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The seesaw relationship between North Korea and the United States
The Korean war started in 1950 and although the fighting stopped with the 1953 armistice, recent tensions on the Korean Peninsula are once again drawing attention to this part of the world.
A North Korean soldier looks through the window of the building that sits on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Panmunjom, South Korea, that separates the two Koreas, July 21, 2010.
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The Korean war started in 1950 and although the fighting stopped with the 1953 armistice, recent tensions on the Korean Peninsula are once again drawing attention to this part of the world.

 A North Korean soldier looks through the window of the building that sits on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Panmunjom, South Korea, that separates the two Koreas, July 21, 2010.
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"If North Korea were to dramatically implode, most analysts expect a wave of refugees headed toward China, South Korea or even Japan," Robert Kelly, an associate professor of political science at Pusan University in South Korea, wrote in an email to ABC News. The refugee flow could be "on the same scale as Syria but perhaps with even greater desperation."

 Thousands fled the battle zones when the North Korean communist army, backed by the Soviet Union, crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950.
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The battle of Inchon was an amphibious invasion that was a decisive victory for the U.N. and American troops in the early months of the Korean War.

 U.S. Marines in a naval landing craft arrive at the port with the battle raging in the background. The operation involved 75,000 troops and 261 naval vessels.
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur was the commander of both the U.N. and U.S. forces -- known as the United Nations Command (UNC) -- and he accompanied U.S. troops on their invasion of Inchon harbor, keeping in close touch with the fighting soldiers as they drove inland. Just five years earlier in 1945, MacArthur accepted Japan's surrender in WWII aboard the USS Missouri.
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North Korean troops were able to capture the city of Seoul within three days of their invasion and continued to push southward.

 An elderly resident of Seoul walks through one of the streets in the capital city, destroyed during bitter fighting between South Korean forces and North Korean troops.
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U.S. Marines recaptured Seoul within two weeks of landing at Inchon.

 An American soldier engages North Korean soldiers as others duck for cover during street combat in the Korean War.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs put the U.S. Battle Deaths at 33,739 and "other deaths in theater" at 2,835. There are still 7,800 U.S. soldiers still unaccounted for according to the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

 An American soldier comforts a fellow infantryman whose close friend had been killed in action in the Haktong-ni area, Korea, August 1950. A corpsman fills out casualty tags in the background.
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After the end of WW II and the surrender of Japan, Kim Il Sung returned to Korea to establish a communist provisional government, becoming the Communist leader of North Korea in 1948. Kim, seen at right in the front row, is shown with a group of uniformed Russian advisers in November 1950.
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The Korean Truce was signed on July 27, 1953. The armistice was designed to "insure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved." It was not a peace treaty and a state of war still technically exists between the two Koreas.

 During the Panmunjom cease-fire talks on Oct. 11, 1951, Col. James Murray Jr., of the U.S. Marines, and Col. Chang Chun San, of the North Korean Communist Army, initial maps showing the northern and southern boundaries of the demarcation zone.
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China has long played a vital role as one of North Korea's closest allies. The Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty pledging friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance was signed by the leaders of China and North Korea. Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, left, appears with Kim Il Sung of Communist North Korea, who waves to the crowds after arriving in Beijing on an earlier state visit in November 1958.
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On Oct. 24, 1952, while running for president, Dwight D. Eisenhower pledged in a campaign speech to personally visit Korea. "There is a Korean War, and we are fighting it for the simplest of reasons; because free leadership failed to check and to turn back Communist ambition before it savagely attacked us."

 President-elect Eisenhower travels in a motorcade in South Korea in December 1952.
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Throughout the years, massive, colorful parades have become the stage for the North Korean military to show off its military might. Intelligence and security analysts study the videos and photographs for insights to North Korea's missile program. The parades are attended by thousands of North Korean citizens and members of the military.

 Pyongyang citizens parade to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the founding of North Korea in Kim II Sung Plaza, Sept. 9, 1963.
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Officers and crew of the United States Navy ship USS Pueblo are led away after being captured by North Korean forces on Jan. 23, 1968. The Navy intelligence ship and 82 surviving sailors were taken to the port of Wonsan and moved twice to POW camps. The crew, upon release eleven months later, spoke of being tortured during their imprisonment.
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The USS Pueblo, shown here in August 2007, is docked along the Taedong River in Pyongyang, the nation's capital, and has been turned into a museum and tourist attraction. The ship is still considered and listed as a commissioned U.S. Naval vessel. Throughout the years, the U.S. government has made attempts get the USS Pueblo back, but to no avail.
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Two American officers, Arthur Bonifas and Mark Barrett, were killed when North Korean soldiers attacked members of the UNC (United Nations Command) with axes near checkpoint No. 3 in the JSA of the Korean DMZ, Aug. 18, 1976. They had been trimming the branches of a poplar tree in the DMZ when the incident took place. Three days later, American and South Korean military forces returned to the site unannounced and in an overwhelming display of force, cut the tree down, surprising their North Korean counterparts who could only stand and watch.
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One of the few places along the DMZ in which military officers from both sides can sit across a table, look each other in the eye and speak to each other, is the Joint Security Area (JSA) in Panmunjom near the 38th parallel. The JSA has been used for diplomatic engagements and military negotiations between North Korea and the United Nations Command (UNC).

 American and South Korean delegations, at right, talk to their North Korean counterparts inside one of the buildings at the JSA, in the DMZ, February 1988. The border runs down the middle of the table.
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"The Great Leader," Kim Il Sung, left, with his son, Kim Jong Il, inspects a soccer ground in Pyongyang in 1992. Kim Jong Il, who became known as "The Dear Leader," succeeded his father after his death in 1994.
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Conflicts between the two countries are not just on land as the seas off of the Korean coast have also been the scene of disputes between the countries Naval forces. Forty-six South Korean sailors lost their lives when their patrol boat, the Cheonan, was split in two by an explosion on March 26, 2010. South Korean military intelligence claimed that a North Korean torpedo sank the ship.

 A giant floating crane lifts the Cheonan out of the water to place it on a barge on April 15, 2010.
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By the late 1980s, U.S. analysts believed North Korea was trying to build a nuclear bomb. Former President Jimmy Carter visited North Korea in 1994 and met with Kim Il Sung, helping to defuse tensions and paving the way for the 1994 Agreed Framework. As part of the agreement, North Korea agreed to give up their pursuit of nuclear weapons in exchange for aid with the country's energy shortage. By 2002, U.S. intelligence became convinced that the North Koreans were pursuing an enrichment program, and by 2003, the agreement had fallen apart.
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General Raymond Davis, President Bill Clinton, and South Korean President Kim Young Sam stand alongside the Korean War Veterans Memorial during the 1995 dedication ceremony in Washington, D.C. The memorial commemorates the sacrifices of the 5.8 million Americans who served in the U.S. Armed Services during the three-year period of the Korean War.
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Famine and food shortages in North Korea have been common throughout the country's history due to weather, lack of good farmland and the government's economic policies.

 Dock workers unload a shipment of American wheat at the port of Hungnam. The arrival of 100,000 tons of U.S. wheat in May 1999 allowed the United Nations World Food Program to increase its rations for primary schoolchildren and the elderly for May and June -- the hardest months of the year in North Korea's famine.
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More than 70 percent of the population of North Korea – or 25.16 million people – suffer from food insecurity and a quarter of children under the age of 5 suffer stunted growth due to malnourishment, according to a report from the United Nations World Food Program.

 Three-year-old North Korean, Jong Song Chol, is fed a vitamin and mineral-enriched porridge supplied by the UN World Food Program at a hospital in Sinyang County on Aug. 4, 2004, in South Pyongyang Province, North Korea.
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Promising "to broaden understanding between North and South Korea," South Korean President Kim Dae Jung traveled to Pyongyang in June of 2000 and met with North Korean President Kim Jong Il. It was the first time that leaders from the two countries had met face to face.

South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il hold hands as they sing, "Our dream is reunification." The two met for a three-day summit in June of 2000.
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In an attempt to end North Korea's isolation and remove the threat of war in one of the world's most volatile regions, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright flew to Pyongyang to meet with the North Korean leader.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, toasts U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at a state dinner in Pyongyang, Oct. 24, 2000.
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Officials of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) place the first concrete in the foundation for a nuclear reactor in the Light Water Reactor project, created under the so-called Agreed Framework. It was signed by Pyongyang and Washington in 1994 at Kumho on North Korea's northeastern coast, Aug. 7, 2002.
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China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea and the U.S. made up the Six Party Talks established in 2003 to de-nuclearize the North Korean weapons program. The talks ended in 2009 after North Korea attempted to launch a satellite which crashed into the Pacific Ocean. North Korea, citing the talks as "useless," announced the next day that it would no longer be a part of the talks and would resume its nuclear weapons program.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, far left, joined other representatives who make up the members of the Six Party Talks, July 26, 2005.
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In an unprecedented cultural exchange between the United States and North Korea, a country President George W. Bush had labeled as part of the "Axis of Evil" six years earlier, members of the North Korean audience listen to the New York Philharmonic orchestra during its inaugural performance in Pyongyang on Feb. 26, 2008.
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North Korea's Workers' Party newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, released a photograph that showed Kim Jong-un, left, posing with his father, then-leader Kim Jong-il, in an unspecified location. The photograph is believed to have been taken shortly after January 2009, when the younger Kim was designated as Kim Jong-il's heir apparent.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton made a surprise visit to North Korea in 2009 as a private citizen and within 20 hours won the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, two jailed American journalists. Clinton dined with reclusive leader Kim Jong Il and sat for a picture with Kim in this photo released by North Korean official news agency KCNA.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, and his son and future leader, Kim Jong Un, review a military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers Party of Korea in Pyongyang, Oct. 10, 2010. It has been noted that Kim Jong Un strongly resembles his grandfather, Kim Il Sung.
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Because of ongoing threats from North Korea, South Koreans participate in many civil defense drills throughout the year. Elementary school students wear gas masks during one of those drills at a shelter in Seoul on March 15, 2011.
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Kim Jong Il died of a heart attack on Dec. 17, 2011, while traveling on a train outside of Pyongyang. He had ruled North Korea for 17 years after taking the mantle of leadership from his father, Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea.

 Kim Jong Un salutes as he walks beside the hearse carrying his father's coffin in Pyongyang on Dec. 28, 2011. The younger Kim's uncle and presumed guardian, Jang Song Thaek, a vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, is behind him. Jang was convicted of treason in 2013 and executed.
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On April 5, 2009, North Korea attempted to put a satellite into orbit, but the mission failed and the rocket fell into the Pacific Ocean. Security analysts believed this was yet another attempt for North Korea to test its rocket program. The launch prompted the UN National Security Council to go into emergency session and issue a statement condemning the action.

A photograph of the launch hangs at the Three Revolutions exhibition hall in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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In an effort to send messages to citizens of North Korea, defectors now living in South Korea launch balloons near the border and watch them float across the DMZ into North Korea. The payloads will range from propaganda leaflets, condemning the leader, Kim Jong Un, to winter clothing for babies and young children.

Balloons carrying propaganda leaflets denouncing North Korea's nuclear test at Imjingak are launched near the DMZ on Feb. 16, 2013, in Paju, South Korea.
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A North Korean soldier points his camera at U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, as he photographs him through a window at the Joint Security Area that sits on the border of the DMZ in Panmunjom, South Korea. During his September 2013 visit, Hagel made clear that the U.S. was not contemplating any reduction of its military forces in the area. His visit was timed to be part of the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the armistice that aimed to, "insure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved."
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A photograph showing a night time view of the Korean Peninsula made from the International Space Station, Jan. 30, 2014. Unlike daylight images, city lights at night illustrate dramatically the relative economic power and importance of cities, as gauged by relative size. North Korea is almost completely dark compared to neighboring South Korea, lower right, and China at left. Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, is the small light in the center of this photo, while Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is the large cluster, center right.
The Korean Central News Agency was established in 1946 and is the central vehicle in which news about North Korea is disseminated for foreign consumption. Considered propaganda by western news agencies, the KCNA releases photographs that serve to highlight the message that North Korea is attempting to send and its Twitter feed carries images that frequently show a smiling, happy Kim Jong Un.

 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiles during a visit to the Chonji Lubricant Factory in this undated photo released by the KCNA in Pyongyang on Aug. 6, 2014.
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Tour groups visiting the Joint Security Area of the DMZ are allowed to visit the site but visitors must adhere to a strict dress code as well as sign a document stating, "The visit to the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom will entail entry into a hostile area and possibility of injury or death as a direct result of enemy action."

 A South Korean and U.S. soldier, foreground, standing at the military demarcation line separating North and South Korea within the JSA and watching North Korean soldiers on Nov. 1, 2014, in Panmunjom, South Korea.
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Kim Jong Il was said to be a big fan of the NBA and Chicago Bulls and appears to have passed his love of the game to his son.

Former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chat while watching an exhibition basketball game between American and North Korean players at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on Jan. 8, 2014. Kim's wife Ri Sol Ju is seen sitting next to Kim. The game was held to celebrate Kim's birthday.
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Many Korean families were separated when the Korean War began and have gone for decades not knowing the condition of their loved ones. A family reunion program organized by the two countries has been hosting face-to-face reunions where family members can meet while officials from North and South Korea observe. For many divided families, this will be the last time that they will see each other.

 North Korean Ri Mun-Woo, left, holds the face of her brother, South Korean Lee Cheon-Woo, as they bid farewell following their family reunion on Oct. 22, 2015, in Mount Kumgang, North Korea.
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Thousands of brightly colored ribbons adorn the barbed wire fence at the Imjingak Peace Park at the South Korean border city of Paju near the Demilitarized Zone on Jan. 1, 2016. The ribbons have messages written on them ranging from family members honoring their relatives who are still in the North, to wishes for a peaceful re-unification of the Korean Peninsula.
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North Korea has a record of detaining American citizens on charges ranging from illegal entry into the country to espionage to "hostile acts."

Otto Frederick Warmbier cried and bowed at a press conference on Feb. 29, 2016 after he was arrested on Jan. 2 for allegedly committing "an anti-state, hostile act"— stealing a propaganda poster from his hotel. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, but the U.S. State Department announced his release on June 13, 2017. He died on June 19, 2017, six days after returning to the United States in a coma.
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A South Korean honor guard carries the boxes containing the remains of 15 South Korean and two American soldiers killed inside North Korea during the war. The joint repatriation ceremony was held at Knight Field at Yongsan garrison in Seoul on April 28, 2016. There have been several of these ceremonies throughout the years, including one which was held at the Joint Security Area in 2012. At this ceremony three North Korean Army officers were allowed to step over the demarcation line to inspect the remains of North Korean soldiers before they were passed across to North Korean honor guards.
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In the shadow of the Hushan section of the Great Wall of China, a fence marks the North Korean-China border on an island in the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju and the Chinese border city of Dandong. China has been re-enforcing the fence over fears of an influx of refugees fleeing North Korea.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seen talking to scientists and technicians involved in nuclear weapons research at an undisclosed location in North Korea in an undated photo released by the Korean Central News Agency. North Korea claims it has developed the technology to fit a nuclear warhead on a missile. The device in the picture, jokingly referred to by some as "the disco ball," could be a model based on a real nuclear weapon design.
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On April 18, 2017, the U.S. Pacific Command announced that the USS Carl Vinson Strike Group was heading to the Western Pacific. The nuclear powered aircraft carrier, surrounded by U.S. and South Korean support vessels, patrols in the Western Pacific Ocean on May 3, 2017.
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On May 15, 2017, the UN Security Council strongly condemned North Korea's latest ballistic missile test and vowed strong measures, including more sanctions, to derail Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang said the new weapon, called the Hwasong-12, was capable of carrying a "heavy nuclear warhead."

 North Koreans gather at a street-side newsstand in Pyongyang, reading a copy of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper featuring coverage of the May 14 North Korean rocket test.
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This picture taken on July 4, 2017 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 5, 2017 shows the successful test-fire of the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 at an undisclosed location.
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Kim Jong-un, center, during a briefing by scientists at the Nuclear Weapons Institute on the details of the country's nuclear weapons program. The North Korean leader inspected what was said to be a hydrogen bomb that could fit into an ICBM missile.
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Unified Korea's flagbearers, North Korea's ice hockey player Hwang Chung Gum, left, and South Korea's bobsledder Won Yun-jong, lead the Unified Korea's delegation as they parade during the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, Feb. 9, 2018.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, takes the hand of South Korean President Moon Jae-in as the two cross the military demarcation line to the north side upon meeting for the Inter-Korean Summit April 27, 2018 in Panmunjom, South Korea.
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President Donald Trump speaks at Joint Base Andrews outside of Washington, D.C., after he welcomed home the three Americans that were detained in North Korea. From left, Tony Kim, Trump, Kim Dong Chul and Kin Hak Song. U.S. Secy of State Mike Pompeo stands in the background, May 10, 2018.
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We've been working hard to bring you a more robust Bike Hub smartphone app, and one packed with even more features. We can now announce there will be two updates in quick succession. The first will arrive sometime next week. We can't be more specific as uploading a new version to iTunes doesn't result in instant availability.
A tweaked version of the Android app was released a couple of weeks back. This was a fix for a map problem: the app wasn't sucking down maps properly. We switched to a new, faster server from OpenCycleMap. iPhone users will get the same speed and reliability upgrade next week.
Version 2.1 of the app will include:
Modify the distance that audio notifications are made before junctions
This was a common gripe with the app from otherwise satisfied users. The distance has now been amended. Sorry, we can't make the voice louder.
Change speed options to 16kph, 25kph and 30kph (and the equivalent in MPH)
The speed merchants among you said you went faster than we thought you did. So, we've boosted the top speeds: the ETAs will now be more accurate.
New map server
Maps will download faster.
Point of Interest (POI) search
Bike shops are the standard POIs on the app; more POIs will be added.
GPX export by email
When we created the app we envisaged it would be used, mainly, by people wanting traffic-free routes via back-streets and short-cuts and so on. This is still the core user of the app but there are plenty of users who want to use the app as a training aid and want to see where they've ridden. By adding a GPX upload function you will be able to email yourself a file that can be loaded to training software, other GPS devices, or online route sharing services. Or, if the fancy takes you, fly along your recent route via the magic that is Google Earth.
'How to' screen
New users of the app will get a quick run-through of the app's functions and there will also be a satnav-style tick-box requesting that the user acknowledges that using the app while moving is potentially dangerous and should only be done so with a smartphone handlebar device.
The navigation screen will include your current speed.
Version 3 will add even more features.
Map tile caching
You'll be able to download maps to your device so you will always have maps whether or not you have a data connection. Drawing down maps via a low phone signal can take quite a few seconds. The live routing functionality will always require a phone signal. The new map file suck-down feature will be useful for loading local maps to devices, but can also be used for downloading maps of a new, unknown area. Download when you're in a wifi hotspot.
A to A routing
Right now the app offers A to B routing, which is standard for satnavs. A to A routing will offer suggested on-the-fly circular routes, perfect for circular cycle tours. This will be an exclusive feature on the Bike Hub app. You will also be able to choose to follow sticky POIs, ie points of interest, such as National Trust properties. More and more POIs will be added over time. How about a bike tour sticky to CAMRA-recommended pubs?
Car satnav-style re-routing
When you stray from the Bike Hub app's route suggestion, you get a 'too far from destination' message. The current app doesn't re-route on-the-fly. Version 3 will offer dynamic route recalculation.
Routing by numbers
You will be able to retrieve a route from Cyclestreets.net and the Bike Hub online route planner by entering its route ID. So, you can plan your routes in advance, take a note of the route plan numbers and then use them to retrieve the route on your device.
The Bike Hub smartphone app is still the world's only 3D cycle-specific voice-and-vibrate satnav. The app's maps work all over the world but routing is available for Britain and Ireland only.
Paid for by the Bike Hub levy on all UK bicycle sales, the free Bike Hub app routes users away from busy roads and even avoids hills where possible. Unlike car satnavs, the Bike Hub app knows all about bike paths and quiet roads that cars can't use as rat runs.
If you like the app, please consider leaving a review on iTunes and on the Android Marketplace.

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If Peyton Manning goes down in his Denver debut, Caleb Hanie won't be there to replace him.
The Broncos released Hanie, their backup quarterback, today. That leaves rookie Brock Osweiler as Manning's only backup.
The Broncos apparently decided that they need depth on the defensive line more than they need depth at quarterback, because they signed defensive tackle Sealver Siliga from the practice squad with the roster spot made available by cutting Hanie. The Broncos have long liked the potential of Siliga, who was also on the Broncos' practice squad last season.
Because he is not on the Week One roster, Hanie's base salary of $1 million will not be guaranteed. That may have contributed to the Broncos' decision to release him, and he may be back with the Broncos next week.


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Sorry that posting has been so light around the ol' WJ offices lately. I know, hard to believe, right? Turns out distracting yourself from work is a full-time job in and of itself. But in order to feel like I'm being at least a little productive — and, more importantly, to help distract you from your own jobs — here's a collection of the most interesting links I've come across this week. Enjoy! –JSG
- The incomparable 538 finished up its World Cup of global cuisine, and it was fantastic. For something that was mostly data-driven, following the results of each round was surprisingly awesome. [538]
- Speaking of, they also polled people about their Star Wars preferences, both the movies and the individual characters. Eleventy-quadrillion dollars to the first person who guesses which character was the least favorable! [538]
- Joe Posnanski wrote up this memorial of Red Klotz, founder and coach of the Harlem Globetrotters, as only Joe Posnanski can: artfully and awesomely. [JoeBlogs]
- Golf is a great summertime activity, but it's expensive and like, requires you to go outside — this cool and stylish golf game, however, is free and easy to play at your desk! Besides, you're way less likely to see UFOs in a real round of golf, so really I'm doing you a favor. [Wonderputt]
- Is there any animal that looks more like it's in a perpetual state of happiness than the corgi? Answer: I haven't found one, that's for sure. [CorgiAddict]
- This guy turned all of baseball's uniforms into soccer kits: the visual results are outstanding, and the explanations/meaning behind the design choices are even better. [Soccer Out of Context]
- Finally, if you haven't heard of SlickDeals yet, it's a great place to find deals on all kinds of cool shit. Odds are you've been curious about or in the market for at least something that's currently listed, and the list is constantly updated. Check it out! [SlickDeals]


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Lucia and Roberto were your favorite students when you taught classes at the Venetian University of Magic, so when they invited you to their wedding, how could you say no? But what happens when a villain tries to unravel the threads of Fate? Now Roberto is missing and Lucia is on the chopping block for his murder! Can you save your students and restore the threads of Fate, before more lives are ruined? Search Roberto's house and gather the clues. You only have until midnight to prove Lucia's innocence!
- Rid Florence of the Philosopher's Stone forever in the bonus game!
- Play more challenging puzzles and mini-games
- Collect doves and pigeons and earn achievements
- Get original soundtracks, videos, concept art, and more!
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8th wonder of the world, 17 year old Courtney Stodden, got herself and her 51 year husband, Doug Hutchison, kicked out of a pumpkin patch because of sexually inappropriate behavior. The teen bride showed up dressed like a central casting member of THE DUKES OF HAZZARD with a sexy get-up of Daisy Dukes that barely covered her bottom as well as tied plaid shirt that showed plenty of cleavage and belly, struck sexy and suggestive poses, and even mounted her husband in sexually suggestive ways. Pumpkin patch security had enough of what they saw, and asked the couple to leave.
Everyone knows how tough those pumpkin patch security guys can be. You sure don't want to mess around with those guys.
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I write this from Slovenia; it is December 2 and for the next two days I will be training a group of PL/SQL developers in Ljubljana for Oracle Corporation.
I flew here this AM, from Warsaw, where I taught a class to Polish developers on Thursday and Friday. That was my first visit to Warsaw and it left a deep impression.
First, something kind of funny about Poland: when I travel internationally and mention that I am Chicago, I generally get one of two responses: "Al Capone!" or "Michael Jordan!"
But in Warsaw, the response is a knowing nod of the head: "The Other Polish Capitol" was how one person put it. Chicago has an enormous Polish population, so there are lots of connections between the two cities, and everyone there seems to be very aware of Chicago.
Beyond that, I found a city in which the past is very present, especially the past known as WWII and the Soviet Occupation.
For example, outside the national library is an enormous war memorial, set of sculptures, including this one. I usually find more peaceful and "bookish" themes/scultpures at such buildings.
I was also shocked by how little I knew of the history of Warsaw during WWII. I have long been familiar with the 1943 Ghetto Uprising, in which a small number (on the order of a few hundred) of very brave Jews decided to fight the Nazis rather than submit to shipment to Treblinka and certain death.
But I never really had heard of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Here's the shocking nutshell of what took place (I learned this from a visit to the remarkable Warsaw Rising Museum):
The Germans were clearly losing and also retreating. The Polish Home Army, based in Warsaw, and surviving underground, decided it was time to attack the hated Nazis and drive them from their city. So they launched a massive uprising involving 10s of thousands of soldiers. The element of surprise and sheer numbers gave the Poles the early advantage. Then Hitler ordered a full assault with reinforcements from surrounding countries. The Home Army asked for and expected support from the Allies.
But the previous year at Yalta, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill had already agreed on how they would carve up Europe (and more) - and Poland was in Stalin's playground. Stalin didn't want a successful, empowered and independent military/political base in Poland. He wanted to install his own puppet government. So his armed forces stopped their advance on the East side of the Wista River. He also refused to allow the Allies to use air fields under Russian control to resupply the Poles.
And so after a long, brutal battle throughout the city (during which the Nazis killed some 150,000 civilians - including the Wola massacre, in which 50,000 were killed in one day), the Home Army capitulated. Now, that's tragic enough. But there's more....
** Hitler was very, very pissed off and told the officers in charge in Warsaw to expel all remaining inhabitants and level the entire city (more specifically, he told them to rank buildings by their significance to Poles and destroy them in that order)! And they went about it very systematically. Warsaw was essentially completely destroyed. I had no idea.
** When the Germans were defeated and withdrew from the city, Stalin moved his forces in. He then arrested all the Home Army leadership, accused them of collaborating with the Nazis, executed many and threw the rest in prison. How twisted...
** The decision was made to rebuild the Old Town of Warsaw, buildings that had stood for hundreds of years. And so they did, so well in fact that the UN has recognized it as a World Heritage Site even though it is a reconstruction. Fair enough - but part of the way they were able to accomplish this is that the Soviet-controlled Polish government went to nearby towns and demolished their old buildings so that something like 27,000,000 million old bricks could be "donated" to the cause. Oh, so very twisted....
Whew. it is no wonder that Warsaw still shows its scars.
Don't get me wrong, though: people don't just live in the past, bitter and depressed about what was done to them. Warsaw is vibrant and growing. I very much enjoyed my time there....I just got some education along the way.
I'd like to end this post with some positive thoughts about how fortunate it is that we, humans, have moved beyond such brutality and perversion. Sdaly, I don't think the state of affairs in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Tibet, Gaza and so many other places filled with pain and suffering can afford me that generosity of spirit.


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Of the many diet products which I've had the pleasure of studying, Thermo-Lean is the first one that has claimed to be "Hardcore"!
Okay, okay. We all know that's a lie. It really is difficult to tell sometimes which products labeled hardcore are legitimately more potent without being dangerous. So many "hardcore" products are just useless bottles of placebos that are marked up in price to seem more extreme. So what does Thermo-Lean Hardcore have to set it apart from the crowd?
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This formula is a basic attempt at making an ephedra, caffeine, and aspirin (ECA) stack but replacing ephedra with synephrine (in citrus aurantium) and using white willow bark as the chemical pre-cursor to aspirin. Ingredients such as evodiamine, inositol, vinpocetine, oleoylethanolamine, and especially hoodia gordonii lack significant research to prove their viability as effective weight-loss supplements. Green tea is a great source for antioxidants and caffeine will certainly boost your metabolism, but there is really nothing uniquely effective or "hardcore" about this product.
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For a bottle of this stuff you will be paying about $50, which is maybe average for really effective diet product and much higher than it should be fore a mediocre one. This, I hate to say it folks, is a mediocre diet product which is only slightly hardcore in its price. Don't recommend it.


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And we're back! Last Wednesday Pretty Little Liars returned from it's week off which of course means I'm back with another recap. As always spoilers are after the jump!
The Story Of Lesli Stone
The plot thickened when it came to the girls' latest suspect this week. After deciding Lesli could be A they set out to search for clues once again and we saw Hanna use her charm to get a hold of her car. What they find inside was pretty strange... but could also easily be explained away. Hanna and Spencer found a whole box of those thick-rimmed glasses Lesli loves to wear and discovered that they are in fact fake - could they just be a part of her disguise? Not only that but the girls also found wire cutters and large animal cages that Spencer was quick to point out would be big enough to hold humans. We also learnt that Lesli works on a college campus in a lab that houses animals though, suggesting that the cages are just a coincidence, albeit an unsettling one.
Sara, the newcomer to the group, was still looking pretty
suspicious this week after a short scene where she had a cut on her head and an arm covered in blood claiming to have been
hit by a car. On the surface this seems awful, like A could have
targeted her, however when Emily asked if she would be able to identify
that car from a photo Sara was instantly sure that Lesli's car (the same one Hanna stole) was the one
that knocked her down. Whilst this could be true, and Lesli although
not A clearly isn't a big fan of the girls, something just doesn't add
Let's Talk About Mona...
This week's episode wasn't the first time this season
we've heard that Mona wouldn't be making an appearance to meet up with the girls on the A search (as her mother won't
let her out of her sight) only for her to pop up unexpectedly just at
the right moment. Firstly we saw her creeping around in the dark at Radley seeking out Lesli's precious patient file (which, side note: she wasn't exactly reluctant to hand over to the girls), and this week we saw her hiding in the dark at the college lab where Lesli works. She claimed to be keeping an eye out for the Liars and making sure they didn't get caught, but why so secretive? Is this just right place, right time? Or is there something more to Mona's mysterious behaviour... like say perhaps she knows about the trackers?
Speaking of Mona, it was certainly nice to hear someone talking some sense for once when it came down to A theories this week. Whilst the sometimes-part-of-the-group-sometimes-not Mona (who definitely knows more than she lets on) only made a brief appearance she managed to set the girls straight on a few things. As we're well aware at this point these girls just love to jump to conclusions about who is hiding behind the mask of A and don't often stop and think about whether their theories actually make sense, or if any so-called clues can be explained away.
"If you caught A in a photo it's because A wanted to be caught." - Mona
Not only did Mona instantly debunk the 'Charles is dead because there's an organ donation form in his file' theory by simply stating that it was clearly faked (in short: no one on that many drugs would be able to donate their liver), but she also let the girls in on another secret; whilst Lesli and Bethany were roommates at Radley, it doesn't mean they were friends. In fact, we saw Mona state outright that Lesli hated Bethany, something the girls hadn't even considered a possibility when they first heard that the mysterious pair knew each other. Another little snippet we got from Mona was that despite being in Radley at the same time as he was, Lesli didn't actually know Charles, again something the girls hadn't stopped to think about. According to ex-A Mona, Lesli confessed to have only heard Charles' name once before, on the night Bethany escaped Radley, leading them all to suspect that the pair left together that night. And just like that the Liars latest theory was debunked; Lesli Stone isn't A.
"Bitch Chipped Us."
The other big reveal for the girls this week was finally finding out that A fitted them with tracking devices whilst they were in the dollhouse. Early on in the episode Caleb notices a lump on the back of Hanna's neck, but as she's still annoyed with him at this point she brushes it off as nothing. Later, as Spencer, Aria and Hanna explore Lesli's workplace they notice a strange beeping noise (in what was a brilliant comedic moment from Hanna and Spencer) and realise the truth.
Relationships Old & New
Despite the fact that the girls still haven't solved the A mystery and are now another suspect down, I wanted to take a quick look at where their relationships are at since it seemed to be quite a big focus of the episode.
First up, after a bit of a blip a couple of episodes back a little advice
from Mrs Marin seemed to set Haleb back on track. As it turns out Hanna was fed up of Caleb treating her like the victim, when we all know she can stand up for herself. All it took to set things right was Caleb standing up to her and treating her like the old Hanna again.
Although newbie Clark is clearly still interested in her, this week it looked as though Aria was missing what she once had with Ezra. He showed up at her house with a recommendation for her entry to the photo competition and accidentally revealed that he possibly still has her self-portrait hanging above his desk... and was that a look of jealousy when she saw him talking to (another newbie) Emily's friend Nicole?
With Toby not around this week (where is he always disappearing off to?)
Dean returned and arranged to attend a meeting with Spencer only for her not to show. When she failed to turn up we saw Dean's angry side as he was waiting outside her house worried that something terrible could have happened to her. He went on to explain just why he was so mad, including a confession that he wants to be more than just friends.
"In my life when someone doesn't show up or answer the phone, there is a very real possibility that they're lying in a gutter somewhere." - Dean
Then we have Emily, who (after deciding to go to Thailand and then changing her mind) realised her feelings for Sara, the mysterious girl who's been living under her roof for the past two weeks, were of more than just friendship. This came as no surprise since we've all heard the rumours that Emily will be taking Sara to prom but I'm sure it probably left a few Emison and Pailey shippers feeling sad.
Being On The Outside
Also this week, Sara began her new job working at that web design business we never
knew Caleb had. Whilst chatting, Sara had no idea who or what a 'Kimye' was - it seems like this little snippet was included either to solidify the fact that Sara was trapped in the dollhouse all that time just like she claims, or just to show she's a brilliant liar. She also asked about
Alison and the two bonded over the fact that they both feel like outsiders looking in on the girls tight-knit group, which we all know is clouded in secrets and a web of lies.
do you know about Alison DiLaurentis? I wouldn't ask but when you're
forced to answer to someone else's name and wear their clothes you
become curious about her." - Sara
Aria Gets A Doll... And Mr D Gets Mail
We were previously treated to an end scene which showed A working on a
small Aria wig complete with those famous pink streaks from the night
Alison disappeared, and tonight we saw the final product. When she returned to the junk yard from the previous episode in search of clues Aria found one incredibly creepy doll, wearing that wig and with a needle poked straight through it's eye. It seems that Aria has been a particular target of A's messages recently - is something awful about to happen to her?
Looking forward it appears as though Charles is planning to make his big return to Rosewood as this week we also saw Mr D receive a card with a haunting message inside...
"Dear Daddy, Coming home for my birthday. You should plan a party to die for. Just you. Love, Charles"
Near the end of the episode we find Mr D in his car on the phone evidently calling all of the doctors he can think of to try and find out the truth about his son. It looks like Mr D could be in trouble too!
What did you think of 'No Stone Unturned'? If
you have any thoughts or theories don't forget to leave a comment below -
I'd love to hear them! Don't forget if you haven't seen it yet you can catch my previous roundup for the episode titled 'She's No Angel' by clicking here.


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Sunday, 21 April 2013
Our April garden
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Enjoy your pic nic in this wonderful garden!ReplyDelete
greetings from Greece!
Dear Rosemary, your Spring flowers are so lovely my heart skipped a beat! The white daffodils with yellow centres are absolutely exquisite. Wonderful photography, as ever. P.ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I love flowers, you are very luckyReplyDelete
Lovely photos, looking forward to seeing more of your garden...ReplyDelete
Enjoy your day, rain here!
Gorgeous pictures!ReplyDelete
Have a fun sunday, ours will be a busy working day.
Hello Rosemary, Not much sunshine in Taipei lately. I'm glad that at least you are enjoying some good weather.ReplyDelete
Your spring flowers look wonderful - we had 70 mls of rain today. Much needed but, unfortunately, a bit too heavy and it all ran off. Autumn is definitely here.ReplyDelete
Your garden must be beautiful if these photos are anything to go by! xReplyDelete
You are brightening my Sunday with these brilliant pictures of spring flowers as there is no picnic weather here! Just cold, rainy and miserable! Have fun! ChristaReplyDelete
Dear Rosemary,ReplyDelete
What lovely flowers. April and daffodils seem made for each other don't they? I like good old King Alfreds although there are others that catch my fancy too. I do like the look of the Rip van Winkle even if it has been nibbled by a hungry insect!
I can't beleive that they are real ... They look so healthy and beautiful ! Their beauty is due to the love and care of the gardener! Who is the great gardener ?Have a sunshine day !ReplyDelete
So much joy in spring flowers (and your photos) - good thing too because we need it! Enjoy the warmer weather and your picnic :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing the wonderful photos of your garden. With the way our weather has been, these gorgeous blooms might be the only ones I see this spring.ReplyDelete
Have a great time on your picnic. No sun for us today. Rain and more snow. :(
Beautiful, I do love Daffodils. Polyanthus are lovely and we can buy them in bloom for Mother's Day in May, available from the Nurseries and Garden Centres. It's amazing that you have them in bloom when we do on the other side of the world :)ReplyDelete
Lovely spring flowers, Rosemary and I hope you had a wonderful day. Yesterday was glorious here, but sadly today is grey, cool and wet.....ReplyDelete
This is just beautiful! What a lot of colour in your garden. My helleborus just gave me three beautiful white flowers and my camellia, which usually flowers in February has just started to show a bit of colour! Everything is so late! But... my tulips look great!ReplyDelete
I took some plants to Italy, inside my suitcase, last time I went: A lovely little red camellia, some of my favourite bulbs, though you can get them there, and an old Victorian fern (a little one) from my garden. I hope it will grow in the warm Italian climate.
I have quite a few cactus plants (including a few lovely Aloe Vera) at the new house and I will have fun creating a lovely garden at the back of the house and on the roof. I am intending to plant red bouganvilleas everywhere, grapevines, lemons and palms on the roof garden and all sorts of Mediterranean plants (will also try climbing roses, though I'm not sure they'll do well in hot weather.) It's very exciting. I'll post pictures when we get there!
I shall really look forward to seeing your garden in Italy Anna - make sure that you find a shady spot for your fern, and keep it well watered to get it established.Delete
I bought a tiny piece of Oleader, about 6 cms, back in my suitcase from Sicily last year - wrapped up in damp tissue, and it now has some flower buds on it. I am really hoping that they open up - it was a lovely red one.
Beautiful bright vieuws of the narcissus in your garden Rosemary. This morning it was bright with a lot of sunshine but the afternoon was grey and cold. I hope we get some raine because my little garden is so thirsty.ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful sunday evening Rosemary.
Hope you had a wonderful day, Rosemary :-)ReplyDelete
Dear Rosemary, Oh, what a happy Spring message. I love all of your photographs and choice of flowers. Do you grow Primula Auriculas? They used to be favorites in England. We hardly ever see them here. I have a few in my Greenhouse. Happy Sunday to you and yours. ox, GinaReplyDeleteReplies
Dear Gina - I do love Auriculas but I have never been successful with them as they really require, as you do, a Greenhouse. I adore their off beat colours and their floury leaves simply beautiful. They do look particularly stunning when displayed properly on an Auricula ladder in their terracotta pots.Delete
A beautiful display of daffodils and other spring flowers Rosemary! Have a lovely new week!ReplyDelete
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Dear Rosemary,ReplyDelete
Your spring bulbs and flowers are beautiful. Thank you for sharing them with us. I have always wanted fritillaria bulbs in my borders. Do they return each year in your garden?Replies
Dear Loi - I find the snakes head fritillary so easy to grow, and they increase themselves every year. We have ours growing within a circle of box hedging around a large tree - you can make out the trunk of the tree and see the box hedging on the photo. They love the situation and just stay there all year without being disturbed. They have lots of company from small cyclamen, scillas, and grape hyacinths.Delete
The whiter daffodils remind me of growing up as my mum and dad had a border full of them by the back door. Gorgeous flowers in your garden.ReplyDelete
Beautiful - flowers and photos alike. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Patricia x
Gorgeous photographs of beautiful Spring blooms! So pleased that Spring has finally come round...ReplyDelete
At last! Lovely to see Spring in your garden.ReplyDelete
Lovely, lovely, lovely. Do you know how much I have missed colourful garden posts. I am so excited about Spring this year, I have a list of wonderful things to do and places to go as long as your arm.ReplyDelete
Rip Van Winkle is beautiful Rosemary. I haven't planted daffodils here so far. One of my clients is mad for daffodils and we extend her enormous collection every year. RVW is definitely one I would like to include in my garden though.
Stunning pictures of beautiful flowers, Rosemary! Sooooooo beautiful!ReplyDelete
Hope you enjoyed your picnic! The flowers are beautiful. It's a shame about the nibbling of the little daffodil. A lot of our daffodils got damaged in last week's wind and some had chewed edges so I had to pick the ones that were hanging down to the ground.ReplyDelete
great collages with the daffodils, I was walking in daffodils-hyacinths fields last weekend, its flower-time here in tulipland...will be posting the pics tonight! happy new week!ReplyDelete
Very colourful garden. Love all of the flowers.ReplyDelete
It looks like you've buried a part of the rainbow in your garden and it has manifested in your colourful blooms :)ReplyDelete
There is much sun in my immediate future (as you well know) but this weekend we've been experiencing much needed rain. My part of Florida has been going through years of droughts, and watering restrictions have become the norm. So we're pleased to be under overcast skies . . .ReplyDelete
The first circle of flowers is fantastic.ReplyDelete
Dear Rosemary,what a beautiful garden you have!!Exellent photos!!I like the daffodils collage!They look so preety!!Have a lovely week!ReplyDelete
How wonderful , nature is finally coming alive again, these shots are gorgeous !ReplyDelete
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On recent occasions As I Was out in public:
I got home to find Cheerios dried, crusty and stuck the back of my shoulder. Bummer.
Walked out of my Little Nut Nut's preschool classroom to realize that my white nursing pad was falling out of my black bra and my black tank top. Fabulous.
I came home from Wal-Mart to the realization that I forgot the nursing pads, hence the wet boobs. Cute.
I was walking through Target, again after dropping a few of the kids off at school, I noticed that I had dried spit-up on the back of my tank top and down the back of my pants. Ooohhh so sexy.
After having a wicked allergy attack, itchy watery eyes, runny nose, and just about sneezing my brain out, while waiting in line to pick my child up at school, and after I pick up said child, I drive away and glance at myself in the mirror to find a booger. Nice.
And just today, I got home from dropping off 2 of my kids at 2 different schools to realize that my tank top was on inside out. Brilliant.
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Notes to Twilight of the idoloclast? On the Left's recent anti-Nietzschean turn, Malcolm Christ, or the Anti-Nietzsche, Anti-Dühring and Anti-Christ: Marx, Engels, Nietzsche
[1] "Reading for victory is the way Nietzsche himself thought people ought to read." Bull, Malcolm. Anti-Nietzsche. (Verso Books. New York, NY: 2011).
[2] As Domenico Losurdo blurbs on the back of his book, "Altman…adopts Nietzsche's own aphoristic genre in order to use it against him." Altman himself explains: "[T]he whole point of writing in Nietzsche's own style was to demonstrate how much power over his readers he gains by plunging him into the midst of what may be a pathless ocean, confusing them as to their destination." Altman, William. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Philosopher of the Second Reich. (Lexington Books. New York, NY: 2012). Pg. xi. Later Altman admits, however, that "[t]his kind of writing presumes, of course, good readers." Ibid., pg. 181.
[3] Dombrowsky, Don. Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics. (Palgrave MacMillan. New York, NY: 2004). Pg. 134.
[4] Conway, Daniel. Nietzsche and the Political. (Routledge. New York, NY: 1997). Pg. 119.
[5] Appel, Fredrick. Nietzsche Contra Democracy. (Cornell University Press. Ithaca, NY: 1999). Pg. 120.
[6] "[I]n uncovering Nietzsche's rhetorical strategy [they] reuse it." Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pg. 32.
[7] Ibid., pg. 33.
[8] Ibid., passim, pgs. 35-38, 42, 47-48, 51, 74-76, 98, 100, 135, 139, 143.
……Indeed, Bull's call to "read like a loser" grants to the essays in Anti-Nietzsche their hermeneutic integrity. This formulation has since gone on to become one of the book's most celebrated phrases, as well, charming reviewers from New Inquiry's David Winters to Costica Bardigan of the Times Higher Education. Winters, David. "Reading Like a Loser." New Inquiry. (February 14, 2012). Bardigan, Costica. "Review of Malcolm Bull's Anti-Nietzsche." Times Higher Education. (January 29, 2012). Even longtime admirers of Nietzsche like T.J. Clark admit its interpretive power: "[N]o other critique of Nietzsche, and there have been many, conjures up the actual reader of Daybreak and The Case of Wagner so unnervingly." Clark, T.J. "My Unknown Friends: A Response to Malcolm Bull." Nietzsche's Negative Ecologies. (University of California Press. Berkeley, CA: 2009). Pg. 79.
[9] Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pgs. 135-136.
[10] The philistine: ibid., pgs. 1-26, 38-40, 43, 46-48, 53, 151; the subhuman: ibid., pgs. 40-43, 46-48, 91, 101-102, 123-124; the herd: ibid., pg. 41-42, 67, 72, 74-76, 138, 146, 160-162.
[11] Ibid., pg. 37.
[12] These together comprise what Bull calls "the history of negation." Ibid., pgs. 7-13.
[13] Ibid., pgs. 39-40.
[14] Ibid., pg. 39.
[15] Ibid., pgs. 13-16, 18-19.
[16] "Measures like those taken on Odysseus's ship in face of the Sirens are a prescient allegory of the dialectic of enlightenment." Adorno, Theodor and Horkheimer, Max. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. (Stanford University Press. Stanford, CA: 2002). Pg. 27.
…….This runs counter to the prevailing interpretation of this work, as scholars tend to place Nietzsche's influence chiefly in its second excursus, on "Juliette, or Enlightenment and morality." Ibid., pgs. 63-93.
[17] Ibid., pg. 19, and further, pgs. 20-22.
[18] Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment. Pgs. 25-27.
[19] "If it is weakness of will that allows the philistine to resist the beautiful, might it lead us to reconsider our understanding of Odysseus and the Sirens? In Adorno and Horkheimer's reworking of the myth, Odysseus hears the music and would have responded to its call to primordial unity had he not been constrained from doing so. He is an example of disinterest triumphing over the passions, in which the disinterested contemplation of the song is actually a form of self-interest. It is because he knows he lacks the strength of will to resist the beauty of the Sirens' song that he has himself tied to the mast. This is weakness as incontinence, but it is self-interest, not incontinence, that turns Odysseus into a philistine. The weakness of Socrates takes another form, closer to that which Aristotle calls softness. Knowing he ought to appreciate the music of the Sirens, he is nevertheless unable to do so. He does not hear the beauty of the song; he may not even hear the song as a song." Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pg. 152.
[20] Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment. Pgs. 26-27.
[21] Ibid., pg. 27.
[22] Marcuse, Herbert. The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics. Translated and revised by Herbert Marcuse and Erica Sherover. (Beacon Press. Boston, MA: 1978). Pgs. 56-57.
[23] "Nietzsche never uses the word, but the form of this revaluation of valuing is perhaps most accurately described as ecological, not because Nietzsche exhibited any particular concern for the natural environment, but on account of the unprecedented conjunction of two ideas: the recognition of the interdependence of values, and the evaluation of value in biological terms." Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pg. 44.
[24] Ibid., pg. 47.
[25] Ibid., pgs. 87-88.
[26] Ibid., pg. 102.
[27] Ibid., pg. 123.
[28] Ibid., pgs. 90-92, 94-100.
[29] Nietzsche here addresses "the problem of…good as thought up by the man of ressentiment, demands its solution. — There is nothing strange about the fact that lambs bear a grudge towards large birds of prey: but that is no reason to blame the large birds of prey for carrying off the little lambs. And if the lambs say to each other, 'These birds of prey are evil; and whoever is least like a bird of prey and most like its opposite, a lamb, — is good, isn't he?', then there is no reason to raise objections to this setting-up of an ideal beyond the fact that the birds of prey will view it somewhat derisively, and will perhaps say: 'We don't bear any grudge at all towards these good lambs, in fact we love them, nothing is tastier than a tender lamb.' — It is just as absurd to ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a desire to overthrow, crush, become master, to be a thirst for enemies, resistance and triumphs, as it is to ask weakness to express itself as strength." Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morality. Translated by Carol Diethe. (Cambridge University Press. New York, NY: 2006). Pgs. 25-26.
[30] Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pg. 42.
[31] Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1. Translated by Benjamin Fowkes. (Penguin Books. New York, NY: 1982). Pg. 143.
[32] Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pg. 46.
[33] Ibid., pg. 43.
[34] Ibid., pg. 47.
[35] Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. Translated by Judith Norman. (Cambridge University Press. New York, NY: 2002). Pg. 91, §203.
[36] Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pgs. 117-120.
[37] "Wagner wrote the essay shortly after the failure of the 1848 revolution; it represents an attempt to achieve the political aims of the 1848 uprising through aesthetic means." Groys, Boris. "A Genealogy of Participatory Art." Translated by David Fernbach. Introduction to Antiphilosophy. (Verso Books. New York, NY: 2012). Pg. 201.
[38] Wagner, Richard. "Art and Revolution." Translated by William Ashton Ellis. Prose Works, Volume 1. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. London, England: 1895). Pg. 53.
[39] Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pg. 153.
[40] Ibid., pg. 162.
[41] Marx, Karl. Critique of the Gotha Program. Translated by Peter and Betty Ross. Collected Works, Volume 24: Marx and Engels, 1874-1883. (International Publishers. New York, NY: 1989). Pg. 86.
[42] "As Bakunin noted, Marx conspicuously excluded from the agents of revolution the Lumpenproletariat…In contrast, Bakunin advocated 'the emancipation and widest possible expansion of social life.'" Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pg. 158.
[43] Trotsky, Leon. The Permanent Revolution. Translated by John G. Wright and Brian Pearce. (Pathfinder Press. New York, NY: 1978). Pg. 70.
…….."Trotsky's reformulation of the idea of permanent revolution picks up both of Bakunin's objections." Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pg. 158.
[44] Ibid., pg. 171.
[45] Ibid., pg. 175.
[46] "The skilled Danish critic [Georg Brandes (a Jew and liberal critic, discoverer of the German philosopher's 'aristocratic radicalism')] did not take Nietzsche's barbarism seriously, not at face value, [but] understood it cum grano salis, in which he was very right." Mann, Thomas. "Nietzsche's Philosophy in Light of Recent Events." Addresses Delivered at the Library of Congress, 1942-1949. (Wildside Press LLC. Washington, DC: 2008). Pg. 99.
[47] Bull, Anti-Nietzsche. Pg. 42.
[48] See especially chapters five and six, "The Clash of Abstractions: Revisiting Marx on Religion" and "The Cold War and the Messiah: On Political Religion." Toscano, Alberto. Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea. (Verso Books. New York, NY: 2010). Pgs. 172-202, 203-247.
[49] Losurdo, Domenico. "What is Fundamentalism?" Translated by Hanne Gidora. Nature, Society, Thought. (Vol. 17, № 1: 2004). Pgs. 5-46.
[50] Boer, Roland. Criticism of Heaven: On Marxism and Theology I. (Brill. Boston, MA: 2007).
………Boer, Roland. Criticism of Religion: On Marxism and Theology II. (Brill. Boston, MA: 2009).
………Boer, Roland. Criticism of Theology: On Marxism and Theology III. (Brill. Boston, MA: 2011).
[51] Thomas, Peter D. "Overman and Commune." New Left Review. Pg. 141.
[52] Robin, Corey. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. (Oxford University Press. New York, NY: 2011). Pg. 93.
……..Despite his passing disavowal of political psychology ("My concern is with ideas and argument rather than character or psychology," pg. 218), only a couple pages later he lets fly this existential gem: "So many doors of the psyche open onto this space of inertial gloom we might well conclude that it lurks not at the edge, but at the center of the human condition." Ibid., pg. 220.
[53] Landa, Ishay. "Aroma and Shadow: Marx vs. Nietzsche on Religion." Nature, Society, Thought. Pgs.
[54] "Losurdo…questions Mehring's argument that Nietzsche was referring solely to an early romantic period of the socialist movement, thereby missing the new object of 'scientific socialism.'" Rehmann, Jan. "Re-Reading Nietzsche with Domenico Losurdo's Intellectual Biography." Historical Materialism. Pg. 8.
[55] Franz Mehring quoted in Waite, Geoffrey. "The Politics of Reading Formations: The Case of Nietzsche in Imperial Germany (1870-1919." New German Critique. (№ 29: Spring-Summer 1983). Pg. 191.
[56] Lukács, Georg. The Destruction of Reason. Translated by Peter Palmer. (Merlin Press. London, England: 1981). Pg. 318.
[57] Brobjer, Thomas H. "Nietzsche's Knowledge of Marx and Marxism." Nietzsche-Studien. (№ 31: 2002). Pgs. 298-313.
[58] "It is commonly assumed that…what little [Nietzsche knew about socialism] was at best based on readings of the anti-semitic socialist Eugen Dühring, whom Engels and Marx had criticized so severely in the book Anti-Dühring (1878)." Ibid., pg. 298. Of course, Engels had authored this book on his own, so Brobjer is mistaken.
[59] Montinari, Mazzino. "Nietzsche between Bäumler and Lukács." Translated by Greg Whitlock. Reading Nietzsche. (University of Illinois Press. Chicago, IL: 2003). Pg. 164.
[60] Brobjer, "Nietzsche's Knowledge of Marx and Marxism." Pg. 310.
[61] Engels, Friedrich. Anti-Dühring. Pgs. 83-84. My emphases.
[62] Ibid., pg. 90.
[63] Ibid., pgs. 91-92.
[64] Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality. Pg. 91. My emphases.
[65] Ibid., pg. 48.
[66] "The two opposing values 'good and bad' [noble values], 'good and evil' [servile values] have fought a terrible battle for thousands of years on earth." Ibid., pg. 31.
[67] Engels, Anti-Dühring. Pg. 86.
[68] Ibid., pg. 87.
[69] Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future. Translated by Judith Norman. (Cambridge University Press. New York, NY: 2002). Pg. 91, §203.
[70] Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality. Pg. 60.
[71] Marx, Karl. The Civil War in France. Translated by Friedrich Engels. Collected Works, Volume 22: Marx and Engels, 1870-1871. (International Publishers. New York, NY: 1986). Pg. 335.
[72] Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Translated by Josefine Nauckhoff. (Cambridge University Press. New York, NY: 2007). Pg. 235, §370.
[73] Ibid., pg. 152, §270.
[74] Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo, or How to Become What You Are. Translated by Judith Norman. (Cambridge University Press. New York, NY: 2005). Pgs. 109-110.
[75] Engels, Friedrich. Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy. Translated by Emile Burns. Collected Works, Volume 26: 1882-1889. (International Publishers. New York, NY: 1990). Pg. 359.
[76] Marx, Karl. Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. Translated by Martin Nicolaus. (Penguin Books. New York, NY: 1993). Pgs. 460-461.
[77] Ibid., pgs. 487-488.
[78] "Losurdo demonstrates that the theoretical structure of [anti-Semitism] had an abiding influence on his thought — as amply evidenced in the call by the late Nietzsche, the prophet of the innocence of becoming, for the extermination of the weak and ill-born." Thomas, "Overman and the Commune." Pg. 141.
[79] Dombowsky, Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics. Pgs. 12, 16, 74-75.
[80] Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Introduction to the Lectures on the Philosophy of History. Translated by H.B. Nisbet. (Cambridge University Press. New York, NY: 1975). Pg. 69.
[81] Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Will to Power. Translated by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale. (Vintage Books. New York, NY: 1968). Pg. 413, §786.
[82] "Was geht den Träger des individuellen Bewußtseins das Schicksal der Welt an! Die sympathischen Affekte sind die Vermittler. Ohne den Gedanken einer gewissen Solidarität ist keine Befriedigung, keine Versöhnung möglich. (ego: Das ist halb und halb Redensart; kein Mensch kann das Schicksal der Menschheit ganz empfinden, es ist ein sehr vages Übergreifen aus dem Individuellen ins Allgemeine, welches hier Versöhnung bringt. Ein stärkeres würde das Individuum ganz niederwerfen. Die Engigkeit von Kopf und Herz macht das Dasein erträglich!) Selbstsüchtige Isolirung ist Entartung des Menschlichen. Der furchtbarste Peiniger ist der Gedanke der Verlassenheit und des Preisgegebenseins. Die Menschen machen sich im Glauben an die bessere menschliche Natur gegenseitig irre, aus Eitelkeit, aus dem Kitzel, sich besonders verschlagen und unnatürlich zu zeigen. Es ist nur ein Schein, wenn der Egoismus als herrschende Regel des menschlichen Verkehrs gilt. (Hier fällt Dühring in's Kindische. Ich wollte, er machte mir hier nichts vor! Eigentlich hört hier jede Verständigung auf: glaubt er ernsthaft an seinen Satz, so darf er für alle Socialismen von Herzen hoffen)."
[83] Marx, Karl. The German Ideology. Translated by C.P. Magill. Collected Works, Volume 5: 1845-1847. (International Publishers. New York, NY: 1975). Pg. 247.
[84] Marx, Karl. Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. Translated by Jack Cohen. Collected Works, Volume 3: 1843-1844. (International Publishers. New York, NY: 2005). Pg. 295.
[85] Engels, Anti–Dühring. Pg. 286.
Igor Stramignoni's "Book Review: Anti-Nietzsche" (London School of Economics)
C. Derick Varn's "Review: Anti-Nietzsche" (The Loyal Opposition to Modernity)
Costica Bradatan's "Anti-Nietzsche" (Times Higher Education)
Decca Muldowney's "'Reading like a loser' — Costica Bradatan reviews Anti-Nietzsche" (Verso Books)
David Winter's "Reading Like a Loser" (The New Inquiry)
Keith Ansell-Pearson's "The Future is Subhuman" (Radical Philosophy)


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There's a push for more gender diversity in Asia at the higher rungs of the corporate level. What is needed for more women to rise to the top?
A worldwide study found that only 3% to 4% of those sitting at the CEO level are women. It's a startlingly low percentage, considering the constant push for greater gender diversity.
As a director myself and a champion of female leadership, I do not deny that women in leadership roles have had to work hard to fight against the status quo. It's no surprise that we would have to work even harder to break into – let alone shine in –predominantly-male industries like technology and finance.
This is evidenced by the recent employment information released separately by Yahoo! and Google; at 37% and 30% respectively, the employment rates for women remain incredibly low. In the finance sector, the percentage of female leaders is even lower – the figure stands at 13% at Morgan Stanley, 18% at JP Morgan Chase, and 15% at Goldman Sachs Group.
That's not to say it's pointless for women to pursue big career ambitions. On the contrary, the above statistics work to give impetus to our pursuit of empowerment and recognition, driving us to further assert ourselves in the workforce. Just take a look at some of women in leadership roles from world's most powerful companies:
- Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
- Janet Yellen, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo!
- Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook
- Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube
- Meg Whitman, Chairman, President and CEO of Hewlett-Packard
- Inga Beale, CEO of Lloyd's
I came across another study that I believe will encourage more women to strive for leadership roles within a job they love. Termed "The DNA of Women Leaders", this year-long study – conducted by Caliper, a Princeton-based management consulting firm, and Aurora, a London-based women-only leadership development organisation – profiled more than 60 women leaders from major global companies including Morgan Stanley, Deloitte & Touche, Deutsche Bank, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and Ernst & Young. Their profiles were then matched to those of men in similar job titles.
Based on the findings, women in leadership roles tend to have an inclusive style of leadership when it comes to solving and making decisions, which stems from their openness to listening and sharing information. Women leaders are also quicker and more willing to learn from adversity, take risks, as well as embrace challenges. From these findings, the study suggests that the combination of women's inherent traits is forming a new paradigm of leadership – one that could only bode well for our future.
I would like to end with a quote from the illustrious Hillary Clinton, whose fight for female leadership never fails to inspire millions of women around the world:
"Too many young women I think are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant. They are too often selling themselves short. They too often take criticism personally instead of seriously. You should take criticism seriously because you might learn something, but you can't let it crush you. You have to be resilient enough to keep moving forward, whatever the personal setbacks and even insults that come your way might be. That takes a sense of humour about yourself and others. Believe me, this is hard-won advice I'm putting forth. It's not like you wake up and understand this. It's a process." – Excerpt from Hillary Clinton's speech at Tina Brown's Women in the World Summit 2014.
Remember, the job you love can take you to the top of your career regardless of gender.
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The ultimate chameleon Madonna has released her new fragrance Truth or Dare exclusively in Selfridges and I was lucky to have a little sample to test out. The first thing that really drew me in is the amazing bottle designed by Fabien Baron. I love the creamy white porcelain effect against the angular shape and beading detail. It really stands out on the shelf and would look beautiful on any glamorous dressing table.
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It's an awful dreary day here in Ontario, so what better warm bellied comfort food than sloppy joes? In all honesty, it's likely been around 18 years since I've had them but I have to say that these were pretty exceptional.
I often receive cans of baked beans in tomato sauce from the local food bank, so that was my inspiration for this dish. We ate them up too fast for a photo op.
(serves 4)
1 can beans in tomato sauce
1 small onion chopped
2 tbsp olive oil
1 package yves veggie ground round
3 tbsp smoky barbecue sauce
garlic margarine
hamburger buns
Prepare the buns by spreading some garlic margarine on the open face of each half.
Start frying the onions in a bit of olive oil until they're translucent. Add in the yves veggie ground round and saute until well heated.
Stick the buns in the oven on low (no higher than 200!) for a few minutes just to lightly toast them.
Add the can of beans in tomato sauce and stir thoroughly. Mix in some smoky barbecue sauce for extra flavor.
Scoop the bean mixture on top of the garlicky buns and enjoy!
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Personally I think Alex McLeish has out done himself in his after match interview today.
We've all experienced the gems like 'I know Gabby is not a winger' and 'I play four strikers' this season, and no doubt there will be a slightly more sensible after match ramble on the official site later, but some of you are going to love this.
Speaking to Sky Sports McLeish said:
'I'm not disappointed from the view of the young players. They gave everything.'
Fine so far isn't it…
'United are a world class side and we've got a lot of young players out there that haven't played half a reserve season before now.'
Erm hold on just one second.
'…a lot of young players that haven't played half a reserve season…'
Shall we look at that? I really don't want to because I know what the answer will be, but sometimes I suppose you have to force yourself.
We started with:
Baker, Lichaj, Clark, Bannan, Weimann and subbed in Carruthers.
For fairness I suppose I should mention we also had Johnson and Delfouneso on the bench, of which, Johnson has not yet made his first team debut.
Let's look at that claim again, 'haven't played half a reserve season'.
So go overkill, let's go back to 2010, specifically January 23rd when we played Brighton in the FA Cup.
Who do we find in the first team, Delfouneso starts the game and we know that season he was a regular in the second string at that point and we also find that Clark got on the pitch again from the substitute bench.
I'm pretty sure Clark was a regular in the second string that season because he was the sodding captain!
So that's two players down.
So let's look at the continuation of the reserve season in 2010.
Now I can't find the stats for the Chelsea match, but the prematch article on Feb 1st lists the team as being:
Bevan, Lichaj, Clark, Davies, Bouma, Roome, Hogg, Collins, Weimann, Delfouneso, Hofbauer.
Subs – Carruthers, Roberts, Williams, Simmonds.
Now lets' jump forward a few days to the stats for the Wolves game on Feb 16th.
We again see Clark and Weimann in the starting line up, and Carruthers on the bench.
Now clearly Clark, Lichaj, Delboy and Weimann are regulars at that point. We all know this, I don't have to prove it.
Now if anybody is wondering why Baker is missing, this is because by now he'd already gone on loan until the end of the season with Lincoln – Lichaj also spent a spell at Lincoln alongside him that season.
Carruthers meanwhile, in the 2010/11 season, was in his second year of his Academy Scholarship, making I believe 11 appearances for the second string (not including the games he remained on the bench).
So it's a bit of a stretch to even say Carruthers hasn't 'played half a reserve season'.
Leaving firstly, just Bannan, who if memory serves was on loan at Blackpool that season. But it doesn't matter much because Bannan was turning out for the second string in the 2007/08 season and then secondly Johnson.
Now we knew about Johnson as he caught Houllier's eye last season and made the bench, but that season he also made 13 appearances for the second string, so just like Carruthers, you can't even stretch the claim to him.
So ultimately what can we deduce from this…Alex has Ecked up again. The press might fall for it, other fans might fall for it…but anybody with half a knowledge of the youngsters coming through can see right through it.
Had Eck chosen to say this a few months ago, maybe at the start of the season, maybe he'd have been close because of Carruthers and Johnson and maybe I'd have let it go. But in April 2012 having gone back to January of 2010 and looked at our reserve match stats seeing all those players involved…not a chance.
Must try harder really should be his catchphrase and it's a shame really, because the interview started so well.
Just for completion, he also rambled:
'We've got three cup finals now at home and one away at West Brom and the players have to bare their teeth. If we play as we did in the last couple of home games we've got a chance. I'd like to get six points, at United today we always believed we could get something, as we believe at any club, but it was a bridge too far for us.'
Just like those other clubs where McLeish also said we shouldn't expect anything from.
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NetStorage Single Sign-On Servlet for iChain
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Modified source to work with NetWare 6.5, recompiled class file for a JVM 1.4.x environment, and greatly enhanced the documentation.
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The original servlet and its source code were publicly provided several years ago by Novell IS&T with the caveat that it would not be supported by Novell. So, I have updated the source code to reflect the changed path to the NetStorage application in a NetWare 6.5 OS environment running Tomcat 4.1 (as opposed to its original design for NetWare 6.0 and Tomcat 3.3).
Additionally, the class files have been recompiled so that they are ready for use on JVM 1.4.x, either on NetWare 6.0 (if so upgraded) or NetWare 6.5 (native to the OS).
Last but not least, the included documentation has been cleaned-up and greatly enhanced;
Specifically, detailed steps to getting NetWare 6.5's NetStorage single sign-on working through iChain have been added -- showing steps in the iChain web-based management utility, Apache 2.0 and Tomcat 4.1 configuration, and tweaks to the NetStorage application itself.
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Another fall collection that I have to share with you, this tome inspirational pics from Jimmy Schonning. Love the gray/ black cushion covers and table cloths with numbers and the use of natural materials such as linen and wood. Looks very moody Scandinavian.