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You saucy mink
Getting back into blogging after such a long break is never going to be easy. To ease myself gently to it, I'd like to share with you a little bargain which has put a smile on my face.
I've always thought that when it comes to nail polish, and unless you're wearing a truly unique colour, that the general public don't generally notice whether the polish on your nails cost you 20 quid or whether you got it at the pound shop. In fact, there's nothing more satisfying when someone comments on your nails and you can say 'It only cost me a quid, you know'. This is one of the main reasons I have been enjoying wearing MUA nail polishes. However, there have always been a few things which was spoiling my enjoyment of MUA nail polishes:
1) The terrible brush inside, making the application very laborious
2) The label is 99% of the time skewiff on the bottle, making the whole nail bottle of polish look really really cheap
3) Polishes have a number instead of a name, reinforcing the cheap look of the product.
To be fair, it was the brush which was my main bug bear. I was secretly hoping MUA would improve on their nail polishes but I was scared at the same time that improvements would mean an increase in price.
I had nothing to worry about. MUA listened to all the feedback and came back with 100% improved nail polishes, whilst selling them at the same price.Today, I have a lovely shade of polish to show you. It's called moody mink.
There's your first improvement right there. Polishes have a proper name now and everything. No risk of wonky label anymore, the whole label is ditched for a very sleek 'essie-esque' type of bottle. I won't be mad at you if you think MUA totally ripped off Essie's bottle design, it's understandable. MUA were definitely a bit cheeky there but the new design suits the new bottles so well, it feels so natural. Besides Essie have also changed the design of their bottles so I think there is definitely room for both brands to exist peacefully side by side in our beloved Superdrugs.
Without a doubt, the biggest improvement is the brush. It's nothing fancy, it doesn't fan out like the paddle brush in L'Oreal colour riche polishes but it finally performs its job perfectly.
If you have never tried MUA polishes before, there could never a better time to start. Own too many polishes already? How is a tiny £1 bottle going to hurt? Look at it, it's so cute and there's nothing wrong this new generation of polishes, this time. If you already own some first generation MUA polishes, you could even be a little indulgent, donate your first generation polishes and purchase your favourite MUA polish shades in their new format. I won't tell a soul if you did :)
What: MUA Cosmetics nail polish in shade Moody Mink
How much: £1
Where: Superdrug and MUA cosmetics online.
Purchased the product myself.
4 comments:
- MASPOOASE said...
Really, the brushes are good now? Thats exciting! I saw them in superdrug and i actually thought they were essies at first. Am definitely picking some up on your recommendation! x x x
- 30 July 2013 at 20:42
- Valens said...
Liloo, welcome back! I'm so happy you're here again and I would hug you so tight if I was there!!! :D
I've thought when I first see the new bottles was "I've seen it somewhere before!"... I'm glad that MUA improved everything, not just the bottle.
- 30 July 2013 at 23:16
- Kemcaflipflops said...
They've changed the brushes?..best news today! I love MUA for giving myself a little treat when I find some loose change in the bottom of my bag
(when you find cash you didn't know you had, it's FREE MONEY for spending!)
Kirsten xx
- 31 July 2013 at 13:36
- nav said...
I haven't ever tried any MUA nail polishes but you make a good point especially the price, this shade looks gorgeous on you x
Nav | Navilicious Beauty
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These courts are free and there are 12 available at Rancho Cienega-
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I'm up for playing most weekday mornings. Let me know what works
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I would like to play with you because you play for the right reasons... to have fun. Im a 2.5- 3, but may appear to be better than i really am because i cover the court so well,. Speed makes up for ALOT of weaknesses. Let set something up for next week,
Brenden you look like Sting with your shirt unbuttoned like that !! Roooooooxxxxxxaaaaaannnee!!!
Ive played this guy for the past 2 months.. He's really a 4.0. that only need work on his serve. I only beat him when i have my magic raquet lol.
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There's been some interesting blue posts and tweets lately regarding PvP. It feels to me that Blizzard has really been trying to "answer" the PvP community as of late. I personally liked that they feel there is too much instant CCs in the game since I share that opinion.
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If you can get a DK to blow all def cooldowns, then they're easier to kill, but you still have Blood Presence.
Why is Blood getting nerfed PvP wise? We have no mobility what so ever.. we are easily kited.WTF. Compensate for the nerf?
We don't like invulnerable tanks in PvP even if they are slow. Blood had too much self-healing in PvP.
How long are we going to have to wait to see shifting out of snares removed?
Not on our radar ATM. We don't want to nerf every counter in PvP, just the ones that feel super frustrating.
Regarding hunters, why is BW, a skill untouched for years suddenly OP? Also 5.1 changes nothing regarding MM being weak in pvp
We don't think defenses used offensively makes good gameplay. They tend to get blown immediately not strategically.
Hey GC with the change in 5.1 making totems act as spells was it intended to nerf all specs or just resto ?
it was intended as a nerf to totems. Now that they do things (not just buffs) they were hard to counter.
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CC in general is totally out of control, too much instant [email protected]#$ going on
We would very much like to make it so that more crowd controls start going back to having a cast time. We feel that instant cast spells should be something that's rare to see and we admit that they have become far too common.
When you or one of the blizzard staff mentioned the 30% healing nerf in Battlegrounds, I hope you mean hybrids only.
Nope. We suspect healing overall is too potent once burst is toned down. You shouldn't need to 100% CC a healer to score a kill.
Make PvP abilities a mod to PvE abilities = PvP changes isolated. Add PvP Stance for equipment/glyphs, fallback to PvE gear.
We make abilities work differently as a later sort, but I for one don't want to have to earn two different rule sets.
greg making two rule sets is the only way to fix the PVE vs PVP issue. have you not learned that yet?
Disagree. Also even if true, perfect balance gains us nothing if a bunch of players leave because the rules are inscrutable.
A flightless Tol Barad-type zone is essential for world pvp. Do you regret not making one for MoP or plan to make one?
We had done those zones 2 expansions in a row so felt it was time to let it rest a bit, but I bet we try them again in the future.
Why are the PvP achievements so limited? No 2,4k in 2v2. No 1k arenas won? 5k arenas won? Hot Hot Hot streak? #possibilities
We'd like to add more but we need to make sure they don't encourage strange behavior. Ach farming in PvP can get silly fast.
I believe an open mind is more important than a title, experience after that. Sadly, even glads can be very biased.
People who like to eat don't always make good cooks. That doesn't mean they can't tell you what they like to eat.
Do you take advice from a master chef or some guy who just happens to enjoy food?
So why nerf all specs? Reducing the benefit of mastery in PvP would fix resto, but ele isn't even viable pre-nerfs.
We don't think it's all about the healing, and Resto PvE healing is fine. We think totems are too good.
people will stop complaining about resto pvp nerfs if you nerf frost bomb/ warrior cd stacking/ resto drood control
There are mage and warrior nerfs in 5.1. Keeping an eye on Cyclone for now.
I'm not giving up on skirmish arenas, never, ever. You know we want it. inb4 block :<
We aren't either - it's just not going to be super soon.
Everyone agrees with him/her. This upgrade gear thing is going to make people quit the game. PvP is dying.
claiming to speak for everyone always makes me suspicious.
well, not everyone but the majority i think. btw, i would love to have that pvp forum on the US.
just make good arguments and don't worry about invoking a huge crowd to agree with you. It's not a vote anyway.


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For the most fragile emerging markets, things could get worse for their equity investors before they get better, economist Nouriel Roubini said Wednesday.
Roubini also said European equities could do better than U.S. stocks, predicting 2014 gains of 15%. Japanese will fare even better, advancing 15% to 20%, he said.
He delivered a keynote speech at ETF.com\'s Inside ETFs conference in Hollywood, Fla., on Wednesday morning. MarketWatch live blogged the speech by Roubini, who has been called \"Dr. Doom\" but lately has turned more optimistic and said he prefers the moniker \"Dr. Realist.\"
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Financial concerns are less than in the past, he says.
But he's worried about things like a limited war between Japan and China.
That's not encouraging.
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Now he's talking further about geopolitical risks, talking about Iran and Israel.
"There are other looming tensions," he adds.
He mentions some experts see the U.S. "tapering" how much it does around the world.
So they're borrowing a term from Fed watchers.
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Much of these comments come from what Roubini says he heard at Davos.
On the upside, he says mood was optimistic, maybe too optimistic.
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With last week's news (Argentina, Turkey, etc.), he says the mood has changed.
There had been too much complacency, too much consensus.
"We have to think about what can go wrong" in addition to "what can go right."
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He says economic growth is improving in advanced economies.
Regarding emerging markets: There are a number of countries that are fragile, but others are good stories.
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"You cannot lump them all together," he says of emerging markets.
"There is a theme of differentiation."
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Roubini on why growth in most advanced economies will be better:
–Less fiscal drag from U.S.
–Less tail risks for Europe, Japan
–Deleveraging has become more advanced, closer to the end of it
–Monetary policy mostly will remain accomodative
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One of the paradoxes is that despite QE and similar efforts, inflation is still below target, he adds.
Also on the subject of QE, Roubini reminds audience that tapering isn't tightening.
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3.54% by end of this year
That's his target for the 10-year yield.
[Correction: Roubini said later it might hit 3.5% if U.S. economic growth surprises to upside, otherwise his estimate is 3.4%. Sorry for the error.]
Won't get to about 4.5% until 2018, Roubini says
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Even the Bank of England, with stronger growth, is going to be very cautious about changing policy.
He said that's a takeaway from meeting BoE officials in Davos.
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Regarding the ECB, he says it will do a negative deposit rate if necessary.
Roubini adds that the ECB is also discussing asset purchases, QE.
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The meeting room looks nearly full for this speech by Roubini by the way.
He is speaking very quickly, but most of the audience looks to be sticking with him amid this rapid delivery.
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Fed will exit slowly, ECB and BoJ and other banks might do more.
So this is leading to asset inflation, but that makes him worried about the potential for a bubble and a bust.
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He sees central banks having a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" dilemma.
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The central banks need to avoid creating asset bubbles or froth, but if they cut back on their stimulus measures, they could kill the recovery.
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Now he's back to saying more about emerging markets, starting with China.
He said those who see a hard landing are too extreme, but those who see a soft landing are also too extreme.
The reality is more complex, he says.
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Overall, he's cautious on China.
His worried include that a credit crunch could occur.
Reminds audience that China of course will affect commodities, other EM nations.
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He's now weighing in on Argentina, Turkey. Says they also have a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenarios.
In the short run, Fed tapering will weigh, commodity prices are still correcting and that's a negative…
Those EM nations that are fragile will remain fragile.
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Now he's more clearly giving some forecasts for the near term:
Bond yields in advanced economies will go higher very slowly.
Commodity prices will correct. Shale boom is a factor.
U.S. dollar will gain vs. euro and yen.
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Now for equity forecasts for 2014:
He sees gains, but not as strong as last year.
In the U.S., he says double-digit returns unlikely.
European equities could do better than U.S., sees gains of 15%.
Japan equities: +15% to 20%, according to Roubini.
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And Roubini also has a view on emerging-market equities.
Things could get worse for some of those fragile EM markets, he says.
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Roubini wraps up, summarizing his outlook in this way:
–World has plenty of downside risks, some of them geopolitical.
–But global economy is still improving, and monetary policy is still easy.
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Q&A is starting.
Audience members have microphones handed to them to ask questions.
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The first one: What's your advice to new Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen?
In answering the question, Roubini returns to that "damned if you do, damned if you don't" dilemma facing central banks that he mentioned earlier.
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The next question is about Roubini's take on the Mideast and Africa.
He says the Gulf will have strong economic growth (act like a "beacon," is what it sounds like he said), other parts of Mideast won't be as strong.
In Africa, some countries have entered "virtuous cycles." They include Rwanda, Mozambique.
You can't lump countries together in Africa, Roubini says. Not lumping countries together has been something that he's said several times.
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Last question, the event organizers say, and it is about Iran.
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The question is if there's an opening, better relationship with Iran, who would benefit or be a loser?
Roubini says Saudi Arabia would be a loser, Russia also would be a loser. He points out Iranian society actually could be seen as more liberal than Saudi society… it has more opportunities for women, for example.
Mideast overall would become more stable, Roubini says. You would get more economic opportunities for many parts of the Mideast.
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That's a wrap for Roubini's talk.
Different conference sessions are now starting, and this live blogger wants to go listen in on the session about gold.
Thank you for checking out this coverage of the Roubini speech.


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i haven't watched this show in a few years , but weird i just saw on the news the other night that they r filiming a house here for the show..so i was going to watch out for that, but if they r filiming it now it probly won't b one for a while.?
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No. 6 Ole Miss (37-20, 15-15 SEC) vs. No. 3 Arkansas (35-19, 18-11 SEC)
May 22 | 9:30 a.m. | Hoover, Ala. | Comcast Sports Southeast/ESPN3
UM So. RHP Sam Smith (3-0, 3.28 ERA) vs. UA Jr. RHP Barrett Astin (4-4, 2.02 ERA)
Ole Miss NCAA Tournament resume:
Overall Record: 37-20
SEC Record/Finish: 15-15/6th
Strength of Schedule: 9
Record vs Top 50 RPI: 13-16 (includes Tuesday's 4-1 win against Kentucky)
Record vs. 51-100 RPI: 5-2
Record vs. 100+ RPI: 19-2
Ole Miss NCAA Tournament projection:
Mark Etheridge, SEBaseball.com (May 19): No. 2 seed in Louisville Regional
Kendall Rogers, Perfect Game (May 20): No. 2 seed in Clemson Regional
Smith looks for repeat performance: Sophomore right-hander Sam Smith gets the nod for Ole Miss against Arkansas. Head coach Mike Bianco said Tuesday that Smith threw short work before the game against Kentucky.
It will be his second career start against the Razorbacks, as he took a no-decision in a 6-4 win against Arkansas in 13 innings earlier this season. He allowed one run on three hits with a walk and strikeout in five innings.
The 6-foot-4, 225-pounder remains unbeaten with a 3-0 record to go along with a 3.28 ERA, .281 B/AVG, 1.40 WHIP and 29-to-18 strikeout-to-walk ratio. In his last six starts, he has allowed nine runs, seven of which were earned, in 29 innings.
Like junior right-hander Mike Mayers on Tuesday, Smith will be pitching on four days' rest, having pitched 3.1 innings against LSU this past Friday, giving up two runs on four hits with three strikeouts and two walks, as Ole Miss lost 5-4.
Astin settles into starter role: Sam Smith will be opposed on the mound by junior right-hander Barrett Astin for Arkansas. In his last outing, a start against Auburn this past Thursday, he took the loss, as he allowed three runs on nine hits with a walk and seven strikeouts in 6.1 innings.
"He threw Thursday (against Auburn)," Arkansas head coach Dave Van Horn said Monday. "He's probably, obviously, our freshest starter. Give him about five days rest."
The 6-foot-1, 200-punder has pitched in 16 games, including 12 as a starter, and holds a 4-4 record with a 2.02 ERA, .246 B/AVG, 1.18 WHIP and 56-to-18 strikeout-to-walk ratio. He has bounced between the weekend rotation and bullpen, settling into the rotation where he has made nine starts. In those starts, he has allowed 15 runs, 12 of which were earned, in 45.2 innings.
He pitched in relief in a 6-4 loss to Ole Miss in 13 innings earlier this season, as he allowed one run on four hits with a strikeout. He also made a relief apperance against the Rebels in 2012, and two relief appearances in 2011.
The Arkansas pitching staff leads the nation with a team ERA of 1.90. The bullpen is a combined 10-7 with 17 saves and a 1.76 ERA
Ole Miss Lineup (career vs. UA JR RHP Barrett Astin)
LF Tanner Mathis (0-for-3)
3B Andrew Mistone (0-for-2)
SS Austin Anderson (0-for-4)
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These would be great for any type of barbecue sandwich, with the added smokiness enhancing the sandwich in a way that a plain bun just couldn't do. Also great for a non-smoked sandwich where smoke would be an asset. Maybe not for the peanut butter and banana sandwich, unless you're likely to add bacon to that combination.
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- Yield:makes 12 buns
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:3 hours
- 1 cup (8 ounces) water
- 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
- 1/2 cup (4 ounces) buttermilk
- 1 cup (about 5 1/2 ounces) rye flour
- 2 cups (about 11 ounces) bread flour
- 1/2 cup (about 2 ounces) potato flakes
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon caraway seeds
- 1 cup wood chips
Combine everything water, yeast, buttermilk, rye flour, bread flour, potato flakes, and salt in bowl of stand mixer fitted with dough hook attachment, stir on low speed until just combined (about 30 seconds), cover with plastic wrap, and let rest for 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes, knead on low speed until dough is smooth and elastic, about 2 minutes. Add the olive oil and caraway seeds and continue kneading until they are fully incorporated. Cover the dough and let it rest until it has doubled in size, about 1 hour.
When the dough has doubled, flour your work surface and turn out the dough. Knead it briefly, then divide it into 12 equal pieces. Form each piece into a ball and place them on a single baking sheet that will fit into your smoker (a quarter-sheet pan fits in mine) for pull-apart rolls, or on two baking sheets for individual rolls.
Cover the rolls with plastic wrap and set aside until nearly doubled in size, about 25 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare your smoker and soak your wood chips according to the manufacturer's directions. Set the temperature for 275°F.
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Graham Hill drove an immaculate race at the Nürburgring to take the German Grand Prix from John Surtees and Dan Gurney, who both mounted a strong challenge throughout. Hill was forced to drive his old BRM after the new car was written off in a high-speed crash the day before.
With only 30 minutes remaining of official practice on Saturday, Hill was speeding down into the Fuchsrohre Dip, when he hit a television camera that was lying in the centre of the track. It had fallen off the back of privateer Carel Godin de Beaufort's Porsche. Hill recounted; "I was going downhill at 140 mph on maximum revs when I saw part of a camera lying in the road. I couldn't move offside and ran over it. It pierced an oil pipe under the BRM and threw me straight into a ditch. I tore along for 100 yards and saw one of my wheels 30 yards in front of me before I stopped. The car is a complete write-off."
Tony Maggs, whose Cooper Climax was racing close behind Hill, was also very lucky to escape without injury. "I hit the patch of oil from Hill's car and just spun off into a hedge", said Maggs. "There was nothing I could do about it. The car is badly damaged, but it may be repairable. It was the narrowest escape I have ever had on a racing circuit."
The day of the race was wet and stormy and the start was delayed by over an hour as a downpour flooded the track. Eventually 26 cars lined up on a rain-sodden grid, with Clark, Gurney and Surtees on the front row. Clark had forgotten to switch on his fuel pump, so was left standing on the grid, leaving Gurney to storm into an early lead. Hill squeezed past him at the beginning of the third lap, and from then on the dark green BRM stayed in the lead throughout. Hill was constantly hassled by Surtees in the Lola, who had moved up to second by the sixth lap, but, driving calmly and confidently, managed to maintain his advantage.
Jack Brabham debuted a car carrying his own name, the former champion having earlier raced a private Lotus, but he retired with throttle problems, the car needing further development.
Hill hung on to beat Surtees by just 2.5 seconds, with Gurney only 1.8 seconds behind in third. Clark, after his abortive start, drove brilliantly to take fourth.
Hill described the race afterwards as one of the hardest he had ever been in, but also one of the best drives of his career so far. "I was well aware that I could easily make a mistake in the wet. I had to concentrate like mad and by the time the race was over, and I had won, I was completely drained both mentally and physically. It was one of the best races I'd driven up to that point."
Hill now had a seven point lead in the world championship, ahead of Clark and Surtees.


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To be honest, I wanted to join the competition but I really had no idea what to do for it. I wasn't completely sure what was expected of entries.
The contest was without a doubt a great idea. I'd love to see more short term, themed maps to celebrate whatever it is that's going on.
Chinese New Year version of Greater China?
Nascar redesign of Circus Maximus?
October 3 marks the 20th Anniversary of the Reunification of Germany, Berlin 1961?
June 6th is D-Day...
St. Patricks day is coming up, we could retool Ireland in addition to having a St. paddy's day map.
Too bad we don't have a Mexico map yet, Cinco De Mayo.
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As you already know, the Content Pipeline always executes locally in your Windows machine, to parse and process all the contents into the XNB files. If you don't have this clear, I´d suggest you to read this Shawn Hargreaves blog post. The above error appears sometimes when you add in your Content Project a reference to a Windows Phone Game Library assembly, or to any other platform game library.
I say "sometimes" because this doesn't happen always. For example, it fails on my laptop, but not in my desktop machine (the first is Vista and second is 7, don't know if that has anything to do with it).
The problem is that sometimes (especially since Content Projects where separated from regular projects), you need to reference the same assembly from both a Content Project and from a main game project. For instance, if you store in a extra assembly object proxies or descriptions to be used by the XML Intermediate Serializer, you will need them in both the Content Project (to make the serialization), and in the runtime game, to make the de-serialization.
So, if all of them are Windows-XNA based, no problem. But what happens when the main game project is a Windows Phone project? The scenario is:
As I said, if the Aux. Game Library is a Windows Phone game library, for example, it will give you the mentioned compiling problems if you reference it in the Content Project. And if it's a Windows game library, you won't be able to reference in the Main Game Project, which is a Phone project. How we solve this?
Creating a Project CopyObviously, the solution is to have two different projects/assemblies. One for Windows and another one for WindowsPhone. Of course, as we said that duplicating is wrong, we don't want to duplicate the classes and code in both projects, so the solution is to create a <<project copy>>: an additional project that produces a different assembly type, but that links to the same source files than the other project.
This is a extremely useful feature automated in XNA solutions (you can always do the same manually in other project types). To do so, you just need to right-click in the Solution Explorer, on the project you want to copy, and select:
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This way, you can keep the Content Project always referencing Windows Game Libraries, and your main Game project referencing the assembly appropriate for each platform, without duplicating code.


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Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf; 320 pages; $25.95).
There are weddings, and then there are weddings. Destination weddings. Weekend weddings. Lavish weddings. Small weddings. Weddings where drunken bridesmaids sleep with equally inebriated groomsmen. Even Shotgun weddings where no one has to guess "is she or isn't she?" The wedding of Daphne Van Meter features a little of all of the above in Maggie Shipstead's strong, hilarious debut novel Seating Arrangements, part social satire and part serious examination of a man's mid-life crisis.
Shipstead is a California girl who sets her story on an exclusive New England island. Although a wedding occurs in her tale, Shipstead's story is not really about the ceremony itself; Shipstead is concerned with the events and details that lead up to the big day.
Daphne's wedding is the social event of the season. Daphne, though, can lie back on her beach towel and relax. She is no blushing bride; Daphne is seven months pregnant. Both Daphne's parents and the groom's parents pushed the couple into walking down the aisle pronto. If his daughter had a child "out of wedlock," Winn Van Meter "would die." If it had been up to Daphne, though, she would not have gotten married so soon. "If I really had my way," Daphne confesses, "We'd wait a while so I wouldn't have to be pregnant in the pictures." More than anything else, Daphne does not want to be a "fat bride." However, she acquiesces to her father, because she knows how much appearances matter to him.
Winn is truly the novel's main character. Winn Van Meter is a 59-year-old, Harvard-educated, wealthy WASP enduring a mid-life crisis. As Shipstead writes, "people get weird at weddings," and that is certainly true of Winn.
Shipstead, a 29-year-old woman, ably gets readers into the head of Winn using flashbacks and streams of consciousness. She uses Winn to satirize New England's upper-crust culture, but her writing turns serious and somber when we realize how alone Winn feels and how he just wants to be liked.
Seating Arrangements, in my view, is a metaphor. Seating charts at weddings are complicated affairs. Just ask Winn's wife, Biddy, who agonizes over the seating arrangements. Preparing them means enemies and exes may find themselves seated next to each other, although this is to be avoided at all costs. Some guests will be downgraded to the "leftovers table." Winn prepares his own kind of seating arrangements in this novel as he takes stock of the people in his life: how they have rewarded him, remained loyal to him, disdained him, slighted him, and excluded him. Nearing sixty, he places them in certain niches, exactly where he thinks they should belong.
Above all, Winn appreciates exclusivity; he yearns for it, in fact. For that reason, he "summers" on private Waskeke island. Only the very best will do for him and his family. Tradition is important to Winn, just as it was imperative to his father. While at Harvard, Winn joined the elite club called the "Ophidian." He worries an old rival, Jack Fenn, who did not get into the Ophidian, may be blackballing his acceptance into the "Pequod," a privileged golf club. "People," Winn knows, "will go to great lengths for revenge on those who have excluded them."
Worst of all, Winn fears his exclusion from the Pequod may have something to do with his younger daughter, Livia. Since he spends a great deal of time worrying over what is correct and proper, he cannot help but wonder if his daughters are disparaging his good name. Just look at Daphne, seven-months pregnant on her wedding day. A similar, yet different, thing happened to Livia. While at Harvard, Livia got pregnant by her boyfriend Teddy Fenn, the son of Winn's would-be nemesis. Winn went through the roof. In the end, Livia got an abortion and Teddy broke up with her. Winn worries this incident will forever bar him from gaining acceptance to the Pequod. How he wishes for sons when he thinks of all his daughters have put him through.
Despite Winn's preoccupation with appearances, he contemplates a fling with Agatha, one of Daphne's bridesmaids. Agatha is in her twenties and woos and is wooed by Winn. For Winn, Agatha is like "the fountain of youth." He describes any romance the two would have as a "May-December" one. Winn feels as though Agatha truly likes him and understands him, qualities he appreciates, especially in a young, beautiful woman. He and his wife have grown apart, and he idolizes Agatha just as much as he idealizes her. Agatha, though, has a roving eye and roving hands.
Hilarious scenes such as when Winn and Livia catch Agatha with a groomsman inflagrante delicto contrast sharply with the novel's serene island setting. Hoopla abounds in this tale, whether it is when Winn gets run over at the golf course and wonders if he can take advantage of the accident to get into the Pequod or when the groom's brother causes a dead whale's carcass to explode. The whole novel makes for good social satire. Shipstead's intention is to make your mouth fall open agape while reading what someone said or did.
Interestingly, one of Shipstead's characters also responds to the Van Meters in this way. With uncanny and masterful ability, Shipstead shifts perspective in one chapter, showing how a situation or issue looks different based on one's viewpoint, age, gender, and class. Nowhere is this more apparent than when Shipstead writes for Dominique, a bridesmaid from Egypt. Dominique has known Daphne and her family for years. She knows how the Van Meters and others like them work: "They were set up to accommodate feigned ignorance, unspoken resentment, and repressed passion the way their houses had back stairways and rooms tucked away behind the kitchen for the feudal ghosts of their ancestors' servants." Dominique was "surprised Winn had not leapt from a bridge or gutted himself with a samurai sword after his daughters got knocked up back to back." "Daphne's condition," Dominique thinks, "would be grandfathered into the boundaries of propriety by the wedding, but Livia's phantom pregnancy, the missing buldge under her green dress at the front of the church, was a void that could not be satisfactorily filled in and smoothed over." In her view, Winn "had the Pequod to take his mind off things" and "set out on his quest for membership like Don Quixote without a Sancho."
Dominique's reaction is our reaction. She is, by turns, fascinated by them and repulsed by them. So are we. But, Dominique does her duty. She will be the supportive bridesmaid and keep her judgments to herself. Perhaps Dominique's character also symbolizes Shipstead herself. Shipstead graduated from Harvard and met hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Van Meter-like families. Maybe Dominique's take on the Van Meters was exactly what Shipstead thought of the New England families she came into contact, obsessed with social status, elitism, and correctness.
Seating Arrangments is THE read of the summer, but this is no fluff piece. Shipstead constructs a many-layered story in the same way a baker creates a layered wedding cake or a designer sews a wedding gown. There are layers upon layers, and we must peel them back chapter by chapter. There are debut novels, and then there are debut novels. Messy, disorganized jumbles lacking cohesion. Unrealized characters with nothing to drive them. Settings that fall flat. A plot that isn't. This is not one of those debut novels.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A poet-historian representing a younger generation of writers will soon take office on Capitol Hill, overlooking the politicians, in a lesser-known post enshrined in federal law.
The Library of Congress named Natasha Trethewey on Thursday to be its 19th U.S. poet laureate with a mission to share the art of poetry with a wider audience. The 46-year-old English and creative writing professor at Atlanta's Emory University distinguished herself early, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
Trethewey will be the first poet in chief to take up residence in Washington to work at the library's Poetry Room for part of her term in 2013. As one of the youngest poet laureates ever selected, she also brings fresh perspective to an office more recently held by poets in their 80s.
Part of her work has focused on restoring history that has been erased or forgotten from the official record and the nation's shared memory. She has researched in the library's Civil War archive to inform some of her writings.
Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her collection of poems, ``Native Guard.'' She wrote of the Louisiana Native Guard, a black Civil War regiment assigned to guard white Confederate soldiers held on Ship Island off Mississippi's Gulf Coast.
The Confederate prisoners were later memorialized on the island, but not the black Union soldiers.
A stanza reads:
``Some names shall deck the page of history
``as it is written on stone. Some will not.''
Librarian of Congress James Billington, who chose Trethewey after hearing her read at the National Book Festival in Washington, said her work explores many tragedies of the Civil War.
``She's taking us into history that was never written,'' he told The Associated Press. ``She takes the greatest human tragedy in American history -- the Civil War, 650,000 people killed, the most destructive war of human life for a century -- and she takes us inside without preaching.''
It's a ``happy coincidence,'' he said, that Trethewey was chosen during the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States. He was also impressed with her skill in translating a visual image into words and moving from rhyme to free verse -- but always keeping her poems accessible.
Trethewey began writing poems after a personal tragedy. While she was a college freshman, her mother was killed by a stepfather Trethewey had long feared.
``I started writing poems as a response to that great loss, much the way that people responded, for example, after 9/11,'' she told the AP. ``People who never had written poems or turned much to poetry turned to it at that moment because it seems like the only thing that can speak the unspeakable.''
She is the nation's first poet laureate to hail from the South since the first federal poet -- Robert Penn Warren -- was named by the Library of Congress in 1986. She is also Mississippi's top poet and will be the first person to serve simultaneously as a state and U.S. laureate.
Her term, beginning in September, also coincides with the 75th anniversary of the poetry center and a dedicated poet-consultant position at the world's largest library.
Trethewey said she hopes to promote national activity around poetry and to engage with the library and people who visit the nation's capital.
Past poet laureates have included W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove and Warren -- the Southern native who was an inspiration for Trethewey. Their agendas as the nation's chief poets have included readings across the country, newspaper syndication of poems and poetry readings over high school public address systems.
Poetry lives in the Trethewey family. Her father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet and college professor. But when she went to graduate school, she was more interested in telling stories and studied fiction writing.
``On a dare that first semester, a poet friend of mine got me to write a poem. I did it because I thought I would prove that I couldn't do it,'' she said. ``It was at that moment that something really clicked.''
Her Pulitzer-winning poems also included her personal history as the daughter of interracial parents -- and the story of her mother, who died at the age of 40.
In ``Miscegenation,'' a poem in ``Native Guard,'' she wrote about her parents' journey to Ohio in 1965 for a marriage that was illegal at home in Mississippi.
``They crossed the river into Cincinnati, a city whose name
``begins with a sound like sin, the sound of wrong -- mis in Mississippi.''
Trethewey's next collection of poems, ``Thrall,'' will be published this year. It explores her relationship with her white father and shared and divergent memory within families, along with poems about paintings and the history of knowledge from the Enlightenment.


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Make Garden Pinwheels
Many children have a natural inclination for gardening. After all, what could be more fun for kids than digging in the dirt? But once those seeds start growing, it can be pretty difficult to distinguish beteen the pumpkins and the zucchini, or to separate out the cilantro from the parsley.
Help your child avoid confusion by crafting homemade garden-themed pinwheels to label his garden plants! Made with just a few simple household objects and your child's creative flair, these pinwheels add a decorative and practical touch to the family's favorite outdoor space.
What You Need:
- Square piece of colored card stock or sturdy construction paper, about 8" x 8"
- Ruler
- Scotch tape
- Pencil with eraser top
- Thumbtack
What You Do:
- Have your child choose a square of paper that represents the plants or flowers that the pinwheel will mark in your garden. For example, he might choose orange for pumpkins, yellow for sunflowers, or green for basil.
- Next, ask him to use a ruler to draw a diagonal line across the square of paper, from the bottom left to the top right side. Repeat from the top left to the bottom right corner to form an X.
- Now, have him make a mark about ⅓ of the distance from the centre of the X on each of the lines.
- Help him cut each line from the outer corner towards the centre, stopping at the marks, so that the centre third of the square remains uncut.
- Invite him to decorate the points on the left side with the theme of the them of the specific plant or flower. For example, for pumpkins he can draw images of pumpkins, and write the word "pumpkins," in addition to adding any other decorations of his choice.
- In each quadrant, pull the undecorated right hand point to the centre, being careful not to crease the fold. Tape the four points to the centre to hold.
- When the pinwheel is complete, poke a thumbtack through the centre and push it into the side of the eraser on top of a pencil.
- Invite your child to place the pinwheel in the garden.


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England suffer Walcott blow
England winger Theo Walcott has been ruled out of Tuesday night's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley.
The Arsenal man is suffering from an illness and has returned to his club. Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge missed training on Monday morning due to stomach cramps but the England medical team remain hopeful he will be fit for the Group H encounter.
With his options now looking thin - Chelsea centre-half John Terry also withdrew on Sunday - England coach Roy Hodgson added three players to his squad in the form of Liverpool teenager Raheem Sterling, Tottenham's Jake Livermore and Southampton's Adam Lallana.
Hodgson said Walcott was too poorly to be considered for the match, but is more hopeful over Sturridge's fitness.
"Theo has picked up some sort of virus," he said. "He was quite violently ill last night.
"Daniel trained yesterday with stomach cramps but today woke up with the same stomach cramps, and the doctor advised us to keep him out of training and see how things are. The doctor is quite confident he will be okay, though.
"I can only hope nothing is going round the squad. That was why we were quite keen to get Theo home as soon as possible and also keep Daniel away from the squad. I have to hope it's just an isolated case with the two players."
Sterling, Livermore and Lallana will now be given the chance to gain some valuable experience with the senior squad, according to Hodgson.
"It was a good opportunity to invite some young players to come in and be part of the atmosphere," he said.
"We still have enough good players to be able to deal with the game, but it's always good when you have the chance to invite these players to come in and see how things are."