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The Trouble BeginsThis whole...'Thing', I don't even know what to call it, started about 4 months ago.The Trouble Begins by ChuiKamashi
Nothing seemed strange about that day, everything was pretty normal, but as the afternoon rolled around, these...These clouds began to show up in the sky.
I was at my older sister's shop at the time. As I was leaving, I looked up at the sky and immediately stopped in my tracks as I saw the clouds. Angry looking, dark clouds. There shouldn't be a storm today, and normally...Storm clouds don't look like that. Glancing around, it seems the only concern people had was getting rained on. Couldn't they see it? It was...Beautiful, but completely terrifying at the same time.
Bright, colored lights surged through the clouds, criss-crossing, enveloping the clouds. Before I, or anyone, had the chance to move, a huge lightning bolt suddenly struck down, hitting the street and cracking the pavement, sending cars flying. I froze for several, long seconds, as screaming filled my ears and my body was pushed around by
Ian infoName: Ian DecarliIan info by ChuiKamashi
Sex: Male
Age: Appears 19 to early 20s
Height: 6'2
Weight: 160 lbs
Species: Dead Angel
Sexual orientation: Pansexual
Hair: Short in the back with tendrils of hair in the front reaching his chest, dark blue
Eyes: dark blue, pupils outlined by white circle, a second white circle just inside of the iris
Build: slim
Distinctive Marks: steel lip stud on lower left of mouth (Only piercing he'll mention he has). Doesn't let anyone see, but slanted stitches on his upper arms, thighs, and making an X on his chest, as well as permanent bruises on his back and partially on his stomach and chest
Personality: A liar. He comes off as rather rude at first, somewhat quiet, but does speak up when need be. Rather crude and easily angered. Rarely shows a gentler side, usually only to his love, however, even to her, he's still quite secretive without meaning to be. Also very reckless and is often injured, whether by someone else or even himself on accident.
Relationships: Mia - somewhat
Writing is HardIt truly is.Writing is Hard by ChuiKamashi
But writing is amazing at the same time.
Sometimes I can't find the right words
or I screw up
sentences sound awkward sometimes
but I'm happy when I write.
Well, usually, that is...
It's very frustrating when you're in a writing slump. Even harder to find the right words, you screw up more, you're so unsatisfied, and eventually you just give up for the night. Maybe try again tomorrow, but it just happens again.
But you still try. Because writing is just the best sometimes.
I feel that it's so...Incredible. You get to show people what's going on in your head, maybe you'll impress them, show them your creative side with your words. You can make someone laugh, make someone cry, make them angry, happy, anything, really. You have the ability to make someone feel like they're in a great war, or on a sweet date.
With just your words, you can get people to imagine a beautiful garden, light pink peonies brushing against your side as you take in the sights of the magnolias, calla li
Barnabas (Incomplete)Name: BarnabasBarnabas (Incomplete) by ChuiKamashi
Sex: Sexless (Gender: male)
Age: 28 (In human years)
Height: 4'5
Weight: 79 lbs
Species: Human-ish looking otherworldly being
Sexual Orientation: Asexual
Hair: Shoulder-length, dark purple
Eyes: Black
Skin: Pale blue
Body: Short and thin
Clothing: dark red and white trenchcoat, black gas mask, dark purple and pink stalkings, black and dark blue boots.
Personality: A wallflower. He stays off to the side if he can help it, but usually lets Demetrius drag him along and does whatever he wants. He's not that interested in the humans like his friend, but he's usually polite to them.
Likes: quiet areas, food, sleeping, surprisingly conversations about nothing important in particular
Dislikes: Meat, water, crowds
Friends: Demetrius
A 'Warrior', as it were, of his race, his job is to help protect his world from hostile invaders, which he can't do that well, as Demetrius forced him to go with him to the human world. He seems to hardly be around most of the time, although he
Watchers Contest (CLOSED)~Since I'm on my last commission I thought it would be great to to a little giveaway for all my watchers~Watchers Contest (CLOSED)~ by yulia-hime
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Health-related quality of life measurements in elderly Canadians with osteoporosis compared to other chronic medical conditions: a population-based study from the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos)
- A. M. Sawka,
- L. Thabane,
- A. Papaioannou,
- A. Gafni,
- G. Ioannidis,
- E. A. Papadimitropoulos,
- W. M. Hopman,
- A. Cranney,
- D. A. Hanley,
- L. Pickard,
- J. D. Adachi
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The objective of this research was to determine the relative decrement in health-related quality of life, as measured by the health utilities index mark 3 (HUI3), in osteoporosis compared to other chronic medical conditions. The impact of chronic medical conditions other than osteoporosis on HUI3 measurements had been previously established in the 1996/1997 Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS). The Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos) is a national population-based study in which regional participants were randomly recruited, regardless of presence of osteoporosis. We analyzed data from participants aged ≥65 years who completed a baseline HUI3 questionnaire and provided information on their medical history (n=3,750). We determined the age- and gender-adjusted mean decrement in HUI3 for several chronic medical conditions, including osteoporosis. The mean changes in HUI3 adjusted for age and gender (with 95% confidence intervals) were as follows: arthritis −0.10 (−0.11, −0.09), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) −0.07 (−0.09, -0.05), diabetes mellitus −0.05 (−0.08, −0.03), heart disease −0.06 (-0.08, −0.04), hypertension −0.02 (-0.03, −0.01), and osteoporosis −0.08 (−0.11, −0.06), respectively (model r2=0.17; P<0.0001). These findings were comparable to those observed in the NPHS, with the exception of osteoporosis, which had not been previously studied in this fashion. The decrement in HUI3 score seen in participants with osteoporosis was comparable to that observed in other chronic medical conditions, such as arthritis, COPD, diabetes mellitus or heart disease.
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- Title
- Health-related quality of life measurements in elderly Canadians with osteoporosis compared to other chronic medical conditions: a population-based study from the Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos)
- Journal
Osteoporosis International
Volume 16, Issue 12 , pp 1836-1840
- Cover Date
- 2005-12-01
- 10.1007/s00198-005-1949-6
- Print ISSN
- Online ISSN
- 1433-2965
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Keywords
- Health-related quality of life
- Health utilities index
- Osteoporosis
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- A. M. Sawka (1) (2) (3)
- L. Thabane (2) (3)
- A. Papaioannou (2)
- A. Gafni (2)
- G. Ioannidis (2) (3)
- E. A. Papadimitropoulos (4) (5)
- W. M. Hopman (6) (7)
- A. Cranney (8)
- D. A. Hanley (9)
- L. Pickard (2) (3)
- J. D. Adachi (2) (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Division of Endocrinology and Department of Medicine, St. Joseph's Healthcare and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- 2. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- 3. St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- 4. Eli Lilly of Canada, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 5. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 6. Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- 7. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- 8. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- 9. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada


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Rangers should win AL West again
Texas pitching staff, offensive firepower will top division for third straight season
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Texas Rangers will attempt to become the first team to go to three straight World Series since the New York Yankees did it four consecutive seasons (1998-2001). But those Yankee teams won three Fall Classics. The Rangers are still looking for their first. And the last time a team lost two straight World Series and then won it the following year: 1923 (the Yankees lost in 1921 and 1922 and then won it in 1923, beating the New York Giants).
ESPN AL West Picks
AL West predictions from around the ESPN family (finish in parentheses):
Steve Berthiaume, ESPN: 92-70 (1st): I still believe that top to bottom, players 1-25, the Rangers are a better team.
Jim Bowden, ESPN.com: 94-68 (2nd): Rangers have the best management, clubhouse and overall talent in the league ... but it's really hard for any team to get back to the World Series three straight years.
Jeff Caplan, ESPN Dallas: 96-66 (1st): A lineup that has no holes will continue to mash and will get more run support this season from a pitching staff boasting improving young talent and superior depth.
Jim Caple, ESPN.com: 94-68 (2nd): The Rangers have another excellent team, but how far they can go into October much depends on how Yu Darvish adjusts to pitching every fifth day in the Texas heat.
Tristan Cockcroft, ESPN.com: 94-68 (1st): The Angels might have better top-flight starters, but after Jered Weaver and Dan Haren (and naturally Felix Hernandez), the AL West's next-best starter is Derek Holland
Chuck Cooperstein, ESPN Dallas: 93-69 (2nd): Team is improved from last year but Angels have better starting pitching, and Pujols' presence will not let that lineup slump like they did for a lot of last year.
Jerry Crasnick, ESPN.com: 94-68 (1st): They'll win the pennant and the World Series.
Pedro Gomez, ESPN: 88-74 (2nd): The Angels have simply loaded up too much to finish anywhere but in first. But reaching the playoffs again seems like a safe bet for Texas.
Eric Karabell, ESPN.com: 94-68 (1st): With this prodigious offense and hopefully a little health, the Rangers don't need Yu Darvish, Neftali Feliz or Derek Holland to win 20 games.
Tim Kurkjian, ESPN: 92-70 (1st): First place by one game over the Angels. The competition is fierce in the American League, but the Rangers have a shot at going to the World Series for the third year in a row.
Tim MacMahon, ESPN Dallas: 100-62 (1st): Rangers hit triple digits in wins for first time in Josh Hamilton's last season in Texas.
Andrew Marchand, ESPN New York: 99-63 (1st): The Rangers are stacked. With their experience, they may take that final step in 2012.
Ian O'Connor, ESPN New York: 95-67 (1st): Despite suffering from a brutal near-miss hangover, and despite C.J. Wilson's (and Albert Pujols') move to Anaheim, the Rangers remain the most talented team in the West and one good enough to see if the third time is really the charm.
Buster Olney, ESPN: 97-65 (1st): A powerful roster that will feast on weak teams -- like the Athletics and Mariners. It's hard to imagine a scenario in which they don't make the playoffs.
Doug Padilla, ESPN Chicago: 89-73 (2nd): The Angels prove to have the better starting pitching, but the Rangers earn a wild card with designs on getting revenge against their division rivals in the postseason.
Karl Ravech, ESPN: 92-70 (2nd): I like the Angels to win the West because of their starting pitching, Pujols, Morales' return and Mike Scioscia.
Jim Reeves, ESPN Dallas: 92-70 (1st): Race decided in terrific finish with Angels in season's final three-game series at Rangers Ballpark.
Ben Rogers, ESPN Dallas: 98-64 (1st): Yu Darvish steps in as a ready-made ace and leads a deep rotation with tons of upside that will benefit from the best run support in baseball.
Mark Saxon, ESPN Los Angeles: 92-70 (2nd): The Rangers and Angels will have epic games all season and pass the baton back and forth for six months, but Angels' pitching will eventually prevail. Both make the playoffs.
David Schoenfield, ESPN.com: 93-69 (1st): Underrated starting rotation may be the best in the AL once you adjust for having to pitch in a difficult home ballpark.
Marc Stein, ESPN.com: 91-71 (2nd): When last season's Rangers ace is his new team's third starter -- and when the acquisition of C.J. Wilson is a secondary move to the blockbuster signing of Albert Pujols -- it'd be a reach to pick against the Angels.
Jeff "Skin" Wade, ESPN Dallas: 95-67 (2nd): LAA and Texas will have the best division race in baseball and they will absolutely feast on Oakland and Seattle when not beating each other's brains out.
Calvin Watkins, ESPN Dallas: 94-68 (2nd):Will be one of the wild card teams and lose in the first game.
Key home games: New Chicago White Sox manager Robin Ventura comes to town for opening weekend and he won't have to watch any replays of his memorable fight with Nolan Ryan on the stadium's videoboard. ... The Rangers play only four AL West games the opening month -- in a series with the Mariners April 9-12. ... The New York Yankees come to Texas just once, Monday, April 23 through Wednesday, April 25. ... The Tampa Bay Rays come to the ballpark twice, including the final three home games of the month.
Key road games: The club's first road trip is a three-city, 10-day tour through Minnesota, Boston and Detroit. ... It means Yu Darvish will make his road debut against Minnesota and then probably in Detroit before the club returns home. ... The Rangers will get their first look at Prince Fielder in a Tigers uniform, too.
Scheduling tidbits: ESPN "Sunday Night Baseball" opens in Texas as the Rangers play the White Sox at 7:05 p.m. on April 8. ESPN is scheduled to return to Arlington on April 29 for the final game of the Tampa Bay series. ... The opening weekend series coincides with The Masters, the first golf major of the year. ... NASCAR comes to Texas Motor Speedway while the Rangers are in Minnesota (April 13-15). ... Should also be a fun month with the Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Stars vying for the postseason.
Players to watch: DH Michael Young had 38 hits in April a year ago (second-most in the league), batting .342. ... Adrian Beltre and Nelson Cruz each had seven homers, tied for the third-most in the league for the month. ... Beltre's 22 RBIs were the second-most in the AL. ... How will Colby Lewis do? He got off to a slow start last year, going 2-3 with a 5.70 ERA in five starts in the month.
2011 rewind: The Rangers got off to a torrid start, going 9-1 in the first 10 games, including a three-game sweep of Boston at home in the opening series. ... Texas finished the month 16-11, snapping a stretch of four straight losing records in the opening month. ... The Rangers were in first place by a game over the Los Angeles Angels when April ended.
Prediction: 13-10. It's tough to imagine the Rangers will start the season as well as they did in 2011, but they'll be solid enough to stay consistent and win their share of series, getting off to a good beginning to 2012.
Key home games: The Angels, with former Ranger C.J. Wilson and newly-signed Albert Pujols, come to town May 11-13 in the first series between the two clubs in 2012. ... Texas plays 13 home games in the month and eight are against AL West foes.
Key road games: The Rangers go from a short trip to a long one when they play three in Houston May 18-20 and then fly all the way to Seattle for three against the Mariners. ... The club plays Toronto, Cleveland and Baltimore in a 10-game, 11-day road trip to start the month.
Scheduling tidbits: ESPN "Sunday Night Baseball" returns to Arlington for the third time in the season for the Angels-Rangers finale May 13. ... PGA Tour golf comes to the Metroplex with the HP Byron Nelson Championship May 17-20 (the Rangers are in Houston that weekend) and the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial May 24-27, when Toronto is in Arlington.
Players to watch: Ian Kinsler usually picks things up in May and 2011 was no exception. He had 17 runs and seven doubles in the month, with 15 walks (to just nine strikeouts). ... Beltre continued after his solid April with 21 RBIs. ... Alexi Ogando was 2-0 with a 2.36 ERA in five starts in the month, including a complete game.
2011 rewind: Texas was 13-15, yet still held the AL West lead by a half-game over the Mariners and one game over the Angels. ... The rotation posted a 3.53 ERA, the fourth-lowest ERA in the AL for the month.
Prediction: 19-9. Texas takes advantage of the schedule, with three against the Astros, six against Seattle and four against Baltimore. By the time May is over, they'll be in the lead -- barely -- over the Angels.
Key home games: The Rangers finish the month with nine home games, and 15 of their last 18 in the month are at home against Arizona, Houston, Colorado, Detroit and Oakland.
Key road games: Texas will stay in San Francisco for a week -- four against the A's followed by three against the Giants -- as part of a 10-game road trip that starts with three in Anaheim against the Angels.
Scheduling tidbits: With the Rangers in San Francisco for an afternoon affair with the Giants, the IndyCar Series will be at TMS for a night race on that same Saturday, June 9. ... The Houston game June 16 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is on Fox, as is the June 30 game against Oakland.
Players to watch: Nelson Cruz tied for the AL lead in extra base hits with 16 in June last year and had eight homers. ... Josh Hamilton returned to the lineup and had a productive month with 23 RBIs. ... Yorvit Torrealba led all the Rangers with a .338 batting average, good enough for 12th in the AL. ... Matt Harrison had a 3.38 ERA for the month, yet was 1-3.
2011 rewind: Texas was 14-13, the fourth time in the last five seasons they had a winning June. Just like the previous two months, the Rangers were in first place -- barely. They were one game ahead of the Angels.
Prediction: 14-14. It won't be easy to go .500 with a long road trip and interleague games. This is one of those grinding months that the club must get through and still stay afloat.
Key home games: The Boston Red Sox make their only visit to Arlington July 23-25. ... The Angels begin a four-game series in Texas the final two days of the month, ending Aug. 2.
Key road games: Unlike the last few seasons, the Rangers will spend July 4 out of town. They'll be in Chicago for a three-game series with the White Sox. ... After the All-Star Game in Kansas City on July 10, Texas has eight road games in 10 days, with off days in Oakland and Anaheim as part of the trip against AL West foes. They only play two games in Oakland.
Players to watch: When healthy, July has usually been a good month for Cruz, whose bat heats up with the weather. He led the AL with 26 RBIs in July 2011 and batted .326. ... Mike Napoli began his incredible second half last July, returning from injury to hit .443 for the month, the highest mark in the majors. He ended up batting .383 for the second half of the season. ... Derek Holland began to really assert himself in 2011 in July, going 4-1 with a 2.77 ERA.
2011 rewind: It was a big month for the club as it went 18-9, trailing only Boston and Philadelphia for the best record in the big leagues that month. ... The Rangers hit .313 in July, 15 points higher than the next closest team (Boston). ... Despite that, the club gained just one game on its division lead, finishing the month ahead of the Angels by two games, though creating separation with the rest of the AL West (Oakland was 11 ½ back and Seattle 15 behind).
Prediction: 13-10. A dozen games at home helps, though five games against the Angels (including three on the road) won't be easy. The off days and All-Star break should have them rested and ready for a good month, though.
Key home games: Prince Fielder and the Tigers make their final trip to Arlington Aug. 10-12. ... The club has one of its longest homestands of the season, a 10-game span in 10 days against Baltimore, Minnesota and Tampa Bay.
Key road games: There's a stretch of 13 road games out of 16 played early in the month. That includes trips to Kansas City, Boston, New York and Toronto. It's a four-game set in Yankee Stadium and three in the other cities.
Scheduling tidbits: The timing of the long homestand means lots of games in the oppressive Texas heat, though that could certainly be an advantage. It's also important with plenty of key road trips in September.
Players to watch: Besides Napoli, who just kept on hitting, Kinsler was one of only five players in the big leagues to score 20 runs, hit five homers and drive in at least 19 runs in August 2011. His 19 RBIs led all Rangers. ... Michael Young led the Rangers in batting average at .336 with Yorvit Torrealba not far behind (.326). ... Mike Adams had a 1.88 ERA.
2011 rewind: The team ended a three-season skid of losing months in August by going 16-12. ... Texas added 1 ½ games to their AL West lead, jumping out to a 3 ½-game edge on the Angels. ... The pitching staff had a 4.48 ERA, the highest of any month all season.
Prediction: 14-15. It's a total of 29 games in the month and it's not easy with three at Fenway, four at Yankee Stadium and home series with Detroit and Tampa Bay.
Key home games: The club has 13 home games with 10 of them against the AL West. That includes the final three home games played the weekend of Sept. 28-30 against the Angels. ... The only team not in the division that comes to Arlington in September is Cleveland.
Key road games: Most of September is played away from Texas with games against Cleveland, Kansas City and Tampa Bay in an early road trip and the Angels and Mariners late. ... The final three games of the season are in Oakland on Oct. 1-3.
Scheduling tidbits: Assuming the race is tight, the Rangers will have to find a way to get it done on the road. ... Six head-to-head meetings with the Angels (three at home, three on the road) should be entertaining and meaningful. ... Both Sunday games at home are day games at 2:05 p.m. (Seattle, Angels). Of course that's subject to change based on TV.
Players to watch: Napoli shined in September last year, hitting .429 (tied with Miguel Cabrera for the highest average in the big leagues with at least 70 at-bats in the month). ... Beltre had 29 RBIs, tops in the majors. ... Harrison was 4-0 with a 2.64 ERA, and Derek Holland was 4-0 with a 2.20 ERA in 10 combined starts.
2011 rewind: The Rangers made sure there would be no late drama in the AL West, thanks to a huge month. They were 19-6 and, in doing so, beat out the Tigers by one game for the No. 2 seed in the AL, meaning they had home-field advantage against those Tigers in the ALCS. ... The Rangers hit .320 as a team, the third-highest average for any month by any team since 1946. ... The 49 homers set a club record for homers hit in the final month of the season.
Prediction: 20-11. Just like in 2011, the Rangers play well the final month to hold off the Angels.
93-69 (first in the AL West):
We saw last season that when it mattered most, the Rangers team had an ability to bear down and do what needed to be done. Even when they already had the division clinched, they didn't let up and were able to secure home-field advantage for the division series and eventually the ALCS.
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As always, the question for the Rangers is health. They didn't stay particularly healthy last year (see Hamilton, Beltre, Cruz), yet still won a club-record 96 games.
The pitching staff must come together with the addition of Darvish and the subtraction of Wilson, and I think it will.
That's why the Rangers win the division for the third consecutive year despite an improved Angels squad.
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Atlanta Falcons: Can Jamaal Anderson step up on defense?
Last year, the Falcons secretly had the league's second-best run defense, according to DVOA. At minus-16.1 percent (remember, since defense is about not allowing a team yards or points, a negative DVOA is actually better), they were better at stopping the run than vaunted defenses like the Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, and Pittsburgh Steelers.
When the opposition threw? That was another story. Atlanta's 24.0 percent pass defense DVOA was 27th in the league; no one ranked lower than 22nd (Minnesota Vikings) made the playoffs, and the Vikings were the only team in football with a better run defense than Atlanta.
Good pass defense requires an effective pass rush and good coverage, and the Falcons had neither in 2009. The Falcons hoped that a ferocious pass rush would compensate for a mediocre secondary, but Atlanta's sack rate of 5.6 percent was 26th in the league, with star end John Abraham going from 16.5 sacks in 2008 to only 5.5 in 2009. The team leader in sacks was actually defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux, who had six. There's hope in situational pass-rusher Kroy Biermann, who had five sacks in his sophomore campaign, but the problem here is the guy starting across from Abraham and ahead of Biermann.
The champs are from the NFC South. What's their issue? The Panthers were the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs just two years ago. What's their deal? Tampa has the No. 3 pick. What should it do? To go deeper into the issues of this division, you must be an ESPN Insider.
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Apple's iPad became thinner and more powerful than ever last year with the iPad Air. This year, the iconic tablet is expected to go Pro. The purported iPad Pro is the next evolution of Apple's long-running slate, one that could serve as a laptop replacement with a larger screen, beefier processor and attachable keyboard. From dual operating systems to an iPhone 5s-style Touch ID button, here are some of the more noteworthy rumors surrounding the iPad Pro.
If the iPad is going to replace your MacBook, it needs to get bigger. That's exactly what might happen this year, as several rumors are pointing to a 12.9-inch display, which would be even larger than the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro's 12.2-inch screen.
This bigger screen could be Apple's sharpest ever for a tablet, as a report from TechRadar suggests that Apple is prepping both 2K and 4K displays for the Pro. The Air already packs a 2048 x 1536 display, but TechRadar is expecting something closer to 2560 x 1600, with a rumored 4K model that could pack close to 4096 x 3072 pixels.
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Apple's Smart Cover could be getting a lot smarter. According to a recent patent filing, Apple could eventually release a Smart Cover with a full keyboard, much like the Type Cover on Microsoft's Surface. Apple's patent suggests a keyboard that could operate independently from the cover, allowing you to attach the keyboard to your iPad in a variety of configurations or use the accessory wirelessly. This keyboard may also support gesture controls on a small panel, which would eliminate the need for a traditional touchpad.
Apple could also bundle the Pro with a proprietary stylus, if it wants to keep up with competitors like the Note Pro. One USPTO filing reported by Patently Apple points to a patent related to stylus orientation detection, which would allow a touchscreen to react differently based on various types of stylus strokes. Is the iPen almost upon us?
Apple's Touch ID fingerprint-reading home button made its debut on last year's iPhone 5s, and there's no reason it shouldn't make its way to the iPad Pro. The iPhone's Touch ID allows users to unlock their device and authorize purchases with a tap of their finger, though we'd like to see Apple add the ability to replace website passwords with a touch.
In addition to supporting your fingerprints, the iPad Pro could utilize your eyeballs. The tablet will tout eye-tracking technology according to International Business Times, though there aren't any specifics on how the function could work.
An iPad Pro with a 4K display would require more processing power than ever, which leads many to believe Apple is crafting a follow-up to its 64-bit A7 processor for its next tablet. A report from Apple Insider suggests that Apple is ready to enter the manufacturing phase for the A8 chip, which could ship this fall in time for the iPad Pro's rumored release window.
While the A7 is made by Samsung, a DigiTimes report suggests that the A8 will be handled by Amkor, STATS ChipPAC and ASE. This could be a result of ongoing tensions between the two smartphone rivals. The A8 CPU is also expected to land in the iPhone 6.
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With iOS 8 expected to launch this fall, it's safe to assume that the iPad Pro will run the latest version of Apple's mobile OS. This would allow iPad Pro users to access purported iOS 8 features like Healthbook and the mobile version of Text Edit, the latter of which would lend itself well to a productivity-minded tablet.
However, Apple could go even further towards making the iPad Pro a laptop replacement by infusing the tablet with OS X, which runs on all of the company's desktops and laptops. A concept video from Set Solution demonstrates how OS X could work on an iPad, and there have even been rumblings that OS X and iOS could eventually become a single operating system.
Apple execs Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi shot down these rumors, but did note that there should be some cohesion between the two systems in a MacWorld interview. We don't believe dual-booting Apple tablet is on the company's near-term roadmap, but that's doesn't mean we wouldn't appreciate the versatility.
Regardless, we would like to see Apple innovate with iOS 8 to make the most of the iPad Pro's larger display, similar to the Multi Window multitasking feature on the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. Why not let iPad owners run two apps on the screen (or more) at once?
The iPad Air hit shelves in November 2013, so it's possible the iPad Pro could arrive at a similar time frame this year. China's Pad News suggests that the tablet could see an October 2014 release date, though International Business Times points out that Apple may wait for a winter 2014 or even spring 2015 launch date. If Apple opts for the latter time frame, it could keep fans focused on the highly anticipated iPhone 6 and iOS 8, both of which are expected to release this fall.


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Fourth of July Recycled Wine Carrier
By: Heidi Borchers
If you're heading to a Fourth of July barbecue, you can't leave home without a Fourth of July Recycled Wine Carrier. Patriotic crafts are perfect for a celebration and will help bring the party to life. Best of all, the materials can come from your very own recycle bin.
- Milk carton
- Aleene's Tacky Glue
- Aleene's Decoupage – Matte
- Brushes (one for Decoupage, one for paint)
- Book pages
- Acrylic paint – red, blue, white
- Water
- Matboard – to use as inserts to strengthen the milk carton
- Craft knife (to cut matboard)
- Scissors
- Clothespins
- Wood stars
- Twine – thin gauge
- Heavy gauge covered wire (for handle)
- Wire cutters
Carefully tear open the top of the milk carton and remove plastic pour spout.
Rinse and dry inside of carton.
Cut down each corner from top to first fold in carton. Bend two opposite sides in to the inside of carton.
To strengthen carton, you will need to measure and cut matboard to create inserts for two sides. Measure one side of carton from top to bottom, side to side and cut piece of matboard to measurement. Cut one end of matboard to point. Repeat to create second cut piece of matboard.
Insert matboard inside carton and mark carton along pointed edge. Cut along marked edges to create points on carton.
Apply glue to matboard pieces and glue inside carton. Use clothespins to hold in place while glue dries.
Tear several book pages into approximately 2″ x 3″ pieces.
To decoupage the outside, working small sections at a time, brush outside surface of carton with Aleene's Decoupage. Brush a coat of Decoupage onto the back of book page piece and glue onto carton. Brush over book page with Decoupage. Repeat to cover entire outside and inside of carton. Let dry.
If desired, apply white paint in dry brush technique over the decoupaged book pages.
To create the stripes, mix red acrylic paint with water to create a wash. Brush color onto book pages. Let dry.
Find grain in book page paper and tear into approximate 1/2″ strips.
Decoupage stripes onto outside of carton.
Apply blue wash of color to stars and book pages. Let dry. Use stars as patterns to cut book pages to size. Glue in place with Decoupage. Let dry.
Glue a length of twine to back of stars. Set aside to dry.
Punch hole slightly below each point in carton.
To create handle, insert end of wire in first hole and bend up. Repeat by inserting other end in other hole, adjust for desired length, cut off excess and bend up.
- Hang stars from handle. Tie with another piece of twine to hold in place.
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'Excessive' currency volatility threat to stability: G7
PUBLISHED: 12 Feb 2013 22:38:00 | UPDATED: 13 Feb 2013 08:17:20PRINT EDITION: 13 Feb 2013An employee of a foreign exchange company walks next to a monitor displaying the Japanese yen's exchange rate against the U.S. dollar in Tokyo. The Japanese yen has plunged against the US dollar in the wake of aggressive buying of Japanese government bonds by the Bank of Japan at the request of its newly elected government. Photo: Reuters
The Group of Seven top industrialised nations has reaffirmed a commitment to market-determined exchange rates, saying "excessive volatility and disorderly movements" undermine stability.
Tuesday's statement, issued through the Bank of England, comes amid increasing concern about competitive devaluations as nation's look to bolster economic growth by lowering the cost of exports.
"We, the G7 ministers and governors, reaffirm our long-standing commitment to market determined exchange rates and to consult closely in regard to actions in foreign exchange markets," they said in a brief collective statement.
"We reaffirm that our fiscal and monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments, and that we will not target exchange rates.
"We are agreed that excessive volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates can have adverse implications for economic and financial stability. We will continue to consult closely on exchange markets and co-operate as appropriate."
Japan's recent monetary easing has stoked fears, especially in Europe, of a so-called "currency war" between the major economies as policymakers seek to devalue their currencies to make exports more competitive.
Overnight, Washington had urged the Group of 20 economic powers, which holds a meeting later this week, to avoid competitive currency devaluation – or so-called "currency war" – that would threaten global economic growth.
"To ensure growth strategies in the world's largest economies are mutually compatible and promote global growth, the G20 needs to deliver on the commitment to move to market-determined exchange rates and refrain from competitive devaluation," said Lael Brainard, the Treasury official who will lead the US delegation to the meeting.
Brainard, the Treasury under secretary for international affairs, notably called on China to do more to let the yuan float more freely in the market.
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Arkansas fired coach Bobby Petrino in April of 2012 after it was revealed he had an inappropriate relationship with a female employee.
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Former Arkansas Razorbacks head coach Bobby Petrino watches his team during a game last season. After a scandal that included not revealing to his bosses of his romantic connection to another school employee, Petrino was fired.
Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino was fired after he admitted an "inappropriate relationship" with Jessica Dorrell.
A sex-related ouster from a job at a Southeastern Conference school need spell the end of a college coaching career. Bobby Petrino, right, can just ask Texas-El Paso's Mike Price.
Bobby Petrino's crash began with the April 1 motorcycle accident and ended nine days later with his firing at Arkansas.
Arkansas fired coach Bobby Petrino after he admitted having an inappropriate relationship with a staff member.
Arkansas State Police Capt. Lance King, right, has provided pregame and game day security to Razorbacks football coach Bobby Petrino for the last two years. King drove Petrino to a hospital after his April 1 motorcycle crash
Arkansas Razorback head coach Bobby Petrino speaks at a press conference at Razorback Stadium following a motorcycle accident he sustained on April 1.
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A bridal store refuses to sell a wedding dress to a gay woman because of her sexual orientation. The store quickly receives a backlash on Yelp. But do these reviews break Yelp's guidelines? Yelp says yes and is pulling the reviews.
Apple approves, then removes, an app from an organization opposed to gay marriage. Group retaliates by creating a "1984" ad featuring Jobs as Big Brother.
Following an online petition from Change.org, Apple pulls iPhone app Manhattan Declaration, saying the app "is offensive to large groups of people."
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At a glance this seems to be true. "With minimal production values, a one-person piece is literally doable wherever you go," insists Kwiat. "You're responsible for yourself and not a full cast." On closer inspection, however, pulling off a solo show is not as facile as it would seem.
First, an actor needs tremendous stamina to single-handedly seize an audience's attention and maintain it for the night. As Caren Rabbino, executive director of the Miami Light Project, points out, "It's one thing for an ensemble of eight to keep an audience interested. A soloist has to be on the money every single minute for 90 or 100 minutes." Kwiat recalls confronting that realization while on-stage at the Guthrie. "I remember thinking, 'If I stop talking right now, everything stops.' The entire evening is on your shoulders."
Second, the solo artist, along with any writing or directing collaborators, must be ruthless about honing his material in a format that sometimes suffers from a lack of structure. Audiences have often been subjected to turgid recitations of biographical facts in overstuffed monodramas. These works succeed only when the sprawling events of a tumultuous life are distilled into a few crystalline episodes. One-person multiple-character shows cohere when an overarching vision links disparate characterizations; without this vision, such pieces are merely uneven progressions of unrelated impersonations. And for an autobiographical monologue to pack a wallop it must transcend the personal; otherwise it becomes a rambling confessional sans shape or purpose. "The story of your life does not an evening of theater make," quips Hoch, regarding the scores of monologues he says he has sat through. "If you are going to tell your story, how are you going to bring it to another place? How are you going to use it to teach a lesson?"
The one-person format seems to touch a nerve in theatergoers. The singular voice of a live solo artist can provide an intimate alternative to mass-produced and impersonal entertainment. Mainstream audiences are introduced to characters they would not usually encounter through the work of actors like Hoch who bring the streetwise rhythms of oral traditions to a public arena. Conversely, audiences who would never connect to the language and situations chronicled in mainstream productions see themselves reflected on-stage for the first time in pieces like Hoch's Some People.
With so many solo pieces cropping up on the landscape, one-person shows seem to be a particularly contemporary form. But solo performances were not immaculately conceived in the postmodern age. The spiritual roots of the format can be traced to ritual storytellers of primitive and ancient cultures, from the shamans of Native American and African tribes to the Homeric bards to the Celtic seanchai, who held people in thrall with legends and folktales. A more recent precursor is the satirical "entertainment," popular in eighteenth-century England, in which a lone actor lampooned the rich and famous through mimicry and jokes.
In the Nineteenth Century, Charles Dickens toured the United States giving dramatic readings of his novels. Almost a century later, British thespian Emlyn Williams impersonated Dickens in a one-man piece that Williams toured with for 35 years. But the biographical monodrama really achieved prominence when Hal Holbrook won a Tony Award for Mark Twain Tonight! in 1966, encouraging scores of writers and solo actors to depict luminaries on-stage. In turn, autobiographical and character-driven monologuists owe a debt to the remarkable Ruth Draper (1884-1956), who trotted out an arsenal of up to 54 different personas in shows that she called "monos." In particular, Draper's work inspired Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, cocreators of the 1985 tour de force The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
Most single-actor offerings do not achieve the success rightfully accorded Tomlin and Wagner's work. Instead, as the format becomes more pervasive, its burgeoning is greeted with skepticism in some quarters. "I'm not sure if there's a demand for one-person shows on the part of audiences," wonders Kwiat, "or if these are just the types of shows producers want to back these days. Wouldn't you rather put up the money for one person than invest in something like The Man Who Came to Dinner with a cast of 24?" And Rafael de Acha turns a critical eye on showcases by comedians like Jackie Mason or Rob Becker, whose popular Defending the Caveman comes to South Florida on national tour this winter. De Acha, artistic director of New Theatre and director of last year's Schweitzer, considers such shows extended stand-up comedy routines. "I have a problem paying top dollar for a lounge act plopped down on Broadway from Las Vegas," he adds.
The one-person show can be the best of forms or the worst of forms. With new offerings seeming to sprout locally and nationally every week, no dignitary -- historical, literary, or political -- is safe from the scrutiny of the biographical drama. No childhood slight or injury remains untapped in the autobiographical monologue. No one an actor encounters is immune from being morphed into a character in a sketch. Yet when it works, when the writing, the performance, and the connection between solo actor and collective audience synthesize in a transcendent evening, the form can be sublime.


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Attorney Theodore Dempster Disbarred for Running Ponzi-Like Scheme
Dempster set up a trust account for McBain Investments Trust Inc. in 2008 and began soliciting investments. Alain Racimora and Michael Albert Serge Torre invested $200,000 and $150,000, respectively, with Dempster shortly thereafter. But nearly two years later, the two filed a joint lawsuit against Dempster and notified the Florida Bar.
The bar investigation found that Racimora and Torre's investments were almost completely depleted by August 2010, with most of the money going to pay Dempster's personal and business debts.
Several other investors had also kept their money with Dempster through his McBain trust, and he collected around $1.8 million total.
Dempster also did not fully comply with the bar's investigation of his scheme.
Dempster has now been disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court, which issued the following ruling:
Theodore Ross Dempster, 801 Brickell Ave., Ph-1, Miami, disbarred for seven years, effective immediately, following a March 16 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1976) An audit revealed that Dempster misappropriated client funds to satisfy personal and business obligations, in a manner similar to a Ponzi scheme. Dempster has been found guilty of violations including: misrepresentation, and engaging in dishonest, fraudulent and deceitful conduct. The auditor found numerous trust account violations and a failure to produce all the required bank records requested in the Bar's subpoena. (Case No. SC10-1829)Follow Miami New Times on Facebook and Twitter @MiamiNewTimes.
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When you think of removing all the toxins from your body, you may shudder at the process – especially when considering that some experts estimate that we are exposed to 2,100,000 toxins each and every day. While there are numerous approaches to detoxing these poisons out of the body, many of them involve unpleasant side effects. Fortunately, there are gentler approaches to detoxing too.
Every day we come in contact with numerous toxins and pollutants. These toxins come from chemicals in our carpet, plastics, body care products and the air we breathe. But they also come from our water and our food choices. Cumulatively, the pollutants in our environment can have untold negative effects on our health and well-being. This is why keeping your exposure to a minimum may not be enough.
4 Foods for a Gentle and Effective Detox
If you aren't one for dramatic flushes or fasts, the following foods and herbs can offer a gentle detox.
- 1. Cilantro is a great herb that's easy to find and simple to incorporate into your daily regimen. You can cook with it, juice it, or eat it raw. You can even find cilantro juice already made at your local health food store. Cilantro is a great detoxifier of mercury and other heavy metals. Cilantro's antibacterial and antifungal properties make the herb work to reduce inflammation and infections while cleansing.
- 2. Wheatgrass is another versatile detoxifier. You can grow it yourself or find it in an increasing number of grocery stores. It's potent so start slow with just a tiny amount of juice in your daily routine.
- 3. Pectin is found naturally in fruits like apples, citrus, grapes, and bananas. It helps remove heavy metals and other toxins. You can easily get the benefits of this natural detoxing agent by adding pectin-rich foods to your diet. Also, you can add pectin products to your smoothie or water. Be wary of pectin products that contain MSG.
- 4. Other greens like parsley, alfalfa, and chlorella are also great at chelating heavy metals and detoxing the body. You can juice any one of these or add them to salads.
To make your detox as gentle as possible stay hydrated, eliminate all processed and harmful foods, and listen to your body. You can avoid detox side-effects (a healing crisis), common in some more extreme fasts and detoxes, by simply paying attention to your body's cues and taking heed.
Don't wait – cleanse your body today.
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Cilantro chelates mercury and is consequently very dangerous to use indiscriminately.
By definition, toxins are poisons.
If you have heavy metals within you in sufficient quantity to cause problems – see a doctor, or a dietician (not a "nutritionist" – dietitians are medically trained to work in hospitals), rather than follow the latest fad.
For example – do you know which of the "toxins" you have within you at the moment? No? So how do you know which of these to eat? Eat them all? Really? If you had such a healthy, varied diet including these items then you wouldn't need the "detox" in the first place.
most herbs that detox, are not "toxin specific". You dont drink wheatgrass to JUST get rid of, say LEAD.
We are exposed to LOTS of toxins in our daily lives, not just through food. and unles you grow all your food, and in an organic way, then you still are exposed to toxins.
Lets say you DO grow your food… You still have to worry about car exhaust, acid rain (which is VERY high in toxins), ground contaminants… Maybe someone changed thier oil in the spopt you are gardening 30 years ago?…lead poisoning isnt fun.Truth is, i found NIACIN to be MUCH better as a detox, but you need lots of anti-oxidants when you detox with niacin.
"some experts estimate that we are exposed to 2,100,000 toxins each and every day".
What utter rubbish.
I am more of an expert than this bloke. He makes stupid, ignorant comments and fails to back anything up with any research or even common sense. He claims 200,000 toxins and lists 6, and even then he's scraping the barrel with the sixth – chemtrail residues. Really?? From the lower stratosphere? Sheesh!
You don't need these potentially harmful fad diets.
Eat less meat. Eat more fruit and vegetables. Exercise more.Oh, and organic fruit and veg have been proven to contain exactly the same nutrients in the same quantities as the cheapo supermarket-own brands. I can send you a link to the research if you like. Unlike anything stated in this page.
A meta-analysis of the published comparisons of the content of secondary metabolites and vitamins in organically and conventionally produced fruits and vegetables showed that in organic produce the content of secondary metabolites is 12% higher than in corresponding conventional samples ( P< 0.0001). This overall difference spans a large variation among sub-groups of secondary metabolites, from a 16% higher content for defence-related compounds ( P< 0.0001) to a nonsignificant 2% lower content for carotenoids, while vitamin C showed a 6% higher content ( P= 0.006). Based on the assumption that increasing the content of biologically active compounds in fruits and vegetables by 12% would be equivalent to increasing the intake of fruits and vegetables by the same 12%, a model developed to calculate the health outcome of increasing the intake of fruits and vegetables was then used to tentatively estimate the potential increase in life expectancy that would be achieved by switching from conventional to organic produce without changing the amount consumed per day, to 17 days for women and 25 days for men.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07352689.2011.554417#.UgfV_xC7uJA"for every 17 micrograms of lead in your body, your IQ is reduced by 10 points."
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/03/21/dr-clement-on-detoxification.aspx"Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History," her mammary glands are no different from those of most American women. In the year 2012, breast-feeding still passes many good things from mother to baby: vitamins, minerals and "a solid hedge of extras to help ward off a lifetime of diseases." But the practice also typically transfers "paint thinners, dry-cleaning fluids, wood preservatives, toilet deodorizers, cosmetic additives, gasoline by-products, rocket fuel, termite poisons, fungicides" and varieties of flame retardants, one of which, Penta-BDE, was banned by the European Union because of its chronic toxicity to humans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/books/review/breasts-by-florence-williams.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& -
Organic foods were never touted to give more vitamins
they were meant to keep pesticides etc(BELOW) out of your food.pesticides, fertilizers, weed killers, plant growth regulators such as hormones, livestock antibiotics, food additives, genetically modified organisms, human sewage sludge, and nanomaterials
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farmingmany of those have oil based derivatives and/or heavy metals.
those things cause cancer
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States
Organic foods reduce exposure to pesticides and antibiotic-resistant bacteria…
organic milk may contain significantly higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids than conventional milk,
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/09/04/3581865.htm. Food sources such as vegetables, grains, fruits, fish and shellfish can become contaminated by accumulating metals from surrounding soil and water. Heavy metal exposure causes serious health effects, including reduced growth and development, cancer, organ damage, nervous system damage, and in extreme cases, death. Exposure to some metals, such as mercury and lead, may also cause development of autoimmunity, in which a person's immune system attacks its own cells. This can lead to joint diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, and diseases of the kidneys, circulatory system, and nervous system.
http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/confronting-toxics/heavy-metals/ -
link pls…
Most people DON'T have a varied diet , The tips are obviously for them…And organic fruits and veggies are not pickled with chemicals . I agree with this " Eat less meat. Eat more fruit and vegetables. Exercise more." One more thing sugar and all associated sweets are a big problem in the Australian diet and the remedy is not the poisonous " aspartame "
Detoxification of your body is a fad with little scientific backing, and it is potentially dangerous.
Your body is capable of detoxing all by itself.-
Not a fad at all. A useful regime that has been recognised for centuries. It's mentioned in the Bible, along with instructions for cleansing your body.
Why so negative on detoxing? Have any of the critics here tried detoxing? Why not try it and see how you feel, then comment.


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CBB 2013: Lacey Nude, Speidi Booted From Basement
Lacey caught without a towel and BB makes Speidi move back into the house!
It's snowing on Day 12 inside the Celebrity Big Brother 2013 house and housemates kill the boredom with a little snowball fight.Lacey, Gillian and Ryan hurl snowballs at one another while Speidi watches from a distance, quietly cheering on Lacey. "Get that toadface!" Heidi whispers as though she is talking to Lacey, and she squeals with delight when Ryan is hit in the face.
Although they don't cook, Speidi is complaining about the housemates cooking breakfast. They talk about how unsanitary the others are. (Sound familiar?) They saw someone stick their fingers in the eggs, then lick them, and they are grossed out. Spencer imagines "all the bacteria in their fingernails."
Speidi is called to diary room by Big Brother. She (yes, they have female Big Brother voices in the CBB 2013 house) asks, "Spencer, Heidi, are you ready to move out of basement?" They both shake their heads fervently. "No, the only thing that keeps us here is the basement," says Heidi. Big Brother responds, "Big Brother needs the basement back – and you need to participate in tasks. Are you ready?" Spencer snaps back, "You're not asking us, you're telling us." BB asks, "Anything else you'd like to say?" Spencer responds, "It's not appropriate for television, so 'no.'"
Spencer and Heidi clear out basement, pouting. "I don't want to bring dog photos. I don't want people seeing our dogs," complains Heidi. "I've never hated people so much in my life."
When they return upstairs, Speidi asks for Razor's double bed back. He obliges but later grumbles about their special treatment.
Rylan is feeling inquisitive and he plays with the vending machine, "Big Vendor," that doesn't work. But soon after it becomes a talking vending machine, and much like the ZingBot, it pokes fun at each housemate, asking them what their talents are. "I will run them (their talents) through my system," it says. "I found that Rylan and Claire have talents. I do not recogognize talents in others." Housemates are then told by Big Vendor that they have a task to complete.
TASK: Rylan and Claire are appointed team captains and they each split up the housemates. Each team must learn a song and perform it, singing and dancing, and Big Vendor will decide whose is the best. The winning team will win vouchers for alcohol and food.
In the diary room Rylan's team jokes about Heidi's singing career – or lack thereof.
The teams begin and Claire's team is up first. They sing a happy, feel good song. They do quite well and have great energy. Claire is a good singer as well. I wish I could say the same for Rylan, but I have to say, this is the first tme I heard him sing and I wasn't impressesd. He looked fabulous performing though. He made it how far on X Factor?! Rylan's team sings "Tragedy" by the Bee Gees, which was also performed by Claire's group in the 90s, Steps.
Somehow Rylan's team wins (I disagree with that) and they are rewarded with the food and drinks. They enjoy them in the igloo, sharing with the losing team.
As they are all sitting around talking, Speidi talks about their life in L.A. "All we do is lay on the back all day. We're not bragging…" says Heidi. When Tricia asks about their relationship Heidi says it is rock solid. Forever. Longer than forever. Then she tells everyone, "People pay millions of try and break us up. It happens all the time."
Later in the bedroomTricia ponders who will be evicted this week. "Speidi are probably loved on the outside. We're probably the assholes. It'll be Lacey," she guesses. Meanwhile Spencer tells Lacey (who's not nude yet) he thinks either Claire or Rylan will go home.
The show ends with Heidi being pissed that Lacey is naked in the shower. She is so uncomfortable with other's sexuality.
And yes, I found a pic of Lacey nude for ya. You're welcome.


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Mugabe government's plans to reap benefits from 2010 soccer World Cup are not materializing.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's government is busy planning for spinoffs from the 2010 soccer World Cup, just three weeks away.
Zimbabwean officials are hoping that the huge soccer tournament hosted this year by South Africa will boost this neighboring country with tourists and training camps. But the benefits do not appear to be coming. Already one of the planned visitors, North Korea, has pulled out.
President Robert Mugabe's government is dreaming of an influx of tourists as international fans coming to South Africa for the World Cup extend their trips by traveling north of the Limpopo River to Zimbabwe. Here they would be able to see a magnificent array of wildlife in the country's national parks, the mighty Victoria Falls and a sophisticated tourism infrastructure. The trouble is there appear to be few takers.
The Harare government has also tried to attract visiting teams for pre-World Cup training — to acclimatize to the southern African altitude, time zone and weather — which would have provided an important source of revenue.
Zimbabwean Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi announced triumphantly in April that the North Korean team was the first of several to confirm they would come to Zimbabwe for training.
Mzembi should have know that North Korea would be the last country that Zimbabweans would welcome. They blame the North Koreans for playing a notorious role in the Matabeleland Massacres of the 1980s. An estimated 10,000 to 20,000 Zimbabwean civilians lost their lives at the hands of the Zimbabwe Army's Fifth Brigade, a unit that had received special training from North Korean military advisors in brutal counter-insurgency tactics. Shortly after the instruction, the Fifth Brigade was deployed by Mugabe in southern Zimbabwe in 1982 to crush dissent from supporters of rival nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo.
The killings, torture and destruction that took place during the so-called Operation Gukurahundi from 1982-7 have left a burning scar on the people of that region, who now support the Movement for Democratic Change led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. As soon as they heard that the North Korean team was coming to Zimbabwe, they protested vociferously against allowing the Asian team to train here.
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Hi everybody I think this thread may interest some people, and may bore some to death but I take the risk of pointing the obvious I've done some calculations about the current IP cost of champions (which is all I get being an RP free player) and I came to the following: Total cost for 6300 champions: 195300 IP (31) Total cost for 4800 champions: 48000 IP (10) Total cost for 3150 champions: 78750 IP (25) Total cost for 1350 champions: 29700 IP (22) Total cost for 450 champions: 4050 IP (9) Total cost for all characters: 355800 IP (97) So for a less than hardcore player with an average of 5 games a day (rift) gaining about 500 IP (including daily bonus) each day. Which means he has to play 711.6 days to be able to have the whole set of characters not taking into account the different rune + rune page purchases along the way. Now thats cool 2 years every day i play 5 games and I am good for it. BUT! The set of characters adds 1 hero each 2 weeks costing 6300 Ip which means by the time you saved for that epic AD carry another one popps up and so on. what I wanna say is that this system is either for real hardcore gamers or hardcore wallets and I am neither. I played more than 1500 games (610 normal wins) and I bought only 90600 IP worth champions which means I got 265200 IP to go, and I have been playing since last July so almost a year now. Please Riot take this into consideration and lower the costs for us to enjoy more champions in less time TL;DR: view poll
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not going to happen. i can see your point though.
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And you still call this game "free" im many other threads when we ask for RP compensation when servers are messed up. It will not be lowered because its supposed you buy them with RP aka your real money. I spent like 150 euros in this game and Im missing only one 6300 champion so its not thaaaat expensive if you buy them in sale. Since I started I always buy the champions on sale (6300/4800) and save my IP for the others. 150 euros may seem a lot but I didnt wasted more than 20 euros months. Some months not even 10. You just cant expect to buy every champion at 6300 ip or 975 rp coz that is really expensive and out of hand.
I have currently bought with IP (only used RP now and again) All of 450 = 4050 All of 1350 = 29700 All of 3150 = 78750 7/10 4800 = 33600 12/31 6300 = 75600 Total: 221700 That is without the amount of wins you have, I have 3 complete rune pages as well (can't be bothered to count those up as well sorry) however i try to re-use my runes as much as possible, eg part of my Crit/Arm pen rune page is part of my jungle page... I did use my RP for some other champs I have but mostly done it with IP. My current win is around 500 possibly less
you dont have to buy every single champion, especially if u r free user and non-hardcore gamer
Ur forgetting about runes and runepages.
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I am disappointed that Jacko seems not to have had the opportunity to break thro` @ City. He`s a good pro, a gentleman - and not a bad player, either! Didn`t we pay the best part of £1million for him from Gillingham? Now he`s had Championship and Prem experience\fitness levels, he has to be worth more than that now. He`s in his prime. Wish him well whatever the outcome. His late goal rush got us to the Prem!! Specially the winner vs Derby off an unspecified part of his anatomy in injury time.
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Two F1 world champions have become the latest to criticise Lewis Hamilton with regards to his attitude and comments throughout the Monaco GP.
Hamilton refused to acknowledge Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg on the podium following the latter's second consecutive victory around the streets of the principality.
That followed an incident in qualifying when Rosberg brought out the yellow flags, thwarting Hamilton in his bid to claim pole at a time when he was on a quicker lap than the German.
Starting from top spot on the grid proved crucial for Rosberg as he went on to win from lights to flag and return to the top of the drivers' standings, leaving Hamilton to settle for second.
Hamilton, though, did not disguise his displeasure at the antics of Rosberg, even though the 28-year-old was cleared by the stewards.
Mercedes non-executive chairman and three-times champion Niki Lauda chastised Hamilton after the race, suggesting that ignoring Rosberg was "not good" and reflected badly on the Mercedes brand.
Now John Surtees and Mika Hakkinen have waded into the debate and agree with Lauda that Hamilton's behaviour was unbecoming.
Surtees, the only driver to win world titles on two and four wheels, said in his column in Motor Sport magazine: "I have no doubt about Lewis Hamilton's driving ability, but I didn't like what I saw and heard from Monaco.
"I can understand the frustration Lewis must have felt in not having that opportunity on the last lap of qualifying to get pole.
"But I think his reaction to his team-mate and team was wrong."
Hakkinen, who won two titles with McLaren in 1998 and 1999, believes Hamilton displayed the attitude of a sore loser.
In his column for Hermes, Hakkinen said: "It's hard to tell if something is going to change significantly (between the drivers).
"I don't know if Lewis would even consider apologising for his behaviour. It is a very individual thing.
"But in my opinion, one of the characteristics of a good winner is he also knows how to lose."
Surtees, now 80, believes Hamilton was also wrong to highlight his upbringing as a source of motivation compared to that of Rosberg.
Hamilton suggested he was hungrier than Rosberg as he was raised on a council estate in Stevenage, whereas the German lived the life of luxury in Monaco.
Although Hamilton later claimed the quote was taken out of context, Surtees feels it has only added fuel to the fire for Rosberg.
"Lewis had said he had more motivation than Nico to win the world championship because of his upbringing in a flat in Stevenage as against Nico growing up in Monaco," added Surtees.
"If Nico wasn't already inspired to win his first world championship, then Lewis certainly would have provided some material for him to dig even deeper."
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff, meanwhile, has downplayed claims the rivalry between the pair is starting to resemble that of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.
Three-times champion Senna and four-times king Prost were bitter enemies during the two seasons they spent together at McLaren in 1988 and 1989.
On the team website, Wolff said: "We have seen a lot of talk about their relationship, but that's not the key thing for a successful campaign.
"It's a job, not a holiday, and the drivers need to work with and for the team first of all.
"There have been a lot of comparisons to the Senna/Prost scenario, which is a kind of compliment to both Lewis and Nico.
"But the situation here is very different. It's an intense relationship but this intensity is normal.
"The racing philosophy of Mercedes-Benz is to allow our drivers to compete. We let the boys play with their toys, unless they break them."