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No deliberation required to name the play that was the turning point for the New Orleans Saints on Sunday in the NFC Championship, a 26-23 overtime loss to the Rams in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
3-10-LA 13 (1:49) (Shotgun) D. Brees pass incomplete short right to T. Lewis.
The long version is the Saints, tied at 20-20 with the Rams, were facing third-and-10 at the Rams' 13-yard line with 1:49 left when quarterback Drew Brees took the snap from shotgun formation, and threw incomplete for receiver Tommylee Lewis on the right sideline.
The longer version is that Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman tackled Lewis, and made helmet-to-helmet contact, well before the football arrived. Almost everyone inside the Superdome, including Robey-Coleman, expected a penalty.
Almost everyone inside the Superdome was wrong.
The call wasn't made and the Saints settled for Wil Lutz's 31-yard field goal with 1:41 left to take a 23-20 lead.
If the call had been made, the Saints would have had first-and-goal inside the 10-yard line. And given that the Rams only had one timeout remaining, New Orleans essentially could have run down the clock to 10 seconds or so before having Lutz attempt a field goal.
Instead, Los Angeles utilized the remaining 1:41 to work its way into field-goal range, where Greg Zuerlein kicked a 48-yard field goal to tie the score with 15 seconds left. From there, the Rams produced an interception in overtime, and Zuerlein kicked a 57-yard game-winner.


Fabric has now rolled-out the majority of its Saturday line-ups from October through to the end of 2017. KiNK, Seth Troxler, Craig Richards, Derrick Carter and recent DJ Mag cover stars Apollonia are just a few talents set to command the venue's two rooms.
As noted via press release, this time last year, fabric remained closed and was fighting to re-open its doors to global dance fans and DJ/production talents alike.
Between 7th October and New Year's Eve night, the club will also be welcoming Jay Clarke, DVS1, Function, Henrik Schwarz and Shonky.
Check the full line-ups below and watch out for some further drops in the coming weeks.


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Firm Bond Yields Push Dollar To 4-Month High; Euro Struggles
April 25, 2018 12:14 PM UTC in News
Article Highlights
Dollar rises on U.S. yields, euro falls
Investors focus on ECB meeting
The dollar hit a four-month high on Wednesday after a rise in benchmark U.S. Treasury yields above 3 percent rattled some currency bears and led investors to consider whether the greenback was breaking out of a prolonged weak spell.
The U.S. 10-year treasury yield has risen to its highest in more than four years, driven by worries about the growing supply of government debt and inflationary pressures from rising oil prices.
That has caused U.S.-Japan and U.S.-German yield differentials to widen further in the dollar's favor, leaving the yen and the euro lower.
The dollar's performance against a basket of major currencies rose to as high as 91.117 in early London trade, its strongest level since Jan. 12. The dollar index last stood at 91.130, up 0.4 percent on the day.
Analysts on Wednesday saw signs the dollar could be breaking higher after months of relative weakness.
"With the impact on risk appetite of a continued tightening of Fed policy and the possibility that the pace of growth in many countries may moderate… there is evidence to suggest the dollar could strengthen," said Rabobank FX strategist Jane Foley in a note.
But other analysts said net long dollar positions had not risen significantly in recent weeks, despite trade tensions waning.
U.S. first-quarter gross domestic product data due on Friday could determine whether the dollar extends its gains further.
In January, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said a lower greenback was "good for us" in a break from previous White House administrations' public stance for a stronger U.S. currency.
A weak dollar is seen helping U.S. exporters to compete abroad but could undermine the greenback's status as the world's top reserve currency.
ECB MEETING
The dollar's gains on Wednesday drove the euro down past the two-month low hit on Tuesday because of concerns that firmer U.S. yields would reduce demand for the region's bonds at a time when hedge funds have amassed record long euro bets.
Investors are focused on whether a European Central Bank monetary policy meeting on Thursday will see the euro-dollar exchange rate break out of its recent tight range.
Analysts say the market needs clarity about the speed of the ECB's monetary tightening cycle before the euro, which rallied at the start of this year before running out of steam in the last two months, breaks higher.
In early 2018 traders bet that synchronized global growth would force the ECB to accelerate monetary policy normalization.
But the ECB's reluctance so far to signal any shift leaves the "euro's gains against the dollar vulnerable to setbacks," said Commerzbank analyst Thu Lan Nguyen in a note.
Nguyen said the euro-dollar exchange rate continues to be dominated mainly by moves in the U.S. dollar.
The rise in bond yields also weakened Asian emerging market currencies versus the dollar on Wednesday, with the Chinese yuan down and the Indonesian rupiah trading near a two-year low of 13,895 per dollar.
Against the yen, the dollar hit a two-month high of 109.270 yen.
Easing concerns over global political risks weighed on the Japanese currency, market participants said, as the yen tends to attract demand in times of economic uncertainty and market turmoil, and sell off when confidence returns.
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Having a clear written contract is important to the management of the project, as it protects both the owner and the builder.
Standard contracts are available for their members from Master Builders, Certified Builders, NZ Institute of Architects and Architectural Designers NZ and are also available from Standards New Zealand. MBIE has sponsored access to view and print, free of charge, a PDF of the standard NZS 3902:2004 Housing, alterations and small buildings contract. You can access the free version here.
Under the Building Act, you must have a written contract for residential building work of $30,000 (including GST) or more. There are certain things the contract must include – default clauses apply if the contract doesn't contain the required information. The law change doesn't just apply to builders, but to work done by any tradesperson.
Irrespective of which contract applies to a construction job, each professional or tradesperson involved is still liable for any defects in their own work.
Under the Building Act, from the date that building work is complete there is an automatic 12-month period for the client to identify defective work. The contractor must remedy any defects notified by the client within the period.
In a full contract, the builder has full responsibility for delivering the construction, hires the subcontractors and purchases all the materials and services. This contract lets the builder manage the whole project but also means the builder carries all the risk.
A managed labour-only contract means the builder manages the site but isn't responsible for buying all the materials or hiring the other contractors involved – this is generally done by the owner. This contract needs to be carefully worded and works best with a competent, experienced client.
A labour-only contract means the builder provides the skilled work but no materials and no oversight of the project. Again, this contract requires a competent, experienced client for the job to run smoothly.
Any special conditions, for example, deadlines, site access or unforeseen conditions. This is common in renovation work where the true extent of the work required may not always be evident before the renovation work starts, even when an extensive and comprehensive survey has been undertaken.
Contingency sum – a minimum of 10% of the contract sum should be available and held in reserve to cover those unforeseeable items.
Contract period and practical completion dates.
Any nominated subcontractors or suppliers, materials or trades the owner will organise.
Required site meetings and attendees.
Whether the house is going to be occupied during renovation work.
What work (if any) the owner will be responsible for.
The amounts and liability periods that apply to any retentions.
Liquidated damages for late completion provided such costs can be shown to be incurred, for example, additional accommodation costs where the owner is in rental accommodation because the house could not be occupied as originally specified.
New provisions around unfair contract terms, added to the Fair Trading Act, came into force on 17 March 2015. They relate to clauses in standard form consumer contracts (contracts that consumers have to accept on a take-it-or-leave-it basis).
The law change gives the Commerce Commission the ability to go to court to challenge clauses that they think create a significant imbalance between the rights of companies and consumers. Unfair contract terms could be unenforceable, even if the consumer has signed a contract knowing that they matter.
The Commerce Commission has useful information for the construction and property industry here.


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Daviesia genistifolia, commonly known as broom bitter-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a glabrous, low to open shrub with scattered, sharply-pointed, cylindrical phyllodes and yellow or orange-yellow, deep red and maroon flowers.

Description
Daviesia genistifolia is a glabrous, low to open shrub that typically grows to a height of . The phyllodes are cylindrical, sharply-pointed,  long and  wide at the base. The flowers are arranged in groups of two to six in leaf axils on a peduncle  long, the rachis , each flower on a pedicel  long with oblong bracts about  long. The sepals are  long and joined at the base, the upper two lobes joined for most of their length, the lower three with shallow teeth  long. The standard petal is egg-shaped,  long,  wide and yellow or orange-yellow, with a dark red base, the wings  long and deep red, and the keel   long and maroon. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a flattened triangular pod  long.

Taxonomy
Daviesia genistifolia was first formally described in 1837 by George Bentham from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham. Bentham's description was published in his Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus.

Distribution and habitat
Broom bitter-pea grows in dry forests and is widespread in south-eastern Australia from central Queensland through New South Wales to eastern Victoria and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.

References

genistifolia
Flora of South Australia
Flora of Queensland
Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Taxa named by George Bentham
Plants described in 1837

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America, Basketball, Gambling, Movies, NBA, Politics, Pop Culture, race, Sports
There's No Place Like Highland Park, Illinois
From Zillow
First of all: Hello. How are you doing? Are you safe and sound? Do you have what you need, or know how to get what you need in responsible fashion? Have you acclimated to the sounds of sirens happening all around you, or at least to the dull murmur of people performatively reacting to those and other things that will never affect them personally on television? Cool and good < A phrase you may or may not use when looking at anything happening in the United States of America in response to a literal plague befalling those of us lucky enough to inhabit the land of hope and dreams.
Keeping in mind how much all of that is relentlessly destroying us, particularly how much money people accumulate who don't particularly seem to have any utility for it beyond "Hey I have more money than you do lol," and also ahead of a particularly enticing documentary premier on behalf of Mickey and friends Sunday night – The Last Dance, an unprecedentedly in-depth look into the 1997-'98 Chicago Bulls season – let's talk about Michael Jordan's house in Chicago.
Having since gone on to both play for and literally be the governor of NBA teams separate from the one with which he is most closely associated as a player, Michael Jordan's shadow is long enough to extend onto the shoes of many current professional basketball players, including Russell Westbrook, Kemba Walker[1] and Kia Nurse, as well as players in sports that Jordan both played and didn't.
Jordan is also the presumed author of a well-known quote regarding failure; I had to watch an ad to watch the ad he narrated with it. As such, His Airness is familiar with coming up short. One notably well-documented case is his governorship of the Charlotte Hornets; another is his inability to shake the home he had in Chicago for the second three-peat with the Bulls.
As of this writing, Jordan's house has been listed on Zillow for 2,969 days, or a bit over 8 years. Its price has fallen from an original listing of $29,000,000 to around $14.9 million[2]. One might assume that at some point between the economic recovery and, uhm, right now, the house would've sold, perhaps to some other billionaire-with-a-B with an affinity for the Jordan-era Bulls teams, or even just for the iconography associated with Jordan. After all, those of a certain means love building giant, live-in monuments to themselves, only to leave them entirely empty, perhaps for their own bemusement.
Then again, well: this joint, located about 25 miles north of Chicago in Highland Park, Illinois, is especially Michael Jordan. It is as Jordan as Jordan can be. It has a full-sized basketball court, complete with Air Jordan branding and the names of his kids, as well as a cigar room, swimming pool and a table based on the streets of Baghdad[3]. It has fourteen parking spaces and a lounge adjacent to the court, as well as many other arenas seemingly built for the purpose of feeding Jordan's proclivity for gambling: a putting green and a pool table.
Did you know that, apparently, during the 1998 NBA Finals, Michael Jordan attempted to learn how to play piano? No word on where that ended up, although the large sitting room with a piano might suggest that MJ occasionally hits the chopsticks, even if he isn't going full Beethoven[4]
Lacking subtlety, as its owner typically has, the front gate features a large 23. According to Business Insider, Bruce Bowers of Bowers Realty Group seems to believe that might be why the home won't sell, but I'm not…buying that. Anybody with that kind of coin in the first place could pay to remove it; alternatively, I am glad to roll out there if and when we re-enter the other timeline and go Birmingham Barons on that thing with Louisville's finest lumber.
Jordan pays something in the neighborhood of $100,000 a year in property taxes on the 56,000-square-foot home, which sits on a seven-acre plot of land, which, again: if you're looking into the prospect of buying Michael Jordan's house in the first place, what do you care?
As an added bonus, prospective buyers can become immediate sneakerheads[5], as Jordan has promised a complete set of Air Jordans along with the house. I presume that appreciates every year with each new release but have no confirmation on post-2012 editions.
It may be that Jordan's house is too much a shrine to himself[6], that the air is too thin for anybody else up there. It may be that Highland Park just isn't a place people much want to be most of the time. Jordan sure doesn't; despite being in charge of the Hornets in his native North Carolina, he has taken up most of his residential time in Florida.
Maybe some buyers are simply scared off by Jordan himself, a man who doesn't need the money but is looking to cash in anyway. Plenty of NBA players in the '90s certainly seemed to be, sooner or later, and we'll catch the finest, last bit of that with this documentary. Stars: they're just like us, yet so, so very different.
[1] Ex-Charlotte Hornet, current Jordan Brand representee
[2] 14+9=23, which isn't 45, but it also isn't 12.
[3] A reference to the unnecessary force he occasionally pulled out, I'm sure, such as when he shot a free throw with his eyes closed.
[4] The one area in which Kobe Bryant may have totally surpassed Jordan, unreleased evidence notwithstanding: maybe The Last Dance gives us the footage refuting that (Footnote to the footnote: I want to see Michael Jordan punch Steve Kerr. Not that I want to see that, necessarily, but knowing that it happened, and knowing that Steve Kerr is, at least publicly, one of the nicest people in the NBA, while Jordan has maintained his "asshole-til-I-die" image into governorship, makes me wonder what Steve Kerr did to solicit that action from the otherwise-indomitable Jordan)
[5] Shout out to TwH contributor Derek Beaupre: you trying to get this house and these shoes, my man?
[6] Which is exactly what he doesn't seem to want, as ESPN's Ramona Shelburne uncovered ahead of the documentary's release


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