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As a very early riser, I head to the motel's free breakfast right at 6am. I've had so many free breakfasts over the last 30 days that this one doesn't stand out as anything out of the ordinary or worthy of remembering. Afterwards, I head back to the room to load up and hit the road.
The best thing about Sunday morning? It's not raining! I'm on the road by 6:30am.
I spoke too soon. Five miles down the road, the rain starts. The storm is headed east and I'm riding west so I hope I can lessen my ride in the rain. It will continue for the next 5 hours. I ride through a lite rain, south towards Knoxville on I-78, looking for I-40 West.
On I-40, west of Knoxville, the scooter sputters a few times and quits. I pull to the shoulder. As I'd just passed an overpass as it quit, I slowly roll the Helix, backwards, down a slight grade till I'm under the overpass and out of the rain. Now what do I do? I run things through my head. I have two roadside assistance plans. Do I call AAA or do I call Good Sam Club? Do I get it towed forward, where I know of nothing? Or, get towed back to Knoxville? It's Sunday, nothing open. Tomorrow's Monday, most motorcycle shops are closed. On a lark, I turn the key and push the button. It fires up. Hey, what the hell! I guess it's not as serious as I first envisioned. I idle it for a bit. Then I twist the grip and head west again.
As I ride along, I try to run the "quit on the side of the road" scenarios over in my head. What I finally decide is that the Helix doesn't do water well. Now, as I ride west, I try to stay out of the water pools. I hate to ride in the center of the road because that always where the oil is. Now, I don't want to ride where the car and truck tires go because that's usually the lowest part of the road and therefore has the most water. This is turning into a tough ride. I ride on.
Somewhere around Nashville, the rain starts to peter out. Finally, it quits and I ride west towards Memphis.
It was just early evening when I ride into Hazen, Arkansas. First, I pull into a gas station to fill up. An older Lincoln Town Car pulls up behind me and I notice it has antique plates. I wonder how old a car has to be to qualify for antique plates here in Arkansas. I figure that I'll ask the driver when he/she gets out. When he does finally get out, the car shrinks a bit. This guy has to be the tallest person I've ever seen....and he's wearing Army fatigues! I look at him, he looks at me and I say, "I was going to ask you about the plates on the car but now I've got to ask, 'How tall are you?' ".
He says 7'.
"They let people in the army as tall as you?"
"I just barely squeeked in."
"How come you're in the Army and not the NBA?"
"Believe it or not, I'm not very good at basketball and the Army offers more security."
"Makes sense to me."
We chat a bit and go our separate ways. About 100 yards away, across a recently plowed field, is a motel. I'd stopped early today because I needed to change the oil in the Helix. Earlier, I'd bought a quart of oil and a gallon of water. I dump the water out, cut the plastic jug in half to catch the oil. I then fill the crankcase and use the empty quart bottle to hold the old oil. I tried to recycle it at several auto parts stores, with no luck. The next day, Monday, I ride west with the old oil safely stored in the topcase.
Monday morning, after another free breakfast, it's back on I-40. Now, get a clear picture, if you've ever ridden an interstate, you've pretty much ridden them all. All I do today is ride, stop for gas, take a pee break and then repeat, then repeat again, and again.
My father used to say that if you're not the lead dog, the view never changes. Riding the interstate, that adage is pretty much true, the view never changes.
Riding west out of Arkansas, I repeat yesterday's ride sequence....ride, gas, pee, ride, gas, pee. Every now and then, just for a change, I buy a Coke to go with my Clif Bar, then it's back to ride, gas, pee, ride, gas, pee......
Around dark, I start looking for a motel. I had planned to ride to Amarillo but it's getting late so.... Apparently, nobody stays east of Amarillo because I can't find squat. I wind up riding into Amarillo.....in the rain!
For those of you who've been around since way back when, you might remember that, prior to the start of the race, I'd only ridden in the rain one time. It was way back in Calhoun, Texas one afternoon, 30 days ago! In the last 4 days, it's rained on me every single day.
Shortly after the rain started this time, as I tried to avoid "deep" water, I'd hit a series of small potholes, all filled with water. Sure enough, 100 yards up the road, the Helix sputtered and stalled out. This time I just waited a bit. I didn't even turn the key off. I pushed the button and she fired up but she wasn't enthusiastic about it. After a bit of idling, I was off again.
In Amarillo, it's back to Super 8. After I get registered, the desk clerk guy takes me outside and shows me where I can park the Helix on the sidewalk, where it will be out of the rain.
Three days down. I had been hoping to finish the race by late Tuesday. I now know that that won't happen. If I can make Kingman tomorrow (Tuesday), I'll be in Redondo Beach by sometime Wednesday afternoon late.
Right here, I want to go back and tell you that every evening, after riding hard all day, I'd send a note to Alan. I want to see how he was doing and where he was. After day one, when I'd ridden in the rain into Greeneville, TN., Alan had stopped in Wytheville, VA. According to MapQuest, that put me about 125 ahead.
After day two, I was in Hazen, AR. Alan, apparently, is not a rain rider. After riding from Wytheville, VA. to Knoxville in the pouring rain, he was soaked through. He decided that he'd had enough for that day and got a motel room to dry out his stuff. Again, according to MapQuest, I was now around 500 miles out in front.
Day three found me in Amarillo and Alan in Ft. Smith, AR. I think he'd cut into my lead by about 50 miles. No where near enough to catch up before we reached the coast. Now my fear was that he'd ride all night and catch up. He had a bit of an advangtage if he wanted to ride late into the night as he had a chase vehicle. If he'd put the chase vehicle out front, he wouldn't have to worry about hitting hunks of tire rubber as they'd be able to spot them first. I don't think that happened as we seemed to maintain the same distance between us.
In the next ride report, I ride in snow!
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LAWRENCEVILLE - Snellville resident David J. Jansen was arrested in a remote cabin in Tennessee on charges related to the kidnapping and rape of a married Atlanta woman.According to a statement released Friday by the Sevier County Sheriff's Department, Jansen, 46, abducted the 24-year-old Tuesday morning while the woman was out jogging in her midtown Atlanta neighborhood. Police contend the woman, who Jansen knew, voluntarily got into his car when he asked her to see it because it was new. But a report alleges Jansen then tied her up and transported her more than 200 miles to the Smoky Mountains cabin where the rape took place. The woman's saving grace was a pizza delivery man, who called police after delivering dinner to the cabin about 8 p.m. Tuesday. Chris Turner, the deliveryman, told WVLT-TV and WBIR-TV that he spotted the victim with her hands tied on the couch while handing the credit card slip to Jansen. "When I knocked on the door and handed the guy my credit card slip to get him to sign it, there happened to be a young lady (who) popped over the back of the couch and showed me that her hands were bound together," Turner said. "(She) was mouthing to me, 'Please call 911.'" Turner then returned to his van, wrote down the suspect's tag number and called police from a neighbor's house. When Sevier County Sheriff's Officers arrived at the scene, they found the woman tied up. The officers separated the woman from Jansen, listened to her story and then transported her to a local hospital. She was later released. After obtaining and executing a search warrant for Jansen's cabin, detectives said they discovered evidence there that substantiated the woman's story. Jansen was charged with aggravated kidnapping and rape, Sheriff Ron Seals said. He was released Thursday on a $800,000 bond and faces an initial court appearance in Sevierville on July 17. Capt. Jeff McCarter refused to discuss the case Friday beyond a media release, adding that the investigation was ongoing. A call to a phone listing for David Jansen in Snellville on Friday went unreturned. The pizza delivery man said the victim came by the pizza shop on Wednesday with her husband to thank him for his alertness. "She just wanted me to know she was OK and everything," Turner said. The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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On May 10, Rappahannock Community College's baseball team defeated Danville Community College 4-3 to win the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Conference tournament championship for the eighth time. Coach Jack Moore brought the Gulls through the season with a conference record of 13-1 and an overall mark of 19-7.
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For only the third time since girls track was started at Middlesex High School in 1976, the Lady Chargers won the Region A title last Thursday at West Point. The Lady Chargers competed against 19 schools in the regional meet and scored 68 points to win the title. Lancaster was second with 58 points and Northampton on the Eastern Shore was third with 56 points.
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As I mentioned in my intro post, the purpose of this blog is to prove my hypothesis that "investing" strictly in stock options (100%) does not have to be risky.
With adequate due diligence and using my proprietary methodology, I will show how with just $10,000 and with minimal trading in the account, I should be able achieve a rate of return that is just not possible with any other investment instrument available today. And most importantly I will do so with 100% transparency and in real time.
Of course, with the so-called "fiscal cliff" noise in the background, I sure have my work cut out for myself...But then that's how the cookie has crumbled for me and I have to make the best use of the cards that I have been dealt...
So let's begin this experiment by me allowing a sneak peek into my picks for tomorrow...
I will be "purchasing"* options in the following underlying securities:
SPWR (SunPower Corporation)
WFR ( MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.)
S (Sprint Nextel Corp.)
* For complete transparency, I should point out that options in these 3 stocks are already in my portfolio for a number of weeks and that my buy in price is substantially below their current market prices(s). Hopefully, with the markets somewhat jittery because of the lack of progress shown by the members of our Senate and the House of Representatives, my tomorrow's "buy-in" price(s) for the above 3 stocks' options will be better than their respective closing price(s) on Friday...Once I have made my "purchases" in these 3 companies, then, going forward, my sell decisions here and all my new Buys in the next 6 months, will all mimic my move(s) in my real life portfolio.
I will be allocating the following percentages of the $10,000 to the 3 stocks:
S (Sprint Nextel Corp.) : 15% or $1,500
SPWR (SunPower Corporation) : 40% or $4,000
WFR ( MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.) : 25% or $2,500
Cash: 20% or $2,000
As of 7:00 pm Pacific (10:00 pm Eastern) today, December 30th, 2012, no deal has been announced between the Republicans and the Democrats on the most pressing issue facing our nation this week. Therefore, I don't have a clue as to how the markets will react tomorrow at the open...So here is my strategy for the next few trading days:
Since I plan to hold $4000 in SPWR options, $2500 in WFR options and $1500 in S options, I therefore plan to be very opportunistic in making the requisite purchases...In other words, I will try to accumulate my positions over time. The remaining $2000 in cash that I'll be left with after I complete my purchases, I'll leave for other opportunities that should present themselves over the next few days...
The Options (CALLS) that I will be purchasing are as follows:
S : May 18, 2013, $6.00 Strike Price ; Current Ask: $0.13
SPWR: March 16, 2013, $6.00 Strike Price ; Current Ask: $0.41
WFR: April 20, 2013, $3.50 Strike Price ; Current Ask: $0.39
So there you have it! I will try and post in real time every time I make the commitment to "purchase" the above mentioned options.
The next 6 months should be fun...
Now let the games begin!
DISCLAIMER: All postings made here are strictly for my personal record keeping and in no way, shape or form, am I even remotely suggesting others to follow my Buy and Sell moves. Trading options is definitely not for the faint of heart as one's portfolio can move up, or down, anywhere between 10%-30% during a single trading day. Feel free to follow my progress here, but PLEASE do not follow my moves. However, if, in spite of all my exhortations, should you decide to do so, be advised that you, and ONLY YOU will be responsible for any losses that you may suffer...In other words, the onus is strictly on you.
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With the Divisional Round here, it's time for the top teams of the season to play. New England and Seattle each face hungry teams, Peyton Manning faces his replacement again and Dallas faces Green Bay in an Ice Bowl rematch. All four games should be very hard-fought and competitive.
On our panel, three of the four contests were picked unanimously, while the fourth was much closer in the selections. And while Seattle and Carolina projects to be a tactical, defensive game, the others should see the ball aired out more.
As before:
- Successfully picking the winner of each game is worth two points.
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Swathed in rich colours and fine traditional furnishings, all 304 stylishly decorated guestrooms and corner suites in the London Marriott Hotel Regents Park feature airy floor-to-ceiling windows, some of which highlight delightful private balconies and opening windows. High-count cotton linens, comfy down comforters, plush pillow-top mattresses, and fluffy pillows invite peaceful slumbers while separate work areas include spacious desks and direct-dial telephones. Among the plentiful high-tech amenities are satellite television, wireless Internet access, and voice mail. King leisure rooms include a spacious lounge area while an upgrade to an executive room confers access to the executive lounge, offering complimentary high-speed Internet access, non-alcoholic beverages, hors d'ouvres and evening beer and wine.
Hotel Facilities
Just a short, scenic walk from the London Zoo and the chic shops and cafés of Primrose Hill, the London Marriott Hotel Regents Park boasts a myriad of on-site leisure facilities. Guests can stay fit on the road with complimentary access to a sparkling 15-metre indoor pool, state-of-the-art gym with extensive cardio, resistance training, and free weight equipment, and revitalizing sauna/steam room. Towels are provided free, and fitness-class options are available. Other features at this elegant home-away-from-home include a professional hair salon, laundry facilities, dry cleaning, currency exchange and de-stressing spa services. For succulent in-house London Marriott showcases mouthwateringly innovative Indian-fusion cuisine and tasty street food, Zaike NW3 is open Friday, and Saturday nights, while informal coffee shop/lounge Chats Café Bar serves refreshing cocktails and light meals throughout the day. Perfect for business or leisure, this superior 4-star retreat features an attentive 24-hour front desk with multi-lingual staff, concierge desk, fully equipped business centre, audiovisual equipment, secretarial services, spacious ballrooms, multiple small meeting rooms, and extensive exhibit space.
With convenient parking options available, guests of the London Marriott Hotel Regents Park can take advantage of easy access to all of London's exciting attractions by way of a multitude of outstanding nearby public transportation options including the Swiss Cottage Underground Station on the Jubilee Line, and Hempstead Train Station.
Hotel Services and Facilities
DiningSatisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves breakfast and lunch. Dining is also available at a coffee shop/café, and 24-hour room service is provided. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Hotel facilities
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- Health club
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
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- Self parking (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- 24-hour front desk
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- Television in lobby
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- Elevator/lift
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- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Braille or raised signage
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- Accessible path of travel
- Indoor pool
- Free WiFi
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- Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
- The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for buffet breakfast: GBP 19.5 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: GBP 15 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room high-speed Internet (wired): GBP 15 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: GBP / per day (rates may vary)
- Airport shuttle fee: GBP 75 per vehicle (roundtrip)
- Self parking fee: GBP 31 per day
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
How to bookMaking your reservation in London Marriott Hotel Regents Park is easy and secure. Simply select your dates of stay and click on the "Check Rates" button to submit the form.
After room types and rates are returned to your screen, you will be able to choose the rate you desire by reading the room information in the center of the screen, then clicking on the "Book Now" button on the right side of the screen. After you have selected your desired room type, you will be taken to a "Complete your booking" form. Then you will need to review the "Details of your stay" and fill in the blanks on the "Guest Details" section. Be sure your name and email address are spelled correctly.
After you fill out all of the needed information, press the "Complete reservation" button. To ensure your security, we use a secure commerce server, which encrypts the credit card number and encodes it into a non-usable form.
Area informationDistances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or attraction, and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
Hampstead Theatre - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi
Swiss Cottage Farmers' Market - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi
Primrose Hill - 0.7 km / 0.5 mi
Freud Museum - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
London Zoo - 1.2 km / 0.8 mi
Lord's Cricket Ground - 1.5 km / 0.9 mi
Keats House - 1.5 km / 0.9 mi
Everyman Cinemas - Hampstead - 1.7 km / 1.1 mi
Burgh House - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi
London Business School - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
Regent's Park - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi
Queen Mary's Gardens - 2 km / 1.2 mi
The Tricycle Theatre - 2 km / 1.3 mi
Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum - 2.4 km / 1.5 mi
Hampstead Heath - 2.4 km / 1.5 mi
The nearest airports are:
London (LCY-London City) - 15.8 km / 9.8 mi
London (LHR-Heathrow) - 20.9 km / 13 mi
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Areas of Interest: animal behavior, behavioral ecology, population ecology, evolutionary ecology, marine ecology and biological oceanography
Current Research
The Buston Lab, in conjunction with an international network of collaborators, grapples with questions at the frontiers of behavioral ecology, population ecology and evolutionary biology in the marine environment. To date, our research has focused on two major questions.
First, why some do some individuals forgo their own reproduction and behave cooperatively in animal societies? This question has challenged evolutionary biologists ever since Darwin pointed out the difficulties that these behaviors posed for his theory of natural selection. See the Behavioral Ecology page or our recent article in American Scientist for more information.
Second, what is the probability of larval exchange, or connectivity, between populations in marine metapopulations? This question has been a focus for marine ecologists because the answer holds the key to understanding metapopulation dynamics and designing effective networks of marine reserves. See the Population Ecology page for more information.
Our research combines long-term observations of marked populations in their natural habitat, with experimental manipulations, mathematical modeling and molecular genetics. We use a rigorous, hypothesis driven approach to address fundamental questions at the interface of behavioral ecology, population ecology and evolutionary biology.
We welcome inquiries from students and postdocs interested in joining us to pursue research in the lab. We also welcome inquiries from those interested in collaborating on re-use of our data, which will be archived at the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.
Courses Taught
- BI 260 Marine Biology
- BI 519 Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology
- BI 579 Progress in Ecology, Behavior, Evolution and Marine Biology
- BI 582 Integrative Marine Ecology
- BI 671 Survey of Ecology, Behavior, Evolution and Marine Biology
Selected Publications
- Buston PM, Wong MYL (2014) Why some animals forgo reproduction in complex societies. American Scientist 102: 290-297.
- D'Aloia CC, Bogdanowicz SM, Majoris JE, Harrison RG, Buston PM (2013) Self-recruitment in a Caribbean reef fish: a new method for approximating dispersal kernels. Molecular Ecology 22: 2563-2572.
- Buston PM, Jones GP, Planes S, Thorrold SR (2012) Probability of successful larval dispersal declines fivefold over 1 km in a coral reef fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 279: 1883-1888.
- Buston P, Elith J (2011) Determinants of reproductive success in dominant pairs of clownfish: a boosted regression tree analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology 80: 528-538.
- Buston PM, Fauvelot C, Wong MYL, Planes S (2009) Genetic relatedness in groups of humbug damselfish Dascyllus aruanus: small, similarly-sized individuals may be close kin. Molecular Ecology 18: 4707-4715.
- Buston PM, Zink AG (2009) Reproductive skew and the evolution of conflict resolution: a synthesis of transactional and tug-of-war models. Behavioral Ecology 20: 672-684.
- Wong MYL, Buston PM, Munday PL, Jones GP (2007) The threat of punishment enforces peaceful cooperation and stabilizes queues in a coral reef fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 274: 1093-1099.
- Buston PM (2003) Size and growth modification in clownfish. Nature 424: 145-146.
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Callithrix jacchus-3.2.1 (GCA_000004665.1) is a draft assembly of the common marmoset genome. This assembly is used by UCSC to create their calJac3 database. It was sequenced to 6X coverage using a female marmoset (animal id #186/17066) DNA source kindly provided by Dr. Suzette Tardif, of the Southwestern National Primate Research Center (San Antonio, Texas). The DNA source for the CHORI-259 BAC library was male and the full brother of the female used for whole genome shotgun sequencing (#186/17066). The combined sequence reads were assembled using the PCAP software (Genome Res. 13(9):2164-70 2003) and filtered for all known non-marmoset sequence contaminants.
The new Callithrix jacchus-3.2.1 assembly spans 2.75Gb with 2.62Gb ordered and oriented along 24 chromosomes. Chromosomes were not available in Callithrix jacchus-3.2 (released in Ensembl 56 and Ensembl 57), which was composed of scaffolds and contigs only.
The N50 length is defined as the scaffold (or contig) length N for which 50% of the genome lies in scaffolds (or contigs) of the N50 size or longer. The Callithrix jacchus-3.2.1 assembly is made up of a total of 73,756 scaffolds with an N50 scaffold length of over 6.4Mb. Scaffolds placed on chromosomes have been annotated as described below.
The sequence assembly was provided by The Genome Center, Washington University School of Medicineand the Human Genome Center, Baylor College of Medicine.
The genome assembly represented here corresponds to GenBank Assembly ID GCA_000004665.1
Gene annotation
The gene set for marmoset was built using the Ensembl gene annotation pipeline. Species-specific resources for marmoset are relatively limited and therefore sequences from other primates, especially human, were also used as supporting evidence for coding transcript models. In addition to the coding transcript models, non-coding RNAs and pseudogenes were annotated. Marmoset cDNAs and ESTs and human cDNAs were mapped to the genome using Exonerate.
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The golden path is the length of the reference assembly. It consists of the sum of all top-level sequences in the seq_region table, omitting any redundant regions such as haplotypes and PARs (pseudoautosomal regions).
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Genes and/or transcript that contains an open reading frame (ORF).
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Small non coding genes are usually fewer than 200 bases long. They may be transcribed but are not translated. In Ensembl, genes with the following biotypes are classed as small non coding genes: miRNA, miscRNA, rRNA, scRNA, snlRNA, snoRNA, snRNA, and also the pseudogenic form of these biotypes. The majority of the small non coding genes in Ensembl are annotated automatically by our ncRNA pipeline. Please note that tRNAs are annotated separately using tRNAscan. tRNAs are included as 'simple fetaures', not genes, because they are not annotated using aligned sequence evidence.
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A pseudogene shares an evolutionary history with a functional protein-coding gene but it has been mutated through evolution to contain frameshift and/or stop codon(s) that disrupt the open reading frame.
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Three adventurous children find further intrigue on the tiny Maine island where a talkative three-headed dragon peacefully lives out its days and the power of storytelling reigns supreme.With their parents off to London on a special trip, Hannah, Zachary, and Sarah Emily are thrilled to be going back to Aunt Mehitabel's house on Lonely Island. Though their favorite aunt can't join them, they know their tummies will soon be filled with Mrs. Jone's mouth-watering cookies and their minds full of Fafnyr, the fabulous creature they befriended last summer. A glittering three-headed dragon who loves to tell stories and has a memory spanning 20,000 years, Fafnyr remains safely hidden in a cave high above the ocean, waiting for the children to return.But is Fafnyr's hiding place safe? As the children nervously discover, a white yacht is now anchored off the private island, and a crew led by billionaire J.P. King has been scouring onshore, supposedly watching birds. Could he possibly be searching for a far rarer and more unusual specimen? The children have promised to keep Fafnyr's existense a secret, but it's hard to know if the smooth-talking Mr. King is friend or foe. Only Fafnyr's own stories can lead the Dragon Friends to the heart of the mystery, as they teach the children to think more clearly, to make the right decisions — and to discover what is truly worth fighting for.
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Hotel Ruby
Hotel Ruby
Hotel Guest Rating: 6.8/10
901 West 1st Avenue
Spokane, WA 99201
Welcome to the Hotel Ruby
Free Wi-Fi, a convenient location and a non-smoking environment enhance the stay of Priceline guests at the Hotel Ruby, situated in the heart of Spokane's arts and entertainment area.
Hotel Features
The three-story, trendy boutique hotel has 36 rooms with bright red accents and contemporary artwork. Furnishings include premium bedding with down comforters, desks, flat-panel LCD TVs with premium cable, complimentary Wi-Fi, iPod docking stations, coffeemakers, microwaves and mini-fridges. Hotel amenities include a 24-hour front desk and a guest laundromat.
Hotel Location
Located in downtown Spokane's Davenport Arts District, the Hotel Ruby is across the street from the Davenport Hotel and Knitting Factory Concert House and one block from the Bing Crosby and Fox Theaters. It's a 10-minute walk to Riverfront Park, the Spokane Convention Center and INB Performing Arts Center. The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture and Spokane Arena are only one mile away, and Gonzaga University is within a 10-minute drive. The property is six miles from Spokane International Airport.
Guest Favorites
The Hotel Ruby's contemporary rooms, convenient amenities, friendly atmosphere and great location close to theater, music and downtown parks and shopping appeal to Priceline guests who are looking for something different.
Hotel Ruby Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning individually controlled in room
- Alarm clock
- Bicycle rentals
- Cable television
- Complimentary continental breakfast
- Elevators
- Exterior corridors
- Fax service
- Hairdryer
- Heated guest rooms
- High speed wireless
- Housekeeping - daily
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- Non-smoking rooms (generic)
- Onsite laundry
- Outdoor parking
- Parking
- Pets allowed
- Private bath or shower
- Remote control television
- Telephone
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Hotel Information
Upon check-in photo identification and credit card is required. All special requests are subject to availability upon check-in. Special requests cannot be guaranteed and may incur additional charges. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
Hotel Guest Reviews of the Hotel RubyOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
June 26, 2015
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August 17, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
Good location quiet friendly front deck staff.
August 13, 2014
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August 7, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
Not what we had hoped for
July 8, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
The Ruby2 is an old Howard Johnson motel that has been completely redone in the rooms. The lobby and breakfast room still need renovated. The rooms are beautifully done and the parking is plentiful. It serves as the overflow area for the Ruby. The motel is right next to a train track which could be a problem for some guests. Our three year old thought it was the coolest thing ever to see the train from our room window! ...
June 2, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
Beds very comfortable. Rooms clean and had everything that a larger hotel would have - i.e. fridge microwave. The Bar and breakfast were an unexpected treat!
April 8, 2014
Family Traveling with Young Children
There was ants all over the room even in the bed! It was filled with kids partying and running up and down the walkway drunk knocking on doors. We at best got two hours sleep. The man at the front said he was going to credit my card back. So that was good but it needs to be removed from your hotels you work with. It was disgusting!
November 27, 2013
Family Traveling with Young Children
I would avoid this place unless you are going to be stumpling in from the night scene at 2 am in downtown Spokane.
November 4, 2013
Family Traveling with Young Children
THis hotel is not a family friendly hotel. If you are looking for a hotel that is trying to be boutique and is in the middle of down town and don't have kids, this may be the place for you. However if you have a family and need a good night sleep. DO NOT STAY HERE. Price line upgraded this hotel as a 3 star when it struggles to be a 2 star. This hotel couldn't even give us keys to our room. Every time we needed in our room we had to have the staff from the front desk open our room. There are only 15 spots for parking in a very tiny parking lot. If you not one of the first people there you have to park about a block away in another very shady hotel parking lot. If you have kids and you decide to stay here, I would recommmend that you bring your side arm. I laid awake most nights in fear that my room would be broke into, This was not a good night sleep. This place accepted a bid from price line that I was trying to get a 2 1/2 star rated hotel for, and I can see why. I think its the only way they can get guest. I am very upset with priceline since they wouldn't fix the issue. I don't mind if this hotel was truely a 3 star but this was clearly not. I probably will not use priceline again. I can not overstate this is not a family safe enviroment. ...
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Before the AFC Championship game between the New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens, Colts owner Jim Irsay tweeted that he would give $8,500 to anyone who correctly guessed the score of the game (with a 1 point cushion). Again,$8500 for winner of Pats/Rave,exact score with 1 point cushion for both teams for final score/1 guess only by 630pm EST/Abby's hatpick — Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) January 20, 2013 Well, one fan by the name of Jason predicted a Baltimore victory of 27-13, off by one of the actual 28-13, and Irsay came through. Jason received a DM from Irsay after the game asking for his mailing adress, and Wednesday afternoon the package from FedEx arrived. In the package contained the money and a note from Irsay congratulating Jason on his correct guess. Pretty nice package to recieve. I still don't understand why Irsay would give money to a random fan for guessing the correct score of a game that his team isn't even playing in, but, as Yahoo Sports reports, this isn't the first time Irsay has held such a competition. The cash-heavy Irsay also held contests for the San Francisco-Atlanta game ($2000 to the first to pick the winner, quarterback rating winner, and total score) and a "conservative" AFC championship pick ($500 for the winner straight up). [Deadspin] var conf_57566 = { APIKey: '2_N1YlfjHIEAtyRAK3CAYRE5a1aBuANuMOCLc_7hsOQ13HnwCrW_u-6OuDhjC7vR06 ', lang : 'en', enabledProviders: '' }; var image57566 = {src:'http://cdn.cosbysweaters.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/irsaycash.jpg',href:'http://cosbysweaters.com/2013/01/24/jim-irsay-gave-fan-85000-for-correctly-guessing-the-score-of-the-afc-championship-game-pic/',type:'image'}; var ua_57566 = new gigya.services.socialize.UserAction(); ua_57566.setUserMessage(''); ua_57566.setLinkBack('http://cosbysweaters.com/2013/01/24/jim-irsay-gave-fan-85000-for-correctly-guessing-the-score-of-the-afc-championship-game-pic/'); ua_57566.setTitle('Jim Irsay Gave Fan $8,5000 For Correctly Guessing the Score of the AFC Championship Game [Pic]'); ua_57566.addMediaItem(image57566); var params_57566 ={ userAction:ua_57566, cssPrefix:'#gig-div-buttons-57566-bottom', shareButtons:'facebook-like,google-plusone,share,twitter,email', // list of providers containerID: 'gig-div-buttons-57566-bottom', cid:'' }; gigya.services.socialize.showShareBarUI(conf_57566,params_57566); Article found on: Cosby Sweaters
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|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Cider vinegar/Wine vinegar
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|1 Clove (5 gm), crushed
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Combine first 5 ingredients; mix well.
Place steak in large shallow baking dish or plastic bag.
Cover steak with oil-vinegar mixture.
Cover or close bag tightly.
Refrigerate 12 to 24 hours, turning steak several times.
Drain steak, reserving marinade.
Rub cooking grill with suet or brush with oil.
Sprinkle top and bottom of steak with salt and pepper as desired.
Insert meat thermometer into center of thickest part of steak with point away from bone or fat.
Center steak on cooking grill.
Cover kettle and cook about 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours to 140°F. (rare).
(This steak is for fanciers of rare beef.) To check doneness of steak if meat thermometer is not available, make a small cut to center of steak and check the color.
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there will be no in game server browser, only in battlelog, game starts super quick. Battlelog also has clan support which is cool
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Second, on Motion Sensors. First, you cannot throw them like the motion balls in BC2. You deploy them, they are larger (and easier to see) than BC2, they can be destroyed, they beep when they detect movement. A recon soldier can only have 1 deployed at a time. You can crouch or prone and move past a motion sensor without setting it off. Motion sensors will only show you briefly on the minimap (approximately 0.5sec).
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According to ESPN's Adam Schefter (Insider), Seahawks QB Matt Flynn's market value "isn't as high as many people think." Schefter adds that although many believed that he would be somewhat of a hot commodity on the open market, he found very limited interest and only met with the Dolphins and Seahawks. Flynn, 27, wound up signing a three-year, $19.5 million contract with Seattle. While it seems like a reasonable contract, it's actually very modest for a quarterback who negotiated it as an unrestricted free agent. He's under contract for $5.25 million next season, which is admittedly quite high for a backup quarterback, and Russell Wilson's emergence leaves little chance of him taking over as the team's starter. It makes sense that Seattle would shop him around the league during the offseason, as the upcoming draft offers very little in terms of quarterback potential, or at least that's how it looks right now. Whether or not teams show interest is different story. The post Seahawks QB Matt Flynn's Trade Value May Not Be That High appeared first on NFL Trade Rumors -.
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BEIRUT: The Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, categorically rejected Monday a "code of honor" announced recently by a group of Islamist militias, accusing its comrades of embracing nonreligious values and political objectives.
The code of honor was unveiled by four large Islamist militias and the Islamic Front, itself an alliance of seven large fighting groups, Saturday.
The groups highlighted their commitment to toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad and said they wanted to establish a state based on "freedom, justice and security," one in which all components of Syrian society could play a role.
Observers said that the code of honor's emphasis on Syrian national interests and the rejection of religious extremism appeared to be an attempt to distance the conservative Islamist militias from the Nusra Front.
Many Islamist militias active in Syria are conservative and Salafist and regularly engage in joint military operations with the Nusra Front, but do not share its Al-Qaeda ideology, based on jihad and takfir, or the belief that other Muslims should be fought if they are insufficiently religious.
Since the beginning of the year, Nusra and the signatories, along with other Islamist and even non-Islamist militias, have been waging a fierce campaign against ISIS, the Al-Qaeda splinter group that has been denounced by the movement's central leadership.
In its nine-point response to the code of honor, Nusra said a number of points in the document lacked any religious foundation.
It said it rejected any attempt to "swallow up or hide" the role of non-Syrians who have flocked to Syria to take part in military operations with a number of jihadist groups, among them the Nusra Front.
The document's concept of "jihad," it said, was limited to toppling the regime militarily, while the vow to conduct a "fair trial" for leading figures in Assad's regime was a betrayal of Islamic doctrine with regard to vengeance.
"This is contrary to what Shariah has decided; in Islam, apostates deserve only the sword," Nusra said. "The failure to seek vengeance for the people of [Syria] is nothing other than a disappointment."
Nusra complained that concepts of national affiliation were clearly more important than religious concepts in the code of honor.
"Points three, five, six and eight [in the code of honor] all spread the spirit of civic-mindedness and belonging to land and the nation," it said.
"Everyone should be aware that the Islamic state we desire is one based on religion, belief and Shariah before anything else. ... For us, Muslims cannot be equal to infidels," it added.
Nusra said the code of honor's stated goal of countering the influence of foreign countries on the armed uprising was a deceptive ploy.
"The code says that the Syrian people aim to establish a state of justice, law and freedom, isolated from pressures and diktats, but we believe these pressures and diktats are very obvious in the drafting of this point," Nusra said.
"We would have very much liked to see our brethren, who signed the document, consult with us," the group said.
"Everyone is aware that one of the biggest problems in arenas of jihad, about which religious scholars have warned, is the absence of consultation, and the taking of decisions unilaterally."
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The Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, categorically rejected Monday a "code of honor" announced recently by a group of Islamist militias, accusing its comrades of embracing nonreligious values and political objectives.Observers said that the code of honor's emphasis on Syrian national interests and the rejection of religious extremism appeared to be an attempt to distance the conservative Islamist militias from the Nusra Front.In its nine-point response to the code of honor, Nusra said a number of points in the document lacked any religious foundation.Nusra complained that concepts of national affiliation were clearly more important than religious concepts in the code of honor.
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Abstract: The continuation theory for (-ordered) Morse decompositions and the indices defined on them--the homology index braid and the connection matrices--is established. The equivalence between -ordered Morse decompositions and -consistent attractor filtrations is displayed. The spaces of (-ordered) Morse decompositions for a product parametrization of a local flow are introduced, and the local continuation of (-ordered) Morse decompositions is obtained via the above-described equivalence and the local continuation of attractors. The homology index braid and the connection matrices of an admissible ordering of a Morse decomposition are shown to be invariant on path components of the corresponding space of -ordered Morse decompositions. This invariance is used to prove that the collection of connection matrices of a Morse decomposition is upper semicontinuous over the space of Morse decompositions (and over the parameter space) under local continuation.
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- You've got five hours left before the world explodes. What do you do?
I would try to construct a spacecraft out of a bathtub, a large elastic band, a hydrogen bomb and copious quantities of hope.
- What's your best joke?
I quite like: "What is E.T. short for? Because he's got tiny little legs."
- What's your biggest fear?
That's a forward question and you should be restrained, sectioned and spanked for asking that.
- When did you last cry and why?
In 1997, when I was discussing a wedding. It was spontaneous, but in a happy way.
- Who is your hero?
I don't have any heroes. But if I did, Matt Caughthran, the lead singer from The Bronx, would be up there.
- Name one thing about yourself that few people know.
I once harboured an unquenchable craving to become a dentist.
- What's the worst thing about your job?
The fact that, sometimes in the summer, the commute into King's Cross can be governed by the sanctity of sweat.
- What do you see when you look in the mirror?
Sometimes I see a spider, because I live in an old house, and my children love spiders.
- Which historical figure do you most identify with and why?
Probably Frankie Fontaine, because he too was abducted by beings from another planet.
- If you had a trained monkey, what would you make it do?
I'd teach it to pogo and spit when I play the drums.
- If your office was burning down, what object would you save and why?
I would collect up everyone's lost shoes to return to them, because there are always lost shoes after a frenzied stampede.
- Are you happy?
Yes - and I'm not just saying that because a higher being may be listening in.
- What's your most evocative childhood memory?
When we were three, myself and my friend Paul would wee into a bucket, mix it with soil, and pour it over the ants on a rockery. We used to call it "ant mixture".
- What belief do you hold most strongly?
That my kids mean everything to me.
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Generally, anything from The Bronx's first three albums.
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China agrees to sanction North Korea, but how far will it go?
Though the mood in Beijing toward Pyongyang has gradually worsened since North Korea went ahead with recent missile tests, China is unlikely to come down too hard.
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Increasingly impatient and irritated by North KoreaŌĆÖs defiance of its will, China will vote alongside the United States at the United Nations Thursday to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test last month.
After three weeks of negotiations, China and the US have agreed to broaden and tighten existing financial, economic, and trade sanctions on North Korea in response to its nuclear explosion. Russia also supports the new rules, which the UN Security Council is expected to approve unanimously in a Thursday vote.
But Beijing is showing no sign of readiness for sanctions that might threaten the secretive North Korean regimeŌĆÖs survival.
ŌĆ£Beijing sees North Korea as a problem that must be managed, not as one that must be removed,ŌĆØ says David Kang, an expert on Korea at the University of Southern California.
Previous UN sanctions, imposed in 2006 and 2009, failed to dissuade Kim Jong-il and his son Kim Jong-un, North KoreaŌĆÖs current ruler, from continuing to test nuclear devices and missiles that might carry them as far as the United States.
ŌĆ£There is zero chance that this new resolution will have any effect on North Korean behavior,ŌĆØ predicts Professor Kang. ┬ĀŌĆ£Pressure does not work on North Korea.ŌĆØ
China nonetheless fought hard to tone down US proposals for much tougher punishment, say people close to the negotiations. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Wednesday that Beijing favored a ŌĆ£necessary and proportionate response.ŌĆØ
But the Chinese government has not disguised its anger that Pyongyang launched a missile last December and carried out a nuclear test last month in direct challenges to BeijingŌĆÖs public admonitions to desist.
Since a missile test last April, ŌĆ£the mood in Beijing toward Pyongyang has gradually worsened,ŌĆØ says Cheng Xiaohe, a Korea watcher at Renmin University in Beijing. ŌĆ£The nuclear test pushed that negative mood to a new peak.ŌĆØ
Since coming to power a little over a year ago, Kim Jong-un ŌĆ£has brushed aside Chinese friendship and made China feel extremely uncomfortable,ŌĆØ Professor Cheng explains.
What will sanctions look like?
That has made Beijing ready to do more to express its displeasure. The resolution due to be approved Thursday will make it harder for North Korean diplomats to transport large quantities of cash, which they are forced to do by existing financial sanctions that make banks unwilling to deal with Pyongyang.
The resolution will also step up the inspection of North Korean imports and exports, so as to crack down on PyongyangŌĆÖs purchase of technology that could help its weapons program and on North Korean military sales abroad.
The sanctions will prohibit the sale of luxury items such as yachts and racing cars to North Korea, in a bid to deny the countryŌĆÖs rulers some of their toys.
It remains to be seen how strictly China will impose the new sanctions. A UN panel monitoring compliance with previous sanctions found in a report last year that Pyongyang had channeled illegal exports through the Chinese port of Dalian.
ŌĆ£China has not put in place a system that would give a high degree of confidence that things are being stopped,ŌĆØ worries Scott Snyder, head of the Asia FoundationŌĆÖs Center for US-Korea Policy in Washington.
Nor is Beijing prepared to countenance more openly hostile measures such as the interdiction of suspicious North Korean vessels on the high seas. Beijing has refused to join the US-led ŌĆ£Proliferation Security Initiative,ŌĆØ a 98-nation effort to prevent the spread of nuclear technology by monitoring ships and planes bound to or from North Korea.
ŌĆ£China will continue to maintain at least a working relationship with the DPRK,ŌĆØ says Cheng, using the initials by which people here refer to the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, as the North of the divided peninsula is officially known.
That means Beijing also resisted WashingtonŌĆÖs arguments that China should impose stricter limits on its trade with North Korea, which depends on its giant neighbor for nearly 80 percent of its imports and exports.
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ŌĆ£More economic sanctions would mean China would have to make more sacrifices,ŌĆØ Cheng points out. ŌĆ£Economic interests play a role in holding China back from endorsing much tougher sanctions.ŌĆØ
At the same time, he argues, ŌĆ£China and the DPRK need each other.ŌĆØ While Pyongyang depends on Chinese aid and trade to stay afloat, Beijing is anxious to keep at least one regional nation friendly in the face of WashingtonŌĆÖs ŌĆ£pivotŌĆØ to Asia, which is widely seen here as a bid to contain China.
ŌĆ£Beijing is not an ally of Pyongyang, but at no point should China turn North Korea into its enemy,ŌĆØ argued a recent editorial in the Global Times, a publication of the ruling Communist Party.
ChinaŌĆÖs expected vote for sanctions on Thursday is evidence that Beijing ŌĆ£is ready ŌĆ" to resort to coercive measures,ŌĆØ says Cheng, but the government here is fighting shy of taking measures beyond the UN resolution.
ŌĆ£A number of options are on the table,ŌĆØ Cheng suggests, such as reducing or cutting ChinaŌĆÖs fuel and food aid, and slowing or halting investment and trade projects. ŌĆ£But I donŌĆÖt see China taking unilateral actions in the near future.ŌĆØ
ChinaŌĆÖs new leaders ŌĆō taking the reins at the current meeting of the countryŌĆÖs parliament ŌĆō ŌĆ£may make some tactical adjustmentsŌĆØ to BeijingŌĆÖs approach to its nettlesome neighbor, says Mr. Snyder, of the Asia Foundation. ŌĆ£But I would be surprised if this vote represents a change in the direction of their policy.ŌĆØ┬Ā


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Originally written on Nationals Enquirer | Last updated 12/27/12
And so while you're sitting around waiting for Adam LaRoche to sign that three year deal with the Red Sox, say goodbye to the ugly old Washington Nationals batting practice caps, and say hello to the new ones. Via Paul Lukas of UniWatch/ESPN.com, a sneak peak in the image above of the new red white and blue cap above, right, contrasted with the really ugly old ones. WFY chimed in earlier in the day, and gave both a thumbs down. Ian Desmond seemed OK with 'em in this Tweeter exchange with Bryce Harper Thursday afternoon: Befriend Nats Enquirer on Facebook. Follow on Twitter.
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Continued redistricting litigation could allow Democrats to make a dent in the GOP's near-historic House majority.
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Hector Lombard finally earned his keep in the UFC. The hard-swinging Cuban-Aussie swarmed Rousimar Palhares last night, earning his first UFC victory and the biggest paycheck at the event. Before we go any further, we should note that international events generally don't release fighter pay info, so none of the following salary data for the event is official. However, you can get a fairly accurate picture of a fighter's pay based on official purse info released from past fights. So, based on that info, here is the estimated pay breakdown for the 20 fighters that traded blows at the event (but please remember - this is only an estimate, not official info, especially for any fighters that made their UFC debuts at the event or Rousimar Palhares, who we don't have very recent info for). Read more ...
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