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The town's famous Victoria Park greens are hosting the British Isles Women's Bowls Council (BIWBC) International Series and British Isles Championships from today until Tuesday.
Teams from England, Ireland, Jersey, Scotland and Wales will be bidding for honours during the event, which is expected to draw spectators from across the British Isles.
Hosts England will be bidding to win the team title for the third consecutive year and will be captained by three-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist Ellen Falkner from Cambridgeshire.
She will be joined in the team by her Glasgow 2014 teammates Sian Honnor and Sophie Tolchard, while Warwickshire interest is provided by Jamie-Lea Winch.
Their first match will be on Sunday against fierce rivals Scotland (2pm).
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Lucas Yoder Named Off The Block Co-National Freshman Of The Week
March 17, 2014
USC freshman outside hitter Lucas Yoder was named the Off the Block Co-National Freshmen of the Week for his performances against UC Santa Barbara and UCLA.
This is the fifth time this season that Yoder has earned Off the Block National Freshman of the Week honors, the most of any player in the nation. In addition, it is the second time he has received the national award on back-to-back weeks.
Yoder had 21 kills (hitting .417) and 2 aces in USC's 5-set loss at No. 4 UC Santa Barbara, then he added a match-best 20 kills (hitting .410) in Troy's 4-set victory at No. 7 UCLA. He shared the honor this week with Erskine's Roberto Perez Vargas.
The previous week, he shared the award with George Mason's Radoslav Popov. Yoder had 19 kills while hitting .548 in a home sweep over Pacific, then had 12 kills (hitting .312) in a loss to No. 10 Stanford.

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Dear Boomer,
Just got back from the amusement park with Alpha.[1] We're very fortunate to have such a world class amusement centre within easy walking distance. I hear adult humanoids talking with their pups about traveling long distances to visit such places. We get to trot around the precincts several times a day.
And in fact, this is my favourite time of year for amusements in Windsor Park. Let the humanoids travel south in search of rides, and giant mice in bow ties and white gloves.[2] I'll stay right here with the old reliable sights and sounds, and the ceaseless entertainment of balls and squirrels.
I find it hard to decide just which feature of the amusement park I find most entertaining. At this time of year, the slick ice near the play structures is always a fun ride – especially when Alpha and the Pup are not preoccupied with chasing that black rubber thing with their sticks and the knife-boots.[3]
Throw a ball across the ice, and it will bounce forever. Skitter after it, and you're just as likely to overshoot and land in the snow drift. This is not conducive to one's dignity, but always provides a great source of amusement for humanoids, which means they throw the ball more.
At this time of year, they discourage us from leaping over the boards. And with the ice so hard upon landing, I'm just as glad. Don't get me wrong. I'm willing to chase any ball thrown any direction at any time. But leaping over boards does get a bit hard on the bones at our age, doesn't it old girl.
Then there's the game of throw-the-stick-onto-the-river. The wonder of this amusement is the depth of the snow along the riverbank. We need to leap like deer to get through the snow and onto the ice.
My favourite amusement of all in a park full of games is to stand on the top of the hill where the humanoids gather to slide down. They slide on various contraptions -- each year brings a new way to slide. I prefer to simply run in pursuit of a ball, of course.[4]
The joy of this location is that the contraptions pack down the snow so the ball bounces better. And of course, there are always many humanoids, both adult and pup, who would enjoy nothing better than to throw a ball down the hill for a handsome and enthusiastic dog.
But just when I think I've savoured all the joys of our amusement park, the humanoids come up with something different. What did you make of it a few weeks back? So many humanoids all at one time. Horses too. Smells of hot dogs and chile, and of course the frequent bounty of a wiener accidently dropped into the snow.[5]
And there, in the area with the big fence where, in the summer, the humanoids hit our balls back and forth without letting us chase them, they set up an obstacle course for us. You're not yet recovered from that bad spell you went through last month, so maybe you weren't up to trying it. But the course was challenging, I can assure you.
We had to sit. Twice. Within the circumference of two plastic hoops. Then we had to wheel our way in and out of a row of pylons. Then the biggest challenge of all: walking along an elevated board. And finally the last dash for the finish line, with two low fences to jump along the way.[6]
But I love a good challenge that engages the mind and the body, and the discipline to marshal the skills of a humanoid. I must say, I was very proud of both Alpha and the Pup. I put them through this drill several times, and they were able to keep up with me as I mastered each task. I even trained them sufficiently so that they gave me treats after they had completed the course to my satisfaction.
And the lovely lady who seemed to be organizing the whole thing seemed happy with Alpha and the Pup's performance as well. She sent them home with a bag of doggie treats as a prize. And of course, I've trained them to share their bounty generously with me.
Feeling like the champion I am,
[1] Obviously a reference to Windsor Park. The editor knows of no other instance where Zoscha referred to her favourite haunt as an "amusement park," although it is clear that she found many amusements there.
[2] Cassandra Wise, Tail to Thee Blythe Spirit, suggests that Zoscha may have seen advertisements for Disney World on television. The Chronicles offer no evidence she actually met Mickey Mouse in person.
[3] Zoscha often referred to the skating rink at Windsor Park. See, for example, "Limping Along Together," Part 60, March 2006.
[4] The toboggan hill at Windsor Park is popularly known as "Brody's Hill," after one of Zoscha's companions who could spend hours fetching balls at this location.
[5] Probably a reference to the annual winter carnival at Windsor Park.
[6] Among the events at the Windsor Park winter carnival is an obstacle course for dogs at the tennis courts.


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We have a phantom 4 and I entered that parameters as show in the picture, then we fly the drone and when we entered the flight height the app Pix4DCapture says GSD 5.5, so, the question is Why it does not say 0.77?
Hi there. The camera database has the focal length of the Phantom 4 as 3.61, not 20. can you input the correct focal length to see what value is produced?
Ohh very thanks, now the value GSD is 4.27 It's ok?
The sensor width is also incorrect. The database has it as 6.3175. Where did you get these values from?
I asked a DJI advisor, I also saw it in the following table:
According to the specifications on the official DJI page the sensor is 1 / 2.3"
I dont see the P4 on the list. Do you have any documentation that shows that size?
I do not have a document of that information because the advice was an online chat of DJI support but if necessary I ask for it again by mail to justify the parameter
Those refer to the Phantom 4 Pro. The above is in relation to the Phantom 4 which has a different sensor.
I have that:
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One of my smart colleagues had the answer. Thanks, Andrew!
"The 20 mm focal length that DJI reports in the camera's specifications is the 35 mm equivalent focal length. The camera's actual focal length is significantly smaller than 20 mm because the camera's sensor is smaller than a standard 35 mm sensor"


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Bryan Callen cares about his people. Oh, sure. Heaven may be high and the Emperor may be far away. But this Emperor is always listening. And so, when Emperor Callen heard that the people of the #Callenphate felt we didn't have enough diversity at court, he decided to hold audience and to hear the concerns of his people. And so, with our continued commitment to open all the cans of worms and talk about all the elephants in the room, we had the first of many conversations about sexism. The fact that Bryan actually REQUESTED a conversation and then SHOWED UP to the conversation shows how seriously he takes the issue. He loves his people and wants them to be happy.
And so, Cate Fogarty, Katie O'Brien and Claire Gerety-Mott showed up to the Forbidden City that is Bryan's house and had the first of many conversations to try and unravel our feeeeeeeeelings about sexism and to figure out what we can do to improve things. Part of it is simply having honest conversations about what we know and don't know and giving people a voice who might otherwise not have a voice. That's what the internet is for. Everyone gets to say their piece. We're excited to hear yours.
Rest assured, MMA will keep evolving until humanity has talked out ALL its problems.
Oh, and I get it. Everyone hates my plough story.
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Alaska: part 3 // our time in Anchorage, Alaska
During our trip to Alaska, Elsa and I spent a few days in Anchorage with some friends (post coming later this month of a session featuring those lovely people). We were also able to meet up with Grace Adams, a talented Anchorage photographer. We spent the morning drinking coffee and then set off into the mountains. While I took photos of Grace, and her sweet baby bump, Elsa and puppy Nora kept themselves entertained, running about together and we probably spent more time keeping up with them than taking photos, haha.
I am looking forward to Alaska this June more than any other trips. It's the best state, and I miss it there everyday.


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It is important to treat both the infection itself and not just to get rid of UTI symptoms as if left untreated, the UTI can migrate from the bladder up to the kidneys and has the potential to cause kidney damage.
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The important things are: to maintain proper hygiene, pat-dry yourself thoroughly after a bath, sit comfortably, use underwear that is "friendly" and lets your skin breathe, and apply wipes with witch hazel.
Irritable bowel syndrome is a serious health problem. A great number of people are suffering from this intestinal disorder. This health problem is one of the most widely spread intestinal ailments in the world. It affects millions of people worldwide.
The first thing you need to do to cope with it is to go to the bathroom the minute you feel like you may have to go. The reason to do this is because trying to hold it is one of the biggest reasons why so many people end up trying to dash to the bathroom. It just helps you save face and embarrassment by going right when you need to. It also helps get it out of the way so you do not have to deal with it for a while.
Having diarrhea for an extended amount of time can also cause hemorrhoids to flare up. Most people experience diarrhea occasionally throughout their life and is no cause for worry. It's widely known that extended periods of diarrhea will weaken the veins in the rectal area and can cause intense cramping as well as place increased strain of the anus.
With a routine schedule you can decrease the chance of getting hemorrhoids. Going to the bathroom when you feel the first signs are important to your digestive system. When you wait your stool has a tendency to dry and become harder making it difficult to pass. Staining because of hard stools will increase the likelihood of having hemorrhoids.


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More like DMC-Yay! Am I right?
[T]oday, our hosting company, ServerBeach, to whom we pay $6,954.37 every month to host Edublogs, turned off our webservers, without notice, less than 12 hours after issuing us with a DMCA email.
Because one of our teachers, in 2007, had shared a copy of Beck's Hopelessness Scale with his class, a 20 question list, totalling some 279 words, published in 1974, that Pearson would like you to pay $120 for.
Oh all right then, a little bit of comment... Look. Copyright is out of control. It needs to be fixed (or killed with fire and reborn like a phoenix) or it will destroy the people it pretends to protect (hint: creatives like you and me).
Note that the EduBlogs guys have a solid system in place to remove any identified copyright violating content, and several contact numbers for their host, and removed all access to the offending 5 year old blog post immediately...and...and...
I hope they move their $80,000+ annual server contract somewhere else, not that that will fix the problems with the US copyright enforcement system.
Read it here: http://wpmu.org/serverbeach-takes-1-45-million-edublogs-offline-just-12-hours-after-sending-through-a-lame-dmca-notice/


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Steely Dan and Elvis Costello & the Imposters will perform together tonight at Red Rocks. Perhaps today, the pair share a status as FM radio rock legends from another era, making them reasonable playlist companions. But they still seem to occupy very different musical worlds. Steely Dan has come to represent — for many people — the ultimate in soft rock, uncool, jazz-nerd music. Elvis Costello, on the other hand, was affiliated with English punk, in many minds, and famously got banned from Saturday Night Live when he stopped playing "Less Than Zero" and went into the scathing "Radio Radio."
Steely Dan and Elvis Costello are now considered mainstream, and certainly both have courted collaboration with mainstream artists. They've also both scored hits with some very unlikely music, should one choose to delve a little deeper than how catchy the songs often are. And despite their differences, Steely Dan and Costello are tied together in deeper ways than one might think.
Could anything sound less punk than Steely Dan? Aja is about as chill an album that has ever been released, and Gaucho may be even more so. But let's consider how Steely Dan named itself after "Steely Dan III from Yokohama," a dildo from William S. Burroughs' classic novel Naked Lunch. Burroughs might be considered the godfather of what punk came to represent, which was a subversion, and even rejection, of mainstream culture. Patti Smith was among the many musicians influenced by Burroughs, and Burroughs' stark aesthetic has proven an enduring influence not just on punk but on post-punk artists like Sonic Youth and Pere Ubu.
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker showed their affinity for the forbidden and the darkly yet subtly wickedly humorous by naming their band after an absurd Burroughs reference. It's perfect for people whose spirit was punk even if their music wasn't as obviously part of the genre.
Both Steely Dan and Costello seem to have a soft spot in their heart for classic pop and old rock and
Steely Dan may reference Brubeck and older popular culture artifacts, but its own bemused treatment of nostalgia and looking back to fetishize what has come before proves that Becker and Fagen could never truly be pegged as retro artists. Nor could Costello, whose own aesthetic was very much part of what became "New Wave."
Like many punk bands, Steely Dan and Costello both stripped back ideas generally about what music could be about and rebuilt their own way of commenting on life and society. They both played on the nostalgia of listeners with words, sounds and sentiments in a subversive and creative way that might have come off as too clever or smart for some people, but both artists also seem obvious in their dry humor and sublime sarcasm if you're open to it.
It's strange to think that Aja came out in
The same year, 1977, Elvis Costello's debut album My Aim is True hit the streets. Both albums came in the wake of Sex Pistols early singles but before
These days, audiences are bit more savvy about what music is about and more aware of subtext than they were in the '70s. And Steely Dan and Elvis Costello have emerged intact as both artistically and intellectually respectable artists who use refined sounds to express dark, stark truths about life and society. Elvis Costello once said something about how he was never an angry young man — he was always an angry old man. Was he serious? Or was that another bit of wry humor? It's difficult to say exactly, and that is also some of the enduring appeal of Costello and Steely Dan — they never dumb it down for you and by not doing so encourage an audience that is a little sharper and hipper than it probably knew it could be.
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Tony Clayton has amassed an interesting collection of photographs of the canal before, during and after restoration.
Click here to go to Tony's site where his pictures are organised into six areas. The photographs are dated between 1989 and 2003.
Many thanks for the link, Tony.
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Lately I've been thinking about how lucky I feel that I get to meet new people all of the time, and that I am welcomed into someone else's world for one of the happiest days of their life. I get to connect with people on their big day and become besties with their bridesmaids (duh) and share such a special time in their lives. I can't believe that. I can't believe that this is what I do for a living and I am forever grateful. When I met Lauren and Shawn I was instantly reminded of this. Within the first 5 minutes of meeting Lauren and her girls, we were cackling over ridiculous inside jokes and hilarious stories. I left this wedding feeling like I had made new friends and just SO happy that I got to be there to capture such an awesome crew of people having the time of their lives. I'm still trying to figure out how I got so lucky. Lauren and Shawn.. you guys have a real love and I know you're going to live a long and happy marriage. I just adore you two and Lauren could you be any more beautiful? I don't think so. Check out a few of my favorites from their big day.
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Minecraft: Xbox Edition/
Unless you have been hiding under a rock you will have heard of Minecraft, developed by Notch and his team at Mojang comes a fantastic sandbox game where your only goal is to do whatever you like! You get loaded into a randomly generated map, and your left to your own devices.
I've been playing Minecraft on and off on the PC for about a year, I love the sense of "I can do anything" I get when playing Minecraft. The best way to describe the game is to imagine that being given a massive box of Lego bits and pieces. At first you might be a little over-whelmed you might be thinking, "What the hell do I do with all this". But you dive in and start building something, you might not know exactly what the something is but suddenly, BOOM, it's 3 hours later you've made an awesome Lego Spaceship and you think "Where the hell did that come from?". Well Minecraft its the exactly the same, the game starts you with nothing but your hands and a set of tools (That you have to make from scratch). Then you can set off doing whatever you want be it building a house, mining a mine, creating a farm, forging armour, fighting enemies, making a railway, exploring the map, sailing, travelling to the underworld. The possibilities are endless.
The best part of it all is that it is now available on the Xbox 360 as an arcade download, allowing console lovers to get a piece of the action. The transition from keyboard and mouse to controller has been achieved very well. It feels very natural playing this game on the Xbox. The Xbox Edition supports both online and offline multiplayer, meaning you can play split screen with your friends and online with up to 8 other friends over Xbox live. This was my first experience playing Minecraft with friends and I can tell you I've never laughed so hard playing a game.
Some of the negative points of the game compared to the PC version include the size of the maps. They seem to be a fixed size, in the PC versions the maps are almost endless, one simply doesn't walk from one side of the map to the other, but in the Xbox Edition it takes about 6-7 real world minutes to walk from one side to the other. The map is still huge and will take you a while to explore but I was a little disappointed that it isn't endless. As a knock on effect to the restricted maps certain rare resources needed in the later game like diamonds and gold might be finite which isn't good news.
That being said Minecraft on the PC is always getting updates and additions to the game, and Mojang has confirmed it will be doing the same for the Xbox version hopefully they will address these issues.
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is well worth the 1600 Gamerpoints and I recommend that everyone at least play the demo, which is available on the Xbox marketplace. Due to the map sizes and the pure evil addictive nature of the game it should come with a warning of how much sleep you're going to miss. If you want to buy it you can click here!
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As "Your EMS Solutions Partner", we are proud to offer a full turnkey solution for all of your outsourcing needs. Our final / box build assembly operation has grown from the need to provide many of our customers with a complete EMS Solution. We can purchase all of the needed material, build the PCBA's, build any needed cables and then complete the manufacturing process by building the customer;s final product. This solution allows our customers to concentrate on what they do best and allows them reduce their internal capital and other resource investment requirements.
Our dedicated Box build area can complete assemblies from the very small and simple to the very large and complicated design.
New Product Introductions (NPI)
The EMS Solutions New Product Introduction (NPI) process has been developed over the years in order to fill a need by our customer base. Many of our customers have entrusted us to work with them on their NPI/Proto needs and then to successfully transition those new products to production volumes.
Our NPI process ensures that your NPI requirements will be managed and built by the same EMS Solutions team and equipment that will build your production volumes. This allows for a value added process that ensures a high quality and cost effective product for our customers. Accountability and superior customer satisfaction is provided by nothing being lost in the transition from the NPI/Proto process to the higher volume production process.
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The EMS Solutions Test team can provide a full turnkey solution for your existing test requirements or develop a customer test solution for you. Our experienced team has developed many solutions for our customers and we welcome the opportunity to work with our customers on a test solution that is robust and cost effective.
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EMS Solutions will work with you on your current product design or new product designs by providing honest and valuable design feedback. Our goal is to build your product with the highest quality standards and in the most cost efficient manner. Our feedback by experienced Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality team members will allow you to design a product that ensures the highest quality standards.


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Following on from our comments last week on airbrushing, Jules dipped into her snapshot collection and pulled out a few images to share with you, one of which she feels was definitely airbrushed!
As someone who hates her photograph being taken, she needs all the help she can get to take a decent snap. All 4 pictures were taken by professional photographers. In one, she had the benefit of professional make-up…but do you agree with her and can you tell which one has been airbrushed?!
OK, we're not asking you to 'buy' into her image as she's not selling the latest amazing lash lengthening mascara or the next big thing in making your bottom look smaller (oh, we wish, but she is working on a product for this as we speak!!) However, she is Works with Water's brand founder and ambassador so to some degree what you think of her reflects on how you feel about our help: clear skin and help: revitalise my skin products and, importantly, our business philosophy.
So whether beauty is vanity or reality, and whether being truthful or' saving face' is more important to us all, comment on which image you think has been photoshopped and why …but try not to be too unkind to Jules!
The most honest (ok, perhaps the most interesting or funny!) will receive a month's supply of help: clear skin or help: revitalise my skin with Jules' compliments…


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So, I'm not sewing as much as I usually do. Maybe because I'm also reading and frantically knitting.
Can I please have more hours in the day? I mean, I love my job, but longer days would be awesome....because I refuse to stop napping on occasion...ahem...almost every day.
I've been finishing stuff.
Now finished knitting stuff (It all needs to be blocked. I'm ordering a blocking mat.):
Red collar ( #1) Totally lucked out on this one. Found some other alpaca, not the right weight but it worked doubled.
Mardi Gras scarf (#2) Finished the scarf. Not sure I like the three needle bindoff I used, but it will do.
Earthy Scarf (#3) Ditto. I have a friend this was intended for years ago... She's going to finally get it.
Purpley scarf (#9) It's so gloriously smooshy. I am loving it on cold days.
Fingerless gloves (#10) Frantically finished these when I realized I couldn't find any gloves...and I had work on that incredibly freezing day the other week.
Pinky Scarf (#14) same pattern as the others. Found it and went to town. My hexies have been languishing!
Baby stripes (#16) sewed that puppy together. Not perfect but hopefully a baby will like wearing it. Now, to find a baby in need of a baby sweater....
Done: 7/35
Finished reading stuff:
The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Books finished: 2
Is anyone interested in book reviews? Not that I'm promising amazing ones, but I can give you my 2 cents if you want it.
Finished sewing FAL list items:
None. Not a one. Waiting on some flannel for the backing of the economy block quilt.
Edit: It got here. I got distracted by something shiny I'll hopefully share later this week.
Working on Feathers QAL blocks. Going to try to back it with a fleecey blanket. This will be an experiment. Yes, there are two upside down blocks. So NOT taking it apart to fix them.
Heal circle Jan blocks:
I love me a churn dash.
Classic Meets Modern QAL, Jan blocks, Polar bear paws:
My goals for this coming week and weekend:
Finish the 3 Cyclops caps for the class play. (Bases done, still have to knit eyes and sew them on.)
Work on shiny project.
Baste the Economy block quilt and make binding.
Remove paper from Feather blocks. It's making me twitchy. I spent hours on it tonight and am only half way through.
Baste it.
Sew together the brown sweater. (maybe)
Start pulling fabrics for the 4x5.
Phew. Still need me a time machine. Tardis, mayhaps?
Monday, January 20, 2014
Life in Progress....
5 comments:
- Emily Carnes said...
Hey there, I just discovered your blog and I love it!
Also love the fingerless gloves and YES to book reviews. It is always nice to know what other people are reading and enjoying.
Emily at http://backtothecraft.blogspot.ca
- January 20, 2014 at 11:11 PM
Sewing and knitting are great, but I love book reviews! I listen while I sew and knit and most of the audiobooks are a purchase, so book reviews are helpful.
- January 21, 2014 at 12:27 AM
- Flying Blind... said...
You have knitted like a maniac!!!!
- January 21, 2014 at 12:52 PM
- Katy Cameron said...
Good to see you've been on hyper drive, as ever :oD
- January 21, 2014 at 2:15 PM
- Michele said...
Whew! That is a lot accomplished.
- January 23, 2014 at 5:31 PM
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An adaption of a semi-detached terrace house into an expanded inter-generational family home. The extension to the main terrace adds a new treetop bedroom and garden aspect living space. The rear ancillary dwelling adding a garden sitting room, a self contained bedroom as well as music room for the owners. The whole project bound by the existing mature landscaping and trellising.


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150: Common spellings and non-phonetic words/
How do we choose which spellings are common and which words are non-phonetic?
Hi again, and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast. My name is Mandy, and this is our 150th episode.
This episode is a little complex in topic, so I'd recommend following along with the transcripts if you are not an advanced English learner or a native speaker. You can find the transcripts at www.pronuncian.com/podcast. Just click the link to Episode 150.
I was recently asked why the lesson on Pronuncian.com and the new Pronunciation Pages book say that the long a sound is commonly spelled eigh (as in the word eight), but not ey (as in the word they). This is a good question, and one worth explaining. I included the eigh spelling, but not the ey spelling because of the predictability of the phonetics involved. Phonetics is the term used when spellings and pronunciations match, or correspond, in a language. English is considered a phonetic language overall, though there are many exceptions to the phonetic patterns. Deciding what is a pattern and what is an exception can seem arbitrary at times, and in some ways, it is. I have seen texts that do include the ey spelling for the long a sound, but don't include the eigh spelling. As I said a bit ago, I base the patterns on predictability.
First, I look at how many total words use a specific spelling. For the eigh spelling, there are approximately 200 different words. That is a surprisingly high number, but it includes all closed compound nouns and derivations of a word. For instance, for just the main word neighbor, there are ten variations of that word, including the words: neighbored, neighborhood, neighborhoods, neighboring, neighborless, neighborliness, neighborlinesses, neighborly, and neighbors.
Then, to choose which spellings are most predictable, I see how many variations of pronunciation exist for a specific spelling. Of the original list of over 200 words that include the eigh spelling, relatively few are not pronounced with a long a sound, and most of those are variations of the word height, including, more commonly, heights and heighten. Those words are pronounced with a long i sound. The rest of the words that are spelled eigh are pronounced with a long a. Because the percentage of words pronounced with a long a is so high, that spelling is added to the common spellings section of the lesson.
The ey spelling is far more complex and common than the eigh spelling. When I checked for that spelling anywhere in a word, I found more than 1,300 words. However, all the words that I know that have the long a pronunciation spelled ey use that spelling at the end of the word. So I searched for the ey spelling at the end of a word, and I found just over 350 words. When scanning the list, I could see that the majority of the words that end in ey are pronounced with the long e sound. Many of these are related to words that originally end in the letter e and then have the -y ending added to it, making a noun into an adjective, such as the words smile and smiley. The -y spelling alone is already included in the long e common spellings list.
Only six of the more than 350 words that end in the letters ey end in the long a sound. Those words are: grey, hey, prey, survey, they, and obey. Only the words grey and they are common words. That is too low of a percentage of corresponding spellings and pronunciations for me to consider it common.
So, to decide whether to include a spelling in the common spelling list or to just list the higher frequency words in the non-phonetic portion of each lesson, I check the predictability of the pronunciation. If the pronunciation is highly predictable, such as it is for the eigh spelling and the long a pronunciation, I will include the spelling in the common spelling list. If the percentage of words with a specific spelling that is pronounced with a certain sound is quite low, I will pick the most common words and include them in the non-phonetic words section of the lesson. My goal is to provide learners with some idea of how likely a pronunciation will be.
To practice the long a/eigh spelling, here are some of the more common words with that spelling. I'll leave time for you to repeat after me:
And here are a few words that are spelled ey that are also pronounced with with long a sound:
I'll link to the free long a lesson from the transcripts for this show. The lesson is also included in our book, Pronunciation Pages 2, Sounds of American English and our Vowels eBooklet. You can find information about both of those on our products page.
Let me know what you think of our approach of classifying spellings. Does it work for you? Is there some other way that the material could be presented to make it more clear to you as a learner or teacher? Perhaps I could change the heading of Common Spellings to Predictable Spellings to make it a little more accurate. Do you think the ey spelling should be added to the long a common spellings list? I've started a forum post on this topic in the EnglishAssembly.com forums so you can give me your opinion.
Thanks to Akrum in Saudi Arabia for originally asking me the question, giving me the opportunity to explain some of the processes behind the lessons on Pronuncian.com and in Pronunciation Pages.
That's all for today everyone. This has been a Seattle Learning Academy digital publication. SLA is where the world comes to learn.
Thanks for listening.


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News conferences in San Diego, by and large, tend to be exercises in goofball entertainment rather than forums for the dissemination of useful information. As such, we at CityBeat find these little media-and-politics get-togethers immensely pleasurable.
We attended two of them last Friday and Saturday—that's right, Saturday; there's nothing we won't do for our readers—and they scored particularly high on the CityBeat Fun-O-Meter™. Instead of commenting on the issues discussed at the press events in some boring editorial, we thought we'd pit them against each other in the first-ever Goofball News Conference Challenge™.
In one corner is the Kindly Mayor of San Diego, everyone's favorite Business Reengineering Processor with the Winning Smile, Jerry Sanders! Yay! Sanders gathered the press to announce he's carrying on the 17-year battle to save the Mt. Soledad Cross. And in the other corner, the Dreaded Chairman of San Diego County, that Marijuana Hatin', Illegal Immigrant Bashin' Supervisor who Laughs in the Ugly Maw of Controversy on a Weekly Basis, Bill Horn! Boo! Horn assembled the media to announce that he wants the feds to kick down the cash to pay for county services provided to illegal immigrants. Good luck, gentlemen-let the Goofball News Conference Challenge™ begin!
Best maneuver to keep the press off balance: The winner here is Sanders. It's all about timing. Sanders picked Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m., knowing that TV news hotties would have to wake by 5:30 a.m. in order to primp and still be on time, and that print reporters would be too hungover to ask hard questions.
Best political-intrigue sideshow: Horn wins in a landslide. Well, it wasn't much of a show, and only CityBeat paid it any mind, but on hand for Horn's event was Joan Wonsley, the chief of staff with whom Horn's rumored to have been gettin' down and nasty. Thinking we might need it later, CityBeat snapped a couple of photos of Wonsley, who responded by saying people should have to apply for permits to take pictures. When CityBeat said it hopes she and her hostile attitude toward press freedoms never get elected to public office, Wonsley said not to worry; that'll never happen. The best Sanders could do in the category was invite City Attorney Mike Aguirre, during whose turn at the microphone City Councilmember Brian Maienschein had quite an obvious giggle with someone off to the side of the TV cameras.
Most orderly baton-passing: Sanders brought a set of backup singers with him. In addition to Aguirre and Maienschein, Sanders had City Councilmembers Tony Young and Kevin Faulconer, as well as former City Council candidate and current cross crusader Phil Thalheimer, along for the ride. They minded their manners and took their turns at the mic, making it easy-as-pie for reporters to figure out who said what when they went back to their notebooks later—nothing like Horn whose dizzying, back-and-forth tag-teamery with Congressional candidate Brian Bilbray made reporters woozy.
Best use of extras: Horn and Bilbray used no extras at all, other than a few loitering yes-men, making the two pols look like Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in Jerry. (Don't fret; no one else gets the reference, either. How about Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in Ishtar, only without the hot chick. Not yet? Two dudes alone in the desert! Sheesh.) On the other hand, thanks, apparently, to gabby radio gasser Roger Hedgecock, Sanders had 60 to 70 cross-supportin' San Diegans seated on the steps behind him, cheering for any speaker who uttered pleasantries about the erect hilltop monument. Makes good television, wethinks.
Best question by a journalist: Horn wins this one. He set the North County Times' Gig Conaughton up beautifully as he told reporters how certain he is that illegal immigrants siphon money away from the county like so many gasoline pirates, and that's why the county needs to do a study to show the feds how much money it's losing. Conaughton prefaced his question by saying that some studies have shown that illegal immigrants are an overall economic benefit, and then asked: Will the county be studying the gains as well as the losses? No, Horn replied, someone else can study that. Of course, not looking at both sides of a ledger renders any financial study completely useless. The best Question to Sanders was something akin to "Really? Are you serious?"
Best setting: No doubt about this one. Sanders. Horn set his podium in front of the County Administration Building. Booooooring. He had so many other options. How about beside an immigrant shamefully accepting medical care. Better yet, beside an immigrant woman brazenly giving birth to—gasp!—a new American baby boy who did nothing to deserve his citizenship. Horn just wasn't thinking creatively. Granted, Sanders' choice was obvious, but the crisp morning air at Mt. Soledad was so delightful, the view from the peak so heart-stirring, that even people who take the U.S. Constitution seriously might have paused before condemning the mayor.
Best avoidance of flip-flopping sidekicks: Say what you want about Horn and Bilbray, but they've never wavered from their extreme distaste for illegal immigrants. Strangely, Sanders invited Aguirre, who'd been quoted in the press just days earlier saying it's a waste of time and money to appeal a judge's recent order for San Diego to rid Mt. Soledad of the cross in 90 days or start paying $5,000 a day in fines. Amid words of support for the mayor's plea, Aguirre had to caution that any legal maneuvering would be of an uphill nature. The city attorney's prior stance prompted one woman, makeshift cross and American flag in hand, to give him a firm talking to after the conference. Horn wins this one.
Dumbest idea: After much thoughtful deliberation, even though neither man will suffer politically, it's a tie. These are both colossally dumb ideas.


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The Joli Romper Dress is a unique design with a vintage feel. This is a one-piece dress made with our soft pima cotton in white underneath and a light pink floral lace that lies on top. The white cotton lining fits like a jumpsuit with snaps along the inside leg. It gives the appearance of bloomers under her dress. The white lining also provides a beautiful contrast to the lace, helping to accentuate the stunning embroidery. The lace features a floral pattern with a scallop border along the hem. Pink Venice lace accents the cute puff sleeves and neck, as well as across the front bodice. A delicate silk ribbon bow trails from the wait and pearl buttons at shoulders complete the look. Made to fall mid-calf to floor length depending on her height. Pair one of the many matching accessories from the Joli collection including bonnets, booties, blanket, lace headband, bib and sweater.
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New bishop for Dunedin
WelCom March 2018: Pope Francis has appointed Fr Michael Dooley as the new Bishop of the Dunedin Diocese. Bishop-Elect Michael will be the seventh Bishop of Dunedin and succeeds Bishop Colin Campbell who has served in this role for almost 14 years.
The President of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference Bishop Patrick Dunn congratulated Bishop-Elect Michael saying, 'Our prayers are with him as he prepares to take up leadership of the diocese. His affinity with the people of the Dunedin Diocese and his long service to the region of Southland and Otago make him the ideal successor for this role.'
Born in Invercargill in 1961 to Joseph Dooley and Mary Hogan, Michael attended Heddon Bush Primary School and Central Southland College. He completed an engineering apprenticeship as a fitter and turner and later graduated with a Master of Theology from Melbourne's College of Divinity.
He was ordained in 1989. Since then he has served on the Priests' Council, and has worked as a parish priest in Southland and Otago, a director at the Holy Cross Formation Centre, Mosgiel, Formator and Spiritual Director at Holy Cross Seminary, Auckland, and Vicar General for the Dunedin Diocese.
Bishop-Elect Michael said, 'I am very aware of my need for God's help and am thankful for the support of so many wonderful people over the years and into the future.'


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When it comes to body lotions, some believe only the most expensive lotions can be truly beneficial to the skin, while others believe all lotion is the same and one isn't any better for the skin than another. All lotions are not the same, but cheap lotions can be just as effective as more expensive brands. When shopping for cheap lotions, look for brands that are made for your specific skin type, be it oily, dry, or sensitive. Different body lotions contain different ingredients, each of which has specific benefits to the skin. Before buying a body lotion, decide what benefits you most desire, determine which ingredients provide those benefits, and buy a body lotion that contains those ingredients.
Some ingredients found in cheap lotions are more beneficial to certain skin types than others. Someone with dry skin should consider buying body lotion that contains jojoba oil, an ingredient that provides extra moisture without being heavy or sticky. Someone with oily skin should choose light lotions that won't clog pores. If you wish to stop or reverse the visible signs of aging, consider lotions that contain antioxidants like vitamin E and honey. Honey is also a good lotion ingredient for managing body acne, as the honey won't cause irritation, and has healing properties.
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My mother has always stuck to Jergens hand lotion, original scent. It smells great, works, and is really inexpensive. I like something else when I have really dry skin, but that has also become my own go-to for everyday dry skin.
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SUPER DIAMOND12" x 15"Commissioned by Eddie Gregson
This commission was particularly meaningful to me as I was the exercise rider of Super Diamond when he won the Hollywood Gold Cup. The old gelding was anything but lovable, but had a character that everyone loved (from afar)! Doing this commission for his trainer, the late Eddie Gregson, who was well known for his discerning taste in art, put an added pressure on me, particularly at that early stage in my career. We chose to portray him dragging his groom, Manuel, to the paddock, as anyone who knew the horse knew he dragged everyone everywhere. Eddie, in his usual generous manner, ordered three and gave one to his assistant and one to the groom, Manuel.


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The party's only just begun for Raymond and Anita Lousia, who started their TapSnap phototainment business in mid-April, with two machines in Metro Detroit, Michigan.
"We're already looking to expand," he says. "We'd like to add more units in our territory and possibly grow into some neighboring territories."
June started with back-to-back parties and events for the Lousias, including the BravoBravo! fundraising party for Michigan Opera Theatre at the Detroit Opera House, a sophisticated fundraiser with a black-and-white theme and several different rooms of entertainment. "They even had a hair salon where you could get your hair done while drinking a Martini!" says Lousia. "That night was a little crazy. I had to leave there and go to another event – a wedding."
Five events, one weekend
He has already hired employees to help with the demand. "I had five events that weekend," he says. Along with the events already mentioned, he also did a party for the Chaldean American Bar Association's 20th anniversary, and on Saturday there was a graduation party in the afternoon and a bar mitzvah at night.
"Last weekend was great too," he says. On Friday, his TapSnap was at Hour Magazine's Best of Detroit party taking place at the Sound Board in MotorCity Casino. It celebrated the magazine's annual best of the city awards. Then there were weddings on both Thursday and Friday, and on Saturday, there was a company picnic for over 2,000 Title Source employees at Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions.
Think big entertainment
Lousia's strategy has been to present to some of the larger event entertainment companies in the city, and it is paying off.
He also manages a Powerhouse Gym, while Anita is getting her Master's in Teaching and works part-time as an account administrator at Metro Parcel and Freight.
TapSnap appealed to them because they had just gotten married in October and had made connections with many of the vendors, plus they had to make-do with an old-fashioned photo booth at their wedding.
Wedding culture
"We had 660 people at our wedding. Within our culture, that's normal," he says.
The Lousias are part of the 100,000-strong Chaldean community of Detroit – Catholics who emigrated from the Middle Eastern turmoil.
"The community's involved in everything. We're a close-knit group and people help each other out," he says, which has been great for their new business.
The Lousias' first event was a wedding.
"We were a little anxious because we didn't know how people would react," he recalls. "The response was amazing. It was exciting to see people interact with TapSnap. From that point on, we knew that TapSnap was a great investment."


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GTA V GameInformer Info Blowout: Tons of New Details and Scans arrived
The latest issue of GameInformer magazine has finally arrived. It features tons of details and never seen before screenshots of GTA V (Grand Theft Auto V). You can check out the GameInformer GTA V Scan set below along with all the details from the magazine and screenshots.
So without much ado, here is everything you need to known about GTA V (Grand Theft Auto V) from latest issue of GameInformer Magazine (details listed below courtesy to VideoGamer).
- GTA 5 "evolves nearly every mechanic" found in previous games in the series.
- Features the biggest open world in the series' history - GTA 5's world is bigger than the worlds of Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas and GTA IV combined.
- Three playable characters who you can switch between "at nearly any time".
- Each character has their own specific abilities and story arc, with all three stories intertwined.
- Camera zooms out to a "Google Earth-style" perspective when switching characters.
- Character 1 - Michael, an ex-bank robber in his early 40s who retired after making a deal with the FIB. He has two teenage children and hates his wife Amanda. He's also the narrator of the original GTA 5 trailer.
- Character 2 - Trevor, a former war veteran and a "drugged out psychopath". An experienced pilot.
- Character 3 - Franklin, a repo man in his mid 20s described as a "young and ambitious hustler".
- Certain characters from GTA IV and Episodes From Liberty City will also make an appearance. Rockstar's Dan Houser says we'll never see characters from the PS2 era, though. "The five PS2 games are one universe, and this is the high definition universe, so they don't co-exist," he says.
- No major actors cast as any of the main characters.
- Focus on making more diverse missions.
- Heists and bank robberies are a big theme to the game.
- Characters will work together during missions, and you can switch between characters mid-mission to fulfill different roles. For example, during a chase sequence you can pilot the getaway helicopter as Trevor, snipe pursuing pilots as Franklin, or fire an assault rifle as Michael.
- Missions will have a "very diiferent tone depending on who's on them, how many people are on them, and how much we're using switches", says Houser.
- Even when you're not controlling them, each character will still go about their own business across Los Santos. "You may be surprised by the situations they find themselves in should you switch back to check up on them," says Game Informer.
- Big advances to lighting and shader model. Greater draw distance.
- Improved vehicle handling and physics - "The cars hold to the ground better... It feels more like a racing game," Houser says.
- More vehicles than in any GTA to date, including BMXs, mountain bikes, road bikes, dirt bikes, cars, trucks, helicopters, planes, ATVs and Jet Skis, but vehicle manufacturers are still fictional.
- Fighter jets appear to be in. One screenshot shows a fighter equipped with missiles, as a helicopter explodes in the background.
- Improved shooting and melee combat. Melee combat "never going to be as big a deal as shooting," though, warns Houser.
- Pedestrians are fully mo-capped and more interactive.
- You can rappel down buildings, although it's not confirmed whether this is specific to certain missions.
- Los Santos is described as a "huge and diverse city", combining the best of Red Dead Redemption's "large open expanses" with GTA IV's "densely packed urban environment".
- Areas in the game world include beachfronts, mountains, the wilderness, a "Salton Sea" region, a military base and the suburbs.
- GTA: San Andreas was about gang culture. GTA 5 is about capturing the "contemporary culture of LA".
- There will be a "vibrant and fun" economy, but you won't be able to buy property.
- A variety of different side missions and "more sophisticated" minigames, including yoga, triathlons, Jet Skiing, base-jumping, tennis and golf. There's a full golf course in the game. You can go scuba diving along the coastline of Los Santos, or go to the gym on the seafront.
- Each character will have unique hobbies, including "one or two key minigame activities per character".
- San Andreas' RPG-like player customization is still absent, but you can customize the clothing of each character.
- GTA IV's romance feature has been removed.
- Like in GTA IV, players can make friends and hang out with certain NPCs, including Michael's wife Amanda and son Jimmy, Franklin's "crazy friend" Lamar, and Trevor's mate Ron.
- GTA IV's mobile phone returns, but a lot of its features have been altered. You can use it to access the internet.
- Dynamic missions - hidden missions dotted around the game world. "Going off-road in the desert, you may come across two parked cars and a sea of dead bodies around them... Investigate if you want."
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LA8775 Landscape Infrastructure and Systems V: Nature 3.x
University of Minnesota Department of Landscape Architecture. Spring 2015
Matthew Tucker, ASLA
Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
LA 8775 is a research seminar focused on the examination of topical issues concerning the implementation of landscape infrastructure and systems at project sites of complex programmatic, regulatory and construction contexts. As a research seminar, the course is speculative in nature and requires students to undertake self-initiated, advanced inquiry into topics central to their research and professional career trajectory. Students will engage in joint investigation, with the instructor and classmates, into issues concerning complex site-scale problems requiring innovative site-scale infrastructure approaches and practical, integrated application. A significant component of this course is the investigation and translation of emerging environmental research from landscape architecture and allied disciplines into project strategies and site-scale technologies applicable for future design practice. The course research will be contextualized against the milieu of practice, with concentration on investigation of innovative typologies of landscape infrastructure.
For Spring 2015, the course examined the changing definitions of Nature and rising awareness of environmental crises embedded within the emerging Anthropocene paradigm and how these theoretical shifts translate into innovative trajectories of landscape architectural praxis. A key aspect to the course was a transdisciplinary investigation of urban nature, with emphasis on ruderal or feral ecologies on post-industrial (and post-natural) sites. Given the expanding defintions of nature and the blurring of the traditional nature-culture dichotomy, the course also investigated new typologies of "site" beyond traditional notions of terra firma.


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Mandate of Heaven is a custom singleplayer level for Crysis. Its action takes place in a public park invaded by chinese army renegades. The goal of the mission is to infiltrate the park and eliminate their commander, who established his headquarters in a sacred temple on the coast. It presents an open and detailed environment to explore, intense battles, and multiple ways to reach your objectives.
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Brexit Makes the Artist Communities Speak Up
Finding a base in Berlin for the past 15 years, the UK artist Tacita Dean dreads the prospect of UK voting in the highly awaited referendum on 23 June to exit the European Union. Brexit or the British Exit could actually make London as the art center and end up making it all so very provincial yet again.
Dean, deeply affected and fearing the prospect of a Brexit, is in the process of creating an inspired work of art that is said to have a Shakespearean dimension. This work of art is projected to be the biggest blackboard drawing that she has ever undertaken. Inspired from Shakespeare's The Tempest this piece is going to be 32 feet long. It has been Dean's artistic characteristic to write on the boards thoughts, musings or any other things that occur to her as she works at her drawings and Brexit has been on her mind for some time now. When we talk about The Tempest, it is essentially a manufactured storm that Dean equates it to the EU referendum. Referring to the British prime minister's decision to call a referendum, Dean says that unlike Prospero, David Cameron would not be able to control this one and this would mean Caliban being loose on the island.
Dean is one of the 282 cultural figures of repute who came together to sign an open letter cautioning the nation that if Britain were to leave the European Union it would effectively become an "outsider shouting from the wings." This open letter also argued that Britain, as a part of the union has not just been stronger but a lot more inspired and creative and that if Britain were to walk away from it, it would definitely weaken the global creative success for the nation.
Prominent artists of repute like Richard Wentworth, Anish Kapoor, Shirazeh Houshiary, Elizabeth Price, Cornelia Parker, and Wolfgang Tillmans have chosen to sign this open letter with great commitment to the cause. The German photographer Tillmans has gone on to demonstrate his feelings and reasons for his opinion through a poster series of 26 different works. This unique photo series was put up for a showcase at the Somerset House as a part of the Photo-London art fair and advised people to put their votes to good use. The poster that claimed "What is lost is lost forever." made a strong impact on the viewers stimulating the argumentative side of the intelligentsia.
Tomma Abts, a Turner Prize awardee who also had moved from Germany to London expresses her fears of Britain's art world going back to become provincial in the long run as the influx of international artists dries up. She advocates and urges people to think of "the opposite of Brexit" to build a more open, more fluid, and better connected and beneficial exchange programs. Michael Craig-Martin, has designed a poster that shows a light bulb on a hot pink background which says "Britain in the EU".
Houshiary, an Iranian born UK artist who moved here in 1974 advocates opening up and melting borders down, rather than putting the walls back up and calls this thought a regressive measure to essentially go back in time instead of growing and progressing. She deems this decision bad for creativity, science, progress, growth, and even bad for each individual who is affected by it. The right thing to do for the benefit of the people today would be develop stronger connections among people not sever them.
In contrast to this, Boris Johnson and Munira Mirza the former Deputy Mayor of London for culture and education support Brexit. She claims that the UK culture sector will benefit from increased funding, she wrote for the website of a-n The Artists Information Company while accepting that the country would definitely lose out on some crucial EU grants.
Even as there are some strong arguments that favor the Brexit, the findings of a survey conducted by the Creative Industries Federation indicate that 96% of the CIF members mentioned access to EU funds as the core reason to vote in favor of staying in Europe. The other sectors however have mentioned that the loss of mobility and influence of UK in Europe was the major harm they saw when it comes to Brexit.
David Cameron the UK prime minister, made a key speech on the 10th of May, choosing the British Museum's Great Court as the venue as he listed out the reasons for UK to stay in the EU and stated that "Britain is stronger and safer in the EU, as well as better off."


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Short's & Stormcloud bring home Great American Beer Festival hardware!
Last weekend, two northern Michigan breweries brought back medals from the premier craft brewing event in the country, the Great American Beer Festival.
Breweries & brewers from all over the country took part in the Great American Beer Festival in Boulder, CO. Short's Brewing Company of Bellaire was awarded the Gold medal for Experimental Beer and Stormcloud Brewing Company of Frankfort received the Bronze medal for Belgian-Style Blonde Ale or Pale Ale!
"At Short's, we celebrate new and unique ideas. We seek inspiration everywhere, and constantly challenge ourselves to capture new experiences in beer form. The creative freedom and endless possibilities that we entertain here makes brewing fun, and I think that shows in the finished beer," says Short's Head Brewer and Key Lime Pie creator, Tony Hansen. "Winning an award for an experimental beer feels great. It's really the only category that we fit into! Our beers are intentionally unique and different than established styles, so the recognition for successfully experimenting keeps our creative motor running."
Stormcloud brewer Brian Confer offers his congratulations to Short's for winning the highly contested Experimental beer category and says "This was our first ever entry into any kind of competition. I'm proud that our Rainmaker took a Bronze out of 44 entries. Rainmaker is the beer I worked longest and hardest on as a homebrewer, the beer that I used in the yeast trials to pick what would become our house yeast, and I brewed it once every three weeks for many years, continually making small recipe tweaks until it became the beer it is today – a 6% immensely drinkable, not overly-hopped pale ale with a spicy Belgian yeast character that goes great with almost all foods – except spaghetti!"
Brian continues, "We couldn't be happier to get this award and be part of the northern Michigan brew scene. I'm probably biased but I think the number and quality of breweries in the Traverse City area makes it a more vibrant place to live."
You can taste that quality during the 2014 Traverse City Beer Week (Nov 7-14) and during Frankfort's inaugural Beer Week that runs through October 11th!
Click for a complete list of 2014 GABF medal winners!


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Sunday, 5 February 2017
Limited Edition Zoat
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Great work, excellent depth and tone variation.ReplyDelete
Whimsy is about to take me to my stash to select my next project.
If you are anything like me, variety is the spice of miniature painting - hence the rule of whimsy! Thanks for the encouragements!Delete
Oh, really fantastic work!ReplyDelete
Very nicely done!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you for noticing! (;Delete
Lovely. Always liked the zoats as one of the truly original elements of RT.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh yes, I had forgotten the Rogue Trader version. This chap comes from 1985 so a few years earlier than their space faring brothers.Delete
Turned out great! Really love the colors.ReplyDelete
On a side note, at least you don't have to deal with tons of snow like we have here in the north western part of the States. Back breaking work shoveling it all when I'd rather just be painting or gaming minis! :)Replies
You are right there - though a good snow fall here can mean a day off work, which certainly helps the miniature painting!Delete
Lovely. I look forward to GW reintroducing Zoats with their own codex once they've run dry of other oldhammer tropes to mine in a year or so.ReplyDeleteReplies
I can almost imagine the angular, spiky armour they would no doubt wear. Oh, and skulls too!Delete
I always loved the Zoat! Such an underrated creature! Krakens right, I'm sure they'll roll it out in an updated, expensive form for Age of SigmarReplyDeleteReplies
Didn't Forgeworld do a version already, or am I thinking fimir?Delete