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Christmas eCommerce: Keep it merry and stress-free!
Research has shown that almost 56% of British consumers will be spending nearly half of their Christmas shopping online this year. Others have also estimated that 8 out of 10 consumers will be considering online Christmas shopping. It is not surprising that British retailers have been investing a substantial amount of their efforts to embrace this once-in-a-year opportunity since several months before Christmas.
Despite the optimistic figures, some concerns remain amongst the retailers. It is one thing to browse on eCommerce website, but it is quite another thing to click the 'purchase' button for the consumers. Approximately 48% of the online shoppers are likely to quit shopping, leaving their shopping carts hanging there, abandoned and eventually forgotten.
So what is demoralising them?
Christmas time not only brings jolly and delightful feelings, but the time also makes people stressed and occupied with planning parties and finishing off their big projects before starting their holidays. And they are less likely to enjoy the complicated and time-consuming eCommerce procedures, forcing them to abandon their shopping baskets before completing the payments. It is the hard-to-follow structure, slow loading website or simply the unexpected delivery cost that make consumers switch to competitors or in-store shopping. Retailers cannot afford to lose these key shoppers whose expected average Christmas expenditure is 375 pounds per person.
(Picture from Ag Report 365 http://agreport365.com/christmas-shopping-stress-fight/)
Christmas is just around the corner: What can we do at this stage?
Marketing strategy during Christmas encompasses an early preparation. Yet, there are still some actions that can be taken to avoid the 'lost-consumer' problem. The most straightforward solution, probably, is to send them the reminder emails. Big retailers such as John Lewis and QuickSilver use 'Cart Abandonment Email' to remind their consumers of the unfinished shopping activities. Their emails feature precise messages with images of items and the links that direct consumers back to their shopping carts.
(Source from http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/63925-cart-abandonment-emails-how-five-retailers-retarget-lost-customers)
However we also need to look at the root cause. In other others, to tackle the tedious eCommerce shopping experience by adding more fun and creative elements of your company. For example, use of videos and photos featuring your team dressed in Santa costumes might attract the consumers' attentions, making the process less monotonous.
Christmas-themed deals or promotions should be renewed and updated every couple of days to encourage your online customers to visit your website regularly. By offering vouchers that can be used in January 2014, it will not only ensure returning customers but also less chance of losing shoppers to the competitors. Similarly offering promotion code on the spot will prevent your consumers from leaving to other websites, looking for better offers. Your online sales will be likely to increase if you improve the cost of delivery. Given that consumers abandon their carts due to unexpected total prices at the final process of online shopping, companies may need to reduce the delivery fees, if not free, on orders that exceed certain amounts. This can provide some incentive for the consumers to spend more and at the same time avoid disappointments.
The most basic way to enhance online conversion rate is to revise the technicality and accessibility of your website (yet, many tend to underestimate this). The speed of website download determines the conversion rate, and therefore the volume of your Christmas sales. Ensure that your eCommerce website operates effectively and speedily for every type of device.
In conclusion…
As mentioned earlier, Christmas marketing strategy requires a long-term planning. This may involve the development of a personalized online shopping website, or incorporation of a range of social media methods to make online shopping more fun an interactive. In a busy time like Christmas, consumer attitudes are even more volatile. Retailers must make sure their eCommerce sites are precise, easy-to-follow, and speedy to avoid the 'missing payment' or 'lost consumer' situations.
Brand Relaunch inferno / feat. Tesco, NME, Siemens, and VOV.
Some are changing their look, some are just going for a session at the beauty parlour, some are coming back after years in the closet – it looks like recently the word has been "relaunch", for a lot of brands, though.
Voilà les news:
From MediaTel: 'IPC Media has announced a 'major redevelopment' of popular title NME, which is set to relaunch on 9th October.
Under editor Mike Williams, changes include a redesigned logo, a greater Radar section both in print and online, new franchises and an enhanced 'reviews' section.
The magazine currently boasts a global audience of 3.4 million every week, and Williams commented that it is 'vitally important' for NME to continue to push things forward and innovate.'
From Sky News: 'Supermarket giant Tesco has relaunched its premium food brand for the first time in 15 years, as it tries to stem a slump in profit.
The new lines have been released just days after it revealed a 23.5% pre-tax profit plunge in its half-year result.
Britain's biggest retailer said the update to its 'Tesco finest' food lines will include 400 new products, with 75% of the 1,500 product range being either new or improved.'
From Marketwired: 'SUNNYVALE, CA- (Marketwired – Oct 7, 2013) – Eastwick, a leading independent strategic communications firm focused on technology, today announced that Siemens Enterprise Communications has selected the agency to lead the earned and social media programs as well as content and messaging strategy for the company as it moves toward a major rebranding and relaunch. Unveiling of the new brand and new name will take place during a global online broadcast event on October 15, 2013.
Siemens Enterprise Communications, a leading global provider of unified communications solutions, has garnered significant industry interest over past months with their announcement of Project Ansible, a visionary real-time collaboration and communications platform bringing together voice, video, social media and search into a smart, seamless, intuitive enterprise experience.'
About time!
And, last but not least, Italy's most famous egg nog is back in business!
The history (from the new website – http://www.vovzabajone.it): in 1845 'Gian Battista Pezziol decides to use the yolks, mixing them with Marsala wine, sugar and lots of LOVE, in order to create a liquor with a natural and simple recipe, which he will call "Vovi" ("eggs", in Venetian language). Pretty soon the liquor became a hit, crossed the borders of Veneto, and changed name: VOV. Still, to this day, all over the place, the name stands for the REAL egg-based liquor.'
Whole Lotta VOV!
The website is quite fresh and proudly made by, well, us. Yeah.
What do you think?
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Photo sources: NME, Wikipedia & Appnova
Is McDonald's trying to become a luxury brand? Capitalism, minimalism, decadence and French fries.
What is happening to McDonald's? Is the brand going bananas, or is it about to make the smartest move ever?
The facts:
From RocketNews24: 'McDonald's Japan recently unveiled the Quarter Pounder Jewelry series of premium high-class burgers, laughing at your conventional definition of fast food. But at 1,000 yen (US$9.93) without fries or soda, and including quality ingredients such as truffle sauce, pineapple, or chorizo, these fancy burgers are unusual menu items for a fast food chain.'
TAXI – The Global Creative Network reports: 'To match up to the quality of the premium burgers, the fast-food giant also packed them in exquisite-looking minimalistic packaging.
As opposed to its brown paper bags, McDonald's used glossy white paper bags—much like those you'd receive when you shop at fancy branded outlets—that were printed with "golden arches" in gold foil on the front.
Each burger was also wrapped with a gold-colored paper sleeve, and placed in a luxury-watch-box-packaging lookalike of a glossy white paper box.
Would you pay more for McDonald's if they used quality ingredients and posh packaging? Or is this just decadent?'
Here's one of the comments left by the users: 'This is a prime example of putting lipstick on a pig…'
And a collection of pictures of said luxury junk delicacies.
This is what they look like in real life, anyway.
Meanwhile, in France, the new ad campaign features close-up photos of chips, a Big Mac, a Filet-o-Fish, and other products. No text. No copy. No logo. Nothing but the product.
"Minimalistic" is the word.
A concept that is growing popular, recently, especially when it comes to luxury brands. As a great article – 'the Rise of the Unbrand' – on the Harvard Business Review puts it, 'Today, some major mainstream brands are even removing their logos voluntarily. Take Selfridges & Co. The UK-based company was voted Best Department Store in the World at the Global Department Store Summit in 2012. With stores in London, Birmingham and the Manchester region, they are experimenting (and succeeding) with a very counter-intuitive brand strategy of creating silence. As part of their "No Noise" initiative, they've launched something called The Quiet Shop, a store-within-a-store for which some of the world's most respected brands have actually removed their logos. These "de-branded products" includes the very-well-known brands Levi's, Creme de la Mer and Beats by Dre — just without their signature logos.'
So, is McDonald's trying to appeal to Gen Y – which, as we said elsewhere, lives and loves the paradox of the concepts of luxury and junk, sort of Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy – and reinvent itself as a thoughtful and decadent luxury brand, or have they just lost the plot?
Talking about junk food, Japan and decadent stuff, this photo was posted by a Burger King employee, who was fired after it went viral. There is the allure of capitalism, a crucifixion that reminds us of Mantegna and Guido Reni, the sadness of post-Marxism, and a bucket full of God knows what, here.
And here's the good old junk approach: no vain ambitions, no frills, no exotic dreams of luxury and pineapple in burgers, just the ultimate Call to Action – "Got a couple of bucks? Good, come here and give it to us."
Photo sources: TAXI – The Global Creative Network http://designtaxi.com/ PR Daily http://prdaily.com/Main/Home.aspx RocketNews24 http://en.rocketnews24.com/
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Covent Garden: 17th century sandwiches, Mick Jagger's hair, the market, and more.
Appnova's new HQ is in Covert Garden. We absolutely love it. Covent Garden is like ice cream – you'll never get tired of it.
Here's a series of interesting and unusual facts about Covent Garden.
In 1632 the 4th Earl of Bedford, Francis Russell, commissioned the renowned architect Inigo Jones to develop the area into a luxury neighborhood. Heavily influenced by Italian piazzas, Jones created London's first public square, surrounded by arcaded buildings and dominated by the church of St. Paul.
The first sandwich ever eaten by that name is claimed to have been consumed in the Shakespeare's Head in Covent Garden by the Earl of Sandwich, in 1762. Sandwich was a keen gambler who when snacking at the gaming tables had his meats put between slices of bread to keep his fingers (and the cards) free from grease.
Eliza Doolittle, the central character in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, is a Covent Garden flower seller.
A lock of Mick Jagger's hair is up for sale at auction house Bonhams next month with a guide price of between $2,400 and $3,000. Mick Jagger's hair was snipped from his mane in the early 1960s and kept by relatives of one of his first girlfriends, Chrissie Shrimpton, a Covent Garden secretary he famously dated while a student at the London School of Economics.
And here's a series of great images, nicked from "Old Covent Garden: The Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Markets" and "Covent Garden Then & Now", both by Clive Boursnell.
About this photo, Clive Boursnell says: "Everything was on the move: the ever-changing colour of the light, the kaleidoscope of shapes…Then a blast from a truck's horn, a voice from a cab window: 'Out the fuckin' way, dreamer boy.'"
Photo sources: Retronaut http://www.retronaut.com/2012/10/covent-garden/ Time Out http://now-here-this.timeout.com/ / All photos © Clive Boursnell.
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Navy Says Wreck Found Off Japan is Legendary Sub USS WahooStory Number: NNS061031-15Release Date: 10/31/2006 7:01:00 PMhttp://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=26378From Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet Public AffairsPEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) — Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet declared Oct. 31 that the sunken submarine recently discovered by divers in the Western Pacific is, indeed, the World War II submarine USS Wahoo (SS 238)."After reviewing the records and information, we are certain USS Wahoo has been located," said Adm. Gary Roughead, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander. ÂWe are grateful for the support of the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park, and appreciate greatly the underwater video footage of the submarine provided by our Russian navy colleagues, which allowed us to make this determination. This brings closure to the families of the men of Wahoo – one of the greatest fighting submarines in the history of the U.S. Navy."In July, the Russian dive team ÂIskra photographed wreckage lying in about 213 feet (65 meters) of water in the La Perouse (Soya) Strait between the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the Russian island of Sakhalin. The divers were working with The Wahoo Project Group, an international team of experts coordinated by Bryan MacKinnon, a relative of WahooÂs famed skipper, Cmdr. Dudley W. ÂMush Morton.
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Sweet cousin Jacob sent an early Easter present to the girls~ sidewalk chalk with stencils for Merritt and a "lemon" twist for Morgan. It's the modern day version. Back when I was a child the ball was shaped like a lemon and therefore was called the lemon twist! Not sure what they call it today but Morgan liked the name lemon twist so the tradition lives on! Amy and I spent hours in our driveway jumping over that plastic lemon! We got really good at it too! In case you are wondering, lemon twisting is like riding a bike....you never forget! My lungs gave out this afternoon before my lemon twisting did! Morgan got the hang of it really quick! I can see Morgan and Merritt spending just as many hours in our driveway hopping over that "lemon" as their Momma and Aunt Amy did!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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- AnonymousApril 1, 2009 at 7:12 AM
I love the look of deterReplyDelete
I love the look of determination on Morgan's face{would love pictures of you trying} She does everything successfully! A Jane
- GranMeApril 1, 2009 at 7:58 PM
I watched her do it this evening and she is a whiz.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM
And she's a lefty! Must be because her Mom is her coach! Glad she's enjoying it, even if it isn't a "real" lemon :-) Tell her we're gonna have a lemon twist throwdown the next time I come to visit!ReplyDelete
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Patreon: The Spam Effect
Kickstarter, Indiegogo, GoFundMe, and now Patreon. They all work very similar. If you like what you see, it's easy to go fund it and get a reward. But is it really a reward? You're basically paying for a product, so I don't see it as a reward unless it's free – but what's free anymore?
FREE is when you don't have to put down any dollar amount, right? I see signs in stores all the time. "Get THIS product FREE… but first you must purchase something else." So how is that free when you know they jacked up the price to pay for it?
I once had a kickstarter page, still do. Apparently, you can't delete the project after it's over. I didn't care much for it other than to see the progress of book 2 come to life. The thing I didn't like was the spamming part.
Let's say you have this great idea and need some money to fund it. You spend hours fixing up a small campaign page and then launch it. Now what? Well, NOW you have to spam people – anyone you know. Social media sights, email, etc. I really hate doing that to people because it clutters the page with "HEY I WANT YOUR MONEY" and that's not really why I create artwork to begin with. It'd be nice. I do spend a lot of time doing the things I love, and it would be great to actually be paid for what I love. But I don't want to be greedy about it.
So now I've started seeing all these artists using Patreon to fund their creative works. Most of them are going small. So… I figured, why not? I'll just put one up with a quick intro. I'm not going to spam it because I'm going to do what I want anyways, but if for some reason people want to donate, they certainly can!


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Monthly Archives: March 2011
What if 1 Glock isn't enough?!?
We really enjoy creative people and then particularly people that stick to a weird idea. As kids ducktape helped us to create some sick near full automatic berry shooting blowpipes. As we got older we lost intrest, this guy must have been … Continue reading
RIP! A remix manifesto
Wow! With the birth of the "coup de sjans most radical blog" we obtained a new power! Recommending stuff we love and hope you love too! So here goes… If you have not yet seen this movie This is a … Continue reading
Dart Vaders House
Wow! After having seen Darth Vaders signature Snowboard Boots, Car and Boat we found Drath vaders house! Apollo Architects & Associates developed this mad looking crib. Check it out here.
Surfers in Ultra HD
Surfers and body boarders in Oahu get the HD/slow motion treatment from Devin Graham. Wow!As non photography enthusiastics we now even want the Canon D7 .
Hello world!
Lets do this!


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Prime numbers are special. They can only be divided by themselves and one. Prime is also representative of the best moment in time. More specifically it is a state or time of greatest strength, vigor, or success in a person's life (among other definitions). 2016 was sort of a dumpster fire to most of the world. It is over. Now 2017 is prime. Claim it!
A note on color choices, the 2017 pantone of the year is "Greenery". I didn't have this color in my inktense pack (and honestly, I made this at a party so I didn't really look at the color at the time.) From the pantone.com site, "A life-affirming shade, Greenery is also emblematic of the pursuit of personal passions and vitality." Greenery wants to be prime too.


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It's week 2 of the NFL season, which means we're right in the middle of overreaction week. You see, fans, "experts", and even the clubs themselves come into the season with (relative degrees of) informed opinions about how the season will play out. Then week 1 comes along and trashes many of those preconceived ideas. So does that mean we were wrong? Or was this just a small-sample-size issue that will be corrected as more games are played?What's that? How did I do last week in week 2? That's not important. What's important is I have a theme to tie this post together. Themes are good! Hooray themes!
As always, home teams are in CAPS.
CAROLINA (-3) over Houston
Question: What do I make of Houston?
It's not that Houston lost to Kansas City, the Chiefs should be a good team this year when they're not fumbling the game away.
It's that the Brian Hoyer-led Texans looked inept. Yes they were missing Arian Foster, and Andre Johnson is gone, but this is the same Brian Hoyer who had the Cleveland Browns on the edges of the playoffs for 3/4 of last season. The Cleveland Browns! Now Hoyer's been benched after 3 quarters. It's like they always (almost) say, "If you have two starting quarterbacks in the first two weeks of your season, you really have none." And if you have no starting quarterbacks, you aren't going to be very good. Houston isn't going to be very good.
Carolina's no offensive juggernaut themselves. And their defense takes a hit if Luke Kuechly isn't cleared to play. But with this Houston offense, Carolina's defense will be good enough again this week.
NEW ORLEANS (-10) over Tampa Bay
Question: So, Tampa Bay making a climb towards respectability...are we just tossing that idea in the garbage again this year?
I have to say yes. Tampa isn't completely devoid of talent. That's why upgrading from univserally-hated Greg Schiano to universally-indifferent-to Lovie Smith was supposed to coincide with a jump in the Bucs' record last year. Didn't happen as Lovie's defense was torched up and down the field all year long. So we get to week one and Lovie's defense...gets torched by a rookie quarterback still adjusting to the pro game. Meanwhile, Lovie's own rookie quarterback (who did run a pro-style offense in college) is flummoxed into completing less than half of his passes and 2 interceptions to go with 1 non-garbage-time touchdown.
They lost by 28 last week at home to the Titans and this week they play to New Orleans in the dome. Perhaps the question we should be asking is, will Lovie last the season?
San Francisco (+6.5) over PITTSBURGH
Question: Were the rumors of the 49ers' demise greatly exaggerated.
Exaggerated? Yes. Greatly so? I don't think so. Most teams aren't going to let Carlos Hyde run for 168 yards. That said more about Minnesota than it did about the 49ers. When that doesn't happen, we'll get to see if Colin Kaepernick has made strides from last season, when he appeared to stagnate. The bottom line is, they aren't more talented than last year's team AND they severely downgraded their coaching staff. That's not a good combination. That being said, I don't see Pittsburgh's defense shutting down this 49er offense, so I don't understand why this line is so high.
Detroit (+2) over MINNESOTA
Question: Is it too late to jump off the Vikings' bandwagon before we're all maimed in a fiery crash?
Probably not. That wagon was pretty full (I should know, I was on it), and it crashed pretty hard at San Francisco on Monday night. It would appear the Vikings have a problem with their lines, as they couldn't run or stop the run all night. And as high as many are on the future of Teddy Bridgewater, this season won't go particularly well if they can't run the ball consistently.
New England (-1) over BUFFALO
Question: Do the Patriots actually have a legit challenger to their divisional superiority?
I'm sticking with no. Yes, Buffalo has a terrific defense, and yes, the Tyrod Taylor era got off to a promising start last weekend, but even during Rex's heyday with the Jets, he never actually challenged the Patriots for the division. He won 3/5 games in a 2-year span, but the team was not consistent enough to keep pace with New England.
That's not to say they won't play the Patriots tough this weekend. Rex has plenty of pieces to run his defense, and his defenses have given New England problems over the years. And with the lack of film out on his limited quarterback, he's getting the Pats at a great time. I just don't believe Taylor will do enough offensively to win the game.
Arizona (-2) over CHICAGO
Question: Are the Cardinals with Carson Palmer Super Bowl contenders?
Whoa there, pump the breaks. They beat a questionable Saints team in week 1. I know the Cards are 8-0 in Palmer's last 8 starts and yes, they were a clear playoff team last year until both Palmer and backup Drew Stanton got hurt, forcing the team to turn to Ryan Lindley, but come on, this is still Carson Palmer. 1) No, Carson Palmer is not going to win you a Super Bowl unless you have a legitimately great defense and running game supporting him. Last year's Cardinals might have had the defense, this year they don't. And we haven't seen a running game in the desert in years. 2) He's going to miss time. Carson Palmer is not playing 16 games in a season.
That being said, Palmer and the Cardinals are going to torch the Bears. But that's because the Bears aren't good. The Cardinals are good. They're not great.
Tennessee (-1.5) over CLEVELAND
Question: Marcus Mariota is the savior Titans fans have been clamoring for!!!
Hmmmm, not a question. And I'm not sure we can describe Titans fans as clamoring for anything. They're perfectly nice people, they like their team, but I don't know how much pressure they put on their front office/coaching staff. Right now when people talk about Mariota, it's either a) You haterz shouldn't have hated on my boy, he's going to rock the NFL! or b) This guy's just RG3 all over again. Neither is true. Mariota is going to have to adjust from the Oregon offense to the NFL, but he's already a better passer than RG3, which will smooth his transition much more.
As for this game, I have no idea. Cleveland has the better roster, but Mariota is much better than whoever the Browns will trot out at quarterback, so I'm picking the Mariotas...err, Titans.
San Diego (+3) over CINCINNATI
Question: Are either of these teams anything other than the fringe playoff contenders they've been?
If one is, it would be the Chargers. But I don't beleive either is. The Bengals are the definition of insanity: putting out roughly the same team around Andy Dalton and expecting to win a playoff game. The Chargers still have barely anything in the running game to support Phillip Rivers, and a defense that approaches good, not great.
So who wins this game? Again, I'll pick the Chargers. Their aggressive defense is the type to bring out Bad Andy.
St. Louis (-3) over WASHINGTON
Question: Okay, the Rams are finally for real this year, right? Right?
Time will tell. As you'll see below, the Rams own Pete Carroll in St. Louis, and Jeff Fisher has the penthouse suite inside Carroll's head. The Rams have always played their division tough, they just don't put together anything resembling consistency over the whole 16-game season. Traveling to Washington and leaving no doubt would be a good first step to change their image as underachievers.
Atlanta over NEW YORK GIANTS
Question: Are the Giants the team that took it right to the Cowboys or the team that blew the game thanks to colossal stupidity?
Well, they're not the team that took it to the Cowboys. The Cowboys spent most of the game shooting themselves in the foot, only for the Giants to detonate an atom bomb in their own shoe. The Giants did a poor job stopping the Cowboys. They took the turnovers Dallas gave them, but otherwise weren't able to slow down Dallas' offense. The only chance for the Giants to be competitive is to win shootouts, and the offense didn't look ready to do that either.
Last year's Falcons teams wouldn't have cared, because Mike Smith would have taken umbrage at another coach trying to usurp his title as worst in-game coach in the league. Unluckily for Giants fans, Smith is no more in Atlanta. Atlanta still doesn't have the horses to be a defensive power, but they at least offer some resistance, as Philly found out for a half. Combine that with a competent quarterback, and the Falcons will take this one on the road.
Baltimore (-6.5) over OAKLAND
Question: Just how good can you be with a 36-year-old and spare parts at receiver?
I still say the Ravens are on the short list of top teams in the AFC. But they will have to improve substantially in the passing game pretty quickly. Their defense will remain stout even without Terrell Suggs, but they're not going to carry the offense to a contending year, Flacco and Co. will have to pull their weight as well. Luckily for the Ravens, they don't need to be much better this week, as they play Oakland.
Miami (-6) over JACKSONVILLE
Question: Wait, 17-10 over the Redskins? I thought the Dolphins were going to make the leap?
That was a disconcerting result, the Dolphins need to put away bad teams like the Redskins if they are, in fact, going to be a playoff team. The defense (assuming health) will be very good. The offense has the potential to be good as well, but good offenses score more than 10 points against the Redskins. Many were onboard the Tannehill bandwagon going into the season. I remain skeptical.
PHILADELPHIA (-5) over Dallas
Question: Should we expect to see the first-half Eagles team from Monday night or the second-half one?
Quick reminder: After one half of play in 2014 last year Philly was down 17-0 to Jacksonville. Nope, I'm not kidding. They recovered to win that game 34-17, but were similarly up and down over the course of the season. I expect more of the same this season, and that's assuming Sam Bradford stays healthy, which is less than likely.
Now, is Dallas minus Dez Bryant good enough to hang with the Eagles? This will be a good litmus test for the Eagles secondary. Yes they got torched by Julio Jones, but you're supposed to get torched by Julio Jones, he's a top-5 NFL WR. If the Eagles struggle against these Cowboys WRs? Then their fans should be in full-fledged panic mode. It says here we can keep those fingers off that button for at least one week.
GREEN BAY (-3.5) over Seattle
Question: Is that the sound of Seattle's window slamming shut?
In a word, no. Pete Carroll has been Seattle's coach since 2010. Here is how the Seahawks have fared in St. Louis each year:
Seattle at St. Louis
Week 4
Week 11
Week 4
Week 8
Week 7
Week 1
In that same time frame, Carroll's Seahawks are 48-27 outside the city of St. Louis (inlcuding 5-0 vs the Rams in Seattle). In short, Carroll has always had a problem beating the Rams in St. Louis, especially under Jeff Fisher.
There were concerning signs in that game, but most of those issues were in the back 7 defensively and on the offensive line. There are always going to be offensive line problems on this team, it seems to be part of the philosophy - they'd rather spend elsewhere. The back 7 problems I would trust Carroll to fix, he's a secondary guy. Will it be enough to beat the Packers 7 days later? I'll say no. They're 3-0 vs Green Bay since 2012 because the defense has completely shut down Aaron Rodgers. This defense, with an incomplete secondary is not going to shut down Rodgers on the road. I wish I saw it happening...but I don;t.
INDIANAPOLIS (-7) over New York Jets
Question: Are the Colts in trouble
No. They went on the road against a very strong defense and didn't play well. Aaron Rodgers lost in Buffalo last year. On Monday night they'll be at home against another very good defense, and facing Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback. They'll be fine.
This week: 0-1 (D'oh!)
Last week: 8-7-1 (.531)


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Camille and Keith
Camille, Keith and myself, first met at a Starbucks. People seem to look for any excuse to go to Starbucks. But all jokes aside, they're a great couple. They decided to take their engagement photos at the church where they'll be exchanging vows in August of 2007. St. James AME happens to be the same church in which they met as kids and still attend. And did I mention that Camille's father is also a Minister there? Stay tuned, this story is just getting started.


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By Bruce Levine–
CHICAGO (CBS) — As the Cubs ready to get the National League Championship Series started against the Dodgers, they're preparing for a handful of pitchers they haven't faced this season.
In the seven regular-season games the teams played, the Cubs didn't face Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw, left-hander Rich Hill or right-hander Kenta Maeda. Add in left-hander Julio Urias — who could get a start early in the series — and the Cubs could face left-handers as many as five times in the series.
Maeda will start Game 1 on Saturday at Wrigley Field against left-hander Jon Lester. The Cubs were better against left-handed pitching than right-handed in 2016, but that didn't stop Giants left-hander Matt Moore from shutting them down to the tune of two hits in eight innings in Game 4 of the NLDS, which the Cubs rallied to win with a four-run ninth inning. Chicago had an .807 OPS against left-handers for the season, the second-best mark in baseball. (The Cubs had a .772 OPS against righties.)
On the flip side, the Dodgers were the worst offense against left-handers in the big leagues, with a .622 OPS. That would seem to bode well for the Cubs in Game 1 with Lester on the mound. Lester had a 0.60 ERA in 15 innings across two starts against the Dodgers this season.
"A pitcher that is pitching well should have an advantage over a team that has not seen him to that point," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. "Kershaw, we have seen in the past. We certainly know how good he is. Hill, I have not seen in person. Maeda, I have seen on TV a little bit. Of course it's something different. This time of year, you are going to see good pitching. That is what this time of the year means."
Kershaw has had a big workload lately after starting Tuesday and coming on in relief Thursday in a series-clinching win against the Nationals, but he could start Game 2 on Sunday. Kershaw didn't throw his usual side session Thursday, instead saving his bullets for the bullpen and a two-out save.
"I honestly believe our guys will be equal to the challenge," Maddon said. "I know they are going to be ready. We are feeling pretty good about ourselves. We will continually work the moment, and we should be fine. The ninth inning from the other night would help any team with confidence and a moral boost.
"That said, the next game that all could be squelched by a good starting pitching performance on the other side .I am all about starting pitching. When I saw Moore warming up the other night, I did not like it. He was throwing strikes early, and the ball was coming out of his hand great. I didn't like it. I just didn't like it. Normally he is a little more shotgun (overthrowing) 100 pitches after five innings. Tuesday, I didn't get that vibe from him. The starters early on create my feel for what the game will be like. That happens for me early on in any game."
Bruce Levine covers the Cubs and White Sox for 670 The Score and CBSChicago.com. Follow him on Twitter @MLBBruceLevine.


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Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Twitter is suddenly...
I started tweeting again back in December when I was after a new thing to take my mind off other things. It certainly helped...
Tweetdeck is my interface of choice, if I ever get a phone I can tweet from then that might change but at the moment it works perfectly for me.
I have all sorts of people filtered off into groups...
There is the Perfect group, consisting of lovely lovely people like Caroline_S, Keris, emmaj1983, threeleggedcat, antoniajane and of course Miss EmLah.
There is my Groupie group which features stephenfry, neilhimself, bobbyllew and alandavies1 (he's a secret Leyton Orient supporter y'know), among others.
Other contacts are split into book/blog/F1/randomly interesting related groups.
Then I have a new group that I added just today.
This one makes me giggle.
Please put your hands together for the Fake F1 Drivers!!!
* fakejenson * FakeAlonso * fakefelipemassa * FakeKazNakajima * fakemarkwebber * FakeSebVettel * fakehamilton *
All bossed about by fakemaxmosley and all bitched about by fakejuanmontoya.
Now we just need a FakeKimi to turn up and it'll all be good. (Not that I expect a FakeKimi to turn up, we all know he's too busy drinking/sleeping/eating icecreams to Tweet).
Basically...Twitter rocks.
6 comments:
- Rochelle said...
Great post! I love Twitter a lot and have met the most interesting people all over the world. I love how you can really connect with others with similar interests, and of course I love the hilarious tweeps I follow!
- 9 April 2009 at 01:23
- Michelle said...
Oh god, I'm seeing Twitter things every where these days. Signed up for it ages ago, tweeted maybe 5 times and now I just can't get into it. It all just annoys me. You watch though, give it another month or so and I'll be worn down from all the pressure everywhere to twitter and I'll find it's my favourite thing in the world. Until then, I'm still grumpy about it all.
- 9 April 2009 at 07:02
- Caroline said...
You are one of my most favourite Twitter friends! Twitter works, on a basic keeping in touch level, but for me it's really pushed me to write my Kate novel!
I have a feeling it's going to get too busy soon.
- 9 April 2009 at 08:57
- Keris said...
Ooh, am v flattered to be in the 'Perfect' group! :) I am totes obsessed with Twitter. It's such good fun, but way too addictive.
- 9 April 2009 at 09:32
- Emmie said...
hehe i love how you put me in there! I love it too! xx
- 11 April 2009 at 21:05
- Three Legged Cat said...
Aw - am reet chuffed (as we say round here) to be in your perfect group.
I love Twitter. I remember feeling a bit confused by it, but then suddenly I found myself in the middle of this network of lovely people who chat, tell me about stuff, make me laugh.
(Sorry for late comment - I'm catching up on blogs etc, had to take some t'internet leave to go and do v. v. boring real life things.)
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Ensuring you fuel your body as well as possible before a workout is the key to getting the best workout you can. If you don't fuel yourself properly, how can you ever hope to work your muscles as thoroughly as needed for optimal growth?
What you eat before a workout can have a big effect on how well you work out, and also, what happens to your muscles during the workout.
What you need to eat pre workout…
Supplements aside, pre workout, the nutrient you most need to concern yourself with is carbohydrates. Not simple carbohydrates, but complex carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates will provide your muscles with a great amount of ready glycogen but won't spike your sugar levels like simple carbohydrates.
Protein is also important pre workout, and that's because all the while you are training and breaking your muscles down, they are going into catabolism as protein is burned for repair, so ensuring you have protein during this time is important – just as important as it is in your post workout.
Good carbohydrates to have pre workout are wholemeal bread, potatoes, pasta, brown rice or oats.
Good proteins to have pre workout are things such as fish, beef, chicken, whey protein or egg.
You may also have milk – and if you have whey, you'll likely have milk anyway – but milk on its own probably wouldn't be as good as the other protein foods I've listed because the protein in milk – casein – is slow releasing, and may not be up to the task of preventing protein breakdown during training, though this is certainly debateable and would depend entirely upon the intensity, volume and length of the training session.
Whatever meal you decide to have, eat the meals around an hour to an hour and a half before working out so they have time to digest so you don't have indigestion, and equally important, are converted into workout energy and support for the protein-losing muscles.


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This is yet another baby step in my (financially bankrupting) goal of owning every single item from Sulwhasoo by the end of 2012. I finally bought my first item from the Extra Refining (read: higher-end and more expensive) range – the Extra Refining Emulsion. I've also bought the Extra Refining Eye Cream for an exorbitant SGD300+ but haven't started using it cos I'm still using the Basic line eye cream.
Sulwhasoo Extra Refining Emulsion – KRW110,000 (approx SGD121) – now rebranded as Sulwhasoo TimeTreasure Perfecting Emulsion
Isn't it just so beautiful and luxurious? The promise of youthful bouncy firm skin never looked more well packaged.
Liquid, milky and lightweight emulsion
How my skin looks immediately after applying the emulsion
How my skin looks after it's absorbed (about 3-5 seconds later). Not sure if you can notice, but the side without the emulsion looks drier while the side with the emulsion looks smoother, has less lines and was much softer to the touch.
I say…
I love it! However, get it only if you've got extra cash to spare. At SGD121, it really isn't the most affordable emulsion around. However, it's definitely worth the money.
- It's lightweight and milky – making it easily to spread over your face and is so, so easily absorbed.
- There's no sticky residue.
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I've had the busiest few months. University got the best of me, I was organising and producing a show that was successful but all in all I let me weightloss goals slack!
I'm at a 4.2lbs loss so I've only gained about 2lbs which I'm very happy about. It could've been even worse. I still tried to eat within reason and workout when I was able to, but I wasn't working to lose weight just to maintain.
So I'm back to week one and plan to really stick it out! I have exams coming up and this is the perfect time since I'll have more time to work around my own schedule and have no more extra commitments.
I'm joining the gym tomorrow and plan to wake up, go to the gym and after breakfast, commence revision and continue with my day.
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Now, let's move to the Transversus Abdominus. The Transversus Abdominus is the deepest of the abdominal muscles and is also a stabilizer of the spine. Support by this muscle is considered to be the most important of the abdominal muscle and has also been found to be in a weakened state in those who have chronic back pain or problem.It's normal action along with the action of the lumbar multifidus muscles function together to form a deep internal corset that acts to stabilize the spine during movement. This pattern of protection is disrupted in patients with low back pain. It is uncertain why these muscles become dysfunctional after a low back injury, but specific exercises focusing on the contraction of these two muscle together will improve the protective stabilizing ability of the spinal muscles, reduce pain intensity, and improve activities of daily living as well as body awareness and posture..wahhh..so long of to explain..so how about your back?do you have a good back or bad back?..don't forget to contact us for consultation and treatment if your back give you a problem..Have a good day everyone..
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Hello everyone..welcome to our simple blog..have you read the previous entry on Low Back Pain and Lumbar Stabilization Exercises? okay..now, i introduce you to the smallest yet most powerful muscle that gives support to the spine..The lumbar multifidi are the deepest layer ofmuscles of the back. They attach from the vertebral arches to the spinous process. Each multifidi connects 1 -3 vertebrae, (the vertebrae are the bones of the spine) controlling movement between the vertebrae.
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It has been estimated that approximately 80% of people in Western countries have experienced low back pain (LBP) at some point in their lives. Most cases resolve within 2-4 weeks without any medical intervention. However, within 1 year following the first episode of LBP, 60 -80% of patient will have recurring pain. Current research has reported that in most cases of LBP, certain muscles of the back that stabilize the spine are reflexively inhibited (shutdown) after injury. These muscles do not spontaneously recover even if patients are pain free with a return to normal activity levels. These specific muscles work together to support and stabilized the spine to help prevent LBP. These muscles include the lumbar multifidi and the transversus abdominus. We will talk and discuss more on these muscle on the next entry. Take care of your back everyone :) Have a good day!
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U.S. citizens elected a few women in their midterm elections. That has brought forward a lot of inappropriate comments in the media. From feministing.com:
Clearly, American voters are taking women politicians seriously. Too bad everyone can't do the same. Some men have been coming out to describe their displeasure with women's wins in what can only be described as a "girls are icky" line of argument (whining).
Echidne points to a report from Media Matters; during MSNBC's election coverage, Chris Matthews said that that Senator Clinton gave a "barn-burner speech, which is harder to give for a woman; it can grate on some men when they listen to it — fingernails on a blackboard."
He also said that Pelosi will "have to do the good fight with the president over issues" and asked: "How does she do it without screaming? How does she do it without becoming grating?"
Nothing like the sound of an uppity woman, huh Chris?
Dennis Miller's appearance on Hannity & Colmes may take the cake though. Miller rambled off a list of reasons why Pelosi would be a terrible Speaker of the House, most of which could have been summed up with, "But she has a vagina!"
My favorites:
"To think that a C-minus, D-plus applicant like this, who no doubt would have been drummed out of the Mary Kay corps after an initial four-week evaluation period, might have a seat at the table of true powers, the speaker of the House, is absolutely insane.""Every time I see Pelosi in her little Chanel suits — a latter day "Wacky O" — regurgitating the Democratic talking points that she had to learn phonetically because the word "grasp" is not even vaguely in her vocabulary, I shake my head so badly you could blend paint colors in my mouth."
Even President Bush got into it, announcing that, in his conversation with Nancy Pelosi,
"in my first act of bipartisan outreach since the election, I shared with her the names of some Republican interior decorators who can help her pick out the new drapes in her new offices."
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Demon: "Why are you staring at RB, Angel?"
Angel: "The facial expressions. Watch the facial expressions. I can tell when RB gets to a good part of the story by the way her face changes."
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"Where is my tea?!" The queen screamed as she looked around what used to be a throne room. Torn filthy rags hung from the ceilings and walls like they were once curtains and tapestries of royalty. Stone pillars were worn down to chunks of rubble. It was a damn mess and she was standing in the heart of it.
Lights from the faery wings of her soldiers lit the night. Her soldiers and attendants fanned out to look for the tea maker and the tea that should have been there in the throne room where a podium sat. The white marble podium was the only thing in the room that wasn't a heap of ruin. Though dreadfully ordinary, the thing was clearly maintained and cleaned regularly.
"Where is the tea maker? Huh? Can someone tell me what in the hell is going on?" She stamped her foot, high heel digging into the fragile stone floor. Her soldiers were scrambling for answers, but no one told her shit. "Find them both!"
She paced the floor waiting, staring down at her beloved. The skull looked back up at her lovingly as she spoke her concerns. "You should be doing this, you know. All this should be yours. We should rule together." She leaned in closer, "Why? Why won't you take over? You are so much calmer and patient, my love. You have the finesse and cunning I don't. I… Yes, you're right." She sighed. "You're always right."
Placing a kiss on the skull, she smiled, feeling her frustration ease.
"Your grace," One of her captains came up to her and bowed to one knee.
"Speak," She said putting her free hand on her hip.
The man waved his hand to the side signaling… Aaaah.
Three soldiers shuffled up to her with a withered old man wearing a grand ceremonial robe of Light – white with gold and black trim far more beautiful than the rest of the drab filled Temple.
"I'm guessing you are the tea maker?"
The old man frowned, his cloudy eyes unfocused. He stood, barely, swaying as if any moment his brittle bones would fail him.
"Answer me!" She shouted.
"Huh?" The man's voice croaked as he tilted his ear to her. "Huh!"
Death was only a heartbeat away from this blind and half-deaf shriveled-up shit unworthy of her time.
"Did you find the tea?" She asked the soldier.
"He was hunched sleeping near a steeper but the vessel was empty. It doesn't look like it's been used for years."
"Dammit. Talk to him, scream if you have to, but make this fool talk." She pointed a flaming finger at the decrepit speck. Now she was starting to believe the myth about the tea maker dying after creating the tea. To think the maker spent over thousands of years of life to create a damn healing elixir. A waste of time and breath.
They took the ancient man away to question him. She twirled around when she felt the approach of several guards.
"Most powerful queen!" One of her captains ran up and bowed low. The other soldiers followed suit.
"My soldiers found someone unconscious in the ruins below. According to a few of the pilgrims we interrogated, the man fits the description of a male who was looking for a female faery named Sherris."
The queen's veins turned to ice as more guards poured into the shabby throne room carrying the one man she hated more than anything. The only man who slipped from her grasps so many years ago.
The captain smiled, pleasure mirrored in his face knowing he just received a promotion. He would be right to think so because she was going to have him in her bed chambers when they returned to her kingdom. Thrills of excitement shivered through her as they strung the man up, thick strong arms lifted high over his head. One soldier flew the rope to the ceiling where it was tethered and tied high on a pillar.
On his face was a single scar on the side of his cheek that was as if a narrow cut had healed wrong. His face was as chiseled and rough as rock. Nothing beautiful, it looked like life hated the man, giving him such a distasteful appearance.
As he hung, muscular body swinging, she circled him. All thoughts of her purpose there vacating her mind as the hate bubbled, boiled, and steamed. Her arm rose and swung a backhand so hard, her body trembled in pain before a scream of fury echoed though the ancient castle like a siren.
The man's head rolled hard before his eyes popped open and fixated right on her. His obvious shock came out in a curse, "Oh, shit."
She snarled. "Yes. You. Are."
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I was going to leave the commentary about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath to others. There are thousands of people on the Web, on TV and in newspapers giving their opinion about what went wrong and who's to blame. I try to read an equal amount from all sides, disregarding the very extreme edge of each (such as the CIA has control over the weather or that God smote a certain city to punish sinners).
But the more I read, the more it struck me...how differences of opinion are often driven by the difference between thinking and feeling.
God created us human beings with both intellect and emotion, and these are meant to be in a balance. Some situations call for more feeling than thinking, some situations need the opposite. Some, like the response to a natural or man-made disaster, require mostly reason and logic to get through the immediate emergency, and less of the emotion that, while being the basis of compassion, could easily overwhelm our logic. Once the crisis has passed, we need to get back to a balance of reason and emotion when developing long-term solutions.
As you read or watch coverage of the disaster, take a moment to note if what the people are saying is based on emotion or reason. Then take your analysis one more step by ascertaining the possible motives of the people you are observing. And when you form your opinion, are you doing it based facts you believe to be true or what you feel about what you think you know?
What happened before and after Hurricane Katrina is tragic. No doubt mistakes were made. No doubt we will learn a lot more in the coming days, weeks and months. No doubt we have to be better prepared for the next time (there is always a next time).
But when you hear a politician or news reporter or celebrity lay all the blame at the feet of one person or institution or organization to the exclusion of all others, keep plenty of room for doubt in your own mind. Consider their motives, their emotions and their knowledge of the facts.
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The science series is aimed at 8-12 year olds, an audience practically born with a mouse in their hands, 'Is Eolaí Mé' encourages kids to get back to basics and learn how to investigate and explore the environment in which they live. Based on the primary school science curriculum, the topics under discussion in 'Is Eolaí Mé' are presented in a fun and entertaining way. The series is action packed and features studio, on the road segments, animated segments along with a short comic drama skit in each episode highlighting the theme or topic of the day.
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He's being ignored by the media, and they keep trying to replace
him with any number of candidates, because the Powers
don't want Ron Paul to win.
If the 'grinch wins, that'll be the end of Christmas for millions
of American kids, because evermore of their parents will be broke.
Paul is trying to stop the wholesale looting of the US economy.
checkitout: Mish Shedlock
Blatant Reporting BiasI posted more paragraphs than necessary in the above clips. I did so on purpose to prove a point. It was not until the 6th paragraph that Ron Paul even got a mention.
I also call your attention to the second-to-last paragraph. "The poll has a plus or minus 4.2 point margin of error."
Given the margin of error, and the momentum, Ron Paul has surged into a statistical tie with Gingrich.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Florida or Germany?
To enlighten herself further Eleanor downloaded a clip from Car Stuck Girls, and while she was studying it she noticed that the girl in white stiletto boots revving the seriously overstrained engine had a distinctly Euro accent (Oh, vat vill becomen of me?), not the Tennessee or Texas twang that you would have expected.
When she told me, it dawned on me that the purveyors of this site weren't rednecks that had somehow sexually imprinted on tractor pull type activity, but GERMANS! Of course! How could I have been so blind? Who else but Germans would be so weirdly depraved?
Even though the girls who star in the videos look homegrown and like they strutted right out of a ZZ Top video, I thought there was something suspiciously Teutonic about the site. I mean, why were these ladies running Audis and Volkswagons into the ground instead of Chevys or Fords?
Germans and rednecks do have a surprising amount in common, proven time and again by Loveline's Florida or Germany game, where callers call in to the show and read a bizarre news story that took place in either place. Adam Corolla and Dr. Drew have to guess the provenance of the story and they are often stumped.
This site has a brilliant cross cultural appeal because it combines the perversion of Germans with the redneck's love of cars and mud. I have a feeling that it does quite well.
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Originally published in the June 2009 Edition of The Auger Membership Magazine
Dr Gordon Dawson Anderson 1932-2009
Gordon Anderson prided himself in being a graduate of the School of Agriculture, King's College, Newcastle, then part of the University of Durham. He had happy memories of his student days at Newcastle for it was here that one cold winter's evening he met his future wife Marion when carol singing with the Student Christian Movement. It was in Newcastle too that he had the good fortune to benefit from one of the most outstanding and dedicated teachers in Soil Science, Edward Crompton, who was also to support Gordon in his strong Christian beliefs which were a driving force throughout his life.
After leaving Newcastle, Gordon spent 15 years in East Africa, mostly at the Northern Regional Research Station in Arusha, Tanzania. While based there, he made a survey of the soils of South and East Kilimanjaro and also undertook many trials on the nutrition of local crops. In 1968 he produced the Soil and Land Use Potential maps of Tanzania for the atlas. Then followed 2-year spells teaching at the University of Zambia and Makerere, Uganda. On his return to the UK in 1973 he joined ADAS at Leeds and was able to take up again one of his abiding interest which began at Newcastle – improving the productivity of hill land. The results of his post graduate trials on the North Yorkshire moors gave clear and convincing results. Over-sowing, with clover plus lime and phosphate as appropriate, could transform the yield and quality for upland pastures without ploughing. Although unpublished, a comprehensive report on his investigations is available as a disc or CD. When he left ADAS in 1980, Gordon with the help of his family, was able to put his ideas into practice on a hill farm in the Scottish Borders near Jedburgh. The results were outstanding and the land is now being farmed very successfully by his sons Paul, David and Stephen.
Whatever he tackled, Gordon was strongly focused and dedicated to the matter in hand. His enthusiasm for hill land reclamation was evident when presenting papers – he had to tell the full story and frequently to the bane of Conference Chairmen, ran well over his allotted time! Had he lived a few more months Gordon and Marion would have been celebrating their Golden Wedding; we extend our sympathy to Marion and his family.
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Construction of real numbers
The idea of extending the number system from the set of rational numbers by adjoining roots of polynomial equations is very interesting, but faces obvious difficulties: we need to treat all possible polynomial equations, and this still give us no guarantees whatsoever that transcendental equations (trigonometric, exponential etc). will be solvable when we expect them to be.
The alternative is to extend the set of rationals by adding "solutions to systems of inequalities". In order for such a system to represent a unique "new" number, the equations need to be consistent (compatible between themselves) and possess some uniqueness property.
These two requirements can be implemented by consideration of the so called Dedekind cuts, which can be informally considered as sets of rational "approximations" (lower and upper) for the missing number.
In the lectures we pursue this strategy and explain how the cuts can be compared, how arithmetic operations on the cuts can be defined and why the addition of all possible cuts results in a "complete" number system.
The detailed exposition, as before, is downloadable as a pdf file. Please take a time to signal (in the comments to this post or by any other way) about all errors, inevitable in the first draft.


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Hollywood springs up in the garden of England
A Disneyland in Kent? Well not quite… a Paramount Pictures land. But before you get too disheartened, at a cost of £2 billion this is no parochial project. The park is rumoured to be twice the size of its Olympic contemporary and is planned to be built on the Swanscombe Pennisula, previously home to Europe's largest cement works (and also very near to where the remains of the 250,000 year old Swanscombe man were found). Don't get excited yet though as it isn't expected to open until sometime in 2018. Superficially the project will be a showcase of American style razzmatazz with water parks, roller coasters, cinemas, live music venues, hotels to amuse and delight. But more fundamentally for the local people in and around Kent, this project will see the creation of 27,000 new jobs and apparently the injection of millions into the economy; a regeneration initiative that is predicted to be more impactful than the Olympics. For Londoners, you'll be able to save that Disneyland Eurostar or flight fare for a bathtub full of candyfloss. Matthew Bremner


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As of tomorrow, I am officially halfway through this pregnancy with baby #2. I'll be honest, it's been a rough one this time around and, lately, it's taken all I have to stay positive and grateful that we've made it this far. As many of you know, we suffered a miscarriage before Chase and were positive we were miscarrying again with this baby early on.
I bled off and on through the first trimester and some of the second until, finally, blessedly, it stopped one day. Then came a period of relative calm, though that waiting for the other shoe to drop mentality was always there, never far from the forefront of my mind.
Last week, we went to the anatomy scan and found out we were having another little boy. We're both over the moon about the news, despite the fact that I was convinced this one was a girl (my mother's intuition must've been misfiring.) I've always dreamt of being a mom to all boys and I was ecstatic to hear that dream was coming true, so far.
Then, last Friday, I got a call from our doctor at 5:00 PM. Already in weekend mode, I wasn't expecting bad news; Adam was on his way home from work and we were looking forward to a weekend of zero obligations. "Everything looks great," the doctor said, but I heard the unmistakable pause in her voice. "The only thing is, we found two cysts near the baby's brain that could be a marker for a chromosomal abnormality. I'm not concerned, but we'll need to do a special ultrasound to see what's going on."
I sort of nodded mutely, not registering that she couldn't hear my body language through the phone. "Uh, OK, thanks," I said, once I was able to find my voice. I could tell she was eager to get off the phone with me and I was too blindsided to think of the right questions to ask.
I spent many long days this week fighting tooth and nail to get an appointment with the specialist–arguing with the receptionist at the doctor's office, trying to get someone to just pick up the damn phone and make me the appointment we needed. By nature, I'm not a big worrier (I've called Chase's pediatrician exactly once since he was born 13 months ago) and I tend not to get too caught up in things I can't change. But waiting for someone else to do something so simple that alters my life so drastically? That, I have little patience for.
It's been a long week of dealing with insensitive nurses who won't return my phone calls, waiting on hold with the insurance company, worrying about our baby and then kicking myself for not having enough faith to let it all play out the way it will anyway.
I'm scared. Maybe even terrified. I know this happens to other women all the time in the course of their pregnancies and everything turns out 100% fine. Their stories have brought me immense comfort as I try to wait patiently. But, I can't help but worry and wonder as I wait for that all-clear of my own.
Our appointment is scheduled for next week and I hope we will leave it with good news to share. For now though, if you're the praying type, I'd love it if you shot one up to the Big Guy Upstairs for us. We would appreciate it so much.
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Wow I just finished my first run through of the mixtape and its near the top of my list as one of the best mixtapes I've heard out of the area as of late, from concept (which reminds me of something…or better nothing) to production (Judah what up) to MC. With features from Kid Cudi, Skylar, Twann, a smacked Twann and guest production by A-TRAK, I'm looking foward to hearing RA's next mixtape, cause the lady has a future. Shouts to Major for sliding it through extra early.
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Mangosteen's noodles made me happy and full last night, but the leftovers I just ate today sparked a serious craving for more noodles made in the same style.
For those who haven't been to Mangosteen, their version consists of soft long noodles roughly the shape of spaghetti but much more tender, generous slices of flank steak, plenty of basil, and diced onion. The garlic wasn't visible, but garlic flavor was infused in the whole dish and was very prominent in the dish's fragrance. The menu said lemongrass was used, but I didn't see it or taste too much of it.
Where else in SF should I go to try this dish? Mangosteen's was $8 with beef, $7 with chicken, and $9 for filet mignon cubes. Wonderful.


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How often are you asked to describe your most memorable meal? The meal you'd make for your true love? The "last meal" if you were unfortunate enough to know it was coming? The meal that transports you back to childhood in an instant? Blogs are rife with "describe your ____ meal" and I always answer them truthfully. The one question I've never been asked, however, is "What meal turned you into a "foodie"?" (I've come to dislike that term, it's such a clunky term for what can be a joyous thing). Not necessarily the best meal, or the best restarant. Perhaps it was just a single dish that made you sit back, inhale, taste, smile, and realize that food is so much more than fuel.
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Just in case we thought that Donald Trump's surrogate, Katrina Pierson, might undergo a cranialrectotomy, we find ourselves disabused of that notion in spectacular ways. Pierson has been all over the airwaves the past few days, leaving stunned hosts and journalists in her wake. Even with Twitter trolling her, she can't seem to stop adding fuel to the fire.
On Sunday, Pierson appeared on Fox News with weekend host Arthel Neville and found out that, with Roger Ailes gone, some Fox folks are actually doing their jobs. Neville started by pointing out that the "tax audit" excuse was a no-go and asked Pierson why The Donald won't release his tax returns and could she confirm that Trump isn't trying to hide something. Pierson, clearly not paying attention to Neville's entire question, started with the "he's being audited" nonsense.
Then she asserted that presidential candidates releasing their tax returns is a "novelty." Neville countered that "it's been going on since the 1970s" and insisted that "the voters want to know." Pierson shot back:
It's a novelty tradition.
Look, it's an oxymoron spouted by a real one. Neville turned on the sarcasm — and who can blame her? I'd be biting my tongue so hard that lipstick would be redundant.
Okay, since the 70s, it's now a novelty. Here's the thing. The reason why the voters like Mr. Trump is because he is a successful businessman. They think that he can do the same for the business of this country: Create jobs, get the economy back on track. So, that is why they want to see his tax returns. Why won't he show them? Put the proof in the pudding.
At this point, Pierson goes to the old "media is trying to bully Trump" defense. But Neville isn't having any of it. "It's not about the media," she countered. She reminded Pierson that Hillary Clinton has released her taxes (and has done so since 2001, by the way) and stated "we're going to keep going on this" because voters want to see the tax returns. Trump is running for President, he needs to show his tax returns. "It's that simple."
Pierson, obviously in deeper than she can swim, pastes on a fake smile while Neville continues to hit on the point that everybody wants to see Trump's tax returns. "I have not seen that," Pierson quips.
By now, Neville has had enough and lays it out in simple terms:
As you know, when you submit any tax information, you are legally bound to provide factual information. So, there's no way that, in fact, if we see those tax returns that anyone can pick them apart unless there's something there that is something to hide, that maybe he's not paying the tax rate that someone of his income value is doing.
With a non sequitur that Neville has "the luxury of working at Fox" instead of CNN, Pierson repeats the prevarication that Trump will release his returns once the audit is complete. Giving up on that topic for a moment, Neville switches to Trump's speech, scheduled for Monday, about how he plans to defeat ISIS, asking Pierson to "give us a preview." This is Pierson's cue to mouth the same old idiocy about "strong leadership" and "supporting the military" and "not ignoring intelligence." As if President Obama has not been strong. Maybe she ought to read the news occasionally.
Neville, by now fed up with the robotic spokeswoman, really let her sarcasm flag fly, inviting Pierson back after Trump releases his tax returns so that they can "go through it line by line." She concludes with, "That sounds great." And, you know what? It does sound great. I look forward to that but I won't hold my breath. After the drubbing she received, I doubt that Pierson will ever want to face Arthel Neville again.
It's really refreshing to see someone on Fox News doing their job. It's like discovering a diamond in the waste. I guess without Roger Ailes breathing down their necks (and maybe groping at the same time), some Fox hosts can concentrate on doing what they should be doing. What a crazy concept!
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Friday, October 19, 2012
One-shoulder Evening Dresses Improve Your Temperament
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Growing up in a broken family and hurt by the men in her life, Zurina (Zarina AF2) swore that she would get even with all the men in the world. Thus, she uses her beauty to seduce men and break their hearts. Khairul (Khai AF1) on the other hand has been in love with Zurina since high school. He woos Zurina only to be heart-broken by her, as she doesn't show up on their wedding day. Now, Zurina has reappeared to beg his forgiveness, but will Khairul forgive her and accept her again?


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Nipissing (4-5) 83, Laval (2-7) 67… 6'3″ freshman Jaaden Lewis continued his impressive early-season form, knocking down 6-8 3's and finishing with 22 points as the Lakers jumped out to leads as large as 28 in defeating Rouge et Or in a non-conference game in North Bay on Friday night. Lakers took advantage of poor perimeter shooting by Laval: star veterans 5'11" Karl Demers-Belanger and 6'6″ Alexandre Leclerc combined to shoot just 6 for 23 from downtown, part of a 9-35 (25%) effort by Rouge et Or combined, with many of the shots "wide open" by eyewitness accounts. Nipissing continues to impress with 6'6″ Justin Shaver authoring a 12 point, 12 rebound double double in just 20 minutes. 6'4″ Marcus Lewis had 18 for the Lakers who shot 14 for 32 from downtown and turned it over just 8 times in the win. Both teams were missing regular rotation players including Lakers star 6'7″ forward Kalil Langston while Laval was without 6'1″ Vladimir Thomas and 6'5″ Daniel Mutanda. Rouge et Or also hurt themselves going just 10 for 21 from the free throw line including 6'6″ Charles Andre-Horth who had 14 points but was just 2-7 from the line. Laval now gets ready to start their RSEQ season on Thursday against defending conference champions McGill. Lakers prepare to host Windsor Lancers and Western Mustangs next Friday and Saturday as Nipissing opens their OUA regular season.
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GIVEN that recent CV entries include serious films such as Changeling, J. Edgar, Hereafter and Invictus, Clint Eastwood seems to have taken a major career swerve by adapting this stage musical.
Yet between the show toppers is a thought-provoking look at the corrosive effects of fame, the fallout from getting your priorities wrong and the ebb and flow of friendship.
It makes for a gloriously entertaining and emotional journey – and the best thing I've seen this year.
We catch up with young Frankie Castelluccio, who's mixed up in small-time thieving in early-1960s New Jersey with the hot-headed Tommy DeVito.
Frankie, when not in the slammer, plays with a local band. While the group are going nowhere, their fortunes change when his voice earns him promotion to lead vocalist and the prodigiously gifted songwriter Bob Gaudio comes aboard.
After a series of false starts, the group – now called The Four Seasons – hit the big time with Sherry and go on to conquer the world.
With Frankie changing his surname to Valli, fame and misfortune follow as the demands of touring place a terrible strain on his home life, while Tommy's gambling problem prompts an intervention from Christopher Walken's mobster.
While Jersey Boys is crammed with tunes, this isn't a musical but more a musical biopic along the lines of Walk The Line or Ray.
Eastwood seems more concerned with the human toll exacted on working-class boys who suddenly find themselves with too much money and – especially in the case of Tommy and Frankie – the poisonous effect it has on those they come into contact with.
Eastwood, 84, is a director whose greatest gift is his ability to push his audience's emotional buttons without them knowing it.
Cinema snobs may accuse him of having the subtlety of a steamroller but no filmmaker alive has produced such solidly entertaining movies in the past 10 years.
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Here comes the bride...all dressed in PINK!!!
This Spring, the craze seems to be pink wedding dresses; even though its not your traditional wedding dress...these are sure to make a huge fashion statement when walking down the aisle.
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This is a pretty good read for those of you detoxing or interested in learning more about eating less wheat in your diet or being gluten-free.
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Heavy Rain's David Cage has strong faith in PS3. July 25, 2008Posted by Admin in Software.
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David Cage likes to talk a lot — especially when 'Uncanny Valleys' are involved. So, it shouldn't come as surprise to see a seven page discussion with the Heavy Rain developer over at Gamsutra. Cutting down to the most relevant bits, Cage solidified Quantic Dream's decision to develop solely for PS3: "Honestly, working on one platform is the best thing we could dream of, and it's a choice."
This little bit of news is a nice reassurance that Heavy Rain will remain a PS3 exclusive, as recent mentions of other 3rd party exclusives have been found to have their exclusivity in question, or outright gone. Further backing up his adherence to PS3, Cage had this to say: "You say it's a limited audience — yeah, it's true at the moment, but by the end of the PlayStation 2, I think there are 120 million units in the world, so I don't call that a limited market. There's no reason why the PlayStation 3 can't reach these numbers."
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