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Just off highway 20, Victoriaville is twenty minutes away. We are by far, the best location for conventions, events or meetings of all kinds.
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Dubbed "Ultron-athon" Disney Xd will air the first ever Avengers Assemble story arc focusing on the team disassembling and fighting Ultron
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DisneyXD will soon add a new Marvel animated series when the recently announced Guardians of The Galaxy animated series debuts early 2015
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New show writers, new team members, more stories is some of the things that have changed in Season 2 of avengers Assemble. could Marvel Animation have listen to the fans criticism.
Howard Stark's robot Arsenal to make his animated debut in AVENGERS ASSEMBLE
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It seems Marvel has heard the fans cries as the second season of Avengers Assemble will adapt famous stories, adopt multi episode story arcs and bring new Avengers as well as new foes to the mix
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The first three items are individual traits. Persons with high reading comprehension, good aptitude for understanding rules and regulations, and the ability to put in long hours on a daunting task, tend to do very well on the exam. As you get further away from this model you would tend to do less well on the exam. You can compensate for this by accepting a longer study period and the possibility of taking the exam multiple times. In the end, a good practitioner does not require any unusually high level of reading comprehension or aptitude, but it sure comes in handy for passing the exam.
The last three items are directly related to the competence of the organization that you have hired to prepare you for the exam. At the end of the day, if you are not an expert on taking the exam and searching the MPEP, and extremely knowledgeable on exam questions that are being tested and the basic core curriculum that defines the scope of the exam, then you are not going to be fully prepared to easily pass the exam.
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Beef 'n' Gravy on Potatoes Recipe
"My husband was raised on meat and potatoes, and this quick dish is one of his favorites," writes Michelle Hallock of Warwick, Rhode Island. Round out this dinner in a jiffy by zapping frozen vegetables in the microwave or tossing together a green salad.
- 3 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 envelope brown gravy mix
- 1/4 cup milk
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1. Place potatoes and water in a microwave-safe dish. Cover and microwave on high for 8-10 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in garlic powder and onion powder.
- 2. Prepare gravy according to package directions. Place the potatoes in a large bowl; add the milk, butter, salt and pepper. Beat on medium speed until smooth. Serve beef and gravy over mashed potatoes. Yield: 4 servings.
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Both Republicans and Democrats say Judge Samuel Alito today will clear the final hurdle before he's confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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They want to block a final vote on Alito's nomination, saying he is out of the mainstream and will roll back many of the rights Americans now have.
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I'm a big Command & Conquer and Battlefield fan. Although I don't play the aforementioned games as much as I used to, they made up my childhood, and I always have a space on my hard drive for them. Recently, I've been putting my time into playing with friends.
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Underwhelming. If I was to choose one word to describe this mod, that'd be it. But first, let me back that up with my once-through experience.
This mod had exactly what they wanted to do in mind, but I found the execution to be poor. The voice acting was a welcomed surprise, until the lack of enthusiasm and emotion became apparent. Along with the lack of subtitles for them left me only catching keywords, and never fully understanding what I was supposed to do. The AI did not seem like how it was cracked up to be. Examples below.
When the AI was in combat, I noticed nothing impressive. Although the 'unused' Combine voices was noticed and positively received.
From the apartment scene through the entire mod, I found myself confused where I was supposed to go. Once the helicopter was destroyed, I was told to meet up with the rest of my crew, and go through the alley out the back. There was no alley out the back. It was across the street. And when were they put under my charge? Wasn't I just one of them, and not some sort of badass like Gordon Freeman? Speaking of him, wasn't the uprising in C17 inspired by him? Yet he's never mentioned once? But I might have missed that, if it was. I tend to rely on subtitles.
Combat seemed very modern. How the weapons, sounded, handled, and appeared was very nice. Along with a lack of cross hairs, kept me using my sights not becoming an MLG hip fire pro. Except for this revolver: Steamcommunity.com
I also discovered locations I wasn't supposed to be in. Such as becoming a slug and crawling through the sludge in the canals, and getting behind a wall. Example, and location show below.
It's not a BAD mod, but it's not GOOD either.
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This is a VERY immersive mod, the best I've played so far. I find myself making plans and quick decisions, do I hold and fight or try to run around? There are several great features that this mod has, such as checking ammo and shoving. The maps, weapons, and atmosphere are extremely well made. Better then some professional work I've seen. However due to this, it may slow down poorer machines. Thankfully mine's can handle this work of horrific art.
Definitely deserves a 9/10 or 10/10!
Mod Review on Feb 25th, 2012 - 8 people agree 2 people don't
This mod is excellent. The new effects, visuals, units and gameplay make this a sheer joy for strategy game fans. It definitely is fast-paced gameplay. Each faction is unique, although you will see and enjoy the references made to factions in previous C&C games. Although the game lacks voicing and the AI isn't that much of a challenge. Its not a big issue for me personally. I've played C&C 3 enough to subconsciously keep track of credits, and approximate build times without EVA telling me. There are definitely some issues that need to be ironed out which I have no doubt Henford will do. The small selection of Fallout maps isn't great, but with the promise of more maps and no doubt players will make some of their own. I'm content to wait.
Currently online, or LAN play will be the big test when players go toe to toe with each other. This will prove how balanced the game really is.
I'm excited for the next release. Be it voicing, maps, or better AI. This mod is definitely already one of my top favorites.
Cheers, Henford!
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The game is amazing. The graphic quality, and wise-crack jokes and comebacks make it a pleasure to play. Seeing old faces, tanks, and weapons all redone in higher quality really made my day. A definite 10/10 but it could easily be rated lower for those with poorer systems.
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Hmmm…. another reason I conceal carry. When an animal attacks you, 2 to the face.
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Sign me up! Finally I can stop with the car key hunt every morning
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Costly? Disenfranchise? Your an idiot. please go shower with your running hair dryer… Every time a Liberal opens it's mouth, it disenfranchises a legal taxpaying conservative and costs everyone millions. If you wanted to save money and the country at the same time, you wouldn't be voting for communists.
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I bet the chick at the LA Weekly will love the movie and give it rave reviews.
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It is quite comical how the angry progressives respond to Beck and his cause. I think it is brave and honorable what he is trying to accomplish. Since it is making the handout hippy dependency libs go into attack mode, you know he must be on the correct side of morality.
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It this does not make you feel good, then your just a bitter liberal spending too much time as a drone defending the criminals in office and not enough time being human.
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A Hot Winter Night In Dallas
2001: A space odyssey
See See Rider
I got a woman / Amen
Love me
You gave me a mountain (edited)
Jailhouse rock (edited)
O sole mio / It's now or never
Trying to get to you
Blue suede shoes
My way
Polk salad Annie
Band introductions
Early morning rain
What'd I say
Johnny B Goode
Drum solo by Ronnie Tutt (Elvis singing Hey Bo Diddley)
Fender bass solo Jerry Scheff
Piano solo Tony Brown
Electric piano solo David Briggs
Love letters
School days
Hurt (with reprise)
Unchained melody
Can't help falling in love
Closing vamp
Label: Fort Baxter 2207
Released: 1998
Sound quality: very good (soundboard)
Date: December 28, 1976
Location: Dallas
Attendance: 9,800
Jumpsuit: Indian Feather (white) suit
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It?s 1976. Many say it?s a bad year for Elvis. But this is December 28, 1976 and Elvis is, believe me, at his very best! Great rhythm, vast selection of songs, a voice developed at its utmost, and a happy man at last! What more could we ask for? A great concert! Here we go ? open some good speakers at full blast, and let?s rock with the King!
Anaheim, CA. November 30th 1976
A tip-toes start with See See Rider immediately followed by greets to the audience. Elvis shows his happy mood ? ?If I die tonight, it would take them a year to get the smile off my face?. Laughingly he tries to get the show started. Elvis jokes with the audience, but it?s not just act-joking, it?s real. I Got a Woman takes off and boy, it touches the stars! Amen is also great, everyone singing along. Again some joking before he finishes off I Got A Woman. WoW! (I wonder how the guitar flew!)
Anaheim, CA. November 30th 1976
A loud feedback ticks outr eardrums, but no matter. More jokes, and on to Love Me, and it?s not the usual Love Me. Quite a fast, (but not too much) Fairytale is next, and it?s wonderful too. Yet another feedback stops You Gave Me A Mountain which starts off again, but is incomplete. What a pity!! We may hear the rest of the concert from the ending of Jailhouse Rock, which seems to have been a great number too! Again, what a pity!!
Anaheim, CA. November 30th 1976
Elvis introduces the next song, asking Sherill Nielsen to do O Sole Mio, at which end, Elvis sings It?s Now Or Never. By the way, comments from Elvis as Sherill does his solo are neverending! But after the song Elvis shows his appreciation, asking him to do his solo again, although his incurable sense of humour takes over at times, wrecking poor Sherill?s attempts.
Anaheim, CA. November 30th 1976
An old time record is next, that underestimated Trying To Get To You. Elvis really uses his voice in this one, as many others. Another great hit, Blue Suede Shoes is performed like never before. A request for My Way is eagerly taken by Elvis who asks for the words to the song, performed wonderfully.
Anaheim, CA. November 30th 1976
Let?s get excited with Polk Salad Annie. She may have ?made the alligators look tame? but Elvis is still as wild as ever at 41!! It?s time for the Introductions of Elvis? worthy backing group. With usual solos in which elvis performs parts of Early Morning Rain, What?d I Say, Johnny B. Goode, Hey Bo Diddley, Love Letters and School Days.
Anaheim, CA. November 30th 1976
Immediately following the Introduction, Elvis attempts a go at Hurt, which he performs perfectly, as many times. The audience, (and us) are also treated with a much higher and better reprise! Elvis announces that he wants to do a song he did the previous night. He himself plays the piano, occasionally asking for the right keys, and performs a wonderful version of this eternal ballad.
Anaheim, CA. November 30th 1976
As we?re still in the climax of this outstanding show, Can?t Help Falling In Love tells us that it?s the end of the show, with just the Closing Vamp left. Elvis does it with difficulty after suffering great strain at his throat through the previous two numbers. Strangely enough, the show runs over an hour, and I say strangely, because it seems like only 10 minutes. This is a must for every Elvis fan. If you haven?t got it, you are really missing something special.
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Since having our baby, my wife expects me to do everything. How should I handle it?
I know the moms out there will think I'm being unfair, but here goes: my wife hasn't done anything but breastfeed since our son was born six weeks ago, and I need help! I'm not talking heavy lifting, I mean opening mail, clearing off the table, and just showing appreciation for what I do -- which is almost everything. Is this normal? How long will it continue?
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Hey men, do you know the feeling when you are dead-tired from working a long, hard day, and your body feels exhausted and you just want to lay down and relax? That is how a woman feels after having a baby, but all day. No matter if she is cleaning the house all day, or sitting around. She is tired, trying to get back to normal. Think about that before you complain about your wife and her chores.posted 04/19/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
I spent what seemed like ALL the time nursing my baby until she was about three months old. I literally sat in the rocker and nursed most of the day and night. It was frustrating for me and my husband but it was meeting the needs of our baby. I did not expect nursing to be so time consuming and have read since that this can happen. It sounds as though your baby has similar needs. Give your wife a break. I am sure she is as frustrated as you are and would love to have two minutes to do anything BUT nurse! It will get better I promise. For now try to be patient and do all you can. I am sure you will get a great deal of appreciation and be happy knowing your baby is truly getting the best start in every way!posted 04/19/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
I am a BFing Mom, and I hope that you are able to hang in there. I know how hard it is to watch your wife sit there while you do most of the housework, but trust me, she feels exshausted also. BFing, especially at first, takes so much energy, that it seems as if you have been exercising for hours. That said, if she is truly doing Nothing but Bfing, and was not lazy before having your child, have you considered that she may be depressed? Post Partum depression can cause this type of behavior. I would think that, even Bfing a 6 week old, your wife could answer the mail, pay the bills, cook an occasional meal, etc. If your wife is depressed, than she needs you more than ever. Good Luckposted 04/19/2004 by Leeluk
I just had my 2nd child hes 4 weeks old. I'm some how able to keep the house clean laundry done and dinner on the table. Plus my 7 year old keeps me busy with homework and extra activites after school. hmmm hopefully she will somehow get her energy up soon. M/b she should talk to the doctor m/b her iron is low.posted 04/19/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
Your wife is lucky to have a guy like you. My husband was great helping me out with Timmy, who now 2 1/2 months old at the beginning. Timmy was in the hospital for a week after having a c-sction but when he came out everything changed. My husband doesn't help me crap. He will come home from work and head striaght for the computer, he likes to play video games for hours apon hours. I ask him to change a diaper and he doesn't do it. He says he has to do this and that, I told him mom and to help me out to give me ideas to talk to him and she said I couldn't change him. So she better thank you for what you are doing, I want to thank you for helping your wife as much as you do. Everything will work in the end, give her time ok!!!posted 04/19/2004 by cheekz020704
I have a 3 1/2 month old and I didn't do anything really complicated for at least a month. I had a c-section. But mostly I was taking that time to bond with my baby. I wanted to be FOR HIM every sec. he was awake. But after holding him for a month straight during naps and everything my back started to hurt so that helped me set him down. But my hubby did alot and my older two kids helped. Thank God I have them. Now we all want another baby. Hang in there your a great Daddy to help. Remember women say a homemakers life is never appreciated so now you know how it feels. She'll get over it and things should get back to normal.posted 04/19/2004 by GabesMOM31316
Parenting is a team effort. I think it's great that you stepped in to help with all the little things around the house. Breastfeeding can be absolutely exhausting, especially when you get to do it every hour, night and day. And it can be even more nervewracking when you don't have anyone to help out around the house. And I am sure that your wife appreciates everything you do. But sometimes it's difficult to see that through a sleep deprived haze. When the breastfeeding starts getting better and easier, and she gets more than 45 minutes of uninterupted sleep, she will probably realize how much work you have been doing and will thank you for it then. Hang in there, babies are the most wonderful amazing things and all the little things you are doing now for your wife and child will be rewarded 10 fold in the future!!posted 04/19/2004 by fishlover
Possible reasons why your wife isn't doing all the work while she's home with a newborn: 1) Exhaustion from birth, blood loss, and resulting anemia. 2) Exhaustion from round-the-clock breast feeding, which places a very heavy demand on her body. 3) Exhaustion from severely broken sleep. Newborns rarely sleep more than 2-4 hours at a time. And, even if your wife gets 8 hours plus a nap or two, it's not at all the same as a full night of unbroken sleep. 4) Postpartum Depression may be taking a toll on your wife's energies and desire to do anything. What you've done so far is wonderful. Keep it up and in a couple more weeks your wife should start to return to normal as the baby begins to space out feedings and your wife's body fully recovers from birth. If she seems to have PP Depression, have her see her doctor. The Depression can last for months and cause major problems--I know this from experience. The sooner she gets help, the sooner your lives will go back to a semblance of normality. Good luck and congratulations on the new baby.posted 04/19/2004 by jcailte
Breastfeeding is exhausting, period, but if your wife does that all day, she may be having issues with feeding. Your pediatrician will probably tell you the baby shouldn't eat more than half an hour at a time--cut him off after that. Soon he'll learn to eat energetically when he has the opportunity. See a lactation consultant or the pediatrician if this is a problem. More importantly, have you considered whether your wife may have postpartum depression? This condition can make doing more than she's doing right now seem overwhelming or impossible. Lack of sleep makes it worse too. The mom also tends to focus in on herself and the baby, making the husband feel very unappreciated--but she can't help it. I had this condition and for awhile it was all I could do to take care of the baby (even making myself eat and take care of small things around the house didn't always happen). I would really recommend you have her see a doctor ASAP if she's weepy, overly fatigued, not eating or sleeping (or eating and sleeping too much), or anxious to a point where she can't function. She may need counseling and medication to recover. Be very patient and encouraging, and realize that you may be stuck with a lot of the burden for awhile until she recovers. Either way, maybe explain to her very gently that while you appreciate that taking care of the baby all day is a lot of work, it's also hard for you to work all day, then come home to a messy house and do everything, and it would really help if she could do one small thing a day for you or keep one room in good shape. Also offer to watch the baby when you get home so she can go out and walk or exercise for an hour, and in exchange she can do xyz for you. Giving her a complete break from the house and baby will give her back a lot of energy. I think the one small thing a day and regular exercise breaks really helped pull me out of the depression and kept me focused on coming back to life after baby. I felt so guilty that my husband was doing so much, and it made both of us feel better when I was able to take care of stupid stuff like picking up dry cleaning or sorting the mail. Good luck!posted 04/19/2004 by a BabyCenter Member
Hi Mark, You don't say whether she is solely getting up with baby at night, or if you do the diaper change/putting back to bed. There are definitely a couple of things to look at here: 1. Breastfeeding does seem incessant those first few weeks, and the sleep hormones released in the process don't do wonders for productivity. 2. You need to hear this: You ARE doing a wonderful job for doing so much. I bet your wife does appreciate you but is too mindboggled to realize she hasn't actually said it out loud. 3. Make sure to watch her for signs of post=partum depression. Sometimes the inability to get out of bed or take part in life can be symptoms. If she seems to be feeling blue or unable to function, rather than just tired from new baby stress, call her doctor and schedule an appointment. 4. Sometimes "the first step is the hardest." Go with her to take the baby for a walk outside each day. Just seeing the sun may make her feel more normal again. Best of luck to you both.posted 04/19/2004 by JenDriscoll
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in which I discover Scottish Madras
The other day Brenda, my lovely neighbour, appeared with a piece of paper in her hand, a gift for me. When I unfolded it, the piece of paper turned out to be a rather interesting and very beautiful hand-painted floral design, which I could immediately tell was some sort of pattern repeat.
But what sort of pattern repeat? I have a limited knowledge of weaving, but in many respects this pattern didn't really resemble the weaving directions I'd seen. Upon further examination, I felt the motifs had a sort of open quality about them that suggested lace. There was an identifying number on the reverse of the paper.
This suggested the pattern was intended for use in an industrial, commercial context. But what kind of machines produced charted lace? I examined the patterning and instruction marks, all of which were carefully hand-painted. . . as was the lettering.
Then I noticed this word – Madras. I had a vague recollection of some kind of openwork fabric of that name being produced at the turn of the twentieth century. Poking around my books, I found a reference to "Scottish Madras" in Lesley Jackson's Twentieth Century Pattern Design. Semi-sheer muslins with openwork patterns were traded from, and associated with the Indian port, and, in much the same culturally appropriative way that Paisley became a byword for textiles originating in Kashmir, so an Ayrshire iteration of Madras's gauzy, lacey muslins began to be produced in the mills of the Irvine valley from the 1870s onwards.
Further poking around revealed more information: that Scottish Madras was introduced to Ayrshire by Alexander Morton, a Scottish textile innovator and entrepreneur who admired and emulated the technology of the Nottingham Leavers Lace machine. The semi-transparent nature of the fabric meant that it was ideal for curtains, and, by the turn of the twentieth century, design houses such as Voysey and Morris & Co were using Morton's machinery to create lightweight curtain and furnishing fabrics for sale at outlets such as Libertys, in London. Throughout the early decades of the twentieth century, several mills in Irvine valley were hard at work creating fine lace fabrics like "Scottish Madras".
(image courtesy of MYB textiles)
Scottish Madras was, then, quite a specialised textile, involving precise design techniques and innovative technologies. The resulting fabric was pretty ubiquitous in the 1910s, and decorated countless early twentieth century domestic interiors. But what had happened to these technologies? Had they died out, as did so many other important innovations, when the Scottish textile industry declined later in the century? Well, imagine how delighted and excited I was to discover that that a company still exists in Ayrshire, using essentially the same specialised technologies to create contemporary interpretations of this important and distinctive local fabric! That company is MYB textiles and I suggest you pop over to their site immediately to read about their history producing Scottish Madras and laces. Even more excitingly, Kashka Lennon, one of the designers at MYB textiles, was able to tell me more about the pattern Brenda had given to me.
According to Kashka: "This is a Nottingham Lace draft, you can tell from the colour used to paint it, the red symbolises the most opaque areas, the green semi-sheer, the white represent the sheer of the lace and the blue symbolises the tags used to pull the yarns together to create very open areas of the design. I can also tell that the design you have would've have been for a small 16" café net style fabric by the orientation of the pattern on the graph paper."
Kashka also mentioned that while she has been taught to recreate these patterns digitally (perhaps in much the same way as we knitwear designers do using Illustrator and other charting software) her design director was trained to make drafts using a similar hand painted technique to that of my chart.
There are beautiful and intriguing things about so many charts and patterns. I find this chart especially beautiful and particularly intriguing because it was a gift that has taught me something about a distinctive Scottish textile I never really knew existed. I now intend to visit MYB textiles to find out a little more about the techniques and traditions of machine-made lace in Scotland! I am very excited about this and promise to report back here after my trip!
Thankyou, Brenda, for sending me on this journey!
Braid Hills
So here is my new design! The Braid Hills Cardigan!
This is the first in a series of designs celebrating my favourite Edinburgh places. Regular readers will know that I've mentioned The Braids on this site many times: the view of the city from here is spectacular, and the landscape is gorgeous for a ramble particularly in Spring when the air is heady with the smell of gorse and the sound of skylarks.
The colourway I chose for my sample was inspired by gorse too – Blacker Swan DK. This is a deliciously squooshy light DK / sportweight merino, grown in the Falkland Islands and then processed in Cornwall by the Natural Fibre Company. It is airy and bouncy and, because it is worsted spun, it also has a really smooth hand. All of these characteristics means that when knit up the yarn has great definition, and shows off twisted-stitch cables superbly.
I have recently been on a bit of a cable kick, and have been really inspired by Maria Erlbacher's classic Überlieferte Strickmuster (available in English from Schoolhouse Press). Because the 'action' of these stitches occurs on every row, their look is, I think, particularly neat and sinuous. So pleasing.
Many cables are worked as braids, and as I began swatching various twisted-stitch panels, I was strongly reminded of the braided structure of eighteenth-century laced stays and stomachers.
I thought there might be a way to use braided micro cables to lend structure and focus to a garment . . . without, of course, the attendant damage to one's rib-cage involved in eighteenth-century corsetry.
The neckline of eighteenth century garments above a laced bodice tends to be low and squarish, framing the the high bust . . .
(Philip Mercier, portrait of Lousia Balfour, 1751)
. . . so this is how I structured my neckline too.
Because of the low neckline, it is important that the cables and ribbing of the neckline sit across the high bust without undue stretching. So I recommend knitting this cardigan with a little positive ease to give a neat neckline – paerhaps 0.5 – 1 in. I am modelling the garment with around an inch of positive ease (31 in bust / 32 in garment). (The pattern includes a detailed sizing table and schematic to enable you to choose the size that's right for you)
The braided micro cables flow down into the ribbing at the neck and hem, and this intertwined patterning is also echoed on both cuffs . . .
I am fond of these cuffs.
Because this pattern is part of a series inspired by the city in which I've lived for the past decade, I have decided to add in a few Edinburgh extras – so the pattern booklet includes a short editorial feature exploring the history and geography of the Braid Hills, as well as a photographic lookbook. If you have a copy of Colours of Shetland, you'll see that the way I have structured the booklet is very like one of my chapters in that book.
This is a design I'm very pleased with for many reasons, and my cable kick is not quite over yet…
So if you'd like to knit your own Braid Hills cardigan and / or read more about this lovely landscape and how it inspired my design, the booklet is now available!
You can purchase the digital edition of the Braid Hills booklet via Ravelry, or it is available in print (professionally produced in either the EU or US and delivered straight to your door) via Mag Cloud.
Happy knitting!
Sixareen Cape
While we were in the Highlands, we took the opportunity to photograph a design I've had ready for a while: the Sixareen Cape.
I started knitting this Fair Isle wrap last October. You may remember that at that time I'd just designed a hat especially for Shetland wool week (The Sixareen Kep) using Jamieson and Smith's wonderful Shetland Heritage Yarn.
(Sixareen Kep at my Shetland Wool Week Workshop, modelled by Tania Ashton-Jones. Photo courtesy Charlotte Monckton)
Around that time, I was getting a lot of wear out of a circular wrap I'd purchased from Toast (which I am wearing in the photograph above). This wrap was a sort of deep tube with raglan shaping, and I was surprised at how versatile a thing it was. It was a scarf, a cowl, a snood, and very nearly a sweater. I wore it scrunched up inside a coat when I was outside walking Bruce, I wore it wrapped about me inside the house when I needed another layer, and I wore it thrown on over a suit jacket when a little extra warmth was required outside. I liked it so much that I decided to design my own version featuring a deep Fair Isle border of the same chart design I'd used for the Kep, which I'd been very pleased with. This was the result.
The border of the circularly-knit 'cape' features three repeats of the 'kep' chart. Its a design I've come across in several Shetland sources, and, if you look at it, you'll see that it is an interestingly stretched-out and squashed incarnation of a traditional OXO motif. There are several things I find really pleasing about this chart. The background is unusually spacious for a Fair Isle motif (there are stretches of 7 stitches in some places), and there's something about this space that allows the different shades to sing. Because of this, when repeated, the motif develops a shimmering near-kaleidoscopic quality, which I really love.
The heritage yarn is amazingly soft, and wonderful to work with. It is the perfect yarn for traditional Fair Isle, but it also has a marvelous drapey quality which makes it absolutely ideal for this kind of garment. The plain stockinette portion is knitted at a slightly looser gauge to enhance the drape, allowing the garment to be worn in several different ways.
It can be worn scrunched up, cowl-like around the neck . . .
Pulled forward, collar-like, around the shoulders . . .
Or pulled down, cape-like, around the torso . . .
Decreases are worked through the plain stockinette part of the garment in exactly the same way as the shaping of a raglan sweater.
. . . and the end result is a striking and versatile wrap that is also great at warding off chilly highland breezes.
These photographs were taken above Rannoch Moor on a truly beautiful evening.
The cape comes in seven sizes, with a circumference of 45″ to 59″. It is fitted by measuring the wearer's total shoulder circumference, and it should be worn with at least 2 inches of positive ease, to allow the wearing of layers underneath. If you would prefer a deeper or shallower wrap, the length is easily adjusted following the instructions in the pattern.
The Sixareen Cape is now available to purchase digitally through Ravelry and you can also purchase the pattern in print, to be shipped directly to you, (wherever in the world you are) via my Mag Cloud store.
Ursula Cardigan
Its time to show you another design, from the next of my Shetland 'colour stories'. This is the Ursula Cardigan.
This design is named for writer and naturalist, Ursula Venables, who lived and worked in Shetland during the 1940s and '50s. (You can read more about her in my book.)
Ursula's writing about wildflowers, as well as my own experience of Shetland's luminous summer landscape, provided the very feminine palette of this colour story.
While the distinctive zigzagging stitch pattern was inspired by a striking 1940s knitted garment I noticed very briefly on screen in a BBC drama.
This cardigan is probably the most 'challenging' design in Colours of Shetland, but that doesn't mean it can't be tackled by a confident beginner. It is knit in the round, with steek bridges placed for the front openings and armscyes. After knitting the body, the armscye steeks are cut, and the sleeves are worked top-down in Barbara Walker fashion.
The front steek is cut, and lined with a pretty ribbon trim.
Vintage glass buttons provide the perfect finish. . .
. . .and snaps are used in place of holes to help the button bands retain their shape over time.
This is a classic garment, that, if made carefully, should see its wearer through many summers.
We shot these photographs near St Ninian's Isle, in Shetland's South mainland. Every time I look at them, I long to be back there again.
I think I'll take the Ursula cardigan back to Shetland again next year, to enjoy some more glorious summer days.
Yarn requirements and sizing information for the Ursula Cardigan can now be found on Ravelry.
snawheid is here
Good morning! It is I, Bruce. I am here to tell you about the release of Kate's latest hat design. This hat, which is called "Snawheid" features a large fluffy ball that I'm unfortunately not allowed to savage.
Did you know that I play a crucial role in all of Kate's photoshoots? Well I do. That's right — I am the indispensable styling assistant.
The first part of my job as styling assistant is to find a Nice Big Stick and present Kate with it.
Then I fly by with Big Stick just as Tom has set up his photograph.
Finally, I relax and chew Stick while Tom shouts "get out of the shot, Bruce."
And if you're really lucky, I'll even conjure up a rainbow.
Happy Knitting, love Bruce x
Kate adds: with massive pompom-sized thanks to Jen Arnall Culliford, the snawheid pattern is now available here.
The Sixareen Kep
Hello from Shetland, everybody! Wool Week is in full swing, and it has got off to a great start.
I thought you'd like to see the pattern we produced yesterday at the Shetland Museum — named and photographed by the workshop participants, and modeled here by the lovely Tania — the Sixareen Kep.
In the workshop I talked a bit about the way I tend to build up ideas and inspiration for a project, and I thought I'd share with you a little of the background to the design of this kep (cap). This was my starting point:
Stanley Cursiter, The Fair Isle Jumper (1923) Edinburgh City Arts Centre.
Some of you may remember this amazing portrait from the front cover of A Shetland Knitter's Notebook, and I've also mentioned my fascination with it before here. What the sitter is wearing on her head is is a sort of fancy seafarer's kep. I just love this hat – perhaps apart from the pompoms – and thought it would be an ideal use of Jamieson and Smith's Shetland Heritage yarn, of which I conveniently had six balls – one in each shade.
(mmmm . . .tasty Shetland Heritage . . . )
The shape of Cursiter's sitter's kep also reminded me strongly of the Phrygian or Liberty cap — a symbol of freedom that's perhaps most most familiarly associated with the French Revolution.
I thought I would like to make the main body of my kep red, rather than white, recalling the Phrygian cap.
Then I started thinking about the different kinds of head-covering worn by fishermen around the coasts of Britain.
These noble chaps were photographed by Hill and Adamson in 1847, just down the road from where I live, in Newhaven. The one on the left is wearing what I think of as a kep — the kind of tall 'wursit' hat that would have been familiarly worn by Scottish and English fishermen throughout the Nineteenth Century. While the Newhaven fisherman's head-covering is evidently fashioned in a single colour, in Shetland, such hats would have been knitted in several bright shades:
In the words of Samuel Hibert, in his Description of the Shetland Islands (1822):
"The boat dress of the fishermen is in many respects striking. A worsted covering for the head, similar in form to the common English or Scotch nightcap, is dyed with so many colours that its bold tints are recognized at a considerable distance, like the stripes of a signal flag."
The collections of the Shetland Museum abound with beautiful examples of such hats. These keps are knitted at typically tight gauges, and feature internal linings which would have made them incredibly cosy and windproof. With a little further poking around the Shetland Museum online archives, I found this description of some wonderfully elaborate examples, that were knitted up to an old design in the 1950s:
"Haaf hats were the type of hats worn by the crew of a sixareen at the haaf (deep sea) fishing, and were typically patterned with small geometric designs . . .The skipper of the boat wore a bright red cap, while the rest of the crew wore darker ones. This differentiated him from the rest of the crew."
So with these resonances in mind — the hat in the Cursiter portrait; the red Phyrigian cap; the brightly patterned keps described in nineteenth-century accounts of Shetland; and the sixareen skipper's red "haaf" hat — I knitted this:
My kep begins with a knitted-in lining, and the colourwork brim is knitted on 2.75mm needles. After joining the lining to the top of the brim, I went up a couple of needle sizes, knitting the main body of the kep at a looser gauge to make it drapey (as well as having great stitch definition for colourwork, because of the way it is spun, the Heritage yarn also drapes well). After knitting and shaping the body of the kep, I finished it off with a braid, made from 3 different coloured i-cords, which I plaited and joined together. Here's the end result:
The workshop participants had a great discussion about what to name the hat — associations were made with Burra's famous Papil Cross, the distinctive red geology of Ronas Hill as well as different aspects of Shetland seafaring. A vote was taken, and the name that won out was the Sixareen Kep.
So, the pattern for the Sixareen Kep is now available from Ravelry!
Many thanks to all who participated in the workshop: Victoria Wickham, Shelly Kocan, Tania Ashton Jones, Susan Freeman, Evelyn Mackenzie, Emily Poleson, Mandy Moore, Mary Pirie, Aileen Ryder, Outi Kater, Joyce James, Tori Seirestad, Charlotte Monckton, Ann Leibert, Mary Henderson, Monique Boonstra, Joyce Ward, Lesley Smith, Melanie Ireland and Jen Arnall Culliford.
Tír Chonaill
Woolfest is just a fortnight away! I am pleased to say I am mostly prepared (hoping to hear about the whereabouts of the last of my stock today, fingers crossed). I've produced two new designs to launch as kits at the event (with yarn and project bags), and sent the patterns off to my printers yesterday. As it really isn't long till they are published, I thought I'd show you a few photographs in advance. So here's the first design: it is a Donegal wrap or throw, and I've called it Tír Chonaill.
The wrap is knitted in "Soft Donegal" – the same lovely Irish yarn I used for the Bláithín designs. As well as the fresh, Spring-like shades I used for the cardigans, there are a number of deep jewel-like shades in the Donegal Yarns palette that really speak to each other, and which I wanted to bring together. The throw mingles three of these rich shades against a creamy báinín background.
The palette and pattern were inspired by Medieval tapestries. And the name of the design also has historic associations: Tír Chonaill was the name of the last independent Gaelic sovereignty in Ireland: a kingdom which, until the Flight of the Earls in 1607, covered most of what later became County Donegal.
The finished design is about 3 feet square – just right for a wrap or lap blanket – though the tiled repeats mean that it is easily customised for those who would prefer a smaller pram blanket, or a larger throw. It is knit in the round, steeked and finished using similar techniques as those used on the Bláithín cardigans. And the pattern is surprisingly simple to knit — because the yarn is worsted-weight, and the background shades are never carried over long distances, the throw works up quickly, and would be fine for someone reasonably new to colourwork. You can see the steek-sandwich and i-cord edging here:
One of the things I really like about this sort of tiled design is the way that the repeat creates different lines of visual continuity. This only works over a reasonably large area – so this is an ideal design for this particular repeat.
The rich tweedy colours – which really speak to, and blend with, each other – add to this sense of continuity as well.
We took these photographs at St Anthony's Chapel, just down the road in Holyrood Park. When I'm there, I always think of the ascent of Arthur's Seat in James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
Unfortunately, it was too cloudy for brockenspectres when we took these photographs. But even when there are teenagers and tourist buddies about (it is a popular spot) I always find the atmosphere around the chapel just a wee bit eerie.
. . . an atmosphere which was only added to by a little wind and rain.
There were also several canny rooks knocking about the ruins of the chapel, but none of them wanted to participate in our wuthering photoshoot, unfortunately.
So, if you like this design, I'll have it available in kit form at Woolfest! The pattern now has its own ravelry page, and printed and digital copies of the pattern will also be available shortly after the launch. I may be able to offer some kits as well, depending on the level of interest.
do you admire this costume?
I am becoming obsessed with the elaborately starched and stripey 'costume' of the Newhaven fishwives – and what it says about the ways in which the hard lives of working women might be reinvented as romance.
These mass-produced ornaments were extremely popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They come in several varieties, and turn up on ebay from time to time. I now find myself determined to get my hands on an ornamental fishwife (If I discovered one with a pair of knitting needles in her hands I just wouldn't trust myself). Meanwhile, I have finished writing something polemical about the interdependent activities of fishing and knitting, and have today released the pattern for Tantallon. You can find it here or here. ( Massive thanks to Gretchen and Heather for lightning-fast test-knitting and astute pattern feedback). I am not putting any pressure on myself, but I am pretty sure that further designs with connections to my local landscape will be forthcoming.
tortoise and hare: released!
The Tortoise and Hare sweater and gauntlets are now ready! You can find them here or here! (Grateful thanks to Momoko, Tanya, and most especially to Mel, for test-knitting and extremely useful pattern feedback).
For a limited time only, if you buy a copy of the sweater, you will receive a free copy of the gauntlets in the same download. BOGOF! Bargain! (If you have no interest in knitting the sweater, you can of course buy the gauntlets individually). A note to those who would describe themselves as novice knitters: though the Tortoise and Hare sweater is not difficult, and I hope my instructions are clear and straightforward, because of the steeking, braids, and long colour repeats, I would say it was a project that was suited to the fairly experienced knitter – so if you were thinking of trying this as your first attempt at colourwork, I'd have a go at the gauntlets first.
And if you have any queries about either pattern, please post them on the discussion thread (rav link) in the Kate Davies ravelry group – I will pop over and respond next Sunday (14th). Cheers, everyone – as I'm sure you can imagine, it means a lot to me to finally get these patterns out there!
guess what?
with massive thanks to Liz and Mel, I've actually finally managed to get the Manu pattern out! hurrah! You can find it here or here.


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- Arborization - extensively used term; should it have its own article?
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- Molar excess - this term is used everywhere, yet there is no clear explanation of it; refers to the compound in a reaction that has more moles than are necessary to complete the reaction in full (the direction of the reaction is unimportant, c.f. Le Chatlier's principle)
- Neural tract - "A collection of axons in the central nervous system having the same origin, termination, and function." (reference: Marieb pp. G-19) ; equivalent to a nerve in the PNS
- relationship to Neural pathway? Biological tracts in general (e.g. GI tract)? Proposed titles for a more general article were "Tract (biology)" or "Tract (anatomy)"
- Presynaptic specialization & Postsynaptic specialization - used in a vague manner throughout Neuroscience 4e, e.g. "Typically, the presynaptic terminal is immediately adjacent to a postsynaptic specialization of the target cell." (reference: Purves pp. 7); probably refers to certain features of receptor proteins and/or the morphology of dendrites
- Charles Bradley - child psychiatrist who conducted the earliest experiments on the use of amphetamine as drug therapy, providing the precursor for the subsequent development of theories about ADD and ADHD. (reference: Samuel Barondes, "Better Than Prozac", pp. 61 and onward)
- Neuromodulation - remove "merge" tag on September 1st, 2009. Article also needs work.
- Receptor (biochemistry) - less jargon.
- Pinocytosis - needs lots of work.
- Potocytosis - finish adding info.
- Endocytosis - needs work. references.
- Receptor-mediated endocytosis - lacks inline citations
- Semipermeable membrane - reference Widmaier 110
- Osmole (unit) - reference Widmaier 109
- Gas chromatography - finish adding info (Pavia 798-810)
- Neuropsychology - needs work
- Phenytoin - needs pharmacology section
- DLCO - cleanup
- Coping strategies - needs merge or total rewrite for style, etc.
- Stimulant - cleanup
- Dextroamphetamine - cleanup
- Epigallocatechin gallate - cleanup
- Commissure - Purves 15
- Spinal nerve - add reference
- Experimental techniques - needs work
- Dihydrocodeine - cleanup
- Anatomical terms of location - needs cleanup
- Indolamine - needs references, etc. (Purves?)
- Fluoxetine - add "Pharmacology" section, add more info about interactions (Holt)
- Biosynthesis - needs lots of work, links to indolamine/catecholamine articles
- Chiral resolution - better image (cf. Pt.11 Pg.21)
- Meso compound - better image (of two isomers of tartaric acid)
- Polarimeter - add image
- 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness - add criticism section
- Calcium signaling - needs work, references
- Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area - add NPS maps (public domain) and photos [1][2]
- Axon - reference Marieb and Purves
- Nucleus (neuroanatomy) - needs table of major nuclei; reference.
- Thalamus - needs better introduction. references.
- Scarpa's ganglion - reference (Purves 356); change name?
- Oscillopsia ("bouncing vision") - reference (Purves 357)
- Macula of saccule and Macula of utricle - naming and content (Purves 348-50)
- Fovea - (Purves 258, 272-3)
- Color blindness - (Purves 274-7)
- Placebo effect - (Purves 247-8)
- Anterolateral system - create flow chart based on (Purves 238)
- Vanilloid - needs a lot of work (see Purves 232-3)
- Ganglion - reference (Marieb); clear up confusion with Ganglion cell; add examples of ganglia (e.g. spiral ganglion, Scarpa's ganglion, etc.)
- "Collections of hundreds to thousands of neurons found outside the brain and spinal cord along the course of peripheral nerves."
- Ganglion cell - reference (Purves 261-310); info is scattered throughout text
- M ganglion cells & P ganglion cells - (Purves 305)
- Ganglion cell layer - merge into ganglion cell?
- Create/find better photo for all retinal structures (better than Image:Gray882.png); see Purves pp. 262
- Edinger-Westphal nucleus - reference (Purves 290-1)
- Pretectum - reference (Purves 290-1)
- Stimulus (physiology) - needs a lot of work
- Pupillary response merge into Pupillary light reflex - after 11/21/08, if no objections arise
- Neuron - reorganize article
- Type Ia sensory fiber and Type II sensory fiber - a.k.a. "group Ia afferents" and "group II afferents", respectively. reference (Purves 216)
- Extrafusal muscle fiberand Intrafusal muscle fiber - reference (Purves 216-7); both need better picture
- Proprioception - reference (Purves 216)
- Merkel nerve ending - reference (Purves 212-3)
- Receptor potential - needs lots of work. reference (Purves 208, etc.)
- Paranasal sinuses - reference (Marieb 204-18)
- CREB - needs inline citations
- Combined drug intoxication - needs cleanup and references
- Humectant - needs references
- Patch clamp - add Neuroscience as reference.
- Current clamp - needs to be properly partitioned, and much more info is needed about the biological-research-technique type of current clamp
- Voltage clamp - create new picture based on Box 3A. (Purves 42)
- Electrical synapse - needs better referencing
- Glutamate-glutamine cycle - add more info, picture (see Purves 130)
- Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor - fix references from "Receptor regulation" section onward. also, "Subunits" should be a subsection of "Structure"
- Metabotropic receptor - article is messy and confusing
- Ligand-gated ion channel - rename "Ionotropic receptor" for consistency with Metabotropic receptor
- Nicotine - "Interactions" section needed
- List of drugs - create articles for red-links on list (there are many, many, many...)
- Membrane potential - needs references, etc.
- Resting potential - aka "resting membrane potential". needs references, etc.
- Reversal potential - could always use more work, references from Ch.3 of Neuroscience.
- Receptor potential -
- All synaptic vesicles contain ATP. (Purves 142)
- GPCR. (Purves 156)
- Drug use statistics & DA involved in all drug addictions & COMT. (Purves 138-9)
- Ryanodine receptor. (Purves 162)
- Does Kinase link to Phosphatase, and vice-versa (with explanations)?
- Gravity (beer) - Get better image of hydrometer, Link to/from other homebrewing articles, explain that the term is used in relation to all alcoholic beverages although consumers only see it in relation to beer
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For many brides, the entrance song for the ceremony is one of the most important song choices of the day. It is this moment that you may have acted out as a child, dressed in a white bed sheet with a pillowcase pinned to your hair, and such a special moment deserves a special accompaniment.
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Before the ceremony the musicians will perform a selection of music as your guests are seated, and your chosen songs will then be performed for the entrance, the signing of the register, and your exit together. For church weddings, the string quartet and trio are also able to accompany the hymns if required.
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I think many people underestimate or mischaracterize the work Leonard did in this fight. They characterize the fight as simply "Hagler landing harder punches, while Leonard threw pity pat flurries," but I don't think it's as clear cut as that. I think there were times when Hagler's punches looked slow and sloppy, while Leonard actually landed the sharper punches (see round 6, for example). I think Leonard mixed in enough solid punches among his so-called "pity pats" to make Hagler respect him and not simply walk through him. He also did a great job of tying up or smothering Hagler, especially in the early rounds, and made him miss with a lot of punches.
Leonard largely outclassed Hagler over the first four rounds. After his ring-rusty body began to tire in the 5th, he used his guile and will to remain competitive even in the rounds he probably lost. Despite people's characterizations of Leonard as "running" and Hagler "chasing," there are times in that fight where Hagler actually looks like the more tentative and less hungry of the two.
IMO, this was a close fight that probably could've been scored either way. I think a close win for Leonard was fair and well deserved.
I agree completely. Over the first half of the fight, Leonard was hitting him sharp and hard, and making him miss to the degree he looked clumsy. He was completely the ring general- Hagler was chasing him with no real skill, purpose, or effect. Leonard won anywhere between 4 of the first 6, to, on some cards, all 6. I only gave Hagler round 5 myself.
118-110 is a bad card, but it's not so far off as to imply corruption. Once you bank half the fight, and the other half is gritty and competitive give and take, a scorecard can conceivably come back wide. It's possible. After the first 6, it was 100% Leonard's fight to lose, he was a mile ahead.
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Cancer of the hypopharynx is uncommon; approximately 2,500 new cases are diagnosed in the United States each year.[1] The peak incidence of this cancer occurs in males and females aged 50 to 60 years.[2] Excessive alcohol and tobacco use are the primary risk factors for hypopharyngeal cancer.[3,4] In the United States, hypopharyngeal cancers are more common in men than in women.[5] In Europe and Asia, high incidences of pharyngeal cancers, namely, oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal, have been found among men in France, in the counties of Bas-Rhin and Herault; Switzerland, in the section of Vaud; Spain, in the Basque Country region; Slovakia, Slovenia, and India, in the cities of Bombay and Madras.[6] This cancer is extremely rare in children.[7]
Upper hypopharyngeal cancers appear to be associated more with heavy drinking and smoking, whereas the lower hypopharyngeal, or postcricoid, cancers are more often associated with nutritional deficiencies.[1,8] Although earlier reports from northern Europe, particularly from Sweden, indicated a link between Plummer-Vinson syndrome, which consisted of sideropenic anemia and epithelial changes of the aerodigestive tract, and other nutritional deficiencies in women, cases of hypopharyngeal cancer among women are currently more likely to be associated with excessive use of alcohol and tobacco, rather than with deficiency diseases.[2,9,10,11]
Anatomically, the hypopharynx extends from the plane of the hyoid bone above to the plane of the inferior border of the cricoid cartilage below. The hypopharynx is composed of the following three parts and does not include the larynx:
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The lymphatic drainage from the pharynx is into the jugulodigastric, jugulo-omohyoid, upper and middle deep cervical, and retropharyngeal nodes. In the United States and Canada, 65% to 85% of hypopharyngeal carcinomas involve the pyriform sinuses, 10% to 20% involve the posterior pharyngeal wall, and 5% to 15% involve the postcricoid area.[12] Pyriform sinus and postcricoid carcinomas are typically flat plaques with raised edges and superficial ulceration. In contrast, posterior hypopharyngeal wall tumors tend to be exophytic and are often large (i.e., 80% >5 cm) at presentation.[13] Hypopharyngeal carcinomas tend to spread within the mucosa, beneath intact epithelium, and are prone to skip metastasis and to resurface at various locations remote from the primary site.[1,13] Because of this fact and the abundant lymphatic network of the region, a localized hypopharyngeal tumor is the exception.[1]
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Carrie Underwood set to wedCarrie Underwood is to marry in a secret ceremony tomorrow (10.07.10).
The country singer - who has been dating Ottawa Senators ice hockey player Mike Fisher since 2008 - is said to be keeping the location of the nuptials under wraps from even the guests until the very last minute.
A source revealed to the New York Post newspaper: "Carrie wants to keep the wedding small and secret. She originally wanted up to $2 million for the photo rights, but she's now believed to have struck a deal with a weekly magazine."
The 'Jesus, Take The Wheel' hitmaker - who got engaged to the sportsman last December - has reportedly told guests to go to an airport in a southern city in the US, where they will then be taken to the top secret site by private jet or limousine.
Carrie recently revealed she was too tied up with work commitments to put too much thought into organizing her impending wedding.
She said: "There's a lot going on. They are still in the season. They actually only have a few more season games left. I'm touring until the end of June, and have a few shows in July, so we're working on it here and there. We have a few things coming along."


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2 years ago
2 years ago
Is Titleist going to come out with more flat bill fitted hat? I cant find it anywhere anymore. I had one in the XL size its faded and beat up now and would like a new one? Where can I find them? Everywhere online only sells the small sizes? Please advise.
I sure hope not. I'm not a fan of the flat bill look.
good opinion Dallin. you probably dont like right wearing a flat bill hat anyhow.
Personally not my style either, but Vokey released a cap that is still available on their website with the flat bill.
While I don't like them, Titleist does offer them. You may need to have your local dealer order them for you.
To each his own, but I find it frustrating that all the cool hats these days ONLY seem to come flat brimmed. It's fine if you're a 16 year old Rickie Fowler fan, but it just doesn't look right on a 30+ year old golfer. Just stop by your local Lidz store and you'll see what I mean.
DAMN! People hating on the flat brimmed. I love 'em as well. I wish they would do pro fit, instead of flex fit though.