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12 August 2011
Photography: Bright Young Things
Photos by Jeff Bark, styled by Kate Harrowsmith, Marie Claire AU April 2011
It's not often that I see an editorial from a major fashion magazine that catches my eye. I guess this one from Marie Claire Australia has been floating around the internet for a few months but I didn't really pay much attention to it back when spring was just beginning and I was getting excited about the prospect of sundresses and sandals. Now that I'm beginning to think about the inevitability of fall's arrival I'm looking at it in a whole new light. Let's go over the checklist: prim and proper skirts, pretty white blouses, striped knits, muted colors, sailor inspired details. Yep! I think that just about sums up my entire fall wishlist!
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9 comments:
- Unknown said...
These looks are all so gorgeous! My fave are the tan wedges though, I'm such a sucker for shoes.
Grace x
secretly styled.
- August 12, 2011
- Unknown said...
oh! iam in love aboutthe skirts! :)
- August 12, 2011
- Vanessa, Take only Memories said...
So pretty!
- August 12, 2011
- Leah said...
My favourite thing about this shoot is the hairstlyes.
Gorgeous bobs and finger waves and general jauntiness.
Also the extreme wide-leg trousers!
- August 12, 2011
- sweet harvest moon said...
Wow, love this!
- August 12, 2011
- thepinkmateproject said...
i love this spread! the clothes are amazing. Even the hair and makeup!
- August 13, 2011
- PuppyLovePrincess said...
oh yumyumyummy...
- August 13, 2011
- valee_gm said...
Follow me!
- August 13, 2011
- helen turnbull said...
Stunning summery shoot.
Helen, X
- August 13, 2011
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I can't believe it's Thursday already. This week has flown by. It's been busy and I haven't had much time just to relax. Things should start slowing down for me for the week now.
I was happy when I weighed this morning to see that my weight had stayed steady. I gained .6, but that's nothing- and totally a daily fluctuation. So hopefully I can keep this up!
For breakfast, I focused on protein. I had an omelet made of 1/2 cup of liquid egg whites, 2% sharp cheddar cheese, and deli chicken breast. I also had a banana and a cup of 1% milk for 8 points total.
Not the prettiest picture but what a filling breakfast!
On my way to class, I drank a green smoothie (2 oranges, 1 cup spinach). I was anxious to try out protein powder for the first time. I picked up Jillian Michael's Whey protein powder- vanilla flavor. It was good. I didn't notice an after taste at all. But it did mask the flavor of my fruit, which was too bad. But the vanilla flavor was delicious-It was creamy and satisfying- makes me wonder what the chocolate would taste like. This was 3 points.
It kept me full up until lunch time for sure- which was nice!
For lunch, I ate a salad made of lettuce, spinach, avocado, tomato, a boiled egg, deli chicken, feta cheese, cashews and light ranch for 11 points.
For a little sweet ending, I had 1/2 of a AE Dairy Greek Clementine yogurt for 2 points.
Before signing in to work, I made myself a cup of coffee with half and half for 1 point.
Work went quickly today. After work, I tried to figure out what courses I want to take next semester, but they've changed the system and it was impossible to find courses. I seriously looked for 2 hours and I'm still not totally sure what I'm doing. But I'll get it figured out!
When I was hungry, I ate supper. Usually by the time I get off of work I am famished, but lately- I just haven't felt like eating- which is weird for me. And I just wait and eventually I get hungry. This is new to me!
I baked a Tyson all natural breaded chicken patty, topped with alfredo sauce and with a side of broccoli for 7 points.
YUM! And for dessert, I had a cup of strawberries topped with 1/2 serving chocolate syrup for 1 point.
And I am right at my points target for the day! I did a really good job with my percentages today- 41.56% Carbs, 29.97% Fat, and 28.47% Protein. I'm going for 40-30-30- so that's really close!
I couldn't be happier that tomorrow is Friday and hubby is coming home. This has been a hard week and I'm really missing him! There's something stress relieving about hugs from hubby- and I miss that! At least week 1 is down and hopefully only 3 more to go! The semester is staring to come to a close and that gets stressful. I have a big project to work on with a partner- so I have that to get started this weekend. I'll feel better once we have a plan.
But for now- I'm going to forget everything for a little while and just relax. I started watching Season 1 of 30 Rock the other day- and I think I might watch some more of it and get some laughs in. We all need to take some time for ourselves every once in a while!

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Six Design Trends to Keep Your House in Style
Have you've looked around your house lately and thought things needed an update? Maybe the pillows are tired and the accessories have been the same for years. Here are six trends to jump start your style. Adding any of these elements will give both you and your space a lift.
The Big Brass Band we want to say "say it isn't so" - but it's true. Brass hardware has returned and is showing up in the latest home projects in a variety of way. If you like it, it's a pretty easy transition. You can switch out some handles, perhaps get a brass lamp and vase or candle holder. It will give you the update without the long-term commitment. Here we're showing the brass look inside a closet – just in case you want to make a longer term commitment!
Simply Elegant – think classic kinds of prints. These are great if they match your personality. They have good staying power, as anything classic does. Pictured here are window coverings from Home Decor.
Gloss – love this trend. Technology in material development allows for using gloss materials that don't require as big of a financial commitment as they used to. A great way to incorporate a small amount is to just do a few doors or drawers. Then in a few years, if you've planned correctly, you can change those out for a different material.
Bright Colors – another fun trend that's also somewhat driven by technology. We now have the ability to make all kinds of things in all kinds of colors. And bright isn't just for kids anymore.
Antiques – perhaps this is a fondness for a simpler time when things seemed to move more slowly or an appreciation for the paths we have walked in order to get to where we are. And the paths our grandparents have walked. Antiques can honor family heritage or just be incorporated for beauty and tradition.
Sophisticated Man Caves – never really liked this term, but it seems to work for the men and that's what matters. Dedicating space that allows boys to be boys is a great idea on many levels. It continues to be in demand and evolving. We're seeing bar space and gadget space and an overdose of electronics. All fun and fancy.
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1947 Chevrolet Pickup Interior Insulation and Seating - Sittin' Pretty
Project Shop Truck
As is often the case with any of our personal projects, they take longer than we would like them to. Such is the case with our Project Shop Truck build. It's a '47 Chevy pickup based on brand-new sheetmetal that we obtained from Chevs of the 40's and dropped onto a Fatman chassis under the direction of Dean Livermore of Hot Rods by Dean (Phoenix). From here our five-window pickup was destined to be a work truck. The idea was to build a truck using new pieces showing that you can start with nothing or you can start with an assortment of pieces and fill in the gaps. What we have ended up with is a daily driver that can also be used as a shop truck, a push truck, or a tow truck. In other words, it's a great truck.
We have already run stories on the frame, suspension, and engine and transmission. In the future we will have something on paint. But this month we will focus on the first of two parts on the interior insulation and seating. We will also address such items in an additional story on instrumentation (Dakota Digital); steering column and wheel (Flaming River); air conditioning (Southern Air); pedals, e-brake, and shifter (Lokar); and those oh-so-important sounds (Custom Autosound).
Speaking of comfort, the focal point of this '47 Chevy is a '47-55 power seat by Wise Guys Accessories. It's center foldout armrest with two 12V power receptacles, a 7-inch slide with 4-inch adjustable riser, and a seat-back release that will provide a myriad of adjustments for any size driver. The crew at Hot Rods by Dean has pushed the truck in and out of the shop more times than they would like to remember but finally it's complete. (Project Shop Truck made its debut at the NSRA Street Rod Nationals Plus in Louisville this past summer.) The interior was included in the build, such as the insulation, seat mounting, and upholstery. (All of the dash-related items will fall to another story.)
Over the Wise Guys bench seat, door, and kick panels, and the rear of the cab area, Glenn Kramer of Hot Rod Interiors by Glenn (Glendale, Arizona) covered everything in cream and red vinyl with a matching red carpet and floor mats, including sunvisors. The upholstery hand tools came by way of The Eastwood Company. (The Pro Upholstery kit comes with 300 hog rings and a bent-nose, straight-nose, and stretching pliers. All ideally suited for the at-home hot rodder.) Plenty of sound and heat insulation came from Dynamat, which is known for reducing excess heat, engine, and road noise.
Follow along and see how you can spiff up your truck's interior with a number of aftermarket pieces.
Wise Guys Seating and Accessories supplied an awesome adjustable seat and foam kit.
Jonathan Williams of Hot Rods by Dean measures the seat prior to fitting it to the cab floor.
Williams installs the rod linking the two front-to-back seat adjuster mechanisms, which work in tandem.
The power port for the seat is checked to make sure it is in good working order.
To allow access to the back of the cab, Wise Guys engineered this particular unit with a tilt-release lever on the driver-side seat back.
The seat's measurements are transferred to the floor of the cab.
Once all the measurements are double-checked, mounting holes are drilled in the Chevs of the 40's cab floor.
All holes are de-burred prior to installing the seat support plates.
Reinforced support plates provide additional floor and seat support. The different-sized plates correspond to the driver and passenger side of the cab.
The smaller of the two support plates is designed to clear the battery box cover.
The larger of the two plates is test-fit.
The seat with its risers is bolted to the floor. It's now off to Hot Rod Interiors by Glenn for upholstery.
For mock-up purposes, a thick cardboard is used to create various templates that are then transferred to a harder KB board used for the rugs on the firewall and the upholstered door panels.
Brian Willingham of Hot Rod Interiors by Glenn installs template boards on the firewall. When transferred to KB board they will be covered to match the rugs.
Dynamat keeps out engine heat to keep the cab cool. Chevs of the 40's sill plates at the edge of the floor hold the carpet in place; the extruded aluminum can be purchased at Home Depot. The white areas in the Dynamat are "close-cell" foam. Used to fill in the voids in the floor, it provides a flat, smooth surface for the padding.
Willingham applies glue to adhere the rebond carpet foam to the floor. Rebond is similar to carpet padding, and provides a soft plush feel under your feet.
No floor is perfectly flat; an orbital disc sander and a gentle touch ensure a flat floor for a perfect fit.
Willingham trims the edge of the seal plate to allow for the thickness of the carpet to slide under, and sit even with the sill plate.
Kramer holds an example of the aluminum stock used to create the seal plate.
The extruded aluminum is cut to the desired length.
Kramer drills and installs the Chevs of the 40's sill plate with sheetmetal screws.
The carpet positioned in the cab is now ready to be cut and trimmed.
The carpet and the matching floor mats are now completed. The holes in the carpet are for the seat riser.
With the carpet removed, the raw seat is test-fitted.
The metal seat frame is now fitted with foam pads and custom contoured to STREET RODDER specs.
Kramer and his righthand man, Willingham, made quick work of upholstering the seat so we could photograph the process for this article.
The fold-out armrest makes long hauls a bit more comfortable.
Template board is cut to the shape of the kick panel and test-fitted.
Lines are drawn on the board to mimic the reveals in the door's sheetmetal. Foam was cut and installed between the board and upholstery material.
The kick panel with the foam is test-fit; note the lines that match the reveals in the door.
Kramer measures the vinyl, then marks where the stitching will mimic the door reveals.
The vinyl is stitched along the pre-marked lines.
The completed kick panel is wrapped and stapled to the KB backer board.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
50 genealogy blogs you need to read in 2013!
What makes a geneablog great? Many people's responses to this question via Twitter and Google+ have guided the choices here for Inside History's 2nd Annual Genealogy Blog Awards.
Surprisingly, no-one suggested passion, which is an extension of commitment. When examining the blogs for this list, commitment from an institutional or commercial blog, or passion from a personal blog rated highly. A blogger does not have to post daily to have commitment, but it needs to be on a regular basis be it daily, weekly or monthly. Readers also need to know what to expect, and this should be communicated in an About page on a blog. Other static pages such as calendars, contact details, disclosures and other relevant information also add value. Originality was the feature that received the most mentions and this has been a big factor in determining the awards. In the words of one respondent, we were looking for blogs that contain more than 'simply press releases'. It's great to see new blogs being launched all the time in the geneablogging world, and some of these are included here, such as Irish Genealogy News and Jax Trax.
The following list of Inside History's top 50 blogs for 2013 is divided into categories and is listed in alphabetical order rather than rank or order of merit. So without any further ado, let's reveal which blogs from around the globe made it onto our must-read (and must-follow) list for 2013…
Stay up to date with what some of our leading institutions are doing when it comes to family history. Here are a few that we like to read:
1. Archives Outside, archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.au
2. Australian War Memorial, www.awm.gov.au/blog
3. Dictionary of Sydney, trust.dictionaryofsydney.org/category/blog
4. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol
5. Kintalk, Auckland City Libraries, kintalkfamilyhistory.blogspot.com
6. Manly Families, Manly Library, manlyfamilies.blogspot.com
7. Moonee Valley History, mooneevalleyfamilylocalhistory.blogspot.com.au
8. Perth History Centre, community.perth.wa.gov.au/historycentre
9. Public Record Office Victoria, prov.vic.gov.au/publications/blog
10. National Library of Australia, blogs.nla.gov.au/the-eloquent-page
11. The National Archives, blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Organisations Want to be the first to know when new records or techy features are released? Here are our favourite blogs from genealogy organisations:
12. Ancestry.com.au, blogs.ancestry.com/au
13. Billion Graves, blog.billiongraves.com
14. FamilySearch, familysearch.org/blog
15. findmypast.com, blog.findmypast.com
16. Geneanet Genealogy Blog, genealogyblog.geneanet.org
17. Gould Genealogy and History News, www.gouldgenealogy.com
18. Legacy Family Tree, news.legacyfamilytree.com
19. MyHeritage Blog, blog.myheritage.com
Niche topics and societies Some blogs are smaller in scope, but have a largesse of informative posts on the topic at hand. Here are some examples:
20. Genealogists for Families Project, genfamilies.blogspot.com
21. Local History Newslink, Maitland NSW, localhistorynews.blogspot.com
22. The Empire Called and I Answered, empirecall.blogspot.com
23. Genealogical Society of Victoria, genealogyworld.blogspot.com.au
24. Ku-ring-gai Historical Society, kuringgaihs.blogspot.com
Personal genealogists As every researcher knows, family history is a labour of love, whether it's a hobby or a career. Here are our favourite personal blogs:
25. Anglo-Celtic Connections, anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com
26. A Rebel Hand, rebelhand.wordpress.com
27. Auld Genealogy, auldgenealogy.blogspot.com.au
28. Australian Genealogy Journeys, ausgenjourneys.blogspot.com
29. Backtracking, boobookbacktracks.blogspot.com.au
30. Chloe Okoli, chloeokoli.com
31. Dear Myrtle, blog.dearmyrtle.com
32. Family History Across the Seas, cassmob.wordpress.com
33. Family History Fun, scotsue-familyhistoryfun.blogspot.com
34. GenBlog, genblogjulie.blogspot.com
35. Genealogy's Star, genealogysstar.blogspot.com
36. Geniaus, geniaus.blogspot.com
37.Jax Trax, jackievanbergen.blogspot.com
38. Kylie's Genes, blog.kyliesgenes.com
39. Lonetester HQ, www.lonetester.com
40. Mad about Genealogy, madaboutgenealogy.com
41. Now and Then, lynnwalsh.wordpress.com
42. Strong Foundations, shazlex.blogspot.com.au
43. Stumbling Through the Past, stumblingpast.wordpress.com
44. Western District Families, mywdfamilies.wordpress.com
Professional genealogists We love these blogs that offer a regular glimpse into the work being done in the family history world:
45. British Genes, britishgenes.blogspot.com
46. Shauna Hicks, diaryofanaustraliangenealogist.blogspot.com
47. Geneabloggers, geneabloggers.com
48. Irish Genealogy News, iirish-genealogy-news.blogspot.com
49. Jayne Shrimpton, jayneshrimpton.tumblr.com
50. The Family Recorder, thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.com
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Fantastic list of excellent blogs! I love that they're categorized - very helpful, and can be put easily into a blog aggregator. Good on you!ReplyDelete
Fantastic list of excellent blogs! I love that they're categorized - very helpful, I have bookmarked this website and I will keep visiting you for further such interesting posts.ReplyDelete
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Thank you for providing such a thorough and diverse list of blogs! I appreciate the range of categories provided and it's particularly good to see the institutional sites.ReplyDelete
SECULARISTS AND THEIR VIEW OF HISTORYReplyDelete
Did you ever notice that secularists accept historical writings as fact, unless they are about God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Have you ever heard a secularist proclaim that the following men did not live and that they were not who historians said they were?
Confucius 551-479 B.C.
Plato 427-347 B.C.
Alexander the Great 356-323 B.C.
Julius Caesar 100-44 B.C.
Socrates 469-399 B.C.
Buddha 563-483 B.C.
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827
Homer 700-800 B.C.
Isaac Newton 1642-1727
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
Marco Polo 1254-1324
John Locke 1632-1704
George Washington 1732-1799
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
Secularists do not question the historical fact, that these men lived and died. They do not deny the role these men played in history. They believe this, by faith, that the historical accounts are accurate.
Secularists do deny the historical accuracy of the Bible and all other accounts that proclaim Jesus as the Son of God. They deny the historical accounts of God the Father resurrecting Jesus from the grave.
THE RESULTS OF A SELECTIVE VIEW OF HISTORICAL FACTS.(2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power.)
(Scripture from: NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE)
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A long list of informative and helpful blog, keep it continue ,thanks for sharing with us.ReplyDelete
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Cristiano Ronaldo struck midway through the first half as leaders Real Madrid won 1-0 at Malaga in La Liga on Saturday, while Atletico Madrid stayed hot on their heels after Diego Costa netted in a 1-0 victory over RCD Espanyol.
Costa, continuing a rich vein of form that has seen him bag 22 goals in the league and become a Spain international, outsprinted the defense before beating goalkeeper Kiko Casilla in the 55th minute.
It was a cagey game, but Atletico generally carried more threat in front of goal and now have 67 points, three fewer than Real.
Barcelona, who are in third place on 63 points, were to face CA Osasuna yesterday.
"Espanyol played very well and made it very difficult for us, but we were strong and knew how to cope," Costa told reporters. "We will keep going game by game and playing as we always do."
Ronaldo is the top scorer in La Liga and notched his 25th league goal of the campaign with a clinical finish from the edge of the area to see off Malaga, who battled hard, but lacked a cutting edge.
Isco missed an excellent chance to give Real a more convincing win against his former club, but the only true downside for the leaders was the injury picked up by France striker Karim Benzema.
He hurt his thigh after colliding with Ronaldo and had to be substituted, but it did not look an overly serious injury.
"We suffered because they pressed us in the second half and we were not able to get forward much," Real midfielder Xabi Alonso told reporters. "We were not sharp in moving the ball from midfield to attack. We didn't link up well."
Real were without the suspended Sergio Ramos at the back and brought in Raphael Varane.
Angel Di Maria, one booking away from a suspension and with the Clasico looming next weekend against Barca, was on the bench and Isco started.
Malaga went out looking to assert themselves and they had plenty of the ball, Nordin Amrabat a threat with his movement and energy.
However, the Andalusian side have had defensive problems all season and they stood off Ronaldo too much, giving him time to pick his spot in the bottom corner of the net after 23 minutes.
The Portuguese forward could have added a quick second goal, but was denied by a good block from Willy Caballero.
Di Maria was introduced after half an hour for Benzema, and Real started to play at their rhythm.
Isco was sent clear by Di Maria after the break, but failed to keep his cool in front of goal and fired over.
Second-placed Atletico were missing suspended duo Joao Miranda and Mario Suarez while Espanyol were able to put out their first choice 11.
Espanyol have found success this season with a solid formation, but they lack creativity going forward, and the opening stages against Atletico was a game of attrition as neither side ceded much space.
Gradually openings began to appear mainly for Atletico as David Villa went close with a couple of headers, and Gabi volleyed over from a corner, while at the other end Thibaut Courtois made a smart save to block a deflected Pizzi strike.
Costa made the breakthrough as he went past Diego Colotto with a burst of speed and placed the ball beyond Casilla's dive.
Atletico looked shaky in the final stages and they needed Courtois to parry a dangerous drive from David Lopez.
Elsewhere, Rayo Vallecano de Madrid beat UD Almeria 3-1 and Levante UD went down 1-0 at home to RC Celta de Vigo.


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This is an excerpt from Beyond the Scoreboard: An Insider's Guide to the Business of Sport by Rick Horrow and Karla Swatek.
Taking their cue from the long tradition of the Olympic Games, North American cities vying to host the Super Bowl, an All-Star Game, a regional component of a nationwide event (the NCAA tourney, the World Cup, the World Baseball Classic), or the Olympics themselves must go through an elaborate bid process. Outside of the Olympics, none is as mired in precision and politics as the bidding process for a Super Bowl.
Each November, the NFL issues a 200- to 300-page bid book to cities looking to host the game. Draft bids are due in April, and the NFL's 32 owners vote on the location at an owners' meeting sometime thereafter. Baseline hosting requirements, according to SportsBusiness Journal, include the following:
Over the years, insiders indicate that the politics of the bid process have ratcheted up considerably—as have the perks. The 2007 Miami bid committee threw in the use of a yacht for each of the 32 owners, while Tampa offered all the teams free golf. The 2011 North Texas group went green instead, offering the NFL an additional $1 million to cover game-day expenses at Cowboys Stadium, enticing enough as that new facility is on its own.
The bid process is also "shrouded in secrecy, like someone had found the Holy Grail," says Ted Ferris, chairman of the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority, the regional agency in charge of University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale and an organization heavily involved in the roll-up to Super Bowl XLII in 2008.
"Our former chairman, John Benton, gave an apt description of what our role was in the bid process," Ferris says. "We were working with the Bidwill family [the Arizona Cardinals' owners], and information was getting passed back and forth. But we never saw the entire bid document. As Benton said, if you view the bid as the plans for an airplane, we were given only the plans for a wing—the stadium and what the authority would commit to do for the NFL. We had no clue what the airplane looked like. We just knew what the wing looked like."
But it wasn't always that way. Jim Steeg, who spent 33 years with the NFL, including 26 in charge of the league's special events department, says when he first was put in charge of the Super Bowl, the bid specifications were "maybe two pages long."
"We didn't go through all of this," Steeg says. "When I first got involved, the bids were very Chamber of Commerce. Then the ante was upped in March 1979. We were in Hawaii, and we were looking for sites for the Super Bowl in '81, '82, and '83. Detroit really wanted the '81 game, which New Orleans ended up winning. But Detroit came in—this was how crazy it was—and made a presentation, and it had a slide show, a video, and all this stuff up there. And all these owners, who you think are really tremendously sophisticated, were looking at this presentation and just going on and on. That's how Detroit got it [the 1982 Super Bowl]. Their presentation materials were so far ahead of everybody else's."
The Silverdome may have won the day in 1982, but that Motor City facility would never pass muster these days. The quality of Detroit's newer Ford Field and the $505 million public–private financing partnership that enabled a weatherproof roof to be built over it (chronicled in my book When the Game Is On the Line) were among the primary reasons chilly Detroit was chosen to host Super Bowl XL in 2006. XL provided the biggest of international stages upon which to showcase downtown Detroit's rebirth—and in hindsight, it may have helped stave off the precipitous crash of the auto industry for a year or two.
The new stadium trump card Detroit played before the NFL to earn Super Bowl XL also paved the way for Glendale in 2008, North Texas in 2011, Indianapolis in 2012, and New Meadowlands Stadium in 2014. San Diego, formerly a popular stop in the so-called Super Bowl rotation, knows full well it will never see another Super Bowl without building a new stadium to replace aging Qualcomm (the city may lose the Chargers for that reason as well). Even NFL favorite Miami has been told that unless it completes renovations to Sun Life Stadium, including additional seating capacity and suites and at least a partial roof, it will no longer be allowed to compete with cutting-edge venues such as Cowboys Stadium.
Read more about Beyond the Scoreboard: An Insider's Guide to the Business of Sport by Rick Horrow and Karla Swatek.
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Time to show some hometown pride in a cool, creative way. Show where the baby was 'made' or is being raised. This is a fun way to promote the baby's hometown with a customized design.
You select your state and let us know the city, city nickname, or zip code where the baby was 'made'. We'll do the legwork and place the star right over your exact city or zip code. Be sure to spell the city correctly, otherwise we'll run into some major problems. The state's 2 letter abbreviation is centered in the middle of the red star over the city.
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Update: I have carried out some more analyses that paint a different picture to the one presented below. Oops!
A recently accepted paper by Keith Chen has been getting a lot of press coverage. Chen has discovered a close link between the properties of the language people speak and their economic decisions. People who speak languages which mark the future tense differently to the present tense tend to make fewer provisions for the future. This includes economic decisions such as being less likely to save money, but also secondary indicators such as greater prevalence of smoking and obesity.
The hypothesis is that marking the future tense differently makes the future seem further away, and therefore you are less likely to plan for the future.
Chen has talked about this hypothesis at a TED conference and has been covered in the media, most recently in a BBC economics column (which, to be fair, was fairly critical). The hypothesis has been criticised by several linguists, notably on language log (and a great model post by Mark Liberman), where Chen gave a response. The data has been criticised (e.g. English is marked as 'strong future tense marking', but has a range of ways of using present tense for future time reference), as well as the thinking behind the hypothesis itself (e.g. why wouldn't marking a difference in the language actually make the future MORE salient?). Some have also pointed out weaknesses in the statistical claim, for instance, Östen Dahl has pointed out that speaking a language with front rounded vowels is also a good predictor of economic decisions.
Here at Replicated Typo, we have discussed many cases of spurious correlations – statistical links between cultural traits that are unlikely to be causal. James Winters and I recently published a paper on the dangers of making claims based on large-scale, cross-cultural statistics. Basically, it's very easy to find statistical links between any two variables because cultrual traits are inherited in bundles (they are not independent).
In this post, I address an issue that I haven't seen systematically answered yet: Chen predicts that there is a correlation between future tense marking and economic decisions, and finds a strong link. However, he should also predict that future tense marking is a stronger predictor than other linguistic variables. In other words, can we find a different aspect of language that is even better at predicting economic behaviour? Here I test the link between the propensity to save money and many different linguistic factors.
Looking for correlations
I used the world values survey, used by Chen, to compare the propensity to save money with 144 features from the world atlas of language structures. For each linguistic variable, I ran a linear regression with propensity to save money as the dependent variable and independent variables including the linguistic variable, age, sex, employment status, marriage status, religion, number of children and survey year. I compared the F-statistic (goodness of model fit) for each regression. This is the same approach as in Chen's analysis.
The future tense marking variable had an F-statistic greater than 65% of the linguistic variables. Below is a histogram of the resulting F-statistics with a red line indicating the strength of the future tense variable.
Here are ten best linguistic variables for predicting economic decisions:
- Uvular Consonants
- Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
- Order of Relative Clause and Noun
- Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
- M-T Pronouns
- Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb Give
- Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
- Indefinite Pronouns
- Order of Degree Word and Adjective
- Tone
And here are some graphs demonstrating links between economic decisions and linguistic variables:
Doing the analysis by aggregating over language families produces a similar result: the future tense variable has an F-score greater than 70% of the linguistic variables.
In contrast to Chen's hypothesis, linguistic variables that have nothing to do with concepts of time are equally good at predicting economic decisions. That is, a hypothesis that linked the presence of uvular consonants to economic decisions would have equal statistical support as the 'Whorfian economics' hypothesis. It's quite difficult to imagine a causal reason for such a link (indeed, I'm claiming that there isn't a direct causal link), and so Chen's hypothesis seems more plausible. But then the question arises: what is the role of statistical analyses in evaluating hypotheses?
James Winters and I argue that statistical analyses can help generate, motivate and explore hypotheses. However, they have weaknesses that need to be supported by other methods such as experiments, models and theoretical work (Roberts & Winters, 2012). Chen has recently tested his hypothesis looking at uses of morphological future tense marking in weather reports (here). While this is impressive, it still relies on large-scale, cross-cultural statistics. It would be interesting to see whether economic decisions could be manipulated in a lab experiment by priming different expressions of time (e.g. Chen's example of "Rain is likely this weekend.":present tense 'is', versus "It will likely rain this weekend.": future tense 'will rain'). I'd be surprised if someone isn't already running this experiment.
Change over time
Another point I'd like to raise is the variation in economic decisions over time. Below are some graphs illustrating the change in economic decisions within linguistic groups:
The proportion of people speaking a given language can change by up to 80% over the years the survey was carried out. For example, 100% of Italian speakers were saving money in 1997, compared to 18.4% in 2000. This gives an idea of how small the effect of language might be.
There is a strong statistical link between future tense marking and economic decisions. This is an intriguing finding, and Chen's hypothesis is very interesting and deserves further research. However, this link may not be significantly greater than links between other cultural traits, so there's no principled reason to highlight this link in particular without further evidence.
Without a more fleshed-out theory of how linguistic categorisation of time is related to perception of time, this kind of approach risks damaging the reputation of more sophisticated work on linguistic relativity, and also the reputation of economics. More importantly, misinterpretations of this work could lead to changes in public perception and policy. For example, one journalist covered the story using the title "Want to end the various global debt crises? Try abandoning English, Greek, and Italian in favor of German, Finnish, and Korean."
Chen, M. (2011). The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets SSRN Electronic Journal DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1914379
Chen's paper can be read here
Roberts, S. & Winters, J. (2012). Social Structure and Language Structure: the New Nomothetic Approach. Psychology of Language Learning, 16 (2), 89-112 : 10.2478/v10057-012-0008-6


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I don't know if this has been covered elsewhere. (I've searched) BUT in combat The Last Castoff can't hit for damage... I target the enemy, I move next to enemy, I spend stat points to 100%, the animation illustrates the swing of my strike... But nothing! Nothing happens... stat points are used. I really like this game and I do like the combat but this is a deal breaker. HELP! Please. BTW I am playing on an Xbox One.
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Can't attack!
While in combat, The Last Castoff cannot effectively attack. When his turn comes up, he can target, move to position and spend stat points and the attack animation runs but no hit or miss is announced. even if 100% chance of success is used nothing happens.
If anyone knows a fix for this, please, please help.
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Did this ever get solved? I'm having the exact same problem with Tybir?
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Left: Fence the garden in permanently. Most vegetable gardens are small enough that you need to set less than a dozen posts. Doing this once is easier than struggling with marauding rabbits and temporary fencing year after year. Middle: I compelled my children to let me relocate their play house as a focal point for a new vegetable garden. The best site for a proper vegetable garden is in full sun, as close as possible to the kitchen. Level the area for raised beds, and allow room to push a wheelbarrow when planning pathways. Right: Add accents to your garden. Here, cast iron rabbit finials add interest.
Plants themselves can be ornamental. Why grow regular dark green kale when you could instead grow 'Rainbow' kale?
Tomatoes don't have to be fastened to wooden stakes in rows. Here a circular tuteur supports tomatoes "tied" by 'Grandpa Ott' morning glories (Ipomoea purpurea 'Grandpa Ott').
A National Gardening Association survey calculated that 25 percent of all U.S. households had vegetable gardens in 2011. Now more and more of us know what goes into and onto our food. These gardens give us so much. Is it greedy then to ask that the gardens also be pretty?
Of course not. Americans have had gorgeous vegetable gardens ever since Colonial times. A tour of the John Blair garden in Colonial Williamsburg will convince you of this, and provides many lessons. Since early Americans could not survive without homegrown produce, they invested a little more time in the beginning just setting them up properly. Where we typically banish vegetable gardens to some sunny corner of the yard, colonists put them in a prominent place, usually as close as possible to the kitchen. Rather than just tilling up a patch of dirt with no regard to slope, they completely leveled the area and built raised beds to permit proper drainage and soil cultivation. And these beds were not just simple squares thrown together with no further thought. There was a pleasing symmetry to the designs of the beds and the pathways. Ornamentals were tucked in between fruits and vegetables.
Espalier is just a fancy word for training. I'm coaxing this apple tree into a candelabra shape.
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Is Chicago's La Madia a Pizzeria or Restaurant? Who Cares?
Jonathan Fox was the CFO at Maggiano's Little Italy when decided to go back into the kitchen. Trained at the Culinary Institute of America, he had previously spent time working in a variety of cuisines, including French, Greek, and New American. He did not have a professional background in pizza before opening La Madia last October, but you wouldn't know that after trying his pizzas.
Fox did extensive research and travel, particularly in Italy, before opening La Madia, but he was surprisingly slow in answering when I asked what his favorite pizzerias were. He eventually settled on Da Michele in Naples, Italy; Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix; and 2 Amys in D.C. When I asked whether he liked deep-dish, he dismissed the notion in a way that would make many readers of this site proud. While I question his taste, I cannot doubt his abilities: Fox has built a nice pizzeria that offers one of the better thin crust pies in Chicago.
As La Madia is located on a busy commercial street in the northern part of downtown Chicago (about a block and a half southeast of the Rock N Roll McDonald's ), I was surprised to discover there was outdoor seating and large open windows at the front of the restaurant. I'm not a stickler for ambience, but the sounds and smells of three lanes of traffic might get in the way of pizza enjoyment. Once inside, I was happy to discover that the design of the space is such that the traffic did not affect the space at all (I still have doubts about the outside seats).
I'm not sure whether to call La Madia a restaurant or a pizzeria. The sleek interior design is nicer than any pizzeria I have ever entered, there is a more extensive wine list than I've seen at a pizzeria, and there are plenty of nonpizza items on the menu. At the same time, the biggest section of the menu is devoted to pizza and the restaurant's slogan is "A Contemporary Pizzeria." I suppose it doesn't matter how it's categorized, only that the food is good. And I am pleased to report that everything I tried was better than good. I actually had a number of nonpizza items because I was there for La Madia's monthly tasting menu, which includes wine pairings and special attention from the chef for a very reasonable $25 per person.
There are only 12 spots available for the tasting menu, and everyone was seated at the "pizza bar," which gave us a great view of the wood-burning oven. Of the seven courses in the tasting menu, two were pizzas.
The first pizza came with shaved artichoke, Parmigiano-Reggiano, and garlic. There was mozzarella on the pizza but no sauce. All the ingredients were top-notch and worked well together. The oven is heated between 740°F and 780°F degrees, and the pizzas cook for a little more than three minutes. Toward the end of that time, the cook (not Fox—he didn't cook a single pizza while we were there) lifted up the pies inside the oven, presumably to give a little crispness to the tops of the pizzas.
The crust had a great flavor, but was a touch underdone for my taste—too much chew and not enough crisp.
The second pizza was the triple pepperoni with white truffle oil. This was the first Neapolitan-style pizza I have ever seen that was completely covered with meat. That absolutely beautiful site was accompanied by an equally impressive taste; this was not your regular neighborhood pizzeria's pepperoni. Unlike the artichoke pie, this pizza came with tomato sauce. The sauce, made from San Marzano tomatoes, was delicious.
Unfortunately, and this is a consistent failing of Neapolitan-style pizzas, there was not enough sauce. The only reason I was able to taste it well enough to report on it was because I made a conscious effort to do so by lifting up the cheese and pepperoni and dabbing my finger in the sauce. The crust on the triple pepperoni was just as flavorful as that on the shaved artichoke, but it was cooked better and came out of the oven with the appropriate amount of char.
As my friends and I chatted it up with Fox after the meal was officially over, one of them brought up the sausage, knowing full well that it is my ultimate pizza topping and I would not be able to resist asking him questions about it. He was clearly very proud of his house-made sausage, and I was convinced I had to return to try it out. They tried to get me to order one, but since I had already eaten significantly more than my share of the tasting menu, I declined. A few minutes later, Chef Fox put a sausage pizza down in front of us and said it was on him. Since there is a huge difference between being too full to buy more pizza and too full to eat free pizza, I dug in and was glad I did. The sausage, which is made with a good amount of fennel, was absolutely stunning – a perfect combination of flavor and texture. As with the pepperoni pizza, the crust was cooked just right and there was insufficient sauce.
La Madia is a welcome addition to the Chicago pizza scene. The menu changes periodically as the restaurant focuses on seasonal foods and wines and places some emphasis on using locally grown products, but a number of pizzas have been there since the beginning. The prices are reasonable, with pizzas ranging from $9.50 to $14.50, and one pizza is more than enough for most diners. I look forward to my second trip to La Madia when I will try the sausage, mozzarella & mascarpone calzone, which I suspect will blow me away.
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Mapi is the leading Patient-Centered Research company serving academia, life science researchers, and the pharmaceutical industry for over 40 years. Mapi's commitment to patient-focused research is demonstrated not only by our expertise and nearly four decades of service but also through our direct contribution back to the industry. Mapi is among only a handful of global organizations that is capable of engaging with a patients' complete ecosystem, their HCPs, Patient Communities, payers, and even regulators. And only Mapi has the unique history to make us the most experienced at interacting with all of them.
Mapi was founded in 1974 and was focused on the patient from the very beginning. With our Real-World Evidence and post-approval research services, consulting expertise, and publications to our not-for-profit entity, Mapi has been the leading industry driver toward patient-centered research for nearly four decades.
Mapi has donated and re-invested millions of euro to improve life science research and development, as well as establish the patient as the center of clinical research. These investments include: intellectual property services; funding to establish industry working groups with regulatory bodies, including the ERIQA project and the PRO Harmonization initiative; subsidizing academic researchers and founding the Mapi Research Trust, a non-profit center for curating Clinical Outcome Assessments.
During our decades of Patient-Centered Research history, we've seen an industry eager to embrace patient insight. From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, the promise of faster and cheaper research forced many companies to only invest in the data needed to satisfy safety and efficacy, leaving patient insight for post-approval research as an afterthought to drug approval. Unfortunately many companies still have this view today.
We have also seen non-governmental agencies such as health technology assessers, accountable care organizations, patient advocacy groups, key opinion leaders, and even healthcare payers rely on the foundations Mapi helped establish.
These foundations include: the establishment of the concepts and methodology behind Linguistic Validation, leading to Mapi completing over 35,000 international versions of 2,300 instruments; Mapi's leadership in support of Post-Approval Epidemiology and REMS/RMP programs; and the Pro-Harmonization initiative, which allowed us to proactively affect the regulatory environment.
In the 90s, clinical research began adopting these new assessment tools and methodologies. However, the challenges of applying these tools in a cross-cultural multi-language world demanded a new way to gather patient insight. John Ware, together with the Mapi Institute, helped define the elements of Linguistic Validation, and one of the first instruments designed for collecting patients' Quality of Life on a global clinical trial was the new linguistically Validated SF-36. However, the increasing cost of clinical development kept the focus on expediting regulatory approval, and placed the emphasis of research on the bio-markers and bio-chemistry as the primary endpoints in most research.
The exploding volumes of clinical research and academic work in Patient-Centered Research in the late 1990s and early 2000's increased both the demand for Linguistic Validation and support of Health Economics, an academic science that had become an essential aspect of the clinical research world. Mapi helped by establishing the ERIQA group—made up of industry experts, health authorities and academics—to develop foundational guidelines on HRQL evaluation in drug development.
At the initiative of the ERIQA group, Mapi also helped launch the PRO Harmonization Group, which brought together the members of ERIQA, ISOQOL, ISPOR, the 'Health Outcomes Committee' of PhRMA, and the FDA to harmonize the guidelines on the use of PRO tools in clinical studies. This resulted in the creation of the PRO Guidance document finalized by the FDA in 2009.
In the interest of accelerating the continued adoption of Patient-Centered Research, Mapi established the Mapi Research Trust in 2004. This is a non-profit organization facilitating access to information in the fields of Patient-Centered Outcomes and encouraging exchanges between academics, pharmaceutical companies, and international organizations around the world. Funded almost exclusively by Mapi, the Mapi Research Trust has taken on the burden of curating thousands of Patient-Centered Outcome instruments, their Linguistic Validations, and Research Publications.
The Mapi Research Trust supports research efforts by annually responding to over 5000 licensing support requests and over 30,000 online informational searches. Thousands of academics, students, private institutional researchers, clinical research organizations, translation companies, and pharmaceutical companies utilize the Mapi Research Trust in their quest to develop solutions to collect patient insight.
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The purpose of this page is not to be exhaustive, but simply to provide an easy shelter where everybody can add links for Openmoko-related programs. Applications, scripts, projects, distributions, images at all maturity levels are welcome. Please limit each entry to one line. You may create a new wiki page or just provide an outgoing link.
To find more information about these programs view the List pages linked below each category (screenshots, availability on various distributions).
Some applications have complete articles in our Openmoko Wiki, a link to all articles in a specific category is also available in every section.
- Minimo - Mozilla based web browser
- Midori - Webkit based web browser
- Openmoko-browser2 - The original Openmoko web browser
- Mokopedia - Read small Wikipedia dumps offline
- Openmoko Mail - E-mail client
- Pidgin - Instant messaging client (ICQ, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo and more.)
More information:
- List of Internet applications - Screenshots, website, availabiltiy
- Internet applications articles in the Openmoko Wiki
- Epdfview - PDF reader.
- Evince - Document reader for PDF, PS, DJVU and more.
- FBReader - E-book reader program (TXT, FB2, HTML and more)
GPS Applications
- GPS Sight - Display GPS information, location, tracks, etc, without maps.
- Gpsdrive - Car (bike, etc) navigation system
- Om 2008.8 Locations - (aka Splinter) - Location sharing based on GPS and SMS
- Navit - Car navigation system with routing engine
- TangoGPS - Map application
- Pyroute -
- QMapControl
- Qpegps
- Openmoko Mediaplayer 2 - Play music and video (mp3...)
- Qtopia Mediaplayer - Play music (mp3...)


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Pan-European production fund Eurimages is mulling how it can extend cooperation beyond the borders of its 36 member states, executive director Roberto Olla revealed at a Film Forum panel on the body on Wednesday.
"We have set up a study group to reflect on how to extend relations to other non-European countries. We're considering the possibility - the if and when - of cooperating with non-European countries," he said. "No decision has been taken as yet but we're certainly interested otherwise a study group would not have been created but of course the implications are many and complex."
He was speaking at a presentation of the Strasbourg-based fund which gap finances some 30 to 40 films a year up to €500,000. Under current rules, projects must have two member state producers accounting for 70% of the budget attached and 50% of the budget in place.
The body is currently holding its end-of-year board meeting at DIFF – at which it will select the fourth and final round of projects for 2012. It is the first time the meeting has been held in a non-member country.
The initiative was spearheaded by Italy's Eurimages representative Alessandra Priante [pictured], who is also her Italian cultural attaché for the Gulf area.
Describing Eurimage's presence in DIFF as more than 'symbolic', Priante said the time was ripe for the European film industry to start working more closely with filmmakers in the Gulf and beyond in the Middle East.
"We're here to exchange views and make direct connections," she said of the Eurimages presence. "Not many people in the Gulf know about us and we definitely don't know enough about the Arab film industry."
"There are a lot of misconceptions about this part of the world – that this is the land of money, for example. In reality, what I recognise and admire, is that they (Emirati filmmakers) are trying to build their own cultural identity in the 2012. I think we have the duty to ensure that cultural diversity has a chance."


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1. To tell the history of his country, Shavit begins with the story of his British great-grandfather's trip to Palestine on a Thomas Cook caravan in 1897 and continues in his role as our guide throughout the book. He also introduces significant historical events through a personal lens, telling the story of one orange grove owner, for example, to represent the economic boom of the late 1930s in Palestine and of an individual entrepreneur to represent the tech boom of the past decade. Do you feel that this approach to writing about the history of Israel is effective?
2. Was there anything in the book that challenged your assumptions about Israel's history? What surprised you?
3. Chapter Four, "Masada," is the story of one man's successful campaign to change the perception of history by shaping a national narrative. To what degree is history shaped by individuals? Can you think of other examples, within the book or in world history in general, in which an individual has reshaped a country's identity and narrative?
4. Chapter Five, "Lydda," presents the book's central moral conflict through the lens of one battle. At the end of the chapter, Shavit writes, "I condemn Bulldozer. I reject the sniper. But I will not damn the brigade commander and the military governor and the training group boys. On the contrary. If need be, I'll stand by the damned. Because I know that if it wasn't for them, the State of Israel would not have been born." Discuss Shavit's moral response to what happened in Lydda. Does every country have a Lydda in the history of its statehood? If so, think of some examples.
5. Chapter Six, "Housing Estate," describes the enormous sacrifices made by the new refugees for their future state, often unwillingly. Do you agree with Ben Gurion's view that memories of the Holocaust and the past needed to be subverted to create the new state? Discuss the tension between the individual and the state in the creation of Israel. You might also discuss the astonishing success rate among the immigrant children of the Housing Estate, many of whom became the leaders of the young country. What factors do you think contributed to their success?
6. Chapter Seven discusses the stealth creation of Israel's nuclear reactor. Discuss its implications for current discussions of nuclear proliferation. Shavit presses the engineer to discuss the moral significance of his life's work, but the engineer refuses to take part in the discussion. Do you think Shavit is right to push the engineer as he does, or is the engineer right in saying, "If everyone spent as much time thinking as you do, they would never act"?
7. In Chapter Eight, on the settlements, Shavit writes, "The question is whether Ofra is a benign continuation of Zionism or a malignant mutation of Zionism," and answers that it is both. Discuss the two ways of viewing the settlements. Do you agree with Shavit's assessment?
8. In Chapter Ten, "Peace," for Shavit, Hulda represents the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict. And he says that Hulda has no solution, "Hulda is our fate." What does he mean by this?
9. In Chapter Seventeen, "By the Sea," Shavit describes the concentric circles of threat that challenge Israel. The sixth threat he describes, on pp. 403-404, is a moral threat: "A nation bogged down in endless warfare can be easily corrupted. It might turn fascist or militaristic or just brutal." How significant and urgent is this moral threat compared to the other threats Israel faces? Do you believe Israel has a greater moral responsibility than other countries? Is a moral Israel necessary for its survival, and is this true for countries in general?


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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD is available on PS4, Xbox One and Switch and here are the first 15 minutes of the game captured on Nintendo Nintendo Switch.
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Loakum Eminem's rapping style...reminds me of centipede from the 5 Deadly Venoms martial arts flick. *sips on a glass of grape juice* yelp. (8 Hours ago)
Seth I would have prefer if it was ps5 only game tho. Ah well. (5 Days ago)
Seth @KORNdog: hah you mentioned tlou II, i cancelled my pre-order because i'm too hyped for next-gen now, but when the hype kicks in i'll buy it at release most likely. (5 Days ago)
Seth PC for me is best available platform, thanks to the huge games library and 60fps for all games.But still getting a new console for first parties... (5 Days ago)
Seth sry my mistake, ye i wanted to say that they are huge fans of first parties and ready to move on and wait ages for eventual pc port. (5 Days ago)
KORNdog there are people out there who are going to wait for PS5 before playing last of us 2. but even that sort of wait sounds far too excruciating to me. (5 Days ago)
KORNdog @Seth: i mean, it's a viable option, but if you were a big fan of sony exclusives to begin with you'd need to have an insane amount of patience to wait 3 years to play it on PC (5 Days ago)
Driftwood GSY is getting some nice content at 3 pm CEST with our July podcast and some videos of the Deus Ex Mankind Divided preview build. :) (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood For once we'll be live at 4:30 pm CEST. Blim should not even be tired! (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood More Quantum Break coverage coming in a few hours, 9:00 a.m CEST. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood We'll have a full review up for Firewatch at 7 pm CET. Videos will only be tomorrow though. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood Tonight's livestream will be at 9:15 GMT+1, not GMT+2 as first stated. (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood New GSY Live dedicated this time to Just Cause 3 on Tuesday 9:30 GMT+2 (> 3 Months ago)
Driftwood Join us tomorrow at 10 pm GMT+2 for a new livestream. We'll be playing Rise of the Tomb Raider. (> 3 Months ago)


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On these pages I hope to post links to articles and other published work, alongside my attempts at poetry and creative writing. I am developing all the time and will use this page as a record of where I am in the world of writing.
It would be good to have your views, so do check back on a regular basis to see if there is anything to interest you.
I am always pleased to be contacted to undertake commissioned writing. As a researcher I am able to undertake freelance work on a variety of topics from social exclusion to lifestyle choices, women's views to parenting teenagers, from gardening to cooking, and especially on family history and how it can have an impact on how we view ourselves as individuals in the 21st century.
There are pages devoted to a river of small stones (writing small nuggets of prose and poetry), my published magazine articles, professional research and evaluation work and my fiction and poetry.
I have also completed the NaNoWrimo (National Novel Writing Month) 50,000 word writing challenge twice and am now in the re-write stage of those two novels.
I also enjoy reading challenges, as I believe it is only by reading widely that I can become the writer I want to be and learn to find my own voice. I am a member of Goodreads and have a Review page here on my blog where I share my thoughts on some of the books I read.
In 2011 I am also taking part in The Christmas Spirit Reading Challenge hosted by The True Book Addict.


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Chris "Jungle" Polglase
One of the most prestigious live drummers in Drum 'n Bass Chris Polglase, also known as The Jungle Drummer. He is widely acknowledged as one of the best drummers in the U.K.
Polglase started out by teaching himself to drum the hip-hop and DNB tunes that he grew up on. When playing DNB, Polglase is normally found drumming up around 180 BPM with his arms almost being a blur.
In May of 2003, Polglase collaborated with producer Tony Coleman. People know Tony as DJ London Elektricity, on his Billion Dollar Gravy LP record. Late one night during a recording session, they received a phone call to play live at BBC's Maida Vale Studios for Fabio and Grooverider. This was start of The London Elektricity live show. It was the first 100% live DNB show.
When not playing with London Elektricity, Polglase has fashioned his own live show with DJ L Double called The DJ vs. The Drummer. Chris Jungle Polglase drums along while L Double spins DNB creating a unique live experience. Along with those two shows, Polglase toured Europe with hip-hop star Timbaland in the summer of 2004.
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Originally, I had scheduled to be back at Johns Hopkins for consultation and further plastic surgery this month. The holidays and family matters made it too difficult to focus on this right now so I have put it off until March. Nothing is simple, and new breasts don't grow on trees.
I know a beautiful young woman who lost over 100 pounds. She is now able to wear stylish clothes and although in her mid-30s she looks like a teenager. For all the joy that comes with her new size, comes a condition we seldom think about. She has several pounds of excess skin on her arms, midriff and thighs. She suffers because of this from skin rashes and infection. She has found surgeons that can perform reconstructive surgery, but her situation is difficult because it is costly surgery and not considered necessary by insurance companies. She is inspiring in her determination to stay healthy and fit. Working out several times a week, however, doesn't mean she can wear a bikini, and she is even uncomfortable in a one piece bathing suit or shorts. Her clothes also have to be a little roomier than she would like. I think surgery to remove the excess skin and modify her body is as important a reconstruction as my breasts are. For health reasons it may be even more necessary than breast reconstruction. She didn't have a disease, she didn't get an injury, but somehow I think of her struggle to get well from obesity as a struggle equivalent to mine. Reconstruction needs to be a part of her healing too.
In the aftermath of diagnosis, many of us wonder what we will do about breasts and it is comforting to know that reconstruction is an option. I think of us after surgery and treatment as victorious but wounded. New breasts are a part of the healing for many of us. So why have I put off the final surgery? I think it is for the same reason that I put off reconstruction after treatment in the first place; I can only handle so much healing at a time.


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The Avari are a branch of the Elves.
When Oromë found the Elves that awakened in Cuivienen (see: Awakening of the Elves), he summoned them to come with him to Valinor. All the Vanyar and most of the Ñoldor were persuaded, along with some of the Teleri, and followed Oromë into the west on the Great Journey. The remainder of the Ñoldor and Teleri remained suspicious, or simply refused to depart from their own lands, and spread gradually throughout the wide lands of Middle-earth. They were after known in Quenya—the language of the Eldar that eventually reached Valinor—by the name Avari, meaning "the Unwilling", because they refused the summons.
Having never come to Valinor, the Avari remained a wild folk, dwellers of forests. Little is known of them, as they do not appear in any of the tales, save some references to Avari creeping in the south of Beleriand in the First Age. Many of them probably merged with the Nandor and became known as Silvan Elves. Also, it is speculated that the Dark Elves were the first other sentient race encountered by the race of Men during their infancy. The Dark Elves probably taught them many of the basic crafts of civilization, though the craft of the Eldar surpassed that of the Avari even more than that of the Avari surpassed primitive Men.
In The War of the Jewels, names of six tribes of Avari in their own languages are given, all being cognates of the Quenya word Quendi (the Speakers): Kindi, Cuind, Hwenti, Windan, Kinn-lai, Penni. They are the only certain Avarin words ever mentioned in the published Middle-earth material. It is speculated however that Dorwinion was an Avarin land, with Winion carrying the meaning of "Wine".
The Silmarillion contains a suggestion that Orcs may be descended by Avarin elves captured and corrupted by Melkor.
Other versions of the legendarium
In older versions of the legendarium, the name Avari was originally that of the later Eldar, then meaning "those that departed".
In other, relatively late writings, a brief idea was that the Avari did not come from the three clans, but from two other clans, led by Nurwë and Morwë. This idea was later dropped. In the final conception, the Elves were divided into three tribes.


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