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English Literature
- Award: BA (Hons) English Literature
- UCAS codes:
Institution Code: B20
Course Code: Q300
Campus Code: A
- School: School of Humanities and Cultural Industries
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- Course length: 3 years full-time
- Campus: Newton Park
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Lectures and seminars are lively and offer plenty of opportunities for involvement and debate. Throughout your study you can experiment with new ideas and new perspectives, both critically and creatively.
English at Bath Spa is a dynamic subject offering a broad and stimulating approach to literary studies.
Why study English Literature?
Literature can change the way we see the world; it can introduce us to new experiences; it can be dangerous, or exciting, or heart-rending.
Here at Bath Spa we welcome students who share our passion for the written word. A current student describes the course as 'enlightening, eye-opening and endlessly entertaining'.
The English programme is large and varied and offers you plenty of choice. It is designed to balance the study of canonical writers - Shakespeare, Wordsworth, James Joyce, Charlotte Bronte - with texts and writers who may be less familiar to you. We are keen to bring literature to life, and the course features options that include field trips to London, Oxford, Krakow and Auschwitz, and Berlin, amongst others. The modules range from those on specific authors (Shakespeare, Ian McEwan, or Virginia Woolf, for instance), to topic-based subjects (Writing and the Environment, Post-Colonial Literatures, or Literary London), to period-based study (Gender and Eighteenth-Century Fiction or Gothic Origins and Innovations). You will be encouraged to explore diverse areas of literature and to investigate issues that matter to you.
English staff are committed to sharing their literary enthusiasms with students. We are all active researchers, writing scholarly books and articles and engaged in debate on literary and critical issues. We have specialists in the Gothic, writing and the environment, Renaissance literature, women's writing and modern and contemporary culture.
We are also passionate about teaching: we encourage our students to bring their own literary loves into the seminar room and we aim to foster a supportive atmosphere of lively, interactive debate. Lectures and seminars offer plenty of opportunities for involvement and debate. Throughout your study you can experiment with new ideas and new perspectives, both critically and creatively.
Don't just take our word for it: in the 2011 National Student Survey *100%* of our BA Hons. English Literature students were satisfied with their experience of the course.
Course structure
The English Literature course at Bath Spa offers a large range of diverse modules. Although most English modules are optional, there are core modules in Years 1 and 2 which provide a common framework to explore central issues and aspects of literary study. The course is structured to allow an extended independent project or dissertation in Year 3.
In year 1, all students study the core module, Critical Reading I, which covers texts ranging from Ovid's Metamorphoses to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre to James Joyce's modernist classic Ulysses. There are also a number of optional modules which give students the chance to broaden their experience of literature before moving into more specialised study in years 2 and 3. To accompany the core module you can study contemporary literature, 19th-century literature, or you can explore the 18th century or the Renaissance.
In year 2, all students study the core module, Critical Reading II, which, as its title suggests, follows on from Critical Reading I. In the year 2 core module, you will read a range of prose, poetry and drama; the authors studied include Samuel Richardson, Samuel Beckett, Shelley, Keats, Aphra Behn and Sylvia Plath. This module also features a PDP/employability strand, closely linked to its academic content.
In the third year of the course, a project or dissertation is core for students on the single honours BA English route and for those students taking English as their major. All other third-year English modules - of which there are a wide variety - are optional.
The reading list for the compulsory first year core module (EN4001: Critical Reading 1) is listed below. It is important that only the editions listed are purchased.
- Genesis, chapters 1-22, in the Authorised Version, translated 1611. Suggested editions are from Grove Press or Oxford University Press, or the on-line text athttp://etext.virginia.edu/kjv.browse.html
- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1607), (ed.), Norton Critical Edition.
- Alexander Pope, Selected Poems, Pat Rogers (ed.), Oxford University Press.
- William Wordsworth, Selected Poems, Stephen Gill and Duncan Wu (eds), Oxford University Press.
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847), Richard J. Dunn (ed.), Norton Critical Edition.
- James Joyce, Ulysses (1922), Jeri Johnson (ed.), Oxford University Press.
Year 1
All students take Critical Reading I in the first year. This core module introduces a variety of texts and critical debates, and provides a foundation for English Literature in Years 2 and 3. All other first-year modules are optional.
- Critical Reading I (core); EN4001 Critical Reading 1 Order Form 2015-2016 (1).xlsx
- Writing and the Self;
- Writing, Gender and Politics, 1500-1750; EN4002 Writing, Gender and Politics Order Form 2015.xlsx
- Scandal and Sobriety: Enlightenment to Victorianism, 1750-1890; EN4003 Scandal and Sobriety Order Form 2015.xlsx
- From Decadence to the Naughties, 1890-2009; EN4004 From Decadence to the Naughties Order Form 2015 (1).xlsx
- Print, Book, and Candle: the production, form and reception of literary texts.
Year 2
Current Year 2 modules:
- Critical Reading II (core);
- Theatre, Sex and Power in Early Modern England;
- Nineteenth-Century European Literature;
- Gothic Origins and Innovations, 1780-1890;
- Poetry;
- Historical Fiction;
- Three Women Writers;
- Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature;
- Canadian Literature and Culture;
- Post-Colonial Literatures;
- Practical Criticism and Close Reading;
- Reading Animals;
- Writing America: Identity, Ethnicity, Nationhood;
- Manifesto!;
- Crime Fiction;
- Twentieth-Century Irish Writing;
- Renaissance Worlds: sixteenth and seventeenth-century poetry;
- Adventures in Periodical Culture: beyond the book, 1700-1960.
Year 3
Current Year 3 modules:
- Research Project (compulsory for Single and Major Hons. English);
- Shakespeare;
- Aspects of Modernism;
- Writing and the Environmental Crisis;
- Twentieth-Century European Literature;
- Virginia Woolf;
- Sylvia Plath;
- Bronte and Dickens;
- Gothic Revivals;
- Authors, Books and Readers in Early Modern England;
- Literary London;
- Margaret Atwood;
- In Search of America;
- Publishing: the Literary Journal;
- Empire and Identity in the 18th Century;
- Caribbean Writings, 1950 - the present;
- Women's Writing 1960-2000;
- Irish Women's Writing;
- European Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco;
- Ian McEwan;
- Gender, Race & Nation in Early Modern Britain;
- Literature & Evil;
- Love & Desire in Contemporary Culture;
- Meanings of Friendship in Literature and Philosophy;
- Literary Women, Work and Art: Romantic to Modern;
- Contemporary Crime Fiction;
- Digital Literary Studies;
- Literature and Psychology.
Course assessment
The course is assessed by coursework (including essays, portfolios, study journals and reviews), projects and dissertations, individual and group presentations, and seen and unseen examinations. An increasing proportion of English assessment is online and we offer plenty of guidance and support on writing for the web, for example.
English staff are all active researchers in their fields, writing scholarly books and articles and engaged in debate on literary and critical issues. We are also expert and enthusiastic teachers: our staff have held National Teaching Fellowships and have won awards for the quality of their teaching. Year on year, National Student Surveys show that students value our commitment to undergraduate teaching.
Students on our course also have access to a well-stocked library that includes a large range of high-quality online resources, such as The Dictionary of National Biography, the OED, Early English Books Online, and JSTOR, a database of journal articles.
Teaching methods
English modules are taught via seminars, lectures, individual tutorials, and IT workshops.
In addition, there are opportunities for field trips to enrich the course: places we visit include the City of London, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, Krakow and Auschwitz, and Berlin.
Application method
All full time applications are through UCAS
International students should visit our international pages for more information about our entry requirements, fees and scholarships, and student support.
Course enquiries
Typical offer range for UK / EU applicants
280–320 UCAS Tariff points including A-level English Literature at grade B minimum.
Career opportunities
Our students go on to higher degrees, to teaching, journalism and PR/marketing, librarianship, and to other careers where excellent communication skills and analytical abilities are valued, such as arts management and the civil service.
Through Artswork, our Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, you'll have access to cutting-edge resources in the areas of publishing and broadcast media to prepare you for careers or for self-employment in the media and creative industries. We have a wealth of contacts in the media and creative industries and our students are well-placed to gain internships and placements.
Since 2010, employers such as Edward Elgar Publishing, Amberley Publishing. Steel Media, IHS Global Insight and The Green Living Magazine have recruited graduates from this course. Students have also gone into roles including Editorial Assistant, Marketing Executive, Communications Officer, Account Executive PR and Middle East and Telecommunications editor.
What students say...
Chris Simmonds, English Literature, Year 3
"The staff here are very approachable and easy to talk to and there are plenty of services to help with anything from finance to careers. The tutors have office hours at convenient times so if you need any advice on an assessment they are more than able and ready to help. The general feel of the campus, and the knowledge that you as a student are being represented in the decision making process of how the university is run, really makes you feel at home. You couldn't find a better place to study.
I am currently applying for a job with the Civil Service. The way that the course encourages you to think critically and objectively as well as to plan ahead will definitely assist me in this process and any future jobs I may have."
Recent graduate:
"It is, perhaps, only after graduating that students have the time to reflect on how well the course was designed, administered and delivered… without exception, the English Literature tutors all possessed great enthusiasm… Their choice of set texts and teaching style provoked engagement and involvement and I always looked forward to their classes… Studying English Literature at Bath Spa University was an enlightening, enriching, and a very rewarding experience. I will miss it greatly and remember it fondly."
Nathan Jones, English Literature, Year 3:
"I have always had an intense love for literature which I gained from studying both English and Greek literature and plays at A level. English is all about your opinion and how you respond to a particular text which I find hugely appealing as I love to vocalise and write down my opinions. English is not just reading books though; it is about comprehending the historical, political, social and ideological movements both inside and outside the text's context.
The first thing that struck me about Bath Spa University was the sheer sense of serenity I got while visiting. I come from East London, a place of buildings and business, which is all very hectic; I really enjoy being surrounded by greenery and foliage. I strongly believe being surrounded by such things is conducive to a healthy working environment. If I have a stressful day, a walk around the campus, past the ponds or in the gardens always eases my mind and lets me unwind."


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Google Play Music for Android gets updated and harbours a sinister secret
Google Play Music is something that we all use, some of us don't have a choice as it's the only music player on our devices, some of us also use it to stream our personal music collection and some people subscribe to All Access for access to almost all the music ever.
Google have just pushed an update out for their Android app adding a few new features. There is also a hidden problem, which I'll get to in a bit.
The new widgets aren't exactly revolutionary, but hey if you like widgets here's what to expect.
Just head over to the Play Store to update and revel in the new widget glory. So onto the other slightly worrying thing.
Authorised devices. Those words would at some point have struck fear into the hearts of the regular Custom ROM flasher and tech writers around the world. Google basically allow you to use Google Play Music on a maximum of ten devices, which sounds like a lot. But imagine you have your normal phone, a tablet, your PC, your laptop and maybe a little phone you take to the gym or out running, that's five devices. Now imagine you have to factory reset all the phones and tablets. According to Google that would now be classed as eight devices, imagine you get a new laptop, nine devices.
As you can see it all soon gets to ten devices. But Google made it easy to manage this by allowing you to de-authorise devices. Yay go Google. Oh wait what's that you can only do-authorise four devices a year. Damn that's me stuffed again. In fact that's a lot of people stuffed, Google wanted to implement this rule a few years ago when Play Music took off and after much backlash they decided to allow unlimited de-authorisations. It now seems they've secretly done a u-turn. Boo Google.
As I pointed earlier this will only really be a problem to people like me who have several devices of their own and get sent devices to review and also the custom ROM flashing community. I guess I'm just going to have to be more careful with which devices I allow to connect to the service. Or I might just sign up to Spotify instead. Oh and sinister might have been a bit melodramatic of me. Sorry.
Via – Android Police
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What would it mean to have the story of your origin rewritten? If you didn't come here the way you thought you did, what implications might that have about who you are?
I was reflecting on that question earlier this week, not about Armstrong but about the country in which he was born. Each year the country marks its date of origin with hot dogs, concerts and fireworks.
But why on the Fourth? Why not the Second?
After all, it was July 2, 1776, when the Resolution of Independence, Richard Henry Lee's initial call for separation from the British crown, was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. John Adams, who later would become the second president of the United States, shared his exuberance in a letter to his wife Abigail, predicting that July 2 would one day be "the most memorable epoch in the history of America."
"I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival," Adams wrote his wife. "It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more."
Of course, that proved less than prophetic. Each year, the date July 2 comes and goes with hardly any fanfare other than the annual preparation for July 4.
For that matter, why don't we celebrate April 19, 1775, the date when the Revolutionary War began? Or Sept. 3, 1783, the date peace treaties were signed to end the war?
KHUFU offered this reflection:
Independence and self-determination go hand in hand and regardless of the contradiction in the founding of this beloved country, the FICTION that was created by the Declaration of Independence by declaring ...WE THE PEOPLE with certain inalienable RIGHTS to share the WEALTH and enslaving the OTHERS to share the HARD LABOR
The constant pain and redemptive daily grind has lead the OTHERS to be included in the 13th amendment and Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. The demands of the OTHERS has lead to the 1st African-American president and its amazing how time cycles and brings about changes that will be recorded and sung about the future generations to be motivated by. The pain that artist feel release the creative forces that help change the world. In Louis words....We Have all The Time In the World...!!!
What an enjoyable article. I enjoy and look forward to your work each week. Freedom is not free. It comes at a price sometimes to hard to bear.
What do you think about independence and self-determination of our nation?
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Our overseas offices take all opportunities to disseminate up-to-date and relevant information on Japanese local governments and the challenges they face: organizing lectures or seminars, participating in exhibitions and fairs, etc.
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Sri Lanka: A Brief History
Lakshman Kadirgamar, one of the best foreign ministers in the world is dead. Shot dead by a hail of bullets in the swimming pool in his home. In his home that was guarded by over 100 armed Sri Lankan security forces. What a loss for Sri Lanka and for the world.
The late Mr. Kadirgamar was a lawyer, a graduate of Oxford University. In fact, he was the president of the Oxford Student Union when he was there. My dad was a fan of Mr. Kadirgamar's.
He was a Tamil, like me. However, he was not a supporter of the LTTE and believed in the concept of a united Sri Lanka, one in which the Sinhalese and the Tamils could co-exist peacefully. He was instrumental in getting the Western world to recognize the LTTE as a terrorist organization.
Firstly, a brief history of Sri Lanka.
The first inhabitants of the country were the "Sinhalese", a group of people who migrated from India in 500 BC. Buddhism became the primary religion of this group of people.
Starting in the the 5th Century AD, a power struggle began between the Sinhalese and the Tamil people of the state of Tamil Nadu in India.
In the 10th Century, the Chola rulers of Tamil Nadu conquered Northern Sri Lanka which was then won back by the Sinhalese rulers. This happened again in the 13th Century. The country went through periods of divison and unity alternately.
Then the Portugese, Dutch and British took turns plundering the country.
Since independence in 1948, Sri Lanka has been rocked by economic crises, the rise of Sinhalese nationalism, and violent waves of revolutionary fervor and Tamil separatism.
In 1959, the Prime Minister SRWD Bandaranaike was shot dead by a Buddhist monk.
His widow, Sirima, became the first woman Prime Minister in the world. She enforced a policy of nationalizing all industries and schools (Sounds like Indira Gandhi's mentor !) She also enforced Sinhalese as the official language.
These policies continued through her second term and continued to antogonize ethnic Tamils.
In 1972, Velupillai Prabhakaran created the Tamil New Tigers, a pre-cursor of the LTTE.
In 1983, in response to the killing of 13 Sinhalese soldiers by the Tigers, 600 Tamilians were killed in Colombo. This sparked the flight of about 100,000 Tamils to India for refuge. Several of them continue to live in India.
In 1987, Rajiv Gandhi, the then Indian PM sent in Indian troops to help maintain the peace. This move spolit India's record of having never invaded a country in all of its history. Initially, the Indians were sent in to help protect the Tamils. However, after some reports of misbehavior on the part of the Indian troops (including allegations of rape), the LTTE turned on the Indian troops as well.
In 1990, the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) withdrew after doing a thoroughly miserable job.
In 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was assasinated at a political rally by suicide bombers - One of the prime accused, Nalini recently sought release on humanitarian grounds of having a young daughter - Crazy, she should have thought of that before she got involved in militant activity.
In 1993, Sri Lankan President, Premadasa was assasinated.
In 1994, Chandrika Kumaratunga (the current President) was elected. She is also the daughter of Bandaranaike and Sirimavo.
1995 marked the first truce between the LTTE and the Sinhalese. However, this was broken and till date the country has oscillated between uneasy truces and deadly violence.
For the last couple of years, a truce had held good and it seemed like it would last. However, with the killing of Mr. Kadirgamar in what has all the hallmarks of an LTTE strike (sans the suicide bomber), it looks like Sri Lanka is about to take a giant step backwards and regress back into a bloody war.
So what is the LTTE ?
What does Prabhakaran want ?
How are they funded ?
I will attempt to answer these tomorrow.


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Campaign4Change message targets youth
By Nick Hiltunen
Published in News on November 9, 2008 9:27 AM
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Former gang leader Otis Lyons, aka Vegas Don, president and founder of Campaign4Change, a theatrical production that is anti-everything that he used to embody: gangs, drugs and crime, performs Saturday at Goldsboro High School.
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He is responsible for managing developers, maintaining speed and security, and administering the servers and databases.
Mike is a self taught programmer who took an early interest in both software and hardware security and scaling. Before founding ZergNet, Mike maintained over 15,000 domain names receiving millions of visitors a month. He brings this experience to the team and looks forward to the enormous scaling challenges ahead.
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Prior to Vibrant, Brian served as Director of Strategic Business Development at Valueclick (now Conversant), managing a national business development and sales planning team. During his tenure, Valueclick grew to become the second-largest ad network in the US. Brian has also worked for 24/7 Real Media (now Xaxis) in the UK and US leading various divisions including business development, sales and product development.
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Can the Apple iPhone 5C be keyed?
0. phoneArena 21 Aug 2013, 13:27 posted on
A published report out of Taiwan on Wednesday, included a video showing one of those alleged Apple iPhone 5C shells undergoing a damage test; in one test, the casing was placed into a bag containing a key and some coins. The phone, keys and bag were shaken up to replicate how the casing will hold up after being in your pocket...
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1. XperiaFanZone (Posts: 2112; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
There's no keyhole, so no.
2. javac (Posts: 102; Member since: 04 Mar 2013)
When they start making phones out of titanium you can use the word premium. Until then at least give aluminum the respect it deserves as a cheap metal.
5. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
It depends what kind of aluminum that's used. There's a big difference between an aluminum can and the aluminum used in aircraft.
31. stealthd (unregistered)
Premium does not mean tough or durable. And anodized aluminum is in no way cheap, it's a pretty expensive process.
3. zachattack (Posts: 621; Member since: 31 Jul 2013)
Better question... who cares?
4. bucky (Posts: 2568; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
I'm guessing you, if you cared to comment.
7. kozza3 (Posts: 697; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
oh my goodness can we please stop these pointless comments commenting on someones pointless comment
32. stealthd (unregistered)
The who cares posts aren't pointless, they're valuable dumbass detectors.
10. zachattack (Posts: 621; Member since: 31 Jul 2013)
I care about letting people know i don't care, touche
23. bucky (Posts: 2568; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)
I believe that's an insecurity.
9. Ninetysix (Posts: 2380; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
Looks like you care broseph.
6. tedkord (Posts: 11662; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
The aluminium iPhone 5 would have been scratched and dinged all to hell, but it's premium. The plastic has none of those issues, but it's cheap. BTW, aluminum goes for under a dollar per pound. The aluminum in the iPhone is worth about 25 cents.
8. kozza3 (Posts: 697; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
i would rather have painted carbon fiber/kevlar/fiber glass
13. Martin_Cooper (Posts: 1415; Member since: 30 Jul 2013)
How much does it cost to pour plastic into a mold to make a galaxy phone compared to bending,all kind of processes. and modifying aluminium to make a unibody iPhone? With your way of thinking a mercedes benz s class should cost few thousands of dollars since its aluminium and plastic and aluminium is so cheap and making something costs nothing according to you.
15. MCrapp (Posts: 318; Member since: 07 Apr 2013)
Open Yours Pepsi and child out!!!!
18. tedkord (Posts: 11662; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Nice try at re-interpreting what I said. What about the labor that goes into making something makes the original material more premium? Every layer of labor that goes into something adds cost, that's obvious. A piece of canvas isn't a premium material, but if the right person brushes paint onto it, it can be worth thousands or more. That doesn't make canvas a premium material. It is an appropriate material for painting.
Aluminum isn't a premium material, it's a cheap material. Polycarbonate isn't a premium material either, but it's a material that is not only light and moldable (like aluminum), but is also scratch resistant, doesn't deform on bending and is radio invisible (all of which aluminum isn't). It's a material that makes more sense for a phone.
29. Napalm_3nema (Posts: 2183; Member since: 14 Jun 2013)
You better alert the aviation industry. The $16 million Apache I was the crewchief on from 1988 to 1991 was mainly constructed of magnesium, kevlar, and, you guessed it, aluminum.
Painted plastic? You are right, it's cheap as hell.
34. tedkord (Posts: 11662; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Aluminum is appropriate for aircraft design. Your Apache wasn't "premium" because of the aluminum.
41. Martin_Cooper (Posts: 1415; Member since: 30 Jul 2013)
So you are telling me it costs the same to use plastic the kind of galaxy s4 uses compared of using aluminium and glass that iPhone 5 uses? Aluminium isn't nowhere near a premium material. Carbon fiber is, titanium alloys are too. But if aluminium is used the way apple, HTC, and many other use it, it gives you the FEELING of premium. Thats the key difference here. You think its a coincidence or hate from apple fans that EVERYONE beside Samsung hardcore fanboys believe that galaxy s line feels cheap? P.S. for using plastic you just need to pour it into a pre made mold. To make unibody aluminium case for iphones, htc;s etc you need s**t loads of processes cutting and bending to achieve same thing that plastic does. All that makes the phone FEEL premium. Have you ever seen a plastic watch that's considered premium?
36. Googler (Posts: 813; Member since: 10 Jun 2013)
Shhh, someone might bring up how much the iPhone components actually cost compared to what Apple charges you for them.
33. stealthd (unregistered)
Raw aluminum might be cheap, but getting it anodized certainly isn't.
35. tedkord (Posts: 11662; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Please, I've anodized aluminum in my home for telescope parts. It's not expensive, nor does it make the aluminum a premium material.
11. good2great (Posts: 1042; Member since: 22 Feb 2012)
The article should say "Can the apple iphone 5c be keyed with a CAR key?"
there are different type of keys that have a different level of sharpness to them.
12. xmusicianguy (Posts: 96; Member since: 13 Jul 2011)
Can It Blend!?
14. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1545; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
yo Apple make the colors of your Iphone 5C richer. they look too faint too pastel in color.
16. Topcat488 (Posts: 1396; Member since: 29 Sep 2012)
Too "bubble gum", too gay... Why is it that Nokia or Motorola or even Samsung can pick rich shades of colours.?. And the "glossy" shine didn't help the Galaxy S Brand so why do you put it on the iPhone 5Cheap.
19. tedkord (Posts: 11662; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
It didn't hurt the Galaxy S brand, either.
17. tacarat (Posts: 770; Member since: 22 Apr 2013)
Am I the only one worried that the phone might scratch my keys?
20. tedkord (Posts: 11662; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
You should get keys made of a premium material, then.
26. tacarat (Posts: 770; Member since: 22 Apr 2013)
Maybe when my contract is up.
27. tedkord (Posts: 11662; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Hey, if you want to keep your cheap, laggy keys, that's no skin off my nose. But there's nothing like the premium feel of BMW keys.
39. tacarat (Posts: 770; Member since: 22 Apr 2013)
I know, but most keys are locked to specific cars and thus contracts. Must be nice having so much disposable income to get whatever's new
21. PK1983 (Posts: 215; Member since: 08 Aug 2012)
The real question is does it have the same magical coating that causes almost everyone to drop their iphone at least twice a month. I mean what is the ratio of prestine iphones vs ones with cracked screens? Has to be 50/50. Rarely seen any other smartphone that is cracked so often.
22. Ninetysix (Posts: 2380; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
You seem to be under the impression the the iPhones break/shatter easier vs other smartphones. Is that correct? Have you seen all of the drop tests out there?
24. tedkord (Posts: 11662; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Any glass can shatter, and the bigger the piece of glass, the more forces will act on it from an equal impact. Assuming the same thickness and glass type, a 5 inch piece of glass is more likely to shatter than a 4 inch piece from the exact same drop.
25. Ninetysix (Posts: 2380; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
Thank you. You just proved PK1983 wrong.
28. tedkord (Posts: 11662; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
I didn't prove anyone wrong. I just stated facts. Since no two impacts are ever the same, drop tests are useless. You'd need to repeat it on so many of the same handset just to get any useful data, it'd cost tens of thousands of dollars for each device.
30. Ninetysix (Posts: 2380; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
Thanks. We both agree the iPhones doesn't shatter any easier vs other devices.
38. Doakie (Posts: 2005; Member since: 06 May 2009)
Where are all the iPhone fans that were calling the Galaxy S cheap shiny plastic? I hear no more complaining about plastic......
40. Trismegistus (Posts: 32; Member since: 21 Aug 2013)
We have an update to this story: This was a slow news day.
42. poping (unregistered)
premium watches are made of...
stainless steel...
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Race to Dubai Concludes this Week
The PGA European Tour rarely puts one over on its larger, richer counterpart across the Atlantic. But in the case of their respective year-long points' races ending in excessively-hyped finales, the European Tour's Race to Dubai has probably enjoyed a happier first year than that which the FedEx Cup suffered three years ago when it debuted. It's not over yet, of course, but barring a disaster - and compared with its much-maligned competitor once called "Finchem's Folly" - the Race to Dubai has been a roaring success.
For starters, everyone gets the system. They say money isn't everything, but they haven't been following the Race to Dubai, whose merit table is determined by prize money, and prize money alone. Rory McIlroy leads the Race with just this week's Dubai World Championship remaining on the 51-tournament schedule. The Irishman leads because he has earned more Euros and cents than anyone else, not more points, like those given out on the PGA Tour where they are distributed to players finishing in the top 70 each week (unless more than 70 players finish the tournament in which case points are awarded below 70th place, decrementing by 0.02 points per position in stronger-field events and 0.01 points in additional events. Also, points are distributed to those in tying positions using the same method currently used to distribute prize money when there is a tie; the total points for each tying position totaled and distributed equally to each player in the tying positions. Still with me?)
And instead of a four-tournament playoff series that the PGA Tour felt compelled to adopt in order to make golf more appealing to sports fans used to seeing a decreasing number of competitors the longer the season went on, the Race to Dubai relied on a far less fussy format in which the top 60 players at the end of the 50th tournament made it into the season-ending extravaganza. It's not as mathematically impressive as the FedEx Cup's convoluted formula, but definitely easier on the noggin for fans who don't appreciate having to spend precious time learning the rules and adding up the points.
There is something to be said for Finchem's attempts to flatten the playing field by using points instead of money - awarding the same number of points (500) to the winner of this year's John Deere Classic as the winner of the Quail Hollow Championship, for example, when the victor in Charlotte, N.C., won $396,000 more than the champion in Silvis, Ill.
But it's usually the case that, over the course of an entire season, the man taking home the most prize money is the year's best player anyway. Plus, the better players invariably enter events with bigger purses, so why should the winner of the John Deere get the same number of points as the winner at Quail Hollow?
Whatever. The point is that golf fans in Europe know how the five dozen players in this week's field qualified. And they also understand how and why the only three players that can guarantee winning the inaugural Race to Dubai by winning the Dubai World Championship (McIlroy, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer) are guaranteed to be champion of the inaugural Race to Dubai by winning the Dubai World Championship.
The format works, the players have supported the concept from the start, and numerous world-class players - i.e. Camilo Villegas, Geoff Ogilvy, Anthony Kim, Robert Allenby, Adam Scott, Stephen Ames, Rory Sabbatini - have joined or become affiliate members of the European Tour when, if it wasn't for all that cash on the table, they probably would have given Europe a wider berth except around Open Championship time.
It hasn't all been a bed of roses for the Tour's chief executive George O'Grady, however. In September, he was forced to cut the purses of both the Dubai World Championship and the bonus pool awarded to the top 15 finishers in the Race to Dubai by 25%. Instead of $10 million, the money on offer for each dropped to $7.5 million.
Two weeks ago, Anthony Kim pulled out of the Dubai tournament, saying he would be too tired after several weeks of largely uninterrupted travel (San Francisco, Las Vegas, Spain, China and New Zealand) and that his "parents wanted to see their boy." Then Paul Casey, Europe's best player according to the world rankings, also withdrew from this week's event because, as manager Guy Kinnings reports, his intercostal muscle is inflamed.
The schedule is still a contentious issue. A season that starts the year before it ends is always going to cause confusion, and 2010 will be no different with two events in South Africa coming before Christmas. In January, two more tournaments will take place in South Africa before the tour moves north to the Middle East. This split has been in place since 2000 and the fact it still survives possibly means it doesn't irritate other golf fans as much as it does one writer in particular.
And, as John Huggan recently noted in the "Scotsman," the problem of too many tours offering too many co-sanctioned tournaments to too many players results in a complex web of invitations, exemptions and categories, which has meant even players in the top 60 in the Race to Dubai several weeks ago - and supposedly exempt for the remainder of the season - had no guarantee they would actually make the starting line-up for tournaments leading up to Dubai. "The system of exemptions and invitations is nothing more than a smoke screen," one leading agent suggested.
There is a danger that all these tournaments, and the incomprehensible methods used to fill them, will eventually breed mediocrity (if it hasn't done so already). That, in turn, will breed contempt.
But again, whatever. For now, the final event in the first-ever Race to Dubai promises to be extremely exciting with McIlroy, Westwood and Kaymer the only three players whose destiny will be of their own making. If any of them wins on the Greg Norman-designed Earth Course at Jumeirah Estates they will claim the Race and become the first winner of what the European Tour is rather recklessly calling "golf's ultimate prize," a throwaway line that probably raised an eyebrow or two at the R&A, Augusta National, Far Hills, N.J., and at PGA Tour headquarters in Florida.
England's Ross Fisher is the fourth man who can become golf's "ultimate" prize-winner - 433,402 separates him and McIlroy. But in order to win the pool he will not only need to win on Sunday but also watch McIlroy and Westwood come in lower than second.
It is McIlroy with all the momentum, however. With rounds of 65 and 64 in Hong Kong last weekend, the 20-year-old finished runner-up to Frenchman Grégory Bourdy, overtaking Westwood - who failed to impress on his Fanling debut - in the Race to Dubai. Kaymer, who put himself squarely in the picture with back to back wins at the French and Scottish Opens in July, has had four top-10s in his last five starts (including a tie for sixth in the PGA Championship) and arrived in Dubai on Sunday to ensure he had plenty of time to adapt to the desert heat and the large, undulating greens of the Earth Course which, incredibly, is hosting its first-ever competitive rounds this week, 19 months after being fully grassed.
Having four players with a realistic opportunity of winning the Race is about right. Giving all 30 at the Tour Championship at East Lake a chance to land the FedEx Cup seemed a good idea at the time, but was perhaps unnecessary. If John Senden (the last man to qualify for the tournament) had all his Christmas wishes had come true all at once, all his stars, planets, galaxies and marbles lined up simultaneously and he rode the sort of fortune that made the proverbial lucky Irishman look like a wretched, downtrodden loser, then the Australian would be the FedEx Cup champion and Finchem would have been castigated, along with all his little helpers, for as long as man walks the Earth.
Jamie Donaldson, the last man to qualify for the Dubai World Championship, can't win the Race to Dubai. McIlroy is in the driver's seat and if indeed he does win, he will become the second-youngest European No. 1 after Seve Ballesteros, who won the first of his six Order of Merit titles in 1976 at the age of 19. And just as a FedEx Cup win by Tiger Woods obviously goes down well with everyone at the PGA Tour, a McIlroy victory in the first Race to Dubai will no doubt be just the sort of start George O'Grady was hoping for.
Tony Dear is an Englishman living in Bellingham, Wash. In the early 1990s he was a member of the Liverpool University golf team which played its home matches at Royal Liverpool GC. Easy access to Hoylake made it increasingly difficult for him to focus on Politics (his chosen major) and, after dropping out, he ended up teaching golf at a club just south of London where he also made a futile attempt at becoming a "player." He moved into writing when it became abundantly clear he had no business playing the game for a living. A one-time golf correspondent of the New York Sun, Tony is a member of the Golf Writers Association of America, the Pacific Northwest Golf Media Association and the Golf Travel Writers Association. In 2009, Tony won first place for Editorial/Opinion in the ING Media Awards for Cybergolf. The article (http://www.cybergolf.com/golf_newsa_euros_take_on_the_2008_ryder_cup_matches) that impressed the judges was the one about Europe's Ryder Cup team and Captain Nick Faldo's decision to pick Paul Casey and Ian Poulter rather than Darren Clarke.
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Lil' Bit
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Hi! My name is Lil' Bit
I am Domestic Shorthair from Spartanburg, SC
Nicknames: Punkin', Mama's baby girl, Pretty Girl
Age: 10 years old
Gender: F
Coat: short haired
Education: Hehe, I'm able to acomplish anything with treats!
My favorite tricks and treats are: backflips, and can wave(thanx to the article not too long ago in Cat Fancy) and Purina
Where I hang out: the bed, ALL time fav is the window
My favorite grubs: Meow Mix
My pet peeves: Lawn mowers, verry loud noises, other cats stealing MY well-deserved attention!
What I love about my owners: She loves me unconditionally- , she treats me like a baby...basicall- y I'm Spoiled Rotten!!!
My cat hobbies: lounge about in the window...lay on my blankie for a special massage only mommy gives me...PLAY,PLAY,- PLAY and Purrrr
Pet motto: "Put down the food and no one gets hurt"
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I showed up one night as a kitten(only a few weeks old) in my Daddy's motor ~so my Mommy was going to name me Motor if I was a boy,but I'm not, so instead I run my "motor" for her all the time!!!
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GW Baseball Presents: 2012 Coaches Clinic & Info Session
Four-Time Atlantic 10 Champions | 21 MLB Draft Picks | Five All-Americans | 50 All-Conference Selections
Dec. 19, 2011
GW Baseball Coaches Clinic and Info Session
WASHINGTON - The George Washington baseball team has announced the date for its 2012 Coaches Clinic & Info Session.
The clinic will be held in the Colonials Club at the newly renovated Charles E. Smith Center on the campus of The George Washington University on January 21 from 2-4 pm.
After the clinic you are invited to stay and watch the GW Men's basketball team take on conference rival UNC Charlotte.
This free clinic is open to coaches of all age groups and skill level!
For information and to RSVP please contact Tim Brown at 202-994-0327 or at email@example.com. Please RSVP no later than 1/13/12.
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Red Rooster's Bourbon Negroni Recipe
By mahir | May 20, 2011
Thanks to New York Magazine for featuring Red Rooster's Bourbon Negroni in their drink roundup, Cocktails in Bloom: 107 Spring Drinks.Â
If you're not in New York, you can enjoy a taste of the Rooster in your kitchen. Check out the recipe and enjoy a round of Bourbon Negroni cocktails at home. It takes a bit of time to infuse the bourbon, but once you've made the recipe, you'll have enough bourbon for a summer's worth of cocktails!
Check out the recipe on New York Magazine's website.
More about: Bourbon, Cocktail, New York, recipe, Red Rooster