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Sam Clarkson, Luke Reid and Julian Temple • Photographs by Alan Dove
While the gaming industry works out how to draw yet more pixels faster, a Dunedin company is using its backyard invention to bring the real world to screen in picture-perfect quality. Amanda Cropp meets the snap-happy team behind Areograph
For many women the idea of playing a video game peopled by jerky, animated cartoon figures is about as exciting as watching paint dry.
But offer them a game that looks like a TV crime drama with a smart, handsome detective in the lead role, and they might just be tempted to give it a go.
That's what Luke Reid figured, anyway. The only trouble was he had to invent the technology to make it all possible. So after two years of intensive research and development—"two years of not seeing our wives and not sleeping"—Reid and his team at Dunedin-based Areograph launched Casebook.
Each episode includes 45 minutes of film drama based around the sleuthing of detective James Burton. Gamers act as Burton's sidekick as they explore crime scenes and play a series of mini-games analysing clues that will help them solve the case.
It proved to be a winning combination. Casebook was voted Best Independent Adventure Game 2008 by Adventuregamers.com, the largest adventure gaming site on the Internet, and earlier this year Areograph won a United Nations World Summit Award for innovation in the eentertainment and games category. US Walmart stores placed an initial order for 12,500 games, later upping it to 21,000, and Casebook has been redubbed in preparation for sales to Russia.
The technology behind Casebook, branded Areo, is set for broader use too. The defence industry is showing interest in using photorealistic games, rather than the more common pixellated recreations, as a training tool.
In stereotypical Kiwi fashion, Areo was born in a backyard shed, where Reid and his engineer brother Justin built a robot-guided camera that moved around a metal grid above a film set taking and storing hundreds of thousands of photographs. Reid then designed software that stitched these digital images together into scenes that players could navigate.
Thanks to $250,000 worth of funding from the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, the Reid brothers went on to build Areobot2, a camera that operates without a grid, allowing 360-degree filming to be done anywhere instead of being restricted to indoor sets. By cutting back on the need for expensive, labour-intensive, computer-generated imagery, Areo offers major savings for a gaming industry hit by skyrocketing costs, Reid says.
"Budgets today for top games are between US$10 and $20 million, whereas six years ago it was only US$5 million and ten years ago it was half a million. We can produce episodes of Casebook for one-third the price of our competitors with a quality that many critics suggest is significantly higher."
"We can produce episodes of Casebook for one-third the price of our competitors with a quality that many critics suggest is significantly higher"
This blond, baby-faced 30-year-old displayed entrepreneurial flair at an early age, making his first foray into business at 17 when he set up computer software company Entropy to help pay his way through a computer science degree at Otago University.
He says his real education started when he landed in London towards the end of the dot-com era and formed a company called Skinkers with a couple of mates. They started out making animated toys for desktop marketing, won a contract to make news alert software for the BBC and gradually built up a stable of corporate clients that included the London Stock Exchange and the Wall Street Journal.
Microsoft acquired a ten percent stake in Skinkers in return for intellectual property and collaboration over peer-to-peer broadcast applications that allow PC and iPhone users to watch live TV over the Internet. Reid is still a shareholder in Skinkers but a decision to return to New Zealand in 2006 gave him the impetus to work on Areograph.
"I came up with the idea for the technology in 2000 and it was sitting there nagging at me all that time, but computers were not powerful enough back then."
Returning to Dunedin provided the necessary mental and physical space to refine his original concept and build up a team of skilled staff. "I wouldn't try to do something like this in London. There's a large hardware component to what we do—we need lathes and mills and areas to build stuff. It's also very R&D focused and London is very distracting and you really need a quiet sleepy little town like Dunedin to get the best out of the guys."
Areo employs a core staff of ten, rising to about 30 during filming of the cinematic sequences, and Reid is wary of growing the company too quickly.
"Areo's driving game will have real scenery. "Hardcore driving enthusiasts will love it because they're not driving around the recreation of a race track, they are driving the track, which is a huge distinction""
"It's extremely important to get the right people. When you build a company too fast you just pirate people for their skills and not for the combination of their skills and their personality. You end up with this monster on your hands that you have to keep feeding work because it's expensive to run."
The decision to create an episodic crime series was based on the enormous popularity of television crime dramas and the dearth of quality video games for female audiences. This isn't a niche market. According to figures from the US Entertainment Software Association, 40 percent of gamers are women and—turning the gamer cliché right on its head—there are almost twice as many woman gamers over the age of 18 as there are boy gamers under the age of 18.
"People automatically think games are something for teenage boys, but women are the fastest-growing demographic in gaming. The Sims is a massively successful game because it tapped into that female market. Most games are quite cartoony and childish and we wanted to make something more mature."
Some experienced gamers have panned Casebook as too easy and Reid admits it's difficult striking a balance. "It was designed to be easy so you could plough through it and get the whole experience—not get stuck at one bit for three hours, which is what commonly happens in other games. We absolutely wanted to go for people who didn't normally play computer games."
So far Areograph has made three episodes of Casebook. Episode zero is downloadable for free and episodes one and two are mainly sold online via Big Fish Games, the world's largest online distributor of video games.
Now, however, Reid says the company is concentrating on retail sales following the positive response from Walmart. "In one week our first retail order from one store was more than Big Fish sold in six months."
Casebook scripts are written by Dunedin author and blogger Henry Feltham, whose work appeared in the 2006 edition of the Six Pack short story collection. Areograph creative director Sam Clarkson directs filming. Early episodes were shot in an old warehouse opposite the company's modest Crawford Street offices. Clarkson takes me on a tour of the sets: a scungy flophouse behind a cocktail bar, a gentleman inventor's study complete with oil portraits and a library of leather-bound books, a forensic lab housing the burned-out hulk of a Triumph car, and the morgue (a wall covered in the facades of pull-out chiller drawers.)
With boyish enthusiasm Clarkson describes how the Triumph 2500 packed with explosives was rigged to a remote control device and driven over a 13-metre cliff at Blackhead Quarry, just out of Dunedin, creating a satisfyingly spectacular bang for the cameras.
Detective Burton's character is the lynchpin and Clarkson originally looked for a local actor to play the role, but ended up casting singer Julian Temple. He'd modelled for Silkbody, a clothing label co-owned by Clarkson's wife Emily Cooper, and has an American accent perfect for foreign audiences.
Clarkson says using Areo to create crime scenes like the children's bedroom in the first Casebook episode was a doddle compared to doing the same thing with CGI. The scene "was crammed full of vintage toys, a rocking horse and countless other objects, any one of which would have taken a 3D modeller days or weeks to model to that level of detail. I just went to a set designer, said, 'Here are my ideas for a child's bedroom' ... If we want some rust he just picks up a paintbrush. That's a completely different experience to sitting over the shoulder of a room full of computer nerds trying to communicate your vision to them."
Areo's latest project is a driving game that will have real scenery, something Clarkson believes will attract a whole new group of players. "The difference between 3D and photorealism is the difference between my wife actually picking up the controller and wanting to have a go because this is a beautiful road somewhere in the world and she wants to drive down it. The hardcore driving enthusiasts will love it too because they're not driving around the recreation of a race track, they are driving the track, which is a huge distinction."
Parents of learner drivers may be relieved to hear that the realistic nature of the game might even deter boy racer-type antics. "It will show that driving like a maniac on real streets doesn't work very well and you'll crash. We might even include aspects like getting a speeding ticket or being flagged down by an actor playing a police officer."
Areo has other exciting applications. Reid says the technology could map the interiors of heritage buildings so anyone could visit via the Internet. "Instead of looking at still photos or maybe a video, you could fly around and look close up at the intricate detail of, say, the Terracotta Army in China."
Mapping could also provide useful information for emergency services. "If there's a model of the Aotea Centre and there's a terrorist attack or a fire there, they can pull it up out of their database and know what they're dealing with."
Reid is surprised by the strength of interest from the defence market following presentations to defence contractors and military personnel in New Zealand, the UK and the US, all of whom are keen on using Areo games to provide more realistic training for troops. "At the moment they make CAD models of whatever environments they need to familiarise themselves with, which is quite a manual process and the visual results are not complete. We have a whole bunch of potential customers who have common factors in how they want to use it, and from a business perspective that's great."
Reid has been wooing both Sony and Microsoft in hopes of attracting funding to further develop the technology for gaming applications. "I managed to get in front of the right people in both of those companies and they're both keen on evaluating it."
It's not an easy time to be pursuing investment money and Reid hopes international recognition in the UN's Summit Awards will assist their case. "I'm generally pretty cynical about these things but it's quite good to establish our credibility, especially for an outside observer who has no idea how seriously to take a couple of guys in Dunedin doing something so novel and unlikely."
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The Big Apple doesn't feel half as huge at these friendly, beer-smart drinking hubs.
by Joshua M. Bernstein
Earl's Beer & Cheese
Manhattan's Upper East Side has long been a Bud Light-dominated neighborhood where IPAs die a bitter, lonely death. For their fermented fix, better-beer fans ventured downtown or perhaps across the East River to Brooklyn's Williamsburg. But those journeys diminished with last year's arrival of Earl's, the city's coolest, quirkiest little bar—in the Upper East Side or anywhere else in New York. Earl's is ludicrously Lilliputian, little more than half a railroad car decorated like a backwoods hunter's rec room. Though the deer wallpaper would merit eye-rolling elsewhere, any irony is tempered by a high-minded dedication to beer, with a quartet of taps pouring all-star regional beers such as Bronx Pale Ale and canned brews from Oskar Blues and Sixpoint. They're partnered by chef Corey Cova's gonzo-delicious drunk food, such as a mozzarella grilled cheese finished with miso mayo, sliced pickles and potato chips, or another gooey version made with cheddar, a fried egg, spicy kimchi and crisp and decadent pork belly. The showstopper is an Eggo waffle anointed with cheddar, coffee-cured bacon and foie gras, a high-low indulgence worth the uptown train ride—and the inevitable wait for a seat. earlsny.com
After paving a foamy path as NYC's first retail store to fill growlers, Brooklyn's decade-old Bierkraft is again set to revolutionize Big Apple craft beer. Co-owner Ben Granger cleared out coolers and crammed in a single-barrel brewing system that, once the licensing is secured, will pump out 62 gallons of beer a week to be sold on tap. Granger is brewmaster, but area breweries such as Kelso and Barrier will be invited to concoct exclusive batches. bierkraft.com
61 Local
Lights made from retrofitted carboys are your first clues to 61 Local's die-hard beer dedication. The sprawling, soaring public house—brick walls, communal tables—dispenses locally sourced eats and brews, with a revolving lineup listed on a Brooklyn-shaped chalkboard. Given founder David Liatti's background as a brewing engineer at Brooklyn's Sixpoint, expect plenty of that local favorite, but the menu is rounded out by regional offerings from New York's excellent Captain Lawrence and Brewery Ommegang. 61local.com
508 GastroBrewery
A homebrewing obsession led chef Anderson Sant'anna de Lima and his wife, Jennifer Lynn Hill, to convert their Mediterranean-focused SoHo restaurant into a self-proclaimed "gastrobrewery." In the cramped basement stuffed with grain, the tattooed cook takes to a 2.5-barrel system to craft the citrusy 508 IPA, chocolaty Montezuma imperial stout, orange-y Belgian Wit, and bottle-conditioned sour ales. The beer-friendly food is equally inventive, counting sweet and sour crispy tongues and goat "sloppy Joe" sliders. 508NYC.com
The Cannibal
Pleasures of the flesh and the pint glass commingle at Cannibal, a dim clubhouse for carnivores and hop heads alike. Maximizing its confined quarters, The Cannibal—named after legendary Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx—is equal parts butcher shop, beer store and convivial spot to gnaw lamb-neck terrines, plump kielbasa and steak tartare. They're joined by offbeat drafts like Germany's smoky Spezial Rauchbier and Nectar Ales' hemp-infused Humboldt Brown, plus hundreds of beers by the bottle. thecannibalnyc.com
Bitter & Esters
Brewing in New York defies common sense, as homebrewers must hoof grain home and fight their apartments' beer-wrecking temperature swings. Bitter & Esters solves those dilemmas with a brew-on-premises setup featuring a temperature-controlled fermentation chamber. Cooler yet is the Brew Like a Pro series in which breweries provide recipes (Victory Prima Pils, Fying Dog Raging Bitch IPA), and the homebrewed version is tested alongside the original beer at an area bar. bitterandesters.com
Beer Table Pantry
After the workday, countless Grand Central Terminal commuters crave a beer to drink aboard a homebound train—one of the legal perks of riding the rails with Metro North. To slake travelers' thirst, Brooklyn's cultish Beer Table opened this nook stocked with floor-to-ceiling beer (and plenty more in a back-room cooler) and a growler-fill station rotating beers from the likes of Greenpoint Harbor, Pretty Things and Brooklyn Brewery. btpantry.com


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- G-Rating: compete against other cadets as you fly to pick up 15 flags in both weapons hot and cold environments."
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The Dallas Police Department has two new four-legged officers fighting crime on the streets of Dallas.
Cliff and Bandit are the newest K9 officers for the Dallas Police Department.
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Dining Out For Life is win-win fundraiser
Those looking for a good reason to dine out Tuesday have one: Nearly 100 restaurants in Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties will participate in the 11th annual Dining Out For Life community fundraiser.
Choose a restaurant, make reservations and enjoy dinner. Participating restaurants will contribute 25 percent or more of that day's food sales to Evergreen Health Services of WNY, formerly AIDS Community Services.
The agency is dedicated to stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region and providing vital services to those living with the disease. It is estimated that 7,800 area families have someone living with, or at high risk for, HIV/AIDS.
Tom Lombardo Jr., partner and beverage manager at Ristorante Lombardo in North Buffalo, is event chairman.
"All you have to donate is your appetite," he said in a statement. "The restaurants take it from there. Thanks to our hometown restaurant owners, managers, chefs and wait staffs, this has become a successful communitywide fundraiser. We encourage groups of families and friends to get together for a fun night out with an important purpose."
Volunteer "ambassadors" will be present at the various restaurants to welcome diners and thank them for helping to raise community awareness about HIV/AIDS.
Participating restaurants range from fine dining to casual. For a complete list of area restaurants, visit www.diningoutforlife.com or call 847-0340.
Founded in Philadelphia in 1991, Dining Out For Life is produced in 60 cities in North America, raising an annual total of $4 million. Buffalo's event started in 2003 when 27 restaurants raised $22,000. Last year, 20,000 Western New York diners helped to raise $93,000. The total amount raised in the Buffalo area to date is $704,000. All funds raised here stay here.


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My daughter has had diabetes for about two and a half years, and even though she is currently seeing an endocrinologist, her blood sugars have averaged 300 mg/dl [16. 7 mmol/L] for almost a year now, and I am tired. He is our third doctor. I cannot find a pediatric endocrinologist who will see her and help me manage her diabetes. I have exhausted my resources.
The large children's hospital in the city is not the answer since they used her for research. Does anyone know of any pediatric endocrinologist in our area? I would be willing to drive just about anywhere. I am watching her just get worse, so someone please help us.
I am worried and surprised that you felt the pediatric endocrinologist at the children's hospital just "used her as research." I don't know who you saw or how the research project that they were recruiting her for was presented to you, but I personally know some pediatric endocrinologists in your area who are first rate clinicians! Was there some other problem? Personality conflict? Language issues? Perhaps they made suggestions or found issues in home management that you objected to? You may be limited, unfortunately, by who may be in your insurance network.
Additional comments from Dr. Donough O'Brien:I sense that you and your daughter would really fare best with a diabetes care team comprised of a nurse educator, a dietitian and a medical social worker as well as the doctor, and which has a 24 hour telephone contact.
You should know too that Institutional Review Boards have to approve all clinical research protocols and that there are the strictest rules against pressuring families to participate in research without fully informed consent.
Additional comments from Dr. Stuart Brink:Don't give up. You need to find a diabetes team -- doctor, nurse or combination -- who can help you problem solve since the values you describe are very elevated -- and keeps her current as well as future health at very high risk. Most such youngsters are skipping insulin, falsifying blood glucose data or just not getting the appropriate insulin dose.
The first thing to do is to make sure that this is not the case by doing all blood glucose readings with direct adult supervision -- and making sure all food is weighed and measured so that dietary compliance is not a problem. If an adult is directly supervising or giving all insulin injections, then omitted doses stops being a problem. If blood glucose readings are directly supervised and logged, charted, graphed together, then patterns can be established. This usually solves the problem -- in my experience, about 95% of the time. There are still some rare individuals who need very unusual insulin regimens. This can be identified in this fashion as well, of course. If you do this style of close monitoring, then you can resolve the questions of noncompliance and nonadherence once and for all -- and then either identify a method for solving the problem or move onto other possible explanations.
If you cannot find a local specialist, then you may have to travel to one of the big centers elsewhere in the country. Ours or many others do consultations with similar patients all the time from all around the world with special arrangements by having families stay in a local motel or hotel while our team of specialists analyzes the situation.
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Lower-for-longer interest rates require adjustments, Governor Poloz says
Canadians need to understand the forces that have led to a prolonged period of low interest rates and make adjustments, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz said. In a speech to the Association des économistes québécois, the Cercle finance du Québec and CFA Québec, Governor Poloz talked about the need for companies and households to adjust to the reality of interest rates that are likely to remain at low levels for a long time. Factors that restrain an economy's speed limit—particularly aging workforces—are driving down interest rates in many countries. Lower-for-longer interest rates have made it more difficult...Read More


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"This dough is simple to make and has a slightly sweet taste. The kids love making their own pizza pockets, and I love using leftovers to make calzone type sandwiches. Make some up for dinner, or choose fillings that freeze well and you can make a bunch to have on hand for lunches and picnics. *Note: this is a sticky dough to aid in pinching the pockets closed. Adjust flour as needed to work with it. Mixing time: 15 minutes Rising time: 30 minutes Baking time: 20 minutes"
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- 1 tablespoon dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon warm water
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 cup milk
- 1 1⁄2 cups white flour
- 3⁄4 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- Mix yeast with warm water and let stand for 10 minutes.
- Mix lemon juice with milk and set aside.
- In a large bowl combine both flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and butter. Mix well.
- Add the yeast and milk mixtures to the dry mixture. Knead well, then let rise in the bowl for 30 minutes (or longer) with a clean towel covering it.
- Divide dough into 8-10 balls. Roll a ball out to about 1/8" thick, and about 6" diameter. *Sprinkle flour on your counter top and on your rolling pin to keep dough from sticking to the surfaces.*
- Pizza - spread a spoonfull of sauce leaving the outer inch of dough oncovered. Add about 3 tbsp of pizza toppings (ie 1 tbsp cheese, 1 tbsp ham, 1 tbsp pineable) to the middle. Fold dough in half and pinch edges closed.
- Other fillings - get creative with leftovers - anything that is freezable and bakable will be great!
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How quickly a season can change. Just two days ago, the Washington Redskins had a chance to be serious contenders in the NFC East. Now, they're wondering how many players are physically capable of playing on Sunday.
Seven players suffered injuries in the loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. On a short week against the Dallas Cowboys, Redskins Coach Jay Gruden opted to have just a closed walk-through Wednesday before holding the team's first practice of the week Thursday.
It's a depth chart that has been tested often over the last few weeks, and after being bested by the Eagles for a second time, the Redskins' fortunes have dimmed. Barring a collapse by the Eagles, who have looked like the best team in the league through seven weeks, it will be a daunting task for the Redskins to win the division. Philadelphia is up 2 1/2 games on Washington heading into Week 8, and it also carries an important head-to-head tiebreaker by completing the regular season sweep.
Safe to say there's plenty to discuss in the mailbag. As a reminder, we switched up the mailbag format from email to Twitter (welcome to 2017). Thanks for tweeting your questions using the #RedskinsWP hashtag.
The Eagles (6-1) are playing so well right now that it's not even worth looking at the NFC East standings unless they just have a massive collapse. Looking at their schedule though, which includes a home game against the winless San Francisco 49ers on Sunday and a Week 10 bye week, it's tough to see that happening. The wild card is still very much in play with how bunched up the NFC is with 10 weeks left, though. The Redskins (3-3) are one of eight teams currently at 3-4, 3-3 or 4-3, so the landscape suggests it would be foolish to write them off in October.
However, their roster is in bad shape this week. Four starters along the offensive line, and six of the nine on the active roster, are dealing with injuries. Five defensive backs are hurt. These two spots are very concerning during a portion of the schedule that appeared difficult even without the injuries. Washington is currently 1-1 during the second quarter of the schedule, with a Week 6 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. Its next two games come against the Dallas Cowboys (3-3) and the Seattle Seahawks (4-2).
If the Redskins can somehow walk away with a split, I think that would be the best-case scenario. That'd put them at 4-4 overall, and 3-3 in the conference, with eight games left. But that's going to be a tough task. While it's a home game, Washington faces a division rival on a short week coming off a Monday night. The following week, it travels to the opposite coast to play in one of the toughest environments in the NFL. The Redskins will need a lot to bounce their way to pull off a split. We'll see how mentally tough this team is during this stretch.
The hope is that Washington's backup offensive tackle will return next week against the Seattle Seahawks. Multiple people say he still could use about two more practice weeks to continue rehabbing a core muscle injury that required surgery following the team's Week 3 victory over the Oakland Raiders. Gruden said at the time of the injury it would take three to six weeks for Nsekhe to recover. While Washington wishes he would return sooner, it appears that it will indeed take six weeks.
Nsekhe's injury, which occurred while he filled in for Shawn Lauvao for a snap after Lauvao's facemask detached from his helmet, came at a bad time for Washington. Left tackle Trent Williams has played through a right knee injury he suffered the following week and will eventually require surgery. He was replaced by backup T.J. Clemmings near the end of the game, and Williams said he may consider resting because it's not allowing him to move like he wants to.
On top of all this, right tackle Morgan Moses sprained both of his ankles against the Eagles. Along with injuries to right guard Brandon Scherff (back/knee) and center Spencer Long (knee/quad tendinitis), the Redskins' offensive line is in bad shape.
While the Redskins could sign tackle Vinston Painter, who was on the 90-man roster this summer and the team's active roster last year, off the Cardinals' practice squad for depth, Painter would need to be on the active roster for three weeks. If Nsekhe returns next week, it wouldn't be ideal to have a roster spot dedicated to an extra tackle considering the injuries at other positions. The two most logical options seem to be either keep playing Williams until Nsekhe returns, and run the risk of doing more damage to his knee, or insert Clemmings against a Cowboys defense with 21 sacks (tied for sixth in the NFL). Yikes.
I don't think those two things are correlated. Washington has tried to use its depth to create different looks. Jonathan Allen went on injured reserve with a foot injury, but he was part of a rotation defensive line coach Jim Tomsula implemented to keep those guys fresh. Outside linebacker Preston Smith hurt his groin, but he's also rotated at the position.
Deshazor Everett has missed two games with a hamstring injury, but he was splitting time with Montae Nicholson at strong safety. Nicholson keeps hurting his shoulder but plays through the injury. I think his recurring injury can be chalked up to his style of play. Cornerback Fabian Moreau (hamstring) and safety Stefan McClure (hamstring) have almost exclusively played on special teams.
The injuries to Josh Norman (rib), Bashaud Breeland (knee) and Mason Foster (shoulder)? You just gotta charge those to the game.
I would expect more two- and three-tight end sets moving forward, yes. Jordan Reed is getting healthier, as evident by his two-touchdown performance against the Eagles, and Vernon Davis has been a reliable target for Kirk Cousins this season. Niles Paul even had a nice 32-yard reception. Gruden wanted to incorporate more two-tight end looks in the second half, but the game shifted from a 10-3 lead to a seven-point deficit during the final four minutes of the first half.
At the moment, the Redskins have Doctson starting at the "X" spot and Pryor serving as the backup. Jamison Crowder, who has been a slot receiver, moved over as the starting "Z" receiver with Grant. Washington needs receivers that can do the dirty work underneath at the "Z" spot, a role Pierre Garcon did very well during his tenure in DC. Crowder is a technically sound receiver that's getting healthier after dealing with a hamstring injury during training camp and a hip issue in Week 4 against the Kansas City Chiefs.
When incorporating three wide receivers, look for Washington to go with Doctson, Crowder and Grant moving forward. That's not to say Pryor has been ousted. He's still expected to have a role offensively, receiving around 20-30 snaps (he received 30 against the Eagles). Pryor just won't be heavily used as he was against the 49ers, when he played 61 snaps, because the Redskins want to see more of what Doctson, a 2016 first round pick, can bring and they've been productive with two and three tight ends. There's a chance we could see plays sprinkled in with both Doctson and Pryor on the field, but Crowder is better suited at the "Z" moving forward.


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Top marks for private school pupils
Nearly a fifth of A-level entries from private school pupils were awarded an A* this year, according to new statistics.
And around half of fee-paying schools' exam entries were awarded at least an A, almost double the national figure.
A high proportion of the schools' A-level results will have been in traditional academic subjects like science, according to Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council (ISC), who added that they also have a strong record in modern languages.
Some independent school pupils are now taking the Cambridge Pre-U examination
The statistics - published by the ISC - show the results of 475 independent schools, taking a range of qualifications including A-levels, the International Baccalaureate (IB), BTECs, the extended project and the Cambridge Pre-U examination.
The Council's analysis of the results revealed that for A-levels, 19.2% of entries from ISC-educated pupils were awarded an A*, up from 18% last year.
Around 50.5% of entries gained an A or A*, down from 51.3% in 2013.
National figures for all students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - published last week - showed that just over one in four (26%) of exams were awarded an A* or A grade, down 0.3 percentage points on last summer. The proportion of A* grades handed out rose to 8.2%, up 0.6 percentage points on 2013.
The ISC's new analysis also concludes that 2,333 pupils (7.1% of those at ISC schools) scored three or more A* grades.
Boys out performed girls at the highest grade, with 7.6% of young men at ISC schools achieving this standard compared to 6.5% of young women.
Mr Lenon said: "Independent schools can be very proud of their pupils' excellent exam results, with more than half of their A-levels being graded A* or A, nearly double the national figure.
"What is remarkable is the number of candidates achieving three or more A* grades, which has increased to 7.1% this year, up from 5.8% last year. This is an impressive rise.
"Furthermore, independent schools continue to be strong in modern languages and a high proportion of the independent schools' A-levels will have been in the traditional subjects such as maths, physics, chemistry, biology.
"Many top university departments offering these subjects are dependent on independent school pupils for the quality of applicants they seek."
He added that alongside A-levels, there has also been a rise in take-up of alternative qualifications such as the IB and the Pre-U.
A separate analysis suggests that the top private school this year for A-levels was Wycombe Abbey, a private girls' boarding school in Buckinghamshire, which had the highest combined A-level and AS-level Ucas points score per candidate for the seventh year running.
Sixth-formers at the school notched up a string of top grades between them, giving each student an average Ucas points score of 514. This is equivalent to almost four A* grades each.
North London Collegiate School, a girls' day school, scored the highest in terms of the IB, with an average Ucas points score per candidate of 652.
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Homes & Antiques' March issue is out now!
The March issue of Homes & Antiques is out today!
It can refresh a whole room, complement a collection, or bring a new backdrop to old favourites at the stroke of a brush... it's time for colour! Pick up a copy of our March issue to indulge in an eclectic range of vibrant shades and soothing tones that are bound to provide inspiration for your own space.
Inside, we interview the master of colour Hans Blomquist and explain how a lick of paint can enhance the way we live in our homes. For some truly outstanding collections, amid a dramatic gold and russet backdrop, don't miss a peek inside Naomi Heaton's bold and opulent London home on page 54.
Plus, bright rugs and carpets can easily bring a sense of warmth and luxury to your home. In this issue, Maggie Stevenson considers some eye-catching options to elevate your scheme and add a splash of colour underfoot.
As usual, H&A is packed with specialist antiques advice. Our columnist, Salvage Hunter Drew Pritchard, is back with more sage suggestions, this time on how he uses colour to complement the antiques in his own home, while BBC Antiques Roadshow expert Lisa Lloyd expounds on her love of Grand Tour souvenirs.
You'll also get a list of the best antiques and vintage fairs to visit in March, a look inside Harewood House, and a peek at the exquisite Chitra Teaware Collection.
The March issue of Homes & Antiques is available in shops and in digital format now
Colour can raise our spirits or gently soothe. It can refresh a whole room, complement a collection of antiques, or bring a new backdrop to old favourites at the stroke of a brush. Here, Hans Blomquist explains how we can use colour to enhance how we live.
Heirlooms of Harewood
From Renaissance Old Masters to the largest collection of Thomas Chippendale furniture in the world, there are riches galore at Harewood House in Yorkshire's West Riding.
Tea spirit
One man has made a quest of restoring our reverence for tea and tea drinking - and in doing so has accumulated the world's largest and finest private collection of teaware.
In tune with the past
The Leverett family has a lifetime of experience in rebuilding pianos, a skill that allows them to breathe new life into antique models destined for the scrapheap. Here, step inside their studio and discover their intricate restoration methods.
10 key stories in the history of the colour purple
The colour at the farthest reaches of our vision has also been the one traditionally favoured by royalty. Kassia St Clair paints a picture of its history from its mythical origins to Liz Taylor's eyes via the violettomania of the Impressionists.
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A glut of avocados and a large carton of coconut cream made me do it!
Traditionally "Kulfi" is a sweet Indian ice cream eaten at all times including, dessert. This luscious vegan creation however, is made up of only 3 ingredients and was certainly tested on humans! I used green cardamom for flavour and nuts to garnish . With no ice cream maker required, the hardest part is waiting for 6 hours before the ice cream is firm enough to eat. My blender did a great job of making the fluffy ice cream mixture up. I've also been experimenting with Xylitol to prevent the formation of ice crystals and it worked perfectly.
To make this I used,
- Avocados, ripe – 3 large ones
- Xylitol – 1 cup
- Coconut cream – 1/2 to 3/4 cup
- Green Cardamom powder – 1 teaspoon
- Pistachio/ nuts, finely chopped – 10 pieces
- Separate the avocado pulp and add Xylitol to the blender jar
- Gradually pour in coconut cream by the spoonful to get a thick mixture, the consistency of mousse.
- If adding flavouring, add the cardamom powder in now.
- Pour into a flat box and smoothen the surface before adding the garnish.
- Freeze in the coldest part of your freezer for 6 hours and scoop and eat!


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|19 Jun 2010
windows 7 ultimate x64
Dell vs gateway mini....suggest me
i have a dell studio 1737 laptop whose specs are:
2.17ghz dual core intel
4gb ddr ram
vga is intel 4500mHD (256mb dedicated)
lcd size is 17.1"
OS is windows7 x64
(rest things are same in all laptops..i mean else hardware things)
now my uncle gifted me a gateway mini net-book...
u can see it on this website:
Gateway LT2016u Netbook Review
its specs are:
intel atom 1.6ghz
ram 1gb
intel vga...intel GMA 950 (video memory going upto 224mb dedicated)
all i need is a little suggestion....i wna keep one n sell the other one,to buy something else,on one hand i am used to that 17inch lcd and on other hand when i used mini,i loved it,its extreme portibility and such things...
in my view the drawbacks of gateway mini which i found was:
1.its small lcd size
2.its intel atom,i have no previous experience with this chip...dun know how is its performance
from VGA point of view there is not much difference and i felt i can install windows7 on gateway mini too as its vga is enough for windows 7 support
i dun do so much graphics work,that i say i need 17inch lcd...
all i am just asking u,is gateway a reliable company that i sell my dell studio n keep gateway mini...cuz my dell is on almost 20hrs a day...will that gateway mini intel atom hold this much...
and further more if u suggest me,i will be thankful...
just some additional thing...the gateway mini lcd is more bright n colorful than dell,dun know why...may be cuz of its small size or whatever...
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|19 Jun 2010
Windows 8 Pro
My opinion....
Keep them both. I have a hard time getting rid of gifts. I'd also have a hard time getting rid of the laptop over the netbook.
You never know when you'll need a back up PC.
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|19 Jun 2010
win 7 ultimate32bit, Win8.1pro wmc 32bit
hi awaisdell, i'm a bit of a Dell fangirl ,so i personally would keep the Dell and sell the Gateway , at least you may be able to upgrade your Dell not so sure of the upgrade ability of the mini note books
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The world is facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945, with more than 20 million people in four countries facing starvation and famine.
Somalia is among the most affected of these countries, with very high vulnerability. Approximately 6.2 million Somalis, which is more than 50% of the population, lack sufficient food. 363,000 children under the age of 5 are acutely malnourished, of which 71,000 are severely malnourished. The drought has increased the number of outbreaks of disease, with cholera threatening the lives of many. Humanitarian efforts continue to be hampered by continued conflicts and displacements. 3.3 million people need access to emergency health care and there is a critical shortage of capacity for a health workforce.
Strengthen Health Clinics – Medair works with trusted local partners to train and supervise health clinic staff and provide them with essential drugs and supplies. We focus our support on primary health care, vaccinations, and safe childbirth.
Nutrition – Medair runs a comprehensive malnutrition treatment programme that nourishes and saves the lives of young children, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers.
Community Health – We have had great success in Somalia using "Care Groups" of trained volunteers who regularly visit the families in their community to promote good health, hygiene, and nutrition.


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Improving patient quality of life using a new foam dressing in a wound of 3 years' duration with multiple comorbidities
This case report describes the use of TIELLE™ Silicone Border in the management of a chronic venous leg ulcer of 3 years' duration, in a patient with multiple relevant comorbidities. Despite several, ongoing prior interventions, the wound remained unhealed, and continued to present issues related to exudate levels and maceration. During the dressing evaluation period, the condition and depth of the wound improved overall. Moreover, the patient reported liking the dressing compared to previous regimens because it allowed him to use compression hosiery, wear normal clothes, maintain mobility and use the shower. Overall, the dressing represented a significant improvement in quality of life in a long-standing, hard-to-heal ulcer in a patient with multiple comorbidities.


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Hi. We're here for 18 months. We have a sparsely furnished apartment and we'd like to add a few things. We could use a desk with drawers - it doesn't have to be fancy. A small table to set up a laptop for the slingbox. Patio furniture. A cold water cooler with a 5g jug on top. A tv for the bedroom.


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To require businesses to accept cash or not—that is the question.
> Posted by Sonja Kelly, Director of Research, CFI
In Washington, DC—where much of the CFI team is located—more and more restaurants and small businesses have moved away from cash—some going so far as to not accept cash at all. In response, according to the Washington Post, some city lawmakers have suggested a new law that would require businesses to accept cash as a form of payment. The proposal asserts that not accepting cash is a form of discrimination against the poor.
> Posted by Sonja E. Kelly, Fellow, CFI
Today, on the release of the Global Microscope 2015, we are celebrating some good news: the environment for financial inclusion is improving worldwide. Most of the 55 countries surveyed by the publication increased their scores, which measure the enabling environment for financial inclusion. In addition to an overall increase, we noticed a few particular exciting success stories as certain countries have made significant improvements to their policy and regulatory environments. It's clear that 2015 was a year of progress, and we expect that the benefits of improved policy, regulation, and infrastructure will have an impact on the lives of clients for years to come.
For the second year in a row, the Global Microscope features an expanded scope that focuses on the overall environment for financial inclusion. The Center for Financial Inclusion has played a critical role in this shift, improving on the methodology and expanding the number of countries that the publication assesses.
Three countries—Peru, Colombia, and the Philippines—continue to set the standard for the environment for financial inclusion, topping the list for the second year in a row. There were some surprises in the top 10, however. India's score increased by 10 points between 2014 and 2015, thanks to some very dramatic changes in the past year which pulled it into the fourth position, such as the new licenses for payment banks and small finance banks. Other countries in the top 10 that improved their scores include Pakistan, Tanzania, and Ghana. Ghana saw the most dramatic rise among this group, with a seven-point jump. Four distinct regions—Latin America and the Caribbean, East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa—are represented in the top 10 countries.
> Posted by David Porteous and Gavin Krugel, Chair and CEO, the Digital Frontiers Institute (DFI)
We have each been involved in the field of payments in some way or other for fifteen years at least. One of us (David) started through the design of a new credit card program for a bank; but soon had the opportunity to experience some of the earliest mobile payment schemes then emerging in Africa from 2003 and thereafter to be more engaged in the policy and strategy issues of mobile money. The other (Gavin) started as lost card call center clerk from where his payment career developed through new product design, delivery and management to being one of the early pioneers of mobile money.
In the early days of mobile money, there was no foundational training available which would have enabled us better to understand the height and breadth of the journey on which we were embarking. Both of us learned 'on the job'—sometimes from other people more experienced than we were, and sometimes just through having to work through the issues ourselves. Learning on the job in a new field can be fun; but it also is slower. Today, we view as self-evident a range of issues which were anything but in the early days. We certainly had little idea at the outset that payments was a field in itself, worthy of our professional focus. If anything, we first experienced payments as an outgrowth of banking, done mainly by banks, for banks, for the purpose of collecting their loans, for example.
How the field has grown since then! Technological change has swept up and down the payment value chain. The number and nature of payment providers has exploded. So has the scale of related ambition to accelerate it further. In 2015, the World Bank President Kim launched the goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020, which means every adult on the planet having what amounts to a payment account—a safe store of value to and from which digital transfers can be made.
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The Facebook page of JPay, a Florida-based company that provides a range of services to inmates in the U.S. prison system, is calling for visitation pictures – photos of families and their incarcerated loved ones. Happy images seem to echo the company's statement that JPay is "the most trusted source for connecting incarcerated individuals with family and friends". Money transfers are one primary element of the connection that JPay and others like it provide. JPay is one of the largest providers in the burgeoning field of financial services for the 2 million-plus inmates in the U.S. prison system. These providers are changing the way that families send money to their incarcerated loved ones and also the way in which inmates receive money upon their release. But has this change been good?
For those that might not know, money sent to inmates can be used in prison for things like making phone calls, sending emails, and buying food, toiletries, and winter clothes. To give you a sense, at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center in Washington State, phone calls begin at $3.13, and emails are 33 cents. When prisoners are released, money accumulated from work in prison or sent from family and friends can be transferred onto stores of value like debit cards.
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What are the most important questions that need to be researched in the financial inclusion arena?
The Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion will soon launch a fellows program to support research and thought leadership in financial inclusion – and we are calling on you to help! The purpose of this program will be to encourage independent researchers and analysts to examine some of the most important challenges in the financial inclusion arena. We plan to select a few priority research topics for fellows to examine.
Here's where you come in. Below is a list of research topics that members of our Financial Inclusion 2020 team believe need answering. We're checking in with you – our blog audience – to find out which topics you think are the most important to investigate. Please consider this list a starting point. Give us thumbs up or down on the topics listed, and propose topics of your own. Once we select the top priority questions, we will issue a call for proposals. Meanwhile, we offer this list to provoke a broader conversation about research needed in the financial inclusion field.
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Technology-related topics
- Impact of ubiquitous internet access on the business models for financial inclusion. By 2020, the vast majority of the world's people will have access to internet through smart phones and tablets. Internet access could transform the way financial service providers and customers interact and facilitate a richer interface with customers. What scenarios are possible and are providers ready to respond?
- Under what conditions do "on-ramps" lead to deeper inclusion? With the World Bank's commitment to Universal Financial Access focused on connecting people to transaction accounts, the next question is how (and whether) such connections lead to active account usage or access to additional products. What are the cases of successful access expansion that have led to deeper inclusion and why did they succeed?
> Posted by Rishabh Khosla, Senior Investment Analyst, Accion Venture Lab
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The Indian financial services landscape is undergoing a tectonic shift. The last few years have seen a renewed public focus on expanding financial inclusion. Building off prior programs, the government has invested in regulatory reform, improvements to the banking system, payments, and ID infrastructure. They have also announced a series of programs targeting the bottom of the pyramid (BoP) and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Simultaneously, we are beginning to see real shifts in the adoption of digital technologies and banking services (such as basic savings accounts and smartphones), driven by compelling use-cases, such as government subsidies, delivered directly into bank accounts, and rickshaw-hailing apps that use mobile wallets. Together these trends are unleashing tremendous innovation with the potential to speed financial inclusion for millions.
As investors in early and growth stage "social" enterprises that are speeding financial inclusion around the world, we believe startups are uniquely positioned to navigate this shifting technological, regulatory, and competitive environment. Indeed, financial sector reform in India has had many false starts, and there are still many regulatory and structural hurdles to be overcome. However, we believe India is nearing an inflection point with changes playing out in three areas that are giving birth to exciting startup financial services models: MSME finance, digital payments, and consumer services.
> Posted by Jeffrey Riecke, Communications Associate, CFI
Coinciding with this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, GSMA's Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) program released its fourth annual 'State of the Industry Report on Mobile Financial Services.' I talked with Jennifer Frydrych, Insights Coordinator for the MMU program and one of the authors on the report, about the project's findings. The conversation touched on new markets, shifts in the mobile payments mix, successes with products beyond payments, the main hurdles facing mobile money ecosystems, and more.
1. The mobile money industry has grown rapidly in recent years. Can you bring us up to date with some of the growth figures and dynamics?
In the past five years, mobile money services have spread across much of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. At the end of 2014, there were 255 live mobile money services across 89 markets, 36 more than in 2013. Mobile money is now available in 61 percent of developing markets globally. In terms of adoption and usage growth, 75 million additional mobile money accounts were opened globally in 2014, bringing the total number of registered accounts to 299 million. Importantly, account activity increased faster than account registration in 2014, and the total number of active mobile money accounts is now 103 million (up from 73 million in 2013). An increasing number of services are reaching scale: 21 services now have more than one million active accounts.
2. As of the last State of the Industry report, half of all live mobile money deployments were in sub-Saharan Africa. How has this distribution changed? What were some new or emerging markets of the past year?
There were 22 new services launches in 2014, of which half occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. The mobile money industry in sub-Saharan Africa continues to grow, and the region still accounts for just over half of all live services globally, and 60 percent of all active accounts. Much of this success can be attributed to East Africa; however we are now seeing exciting growth in mobile money uptake and active usage in West Africa.
> Posted by Abhishek Agrawal, India Country Director, Accion, and Victoria White, Senior Vice President and Asia Regional Head, AccionEmbed from Getty Images
In November 2013, Dr. Raghuram Rajan was appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). In his maiden speech, he announced plans to issue differentiated banking licenses. He spoke about his intention of creating significant reforms in the banking system around priority sector lending, payment systems, and the drive towards a cashless economy, among other areas. Within two months of this speech, the RBI published what has become known as the Mor Committee report, supporting plans for differentiated licenses; and in a record setting 10 months, the RBI finalized the guidelines and invited applications for differentiated bank licenses for small finance banks and payment banks.
At the February 2 deadline, the RBI had received 72 applicants in the small finance bank category and 41 for payment banks. The stated objective of both types of banks is to further financial inclusion. For small finance banks, this is to be accomplished through the mobilization of credit and savings to underserved segments of the population. The relatively low minimum capital requirement (approximately $16 million, versus the $80 million required for banks) offers a much more feasible option for MFIs seeking to offer more than the traditional credit-only product offering. Likewise, payment banks (which will also have a minimum capital of $16 million) will be authorized to provide small savings accounts and payments/remittance services to this same underserved market segment. This option offers a tremendous opportunity to expand product offerings for those already active in the payment space.
> Posted by Center Staff
Last week Aging and Financial Inclusion: An Opportunity was released, a new FI2020 report from CFI and HelpAge International supported by MetLife Foundation. The report examines the unmet financing needs of older adults, an area of increasing importance as global demographic shifts see the rapid expansion of this population segment. Within 25 years, the percent of the world's population over age 60 will nearly double.
As part of the report's launch, HelpAge International's Head of Policy Eppu Mikkonen-Jeanneret, MetLife Foundation's Financial Inclusion Lead Evelyn Stark, and CFI's Managing Director Elisabeth Rhyne sat down to discuss the project and its findings. The conversation, among its topics, touched on the scale of the demographic shifts at hand, the opportunities in these changes, where we are with pension services, and action areas for policymakers, providers, and support organizations.
> Posted by Monica Brand Engel and Jackson Scher, Managing Director and Program Coordinator, Frontier Investments Group, AccionEmbed from Getty Images
Innovative payment solutions are proliferating globally. Enabled by the exponential expansion of mobile phones, social media, "big data", and internet access, financial players throughout the world are inventing new ways to complete transactions. Disruptive innovations such as prepaid options, NFC-enabled payments, and cryptocurrencies are gaining significant adoption and are changing the payments space. These trends are especially pronounced in emerging markets where many new entrants have chosen to "leapfrog" traditional, resource-intensive systems and dive directly into the seamless and nimble world of digital financial services. Although these exciting innovations in digital payments have the potential to increase convenience for customers and dramatically reduce costs, some challenges remain. Read the rest of this entry »


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Stacey is 17 and her dad died. her mom is never home and is always going out on dates. One day Stacey gets in a fight with her mom and she runs off crying. When she gets to park who does she see? He has curly brown hair and green eyes. Everything is going perfect till something dreadful happens!! Read it to find out what happens!! Oh ya this is my first fan fiction so please comment on what you think about it thanks:) And please no hate comments...
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text: Well I was playing Bully: Scholarship Edition(backup) recently and all the sudden the game gets an error message and cuts off. I was like "no big deal" and I just restarted the wii. When I tried to play the game it wouldn't work at all, I switched to my other wii games and the same problem. I tried a gamecube game and it still worked. I went to the store and bought a lens cleaner and used it. At first the wii wouldn't read discs at all and then that night it would read gamecube discs perfectly but wii games would only go up to the disc channel image before getting an error. Tonight I tried to experiment and I put in a backup and tried to play. The games that didn't take much loading worked perfectly like Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Backups like No More Heroes would work up till going to the open world. PAL backups wouldn't work at all. When I put the Disc in the wii 80% of the time it'll go smoothly and then all the sudden stop and make a ticking sound 3 times and then a sound I assume is the lens scanning it. After that an error message will appear. The other times it won't even do anything at all inside the wii. Its a 4.0u, latest IOS installed, nothing installed except homebrew channel and backup channel 0.3g I'm just trying to see if I can do anything else, I can send it in to nintendo anytime(after removing everything) but I want to know if I can fix something myself.


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Client Deliverables
SEO Site Audit:
Completed in the initial stages of bringing on a new client and delivered as a free service to the prospective client. The SEO Site Audit will reveal areas on a prospective client's website where we can help make improvements and have a positive impact on the search engine rankings. Takes 48 to 72 hrs to complete and deliver.
Keyword Strategy & Competitive:
Completed soon after client signs the work authorization. Keywords are discussed with client during the intake process and the Keyword Strategy is finalized within 72 hrs of signing the work authorization. The document will list the agreed upon targeted keywords along with metrics like search volume, difficulty and benefit scores to show where there is potential to produce an ROI quickly. A competitive market analysis with also be completed with the keyword strategy to give us and the client a good gauge of what needs to happen to catch the top competitors.
Website Optimization:
With the keyword strategy approved, the next deliverable is recommendations for optimizing the targeted landing pages on their website. Client's websites may vary in size, so the optimizations will only be for the targeted pages from the keyword strategy. The optimizations will be laid out in an additional tab in the keyword strategy spreadsheet and then the updated spreadsheet will be sent to the client. Delivery time depends on the number of targeted landing pages but the average time will be 72 hrs.
Content Generation and Linking:
This deliverable is a document that will continually be updated. It will be used to track content ideas, writing, internal linking and completion. It will also track inbound links we have been able to acquire to the content we produced for the client. This document will be started with the website optimizations.
We will provide clients with reports that will be updated on a weekly basis. Keywords will begin to be tracked immediately after completing the keyword strategy and getting approval from the client. Reports will be reviewed with the client one week after completing the keyword strategy and regular reporting calls will be arranged with clients on a monthly basis after the first call.


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Beautiful tag Nicole!ReplyDelete
Love your tag Nicole!ReplyDelete
A great tag Nicole, I just love the background you created! A great take on Tim's tag!ReplyDelete
Wonderful photos of your trip around Europe too - I love the one of the Trevi Fountain, a place I would love to visit.
Thanks so much for joining in our Grungy Love Challenge at Anything But Cute. Hugs, Anne xx
Thanks too, for joining in our Industrial Challenge at A Vintage Journey. Hugs, Anne xxReplyDelete
A fantastic take on the original, beautifully put together! And wow, that really must have been the trip of a lifetime, - stunning photos! Thanks also for adding this to our u=industrial challenge at AVJ!ReplyDelete
Your tag is beautiful!!ReplyDelete
I love that you added a travel theme to you tag.
Your vacation photos are stunning. A trip Wayne longs to go on.
BEautiful tag, especially I love the airplane !!!! I adore to see you in my country! Happy you loved Italy! BarbaraReplyDelete
You lucky girl getting to go to all those fabulous places...Italy is a dreamy place! LOVE all your photos, and great take of the tag too...great ephemera use!ReplyDelete
What a fun tag and what a trip! I'm so glad it was a wonderful one. (and I would have bought that chocolate too for the wrapper LOL)ReplyDelete
Love your interpretation of Tim's tag Nicole and that candy bar wrapper is fab! Wonderful pictures of your European adventure, thanks so much for sharing them as I get to live vicariously through your travels LOL! Deb xoReplyDelete
Great vintage travel tags. Love your vacation photos. I have enjoyed a few of the places you visited but sure have lots more on my wish list so praying for the exchange rate to improve. Thanks for joining us at Frilly and Funkie.ReplyDelete
Lovely vintage grungy tag! Fantabulous background you have designed and all of the little elements lend themselves to create a most awesome sauce esthetic. Wowzers! The places you traveled to are spectacular and I bet you had a blast! Glad your jet lag is almost gone. :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining in our "Grungy Love" challenge at Anything But Cute! Hugz. ~Niki DT
Love your your grungy style, Nicole! Beautiful background, and great choice of embellishments! I enjoyed seeing your photos, and probably will be the closest I ever get to seeing those places! What a wonderful trip and so sweet you could be traveling with your best friend! :):)ReplyDelete
Thank you for joining our Grungy Love Challenge at Anything But Cute. Hugs! Sara Emily DT
PS I finally have your lovely stamps and have been coloring and playing!
Gorgeous make as usual! Thank you so much for joining our Grungy Love challenge at Anything But Cute!ReplyDelete
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I love your gorgeous layered tag, Nicole, and the adventures that inspired this beauty sound fabulous! Thanks so much for sharing your art with us at the Frilly and Funkie Challenge!ReplyDelete
Oh Nicole, this looks so wonderful. I am so glad you had a chance to go.ReplyDelete


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LG is making the jump into the cloud-based data storage business, following the launch of Google Drive and the revamp of Microsoft's SkyDrive service last week. Today, LG revealed its plans for LG Cloud, which will offer 5 GB of free cloud storage space.
LG Cloud, which is launching in a beta state, has downloadable clients for Windows XP and Windows 7 PCs, along with Android devices. Owners of LG's Smart TVs can also download an LG Cloud app. LG claims their new cloud service will be able to sync up photos and video from an Android smartphone or tablet to an LG TV or a PC. The PC client also allows videos that are edited on a PC to be played immediately on an Android smartphone.
LG also claims that any videos or pictures taken on an LG 3D smartphone can be uploaded to LG Cloud and then played in 3D on a compatible LG Smart TV.
The company also went into detail on its video conversion process. It states:
The difference is in LG's Real-time Streaming Transcoding technology. The conversion happens on the server in realtime, not on the device. There is no need to worry about installing codecs or converters, everything happens seamlessly and in the background with no involvement from the user. No other cloud service can make this same claim.
LG plans to offer additional storage space on LG Cloud for a fee but no details were announced. News.com reports that anyone who has bought an LG Smart TV or LG smartphone will get 50 GB of free storage on the service for six months.
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5 Ways to reignite passion for your lover
Our mind is programmed to take notice of new things. So, when things remain the same, our attentiveness diminishes and we turn our attention elsewhere. Psychologists call it the process of habituation.
Yes, the mind notices differences. When things stay the same, the mind tunes out, because our trusty brains don't actually register things that don't change. Our bodies, well, they tend to be oblivious to anything that isn't likely to make a difference to us. When we've seen our lover naked so many times, we become completely desensitized to the visual, despite the fact that the first time they undressed, the display was highly titillating.
Remember back in limerence — the honeymoon phase of your relationship — when your lover seemed like a surreal dream you simply couldn't keep your mind, eyes and hands off? Remember when his touch was intoxicating, and you couldn't get enough of that feeling of a drug-like high you would get from merely being in his company? Remember when being beside her gave you butterflies, watching her call come through on your phone made you feel like a million dollars, kissing her swept you away to another place and time and sex made you giddy with oxytocin — the love drug?
If you're reading this, those feelings probably seem like nothing more than a fragment of the past, a memory you hold onto and wonder where those precious and insatiable moments went. You want to know how you can reclaim them.
You know it's not that your lover has lost his sex appeal. Others find him as mesmerizing and irresistible as you once did. Strangers can't keep their eyes off your lover, just wishing to be in the place you're in, yet you just don't feel that same feeling. You want it back, ever so desperately, but you question whether it is possible.
In her 2013 Ted Talk, world-renowned sex therapist and sex researcher Esther Perel perfectly puts it all into perspective:
"So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide. Give me belonging, give me identity, give me continuity, but give me transcendence and mystery and awe, all in one. Give me comfort, give me edge. Give me novelty, give me familiarity. Give me predictability, give me surprise. And we think it's a given, and toys and lingerie are going to save us with that."
She shares her research findings from interviewing thousands of men and women on the topic of long-term sexual desire, from 20 countries across the globe. She discovered five things you need to know to reignite passion and keep sexual attraction alive in your long term relationship.
Understand the ingredients of sexual attraction, in order to recreate them.
The main elements of sexual attraction include: adventure, novelty, mystery, risk, danger, the unknown, the unexpected, surprise and spontaneity.
Have time apart — long enough to be able to imagine being with your partner.
Absence and longing are critical elements of desire. When we are attracted to someone, our imagination conjures up thoughts of what it would be like to be with her, to express a sexual moment with her. When we are with our loving, long-term partner, we stop imagining. That's why being away from her for long enough to begin imagining how it would look like and feel to be with her is essential.
We are most drawn to our lovers when they are just a little out of our sight and reach.
When you attend a social function together and you see him mingling with others across the room, you might suddenly feel an urge to take him to the bathroom and do bad things to him. This can even be an energetic thing as well, like when he is in the same room as you but is focusing on something else, like being on the phone or deeply engrossed in their work? It makes you want to naughtily distract him, doesn't it?
When we see our partners in their element, we get turned on.
Think back to those times when you've seen your lover doing something he is highly skilled at, exuding confidence. We are automatically attracted to that. When we are seeing him in his element, he returns to being a mystery to us, an elusive being we desire. Our familiar partner becomes a separate entity to us, and that is what makes him sexually appealing.
The great, French writer Marcel Proust once said, "Mystery is not about traveling to new places, but it's about looking with new eyes." When you look upon your lover on his own, passionately engaged and focused on something, you instantly see him in a different light, through an altered perspective, enabling you to remain, as Perel puts it, "Open to the mysteries that are living right next to me."
Become independent of your lover on all levels.
Needy isn't sexy — we all know that. There is no neediness in desire. Perel describes care-taking as a "powerful anti-aphrodisiac." Make sure you make yourself as independent as you can to enable optimum desire.
So, there you have it, five must-knows to kick start your desire for your long-term love. If you implement all these into practice over a period of time and still feel nothing, consider talking to your partner about an open or polyamorous relationship.


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[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 115th Congress] [115th Congress] [House Document 114-192] [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice] [Pages 172-174] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov] sec. xiv--arrangement of business
|Sec. 349. Advantages of an order of business.
|The Speaker is not precisely bound to any rules as to what bills or other matter shall be first taken up; but it is left to his own discretion, unless the House on a question decide to take up a particular subject. Hakew., 136.
|Sec. 350. Conditions of the old and the modern orders of business.
|Arrangement, however, can only take hold of matters in possession of the House. New matter may be moved at any time when no question is before the House. Such are original motions and reports on bills. Such are bills from the other House, which are received at all times, and receive their first reading as soon as the question then before the House is disposed of; and bills brought in on leave, which are read first whenever presented. So messages from the other House respecting amendments to bills are taken up as soon as the House is clear of a question, unless they require to be printed, for better consideration. Orders of the day may be called for, even when another question is before the House.