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A Slice of Britain: The women's game is getting more professional, but it's not getting silly. It's even got some ideas that the Premier League could usefully copy. And yesterday was its showpiece, the other FA Cup Final
The trophy room at Arsenal Football Club's Emirates Stadium has collected more dust than silverware of late. The much publicised drought of titles experienced by the highly-paid stars of its Premier League squad is in stark contrast to the less heralded success enjoyed by Arsenal Ladies.
It is a point succinctly made by supporter Suki Mason, 49, as she celebrated their 2-0 victory yesterday over Bristol Academy in the Women's FA Cup Final. "It's why I watch the ladies – it's the only chance Arsenal fans get to smile," she said.
The setting is a little different to the other FA Cup Final. The game is not at Wembley Stadium in front of almost 89,000 fans for a start. The venue is the 32,000 capacity Ricoh Arena in Coventry where, even though tickets cost only £5, the official attendance of 13,885 leaves more than half the seats empty. And the spoils for the victors? Aside from the trophy itself and the honour, there's prize money of £5,000 for the entire winning team. That would be less than the win bonus for a single player in the Manchester City team that lifted the men's trophy.
And you won't find any celebrity WAGs here either, although there are a few HABs – husbands and boyfriends – who are an altogether quieter breed. Queuing for his VIP ticket, Callum Convery, 23, boyfriend of Arsenal striker Ellen White, blushes when asked what it's like to go out with a footballer. "I don't see it as going out with a footballer," he demurs, adding: "I'm very proud of her and I go to all the matches I can."
And you can forget telephone-number wage packets and pushy agents. The top women's sides can have a maximum of four players on a full-time salary which, even capped at £20,000 a year, is more than most clubs can afford.
The wage capping is one of several new rules introduced to make the ladies' game more competitive after years of Arsenal domination. It has been a breakthrough year for the women's game in England, with the launch of a semi-professional Women's Super League (WSL) and a real prospect of lifting the World Cup in Germany this summer. As a result, crowds at league games have quadrupled, although average attendances still struggle to top 600.
Many of those in the stands are women and girls from other clubs, who were allocated free tickets. Before the final kicked off, they were outside the stadium, demonstrating their shooting skills using an inflatable goal.
The women's game is already unrecognisable from a decade ago, but this generation will likely witness even more changes.
Coral Hammond, an 11-year-old defender from King's Lynn, Norfolk, has come up with the Woottons Football Club. Clutching a match programme, she says: "I've been looking forward to this. I haven't seen a women's match before."
The fans in one of the supporters' coaches that have travelled from north London's Emirates Stadium are less typical. Most of them seem to be men in their sixties and seventies. Men like John Wright, 78, who is sitting at the front of the bus. The retired electrician is such a fan of Arsenal Ladies that he has stopped going to see men's matches.
"I've been following Arsenal Ladies since they started, and there's not a better team around. When we first started going to the games we had the mickey taken out of us. We were elderly gentlemen and they called us perverts. They thought we were there to look at their legs."
Weren't they? "Well, we have our favourites, yeah. Who's the one with the bust? Oh yeah, Jennifer Beattie. She used to play number 84. We called her '84 bust'. She's a cracking girl. We've got nicknames for all of 'em."
While it sounds suspiciously like the kind of commentary former Sky presenter Andy Gray might provide to a ladies' game, most of the crowd are here to see more than the players' legs. Underlining how far this is from Gray's vision of women in the game, it is apposite that it is Sian Massey, the official at the centre of Gray's dismissal earlier this year, who is refereeing the action.
Rachel Major, 38, is definitely here for the football. She's trying to raise the profile of the women's game, setting up Twitter groups that report on matches in the absence of mainstream media coverage.
"They call us The Gang. There's a bunch of us that meet up at games and Tweet live updates. You still get a lot of big games not getting coverage at all. When England played the USA, the No 1 ranked team in the world, we couldn't watch it on TV."
As Arsenal head for victory with a brace of first-half goals from Kim Little and Julie Fleeting, there is one corner of the ground that is shouting the loudest and they're dressed in Bristol's blue. These are the junior Bristol Academy and centre of excellence players who have come to cheer on their team. With their hands, faces (and in some cases, legs) painted blue, they look like an army of very enthusiastic Smurfs.
Molly Furnival-Doran, 18, plays for the Academy's under-19s side. Earlier in the game she had winced when asked about the club's chances of winning.
"Obviously Arsenal are the favourites," she said, just a millisecond before that second Arsenal header proved the point.
As Arsenal Ladies lifted the FA Cup for the 11th time, the Smurf block looked on mournfully. "It's really sad for us," says Furnival-Doran. "They're a great club, but it'd be nice to see someone else win for a change."
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I wasn't really a great eater when I was growing up. I was very picky about what I would try, would say I didn't like something even though I had never had it, and I didn't enjoy a lot of the meals that were made for the family.
My mother is an amazing cook and baker, so it was nothing to do with the food itself or how it was prepared, but I never understood what my issue with food was until I was 25-years-old and I'd given birth to my second child.
I was diagnosed with celiac disease. Suddenly it became clear why I was such a picky eater and didn't care to try new things. Eating wasn't supposed to hurt the way that it had been hurting me. It wasn't supposed to make me feel so tired and I wasn't supposed to have a stomach that bloated and bones that were so brittle.
I didn't have to manage this food-related disease during my childhood and I imagine it would have made things more difficult for me in one way if I had, but it also could have had a positive impact on me if I had been diagnosed earlier.
Raru, my 6-year old daughter can't eat gluten either. We noticed an issue when she was only 14 months old and she has been off the stuff ever since. There are times though that she comes into contact with it — at school or a family member's house — and she's accidentally contaminated and she feels the pain.
Feeding her when she's been "glutened" (which is what we call getting cross-contaminated with gluten), can be quite the struggle. I totally understand the feeling because I have lived with the contamination myself. It plays havoc on your intestines and it makes all foods painful to eat. She tends to stick to food that she is comfortable with — much like I did when I was a child — but this can make dinner time difficult. I want her to be able to feel safe while she is eating, and while everything I make is strictly gluten-free, she still has the "Safe Foods" that she likes to stick with in place of everything else.
There are really only 5 things that Raru will eat without any struggle:
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Someone has to talk straight to the electorate and explain to them that they have previously benefited (albeit in a less concentrated format than have banksters) from the elevated tax revenues and national GDP (esp in the usa and uk) of prior years, and that the fix of the banking system is their portion of "pay later" - "LATER" used to be undefined but now we know it is 2008/09/10 - so to "get a better deal" for taxpayers is illogical - who do the electorate think benefited from being able to issue debt against future expectations of tax revenues?? govts who are the agents of the electorate, bien sur. So the govt should lend bailout funds at free, or purchase dodgy assets at arbitrarily high levels (compared to the markets) in order to preserve the banking system that allows/succours govts in issuing debt to serve the electorate - see?
HEY, so promised analysis of the new Capital Assistance Program is a go. First, a few thoughts from other writers. Tim Duy highlights this portion of the CAP:
As part of the application process, banks must submit a plan for how they intend to use this capital to preserve and strengthen their lending capacity – specifically, to increase lending above levels relative to what would have been possible without government support. The Treasury Department will make these plans public when the bank receives the capital under the CAP.
Mr Duy writes:
This is refreshing; unlike the initial TARP program, Treasury is not giving the impression that banks will increase lending - only that lending will contract by less than otherwise expected, all else equal. Avoidance of a absolute collapse seems to be a reasonable goal. I would prefer that we moved to avoidance of the Japanese scenario as well, but perhaps I just need to learn to be happy with small steps.
This is a point another financial writer made to me in an email discussion—the question of why banks are reducing lending is an important one. Presumably, balance sheet problems have imposed a constraint on lending to some degree. With the acute stages of the financial crisis in the rearview mirrow, however, it seems likely that the main reason banks aren't lending more is the drop in demand for credit; no one wants a loan at the moment. As such, any plan intended to increase lending, or justified on the basis that it will increase lending, is going to run into trouble. The best we can hope for is a smaller decline in new loans.
Meanwhile, Felix Salmon points out how strange it is that banks will have 7 years to repay their debts to the government before preferred shares get converted into common shares. That is, banks that can't repay (which are likely to be the banks in the biggest trouble) will be nationalised, more or less, in 2016. This is bizarre. The worst off banks limp along for 7 years only to be nationalised when (we hope) all of this is well in the past.
Mr Salmon also notes:
In the meantime, the government's bailout money will be earning a healthy 9% interest rate for we taxpayers -- yet another liability which the banks are going to struggle to be able to meet. Hasn't the government learned its lesson from AIG? Burdening leveraged financial institutions with expensive new debt doesn't help them, it hurts them. Especially when they have no choice in whether or not to accept that burden.
This is one of the paradoxes of the non-nationalisation route. Efforts to get a better deal for taxpayers undermine the rescue. If you want taxpayers to see upside from these deals, just make them the owners.


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J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2014, 2(3), 534-550; doi:10.3390/jmse2030534
Inter-Annual Variability in Blue Whale Distribution off Southern Sri Lanka between 2011 and 2012
Received: 19 December 2013 / Revised: 13 May 2014 / Accepted: 23 May 2014 / Published: 1 July 2014
Abstract: Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) movements are often driven by the availability of their prey in space and time. While globally blue whale populations undertake long-range migrations between feeding and breeding grounds, those in the northern Indian Ocean remain in low latitude waters throughout the year with the implication that the productivity of these waters is sufficient to support their energy needs. A part of this population remains around Sri Lanka where they are usually recorded close to the southern coast during the Northeast Monsoon. To investigate inter-annual variability in sighting locations, we conducted systematic Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) and visual surveys between January–March 2011 and January–March 2012. In 2011, there was a notable decrease in inshore sightings compared to 2009 and 2012 (p < 0.001). CTD data revealed that in 2011 there was increased freshwater in the upper water column accompanied by deeper upwelling than in 2012. We hypothesise that anomalous rainfall, along with higher turbidity resulting from river discharge, affected the productivity of the inshore waters and caused a shift in blue whale prey and, consequently, the distribution of the whales themselves. An understanding of how predators and their prey respond to environmental variability is important for predicting how these species will respond to long-term changes. This is especially important given the rapid temperature increases predicted for the semi-enclosed northern Indian Ocean.
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de Vos, A.; Pattiaratchi, C.B.; Harcourt, R.G. Inter-Annual Variability in Blue Whale Distribution off Southern Sri Lanka between 2011 and 2012. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2014, 2, 534-550.
AMA Stylede Vos A, Pattiaratchi CB, Harcourt RG. Inter-Annual Variability in Blue Whale Distribution off Southern Sri Lanka between 2011 and 2012. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 2014; 2(3):534-550.
Chicago/Turabian Stylede Vos, Asha; Pattiaratchi, Charitha B.; Harcourt, Robert G. 2014. "Inter-Annual Variability in Blue Whale Distribution off Southern Sri Lanka between 2011 and 2012." J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2, no. 3: 534-550.
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Black Hills National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located south of the city of Sturgis in Meade County, South Dakota. It encompasses 105.9 acres (42.9 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 19,147 interments. It is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, which also administers South Dakota's Fort Meade National Cemetery.
The area around the Black Hills Cemetery was originally inhabited by the Lakota Indians. French explorers went through the region in the 1740s, and Spain laid claim to the area in 1762 until it was acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Fort Randall was established in 1856, and the 1861 establishment of Dakota Territory brought more settlers to the region, but it wasn't until gold was discovered in the Black Hills that the area was truly populated. Under the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the United States granted the land of the Black Hills to the Lakota, but there was no stopping the settlers from entering the region, which led to several conflicts. Most of the original interments in the cemetery were soldiers who fell in battles of the Indian Wars, but it has since been used to inter veterans from every major campaign the United States has been involved in.
Notable interments[edit]
- Sergeant Charles Windolph, Medal of Honor recipient for action at the Battle of Little Bighorn during the Indian Wars.
- Senator Francis Higbee Case, World War I veteran, United States House of Representatives for the 75th–81st congresses, United States Senate from 1951 until his death in 1962.
- Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth
- Lieutenant Commander John Charles Waldron, Distinguished Flying Cross
- Governor William J. Janklow
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- National Cemetery Administration
- Black Hills National Cemetery
- Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. SD-2, "Black Hills National Cemetery, 20901 Pleasant Valley Drive, Sturgis, Meade, SD"
- Black Hills National Cemetery at Find a Grave
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Black Hills National Cemetery
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Harriet Beecher Stowe is well known as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It is too bad that her other tale, Dred, was not as well recognized, for Dred is a much stronger worker of art. Both novels' theme was antislavery. Stowe allowed the scenes of Dred to speak for themselves. Dred is a black revolutionary. The other lead character is the mistress of the slave plantation. The conflict between the races is cleverly demonstrated in this novel.
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Point and Click your way to obtaining the Plates from Laban in this fully-voiced Adventure Game!
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Pretty good play
I actually found the difficulty of the game pretty solid. Its always a challenge with these types of games to make the difficulty challenging enough to keep interest yet the puzzles not too obscure that they become frusterating. I kind of felt like it got to the frusterating point in the last Alice is Dead. In this particular game it felt comfortable. There were points where i felt stuck but i eventually figured out. Which was what you want from a game. Storyline was pretty good, the characters were fairly interesting and I did like the dreidel and mario bit.
One of the gripes I had was that the volume level of the spoken dialogue seem to fluctuate throughout. Didnt really affect the gameplay in any dramatic fashion but it kinda stuck out and was worth mentioning.
Also, i kinda wish i could skip through dialogue. Maybe being able to skip through it during the second time a conversation is launched? I felt kind of stuck at some points because the conversations were lengthy in some bits and i had already figured out what i wanted to do and just wanted to walk away or hurry the conversation and get to my tasks. I dunno maybe thats a personal thing. I also found that meter thing when you are doing away with that guy kind of laggy. Like it wasnt registering my click accurately so it felt unnecessarily hard to hit that sweet spot. Dunno if that was intentional.
ANYWAY it kept me busy for a good 20 mins so all in all good ol' graphic adventure
Allowing skippable dialogue on the 2nd go-round is a good idea.
As for audio, since 1/2 the game was done 4 years ago, and then we returned to finish off the rest recently, the differences were kind of unavoidable, hopefully we can focus enough on future installments to record all the audio in the same timeframe :-P
THANKS for the review LUIS!
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Works well as a point and click, looking forward to more interesting chapters.
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Not a bad game, but not necessarily great either. The work you put into this really shows, but it totally comes off as some cheesy prude religious kids game because erm...well it is. Newgrounds back in the old days was a site for mindless violence, and everything offensive you can imagine, which is pretty much why I love it. This game seems more suited for small children or good religious kids who think that a hit of pot will make you hallucinate and jump out of a window.
I mean, the whole game I'm trying to click on things with a WOODEN knife and I get this cheesy voice, "violence is not the answer," but then he hears the voice of "god" and decides to murder someone in cold blood? What the fuck? Kinda twisted if you ask me...
As far as replay value, the game has none other than some medal points. The one scene with blood is going to show gumdrops I guess? Pretty pointless to replay the entire game for that...
The voice acting was actually quite good though. I can tell you took plenty of time to do it, as pretty much everything you'd want to click on, you can, and you'll get an explanation. Even mundane items like chairs and tables you can click on and get "it's a chair." I'm not sure I really enjoyed that though, it's just extra stuff to sift through pointlessly. Yes, I know it's a chair, I was looking for something useful to help me progress through the game. Some of them seemed a bit unneeded to me, as they never even ended up serving a purpose in the game.
Hearing the poem twice was almost excruciating. Especially with that girls cheesy voice. There's no way I can listen to it two more times for a medal. I don't care if it's 50 points, it's not worth it. A skip voice button would have been great for that especially. There was so much seemingly unnecessary conversation in this game and that's the only real reason it took a while.
As far as the drawings, they were great, I'm not gonna lie. I enjoyed the art very much, and the animation was pretty much spot on. No complaints there.
The music seemed rather appropriate for the scenes, and the sound effects you used were pretty much spot on. Like I said before, the voice acting was pretty much spot on except for the girl. That was honestly so cheesy it was hard to listen to. Especially the fact that she dragged it on for so long.
Overall the game was rather rewarding. It had a proper ending and some medals to make you feel like you accomplished something. Finally putting together the pieces of the puzzle was nice. Although I am an atheist, personally, I would play another episode of this. Although I had qualms with certain aspects of the game, it was fun to play at the very least, and the effort you put into this really paid off. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the thorough review, I respect that you can appreciate some of the good points even though some other parts were bothersome :)
Rated 4 / 5 stars
i really liked this because it was really simple, not once did i have to look for a guide, but i wished it was longer


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Zone-plate diffraction patterns in gradient-index media
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Diffraction patterns inside gradient-index media in which a complex zone plate is placed at a Fourier transform plane are studied by making use of the optical propagator. The results are illustrated with an example corresponding to a selfoc medium and a Fresnel zone plate of the amplitude and of the phase.
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Jose Rivas-Moscoso, Carlos Gomez-Reino, and Maria Perez, "Zone-plate diffraction patterns in gradient-index media," Opt. Express 11, 81-86 (2003)
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'Once you get the hang of short shifting the Buell and figure out where the motor likes to be, I can actually feel faster on it than the Ducati,' said three-time AMA 250 Grand Prix Champion Jimmy Filice.
Adam found it to be equally good, but because he also rode on the street his insight is not all-glowing. The fact that we had to threaten to shoot him with an animal tranquilizer dart to get him to get off the Hypermotard at the track is a testament to his feeling about the Ducati.
"The engine is the shining point of this motorcycle," said Adam. "It makes power from a very low RPM and pulls hard and smooth all the way to redline. The engine is versatile enough for use in the city and in faster sections of the twisties, whereas the Buell doesn't have the same power to get it through faster corner segments. The only place that the engine is a letdown is when traveling over triple digits because it simply starts to run out of steam."
The final pieces of the puzzle lie in the overall performance of the chassis, suspension and braking components during track testing. On the scales the S-model Hypermotard weighs in at 431 lbs w/o fuel, compared to 448 lbs for the Super TT. Now, the standard Hypermotard does not come with the same forged wheels as the 'S' we were saddled with. One can only assume that standard hoops would bring the weights closer. An argument can be made that the lighter wheels give the Ducati a bit of advantage on the track so we thought it would be nice to get that point out there in the open. You might be making a fuss but the Buell isn't asking for any excuses. It handles a tight track like Horsethief without too much complaint and you might recall Mr. Filice was a bit quicker on the TT.
Where the Hypermotard gets a leg up on the Super TT is in the suspension department. On paper the Hypermotard has an advantage with its Ohlins rear shock (rather than the Sachs shock offered on standard version) and the DLC coating on the fully-adjustable 50mm Marzocchi long-travel fork. The Ducati was easier to sort out and feels more supple on the track and street. The Super TT is equipped with a 43mm inverted Showa fork and Showa shock with the same range of adjustability but we never did feel like we got the most out of the TT suspenders at the track.
The Zero Torsion Load (ZTL) front brake system on the Super TT is anchored by a 375mm front brake attached to the inside circumference of the front wheel.
When anyone first approaches a modern Buell there is one component that grabs their attention, the ZTL (Zero Torsion Load) front brake system. With a single massive 375mm front brake attached to the inside circumference of the front wheel and impressive-looking six-piston caliper, it compels folks to stare, even if only for a moment. The principle behind the ZTL is good on paper but it doesn't offer up the same type of feeling you get from the Hypermotard's more-traditional pair of 305mm discs and radial-mount Brembo Monobloc 4-piston calipers. Both are powerful units, and while the ZTL design allows for a lighter wheel to be cast at the production level, the lack of feel seems to be the biggest complaint from our track testers when comparing the two. The Ducati takes the cake here with its combination of near-overkill braking power available from a single finger applied to the front brake lever and an uncanny level of feel that allows the Hypermotard to be pushed harder and trail-braked deeper into a turn than the
. That pays off in the end as confidence builds, allowing a Ducati rider to concentrate on gear selection and corner speed with less effort being spent on shifting and avoiding obstinate rev limiters.
So we have two bikes that are extremely similar despite being unlike anything else available on the market today. The Super TT is a testament to the success of Buell's Trilogy of Tech that includes a low center of gravity afforded by its under-slung exhaust, fuel in frame/oil in the swing-arm and the ZTL front brake system all combined in a supernatural-look like something from Transformers - It is the Ying to Ducati's classy Yang. The downside to the theory is the often-maligned H-D motor. It opens the Buell up to naysayers when all they experience are brief glimpses into the bike's potential, whining from unappreciative journalists or a comment made on a forum somewhere from some random poster who took a Buell test ride and didn't get their rocks off on it. Fortunately there is a growing contingent of riders who embrace the Buell way and once you do the same it makes more sense why this bike is what it is: Classic Buell.
The Buell Super TT has plenty of character, including under-slung exhaust that give it a low center of gravity, its fuel in the frame and oil in the swingarm system and its innovative ZTL front brake.
"Similarly to other Buell's I've ridden, the Super TT is a very unique motorcycle. When compared directly to a European or Japanese motorcycle in the same class, initially it seems like a letdown. Everything the Super TT does is quirky. From the engine's powerband, the handling, the unusual ZTL front brake, to the right-hand side belt drive, everything about the Super TT is different. But it's funny, because the more saddle time you put in, the more those unusual, quirky traits turn into a distinctive personality that is unique and unlike any other manufacturer's offering," said Waheed.
Then we have the Hypermotard, the polar opposite of the
. Eerily similar in that they are both big-bore air-cooled V-Twins stuffed into tiny, aggressive chassis with long travel suspension and dirt bike-like riding positions, the Hypermotard gets to the same point with a more traditional and aesthetically appealing approach. The Ducati Hypermotard will run $13,995 for the S-model tested here or $11,495 for the base version, which is virtually indistinguishable from the 'S' save for some carbon fiber bits, while the Buell Super TT is the bargain of the test at $10,295.
The 2008 Ducati Hypermotard rode away with top honors and inspires plenty of wheel-lofting fun.
Despite that the Hypermotard 1100S motor isn't quite as powerful as the Super TT in terms of peak output, it offers a more broad range of power for the rider to work with and is one of the critical areas that the Ducati bests the Buell. The Hypermotard chassis, suspension and brakes are nothing the public hasn't seen before from Ducati, but in this combination it works better as a package than the TT. Throw into the equation that the Hypermotard design is a piece of rolling art and there is no denying that it is the Yang to the Buell's Ying. In the end, the Ducati Hypermotard is our nomination in this contest for big-bore super motard supremacy. But there is no wrong choice. Both bikes are asphalt-shredding bad-asses. Just ask Jimmy.
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