That's right I've got a new Ferrari sitting in my driveway right now. Be jealous, be real jealous. YEA RIGHT! Once again I've captured your attention using a youtube-esque headline to suck readers in. So now you're stuck reading this boring blog. I'll try to make it as interesting as I can... but I have to warn you guys that it's not "Ferrari" exciting.
Instead this blog is going to be "BMW" exciting. There's a new BMW sitting in my driveway. I picked it up about 2 or 3 months ago, but I haven't got a chance to write a blog about it. It's really not that exciting, your basic entry level BMW. However for me it's a pretty fun car to drive considering my last car was a soccer mom mobile. I went out the other day and took some pictures of it, so it was fresh out of the car wash at the time (hence why there is water all over it). Take a look at some of the pictures: http://www.organicrakeback.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/BMW1-416x278.jpg
As you can see the interior is really nothing special. It has a leather interior throughout with a small entertainment console in the middle. There is an iPod console in the flip up box between the two front seats which can be controlled through the entertainment console and the steering wheel. Other cool perks are auto-rain-sensing wipers and auto headlights (you can tell how low tech my last car was based on these comments).
I’m planning on writing an in depth review of the car at some point, but I’ve been relatively lazy as of late.
I’ve also been considering switching from a Blackberry to an iPhone lately. I don’t know whether I should give it a shot or not. Anyone have any feedback to contribute to help me make my decision? This is the phone I currently have (Blackberry 9700):
It’s served me well as of lately but I’m just debating whether an iPhone is more useful to me. I really like the personal hotspot capabilities of the iPhone, but I’m afraid I’ll lose track of my data usage (running an iPad off the wifi hotspot) and get absolutely screwed by my mobile company on data overages.
For those of you guys who haven’t heard the iPhone 5 is supposed to drop in September which is pretty exciting. These are still rumours however, so it’s all educated speculation (backed by reputable sources). The iPhone 4 already seems like such a complete phone, the only improvements I can see being made are improved screen resolution, higher megapixel camera, and faster processor. These all seem relatively unnecessary for the type of usage I would be subjecting the phone to though.
Anyways that’s all I have to write about for now guys! Thanks for reading my blog! I’ll try to make my next post more exciting!
ok, first of all i wanna thank all of you who wrote all these PM's
most of them were really ambitious and long, and i appriciate the time alot of u guys put into this
sorry to the ones who really put the effort into their PM but didnt get a spot.
i picked 2 guys that i see alot of potential in, that i would like to do this with and try to help them climb the stakes to 2/4+
most of you 50nl 100nl guys probably can get alot of better help from hireing a decent smallstakescoach at a good price
as my goal as a coach is gonna be to (hopefully) add something extra to already good players games
Ive PM'd the 2 winners
Im not going to PM every1 else, ive gotten alot of PM's and i really appriciate the time u took for this. <3
gl to all of you in the future
i will present some type of coaching details for private lessons after ive done some more freecoaching and just get more used to talking/coaching poker in english
more info to come later
if u didnt check out the video i made for LP a couple of days ago u can find it in the blogpost previous to this one.
also i wanna thank the LP admins for apperantly deciding to give me a greenstar here on LP, i really appriciate it and i will do my best to live up to it and post interesting/my 2 cent thoughts here on lp
Finally worked out the quirks of streaming (followed Destiny's guide on Teamliquid) and am currently streaming Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition. Even if you don't play the game, drop by and say hello. I talk while playing as long as there are no spiders present. My main is Ken but I'll play other characters on request
Question for high school students and/or smokersby sodarayg, July 13
Hi whoever reads this,
I'm part of a cancer outreach team at UCSD and we're thinking of expanding our outreach to include lung cancer in addition to our breast cancer outreach. We focus mainly on Asian/Pacific Islanders because of cultural divides they are not as well informed. In the past, we have set up a booth outside of Asian grocery stores and handed out fliers to all of the women coming out.
Our new plan is to make presentations at high schools to hopefully prevent high schoolers from smoking, and also to hand out fliers to Asian men in the hopes of educating them about about lung cancer as well as letting them know there is a free smoking help hot line.
For high school students:
Since everyone on the cancer outreach team has been out of high school for a while, I would appreciate it if any of you who are still in high school to tell me about how high school is right now. What do people like, dislike, do a lot of people smoke, is there a lot of peer pressure, and that kind of stuff.
Also, would having a group of college students come to your classroom to give a powerpoint presentation have any effect? If so, what type of information should we put on the power point slide to make it as effective as possible (e.g. pictures of damaged lungs, death statistics, other alternatives to smoking)?
For smokers:
Do you know smoking is bad for you, if so, why do you keep smoking?
Why did you start?
Would knowing more about smoking and lung disease make you stop?
Would knowing statistics of second hand smoke make you stop smoking around your family?
Would you want your kids to smoke?
I know this is kind of long but I would appreciate it if you took the time to read this and respond. We've saved lives just by advising women to get annual mammograms and we would like it if you guys/girls could help us lower smoking rates.
Thanks!
PS: If any of you are in UCSD, are Asian/Pacific Islander, and are interested in joining please send me a PM and I'll give you more information about the club.
So finally moved out of Nl2, I ran bad there. 15 Buyin under EV But was more playing there for practising mass tabling + VPP grinding to get my $50 bonus and to just gather a bit more experience at online compared to live.
Players are a lot more aggro, seeing light 3bet/4bets a lot more, which I expected and have been able to pick apart pretty much.
Only thing that glares out from my stats is again my VPIP/PFR isn't close enough, and I just can't take advantage of smashing the raise button in CO and BTN. Stats are the same for VPIP/PFR as all other positions
Struggling to get the majority of my cbets through, both good and bad cos I'm getting paid a lot more on hands where I flop middle pair and they float me OOP, but a bit annoying missing a flop with AK 20times in a row and losing a lot more cos they don't fold to your Cbet on a Q high board with 33.
Need to widen my 3bet and 4bet range a lot, but I guess at Nl5 it's not stopping me getting paid at all when I get monsters, but again as I move up this will be exploited like crazy unless I fix this.
Anyway fairly satisfied with 18bb/100 over 8k. Feel free to through in any comments over stats or analysis that I've done wrong
Are there any good casinos in New York City?
I'm gonna move to Manhattan in a couple months and I would like to know where are the best places to play up to 1kNL live...
Thanks
sup dudes, i made a video of a 50min session i played
there is alot of spots and i talk a shitton in it, and i also miss alot of spots
its a 4 tabling vid, 2 tables HU against a reg ive played alot of HU with, and 2 SH tables
the stakes are 25/50SEK ~ 5/10$ or 3/6€
alot of interesting spots, i think i explain myself pretty well
but i would like to say sorry for sounding so fucking tired and boring in the video, im more fun then this and i prolly will put more energy in the next vid, i kinda just sound bitter rambling on and on about serious stuff in this video.
and random whine in the end about my results the last 2 months, wich really wasnt meant like whine i just reandomly pulled up HEM and started talking about my latest results before ending the video, not sure why it just happened when i wanted to check todays results ^^
anyways, i miss some spots at the end, for example the last hand i raise 97 IP against sexypekkas 3bet+cbet on KQ6, where i just expect him to fold alot of air but i still dont like my play cuz he wont fold AT AJ etc and his 3b range really hits that board, but its not terrible, i raise alot IP and he will just muck alot there so w/e
For anyone who doesn't have this yet.
I have invites...PM or comment email if u want one. Will give out first come first serve til I run out (they don't tell u how many invites u get)
EDIT: Invites may take a little bit to get there due to google holding them. But I'm not sure on this (just invited an alt email of mine to see how long it takes ) Will invite anyone who pms.
EDIT2: Got invite to 2nd email about 45 mins after it was sent, sooo invites may not take that long.
I've never seen anything like this before... Gives me a headache and makes me sick to my stomach just thinking about it. Figured I'd at least give you guys something to laugh at.
5 weeks grind 12 hours a day, up about 3.50$ (obv expecting to go down in the negative soon)
A man who developed cancer in his windpipe has gotten a new trachea, grown entirely from his own stem cells over two days in a laboratory in Sweden. The operation is remarkable because it's the first time a completely synthetically grown organ has been transplanted into a patient, The Guardian reported. "The synthetic trachea was created by growing the patient's own stem cells on an artificial 'scaffold', which British scientists helped design. Windpipes have been grown from stem cells before, but only using the collagen 'skeletons' of donated tracheas ... Professor Paolo Macchiarini, an Italian expert in regenerative medicine who led the groundbreaking operation, designed the Y-shaped synthetic trachea scaffold with Professor Alexander Seifalian, from University College London." The success of the operation means that patients who need organ transplants could conceivably be able to have them specially grown instead of having to wait for a donor.
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They started several years ago by using a donor trachea as a scaffold to build a new trachea. They stripped away all the cells lining and enclosing the donor trachea, leaving behind only the cartilage-containing skeleton. Using a shoebox-sized bioreactor developed by Harvard Bioscience Inc. of Holliston, Mass., they then seeded some of the patient's own stem cells into the scaffold.
The whole thing was mounted on a rotating drum, similar to a rotisserie for barbecuing chickens. The drum alternately dipped it into a nutrient medium that provided everything needed for the cells to grow and proliferate, and then lifted it out so the cells could get oxygen.
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Instead of using a donor trachea for the scaffold, materials scientist Alexander Seifalian of University College London built one in a lab. The base was a glass tube with dimensions obtained from three-dimensional images of Beyene's trachea. Then Seifalian used a medical plastic called polyethylene glycol to build a scaffold around it. The plastic is very porous, allowing the stem cells to grow into it. The scientists put hormones in the nutrient soup to induce the stem cells to change into the cells normally found in the lining and exterior of a trachea. After two days in the bioreactor, the trachea was implanted in Beyene, where the cells continued to grow and proliferate. The whole process took less than a week.
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Researchers have previously used virtually identical techniques to produce synthetic blood vessels, urethras and bladders. The common denominator in all of those is that the synthetic organs are basically hollow tubes or, in the case of the bladder, a hollow sphere. They may have to have the ability to stretch or shrink slightly in response to natural conditions, but they really have no other function.
Producing a more sophisticated organ, such as a heart, will require researchers to make something that actually carries out a function. In the case of a heart, it would have to beat and open and close valves at the appropriate times.
Also, noted Dr. Alan J. Russell, a tissue engineer at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, such solid organs have much thicker tissue and thus need an internal system of blood vessels to supply oxygen and nutrients. That is a far more difficult task.
"That's still years away," said Atala, whose team is trying to make synthetic kidneys. "Ninety percent of the patients on a transplant list are waiting on a kidney. We are absolutely working very hard on that."
In summary: absolute crap half year, and i have no one to blame but myself. the last 3 months i only played about an average of 5k hands a month due to complaceny.
cant keep going easy on myself like this, these next six months i am going to sit down and crush 200nl for at least 10k
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(I quit online videogames in May 
and life has been v. good)
But was more playing there for practising mass tabling + VPP grinding to get my $50 bonus and to just gather a bit more experience at online compared to live.
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