eeks to come to L.A., the sharp-shooter might be able to sign for the mini mid-level of $3 million per season. GM Mitch Kupchak has said that the team only intends to use this exception for great value and that might be what they’ll be getting with younger talent in Meeks.
It seems to be coming down to money or playing for a championship contender for Meeks. The Lakers may be ready to sign the young guard, but are waiting to see how the Dwight Howard trade situation unfolds before using the mini mid-level or signing anymore players.
News
Age Limit Fight divides Ugandans
The chaotic scenes that played out in Parliament this week, have attracted mixed views on the health of Uganda’s democracy. While some have condemned the way the opposition MPs ‘desecrated’ the sanctity of Parliament by stepping on chairs and tables, a considerable number of Ugandans have hailed the behaviour of the MPs for ‘putting up a spirited fight’, despite their numerical weakness.
Captured on mobile phones and posted on social media, the chaotic scenes were not only the first of their kind in the history of Uganda, they will travel far beyond Uganda’s borders and add to the already unpalatable view that Africa is not willing to let go of its dictators.
The fighting that was sparked off by the decision by the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga to suspend 25 of the Members of Parliament, mostly from the Opposition, for fighting on Monday when the first attempt to present the Age Limit motion was first presented.
Sources from Parliament revealed to The Sunrise that the government responded with full crude force when it deployed well-known ‘thugs’ to arrest the errant MPs and punched them hard while out.
A number of Ugandans hailed the ‘rebel MPs’ as courageous because they dared the majority and demonstrated that Ugandans are not willing to take Museveni’s life presidency project without a fight.
DP’s President General Norbert Mao condemned Speaker Kadaga for permitting plain clothed security officials to invade Parliament.
“This is the first time that the chamber of Parliament has been invaded by members of the armed forces dressed in civilian clothes. We condemn in the strongest terms the invasion of Parliament by the military in a manner most undignified. If the aim of the Speaker’s order (unjustified as it was) was the suspension of the members, it could have been enforced in another manner without violence,” said Mao.
Ramathan Ggoobi, the MUBS economics lecturer also observed that the ‘Red Ribbon’ MPs did what their voters want them to do.
“Sometimes I doubt one of the key assumptions in economics – that humans are rational. However, today I understood why voters opted for this caliber of MPs.
It could only be them to pull off what they did. No old-school ‘honourable’ could do what this group has done today. Kudos to their voters. They knew the appropriate calibre of legislators to deploy at this point in time.
They might lose the war; but certainly they’ve won a few battles.” Meanwhile at a press conference held at Hotel African on Thursday, the expelled MPs vowed to fight on.
President Muhammadu Buhari is set to travel on Tuesday to the United Kingdom for a 2-week medical check-up.
Sources at the Aso Rock Villa said the trip is just for a routine medical check-up and that the President is not sick.
Presidential spokesperson Femi Adesina, however, explained in a statement Monday night that the president would travel and return in about a fortnight.
He said in his statement: “The President meets with Security Chiefs first in the morning, after which he embarks on the journey.
Buhari and members of his immediate family routinely travel for medical treatment in the UK as Nigerian hospitals battle with inadequate equipment and inadequate funding.
The President’s latest trip was announced on the same day residents doctors across the country announced they would commence an indefinite strike on Thursday due to non-payment of some allowances.
Ingredients
800g chicken thighs or breast, cut into large bite size pieces
1 small sweet potato (or a couple of potatoes), peeled and chopped into large cubes
1 tin peeled tomatoes
1 tin light coconut cream (or coconut milk)
1 onion, halved and sliced
2 tablespoon oil
2 teaspoons crushed garlic
2 teaspoons grated or crushed ginger
1 teaspoon garam masala
½ teaspoon turmeric
¼ teaspoon chilli powder
Method
In a large heavy based pan heat the oil and cook the onion until golden. Add the garlic, ginger and spices, stir continuously for a minute. Add chicken and brown. Add sweet potato, tomato and coconut.
Turn to low heat and simmer (with the lid off) until the sweet potato and chicken is cooked through.
Serve with steamed rice.<gh_stars>1-10
package xyz.heroesunited.heroesunited.common.capabilities.hudata;

import net.minecraft.entity.Entity;
import net.minecraft.nbt.CompoundNBT;
import net.minecraftforge.common.MinecraftForge;
import net.minecraftforge.common.capabilities.Capability;
import net.minecraftforge.common.capabilities.CapabilityInject;
import net.minecraftforge.common.util.INBTSerializable;
import xyz.heroesunited.heroesunited.common.events.HUDataRegister;
import xyz.heroesunited.heroesunited.util.hudata.HUDataManager;

public class HUDataCap implements IHUDataCap, INBTSerializable<CompoundNBT> {

    @CapabilityInject(IHUDataCap.class)
    public static Capability<IHUDataCap> CAPABILITY;
    private final HUDataManager dataManager;

    public HUDataCap(Entity entity) {
        this.dataManager = new HUDataManager();
        MinecraftForge.EVENT_BUS.post(new HUDataRegister(entity, this.dataManager));
    }

    public static IHUDataCap getCap(Entity entity) {
        return entity.getCapability(HUDataCap.CAPABILITY).orElse(null);
    }

    @Override
    public CompoundNBT serializeNBT() {
        return this.dataManager.serializeNBT();
    }

    @Override
    public void deserializeNBT(CompoundNBT nbt) {
        this.dataManager.deserializeNBT(nbt);
    }

    @Override
    public HUDataManager getDataManager() {
        return this.dataManager;
    }
}
The picture is from a session two days ago at Kalmus. After sailing back and forth for 9 hours the day before (I call that "distance sailing"), it was time to do something different - a bit of old school freestyle. I'll refrain from doing any freestyle as long as I have any excuse - "the water is cold" or "I did not sail much recently" being two of my favorites. So I still count the Duck Jibe as a freestyle trick. It's tricky to catch the sail after throwing it! Works better than trying to fly, though.
The crash in the picture above was harmless - perhaps all that flapping helped, after all. A little while later (and a little more tired), I had a better crash. If you've learned the Duck Jibe, maybe you remember the "Plank Walk": when your mast hits the water, and your gear suddenly stops, but you keep going... straight off the nose of your board. That's pretty much what I did. Here's the GoPro footage:
That was fun! As a little bonus, I set my top speed of the day during my brief flight, according to my GPS:
Here is the narrative to what happened:
- I slowed down a bit during the sail duck, from 22 knots to 18.5 knots
- When the mast hit the water, the board came to a sudden stop. Not so my body! Since my foot was still in the strap, the upper body did not just keep the speed, but actually accelerated from 18.5 to 26 knots within 0.4 seconds
- I hit the water shortly thereafter. As soon as my hand was deeper than about 2-4 inches, the GPS watch lost reception, since water absorbs the GPS signal. We can see that point #24220 is not the expected 0.2 seconds after the previous point, but rather 1.6 seconds. So 1.4 seconds worth of data are missing.
- GPS chips are made for cars, not for windsurfing. Cars often loose GPS reception, for example in tunnels or under bridges; but usually, they keep going at roughly the same speed and direction as before. So the GPS chips go into "dead reckoning" mode, assuming that the "car" is still traveling at the same speed, and predicting the speed and new position.
Well, I may be many things, but a car I am not. I did stop when I hit the water. Speedsurfers traveling twice as fast as I did may bounce a few times before sinking, but I did not. So the GPS guessed wrong about how far and fast I traveled when I had no GPS reception. It corrected it's mistake very shortly thereafter: in point #24221, it adjusted the position by about 20 meters, roughly the same amount that it guessed wrong in the first place.