of over ten thousand people, and MBA students from three major US business schools – numbers which suggest there’s something of value in the research!

From the surveys, the need for bravery in leadership and business cultures came out as one of the most sought-after qualities. But, as noted above, what’s essential to a daring leader is the way that you deal with your fear. In Brown’s words, the best way to do this is to ‘rumble with vulnerability’ – to remove the armour that we put up to convince others that we are not scared or to hide the fact that, really, we don’t know a solution.

Do you want to learn about your leadership personality style? Click here…

There are Four Leadership Personality Styles. Which are You?

Armoured Leadership and Daring Leadership

Brown sketches out two different leadership styles, one best avoided and the other to be engaged. Armoured leaders are those who cannot accept their vulnerability and who, in shielding themselves in an image of perfection, become unapproachable, unlikeable, and authoritarian. Daring leaders, on the other hand, cultivate a much healthier workplace culture, by entrusting, learning, sharing – and therefore inspiring. To be a better leader at work, you should express humility and embrace imperfection.

As an example, we can look at one characteristic from Brown’s opposing styles: “Being a Knower and Being Right” vs “Being a Learner and Getting it Right”. Guess which is the stance of the daring leader?

A leader who is too concerned with “being right” is one shielded by the armour that wards off fear. The leader more concerned with “getting it right” dares to take risks, to work inclusively with others to find solutions, and to be wrong along the way. A culture in which people can only be right is one that undermines curiosity, creativity, learning, and progress.

TASC (The Accountability and Success Checklist)

A daring way to offer your staff the means to develop their curiosity and a shared ethos of commitment and learning is to use TASC – what Brown calls the Accountability and Success Checklist. This moves you, as a leader, away from the armoured leadership style by cultivating trust, collective engagement, and mutual contribution.

As you can read here, it is as follows:

  • T – Who owns the task?
  • A – Do they have the authority to be held accountable?
  • S – Do we agree that they are set up for success (time, resources, clarity)?
  • C – Do we have a checklist of what needs to happen to accomplish the task?

These four steps, these questions, prevent an attitude in which you as leader are merely issuing commands. Tasks are rather developed through an appeal to your staff’s own ability, accountability, and success. The resources, authority, and clarity are there for the owner of the task to know where they are going, but they have the freedom to complete it and to teach you in turn.

“What does ‘Done’ Look Like?”

A second tool that makes up part of the daring leader is this question, “what does ‘done’ look like?”. This brings out the fourth point in TASC. However, an extra step helps to clarify – mutually with your team – the deliverables sought and the responsibilities taken.

This question should bring out what is expected as a result of the task. But the daring leader doesn’t merely tell their staff what that might be.

As Brown suggests, why not ‘paint’ what done might look like with those who are expecting to complete the task? As in, rather than spoon-feeding your staff with your expectations of the results, allow them to add detail and, as Brown says, ‘colour’ to that image of ‘done’.

In Brown’s words then, rather than ‘compliance’, in which you the leader decide the done, cultivate authentic shared purpose with your team. In this you’ll agree together what the deliverables may be. This way, you show them that you trust them. And you take off the armour that prevents you from daring!

Conscious Leadership

There is a growing movement towards ‘conscious leadership’. This is the idea that leaders are no longer these superiors barking orders to their minions, but rather humans that empower and lead with humility, collaboration, vulnerability, and empathy. Leaders are not super-humans; we are just like everyone else. And the more your staff can see that the better they can relate to you.

Companies adopting this leadership style are making radical changes. And generating huge impact in today’s business world.

How can you adopt some of Brené Brown’s techniques? How could they enhance your company’s culture, team effectiveness, and happiness levels?

Want to learn more?

Listen to my interesting podcast Why Boundaries Are a Vital Component of Reaching Your Goals!


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A multiverse of madness in House of MCU

Spoilers ahead for the latest episode of Marvel Studios' WandaVision on Disney+!

On A Very Special Episode... Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) are back in time to the eighties in an homage to Family Ties.

The twins, Billy and Tommy, are rapidly growing up in the town of Westview as they deal with the sudden death of a family pet and are told they can't change things (ironically something their mother did by reanimating their father against his wishes).

Wanda proves why she's the strongest Avenger and could have beaten Thanos, single-handedly, if he hadn't called in an airstrike in Avengers: Endgame! Is anyone a match for the Scarlet Witch? Just don't suggest Captain Marvel to Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris)!

Vision gets to use a Commodore 64, an 8-bit computer that formed an integral part of my formative computing years. Then he breaks free of Wanda's mind control and challenges her in a scene that, once again, deftly showcases the acting abilities of both Bettany and Olsen. It's heartbreaking stuff, and I'm fully invested.

And then... BOOM!

The big cameo we were teased that changes everything in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Wanda's twin brother, Pietro AKA Quicksilver, played by Evan Peters (X-Men: Days of Future Past), seemingly turns up at the front door, literally, and the multiverse of madness begins with the first X-Men from the Fox film franchise to crossover to the MCU. This opens the cosmic floodgates.

Do you think a recast Pietro (originally played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the MCU) is really back, and what impact will the multiverse have on the Doctor Strange sequel, currently filming in London with director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) at the helm, and Spider-Man 3 rumoured to feature multiple incarnations of Peter Parker? Let me know in the comments below.

  1. I wonder how Aaron Taylor-Johnson feels about the recasting?

    1. Could it be a clever misdirect using our meta knowledge against us? Is Evan Peters actually playing Mephisto?

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Born This Week: Dolly the Sheep

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Dolly the sheep with her head turned in front of a rainbow banner

A Star is Born

On July 5, 1996, the most famous individual sheep in history was born: Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

Scientists had cloned frogs previously, but many considered using an adult mammalian cell to produce a new creature with the same genome to be impossible. There was no public notice on the day of Dolly’s birth; the announcement was made on February 24, 1997, by Ian Wilmut and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, Scotland, the day after a newspaper scooped the official publication in Nature.

Her birth name was 6LL3, but she was nicknamed Dolly by one of the stockmen who acted as midwives because she was grown from a former mammary cell and he thought it was cute to reference the country singer. Ms. Parton turned out to be a good sport about it, quipping, “I never met her but I always said there’s no such thing as baaad publicity.”

Even in those days before social media, Dolly became a global sensation. By most accounts she thoroughly enjoyed the attention, the treats she was given, and being treated like a pampered pet. She had six lambs from three natural pregnancies but developed arthritis at age four. Wilmut is completely certain Dolly's health problems had nothing to do with her origin: “She was just unlucky.” Dolly developed a serious lung infection and was put out of her misery on February 14, 2003; she had barely half the lifespan of most sheep.

Human Clones?

When Dolly was born, the idea of cloning, especially human cloning, had been around for years. James Watson wrote an article in The Atlantic in 1971, asking whether we wanted to be “Moving Toward the Clonal Man”; a 1976 novel, which was made into a 1978 movie called The Boys from Brazil, fantasized about 94 clones of Hitler. But the news about Dolly made cloning all the rage—immediately and for several years afterward.

The New York Times, for instance, ran 17 articles in two weeks about human cloning, including:

And that was just the start. In the next few years, a Chicago physicist turned biologist with the wonderfully appropriate name of Dr. Seed announced his intention to start a cloning clinic—of which he personally would be the first patient. Nothing came of it, and the FDA frightened him off with a warning letter. Then two actual fertility specialists, Severino Antinori of Italy, and Panayiotis Zavos of Cyprus and Kentucky, separately and then together announced their intention of cloning people; nothing finally resulted but headlines. (I interviewed Zavos at one point and, since I live in California, he promptly pitched me on writing a screenplay; uh, no.)

The low point of the media circus came when a bizarre extraterrestrial cult, the Raëlians, announced that a cloned baby had been born on December 30, 2002; they called her Eve. This announcement was, as we suspected, complete bullshit.

Pet Cloning

A direct and lasting effect of the initial New York Times story about Dolly was the development of the pet-cloning industry, which unfortunately continues to this day. John Sperling, an eccentric billionaire (aren’t they all?) read about Dolly and immediately wondered if someone could clone his girlfriend’s dog, Missy. He delegated the project to his girlfriend’s son, Lou Hawthorne, who set up a company called Genetic Savings & Clone. They hired scientists from Texas A&M who failed, though they did produce the first cloned cat, cleverly called CC. However, they foolishly cloned from a calico cat; calico coloring occurs due to random X-chromosome inactivation, so CC did not actually resemble the genetic donor. Oops.

Worse, from an animal-welfare perspective, CC was the result of 188 nuclear transfers, leading to 82 cloned embryos, and ultimately, one successful pregnancy. Quite how many cats were involved is unclear, but lots.

To make a long story short, Hawthorne eventually partnered with Hwang Woo-suk, the Korean scientist who had been disgraced for faking the supposed first production of human embryonic stem cells by cloning as well as for embezzlement and abuse of research subjects. Hwang did eventually produce four clones of Missy the dog in 2008. (A fifth was born but did not survive.) They didn’t exactly resemble each other or Missy, and Hawthorne’s mother rejected the one she was given; at last report, three of the clones lived with Hawthorne. A peer-reviewed paper was published in 2009, saying that "as few as 14 dogs and 54 reconstructed embryos were needed to produce a cloned puppy.” Hwang and his Sooam Biotech Research Foundation continue to clone dogs commercially, charging up to $150,000.

Hawthorne finally quit the dog cloning game in 2009. There were both business and legal issues, and he finally admitted it was too hard to treat the many involved dogs well (“unscalable bioethics”).

The technology was also shockingly unreliable. Anyone even thinking about hiring Sooam to clone their pet should know that, in Hawthorne’s experience:

  • Efficiency rates varied unpredictably and were generally low.
  • The kennels were frequently infected by various diseases.
  • One clone had greenish-yellow fur where it should have been white.
  • Others had “skeletal malformations, generally not crippling though sometimes serious and always worrisome.”
  • One clone of a male was born female.

It would be genuinely interesting to see a peer-reviewed paper about that last item, which might reveal previously unknown biological mechanisms. Hwang and colleagues continue to publish and are starting to use CRISPR for “canine cancer research.” Wilmut would probably approve; he told Modern Farmer in 2013:

Dolly demonstrated we could clone a mammal, but cloning is almost beside the point. … The ultimate plan was not about making copies of DNA, but of making changes. The prospect of altering DNA, making livestock more resistant to disease, that’s the important thing.

Poor Dolly. She was only a means to an end.