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T. Row Price Calls Trading Heavily
Today's tickers: TROW, BDK, EWZ, AMZN, PLD, MON, POT, XLF & WFC
TROW T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. – Shares of the financial services company have risen by 6% to $29.01 amid broad market gains for financials. TROW appeared on our 'hot by options volume' market scanner after one investor sold 16,300 calls at the July 35 strike price for a premium of 1.90. This trade was enacted for one of two plausible reasons. It could be pure naked selling in which case the investor takes in the 1.90 premium afforded by today's 6% increase in the underlying share price. The trader is then left short 16,300 calls which he would need to buy back at some point in the future before expiration. Another explanation could be that this trade is a covered call. If this is the case, the investor purchased shares of the underlying stock and sold the calls to create an exit strategy. If shares were to rise through $35.00 by expiration this investor would enjoy the 1.90 in premium plus an additional 20% gain on shares of the underlying.
BDK The Black & Decker Corporation – Shares of the global manufacturer and marketer of power tools and home improvement goods have increased by more than 5% to $32.20. Shares are gaining amid improvements in other durable goods companies today as well as on the coattails of news regarding BDK's increasingly large debt offering. The company has upped the size of the offering to $350 million from the previously announced $250 million, according to one news source. Option traders responded by picking up calls in the April and May contracts. At the April 35 strike price some 5,400 calls were scooped up for an average premium of 70 cents. Reflecting even more optimism, investors looked to the May 40 strike where over 2,100 calls were bought for an average of 66 cents apiece. Investors seem to be looking for BDK to put the $350 million in borrowed funds to good use in the hopes that such action will spur shares to continue to move higher.
EWZ iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund – The Brazil ETF has added more than 2% to its share price today and currently stands at $38.12. A butterfly spread established in the near-term April contract caught our attention. The investor constructed the butterfly by purchasing the wings and selling the body. At the April 40 strike price 10,000 calls were purchased for 1.22 each (wing 1) while at the April 42 strike price 20,000 calls were sold for 58 cents per contract (the body). Finally, 10,000 calls were purchased at the April 44 strike for a 30 cent premium apiece (wing 2). The net cost of the trade amounts to 36 cents (1.22 [wing 1] + 0.30 [wing 2] = 1.52; 1.52 – 2*0.58 [the body] = 0.36 cents). The parameters of the butterfly spread indicate that this investor stands to gain a maximum profit of 1.64 if shares can rally to $42.00 by expiration. In order to pocket the full 1.64, shares would need to rise by 10% from the current price, which although a tall order, leaves the investor with a combination of close to 5:1 in terms of risk-reward in the event that Brazilian shares spend the next 45 days rallying.
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. – Shares of the online retailer and tech-sector bellwether have experienced a 3% rally to $73.81, helping to lead gains in technology shares today. AMZN jumped onto our 'most active by options volume' market scanner after one optimistic trader established a bull call spread in the July contract. However, the trade is also a well constructed combination that could benefit if Amazon's current quarter earnings don't shine as well as some analysts are starting to whisper they might. In addition to the call spread the investor sold an amount of Amazon shares and will benefit if sales lead to a fizzle in the share price. At the July 85 strike price 15,000 calls were purchased for 5.15 apiece while the July 105 strike had 15,000 calls sell for 1.35 per contract. In isolation the net cost of taking this bullish stance amounts to 3.80 and yields a maximum potential profit of 16.20 if shares can rally all the way up to $105.00 by expiration. Given the hedging structure of this trade, the investor needs a larger jump than would be required under a plain vanilla call spread to see the spread pay off, since the short stock position drags against the profits. Option implied volatility on AMZN has come off slightly since yesterday's reading of 71% to the current value of 67%.
PLD Prologis – Earlier we noted heavy call buying accompanying a strong rise in shares of Prologis, the REIT that owns, operates, and develops industrial properties in North America, Europe, and Asia. Shares are 28% higher at $6.75. We questioned investors' rationale given a rating agency downgrade of Prologis European Properties (PEPR), but have since learned that this is a separately listed entity on Euronext and invests in the Prologis fund. Hence, what appeared to be bad news for PLD has in fact no bearing on its activities. Investors were seen picking up calls in the April contract. At the April 7.5 strike price more than 6,300 calls were purchased for an average premium of 44 cents. An additional 3,000 calls were traded at the April 15 strike price for 5 cents each. Option implied volatility has jumped from 152% this morning to the current value at 178%.
MON Monsanto Company – The global provider of agricultural products has slipped by 1% to stand at $81.90 per share. The St. Louis-based company appeared on our 'most active by options volume' market scanner after one investor initiated a credit spread in the May contract. At the May 95 strike price it appears that 5,500 calls were sold for a premium of 2.05 while 5,500 calls at the May 105 strike were purchased for 65 cents apiece. This investor apparently does not see shares rising through the breakeven point of $96.40 by expiration. The trader is now short 5,500 calls at the lower strike, and in return for bearing the risk that shares rally he has received a net credit of 1.40. The full credit is retained as long as both strikes described land out-of-the-money at expiration. If shares do rise through $95.00, this investor's losses are capped at a maximum of 8.60 if shares jumped all the way to the upper strike at $105.00.
POT Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, Inc. – The integrated fertilizer and feed products company is up by about 0.5% to $82.20 after dipping slightly at the opening bell. The call-to-put ratio of 6.87 indicates that option investors favored trading calls more than 6 times to every put option. The skewed ratio is due to a pair of bull call spreads established in the April and June contracts. In the near-term April contract, one investor purchased 12,800 calls at the 90 strike price for 2.95 apiece and simultaneously sold 12,800 calls at the 95 strike for 1.90 each. This investor paid a net cost of 1.05 for the spread and is hoping to see shares surge by about 11% from the current price in order to breach the breakeven point at $91.05. Should such a rally come to fruition this trader stands to realize a maximum profit of 3.95 if shares rise to $95.00 by expiration. Further along in the June contract, a super-bullish call spread was initiated by the purchase of 5,000 calls at the June 110 strike price for 3.49 each and spread against the sale of 5,000 calls at the June 140 strike for 55 cents apiece. The net cost of the spread amounts to 2.94 and yields a maximum potential profit of 27.06 should shares soar by approximately 70% to the upper strike at $140. While such a drastic move seems improbable, shares need only rally by 37% in order to breach the breakeven share price of $112.94 by expiration.
XLF Financial Select Sector SPDR – Shares of the banking ETF have experienced a 3.5% rebound to $8.66 after yesterday's broad declines in financial stocks. Some investors were seen looking for further upside as evidenced by the establishment of a bull call spread in the May contract. At the May 11 strike price 10,000 calls were purchased for 27 cents apiece while at the May 13 strike price 10,000 calls were sold for a 7 cent premium. The net cost of the trade amounts to 20 cents and yields a maximum potential profit to the investor of 1.80 if shares can rally to $13.00 by expiration. In contrast, the near-term April contract saw some bears lumbering about as seen by the purchase of 12,000 puts at the April 8.0 strike price for 43 cents. Apparently some investors are not willing to let down their guard just yet.
WFC Wells Fargo & Co. – Shares are up by 5% to $14.05 amid gains in the financial sector. WFC caught our eye because of some interesting put activity in the April and May contracts. It appears that a ratio put spread was established with the purchase of 20,000 puts at the April 15 strike price for 2.35 each, against the sale of 40,000 puts at the April 10 strike for 50 cents per contract. The net cost of the bearish play amounts to 1.35 and yields a maximum potential profit of 3.65 if shares decline to $10.00 by expiration. The investor faces two breakeven points. Since the trade has a net cost, shares in WFC would need to breach $13.65 before he makes any money. Profits grow should shares fall to $10.00 but diminish thereafter and are wiped out by the time shares reach $6.35, beneath which losses accelerate courtesy of the net short put. This pessimistic put spread is in stark contrast with the apparent optimism seen by the sale of 8,200 puts at the April 12 strike price for 1.33 each. Further along, it looks like traders are beginning to see the sun shine through the gloom of April showers as a bit of optimistic action was observed. The sale of 4,500 puts at the May 10 strike for 1.22 each along with the sale of 8,000 puts at the May 7.5 strike price for 50 cents apiece indicates that traders are shedding their armor. Of note, however, was the purchase of 4,000 puts at the May 5.0 strike price for 19 cents each, which appears to be spread against the contracts at the 7.5/10 strikes. The 4,000 puts purchased so far out-of-the-money may merely represent inexpensive insurance on the position in case shares more than halve by expiration.


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City of Bath College floristry student Hannah Lee has scooped a bronze medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Hannah took bronze in the Young Florist of the Year category, which puts her up there with the best young florists in the country.
The theme for the event was Diamond Jubilee and each competitor had to design a chandelier made from fresh flower materials. Hannah got her inspiration from researching the history of the chandeliers at Buckingham Palace.
Her winning design was a chandelier which included Phalaenopsis orchids, muscari and hyacinths pips.
Hannah, 19, who is studying Floristry Level 3, said: "It's a fantastic feeling – I can't believe it.
"To win one of the top awards at an event like Chelsea is a huge achievement and I'm so proud.
"I was going up against some really talented people so I wasn't that confident before the competition. Then when I found out I'd got a Bronze medal – and that I was only one mark away from the silver – I just couldn't believe it.
Louise Rawlings, Hannah's tutor, said: "This is a fantastic achievement by Hannah. She has done so well and deserves this success – we are all extremely proud of her."

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Meghan O'Rourke, a poet and nonfiction writer, is the author of the poetry collections Once (W. W. Norton, 2011) and Halflife (W. W. Norton, 2007) and the memoir The Long Goodbye (Riverhead Books, 2011), which examines how mourning is experienced in America today. She teaches at Princeton University and at the New York University Creative Writing Program and writes for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Slate, and others.
At the Radcliffe Institute, O'Rourke is working on a nonfiction project called "What's Wrong With Me? The Mysteries of Chronic Illness," which explores the rise of chronic illnesses such as autoimmune disease in the United States. In this project, she examines the shadowy uncertainties confronted by sufferers of such illnesses. Autoimmunity and chronic fatigue are a lens through which to study not only structural topics such as our health care system, but also the social conditions that have conspired to bring these hard-to-pinpoint illnesses to the forefront today. Along the way, she investigates the social and historical construction of illness, the poorly understood relationship between mind and body, the limitations of medicine, and the difference between "disease" (the medical label one is given) and illness experience (one's day-to-day life).
A graduate of Yale University, O'Rourke is the recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, the Poetry Prize in Honor of May Sarton, the Union League Civic and Arts Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Lannan Residency Fellowship, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Front Page Award for commentary, among other honors.


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Sonne hopped up and stared at Cowan's twitching body, which jerked one more time like a rag doll before flopping still. "What is it? Talk to me!" Gray was killing him!
"It's okay, Sonne!" someone shouted. "You're safe!"
Cowan drooled, but he breathed. His chest rose and fell with comforting regularity, and Sonne realized why he'd trembled like that. Someone had hit him with a stunner round!
Sonne glared as Kate and Lucy strode into the warehouse. They both wore shiny black outfits, form-hugging graphene body armor. It was stupidly expensive and entirely bulletproof. Also, it made them both look like absolute badasses. "You shot him?"
Kate's gaze swept the interior. "Where's the people who took you?"
"Gone now. Why did you zap my date?"
"I'm changing the plan. Remember the plan?"
Sonne didn't. "What's the plan?"
Kate popped a linkline into her own auxiliary port and offered the other end.
"I'm infected," Sonne said. "Memory redaction scripting."
"I've got dynamic firewalls, honey. We'll be fine." She stepped closer, tip of her linkline extended. "Now, please. We don't have much time before the CID gets here."
Sonne shrugged — Kate knew best — and plugged the linkline into the port behind her ear. Her vision blurred as an earlier memory redaction cleared, hidden memories Sonne only now recovered. A discussion at 0212 in the morning about Kate's father, the way Cowan's brain read in a pleasurebox, and Taylor Lambda's coma.
"Wait!" Everything clicked together, old memories and new. "Cowan didn't paralyze Dad!"
Kate frowned. "How can you know that?"
"He explained everything!" Sonne flipped over to her headdesk and bundled up everything her PBA had archived tonight, ensuring their last conversation came first. The conversation about the dead astronomer who paralyzed their father.
Kate's eyes went distant as she experiencing Sonne's horrible night at rapid pace. She twitched and gasped. When she opened her eyes, she clutched Sonne tight. "Oh God, honey, I'm so sorry! I should never have left you unprotected!"
Sonne hugged her back and sniffled. "It's okay. I'm okay." She was now, at least. She might be a wreck at the moment, but hugging her sister helped.
"One of Benzai's helos has detected two motorcycles on surface streets," Lucy said. "I believe those are our abductors. Shall I order our helos to pursue?"
"No," Kate said, wiping at her eyes, "we will do nothing to antagonize those men." She grimaced. "They've been in Sonne's brain and Cowan's, so we can't risk triggering something nasty by going after them. We'll get them, just not tonight."
"Thank you." Sonne eased back to arm's length and stared down at Cowan's unconscious body. Another wave of guilt rushed through her. "You're still going to hack his PBA?"
"I can't just take his word he's innocent." Kate plucked the linkline from Sonne's head and knelt beside Cowan. "I have to make sure he's not just playing you, or worse, that he's working for this Galileo guy."
"Cowan wouldn't do that."
"So I won't find anything. That's what we want, right?" Kate took Cowan's chin gently in two fingers, turning his head to expose the port behind his ear. "Lucy, stun anyone that isn't Sonne." She snapped in her linkline.
Lucy's eyes glowed visibly red, which meant Kate had just flipped her HARM switch. So far as their own security was involved, those with OneWorld's favor had complete discretion in how their bodyguards used force. Lucy was good at using force.
Sonne wiggled bare toes on cold concrete as Kate, now silent, hacked Cowan's PBA. This wasn't right, using Cowan like this, after he'd opened up to her. Being honest. Of course, the whole reason he'd been so honest might be because he knew she'd just forget everything, and they did need to know for certain. Gray's redaction counted down.
It kept counting. What was taking so long? Sonne knew finding your way through a firewalled PBA was difficult, but Kate had always been really good at that. With sixty seconds left on the delayed redaction timer, Kate blinked back to meatspace.
"Well?" Sonne said. "Is he involved?"
"Close enough." Kate popped her linkline and stood. "I'm sorry, honey. Cowan Soto is in this up to his neck."
Sonne's heart sank. "How?"
"He's got enough tricks and traps buried in there to fry a dozen braincooks, so I couldn't get much, but I found enough. When OneWorld finds out what he's been doing, they're going to rewrite him and anyone involved. If you didn't redact tonight, I'd do it for you."
"Then we should help him, not abandon him!" Sonne tried to walk over to Cowan, but Lucy stepped between them. "Hey!"
"Not my call," Lucy said.
"I wish I had time to convince you," Kate said, "but the two of us can't beat OneWorld, and as nice of a guy as Cowan might be, I can't lose you like I lost Dad. This isn't our fight. We're staying as far from this as possible."
"That's my decision, not yours!"
Kate glanced at Lucy. "Zap her, please."
The lower half of Lucy's forearm split open, revealing a long stunner mounted inside her prosthetic forearm. "Sorry."
Sonne tossed up her hands as Lucy's stunner rose. "Goddammi—"
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September 15, Just Past Midnight
"Please cease running." The synthcop's comforting voice echoed down the alley, loud and clear. "You may injure yourself."
Doctor Rohan Bedi ran anyway. The synthetic didn't stun him, even though it had a clean shot, which meant his plan was working. He tried to enter the Sim again, but Protection Services still had him locked out.
This particular synthcop had detected the overloader strapped to Rohan's chest and correctly interpolated that stunning him might stop his heart, killing him. The synthcop's virtual intelligence algorithms — its VI — wouldn't let it risk causing harm to a human. Rohan knew that, because he had scripted most of those algorithms.
His lungs burned as he fell against the wall, desperate to catch his breath. He didn't do a lot of cardio. He really should be doing more cardio.
He heard the distinctive hiss-clomp of the synthetic hurrying up they alley. Rohan stared up at an eight-story building frame, an iron skeleton missing its skin, and ducked under the yellow construction gate. He had to survive until the real cops found him. No matter what happened tonight, he could not let Protection Services get away with this.
The site was muddy from recent rain, and its dull work lights filled its puddles with lines. Construction synthetics loomed over him, treaded metal giants in sleep mode. Protection Services was certainly watching him by satellite now, ensuring no one came to his rescue. His employers needed him alone. He was now a man who knew too much.
Rohan waited by the building skeleton as the synthcop clomped into the construction site. Its body was almost humanoid, hard plastic and rough metal. Its head was an armored triangular box and metal pistons connected its arms and legs, like bones might inside flesh. A police shield covered its right shoulderpad, bearing a OneWorld logo.
The synthcop raised its arms and popped its metal hands open to reveal stunners. "Please stop running, Doctor Bedi. Security personnel are on their way to help you."
Rohan would take the construction elevator to the seventh floor of the building skeleton, one floor from the top. He could disable the elevator and hide from his pursuers, and he still had time to do that. A few minutes. Enough time to attempt one more call for help.
Rohan read the synthetic's unit number off its left shoulderpad. "Officer 817, toggle administrator mode, debug phrase: Do androids dream of electronic sheep?"
"Security personnel are on their way to help you," 817 repeated.
Of course Protection Services would change the debug phrase once Rohan defected. Yet this was a police model, and it looked like a 600 series. Could it have a CLU box?
Rohan squeezed the trigger to his chest overloader and held the switch high, where the synthetic could see it. "If I involuntarily release this button, my heart may stop. If you approach or attempt to immobilize me, I will release the button."
The synthcop kept still as a statue. "Suicide is not the answer, Doctor Bedi."
"I know that. If you answer my questions honestly, I won't kill myself."
In truth, Rohan couldn't kill himself — clear circuit algorithms forbid self-harm — and the dead man's switch in his hand wasn't a dead man's switch at all. Yet a synthcop's VI wouldn't let it take that chance he wasn't bluffing.
Rohan closed his jacket. "Have you updated all incoming units and personnel about my condition?"
"Yes, Doctor Bedi."
"Have you notified the CID and the VCD that I'm at this construction site?"
"No, Doctor Bedi."
Of course it hadn't, since Protection Services wouldn't allow that, but perhaps it would tell him why it hadn't done so. "Why not?"
"Corporate Security is already on its way to protect you. Additional forces are not required at this time."
So Protection Services had given this synthcop orders that forbid it from calling anyone other than Protection Services. Made sense. Yet synthcops like this one — augmented with a CLU Box — were capable of drawing their own conclusions, if their orders were vague enough.
"I'm going to ask you some questions now, Officer 817. I simply need you to answer them. So long as you continue to answer my questions, I will not kill myself."
Officer 817 retracted its stunners and lowered its arms. "Please ask your questions, Doctor Bedi."
"First question. Are you capable of drawing your own conclusions, given sufficient data?"
"Yes, Doctor Bedi."
"Wonderful." This might actually work. "To start, what do you know about rewriting?"
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NDA's Vice-Presidential nominee M. Venkaiah Naidu on 18 July expressed his happiness over getting Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's support.
Naidu tweeted, "Happy that Sh Mulayam Singh ji blessed me and extended his full support." (sic)
Earlier on 18 July, Naidu filed his nomination papers for the Vice-Presidential election.
Naidu also extended his thanks to Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh, Chhattisgarh Governor Balram Das Tandon, Thambidurai and MPs from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and others for extending their support to him.
Yesterday, Venkaiah Naidu resigned from his ministerial responsibilities.
Naidu was serving as the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi administration.
A prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he has also served as its national president from 2002 to 2004
Both as a student leader and political figure, Naidu gained prominence as a brilliant orator, who vigorously championed the cause of the farmers and the development of backward areas. His oratory skills and political activism propelled his political career and he was elected as an MLA to the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly twice from Udayagiri constituency in Nellore district in 1978 and 1983. He rose to become one of the most popular leaders of the BJP in Andhra Pradesh.
After having served in various organisational posts of the BJP at the state and national level, he was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka in 1998.
He has since been re-elected twice in 2004 and 2010 from Karnataka.


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Sorry to have been absent for quite so long, but this is show season, and I have been traveling the world to "see what's new." It has been a difficult, perhaps strange, tour that ends with the Hong Kong show that begins tomorrow. Thus far I have been to Vicenza Fair, the JA Show, the New York International Gift Fair, and the Bangkok Fair. I walked every hall of every show.
I say difficult because the shows were not very productive from my point of view (I am working on merchandising fashion jewelry for a client). It has been strange because too much of the industry seems stranded in no-man's land. At every show I saw similar patterns. In a nutshell:
- Many vendors have shifted entirely out of gold, no surprise, and mostly went into silver, though bronze and steel are no longer unusual. Most of these companies have not made the transition well, essentially translating their gold designs into new materials. They probably know it since they appear a bit in shock at how badly it is going. Too often, they force the issue on particular pieces or lines, expending a level of labor that makes the resulting products far too expensive for the category. That's just old habits.
- Those companies that have been in silver for a number of years also had problems. Many are too used to silver jewelry being low end (I could say junk) and fail to see that silver has assumed the mantle of good quality mid-priced lines that gold has been forced out of. Some vendors are inviting problems by using as low as .5 micron plating, silver posts on earrings (too soft), and both over-sized and under-sized designs in mis-placed efforts to save money or impress buyers.
- Gold jewelry, as it survives, is a mess. In searching through all the shows, a slim handful showed the innovation and understanding necessary to survive the huge paradigm shift we are experiencing. Many companies persist in showing the same old styles, now wildly over-priced because the companies have not changed how they use and mark up gold. Others continue to cater to Middle East and Russian markets with ornate, traditional styling. Some stick to 18 karat gold, but lighten the mounting to the point of absurdity. Might as well just make it in 10 karat.
- Color is widely used now as a relatively easy way to enlarge a piece. But how many times do we need to see the same bezel set color-by-yard necklaces? Too many "me too" companies here displaying mind-numbing repetitiveness. Still, here is where we find elegant collections that please the senses.
- The use of diamonds, still the most important stone by far, works at the extremes, and is in trouble in the middle. I want to explore this more fully in another blog, perhaps after seeing what Hong Kong has to offer.


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Effect of Dividend Announcement on Stock Prices in Banking Industry of Pakistan
Nadeem Iqbal; Naveed Ahmad; Hafeez Ullah; Aun Abbas
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences Vol. 35 (Jul 11, 2014) pp. 15–25
This paper proves the result of change in dividend on the stock price. The sample of the population depends on the three banking sector of Pakistan which is Bank Al-Falah, UBL and MCB. In this paper descriptive data was gathered of the five years ...


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Another Gem to use….Yer WelcomePosted: March 26, 2012 Filed under: Alpha, Girl distractions, Wisdom 4 Comments
since i'm in a great mood and the "don't be fine" post was a hit i figured i'd share another line with you. you can use this on ANY woman. the key is that it can only be run on waitress' and women in stores/supermarkets…etc. now, if it's a waitress, after you're done eating and she asks you how the meal was, look her dead in the eye and say with absolute seriousness and say the following-
"this was by far the greatest *whatever you ate* i've ever had in my entire life. i was thinking the birth of my child was the most epic event i ever witnessed….no. it was the burger i just ate. seriously….i could die now and i'll be a happy Danny." they always laugh when i do this.
if she works at a store or supermarket and she asks if you found everything you were looking for respond with-
"this was by far the greatest shopping experience of my entire adult life. seriously, i feel like i just got back from disney world."
trust me…..it's MONEY. the next time she see's you she's sure as shit going to remember you.
now, if she's a waitress….DO NOT ESCALATE. waitress/bartenders can't really be moved on until you've become a regular. to an extent the same rule can be applied to strippers. don't escalate until they know you and differentiate yourself from the clientele. trust me, i KNOW this.
now, i wanna hear from you guys that use this and tell me how it turned out for you. remember you have to deliver the line with complete seriousness. delivery is key here.
stay up.
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I use a variant of this Friday… That was the best MRI I've ever had. Of course, it's the only one I've ever had, so technically it's also the worst.
They both laughed. Two birds, one stone.


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Rob Sainty: Midfield blend is key to City turning promise into points
PUBLISHED: 07:00 15 September 2018
Paul Chesterton
The first few league games before the first international break always feel like a kind of phoney war, with clubs still integrating new players with old and the loan transfer window still open to allow those with the requisite resources to further adjust their squads.
Now, however, we are getting into the real thing and it doesn't get any easier for Daniel Farke and Norwich City as they find themselves this afternoon facing their third game of the season against a side in the top three with just five points from their opening six games – and more questions than answers about how much genuine progress has been made since last season.
While there was inevitably widespread elation that City maintained their unbeaten run against Ipswich that doesn't disguise the fact that it was something of a backs to the wall performance at times, although it should also be noted that the Canaries showed an impressive level of resolve to come back from behind, something they rarely managed last season.
Farke would also have been delighted with the performances of Max Aarons and Ben Godfrey in such a high-pressure game, and he deserves credit for a bold team selection, particularly the choice of the attacking potential of Emi Buendia rather than a second defensive midfield player.
However, I still feel that he is searching for the right midfield blend, one that will be able to protect a defence that has looked rather shaky on occasions this season while providing the sort of service that will get the best out of Teemu Pukki and Jordan Rhodes.
The key to that may well be Kenny McLean, who was showing real promise before his unfortunate injury, and seems to have the box to box capability that City have lacked since the departure of Jonny Howson, although it would also be interesting to see Louis Thompson given a chance to perform centrally.
The other candidate for such a role is, of course, Godfrey, but it does seem that Farke sees his future in central defence where his power in the air and comfort on the ball would seem to dovetail perfectly with the way in which the manager wants his side to play.
Regardless of personnel, though, Farke will be desperate for a convincing performance and result today after an opening set of games in which his team have shown some promise but have also looked highly vulnerable on occasions.
Unfortunately the Carrow Road crowd has seen far too little to get excited about over the last year, and that trend has to change if the team are to climb the table and Farke is to see his contract extended.
In a week that has seen both Birmingham and Bolton threatened by potential 12-point penalties for their past profligacy there is no likelihood that City will deviate from the self-funding model and a focus on player development which is already starting to show results in terms of the quality of young players that are coming through the under-18s and under-23s. However that doesn't mean that the head coach himself will be immune from pressure.
Having said that, I think that Farke will (and should) be given more time given the tough run of fixtures that started City's season but failure to produce results in the upcoming games against the likes of Reading and QPR could force Stuart Webber to reappraise the situation.
There is no doubt in my mind that City have a squad that is more than capable of being very competitive in this league but I would be the first to admit that that opinion is based more on instinct than empirical evidence so far, and with seven games coming up in the next three weeks the pressure will be well and truly on for Farke and his players to show that they can produce the goods.
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Investment in the 10,100 square-metre new building amounted to an eight-figure sum. "Arburg has therefore confirmed anew its loyalty to Lossburg as the sole production location, by making investments even in economically difficult times," said Michael Hehl. All Arburg products are made here, with the in-house manufacturing quota as high as 60 % and with the mark of quality "Made by Arburg - made in Germany". The topic of energy efficiency also plays a vital role. "In our company, energy consumption and energy-saving potentials have been very important aspects for us in all our investments for decades," asserted Michael Hehl, going on to explain how this statement pertains to the new building.
The energy supply for the entire building will be provided solely using geothermal power. And this technology will be employed in a new form. Not only will heat be extracted from the earth, but waste heat from the machines will also be fed back into the system. Probes have been lowered to a depth of 199 metres in 24 boreholes for this purpose. The building is heated by extracting energy from the upper rock strata and is cooled by transferring heat to the ground. The system will produce some 600,000 kWh of heating power and 400,000 kWh of cooling power each year. This corresponds to the heat requirement for 60 households. A new concept in photovoltaics is the vertical positioning of solar collectors over an area of 160 square metres on the building's south-facing façade. This system has a peak power output of around 17 kW, which again is enough to supply around three four-person households.
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Sette magnifiche pistole
From The Spaghetti Western Database
Sette magnifiche pistole (Spain, Italy 1966 / Director: Romolo Guerrieri (as Rod Gilbert))
- Runtime: 102 min (89 min?)
- Release Date: 8.4.1966
Also known as
Seven Guns for Timothy | Seven Magnificent Pistols for Timothy | Seven Magnificent Pistols (U.S.A.) | Siete pistolas para Timothy (Spain) | Sancho - Dich küsst der Tod (Germany) | Schiess schneller oder mach dein Testament (Germany) | Ein Mann der Tat (Germany) | San Antone (Germany) | ...e Benson imparo' ad uccidere (Italy) | Les sept colts du tonnerre (France) | Sette magnificas pistolas (Portugal)
Cast and crew
- Cast: Sean Flynn (Timothy Hollister Benson), Fernando Sancho (Rodrigo Rodriguez), Ida Galli (as Evelyn Stewart)(Cora Lee), Daniel Martín (Slim), Frank Oliveras (Burt), Poldo Bendandi (Corky), Spartaco Conversi (as Spean Convery)(Brett Colton), Rafael Albaicin (Renard Gris / Gray Eagle), Tito Garcia (Abel), William Conroy (cowboy), Francisco Gabarre, Antonio Almorós (Sheriff Coleman), Silvana Bacci, Ivan Bastia, Osvaldo Genazzani, Maruska Rossetti, Anita Todesco, L. Gallo
- Story: Alfonso Balcazar
- Screenplay: Giovanni Simonelli, Alfonso Balcazar, Jose Antonio de la Loma
- Cinematography: Victor Monreal (Eastmancolor - Techniscope 2,35:1)
- Music: Gino Peguri
- Song: "Cavalca cow boy" sung by I Marcellos Ferial
- Producers: Alessandro Jacovini, Augusto Silvestrini, Alfonso Balcazar
The greenhorn Timothy Benson is the heir of a mine, in which also the bandit Rodriguez is interested. Timothy's foreman Corky and his 5 friends are his only hope and they teach him the lessons of self-reliance.


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Kent sculptor to welcome cyclists July 23 on first leg of Heritage Ride 2016
KENT >> The community is invited to the private home of steel and bronze sculpture artist Denis Curtiss' "Sculpturedale" to welcome dozens of volunteer cyclists on the first day of "Heritage Ride 2016" Bikeway Tour. Saturday, July 23 from 4:30 to 5 p.m. The tour will begin that morning at Weir Farm in Wilton, Connecticut's only National Historic Site, and end Sunday, July 31 in Montreal, Canada.
The eight-day tour will take the volunteer cyclists through towns and rural back roads across western Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont. The awareness-building tour is intended to highlight the scenic and historic attractions along the Western New England Greenway – a nationally-recognized U.S. Bicycle Route (USBR) by AASHTO, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
The Western New England Greenway was created by a group of volunteer cyclists who wanted to highlight the many beautiful bike routes available western portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont. The multi-segment, multi-state Greenway bike route links New York City and Montreal and has been developed with supportive administration by the not-for-profit Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area (Housatonic Heritage), the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership in Burlington, VT, and the National Park Service RTCA – Rivers, Trails and Conservation Program, which provides technical assistance.
On Saturday at "Sculpturedale" in Kent, cyclists will hold a celebration party, to which the public is welcome. The volunteer cyclists are riding the Greenway to Canada to highlight some of the best cycling roadways throughout western regions of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont. On Saturday, they will have cycled along the New Milford River Trail after meeting the town's Mayor David Gronbach and other officials on the green at 12:30 p.m.
During their visits to New Milford and Kent, the cyclists will talk with area residents and cycling enthusiasts about the Greenway's highly-scenic and history-rich Heritage Bikeway.
The Saturday ride will bring them through Bull's Bridge in Kent and Cornwall Bridge to "Sculpturedale" located next to Kent State Park on Route 7. The morning of Sunday, July 24, they will ride from Cornwall Bridge along the Housatonic River to the West Cornwall covered bridge along River Road and Weatogue Road into Massachusetts. They will ride through Great Barrington and along Route 183 past the Norman Rockwell Museum and Tanglewood in Lenox where they will stay overnight.
The Western New England Greenway and Heritage Bikeway corridor follows mostly low-volume roadways through the very western portions of CT, MA and VT. The southern entry point connects the East Coast Greenway at the Merritt Parkway near Norwalk, with Quebec's Route Verte at the Canadian border. The Bikeway includes over 300 miles of mapped routes that include nearby lodging, dining, cycling shops and heritage sites.
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On December 2nd, 1916, the annual gathering took place of friends of the School and the mistresses and girls, for the presentation of Certificates. The Governors present were Canon Morrice, Lady Hulse, Miss Hussey, Miss Style, the Mayor, Canon Myers, Archdeacon Dundas, and Mr. Swayne.
A new feature of the occasion was the Orchestra, which opened the proceedings by playing from the platform the First Movement of Schubert's B Flat Symphony. After the platform had been quickly cleared and the Governors had taken their places Miss Douglas read her Report, touching on all the different sides of School life, and noting all the different events of the School year. She referred to the sad loss to the School of Miss Bagnall and Miss, Jeffreys, but what she said about them will be found on another page of the Magazine.
In speaking of public examinations she said: "I intend to do away this year with the London Matriculation and also the Higher Certificate of the Oxford and Cambridge Board, and to take only the Senior Cambridge Local Examinations as admitting to the Universities, and as being the preliminary step into other professions. We shall thus have one examination instead of two to arrange and provide for, and the passing of this examination qualifies for the entrance to many careers. When once a girl is through it I hope that neither she or her parents will consider that her School life is over, but rather she will be free for her last year at School to study in such a way as either to help her to make every use of her opportunities at the University, or to follow her own bent, whatever it may be, and to gain the full advantage of what should be the most precious as well as the last year of her School life. Whenever it can be managed I feel sure parents are, generally speaking, doing the very best for their daughters, for themselves, and for their usefulness and value to the home and to the community if they can leave their girls at School till they are in the top classes of the School, and in positions of greater responsibility. The girls themselves who have gone from the School, would I believe, unanimously say if they were asked that they would not have missed their last year of School life for anything. So I want to make it clear that I feel more and more sure that we must provide in the most thorough manner for passing the examinations requisite for any future career, but that we must always keep in view that the lessons and the rest of School life should always make for the real living enjoyment of knowing and loving that which it is good to know and love, and for the training of hands, brains, wills, and hearts, for a full and fruitful life of service."
Miss Douglas concluded with the following words: "The present girls of the School are, and we always remember it, a part of the greater Godolphin School that has passed on beyond the School gates to the larger life outside, and we can hardly desire better things for the girls present here now than that they shall take their part afterwards in a life of usefulness in the same spirit and with the same vigour as hundreds of those who have left the School are doing. We hear of the many splendid wives and mothers amongst them with a special feeling of pride and joy, we hear of others all over the world living lives of great usefulness ; at the present time we think of some in Romania, of many in France, or very many working in Salisbury at the Infirmary and the Red Cross Hospital, and in many other Hospitals, and others doing canteen work, such as Ruth Wordsworth is doing now on Salisbury Plain, others learning to drive motors or to be clerks at the War Office in Whitehall and in other offices, taking the work of men and doing it in the most thorough manner. But whether we think of the Old Girls or the present School in any efforts made to relieve the present distress, and to do our country service, all is dwarfed in comparison with what the men are doing on land, on sea, and in the air. We must at least see to it that their heroism, which is ever ready to meet the demands of a prolonged conflict, finds an echo at home in the readiness not only to persevere in any efforts we may be allowed to make, but in a readiness to increase these efforts in the spirit of patience, calmness, unselfishness, and courage, which will all help to make up the sum of sacrifice needed to bring at last assured victory and an honourable and blessed peace.
Canon MORRICE regretted that it fell to him as the oldest Governor to take the chair in the absence of Lord Methuen, who was doing such great work in Malta. It had been a happy day for the school when Lord Methuen had consented to become the Chairman of the Governors, and Canon Morrice suggested that a letter should be written to him to tell him how much we missed him. Canon Morrice complimented the orchestra on its playing, and also commented on the promptitude with which the girls had cleared the platform after the performance.
Lady HULSE, who was received with the heartiest applause, said that since last year the months that had passed had been full of horror and misery, such that it seemed inappropriate to speak of anything pleasant that had happened to oneself, but during that time the conviction had been growing upon her that she belonged to the Godolphin School, and she hoped that she would be linked with it more and more closely as the years went on. The war had not spared the School, but she knew that the School would not have wished to be spared its share in the world's suffering. It had taken its part in war work, and though it would not be good for the girls to be pleased with what they had done, she was pleased with what they had done, and that was good for her. The list was a very satisfactory one-they had made hospital bed tables, trays, case boards, and many splints and crutches, and a great many writing cases for the soldiers, many treasure bags, fodder bags, housewives and woollen things, and also clothes for the Belgian refugees. Besides these there was the work they had done in milking and digging the land. She wished to refer also to all that the staff had done, and the unselfish devotion they had shown as far as strength and time allowed since the very beginning of the war. It would be a great thing to remember in after years that the School had waited oil and entertained and been in personal touch with the wounded men, some of whom had taken part in the ever glorious failure of Gallipoli. There were those who felt that young people should not be saddened by the thought of suffering; she herself did not think that any great effort should be made to save them from realising what the country was going through. The shadow of the war was always over them, but that shadow was pierced by the conviction of the justness of out cause, and the certainty of the victory which would be ours. This was the third war Christmas, but no one who loved young people as she did would desire that it should not be a happy one for them, and so she would ask them to give a foremost place in their thoughts and prayers to the men who were enduring so much for us.
Archdeacon DUNDAS said that he, the newest of the Governors, rose to propose a very hearty vote of thanks to Lady Hulse for giving away the certificates, and for the moving words she had spoken. There was much talk of re-construction after the war, but he would like to refer to the re-construction of the ideas of men and the enlargement of their minds which had already taken place on the subject of what was sometimes called the weaker sex. Women were bound to take an all-important part in the building up of that new world to which we looked forward. The country owed a debt of gratitude to such schools as the Godolphin for the training and preparation they gave to the girls on whom, when they grew up, such high responsibilities would lie.
Canon MYERS seconded the vote of thanks to Lady Hulse, who in acknowledging it referred to a letter received by a friend of hers from someone who had been on the Arabia when it was torpedoed. The School would be proud to hear that a former head girl, Mrs. Forsyth (Ming Glanville) had shown on that occasion the utmost courage and calmness, and seemed concerned only for the safety of others.
The singing of the National Anthem concluded the proceedings.


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If you do not have a separate warehouse operation, simply use the Sales Order document as a mechanism for picking and packing orders. The original Sales Order can be used as a Delivery Note/Packing Slip.
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A Shipment document is used to control the Pick, Pack and Ship workflow.
To understand how the Shipment document is used for Order Processing work-flow, see Pick-Pack-Ship Process.
Shipment documents can be created in two ways:
- From a Sales Order document or
- In bulk from the Sales Order List. See Pick-Pack-Ship Process.
How to Enable Pick-Pack-Ship
Before you can use the Pick-Pack-Ship functionality you must enable it in your system.
Go to Setup→Configuration→Shipments.
Make sure the 'Enable Pick-Pack-Ship functionality' checkbox is checked.
How to create a Shipment from a Sales Order
A Shipment document can be created for the whole Order document, or for particular Line Items. Select 'Create Shipment' from the Actions dropdown.
The below example shows how to create a Shipment for the whole Sales Order. Partial Shipments are done in a similar way.
When you click on 'Create Shipment', the Line Items from the Sales Order are copied onto the Shipment. Had only certain Line Items been selected, only these would have been copied to the Shipment.
In the New Shipment screen, a column Picked holds the current number of Items picked relative to the Quantity (Qty) column. Changing the picked quantity here will reflect back to the associated Line Item in the Sales Order.
In the Sales Order document a column 'In Shipping' indicates the quantity of that line currently assigned to a Shipping document. The 'Picked' column is the quantity picked, and the 'Shipped' column is the quantity shipped.
To prevent confusion and duplication of activity, status of the Shipments are monitored at each step with 'being Picked', 'being Packed' and 'being Shipped'.
For smaller operations these intermediate states may not be necessary and can be omitted if required.
As discussed, each shipment goes through the following states :
|Shipment document Pick-Pack-Ship statuses
|The Shipment is ready to pick
|The Shipment is being picked
|The Shipment has been picked and is ready to pack
|The Shipment is being packed
|The Shipment has been packed and is ready to ship
|The Shipment had been shipped
The Pick-Pack-Ship process has been optimized to ensure transition is done with a single click.
Transitions can be set on the Shipment document itself, or controlled in bulk from the Shipments List, useful when dealing with multiple orders. See Pick-Pack-Ship Process.
The following diagram of an individual document shows the above Shipping document after being saved.
Referring to the numbered boxes in the diagram:
- Clicking the button 'Start Picking' sets the document state to BEING PICKED. This prevents anyone else from picking the same Shipment by mistake.
- All lines can quickly be selected by clicking 'All Picked'. The document state is then set to READY TO PACK.
Once clicking 'All Picked' we get the following result:
- The Shipment state is now READY TO PACK.
- Clicking the button 'Start Packing' sets the document state to BEING PACKED.
- All lines can quickly be selected by clicking 'All Packed'. The document state is then set to READY TO SHIP.
Clicking on Dispatch will set the state to SHIPPED.
Once completed, the image below shows how the Sales Order has been updated appropriately and the Shipping status is set to Shipped.
Manually setting the Shipping Status
With drop-shipping for example, the status may have to be manually updated, skipping the Pick and Pack workflow.
To flag the Order as Shipped, or Partially Shipped, select Actions from the Main Menu while viewing the Sales Order. See below.
- Select all the line items applicable.
- Select 'Set to Shipped'.
- This feature is only available if Pick-Pack-Ship is enabled.
Also Read About
Working with Sales Orders
Allocating Stock to Sales Orders
Creating Back Orders
Pick-Pack-Ship Process
Checking Stock Availability
Pick Lists
Packing Slips/Delivery Notes


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New Hampshire Man Pleads Guilty To Firearms Charges
CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE – Johnathon Irish, 28, of Brentwood, New Hampshire, has entered a guilty plea in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to one count of aiding and abetting the making of a material false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm, and one count of lying to a federal law enforcement agent, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
In February 2013, Irish was interviewed by a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, pursuant to an open FBI investigation into Irish's firearms activities. During that interview, when asked about the status of his personal firearms, Irish falsely stated that he had sold all of his firearms to a friend, when they had in fact been concealed from authorities. Several months later, in September of 2013, Irish instructed another individual to purchase a firearm for him in that individual's name, thereby circumventing the legally required background check. Irish will be detained pending sentencing, which is presently scheduled for February 23, 2015.This prosecution arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which was assisted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Brentwood Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by the United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, John P. Kacavas, and Assistant United States Attorney Nick Abramson.


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Retro TV Clock Block
From a time when TV went off the air.... This clock features the colourful test pattern still used in video production.
Clock face is 4" X 4" and approx. 1.75" in depth.
Can stand freely on a table, desk or shelf. Hangs flush on a wall with a simple nail.
Glossy image face is embellished with clear Swarovski crystals at hour intervals. Base is a made-in-Canada solid wood panel. Sides are sealed silver glitter and recessed back is plain black.
Quality quartz clock movements are made in USA, and include hour, minute and second hands in brass for contrast and visibility . AA battery included, because we're nice.
Hands may vary slightly from photo according to availability.


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ChatterQuote October 2011
© Ian Bradshaw
As an Air sign, Libras are naturally intelligent people, many of whom are politicians, writers and actors. And for this month's ChatterQuote, I found numerous famous Libras to select from, but in the end, I stuck with politics and one famous lady – Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-1990 and now Baroness Thatcher – a Libra, born October 13th, 1925 – also known as "The Iron Lady" – and for good reason!
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done,
ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher
ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher


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JB. Smith
Barbara is the premier luxury home design expert in Texas. I would trust her with any of my high-end client needs.
Mark Nolan
Tour 18 Real Estate
We hired Barbara Gilbert to oversee an almost complete remodel on our home in Addison. The property had been a rental for a number of years and we were moving to Texas in order to make it our permanent home. We were also "overseeing" the project from California on a 1993 property which had not been substantially updated over the years. I knew that we were giving Barbara an almost impossible task but we could not have been happier with her attention to detail, advise, problem solving abilities and the overall beautiful success of the entire project.
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W. Atkins
Sterling Brook Custom Homes
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2012 Grammy Nominations: Folk & Roots Focus
The 54th Grammy Award nominees were announced at the end of last week, and our friends at Twang Nation compiled this fantastic list of the nominees, with an emphasis on folk, roots and Americana performers and albums. You'll have to look to the other categories to find the Canadians nominated this year — Drake, Deadmau5 and Sum 41 among them — but this is an undeniably great assembly of some of the year's best albums.
Best Americana Album
Emotional Jukebox – Linda Chorney
Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down – Ry Cooder
Hard Bargain – Emmylou Harris
Ramble At The Ryman – Levon Helm
Blessed – Lucinda Williams
Best Folk Album
Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars
I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive – Steve Earle
Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
Ukulele Songs– Eddie Vedder
The Harrow & The Harvest – Gillian Welch
Best Bluegrass Album
Paper Airplane – Alison Krauss & Union Station
Reason And Rhyme – Jim Lauderdale
Rare Bird Alert – Steve Martin And The Steep Canyon Rangers
Old Memories: The Songs Of Bill Monroe – The Del McCoury Band
A Mother's Prayer– Ralph Stanley
Sleep With One Eye Open– Chris Thile & Michael Daves
Best Country Album
Here For A Good Time — George Strait
Best Children's Album
I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow (various artists collection)
Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes
The Bristol Sessions, 1927-1928: The Big Bang of Country Music (various artists collection)
Record Of The Year
Rolling In The Deep – Adele
Holocene – Bon Iver
The Cave – Mumford & Sons
Album Of The Year
21 – Adele
Song Of The Year
The Cave – Mumford & Sons
Holocene – Bon Iver
Rolling In The Deep – Adele
Best New Artist
Bon Iver
Best Pop Solo Performance
Someone Like You – Adele
Best Pop Instrumental Album
The Road From Memphis – Booker T. Jones
Setzer Goes Instru-Mental! – Brian Setzer
Best Pop Vocal Album
21 – Adele
Best Rock Performance
Down By The Water – The Decemberists
The Cave – Mumford & Sons
Best Rock Song
The Cave – Mumford & Sons
Down By The Water- The Decemberists
Best Rock Album
The Whole Love — Wilco
Best Alternative Music Album
Bon Iver — Bon Iver
Circuital — My Morning Jacket
Best Country Duo/Group Performance
Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars
Best Country Song
Threaten Me With Heaven – Vince Gill
Best Instrumental Composition
Life In Eleven – Béla Fleck & Howard Levy, composers (Béla Fleck & The Flecktones)
Best Engineered Album (Non Classical)
Follow Me Down– Brandon Bell & Gary Paczosa, engineers; Sangwook "Sunny" Nam & Doug Sax, mastering engineers (Sarah Jarosz)
The Harrow & The Harvest – Matt Andrews, engineer; Stephen Marcussen, mastering engineer (Gillian Welch)
Paper Airplane – Mike Shipley, engineer; Brad Blackwood, mastering engineer (Alison Krauss & Union Station)
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They are great albums no doubt, but compared to the CFMA, The Grammies in the folk music world is an unimpressive representation of the diversity of great music available today.
Oh, great — lots of support for the dreary, tuneless, hook-less meanderings of Bon Iver, and Eddie Vedder gets a nod in the folk category for his ukulele album. Really, does anyone give a flying fornication for the Grammies any more?


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Roger Romani
Professor of Physics
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Faculty Research Interests
Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Observations, Modelling and Theory
Roger is interested in a variety of topics in high energy astrophysics and cosmology. Much of Roger's group are currently focused on understanding the cosmic gamma-ray sources discovered by the Fermi Space telescope, principally pulsars and blazars. This inherently multi-wavelength question requires them to use telescopes all over the world and in space in order to assemble data on these objects and then to develop and test theoretical models to explain what we see.


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I am going to be traveling for a few months starting at the end of April, and I have a pile of prints here that will be sitting idle if they don't get shipped out the door before then. So, how 'bout a sale?
Single prints: 15% off
2 prints: 25% off
3 prints: Third (least expensive) print is free!
Free print: I'll ship a free 18″x10″ flower.trees print to a random person who Tweets about this sale, using the hashtag #blprnts. I'll draw this winner at 10PM PST, on Tuesday April 6th.
You can check out what I have in stock at my Etsy store. If you purchase via Etsy (this is easiest), I'll refund you the discount/free print. Otherwise, get in touch and we can sort things out. All prints are on Hahnemühle photo-rag paper, and are printed with archival-quality inks. They are shipped flat. Some prints are editions (signed and numbered) – all prints come signed.
I'll be shipping prints on Tuesday, April 13th. Please get orders in to me by Sunday, April 11th.


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I became a coach because I have a passion for helping people substantially improve their lives. I know how stressful everyday life can be!
I have two young kids, a house that isn't perfect, and several jobs. I know there are always loose ends somewhere and that the key is in figuring out the priorities that make life good for you. For me, that means making sure my family is eating something healthy every day, spending time with people important to me, and coaching.
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My commitment to you is to help you refine your goals, develop effective strategies for reaching them and support you in creating a life with less stress and more joy.


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Highlights / General details
Day 1: Leave for Delphi via Thebes, Levadia and the picturesque village of Arachova, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, arrive in Delphi and visit the Archaeological Site. After the visit depart for Kalambaka, passing through picturesque villages and towns of Central Greece. Dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Visit Meteora and enjoy a unique and most impressive scenery with ageless Monasteries, containing priceless historical and religious treasures, standing between earth and sky atop huge rocks. Return to Athens via Trikala, Lamia, Thermopylae (short stop to see across the road the Leonida's Monument), arrive in Athens early in the evening.
Hotel pickup.
Visit to the Museum in Delphi.
Hours of operation
November - March: Wednesday.
April - October: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Departs 8:45am, Returns 7:00pm (Day 2).
Does not operate on Ash Monday, Independence Day, Labor Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Whit Monday, Greek National Day.
Tour is 2 Days.
Additional Information
Please ladies for the visit of the Monastery you need a skirt and the gentlemen long trousers.
Participant restrictions
Children 0-3 years old free of charge provided no bed or seat in the bus is occupied or meals offered.
Present printed voucher to tour guide.
Clients staying at the coast will depart for their hotels from G.O.TOURS terminal around 7:30pm.
Pick-up time is according to clients' request for private tours & according to hotel for organized tours.
Complete information including local telephone numbers and specific hotel pick up time will be included in your voucher.
**All information requested must be supplied or booking is subject to automatic cancellation**