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Why does everybody keep saying Sylvanas is evil =(
I realize the Krokron people are in Undercity but I still don't see her becoming entirely evil and wanting to destroy everything.
She might have alternative motives for being with the Horde, but I don't remember seeing anything that would really hint at her going all evil.
Also, I don't know if I entirely understand how the Scourge is ever living. I realize killing the Lich King would cause them to go crazy, but obviously there are ways around them. Mainly the Dragonflight. I find it hard to belive that the Various Dragon Aspects can't do anything to stop the scourge. I mean, the Scourge are destroyed by just trying to enter the Green Dragonflight's Shrine. I'm sure that if the Races really tried, they could find a permament cure to the whole "omgevalscourge" thing.
Which makes me wonder if the Dragonflight are ever going to actually do anything. Currently Alexstraza is the most powerful being in Azeroth (Going by HP, of course) and yet she can't do anything against the Lich King? Aren't the Dragons meant to be the great protectors of Azeroth?
IDK just doesn't make sense to me that the Scourge could completley destroy Azeroth if the Lich King dies. Maybe in Cataclysm we'll get more insight into how the Scourge works, or why the Dragonflight seem so uninterested in the Scourge. They obviously are interested in thier own little games (Emerald Dream, Infinite Dragonflight, DESTROYING THE WORLD) but you'd think the Titans would come back and smack some sense into them or something.

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Land art and the culture of landscape 1967-1977 (supported by an AHRC Network Grant)
Joint PI: Joy Sleeman
Formed out of a dialogue between the research interests of Nicholas Alfrey (Department of Art History, University of Nottingham) and Joy Sleeman, during the period of AHRC funding (2006-2008) the network was based at the University of Nottingham, included representatives from Nottingham (Alfrey), Slade (Sleeman) and Tate (Andrew Wilson) on its steering committee, and held two of the network's six research meetings at the Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square. The network is driven by dialogue: not only between the two principal investigators, but also between generations of artists; those making work during the period under investigation, when new approaches to landscape art transformed its production, display, dissemination and discussion; and those working today whose work relates to the legacies of that period of transformation as well as to longer histories of landscape art.
In addition to the network meetings Nicholas Alfrey and Joy Sleeman have jointly authored and presented a number of papers and publications and curated an exhibition, Earth-Moon-Earth at the Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham (20 June - 9 August 2009) and related satellite events in London during June and July 2009. In June 2010 Alfrey and Sleeman and other members of the network contributed to 'Art and Environment' the third and final conference of the Landscape and Environment Programme held at Tate Britain.
Network meetings 2007-2008
The first meeting was held at the Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square on 16 March 2007 and focused on work by artists based at the Slade. John Hilliard and Bruce McLean showed and discussed work made during the period 1967-1977. Recent work by Susan Collins and Simon Faithfull was discussed in the context of land art, and broader histories of landscape. Subsequent meetings of the network were held at Tate Britain, 27 June 2007; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 12 September 2007; University of Nottingham, 9 April 200 and Bristol, 17 June 2008. The final meeting on 23 October 2008 was a return to the Slade Research Centre with presentations of research and current work by Joy Sleeman, Katie Paterson (Slade MFA 2007), Brandon Taylor, Aliki Braine (Slade MFA), Rebecca Birch (Slade MFA 2007) and Simon Faithfull (Slade). One of the outcomes of this meeting was the invitation to make an exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, realized in the summer of 2009 under the title Earth-Moon-Earth. The exhibition brought together works made by David Lamelas and Katie Paterson and was timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing.
Outputs and publications by Nicholas Alfrey and Joy Sleeman
"The contemporary 'sculpture park' is not - and is not considered to be - an art garden, but an art gallery out-of-doors" (Ian Hamilton Finlay)
Paper for Sculpture in Arcadia: gardens, parks and woodlands as settings for sculptural encounters from the 18th to 21st century, University of Reading, February 2007; published as 'Framing the Outdoors: landscape and land art in Britain, 1973-1977', Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 29:1, 2009.
'Art, Land Art and Fenland', for Liquid Landscapes
A session convened by Stephen Daniels for the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, Royal Geographical Society, London, 31 August 2007.
Exhibition with accompanying catalogue, Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, 20 June - 9 August 2009
Environments Reversal Revisited
A two-day event at Camden Arts Centre, London, revisiting the exhibition held in 1969 with two of the original participating artists, David Lamelas and Ivor Abrahams, in collaboration with Jayne Wilton (Slade MA student). The event included a screening of Lamelas's film A Study of the Relationships Between Inner and Outer Space (1969) in its original location, 28-29 June 2009. A small publication, designed by Jayne Wilton, was produced as documentation.
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979
A touring exhibition from the Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979 launches at Southampton Art Gallery on 9 May to 4 August 2013 and will tour the UK until 15 June 2014.
It is the most comprehensive exhibition of British Land Art to date and explores the unique characteristics of the new British landscape art in detail. It questions how landscape and nature came to be key concerns of Conceptual art in Britain and why many artists working in the UK during this period were interested in landscape.
Drawn primarily from the Arts Council Collection and supplemented by loans from other major UK collections as well as the artists themselves this exhibition takes a fresh look at British art between the late-1960s and late-1970s and includes some of the most important artists working in the UK in that period including Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Richard Long, Anthony McCall and David Nash.
Curated by Nicholas Alfrey, (University of Nottingham) Joy Sleeman, (UCL Slade School of Fine Art) and Ben Tufnell, (Curator and Writer) Uncommon Ground will examine the meaning Land art might have in a British context, where landscape has long been a recognised characteristic of national art and identity.
The exhibition reveals the distinct forms that Land art took here in Britain: predominantly Conceptual and ephemeral, hand-made and organic. The key strategies developed in the UK included the photographic documentation of actions, the positioning of walking and travelling as creative acts, combined with an exploration of locality and a keen awareness of rural traditions and contexts. At the same time, the term 'landscape' was also being questioned and transformed by artists, provoking a renewed interest in older forms of landscape art, and in historic landscapes. From being seen as something old-fashioned and redundant, landscape became the ground of radical artistic experiment.
The exhibition launches at Southampton City Art Gallery 10 May to 4 August 2013 and will tour to The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (28 September to 5 January 2014) where it will be the first Land Art exhibition to go to Wales, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick (18 January – 8 March 2014) and Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (5 April to 15 June 2014). The first three venues on the tour will feature different works by these artists drawn from their own collections.
Artists featured in Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979
Roger Ackling, Keith Arnatt, Boyle Family, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Tony Cragg, Jan Dibbets, Barry Flanagan, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Andy Goldsworthy, Antony Gormley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Susan Hiller, John Hilliard, Derek Jarman, David Lamelas, John Latham, Richard Long, Roelof Louw, Anthony McCall, Bruce McLean, Garry Fabian Miller, David Nash, Roger Palmer, David Tremlett.
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Conscientious Cook: Sustainable Seafood Through Urban Aquaculture
When we think of sustainable seafood, two images tend to come to mind. First, we have seafood that has been sustainably and ecologically caught in the wild, and then we have aquafarms like Kona Blue.
Professor Martin Schreibman from Brooklyn College has been working on a third option: urban aquaculture.
As lovers of clams, scallops, and all things fishy who also want to keep enjoying these foods in the years ahead, finding sources for sustainable seafood is something about which we're pretty passionate.
This is why Shreibman's model is so intriguing. These fish are raised in large recirculating tanks where the environment can be constantly monitored, disease and the need for antibiotics is almost non-existant, and waste is recycled back through the system to feed edible plants.
The compact tank system also means that aquafarms don't require extensive patches of land (or ocean) in order to operate. Shreibman suggests converting abandoned lots into aquafarms!
We couldn't find information on how long Shreibman's urban aquaculture project has been in existence, but we did find newspaper articles from as far back as 2004. Since it's an academic project, Shreibman cannot sell the tilapia or other products he raises in his lab. Instead, he donates the surplus fish to a local homeless shelter--saving one or two for his own dinner.
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The idea of closed system like this is very impressive.
I've seen this same type of system being done someplace in Upstate NY I believe. There is a restaurant that serves both the tilapia and the produce from the farm.
The thing about the Upstate operation that intrigued me was that they were purging the fish in a salt water tank for awhile before it was harvested. This, supposedly, removed some of that muddy flavor that is so prevalent in an aqua-cultured fish.
Another green fish option is arctic char and trout. These fish are typically farmed in very environmentally responsible ways.
Very interesting.
I like the idea that they are using aquaponics to take care of the nitrates in the water. As an aquarium keeper myself, I strongly believe that using plants to improve water quality is the way to go - I think there was a study done somewhere to show that survival rate increases greatly when introducing aquatic plants to the system.
I'm not sure what plant would be used for salt water fish though... perhaps mangroves to produce some sort of sustainable wood? Or maybe macroalgae (for either biofuel, human, or animal consumption).


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Last spring, my husband and I decided it was time to start the first phase of a rather large remodeling project on our home. I had been dreaming of ways I could add some character to our 11 year old home, and make my ordinary house not so ordinary. When you move from an 80 year old house with oodles of charm, into a brand new house, you give up a lot of architectural features, character and charm. New houses are nice with their new plumbing and wiring, and their basements that aren't haunted, but after a few years of living in our new home, I found myself sneaking back into the old neighborhood looking for real estate signs and going to open houses so I could get my crown molding and architectural detail fix, and walk on real oak floors.
So we finally took the plunge, and with the help of our neighbors we ripped out all of the builder grade maple floors and gawd awful cheap carpet on the main level. We emptied the furniture into a pod that took up half of the driveway and moved out of the house for three months. The carpenter was great, he knew exactly what we wanted and went right to work adding crown molding to several rooms and doorways, he filled in the gaping hole over the fireplace where the T.V. used to be (ladies don't ever let your husband tell you that is the only place the T.V. can go) and added a wider mantle so that I could actually decorate it; he also built two large columns to separate the living and dining rooms.
Picking out the flooring was easy; I knew I wanted a mix of quarter sawn and rift sawn oak with a warm honey brown stain. The crew of three young men who were young enough to be my grandsons actually knew what they were doing and had the floor down in a week. Next was the painting; I wanted the walls to be more of a neutral so that I could play with color in my pillows, rugs and decor. Picking a paint color can be very tricky. Depending on the time of day, the sun plays an important role in what a paint color will look like, so always look at your paint samples throughout the day to see if the color changes before you paint the whole room. Every time I thought I had the perfect color of soft chamois yellow that I had visualized for the formal living room, it looked like dreaded peach sherbet in the hallway and family room. After a lot of mixing and re-mixing, we finally arrived at the right shade of a soft yellow that seemed to look the same in every room.
It has been a year since we started that project, and we couldn't be more pleased with the results. We still have a lot more character building to do to our not so ordinary, ordinary house, but for now I have stopped lurking around in the old neighborhood. Here are a few before and after photos (so far)….


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Perhaps it is fitting that Cole Hamels did not get his first win of the season until the day Carlos Ruiz returned from a 25-game suspension. Throughout the weekend, the Phillies suddenly began to show signs of life. Maybe a lot of that had to do with the anticipation of Chooch's return. After losing 3 of 4 to the Pirates, the Phils proceeded to storm New York and sweep the Mets in 3 games. Kyle Kendrick shut them out on Friday and Jonathan Pettibone collected his first major league win on Saturday. Then Sunday afternoon, Hamels held the Mets to 1 run to complete the sweep. While Ruiz did not have a huge impact on the game, going 1 for 4, his mere presence did seem to have everyone in high spirits. The game was tied 1-1 going into the 7th; in previous games, this lack of offense would have had the entire team tied up in knots, pressing at the plate. But today, everyone was a little more relaxed. That 7th inning was the key; Laynce Nix came through again as a pinch-hitter with a...
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I knew that I had two Stalkers coming my way, so I wanted to really differentiate the pose. These Stalkers were also the only the second and third Cryx models I'd ever laid a modelling or painting hand to, so I wanted to experiment with paint.
For my first Stalker, I wanted a fairly standard pose: standing tall on its hind legs, with both front claws in mid-air, bearing down on their hapless victim. The only 'trick' to the basing was to drill a 3/32″ hole for each leg. This allowed me to push the legs into the base, and secure the each one with a glob of GreenStuff on the underside of the base. This worked better than expected. I've actually dropped this model twice already (butterfingers!!!!) without any harm done.
While tooling around with the legs, I realized that the Stalker looked just as good with both rear legs 'reversed'. If you like very simple conversions, this is right up your alley; no cutting involved, just a simple part swap and reposition. The 'default' pose Stalker looks very much like a flea. I wanted this one to be more menacing, like a crazed dingo hunting. With head naturally positioned low to the ground, this beast looks like he's smelling out his prey, preparing to bound forward at breakneck speed.
Psyche! I wish I had a 3rd Stalker….maybe someday….
The paint went on relatively quickly (for me). Both of these Stalkers took a total of 10 hours. I utilized a lot of the techniques found in YoungWolf7's Glaze Tutorial article. It really helped me improve my layering by leaps and bounds. I went for an earthy green, as these models will likely be found skulking about, hidden away in forests and hillsides.
- Basecoat with Citadel Bleached Bone
- Glaze twice :: 1:12 VMC 141: VMC Glaze Medium
- Highlight with the above paint, cut it Bleached Bone until you reach a 1:1 ration
- Highlight with pure Bleached Bone
- Highlight with VMC 001 (White)
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- Undercoat with GAFA Raw Umber
- Basecoat with VMC 113 4:2:1 (Paint : Glaze Medium : Distilled Water)
- Glaze raised area with VMC 113 4:4:1
- Continue layering with VMC 113/VMC 128 (5:5:2:2)
- Glaze entire green areas with VMC 113 (1:12)
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In another chapter of the heated field hockey rivalry between Messiah College and Lebanon Valley College, the Falcons came away with a thrilling 5-1 victory. Messiah, ranked #3 in the most recent Kookaburra/NFHCA Top 25 poll, moved to 1-0 in the Commonwealth Conference while simultaneously dropping LVC to 0-1.
The contest was the annual regular season meeting between the fierce rivals. Anticipation for the match-up was high following last year's overtime victory by the Falcons while LVC and Messiah held national ranks of #1 and #2, respectively. Messiah would also defeated LVC in the Commonwealth Championship of 2010.
On Saturday, the victory was just as sweet.
"LVC is always a big game," said Messiah head coach Jan Trapp. "The winner of this game often has home field advantage for the (conference) championship, and that is the difference between grass and turf. We'll always prefer our home field, and turf."
That preference was on full display in Saturday's win, even though LVC would tally the first score. The goal, scored by Dutchmen senior Jocelyn Novak in the 11th minute of action, was a milestone for Novak as it was the 111th goal of her career. The mark tied Novak for first all-time in career goals scored in the Middle Atlantic Conference and Commonwealth Conference. Ironically, Novak tied a former Messiah player, Danae Chambers '04.
From that point, however, the Falcons would take over. Sophomore Brook Sands would find junior Juliana Hershey for the game-tying goal in the 24th minute. It was Hershey's team-leading fourth goal of the season, and set up an unassisted goal by senior Kourtney Ehly just three minutes later. The goal, Ehly's third of the year, resulted from a solo drive from the center circle.
The game-winner by Ehly proved to be momentous, as the Falcons would score three more goals in the second half to claim the convincing 5-1 win. Two of the three goals would be assisted by Ehly, contributing to her team-leading five assists this season. Sands, senior Kilee Rosenberry, and senior Dara Downs would score the goals, with Sands tying Hershey for the lead in goals scored this year.
For the Falcons, the win couldn't come at a better time. The team had lost two of three coming into the game, with a recent 3-1 loss to Salisbury still in their memory.
"We had been struggling, trying to work with different combinations on the field," said Trapp, in her 39th year leading the Falcons. "We didn't play well against Salisbury, and we knew that. So to show up today and bring it all together on our home field, against LVC—we couldn't ask for more."
With the team feeling inspired by their win, perhaps Trapp may only ask for more of the same.
"I feel like we're a playoff team, and I feel like we have a team that can go deep in playoffs. We just have to keep up the intensity. We've been getting great contributions from our substitutions, which is how we want to play…keeping the pressure on. I'm excited for what this team can do."


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The argument states that people will be so close to the business district, that they will basically be herded toward the local business center.
I am not sure I buy it.
Although if successful, the interconnect would bring more people to the fringes of downtown, it still doesn't address the primary issue.
Rte. 28 is the barrier and people have to get across to spend their cash.
I have heard rumblings about a future gondola, which would bring people to Main Street. But what is the actual likelihood of such a thing happening in my lifetime?
So how do we get people across the road? That is the question.
The presence of the Frontstreet development will give tourists the opportunity to eat, sleep and party right next to the ski bowl. And this is certainly not going to help with the efforts to bring more traffic to Main Street.
I asked Supervisor Goodspeed about this issue once, and he said that a shuttle bus is being discussed. However, the funding stream for such a thing is still up in the air.
Would taxpayers shoulder the expense? Business owners? The chamber? The alliance?
How about a foot-bridge? Would the APA allow such a thing?
I think it is fair to say that the bypass has put the North Creek business owner at a huge disadvantage as people speed by, never noticing the small signs proclaiming the hamlet's existence.
If the interconnect is to reinvent downtown, then there must be a focus on some mechanisms that will direct people to Main Street. Otherwise, it may just be a boom for a few developers - at least in the winter.
It seems that one of the most pressing issues for our local officials is dealing with the bypass in a year-round context.
We can market North Creek as a destination all we want, but without making it visible, I fear it may be all for naught.
Jonathan Alexander is News Enterprise editor. He can be reached at email@example.com
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Maze London
A maze is a network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way. It therefore resembles the law. It can also mean a confusing mass of information, which is, sadly, often the raw material with which lawyers have to work when provided with what are politely called the client's "instructions". Gordon Ramsay's Maze restaurant may therefore be considered the perfect rendezvous for lawyers.
It was in that spirit of accord that I met my daughter to have dinner there. She is a trainee at Slaughter & May and I am what might be at best called "an old hand" at Herbert Smith and so we thought that we would between us be able to fairly represent the varying age spans and genders within our noble profession. We would also be able to bring the credentials of the leading transactional and disputes firms from within the City to bear on Mr Ramsay's handiwork.
We were invited to sit at the Chef's table, which is a booth which is set inside the kitchen providing a full view of the remarkable amount of activity and shouting which goes into the preparation of the carefully crafted dishes which end up in front of the diners at restaurants such as this. The table therefore provides an evening of theatre as well as gastronomy. At certain stages in the evening you are also invited to take part in the actual preparation of your dishes. It therefore suits anyone who is a genuine foodie and fancies themselves as an artist in the field. Their creations will be judged by the sous chef against fellow members of your table as well as against his own efforts. It therefore suits the competitive instinct of lawyers admirably. Happily, there is no punishment for coming second.
As members of the chef's table one is treated as special guests of the restaurant for the evening and a remarkable array of people from the kitchen come over to introduce themselves as the evening unfolds. We met at least 5 during our visit, and, in addition, had our personal butler (no mere waiter is good enough for the chef's table) and our own sommelier to explain the provenance and qualities of the many and various wines which accompany the 11 courses which you will be invited to enjoy during the course of your four hour Maze-athon. If I give you a simple list of some of those courses you will have an idea of how the restaurant lives up to its name: Butternut Squash soup with wild mushrooms and toasted pumpkin seeds; Seared and marinated yellow fin tuna, compressed apple, coriander, ponzu dressing and horseradish crème fraiche; Pressed comfit chicken and foe gras, spiced pear Carpaccio, green tea caramel; Orkney hand-dived scallops, braised pork cheeks, pork quavers, sweet corn, beurr noisette; Devon duck breast, Moroccan style cereal, beetroot, orange and sesame crispy duck leg; Cannon of lamb, braised shoulder, whiter aubergine puree, garden mint; cheese board; Apple and Blackberry crumble (but not like one you will have ever had before); Lemon refresher, lemon tart, comfit lemons, jersey triple ice-cream; Peanut butter and jam sandwich, autumn berry sorbet, crystallised peanuts; Coffee and petit fours.
By the end of everything you will feel as if you have eaten every known animal, mineral and vegetable known to man, but as the portions are designed to entice rather than to engulf, and the flavours are intense yet entirely complimentary, the overall effect is one of simple a-Maze-ment. The amazement would run the risk of passing into befuddlement unless a tight reign is kept by the diner on his alcohol intake whilst this feast is proceeding. I thought I was pretty good on unusual grape varieties until this meal but I was surprised by at least three of the wines which were served. I find it a great service for a restaurant to take the trouble not only to work out which wine would best accompany its food but also to provide someone as knowledgeable as our sommelier to talk through the background to the particular vineyard and vintage from which each wine was chosen. As readers will be well aware their bodies can process one or two units of alcohol an hour and so despite getting through close to a bottle and a half of wine by the end of this little session you will be able to emerge with your mind sufficiently clear to take any emergency client call which may have arisen during your rather extended dinner.
The Chef's table would be a perfect venue for a team celebration of a Court victory: the table can seat up to seven and so the host partner could ensure that as well as allowing junior and senior counsel to attend, his own core team (including, most importantly, his trainee and his secretary) could be included in the party. It would not be quite big enough for the rather larger post completion parties which follow the successful conclusion of a transaction, but perhaps the solution for that would be to take one of the larger tables in the main restaurant, where the same food is available, but the theatricality of the kitchen would not be visible.
The top end of London dining is a crowded market, and a far cry from when I started in the law in 1977, when the choice was between Le Gavroche and its younger cousin in the City, Le Poulbout. In Maze, Mr Ramsay has raised the bar yet again and, when combined with its wonderful location overlooking Grosvenor Square, Maze has all the ingredients that one could want for that once in a recession night to remember.
Christopher Rees, Herbert Smith LLP
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What we can expect from the new UFC title…
recently participated in a Q&A session with the EA Sports UFC developers, Creative Director Brian Hayes and Lead Producer Nate McDonald, on the upcoming game. Below are some highlights.
The game is due out on the Xbox One and PS4 later this year.
Will the game be released on current gen platforms:
"The day that we signed the deal there may have been discussions of where we're going to make the game. Very shortly after that it was decided it would be a next-gen only. The investment to make a current-gen game as well wasn't really worth it. FIFA, Madden and NHL, it's easy for all of them to update those products. We would have been doing all that stuff for current-gen and then probably have never made another version of that ever again. It would have split our focus and we wanted to make sure we focused on this and having the team not having to split."
Their comments on the roster and how many fighters will be playable:
"We are still locking that down because there's always a chance something can change and a guy can get booted off the roster, but it's going to be in the neighborhood of 100. There's no final number yet until we get to the point where we tell the UFC we can't take any more guys."
On distributing fighter stats:
"For fighter's statistics, one of the first things we did was actually send the roster to [UFC matchmakers] Joe Silva and Sean Shelby. We gave them the roster and all the categories for each rating and they gave it a first pass. Then after that we took it and tweaked it. After the first pass everyone came back pretty much rated like 89 or higher [out of 100]. So we sent it back and told them we need a little more separation between the guys. Then after that we spread it out a little bit. It was nice to have it off our plate, because if a fighter gets mad we can just point them in their direction."
On DLC fighters:
"We're definitely looking at adding fighters to the roster if and when it's possible. It's part of our plan at the moment and there's no reason why that should change."
Will it have the fighter share option?:
"That's something we loved as well, but we can't do it anymore for a number of reasons. One of the big things people did on a game like "Fight Night" is making Rocky Balboa, or Floyd Mayweather or whatever. But nowadays when people can make YouTube clips and share them, there's this whole grey area where if our game allows users to make a Rocky character that's the intellectual property of somebody else, it causes a ton of problems. There is a "Create-A-Fighter" and you could create you own Rocky, but when we are facilitating the sharing of content, it gets very difficult."
Will the game have cut stoppages?:
"Cuts can get visually very bad, but we don't have any cut stoppages. In the future, especially for cut stoppages, until we can make it so the players has the ability to stop cuts, we don't want people to lose because of them. Maybe in the future we'll have a mini-game like they used to do for "Fight Night."
On the venues in the game:
"Including the gym environment, we have about 12 or 13. For some places it's easy to get the licensing because we have relationships with arenas from the past for other sports titles. But ones that we don't have pre-existing relationships with it has proven to be a bit of a challenge. I won't get into specifics, but there have been a couple where it was months of back and forth and because of some legal mumbo-jumbo we weren't able to get it done. We were able to swap in for another venue. We went through the list of venues with the UFC and we went after those as our priority. Staples Center is in there, the Honda Center, Bell Centre in Montreal, Air Canada Centre in Toronto, the Rio Arena in Brazil and the MGM Grand in Vegas. We've got a good range."
On creating the game's submission system:
"The submission battle system is all-new. Obviously this is a big one people are curious about and it's a huge part of MMA. Everybody would love if you could make the submission system like Brazilian jiu-jitsu and you could play without putting some abstract thing on the HUD or the screen. From experience, probably about 10 of our game animation guys have been training BJJ for the past two years, some longer. We've learned that you can do BJJ with your eyes closed. I don't need my eyes open and I can tell where you're trying to move your hips, your weight, balance, leverage – all that stuff. So you have a sport you can do with you eye closed and we have a video game where we can only give you information through your eyes. It's a big challenge."
"I would love to make some hardware that you could put on your head and you feel everything, but until we get to something like that, we will be somewhat limited about how we can implement BJJ into the game. That being said, we did want to bring more to the BJJ game in this new UFC. We didn't want to make it, "Hey, we're on the ground, I'm going to hit a button for a submission and we will have a battle." Our submission game is based on the principal that if you get me in a submission hold, I'm trying to get out anyway I can while you're trying to advance. In BJJ there's a lot of steps to make sure you put on a submission hold correctly. If you're putting on an armbar there is all these little techniques that are important to make sure you're not giving the guy an opportunity to find a way out the back door. On defense we said you're not going to cooperate with a submission hold. You're always going to try to figure out where's the door, where's the window, where's the hatch to the basement – whatever it is. How do I get out of this trap I'm in? Then offensively, my responsibility is to make sure I don't let you get out, then when it's the right time, take my submission hold a little further."
"There's four ways to go when you're in a submission. There's four ways a defender can go. He just has to push the right stick in any direction and if it goes all the way outside, he gets the submission. That's the only thing you have to do on defense. Push the right stick in the direction you want out, you escape the submission. The offensive guy, if he sees you going to the left, he just has to push the right stick to the left and he stops you from moving somewhere. It's on the offensive guy to stop the guy from wiggling out. You have to keep an eye on where the defensive guy wants to go, but you also have to wait for your opportunity to advance."
"Every submission is animated in five stages depending on what your attributes are. You may have to go through all five; you may have to go through only three depending on different scenarios. There are 29 different submissions in the game. Not every armbar looks the same depending on the position. We really wanted to make it something that you can see what's going on and see who is winning as opposed to, "We're going to do this and see what happens at the end depending on stats."
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Your Sweat-Free Guide To Summer Shapewear
My transition to summer clothes always starts with wearing white jeans and open-toed shoes. But what about shapewear? You can't really expect to wear winter shapewear and not sweat your way through summer, which is why I've put together this list of the five shaping garments you need to feel great and stay sweat-free this summer:


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A woman from central Maidan Wardak province who tried to kill herself on Monday after her husband died in an insurgent attack is in a stable condition, local officials said.
The 22-year-old, who lives in Wardak's Jaghato district, drank acid after hearing that her husband Joma Gul and mother-in-law were killed in Saturday's alleged suicide bombing in eastern Ghazni province.
Head of Ghazni provincial hospital Dr Baz Mohammad Hemat said that Gul Ghotai has recovered after relatives brought her for treatment to the hospital.
"She is in good health now," Dr Hemat added.
Gul Ghotai's brother Mohammad Azim told TOLOnews that Joma Gul had taken his mother to Ghazni for medical treatment when they were struck by the bomb blast.
The Ghazni attack happened in the Qala-e Sabz area of Ghazni city at about 1:00pm when a bomb on a bicycle detonated near an Afghan police outpost killing a policeman and two civilians. Some officials said the bicycle was being driven by a suicide bomber.
Thirteen others including three policemen were injured in the attack.
Mohammad Azim criticized the provincial security officials in Ghazni province after hearing that his brother-in-law did not immediately receive treatment.
"Firstly Joma Ghul was injured in the attack but the security forces thought he was a suicide bomber and did not take him immediately to hospital, so because of his several injuries he died," he told TOLOnews.
Gul Ghotai's mother said that her daughter married Joma Ghul three months ago and is fearful for her future.
Hundreds of Afghan women have lost family members in numerous incidents such as Saturday's bomb attack that happen everyday across the country.
As Afghan forces increasingly take over security responsibility from Nato, Afghan troop casualties have more than doubled since last year, according to statistics from the Pentagon.


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Request: Could someone do a nerdy Ziall where Zayn is the nerd and Niall is the jock who is secretly in love with Zayn
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I was sitting in class and I was staring at the school jock, or jerk, Niall. He was hot as hell, I shook my head, pushing away my gay thoughts. No one really knew I was gay, not even my mum. I looked at the teacher "And the last pair of partners are Zayn and niall" My head shot up and looked at the teacher "What! No.. No I cant be paired with him! Hes-" I got cut off by my friend Harry who put his hand over my mouth. The teacher rolled his eyes and walked to his desk. Harry walked over to his partner and I saw Niall walk over to me. "So what are we doing this on, nerd?" Niall asked. "U-Um.. I-I d-don't know.." I said quietly. "How about you come over to my place and we'll figure something out?" Niall said a smirk placed upon his perfect lips, they were pink and plump and I just wanted them to be all over me. Stop it zayn! I told myself. I looked down at my growing erection and I turned so I was facing front. "Well, I'll take that as a yes, um, do you have a car? Do you want me to drive you…" Niall trailed off. I didn't know what to say my voice was lost. I finally got to speak up "U-Um, C-can you d-drive me. M-My car i-is a-at home" I said, looking down. "sure meet me at my car as soon as the bell rings."
-after school-
It seemed as though the end of the day came by to slowly. I walked to the parking lot to see if I could find Niall. I saw him waiting by his car. I walked to him and he smiles "Hurry and get in nerd. I cant have people thinking that I am actully driving you" Niall said motioning me to get in. I got in the blue car, It was leather and awesome. I sat in the car and looked outside, Niall started the car and drove off to his house. I watched outside, watching trees go by, or the color of the houses. Niall pulls up finally and I felt myself getting a bit harder, my stomach turned and I was scared. "d-do you l-live a-alone?" I asked him getting out. "Yep. This place is all mine!" Niall smirks and gets out walking to the front door. He unlocked the door and led me to his room.
After about 5 minutes of getting set up, I sat on his bed and got my books out and pushed my glasses closer to my face, my face was sweating so my glasses kept slipping. I looked up at Niall and he was changing shirts, I felt myself getting harder every second. I whimpered a bit to loud and looked down quickly hiding my erection with the book. "What was that..?" Niall asked smirking. I looked at him "N-Nothing.." I said gulping. He crawled to me and straddled his legs around my waist, pushing the book away. "you know, zayn, your really cute!" Niall smirked and put his forehead to mine. I felt a blush creep onto my cheeks. "And I've liked you for a while know, I didnt know how to tell you, or what to tell you, but ever since the first day of class I've been distracted by you." Niall smirked. I felt my erection grow, my pants to tight and I groaned. Nialls lips crashed onto mine and his hand slid up my shirt. I shivered against his touch and kissed back, he pulled away and took off my shirt and then his. I ran my hand down his abs. His eyes closed and I rubbed my hand over his crotch, palming him. "Shit Zayn" Niall moaned. I smirked and felt a bit of confidence rush through me, I pushed Niall down and kissed him roughly. I pulled off his pants along with his boxers and let his erection hit against his chest. I rubbed my hand down his cock and licked this tip "Dont tease me Zayn!" Niall growled. I stuck him in my mouth and bobbed my head up and down, hollowing my cheeks and sucking hard, he moaned loudly "FUCK ZAYN!" he gripped my hair and thrusted his hips and made me gag. I felt his dick twitch and I pulled away. He whined "What the hell?" he asked. I smirked. He pushed me back and slid off my pants and boxers. "Fine than lets see how you like it!" Niall challenged. He softly licked my throbbing dick and slowly rubbed my shaft up and down. He played a bit with my balls and put me halfway in his mouth. He sucked hard and sucked up and down. I watched him the entire time, his blue beautiful eyes glued to my brown ones. I felt my dick twitch and felt me close to my edge "NIALL!" I yelled and he pulled away "Damn it!" I yelled. He go ontop of me and kissed me, he reached over and got some lube and put it on and turned me around and placed himself "ready?" He asked. I nodded. He thrusted into me hard and I groaned "Shit!" I yelled, he was huge. "Damn Zayn, Your fucking tight.." Niall said. He kept thrusting, going a bit slow so I could get use to him. After a while I pushed back getting more of him in. He took this as a sign and went harder. I closed my eyes "FUCK" I yelled and gripped the sheets tightly "Im not gonna last much longer" Niall said, I felt his dick twitch "I-Im gonna-" I got cut off by screaming his name and cumming hard on his sheets. Niall got a couple more thrusts in and shot his load in me, I moaned and he thrusted a bit more to ride out his orgasm. He pulled out and fell beside me pushing me closer to him. "I love you Zayn, I always have" Niall said smiling. "I love you too Ni" I said and kissed his cheek, slowly falling asleep.


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Just when I thought I'd truly heard it all, I read a story about a woman in China who went into labor nine days before she was due, and ultimately wound up giving birth to her baby girl after insisting on making a stop to use the bathroom on her way to the hospital. You know -- because she probably thought she was feeling pressure "down there" because she had to poop, not push the baby out! OMG.
This definitely isn't the first time a baby has been born in a restroom, but it is the first time I've heard about a baby being born in a public toilet pit. Yes -- a toilet pit, which is basically a small hole on the bathroom floor that you -- well, kind of squat and "hover" over in order to do your business.
If you still aren't getting a good visual of what I mean, then you'll get a much clearer picture after checking out the photo of the actual toilet pit where the little girl was born. It's not entirely primitive, but it's definitely not what we're used to here in the States. I did have the pleasure of using something similar in Paris once, and trust me -- it was no picnic. I can't imagine actually being hovered over that thing and pushing out a baby -- especially when I expected to be going #2!
After the woman gave birth, her husband called for help, and rescuers came and could see the baby lying in the pit and could hear the poor little thing crying too. They wound up ripping out the other pits nearby so that they could get the baby out. She was in there for about 30 minutes, and rescuers reported her as "a little pale and stiff."
Miraculously, the baby survived and is being monitored by doctors in the hospital for a little while longer just to make sure she is ok. Her aunt says that the family will bring her home as soon as the doctor says she's ready to go.
If nothing else, this story really makes you appreciate living somewhere with modern facilities, and up-to-date toilets, doesn't it? I think I'll be a little more appreciative and less whiny the next time I complain about having to put down toilet paper on a public seat before using it. Doing that sure beats giving birth (or pooping) into a hole.
What is the strangest place you've ever heard a baby being born in?
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glad baby is ok
My thought upon seeing the pics of the "pit" were "How did the baby fit down the hole?" It doesn't look so big that a newborn could fit all the way through it and be laying in the cavity underneath.
I am kinda glad I read this. I am about to have a VBAC so it'll be my first time going through labor and no one ever told me that it felt like having to poop. A woman I used to babysit for DID tell me that her first labor took forever because she was pushing wrong. They talked up doing kegels her whole pregnancy so in the end she thought those were the muscles she was supposed to use, until the nurse told her to push like she had to poop. After that baby just popped out. I was nervous I wouldn't recognize the signs of labor when they started, but I feel a little more confident now, and I definitely know now to steer clear of bathrooms! lol
Ew! That poor baby!
I can relate to that. When I was in labor with my first, I kept telling the nurse "I have to poop." She said, "no that's the baby." I kept insisting, she finally said, "well, go ahead, we have plenty of sheets!" She wasn't about to let me go to the bathroom! Good thing, cuz it was the baby!


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In a deep large bowl, combine all the Teriyaki Marinade ingredients, blending well. Add chicken pieces, coating each with the marinade. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or up to 24 hours to blend the flavors, turning chicken pieces frequently.
Arrange chicken pieces, bone-side down, on a barbecue grill rack, about 10 inches above medium coals (ash gray and glowing) or gas grill set at low to medium temperature. Grill chicken, turning (over) each piece and basting frequently with the marinade until chicken is fork tender and done, 25 to 35 minutes total grilling time. Be careful not to burn chicken.
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Note: May also use chicken breasts or breast pieces, if desired, in place of chicken drumsticks or thighs.


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I'm off on my family hols to NI in August and I reckon I've earned enough brownie points to scrounge a days climbing at Fairhead without them. It's somewhere I've wanted to go for many years and I intend getting a taster of the place in order to encourage my mates to take a longer trip next year sometime.
So what's the scene like at Fair Head then? Is it busy enough to be able to place an add on here a few days prior (once I have a forecast) and have a reasonable chance of meeting up with someone for the day? Or should I just buy the guide and take a walk with my family in tow instead! ;-)
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police have arrested a Louisville man accused of holding a person captive and threatening the lives of corrections officers.
According to an arrest report, officers were responding to a trouble run when they found 51-year-old William Williamson inside his home "extremely irate" and "armed with a small carving knife."
They found the victim there as well, being held against his will.
Police say Williamson told them his landlord had broken into his home.
The victim told police he was at the residence to change the locks at the home, and that's when Williamson pulled a knife and refused to let them leave.
After officers arrested Williamson, police say he began yelling expletives and threatening the life of the victim. Police also say that when Williamson was being booked into Metro Corrections he threatened the lives of the officers several times.
Williamson was arrested Aug. 20. He's charged with wanton endangerment, unlawful imprisonment, and terroristic threatening.
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Arian Foster is perhaps the best running back in the NFL besides Adrian Peterson right now, and he owes a lot of that to his front-line. So as a thank you git that double as a nice Christmas present, Foster has given his blockers all segway's to show his appreciation for their not letting him get destroyed on Sundays.
Foster's segway has gotten attention this season because…well because it' s segway and for some reason they're still a thing. Segway's are in interesting middle ground when it comes to something that totally lame while at the same time being so very cool. While rich executives and CIA employees roll around on segways, so does the mall cop at the local mall.
So that gives you a picture of who uses segways.
But at the end of the day, it's the thought that counts and a segway beats a $25 gift card to Buffalo Wild Wings, so it's not like Foster got skimpy with the gifts. Not everyone thinks it's a good idea that segways now belong to every member of the Texans blocking crew. While Foster is appreciative of the blocks, the other guy they block for isn't sold that overweight guys rolling around on glorified motorized scooters is a good idea.
"It's nice to see that, that he appreciates what the offensive linemen do," Matt Schaub said of the gifts. "I just want them to be careful, there are too many people walking around, too many obstacles. I just want to make sure they're safe."
While Schaub has a great point, it's Christmas and Grinch's aren't welcome this time of year. Lineman Duane Brown acknowledges Schaub's concerns, but brushed them off like he's a man who's just gotten a segway for Christmas.
"We're athletes man," Brown said. "We got body control."
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Yesterday, an editorial letter I submitted, Don't Test for Drugs at School, was published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. I wanted to share the reasons why, as a pediatrician who specializes in adolescent health, I feel that random drug testing of teenagers in schools is unfounded.
In my letter, I reference the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement that also disagrees with this practice. The reasons outlined by the AAP are as follows: there is little evidence that school-based testing works to decrease alcohol and drug use; testing is complex and easy for savvy teens to defeat; the tests can mistake legal substances such as over-the-counter medications for illicit drugs; resources for help are not always provided by the schools; and it is an invasion of the student's privacy.
It is true that teenagers, by their nature, are risk takers. By the end of high school, two thirds of today's teens have engaged in sexual activity, more than half have tried smoking, more than three quarters have tried alcohol, and just under half have experimented with illicit drugs, namely marijuana. I am not condoning their behaviors. Knowing that many teens are going to take risks, it is our job to help them to make the best decisions possible.
Strategically, we know that when teenagers feel connected and can talk with an adult (any adult), they are less likely to engage in risk taking behaviors. This has been shown to be true time and time again. Instead of spending money on drug testing, we should find ways to involve more kids in extracurricular activities. As parents, it's important that we are talking to our teens. Parents need to be willing to talk about difficult topics in an open and non-judgemental manner. The discussions should include being clear about what our expectations are for them, and how we are going to handle the situation if they make a mistake.
As an adolescent physician, part of my role is to screen teens for risk-taking behaviors. I do this by spending at least part of my visit talking with them one-on-one. However, before I address risky behaviors, we first discuss their strengths. Identification of assets that teens have in their lives helps them to reject harmful behaviors.
Teenagers are our next generation of adults. We need to help them put their best foot forward by building upon their strengths. It is important that we do not undermine their trust and privacy by spending money and time on activities like drug testing.
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All these neat little houses and all these nice little streets. It's hard to believe that something's wrong with some of those little houses.
This is exactly what it looks and feels like when we go to work every day.
Letter To The Editor of the Day: Tweeted by the Washington Post's Ron Charles: "Our favorite correction letter ever, from 5th graders @ Burning Tree E.S. in Bethesda MD."
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Michele Bachmann: A life of striking certitude.
Newt Gingrich: The smartest in the room.
Ron Paul: The alternative, a force to be reckoned with.
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Manual for a downturn: How to keep your operation above water.
There's no one tried-and-true method for an owner-operator to weather the current economic storm. There are many different problems, after all. One man's slow freight is another's low broker rate, which is to say nothing of the dire situation Marysville, Ohio-based Marvin McDaniel found himself in as his carrier shut down. Leased to small fleet Harrington Transport, he'd seen the writing on the wall as the primary customer, a Honda plant, dramatically scaled back production.
"I'll probably see if I can get on with Byline Transit," he said in February, knowing his contacts there would help get his foot in the door. "I grew up with all these guys."
Exploring local opportunities is one of the many strategies an owner-operator can take to boost revenue in a tough economic environment. Read on to learn others.
Stay available
You can accomplish a lot simply by being willing to accept hauls, says Todd Amen, president of Colorado-based owner-operator business services firm ATBS. "A lot of it is just managing your time and being available when freight is available," he says.
Stan Brown, based in Fontanelle, Iowa, hauls in the power-only trailer delivery and relocation operation of RexDon of Charleston, Ill. Though he was used to getting home every couple weeks, by late February he'd been out for about a month. As he anticipated drivers who take time off in the winter coming back in April "because they've got to pay for their new plates," he was adjusting his schedule to stay out even longer.
You can also increase your availability by asking about your carrier's or shippers' problem loads. "One of those loads might well be attractive to you," says Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. However, be aware of every cost associated with the load. Loads of less than 250 miles often have a premium rate but take extra time to pick up and deliver, he notes.
All freight-related businesses, says freight broker Preston Greer, are caught in a volatile environment in which service is often reduced quickly as shippers fall back on movements only as needed. Being as available and versatile as possible is crucial.
Manage time by the calendar
Take vacation time or plan major maintenance during the first two weeks of the quarter (early January, April, July and October), when freight is slow. Never take time when freight is most abundant – the last two weeks of the quarter or the last week of the month. Try working around the following schedule, recommended by ATBS, to maximize your week, as well.
Monitor your partners' health
Last year, with the bankruptcy of Bombay furniture, New Jersey owner-operator Thomas Lemon found the dedicated Bombay account for which he hauled intermodal for Container Port had disappeared.
While he hadn't seen it coming, he'd been aware of the potential. "Bombay was high-end furniture," he says. "High-end furniture is not something you have to have."
For leased dedicated haulers and independents with one or two primary shippers, a shipper's bankruptcy could mean their own. Watching the health of your business partners, whether carriers or shippers, is vital.
Late payments from usually prompt customers, reduced freight or unreturned phone calls can be red flags, says OOIDA's Todd Spencer. "You've got to pay attention to those finer points."
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-2,700 trucking companies
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Net capacity decline due to business failure in 2008, calculated by Avondale Partners.
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After Bombay's bankruptcy, Lemon couldn't make two runs a day consistently with his carrier. Paid by the run, he felt like he was on the verge of falling behind on his $2,200-a-month truck payment and other expenses. Last summer, he leveraged prior experience in the local/regional dump business to lease on with Arkansas-based Oakley Transportation.
His experience hauling dump trailers made the switch somewhat simple, as his 2005 Peterbilt 379 was outfitted with the hydraulic "wet kit" necessary for Oakley's operation. Still, he says, "I hate making a change, because it takes a long time to get into their routine."
Indeed, that and other factors make the cost of changing carriers as high as $11,000, Amen says. For that reason, he says, "I hate recommending guys look at changing what they're doing."
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In last decades, technology has changed the way we interact with each others. From a letter to a tweet.
In the last years, automation systems have started changing the way we interact with computers. Nowadays, makers everywhere in the world, thanks to the cheap (and sometimes even open source) boards available, can build their own automation solutions to automatically switch off the lights at home, irrigate their gardens or whatever: anyone can code its own projects with just some high school programming skills. In other words: people have now the opportunity to solve their problems by themselves.
UMake.it is a marketplace for automated solutions that opens the doors of a new global market to the makers. Here they can share their projects with people all over the world or even sell them.
UMake.it is the place where normal people without technical skills can find automated solutions to their problems, build the systems by following simple instructions provided by the makers and download the needed software with just a click.
UMake.it is free to join: everyone can be part of the community and download free or paid automation projects. The marketplace will ask developers a part of their incomes from the paid sketches to keep the website working.
UMake.it (you-make-it) is a global marketplace made for everyone, intended to help the makers in delivering their inventions to the public: we love to call it a makersplace.
As a makersplace, this virtual market is built as a container for free and paid automated solutions: we call every kind of automation project a maker can invent a umade. Users will be able to download umades by creating an account.
Specifically, a umade is a virtual package including step-by-step instructions to build the automated solution needed by the user. It also contains the software needed to bring the whole thing to life, and a detailed shopping list of all the hardware you need.
Of course: makers and users may subscribe with absolutely no cost; also uploading and downloading umades is free, unless you choose to buy a paid one. In order to be financially sustainable, this makersplace will ask the owners of paid umades a fair percentage of their incomes.
In this marketplace makers from all over the world may upload their umades, using a convenient interface where they can find useful tools to keep control of the download statistics, manage bugfix requests and deliver version upgrades in a simple and clean way. Umake.it can also be useful to open their business to an international market in a very simple way.
People not trained in automation can find smart solutions to their everyday needs: with a bit of do-it-yourself anyone can build countless projects, even challenging ones. Just as an example, you could easily find a complete surveillance system and build it by yourself, saving money while still having a perfect view of your beloved manor.
Finding the perfect automated solution has never been so easy. People can now stop searching files and building schemes among tons of forum boards and mailing lists: inside this makersplace they just need to search for the umade that fits best. On the other side, makers now have a convenient place to publish their work in a more professional way, delivering a better user experience and also monetizing their hard work.
We are pushing ourselves to finish the development and testing of the website, but we need your help! We will invite some of you to join the beta testing period, starting by September 2014. Then, the website will be open to everyone in the first week of October 2014.
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A crepe is a crepe, so portions are naturally small and didn't fill any of us up completely. I could have ordered another one or two. I think the French creperie fills a gap in the food scene, and will be a great place for afternoon tea if you like sweet crepes. But perhaps don't go if you're starving unless you order a couple of serves.
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