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Prepare for seven days of leisurely sailing through the Caribbean when you embark on the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas from San Juan and back.
Stopping in exotic cities such as St. Croix makes this cruise notable. This is a common route for the Explorer of the Seas.
This is the total you pay, no sneaky extra fees. Offered at less than $80 a day, this represents an excellent deal.
The Explorer of the Seas, based in the Caribbean and refurbished less than one year ago in 2020, is a highly-rated Voyager class vessel that can carry over 3,200 people.
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The Explorer of the Seas also offers an outdoor movie theater, a gym, seven jacuzzis, a basketball court, a waterslide, four pools, a ping pong table, a spa, a casino, and a solarium.
Since it was first listed on October 30th of last year, The price of this itinerary has ranged between $456 and $838 for a stateroom, inclusive of $99 in taxes and port charges. This graph displays the cost over time for the different types of cabin. At only 18% more expensive than the all time low of $456 now is a great time to reserve your stateroom
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This itinerary includes six port days and zero sea days. High points include visits to rare ports like St. Croix.
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|Tue, Feb 1||St. Croix, USVI||8:00am||6:00pm|
|Wed, Feb 2||Philipsburg, St. Maarten||8:00am||5:00pm|
|Thu, Feb 3||St. Lucia||9:00am||6:00pm|
|Fri, Feb 4||Barbados||7:00am||4:30pm|
|Sat, Feb 5||St. Kitts, Kitts and Nevis||10:00am||6:00pm|
|Sun, Feb 6||San Juan, Puerto Rico||7:00am|
The Explorer of the Seas sails this route six times this year in addition to eight times next year. The Vision of the Seas and Voyager of the Seas also sail routes with the same stops but slightly different schedules. In the accompanying graphic you can see a visualization of when this ship sails as well as the relative price.


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You estimate is far too low as well as frequency. Let's just take DHS for example as they have the specific contract (but it isn't stated if that contract extends to other agencies like the DOD).
Just the 'armed' departments under DHS include: FBI, US Marshall Service, ICE, Federal Air Marshall Service, Secret Service, Layered Nuclear Defense Agency, National Fugitive Operations Service, Protective Investigation Service, Diplomat Security Service, US Coast Guard...etc.. (say close to 100K armed under this umbrella)
There also is the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in which many State and Local law enforcement agencies receive training.
You also have to account that members of some of these agencies are practicing every week, not just a few times a year for qualification.
Then, take into account that the contract isn't a 1 lump sum 450 million rounds but simply locking in a contract up to five years for up to 450 million rounds at that price. They could buy one thousand rounds or one million rounds. It isn't a sale, just a pricing agreement.
It isn't as scary as people are making it out to be. Especially when one considers how many billions of rounds taxpayers buy for government agencies each year. (I'm sure the DOD umbrella burns through several billion alone).
They could buy one thousand rounds or one million rounds. It isn't a sale, just a pricing agreement.


Cavaliers defeat Tar Heels in ACC opener
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Virginia, behind its usual stout defense and timely buckets down the stretch from unlikely players, opened its ACC season in style, defeating North Carolina, 61-52. Non-conference losses to George Mason, Delaware and Old Dominion are a distant memory for Virginia, which plays at Wake Forest on Wednesday night. “It felt good,” said Virginia coach Tony Bennett.
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Leslie Jones always knows how to make us smile, but the “Saturday Night Live” star has taken it to another with this hidden talent.
On Monday, the entire cast of “Ghostbusters” and director Paul Feig sat down with Telemundo entertainment for a conversation on Facebook Live. At one point, Jones impressed Feig and fellow cast members Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Melissa McCarthy with an impromptu rendition of Selena Quintanilla’s classic hit “Como La Flor.”
And this isn’t the first time the comedian had impressed with her knowledge of the Queen of Tejano’s music. In an interview, on July 8, with Alberto Romero from Entre Tu Y Yo, Jones said the only Spanish she knew was Selena’s “Como La Flor” then later decided to prove it.
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As part of efforts to continue to protect interests of consumers in the banking sector in the country, Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has set up a 24-hour Help Desk with a toll free telephone line 080063424357.
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NDIC, Mr Umaru Ibrahim, while delivering his speech at the 12th Abuja International Trade Fair on Thursday, October 5, 2017, appealed to bank customers to make use of the toll free line to make enquiries on any issue bothering them. “I would also like to restate NDIC’s commitment to consumer protection in the banking system. To this effect, the corporation’s 24-hour NDIC Help Desk with a toll free telephone line: 080063424357 is ever up and running. “Depositors and other stakeholders are therefore advised to make effective use of the toll free telephone line in making their enquiries or laying genuine complaints on sharp practices noticed on their accounts to the corporation. “For further information, members of the public can also visit our website: www.ndic.gov.ng which has been integrated with other popular social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn,” Mr Ibrahim said.
Also at the event, the NDIC said the corporation has set up more complaint desks where all depositors who are yet to claim their trapped deposits in any of the closed banks can file their claims directly. He urged those with trapped deposits in any of the liquidated financial institutions to make use of the complaint desks. “I am pleased to announce an additional feature to our participation in the Abuja and other trade fairs with the setting up of complaint desk where all depositors who are yet to claim their trapped deposits in any of the closed banks can file their claims directly. “This is to save such depositors of time and stress involved in visiting our various offices to file such claims for reimbursement,” he said.

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Help in understanding tide charts!
I cant believe I still dont understand this :k but can someone explain how to read and understand these tide charts. What I mean is when would the best time to fish be? When would the current be moving the best, etc...? Take this for example:
Day High Tide Height Sunrise Moon Time % Moon
/Low Time Feet Sunset Visible
Sa 11 High 5:19 AM 1.8 6:33 AM Set 2:47 AM 70
11 Low 12:21 PM -0.1 8:12 PM Rise 4:08 PM
11 High 6:52 PM 1.0
11 Low 11:37 PM 0.3
Which would be the incoming and the outgoing? I know, I'm a dummy!
You have incoming water in the morning till the high at 5:19.
Outgoing till 12:21.
Incoming till the next high at 6:52
Outgoing till 11:37
the 1.8, -.01 etc are the variations from mean tide
1.8 feet is the highest tide of the day, -.01 is the lowest.
1.9ft of water is moving out in ~7 hours.
then you have a little more than a foot coming back in over 7 hours
only .7 ft is moving out in not quite 5 hours in the evening
Looking at those times. What would be the best time to fish? Probably one of these: Incoming till the next high at 6:52 or Outgoing till 11:37?
depends on what I was trying to do. I like a hard incoming to follow reds up on a flat, hard outgoing for snook around structure.
This time of year it gets hot in the afternoon, so I'd fish that morning outgoing.
Those tides aren't the greatest as we are in between moons right now. The full is next week if I'm correct.
most importantly, fish when you can. you'll still find a hungry fish on a slack tide
Understood! Thanks so much. So incoming is high tide and outgoing is low tide.
yea, incoming is low>high
Originally Posted by Batemaster
outgoing is high>low
Awesome knowledge. Thanks to the guys that still share some know how!!!!!
I would just add that if you like to fish the flats at all, a knowledge of "slack water," is extremely useful. Teall's used to include this in their charts and I thank God I paid attention to that aspect while the feature was included.
Tide charts are really made for navigational purposes only. It is helpful for boats with draft issues in certain areas, to know how high or low a tide will be and when that low/high water will occur.
But depending on the moon phase, an outgoing current might persist for as much as 2 hours after "low" water. So don't necessarily go to a spot (that you want to fish during an incoming tide) at LOW tide. You might be waiting for a while and I have seen this happen to guides and fishermen in the Keys on occasions too numerous to mention. On the flats, current direction can be as important or more important than water depth, so that is another reason to know the basics of this facet of the tides.
Times of slack water are no longer included in any tide charts that I know of, so you'll have to do some searching. Maybe someone here already has a site that they use and would be willing to post it.
If you have an I-Phone, download Ovi's ap called tide graph. The tide data is displayed on a graph. You can move the cursor throughout the day and it will show you the rate the water is rising or falling per hour. You will be able to target certain fish holds based on rate of water movement. Its pretty sweet. Hopefully someone who knows how to post up images could upload a screenshot of the tide you posted as an example.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316289396, Paperback)Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a French fortress. Within days he and his first lieutenant, Bush, who was crippled in the last fight, are to be taken to Paris to be tried on trumped-up charges of violating the laws of war, and most probably executed as part of Napoleon's attempt to rally the warweary empire behind him. Even if Hornblower escapes this fate and somehow finds his way back to England, he will face court-martial for his surrender of a British ship. As fears for his life and his reputation compete in his mind with worries about his pregnant wife and his possibly widowed lover, the indomitable captain imetierntly awaits the chance to make his next move.
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text: Earlier today, director Bryan Singer tweeted a photo of the cast of X-Men Days of Future Past. While most of the cast photos were of previously announced cast members, there were three new cast members confirmed. While we were able to immediately identify Daniel Cudmore since he played Colossus in previous X-Men movies, the other two new cast members were a little more tricky. After combing through images on Google Images, we finally found a match for the two cast members. Boo Boo Stewart & Fan BingBing are the two new cast members for X-Men Days of Future Past that have not appeared in previous X-Men movies. Since this will mark their first appearance in a X-Men movie, their roles are unknown. Interestingly enough, Fan BingBing is a Chinese actress who is also set to appear in this summer's Iron Man 3. Could it be that she's part of establishing the rumored shared Marvel Cinematic Universe between Sony, 20th Century Fox, and Disney? Or is it just that 20th Century Fox figures her casting will help in getting the film released in China?

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Everton were in the running to sign Jermain Defoe from Sunderland this summer before Bournemouth eventually won the race.
Jermain Defoe got off the mark for the season on Friday (September 15) night as he scored the winner for Bournemouth in a 2-1 victory over Brighton and Hove Albion.
It was Defoe’s first strike for the Cherries since 2001, when he spent time on loan in Dorset from then club West Ham United, and now means the striker has scored in 17 different Premier League campaigns.
Although the England international will turn 35-years-old next month, he still looks fit and sharp in and around the box and Everton may be looking on with regret at why they didn’t do more to try and sign the forward from Sunderland this summer.
The Toffees were linked with Defoe by the Sun back in May when it became apparent he could leave the Black Cats on a free transfer following their relegation to the Championship.
At that point there was already plenty of speculation that Romelu Lukaku would be leaving Goodison Park, with the Belgian later joining Manchester United for £75m (BBC), so manager Ronald Koeman would have been looking for potential replacements.
Yet despite a bumper summer of business for the Merseyside club in which the Telegraph reported they spent £144.9m on new signings, only Wayne Rooney and Sandro Ramirez were brought in as possible Lukaku alternatives upfront.
After losing 4-0 to the Red Devils on Sunday (September 17) it is becoming painfully clear just how lacking Koeman’s team now are in attack, with Rooney’s two goals the only ones they have scored in the English top flight this term – the second lowest total behind bottom side Crystal Palace.
They are lacking a striker prepared to run in behind and play on the shoulder of defenders, something Defoe has been doing successfully throughout his long career and which has yielded 160 Premier League goals to date.
His age means the Englishman would hardly have been a long-term solution for Everton, but to plug the gap left by Lukaku surely he would have been worth bringing in for a season at least?


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But on Sunday, I ended up at the Albany Carroll Arts Building because a family friend, Marcin Murawski, has his photo studio there. What a cool building – it’s in a warehouse area and it’s two connected buildings filled with all types of artist spaces, from sculptors to artists to photographers.
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The former Vice President warned the next US presidential debate should not go ahead if Mr Trump does not fully recover from coronavirus. Mr Biden made the remarks as he arrived for a campaign speech in Hagerstown, Maryland. It comes after the President was discharged from hospital after only three days after testing positive for COVID-19.
Mr Biden spoke to reporters ahead of his campaign speech to pour cold water on hopes for the next debate.
He said: “I think if he still has COVID we shouldn’t have a debate.”
But despite Mr Trump’s diagnosis, the Democrat still said he was ready to go.
He added: “I’m not sure what President Trump is all about now. I don’t know what his status is.
“I’m looking forward to being able to debate him, but I just hope all the protocols are followed.”
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When asked about how he felt the next debates should be handled in the wake of the White House outbreak, Mr Biden touted more protections against coronavirus.
He said: “I think what they’re doing at the Harris debate, I’ve been told, I don’t know this for fact, they’re using plexiglass, and are following what the Cleveland Clinic says.”
Kamala Harris, Mr Biden’s choice for Vice President, will debate Mr Trump’s second Mike Pence on Thursday.
Mr Pence’s representatives have refused to accept a plexiglass partition between him and Ms Harris at the debates.
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Have you ever… slow dance?
A friend was talking about slow dancing the other day and that got me thinking.. “Hey, I’ve NEVER slow dance in MY life!“
People who knew me back from my college days would know that I was a ‘kaki clubbing‘. My bestie and I would frequent clubs or pubs just for the sake of shaking our booties and letting our hair down. We just loved dancing that much, that’s all. We were never afraid as we always went with a bunch of guys whom we trusted; family friends. I had a really great group of friends then. A group so tight, nothing can tear us down. But reality hit later when we all went out to work. We each had our own directions and after sometime, with each of us having our own set of commitments we just drifted apart.
Back to topic, my friend and I were talking about ‘I dunno wat’ when the topic slow dance came into the picture. I then recalled when I dated Darling, we didn’t dance. You see, Darling is NOT a ‘clubbing kaki‘. He is one of the many contributing factors that ended my clubbing days. But anyways, age will catch up and sooner or later (with or without him) I WILL stop clubbing eventually.
On my wedding day, I did not dance with him. Up to today, we still did not dance much :P I said ‘much‘ as there ARE times when I forced him to dance and those are the times that I laughed the hardest. He danced so ‘cute‘ (imagine a tortoise dancing) that it is no wonder he chose NOT to dance :D
I once entered a contest and won a pair of VIP tickets to Aaron Kwok’s concert. My winning slogan was, “Your Para-Para Sakura made my Kura-Kura Cedera Parah“. Just like that, I won! I visualised Darling when I wrote about the Kura-Kura Cedera Parah part as he is just not born to dance!
So I was imagining, wouldn’t it be nice to have one day – dancing under the moonlight; no dance can be as romantic and sensual.. Well, I’ll just have to keep on dreaming as unless Darling goes for secret dancing lessons, I will have to be content with just dancing with a .. tortoise :P
Tell me, have you ever slow dance? Did you dance on your wedding day? Feeling a little bit sentimental tonight, so yeah.. SHARE, ok?

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Simon Cowell has kick-started his new healthy regime by cycling to work on battery-powered bikes, splashing out more than £2,000 each on two of the modes of transport.
Simon Cowell has splashed out on two £2,000 bikes to kick-start his new healthy regime following his fall.
The 58-year-old music mogul recently vowed to change his lifestyle after he took a tumble down his stairs resulting in him being rushed to hospital, but he is now riding to his office in Kensington, west London, after forking out for the battery-powered bikes.
A source told The Sun newspaper: ''The bikes might be electric but it still has more benefits than getting driven to his desk. It's a start.''
Simon is said to have bought one of the 28mph bicycles for the three-mile round trip to his London office and another for his time spent in Los Angeles.
Sharon Osbourne, Simon's fellow 'X Factor' judge', recently admitted his partner Lauren Silverman - with whom he has three-year-old son Eric - revealed the star's fall was made worse because he suffers from low blood pressure, forcing him to miss last weekend's 'X Factor' live shows.
Speaking of her conversation with Lauren, Sharon said: ''She was just saying that he suffers from low blood pressure anyway.
''Because of the concussion, that's why he couldn't come back.''
Following the tumble, Simon vowed to look after himself more because he has ''more responsibility than ever'' since becoming a father to Eric.
He said: ''Sometimes we get a reminder that we're not invincible and this was certainly mine. It was a huge shock.
They think I fainted because I had low blood pressure and so I have got to really take good care of myself to sort that out.
''After all I am a dad and have more responsibility than ever.''
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THE MILLS BROTHERS – MILLS-TASTIC
I’ve been in the Entertainment Business for more years that I care to mention. As a Disc Jockey in Chicago, Gary Indiana, San Francisco (Radio, TV) I played many, many Mills Brothers songs. Now the Mills Brothers are still going strong on stages around the World. And guess where they will be on April 30? – At the Rrazz Room. Donald Mills was the last of the Brothers, but the talent goes on with family members.
Their original hits “St. Louis Blues” and “Bugle Call Rag” were some of the Mills Brothers early hits. In 1943 they sent the airwaves into a tizzy with “Paper Doll” – a wonderful sweet ballad that became a huge hit. And who could forget the ever-new sounding “You’ll Always Hurt the One You Love.” And – ain’t that the truth?
Ask anyone – or most anyone -- what they think of the Mills Brothers, and they will say that they surely are one of the greatest, influential jazz vocal groups of all time. They are particularly amazing on songs like “You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You” and “Bye Bye Blackbird.” The Brothers said: “Those ARE really great songs and we might do some of them at the Rrazz Room – but we haven’t really decided on the final set for the show yet.” Hey, maybe they’ll even toss in “Lazy River”.
The Mills Brothers history goes back at least 50 years. There has been a movie about them (The Mills Brothers Story) it’s available on DVD. Get ready – cause a performance by the “Mills” is totally engrossing. The ‘Brothers’ recorded mostly on Decca Records, where I met them when I did PR for Decca Records. They were moved to “Dot” records – and had the big hit “Get A Job” – a song that had a lot of doo-wop sounds in it. We are amazingly lucky that the younger generation (John Mills, the second) is continuing to bring this great music to the world. With him on the stage is Elmer Hooper of the famed ‘Platters’. Can’t wait to hear these great talents in person again.
WHEN: APRIL 30 (Sat) 3pm) and May 1st – Sunday - 3pm, 8pm.


Huijie serves as IWA Emerging Water Leaders Steering Committee Member.
● ZJU 100 Young Professor, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, 2016-currently.
● Managing Committee of IWA Young Water Professionals-China Chapter. 2018- currently.
● Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont, 2014-2016
● Registered Professional Engineer in Vermont, United States. 2015- currently.
● Postdoctoral research fellowship at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and visiting scholar at KAUST Water Desalination and Reuse Center, 2012-2014.
● Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 2011.
● B.Eng. in Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2007.


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This is my first Minetest mod, Lights+. It adds white and gold lights that turn on/off when punched.
Now with gold and flat lights.
License is WTFPL, textures are by VanessaE and paramat, code for flat lights is by LionsDen.
After downloading, rename the extracted folder to "lightsplus".
If you are updating from a version before 12/11/2013 to a version after, your slab lights and flat lights may be the wrong orientation. I have kept the old version available for download.
The latest version requires Minetest version 0.4.7 or later.
Old download link
Feedback is appreciated.
For some reason, only 3 of the 10 craft recipes are shown in the zcg mod.
Normal light (10):
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Gold lights are crafted with a light and a gold ingot in any formation.
Slab lights are crafted with three lights (normal or gold) in a row.
Two slab lights vertically make a full node light.
Flat lights can be crafted by putting one light (normal or gold) in the crafting grid (makes 16).
Eight flat lights in any formation make one slab light.


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Gaming versus non-gaming
Not everyone needs a laptop for gaming. Some just want a laptop mainly for work and portability, but with gaming capability on the side. This guide is written for both.
Non-gaming, but with decent graphical capabilities
ThinkPad T-series, Asus, APU-based ThinkPad Edge
Brands to avoid
Apple, Alienware (overpriced Dell with LEDs in the keyboard).

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So now the Grizzlies so love the coach they told a week ago that he could interview for another job so much that they are taking steps to keep him around longer.
Memphis coach Dave Joerger has gotten a contract extension, reports the well-connected Chris Vernon of 92.9 FM ESPN in Memphis.
Also, an interesting note on teams trying to poach Joerger.
As crazy as things have been with Memphis the last week, this is a good thing. That team needs some stability. Keeping Joerger — a highly respected young coach who just led the team to a 50-win season despite a rash of injuries — is a good start there.
The next smart step for owner Robert Pera is to go out and hire a smart, creative general manager/team president. Then the real key is to step back and let said GM and Joerger do their jobs. There’s a reason you don’t see Spurs’ owner Peter Holt or Heat owner Micky Arison involved in the basketball side of the operations, and it seems to work out pretty well for those two.
The Golden State Warriors are so talented, perhaps the officials are predisposed to blowing whistles in their favor. At least, that’s the only explanation you could give to a Utah Jazz fan after seeing what happened between Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, and Utah’s Joe Johnson on Thursday night.
As Durant came off a curl on the far side of the court, he used a screen set by Curry on Johnson.
With the ball in his hands, Durant rose to fire but found himself locked in arms with another player. Durant’s shot attempt helplessly bounced away as he shot, and officials whistled Johnson on the play.
Of course, a closer look reveals that the player Durant’s arms were tangled up with was … Curry.
Yes, Curry had arm locked what he thought was Johnson on the screen but was instead his teammate and MVP candidate.
It didn’t matter, as referees awarded Durant the free throws, of which he only made 1 of 2.
Perhaps that’s some solace?
Golden State beat Utah, 106-99.
New York Knicks C Joakim Noah has an awkward jumper and free throw technique, there’s no denying that. His two-handed, horizontal approach to shooting a basketball is ripe for criticism.
DeMarcus Cousins thinks so, at least.
During a game between the Sacramento Kings and the Knicks, Cousins decided to give Noah a little tongue-in-cheek trolling about his form.
Looks about right.
The 1980s were back in Cleveland Friday night. Well, not completely, Bernie Kosar wasn’t leading the Browns to contention (although man, could they use him now).
No, the ’80s were back in the form of the throwback orange Cavaliers uniforms. And to complete the theme, the Cavaliers players dressed up and Rick-rolled the intro video — they did the complete “classic” Rick Astley hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” And it was awesome.
The Cavaliers won the game 114-84 over the Heat behind 28 from Kevin Love, but that was secondary to the intro video.
Second-year forward Sam Dekker is finding a comfort zone in the Mike D’Antoni offense in Houston. Healthy this season, he is coming off the bench for 18 minutes a night, and his game where he is quick and can also hit the three is fitting perfectly with Houston’s system, leading him to 6.7 points a game.
Also, he can run the floor. And finish.
As Enes Kanter found out when he hustled, got back in transition defense, and wasn’t going to stop Dekker from getting to the rim.
That’s a quality dunk.
The Rockets went on to win the game 102-99, despite Russell Westbrook‘s seventh-straight triple-double.

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Bealtaine 2009, an Irish National Festival celebrating creativity in older age. A month of activities is co-ordinated by Age & Opportunity and includes events organised by hundreds of partner organisations.
There are simply loads of great crafts activities going on around the country in the month of May, from workshops to exhibitions. Check out the Bealtaine website to see what's going on in your area. Here are a few we like...
Mise agus Oileán Chléire: Stitching Together; Cape and I – stitching together’,
23 May - 6 June,
West Cork Arts Centre, North St, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
Tel: + 353 28 22090 - Justine Foster
'The Universe: Yours to Discover’; opening the door to new worlds & celebrating the International Year of Astronomy.
Ballyphehane/Togher Community Arts Network
c/o Ballyphehane / Togher CDP.
Tel: 021 431 9085 - Siobhán Dowd
‘Art of Hats’; display of colourful hats, hand-knitted by residents of the Deerpark Nursing Home will be part of the library art exhibition
Tel:027 52 711 - Bernie Cronin
Re-enactment of Waterford’s medieval Fair of St Peter ad Vincula: all welcome, come in medieval costume;
Waterford Museum of Treasures
Tel: 051 304 500 Rosemary Ryan
Exhibition including silk painting and Venetian masks.
Milford Care Centre
Tel:061 485 800 Sheila Stone
‘Late Blooming – but not bloomin’ late’, workshops & demonstrations of craft work, knitting, tapestry, crochet, embroidery.
Knocknacarra Active Retired Association
49 Clybaun Hgts
Tel: 091 524 782 Pat Lally
Ladies Day at the National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History
Tours of the museum’s collections; exploring Mayday Traditions, and a tour of the Neilli Mulcahy exhibition. (See here for more detail)
tel: 01 648 6453


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Our microwave starts OK but then turns itself off after approx 20 secs.
If appliance runs for approx twenty seconds this is nearly always a magnetron fault usually a cracked magnet or burnt out anode the electronics are detecting an unusual power fluctuation and shutting appliance down for safety you will need service tech to sort.
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Watch Dogs (or WATCH_DOGS if you’re cool like that) had its fair share of controversy, but still sold well enough that a sequel was inevitable, and that sequel is coming out before April of next year.
During Ubisoft’s most recent earnings call, the developer let slip that Watch Dogs 2 would be joining For Honor, Tom Clancy’s: Ghost Recon Wildlands, and Southpark: Fractured But Whole, as titles scheduled for release before the end of fiscal 2017, marking it on the calendar prior to April of next year.
The first Watch Dogs ended up being more infamous than famous. We can thank it for the rise of downgrade witch hunts. People have become only more sensitive to games looking inferior to their highly unrepresentative demos, which – you could argue – is just about all of them. It’s a vicious cycle. People want to see a game as soon as possible, regardless of whether or not the technical aspects have been locked in, so developers show them a game as soon as there’s something resembling a playable demo, and when that doesn’t match what eventually comes out two to three years later, pitch forks are raised. Watch Dogs was the most memorable victim of this, but it also happened to Dark Souls 2, and Witcher 3, and now it’s happening to The Division.
People ended up so enamored with what Watch Dogs wasn’t that they couldn’t really see what it was. Sure, it wasn’t the crowning masterpiece that people were expecting, and some aspects of it wound up rather mediocre, but at the end of the day, it was a solid enough game.
It’s probably good, then, that Ubisoft has not so much as officially revealed Watch Dogs 2 yet, let alone shown any gameplay of it.
I guess the game industry, or at least Ubisoft, is finally learning that, in general, people suck.

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Developed by Telltale Games, the series is set in Georgia and it opens with Lee Everett (aka you, the player) in a police car heading to prison. The car, driven by an insufferably chatty and inattentive policeman, hits a pedestrian. A car accident and several zombies later, Lee finds a little girl, Clementine. They set off to search for Clementine’s parents while trying to survive the catastrophe that is threatening to eat them alive.
– The story is engaging. This season had five episodes, each long enough to be engrossing without getting too boring.
– The concept of the game – where the player’s choices affect the flow of the story – is satisfying. Different players can get different endings based on which action they did or which person they saved. The storyline is not as linear as other games, but it is no Heavy Rain.
– The game had a graphic novel look to it, a nod to the title’s original medium. I thought it was stunning.
– More action, please! I understand that the focus of the story are the relationships of the characters, but a few more zombie deaths would not hurt.
– I am not sure if it was just my PS Vita, but my game was glitchy – I had floating batteries shadowing me throughout the game.
– I started playing this on the iPad, then used the Vita, and I think it is better on the latter. Nothing beats pressing buttons frantically when an attacker gets a hold of you.
(Four out of five)
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$4M in upgrades announced for Miramichi's Station Wharf
City will invest more than $430,000 into project
Federal and provincial investments of almost $2 million each will be used to make major repairs at Miramichi's Station Wharf.
The funds, plus more than $430,000 from the City of Miramichi, will be used to repair and replace damaged piles, level the deck, and partially remove and replace the borderline wharf.
"The City is pleased to have partnered with both levels of government on this important initiative. Waterfront and park development are both part of the City's Strategic Plan and will enhance future growth in tourism opportunities," said Brian King, deputy mayor in a release.
The upgrades will help the city promote river tourism opportunities, such as the growing small cruise ship industry, and continue to support commercial activities at the wharf, said Miramichi-Grand Lake MP Pat Finnigan.
The province's contribution was made through the Miramichi Regional Economic Development and Innovation Fund.
"Our government's investment in the Station Wharf project will assist the City of Miramichi in promoting itself as a destination hub for northeastern New Brunswick through new opportunities," said Bill Fraser, the minister responsible for the Northern and Miramichi Funds.


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BIEI’s DREAM Monologues translates advocacy through poetry, music and dancePublished: April 25, 2014
Section: Arts, Etc., Top Stories
Brandeis Immigration Education Initiative hosted DREAM Monologues: Moments of Transitions in Chum’s last Wednesday night. The event aimed at creating a platform for sharing and witnessing the stories of Brandeis students’ experiences of being in transition. Whether this means existing in a dual identity, going through family immigration statutes, or even leaving home for the first time.
DREAM Monologues began with opening remarks from one of BIEI’s co-president, Jen Espada ’16. Espada’s words set the tone for the night, commenting on the themes of transition, being displaced and loss that would be explored through the various acts of the night. The performances showed a wide range of diversity, stretching from dance to poetry to song and rap.
The first segment of the DREAM Monologue was a dance performed by Shaquan Perkins ’14 and Stephanie Ramous ’15. The duo danced to a mastermix of hip-hop medleys that included Disclosure’s “Latch,” featuring Sam Smith. Perkins’ movements were intricate and tight, while Ramos was able to showcase her great lyricism and flexibility.
Other performers included LauraBen Moore ’14 whose speech in an ad libitum style spoke on her frustration on the way academic art scrutinizes creativity and the need to defend her art. Moore also spoke on how words alone are not enough to express truth as “a matrix of the universe that we can tap into.” Rohan Narayanan ’15 offered the audience an original poem that was met with much delight by the crowd. Using a strict rhyme scheme throughout, Narayanan shared his experiences of feeling displaced among his friends and the desire to be noticed, heard and understood. Mackalani Mack delivered a rap that paid tribute to his mom and the sacrifices she has made for him. Rapping to a recorded soundtrack, Mack’s piece also centered on finding his place away from home.
Leila May Pascual ’15, also used music as a mean of sharing her narrative. Pascual performed an original song inspired by Professor Mitra Shavarini’s (WMGS) memoir “Desert Roots,” which speaks on her experiences as an Iranian-American growing up in the United States: “I related it to my own experience of coming to the United States when I was eight years old. My family’s original flight from the Philippines to the U.S. was scheduled to be few hours after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. My family came to the US during a time when xenophobia was its peak and fear permeated the country, from the weeks of ‘High Terrorism’ alert on the news headlines to my third grade classmates telling me to go back to the Philippines,” Pascual said in an interview. Her song, titled “Dasal ng Pagala” meaning “Nomad’s Prayer,” was sung entirely in Tagalog and sings of “home” as a place as place of support and love regardless of any storming obstacle.
As each performer took the stage, the performances began to converge onto similar notes throughout the night. Although each of their narratives were uniquely special, the performances spoke to a larger, collective note of feeling the need to be seen, to have their narratives recognized, and their struggles validated.
“These narratives are important because they do not directly tie to immigration but show that everyone can relate to one another. Everyone who performed discussed their own experience of feeling out of place, missing home, dealing with identity issues. BIEI wanted people to be able to share their own stories that could relate to anyone even if it was completely different,” explained co-president Estela Lozano ’16. “It was great to have the narratives because it creates a safe place for students to be able to relate even though we are all so different. We wanted to make the same connection with undocumented immigrants and the situations that they constantly face on a daily basis,” Lozano said.
More than just safe, the space of Chum’s was transformed into an environment where everyone in the room felt free to be honest and open with each other. This atmosphere became increasingly palpable with each act. For instance, Yasmin Yousof ’15 performed a spoken word poem also about the inadequacy of the English language to express herself and her heritage, saying: “English force itself on my tongue, makes me forget how to roll the R’s that my mother taught me.” Yousof also spoke about her father, a devout man of Islam, and how long his beard has gotten. She expresses her worry on how people will react to her father because how prominently Muslim he looks, but does not want to tell her father to shave because she doesn’t want him to think he has a raised a daughter ashamed of her own faith—breaking into tears as she delivered her poetry.
Yousof’s piece, like many of the spoken word performers of the night like Bronte Velez ’16, Cristal Hernandez ’15, reached into an emotional rawness that commanded the attention of everyone in the room. Each performer’s willingness to share their narratives of transition, change and resilience made DREAM Monologues a powerfully intimate evening.


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In a congratulatory message to his new Indian counterpart, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani stressed the need for the enhancement of relations between the two countries given the history of their cordial cooperation.
An Iranian legislator says Tehran has no commitment to contracting out the development of its oil fields to India.
The Iranian and Indian defense chiefs have emphasized the need for a “decisive” fight against terrorism as well as bilateral defense cooperation with that end in sight.
Indian envoy to Iran believes that the bilateral relations between Tehran and New Delhi would improve substantially in the future.
Talks between Brazil, Iran and India could result in the construction of an oil refinery and petrochemical plant in one of the South American nation’s poorest states.
Iranian Foreign Minister says Tehran is resolved to continue its support for the nation and government of Afghanistan as they move towards “a stable, safe and prosperous Afghanistan”.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will pay official visits to India, China, and Japan in the coming days.
Having travelled to 13 countries, a Japanese woman and an Indian man refer to Iran as the best tourist destination and the paradise of earth.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has warned against the continuation of tensions between India and Pakistan, urging both countries to exercise more self-restraint.


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We had a good chuckle as we drove past Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah High school last month and noted the name of its mighty mascot.
While perhaps not as menacing as some of the other teams in the WIAA’s eight-man football league, “the Resorters”, as it turns out, aptly represent a beautiful town whose main purpose is to rejuvenate its visitors.
The juxtaposition of serene Elkhart Lake and frenetic Road America makes sense when you contemplate it from your balcony at the Osthoff Resort, voted the No. 1 resort in the Midwest by Conde Nast readers.
We rose early on an unseasonably cold Saturday morning and walked through the town in search of breakfast. High tourist season in Elkhart Lake occurs in summer, when visitors rest their throbbing ear drums from Road America’s historic 4.048 mile, 14-turn speedway.
But we think the town looks especially beautiful lit by autumn’s golden glow. The pace that day seemed especially relaxed as we wandered into Off the Rail, a sweet café run by Kelly and Daniel Sadiq and enjoyed the cheerful chatter and baked from scratch fare.
Though most famously associated with its beloved football team, Wisconsin also boasts some of the best resorts in the country with Door County, Lake Geneva, the luxurious American Club, and Canoe Bay (one of the top romantic getaways in the county and a place I once visited with my mother, an awkward weekend I may cover in another post.)
We enjoy well-planned vacations as much as anyone, but sometimes the special places you stumble on make even better memories.


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Apart from the Masada String Trio, there aren't many trios of violin, cello and bass to be found in modern jazz, yet here is one from France, and one with equally seasoned virtuosi: Guillaume Roy on viola, Vincent Courtois on cello and Claude Tchamitchian on bass.
As can be expected from the line-up, this is chamber music, but one that goes far beyond the classical notion of the music, and far beyond the sweet melodies of the Masada songbook.
The music, the sounds, the approach are new and fully improvised. The music floats, is melancholy, or full of intensity, full of distress, or full of drama.
Listen to the first piece, listen how the tune is built up gradually, out of soft touches on strings, some pizzi cello, then gradually the bass takes over the core rhythm to the very end, for the viola to start adding bowed tension, just to have the cello switch magnicently and shortly to arco, piercing, profound.
The title piece is romantic classicism, with all three instruments bowing around a tonal center,with deep sadness and melancholy, moving slightly away from each other, which accentuates the sadness even more, then all three go into higher regions, before the bass bows the last incredibly deep tones. It is hard to believe that this is improvised, yet it is.
"'Champ Contre Champ" starts with a crazy rhythm on bass, and viola and cello kind of fight their way through the piece, duelling, circling around each other, while the bass keeps on plucking, then bowing the same rhythm hypnotically onwards.
This is serious and abstract music, with lots of gravity and a dark overall feeling, but the kind of music that is gripping in the way it's told, in the way it is created in front of your ears,
It is also incredibly creative. The eleven relatively short pieces each tell their own story, invite you in a different context, but then without losing the overall coherence of the album.
But why am I ranting on .... this is remarkable music by three fantastic artists. Judge for yourself on the long clip below, that gives an entire performance by the trio.
Don't forget about Arcado Trio: Mark Dresser - bass, Hank Roberts - cello, Mark Feldman - violin. When I listened "Amarco" I thought about Arcado.
Yes, thanks. I forgot about Arcado Trio.
Exist also the "open field string trio"
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In Search of Sai Divine
A Comprehensive Research Review of Writings and Researches on Sri Sathya Sai Baba Avatar
By Prof. Satya Pal Ruhela
New Delhi, Umang Paperback, a division of MD Publications, 1996
190 pages; ISBN: 817533021X
Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the most venerated and the greatest of all the contemporary divine personalities in the world. He is an Incarnation of God – a combined Incarnation of Shiva and Shakti, Sarvadevataswaroopam (All Gods and Goddesses rolled into One), and is believed to be the Kalki Avatar. In his previous life incarnation, he incarnated as Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi (1838-1918). His teachings, miracles are known worldwide.
His declared Avataric mission is the establishment of Dharma (Righteousness), lightening the lamp of love in every heart, interpreting the spiritual heritage of man that has been distorted and dilated in the intervening ages, and to achieve the supreme task of uniting as one family the entire mankind and usher in the ‘Golden Age’ for the humanity.
More than 400 books and thousands of articles and papers and many researches have been published in many world languages on Sri Sathya Sai Baba and his Avataric mission on this Planet during the last 25 years.
This book is a comprehensive and uptodate review of all the significant writings and research contributions of Sai Devotee-writers, and Scholar of Religion, Philosophers, Sociologists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists, Educationists, Management Scientists, Physical Scientists and Medical Scientists who have come closer to Baba and studied his unique divine personality as Avatar, his teachings, his miracles, his charisma, his global activities and his enchanting and soothing utopia for the distressed mankind.
Prof. Satya Pal Ruhela was Professor of Education (Sociology) at the Advanced Institute of Education studies, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi. He is pioneering Sociologist of Education in India and an internationally known social scientist and educationist. He is an ardent Sai devotee, and has contributed several enlightening books and researches in the fields of Sociology, Social Anthropology, Education, Futurology and Sai phenomena. His writings, published in USA, Germany, Japan, UNESCO, France and India
Prayer to Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
‘Forgive Me My Transgression Lord Sai’ (Poem)
A Commitment to Humanity
Sri Sathya Sai Baba: A Brief Introduction
1. A Brief Introduction of Baba
2. Sri Sathya Sai Baba on Himself: Identity and Role
3. Sai Mythologies: Prophecies About the Advent of Sri Sathya Sai Avatar
What Researches Say on Sri Sathya Sai Baba
4. Contributions of Devotees and Scholars of Religion
5. Contributions of Philosophers
6. Contributions of Sociologists
7. Contributions of Psychologists and Psychiatrists
8. Contributions of Educationists
9. Contributions of Management Scientists
10. Contributions of Physical Scientists
11. Contributions of Medical Scientists
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– Sathya Sai Book Centre, Toronto, Canada http://www.saibooks.org/
– Sri Sathya Sai Books, UK http://www.srisathyasaibooks.org.uk/
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Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll and and Jon Griffin Tackle Epic New Off-Width on Cerro Chaltén’s South Face
The duo climbed a new route, christened La Chaltenense last Wednesday on Cerro Chaltén (Fitz Roy) in Argentine Patagonia.
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In a 20-hour blitz, Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll and Jon Griffin climbed a virgin monster off-width up the South Face of Cerro Chaltén (Monte Fitz Roy) on the Argentine-Chilean border. The 500-meter line initially followed the first two pitches of The Colorado Route, a 6c+/5.11b splitter crack line put up by Max Barlerin, Quinn Brett, and Michael Lukens in 2016. It then branches off to fire up a 5-6” wide crack system for 350 meters with chimney sections interspersed throughout the route’s eight total pitches. Difficulties ranged up to 7a (5.11+).
The team topped out at 3:40 A.M. on the morning of March 4th, after a 7:30 A.M. start the previous day. Villanueva O’Driscoll and Griffin then slept for a few hours up top before heading down (they carried a single sleeping bag, though no tent or stove).
As the other major routes on Chaltén’s South Face are all inspired by foreign locales (Washington, Colorado, Britain, California, etc.) the route’s chosen name, La Chaltenense, was intended as a way of paying respect to the local El Chalten people. Both climbers have been living in the remote Argentine town for over a year now.
In a Facebook post from Patagonia Vertical, Villanueva O’Driscoll reported that there were “some desperate moments! Where I would slip down a few cm, get completely out of breath, try to find some way of jamming some part of my body, either a foot, a knee, a leg, an arm, chest…, get a really bad lactic acid build up in some muscle I had never felt before, try and catch my breath back, stop my mind from wanting to give up!, recover and then get back at it!!! and try and recover those few cm I had lost!!!!…”
CERRO CHALTEN – “La Chaltenense”. Seán Villanueva O’Driscoll @seanvillanuevaodriscoll and Jon Griffin @schralpinerjon…
Posted by Patagonia Vertical on Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Reportedly, the crack was so sustained that No. 6 Camalots were the only pro that consistently fit, meaning the duo had to walk or shuffle their two No. 6s constantly, so they often climbed with little to no protection between the belays. Since the line ran up the southern face of the peak, sunlight was scarce, with reportedly only an hour or so of light in the early morning and a quarter hour before sunset. Both men suffered frostbite in the freezing temps, though Villanueva O’Driscoll, fresh off a February solo first ascent of the Fitz Roy Traverse in reverse (The Moonwalk), apparently got the worst of it, with some damage to his toes that required medical treatment.
Villanueva O’Driscoll’s famous tin whistle joined them on the route, but it was too cold on the summit for the Irish-Belgian climber to play a tune. The pair also created an eclectic mini playlist for their ascent, which Griffin broadcast on a portable speaker to keep the stoke high. The playlist, which can now be found on Spotify, includes such classics as The Dubliners’ “The Rocky Road to Dublin” and Simon and Garfunkel’s “El Condor Pasa.”
La Chaltenense now towers high as one of the longest and most sustained off-width routes on the planet.


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The market has indicated that the future for bond insurers looks bleak.
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These products, often made up of bundled subprime mortgages, declined sharply in value as the number of mortgages in default jumped in the past year. Bond insurers could be on the hook for far more claims than anticipated, thanks to the continued deterioration in the mortgage market.
The urgency to fix bond insurers and to preserve pristine credit ratings is mounting. At the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee hearing last week, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer said he expected a resolution in the next three to five days, lest regulators would have to step in. (See "Good Back, Bad Book.")
The stocks of these bond insurers have now been boot-stomped by nervous stock market investors. In the past 12 months, MBIA and Ambac have both dropped more than 80%.
But the sell-off in bond insurers could present opportunities for nimble investors who are willing to tolerate a high degree of risk. The best-performing online investors, Marketocracy's M100, are now cherry-picking the sector for money-making prospects.
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Analysts say that the company, which has a market capitalization of about $1.85 billion, isn't completely immune to the problems plaguing the mortgage industry. Assured has exposure to Alt-A and home equity loan securities backed by residential mortgages. Analysts note that both segments of the housing market will experience above-average default rates.
But fans of the stock point out that Assured is one of the few bond insurers that refused to insure collateralized debt obligations of asset-backed securities. And the company's AAA rating is intact, which means the company can write more business at better pricing.
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Assured has continued to grow, expanding into international markets. The company recently opened offices in London and continental Europe.
Last week, Assured announced a dividend hike of 13%. The insurer will pay a dividend of 4.5 cents on March 17 to shareholders of record at Feb. 29's closing bell. The previous quarter's dividend was 4 cents per share.
Assured is inexpensive in relation to its expected growth, with a price-to-earnings growth ratio of 0.63. In the past year, the stock has dropped more than 17%. The M100 decided it was time to carve out a position.
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Last week, Volcano said it swung to a fourth-quarter loss because of a December charge from its buyout of a company called CardioSpectra. Volcano recorded a loss of $23.74 million, or 53 cents per share, versus a profit of $1.43 million, or 4 cents per share, for the year-ago period. Excluding $26.2 million in buyout charges, the company earned 5 cents per share.
Revenue jumped 35% to $40 million, a record quarter for the company.
But more important for the Street is Volcano's prospects. The company said it expects much higher revenue in 2008--between $158 million and $162 million. That's a sizable increase of about 21% to 24% over 2007. Volcano said it expects a loss of between 2 and 4 cents per share. Excluding a stock-based compensation expense of about $10.2 million, the company forecasts a net income of 16 cents to 18 cents per share.
Those revenue projections beat the Street's initial estimates, though analysts have since revised their projections. They're now expecting the company to post a loss of 1 cent per share on $160.6 million in revenue. At the Feb. 15 close of $13.34, Volcano trades at 60.64 times the earnings per share estimates for 2009. But it's growing at close to 67%.
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On the sell side, the gurus decided to bail on British stocks, selling the iShares MSCI United Kingdom Index (amex: EWU). The M100 might have been spooked out of the exchange-traded fund by the Bank of England's much-awaited quarterly inflation report, which warned that consumer price inflation could rise above a 3% annual rate in the near term.
If annual inflation rises above 3%, the Bank of England's governor, Mervyn King, has to write a letter to the head of the Treasury, Alistair Darling, explaining why it is 1% above target. Since the central bank became independent 11 years ago, this has only happened once. The focus on inflation diminishes chances for the Bank of England to take a more aggressive approach to cutting rates. The FTSE 100, an index of blue chip stocks on the London Stock Exchange, is down about 8% year-to-date.
Perhaps because of fears of an oncoming recession, the gurus got out of
Fans of the company point to its disciplined acquisition strategy, consistently high profitability and copious free cash-flow generation.
ITW bears argue that a decline in new housing starts and weakness from automakers are pressuring North American results. Analysts also point out that while a strong European economy has so far countered the firm's falling sales in North America, some European markets are also now starting to exhibit signs of slowdown.
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'Round Midnight- Re- Imagined Review: Bistro Awards
May 30, 2021 | By Gerry Geddes Singer Amber Weekes’s newest release, ‘Round Midnight — Re-Imagined, has a classic, lived-in feel that allows the listener to luxuriate in its style, its romance, its intelligence, and its sheer musical richness while enjoying the rich storytelling and the trove of surprises to be found in its tracks. There is quite a lot of backstory and factual context in the liner notes that tie all the songs together, but I am tempted to suggest listening to the CD a couple of times to discover what the songs and her interpretations say to you before finding out what they mean to her and the story she wants to tell. I always tell my students that there should always be truth in performance but there do not have to be facts. Amber Weekes has enough truth in evidence here to fill at least a half-dozen albums! In the opener, “Hazel’s Hips” (Oscar Brown, Jr.), the singer uses a bump n’ grind, bluesy saloon delivery with a knowing wink and nod at the naughtiness of the tale she’s telling. Then comes “Summer Samba” (aka “So Nice”) (Marcos Valle, Paulo Sérgio Valle, Norman Gimbel) combining the feeling of a sensual, sultry summer breeze with a pulsing yet relaxed intensity. Here, and throughout the recording, the gorgeous strings are the work of producer, arranger, and conductor Mark Cargill, who also contributes terrific violin solos. Weekes’s savvy jazz sense and emotional story connection remain strong in a remarkable foray into “church,” with a pairing of Duke Pearson’s “Cristo Redentor” with “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me” (traditional spiritual) that impresses no matter what the listener’s religious position. The arrangement imbues a spiritual investigation of the lyrics with a cinematic lushness and smolder that transform the piece. Another inspired medley has Sting’s “Sister Moon” moving beautifully into “Summertime” (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose & Dorothy Heyward) with stellar work by Sherman Ferguson on drums. “My Romance” (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) is a virtual duet between the singer and “Eddy” Olivieri’s sensitive keyboard wafting to the heavens on clouds of strings. On “Don’t You Feel My Leg” (JM Williams, Danny Barker, Lou Barker) the naughty wit that peeked around the corners of “Hazel’s Hips” bursts out in a sexy flirtation that doubles every entendre in sight. The legendary guitarist Phil Upchurch takes this, and every track on which he appears, up a notch. The centerpiece of the album is a grouping of three songs into what is called “The Bar Suite” that is practically a storyboard for an as-yet-unmade movie of romance and broken hearts. First is Billy Barnes’s classic “Something Cool,” which Weekes imbues with an endearing, bittersweet coquettishness that is a bit passed its sell-by date. The accompaniment is so evocative on this that I could practically see and smell the smoke hanging over the bar from the cigarettes that might be “fun with something cool.” Next comes “One for My Baby” (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) pulsing with gin-soaked regret and resignation. This leads to the smoldering longing of “The Man That Got Away” (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin) that burns with controlled intensity with flames provided by Louis Van Taylor’s gorgeous soprano saxophone. “’Round Midnight” (Thelonius Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) has a welcome and unexpected fragility that the arrangement and, in particular the strings, explore and reinforce. “More Than You Know” (Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu) provides a moving finale that is just perfect. Amber Weekes knows what she is doing—so much so that the listener can just sit back and relax and be transported to a faraway time and place. It is a welcome escape that I will be visiting again and again.


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Peng Fu, Lingge Wei, Fang Zhang, Jianqing Gao, Jianmin Jing, Weijie Wu, Huaijun Liu
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This study aimed to investigate the added value of NeuroGam software analysis in the localization diagnosis of epileptogenic zone during interictal phase of seizures.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: The clinical data of 67 patients, clinically diagnosed as epilepsy, were analyzed retrospectively. Visual analysis and NeuroGam software analysis were used for independent analysis. The 2 methods were used to compare the efficacy indicator of the diagnosis of epileptogenic zone, and the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve evaluated the diagnostic efficacy.
RESULTS: Through the final clinical diagnostic comprehensive localization, among 67 epilepsy patients, the epileptogenic zone in 51 cases could be located distinctly, and those in 16 cases could not be located. Compared to the visual analysis, the NeuroGam software analysis was more sensitive in the location of epileptogenic zone (χ²=4.876, P=0.027). The area under the ROC curve (AUC) and 95% confidence interval (CI) of the NeuroGam software and visual analyses was 0.760 and 0.689, (0.613, 0.908) and (0.547, 0.832), respectively. However, the consistency of the 2 methods was poor (Kappa=0.367, P=0.001). Compared to visual analysis, the NeuroGam software analysis exerted more advantages in the localization diagnosis of the epileptogenic zone (P<0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: In the location diagnosis of brain perfusion, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) epileptogenic zone was used in interictal phase of seizures, and NeuroGam software analysis exerted a distinct added value for visual analysis.


On Friday afternoon and during the early evening a front bring thunder storms and in some areas heavy rain will cross the country. There is a possibility of high winds in some areas. There is a possibility of hail in the southeast. A Code Yellow weather warning is in force in the entire country.
All parks in the Brussels-Capital Region have been closed since 11am and will remain so until 10pm on Saturday.
Once the danger has passed the parks will be inspected and any clear-up work that might be necessary will be carried. Only then will the parks be re-opened.
Brussels Environment advises the public to avoid parks, woodland and forests and to steer clear of trees in general.
High winds expected on Sunday
On Saturday gusts of wind of up to 70 km/h are forecast for the whole country with the exception of Luxembourg Province. In coastal areas wind speeds could reach 80km/h.
Thunder storms are also forecast for Sunday night.


A little while ago, I wrote about my knee-jerk reactions to giving my children sex education. One knee jerked in the direction of assuming that Boogie would always be the one who would be pressured to say yes, whilst the other knee jerked in the direction of assuming L’il Boo would be, in effect, a sexual predator, always the one to try and get the other person to say yes. In this instance, there is something to be said for keeping your legs closed.
Naturally, on watching my knees, I strapped them down and told them to fucking behave. Other people however, see their knees routinely jerk off in stupid, stereotypical directions and think that the views of their knees should be made law.
Ah, Nadine Dorries. If you aren’t familiar with this knock-her-down-and-she-just-keeps-popping-back-up anti-abortion campaigner and Tory MP, read the comments below The Guardian piece linked (just this once, though, mind!). She is…unsavoury.
Yesterday, she popped up again like a particularly annoying Weevil, introducing under the 10-minute rule a bill which would require schools to provide girls of 13-16 with “additional sex education [that] must include information and advice on the benefits of abstinence from sexual activity”. Only girls because, presumably, they exist in a sexual vacuum. Being abhored by nature (or the Patriarchy at least).
Now, 10-minute rule bills are just something MPs like to indulge in to amuse themselves when they get tired of cutting your services and stealing your money via expenses forms. It ain’t gonna become law (at least not any time soon). But still. 67 MPs voted for it. 67 MPs who, I’m guessing, better stay home come the revolution. 67 people – in positions of power in this country – think that (1) the onus is entirely on girls to say no, and (2) boys never want to say no and definitely shouldn’t be taught how to do so. And also that girls should be taught to say no in a boy-free environment so that boys never get to understand the mysterious, feminine ways in which girls are taught to repel them, like, oh, No, thanks, I don’t really want to, or, Without a condom, pal? You’re having a laugh – get it covered or bugger off! Or indeed, any of the other phrases which convey, essentially, ‘no’ (my personal favorite being, ‘No’). Now, even if you accept that girls are gatekeepers to the golden jewel of sexual pleasure, wouldn’t it help girls say no if boys got the same message? That saying ‘no’ was not only possible, but acceptable? ‘Do you want sex then, love?…No, me, neither; I’m getting mixed messages from the media about the acceptability of a slightly bent penis and I don’t feel ready to open myself up to your judgment just yet. Should we play Twister instead?’ Teenage parties would be all the more interesting for it, methinks.
Dorries of course has no truck with such arguments, stating on her own blog:
‘I do [want the emphasis to be on girls]. It’s girls who get pregnant, girls who lose their education, girls who are left to bring up a child on benefits, girls who reach old age in poverty, girls who are subjected to a string of guesting fathers as they throw in the towel in a life of welfare misery, girls who seek abortion, girls who suffer the consequences of abortion, girls who are subjected to the increased medical risks of giving birth at a young age, girls who have little control over condom use, girls who are pressurised, girls who are targeted by lad mag marketing, it’s seven year old girls Primark made alluring padded bikinis for, girls who are targeted by paedophiles…….
So in a world fraught with danger for girls, just keeping your legs shut will make it a fucking Nirvana. Well, it’s simple, I suppose. Taking Dorries’ list, I can think of, oh, eleventy billion things we could do to address those particular inequalities. None of them are just tell girls to keep it shut. Jesus, who’d be a heterosexual girl now? Legs shut lest you get yourself pregnant (yourself! har har!), mouth shut lest opinions make you unfeminine and unpopular with boys, brain shut unless you start to understand how keeping your legs and your mouth shut will do nothing to prevent the world from fucking you in all number of ways.


The Empresarios are excited to perform at Mustock 2017 alongside Nappy Riddem, Of Tomorrow, Mateo Monk, Adwela & Uprising, Sol Roots and more – join us in Lignum, VA the weekend of July 28th to 30th!
On Sunday May 15th the Empresarios and Afrolicious will perform live at La Cita Bar in Los Angeles, CA!!!
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Click through to check out some highlights of the Empresarios tour of Puerto Rico – we had a great time and here are some photos & videos of our tour, huge thanks to everybody who came out & helped make this happen!
The Empresarios are on tour in Puerto Rico this week!! Catch them on TV, Radio and at three shows this weekend – bringing The Vibes back home to Puerto Rico!!
The Empresarios will perform in Hollywood, FL on Thursday October 22nd and in Miami on Friday October 23rd, click through for the full info & links!
The Empresarios have released their third studio album, “The Vibes” which is out now and available worldwide on CD and Digital.
The Empresarios will perform live at the Landmark Music Festival in Washington, DC this Saturday September 26th! Catch them on the BMI Stage from 1:30 to 2:30pm….
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