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The wait is over, no more days till the start of Premier League football! Let's start to build the betting bankroll with 3 bankerbets.Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd all to win, 3-folds accumulator pays... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Mecca Cosmetica is offering the chance to win a Philosophy body and skin care prize pack, valued at more than $1,000. To enter in 25 words or less answer: What is your beauty philosophy and why? Plus there is a bonus, every entrant can try Philosophy straight away, just email your full [...]

Artwork celebrating some of the nation’s favourite television programmes was unveiled today - with the exhibits made entirely from food. Artist Prudence Emma Staite has swapped oils and pastels for sausages and tomatoes to create the TV Dinners display, which includes a depiction of presenter Anne Robinson made entirely from cakes and biscuits, and a life-sized [...]

Even though the Resort collections are becoming more and more important, they don't seem to have the directional importance that greatly infleunce trends. But the clothes are usually also a lot more practical and relateable. So this year I actually looked through most of the collection on style.com and picked out my favourite outfits: 3.1 Phillip LimAs usual, his collection is very loveable. Most

The star studded Portugal team suffered a defeat in the quarter finals to become the first team to be eliminated from the quarter final stage.Coming back after a one-match suspension, Schweinsteiger had a goal and two assists to send Germany into the semifinals of the European Championships with a 3-2 victory over Portugal on Thursday.“I think we won against the best team here,” Schweinsteiger

  Wimbledon 2008 starts on 23 June 2008 and there are as usual some big names, some up and coming stars and some established favourites who are on form or have been saving themselves for this coveted title. Its the BIG ONE! Maria Sharapova photo by juletns Wimbledon, is the oldest major championship in tennis and is regarded [...]

EURO 2008 Group B Game 11 - Croatia vs GermanyScore - Croatia [2 : 1] GermanyMatch Summary: Dark horses Croatia sent out a message of intent to the other Euro 2008 finalists tonight as they stunned highly-fancied Germany to take a huge stride towards a quarter-final spot.

Texans love for cattle is obvious by the several ranch and related sculptures installed all over the metroplexOne thing I must say about Texas and the state's cowboys and cowgirls is their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Uncle Bill's char siu is regarded as one of the best in Klang Valley, and I suspect amongst the top ten in Malaysia. I don't mean to sound too patronizing and all, but his char siu, really does almost melts in your mouth....This is a good sign that says, my Char Siu is good. It is so good, most people who come here, must order a plate of them, and some like me, usually ta pau some for our family

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (or ET for short) is a FPS (First Person Shooter) game, native for Linux, which borrows concepts from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and uses the Quake 3 engine. The idea initially was to develop it as a new commercial RtCW mod, but, ultimately, it was released as a free standalone, multiplayer game, after the developers abandoned the development of the single player pa

Euro 2008 starts on Saturday and England will not be taking part, But thanks to a very strong under 19’s squad, England will be in a European competition and are favourites to win the European under 19’s Championship. Today England finished their last Elite Round game against Belarus with the result being a 0-0 draw, keeping [...]

Debussy: Clair de Lune and another Piano Favourites (Audio CD)By Claude Debussy Buy new: $10.9821 utilised and new from $7.40 Customer Rating: First tagged “piano” by G. histrion “#1SkinsFan” Customer tags: classical [...]

Times Now in its show on Indian Premier League, aptly titled as "The Summer Slam", called Chennai Super Kings as the pre-tournament Favourites. It was good to hear that from a third party, which do not have any affiliation or affection for Chennai Super Kings. 79% of voters in the poll on this blog seem to agree with this view. But it set me up thinking... Are we really the strongest team on paper? What do you think about it? Post your views on comments section...

Spring Flowers Favourites...currently doing their thing in my back garden I might have said this once or twice before , but Spring is most definitely my favourite time of the year, The green of the tree buds, is so fresh and full of promise and the flowers are definitely grin material after the dull winter.I have a patch of Wood Sorrel in a wooden planter, that I made some years ago, it sits in a shady damp part of my back garden , but the lime green leaves and the white flowers certainly brighten this area up. One of my beds tends to be a bit damper and slightly woodlandy in feel, this is were the Snakes Head Fritillary lives. It is so different from anything else this time of year and such and interesting colour. Over in another bed that tends to get more sun the Grape Hyacinth flourishe

With thanks to our friends at The Soap Show, you might like to listen to this BBC radio podcast of some Coronation Street favourite actors talking about their lives before Corrie when they were radio stars.Radio Roots takes four actors, including Violet Carson (Ena Sharples) and Bill Waddington (Percy Sugden), and plays clips of their early radio appearances. It's well worth a listen to and it's right here.

Everton manager David Moyes has heaped pressure on local rivals Liverpool by insisting that the Anfield team should be able to clinch the fourth spot in the Premier league. Everton are currently three points ahead of Liverpool with the Reds having a game in hand. But it is Everton that have had the better run of [...]

BARCELONA, Spain - Ferrari and McLaren remained the favourites for the 2008 Formula One world championship after winter testing wrapped up Wednesday.Both teams stuck to individual programs on the final day of off-season practice, allowing Toyota driver Jarno Trulli to set the fastest time of one minute 20.801 seconds at the 2.89-mile Circuit de Catalunya track.Lewis Hamilton, who topped testing Monday and Tuesday, finished 10th in 1:22.011, while teammate Heikki Kovalainen was fourth fastest in 1:21.309.Defending champion Kimi Raikkonen focused on race simulation to finish ninth in a fastest time of 1:21.933, and teammate Felipe Massa clocked 1:22.286.Massa knows which team will push Ferrari in its defence of the constructors' championship."If I have to point to the most dangerous team for

There has already been countless posts about the Char Siu at this restaurant. Situated in Sunway Mas, it seems like whoever been to this restaurant, they will rave about their char siu. " Got or not ah ? " , "Got Meh ?", " Sure or not ?", thats the initial reaction when I read all those posts. So I told myself one day I have to go try this place out and I did, so here's my story....I had an appointment with the Jewelery Designer (Wendy), whom also has an office in the vicinity. Whoa.. isn't that the place where the char siu restaurant is at...I sheepishly set the appointment at 1pm during lunch time, so that I could go over to try some char siu.Our discussion finished at about 230pm and I proceeded to the restaurant. There was only a handful of customers left in the restaurant, as the lunch crowd has already dispersed. I sat down, and ordered Hakka Mee, and Char Siu (asked for lean meat). Uncle Bill came and said , its late already, only heads and tails left, he said. B

"My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." - Pablo Picasso "'the doer' is merely a fiction added to the deed " the deed is everything." - Friedrich Nietzsche "In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity." - Camille Paglia "Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything." - Samuel Johnson "There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play." - Brian Moore (Irish novelist, 1921-...) "Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves." - Martin Luthe

I know all products have a shelf life... the general rule of thumb for those that don't have a use-by date is to have them finished off or thrown out within three years of leaving the factory. But three years is a pretty long time, right? And I honestly don't understand how powder-based products like eyeshadow and a powder blush can really go 'off' and it's these ones that I'm guilty of holding on to. For about 18 months now I've been thoroughly enjoying a gel stick blush. Recently though, I've been compelled to start enjoying the full depth of my makeup bag, browsing through the assorted goodies I keep, and it was here that I rediscovered Mac's 'blushbaby' powder blush. I have no idea why I discarded this to the depths of my makeup bag... it's just the most beautiful colour -

Two of my favourite players at the moment are Lionel Messi and Juan Roman Riquelme. Today they combined for a goal in Argentina's World Cup qualifying match against Colombia. Unfortunately it was to no avail as the previously undefeated Argentinians went down 2-1 in Bogota. Messi does most of the work but Riquelme sets him on his way. Also enjoy the commentary of the obviously Argentinian commentator as he constantly repeats "me gusta" or " I like" as Messi weaves his magic yet again.

Riot In Belgium - La MusiqueThree of my favourite dance tracks today! The first one is La Musique by Australian duo Riot In Belgium. It's an amazing electro track, which is even better than their other masterpiece, called The Acid Never Lies!With its combination of uptempo beats, catchy vocals and great retro synths, David by Gus Gus is a fantastic track waiting to be explored:Gus Gus - DavidToday's last song is German techno track Stadtkind made by BPitch Control boss Ellen Allien:Ellen Allien - StadtkindIt's a great track to wake up to after a long night out in the city!

For BlueJar’s “How to” Group writing project, there were quite a number of posts in the contest. I haven’t been able to read all of them when they were first posted due to other commitments However, I have to vote my 3 favourite posts, so here they are. Contains Zero Trans Fat - Truth or Creative Advertising? by JoLynn Braley How to Guide: Increasing Your Sphere of Influence by Steve Belt How to Track New RSS Subscribers Google Analytics in 3 Easy Steps byRhys Here are the others who also deserved to be mentioned. Top 5 ways to romance your blog by Phil Van Treuren Public Speaking Made Easy by Cedric Enter a How-To Contest for Cash by Matt Gibbs How To Promote Yourself (When You Don’t Want To.) by Dee How to create a post in Wordpress by Roberta Ferguson How to Successfully Switch Your WordPress Theme Without Throwing Your Computer Through the Window by Steven Snell How To Nail That Job Interview In The First Thirty Seconds by Martin Stoddart How to speed up

These are my favourites of Miroike's aw 07/08 collection. You should definitely take a closer look at their current shoe collection ♥Their spring 08 collection isn't bad either. modabot was at their presentation at beck's fashion (horrible website, sorry!) experience temporary store during Berlin Fashion Week. You can view all pictures here.MORE

_____________copy below all the way down____________IF YOU WANT A HIGHER TECHNORATI RATING - TELL ME! GET ON BOARD! It’s easy and worth it. If you want to move up in Technorati there are 2 ways to get there: gaining massive amounts of links to you from other blogs, or getting the most favourites. One thing you can do is get lots of favourites who favourite you in return! Before you start you may want to grab this supercool autofave program from Eng Tech.All the people who have favourited you, this automatically favourites them in return. No more excuses for not returning the favour!Automatic Technorati Fave program the coolest program ever! Finds fans that have favorited you and automatically favorites them!grab the program here [2.4MB]._______________________________________________(Reword the following paragraph a little. The Maurica link should be changed to link to who you got this from {me}. Move the 4 new faves (one is you) to old faves below Gary Lee. Add 3-4 new people to new

Below are 5 of my favourites from the award winners for Baltimore's Golden Demon Awards 2007 on 23 June 2007.Winner of BOTH the Slayer Sword and Warhammer 40,000 Single Miniature - Natalya Melnik's Dark Angels Company Master. Natalya also won awards in the Warhammer 40,000 Squad and Warhammer Single Miniature and The Lord of The Rings Group or Large categories.© Natalya MelnikSteve Fields's Offal, Lord of Plagues, was awarded Gold for Staff Large Model category. A very unique looking Great Unclean One with Greek provocator-style gladiator armour.© Steve FieldsAndrew Wylie's Centaur Artillery Tractor named Forgeworld's Best of Show, is very impressive with the rusted, about-to-fall-to-bits look.© Andrew WylieScott Bowser's Harlequins is also a favourite because I love the new Harlequins miniatures especially the Solitaire and Shadowseer ones.©Scott BowserBeastlord and Retinue by Bennett Blalock-Doane, Gold winner of the Warhammer Regiment Category, is one of th

Games Workshop posted the results and photos of the annual Games Workshop miniatures modelling and painting contest known as Golden Demon at Games Day Altanta in Apr 2007. Below are some of my favourites in random order.Death Korps of Krieg Infantry Squad (Forge World Best of Show) - Marc Raley © Marc RaleyI've been a fan of the gas-mask wearing Imperial Guard troops like the Death Korps and the similiar-looking Steel Legion after seeing Adrian Smith's illustration of the clash between the Steel Legion and Orks during the battle for Armageddon (see below).© Adrian SmithNight Lords Daemon Prince (Silver Award, Warhammer 40,000 Large Model or Vehicle Category) - Greg Smalling© Greg SmallingI seldom like models with painted faces because I find that few models and miniatures can get the face and eyes to look realistic like this magnificent model of a Night Lords Daemon Prince. BTW, he does look like Death Knight Arthas from Warcraft 3, no?Ragnar Gutsnagga, Orc Warboss on

LLEYTON Hewitt’s timely resurgence has saved him from a potential first-week clash with either Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal at the French Open starting on Sunday. Until turning his season around with a surprise run to the Hamburg Masters semi-finals, Hewitt had been facing the prospect of meeting Federer or Nadal as early as the third round in Paris. In his biggest rankings rise in three years, Hewitt has climbed five spots to No.16 in the more…

I did not try any of the methods to boost my traffic and technorati rankings.But i want to give a try how does it work?Many of the bloggers are talking that it will boost an authority in search engine and PR ranking.Hope it will attract advertisers and blog readers.If you want higher ranking and traffic then you have to join dosh dosh's technorati exchange.Join in technorati favourites exchange in two ways:-First method:-Add me to your technorati favourites exchange and comment on my blog so that i can know where to go.After that i will add you to my technorati exchange.Second Method:-Write a brief post about technorati exchange like this and link my blog.And please let me know so that i can add you to my list.Earn-OnlineMoneyDosh DoshWebnuniLearn Domain ParkingQuartzmtnwebtools-desinet1The Thinking BlogTechie-BuzzBlogtologyAnja merretTechcheeTutorial vine

Just when you were thinking that the work is all over, here comes another variant of the favourites scheme. This one seems a little simpler at first sight, if that’s any relief! OK, the steps: Signup at MyBlogLog, if you haven’t done so already. Recommended anyway as that lets you add things like the “recent readers” widget that you see on this site. Join my community by clicking here, then “join community”. Write a comment here to let me know you’ve done it. I will in turn join your community ASAP. If I’ve not done that within two days, post a reminder as a comment to this post. Those offering community exchanges at present:   Tech Lock-Rahul Technix Update Techno Diary Foreign Perspectives

One of the blog marketing sites, DoshDosh recently suggested that it may be possible to get into the top 100 favourites on Technorati relatively easily. Whilst we’ve all been beavering away in building up links back to our blogs, it will take a “while” to get to the top 100 linked to blogs as number 100 is currently sitting at over 3000 links. On the other hand, it would only require just over 100 people to favorite us to get into the top 100 favorited blogs which certainly seems in the realms of possibility. Why bother though? Well, being in a top 100 list of anything is almost certain to increase the traffic on the blog and indeed quite likely to increase the number of blogs linking to us for that matter. Anyway, if you’re interested in exchanging favourites in this way you can start the ball rolling by clicking and letting me know that you’ve done it in a comment to this post (quote your Technorati username so I can confirm the link). A link back in a

Today is Red Nose Day! My favourite charity event! Any excuse, really to dress up, act silly, have fun for charity, I'm up for it! Here's how Boy and I started the day in our stylin' red nose and Walk-ears - nice, huh? :) It's for a good cause, if you're able - please give generously! For more information about Red Nose Day as well as how to donate, please visit this website! I get weepy every year when they send celebrities off to visit poor communities in Africa, and this year was no exception. I had to hide behind Jean-Baptiste so Elliot wouldn't see me crying when Ant and Dec visited the HIV-orphans, I'm such a sap. Sorry this was a bit delayed today, but please sign the Mr Linky and leave a comment if you're playing along this week. Thank you so much!

I almost forgot it was Friday and nearly missed posting Friday Favourites! Just a reminder, anyone can play along and write about a current favourite (absolutely anything, book, movie, song, quote, blog, person, place, memory, a single moment - ANYTHING) but please sign the Mr Linky and let us all know :) Today - my favourite new purchases that arrived this week. My laptop and the new treadmill! I'm in love with both. The laptop is especially helpful, as it lets me be downstairs where all of Elliot's toys are kept, and not have to coop Elliot upstairs in our non-child-friendly computer room. I can check my email and know that Elliot is safe and happy. And surprisingly, I spend LESS time on the internet, since the laptop graced our home, so even better! N looked around for ages for my laptop, and we almost bought one before Christmas, but I'm glad we waited. Not that I know a single thing about computers, but apparently this one's a lot better than the one we were looking at (more

Just two weeks before the opening Formula One race of the season, Alonso revealed that his McLaren team have fallen behind their Italian rivals.And he predicted the legendary Italian team would be pacesetters for the opening round in Melbourne on March 18.Behind them will be a tight fourway dogfight between his McLaren team, Renault, Williams and BMW."Ferrari is a little bit ahead of everybody and doing really quick and consistent times," said the Spaniard. "The other four will be very close on lap times."Close scrutiny of Ferrari by the canny Alonso has revealed some good news - Michael Schumacher's successor at Maranello, Flying Finn Kimi Raikkonen, will not get the same priority treatment.Team-mate Felipe Massa topped the most recent tests and has been given equal status."Everybody thought that Kimi was coming to Ferrari as number one and now they realise that Felipe is very quick as well," said Alonso."It's not a surprise for me. Either of them can win."www.followkimi.blogspot.co

I think there's something in the air, or at least people everywhere have been struck with wedding fever because every where I turn, someone's getting married or having an anniversary or just writing about their weddings. I had this post written out in my head for over a week, since I wrote this, and people asked to see my 'fat wedding photos.' Here we go...I was 18 when I got married. Was it too young? Probably. Do I regret it? Not at all. I had fun planning my wedding, I've been blessed with a great marriage, a beautiful son. Here are my favourite memories...THE DRESSWhen I was back in America, after N and I were engaged, I was at work (a fast food restaurant, classy) and flicking through one of the million wedding magazines I had to have, eyeing up all those hugely expensive, lavish wedding gowns and cursing my bad luck that I wasn't born into family with MONEY. I let out a big sigh and told myself silently that I would find a perfect dress for less money somehow, and that I'd

The perfect cuppa London is a city of choices, a town where options abound, where diversity is defined and the cutting-edge celebrated. But sometimes, you just want a good cheese sandwich. Here's our guide to finding the best of London's basic treats Cup of (builders’) tea Italian Bar Bruno in Soho does a great mug of builders’ tea, but your best bet is to head to one of the 13 remaining green cabby shelters where the tea walks the tightrope between ‘strong’ and ‘stewed’ and can usually be accompanied by a decent bacon sarnie. You have to be brave to face the banter (and shouldn’t linger if a cabby wants your place), but the rewards are plentiful. Bar Bruno, 101 Wardour St, WC1 (020 7734 3750).   Related EntriesWhat could this mean? Barclaycard displays wave-and-pay in cab LTI TX4 London Alice remake to feature OC star

Slotland.com Survey Shows 'Lucky Stars' Most Popular Online Slot Machine in America, Britain, Europe & AustraliaA recent player survey at Slotland.com shows that online slot machine players may have regional preferences, but they also have universal favourites. While some games are more popular in America and others in Europe or Asia or Australia, one in particular is a favourite with players around the world. “Lucky Stars” is Slotland.com’s most popular mobile game with customers everywhere.“Sometimes it’s hard to understand why people are attracted to one game over another,” said Hannah Morante at Slotland.com. “Lucky Stars isn’t our only multi-line slot, and all of our games are tied into the same progressive jackpots – even the mobile games. So that’s not why it’s so universally popular. I guess people just think the little space man is cute!”Analysts may not always know why people choose one game over another, but there are a few things that can be quanti

These are just some random favourite songs of mine, that I have liked in the past (usually less than a year ago). They're not brand new, but they're not too old, and I still really love these songs."TEMPER TEMPER" - ENVY ON THE COASTThis is one of my favourite songs of all time. It is rock with a pop-ish edge. Most people would like this song, it was in my head for over a month when I first got it. Now it's my phone ringtone. LOL"A DAY LATE" - ANBERLINThis is a freaking awesome band, and a freaking awesome song. But I have to say at first I thought the singer sounded like Cher. HAHA, but its a damn good alternative rock song."THIS IS THE END (FOR YOU MY FRIEND)" - ANTI-FLAGQuite a recent song from the super cool, anti-political, punk rock band Anti-Flag. They rock live, believe me, and this is probably their best song."LIAR (IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE)" - TAKING BACK SUNDAY"MAKEDAMNSURE" - TAKING BACK SUNDAYTwo of my favourite songs from Taking Back Sunday, the greatest band ever. The

As promised, my new weekly feature! Just to remind you, if you want to play along I'd love the company, just write about a current favourite and then comment on this. If there's even just one person playing I'll use a Mr Linky but so far, I sadly think it'll be just me. That's OK... This week, we have my favourite muffin recipes! Isn't it exciting? :) And don't they look marvellous? I love muffins! They're so easy to make, and also quite tasty. And I give you sweet as well as savoury! Ham and cheese muffins ala Tana Ramsay's cookbook (I can't remember what it's called) 300g/10 1/2 oz self-raising flour1/2 tsp mustard powder1/2 tsp paprika75g/3oz butter6 slices honey roast ham, chopped into 1cm pieces185g/6 1/2 oz grated mature cheddar cheese1 egg, beaten250ml/9fl oz milk6tbsp grated parmesan 1. Preheat oven to 190C/375F/Gas mark 52. Lightly grease a 12-hole muffin tin (or use muffin cases!)3. Sieve the flour, mustard powder and paprika in large bowl. Rub in the butter

Reverse psychology or is Gary Megson just stating how he sees it? Bolton managed to clamber above Birmingham in the Premier League last weekend, yet the Wanderers gaffer is making the Blues favourites to stay up at the expense of his team or Reading. According to ITV, Megson thinks that City ...

Reports have emerged suggesting that Tottenham are now the club most likely to procure David Bentley from Blackburn…I think not! Spurs boss Juande Ramos is determined to win the race to sign England’s emerging star David Bentley, who is ready to quit Blackburn in the summer, and the north London side are apparently favourites to [...]