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A last throw of the dice for Messi sailed over the net.

It is a risky strategy, one with the air of a final throw of the dice.

Weakening the dollar is the last throw of the dice in rescuing the global economy, according to Saxo Bank's Steen Jakobsen.

"Clearly, her last throw of the dice is count down the clock and try to bounce people into voting for it," Mr. Springford said.

But for the countries that are running out of time, it offers a last throw of the dice before they sink beneath the waves.

The new strategy is the latest throw of the dice from Patterson who won early plaudits from investors when he moved BT into sports TV and mobile.

The gathering in Canterbury had been seen as a last throw of the dice to try to hold together the 85m-strong Communion, the world's third-largest group of Christians.

Another chance: Benny Feilhaber, who entered minutes earlier as Arena's last throw of the dice, wins a header in the goal mouth but drives it downward, where Foncette bats it away.

" I wonder also about the title's rendering "A Throw" as the somewhat misleading "One Toss," perhaps just to differ from Gordon Millan's fine biography, correctly entitled "A Throw of the Dice.

The party's deputy leader Tom Watson is due to meet trade union representatives, Labour's financial backers, in a "last throw of the dice" to try and reach a deal over Corbyn's leadership.

I was reminded of the artist's book Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance) by Marcel Broodthaers, which was published in 1969.

Electing someone president is always the gamble of a throw of the dice, the battle of anger verse optimism, the tolerance of believing in the greater good as opposed to the individual need.

He could not comprehend that a person who comes thousands of miles to stand at a table and wager $10,000 over and over again on a throw of the dice is motivated by something other than money.

In fact, we know that this happens routinely—it's a simple throw of the dice for one of these leaps to coincide with subtle adaptations that allow the virus to transmit more efficiently from human to human.

The party's deputy leader Tom Watson told Labour lawmakers on Monday he would meet with trade union representatives, Labour's financial backers, in a "last throw of the dice" to try and reach a deal over Corbyn's leadership, his spokesman said.

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will address her Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday, possibly to set out a timetable for her departure in a last throw of the dice to win support for her twice-rejected Brexit deal in parliament.

With the exception of one grand experiment—the free-form poem "Un Coup de Dés," or "A Throw of the Dice," proofs of which he was correcting at the time of his death—Mallarmé persisted with his sonnets and alexandrines.

The plan could be the last throw of the dice for Fallon, who has issued a series of profit warnings since he took over in 21.1, in contrast to the steady growth delivered by his predecessor Marjorie Scardino during her 16 years in charge.

The plan could be the last throw of the dice for Fallon, who has issued a series of profit warnings since he took over in 21520, in contrast to the steady growth delivered by his predecessor Marjorie Scardino during her 16 years in charge.

What we have here, with this statement and the creation of the Night Time Commission itself, is a final throw of the dice from a mayor who seems to have understood that his time in power is one during which London stopped being a city for the young, for the creative, for the non-independently wealthy.

Autograph layout (1896). Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard (A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance) is a poem by the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé. Its intimate combination of free verse and unusual typographic layout anticipated the 20th century interest in graphic design and concrete poetry.

She unsuccessfully contested the 2016 Irish general election for the Galway East constituency. She was not selected for re-appointment to the 25th Seanad. Higgins complained about how "regrettable" it was that more women were not included in the parliamentary party. She was quoted as saying: "For me it was the last throw of the dice and I probably won't be involved in representative politics again".

Zanzibar (2002), is set in east Africa and explores the events surrounding the bombings of American embassies in 1998. Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle for Lake Tanganyika, was published in 2004. In 2009, he donated the short story "(One Last) Throw of the Dice" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Foden's story was published in the Water collection.

That is, by individual system, it is meant a single experiment or single throw of the dice, of that system. The Craps throws could equally well have been of only one dice, that is, a single system or particle. Classical statistics would also equally account for repeated throws of this single dice. It is in this manner, that the ensemble interpretation is quite able to deal with "single" or individual systems on a probabilistic basis.

Over lunch with Foch on 15 July he agreed to send another two British divisions to Champagne. The "Peace Offensive" turned out to be the last German throw of the dice. On 17 July Haig asked for XXII Corps back, but did not get it. On 18 July a major Allied offensive, the Second Battle of the Marne, began. Most of the troops involved were French and American, but XXII Corps (4 divisions in total) participated from 20 July.

In practice, to cast a spell, the magician must first pass the Casting, which is automatic if the fate is known to BMR 0, which otherwise requires a throw of the dice. Then it must reach its target spell correctly (Targeting), the effectiveness of targeting depends on experience and that of its target. Some spells do not need to be targeted, they act on an area of effect. Finally, if fate is kind of illusion or charm, the target is allowed a Saving throw, using either intelligence (for illusions) or wisdom (for command) to resist.

There were also two memorable FA Cup runs in the early 70s. The Second Round was reached in 1971–72 before a 4-1 defeat by Bolton Wanderers in front of 12,000 at Bury's Gigg Lane brought the run to an end. The other was in 1975–76 when Shrewsbury Town claimed a controversial 1–0 win in the First Round to sneak through. The cup run of 1975–76 proved to be the last throw of the dice from that successful side as financial difficulties struck the club hard.

However a loan deal was made which would take Rodgers to Yeovil until the January transfer window, when the club would have the option of purchasing him for £30,000 fee, with a 10% sell-on clause (an offer Yeovil boss Russell Slade described as "the final throw of the dice"). Despite all this, when January came he was released from his contract by mutual consent, having had a disagreement with manager Dean Glover. Glover claimed the decision was motivated by a desire to free up the wage bill.

King George V, French President Raymond Poincare and Haig at GHQ at Montreuil, 7 August 1918 The "Peace Offensive" turned out to be the last German throw of the dice. "Hagen" was finally cancelled, and in July and August the Germans were defeated, by Allied forces at the Second Battle of the Marne, and by Rawlinson's Fourth Army (British Australian and Canadian Corps) at Amiens. The latter victory, enjoying complete air and artillery superiority and using over 500 tanks,Hart 2008, p. 311. was described by General Erich Ludendorff as "The Black Day of the German Army" after mass surrenders of German troops.

The Court > itself, divided into red and white squares, being the board, and an enormous > stone raised on four feet, representing the central point. It was here that > Akbar and his courtiers played this game; sixteen young slaves from the > harem wearing the players' colours, represented the pieces, and moved to the > squares according to the throw of the dice. It is said that the Emperor took > such a fancy to playing the game on this grand scale that he had a court for > pachisi constructed in all his palaces, and traces of such are still visible > at Agra and Allahabad.Falkener 1892, pp.

The French did not have the clear sea they hoped for the crossing, nor could they now spare the number of troops on the continent. A number of flaws in the plan had also become apparent, including the fact that claims of the number of Jacobite supporters were now considered wildly optimistic. The campaign was considered a last throw of the dice for the Jacobites to have any realistic hope of reclaiming the British throne. After the campaign the French soon abandoned the Stuarts entirely, withdrawing their support, and forcing them to take up a new home in Rome.

In a retrospective of 4AD by music journalist Martin Aston, he noted that Fraser named the album Heaven or Las Vegas as "a suggestion of truth versus artifice, of music versus commerce, or perhaps a gamble, one last throw of the dice". Heaven or Las Vegas' drum programming was done by Guthrie, the first step in the template of every Cocteau Twins recording session. Guthrie and Raymonde would construct the music before Fraser stepped in the studio to record her vocals. Raymonde likened Guthrie's rhythms on the album to hip hop beats–despite their music being far removed from it, he acknowledged that it came from a "dance-y" place.

20-40, From "L'inexistence divine", Quentin Meillassoux, translated by Nathan Brown In September 2011, Meillassoux's book on Stéphane Mallarmé was published in France under the title Le nombre et la sirène. Un déchiffrage du coup de dés de Mallarmé. In this second book, he offers a detailed reading of Mallarmé's famous poem "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" ("A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance"), in which he finds a numerical code at work in the text. Meillassoux clarified and revised some of the views exposed in After Finitude during his lectures at the Free University of Berlin in 2012.

Although Delap was born in Sutton Coldfield to Irish parents, his family moved to Carlisle when he was just six months old. He therefore supported Carlisle United and attended matches at Brunton Park with his father.Stoke City Official Matchday Magazine 14 August 2011 v Chelsea Rory's father is John Delap from Letterkenny and his mother Maura Delap from Kells.Ciaran Cronin, Backstage – Throw of the dice, Sunday Tribune, 2 November 2008 His uncle is Paddy Delap, a Letterkenny businessman, golfer, and athletics coach who runs Clarke's Newsagent's and organises an annual charity cycling event in aid of cancer noted for launching the career of former Cervélo TestTeam member Philip Deignan.

A set of poker dice and a dice cup Dice games are among the oldest known games and have often been associated with gambling. Non-gambling dice games, such as Yatzy, Poker dice, or Yahtzee became popular in the mid-20th century. The line between dice and board games is not clear-cut, as dice are often used as randomization devices in board games, such as Monopoly or Risk, while serving as the central drivers of play in games such as Backgammon or Pachisi. Dice games differ from card games in that each throw of the dice is an independent event, whereas the odds of a given card being drawn is affected by all the previous cards drawn or revealed from a deck.

The Baron of Inchiquin and Theobald Taaffe (who had fought on opposite sides at the Battle of Knocknanuss only two years before) were given command of a force of 2,500. This operation was of particular importance to the credibility of Inchiquin: he was distrusted by the majority Catholic population of Ireland due to a number of atrocities he had committed in the previous years of fighting, and in the autumn of 1649 many of the Protestant soldiers in Munster formerly loyal to him had mutinied and joined with the forces of Parliament. He now had a chance to regain some standing; it was more or less Inchiquin's last throw of the dice. The English soldiers under Major Nelson left Dublin in the last days of October.

'Marcel Broodthaers, Tate Gallery, 1980, p15 > As for the idea of establishing a direct relationship between literature and > the plastic arts, I'm afraid I have done so by taking as a subject A Throw > Of The Dice, by Mallarmé !!! — Broodthaers"Quant à l'idée d'établir un > rapport direct entre littérature et arts plastique j'ai peur l'avoir fait en > prenant comme sujet Le Coup de Dès, de Mallarmé !!!" letter quoted in Marcel > Broodthaers, Catalogue des Livres, 1957-75, Galerie Michael Werner, Köln > 1982, p27 Mallarmé had written the poem in 1897 and left copious notes as to how it should be typeset, instructions that were finally carried out 16 years after his death, in 1914. The poem was famous for its extraordinary typography, which anticipated the 20th century interest in graphic design and concrete poetry.

One11 received positive reviews from film and music critics, with Palm D'Or-winning filmmaker Louis Malle calling it "very strong, very daring, and finally completely mesmerizing." Gramophone magazine stated that the production was "a splendid project carried out with dedication by all concerned" and noted the "remarkable quality of these uniquely pure visual images, studies in light ranging from total black to total white," while The Wire commented, "what an extraordinary valedictory throw of the dice." The film originally aired on German television and has been presented at various theatrical venues and exhibitions since its premiere in September 1992. After Cage died in August 1992, Lohner and Carlson paid homage to the musician with the meticulously "composed film" The Revenge of the Dead Indians, featuring artists such as Dennis Hopper, Matt Groening and Yoko Ono.

He was a contributing writer at Los Angeles magazine. His work as a translator of the 19th century, French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé was included in exhibitions at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Langson Library at the University of California Irvine, the Clark Humanities Museum at Scripps College and at the Mallarmé centenary symposium held at the City University of New York. His translation of Mallarmé's Un coup de dés/A Throw of the Dice is in the collections of the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, as well as the special collections of the Princeton, Brown, UCLA, USC, Yale, and Harvard libraries. This translation was reprinted, along with a brief analysis of the poem, in Parnassus: Poetry in Review in 2005.

In March 2011, ITV announced that it was incorporating Daybreak into its ITV News operation as part of a management restructure.ITV brings Daybreak closer to news team Digital Spy, 16 March 2011 In July 2011 it was announced that production of the show, along with that of sister programme, Lorraine would be taken over by ITV Studios.Daybreak staff fear job losses Mirror Online, 6 July 2011. In August 2011, This Morning executive Karl Newton was being charged with the transition to ITV Studios and is revamping the show to give it "one last throw of the dice" to boost its ratings.This Morning executive brought in to oversee Daybreak Digital Spy, 12 August 2011 On 2 September 2011, ITV announced that former BBC Breakfast chief, David Kermode, currently editor of 5 News is to take over as editor of the programme from 1 December 2011, heralding a major revamp to the presenting team and the format.

Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard, 1969 Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance) is an artist's book by Marcel Broodthaers published November 1969 in Antwerp. The work is a close copy of the first edition of the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé's poem of the same name, published in 1914, but with all the words removed, replaced by black stripes that correspond directly to the typographic layout used by Mallarmé to articulate the text. > Broodthaers reduces Un Coup de Dés to its structure - or to put it another > way he elevates the structure of the work to a concept worthy of study in > its own right, thus acknowledging Mallarmé's own fetishistic attention to > this aspect of his work. Rendering the structure concrete, visible, almost > tactile, Broodthaers offers a conceptual analysis of Mallarmé's poem across > the distance of a nearly a century...It would be hard to imagine a more > subtle treatment of Mallarmé's work, or one more capable of demonstrating > its essential properties, than this reworked book by Broodthaers.