Luke Bryan Named People’s Sexiest Man in Country
He has scruff. He has dance moves — and knows how to shake it. He’s an adorable dad, and he’s an incredibly talented singer. All this adds up to country superstar Luke Bryan being named People Magazine‘s sexiest guy.
The ‘Play It Again’ hitmaker is plastered across the magazine’s cover, and he’s certainly not hard on the eyes, wearing a v-neck t-shirt and sporting his characteristic (and very charming) grin.
Bryan leads 51 other country men in the sexiest of the industry, and he dishes on what he finds sexy in a woman. “Confidence, the ability to wing it and the ability to get fancied up and pretty.”
“I love the whole girl-next-door thing,” says the 37-year-old, “the whole thing of, you know you’re pretty but not going too far with it.”
He also has a piece of advice for guys, and talks about something he’s certainly known for — dancing. “If a girl asks you to dance, you need to dance,” he states. “Practice one move, get one move that kinda works and stick with it.” But, Bryan also admits that guys need to be true to who they are and if they absolutely don’t dance, then stick with their guns, and stay away from the dance floor.
Bryan beat out some heavy competition to get the cover shoot, and he’s particularly proud of getting past Blake Shelton. He jokes, “It’s flattering, it’s awesome. I’m a lot better-looking than Blake! Blake’s going to have to pluck his eyebrows a bit –- his eyebrows cost him this. I have perfect eyebrows!”
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Determination Of Dose-response Relations For AVM Obliteration After Treatment With Gamma KnifePanayiotis Mavroidis1, Bengt K Lind2, Bahram Andisheh2, Anders Brahme21Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University 2Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm University, University Hospital of Larissa Keywords: gamma knife, outcome, arteriovenous malformation, dose escalation, dose planning
The present study aims at deriving the radiobiological parameters of the dose-response relation for achieving obliteration of arteriovenous malformations (AVM) following single fraction stereotactic radiotherapy. Furthermore, the accuracy by which different radiobiological models predict the probability of AVM obliteration is investigated as well as the impact of hemorrhage history, location and volume of the AVM on its radiosensitivity.
The study patient material consists of 85 patients who received radiation for AVM therapy.
Radiation induced AVM obliterations were assessed on the basis of post-irradiation angiographies and other radiological findings. For each patient the dose distribution delivered to the clinical target volume and the clinical treatment outcome were available. These data were used in a maximum likelihood analysis and Monte Carlo simulation to calculate the best estimates of the parameters D50 and ? of different radiobiological models. D50 is the dose which gives a response probability of 50% and ? is the maximum normalized value of the dose-response gradient. The parameters D50 and ? characterize the shape of the AVM dose-response relation. The confidence intervals of these parameters were also calculated and their individual influence on the dose-response curve was studied.
The radiobiological model was proved suitable in predicting the treatment outcome pattern of the studied patient material. The radiobiological parameters of the model were calculated for different AVM location, bleeding history and size. For one of the models examined, the best estimates of the parameters for peripheral AVMs were D50 = 24.2 Gy and ( = 0.86, whereas for centrally located AVMs the values of the model parameters were D50 = 20.9 Gy and ( = 1.91. Similarly, for AVM larger than 2 cm3, the values of the parameters were D50 = 24.6 Gy and ( = 0.67, whereas for AVM smaller than 2 cm3 the values of the model parameters were D50 = 19.7 Gy and ( = 1.37. These values were estimated using further statistical methods and biological models. A sensitivity analysis shown clinically acceptable ranges of variability.
The correlation between the dosimetric data and their corresponding clinical effect could be accurately modeled using the examined radiobiological models.
The derived response parameters can be introduced into the clinical routine with the calculated accuracy assuming same target definition and delineation. The known volume dependence of AVM radiosensitivity was confirmed. Moreover, a trend relating AVM location with its radiosensitivity was observed. Project Roles:
P. Mavroidis (), B. Lind (), B. Andisheh (), A. Brahme ()


The “quilting bee” has reached mythic proportions as a symbol for the cooperative nature of early colonial work. The myth developed in the midst of urbanization, industrialization, massive waves of migration, and geographic mobility. Americans felt separated from their neighbors and communities and alienated from their work as their lives rapidly shifted from agricultural to industrial; they craved what they perceived as a simpler way of life.
Myth is often based in truth; women of the late 18th century, “the colonial era,” shared the work of quiltmaking out of necessity and pleasure. Research in women’s diaries and household inventories has shown that women shared textile work. Work parties of the period included barn raisings, harvestings, and huskings in addition to quilt parties. Late 18th-century diarist Martha Ballard wrote about neighbors teaching her daughters how to warp the family’s loom as well as recording quilting parties to prepare her daughters to “go to housekeeping.” These quilting parties, however, made up only a small proportion of time spent in sharing quiltmaking activities.
During the 1876 Centennial, one of the most popular exhibits was the “colonial kitchen.” Women dressed in “colonial” costume and enacted living history exhibits including quilting parties. Authors Eliza Calvert Hall and Ruth Finley romanticized quilting bees. The myth transitioned the focus of quilting parties from work-centric to social. The myth turned the quilting bee into a match-making party, an opportunity for young men and women to meet in acceptable social settings after having spent the day working.
Women, especially in rural areas, continued to hold quiltings or work parties throughout the 20th century even as the myth of the quilting bee’s essential role as community-builder continued to grow. In the women’s movement and the quilt revival at the end of the century, quilting bees served as precedent for the formation of quilt guilds and other small quilt groups. Small regular groups regularly call themselves “bees,” quilt shops use the term in their names, and there are even “virtual bees” available to build online communities.


I’ve always wanted to write a column, but it wasn’t until Twitter intervened that it became a reality for me. The funny thing is I didn’t even have a Twitter account when it happened. Luckily, I have a few good people looking out for me.
My brother, a marketing and branding genius, is forever trying to get me to try new media, and his recent bug has been Twitter. Since I already had a Facebook account, I was worried that adding Twitter might lead to being overwhelmed by hundreds of 140-character distractions in my day.
But my brother persisted, and when he saw a Tweet from an editor about an opening covering three local towns, he forwarded the information to me. I quickly put together an e-mail with a few writing samples, and within hours I had a reply from the editor.
After I sent a sample column, I landed a phone interview, which led to an in-person interview. Stuffing down the excitement of being in a real, live newsroom (yes


Trisha Yearwood will perform the national anthem to kick off Country Radio Seminar February 22 at the Omni Nashville.
Grammy favorite Brandy Clark will hit the road this spring with Charlie Worsham. Billed as An Evening with Brandy Clark & Charlie Worsham, the 27-city tour starts April 6 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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sorry, I was super busy last week and didn't get to post, but at my weigh in last Thursday I lost 5 pounds! Hooray for the 1200 plan!
I have only found one thing I don't like so far, tonight's cashew chicken. I ate all the chicken, cashews and snow peas out of it, but the rest I didn't like too much.
I went to a birthday party on Friday night, and it was very hard to resist the drinking, especially when somebody else is buying! But I did well and limited myself to two glasses of wine that my JCC and I worked into my week.
Today was so gorgeous out, my dog and I went on a 2 hour walk. I love having more energy... and it's only my 3rd week! Glad to hear everybody else is doing well, too!


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Tours & Safaris - Namibia
Browse the Namibia tours and safaris below, that African Travel Gateway has designed and that emphasizes the country’s wild beauty, vast open spaces and desert landscapes and focuses on the best features each region has to offer. Namibia’s capital city, Windhoek, is a short flight from Johannesburg in South Africa and can also be accessed directly. Whether you choose a fully guided or self-drive tour, your experience of this captivating country will be unforgettable. If you would prefer us to tailor-make a Namibia tour or safari for you, please give us a call.
Situated on the west coast of Southern Africa, Namibia is a nation of contrasts offering striking desert landscapes, towering sand dunes, rugged mountains and 1570 kilometres (975 miles) of magnificent Atlantic coastline. Although a predominantly dry & sunny climate, it is a good idea to learn when the best time to visit Namibia really is.
Namibia is well known for its stunning Namib Desert which stretches along the entire coast of the country extending north into Angola and south into South Africa. Namibia can be divided into 10 main regions of interest, each with its own unique and fascinating features to explore:
The Fish River Canyon – the largest canyon in Africa with breathtaking views.
Sossusvlei – a salt and clay pan surrounded by soaring dunes in the southern Namib Desert.
Windhoek – Namibia’s centrally located capital is an ideal starting point to explore the country.
Swakopmund – one of Namibia’s leading seaside holiday destinations.
The Skeleton Coast – the northern section of Namibia’s coastline, well known for its shipwrecks.
Central and Waterberg areas – the beautiful Waterberg Plateau offers some phenomenal vistas.
Damaraland – home to The Brandberg, Namibia’s highest mountain.
Etosha – world-renowned Etosha National Park offers amazing game viewing experiences.
The Caprivi Strip – a narrow panhandle of land in the north eastern Zambezi region of Namibia.
The Owamboland – the northern region of Namibia, home to the majority of the country’s sparse population.


This rabbi just had all of his remaining teeth pulled and new dentures were being made.
The first Shabbat, he only spoke for five minutes.
The second Shabbat, he spoke for ten minutes.
But, on the third Shabbat, he spoke for an hour and a half.
When asked about this by some of the congregation, he responded this way.
The first Shabbat, my gums were so sore it hurt to talk.
The second Shabbat, my gums felt better but my dentures were hurting so I spoke a bit longer.
The third Shabbat, I accidentally grabbed my wife's dentures... and I couldn't stop talking!


Very Good- Booklet has spiral top binding. A little light bumping to corners of wraps. Light fading to edges of wraps. Small inked out mark on front wrap. Every page includes a small illustration of colonial era household item. 1976.
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March 12th, 2003, 01:50 AM
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So here's my wild guess:
Since I am using vbulletin aswell on mywebsite and I am importing newsgroups aswell just like antionline does, my school, who has a hotel with the same name as my website, was offended by one of the messages in the newsgroup which was imported in vbulletin is trying to block me. Funny thing is that it's hosted in US (great big pipes) so they can't do anything about it, so they are trying to block me through the transit provider abovenet level 3. BUT abovenet says my website is loading correctly withing their network and without.
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Insurance and reinsurance company Argo Group is returning to the catastrophe bond market for what will be its third deal, seeking a four-year source of multi-peril reinsurance protection from the capital markets through Loma Reinsurance (Bermuda) Ltd. (Series 2013-1).
Sources told Artemis that for its third catastrophe bond deal Argo Group has established a new Bermuda domiciled special purpose insurer, Loma Reinsurance (Bermuda) Ltd. This is Argo’s first transaction for two years, since December 2011 when it issued Loma Reinsurance Ltd. (Series 2011-2), before which it had issued Loma Reinsurance Ltd. (Series 2011-1) in the same year, coming to market in June 2011.
In this first Series 2013-1 issuance through Loma Reinsurance (Bermuda) Ltd. Argo is seeking a four-year source of reinsurance and retrocessional protection from capital market investors against tropical cyclones, U.S. earthquakes and U.S. severe thunderstorms on an annual aggregate basis, we understand. The preliminary size of the deal is said to be at least $100m.
We’re told that the transaction uses a novel trigger, which we believe to be the first of its kind in a 144A cat bond issuance, a combined indemnity and industry loss trigger. We’re told that the trigger will be derived from the sum of ultimate net loss to Argo’s U.S. business and Syndicate 1200 and insurance industry losses, as reported by Property Claim Services (PCS), weighted by region and the amount of industry losses attributable to Argo Re.
That’s an interesting trigger construction, which perhaps seeks to reduce basis risk against the industry loss measure but at the same time ensure that coverage is sufficiently broad on an industry loss basis to cover all eventual scenarios where by Argo Re would become responsible for paying its insureds claims. It also allows Argo to combine reinsurance for its insurance businesses and retro for Argo Re within a single transaction.
Argo will retain a 10% share of losses within each risk period, we understand and a franchise deductible of $15m is applied. The ultimate beneficiaries of this cat bond will be Argo Group subsidiaries Argonaut Insurance, Argo Re and Lloyd’s Syndicate 1200.
Three classes of notes are being issued, we understand, a Class A tranche with an attachment point of $425m and exhaustion at $475m, Class B with an attachment point of $325m and exhaustion at $425m and Class C with an attachment point of $225m and exhaustion at $325m. That suggests that this deal could grow to $250m across the three tranches if investor demand allows.
The Class A notes have an attachment probability of 4.13%, an expected loss of 3.77%, an exhaustion probability of 3.43% and are being offered with price guidance of 10.5% to 11.5%.
The Class B notes have an attachment probability of 6.04%, an expected loss of 5.02%, an exhaustion probability of 4.13% and are being offered with price guidance of 12.75% to 13.75%.
Finally, the Class C notes have an attachment probability of 10.32%, an expected loss of 7.95%, an exhaustion probability of 6.04% and are being offered with price guidance of 17.5% (no guidance range offered with this tranche we are told).
These three tranches of notes all offer investors an attractive opportunity and will likely be well received as we approach the end of the year. It will be interesting to see whether they upsize and whether pricing moves as the deal is marketed.
The transaction features a variable reset mechanism, allowing Argo more flexibility should it opt to adjust the coverage provided by this layer during the term of the cat bond deal.
Swiss Re New Markets are structuring and marketing this deal, while AIR Worldwide are providing risk modelling and Property Claim Services (PCS) are the reporting agency for industry loss events.
We understand that the transaction is aiming to complete before the end of the year, which will add to the 2013 issuance total.
Loma Reinsurance (Bermuda) Ltd. is an interesting transaction, not least because of the combination of indemnity and industry loss index within the trigger. It will be interesting to see how this is received by the investor community. As a new trigger it will likely come under a deal of scrutiny, however the reduction of industry loss basis risk through the combining of a UNL feature may prove very attractive.
We’ll keep you updated as Loma Reinsurance (Bermuda) Ltd. (Series 2013-1) progresses to market for Argo Group. The transaction has been added to our catastrophe bond and ILS Deal Directory and the entry will be updated as more details emerge.
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Evening boys and girls. Not often i'm in this section, always in the 8l section , but the folks have a 8p sline a3 so nip on here sometimes. Anyway, need some help. Their rear wiper isnt squirting water, had a look under the engine bay and no leaks etc, took the rear boot lining up to find a massive paddling pool in the rear tyre well lol. Does anyone know where the rear washer jet pipe run is? None of the carpet in the boot is dry so the wiper mechanism connection isnt leaking and running down, it's just the boot well thats wet, had a look for the pipe run but cant see it at all. Any help would be much appreciated.


An iPhone app that is the fun way to doodle and take notes on the go! Squiddle gives you the freedom to use your finger to sketch your thoughts right onto your phone at the exact moment they are on your mind.
Duffy is an Apple Watch app that adds a feature that Apple just plain forgot: a way to view your steps count on your watch face and easily on your iPhone.
What happens when photographer, Peter Parker, moves to Metropolis to work for the Daily Planet? Well for one, ace reporter, Clark Kent, is real suspicious.


Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by HELLER, ANNE CONOVER
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- ISBN: 9781400078936 | 1400078938
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 10/19/2010
In this seminal biography, Heller traces the controversial author's life, from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.


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Happy birthday Your Majesty!
Staff and volunteers at Trinity Hospice dressed to impress to mark the 90th birthday celebrations of our leading monarch.
Pictured are matron Julie Huttley, Medical Director Dr Susan Salt and Her Majesty - a cut-out version! A spokesman for the Bispham-based Trinity Hospital said: “The nurses arranged the tea party for patients and staff in the lounge on the In-Patient Unit and it was lovely.
“The nurses and health care assistants were all wearing red, white and blue and the bunting is up for the whole week – and I suspect may now stay up for the football!”


Spy Game by Akin Abayomi
Inspired by a fencing fight scene from Die Another Day, Akin Abayomi shoots and styles this dramatic and stylish photo shoot, which stars Theresa Claire McCrory. This fashion shoot is titled Spy Game, and is presented in black and white to enhance the suspense and sense of good and evil presented in each photograph through the styling and composition.
Akin Abavomi’s shoot merges the action of fencing with the sexual aesthetic and bold, seductive styling. The military cap and diamond encrusted mask look super-hot together, and combined with underwear, stockings and killer heels, Theresa looks every inch the seductive Bond villain. We particularly love the close-up photographs of Theresa, as these images leave a little more to the imagination and are a little more classic; the close-ups with the fencing mask have a real sense of imminent action. The fencing mask is a great touch to an otherwise fairly simple fashion photograph.
Source – fashionising.com.


Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 3:39 p.m.
Within Hard Rock's Disneyesque alleys, littered with pricey food and secondhand-smoke-filled slot rooms, the holy temple of comedy this week is over at the Improv Comedy Club, where friends and co-conspirators Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell are making people laugh all weekend. Both have extensive stage experience, both are wicked smart, and both have incredible, free podcasts that will open your third eye.
Though most YouTubers may recognize Duncan from his Funny or Die
, Drunk History video, where he takes a look at Thomas Edison's buddy Nikola Tesla, Duncan Trussell's Family Hour
is a transcendental podcast that is humble, insightful, and shares bad-ass songs at the show's end.
And the dude has great taste in music. "In lo-fi, the best artists can be secretive. It's obscured," Duncan says after his set Friday night. "We'll never know who they are 'cause they're not interested in fame. Fame seems like a complicated inconvenience."
"My friend Emil, the lead singer of the Holy Sons, gives me this cassette tape. I had a boombox in my dorm room, and I still remember pressing play and it was that Daniel Johnston song, 'Rock 'n' Roll/EGA,'" Duncan recalls, "When I first heard him, I thought it was Satan; I thought it was the first satanic music I'd ever heard," Trussell reflects.
From there, he moved into Sebadoh and other lo-fi acts, which I'm grateful for also, because as a fellow fan, I was able to listen to the best Lou Barlow interview I've ever heard on Duncan's previous podcast The Lavender Hour, which he regularly hosted with comedian Natasha Leggero. "Cool" music aside, he's not shy to mention his love of a syrupy ballad. "I did buy the Crystal Gale albums! I fucking love that song! That's LSD for ya!" He notes this without the slightest bit of irony.
"You know what, man. I guarantee somewhere, in some country, on some beautiful hill," he says with whimsy as he spaces out in the distance and savors the vision, "there's a shepherd with a little fucking guitar who's probably playing music that would make Elvis seem like a fucking farting gorilla."
With Friday's show a memory and both of the Saturday shows sold out, drag yourself to the Sunday Service.
Now for the Duncan Trussell Family Hour Mixtape.
Johnny Cash "We Must Believe in Magic"
Holy Sons " The Voice"
Holy Sons "Festering Mind Energy"
Antsy Pants "Vampire"
Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston "Happy Talk"
Bob Marley "Positive Vibration"
Daniel Johnston "Devil Town"
Violent Femmes "Jesus Walking on the Water"
The Highwaymen "Highwayman"
Ram Dass and Amazing Grace "Shri Krishna Govinda" (Not actual song)
Bob Marley "Small Axe"
Loudon Wainwright III "Be Careful, There's a Baby in the House"
Tony Bennett "I Wanna Be Around"
Download the free Joe Rogan Experience and Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcasts. Rogan and Trussell perform Saturday (sold out) and Sunday, April 15, at 8 p.m. at the Improv Comedy Club, 5700 Seminole Way, Hollywood. Call 954-981-5653. Shows are for those 21 and over.
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Replacing a windshield can bring a bit of stress on any vehicle owner. For one, it entails costs, and next, finding a reliable shop can be tricky.
So how can you find the Best Shop to get your Windshield Replaced in San Diego? Here are some ways to find it:
Ask for referrals. Post on your timeline, or personally ask friends who may have experienced replacing or repairing their windshield about a trusted Windshield Replacement San Diego – Carglass1 shop. These people will usually recommend the best shop that they know, or at the very least warn you about one who does a bad job. What is great about referrals is that they can give you tips on how to deal with the shop, and could even go as far as giving you a name of a technician whom they trust.
Google it. Take advantage of the internet, but do not let down your guard. Always, always practice due diligence when picking a service provider out of the page one or two of your google search results. Check out if these are licensed service providers with appropriate permits to operate their local business. Check if these sites have appropriate insurances too should anything go wrong with their replacement or repair service. Check as well if they have service warranties, and after-sales assistance should you require that.
Choose a top three from the search results to avoid getting overwhelmed. After which, research about the background of the company.
Feedback is a gift. Feedback is a treasure for both the company and its potential clients. Reputable third party websites like Angie’s List and Yelp are provide feedbacks from customers that have availed of a specific product or service peddled by a certain business. These websites are worth checking.
Harness the power of social media. Check on the Facebook ratings of the shop you are eyeing. Check the comments and posts on the page and watch out for irate posters. Check as well other social media accounts to find out the general sentiments of past customers on the quality of service that they provide.
Interview the company. Whether be it through webchat, Social Media Messenger, phone call, or face-to-face discussion it is important to get your specific questions answered by the shop you are eyeing. During the conversation, ask as well for cost estimates, as well as how long they will most likely take to do the job.
Finding the best shop to get your windshield replaced in San Diego may be challenging but it definitely is doable.
Replacing a vehicle’s windshield could be stressful for any car owner simply because it is a major parts replacement. The good news is finding the Best Place To Get Your Mobile Windshield Replaced in San Diego is relatively easy.
Here are some ways to locate a reliable and trustworthy expert mobile windshield replacement service in San Diego:
Ask for referrals. Take advantage of social media in asking friends, acquaintances and relatives about local mobile windshield replacement service firms that does a great job in the area. People are not likely to recommend a firm that has done a haphazard job or rendered an unsatisfactory service. Find SDWindshieldRepair Online.
Gather two to three names and check on their credentials in their own website and social media accounts. Make sure the firms are licensed, certified and insured before engaging their services.
Do not be afraid to ask questions. A direct inquiry pertaining to the specific situation at hand is one of the best ways to feel whether a service company is likely to do a good job. Get a feel of the way they entertain their customers.
Check out references and feedbacks. Never hesitate to ask for references that would prove that their company can do a great job in terms of providing mobile windshield repair and replacement service. Social media accounts should be checked as well for the rating, as well as comments and feedbacks lefty by their customers. Third-party websites such as Yelp.com and Angie’s List also helps in determining the kind of service the mobile windshield repair firm is capable of delivering.
Compare costs. Customers should ask for quotations and estimates of the cost of service for their particular job orders. Clients however should not jump into signing a job contract with the firm that charges the lowest. Low cost sometimes do not equate to a high service quality and good workmanship.
Angie’s List meantime emphasized in this article why it is important to replace a damaged windshield. “Experts say driving with a damaged windshield risks your life and the lives of drivers around you because you are more susceptible to get into an accident. A damaged windshield — or one that hasn’t been properly set and glued into place — can pop out during a collision. The windshield also provides structural support for the car, meaning an improperly installed windshield could even cause the roof to collapse.”
Auto Trader shared a guideline on how to know whether a windshield is just for repair, or it is already for replacement. “Windshield repair or replacement depends on the size, location and severity of the damage. The majority of windshield repair shops can repair quarter-sized rock chips and cracks up to three inches long. Anything bigger and most places will recommend replacement. However, some facilities use a special technique that allows them to repair cracks up to 12 inches long. So it pays to check around before committing to a new windshield. Location of the damage also plays an important role in determining your windshield’s fate. Cracks at the edge of the windshield tend to spread very quickly and can compromise the structural integrity of the glass. If they’re caught in time, they can be repaired. But in most cases, it’s usually advisable to replace the windshield.”


Oscar winning animator and Academy member Gene Deitch sent us his thoughts:
So, exactly as I feared, a Performance-Capture movie has won the Oscar, masquerading as an Animated Film.
HAPPY FEET is a good movie, full of charm, and with something important to say. Bravo!
But now, what about us? To paraphrase what General Douglas MacArthur once said, “Old animators never die, they’ll just fade away.” I just read that Disney will be setting up a new studio, dedicated to performance-capture production. I’m personally lucky. I’ve had five of my shorts nominated, one which actually won the Oscar. So I’ve had it.
Even better, my long-time client – nearly 40 years – Weston Woods/Scholastic, is virtually immune from mo-cap and even CGI, as they produce short films adapted from children’s picture books. Practically the only way they can be made is with traditional drawn animation. So my harangues against accepting performance-capture films for the Animation Feature Film category have not been in any way an effort to save my personal skin. I grieve for our craft in general, and for those skilled traditional animators, who will increasingly be shunted off into special-effects work. Their only hope of getting back into the big time of feature film animation will be if a powerful enough producer, with a powerful enough story, brave enough to finance a graphically advanced production – something that can only be drawn – immune from mo-cap – who will give frame-by-frame animation a chance to live. Aardman is still clinging to clay, and they may survive, but where is there a future for feature-length drawn animation?.
May the Power of Pegholes be with us!
My first thought last night was that this is the first time the Annie Award didn’t portend the Oscar winner. That made me a bit prouder of my fellow Asifa-Hollywood members who do indeed honor films created by actual animators.
I agree with most of Gene’s points – and share his discomfort with this new technique. To clarify, Happy Feet is an animated film – but it’s not a cartoon. To paraphrase Gene, where is the future of the feature length cartoon?
The plus side? 2007 is an exciting year for authentic animated features. Between Brad Bird’s latest, Shrek III, Bee Movie, the stop motion Coraline and the hand drawn Simpsons there seems to be some potential – both at the box office and with the Academy – to reverse Hollywood’s mind in this matter.
Perhaps this win will cause Warner Bros. to now take animation a little more seriously, after a history of botched releases (notably The Iron Giant and The Ant Bully). Perhaps this will inspire John Lasseter and the revived 2-D team at Disney to really prove themselves, to blow us away with something that mo-cap can never be – and force Hollywood to return the art of animation to the hand of the artist.


By Lindsay Steele
The Catholic Messenger
BURLINGTON — About 40 Catholics walked single file through the streets of Burlington Sept. 11, holding onto a red paper chain. This 600-link chain represented the 18,000-plus acts of mercy carried out by parishioners in the six weeks leading up to the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
“It was such a bad day in our history,” said Father Marty Goetz, pastor of Ss. John & Paul Parish. “You can’t fight evil with evil. You can’t fight hate with hate. You can only fight evil with acts of kindness and love and mercy.”
The parish began taking a tally on acts of kindness at the end of July. They didn’t need to say what they’d done, only how many acts they’d completed. The acts could be big or small — it didn’t matter.
When Fr. Goetz learned of the massive total of merciful acts, he was overwhelmed. “It says that we not only made a difference in our church, but we made a difference in our community.” People are in need of receiving mercy as much as they need to share it, he added.
The culminating Chain of Mercy pilgrimage started at St. John Catholic Church, and ended a little less than a mile away at St. Paul Catholic Church. Father Bill Roush, parochial vicar of Ss. John & Paul Parish, led the group and carried a wooden cross with the Year of Mercy logo attached to its crux. The pilgrims stopped to pray and sing worship songs along the way.
Janet Schnoebelen and her husband, Rich, were among the 40 pilgrims. She found the whole experience — from purposefully seeking out opportunities to share mercy to going on the pilgrimage — “one of the most uplifting experiences we’ve shared. We could feel that the people walking with us were also experiencing the same closeness to God and mankind.”
Schnoebelen added, “It was such a simple project and it touched so many lives. Walking through the doors at St. Paul’s and knowing that all who entered share the same faith, hope and love in this time of turmoil in our country proved that we can do anything if we join together in our faith.”
Fr. Marty challenged his parishioners — those on the walk and those in the pews — to continue showing mercy. “Our work is not done. We still have to go out and be merciful in our world. It’s not just a six- week project. It’s a project that goes on our entire lives.”


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Steve Goodman: Facing the Music
|Steve Goodman at Wrigley Field, 1981.
Photo courtesy Bob Sirott.
The ecstasy of early victory and the agony of ultimate defeat have defined the persona of the Chicago Cubs for more than 100 years -- and they underlie Steve Goodman's two classic songs about his favorite team:
The two tunes are forever linked, as the latter grew out of the former in Chicago grassroots fashion. After Goodman was banned from singing "Dying Cub Fan" at Wrigley because of its affectionate depiction of the team's futility, he was commissioned to write a more optimistic song. Thus was born "Go, Cubs, Go," just six months before Goodman's death.
"Go, Cubs, Go," WGN-AM's song for the Cubs in 1984 and for several years afterward, became a true phenomenon starting in 2007. Since then, the catchy anthem has rocked Wrigley Field at the end of every home win, and all 40,000 fans present join in the singing instead of rushing out of the stadium.
In 2007, this routine led Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn to declare Oct. 5, 2007, as Steve Goodman Day throughout the state -- just one day before a Cub loss dropped the team out of post-season competition. Throughout 2008, the 100th anniversary of when the team last won the World Series, the bellowing continued, both in and outside of Wrigley. The team echoed the strains, leading the majors in wins nearly all season long, only to drop three straight in the first playoff, falling short of the World Series once again.
Because the Cubs tilted at their losing reputation in 2008, nearly every day the stellar musicianship of Steve Goodman gained new prominence. Articles in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post and on the Major League Baseball and CBS Sports sites (to name just a few) saluted the enduring charm of Goodman's two Cubs songs.
Through this coverage and the Wrigley experience, fans have developed new heartstrings for Goodman beyond his status as a peerless musician of his era. Goodman died at the young age of 36 of leukemia nearly 16 years after his first diagnosis, lending poignancy to hearing a ballpark full of fans singing "Go, Cubs, Go."
The years have rolled on, and playoff status has eluded the Cubs until the Fall of 2016, when the Cubs won the National League Championship Series to advance to the 2016 World Series, and then won the ultimate prize, the World Series itself. Happily, many who are getting to know Goodman for the first time via his visceral love for baseball are discovering that he is the same guy who wrote the nearly mythical "City of New Orleans" and many other affecting romantic, hilarious and socially acerbic tunes.
The Cub success in the World Series begs some serious questions. Will the team shed its "loveable loser" mystique and become just like every other team that seems to win it all every once in awhile? More pertinent to Steve Goodman, it is a milestone that the Cubs reached the World Series, which "Dying Cub Fan" pointed out sardonically hadn't happened since 1945. In a sense, "Go, Cubs, Go" has fulfilled its destiny, but some rewriting of "Dying Cub Fan" is in order. Or would anyone dare to rewrite what many consider the best baseball song ever?
Through it all we can be sure that - from some unknown position - Steve Goodman was enjoying two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt, relishing a front-row seat to it all. Go, Steve, Go.
Listen to Steve discussing the Cubs — at first sardonically, then affectionately — in a snippet from an audience tape made at his show on May 21, 1984, at Parody Hall in Kansas City, just seven months before he died.
The symbiotic origin and impact of "Dying Cub Fan" and "Go, Cubs, Go" is a topic that is covered in great detail in "Steve Goodman: Facing the Music."


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Crossed by the trade routes of the medieval traders of the Hanseatic ports, the Baltic is fringed by historic cities to explore. St Petersberg has its baroque palaces of the Czars and priceless art treasures and Tallin its fairytale towers and turrets. The cities of Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen provide a glimpse of Scandinavian life and history. You can also visit historic Gdansk in Poland or Berlin from the port of Warnemunde. Cruises depart from the UK, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Hamburg and are normally 7 to 12 nights long.
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I often receive requests for the implementation of Explicit Semantic Analysis, so I thought to put together a Web page about it :)
At the moment, we do not release the actual source code, as we do not have resources to properly maintain it. Most of the algorithms should be covered in our papers. Below I list a few publicly available ESA implementations in the hope they might be useful for you.
By the way, my Wikipedia preprocessing code (WikiPrep) is available here.
Wikiprep-ESA (by Cagatay Calli). The exact settings needed to replicate our IJCAI'07 results are listed here. If I understand correctly, this code is suitable for the current (as of 2010) versions
of Wikipedia. If you would like to process old dumps (specifically, the 2005 dump I used), you probably
want to use this version, which you can download from this commit tree.
Wikipedia-based Explicit Semantic Analysis (by Philip van Oosten).
Open sourced under the AGPLv3 license. Implemented in Java, using Lucene for indexing. The author says this
may not be a 100% accurate implementation of the original ESA paper, but it is close enough for practical applications.
If you are aware of additional publicly available ESA implementations (or you have developed your own one :), please
drop me a line and I'll be happy to list it here.


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Jahnne has held solo exhibitions at Artspace, Auckland; 910 Lofts, New York; and Testing Grounds, Bus Projects, Rearview, Long Division Gallery (forthcoming), C3, Counihan Gallery, Seventh and Brunswick Lake in Melbourne. She has participated in group exhibitions in New York at Pulse Art Fair and Honey Space Gallery; in Melbourne at Slopes and Brunswick Sculpture Centre; and at Artspace Auckland.
Jahnne has completed residencies at: Artspace, Auckland; Nes Artist Residency, Skagastrond, Iceland; Testing Grounds, Melbourne and Rome Art Program, Rome. She is co-founder of Brunswick Lake, an independent project space in Melbourne, has a BFA (Drawing) from RMIT (2010) and is currently completing Honours at VCA.


HomeGrown Festival Announces Set Times, Free Shuttle Service to Saturday's Event
HomeGrown's getting all futuristic on our asses.
Some cool news coming out of the HomeGrown Music and Art Festival's pipeline today -- and not just the performance schedule, which, you'll see after the jump, finds the day starting off a little bit country and ending off a lot electronic.
The second-year fest, which this year will again take place at Main Street Garden Park in downtown Dallas, has now announced plans to shuttle fans to their event for free. The service comes courtesy of new-to-Dallas electronic car company and event co-sponsor E-Frogs, which has committed to driving festival attendees that live along the company's service route (which covers East Dallas, Lower Greenville, Uptown, Downtown and Deep Ellum) to the event. All that the fest's attendees have to do is call up an E-Frogs driver, and they'll get shuttled on downtown free-of-charge -- just as, it appears, the company is committed to doing all the time, actually.
"Pretty cool, huh?" says John Solis, spokesperson for the event and one of the event's co-organizers and co-founders, of the service.
Update: Turns out, we were a little ahead of ourselves in spreading this word. EFrogs has backed out of the festival. Lame.
Yeah. Very, actually. Especially since, now, if you win the last pair of tickets we've got to have out for the event, you can arrive at and attend the festival without any scratch off your back. See how to win our last free pair of tickets after the jump, where, once again, we've posted the event schedule in full.
Want the free pair of tickets? Sure thing. Just be sure to email me by 5 p.m. with the words "All Growns Up" in the subject line to enter. We'll pick a winner at random. Please email just once; those who enter multiple times will be disqualified. Good luck!
Update: Contest is over. Congrats to our winner!
HomeGrown Fest Music Performance Schedule
12:00 - Grant Jones
1:30 - Seryn
3:00 - Gallery Cat
4:30 - Analog Rebellion
6:00 - This Will Destroy You
7:30 - Astronautalis
9:20 - Neon Indian
Ambhar Tequila Stage
12:45 - Slobberbone
2:15 - Larry Gee
3:45 - Burning Hotels
5:15 - The O's
6:45 - Ishi
8:15 - School of Seven Bells
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Rand McNally CEO Robert Apatoff '80 Profiled in Chicago Tribune
March 27, 2006
March 27, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - I met my wife, Vicki (Garrison '80), on the first day of our sophomore year at DePauw University," Robert S. Apatoff, president and CEO of Rand McNally Inc. and 1980 graduate of DePauw University, tells the Chicago Tribune. Besides describing the Chicago History course the pair took ("it it turned out to be really hard"), the profile details Apatoff's ascent of the corporate ladder and the experiences and philosophies he's carried to his leadership role.
Apatoff describes how another class at DePauw shaped his future: "In a public speaking class, I had to get up in front of the class and give a speech. I froze. I realized that I never wanted to have that feeling again. You must be able to articulate your ideas in front of others, whether you're a CEO, salesman or teacher."
Rob Apatoff's career has included stints at Reebok, Allstate, Quaker Oats and Anheuser Busch, where he developed the "Bud Bowl" and "Spuds McKenzie" marketing campaigns. He credits his father, Bill, who taught fine arts at the School of the Art Institute and did corporate graphic design work, with giving him a model for success. "From watching my dad solve complex problems on how to best display and sell merchandise, I realized I wanted to be a marketer," says Apatoff. "He was a very quiet man. You had to listen and watch carefully to appreciate how good he was. I learned from him a love of the creative process and creative mind."
The newspaper begins by describing a 1980 accident in which Apatoff was hit in the head by a chunk of concrete as he was walking down Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The debris had fallen 30 stories from a building under construction. The incident changed Apatoff "from being a bit risk-averse," he says, "to freeing me to take risks and follow the courage of my convictions. "No matter what challenges I encounter at work, nothing could be as challenging as what I went through that year," he says.
Access the complete "Career Path" interview by Ann Therese Palmer at the Tribune's Web site.
Learn more about Rob Apatoff, who serves on the academic advisory board for DePauw's Management Fellows Program, in this previous story.Back


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The Stylus 500 represents the next generation of the Stylus line. In addition to the durable, all-weather construction that made the Stylus famous, the Stylus 500 boasts a new flat-surface body design that takes the series in a new direction.
The look of the Stylus 500 is all about clean lines. Smooth, rounded edges make the camera comfortable to hold and easy to handle, and at a compact size of 3.9″ (W) x 2.2″ (H) x 1.2″ (D), it fits snugly into a pocket and will not crowd a backpack. The circular lens barrier tucks away inside the camera body with a snap when powered on, and protects the lens with an impenetrable seal when closed, leaving the camera face smooth and flat. The back of the camera features a simple, functional design that emphasizes the large 2.5-inch LCD.
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The Stylus 500 will change the way you view your digital camera. Now instead of simply capturing images with the Stylus 500, you can think of it as a “Portable Photo Album” that goes wherever you go. With a new Album Function, photos can be easily organized into photo albums stored on the camera’s xD-Picture Card. Create up to 12 individual albums of 100 images each, in the order you want to show them, and take your photos everywhere – your photo album will no longer be confined to your coffee table.
Olympus photos are known worldwide for sharp, vibrant image quality. This is achieved through a number of key technologies, such as Olympus’ high-quality all-glass lens (with aspherical lens elements), designed specifically for digital cameras. The lens provides the equivalent of 35 to 105mm, f3.1 – f5.2 in 35mm photography, with 12x combined total zoom (3x optical and 4x digital) to bring the action closer, and a Super Macro Mode that captures details as small as the wings of a butterfly.
The Stylus 500 also features an all-weather speaker and microphone, enabling users to narrate images with personalized audio captions. With its QuickTime Movie Mode, the Stylus 500 can record movies of any length, limited only by the size of the memory card in the camera.
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Connecting the Stylus 500 to a computer is easy with the USB Auto Connect feature, which connects directly via USB 2.0 cable and requires no software. Or, If you prefer, forget the computer altogether. The power of PictBridge technology enables photos to be printed directly from the Stylus 500 to any PictBridge-enabled printer, such as the Olympus P-10 Digital Photo Printer, without using a computer. Printing and sharing images has never been easier, and the P-10’s photo lab-quality dye-sublimation printing produces archival-quality prints in rich color.
OLYMPUS Master software provides the ultimate in digital imaging management. An intuitive user interface makes downloading to your computer quick and simple, and images are searchable by date or keyword in the Calendar View. And with one-click editing tools, such as red-eye reduction, images can be touched up before printing or emailing. Online support, templates, firmware upgrades and other user services are just a mouse-click away.
The Stylus 500 will be available in January 2005. It includes: 32MB xD-Picture Card, Wrist Strap, Camera WIN/Mac USB Cable, Audio/Video cable, Li-12B Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery and Charger, Quick Start Guide, Basic Instruction Manual, Warranty Card, CD-ROM with OLYMPUS Master Software, and Camera reference manual.


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In this lesson our instructor talks about for and foreach loops. First, he discusses for loops, looping over indexed arrays with a for loop, and foreach loops. Then he talks about indexed array syntax, associative array syntax, and some coding conventions. He ends the lesson with a helpful homework challenge.
A for loop is a type of conditional loop that requires three
expressions in its definition:
the 1st expression is evaluated once and only once before the loop begins
the 2nd expression is the test condition for the loop, whose value is
compared to TRUEbefore each iteration
the 3rd expression gets evaluated after each iteration of the loop
A foreach loop is a special type of conditional loop used
specifically for iterating over arrays. When using a foreach loop to iterate over an
array, the array’s internal cursor is automatically reset by PHP before
entering the loop and automatically advanced by one on each loop iteration.
foreach loops have two syntaxes. One is typically used for iterating over
indexed arrays and the other for iterating over associative
Both continue and break statements work within for and foreach
loops just as they do in while and do-while loops.
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R ich and mellow, crisp and dry, or as floral as a perfume—the wide-ranging flavors of sake, Japan's traditional rice-based alcoholic beverage, often surprises those who've experienced only futsu-shu—mass-produced sake served heated in ceramic flasks. Premium sakes, frequently consumed slightly chilled in stemware to reveal their subtle nature, are known as jizake, which translates roughly as "country style." But for Japanese connoisseurs, the term implies much more.
Jizake makers employ time-consuming, detail-oriented procedures eschewed by futsu-shu producers. In some cases regional rice varieties, local water, and specific yeasts may contribute to a sake's individuality and distinctive flavor. Of the nearly 1,500 sake makers—known as kuras—scattered across all but one of Japan's provinces, most have been family-run for many generations. Now their sakes are finding a sophisticated international audience of devotees who are discovering their tantalizing nuances and low acidity, and how sake can equal wine in the way it enhances many foods.
An Elegant Evolution
For centuries sake (pronounced sah-KEH rather than sah-Kee) has been as central to Japanese life as the rice from which it is made. Bottles are placed on home altars for the delectation of the gods in the hopes that they will bestow good luck on the family. At traditional celebrations, a rite known as kagami-biraki, the bashing open of a sake keg with a wooden mallet, commemorates everything from weddings and housewarmings to company mergers.
Every Japanese schoolchild knows that the first sake was concocted by the god Susanoonomikoto, who used it to inebriate a fierce dragon before slaying him with his magic sword. The story may be apocryphal (although several present-day kura produce a "Dragon Slayer"–brand sake), but we do know, from transcriptions of oral histories, that Japanese villagers in ancient times figured out how to make a primitive form of sake. When wild airborne yeasts found their way into moldy rice and began to ferment, an alcoholic brew, closer to a milky white porridge than to the clear liquid we know today, became the drink of choice for festivities. The ancients soon concluded that the rice mold could be propagated and used to make subsequent sake batches. They thought the mold was a gift from the gods.
The brew's virtues weren't lost on the aristocracy, either. Just about the time wet rice cultivation caught on in the third century, it was noted in the Kojiki, one of Japan's oldest historical chronicles, that the Japanese imperial court commissioned a foreign brewmaster from China, where rice liquors were already enjoyed. Later the Engi-shiki, a written code on court behavior, informed of sake refinements in the 9th and 10th century. Although the stuff was still milky or yellow-colored, producers were beginning to strain the sediment. Sake was reserved for nobles and priests, but by the 13th-century, descendants of the court's sake makers had set up independent kura. At the time, 342 of them were open for business in Kyoto alone, and aficionados were already discriminating between the sakes of different makers.
It wasn't until the 16th century, with increasing technical advances, that sakes similar to those we have today began to evolve. Rice polishing, facilitated by the water wheel, resulted in a clearer, purer brew. Sake's stability improved vastly by heating it to 149 degrees Fahrenheit—a pasteurization process, the Japanese love to point out—in use 300 years before Pasteur made his famed discovery.
WWII changed modern sake considerably, but unfortunately not for the best. Rice shortages forced brewers to stretch their pure rice sakes by adding a good amount of brewer's alcohol and glucose. The practice denigrated sake but nevertheless, futsu-shus were widely consumed.
From Rice Grain to Sake
Sake, often called rice wine, is showing up in all types of restaurants—not just Japanese ones. But because it's fermented from a grain rather than fruit juice, sake isn't technically a wine. As with grain-based beer, the process of sake making involves converting grain starch to simple sugars before fermenting them into alcohol. In sake brewing, a particular mold, koji-kin (Aspergillus oryzae), performs the conversion by releasing enzymes into cooked rice grains. This saccharification and then fermentation are sequential in beer brewing; in sake making, they occur simultaneously.
But the foundation for sake's fermentation is the critical interim step of making a starter mash (or pulp) known colloquially as the moto. The mash, made up of koji-infused rice, yeast, water, and usually lactic acid, ferments in a small tank for about 15 days. Alive with hungry yeast, the moto mash is transferred to large fermentation tanks along with plain cooked rice and water. Working in tandem, the koji breaks down the new rice starch while the yeast transforms the resulting sugar into alcohol. This method, termed multiple parallel fermentation, may be tricky to say after a few sakes, but the process magically yields a 20-percent mash alcohol content, the highest in any nondistilled beverage.
When fermentation is complete, brewer's alcohol may or may not be added to the mash. Next the sake is strained of its rice lees, filtered for clarity, blended with a bit of water to balance its flavor, and then pasteurized and bottled.
Aided by computer technology and machines, these procedures may be fully automated. Premium sake (jizakes), however, require many more intricate and time-consuming steps than this oversimplified explanation reveals. There may be delicate specialty rice that needs to be washed by hand, or slower, longer fermentation periods.


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Hunt, William Holman, 1827–1910, English painter. Hunt was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and one of its most conscientious exponents. His paintings are often crude in color and laborious in technique, but are completely sincere in their devotion to Pre-Raphaelite principles. In 1854 he visited Palestine in order to have authentic material for his religious paintings. Among his best-known works are The Light of the World (Univ. of Oxford) and The Triumph of the Innocents (Liverpool Gall.).
See his Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1905–6); studies by F. G. Stephens (1860) and A. C. Gissing (1936).
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433: Wow, that's really cool. I took a train past the cover of Animals in the 1990's. I was under the impression that it had since been torn down. There were many factories and mills around that area that looked much like the cover, from the picture in TFA, most of them have been razed.
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I don’t know about you all, but the team here at Festival Squad has been awaiting the announcement of Canadian’s highly anticipated festival.. Shambhala. Well now its here and this August festival cannot come soon enough for us. The headliners are amazing, the stages are supposed to be overly gaudy and the people fantastic. Who else is ready with a lineup like this?
More information on this festival here.


The weather was gorgeous, and just after dinner the dog and I headed outside to snap a few exterior pictures. Here we go!
There are dairy cows across the road and they make me happy. You can just barely see them in this picture, but believe me, they're there.
One of my favourite things about living here is the big old century barn - it's amazing. It needs to be cleaned out, though (think old hay and racoon poop).
How was your weekend? Anyone find a dead coyote in their yard? Because I did. I need to find a shovel. And get the wheelbarrow from the old house. Blerg.


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Manager Sam Allardyce says signing Andy Carroll on a permanent deal from Liverpool is West Ham's 'main priority' over the summer.
The 24-year-old played the final match of his season-long loan in Sunday afternoon's 4-2 win over relegated Reading at Upton Park, where captain Kevin Nolan netted a hat-trick.
"It is our target to make it a permanent situation," Allardyce said. "Hopefully we can get somewhere in the near future to do that. It's our main priority. There are negotiations between the club and Liverpool."
He added: "We have to pursue it to the very end one way or another and we will find out as quick as we can if it is a yes or a no. If we can start with Andy Carroll that would be a great achievement for us as he can only get better and better.
"Then we build around that in terms of how we want to improve next year, with better quality.
"Andy is a player that is wanting to enjoy his football. He lives for his football and wants to play every game. He wants to use his strengths and score as many as he can - but he also works very hard for the team."
The Irons were in complete control against Reading after a mistake from a new England call-up, goalkeeper Alex McCarthy, gifted Nolan the opener on 23 minutes, with Ricardo Vaz Te sweeping home a second following more good work from Carroll.
The Royals responded with two quick goals at the start of the second half through Garath McCleary and substitute Adam Le Fondre. But the Hammers made sure of a top-10 finish when Nolan netted again and then completed his hat-trick with a header three minutes from time.
Reading's fate had long been sealed and they finish the season in 19th place. However, Royals boss Nigel Adkins maintains there are plenty of positives to take ahead of a return to life in the npower Championship.
"There is a good feelgood factor going forward for next season, which is important," said Adkins, who replaced the sacked Brian McDermott in March. "We have changed the way the club has played football - we are looking to be more in control with keeping the football for longer periods of time and that takes time to get everyone ready to go and do that."


- - The competition will run until 23:59 GMT on Monday 19th November 2007.
- Once the competition has ended, the final submissions will be downloaded and these will be judged. The latest version posted on this forum at the end of the competition will the one judged and not any updated versions which are released afterwards. Those ranking the games for audience appreciation purposes should also ignore any updated versions.
- Judging will take place during the week which follows the end of the competition and the results will be announced on this forum no later than 22:00 GMT on Monday 26th November.
- Prizes will be paid immediately once the results have been announced and the winners have provided details of how they wish to be paid. Ideally this will be via PayPal, but alternative methods of payment can be arranged.
- You can enter individually or as part of a team, but you will obviously need to share any prize you may win.
- You must use the graphics and sound files provided and no others.
- You can use graphics primitives in your game if you wish, but the main objects in the game should be those provided.
- You can use other external non-graphics files like maps if you wish, and MODs are OK as long as they only use the samples provided.
- Your entry should be submitted as source code plus any additional libraries which are required for it to run. You can provide a binary if you wish, but it should be a seperate download.
- The minimum requirement is that entries must run on Windows, but ideally they should also run on Linux.
- You can use any external libraries you require, and binary versions of these should be provided along with your entry.
- You can use libraries of code previously written by either yourself or others, and whilst it would be friendly if you also made these available for others to use, it is not a requirement.
- During judging, if 50% of those who entered a game feel that you have cheated, then you will be disqualified, so if you are in any doubt about the rules and what is acceptable, please ask on this thread.
- First prize: 100 GBP
Second Prize: 50 GBP
Third Prize: 25 GBP
The judging categories this time around are as follows:
- Effective Use of Graphics - 25 Points
How effectively were the original graphics used?
You can use standard drawing primitives etc. to create additional art to be used in the game, but there will be no points awarded for this, just how well you use the actual art provided.
Effective Use of Sound - 15 Points
How effectively were the sound samples provided used? I know they're quite limited, but they can be replayed at different frequencies, so I'm hoping some of you may attempt a little music.
Game Design - 20 Points
How well thought out was the game/level design? Were there any flaws in the design, and were there areas which could obviously be improved?
Presentation - 10 Points
How well was the game presented? Did it have title screen, instructions etc.? Did it have a proper ending?
Originality - 10 Points
How original is the game? Was it just a copy of an existing game, or something typical of a particular genre? If it were based on an existing game was there an effort made to improve on the original and were there novel twists?
The graphics are from Space Invaders, but if you just enter a remake, then you're obviously not going to get many points for originality.
Depth - 10 Points
Does the game have any real depth, or is it just the same thing over and over with very little new or interesting happening?
Gameplay - 10 Points
Ignoring all other aspects of the scoring, how well did the game actually play?
Controls - 10 Points
How well do the controls work? Are they intuitive? Are they responsive? Are they kept to the minimum required to be effective?
Progression - 10 Points
Does the game have a good sense of progression? Are there distinct, different levels? Is there a good sense of increasing difficulty? Does it present challenges to be overcome as the player progresses?
Replay Value - 10 Points
Does the game make you want to keep going back for just one more go?
Effective Use of Random Elements - 5 Points
Are there random elements in the game, and if so, are they used effectively? Do they make the game more fun and unpredictable, or do they make it randomly impossible or too difficult and therefore frustrating at times?
Audience Appreciation - 15 Points
Everyone who submits and entry can give their own rankings (privately if they wish) and these will be compiled and points awarded with the highest ranked game getting 15, the next getting 14 etc.
If I'm not very much mistaken, this gives a maximum score of 150 points.
Good luck everyone!


"We had some amazing dances, especially for the first week," said Julianne Hough on Tuesday's "Dancing With the Stars" results show, recapping Monday's premiere.
But someone wasn't amazing enough to dance a second week.
Which celeb had the dubious distinction of being the first one kicked off Season 19?
First, there was an hour-long show to get through.
Here's how it went:
First star safe: Antonio Sabato Jr. and his partner Cheryl Burke.
Second star safe: Tavis Smiley and partner Sharna Burgess.
Next: Betsey Johnson
"You're in jeopardy," said host Tom Bergeron.
"In jeopardy?" said a dazed Johnson.
"You're not playing 'Jeopardy,' you're in jeopardy," he cracked.
"Different show," added host Erin Andrews.
Then we had some behind-the-scenes moments and an encore from the leader-board topper Alfonso Ribeiro, with partner Witney Carson.
Smokey Robinson and Aloe Blacc performed a smooth duet of "My Girl."
More couples deemed safe: Janel Parrish and Val Chmerkovskiy; Randy Couture andKarina Smirnoff, Alfonso and Witney, Sadie Robertson and Mark Ballas, Bethany Moto and Derek Hough, Tommy Chong and Peta Murgatroyd, Jonathan Bennett and Allison Holker.
Big highlight of the night: Everyone in the ballroom then got all hot and bothered watching the three new pros, Allison Holker, Keo Motsepe and Artem Chigvintsevperform a sexy number. The two guys were shirtless, showing off their buff torsos.
Joining Johnson in jeopardy:
Michael Waltrip and Emma Slater
Lea Thompson and Artem Chigvintsev
Lolo Jones and Keo Motsepe.
And inthe endthe eliminated celebrity was .... Lolo Jones!
"I know Betsey had the malfunction with the boa and that was disadvantage for her. Honestly it was just steps on my part," said Jones. "I'm glad she's staying. She deserved to stay."
Motsepe, the show's first black dancer in 19 seasons, said he was "so proud" he got to show himself on TV.


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I knew before leaving for Puerto Rico that I wanted to enjoy one uber fancy, most likely to be pricey, foodie meal in Puerto Rico. Because I'm neurotic, I scoured the internet for ideas and decided that I would either dine at Dragonfly or Aguaviva, both of which are apart of Puerto Rico's OOF! Restaurant Group. The two are located right next door to each other on Forteleza street, so I was really torn, going from one menu to the other. The manager of Aguaviva was standing outside and laughing at my dilemma, eventually luring me in with talk of a lobster stuffed snapper. Sold.
Aguaviva is trying to bring a hip, swank, yuppie NYC, DC, Miami vibe to Old San Juan. The decorations were clean and modern, kitchen was visible, and the bar had high chairs and booths had fluffy pillows. Here's the view from my seat:
360 View of Aguaviva from my seat from kashiad on Vimeo.
I moved on to try the raw oysters, something that Aguaviva advertises heavily. The oysters change daily and while I was dining I got to try the Blue Point and Virginia oysters served on the half shell. I'd never tried raw oysters before, the concept grossed me out, but I'm really glad I gave them a try because I fell in love.
After a bit of a wait, our food finally arrived. I ordered the bribery dish--A whole fried red snapper, stuffed with lobster mofongo. I soon regretted my decision. Before I get into the review of the fish, let me explain that my first memory of fried red snapper was in Panama where the fish is scored, stuffed with seasoning, and fried to perfection. Fastforward. Despite a pretty epic presentation, the fish had no flavor...really, a Captain D's batter would have given me better justice. Adding to the disappointment of the fish, the "lobster" mofongo barely had visible pieces of the crustacean and on its own it was dry...a deadly sin for the smashed plaintains. I couldn't even finish it, and wished I had more oysters.
My boyfriend's dish fared no better and seemed to suffer from food ADD. His seafood risotto was smokey because of the bacon, but since all the fat did not get rendered off, the bacon was chewy which is in my eyes immoral and an amateurish culinary misstep. Calamari, shrimp, and scallops were the sea creatures present in the risotto, but none really had a flavor as the cheese** and chewy bacon dominated the starch and its sea friends. Also, the scallops on the dish itself were a bit undercooked, giving way to a weird stringy texture. Also, the weirdest thing of all is that it was topped with what I concluded to be lemon infused coconut. There was just too much going on.
The chef made me a personal batch (each serving is made to order so you can't exactly "sample" them) of lobster mashed potatoes since I'd mentioned to our server that I wanted to try (and blog about) them. I found it absolutely ridiculous that the lobster mashed potatoes had more lobster in them than my lobster mofongo! Furthermore, the potatoes were quite salty which overpowered the natural sweetness of lobster, but did have a nice hint of cream and were the perfect texture. Overall: I'm glad I was sampling them and not paying for them as I would have been slightly incensed.
To end my meal, I ordered the vanilla creme brulee and watched like a little kid as the cook grabbed the torch and started caramelizing the sugar. I grew concerned as I felt that he was torching for far too long, and my fears were confirmed when my dessert arrived....burnt. SIGH. I took my spoon and cracked away the burnt sugar to find a delightful custard underneath. The custard had a consistancy of moouse and had a nice, but not overpowering vanilla flavor. The strawberry garnish paired nicely and lightened things up.
All in all Aguaviva has great service, an innovative menu, and fresh seafood. However, the flavors are still lacking and basic culinary missteps ruin classic and simple flavors. I would say stop in to Aguaviva for some appetizers (hint: raw oysters or ceviche) and a cocktail, but head elsewhere for dinner.
364 Calle La Fortaleza
Old San Juan, San Juan
Food: 2.5 out of 5 fros
Service: 5 out of 5 fros
*I discovered during my cocktail that I'm allergic to starfruit!
**Cheese + Seafood = Hot mess