Premier Transfer Roundup

Well, it has been a long time since I did anything for my loyal followers so...
The Transfer Deadline day has always intrigued me, I have never understood why so many clubs leave their business until literally an hour before the window shuts. It's weird.
Anyway, I thought I would whiz through all the 20 premier league clubs evaluating their success this transfer window...

Manchester United:
Bought early in the window to allow their new stars to settle and bed into the team, and what a success their new purchases have been...
De Gea made a name for himself as the next Casillas. Not a bad player to be a compared to is it?
Phil Jones was solid all season for blackburn last season, and despite his youth he has shown himself to be more than competent.
Ashley Young is arguably one the best wingers about at the moment, and has been ever present for Villa for the last few years, a great signing for Fergie and his reds.

Manchester City:
Nasri was the latest in a summer of high spending from the richest club in the world, and the attacking flair he provided at Arsenal will certainly not go a miss in the Citizen's vast squad of attacking talents.
Speaking of attacking talents, City also signed Sergio Aguero from Athletico Madrid, and the highly-rated striker will be another great purchase for Mancini.
Mancini Also picked up Owen Hargreaves on a free from Manchester United, if he can get him fit and back to his best, he has the potential to be one of the best central midfielders in the world.
Gael Clichy was also brought in from Arsenal to help balance the squad of attackers Mancini drafted in his experience at the back will be invaluable.

Liverpool:
A very busy transfer window indeed for Kenny, trying to build a squad of British players to compliment the £35m splash out on Andy Carroll.
Kenny bought in 3 of the best midfielders from last years premier league: Jordan Henderson from Sunderland, Charlie Adam from the relegated seasiders and of course Stewart Downing from Aston Villa, these signings will help Liverpool try to establish themselves once again as champions league candidates, and will slot in well once Steven Gerrard is back to full fitness. They also purchased Roma goalkeeper Doni, and impressive wing back Jose Enrique from the toon. When everyone thought liverpool were done with their signings, they picked Craig Bellamy up from Manchester City. The Striker can do well for Liverpool, of course having already played for them in the past.

Chelsea:
Chelsea chased Spurs' highly-rated midfield star Luka Modric for most of the transfer window, however, Tottenham managed to keep their man, Chelsea instead turning to Valencia's Juan Mata and a last minute swoop for Liverpool's Portuguese star Meireles. The new signings will help strengthen the midfield of an already very strong Chelsea team, to help their push to regain the Premier League crown, they also signed Romelu Lukaku, a hot prospect for the future.

Wolves:
Wolves had a rather quiet tranfer window, only signing 3 new players, ex birmingham Roger Johnson will help Mick McCarthy's men stiffen up their defense, and Jamie O'Hara from Spurs' is a very shrew purchase for just 5m, he is a very good midfield player. Wolves also picked up De Vries on a free from newly promoted Swansea.

Newcastle:
I'm afraid Mike Ashley has not followed through on his promise to spend the £35m for Andy Carroll on the squad, picking up Gabby Obertan from Manchester United for a cheap 3m, and also picking up Demba Ba on a free, who played in the Premier League last year with West Ham. The Toon did however pick up a very promising young Full-back from Inter-Milan by the name of Davide Santon. However, after losing Andy Carroll, Joey Barton, Kevin Nolan and Jose Enrique I can't help but to have a negative feeling about this year for the Geordie club.

Aston Villa:
Haven't done badly at all in this years transfer window, although they lost two key in the form of Young and Downing, they have signed international keeper Shane Given, the outstanding Charles N'Zogbia (particularly last season), and two Spurs' players in the form of full-back Alan Hutton and creative attacking midfielder Jermaine Jenas. Very shrewd signings from Villa's new boss, they should help Villa push towards the Europa league spots this season.

Wigan:
A rather disappointing transfer window for Martinez, after losing Charles N'Zogbia to Aston Villa, no real attempt seems to have been made to replace him, however, the latics have signed Celtic's industrious midfielder Shaun Maloney, they have also secured Ali Al Habsi permanently from Bolton following last year's loan spell with the club.

Stoke City:
Stoke City have had a very productive transfer window, shattering their old transfer record to sign unwanted Spurs' Striker Peter Crouch, Stoke picked him up for 10m, and you would the 6ft 7 striker would be a perfect pawn in Pulis' long ball strategy. Stoke also toughen up their already tough defense with the signings of Woodgate and Upson, very experienced and established defenders who will help Pulis' Europa adventure more succesful you would think. However, that's not all, Stoke also snatched up Spurs' Wilson Palicios, and Birmingham's Jerome who netted 6 times in 4 appearances against stoke, which is why Pulis was so determined to land him.

Bolton:
Have bought in many new faces over the window, including ex Stoke midfielder Tuncay Sanli on loan, David N'gog from Liverpool, Gael kakuta on loan from Chelsea, 2 Burnley boys in Chris Eagles and Tyrone Mears, Nigel Reo-Coker on a free, Dedryck Boyata on loan from Manchester City and Darren Pratley from Swansea, its hard to see the benefit that these signings would bring to the club, more quantity than quality for me in this window, but we shall see as Bolton seek to pull themselves up the table towards the Europa Allocations.

Everton:
Poor cash-strapped Everton haven't been able to bring anyone in this summer due to their debts, however they have lost star player Mikel Arteta to Arsenal, and James Vaughan to Premier League new boys Norwich City, also reportedly striker Beckford has joined Leicester. Could have been worse for the Tofees though as Stoke City looked to lure away impressive midfielder Cahill.

QPR:
The Championship Champions have had a very productive transfer window bringing in no less than 8 new faces to Loftus Road. Nippy winger Shaun Wright-Phillips was the latest in many quality purchases from the London club - Arsenal Full-back Armand Traore, Aston Villa's other Young - Luke, Creative Flair-filled midfielder Joey Barton, Ex-seasiders' striker DJ Campbell 2 West Ham players in Danny Gabbison and Kieron Dyer and Finally Jay Bothroyd from Cardiff. Hard to see clarity when so many individuals are bought at once, but their is a lot of quality in Warnock's purchases and we should see at least mid-table security from the capital-based club.

Sunderland:
Sunderland have also been very active in this year's summer transfer window, signing 10 players, that's right. TEN. most high-profile of course will be the double purchase of O'shea and Wes Brown, but they also signed Arsenal striker Bendtner on loan, Blackpool's Vaughan, experienced midfielder Seb Larsson, Kieran Westwood from Coventry, very promising young finisher Connor Wickham, Birmingham's Craig Gardner, Elmohamady from an Egyptian side, and an unknown (to me at least) Ji Dong-Won from Chunnam Dragons? I think that's right... Steve Bruce and the Black Cats had a very successful season last season, and with some quality new signings (such as Bendtner, O'shea and Brown) I can't see why the club can't build on that.

Norwich:
Norwich have bought from the lower leagues (an interesting, untested method) but you shouldn't argue with a man who takes a club through two successive promotions to the Premier. Bringing in on loan defender Kyle Naughton, ex-Evertonian striker James Vaughan, and a small host of lower league players - Anthony Pilkington (Hudderfield), Bradley Johnson (Leeds), Elliot Bennett (Brighton) and Steve Morison (Millwall), who knows want Paul Lambert is capable of? I'm going to reserve judgement about these signings, because the truth is I know very little about them, good luck to them nevertheless.

Swansea:
Only signed 3 players this transfer window, which is strange considering the lack of depth at the Liberty Stadium, good signings though! Reading's experienced yet hot striker Leroy Lita, 26 year old Wayne Routledge from the toon, and Watford Striker Danny Graham. I can't see Swansea doing too much with these signings, it will be tough for them to avoid the drop, but I do think that they're good signings, I just think that the club generally lack the depth of quality needed to stay afloat in the Premier.

Fulham:
A relatively quiet transfer window and seemed to reached it's pinnacle right at the beginning, Fulham signing ex Liverpool player John Arne Riise from AS Roma, however just as big ben chimed the transfer window shut it emerged that Fulham had made 2 new signings - Orlando Sa the Porto striker and the highly rated attacking all-rounder Bryan Ruiz for just over 10m, not a bad buy at all for Martin Jol. We will first have to see how his new signings settle into the Premier, but I think Fulham should be ok with Jol at the helm.

Arsenal:
Well, it appeared hope at faded when Arsenal lost Nasri, Fabregas and Clichy - especially when Arsene failed to replace them. He seemed to have left it until the final day to make his flurry of signings, some of them not too shabby either! On top of the transfers we already knew about before Manchester United basically humiliated them: Jenkinson, Gervinho, Chamberlain, and Joel Campbell. It seemed a lot of work would have to be done if Arsenal were to get near the Champions League places this year. So they sign: Mikel Arteta, Yossi Benayoun, Per, Mertesacker, Andre Santos and Park Chu-Young. 3 very established midfielders in there, to hopefully clog the void left behind by the loss of Fabregas and Nasri. Not a bad transfer window in the end then from Arsene considering all, I still don't believe that they will have the squad to match Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City though (looks like Europa next season for me).

WBA:
There have been some good signings this window at the Hawthorns, namely Shane Long from Reading, it would be a crime for me to not mention him, as I think he will be one of the best signings of the season, scoring on his first two games for the club against the current champions Manchester United, and last years runners up Chelsea. West Brom have also signed ex Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster who player fantastically last season for Birmingham in the Premier League. Zoltan Gera from Fulham is also another good signing for Roy, a very experienced midfielder will offer WBA a bit of leadership in the middle of the park.

Blackburn:
Seemingly quiet. The main word I would use to describe Blackburn's transfer activities this window. However, it seems I am wrong and they have bought in four new faces slightly 'under the radar'. Birmingham's highly rated centre-back Scott Dann has been drafted in by Steve Kean, clearly he will be a good replacement for the departed Phil Jones. Blackburn have also brought in Montenegro midfielder Vukcevic, Serbian midfielder Petrovic and Dundee United's Goodwillie. I'm undecided on these signings, I think that Scott Dann will be a very good signing, and I would like to say that Blackburn will be safe this year, but I don't think that Steve Kean is the man that can get them to safety.

FINALLY!
Tottenham:
Very sluggish start to the season against both Manchester clubs (losing 3-0 and 5-1). You may expect the del-boy like Harry Redknapp to have pulled a bunny out of a hat, much like the signing of Van Der Vaart last season, but apparently Harry has ran out of magic dust in this transfer window. Losing many players (Crouch, Palacios, Hutton, Jenas, Bentley, Keane, and O'hara) and only bringing in 3, is an easy way of trimming your squad I suppose, this season Harry got rid of the dead-wood if you will, and bought shrewdly, bringing in top shot stopper Brad Friedel for free, Unwanted striker Emmanuel Adebayor on loan and England-capped Midfield maestro Scott Parker from relegated West Ham. Not too bad from Harry, but with his reputation and money generated from the transfers, I was expecting something magical - possibly Ronaldo or Kaka.

Well there it is folks, the complete rundown of the transfer window for the Premier League, running up a total bill of around £466,000,000 which is around about Manchester City's wage bill per week. Just for a bit of fun I thought I would predict the league table at the end. Of course I will be no where near accurate, and you are welcome to submit to me your own predictions in the comments? why not It's just a bit of fun...

1 Man United
2 Man City
3 Chelsea
4 Liverpool
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5 Tottenham
6 Arsenal
7 Sunderland
8 Stoke
9 Aston Villa
10 QPR
11 Newcastle
12 Wigan
13 WBA
14 Bolton
15 Fulham
16 Norwich
17 Everton
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18 Blackburn
19 Wolves
20 Swansea

Ok, thanks for reading. I will try to write more sometime soon, when I do I will spread to all my social networking sites to try and bump so you may see it. Thanks again guys.

United and their bank being raided...

It's long puzzled me why, on the day of the football transfer deadline clubs decide almost last minute, that they need at least 5 more players, and ensue chasing them. It's almost like me and my coursework.

This year however, it seems one club is taking a different approach, Manchester United, despite the owner's supposed debt the club have already signed former Blackburn defensive hot prospect Phil Jones for £16.5m, and united are also on the verge of signing Aston Villa's Want-away midfield maestro, Ashley Young for around £10m, which is a steal considering his pre-season value was around £25m. The deal is set to be completed following the return of the footballing moguls and wheeler dealers from their holidays.

Following the eventual retirement of Paul Scholes, and Edwin Van Der Sar and the probable retirement of love-rat Ryan Giggs, Sir Alex has looked to revamp the English Premier League Champions' with these potential signings.

Sir Fergie is also supposedly after Arsenal's Samir Nasri, however the Gunners' gaffer - Arsene Wenger, says the club will not sell him. However, with Arsenal's trophy cabinet collecting nothing except dust for another season, Nasri may well wish to leave for the more successful rivals Manchester United.

David De Gea is too being lined up to fill the very large boots and gloves of retiring keeper Van Der Sar, after United agreed a £17m deal with Athletico Madrid to acquire the Spanish Shot-stopper's talents.

United have also been looking at other targets such as Tottenham's Luka Modric, Lens' promising 18 year old full back Raphael Varane and also Udinese's £30m rated winger Alexis Sanchez, but will have to pay top dollar for him, and are in competition with the European Champions Barcelona and FA cup holders and cross-town rivals Manchester City.

United will have to capture many of their targets this summer in order to maintain their Premier League crown, with numerous players leaving, for retirement or to other clubs (Sunderland have offered £12m for Darren Gibson, Wes Brown and John O'shea) whether these players will leave is yet to be seen, but I suppose it provides a reason why they have started spending so early...

One thing is for certain though, if any other team is looking to challenge the champions next year, they had better get training or spending, whilst Fergie sets the foundation out for his next and probably final Manchester United wonder-team.

New Directions

Okay, I haven't blogged in forever, which makes me a really bad journalist.
However, there is a reason for this, in that my lecturers wanted the blog to be about something
rather the literal ravings of a lunatic, so scrap all of the stuff from my first blogs
and lets start afresh, from now on I will only be looking at the things actually in the news
(MAINLY focussing on Sport)but I will cover some serious news-worthy things if they happen.

I'm still hellbent on trying to make my blog fun though, for both you and me.
The news is so often thought of as boring, mostly because of the way its presented,I want to make news fun, so I will try to be quirky, PLEASE bare with me though, because i'm really not a satirical sort of person.

I'll possibly blog tomorrow unless united lose today in which case I will probably be banging my head against a really hard wall.

Stand by for more though blogging though, and I apologise for my absence (: but I'm not finished yet.

Dep Editor of the DET

So, the Deputy editor of the DET was here for a sorta question time thing.
IAF is a suitable place to write for to gain some form of experience to work in the industry.
DET need some people to review some bands that play at the flower pot and stuff in Derby, and provide free tickets... So that is a more than likely thing that I'll do.
Thats pretty much it, I have to save my cuttings from IAF, make sure i can keep a portfolio of these...
but for now (: bye

30 day song challenge (:

The 30 day song challenge is a group I found on facebook somehow - http://www.facebook.com/pages/30-Day-Song-Challenge/120874111270003?ref=ts instead of following their rules of doing one a day I thought I'd do all 30 now (this is because I have time to kill because I woke up early). OK SO THE RULES


day 01 - your favorite song
day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy 
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event 
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song that you can dance to
day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep 
day 11 - a song from your favorite band 
day 12 - a song from a band you hate 
day 13 - a song that is a guilty pleasure 
day 14 - a song that no one would expect you to love 
day 15 - a song that describes you 
day 16 - a song that you used to love but now hate 
day 17 - a song that you hear often on the radio
day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
day 19 - a song from your favorite album
day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry 
day 21 - a song that you listen to when you’re happy
day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad
day 23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
day 25 - a song that makes you laugh
day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
day 27 - a song that you wish you could play
day 28 - a song that makes you feel guilty
day 29 - a song from your childhood 
day 30 - your favorite song at this time last year

EDIT: I DID ALL 30 BUT THEN BLOGGER DELETED THEM SO I DID THE FIRST 20 FOR NOW.

Because I am incredibly self-indulgent, I believe that the world should recognise my views on every subject as correct especially music, hence this post. In fact I think that a huge statue to be erected in my honour, maybe when I'm famous for blogging about absolutely nothing in particular before my audience of millions realises that I have wasted their time, this might come to fruition.

Not that I seek reassurance about my musical judgment and, I believe my taste in music is very eclectic and diverse, so maybe you want to copy me and find some better music than you listen to, I'm sure you will know most of the artists mentioned, however some of you may not, and you should definitely listen to some of them...

So here goes.

1) My favourite song -

this tune is amazing, how ADTR combine there typical heavyish style and give the song a subtlety and feeling of pure affection amazes me.

2) My least favourite song -

 I'm sure there are songs that I dislike more but I can't think of them, but this came to mind immediately, the constant repetition of something that doesn't make any sense - like a g6? a simile relating to what? Exactly. Lazy writing, it annoys me (I'll have you know that this blog takes considerable effort!).

3) A song that makes me happy -

It's just so happy, it's just a typical party song. I just love it, and any positive love song is happy isn't it?

4) A song that makes me sad ): -

The lead singer of this band, Ian Curtis tragically committed suicide and it is often said that the music of the band (which he wrote) became darker towards the end of his short life, this song is sort of the pinnacle of this I think and its used on the funeral scene of a movie made about his death - Control. Very sad indeed.

5) A song that reminds me of someone -

Now, a few years ago, I decided to make a band, and we all the components except a vocalist, after advertising for one failed I got a friend of mine to do it, this was our first little cover song. Love it.

6) A song that reminds me of somewhere -

When I was on holiday in Wales a few years back Pete's album had just been released and I listened to it non-stop, it complimented the idyllic countryside and beach so well it was unreal.

7) A song that reminds me of a certain event -

Leeds fest 2010 I was so close to the stage and Mumford and Sons were probably the best band I've ever seen live, sorry for the video quality, but I think it really mirrors as closely as anything can how good it was live.

8) A song I know all the words to -

I know the words to quite a few songs - the entire Mumford and Sons' 'Sigh No More' But I wanted to mix it up a little and since this band played Leeds 2010 too, why not.

9) A song I can dance to -

Absolute tune, massive song but once it kicks in I can't help but to love it and the title is applicable to this bit.

10) A song that makes me sleep -

Because I am extremely lazy I can fall asleep to anything really but this is just so melodic and special, amazing song.

11) A song by my favourite band -

I didn't want to use 2 songs from the same artist and I find it hard to think of a lone band that is my favourite so one of my all time favourite has to be Vampire Weekend so yeah.

12) A song by a band I hate -

I don't know why I just really hate Take That. There.

13) A song that is a guilty pleasure - I don't have any! -_- ummm fine you caught me...


This might not be a guilty pleasure but I see it as a really feminine song I don't know why again?

14) A song that no one would expect me to love - truth be told I love the streets, I don't think many people would put me down as liking these, or this song, but I do, so there.

15) A song that describes me -

LOL.

16) A song that I used to love but now hate -

this came out when I was in like year 5 and I had the album and stuff, I'm ashamed now but what of it?

17) A song that I hear often on the radio - I don't often listen to music on the radio but when I did it always seemed to be this

< 18) A song that I wish I heard on the radio -

Love the breakdowns in this song and it might scare a few upperclass tools (Y).

19) A song from my favourtite album - I've already used Mumford and Sons' sigh no more, so I'll use a different favourite album...


1901 by phoenix from their album 'Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix' Love this song and the album.

20) A song I listen to when I'm angry


The breakdowns and stuff just convey anger, such an angry song so it's perfect.

OKAY SO I JUST DID ALL 30 AND THEN BLOGGER MESSED UP, SO IF YOU THINK IM DOING THEM AGAIN. NO.
WELL MAYBE TOMORROW ILL EDIT THIS OR SOMETHING BUT FOR NOW YOU'VE HAD YOUR FILL. BE GONE. (:


Cheers, Nathe

THE BUAFL

WWW.BUAFL.NET

Yes the Buafl or simply the 'British Universities American Football League'.

Nothing else intrigued me really this week because the life I lead is so bland and mundane, the concept is simple enough really, its a league for universities to compete against one another in the sport of hurting one another American Football.

I just thought I'd give my 2 or probably more cents on the league and stuff because the sport itself is a passion of mine and I play for Derby Uni's American Football team the Derby Braves. Originally when I thought of talking about this topic I wanted to give a sort of match report on todays game against Leicester, but realised that I was far too busy playing and keeping the bench toasty to actually notice who did what. What I will now say though is we won 36 - 0, which is good because we won our last game 31 - 0, so its a bit of a gloat-filled improvement in my eyes.

A bit of shameless advertising too now.
we play at Kedleston Road 3G pitch (just outside the SU) and our next game is on the 27th of this month, so in 2 weeks, thats against the NTU renegades and itll be a good one, so personally I'd appreciate the support (Y).

Back the BUAFL. The league itself is I suppose sensibly divided geographically, you have the Border Conference, the Northern Conference, the Midland Athletic Conference, the South Western Atlantic Conference, the Thames Valley Conference and the South Eastern Conference. Obviously this means that teams don't have to travel very far to each game, but at the same time there is no tier system in terms of ability, so it many teams don't really have a fighting chance.

The site itself is actually well run and if you have any interest at all in the sport it would be good to check out, especially now the NFL is in its off-season, there are links to loads of things like updated news sections including a match report on a game played somewhere around the UK, which could make for a little light reading if you get bored of reading this rubbish im spewing out onto my keyboard. There are forums and links to the league tables including scores of previously played games so its well worth a gander.

I don't think that this little post has been very good tbh, I wanted to make it interesting I honestly did, but I like writing when I'm tired and can't sleep as it seems to help, but I can't seem to concentrate and it's hard to blog about things and not be embarrassed about what I have written when I wake up, so I think I'm going to leave it for now and find something more interesting to talk about in the next cheeky edition, I'll make it slightly humorous if I can too, I promise. so please check back? please?

thanks. Nathe. xx

Last.fm

Possibly the best website in the world.

I've been a Last.fm user for years but after a short stint of using it, totally forgot about it... Lately I started using it again and I have to tell you about it. ITS DEAD GOOD.

Basically Last.fm is a website that deals in the music industry, and allows users a very impressive amount of features (especially considering that its free), musicians and bands etc. can upload music (much like mypace did before facebook stole all its audience) and then ordinary none musical folks can listen to it... But here is where it gets good...

Say you search for a band in this instance I'll search for Justin Bieber ('cuz he iz ma faverit singer eva) a page will come up... http://www.last.fm/search?q=justin+bieber&from=ac like that one, and you can see where the artist is playing next, read all about them, see pics that other users have uploaded, and click 'listen to "the musician that you searched's" radio' TRY IT. This is the best feature... Last.fm will play you a song by the artist, or maybe 2 if you're really lucky, but then it finds artists that are similar to this band, and play a song from them... This helps you get in to so many different bands, don't you agree that its DEAD GOOD?

On top of this last.fm made apps and things for android phones and for your itunes etc that scrobble (a word that last.fm made up) the song, i'm unsure what that word actually entails, but what the apps do is count what songs you listen to, and on your personal Last.fm profile tells you your play count and tells you what artists and what songs you've listened to the most, it then compiles all of these into your library, and wherever you are on your computer or app, you can play back your library straight from the internet...

GO AND TRY IT OUT, YOU'LL LIKE IT IM SURE.

and i'm sure that there is more features but I'm bored of typing now, so next week or whenever I can be arsed to write another blog and get back on here and write something else out on another installment of RTTCMA. but for now I've been Nathe and you've been bored reading this... bye. c:

First installment.

OK.
So as an attempt to get writing frequently in order to help in my future career of Journalism I decided to start blogging, most people blog with an intention, or focus on a particular topic, or subject or have something they want to achieve from their blog.

- I don't.

I will literally just blog about anything from websites that I find, to apps, to things that I like, dislike, love and loath and I won't care who reads it...

Hopefully this difference between me and the rest of the blogging universe will make for more entertaining reading, and bring me some success in the world, maybe someone massive will employ for my writing skillz, or more likely 10 people will read this blog when I paste the link on my facebook and it will be lost somewhere in Blogger's server never to be read again. Oh well, ever the Optimist.

None of my blogs will be brainstormed or planned (including this one). I'm just going to type, and with a risk of sounding like a 13 year old american girl, if you don't like it, don't hate me 'cuz you aint me. This will also mean that if you paste this into word you will be attacked with red squiggles, this may take away from the professionalism, but I'll refer you to the above comment about the American girl...

OK here goes nothing...