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Top 5 Best Caribbean Cruise Destinations

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If you’re looking to cruise in the Caribbean check out these top destinations. Keep reading for top 5 best Caribbean cruise destinations.

Did you know that more than 28 million people boarded a cruise ship last year?

There’s no doubt about it. A cruise is one of the best ways to explore a particular region of the world–the Caribbean, in particular.

Home to 26 countries spread across hundreds of islands, there’s no shortage of amazing Caribbean destinations. The question is: How do you choose the best?

Every Caribbean cruise line offers their own itineraries, but it doesn’t hurt to do some research ahead of time. Here’s our pick for the “best of the best” island destinations.

Cuba

Ready to travel back in time? You don’t need a Delorean–you just need a cruise ship bound for Havana, Cuba.

Here you’ll find fascinating history in the form of cobblestone streets lined with vintage cars from the 1950s. Throw in some salsa music and a cold, minty mojito, and you’re starting to get the picture.

And if you’re worried about soaking up some sun, don’t be. Cuba boasts some of the best beaches in the Caribbean, including the aptly named Playa Paraiso (Paradise Beach).

Jamaica

The tiny isle of Jamaica is a must on any Caribbean cruise itinerary.

Renowned for its friendly people and beautiful scenery, there’s plenty to keep you entertained during your visit. Tour Mystic Mountain or the Dunn’s River Falls, or enjoy a leisurely stroll past the colonial architecture of Falmouth.

When it’s time to relax, grab a skewer of jerk chicken and wash it down with some ginger beer. As you watch a magnificent sunset, you’ll realize nothing beats the fun of Caribbean cruises.

Puerto Rico

If you’re seeking the perfect combination of history and culture, look no farther than Puerto Rico.

Take a hike through the jungle of El Unique–the only US National Park that’s a tropical rainforest. Then explore the 16th-century castles and forts that make up Old San Juan.

And with the Bacardi distillery located just a few steps away, there’s no shortage of great rum cocktails to savor. You may even find yourself dancing the merengue before the night is through.

St. Thomas

Each of the US Virgin Islands is stunning in its own right, but our favorite is St. Thomas.

The capital town of Charlotte Amalie offers a unique glimpse into Danish colonial life. Because of its deep harbor, the island was also a favorite haunt of infamous pirates.

Explore Blackbeard’s Castle or sign up for a lobster diving tour. And if you like shopping, you’re in luck–this island boasts more duty-free shopping options than any other Caribbean island.

Barbados

If you’ve got the time to venture further south (and east), add Barbados to your Caribbean cruise itinerary.

This tiny island enjoys over 3,000 hours of sunshine every year, making it a beach lover’s dream. White sand beaches surround the island, along with coral reefs teeming with sea life.

Are you a rum aficionado? You’ll love learning about (and tasting) your favorite drink at the world’s oldest rum distillery, Mount Gay.

Ready to Set Sail on Your Caribbean Cruise?

From beautiful beaches and picturesque sunsets to delicious food and fruity cocktails, there’s something in the Caribbean for everyone.

So what are you waiting for? Book that ticket, pack your bags, and get ready for the experience of a lifetime on an upcoming Caribbean cruise.

Bon voyage!

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6 Tips To Make A Living Betting On Sports In 2019

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One of the beautiful things about the rise and power of the internet is that it has opened many different career opportunities that didn’t exist before. Jobs such as digital marketing, website creation, and digital design are just a few examples of internet created jobs. Even better, most of these jobs can be self-taught over the internet itself. As of today, we are seeing many of these jobs jump into other industries such as business and sports.

A great example of this can be seen with professional sports betting. While it may have fun perks such as remote work and getting to watch sports for a living, this job is also known as one of the most demanding in this field. It requires extensive knowledge, financial backing, and a will-to-win attitude. Anything less than these qualities can be devastatingly costly. That being said, the internet once again comes to the rescue by providing many different resources to succeed as a professional sports bettor on sites like ทางเข้า gclub. Some cases of sports betters started off doing it for fun and have turned it into a passion job that pays very well. To be clear, nothing can guarantee success to that extent. However, in the case you want to achieve similar success, here are six tips to make a living betting on sports in 2019.

#1: Always Have A Budget Limit

Before thinking about strategies or emergency escape plans, the first step in making a living off of sports betting is to create a budget limit. Having a limit has far more benefits than people realize. In addition to saving you from huge financial losses, a budget can be used to help you allocate money on different bets, use the extra money for bet support, and other similar benefits.

#2: Research For Value

After setting a budget, the first technical thing to learn how to do is research. To be more specific, you need to learn how to research for value over quantity. Researching the opposite is one of the most common mistakes that rookie bettors make. By sticking to statistics and numerical reasons to bet, it will allow you to take factors such as a biased opinion or lucky picks out of the equation

#3: Never Chase Your Losses

One of the most limiting factors when it comes to betting is emotion. Mixing emotion with betting most often leads to financial losses opposed to lucky wins. Because of this, make sure to always tell yourself to never chase yours loses. Doing so will most likely lead you down a rabbit hole of chasing losses that will eventually lead you in some serious financial trouble.

#4: Know The Betting Rules Like The Back Of Your Hand

Another important factor in being a successful bettor is making sure you know the betting rules of the platform you are on. For the most part, different platforms have different rules. Also, as a professional bettor, you will most likely be on different platforms placing bets. So, by knowing the rules, it will allow you to avoid penalties and find loopholes within the systems.

#5: Find A Consistent Betting Strategy

After some time in the game, you will come to find a successful strategy that works better than others. Once you find one, it’s best to stick to it in cases of uncertainty. As far as how to get on, that comes through experience combined with trial and error.

#6: Always Ignore Personal Bias

Similar to taking the emotion out of betting, personal bias is a specific form of it to look out for. The reality of sports betting is that your favorite teams often tend to get a priority. If you want to make a living doing this, ignore personal bias at all costs.26

The best video you’ll see all week: Liam Gallagher on Oasis, John Lennon, and Being a True Rock Star

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Rock icon Liam Gallagher answers 73 questions while taking a brisk stroll through London’s Hampstead Heath. Garbed in his traditional dress, a black parka jacket, Liam cruises through the heath, petting dogs while talking about Oasis, John Lennon, his brother, Blur, and his children. This episode one was shot entirely in one attempt—no rehearsal, no advance peek at the questions.

Music moguls Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles on hip hop, rock and roll & the future of music

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Veteran music executives Kevin Liles and Lyor Cohen open up about their work running Def Jam and 300 Entertainment and working with a roster including Jay Z, Beastie Boys, RUN DMC, A Tribe Called Quest, Ja Rule, Mariah Carey and Public Enemy. The executives also tackle issues of class, race, gender, technology and the challenges of balancing business and art in the latest episode of “Mavericks with Ari Melber,” a series of interviews with artists, musicians and cultural icons.

Beat Happening Release “We Are Beat Happening” Box Set on November 29

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Beat Happening Release “We Are Beat Happening” Box Set on November 29

They are Beat Happening and this is the definitive document.

On November 29th, Domino will release We Are Beat Happening, a box set of the band’s entire recorded output: seven LPs that showcase how the band created an international network of underground pop entirely on their own terms. The albums have been newly remastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road Studios, and this will be the first time the entire Beat Happening catalogue has been in print in over a decade.

The story of Beat Happening – Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford – began in Olympia, Washington at the dawn of the 1980s. After playing their first ever shows in Japan, the trio released five albums and four EPs throughout 1984 to 1992. Whilst they may have played their last show in 1992 and made their final recording in 2000, it’s tricky to define their cessation. Along with the music they made and the shows that they played, Beat Happening created a connectivity that is still completely present.

In the early days, Beat Happening were able to exist through the help of other bands lending them instruments and offering support; the three-piece reached out hands and sought connections wherever they went. Their shows in Japan came about through a fellow student at Olympia’s Evergreen State College. They shared an ethos and sonic aesthetic with the Glasgow scene of The Pastels and The Vaselines, and when their UK tour took them to Glasgow in 1988, they cemented that alliance.

Dischord’s Ian MacKaye and Johnson first met when Calvin was in high school. Several years later, they formed a friendship that connected the Washington, D.C. and Olympia scenes. Beat Happening’s tours with Fugazi were instructive on many levels, but particularly on the nature of punk rock. Beat Happening’s rebuttal of aggression as a core principle of punk was hard for many Fugazi fans to perceive, let alone swallow. Each show the two bands played together offered new iterations of fearlessness.

As their touring wound down in the early ‘90s, Beat Happening went on a memorable 1992 jaunt through the Pacific Northwest with Stuart Moxham (Young Marble Giants) and Bratmobile. The five shows presented a spectrum of idiosyncratic punk that ranged from its UK beginnings through to the emerging Riot Grrrl movement. Beat Happening made so much sense playing between those two acts. Their songs connected the dots between post-punk’s minimalism and Riot Grrrl’s destruction of the rulebook, illustrating why their unvarnished sound and singular song craft held sway over so much of ‘90’s indie music.

The legend of Beat Happening, and of K, the label that Calvin Johnson founded, is full of big names worked with before they were big (Beck, Modest Mouse, Gossip), and big names influenced (Kurt Cobain, Sleater-Kinney, REM—who covered “Indian Summer”). Beat Happening and K have also worked with the likes of Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie, The Microphones), Steve Fisk, Mark Lanegan and Conrad Uno.

And now, in 2019, Bret, Heather and Calvin all have families and careers. Bret and Calvin are in bands. Heather, who does all the artwork for the band, continues to make art. They are still the most faithful friends. But in as much as Beat Happening was never like other bands, why should the extent of their existence be defined by normal criterion? We are Beat Happening. Note the verb tense.

The We Are Beat Happening box set includes six albums over seven LPs, with a brand-new 36-page booklet housed in a hard-outer box. The booklet, written by Lois Maffeo, also features rare & unseen pictures & paintings from the band.

My next read: Michael Ochs’ hardcover 1,000 Record Covers

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My next read: Michael Ochs’ hardcover 1,000 Record Covers

Vinyl’s back in style and in this selection of 1000 of the most iconic record sleeves from the 60s to 90s, we recall why it’s the biggest and best music format ever in Michael Ochs’ hardcover 1,000 Record Covers. Iconic artwork, memorable cover-sleeves, and long-lost classics all jostle for space in this virtual shelf of music history. You can get it here.

Ringo Starr, Jimmy Fallon & The Roots Sing “Yellow Submarine”

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Ringo Starr joins Jimmy Fallon and The Roots to perform the Beatles hit “Yellow Submarine” with classroom instruments.

Mark Hollis’ Only Solo Album To Be Re-Issued On Vinyl

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Mark Hollis’ Only Solo Album To Be Re-Issued On Vinyl

A genuine ‘lost classic’ is now available again on heavyweight vinyl, with original artwork – printed inner sleeve with lyrics and credits.

The only solo album by former Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis, released January 1998. Despite being released as a solo album by Hollis, it was originally intended to be credited to Talk Talk, under the name ‘Mountains of the Moon’.

A beautiful and haunting work, this album picks up where he left off with Talk Talk’s’ Laughing Stock’ seven years before, re-emerging with a suite of music that encompassed jazz, ambient, and folk.

His inspiration came not from ‘pop’ but 20th-century classical music and jazz from the late fifties and sixties (there is a distinct flavour of Miles Davis – ‘In A Silent Way’ here) and is one of the quietest and most intimate records ever made – creating an exceptional atmosphere in which the listener can submerge.

A Life (1895 – 1915), which has been referred to as “the album’s epic centrepiece” refers to Roland Leighton (1895–1915), a British soldier and poet who was the fiancé of Vera Brittain at the time of his death in World War I. Hollis has stated about the song…“That was someone born before the turn of the century…and dying within one year of the First World War at a young age. It was based on Vera Brittain’s boyfriend. It’s the expectation that must have been in existence at the turn of the century, the patriotism that must’ve existed at the start of the war and the disillusionment that must’ve come immediately afterwards. It’s the very severe mood swings that fascinated me”.

The understated artistry and minimalist beauty of tracks like The Colour of Spring and Watershed makes ‘Mark Hollis’ a truly unique and indelible listening experience.

Mark Hollis Track Listing
Side A
1 The Colour Of Spring
2 Watershed
3 Inside Looking Out
4 The Gift
Side B
1 A Life (1895-1915)
2 Westward Bound
3 The Daily Planet
4 A New Jerusalem

a-ha Set To Release “Hunting High And Low” Expanded Edition With Dozens Of Rare Tracks

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Sep 25, 2019

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a-ha rocketed to stardom in dramatic fashion in 1985 when the group’s debut single, “Take On Me” topped the charts in 36 different countries on its way to becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time. The following year, a-ha was nominated for Best New Artist in 1986, making a-ha the first Norwegian band to be nominated for a Grammy. Their legacy continues to grow in 2019, as the iconic music video for “Take On Me” nears billion views on YouTube, a feat very few artists have accomplished before.

Rhino will introduce a new version of Hunting High And Low 30th Anniversary Edition on November 15 titled HUNTING HIGH AND LOW EXPANDED EDITION. It will include all four CDs from the original 2015 release along with an edited version of the booklet presented in a 10-panel Softpack including essay by Kieron Tyler.

The first disc of the HUNTING HIGH AND LOW EXPANDED EDITION features a remastered version of the original album, which has sold more than 10 million copies since its 1985 debut.

The second disc is packed with more than two dozen rare demos, such as an early version of “Take On Me” recorded in 1982 under the title of “Lesson One.” Other highlights from the second disc include demos for all five singles taken from the album: the title track, “The Sun Always Shines On T.V.,” “Train Of Thought,” “Love Is Reason” and of course “Take On Me.”

Remixes and single versions of various tracks from Hunting High And Low are collected on the third disc including unique 7” versions of the UK # 1 hit “The Sun Always Shines On T.V.” and the single remix of “Hunting High And Low.” This disc also presents extended versions of “Train Of Thought” (Dub Mix) and “Take On Me” (1985 12” Mix), along with the B-sides “Driftwood” and “Stop! And Make Your Mind Up.”

The final disc presents an alternate version of the original album using early and alternate mixes for every album track, including the version of “Take On Me” that was used for the music video.

HUNTING HIGH AND LOW EXPANDED EDITION
CD Track Listing:

Disc One – Original Album

“Take On Me”
“Train Of Thought”
“Hunting High And Low”
“The Blue Sky”
“Living A Boy’s Adventure Tale”
“The Sun Always Shines On T.V.”
“And You Tell Me”
“Love Is Reason”
“I Dream Myself Alive”
“Here I Stand And Face The Rain”

Disc Two: The Demos 1982-1984

“Lesson One” (Autumn 1982 “Take On Me” Demo)
“Presenting Lily Mars” (Naersnes Demo)
“Nå Blåser Det På Jorden” (Naersnes Demo)
“The Sphinx” (Naersnes Demo)
“Living A Boy’s Adventure Tale” (Naersnes Demo)
“Dot The I”
“The Love Goodbye”
“Nothing To It”
“Go To Sleep”
“Train Of Thought” (Demo)
“Monday Mourning”
“All The Planes That Come In On The Quiet”
“The Blue Sky” (Demo)
“You Have Grown Thoughtful Again”
“What’s That You’re Doing To Yourself In The Pouring Rain”
“Take On Me” (Demo)
“Hunting High And Low” (Demo)
“I Dream Myself Alive” (Demo)
“And You Tell Me” (Demo)
“Here I Stand And Face The Rain” (Demo)
“Love Is Reason” (Demo)
“The Blue Sky” (2nd Demo)
“Never Never”
“The Sun Always Shines On T.V.” (Demo)
“Presenting Lily Mars” (Rendezvous Demo)

Disc Three: Singles, Extended Versions & B-Sides

“Take On Me” (Original 7” Version 1984)
“Take On Me” (1984 12” Mix)
“Stop! And Make Your Mind Up”
“Take On Me” (1985 12” Mix)
“Take On Me” (Instrumental Mix)
“The Sun Always Shines On T.V.” (7” Mix)
“The Sun Always Shines On T.V.” (Extended Version)
“Driftwood”
“The Sun Always Shines On T.V.” (Extended Version)
“The Sun Always Shines On T.V.” (Instrumental)
“Train Of Thought” (7” Remix)
“Train Of Thought” (U.S. Remix)
“Train Of Thought” (Dub Mix)
“Hunting High And Low” (7” Remix)
“Hunting High And Low” (Extended Remix)

Disc Four: The Alternate Mixes

“Take On Me” (Video Version)
“Train Of Thought” (Early Mix)
“Hunting High And Low” (Early Mix)
“The Blue Sky” (Alternate Long Mix)
“Living A Boy’s Adventure Tale” (Early Mix)
“The Sun Always Shines On T.V.” (Alternate Early Mix)
“And You Tell Me” (Early Mix)
“Love Is Reason” (Early Mix)
“Dream Myself Alive” (Early “NYC” Mix)
“Here I Stand And Face The Rain” (Early Mix)

The members of OK Go sign the alphabet using American Sign Language

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In conjunction withthe OK Go Sandbox and the Playful Learning Lab at the University of Saint Thomas, the visually great OK Go took turns visually reciting the letters of the American alphabet in American Sign Language (ASL).