When going out to gamble your money in hopes of winning big, it helps to know a few tricks about how casinos work. While at first these establishments might seem like places of absolute luck, there are actually some lesser-known facts that could help you keep your cash, and then some. To help you strike it rich, here's some hidden secrets that casinos don't want you to know.
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Yes, I'm not scared of ghosts either. What do you mean? I mean that from today I'll live here, too! And the rent? But... there isn't any rent to pay. Well, I'll pay half of nothing, too.
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That means the target is greater than the stop loss, which is something that you should be doing, and that's something that all professionals are doing. If there is an orange circle, that means there is no stop loss and or take profit. So that's kinda how the legend goes. Let's go ahead and go over the individual trades here. So his first set of trades are on the dollar-yen, and he opens 'em up at 13 03 in. So these these two right here, these are box, I'm kinda grouping together, 'cause there are only a few pips difference, and they're only seven minutes apart Casinoslots South Africa His entry is at 113, roughly, and 112.95. His stop loss is over 300 pips away. Whereas his target, 200 pips. So this is a completely inverted risk to reward ratio. Then on an earlier trade he had here, here's an earlier trade he had that was higher, 13 86. This one had a 214 pip stop loss. And he had a 286 pip take profit there. So this one's actually somewhat balanced there. But then here's another set of groups of trades, Dollar-Singapore, all around 40 20, 40 30, 40 20. So I kinda just grouped them all together. But again, inverted risk to reward ratios. So here he has a 113 pip target, 13 pip stop loss, his actual target is only a hundred pips away. So completely inverted there. Same thing here. He has a hundred pip stop loss, and here he only has a... He actually ended up adjusting the take profit so that he could get out of the trade negative, basically. So you do the math on that one there. Here's a gold trade here where he has roughly a dollar 35 stop loss and he has a 3 dollar take profit. So, our first actual positive risk to reward ratio. Then this trade here, there's no stop loss. This is something you should never do because you can never quantify your risk. That means your risk is technically unlimited. He has, what, 180 pip target, and he has no stop loss on this one here. So, a total of, what? Two inverted, two normalised, and one with no stop loss. So here's the next one. Again, a dollar-yen trade with no stop loss. Another gold trade at 12 18. Look at his stop loss on this one here, 13 20. So 102 dollars, where's his target? He ended up lifting his target, so that he could get out for a negative. Then he takes open four group trades on the Dow Jones. None of 'em have a stop loss, and only two of 'em have a take profit. So, yeah. That's all I can say about that one there. Here's another trade on the FTSE. He has about a 175 point stop loss, and his target, he ended up raising it to the negative so he could get out early. Kiwi dollar, two trades. No stop loss or take profit. Aussie dollar entry. No stop loss or take profit. Now, these are all kind of... I made the separate trades here, because they're different times, this is like 18 hours later, this is like another 10 hours later. So if you look at this here, these are all buys, he has 93 pip targets on this one here, about 100 pip, 110 on this one, but stop loss whatsoever. Moved on to pound-dollar, again, no stop loss or take profit. Another FTSE trade, and he gets in 60 40. He has a 215 pip stop loss. What's his target? 100 pip, points. Completely inverted. In fact, his stop loss is two and a half times bigger than his target. Here, he's in a pound-yen trade, and he has a 200 pip stop loss, and 200 pip target, so this one's balanced. These two are just connected, this FTSE's connected to this one here, and this one's connected to this one here. Now we finally have some trades. Took him a while, but then he finally has some trades that he has balanced stop losses and take profits. So here he has, he moved his stop loss, or he has a 5.6 point stop loss. Job Search Careers- Here you are in the job search, again. Your only goal is to find a job. There are tens of thousands of job websites and millions of job listings, so, what works and what does not work? Who is really hiring, and why are there all those job listings of non existent jobs; what is that all about?
Do I need a resume and should I have it professionally done or just put my jobs and experience on the application? If you are a professional who already has a great resume, but it needs some updating or resume editing, then this service would be what you are looking for. What about those headhunter guys, do they only find positions for the professional careers, or do they also work with bookkeepers, restaurant managers, and the mechanics of the world. How do I sort through all this, I don’t want to be unemployed, I just want that company to hire me. Does any of this sound familiar? Is this you, talking to yourself, is this your spouse or best friend saying HELP; what do I do first and where do I turn next? I got it. I have been there and I have done that, own the tee shirt too. I am not saying I have the magical fix here but, you will find clear paths to the answers that you will need in this upcoming journey of; The Job Search. The job search, job hunting, or looking for a new job, because of unemployment or unhappiness with your current position is not fun and will require work on your part. Your immediate goal is to obtain a job interview that gets you hired. So, how do we get there? Typically, we will go through the common methods of job hunting, like: you look for job vacancies or employment opportunities in the newspaper or do a local job search, check out all the help wanted signs in the windows and ask all your friends and relatives do you know anyone who is hiring? Then what? We are still without a job. Today the Job Search is best handled through one of the better employment websites, these sites deal specifically with employment or career openings and postings. Many websites are designed for the employer to post their job requirements, this is commonly known as a job board. Other sites offer employer reviews, career and job search advice, list various job descriptions and employers and the job seeker can find jobs through a geographic location or the job descriptions. They can locate and fill out a job application and/or submit their resume over the Internet for the advertised jobs. It is reported that there are over 40,000 job websites in existence, that number is enough to make your head spin. How do you find a good one? You judge them just like you do every thing else, by their performance. The job websites, job boards, or job search engines that I am affiliated with are the proven performers over the past few years. It is very important to your success that you find what you need in a simple step by step method with out all the extra nonsense that is out there. Many of the employment websites have multiple fields of interest. Others are geared toward specific industries. Industry specific jobs sites are available for nearly every industry. A job board is a website that facilitates the job search. They can be very large and general to handle all types of careers and professions or they can be sites that cater to the niche job boards, such as these job categories; engineering, legal, construction, insurance, hospitality, social work, and teaching. Some of these search engines index traditional job boards only. They aim to be a one stop shop for the job seekers who won’t need to search any of the underlying job search sites or job boards. Other job search engines index pages straight from the employers internal company websites. They bypass the traditional job boards entirely. These job search engines give the job seekers a way to find positions that may not be advertised in the traditional sense nor listed with those types of job boards as well. What we have, is, there are many job search avenues to get us employed again. The thousands of job websites fill a vital role in the grand scheme of the employment picture. Employment what exactly is employment? It is an agreement between two parties or two people, one being the employer the other is the employee. An employee is any person hired by the employer to do a specific job. The employer is a person or institution that hires the employees or workers. Employers pay their employees either an hourly wages or a salary in exchange for their time. That is where you want to be an employed person trading your time and talents for your employers money. I felt it was important to discuss and review some of the job website differences and functions. They are the way that I can help you find the new position you are seeking. I will have pages that will be dedicated to the employment agencies, and the recruiters and/or headhunters that work on a personal basis with each of their clients to find them the best position, career change, or job. We will discuss the background check that so many companies now require as a part of their pre screening process. We will look at the career paths for the college graduates, the person furthering their education and changing careers, the professional and their challenges to stay on top of the ever changing employment landscape. What you will find as you go through Job-Search-and-Careers.com is a easy to follow road map that leads you from one profession or occupation to another and gives you the best resources to find the real job openings, the real jobs. We will have listed and broken down all the States, and the towns and cities in each state with direct links to jobs in your town or the town you want to move to. I wish you nothing but the best and may this journey into the job search be one that fulfills your needs and desires. May you be blessed with abundant health and the job of your choosing. Whose art gets made in an art classroom? If we're not careful it's the teacher's art. Avoiding that and fostering self expression are important to me, so I ask students to make as many decisions as possible themselves. This includes decisions about craftsmanship. What we refer to as "craftsmanship" often refers to stylistic preferences. If I make these important choices for my kids I'm robbing them of a great learning opportunity. This, of course, doesn't mean that I skip craftsmanship or ignore it. It means I differentiate. Craftsmanship isn't a directive in my classroom. It's a conversation. My Art 1 students are working on a pixel/pointillism assignment as part of our Artists Solve Problems unit. The unit starts by looking at some amazing art inspired by pointillism, then practicing traditional stippling. Some of the spheres I asked then to create in out 15 minute mini-lesson were sloppy, some were lovely. "What" I asked the class "makes this work well?" We talked about it and the class came up with a range of suggestions. Next I presented an array of pixel/ pointillism inspired ideas and challenged them to make their own work. Some choose to stick with stippling. Some decided to expand on the idea of making points.
Many branched out, bring in their own supplies - like soda tabs, cups, matches, M&Ms, salt or even oats. There were no issues with sloppiness in the student directed section of my lesson, unlike in my stippling mini-lesson. The difference was ownership. Because students were working to accomplish their visions on their own terms they took pride in their work and strived for excellence, doing things like hand gluing individual grains of salt or spending hours coloring soda tabs black. Not just some students. Virtually all. Any conversations during this work in progress, all done on Friday, were about how to communicate vision. "Would the image work better with more salt?" I asked, or "Could this be part of a series?". My role was not that of quality enforcer, but partner in creation. That makes all the difference in the quality of the final product and the learning that happens in getting there. Working with a new group of students is challenging. The first order of business has to be getting to know them, as people and as artists. This prismacolor bootcamp with Art 3, I'm finding, is giving me the opportunity to do just that. I like to start new classes with skill building, then application of new technique because it allows me to assess where students are in terms of confidence, comfort working independently and technical ability. We started our prisma bootcamp with a quick overview of how prismas, which are high end colored pencils, work. Next I asked students to select three images with interesting textures from magazines.
The goal of this Texture Challenge was to draw three small sections of interesting texture. Next, demonstrated a range of approaches to working with this medium. I see my role as the provider of information and it's my goal to give students the ability to make choices that work best for the artists they are, not just pass on my own preferences. I liked this assignment because of the built in differentiation it has, which was more that I initially thought it would be. I asked students to pick images of things they would like to learn about drawing or that were challenging. Their image selection showed me quite a bit about their interests and confidence level. Some students found it challenging to pick an image independently, asked what I thought they should pick. It became quickly apparent that the kids in my class had a range of prior knowledge. It's tough for students when they have never used a material and they are setting next to someone who is a master. It's also hard to ignore differences in skill - the work is right there on the table for everyone to compare. The focus of these sort of activities has to be what I refer to "leveling up". I tell my students - frequently - that they must compare their growth to their previous work. Having classes select a wide variety of images supports this because work becomes less about comparison than it would be if everyone was drawing the same thing. I helped everyone level up during this activity by doing a lot of one on one conferring and demonstrations. Some kids only needed me to ask them to step back from their work to notice a lack of contrast, or to point out that blue might help a shadow recede. Others needed me to sit and draw the image they work working on, modeling my thinking out loud about how I compose, select color and thing about mark making. Next up: students will apply new learning in drawing of their choice. Engagement in action. I started this school year knowing that my grading methods were less than perfect. Up until now I've based grades mainly on student's reflective blog posts. Enlightening to read and easy to access, blogs worked well for grading - except for when it didn't. I noticed that the students who were the best writers, not the best art students, were earning the highest grades. We live in a imperfect world and grades are part of it, a part that is deeply important to students as they think about their education beyond high school. The challenge with grades is to find a way to make them valuable as an accurate reflection of the learning and growth that takes place during a child's time with me. So, who should earn an A in art? Grading reflection and growth is important, but it leaves out an important element: how students operate in the classroom. Do they just participate, going through the motions that are expected of them, or do they connect to the work? That connection is what I'm looking for, which is why I'm adding engagement to my grades. I'm defining it as enthusiastic participation in tasks and work. It will be graded weekly and account for around 20% of the final grade. I'll still grade student reflections, but I'm including presenting and conferences with me as additional options. Some students are just blog-averse, which impacts their grades. Kids should write and do all sorts of things, like be on time to and eat their vegetables, but not all of them do. Making all of my students successful is my job and providing a range of choices helps me do that for more of them, so expanding options for reflection makes sense. Between providing choices for reflection and grading engagement I hope to come up with grades that truly capture the learning that's happening in my classroom. To earn an A, students should be invested in learning and participate with commitment. They should also be able to analyze what they've learned through the art-making process and share the work they've created. I'd like my class to be about making art for art's sake; hopefully this new grading process helps me get closer to that ideal. |
AuthorI'm an high school art teacher who's really interested in student choice and creating opportunities for self expression. I'm also a writer at the Students QA platform and co-author of the soon to be published book The Open Art Room. In my free time I love to garden, cook and jog - all while chasing two boys under four! Archives
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