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Challenging English 120
Students who wish to challenge English 120 must comply with university policies for challenging a course. http://www.ndsu.edu/registrar/placement
English 110 cannot be challenged, but transfer students and non-traditional students may review the placement exceptions for English 110. Incoming students may take the CLEP exam if they wish to try and earn credit for English 110.
Students should contact Dr. Lisa Arnold, Director of First-Year Writing (Minard 318 E52), once they have received their Petition for a Course Challenge from the Office of Registration and Records; she will function as the instructor for the course. Students without sufficient credentials (ACTs over 33; old SAT over 1460, new SAT over 2190—all are combined scores) or experience (professional writing experience, college writing courses at other universities) will not be allowed to challenge English 120.
The English department uses a portfolio exam to evaluate whether or not students should receive credit for English 120. Students have to be able to demonstrate through their portfolio that they can meet the expected outcomes for English 120:
- Communicate effectively in a variety of genres for various audiences, purposes, and situations. (General Education Outcome #1)
- Incorporate knowledge in a coherent and meaningful manner. (General Education Outcome #6)
English 120 exam portfolios consist of:
- A self-reflective memo, in which the student identifies the ways in which the portfolio meets the three outcomes for English 120.
- A profile that draws on interview(s) and observations. The interview(s) may be with the person being profiled, and/or you might consider interviewing other people who can give you insight into that person. Your observations may be drawn from the interview sessions, or from seeing the person in action. Secondary research can be incorporated as well.
- Two other genres of your choice. One genre should have a strong visual design component, and one genre should be a well-researched academic essay (commentary, proposal, or other). Research should be properly documented (APA, MLA, or another appropriate style guide).
- Total of 15–18 pages, although a short, well-designed project could result in fewer pages, and the review committee will take that factor into account.
Students challenging English 120 will have six weeks to complete the portfolio from the day in which they initiate the process. The portfolio will be read by at least two members of the English department's First-year Writing Committee, and students will be notified of their results within three weeks of turning in their portfolio to Dr. Lisa Arnold, Director of First-Year Writing. A successful portfolio will be above average, not simply passing work, but it does not need to be excellent or "A" work.
Students who wish to challenge English 120 are encouraged to consult Johnson-Sheehan and Paine's Writing Today, 2nd edition, the standard textbook for English 120 at NDSU.


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Last fall, I finished P90X. I was pretty impressed with the results. Fitness and health were both vastly improved. Shortly afterward, I pulled a hamstring, and it screwed up my workouts. I kept active, but no real pushing of myself. Ended up gaining some weight back, and feeling out of shape. I decided to start P90X up once again, even though the hammie is STILL not right.
May 20th, 2012 · 2 Comments
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Red Fang
May 5th, 2012 · 7 Comments
These guys not only rock, but they know how to make videos… FUN videos.
You've gotta check them out, if you haven't already…
We now resume our not so regularly scheduled blogdeadedness.
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Have a happy Easter!
April 7th, 2012 · 3 Comments
But most importantly, have a safe Easter. I mean, it's bad enough that the Easter bunny hates you. The eggs, though. You really gotta watch out for those eggs…
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RIP Etta James
January 20th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Born on January 25, 1938 and died on January 20, 2012….just a few days short of her 74th birthday. Man, I wish I'd seen her perform live.
Etta James: Baby What You Want Me to Do (Live 1963 New Era Club)
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Time to finalize the design of my "Jump To Conclusions" mat
November 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Different day, same cubicle. New boss, though. Really big on "process", not so big on "getting shit done". In the last few weeks…
- I've been told that I need to be in the office every single day (instead of telecommuting half the week or more),
- time spent in meetings has gone from around 5% of my time to roughly 20%,
- a fair chunk of my remaining time has been spent training a "senior" developer on Modern Programming 101 bullshit, and
- I'm constantly being asked why Project X isn't complete.
Today, though….ahhh, today. Today was the sort of day that gives recruiters wet dreams. Today he comes by to tell me that the walls of our cubicles (yep, cube farm) are being lowered but not to worry! They're putting noise-cancelling tiles in so we won't be distracted by everyone else's conversations. Uh-huh. Oh, and he's probably going to need to swap cubes with me (my larger cubicle with a window view for his center-of-the-cube-farm one) because he needs his privacy and can't have people looking over his shoulder.
Gee, I'm gonna miss this place.
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The cobwebs around here really add to the Halloween theme
October 22nd, 2011 · 3 Comments
Since T1G appears to have started hibernating a bit early this year, here's a video that's been amusing me…
The Donkey Whisperer
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Remembering Rahma
September 10th, 2011 · 5 Comments
Reposted… I haven't forgotten, Rahma.
The attacks of 9/11 will never be forgotten, nor will most of us forget what we were doing, where we were, or the feelings that flooded through us when we first heard the news. Our thoughts, fears, feelings, and ideals were solid, etched in stone. For some of us that hadn't known someone murdered that day, time has a way of wearing those firm and definite edges away, dulling some of those memories. Not good.
I did not know anyone taken that day. But I heard about a special project, 2,996 Tribute*, and signed up. I drew Rahma Salie. I've only "known" her for a couple of weeks, but her death has affected me. Deeply.
Rahma, of Sri Lankan descent, was born to Yuseff and Haleema Salie in Japan, February, 1973. She went to an international school there, before coming here in 1992, to Wellesley College, where she majored in International Relations, and Japanese studies. She was a consultant in an IT firm, and rose to the position of Chief Operating Officer.
While attending Wellesley, Rahma met Michael Theodoridis, who was attending Boston University. They fell in love, and Michael, a Greek Orthodox Christian, converted to Islam before marrying his bride in 1998. "They were very much in love. They wouldn't do anything without each other," her father said. "There was never anything but a smile on their faces." One article I read called them inseparable.
When I first saw the picture of Rahma, I couldn't help but grin. You can see the love she's got for her husband, but you could also look at her, and just know that she was someone that you wanted to know. Needed to know. One of her Wellesley schoolmates said in a forum, "I bet you could also hear the sound of her laugh while looking at her picture." I could.
She was a very outgoing person, leaving a positive impression on all that she met. Vibrant, successful, hardworking, and driven. Sweet, radiant, loyal, and loving. All words that were used to describe her. I really would have liked to meet her.
On September 11, 2001, Rahma and Michael boarded American Airlines Flight 11, heading to Los Angeles for a friend's wedding. They were not alone. Rahma was seven months pregnant with their first child.
Many of the sites providing lists provide vague info, such as: Rahma Salie was from Boston. Or, Rahma Salie, expectant mother, and consultant. It bugs me. She deserved much more.
Rahma, you will not be forgotten by me. I wish I had known you, sister.
*The original link no longer works. Try Project 2,996 instead.
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Curl Of The Burl
August 19th, 2011 · 3 Comments
The new Mastodon album comes out September 27th. Can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to its arrival!
Their style is always changing, but they can always be counted on for smash face rock. Their new single caught my attention immediately, but after a couple of listens, it's really got me hooked.
Hope they head out to this coast, soon…
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Captain America… A Review
August 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments
I've been watching these guys for a while now… Action Figure Therapy. Great stuff… many laughs.
Here, Angry Ranger gives his review of Captain America. Sweary bits and such.
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June 29th, 2011 · 5 Comments
This is what a kids' show should be like. Mastodon's "Deathbound".
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Rather than dumping his body at sea
May 2nd, 2011 · 1 Comment
I wonder if they considered..alternative disposal methods.
p.s. – Unfortunately, the video is noticeably out of sync but that's the only clip I could find of that particular gem of a speech from Brick Top.
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Happy Easter and Stuff.
April 23rd, 2011 · 4 Comments
As you enjoy your kiddies' loot from the Easter Bunny, remember that, for the rest of the year, he actually HATES you.
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As a wise man once said, God is an iron
February 5th, 2011 · 6 Comments
Yesterday I made homemade chicken and vegetable soup.
Today I woke to a runny nose and sneezing fits.
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Stabbing our allies in the back?
February 4th, 2011 · 3 Comments
I hope this isn't true…
WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets:
Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.
Because if it is, this is outright betrayal of a long-time ally.
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It's like they looked into my brain and created a holiday based on what they saw
February 1st, 2011 · 3 Comments
I hope you all have a happy Working Naked Day!
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One day I will learn to keep my mouth shut
January 5th, 2011 · 5 Comments
That day is not yet here.
So the first actual* day back in the office after holiday vacation, I'm sitting in a meeting with a couple of coworkers and we're joking around about how it's been so long since we were in the office that we forgot people's names. After watching one guy wrack his brains trying to remember something in an app that we use everyday..
Manager: Wait, you couldn't remember that?
Coworker: Yeah…I know.
Me: Maybe we should have a quiz in next week's meeting. With tough questions about people's names and stuff.
Manager: Sure! Questions like "What do you call your boss?"
Me: You might want to phrase that question a little differently.
Everybody laughed but…dammit. This stuff is gonna come back to haunt me, I just know it.
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* – I'll have to do a separate post about this.
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Happy New Year
December 31st, 2010 · 5 Comments
'Bout to spend the evening hanging out Jack and everyone's favorite bartender, Lloyd.
Happy New Year to you all… Psychostick style: (sweary bits and stuff)
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Little Slayer Boy
December 24th, 2010 · 6 Comments
Holy crap…. this just "slays" me! Not your Little Drummer Boy… so beware.
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Yo, Fat Guy…
December 24th, 2010 · 5 Comments
For the first time in too many years, I actually did send out some Christmas cards. Not as many as I'd like, though… turned out to be a larger project than I had anticipated.
A few months ago, I finally stooped to buying some readers. Yeah, farkin' READING GLASSES. The corker? When I was trying to read the price on the pair I bought, I had to put on another pair to see what the gott damned tag said. This has seriously pissed me off. One month, I can see… the next, I'm trying to decipher ink smudges.
As I was filling out the cards, I was quietly going nuts. Clear, blurry, clear, blurry, blurrily clear, clearly blurry. By the time I made it through a couple of boxes, my head was pounding. And not so much from the eye strain… it was more from the clenched teeth. Stupid dumbhead eyes!
Fat Dude… if you head through Gangland this evening, would you please bring me some new peepers? Thanks.
And Merry Christmas.
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Foamy Christmas
December 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments
I'm pretty sure that I have posted this before, but it's a good one, worth repeating. Again, sweary bits are included, batteries are not.
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There comes a point, I believe, in every believes faith where they reach an "aha!" moment. We go through a time where we don't necessarily turn our back on God, nor do we really question God or his authority, but we start to kind of figure things out. The little things start to click and we start to "get it" and understand it like we never have before. The last two-ish years have been that for … [Read more...] about Where We've Gone Wrong
Contentment & Goal Setting
Can you believe that it's 2017, already? I actually wrote 2015 on a piece of paper the other day...and that's been out for a while (hopefully we can say the same thing about the "dab" but that's another post for another day). Like most everyone I know, 2016 was kind of an up and down year for me and our family. Lots of good times, but more harder ones than I would care to dwell on. More than … [Read more...] about Contentment & Goal Setting
Capturing Life
About two-ish weeks ago, I made a choice to purchase a new camera and get back to pursuing my first love: photography. I shared a wee bit of my story last week on failure, falling and allowing myself to give up because things didn't work out the way that I wanted. I've had several images featured online and contribute regularly to Lightstock, but I let the opinion of a handful of people who … [Read more...] about Capturing Life
The 2016 Ladies Holiday Guide
I don't know about you, but the Holidays are my absolute favorite! There is nothing in the world that I love more than the holiday season! Buying gifts for my family and friends brings me an unimaginable sense of joy. Today, I thought I would share with you some of my personal favorite shops and stores (most of which are having holiday sales)...sure to suit your fancy or that of at least one … [Read more...] about The 2016 Ladies Holiday Guide
I tend to have my most revolutionary thoughts at night. Something to do with the quiet I think. It's the only time of day my boys aren't awake and tossing a football or jumping off of my couch. My husband goes to bed and the dog usually follows suit behind him or tucks himself up under my feet in my office. The evening soothes me. The late hours invite peace back into my usually worn down … [Read more...] about Unapologetic
Scrapbooks & Outlines
Once upon a time, I thought that I was going to be a ballerina. Y'all for real. I never took more than a handful of dance classes in my life and my name should have been "Grace" because that's how clumsy I am. I saw the movie Center Stage years and year and years ago and thought that I wanted to be a ballerina. I also thought, at one point, that I wanted to be a Spice Girl, despite being unable … [Read more...] about Scrapbooks & Outlines


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"What do you want to do with your life?" It's a question that almost every young adult is faced with after graduating college or university. For some, the answer is simple: grad school, medical school, travel or volunteer. For many, the answer is unclear. With this in mind, young adults are asking: Do I need higher education?
Education is undergoing a huge paradigm shift, not just a facelift. Kids choose the experiences they enjoy. They seek knowledge and education in subject areas they choose -- and that's only the start. Even the concept of the expert is changing, people are deciding who they want to learn from. More and more, the people and institutions and corporations who deliver education are understanding that students are demanding to be at the centre of the user and educational experience.


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Anti-union laws
28 November 2008
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has sent the following message to the Australian Council of Trade Unions over the charges (eventually dropped) against building workers' union representative Noel Washington - see http://www.rightsonsite.org.au/ for more information.
'The TUC sends solidarity to our colleagues in the Australian trade union movement.
'While we welcome the decision to drop charges against construction union official Noel Washington for refusing to inform on his fellow trade unionists, we remain appalled that such charges could even be brought in a democratic society.
'We support the call by the ACTU for a fairer and more balanced system of workplace relations, including the abolition of the anti-worker Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).
'Anyone proposing such a body in the UK should look at the lesson of the Australian election last year which saw anti-worker laws rejected, along with the Government that introduced them, by the Australian electorate.'
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First off i just want to say I finally got around to registering. I have been religiously reading these forums for the past 3 years. I Love the gameday threads, the news updates Roanoke gives us, and the overall community... EXCEPT when you guys are hating on my man Coughlin haha. Anyway I'm happy to finally be here posting, LETS GO GMEN []
That's the weather forecast taken directly from weather.com
We all know the Giants are going to have to protect the ball and win the turnover battle if we want to move on to the Superbowl. The 49ers have a hard hitting defense that forced what, 5 turnovers vs the saints?
I'm very concerned with the weather going into this game. The field conditions are going to be bad whether or not it's raining come kickoff. The 49ers have an established run game that shows up every single game. Although we have made strides with our run game in the last month or so, it's still clear to me that our o-line is more built for pass protection...hence why we lean on Eli to win games.
We have a shaky special teams, i hold my breath every single punt/kick return...
Our backs do put the ball on the ground because of how hard they fight for extra yards...
Bad field= receivers falling down/interceptions?
I believe those problems will be magnified come Sunday...49ers+bad weather= nervous. The good news is, we have Coughlin. He will have the guys prepared but I hope he stresses ball security all week.
How are you guys feeling about us taking on the 49ers on a potential bad field/rainy conditions? Tell me everything is going to be OK [st]


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Boutique stockbroker Evans & Partners has entered into an alliance with Wall Street investment bank Jefferies Group, to globally distribute the local firm's equity research about companies in Australia.
The alliance will also enable Evans & Partners to provide local equity broking services to Jefferies.
Evans & Partners chairman David Evans said in a statement: "Evans & Partners will benefit from Jefferies' robust global equities platform, and we believe that this new relationship will further strengthen our existing business by leveraging Jefferies' global equity distribution platform."
The alliance with Melbourne-headquartered Evans & Partners is expected to launch in the next few weeks and involve co-branding research for Jefferies' institutional clients around the world.
Evans & Partners last week reported a 63 per cent rise in profit to $6.88 million, bucking the weaker results of small stockbroking competitors.
Jefferies has formed similar alliances with Mirae Asset Securities in South Korea, Asia Plus in Thailand, Indo Premier in Indonesia and KAF Securities in Malaysia.
Michael Alexander, chief executive of Jefferies Asia, said the deal would meet the evolving needs of its institutional client base.
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Jefferies Group was acquired by New-York Stock Exchange listed Leucadia National Corporation earlier this year.
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Earlier today, Amar212 dropped an odd bombshell on the GTPlanet Forums, posting a cryptic message full of hidden details about Gran Turismo 5. Before you continue, have a look at Amar's post for yourself. It's an exciting, well-crafted read that you are sure to enjoy. If you're still lost, keep reading for our careful analysis of each main point – and why you should believe them…
There are many winds blowing in the air right now, and every one of them is telling its own tale.
First wind whispers that final reunion will happen thirty nights before twelve months pass and that all winds from the whole world will reunite in the same moment for the first time.
This is big, but it's also one of the least clear messages that Amar has shared. First of all, it gives a time frame for the release of the game, although the exact date is still open to interpretation. Some claim that "thirty nights before twelve months pass" refers to the end of November or early December. Such a date would coincide very well with what we heard from a Sony executive a few months back, but it could also mean 11 months from "today" (mid-April 2009). Following this interpretation, we could expect something in March of 2010. Although Kazunori Yamauchi has rebuffed a 2010 release, it is important to consider that all previous Gran Turismo titles – with the exception of Gran Turismo 2 – have been released in the first or second quarter of the year.
Second wind says there will be more than half of dozen hundreds birds flying in the beginning of the reunion on almost eight dozen of skypaths, and some of the birds will come from the past reunion just resembling the looks of the newborn birds.
Assuming that "birds" are cars, "skypaths" are tracks, and "past reunions" are previous games, we can expect 96 tracks and 600 cars, with lots of old favorites making cameos.
Third tale says that
for the first time ever skypaths will not be just solid and already known but that new skypaths will be built by birdtamers from the parts of existing skypaths.
The "third wind" introduces one of the most profound and unexpected new features – a track editor.
Fourth wind is talking that bird tamers will reunite in numbers greater than ever and will be granted with ability to talk to each other, make guilds and alliances with undisputed freedom.
GT5 Prologue has been heralded for its ability to let 16 players compete online at the same time, and this "fourth wind" hints at even more. It also confirms the "guilds and alliances" (private online races and race teams) that we have all been yearning for since Prologue's release.
Fifth wind says that reunion will happen in two forms, one greater than other and bird tamers will have freedom to decide which reunion they will attend. Greater reunion will ask for great sacrifice to be made in order to get all present and future treasures without new sacrifices needed, while smaller reunion will come in form already known, asking for more sacrifices if future treasures catches the eyes of the bird tamers.
The "fifth wind" hints at multiple versions of Gran Turismo 5, at two different price points. The highest priced version will cost more, but will include all of the features and functionality. A "small reunion" which "will come in a form already known" alludes to a trimmed, cheaper version of the game, possibly available only via download which you can extend via small fees ("sacrifices") for additional content (presumably cars, tracks, etc.).
Of course, the "smaller" game is probably GT5 Prologue itself – allowing new content to be purchased "a la carte" would be one way that GT5 Prologue owners could gradually upgrade to the full version without buying a new game. This also matches the business model of the now-defunct Gran Turismo HD project.
Sixth wind is telling the tale about different reunion but almost the same as known one, smaller only for the eyes of those who do not want to see it in its whole glory. That different reunion will not happen in the realm same as the known one, but in the different realm which still has not been uncovered to the bird tamers. That realm will resemble realm already known but it will be divine new and made in the image of it.
The "sixth wind" refers to Gran Turismo PSP, and once again confirms its continued development.
All those birds, skypaths and bird tamers from all realms will unite for the Feast. And as it is already known, it will be the Feast of the Gods.
This is not the first time that Amar has referred to the Feast of the Gods, and in this context it becomes clear that the Feast is E3 2009.
Of course, after reading all that, you're probably wondering who Amar212 is, and how can he be trusted? What makes him different from any other enthusiastic GT fan on the internet? He remains a mysterious figure to the public, but he is a long-time friend of GTPlanet and the administrator of the Croatian website, GT Surgeons. It all started back in July of 2004, when Amar brought us the world's first video of the Nurburgring Nordschliefe in Gran Turismo 4 – long before anything official had been provided, and six full months before the game was even released! He also got his hands on early copies of Gran Turismo 4 and GT5 Prologue Spec II, and was first to discover the inclusion of the Ferrari F2007 and Ferrari F40 weeks before the game hit any shelves. In other words, this man knows what he's talking about – get ready for E3 and share your reactions in our Gran Turismo 5 forum!
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I really appreciate this info, but what's with all this riddle etc. His identity is unkown so why not just tell it how it is???
Capcom now officially confirm that Resident evil 5 , dead rising 2, dark void come to PC this year……..Where is the grand turismo….enough just only for Playstation ONY !!! you must break your company market competition with MS…
PC version…yes we need GT on PC. Sony must thinking ..how to ported GT for PC… maybe use LINUX or some emulate like cedega…and bundled it on the PACK. We are here want GT PC version…
Making the game for pc would be badly misguided.
PC need racing games like grand turismo. Iam F4tality also hope grand turismo release on PC. SONY..Please DO NOT KiLL PC Gamers. and stop your company competition market . We are gamers specially PC gamers for loong time wait grand turismo on PC. Thank's
Why would anyone want GT on pc? first off, the GT series has always been made for the playstation, and sony, who's totaly backing PD wont let them make it for anything but the PS3 or (maybe…) the PS2…….
If amar212 is telling the truth, which is what his past history suggests, we will be in for one great game in about a year of so!!!!
This thread is cracking me up….LOL
so no damage? I may not buy then.
Iam Overclocker and hopes Grand Turismo released on PC version, so i can try it with MAX setting hardware.
God I hate the Internet
I just want a pc….. ..Let's Gamers choose pirates or buy..?? grat game=buy …bad game=leave it lol
Well, I expected Japan late 2009 and US/UK in Spring 2010. Looks like a global release in March 2010 according to the winds (assuming 12 months means 12 months from now, less the 30 days).
He just wants it on PC so he can pirate it. I took a look around his website.
Dood cool it with the pc talk you have like 8 posts repeating the same incomprehensible nonsense. You want a pc racing experience with a huge community? Then go buy rFactor. I for one don't want to buy some wheel setup and have to alter my whole office to fit all that nonsense.
Yessssssssss…excelent…We need GT on PC !! We don't care about sony and Microsoft and all about their company competition..and all about sony income for sale their PS3. Stupid Reason…and we must keep support all PC gamers in the world..LolololoLLL
On PC microsoft just a popular gaming Operating systems. If Sony relesed GT on PC we are buy SONY product and Microsoft product…so what's the problem hah…???
Sony vs Microsoft Just an OLD stupid competition market…and kill 3rd person..like PC Gamers…
Let's Gamers choose who's the best..??
Microsoft Product or Sony Product..just it…
If sony released GT on PC game for wINDOWS…we not only need one of them (sony/microsoft)…but we need both of them to run it on PC hardware. So it's fair ….
There is something I'm worried about however. Amar states "Second wind says there will be more than half of dozen hundreds birds flying in the beginning of the reunion on almost eight dozen of skypaths, and some of the birds will come from the past reunion just resembling the looks of the newborn birds". Does this mean that there will be duplicates? Please, no… I want IRL cars
GT is a sim and if anything it should be on PC. Sims are best enjoyed on a PC due to its many features that can be added without any limits to run into like a console i.e. coughing up a shit load of money for 3 screens. If this game is released on a PC i am willing to forget i bought a PS3 for gt5 because i will get it on a better platform. I have a sick ass rig with multi screens just waiting for a bad ass racing sim to be played on. Fuggin guy and im out
Amar!!! You rock Dude!!! Im buying a PS3 now…lol.
I can't see a PC release happening, it'll soon be pirated like crazy…I know Kaz has said PC is a possibility, but Sony need more PS3 machines sold, and GT is up there with having that ability.
By the time GT5 is released, Sony should, if not already, be making a profit on the PS3 so they'll no longer be losing money on each unit sold.
A PS3, PSP and a toned down PS2 release makes the most sense.
Pc remains a possibility, as i see that happening. A bad ass high end gaming rig, maxxed out settings etc… o.O…
We just want Grand Turismo PC.. it will be more have great graphic and posibility built in LEVEL Editor
If sony can't ported GT to PC ..i hope there is will be other title PC game like grand turismo from other second SONY/POLYPHONY Developers …
Hope sony create new team developers for PC game title like Grand turismo …>600 CARS and +96 TRACK until now …no PC title have it…
Iam not Professor Langdon from DAVINCI CODE… so hard to decrypted it LOLOLOLOL….
@ DaveTheStalker:
"and that all winds from the whole world will reunite in the same moment for the first time."
Suggests to me that this is going to be the first simultaneous world wide release of a GT game, so if it's christmas in Japan, it's christmas for you in the States and christmas for me in the UK, which would be awesome.
Amar212 owes me some money where can a find that fuggin guy?
Course editor? :D :D
Hei…how about pc version… iam very hope this will be truth
I'm still banking on a Christmas release like GT5P in Japan. Which means the US will see the game in April or whenever GT5P was released here. It would be fantastic if PD would do a global release in the fall.
We shall see :)
The third tale sounds like a track designer or something to that affect.
"Third tale says that for the first time ever skypaths (tracks) will not be just solid and already known but that new skypaths will be built by birdtamers (gamer) from the parts of existing skypaths."
No word on damage then?
Please Tell me about RUMOR Grand Tursimo PC version..?? It's 1 Milion Bulsyet FAKE or Just April Fools Joke…?? Amar212 ….can he give the truth about this rumor..??
on this http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=115870
someone decrypted it
Damn Ama212, you're good cipher, and please don't try to tell me :-)
btw. when are we going to race!?
First one is easy: the game will ship world wide on Christmas
Fourth one: Club racing, private lobby and chat, and more then 16 cars racing online, with possibility to change online setting for private lobbies
Sexist one: PS2,PS3 or PC, or Xbox360 racing online together.
I might be wrong :-)
Iam wait for the truth PC version Rumor …???
+600 cars
+80 tracks …. SUPERB
Seems pretty simple to me actually. The only issue is whether "winds" means rumors or facts.
1. Sounds like a Thanksgiving-ish release. Confused by this, because I've heard no such rumors and that seems like an odd time. It could also mean March 2010, which wouldn't be too odd since the US release of GT4 was sometime in February I think.
2. About 600 cars on about 96 tracks; some tracks are old but redesigned. Similar to rumors.
3. Track editor. Rumored by deemed to be unlikely by most. Could also mean DLC tracks.
4. Refers to online play. All pretty obvious stuff.
5. Difficult, this one. Could refer to two different main modes of play (such as suggested by Tenacious D) or it could refer to separate games, or just the two different physics modes, or even a full disc compared to a DL'ed version of the game that is unlocked gradually. Too many choices to figure if based on rumor or fact.
6. Seems to me to be referring to a GT on the elusive PSP2. Sounds like a downscaled GT5. This has been rumored, and everyone knows a PSP2 is coming in the next few years, but it's still just in our imaginations as of now.
Conclusion: IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME!
i WANT HEAR MORE PC VERSION GT pOSIBILITY INFO HERE….
Where we can found Amar212…??? are he always looking on this site???
Of course, after reading all that, you're probably wondering who Amar212 is, and how can he be trusted? What makes him different from any other enthusiastic GT fan on the internet? He remains a mysterious figure to the public, but he is a long-time friend of GTPlanet and the administrator of the Croatian website, GT Surgeons. It all started back in July of 2004, when Amar brought us the world's first video of the Nurburgring Nordschliefe in Gran Turismo 4 – long before anything official had been provided, and six full months before the game was even released! He also got his hands on early copies of Gran Turismo 4 and GT5 Prologue Spec II, and was first to discover the inclusion of the Ferrari F2007 and Ferrari F40 weeks before the game hit any shelves. In other words, this man knows what he's talking about – get ready for E3 and share your reactions in our Gran Turismo 5 forum!
I want hear next secret …
So hard to DECRYPTED it …LoL….
Amar212 Just want give secret information about GT… hahahaha…so Exciting….Where he get all secret of GT information…??? maybe he is a GT Developers…
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yup, gotta looke to the bright side. The replacement refs might have given Weeden that TD pass after he caught his own first pass off a deflection. lol
Oh thats another thing. They called it a TD, the ref in the end zone, but the head ref realized it and explained why it wasn't. I mean really a TD call? Wow
Originally Posted by dave56dj
Sorry if you really think the replacement refs are better your just not seeing the game.
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ecosystems as an economic system. In Nature: An Economic
History, Geerat Vermeij does just that. The book summarizes
economic ideas about ecosystems and evolution that he has been
developing for several decades. In his representation, the phenomena
that make up the forces and connections responsible for the history
of life are economy in action. It is a viewpoint that deserves
serious study.
Vermeij is one of the master naturalists of our time, and his
command of the subtleties of animal interactions is exceptional. I
think anyone can learn a great deal from this book. But it isn't an
easy read: It is intense, data-rich and packed with interlocking
conceptual models that require concentration to absorb.
The first three chapters give a general overview of Vermeij's
theoretical argument. He makes the point that he is not using
economy as a metaphor. Vermeij views economy as an organizing theory
for analysis of the evolution of the biosphere, a theory capable of
providing a full description of natural, as well as human, systems.
Although I was initially skeptical, I now regard his main argument
as convincing. The difference between human and natural economies is
only that people can plan how to manipulate the system—but we,
too, must work within the limitations and constraints of supply and
demand and must adjust to the feedbacks and modifications generated
in an interactive system. There is merit in moving beyond a limited
view of nature as simply being so many pathways of energy flow or
chemical systems explicable by parsing stoichiometry among the
participants. Although there is much to learn from such reductionist
perspectives (indeed, energy does flow through ecosystems, and life
is a chemical system involving particular ratios of elements), the
whole of nature is complex. Full understanding of the relations that
govern the biosphere and its changes over time requires a
theoretical framework in which all aspects of the interaction of
living systems are given a place. Competition, cooperation, trade,
performance, energy, adaptation, imperfection, specialization,
diversity, feedback, inequality and scale are all concepts that play
an economic role, not just supply and demand.
The next four chapters of the book are devoted to consumption and
enemies, production and resources, technology and organization, and
the environment. This is the most straightforward section, placing
many particulars of natural history into the various factors that
form the structure of the economic system Vermeij has outlined.
Examples are abundant, and Vermeij fully explains his sense of how
economic concepts work in natural systems. For instance, in chapter
6 he elaborates on the idea that the best measure of the performance
of living things is power (energy or work per unit time),
not simply efficiency ("the quantity of output relative to the
quantity of input"). He comments that "Power makes for
prolific producers and demanding consumers with a wide reach."
To make the point that power yield is more important than
efficiency, Vermeij observes that highly efficient brachiopods and
bryozoans with a low metabolic rate dominated Paleozoic seas,
whereas later geologic time saw the rise of active mollusks and
arthropods with a high metabolic rate and a greater demand for food,
illustrating the tendency for the power of dominant animals to
increase over time.
The next three chapters, which summarize and generalize on the
preceding material, are devoted respectively to the geographic
distribution of power and innovation, with the tropics and tectonic
change as the centerpieces; the role of disturbance, with an
emphasis on extinction events; and the idea that evolution has had a
trajectory of escalating the concentration and reach of power. A
chapter on the economic limitations that humankind must eventually
face concludes the book.
The concept of nature as economy is a powerful one and is almost
surely correct in principle. Many of the specific examples Vermeij
cites are clear demonstrations of the idea. By casting natural
activities in economic terms he shows, for instance, that
high--performance animals (those with greater power) extend their
reach and tend to dominate species that are more efficient but less
powerful. When resources are limited, efficiency is selected for,
but when they are plentiful, it is power that counts. In Vermeij's
well-known escalation theory, a natural "arms race" occurs
as more powerful predators drive prey organisms to become more
powerful so as to resist predation (by burrowing to escape, for
example, or secreting a stronger shell than before)—and this
in turn requires the predators to become more powerful. Such
interaction puts the priority on power, rather than efficiency,
something that is not clear if one considers only energy expenditure.
Despite the high quality of thought and scholarship that went into
the book, I do have several warnings for the general reader. First,
although the principles are reasonable, the book is entirely
descriptive. We do not yet know the quantitative balance among the
multiple factors of competition, cooperation, trade, performance,
specialization, feedbacks, inequalities and other interactive
connections that go into any local, much less global, ecology that
is described as an economy. Rather than coming up with a full-scale
understanding of what the actual controlling influences are on the
history of life, Vermeij has instead set an agenda for future quantification.
In the three generalizing chapters, many conclusions seem more to be
assertions than deductions from demonstrated phenomena, although
Vermeij's claims are often based on logical extrapolation. The
problem is, in part, the difficulty of scale, of moving from the
local or regional ecosystem to the global level. In the chapter on
geography and innovation, Vermeij's view of the significance of the
tropics as the locale of enhanced performance seems well supported,
but his argument that tectonic activity (mountain building) is
ultimately responsible for increases in productivity is a hypothesis
that has not been fully tested and is not universally supported in
the profession.
A second issue is that in some cases Vermeij depends on the logical
pathway he selected and does not always account fully for the range
of possibilities that his own theory leaves open. This is most
apparent in his discussion of disturbance (extinctions). In this
chapter he focuses on "bottom up" disruption and argues
that every general extinction event from the largest to
more minor ones was probably caused by productivity collapse, and he
suggests that most were triggered by a combination of volcanism,
extraterrestrial impact and methane release from sequestered methane
clathrates in ocean basins. Unfortunately, when the most precise
dating of extinction events and other phenomena is available, as in
the Cenozoic era, few direct correlations of these phenomena with
each other are seen. For many more ancient events (with larger
dating errors, too), evidence is often weak or nonexistent. I
frankly was puzzled that Vermeij advocates a single causal system
for all these disturbance events, because as I see it, his
full-scale view of economic structure could accommodate a variety of
ways of stressing the system.
I mention the disagreements I have with some of the interpretations
Vermeij makes only to warn the general reader that this book is not the
final word on cause and effect in the history of life. But I believe
that his conceptual viewpoint is of great value and that anyone will
profit from learning how the biosphere functions as an economic
system.—Richard K. Bambach, Botanical Museum, Harvard University
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/ecology-as-an-economy
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Rare Disease Day - Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
It's particularly on my mind this week after hearing of the tragic death of 34 year old Lois Owen who was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME. Lois was so exhausted she became unable to eat and died from a chest infection she was too weak to fight off in March 2009. Not having enough energy or muscle strength to chew is a symptom I very much recognise, but with a diagnosis of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome I have enough understanding of my condition and the reasons such symptoms arise to work out various ways of managing such issues. Whilst I went without an accurate diagnosis I had no such ability to learn to cope, because how can anyone possibly cope with symptoms that are all supposed to be in their head as they are deemed to be completely fit and healthy?
For me, one of the most heartbreaking aspects of Lois's story is that on seeing her photograph it is immediately obvious that she has widespread joint hypermobility; her shoulders, elbows and wrists are markedly hyperextending, and she also has the classic morphological features of EDS. Doctors are still taught that EDS is a condition so rare they are unlikely to encounter it and so do not tend to use the basic, quick and incredibly cheap tests to consider whether someone might be hypermobile and if so whether they may have a hypermobility or Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
My hope for rare disease day is that any doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, or OT's out there reading this might think to use the Beighton Scale as a 2 minute test to see if the patient in front of them labelled with ME, CFS, or the less polite 'heartsink patient' has joint hypermobility. It literally takes just a moment, and an experienced eye can spot hypermobility across a crowded waiting room. It's the person who's fidgeting, who uses their hands to gesticulate rather often during speech, who's an odd combination of graceful and clumsy and who repeatedly tells you that they don't know how the latest injury happened... 'it just did'.
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I love your blog it's always informative and your description of how to spot a person with hypermobility describes my daughter and I to a tee. If only my new Rheumatologist would open his ears and listen we'd get on so much better. Still I should soon have a copy of my Rheumo file from my old team so maybe he'll believe the notes, after all what do I know I'm only the paitent. Keep up the great work, hope all goes well for you.
- 11:47 am
Thanks for your post. I also have EDS, diagnosed at the age of 28, ten years after my debilitating symptoms began. Before I was diagnosed, I was told to my face by a GP that I was a 'heart sink' patient, and that it was a 'negative attitude' that made me too ill to work. I'm still getting my head around the fact that, if only I had had those cheap, simple tests for EDS ten years earlier, I would have been saved all this, plus incorrect diagnosis and inappropriate treatment.
All the best, good luck.
- 11:54 am
- sad times said...
Wonder how many school children have this....could be classed as emotional difficulty which can turn into behavioural too. A diagnosis would change lives in instant. Good article Kali.
- 12:13 pm
- Matthew Smith said...
I discussed Lois's death with some people in the ME community yesterday including someone who knew her (online, as she was bedridden and could not get out). Her condition was very classic ME and autopsy findings were similar to those of other people who died of, or with, very severe ME. I am not sure how her hypermobility contributed to her ME, as there are a lot of people with both, or with an ME-like condition that is later rediagnosed as EDS, but it does sound like her condition was cared for as best it could be. I wrote a more detailed article here after the discussion I had.
- 1:38 pm
- Matthew Smith said...
Also, someone with injuries that always "just happen" could be a victim of domestic violence.
- 1:39 pm
- FibroNewbie said...
Many people who are hypermobile also have Fibromyalgia which is also a condition that very little seems to be known about and one where people constantly misjudge you because you look okay on the outside, sometimes I wish pain showed green then maybe people wouldn't think you were putting it all on!
- 6:35 pm
If EDS were looked for and found more often, therapies could be given to stop it interacting with/causing other conditions and killing or severely disabling people.
There are so many red EDS flags when you look at the pictures and the article on Lois. The hands, the skin, the angle of her head, the leg pains, the not eating. The eating issues could perhaps have been mitigated if some of the amazing expertise in this country on EDS & gastric problems had been accessed. Managing exercise needs to be done differently with EDS, as the usual 'pacing' advice for CFS needs a lot of modifying if it's not to worsen things for bendies.
It's such a good question - why won't most GPs try a few simple diagnostic tests when they see cases of CFS, ME or fibromyalgia? They know something else is usually a causative factor. Why is a blood test for arthritis the only thing most GPs do?
Luckily the 7th GP I asked did do the basic diagnostic tests for hypermobility - after I asked him if I was hypermobile, that is. It took 25 years to get relevant help, from the age of 11. Kaliya's blog is one of the reasons why I got help before I lost everything.
- 8:42 pm
I must check with my new GP since I've changed surgery. When I mentioned to my old GP that I wanted a referral to a rheumy to get officially diagnosed as hypermobile, he pulled my finger (which was never that bad anyway) and said I wasn't hypermobile because he couldn't dislocate my finger. I asked if he wanted to check anywhere else - or look in my records - but he said there was no point. As a child, I was my ballet and gymnastics teachers' dream child - I could do the splits three ways, could do all manner of things bending backwards etc, and as a teenager was in and out of hospital with dislocating/subluxing knees/hips ankles. As a 30-something (with a similarly high BMI) I can still touch the floor behind my feet, I regularly sublux my hips getting up to nortiness, and my thumb is regularly difficult and slips out of its socket. Oh, and I can still put my big toe into my belly button.
My niece is clearly hypermobile (but undiagnosed), but fortunately my nephew (different sibling) was referred to portage when he still wasn't walking at age 2 - his hips were subluxing so much he couldn't weight bear. I have made my brother promise he won't make him do any gymnastics because I'm worn out now.
Out of all the people I know with ME/CFS, about three quarters of us have some degree of hypermobility. In fact, for me, it was finding out that other people couldn't bite their own toenails that led me to think something was wrong. If you've always been able to do something, it becomes normal!
- 12:35 am
wtf - how is trying to dislocate a finger a recognised test for hypermobility? I can't see how a GP can legitimately block a referral to an expert for diagnosis because their completely made-up diagnosis failed? Sometimes just repeating, 'yes, but I have the symptoms of (x) and I want a referral to a consultant with the correct specialism for diagnosis' can help. Good luck with the new surgery!
- 7:38 pm
- Toulouse31 said...
Hi Kaiyla, i poped over here from Sue's blog. I was dx with Fibro in 2004 age 37 and the (private) the rumatologist said in letter to my GP (I too was a hearsink patient!) I had quite lax elbows, fingers and wrists but my skin was fine. I didn't think much of it at the time, both my daughters are very bendy too.
My husband says he fell in love with my fine porcelain skin (a lot of my veins show blue and some viens wont work for blood tests, drips etc and big blue eyes (high mopia!at -11 they are pretty big) I was great at ballet but rubbish at anything needing hand eye co-ordination. My sister can still forward flex with hands on the floor but I'm a lot less bendy with more spasms now im old. I have over-use injuries in my shoulders, elbows, wrists and just had TVT bladder surgery after years in pills. As I get older I am in more pain, my IBS and colitis are worse, I don't chew my food either, it is tiring. I have realised reading your blog and following links that I also have other things, tiny jaw, tmj, dowagers hump, crepitus in my knees, neck and fingers... What exactly do you mean by the way she holds her head?
I'm currently trying to find out more about being 'hypermobile' due to being migrated from IB to ESA and fearing the worst, but not putting anything much about hypermobility on the ESA as I didn't realise the extent of it before I found your blog. So thanks and keep up the good work, I really hope you get your chair soon :-)
- 3:30 pm
- Georgiepooh said...
my doctors didn't listen so i printed of articles with lists of signs and symptoms and ticked all the ones i had them presented them. after seeing that they either believed me or wanted to get rid. lol since then i have been diagnosed as have two of my three children.
- 7:46 am
- Bunny Matthews said...
Isn't it the case for some people that as they get older or if they don't have the support or education that their muscles over-compensate to try and counter the hypermobility?
- 1:43 pm
Dv doesn't cause hyper mobility though and certain eds types can also be diagnosed by biopsy and blood test It's crap having a syndrome and then being asked if your battered or if you batter your kids
- 9:04 am


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Glens are champs and pigs will fly
The race for the Irish Premier League title is over, or is it? Stuart McKinley enters into the minds of Glentoran fans to discover what they will be dreaming of when they go to bed tonight.
The scene couldn't be set any better, according to weather reports it's the warmest April day on record. The Linfield fans are ready to party in the Seaview sun.
Starting line-ups are as expected, with Linfield unchanged from last weekend's 2-0 win over Glenavon, while on-loan goalkeeper Chris Keenan and Jamie McGovern start for the Glens. Alan McDonald resists the temptation to go all-out attack, but there is a goal threat on the bench with Darren Boyce, Dean Fitzgerald and Peter Steele all capable of finding the net.
It's 3pm, the whistle blows at both Seaview and the Oval. The final day's action is underway and events over the next two hours will determine the champions and define the entire season.
The games are a formality though, even Linfield manager David Jeffrey has said that the title race is over so it must be. Who am I to argue with a man about to collect his sixth Championship in 11 years?
The first significant incident of the day happens in east Belfast. A streaker invades the pitch with the words 'Linfied are champions' written across his back and a huge arrow pointing downwards in a strange display of optimism.
Maybe his optimism isn't completely unfounded as just five minutes in nerves are settled as Michael Halliday follows up his winner against Cliftonville with the goal that puts the Glens 1-0 up.
On the other hand, maybe not, the Glens can't find another goal before half-time and with no goals at Seaview it's still looking like Linfield's title.
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Amazingly it does. Gary Smyth started the season in a Glentoran shirt and he does his old club a massive good turn by nut-megging three Linfield players on the edge of the box before rounding Alan Mannus for his first Crusaders goal.
Gary Hamilton steps up to the mark as he always does when it matters most. He takes the ball off Keenan on the edge of the 18-yard box, weaves his way through the Portadown team and spotting Miskelly off his line chips the goalkeeper from inside his own half.
Both William Murphy and Noel Bailie are starting to feel the effects of the soaring temperatures. They tell physio Terry Hayes and Doctor Cameron Ramsey that they can't carry on. With no defenders on the bench Jeffrey asks the referee to allow himself to come on at the back for the Blues for this first appearance in 17 years. The official obviously isn't happy to let someone not named on the match card to play, but Jeffrey is adamant he has to be the one. Play is halted as the issue is checked out with the Irish FA staff in the stand who reject Jeffrey's request, meaning a reshuffle.
This causes all sorts of confusion in the Linfield defence, leaving David Rainey unmarked 10 yards out and another ex-Glenman scores for the Crues.
Is this really happening? The title race that was over may not be after all.
Back at the Oval Portadown striker Andy Smith gets himself in a tangle inside his own box and puts the ball into his own net making it 4-0 to the Glens. Later Andy asks for the strike to be added to his tally of goals for his former club.
There's only a couple of minutes left and with Linfield still in a winning position their fans are singing 'Championies, Championies' and getting ready to celebrate. The delay caused by Jeffrey means the Linfield game is still going on when the final whistle goes at the Oval, the Glens have won 4-0, but that's not quite enough for them and the players begin to trudge off applauding the fans as they make their way to the dressing room.
Glentoran fans, however, are stopped in their tracks as they filter out of the Oval, the news quickly spreads of another goal at Seaview. The third former Oval favourite in the Crusaders ranks is Darren Lockhart. Seven past and present Glentoran players scoring to give Alan McDonald's men the most unlikely title triumph ever.
The drama on the pitch may be over, but it's not finished yet.
Irish Premier League chiefs and representatives from sponsors Carnegie are quickly drafting a plan B. They make frantic calls to a Belfast taxi firm telling them that they have to get from Seaview to the Oval quickly because they won't be handing over the trophy in north Belfast after all. As they've been listening to their taxi radios and not the match commentary they think someone's on the wind-up.
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blondy - there was a story on this a few weeks back if you look in the news archive. It won't let me paste in the link. Added Jan 13: "ESPN to show WRC in UK"