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THE HISTORY OF THE MotoGP™ FEATURED IN VALENTINO ROSSI THE GAME
After the announcement of: Flat Track with the MotorRanch of Valentino Rossi, Drift and Yamaha R1M on Misano and the trailer to Monza Rally, we come to the MotoGP™ moment. Tons of Riders, Tracks, Bikes and Liveries that will blow the gamers' mind and will satisfy the most passionate MotoGP™ connoisseurs. For a game that claims to be the most complete MotoGP game ever made, Milestone needs to feature the history of this motorsport discipline.
Therefore, we have included the 500cc, 250cc and the 125cc bikes, more aggressive with with less electronics that have made the history of the past 20 years. But it wouldn't' be an authentic jump into the past without adding 5 of the most iconic tracks for the fans from this era. It will be possible to race and experience Assen (year 2002) or relive Phakisa Freeway (year 2004). Moreover, because the 2015 season has been one of the most exciting ever, that saw the Spanish rider Jorge Lorenzo take the title of World Champion, all the 2015 MotoGP riders have been included. All this means that will be finally possible to revisit all MotoGP™ history, getting on the most beloved bikes, challenging the nowadays champions and the ones from the past, without forgetting Valentino Rossi himself!


Here's another Monthly Moments video! I had a lot of editing this one…it sort of got choppy in the end, but for the most part, I really like it. These aren't, by any means, fancy, but I enjoy filming/editing these tiny recaps of my months.
The two key things that happen in every video…1. Cats! Marco and Eve have appeared in every video so far and 2. A clip of my niece! XD I found that funny. I loved the clip of Matt and I laughing…I was trying to take a photo, but it ended up being a tiny clip instead, which was a fantastic moment to capture. I wish I had recorded more of my time in Austin, but it was just easy to enjoy my time with my sisters and not really focus on pulling out my phone. But I hope to do better at documenting my trips…hopefully.
Do you remember to take photos of everything you see during a trip, or do you just try to snap photos every now and then?
Vera Rose Robertson turns 1 today! My adorable, hilarious, and beautiful niece turns 1! She turned 1, I cannot believe she's 1! Ok, I've said 1 enough.
We celebrated her birthday on Sunday, I didn't take any pictures on my cell, I was in charge of using the big camera so all the proof…including a video of her vomiting after trying icing. Not full on barf, but she was definitely gagging after trying it. She's never had sugar before so I guess it was too sweet for her. I felt bad, because I was the one who put the icing on her lips. >.< Sorry Vera. Her party was Moana themed! I love this movie so much, I'm constantly singing the songs, can't get enough of the soundtrack. Vera only perks up during the songs, she doesn't seem to pay attention to the rest of the movie.
She's grown so fast and I can't believe what a funny little person she's morphing into and I can't wait to see how her personality develops as she continues to grow. I love her so much!
Here's to you my little Vera Rose <3.
When you're old enough, you're getting a dinosaur party at the museum and tons of summers away for Science Camp!
There are a ton of things that make me happy. Today I'd like to mention something that really brings a smile to my face. Stationery!!!
I recently just purchased a ZenPop box from Japan. I haven't received it yet but I cannot wait to get it! They give you plenty of peeks into the items you are getting which I am a huge fan of. I like knowing what I'm getting, but having a few surprises is nice too.
They have different themes each month, I purchased the Animal Friends pack? They are including kitty washi tape so I was sold! I also chose this box because it wasn't something you actually had to subscribe to. You purchase them monthly. I don't like having to remember to unsub because some monthly sub boxes aren't always a hit. I'm sure it's hard when it comes to putting one together and figuring out what to put in it and whatnot but I guess it depends on the type. A stationery box is perfect for me, a book one, where the book is kept hidden…not so much.
And ZenPop isn't simply a stationery it's a Japanese stationery box! Another reason why I just signed up for this month's box. There's a Sailor Moon pen included and I just had to say yes. This box includes 12 items! And the price is $29.50 FREE shipping! Not too expensive, but not too cheap either. And for exciting news! ZenPop has decided to do a giveaway where you could win one of their past boxes and I would love to win! But I also have a feeling I will be a repeat customer of future boxes. If you're a stationery addict, then I think this is the box for you.
There's also a food, and beauty box too, so if you're not into stationery perhaps those interest you more? I have a list of online sub boxes that I want to try out, so I'll probably update about that more later. What kind of sub box are you more interested in?
Here's the second video in my Monthly Moments series. April went by fast and now here we are in May…busy May .
I have quite a lot of things happening this month, work things and non-work things. Things I'm sort of dreading and things I'm excited for, so it makes the things I don't really want to do more bearable. Positive vibes here!!
Here's a list of things happening in May!
5.14.17 – Celebrate Mother's Day!!!
5.26.17 – 5.29.17 : Austin Trip with sisters! + Kat's Birthday!!!
I think that's all of it. I may add or cross things off this list as time goes on, but for now….busy, busy, month.


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All people participating will receive a Mysterious tonic Razz.
I feel a bit stupid for asking, but since you intend to change the cape, should it have a pirate theme, or it doesn't really matter?
Doesn't really matter, just choose a cape you think looks nice from the Guild Emblemer and add it here ;D.
No more Designs please, just the voting for now .
Time to Vote on the 3 Finalists Capes, this time there is one vote per person, again if your cape is there your not aloud to vote on it.
GL Sofie, Noob and E.
Am afraid, your kinda late in entering, and on the cheape thing just ignore him he can be a right numpty sometimes .
My designs are betterer than those, i demand a revote !


If you are wondering why a seaside town has only two pubs listed it is because the name is spelled Morecambe, not Morecombe.
Decent boozer slightly spoilt by the huge pile of vomit in the mens toilets. The landlord himself cleared it up though, so fair play!


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Psychic Traveller EP by Psibindi & Mechanimal
Nick Sagar-House & Junior Oliveira
Mechanimal is a fusion of full on groovy beats, fat funky bass lines and twisted melodic journeys. With increased support from artists and dj's such as Coretech - Mutagen Records, DJ Kristian - Transient Records, DJ Heaven, Dj Hatta - Grasshopper Records and Dj Kastah - Bionics Records they are ready to rock dancefloors with their new sound.
The members, Nick & Junior, began their musical journey when they met in London in 2008 where they realised their potential to bring something exciting to the scene. With their shared love for music and different experience, skills & background in the music industry, it formed a powerful collaboration. They played their first live in October 2009 and have been Performing around London, Europe and Brasil since.
Junior started his music journey when he was 16, playing guitar in a rock band back in Brasil. When he was 18 he moved to London to study, thats when he discovered psytrance and fell in love with it. Junior has been passionate about psychedelic music for many years and has been promoting some of the biggest parties in the London psy-trance scene including Electribe, Psy Invasion & Moon Drop.
Nick started music at the age of 13 in Paris where he learned to play the bass and guitar. Over the years he participated and performed in numerous bands covering genres from rock, metal, jazz, new age and urban music. He pursued his passion by moving back to London to study a music degree. Shortly after moving to London he was acquired in the dance music scene as a session guitarist in a hard dance performing at venues such as Brixton Academy, KOKO and The Fridge where he was inspired to explore the world of music production.

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'Gone with the Wind' at 75: Scarlett and Rhett Forever
By Karen Valby
We give a damn. We really give a damn. Frankly, movies come and go every weekend, fluttering away from our public consciousness as soon as the credits roll. Not so for Gone with the Wind, whose magnolia-rich scent continues to pervade every aspect of our popular culture 75 years since its release. From book sequels to TV movies and miniseries to divine (and divinely absurd) parodies, Scarlett O'Hara has more than borne out her stubborn promise of tomorrow.
"Gone with the Wind is such a three-dimensional story," explains Steve Wilson, curator of film at the University of Texas's Harry Ransom Center, which organized a lavish GWTW exhibit in September 2014. "You get wrapped up in the whole world, even though it's not a pleasant one all the time. It's about all these issues that affect people—war, hunger, a disconnection from the land, feeling lovelorn—and this woman who would do what she had to do to survive and keep her house and never go hungry again. All that created a world you just don't want to leave when it's over."
The furor for a sequel erupted immediately after the film's triumphant opening. David O. Selznick long pushed Margaret Mitchell, who insisted that she had already left Scarlett and Rhett "to their ultimate fate," to extend the epic, but to no avail. Her death in 1949 seemed to shut the door on a second act, until 1975, when Mitchell's brother, Stephens, authorized a sequel in book and movie form, the latter to be jointly produced by MGM and Universal for $12 million. Anne Edwards, a noted celebrity biographer who'd written books on both Mitchell and Vivien Leigh, was commissioned to write the new novel, which would then be adapted into the screenplay. Her manuscript, a 775-page opus clumsily titled Tara: The Continuation of "Gone with the Wind," was rejected as being not up to snuff.
In 1991, the authorized sequel Scarlett finally made it onto bookshelves. Written by Alexandra Ripley, who was ordered by the Mitchell estate to not include scenes depicting either graphic sex or miscegenation, the book was ravaged by critics—though it did sell 2.2 million copies in hardcover. In 1994, Scarlett was adapted into a reasonably enjoyable television miniseries starring Joanne Whalley and Timothy Dalton. The main takeaway for die-hard fans, though, was the egregiousness of Whalley's brown eyes—an insult to Scarlett's legendary emeralds. (Leigh's blue eyes were made to look green in the film.)
Perhaps looking to wrest back control of the plot, and to regain dignity after Scarlett's critical thrashing, the Mitchell estate sold the rights for another authorized sequel to St. Martin's Press for $4.5 million. The task first went to British novelist Emma Tennant, whose manuscript took such a drubbing from editors that she was fired. The publisher went next to Southern giant Pat Conroy, whose mother had been so obsessed with Mitchell's tale that he once claimed to be "the only person you'll meet who was raised by Scarlett O'Hara."
"I was going to write the autobiography of Rhett Butler and tell the story in the first person. And then, I was going to dedicate it to my mother," Conroy says today. He was reportedly promised $10 million for his services and spent four years trying to bring a sequel to fruition, but soon found himself at an impasse with the Mitchell estate. "I had to sign this document stating that I would not do miscegenation or homosexuality," Conroy recalls. "I said, 'Don't tell me about miscegenation and homosexuality. I'm going to put Rhett Butler in a dress the next time you do it. And I'm going to have Scarlett have a sex-change operation.' I was glad to clear out of it."
During this long, inelegant process, first-time novelist Alice Randall turned Gone with the Wind on its cruel head of white privilege. In the 2001 novel The Wind Done Gone, Randall reimagined the plot from the perspective of a slave born of Scarlett's father and Mammy. The Mitchell estate sued Randall's publisher to block publication but settled. Terms were not disclosed, but Houghton Mifflin continued to include a cover seal identifying the book as "an unauthorized parody." Randall's audacious debut earned mostly positive reviews.
Meanwhile, St. Martin's Press hired historical novelist Donald McCaig, who took on the gamble of turning the gaze away from Scarlett and fleshing out the background of Rhett's story. "Being the arrogant, stupid son of a bitch that I am," he told a reporter, "I thought: I could do that." Published in 2007, the well-enough-received Rhett Butler's People was an instant best-seller. Now McCaig has written a prequel, 2014's Ruth's Journey. It is told from the point of view of Mammy, whose tale begins when she is brought to Atlanta as a child from her birthplace in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). It's a risky undertaking for an old Southern white gentleman to try to breathe life into a slave, but what a relief for Mammy to at least have a name beyond her role at Tara.
The Windies—Gone with the Wind's equivalent of Star Trek's Trekkies—always come out in full force for any event that invigorates the world of Margaret Mitchell. Oftentimes Windies are serious collectors, ponying up enormous sums for anything from production designer Dorothea Holt's original set sketches (average price: $33,000) or one of costume designer Walter Plunkett's ornate Scarlett hats (average price: $56,000). King of pop Michael Jackson may have been something of a Windie himself: In 1999 he purchased Selznick's Best Picture Oscar for a cool $1.5 million.
Then there is James Tumblin, owner of the world's largest privately held Gone with the Wind memorabilia collection. His saga began some six decades ago when the former Universal Studios hair-and-makeup artist spotted a gray dress casually tossed on the floor at a costume house. He picked it up and paid $20 for it (and a rack of other costumes), even before he realized it was the gown Leigh's Scarlett had worn while riding through Shantytown in her carriage. "It's all my mother's fault, or credit, depending upon your point of view," says Tumblin. "She always taught me to be very respectful of other people's property." Today, Tumblin loans out his collection to museums nationwide. Items range from Leigh's Oscar to pieces of Mitchell's correspondence, and Hattie McDaniel's script. "I'm just a lucky fellow who fell into a hobby that has provided me with so much enjoyment via sharing it with others," he says. "I get to sit in the corner of the exhibit and watch smiles. It doesn't get any better than that!"
Windies travel to Gone with the Wind museums across the country on annual pilgrimages. They are subscribers to a newsletter called, delightfully, The Scarlett Letter. Longtime Windie Novella Perrin is a retired university dean and former owner of a Gone with the Wind memorabilia museum in Branson, Mo. She is herself a devoted collector who counts among her prized possessions a pair of pants worn by Clark Gable in the film, which she bought for a little more than $6,000. "I've finally gotten over sleeping with them," she says with a terrific laugh.
Often it is the more lighthearted nods to Gone with the Wind that are the most winning, as in a great I Love Lucy episode in which our daffy heroine is inspired to write a novel about her neighbors the Mertzes called Real Gone with the Wind. Or later, when Lucille Ball cast her comedic eye on Tara yet again on Here's Lucy, with Flip Wilson dressing up as Prissy. After 5 million television viewers tuned in to the network premiere of the movie in 1976, Carol Burnett did a marvelous parody on her variety show called "Went with the Wind," which reimagined some of the movie's most iconic moments. In one scene, Burnett's Starlett greets Harvey Korman's Rat in a curtain dress with the rod still attached. "That-that-that gown is gorgeous!" Rat purrs to her. "Thank you," replies Starlett. "I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist it."
The Muppets would spoof the classic over and over again, from a promotional poster for 1979's The Muppet Movie featuring Kermit and Miss Piggy in period costume with the quote "Frankly, Miss Piggy, I don't give a hoot!" to a duet between Miss Piggy and Dudley Moore, dressed up as Scarlett and Rhett, in 1981's The Muppets Go to the Movies. And a special shout-out to a wonderful throwaway in a Sesame Street episode in which a little worm cinema next to Oscar's trash can is playing Gone with the Worm.
Not to be outdone, The Simpsons has served up its own affectionate parodies over the years. "Tomorrow is another school day!" a spurned Principal Skinner cries in season 2. That same season, Homer commits to a needed diet and declares, "As God is my witness, I'll always be hungry again!"
Would that the GWTW musical that opened on London's West End in 2008 had been a comedy. Perhaps it would have fared better with critics, who gave it one of the worst thrashings in theater history. It closed three months early, and plans for a New York production were immediately canceled.
Gone with the Wind has flashed through our pop-culture history in more somber, and sometimes provocative, fashion as well. In S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, another classic American story, Johnny buys Ponyboy a copy of Mitchell's novel. Literary theories abound that Hinton's tale of two sides of an Oklahoma track is its own version of the Civil War, as the Greasers and Socs battle each other to a tragic end. More recently, there's the piercing moment in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained when the word MISSISSIPPI scrolls slowly, in large, raging letters, across the screen. It's a stirring visual reference to the iconic opening sequence of the 1939 film—and all the more powerful coming from a movie that tackles race head-on.
For better and for worse, Gone with the Wind remains one of our Great American Movies. Enough so that in 1990 the U.S. Postal Service printed a stamp of Scarlett and Rhett's embrace that looks like a movie poster. Enough so that in the '90s, TBS made parodies of Rhett's "Frankly, my dear…" with chimps. Enough so that when you enter gone with the wind on Amazon.com, 27,671 results—from a Scarlett wig to a baby onesie bearing Rhett's famous line of seduction, "you should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how"—pop up.
Of course, anybody who's seen the movie knows what a kiss should look like and how one should swoon in response. Windie Novella Perrin has a favorite memory from her years of owning her museum in Missouri. One day an elderly couple entered her tiny shop with great purpose. It turned out that 65 years earlier the gentleman had proposed marriage to his beloved during the intermission of Gone with the Wind's original theatrical release. So there in the museum, surrounded by a theater seat from the Atlanta premiere, Aunt Pittypat's umbrella, and Rhett Butler's top hat, he bent down on tired knee and proposed to his wife all over again. And then he sealed his proposal with a kiss.
And that, perhaps, is where we can best hear the echoes of Scarlett's determination, Rhett's weary sayonara and the bugles of the ill-fated boys marching off to war—not in books or TV or lovingly curated exhibits. They reverberate loudest in the hearts of those who know not just what it is to fall in love, but to fall in love with the movies. The grand spectacle of Gone with the Wind—its wit and huge, fickle heart, its soaring score and sumptuous design—is a movie lover's romance for the ages.
Gone with the Wind premiered on Dec. 15, 1939. Karen Valby's essay is part of LIFE's stunning new celebration of the classic film, The Great American Movie 75 Years Later.
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Three area premieres and one world premiere, along with a landmark collaboration with Circle Theatre in Fort Worth, comprise Second Thought Theatre's 2019 season.
Just days after finishing its critically acclaimed 2018 season closer, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again., the spunky company is already looking to its 15th season with selections that include the semi-true story of the theft of Albert Einstein's brain; a meditation on the courage, strength, and perseverance of women in conflict zones; a double header from Caryl Churchill; and the journey three sisters take to confront their abusive childhood.
"The plays in our 2018 season were generally more political in nature, which seemed a natural response to this particular moment in history," says STT artistic director Alex Organ. "The plays for next season feel more personal and less overtly political. By and large, these plays tell stories about how we are shaped by our experiences, and how the extraordinary human mind adapts to extraordinary circumstances."
First up is Incognito by Nick Payne (Constellations), which tells of pathologist Thomas Harvey and his quest to understand the mind that understood the universe. The unbelievable, semi-true story of love, murder, memory, and the fate of Albert Einstein's brain will star Drew Wall and be directed by Organ. It runs January 30-February 23, 2019.
Next, Kara-Lynn Vaeni returns to direct Lela & Co by Cordelia Lynn. Separated from her childhood by the soldiers at the border of her country and the soldiers in the bedroom of her new home, 15-year-old Lela gains strength and wisdom that are hard-won and far beyond her years. Based on true stories from conflict zones all over the world, the play traces a precarious path from girlhood to womanhood and celebrates the resilience of those who make the journey. It runs April 3-28, 2019.
A special double feature of Caryl Churchill plays performed together runs June 5-July 29, 2019. Drunk Enough to Say I Love You marries the personal and political in an entirely new way when Guy, a man, is seduced by Sam, a country. Their torrid affair hits rocky terrain as Sam's bloodlust becomes too much for Guy, but Sam is confident he'll come crawling back. In Here We Go, Churchill goes universal, meditating on death, what precedes it, and what follows it. This brief but powerful ode to ephemerality is sure to stay with audiences long after the evening ends. Organ directs, with Blake Hackler starring.
Hackler wields the pen for STT's fourth and final show of the season, What We Were. It is the third world premiere by the Dallas-based Hackler at Second Thought in as many years, following 2017's The Necessities and 2018's Enemies/People. This play tells the story of Carlin, Nell, and Tessa, three sisters who suffered a childhood of abuse. Now adults, each lives in some degree of denial, but the lies are starting to become more unbearable than the truth. Directed by Christie Vela and featuring Jenny Ledel, What We Were will be created as a co-production with Circle Theatre in Fort Worth and run August 28-September 21, 2019.
2018 was STT's first four-season show in several years, and the company ended up offering "pay-what-you-can" opportunities for more than a fourth of the performances (a tradition that will continue this coming season). They also extended their partnership with Change the Perception DFW, which facilitated Community Conversation-style talkbacks after several performances of Revolt. She said. Revolt again.
All performances in Second Thought Theatre's 2019 season will take place at Bryant Hall, next door to the Kalita Humphreys Theater. To purchase season subscriptions or single tickets, visit 2tt.co or call 1-866-811-4111.