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The world's most popular cryptocurrency futures rose 26 per cent on the opening of the Cboe global markets exchange, triggering two temporary trading halts aimed at calming markets. The initial amount exceeded the dealer's expectations, and the traffic on the Cboe website was too high, causing delays and temporary outages. The website's problems have no impact on the trading system, Cboe said.
Zennon Kapron, managing director of Kapronasia, a shanghai-based consultancy, says: "there are few things that are more volatile than bitcoin, but we find bitcoin futures.
Starting futures on regulated exchanges is a watershed in bitcoin. This year, the surge in bitcoin has attracted the interest of all investors from speculators to Wall Street firms. The Cboe contract, a similar product of the Chicago mercantile exchange and Nasdaq Inc., will make it easier for mainstream investors to bet on the rise or fall of cryptocurrencies.
So far, the currency bets mostly confined to the place with little or no supervision, to prevent the institutional money managers, and make some users face the risk of hackers and market collapse.
Bitcoin futures rose to 17,540 at 11:29 a.m. London time from the opening price on January 15, closing at 2,798. The spot price climbed 6.4 percent to $16,647 from 5 p.m. on Friday afternoon, according to bloomberg.
Strategists say the roughly $900 difference reflects not only the novelty of assets but also the difficulty of clearing futures in cash.
Christian blaabjerg A/S Denmark Hellerup Ole Hansen, director of commodity strategies for the company by E-mail said: "in A normal, well-functioning markets, an ancient arbitrage can solve this problem. "If they are deliverables, you can keep it alive."
Supporters of the regulated bitcoin derivatives say the contracts will increase market transparency and improve liquidity, but skeptics abound. JPMorgan Chase&Co. 's chief executive, Jamie Dimon, called bitcoin "fraudulent," and the Chinese government has cracked down on encrypted currency exchanges this year. The futures industry association – some of the biggest Banks, brokers and traders – said this month that U.S. contracts were being pushed up without adequately considering risk.
So far, the deal has started, with no big hiccups.
Dealers said the volume of new contracts was high, although volume was small relative to more mature futures. To suspend trading is as Cboe described in the rules. After a 10% jump in the opening price and a 20% jump, the deal stopped for five minutes. In a notice on its website, the Cboe said that a five-minute pause would take effect if the increase reached 30 percent.
"It's pretty easy," Joe Van Hecke, a managing partner at Grace Hall Trading LLC in Chicago, said in a phone interview from charlotte, north Carolina. "I think you'll see a strong market over time." Cboe futures now account for a small portion of the world's bitcoin related bets. The nominal value of the contract in eight hours is about 40 million yuan. According to the Cryptocompare.com, there are about 1.1 billion bitcoin exchanges around the world.
Garrett See, chief executive of DV Chain, says some people who want to trade futures have trouble getting into the market because not all brokers are initially supporting it. The participation may also be limited due to higher capital requirements and stricter risk limits, see the report.
"We're at an early stage here," said Stephen Innes, head of Asia Pacific trading at Oanda Corp., "and there's not enough professional liquidity to come from large market-makers that offer depth and dynamics." Become a learning curve.
It is painful for investors to be trapped on the sidelines. Bitcoin has risen more than 17 times this year alone. The surge is mainly driven by individual demand, with technical barriers blocking large fund managers such as most big fund companies.
The new derivative contracts should push bitcoin more directly into the sectors of regulators, Banks and institutional investors. On December 1, the Cboe and CME approved a self-certification process that was licensed under the U.S. commodity futures trading commission (CFTC), which promised that products would not violate the law.
Not everyone is happy with the acceleration. The futures association said this month that exchanges had failed to get enough feedback from market participants such as margin requirements, trading restrictions, stress tests and clearing. In November, ib securities Group (Interactive Brokers Group Inc.), the billionaire chairman of Thomas Peter fee (Thomas Peterffy) to the CFTC chairman j. Christopher Giancarlo (Christopher Giancarlo) to write an open letter claimed that the currency volatility means that its futures contracts should not be allowed in the removal of other derivatives platforms.
Still, ib is offering customers more restrictions on entering the futures market. The company's customers will not be able to short, and the interactive margin requirement, or how many investors will have to be mortgaged, will be at least 50 percent. That's tougher than Cboe and CME.
The start of the futures trading is COINS from financial edge to the mainstream of an important milestone, but if encryption currency has been a key part of the portfolio investors, may also need a period of time.
"You'll never say never," David Riley, director of credit strategy at BlueBay Asset Management LLP in London, told bloomberg television. "But I do think we still have a bit of a distance in terms of cryptocurrency, even a fraction of the funds that we currently manage."


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- Karen said...
I was thinking one of those Sprinter vans, but this one looks pretty good.
I know you don't want the high one, but would you be able to stand up in that one? There's something to be said for standing upright:)
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Standing upright is good, but I need to use this as a work vehicle, too. Beats crawling into the back of my truck to sleep.
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Anthropologists consider magical thinking a precursor to scientific thinking. It is indicative of a concern with control over nature through understanding cause and effect. Nevertheless, the methods of magic, however empirical, are not scientific. Such thinking may seem charming when done by our ancestors living thousands of years ago, but today such thinking may indicate a profound ignorance or indifference towards science and a testable understanding of the world. Most of us, from time to time, undoubtedly slip into this primitive mode of thinking, but a bit of reflection should wake us up to the fact that oysters are not an aphrodisiac, having a bit of good luck is not likely to influence our chances of winning the lottery that day, and stabbing a photo of an enemy is not going to hurt her. It may be true that rubbing an amulet given you by your true love makes you feel her presence, but the feeling you have, however magical it may seem, has more to do with biology and psychology than with metaphysics.


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This month we welcomed Hayley as a regular observer, although it was not her first sitting with the group. The room has been modified and with the changes, we were unsure if it would be detrimental to the phenomena and recordings. Thankfully we had no reason to worry.
The quality and quantity of EVP voices was phenomenal, along with significant visible phenomena, this had to be one of the most remarkable sittings since moving to the new location. The room was lit with a red bulb rather than an LED red light used in previous sittings, we have no idea if this had a bearing on results but will ask at our next session. There were so many excellent recordings this month it was difficult to chose which to feature here.
Both Hayley and Rachel reported lights during the sitting, also reported was a red mist seen around Rachel, which was commented upon in an EVP. There were three short periods of transfiguration; two focused on facial features, a final brief episode was of the neck and shoulder area, this has never been seen before. Many taps were heard along with a noise that resembled a door handle being turned.
EVP 1: This is a fascinating clip for many reasons; Leningrad was renamed St. Petersburg in 1924, is the first voice a psychical researcher from another era and who is he remembering? The second voice is female and has a foreign accent but we cannot declare it definitively as Russian. The voices were captured during a period of partial transfiguration when only a cheek was formed. Whilst warnings are appreciated, is it us who should be careful or those who are attempting to be visible or communicating and what are we at risk of?
EVP 2: Hayley is describing the mist she saw around Rachel when two male voices break into the coversation. Their regional accents would place them as being from the South East of England, possibly London. Whilst we cannot be certain, they sound similar to two males that threatened the group some years ago through EVP. Again, whilst we note threats, we will not stop working unless there is clear and present danger. We have no evidence that these voices are anything but pranksters and as such, they are not considered worthy of concern.
EVP 3: As Hayley describes the formation of a young male face in transfiguration, a gentleman confirms that it is not the same person that she had previously seen.
EVP 4: A remarkable clip featuring two voices, the first is of an older gentleman the second indicates for him to be silent. It is not uncommon for us to capture voices passing comment that is not intended to be heard. Hayley is a gifted artist and in time will hopefully be able to provide graphic representations of those she sees in sittings. Sadly we are not able to identify either of the speakers or who Diana may be.
EVP 5: Hayley is describing the face of a gentleman in transfiguration who has communicated many times with us; a male voice chips in that does not belong to the known communicator. Rachel had mentioned the name Richard shortly before this capture, unfortunately we have no comment by Richard to confirm his presence.
There are few places in England as evocative as Hampton Court Palace and even fewer that you can feel history seeping from every brick as you pass. You may not see the ghosts of residents past on your visit but you should prepare to experience the eerie feeling that you are never alone. Recordings at the palace are rarely uneventful, most have multiple clear voices that join us in conversation. The clips chosen highlight how actively engaged the communicators are at the palace. That's not to say we are always made welcome.Read More
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I've just signed up for IBM Watson for its speech-to-text technology. I uploaded a spoken-word mp3 to https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net/. I found that IBM Watson is more accurate than other webservices I found.
I'd like IBM Watson to transcribe our audio files.We have about 250 audio files, some as short as one minute, others as long as two hours.
I've read:
What I'm looking for is something like https://speech-to-text-demo.mybluemix.net/. Using this demo page, I have to be online for the uploaded WAV file to be completely transcribed. But, as it pertains to our situation, this demo page has some weaknesses:
We don't want to be required to be online as the audio is being turned to text. We would be happy for the transcription to happen and then us checking back later, when the text is complete.
That demo page limits transcription to one audio file at a time. If possible, we'd like it if we could upload more than one audio file at a time and then checking back later when they are all transcribed. (We don't care if Watson works on the audio files one at a time, just as long as we can get all the texts when all audio is transcribed).
It transcribes at 1.0 playback speed. Just to be clear, we're not in a rush for Watson to "listen". I even welcome Watson to listen at 0.5X (slow) speed, if it helps with accuracy. My point is that, because the demo page requires us to be online, time becomes a factor. Time is not a factor/concern if we don't have to be online as the transcription is happening.
It's probably obvious I'm not a techie. Any guidance is appreciated.
Answer by @chughts (12939) | Mar 11, 2017 at 02:08 AM
You will need to create an application that takes in a batch of audio files, say from a zip or a database and processes them one by one, or a limited number in parallel, and then stores away the resultant transcriptions for you.
If you are not a techie, it is not too difficult to write this up in Node-RED. Use this course to get yourself started - https://developer.ibm.com/courses/all-courses/node-red-basics-bots/ Once you have been through this course you will understand about community created nodes, and this package has an unzip node - node-red-contrib-media-utils.
@chughts Thank you very much for your reply!
If you are a techie
What if not? :)
Is that NodeRedBasicsBot course the simplest way to get our goal accomplished? It says it's a four-hour course? After that course, can one start accomplishing the goal set out in the OP? Or are more courses required?
Just to be clear, we don't care about pretty, as we are just doing this as an internal job (not public-facing).
UPDATE 1: Watched the 5-minute intro video. Not sure if it helps. But I did go ahead and sign up for the free 4-hour course.
UPDATE 2: Just watched the 43-second https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvuocuqj6SE. Feeling relieved that the voice and slide said programming skills is not a prerequisite.
UPDATE 3: Going through "lab" tutorial (https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/Courses/Watson_NodeRed/labs/dvwknw_lab1.pdf).
Typo error - I meant to say "if you are not a techie"
The course will give you all the founding you need to be able to start developing your own applications using Node-RED.
@chughts. Thank you. Going through the course at the moment. :)
Now at "restaging". It's been restaging for 2 minutes now. Wonder if it somehow crashed.
UPDATE: I copied and pasted the URL into a new tab and it says "Status: Running". Must be an issue with my browser, Firefox.
Answer by ManojKSudhakara (3) | Aug 08, 2017 at 06:51 PM
How to use this service, I created node.js app and I pushed the app after that I binded watson speech to text service. Do I need to change any code to use the speech to text service. I am struck after done with binding and pushed app. Can you please give me detailed explanation to use this service in node js app.
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MESA, Ariz. -- Somewhere amid the celebrations and parades and sheer joy of helping the Chicago Cubs win a World Series for the first time in 108 years, Benjamin Zobrist was struck by something that may stay with him forever."You realize it's not really about us," the World Series Most
MESA, Ariz. -- Somewhere amid the celebrations and parades and sheer joy of helping the Chicago Cubs win a World Series for the first time in 108 years,
"You realize it's not really about us," the World Series Most Valuable Player Award winner said Sunday morning.
Isn't that the bottom line in all of this? Isn't that a huge part of why we love baseball as deeply as we do? We remember the players and the games, but we also remember the people with whom we experienced them.
That's true in spades for a team like the Cubs, where the love of the team has been passed from generation to generation for more than a century. In this way, Zobrist realized how much bigger winning the World Series was for so many people.
"I think the biggest thing that stuck out to me was how that championship really connected families and family members," Zobrist said. "For so many people, it was almost like a reunion of sorts.
"Even loved ones that had gone before, a remembrance of times they'd hoped the Cubs would win. It's about families experiencing life together and enjoying the entertainment of watching Cubs baseball together. For them, it's family time."
As the Cubs began a quest to win again, they hope to push the 2016 season into another part of their hearts and minds and to make this season a separate challenge.
"I know what happened last year is pretty unforgettable," Zobrist said. "At the same time, we've got to turn the page and try to do something even more special. To do something like repeating a championship in Chicago would be even greater than what we were able to do last year."
Now, about those spoils that come with winning a World Series.
"Yeah, sure, I got one sitting out in the parking lot," Zobrist said.
That would be the 50th Anniversary Chevy Camaro that Zobrist received for being the World Series MVP. There was meeting President Obama at the White House and then President Trump and Vice President Pence at the National Prayer Breakfast.
There was an appearance on "The Tonight Show," parades in Zobrist's hometown of Eureka, Ill., and another in Franklin, Tenn., where he lives during the offseason.
Have we forgotten anything?
"Three days worth of Disney World in about six hours," Zobrist said. "Just by zooming around and going in back doors and such. In December, [I went to] a Bulls game and the crowd erupting when they put the camera on me. That was such a special moment."
After helping the Royals win the World Series in 2015, Zobrist didn't fully soak in the accomplishment. Instead, he was focused on his free agency and figuring out the next chapter of his career.
This time, though, Zobrist did a nice World Series victory lap, which is pretty much what he'd hoped for when he signed with the Cubs a year ago and decided to make his home near Wrigley Field.
"I do love the old-school nature of being that close to the ballpark, being able to ride my bike to the field at times," Zobrist said. "Just feeling like you're part of the neighborhood. That is a special thing about playing for the Cubs that you really can't get other places."
Zobrist's 12th season in the Majors will begin like a lot of the others. At 35, he's penciled in to be the starting left fielder, but he probably will end up playing all over the field as Cubs manager Joe Maddon divides up the playing time.
That super-utility role is the one that got Zobrist to the big leagues in 2006 with the Rays. Maddon was his manager then as well. Zobrist had played shortstop in the Minor Leagues, but 11 seasons later, he has 664 starts at second, 378 in the outfield, 196 at shortstop and 39 at first, third and designated hitter.
"For me, it was kind of an evolution of my career that I didn't expect or have planned out," Zobrist said. "It's worked out better than I could have expected it to. For other guys to say they want to be that kind of player that I was or am, that to me is a really huge compliment. You do it out of necessity, and then you realize after the fact how valuable it makes you as an individual."
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. You can follow him on Twitter @richardjustice.


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Salinger is built like an homage, speaking of the man with a spiritual reverence, maintaining an air of enigmatic romance with "never before seen" imagery and footage. The author's elusiveness is the throughline, and Salinger wants desperately to play a part in the creation of his mythology, assembling old friends and contemporaries to talk about his work and character with great solemnity. It works, not because the film is effectively made, but because the story of Jerry "J.D." Salinger is so salient. For those who have read Salinger, and felt a kinship with the man through that writing, Salinger is the rare film that unlocks its subject while somehow telling you what you already knew: He was a true artist, and true artists don't owe us anything.
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Her (2013)
Superficially, Her is striking because it's entirely plausible. From the Apple-tinted future tech to the subtle revisions to fashion to the utter solitude found in a crowd, the film has a great deal to say about the near future, and the world we're in the process of creating. And yet, Her isn't about the science fiction. It's not about predicting the future or scaring us straight. It is, simply, a love story in a different time than ours, with a different set of rules and the same expectations. Had he wanted to, Writer/Director Spike Jonze could have explored the futurist angle — there's ample evidence that he designed his world far past what was necessary for the story he's telling — but that's not where his interests as a storyteller lie. They lie with people, and the connections between people, and the unexplored places to which these connections can take us.
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Only God Forgives (2013)
There are a lot of compelling ideas in Only God Forgives — not enough to make it a good film, but certainly enough to make it interesting. When you put it next to Drive, Only God Forgives becomes an opiated chapter in Director Nicolas Winding Refn's Machismo Fables, with Ryan Gosling's maddeningly stoic anti-hero (known here as Julian; in Drive as simply Driver) at the center. As with his other films, Refn considers the power of violence, and like Drive he explores the lengths to which a man will go for a woman — even a hellish virago of a mother, played by Kristin Scott Thomas. In general, these subtexts seem relevant more for their cultural antiquity than their place in modern culture, and I suppose there's something to be said for the tenacity of Refn's thematic exploration, but the utter torpor found in so much of Only God Forgives makes its 89 minutes feel interminable. There's a viciously sharp performance by Vithaya Pansringarm as the film's chilling Chang, and certainly Refn's films always deliver stylistically — this is the most beautifully shot film I've watched in months — but his lack of balance is quickly relegating him to a style-over-substance storyteller.
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Gravity (2013)
If you were to name the five chief motivations for making a film, it seems inevitable that "showing people the formerly unseen" would be in the mix. And with the profusion of new technology in film, this desire to create from imagination tends to result in pure fantasy; characters and places that are, for all intents and purposes, impossible. Not that I'm complaining. This trend has led to a golden era of fantasy film, and a collection of worlds most of us would give a kidney to visit. What have been neglected are the films intent on revealing not just the astonishing, but the astonishingly real. Gravity is one. It endeavors to show us a world that exists a hundred miles straight up, where you and I will never go. A world where our textbook understanding means little, and death and beauty are braided together, indistinguishably linked.
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The woylie is a small macropod, being only some 30 to 35 cm in body length, with a tail around 37 cm long, and weighing between 1.1 and 1.6 kg.[4] The fur of this bettong is yellowish-brown in color with a patch of paler fur on its belly, while the end of its furry tail is dark colored. It has little or no hair on the muzzle and tail. This species has a more slender build and larger ears than its relative the burrowing bettong.
The introduced red fox (Vulpes vulpes) has had a devastating impact of Australia's native mammal fauna, particularly on those in the "Critical Weight Range", between 35 and 5500 grams. Combined with landscape modification due to agricultural practices, changed fire regimes and other introduced species, many of these species have become extinct across much of mainland Australia.
An example of one of these species is the Woylie or Brush-tailed Bettong (Bettongia penicillata). With a former distribution covering large areas of arid and semi-arid Northern Territory, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria, its natural occurring populations became restricted in the 1970s to three small wheatbelt reserves in Western Australia – Dryandra Woodland, and Tutanning and Perup Nature Reserves.
Woylies are members of the Family Potoridae, all small kangaroo-like marsupials under 3kg, formally known as "rat-kangaroos". Woylies reach a maximum of 1850g, and are grey animals, with a dark brushy tail. They build basic nests on the ground in or near vegetation thickets, and their diet consists largely of fungi, tubers, bulbs, and seeds. They play an important ecological role through seed dispersal, and increasing soil and nutrient turnover with their diggings.
The woylie has shown some dramatic changes in conservation status. The IUCN listed the woylie as Endangered in 1982, due to its dramatic decline. A review of the conservation status of the woylie undertaken in 1998, lead to its status being downgraded on Western Australian, Australian and international threatened species lists, due to its apparent recovery in response to both fox baiting and reintroductions.
However in 2008, the woylie was again listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN. This was due to a declining rate in numbers of 25-95% per annum since 2001, leading a 90% decline between 1999 and 2006. Estimations of total decline between 2001 and 2006 were around 70-80%, equating to 8,000-15,000 animals.
The main threats to the woylie were red foxes. One of the reasons they were able to survive in the three remaining reserve areas, was the presence of Gastrolobium plants, which contain monofluoroacetate, the compound present as sodium monofluoroacetate in "1080" toxic baits. These plants both protect the woylies with cover, as well as possibly causing reduction in predators due to secondary poison when the predators eat them.
The successful recovery during the 1980s and 1990s was largely due to intense fox baiting campaigns. Other causes of historical decline were loss of habitat from land clearing, grazing and changed fire regimes. Disease has also been suspected as an agent of decline.
The causes for declines since 2001 have been a mystery, and clearly need more research. Predation by both foxes and cats may be playing a part, as is disease.
The campaign of both intense fox bating and reintroduction into baited areas, and areas surrounded by predator proof fences was successful in the initial recovery of the woylie. From the initial three populations found in the 1970s, woylies were established in an additional 22 locations across Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales.
As the recent causes of decline are unknown, it is difficult to plan actions for the woylie recovery. As with all declining species, additional research is essential to pinpoint causes of decline. As well as controlling foxes and cats, surveillance monitoring for diseases needs to continue.
The woylie is an example where continual research is needed on wildlife populations, even when we think they are in the clear. Without dedicated researchers, the extent of the recent decline of the woylie would have gone unnoticed. Without continual research-lead conservation of the woylie, the reasons for the decline will remain a mystery.
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A 1.5 hour boat ride gets you to the least explored atoll in Belize named by Jacques Cousteau as one of his favorite sites. Wall diving from 40-60 ft offers the chance to see all kinds of rays, turtles and rivers of wrasse swimming along stunning coral structures at this United Nations World Heritage Site. This is a long, three-tank day.
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Just 30 minutes from shore, these sites are 35-60 ft and offer mild drift dives along multicolored walls and ridges teaming with eels, lobsters, groupers and other reef inhabitants. We do multi-level dives for about 45 minutes. This is a two-tank day.
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Isaiah Katumwa is a talented jazz musician and one of the most celebrated saxophonists on the continent. The Ugandan artiste was the main performer at the 6th edition of Kigali Jazz Junction Season 3, on Friday, November 3.
The self-taught saxophonist has been on the music scene for more than 20 years, having stormed the international scene at a time when jazz in East Africa did not have a significant following.
Sharon Kantengwa interviewed Katumwa about his musical journey.
When did your journey in jazz music start?
As a self-taught saxophonist, I had to learn by listening and watching performers, although they were generally in the brass bands, and I was not grown up to access the clubs where the bands with saxophones would be played.
I was drawn more to saxophone as I begun listening to records of good players and imitating them since there were no music schools or even internet.
Briefly describe your musical journey?
I can say it has been a gradual process and a journey of faith, resilience and persistence. A fight for a dream I believed in but had to convince people around me that it was possible.
What is the most fulfilling aspect of your life as a saxophonist?
These would be many but, when I look at the influence that God has given to me through my saxophone that could be one of them. Also, being able to perform one-on-one with my icons Hugh Masekela, Jonathan Butler and Kirk Whalum was really fulfilling.
Any performances or moments that stand out in your memory?
These too are many and I hold them dearly to keep me up in the difficult times. One of them like I said before are when I was on stage with the people that I watched from a far, men with experience more than my age yet very positive and excited about my artistry.
Each of these moments was special.
I remember Jonathan Butler requesting me to join him on stage after my set in a crowd of over 15,000 people and I joined him to play songs including my favorite song of his. I first thought he was joking until he called and the crowd loudly cheered.
What about challenges you have faced in your career?
I think having to brand my genre given that I feel many styles inside of me and yet I need to have one that I'm known by. The industry dictates and builds boundaries to genres which I think limit the artistry, especially when my interpretation of smooth jazz is different because it is unique and different.
How does your new album 'This is me' reflect you as an artist and a person?
This is me is the first that I pushed on the global smooth jazz scene. This is the best way I had to introduce my uniqueness, which is my 'Africanness', smooth jazz influence on my music and I themed the album with many love songs.
How do you balance your freedom and desire to express yourself to a larger audience?
Africans love happy music and dance to most of our music. It's a special element that I try to be true to myself and that is an attribute that I have in common with my audience, but this is also the element that I try to sell to wider audiences. Also, we in Africa have rich cultural sounds and rhythms.
I like exploring those as I fuse them with smooth jazz influences. Finally, jazz is only coming back to Africa so it has to be interpreted in an accessible way that my African audience can understand and appreciate.
Which three composers have influenced you musically?
They are many but if I should pick only three I could say Hugh Masekela, Dave Koz and Michael Bolton
How do you reach out to young talents who look up to you?
Besides sharing my story or journey with young musicians to be able to inspire them, I have a program called the Talanta Music Mentorship program which I use to do one on one mentoring and I've brought these young musicians close to me.
Secondly, I am accessible online through social media in order to respond to questions and give advice and we're starting another program in January which will be a music school and Mentorship centre.
What is your advice for budding saxophonists?
Be yourself and honest in your expression.


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Obama calls Boehner to push for payroll tax cut extension
President Obama called House Speaker John Boehner Wednesday to press him to accept a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, promising that if the temporary extension is passed, the president will sign a full, one-year extension into law by the end of January.
Mr. Obama also made a separate call to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and according to a White House summary of the call, "applauded him for the work he conducted with Minority Leader [Mitch] McConnell to achieve a successful bipartisan compromise" on the payroll tax cut.
The debate over an extension of the tax cut remains deadlocked, after the Republican-led House on Tuesday refused to accept a Senate-passed version of the bill, which passed with 89 votes and the support of all but seven Republicans.
If they payroll tax cut is not extended by the end of the month, about 160 million Americans would see their payroll tax revert to 6.2 percent from the 4.2 percent it was lowered to a year ago. Failure to act would also result in cuts to Medicare doctors' fees and a lapse in jobless benefits.
Both Democrats and some Republicans want to extend the tax cut, but the parties are divided over how to pay for it, as well as unrelated measures that have been included in the debate, such as a provision relating to a transcontinental oil pipeline. The Senate passed a two-month extension in order to give Congress more time to negotiate the sticking points.
Instead of voting on the Senate bill, the House voted in favor of forming a "conference committee" -- a small group of lawmakers from both the Senate and the House that would work out the two chambers' differences. House Republicans insist Congress should forgo the two-month extension and pass a full, one-year extension now.
In a USA Today op-ed published today, Boehner wrote, "We hope the president, who has repeatedly said he won't go on vacation until this matter is resolved, will urge Senate Democrats to change their minds. He should call on them to appoint negotiators so we can extend payroll tax relief for a full year and help create jobs."
With his phone call today, Mr. Obama did just the opposite, urging Boehner to change his mind.
According to a Boehner aide, Boehner maintained his insistence on passing a one-year extension this year, asking the president to support the conference committee.
"The speaker told the president that his conference was elected to change the way Washington does business and that we should not waste the next ten days simply because it is an inconvenient time of year," the aide said. "He said that our differences are not so great that we cannot pass a full-year bill by December 31st."
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today that asking the House to go along with the Senate is "not much of an ask."
"We're asking them to vote yes on a bill that 82 percent of Senate Republicans supported," Carney said.


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Let's explore the new system interface.
Mouse over the blinking 'i's to learn about each key section.
Video content
As you know, videos and animated explainers are great ways to teach and learn. We can embed third party produced instructional videos as teaching and learning tools right inside the eLearning platform.
Enjoy this little documentary!
(warning - an occasional swear word used by the subject of this documentary)
Explaining and / or comparing a concept or a complex process can often be best handled with clear diagrams.
Here's a sample I've created.
The purpose here is to encourage reluctant staff to use a new, unfamiliar machine. With this particular diagram, I demonstrate some advantage in the new process, thus encouraging user by-in by making clear comparisons between the current system (hand washing) and the new, more efficient system we want staff to use (dishwasher). This helps the learner 'hook' the new processes onto things they are familiar with in the old process.
You'll notice the inclusion of additional explainers in pop-up bubbles to give further information in-context.
Animated content
Simple animated gifs can be created as a clean simple way to demonstrate some processes.
Text content
Sometimes lots of text is the only way to go... It doesn't have to be dense or ugly though!
Here's an example demonstrating a situation whereby a portion of a manual that learners are required to read can be presented in a more easily digested manner:
How to Bake a Cake
Cake baking is not difficult, but it requires some organisation and forethought. While the steps for making a cake vary considerably depending on the type, you'll want to do the following before attempting any recipe:
Read Through the Recipe
This sounds obvious, but cakes in particular have certain requirements, such as the temperature of ingredients, that cannot be altered.
You don't want to realise too late that the butter you just mixed with sugar was supposed to be softened.
Assemble Ingredients and Ensure Their Correct Temperature
Get all of your ingredients and equipment out on the counter before you begin and make sure they're at the proper temperature. This is especially important for butter and eggs: Soft butter makes for a smooth batter and a lofty cake, and room-temperature eggs keep the batter's temperature consistent.
To soften butter, leave it out for several hours; it should offer no resistance when you press on it. Or, you can hurry the process using a microwave: Cut the butter into 1/2-inch cubes, arrange them in a single layer on a microwave-safe plate, then microwave on high for 3 seconds at a time, testing in between, until the butter is softened but not melted.
Preheat the Oven
Before preparing the batter, your oven should be at the correct temperature. A batter will not react properly to heat if it sits at room temperature for 10 minutes waiting for the oven to heat. Nor will it rise properly if the oven continues to warm up after the pan has been placed in it. Avoid burning your cake by setting a rack in the middle of the oven for cake layers or in the lower third for a tube cake so that the top of the pan is not too close to the top of the oven.


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Unfortunately, LG did not announce any new Windows Phones at their press conference today.
However, that does not rule out a future LG Windows Phone… we'll check out their booth and see what info we can find!
Samsung press conference at 2:00 PST today (Jan 9th), we'll try to live blog it!


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Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre (MAGRC)
The MAGRC houses a large collection of genealogical research material and historic items. Material on deposit includes the Women's Institute records, diaries, maps, cemetery records, letters, books, over 1,600 family genealogies and the Hastings County Land Records for about 80 years prior to 1955. The Hessian Research Centre for Canada is also part of the Centre's collection. The Victoria Cross Library, a historical record of Victoria's Cross recipients, is also part of the collection.


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Did you know that How to create and send HTML email in Gmail using stripo? And you are not actually sure about it how it is possible and how it
Google gives more facility for their own user like Google speak and recently launch Google duo. These two facility is more used by millions of


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Virden, MB (CKLQ) - It was a match that included plenty of Brandon flavour.
A current Brandonite and a former Brandonite went head to head with their respective teams to see who would emerge as Manitoba's representative in the 2019 Tim Horton's Brier.
Former Brandonite William Lyburn made his first ever appearance in a men's provincial championship up against Reid Carruthers rink from West St. Paul featuring Brandon born Mike McEwen (third) and Derek Samagalski (second) who currently calls Brandon his home.
After earning a 5-3 victory Carruther's team will move on to the Brier.
"It felt like we really earned this one and I'm really happy with how the guys played," said Carruthers.
The back and forth round was filled with several nice shots.
"It was hard fought game especially after they got to three" Carruthers said.
Reflecting on the key to victory Carruthers said it happened in the eighth end.
"The deuce in eight was key and it was hard earned like Daly made some absolute beauties and made Mike and I to have to make a couple really good ones and Mike with the tap for two was a difficult shot but he threw it perfect and we swept it well," Carruthers said.
Looking ahead to the big event next month in Brandon, Carruthers says they're good to go.
"We're ready for it, I felt that we played well this week after we learned a lesson from Terry McNamee earlier in the week but now it's time to carry the momentum into Brandon," Carruthers said.
This will be the third time Carruthers skips a team at the Brier.
"It doesn't matter if it's your first time or for a guy like Stoughton to go eleven times it feels the same, it's awfully special and this was a super hard fought game," Carruthers said.
The Tim Horton's Brier runs March 1st to 10th at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba.
For more details on the Brier click here.


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With your short haircut, the retro style is made for you. Be inspired by the 20s, 30s or 50s with the following three hairstyles.
Even with short hair, these hairstyles require a certain amount of length. You must be able to wave, straighten or curl your hair. Does your hair come down to your ears? If so, give these hairstyles a go!
This flagship hairstyle from the 50s is emblematic of the pin-up look. Its aim? To create one or several rolls which frame the face. Spotted at the Spring-Summer 2016 fashion shows, this look is both retro and sophisticated. How can you successfully create this hairstyle? Master the victory rolls technique. As a finishing touch, consider wearing hair jewellery: the ideal accessory for perfecting your look.
Dive into the roaring twenties by opting for this sleek and sultry hairstyle. A firm favourite at the fashion shows, the Gatsby style is becoming increasingly popular, even for wedding hairstyles for brides with short hair.
A little tip for express finger waves
Work with clean hair (preferably washed the day before). Select the section of hair you wish to curl. Apply styling mousse, then put in flat hair slides horizontally along the lengths of your strands, spacing them out by around 2 centimetres. Leave your hair to dry and apply hairspray for maximum hold.
Louise Brooks, a 1920's American cinema icon, made this haircut legendary. She wore a bob with straight hair, giving her hairstyle a very structured aspect for a femme fatale look. The essentials for copying her style? A clear-cut bob (which comes down to below the ears) combined with a short fringe to draw attention to the eyes. You should also master the art of blow-drying your hair poker straight.
Just like Louis Brooks, feel free to embellish your haircut with on trend accessories such as a scarf, a ribbon, a headband or even a bandana. Just what you need for a 100% retro look!
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I you may be overcomplicating the lock design. Unix never had any OS file locking at all (until Windows came around...). If you are going to use Lucene in a high performing multi-user/multi- server environment, having the Lucene server process control the locks (i.e. move Lucene API into a server process) will give FAR better through-put, and easier manageability. If you are not using this, then the simple existing file based locks should be more than adequate. Even if you want to span the index over several NFS volumes, you should have a front-end controller, (or controller per volume) that can communicate the locks if needed. Using the filesystem/OS to manage the locks is simple, but inferior in almost all cases, especially if you want to increase the parallelism of the backend - you ordinarily need much finer lock control than an OS will provide. The nice things is... as long as 'disable locks' is always supported, I'll be happy :) Just my thoughts. Robert On Oct 30, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: > > : Doug explains the rationale here: > : > : http://xrl.us/svsz (Link to mail-archives.apache.org) > > That rationale makes a lot of sense for FSDirectory/ > SimpleLockFactory to > use by default (since it already doesn't work in a distributed disk > system like NFS) but as we start getting other Directory/LockFactory > implementations which may not have these problems, we need to make > sure > that those new classes aren't limited by this. > > My initial thought was that this would be something the lockFactory > already had control over, but then i realized this is really driven by > Directory.getLockID, and LockFactory.setLockPrefix ... it looks like > perhaps newer LockFactories that can work on distributed drives > might need > to have non-trivial setLockPrefix methods that ignore their input. > > Either that or we punt on the issue and just have really good > documentation to the effect that apps on systems using shared > drives need > to call lockFactory.setLockPrefix explicitly. > > > > -Hoss > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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Would you rather have a long warranty on your car or have a car that features more technology?
General Motors says it knows your answer to that question and is reducing the length of its warranty in favor of building cars with higher levels of connectivity.
GM started offering a 100,000-mile limited powertrain warranty in 2007 as a way to keep up with the likes of Hyundai and Kia and to help build a better perception of its cars.
The only problem is that customers didn't notice.
Rather than building a marketing campaign around the long warranty, GM has decided to reduce it and use the cost savings on things it believes its customers truly care about.
GM said in a statement,
We talked to our customers and learned that free scheduled maintenance and warranty coverage do not rank high as a reason to purchase a vehicle among buyers of non-luxury brands.
The coverage on GMC and Chevrolet vehicles will drop from a 5-year/100,000-mile warranty to a 5-year/60,000-mile warranty. It will also cut its 4-year free maintenance program to 2 years. The changes will take effect for the 2016 model year.
GM also said it will invest the money it saves from the cuts in features it believes its customers value, such as advanced connected-vehicle technology.
The problem for General Motors is that long warranties and free service cost a lot of money, and if they don't translate to higher sales, it only makes sense to scale back.
People are getting all worked up in the comment sections across the blog-o-sphere, saying this is a bad move by GM and they won't consider a vehicle without a 100,000-mile powertrain warranty. If that's the case, they also rule out Ford, Honda, Toyota, Porsche, and many more companies with some of the best cars on the planet.
The truth is, any car you buy today will likely last well over 100,000 miles. If a defect in the engine is going to happen, it'll happen far before the 60,000 mark and be covered.
I don't think this move will hurt GM at all. In fact, I have a feeling the majority of consumers won't even notice.
Unless, of course, an engine happens to implode at 60,001 miles.
Will GM's shorter warranty impact your decision whether to buy a Chevrolet or GMC vehicle?


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Yesterday morning I needed to head to the other side of London for some work I had to do. I know it sounds a little strange if you don't live in London, but the "other side of town" is actually quite far away whether you travel by car and you're stuck in rush hour traffic or you take the Tube. London is a big place… Anyway, as there really is no point in trying to get across the city by car whilst everybody is trying to get to work, public transport it was. So there I was, at 8.30am wedged like a sardine into an already hot train carriage amongst all the commuters.
That's when I started to wonder just how people do that day in day out. Now, I'm not talking from some lofty, arty-farty ivory tower here, I know that most people would probably choose to do something else if they could. I actually mean how do they do it without going completely mad? How do people stand this kind of grind every day? I did it myself years back and it was hell. Since then I've happily worked from home and never regretted it. Every time I have to take public transport here, there are delays or cancellations and the trains are overcrowded which makes this daily routine even worse...
A little later I got to Liverpool Street Station. At that time of the day, the streets around it are packed mainly with people in smart (and an awful lot of not-so-smart polyester) clothes rushing to their office jobs. None of them look particularly happy or excited which isn't surprising to me. Working in an office for some company that has no interest in me as a human being, where profit is the only yardstick by which success is measured, that insists I dress in a certain way (will an uncomfortable suit make me more productive?) and where the typical day is full of meaningless meetings and business speak and motivational buzz words is my idea of absolute hell. Stick me into one of those cubicles in some mega corporate company (finance comes to mind) where I have to answer to some mediocre middle manager for five days a week and watch me fairly quickly turn into a depressed and anxious mess. I'm always surprised when I see all these people. No, they don't look overwhelmingly happy, but they don't exactly look miserable either. Do they detach their 'work being' from their 'human being' or do some people really like that kind of thing? To me, that's completely incomprehensible.
Anyway, thinking about all these things (in my defence, it was a long ride on the Tube) it occurred to me that I really do feel truly happy when I do the things I have given up my employment status for (ok, still working out my notice, but the official letter has been received etc.). When I style, cook, bake, photograph. All the anxieties that came with my work life are disappearing. I feel like I'm finally doing what I am meant to do. I will never be a millionaire, but that's ok. I would happily trade all the money in the world for being able to feel fulfilled in my life and happy with my work. The fact that I carry on "working" after my work has finished and that I decide to do a little styling and photography (like here) just for the fun of it tells me that I really am doing the right thing. My work doesn't actually feel like work (since work is generally associated with at least some sense of malaise and serving the powers above) but is just something that I'm passionate about and that makes me happy. And what in the world could be better than doing something we're passionate about every day? That's how I know I have the right job and that, to me, is worth more than a big pay cheque.


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The slides from Graham's presentation are reproduced below.
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Spaces of encounter: Artists, conversations, and meaning-making
Several members of the UWS research community have just been at RGU in Aberdeen for the North East Scotland Visual Arts Research Network's doctoral summer school. Alongside presentations of some fascinating practice-led doctoral projects, including UWS' Kirsten Mcleod's work on participatory film making and community media, there were keynote presentations and seminars from Ray Langenbach, Jay Koh, Kathleen Coessens, Chu Chu Yuan, and Graham Jeffery.
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Date: Friday 9th February
Time: 9.00am - 11.00am
Location: W Amsterdam, Spuistraat 175, Amsterdam, 1012 VN, Netherlands
Format: Private roundtable event - Limited places available
Refreshments provided
Forward3D is hosting a breakfast round table event at the W Hotel on Friday 9th February.
The focus will be on 'Advanced Performance Media Strategies'. We will be looking at what we can do, and what we can learn, from using unique data sources and complex analyses to inform digital performance marketing campaigns.
Our Head of Data Science will be sharing some recent work across the retail, travel and technology industries. Examples include: measuring the impact of OOH advertising on online purchases, considering the impact of digital marketing on in-store conversions, and implementing measurement plans to understand the true impact of investments in digital brand activity.
After a 30 minute presentation, we will be chairing an open peer-to-peer discussion session around several core topics.
Attendees will include senior digital marketing managers from our portfolio of clients, network of contacts and invitees from the wider European industry.
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One-pan pasta with asparagus, zucchini, sugar snaps, citron and parmesan cheese.
Step 1
Chop the onion in big chunks, the zucchini into little pieces and cut the sugar snaps in two. Snap off the pale woody ends of the asparagus and put them away (perfect for soup). Chop of the asparagus tips and keep them aside. Slice the remainder of the asparagus into equal pieces.
Step 2
Heat a large casserole over high heat. Fry the onion in olive oil and add the pressed garlic when the onion is glazy. Add the zest of one lemon. Fry it until the onion and garlic are tender and golden brown, then deglaze with a dash of white wine.
Step 3
Add the pasta along with ½ liter boiling water. Add half a vegetable stock cube, the chili flakes, pepper and seasalt.
Step 4
When the pasta is almost done, add the asparagus stalks and the sugar snaps. If necessary add some water. When the sugar snaps are al dente, add the zucchini and let it cook for one minute. Finally, you can add the asparagus tips and let them cook for 30 seconds, they don't need long.
Step 5
Turn off the heat. Finish up the pasta with the juice and zest of one lemon, two handfuls of freshly chopped basil, pepper and seasalt.
Step 6
Spread the pasta over two or three plates and finish off with some grated parmesan cheese and sunflower seeds.
- 1 Red onion
- 4 Cloves Garlic Pressed
- 2 Lemons
- 250 gr Pasta
- 500 gr Green asparagus
- 200 gr Sugar snaps
- 1 Zucchini
- 2 Handfuls Frech basil
- 0,5 Vegetable stock cube
- 1 dash White wine
- Chili flakes According to taste
- 50 gr Parmesan cheese According to taste
- 50 gr Sunflower seeds
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Hang on with a new Uncharted 2 teaser
That crazy Nathan Drake, always getting into trouble with the locals. You can see Nathan doing his thing again (which is staying alive) in this new teaser for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. According to Busta Rhymes, who introduced the teaser for its premiere at the 2008 Spike TV Video Game Awards, what we see here is in-engine footage. We may have to trust Busta on this one because the teaser looks great and does as it intends. Expect to play Among Thieves among friends (or you can play alone, that's okay too) around Q4 of 2009. As for Busta Rhymes, he may have gained our trust this time, but next time, he'll have to properly persuade us. Especially if he's going to keep using lyrics like "Mi come to mekin to mekin."


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With prayer groups, everyone is an admin. That means that every person who is a part of a group has the ability to add a prayer to the group, edit prayers in a group, remove a prayer from a group, or mark a prayer as answered. All group members also have the ability to add other group members to the prayer group. These abilities are shared across all group members, reserving the ability to remove group members and delete a group to the group "Owner" (the person who created the group).
To add a prayer to a prayer group:
1. Tap on "Groups"
2. Choose the which group to add the prayer to. After you have created or been added to a group, you will have the ability to add prayers to a group. The Groups main page is categorized alphabetically based on the group name.
3. Tap the "+" button at the bottom of the screen.
4. Enter the prayer title. Tapping into the text that says "Enter prayer title…" will allow you to start typing the name of the prayer request. Remember to specify who this prayer is for when entering the prayer's name. For example, if John requested prayer for an upcoming exam he'll be taking, title the prayer request "John's upcoming exam" instead of "Upcoming Exam". This way when the group prays for John's exam they will not have to wonder who it's referring to.
5. Add a prayer description. This is optional but is really useful in group settings to note different aspects of what to pray for. Often, in small group settings, there can be a lot of prayer requests, where it can be easy to forget the nuances of different prayers. Use this space to take note of those nuances, or to even better categorize prayers by using hashtags.
6. Tap "Add Prayer".


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Chicago Red Stars v. Orlando Pride
Wednesday May 2 7:30PM ET
I love when the games aren't all clustered in a narrow block, but it's a pain to try to turn out a column when injury reports and player notes are trickling in. So fortunately we start with a game featuring a ton of marquee stars that even casual fans know about and are anxiously awaiting news. So I'll just make stuff up. Just kidding. There's enough of that going on in the non-sports news.
McCaffrey and Ertz both have thier injury woes continue, which is sad. Alex Morgan and Ashlyn Harris are both maybes for Orlando, but Haley Kopmeyer is more than solid if Harris can't go and Leroux/Marta/Edmonds are a solid group.
Portland Thorns v. Seattle Reign FC
Saturday May 5 3:30PM ET (Lifetime Game of the Week)
Okay, I'm done making up things, even if there's not much to report this far out. Portland has talent and depth that belies their record, so it's always a safe bet that Horan/Sinclair/Purce will put chances together. Britt Eckerstrom should get the start again and has had some good saves and some bad gaffes. Michele Betos will face her former team for the first time and will probably get a lot of work. Seattle's offense has been pretty solely Rapinoe-based but a Long score last week and a slight decapitation for Jodie Taylor might help them build going forward. Steph Catley returning to help shore up the defense will also lend some flex to their forward press.
Sky Blue (Association) Football Club of the State of New Jersey, Inc., Co, LTD v. Houston Dash
Saturday May 5, 7:30PM ET
One of these teams should walk away with a first win. In theory, that should be Sky Blue, who has actual offensive players, a passable defense and an up-and-coming international GK. Once they hit the field? Who knows. Houston's Kealia Ohai should be returning to form and the young Hanson/Keever midfield has potential to keep the ball moving to their star or Nichelle Prince. Kyah Simon's return will also provide depth up front. The backline that looked solid against Orlando was torched against North Carolina, so Jeanine Van Wyk and crew are probably hoping to face the disorganized rabble version of SBFC. Sky Blue still has Carli Lloyd, Raquel Rodriguez, Janine Beckie, Shea Groom…basically, in any other year, what would look like the starting forward lineup for an all-star game and they've scored 1 entire goal in three games.
Utah Royals FC v. Washington Spirit
Saturday May 5, 9:00 PM ET
Remember Ashley Hatch? 1 goal, 1 assist, 12 shots in five games so far. After her rookie season, I thought she might be a feature forward in a Pugh/Sullivan/Lavelle service-fest. With the lack of any other information to back it up, I'll declare this her break out game. Utah's Becky Sauerbrunn and Rachel Corsie have been carrying the team to draws all season and eventually there will be an error. Last week's goal by Portland's Tobin Heath, largely unguarded, hints at slight flaws that can be worked in the absence of a scoring punch. Washington has much greater potential on offense than defense, but Utah hasn't been putting enough talent forward to require anything beyond capable marking from a veteran cast.
North Carolina Courage v. Chicago Red Stars
Sunday May 6, 3:00PM ET
Chicago must be so happy to have a second game this week against a resting and rehabbing North Carolina team. If Chicago can get their offense together against an Orlando team they should beat, enough may carry over to give some pushback against the North Carolina arsenal. Huerta and Mautz have scored legitimate goals this season and Kerr is basically the most super-powered Australian outside a Marvel movie. North Carolina isn't unstoppable or flawless, but they certainly have more top-flight depth at each area than the competition so far this season. Sam Mewis provides a field general presence and scoring threat behind two other giants in Jessica McDonald and Lynn Williams and the Abby Erceg/Abby Dahlkemper central duo. It's hard to do more than look at roster comparison this far out, but the edge goes to North Carolina unless they all get food poisoning from the truffles fed to them by the pool while the rest of the league grinds it out leading into Sunday.