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Using the Translator
Using the Translator¶
Imagine you want to translate the string "Symfony is great" into French:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | use Symfony\Component\Translation\Translator;
use Symfony\Component\Translation\Loader\ArrayLoader;
$translator = new Translator('fr_FR');
$translator->addLoader('array', new ArrayLoader());
$translator->addResource('array', array(
'Symfony is great!' => 'J\'aime Symfony!',
), 'fr_FR');
var_dump($translator->trans('Symfony is great!'));
In this example, the message "Symfony is great!" will be translated into
the locale set in the constructor (fr_FR
) if the message exists in one of
the message catalogs.
Message Placeholders¶
Sometimes, a message containing a variable needs to be translated:
// ...
$translated = $translator->trans('Hello '.$name);
However, creating a translation for this string is impossible since the translator
will try to look up the exact message, including the variable portions
(e.g. "Hello Ryan" or "Hello Fabien"). Instead of writing a translation
for every possible iteration of the $name
variable, you can replace the
variable with a "placeholder":
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | // ...
$translated = $translator->trans(
'Hello %name%',
array('%name%' => $name)
Symfony will now look for a translation of the raw message (Hello %name%
and then replace the placeholders with their values. Creating a translation
is done just as before:
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<?xml version="1.0"?> <xliff version="1.2" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2"> <file source-language="en" datatype="plaintext" original="file.ext"> <body> <trans-unit id="1"> <source>Hello %name%</source> <target>Bonjour %name%</target> </trans-unit> </body> </file> </xliff>
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return array( 'Hello %name%' => 'Bonjour %name%', );
'Hello %name%': Bonjour %name%
The placeholders can take on any form as the full message is reconstructed
using the PHP strtr function
. But the %...%
is recommended, to avoid problems when using Twig.
As you've seen, creating a translation is a two-step process:
- Abstract the message that needs to be translated by processing it through
. - Create a translation for the message in each locale that you choose to support.
The second step is done by creating message catalogs that define the translations for any number of different locales.
Creating Translations¶
The act of creating translation files is an important part of "localization"
(often abbreviated L10n). Translation files consist of a series of
id-translation pairs for the given domain and locale. The source is the identifier
for the individual translation, and can be the message in the main locale (e.g.
"Symfony is great") of your application or a unique identifier (e.g.
- see the sidebar below).
Translation files can be created in several different formats, XLIFF being the recommended format. These files are parsed by one of the loader classes.
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<?xml version="1.0"?> <xliff version="1.2" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2"> <file source-language="en" datatype="plaintext" original="file.ext"> <body> <trans-unit id="symfony_is_great"> <source>Symfony is great</source> <target>J'aime Symfony</target> </trans-unit> <trans-unit id="symfony.great"> <source>symfony.great</source> <target>J'aime Symfony</target> </trans-unit> </body> </file> </xliff>
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Symfony is great: J'aime Symfony symfony.great: J'aime Symfony
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return array( 'Symfony is great' => 'J\'aime Symfony', 'symfony.great' => 'J\'aime Symfony', );
Message pluralization is a tough topic as the rules can be quite complex. For instance, here is the mathematical representation of the Russian pluralization rules:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | (($number % 10 == 1) && ($number % 100 != 11))
? 0
: ((($number % 10 >= 2)
&& ($number % 10 <= 4)
&& (($number % 100 < 10)
|| ($number % 100 >= 20)))
? 1
: 2
As you can see, in Russian, you can have three different plural forms, each given an index of 0, 1 or 2. For each form, the plural is different, and so the translation is also different.
When a translation has different forms due to pluralization, you can provide
all the forms as a string separated by a pipe (|
'There is one apple|There are %count% apples'
To translate pluralized messages, use the
1 2 3 4 5 | $translator->transChoice(
'There is one apple|There are %count% apples',
array('%count%' => 10)
The second argument (10
in this example) is the number of objects being
described and is used to determine which translation to use and also to populate
the %count%
Based on the given number, the translator chooses the right plural form.
In English, most words have a singular form when there is exactly one object
and a plural form for all other numbers (0, 2, 3...). So, if count
, the translator will use the first string (There is one apple
as the translation. Otherwise it will use There are %count% apples
Here is the French translation:
1 | 'Il y a %count% pomme|Il y a %count% pommes'
Even if the string looks similar (it is made of two sub-strings separated by a
pipe), the French rules are different: the first form (no plural) is used when
is 0
or 1
. So, the translator will automatically use the
first string (Il y a %count% pomme
) when count
is 0
or 1
Each locale has its own set of rules, with some having as many as six different plural forms with complex rules behind which numbers map to which plural form. The rules are quite simple for English and French, but for Russian, you'd may want a hint to know which rule matches which string. To help translators, you can optionally "tag" each string:
1 2 3 | 'one: There is one apple|some: There are %count% apples'
'none_or_one: Il y a %count% pomme|some: Il y a %count% pommes'
The tags are really only hints for translators and don't affect the logic
used to determine which plural form to use. The tags can be any descriptive
string that ends with a colon (:
). The tags also do not need to be the
same in the original message as in the translated one.
As tags are optional, the translator doesn't use them (the translator will only get a string based on its position in the string).
Explicit Interval Pluralization¶
The easiest way to pluralize a message is to let the Translator use internal
logic to choose which string to use based on a given number. Sometimes, you'll
need more control or want a different translation for specific cases (for
, or when the count is negative, for example). For such cases, you can
use explicit math intervals:
1 | '{0} There are no apples|{1} There is one apple|]1,19] There are %count% apples|[20,Inf[ There are many apples'
The intervals follow the ISO 31-11 notation. The above string specifies
four different intervals: exactly 0
, exactly 1
, 2-19
, and 20
and higher.
You can also mix explicit math rules and standard rules. In this case, if the count is not matched by a specific interval, the standard rules take effect after removing the explicit rules:
1 | '{0} There are no apples|[20,Inf[ There are many apples|There is one apple|a_few: There are %count% apples'
For example, for 1
apple, the standard rule There is one apple
be used. For 2-19
apples, the second standard rule There are %count%
will be selected.
An Interval
can represent a finite set
of numbers:
1 | {1,2,3,4}
Or numbers between two other numbers:
1 2 | [1, +Inf[
The left delimiter can be [
(inclusive) or ]
(exclusive). The right
delimiter can be [
(exclusive) or ]
(inclusive). Beside numbers, you
can use -Inf
and +Inf
for the infinite.
Forcing the Translator Locale¶
When translating a message, the Translator uses the specified locale or the
locale if necessary. You can also manually specify the locale to
use for translation:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | $translator->trans(
'Symfony is great',
'{0} There are no apples|{1} There is one apple|]1,Inf[ There are %count% apples',
array('%count%' => 10),
Retrieving the Message Catalogue¶
In case you want to use the same translation catalogue outside your application (e.g. use translation on the client side), it's possible to fetch raw translation messages. Just specify the required locale:
1 2 3 4 5 | $catalogue = $translator->getCatalogue('fr_FR');
$messages = $catalogue->all();
while ($catalogue = $catalogue->getFallbackCatalogue()) {
$messages = array_replace_recursive($catalogue->all(), $messages);
The $messages
variable will have the following structure:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | array(
'messages' => array(
'Hello world' => 'Bonjour tout le monde',
'validators' => array(
'Value should not be empty' => 'Valeur ne doit pas être vide',
'Value is too long' => 'Valeur est trop long',
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Hi Sue! How are you today? I appreciate your sweet comments on my tags. They were fun to make. I created those tiny hearts using embossing paste and a stencil. A fun, interesting technique that's not hard at all. Just playin' with paste!
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Published in 1958, "Things Fall Apart" was the first major work of African anti-colonialist literature. Written when Achebe was only 28 years old, the book focuses on the cultural clash that occurred when British and Christian colonial powers met traditional Igbo culture in what later came to be Nigeria. More than 10 million copies of the book have been sold, and it has been translated into 45 languages. Students around the world still read the story of Okonkwo and his family.
Achebe wrote four more novels after his debut work: "No Longer at Ease" (1960), "Arrow of God" (1964), "A Man of the People" (1966) and "Anthills of the Savannah" (1987). He was also the author of many short stories and poems. While active in Nigerian politics in the years following that country's independence from Great Britain, Achebe worked mainly as a professor at a number of universities in his later years.
Born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe in Ogidi, Nigeria on Nov. 16, 1930, the author was moved to writing during his English literature studies at university. The common portrayal of Africans as ignorant as savages was reversed in his work. Achebe married Christiana Okoli in 1961 and the couple had four children.


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Below, from What America's Reading: Bestsellers by City from The Daily Beast, are the bestselling books of 2011 in Dallas (with links to items in TWU Libraries' collections). Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. USA, 1959.
Note: If a book is unavailable according to the TWU Libraries catalog, don't stop there. Try the following:
1. Recheck the catalog. Additional copies and/or formats of the book may be listed separately.
2. Check WorldCat (reachable from the TWU Libraries homepage; click 'Research', then 'WorldCat' under 'Other Catalogs'). The book may be available at a local public library; to current TWU students, faculty or staff at the UNT Libraries; or to TexShare card holders at other Texas libraries.
4. Check the catalog for other books by the same author. You may discover that an author's other works are of interest to you.
5. Check back often. The collections of TWU Libraries are in a constant state of development. New books arrive often.
6. For books that TWU does not own, current TWU students, faculty and staff can submit an Interlibrary Loan Request. Check here for more information.
7. Ask for help. Library staff members at the Information and Circulation Desks are always eager to assist you.
2. The Help (Movie Tie-in) by Kathryn Stockett
3. The Litigators by John Grisham
4. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
5. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
8. A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin
9. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
10. Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
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Droid Does It Again: Ultra, Mini And Maxx Smartphones Coming To Verizon
Up first is the 4.3" Motorola Droid Mini. Following the footsteps of Samsung and HTC, the company has seen that there's still demand for new phones at the 4.3" form factor. Calling a 4.3" phone a "miniature" phone is probably a bit of a comedic choice, but these days, we have to confess that it's tough to find a flagship phone with an LCD smaller than 4.7". The Droid Mini will be priced at $99 on a 2-year agreement, and will ship on August 29th. Moreover, it'll boast wireless charging capabilities.
The Droid Ultra is the next on the docket, and is said to be the thinnest 4G LTE smartphone available, measuring 7.18mm, and with a 5-inch HD display. It'll ship in Red and Black, boast a Kevlar-based unibody frame, and will cost $199 on contract when it lands on August 20th.
Bringing up the rear is the Droid to get if you just can't seem to keep your phone charged: it's the Droid Maxx -- the successor to the RAZR Maxx HD. Features wireless charging and a 3500mAh battery that gives users nearly two days of battery life on a single charge, making it the longest lasting 4G LTE smartphone available. This one will cost $299 on contract, and will be out before the end of next month.
Jelly Bean will ship on every single one, enabling Google Now to be an integral part of the experience. In fact, users will be able to awaken their phone by simply stating: "Ok Google Now." (Just make sure you aren't in a car full of Droids, huh?)


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A former deputy of London Mayor Boris Johnson appeared in court today charged with fraud over alleged misuse of his expenses.
Ian Clement, 44, who resigned from his post in June, declined to enter pleas to the five charges when he appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London.
Senior District Judge Timothy Workman adjourned the case until October 6.
Clement is on unconditional bail.
His lawyer, Jeremy Summers, said outside court: "Given that the matter is now with the court, it would not be appropriate for Mr Clement to make any further comment.
"He does, however, remain surprised that a publicly funded prosecution is being brought for meal expenses totalling £227."
Clement, from Crayford, Kent, was the mayor's deputy for government and external relations.
The charges, which were read to Clement, alleged that he falsely represented that he had incurred business entertainment expenses of varying amounts, using a Greater London Authority-issued credit card.


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It has gotten so that I'm constantly aroused by the way he uses me. The slightest sound from upstairs�or sometimes even just a thought about him being in the house�has me sodden, dripping. But he never takes me there, where I'm wet. Now, lately, when full of him, I shame myself further: my fingers dwell and move in my unvisited slickness. Each of us, going alone, seeks the same goal. I am an object; so is he. But he's always quick, as if anxious to go back to his book. He leaves me, sore and desperate, an unfinished work; and while remnants of him slip down one or the other of my legs, I go on alone, abased and wanton. Sometimes he waits behind me, watching I presume, until I stop gasping, until my body slumps onto whatever he has used to prop me up. Then he goes back to his room. Patricia is looking at the man at the magazine rack again and seems to have forgotten me. He glances at us as he moves toward the door, and she grabs the check, startling me. "Gotta run. Don't waste the opportunity, Rachel. You're not a mannequin, you know. How long has it been now? Three years? You deserve better." She whisks herself out of the bookstore, trailing eddies of confidence, obviously intent on being noticed by the man she'd been watching. My older sister was always the bolder one. He is down the stairs as soon as I come through the door. Before I can put my car keys down he is turning me, pushing me toward the wall, there in the foyer. I bend and brace myself, moist palmprints on the washed caramel chenille wallpaper, as he raises my skirt and pulls aside my panties�the peach lacy ones, the ones I chose, surely subconsciously, surely thinking this would happen. We have never spoken, not a single word, when he fucks me. It's as if there are four people living in the house: the two who fuck�no, the man who fucks the woman in the ass and the woman who lets him�and the two who are reserved and speak with polite voices. When he's not fucking me it's as if we're co-workers in an office, or even world-weary commuters who see one another on the weekday train. Smiles, politeness: "How are you today?", "I hope the rain continues, we need it." These are the banalities that balance the carnalities. I feel him trying to push into me. The constant soreness from him registers again. Is this an intimacy? I clench my buttocks and teeth, pull away, and speak the first words spoken in these times. "Do it properly!" My voice is rough-sounding. I insist: "Properly!" He lets go of me and pauses, and I can hear his breath passing through his nostrils, the same sound he makes just before he comes. I hear the sound of his zipper, then the muffled sound of his shoes on the carpeted stairway. I remain there in the foyer, braced against the wall like a piece of forgotten, broken furniture, panties twisted, as if I think he'll come back. Tears drip from my nose and make spots of blackness on the Mexican Saltillo tile. In the night he comes to my room for the first time. He is naked, needy. He takes my hand and guides it to the thickness, the hardness of him. I have never touched this, never seen it. I turn my back to him and let go long enough to pull my pajama pants down below my bottom. I take him and guide him to the place he always goes. "No." I can hear resignation in his voice. He pushes my hand away and goes into me, properly. I can feel the friction of his skin inside me, the writhing press of his flat stomach on my bottom. I fix my eyes on the moon-silhouetted tree outside my window and put my hand down there. As they do their work, the tips of my fingers are brushed by his cock-flesh. His clutching hand finds my breast, sending lightning into my nipple, and he pushes up, deeper, and gasps as he convulses, as his body sends itself into mine. My own lurching orgasm almost hurts, and I hear my voice, somewhere. I reach back to touch his hip, but hesitate. I can't. The moment will have to endure uninterrupted. We remain motionless, scarcely breathing, as he slowly loses his force and leaves me. But still he doesn't move away; he continues to softly caress my breasts, to breathe damply into my hair, until sleep, the sleep of contentment, captures me. In the dawn, just after sunlight adds pink to the whiteness of the sheer drapes on the windows, filling the bedroom with glowing light, he rapes my ass. This time he pulls my hair savagely when he comes. I am unable to stifle the screams and he slams the bedroom door when he leaves, as if disgusted with me�after having filled me with his muck. When I can speak, it's just another scream: "You forgot my mouth, bastard!" He told me he has been married three times. I wonder if he hates women and if I've become the vessel of his discontent. How could I have let myself get into this situation, this perversion? What kind of man is he, that he always wants to take me in this cold, unnatural, uncompromising way? Those aren't the troubling questions, though. I wonder about my role in this. My sister, the adventurous one, has a history with men. I don't. I was the angelic one, she was the wicked one. She would have done exactly what she told me to do. If she had been interested in this man, she would have let him know. She's not a tramp: with her looks, it isn't necessary for her to be aggressive with men. They have always thundered after her like stampeding herds of bulls. I am the more plain, the more withdrawn, the more shy of the pair of us. I married the man who took my virginity, and I remained married and faithful to him until the end. Patricia cast off her virginity like an unwanted shroud at the age of seventeen. "It was time," she told me later. Just like that. She moved from boy to boy after that, enjoying glittery relationships with the exciting, worthy ones; sidestepping the unworthy. As she became a woman, the boys became men. But Patricia always stubbornly held on to her independence. She never moved in with a man, never depended on one. I went the other direction, clinging to convention as if my sanity depended on it. My virginity was still intact when I went to college, and I didn't surrender it until I was certain the man was to be my husband. Love came into my life only once. Patricia gave up her virginity and clung to her independence. I did the opposite. Her surrender was quick, a brief flash of pain. Mine was a languishing, lifetime ache. I have always envied my sister, and sometimes the line between envy and hatred has been wispy. It's not just for her beauty; it's for her life. When we're together, I am the faded, lifeless one. She coruscates, I absorb light and become invisible. She ricochets, I lose momentum and fall unnoticed in some corner. She doesn't know how I resent her sometimes. When Edward Kingery moved into the apartment I built upstairs, there were lurking notions in me, things I didn't admit to myself. This could be my adventure. Patricia's advice in the bookstore coffee shop was tardy. Two weeks after he moved in, controlled by the part of my mind that never speaks, I let him know I was approachable. "I wonder if you could help me," I said. "My husband collected first editions, and now I would like to sell them. Can you suggest a way to do this?" In Andrew's den, a room I no longer used, Edward admired the long shelves of carefully-preserved books. I watched his hands as he touched the spines tenderly, as if they were babies' faces. His hands were delicate, his fingers long and slender. I imagined him touching me. "I'll buy them," he said, turning to face me. The window to my soul was open and he saw into me. His hands were on my waist, on my back, on my shoulders. His lips were on mine, feverish. I gasped and leaned against him in surrender, breathless, out of control. He pulled open my blouse and moved his face into the well of my breasts, breathing heat and moisture on me. He pulled my clothing, I pulled his. Not naked but naked enough, we fell onto the Tabriz rug Andrew had so cherished, beside the long dark mahogany bookshelves, and I, at the age of forty-three, was fucked by a man who was not my husband�it would have been wrong�in Andrew's sanctuary where humans had never fucked�it would have been wrong�and it was right. It was so easy. The threshold was never as high, never as real, as I had imagined it. I had never let myself believe that intelligent humans can propel themselves into sex without caution, without fanfare, urgently and animal-like. But there we were, almost strangers, welded by the surprising thickness of his lunging cock, my legs locked around him by instinct, my cunt wanton and hungry. As he moved inside his eyes seemed to enter me as well, as if he were looking into my soul. He held himself up on rigid arms, and as his pubis collided with mine, as he drove into me with the force of frenzy, as his eyes locked on mine in surrender to lust, his face twisted and a groan lurched from him. Deep within me I felt his rushes, his hot flush, almost immediately, as if it had only been an instant since he entered me. I clutched him between my legs, absorbing him, cradling him. I was a valley, he was a surging river, we were Iguassu. The woman part of me, the part that accepts and absorbs, was the whole of me, and that was enough. As I felt him begin to wither in that helpless way men do, he whispered, "It's been a long time, too long." I pulled his face down to me and kissed him, raising my hips to press against him. Then I came, quietly, pitifully, trying to hide it from him as if I were embarrassing myself. Andrew had always looked away when I came, making me feel it was disgraceful. This man watched me as if he knew what I was trying to hide from him. A smile flickered on his lips. He moved slowly, his softened cock still inside me, a mushy, gentle thing, and a distant look came into his eyes as I felt him begin to harden again. In time, slowly, he became rigid, filling me more completely than before, and with his eyes locked on mine he fucked me, fucked me, fucked me. It was as if we were merely wandering, with nowhere to go, with no objective but to prolong the process. Stevenson had it: To travel hopefully is better than to arrive. But in time we did arrive again. In time he drove deeply into me and froze, in time more of his come spurted into me, in time I hid nothing when I came and allowed myself wheezes and unseemly grunts, sounds of amazement, disbelief: Was that me? At first there was a concordance between us, built by the sex. At first. But the sweet romantic seedling of this relationship has now grown into a flesh-eating monstrosity. It can't even be called a relationship. Now here I am, on my bed, oozing from his violations, hating him the way he wants me to hate him�hating him because I must hate him. I hear the shower start upstairs. I can remember, but with increasing vagueness, lying in my bed as he showered, imagining, my eyes closed, my fingers buried in my harp-like bridge, moving, moving, until the pianissimo was banished by drums, by heavy bass, booming inside me. But that was in the beginning. I can't imagine anything now. Some of my thoughts are unwelcome: My relationship with this man is a telescoped version of my marriage, which began with romance, loving, and affectionate sex. But in the end, before the automobile accident, Andrew would use me. I would let him, so he could dump for a day or two his need. Here I am again, same song, same dance, with another man. What is it with me and men? But it isn't exactly a similar situation, is it? Andrew was very reserved about sex. I rarely saw him naked, we always made love�made love, never fucked�in the dark. Even after fifteen years of marriage I could still count on the fingers of one hand the number of times we had sex in some adventurous, unconventional way. And all of that was in our first few years together. Anal sex? Andrew would have been repelled by the idea. So would I, for that matter. We would have been embarrassed. Edward Kingery leaves quietly while I'm having my morning coffee in the kitchen. Without a plan, I go upstairs. The apartment is made of two bedrooms. One of the rooms is a master bedroom, like a motel room. Across the hall there is a smaller room, which I converted into a kitchenette. The bedroom is locked, but the kitchen door is open. In the refrigerator, I find out-of-date milk, beer, chardonnay, butter, brown eggs, blue Stilton cheese, yellow mustard and an open package of cold cuts. In the freezer there are low-calorie frozen dinners. On top of the refrigerator is a loaf of dried-out bread, half empty. In the cabinets, sugar, cereal, canned soup, and pasta. There's a half-empty cup of coffee grown cold on the little table, surrounded by a dusting of sugar, which I brush off the tabletop into the coffee cup. Sitting at the table, I imagine I can smell him. The idea angers me. The bedroom door has a big round brass deadbolt lock. I have a key to that lock, but I've never used it, in respect for his privacy. But a man who has done to me what this man has, hasn't he already relinquished his own right to privacy? What secret could he have that's more telling than the fact that he likes to butt-fuck me? The kitchen, his public face, was neat. The bedroom and bathroom, his body beneath the underwear, is not. The bed is unmade. There is clothing strewn about as if discarded in disgust. Everywhere there are piles of papers and books. There must be a dozen copies of his manuscript piled into a corner, tipping, slumped to the side. Wet towels are clumped on the floor in the bathroom. There is a musty, damp, male odor. The toilet seat is up, and the toilet needs cleaning, the rim spotted with the piss-splatters men make, reminding me of my husband. Without knowing it I have missed those ochre splatters as much as I once resented them. "Can I help you?" I whirl, heart pounding. He is lounging in the doorway, leaning lazily against the jamb. I have the lie prepared: "I thought there was a plumbing leak." "You don't say." His insolence is chilling. "You will be moving out today, won't you?" His face changes now, as if I've slapped him. "Can't we talk first?" "About what?" My calm amazes me. He moves his hand, as if handing me ideas. "We could�I could. . ." "Stop?" My cold, aggressive tone is a surprise. "I thought you�" "Liked it?" He looks at the floor. "You seemed to�" "Be that type?" Now he glares: "Fuck you." "Can you? My cunt isn't very boyish." He has not moved from the doorway, blocking my escape. I feel off-balance and trapped. The person who has been speaking is so unlike me that I feel displaced, as if there is a third person in the room. "You have to leave," I tell him. He gives me a silent look and I can see smoldering danger in his eyes, but it doesn't frighten me. It energizes me. "Or you can fuck me properly." Stepping backwards, I fall onto his bed. "Let's see you do it. Fuck me. Properly. Now. Make me come." He takes a half-step toward me, but stops. "I can't�" He looks away. "I'll send somebody for my things," he mutters, and then he's gone. I remain on the bed, his scent surrounding me. In the afternoon, when Patricia calls, I tell her Edward Kingery can't handle women who know what they want. I tell her he can't get it up. I tell her he's moving out. "Who'da thunk?" she says. "So?" My tone is mocking, impudent, aggressive. I can feel a smile growing my face. There's a pause, then: "So . . . what?" she asks, guardedly. "So, if you want a lump of coal, you can have it now. If you want a diamond, you have to wait." "What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" Bingo. Looking at my nails, I decide a manicure should be the first priority. "Oh, nothing. Gotta run, Sis. Call me later, okay?" _______ Copyright 1996 and on, Erotica Readers Association, Inc. |
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Jute exports expected to rise 33
Exports of jute products from the country is expected to touch Rs 2,800 crore in value in 2013 14 on the back of an increase in demand from the West, said Beela Rajesh, Executive Director, Handloom Export Promotion Council, Ministry of Textiles.
In 2012 13, exports stood at Rs 2,094 crore.
The global jute import market, which went through a lean period from 2011 to mid 2012, is picking up again as top markets Europe and the US restarted buying.
Growing acceptance of jute bags Lululemon Sale as a personal accessory, and s Lululemon Sale hopping bags made of the fibre for its eco friendly nature, are brightening its prospects in the West, she said, adding that floor coverings, wall hangings, gunny bags, and gift articles are also being bought.
Data put up by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics says export of floor coverings totalled Rs 142.9 crore during April September 2013,while jute Hessian bags touched Rs 405 crore and other jute products hit Rs 475.4 crore, signalling str Lululemon Sale ong demand.
originally, was not used for purposes beyond covering floors. But with treatment and printing, it looks and feels as good as fabric, she said speaking at a buyer seller meet organised by National Jute Board in association with Federation of Indian Exp Lululemon Sale ort Organisations.
National Jute Board and Jute Product Development and Export Promotion Council, set up in 2011, are funding entrepreneurs interested in jute product manufacturing, and helping manufacturers upgrade facilities.
Traditionally based in West Bengal, the jute business is spreading to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
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In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren, where we spotlight the books that we've received for review, swapped, or purchased that week. It's a really great idea and I'm excited to take part! :)
A YA book-loving teenager with a shelf piled miles high.
I finished Daughter of Smoke and Bone a few weeks ago, i think it was sweet. I've been meaning to read Anna and the French Kiss and Leisl and Po, only need to grab a copy in a matter of time.
Great haul! Happy reading.
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You got an AMAZING haul this week. How cool that you got Clockwork Prince! I'm dying to read it and can't wait until December. Enjoy!
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Your IMM is AWESOME this week!!! Liesl and Po was SO GOOD! I hope you enjoy it :) And I'm so jealous about Clockwork Prince!!! I'm dying to read that one :) Enjoy everything!
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I cannot wait to read Dearly Departed! Enjoy :)
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I think amazing mailbox is a slight understatement! You have some really awesome reads, and I think most are already on my wish list!
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Yeowsers! Great haul! YOu have a few books there that I cannot wait to get too :)
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Anna and the French Kiss is amazing. I still don't have my own copy (gasp!) but I need to get it to match Lola!
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I love your haul this week! The two books you bought are some of my favourites for this year for completely different reasons. I've been slightly obsessed with Liesl & Po, I've heard such good things about it and I'm a sucker for fairy tales! I saw it at Target the other day and will probably cave soon to buy it. I've heard mixed things about The Night Circus so I'm curious what you think, the cover is STUNNING though. My friend keeps on rec'ing me All These Things I've Done so I'll probably start that soon too! So jealous of your inbox, can't wait for your reviews about them!
ReplyDeleteOH. MY. LAWDY! You have CLOCKWORK PRINCE!!! I'm completely jelly, you lucky lucky girl. :)
You seem to have yet another fantastic haul, Mimi! Can't wait to read all your reviews! ^_^
Happy reading, girly! xoxo
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Mimiiiiiiii you are such a sweetheart! Im always glad to share covers! Im always browsing on goodreads for new books to add to my list. That's when I usually discover new covers ^_^
ABout the eggs. LOL!! Yes, it does makes sense and I wonder if you are vegan XD. I am not, but I am vegetarian...kinda... cuz I do eat fish sometimes XD... Does that makes me a fishetarian? XDDDDDDDDDDD
Awesome haul this week! Oh, what I would do for a copy of CP :-) Dec.6th is so far away!
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OMG ALL THESE BOOKS! *follows Missie's suit & dies* I'm shamelessly jealous of you right now. This is fantastic. Enjoy them please.
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Indian men bow out of contention
The Indian men were held by the Georgians, who did not fancy their chances. The underdogs, however, came close to beating the Indian men but for national champion Abhijeet Gupta who threw caution to the wind when cornered.
K Sasikiran mishandled a slightly better position and drew with Mikheil Mchedilishvili on the top board while P Harikrishna also stood better but could only bring home a half point on board two. GN Gopal struggled from the early middle game stage and was eventually outplayed by Levan Pantsulaia on the fourth board. By then the Indians were looking at a painful defeat as Gupta only had a drawn endgame on board.
The Bhilwara lad, however, went for make or break and sacrificed a piece for three pawns in what was a dead-drawn endgame. Looking for an elusive victory, Gupta even landed in a lost position but fought on till Sanikidze returned the favour and landed in a lost endgame. In the end, Gupta had two queens against Sanikidze's Queen and Bishop and the marathon had a sweet end for India after 105 moves.
Gupta's win, however, did not change much for the team even as overnight leaders Russia were shocked by USA on the top board. As a result, Russia were joined at the top by China, Armenia and USA and what was looking like an easy ride for the Russians has now become a four-way tie at the top on 15 points each.The Indian men are on joint 17th spot now with 12 points.
Important results: Round 8: USA (15) bt Russia (15) 3-1; Philippines (13) lt to China (15) 0.5-3.5; Armenia (15) bt Germany (13) 2.5-1.5; Poland (13) drew Azerbaijan (13) 2-2; Ukraine (14) bt France (12) 3-1; Netherlands (14) bt Israel (12) 3-1; Serbia (11) lt to Argentina (13) 1.5-2.5; Hungary (13) bt Italy (11) 3-1; Georgia (12) drew India (12) 2-2; Vietnam (13) bt England (11) 3-1; Uzbekistan (12) drew Slovenia (12) 2-2; Austria (11) lt to Czech Republic (13) 0-4; Brazil (11) lt to Belarus (13) 1.5-2.5; Denmark (13) bt FYROM (11) 2.5-1.5.
Women: China (16) bt France (13) 3-1; India (13) lt to Russia (15) 1-3 Kazakhstan (14) bt Uzbekistan (13) 2.5-1.5; USA (12) lt to Ukraine (14) 1-3; Bulgaria (12) lt to Poland (14) 1.5-2.5.


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The rooms, which will open on Monday on the gallery's principal floor, contain 160 works, two-thirds of them splendidly restored.
They include 20 paintings dusted off from the vaults to be revealed for the first time to the public.
Among the jewels on show are Rembrandt's Artemis, portraying his wife, Saskia, which after restoration seems to emit its own light; a collection of Van Dycks, including a portrait of the Englishman Sir Endymion Porter with the artist; and many Rubens masterpieces, including The Three Graces and The Judgement of Paris.
One room is devoted to Rubens' equestrian portraits, anticipating a style favoured by Velazquez, with whom Rubens worked at the Spanish court.
Another room contains a dozen Rubens cartoons on mythological themes for tapestries commissioned by King Felipe IV for his hunting lodge, and yet another contains 12 Rubens portraits of the Apostles, which show the influence of Caravaggio.
Next week's opening will relieve the worst of what the museum's authorities admit is a miserable chaos of building works, improvised displays and cramped quarters. However, the full improvement and enlargement process still has years to go.
Most of the Prado's Flemish works were commissioned or acquired by Spanish monarchs and aristocrats to adorn their palaces, so the new rooms have been fitted out as palatial salons, rather than as municipal galleries.
The paintings have been arranged decoratively in thematic groups, rather than hung side by side as they were before in a chilly assembly line.
Responding to criticisms that the museum's labelling in the past has been cryptic to the point of incomprehensibility, the new displays have discreet but informative labels.
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I chose a sketch, from my files, which is from LOTV dated 26th June and with 2 Yorkies by Meljens Designs at the ready, I coloured them in PS and added digi papers from Pink Petticoat and backing card from Papermania which I cut with my Cricut using Fairycuts programme into a nice shape from an SVG file, but I cannot find out by whom in my files. I didn't save it, as I had it already saved, but WHERE in my SVG files. I've looked through them all, but can't find it, if anyone knows I would be grateful, not only to credit the person, but so that I can use it again!!!!!!! I Stickled the pink flowers on the paper to give a bit of sparkle, I'm glad to say she was thrilled with it.
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The ShowsIA new podcast episode reviewed most days on the Historical Podcasts Blog | This list was compiled originally by D. Arendale, and is currently being updated by Chris Teaser. If your favourite is missing contact us at email@example.com A Brief History of Mathematics by Marcus du SautoyBBC Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b A subject like this really shouldn't work as a podcast, but somehow it does. The series starts with the development of the calculus by Newton and Leibnitz independently. So most listeners will be out of their mathematical depth from the get go. But it doesn't matter, because everything is explained clearly and in understandable language. The emphasis is, in any case, on the personalities as much as the principles. Worth listening to. Worth name dropping. If you really can't make it through the whole 10 episodes, at least listen to the 10th on Nicolas Bourbaki. You won't hear a more fascinating mathematician's biography.British History 101A good solid historical podcast about British history from an enthusiastic American. The shows are well structured and researched. You get to hear his views and opinions as well, which adds to the entertainment. The only real criticism is that the shows are nowhere near as regular as you would like, but that is the downside of amateur podcasts. I'd rather hear the honest opinions of a real person, but sadly real people have other things to do than podcasting. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcasthttp://www.dancarlin.comHard to classify. Not strictly historical, similar to a talk show. The topics are varied, some are controversial. Dan Carlin always has an interesting angle on things and can make you think in a new way about historical events. Highly recommended. History Books Reviewhttp://historybooksreview.blogspot.com/ Produced by Colin Sanders, a professional scientist with a love of history, this is a real history book readers blog covering anything he happens to find interesting - although as he is doing a chapter by chapter review of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire at the moment that tends to dominate it. But he also does single reviews of other books. Not all the reviews are done as podcasts, but the podcasts are between 5 and 10 minutes long and are well worth listening to. They can be subscribed to in iTunes and there is also a Youtube Channel under the name HistoryScientist, which for some reason is not mentioned on the blog. The History of England http://historyofengland.typepad.com/blog/ A promising new podcast series that is following the history of England by following its royal family. This is a bit of an unusual approach and starts with the arrival in England of a Saxon chief called Cerdic. David Crowther has a lively and enthusiastic style that carries the story along nicely. Entertaining and informative. Historic AudioA lot of interviews with artists, and you need to look around to find stuff that might interest you, but there is nothing else quite like it on the web.
History According to Bobwww.summahistorica.com/ History on TVweb site http://historyontv.co.uk/ History of Information Podcast
web site http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978352 itunes feed http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=192961343 This course explores the history of information and associated technologies, uncovering why we think of ours as 'the information age.' We will select moments in the evolution of production, recording, and storage from the earliest writing systems to the world of Short Message Service (SMS) and blogs. In Our Timehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime.shtml Ever popular BBC Radio 4 series. So well known we hardly need to review it. (In fact we probably don't even need to mention it.) Joseph Hogarty - Europe from its Origins http://www.ahistoryofeurope.eu/A_History_of_Europe/A_History_of_Europe/A_History_of_Europe.html This is a very serious podcast keeping to pretty high academic standards and covering a huge timescale, starting with the emergence of Europe as a cultural entity at the end of the Roman Empire and tracing its development through the Middle Ages. It is very well done and very educational, but makes very few concessions to the listener's weaknesses. Each episode weighs in at nearly, or sometimes over, an hour with only a few musical breaks. Some quotes are given the original languages before being translated. But the podcast rewards the work it demands in listening to it by being very rich in interesting information and thoughtful analysis. Be warned, it is very pro Europe and Christianity. There is nothing wrong with this of course, but it isn't a very fashionable approach nowadays. Matt's Today in Historyhttp://mattstodayinhistory.blogspot.com/ web site http://www.mattstodayinhistory.com Military History
http://www.militaryhistorypodcast.blogspot.com/ The podcast showcases the strangest anecdotes, innovative technology, and most significant events of military history. There hasn't been an episode this year, but there is a pretty big back catalogue if you are new to it. If like us you are waiting for some new content, well I guess we'll have to be patient. 2 Cent History Shot Heard Around the World This is a podcast that has had a lot of work put into it. It has a huge amount of research behind it and the sound quality is excellent. Neither of these things necessarily make a podcast worth listening to. But the story is told with animation and in a way that is very engaging. The style is a bit reminiscent of Dan Carlin, though not quite as dramatic. Cameron Foster is working through the history of Japan starting in the depths of myth and legend. Everything about this podcast is rubbish except the bits that matter. The website is bare, the intro music is inappropriate and it isn't on iTunes so you have to go to the web page to find it. But the story is interesting and is delivered with humour and enthusiasm that makes you want to listen. Highly recommended. http://frug.podbean.com/2010/07/06/episode-1-myths-and-migrations/ Our History Projecthttp://www.ourhistoryproject.com/The accents might take a bit of getting used to if you aren't from the south of the US, but the standard of the recordings is pretty high and the presenter's style is relaxed and engaging. Very orientated towards the American military and has a very patriotic (from an American point of view) perspective.If you are interested in American military history you might well find this appealing. Certainly the enthusiasm is contagious. The China History Podcast Review being worked on. Rex Factor A light hearted podcast about the kings of England in the form of a conversation. Entertaining and easy to follow. Discuss on our forum. Yale Introduction to Ancient Greek History Not technically a podcast but still worth investigating. http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/introduction-to-ancient-greek-history/content/downloads.html World at War Podcast [iTunes]web page http://worldatwar.libsyn.com/ subscription link http://worldatwar.libsyn.com/rss This podcast provides historical dramas that occur during World War Two and other conflicts Great Moments in History Podcastweb site http://www.podiobooks.com/podiobooks/book.php?ID=80 Great Moments in History is a collection of ten momentous events in World and American history, covered by live, on-the-spot newscasters. These are "first-hand" dramatizations enhanced by full-range, professional sound effects.. web site http://www.historychannel.com/ The History Channel presents an interview program
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Here's Sarah Jessica Parker in NYC with her kids, carrying an as-yet-unreleased Coach Borough Bag. The Borough collection is brand new for Fall 2013 for Coach, and even though it's not out yet, it should be available soon. This collection has a noticeably more modern and sleek vibe than most other Coach bags of the very recent past, and seems decidedly less, well, Coach-y. While you bide your time waiting for this invigorating new collection to drop, you can shop Coach online, of course.
The Purseblog team should have more info about the Borough collection available to our readers on the blog next week! Coach has done an extremely skillful job placing these new bags in the hands of the right celebs thus far: Karlie Kloss, Lea Michele and model Liu Wen have all recently been seen carrying bags from the Borough line. There's scarcely a better way to drum up excitement for a new line of bags, and we're excited.
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So we spent Christmas eve together with other Poly friends and friends. It was an open house and everyone who came had some food and drink... my son loved it! My husband's boyfriend came over and we did a puzzle together. That was the first time he has been over. It was cute to watch them hold hands as we watched something on the internet after.
Christmas day Santa came while Mono slept in the living room. Right under his nose! Weird huh?
the boy thought so... he even left a foot print!
We spent the day eating, drinking various festive drinks, calling relatives and friends, opening presents and went for a walk at a local park... there were snow drops already if you can believe it! Well, unusual for Canada okay!!
We also went to visit my husbands mum, step dad and grandmother for a bit. We surprised them.
Later I made a vegetarian meal of turnip casserole, tofurky turkey (purchased by Mono, he tries so hard to be respectful of our veggiedom), nut stuffing, mushroom gravy (chantrels) and veggies... lemon tarts that Mono and I made for dessert along with a ton of shortbread and other goodies that my husband and I made.
We watched a movie in the evening after a long rest in front of the fire and the boy being put to bed.
What a great day *sigh* it was a the best day ever! So unstressful....
I felt good about going to visit my brother earlier in the week for solstice. I took my boy and we helped them decorate for my parents visiting them. We made origami ornaments and snow flakes for their windows.
Earlier, at dawn, and before me and the boy left to visit, we went to a local park and watched the sun come up. We brought coffee and breakfast with us and talked about what we would bring to light this year. It was freezing cold, but we went out and did a toast just the same... the clouds made it feel extra specially gloomy and dark, but at least it wasn't raining!
It's been sunny and warm since! I loved that the sky opened up on Christmas day, for no other reason than to bring those who have been freezing on our cities streets some hope on Christmas day. It's been cold this fall and wet, a bit of dry and warmth makes me feel like mother nature is taking care of them a bit.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Ispahan Cupcakes
When I got hired to make cupcakes for a birthday party, I offered a couple of different options to try. I threw out ideas all the way from lemon meringue cupcakes to raspberry white chocolate. She decided on Ispahan cupcakes and I was uber excited! Then a couple seconds later, a shot of fear ran through my veins... did I bite off more than I could chew?!?! I wanted something where the lychee flavor was really present and something that was of course beautiful.
I finally decided on a lychee butter cake from Dessert First and I planned to top it with a stabilized raspberry whipped cream and possibly fill it with a lychee mousse. No, no, no.... definitely did not work out! The stabilized whipped cream tasted fantastic but it must have been the mashed berries or something because it was hideous! So instead I decided to fill them with this instead which is kind of similar to a mousse (what I had planned to fill it with), so it worked out better this way! Yay I love it when things work out! For the frosting I wanted something that wasn't too sweet (as lychees are sweet by nature) and that I could pipe into stable shapes, so I decided to use a swiss meringue buttercream and it worked out perfectly! Topped with some candied rose petals (tutorial coming soon), fresh raspberries, some edible glitter and we are FINALLY done folks!
Yummy, creamy lychee batter:
Lychee Rosewater Butter Cake
Yields: 12 - 14 cupcakes
1 14 oz. can of lychees, reserve the liquid
2 cups of cake flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
1 tsp. vanilla extract
5 tbsn. rose water
2 tbsn. reserved lychee water
Preheat oven to 350 F. Prepare a cupcake pan with liners, set aside. Drain the lychees and cut into small pieces, set aside. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a small bowl, set aside. In a mixer cream the butter and sugar until well blended and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, making sure to scape the sides of the bowl as you move along. Next add the vanilla, rose water, and lychee water. Mix to combine. Lastly, toss the diced lychees into the flour mixture and mix with the wet mixture, mix to combine. Pour into cupcake pans and bake about 15 - 20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
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Stabilized Raspberry Whipped Cream Filling
Yields: enough for 12 cupcakes
1 tbsn. water
1/4 envelope of unflavored gelatin
1/2 cup of heavy cream, cold
2 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1/8 cup sugar
pinch of salt
1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup of mashed raspberries
In a small bowl, sprinkle the gelatin over the water. Let the gelatin bloom/ absorb the water for a couple of minutes. Add a dash of the heavy cream and microwave for a minute to allow the gelatin to dissolve, set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, on low, beat the cream cheese until nice and fluffy. Add the whipped cream, sugar, and salt. Whip everything till soft peaks form, then add the gelatin mixture and the vanilla. Whip until stiff peaks form, then fold in the mashed raspberries. Refrigerate for 15 - 20 minutes. You can use the cone method or simply pipe these into the cooled cupcakes.
Pink raspberry cream stuffed inside the cupcakes:
Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Yields: enough for 12 cupcakes
Original recipe is from Smitten Kitchen, which can be found here.
2 large egg whites
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 sticks of butter (12 tbsn.), cut into 12 pieces
1- 2 drops of food coloring (optional)
Put the egg whites and sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer. Place the bowl over a pot of boiling water making sure the bottom does not actually touch the water. Stir the egg whites until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat and place into the mixer stand. Beat until it becomes white and doubles in size. Add the vanilla on low speed, then add the butter, one piece at a time, making sure it is well mixed after each addition. Do not worry if it looks curdled, it will take some time for it to come together. Continue beating for 5 - 10 minutes until everything comes together. Spread/ pipe/ smother onto your cupcakes and enjoy!!
If you don't want to make candied rose petals, you could also decorate them like this:
The final cupcake order, all packed and ready to go!
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Album Rating: 4.5Oh how I love this album
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Album Rating: 4.5same here man, Andy Hull is such a great lyricist. I also really want to see them live
Def go if you get the chance. They were awesome when I saw them.
Album Rating: 4.5I check every month or so for new tour dates but nothing's come up yet:/ I'd really love to talk to Andy Hull about his songwriting...but who wouldn't I guess lol
Album Rating: 3.5yeah that video is amazing
Album Rating: 4.5I think this deserves a bump because it is fantastic and I can't stop listening to it lately. (nice review too Knott) I'm a total Andy Hull fanboy, not afraid to admit it.
Album Rating: 4.0nicely written
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Album Rating: 3.5'Where Have You Been' is amazing
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Album Rating: 4.5number 5, where have you been? is the best song on the album, in my opinion. and even after that, I like almost every other song on the record.
Album Rating: 4.5saw these guys again last night, so so good. played Now That You're Home and I Can Barely Breathe from here and it was wonderful
Album Rating: 3.5Really hoping to see them on a headline tour soon
Album Rating: 4.5oh shit Ali thanks for reminding me that I'm seeing them in Rochester in a week. MY LIFE SUCKS EXPONENTIALLY LESS RIGHT NOW
Album Rating: 4.5shit two weeks from now. oh well, guess I can still save suicide for another year
Album Rating: 3.5Album is so good. Andy Hull sounds so much younger. Yes yes, I know he actually is, but he sounds at least a decade more youthful...and dare I say it...hopeful?
Album Rating: 4.1 | Sound OffHe might sound younger but i dont know about hopeful 'I Can Barely Breathe' is one of the most depressing songs ever (and absolutely amazing)
Digging: Depeche Mode - Spirit
Really? I would rather nominate something by Agalloch... To Drown or In The Shadow of Our Pale Companion or Limbs... Or worse: Dearly Beloved from the Kingdom Hearts soundtrack jesus christ I'm trying to review that album but fighting the tears is actually pretty damn hard
Album Rating: 4.1 | Sound OffReally? I would rather nominate something by Agalloch... I said one of, not THE most depressing song ever I'm trying to review that album but fighting the tears is actually pretty damn hard pussy ; )
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half / full doors?
What are the difference between half and full doors??
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full doors have roll up windows with glass windows and half doors have soft uppers with zip down windows
Half doors have a cloth top half to them. The windows are plastic and use a zipper.
Full doors are all metal and have a handle to roll up the glass window. I got half doors on mine because after owning several cars and having the roll up/down mechanism breaking, I wanted no part of it. Plus the half door is perfect for an arm rest for me. Picture from yesterday of my Jeep: http://www.mrtds.com/jeep/jeep01.JPG Those are half doors with the window part taken out. There's three posts that you use to stick the cloth top half back in. |
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A picture of my jeep with full doors
^^^ Cool thanks guys... Now on a half door with the sliders are they easy to take out?
I believe both kinds of doors are taken out the same.
i was thinking about buying a pair of sliders. When its warm I usually have the whole window off, and the slider would be nice in the winter, and cooler months when you dont wanna open the whole damn window in 30 degree weather.
yeah i love my half doors if you can get them get the slidding windows for the top that way it kinda works like normal one if you want pics ill post some of mine
In short... Half doors look way cool, more practical while full doors suck big time. :banghead: I have been searching for two years now for a good set of half doors to replace my stupid full doors :( |
^^ Get the half doors with sliders!..
TKSnow just sent you a PM.:D
I seem to always run counter to the popular view. I hated my half doors. Stupid zipper windows ... try rolling your window down only half way when its a zipper ... or just "cracking your window" for a little air. Then I was always leaving the uppers in the garage so they wouldn't get stolen laying in the back of the jeep, but then I didn't have them with me to put back on when I need them. Bought myself a set of full doors, took only one day on craigslist to sell the half doors.
I'm not a huge fan of half doors either. I like having full doors when it's cold or wet out and being able to easily navigate the drive thru without all the zipper nonsense. I pull my full doors and run tube doors for about half the year anyway, so in my opinion I've got the best of both worlds.
I have half doors on my jeep and started out with the zippers...what a PITA! my zippers eventually gave way and couldnt zip up anymore. so i bought the sliders and have been pretty happy. they are much easier to handle in the drive thru (as schmo was talking about) and the road noise is actually much less. a great upgrade for the half doors
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