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Right now, every military command post and every training center is packed with PCs. In the future, many of those machines might be replaced with game consoles – if the armed forces can ever work out their disagreements with the console-makers.
Why consoles? For starters, it's a tool that young recruits are very familiar with. The military – especially the Army and Marines – has turned to videogames because live training is often complicated and expensive. Surveys show that young people now spend more time gaming on consoles than on PCs. It's the older (well, at least over 30) crowd who prefer to play games on computers, and that crowd is likely to shrink over time. If the Pentagon is going to rely on games, then it makes sense to use a platform designed for games, as well as one that's familiar to your audience.
Another attraction is the hardware. Consoles seem to offer some advantages over computers when it comes to training games. The Nintendo Wii controller (Microsoft and Sony are developing similar hardware) allows a training game to incorporate body movement. A Wii-like console could be useful for individualized physical training for soldiers who need to shed a few pounds, or for practicing individual combat drills when there is no training range available. And then there is the relatively straightforward configuration of consoles, compared to the nightmare that military game developers face in getting games to work on the mishmash of video and sound cards in the government's potpourri of computers.
Yet the real beauty of consoles, as far as the Army's game gurus are concerned, isn't really technical sophistication. In an interview for Training & Simulation Journal, Army officials charged with developing training games told me that what they really like about consoles is the price. An Xbox 360 can be purchased for less than $200, while a government computer can cost $1,000. The day is coming when every member of the U.S. armed forces will have their own computer (or console) for e-learning and training simulations. Finding a cheaper device can save a lot of bucks.
So will the Army go out and buy the Xbox? Not quite. Roger Smith, chief technology officer for PEO STRI, the Army command responsible for purchasing training equipment, claims that Microsoft refused to sell him the consoles. Smith told me that he discussed acquiring the Xbox with Microsoft representatives at a trade show back in 2006. According to Smith, the Microsoft executives said they would neither sell the Xbox 360 nor license XNA game development tools to the Army for three reasons:
- Microsoft was afraid that the military would buy up lots of Xbox 360s, but would buy only one game for each of them, so MS wouldn't make much money off of the games.
- A big military purchase could create a shortage of Xbox 360s.
- If the Xbox became an Army training device, it could taint its reputation. Microsoft was concerned that "do we want the Xbox 360 to be seen as having the flavor of a weapon? Do we want Mom and Dad knowing that their kid is buying the same game console as the military trains the SEALs and Rangers on?" Smith told me during an interview for Training & Simulation Journal.
It's hard to believe that Microsoft would risk a public relations disaster by refusing to sell products that would save the lives of American soldiers during time of war. So I contacted Microsoft, and received an e-mail response, or rather a response relayed through their outside PR agency Edelman. Microsoft spokesman David Dennis said he had no knowledge of Smith's conversations with Microsoft representatives, but that the Army...
"has multiple avenues to pursue building simulations. They can team up with a professional Xbox 360 publisher and development studio that have the expertise to assist them with development of a complex simulation. In fact, the Army has successfully done this in the past by working with publishers such as Ubisoft ('America's Army') and THQ ('Full Spectrum Warrior'). Or, if the Army prefers to build a simulation without engaging game development professionals, Microsoft has also enabled independent developers to create games for the Xbox 360 using the XNA Game Studio development tools, and deploy and play them on retail Xbox 360 consoles using an XNA Premium Creator's Club membership."
Microsoft's answer didn't address the question of whether the company would be willing to sell large quantities of Xbox 360s to the Army. Nor do I have any idea how classified military training simulations would work on the XNA Creator's Club, which features titles such as "Rocket Fart." Yet Microsoft at least seems receptive.
Problem solved, right? Wrong. Now Smith says the Army might not be interested in the Xbox after all. "Our initial enthusiasm when Xbox and XNA were new products has cooled. At this time we have no active or anticipated projects or R&D that are looking at using either of those products for military simulations. I would be happy to reopen these discussions if Microsoft is interested in selling these products to our community."
One more step forward, one more step back in the long march to bring game consoles into the military.
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ONLINE SHOPPINGAn Internet shop works in just the same way as a shop on the high street. Customers come in, browse, add items to their shopping basket and then pay the cashier on exist. The only main difference is that customers order their goods from home and have them delivered to their home, as with mail order shopping.
There are many benefits of having an Internet shop, usually, opening a new shop involves a vast amount of capital, new staff, lots of marketing, organizing stock, new phone lines etc., etc. An Internet shop involves very little capital outlay in comparison and involves far less organization. No extra sales staff, less stock required, no services to arrange such as electricity, gas, water, phone. Fixed costs such as rent and rates are eliminated. This can mean you can offer products bought via your Internet shop at reduced prices and so become even more competitive! (Or you can offer them at the usual cost and make a bigger profit)
An Internet shop will mean your products are accessible to a far wider market. Its like having a shop in every high street in existence. You can also improve your customer service by offering lots of product detail and information about the company. Any new products can be launched immediately - If you use our online shopping solutions, it could simply require that the necessary information and pictures be eMailed to us and we could update your site in a matter of hours.
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Sasol Banyana Banyana smacked the Botswana women's national team 10-0 in an international friendly game played at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Phokeng last Saturday.
Veteran striker Portia Modise scored five goals in the match and her 97th for the South African national team.
Mamello Makhabane got a brace, Refiloe Jane, Sanah Mollo and Silindile Ngubane also registered their names on the score sheet.
Banyana Banyana dominated most of the first half, forcing Botswana to play in their own half for most parts of the stanza.
Makhabane opened the scoring for Vera Pauw's charges just before the half hour mark with a shot from outside the box.
Minutes later Mollo made up for an earlier miss when she doubled the score for Sasol Banyana Banyana with a tap in past the Botswana keeper.
Jane extended the lead in the 44th minute before Modise made the score 4–0 with minutes left before the half time break.
Sasol Banyana Banyana took-off from where they left off in the second half with substitute Ngubane slotting in the fifth goal minutes into the second half.
The Sasol sponsored women's national team continued with their rampage over Botswana with Modise scoring three goals all minutes apart.
Modise continued with her good form when she scored her 97th goal in the green and gold strip and fifth of the match.
Makhabane sealed a great win for Pauw ending the match 10–0 for Sasol Banyana Banyana.
Banyana Banyana's preparations to the African Women's Championship will continue over the next three weeks before departing for Namibia.


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text: The Quran leads us to true guidance. It says, "God is He besides Whom there is no god, the Ever-living, the Self-subsisting by Whom all subsist; slumber does not overtake Him nor sleep; whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His; who is he that can intercede with Him but by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot comprehend anything out of His knowledge except what He wills. His knowledge encompasses the heavens and the earth, and the preservation of them both tires Him not, and He is the Most High, the Great.


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This year's list of words that need to go away is a reminder that you're not as clever as you think. (Source: AP)
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Boasting breath-taking panoramas over England's largest lake, this exclusive 4* Top Secret Hotel on the shores of Lake Windermere is the perfect location in which to truly experience the natural beauty of the Lake District. This quintessentially English hotel boasts finely furnished double en-suite rooms featuring a flat screen LCD TV, complimentary luxury toiletries, free high speed Wi-Fi connectivity, safe for valuables and a trouser press amongst other amenities. The hotel offers guests an award-winning onsite restaurant with terrace, in addition to a 24 hour concierge, dry cleaning service and free secured parking. Businesspeople can make use of the hotel's excellent business centre comprising of several fully equipped conference and meeting rooms, whilst those on a relaxing break to the area can unwind in the hotel spa's swimming pool and sauna or get an indulgent treatment in the beauty salon.
This secret hotel on Windermere Lakeside with spa is surrounded by picturesque mountaintops, untouched forests and quaint villages nestled in the hillside, and the National Park surrounding the lake is renowned for its perfect natural vistas. Hotel guests can step out onto the waterfront from the hotel grounds and experience the lake via thrilling water sports such as water skiing, kitesurfing or jet-skiing or take a more relaxing approach with a steamboat or ferry ride. The lake's gently lapping shores are ideal for young children to splash around in during the warmer summer months and with a selection of cafes and restaurants lining the lakeside whole days can be spent enjoying Lake Windermere.
Avid golfers will be sure to enjoy spending a day on the Windermere Golf Course which is only a short journey by bus or car from the hotel. Located in idyllic rolling countryside and referred to by golfing experts as a 'miniature Gleneagles', the golf course is renowned for excellence and also features a luxury club house and highly regarded onsite restaurant for golfers to relax in after testing out the 18 hole course.
Also nearby is the famous Lake District town of Kendal which is extremely popular with tourists to the area. Recognisable for its typical local grey limestone buildings and renowned as the home of the Kendal mint cake, Kendal offers visitors an archetypal Cumbrian town experience within the heart of the National Park. Kendal boasts several museums detailing the local history and archaeology as well as numerous historic churches, a castle and an art gallery.
After the region's untouched natural splendour, the Lake District is famous for influencing some of the finest English poetry. William Wordsworth's poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' is regarded as one of the most famous poems in the English language and was inspired by daffodils on the shore of Ullswater. Wordsworth's adult home Dove Cottage in Grasmere is a short journey by car from the hotel and attracts thousands of tourists and fans of literature each year. The former home of Beatrix Potter which has now been transformed into a museum of her work is also just a short drive away, offering insights into her inspiration behind some of the most famous illustrated children's books ever written.


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Atlantic Neuroscience Insitutite: Article, "Brain cancer patients receive DCVax-Brain personalized vaccine therapy." May 2008, phase II clinical trial, cleared by FDA.
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and result database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world.
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China has released amazing footage of the descent of the Chang'e-4 spacecraft which shows the historic moment of the first landing on the far side of the Moon.
The Chang'e-4 spacecraft touched down on the far side of the Moon, which never faces the Earth, at 02:26 UTC on January 3, deploying the Yutu-2 rover 12 hours later, but this is the first full footage we've seen of the landing.
The footage comes from the descent camera which initially gives a view ahead of Chang'e-4 over the 186-km-diameter Von Kármán crater, which contains the preselected landing site.
The video shows how, as the craft descends, it is extremely difficult to visually gain any sense of distance to the surface before the landing.
How did Chang'e-4 land?
At around one minute into the footage we see the spacecraft rotate 90 degrees following the main deceleration phase of the descent, to give a vertical view onto the lunar surface.
At this point Chang'e-4 should be around 6 kilometres above the Moon, with the lander receiving distance and velocity data from its laser range sensor.
During this approach phase Chang'e-4 makes a number of manoeuvres as part of coarse hazard avoidance based on optical imaging, all of which are automated processes.
An animation demonstrating the landing process for the Chang'e-4 mission.
At around 100 metres 3D laser scanning imaging provided elevation data, as illustrated in the animation above, as part of a hovering phase which allowed for avoidance of hazards on the surface which could have threatened the landing.
Just after two minutes we see the final descent onto Von Kármán crater and the exhaust from the main engine interacting with the surface.
An image of the Von Kármán crater from a mosaic created by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera.
The Chang'e-4 lander has a dry mass of 1,200 kg but weighed around 3,800 kg at launch when carrying the propellant required for course corrections once in trans-lunar injection, lunar orbit insertion, orbital manoeuvres and the powered descent and landing.
Since landing the lander has deployed the 140 kg it carried to the Moon and the two craft have been checking systems, taking a nap and returning the first images from the far side of the Moon, via the Queqiao relay satellite.
The Chang'e-4 'Yutu 2' rover was deployed on the lunar surface at 14:22 UTC, December 3, 2018.
First panoramas, image from Yutu-2
Also on Friday China released the first panoramas from the lander's Terrain Camera (TCAM), with this 360 degree version created by Andrew Bodrov shortly after.
The azimuth (top) and cylindrical views of the Chang'e-4 panorama released on January 11, 2019.
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The first released image from Yutu-2 rover was later seen in a broadcast by CGTN, the English language version of China Central Television (CCTV).


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The world is a very big place with a population of 6,234,250,234 people and always growing. The world and its important resources are being destroyed by populations growing in such small areas.
Many of these small areas have many problems of their own because of over population, such as hunger and many poor people.
China is the largest country in the world with a population of 1, 284,304,705 people and ranked the third largest in size in the world. In the year 2050 the population of China will be about 1,322,435,000. The population in china is growing by about 87% a year. China is controlling the population by the one-child policy. The one child policy was created in 1979 to help control the growing population of China. How the one child policy works is that families are only allowed one child but if that child can't work the family can adopt another. Also many of the families are killing their new born if they are girls because in China when girls are born nothing is done but when a boy is born there is a huge celebration.
The population of the U.S. is 280,562,489 people and by the year 2050 the population will almost had doubled, 394,241,000 people. Each year the population increases by 89%. In the U.S. there is nothing being done to control the fast growing. Although there are many people in some states there are still many that have very few due to the climate which is usually too hot or too cold.
India is 1,045,845,226 people and as the population grows at 1.15% in the year 2050 there will be about 1,706,951,724. In the 1970's India started to educate people about birth control. They put up posters and also want men and women to be sterilized. By teaching people India about birth control the later generations will be more aware of overpopulation.
The total population of Europe is about 728,543,592 and if the population continues to grow at about 1% in 2050 the population will be about 642,447,530. Although Europe consist of many countries not many are doing anything to help control overpopulation.
Africa has a total population of 803,310,514 and in 2050 the population will be about 1,786,117,607. The population growth rate is about 2.6%. Even thought the population is still growing there is also illness and lack of food is sort of the population control.
There are many ways that over population destroy the earth one way is by pollution.
Pollution has been killing the environment since power has been producing power to work every day things for the growing populations. Also have also been major accidents form power plants that cause many people to move to different and make them even more populated.
Also over population destroys forest and other natural resource.
In South America there are many rain forest, these rain forest may or may not contain cures for some illnesses that we have no cures for not. But farmers in South America are cutting down the trees for the top layer of soil.
There are may was to control the population of the world, one way is to have a certain amount of people in a household or family, kind of like China's One child policy but now people will be able to have 4 to 5 child girls or boys.
In Conclusion, at the population of the world grows, over population will continue slowly destroy the earth.
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You may see subtle copper-coloured veins running through this stone. These are not defects, but are a part of the stone itself.
Also available in our Lithoverde® texture.
The images shown on this page are indicative of the colour and characteristics of our products but cannot be 100% representative. Being made from natural materials, every tile or slab is unique in terms of tonality, colour and characteristic. These are all subject to variation depending on the type of stone and the conditions in the quarry from where it comes.
Our stone leaves the factory untreated as the level and type of treatment will always depend on the context in which the stone is laid. With each order we provide detailed installation instructions setting out directions for grouting, pre-treatment, gluing and final treatment.


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Squamish Terminals Ltd. is a deep-water, break-bulk terminal located in Squamish, British Columbia and has been in operation since 1972. Squamish Terminals is situated at the north end of the Howe Sound; just 32 nautical miles north of the Port of Vancouver. With an intermodal transportation infrastructure (including access to rail, ocean and truck), 2 berths, 3 warehouses, specialized handling equipment and an experienced team, Squamish Terminals efficiently handles cargo bound for North America and around the world. Squamish Terminals is a public terminal; open to all major break-bulk shipping lines. At Squamish Terminals we value and support our people, our environment and our community.
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The title of this post was taken from the song Right Now by Van Halen.
Mason was sick last weekend and running a fever. On Monday he stayed home from school and John took him to the doctor. The doctor said he had strep throat and they put him on antibiotics. Mason was given an excuse for school and told he couldn't go back until Wednesday. He went back to school Wednesday and that afternoon his teacher came to my room with this funny story.
Earlier in the day Mason had told his teacher that he wasn't contagious anymore and that was why he was able to come back to school. Later that day he walked up to her and said
"I'm not obnoxious anymore."
She smiled and said "I think you mean your not contagious anymore right?"
"Yep, I'm not contagious anymore."
I couldn't stop laughing.
On another note have I mentioned how much I love John for loving everything that is crazy about our family. For Christmas, don't tell the kids it's a surprise, John bought each child two 3D Star Wars puzzle and put them together for the kids. He ordered these really cool frames and framed them so they can hang them in their rooms. Last night we had the following conversation.
John holding up the pictures.
"So, what do you think?"
"I like them and I think the kids will too."
"I don't know. Tyler told me the other day that she didn't really like Star Wars."
This kind of surprised me.
"I don't know. I guess maybe she always watched it because Mike loved it so much. Maybe she never really liked it like he did"
"Yea, that's what I thought, but this gift will be something she can look at and remember him."
John loves the kids like they were his own. I was deeply touched at the time, energy, and money he spent to give them all gifts that they will not only love, but a gift that helps them remember their dad and the things he loved. I love him for loving them and for encouraging them to keep his memory alive.


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Our events experience is very extensive. It includes;
- Motor Sports for Monster Energy
- Chester Food and Drink Festival
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- Exhibitions of many types, including medical, educational, literary, vocational as well as others.
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Clients have included event promoters, councils, commercial trading companies, charities etc. Recent clients include, for example;
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- Manchester Enterprises
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Other well known organisations for which services have been indirectly provided include;
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Just some examples of venues includes;
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- Royal Albert Hall
- The Royal Opera House
- Manchester Central Convention & Conference Centre
- Valencia Race Circuit ( Circuito de la Comunidad Valencia Ricardo Tormo), Spain
- Grand Halle D'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Earls Court
- Baltic Square
- Gateshead
- Chester Racecourse & Cathedral
- Trafalgar Square
- London Olympia
- The SECC
- Grosvenor House Hotel (London)
- Nuremberg Messe
- Waterfront Hall, Belfast
As well as many other venues.
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Other examples of contracts include a full safety review of a theatre, accessibility surveys of venues and devising suitable routes for processions, carnivals and sponsored walks.
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Outdoor cooking and be a lot of fun and a great opportunity to create a celebratory spirit. Think beer, barbecues, pool antics, pizzas, laughter, picnics, champagne, and family. Dining and gathering outside for delicious food and drinks, however, can be made even more fun with the best outdoor kitchen designs and ideas.
Your garden provides you with a private open-air space, allowing you to cultivate a carefree, cheerful atmosphere that is hard to recreate in indoor spaces. However, without the right outdoor cooking equipment, seating, lighting, and surrounding decor, trying to cook and entertain guests in your garden can be tough.
When it comes to designing the perfect outdoor kitchen, there are many things you need to take into account. For example, do you want to be able to cook pizzas? If so, you will need to include an outdoor wood-fired pizza stove in your design. Do you enjoy barbecues? In that case, you will need to incorporate a modern garden grill into your design plans. How many guests do you typically invite to your garden parties? This is an important number to know, so you can plan outdoor seats and tables for your diners.
One thing many people forget to think about when it comes to modern outdoor kitchen designs and ideas is lighting. If you plan to cook in your garden when you get home from work late at night, you will sure appropriate good outdoor lightening that creates a relaxing atmosphere. These days you can get solar-powered outdoor lights, which charge during the day when the sun is shining and then provide free lighting in the evening. Keep in mind that any lighting you choose needs to be waterproof.
One outdoor cooking area design that is very popular is the hideaway kitchen. This type of outdoor kitchen design is easily accessible when you need to use it, but protected and hidden from sight when it is not needed. These designs are best for people that only plan to use outdoor cooking facilities a few times a year so needs a good roofing said a South Jersey Roofing company.
If your home is located in an area exposed to lots of sunlight, you might prefer to opt for a shaded outdoor kitchen design. Such a design involve the use of stylish motorized outdoor blinds and shades, which can be used to section off the cooking and dining area and provide protection from the sun.
Whatever type of outdoor kitchen design you opt for it's important to invest in high-quality appliances, furniture, and equipment. You also need to ensure you hire skilled professionals to plan and construct your dream outdoor kitchen.


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If you're worried about the cost of higher education, it might help to know there are a range of finance options available when studying at Sunderland College. These range from tuition fee loans, which you only have to repay when you earn a certain amount, to grants, which you don't have to pay back.
Tuition Fee Loans
As a full or part time higher education student at Sunderland College you don't have to pay any tuition fees up front.
Instead you can take out a tuition fee loan from Student Finance England. This loan will only need to be paid back once you've completed your course and only when you start earning over £25,000 a year.
You can find out more information about applying for a higher education student loan on the Student Finance England website.
Maintenance Loan for Living Costs
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- Old glass jars or containers
- chalkboard paint
- brush
- maskin tape
Use the maskin tape to define the area of the jar that will be your chalkboard "label" ** make sure it is pressed securely so no paint smears thru.
It's even more eco if you make your own chalkboard paint; there are tutorials out there somewhere, I was amazed!
Love your jars!
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thx everyone for the comments! Maggie~ your house Rocks!!..i could of put my jars anywhere and they would of looked great!ReplyDelete
It's finished!!! I got the chalk today! ;)ReplyDelete
I LOVE this idea. It's soooo cute. Great job!ReplyDelete
I made one of these only for snacks! I love chalkboard paint!
Tiss Natalie And yeah I love the chalk board paint. I did a whole wall once and had my friends sign it when ever it was there first time to my place. It was like written memory to all the people I have met.ReplyDelete
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STEINBERG Cubase SX 2.0.1 (Mac OS X/Win)
Minimum System Requirements Cubase SX 2.0.1
MAC: G4/867 MHz (dual G4/1.25 GHz recommended); 384 MB RAM (512 MB recommended); Mac OS X 10.2.5
PC: Pentium or Athlon/800 MHz (1.4 GHz recommended); 384 MB RAM (512 MB recommended); Windows 2000/XP
With the release of Cubase SX 2.0, Steinberg has responded to users' requests for a number of features; the company has also revamped its VST audio engine. New in this version are major enhancements such as the Time Warp Tool, convenience upgrades such as the redesigned mixer, and under-the-hood improvements such as full latency compensation. With over 100 new features, this is an easier-to-use, better-performing, and better-sounding Cubase. In this review I'll concentrate on the changes since Cubase SX 1.0. For a full review of the major upgrade from Cubase VST to Cubase SX, see the October 2003 issue of EM.
To take full advantage Cubase you'll need a fast computer with a large, fast hard drive and lots of RAM. Steinberg recommends a dual G4/1.25 GHz Mac or 1.4 GHz Pentium-class machine; the minimum requirements, however, are somewhat lower. In practice, performance was severely limited on a G4/800 MHz PowerBook. A 2.0 GHz dual G5 machine, on the other hand, was easily able to handle a large number of audio tracks and plug-ins.
Cubase also requires a good bit of screen real estate — a 1,152 × 864-pixel, dual-monitor setup is recommended. I felt somewhat graphically constrained on a single 20-inch (1,680 × 1,050-pixel) Apple Cinema display, mainly because minimum window sizes for the mixers, editors, and Project window are quite large. I also had frequent redraw problems, with buttons disappearing on the Track list, the Inspector, and the Transport. Toggling some element of the display would bring them back, but it became a bit of a nuisance. However, that only occurs with Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther), and Steinberg is aware of the problem and is working to correct it.
SX 2.0 sports a new audio engine with 32-bit floating-point resolution and a multichannel audio path throughout. The new VST 2.3 audio engine includes a VST Connections window for managing input and output buses. That allows you great flexibility in matching Cubase SX to your audio hardware and to specific project requirements. Because the bus setup is saved on the Project level rather than globally, you can either create a single template with a maximal input and output configuration or create templates for different Project types. For example, you might have one setup for Projects that involve live recording and another setup, without input buses, for Projects using only audio files and virtual instruments.
The whole audio signal path is now multichannel. Individual audio tracks can play separate or interleaved audio files containing as many as six audio channels — accommodating 5.1-surround processing, for example. Multichannel processing applies to send and insert effects buses as well.
Effects plug-in handling is better in two ways. Automatic delay compensation (see Fig. 1) adjusts for any delay introduced by VST effects plug-ins — delaying all other audio by the same amount. Delay is most often introduced by plug-ins that have a look-ahead feature or that rely on a DSP card for their processing. The Plug-in Information window shows the amount of delay and lets you toggle delay compensation on and off for each plug-in. The new audio engine also allows plug-in processing of incoming audio to be recorded.
The other improvement in plug-in handling is the introduction of effects return channels (see Fig. 2), which replace the cumbersome and counterintuitive VST Effects window. Effects buses are now created like any other Project track and are automatically allocated a mixer channel strip for inserting plug-ins, applying EQ, and managing return level, pan position, and so on. All plug-in parameters can be automated in the Project window just like audio and MIDI tracks.
The new audio engine supports freezing of individual VST-instrument plug-in tracks. The VST Instruments window now has a freeze button for each plug-in. Clicking on it creates a temporary audio file with the instrument's output and all subsequent processing. As long as freezing is active, the temporary file is played instead of the instrument, which generally saves a significant amount of processing. Freezing can be turned off when changes need to be made to instrument parameters or MIDI data. Level and pan can be adjusted while freezing is active. If you face CPU limitations, the freeze function can be a lifesaver.
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Many of the new features and enhancements in Cubase SX are designed to streamline the workflow, and they do make life easier. You can now edit multiple parts in both the MIDI and audio editors. In the MIDI editors, you can choose to have one or all open parts be active. When only one part is active, lasso-selecting is restricted to events in that part, making it easy to edit data in a single part while viewing its relationship to events in other parts.
A new Ruler track class has been added that allows you to place rulers at any position within the track list. Each ruler can have its own display format (Bars:Beats, Seconds, Samples, and so on), so you can easily place markers or locate video snapshots on a timeline while arranging MIDI parts and events by bars and beats.
A number of windows have been improved. The Transport and the Project-window toolbars can now be customized by toggling view options in a context menu that opens when you right click in an empty area of the display. You can also customize the display, arrangement, and grouping of buttons for each track type. You can now have three mixer views (as opposed to two in previous versions), each with its own configuration. More is better here because considerable clicking is involved in setting it up the highly flexible mixer display to show exactly what you want the way you want to see it, and it's handy to then be able to save that work as one of the mixer views.
The new Time Warp Tool (see Fig. 3) allows you to quickly adapt the Tempo track to specific audio or MIDI events as well as video hitpoints. In the various editors as well as the Project window, you simply drag lines of the bar:beat grid to the desired audio, video, or MIDI events. Tempo events are automatically added as needed to make the bar:beat grid positions match the time of the selected events. If you are warping to audio or picture and you have MIDI on adjacent tracks, the MIDI timing changes to match. If you are warping to MIDI events, their timing won't change, but their bar:beat alignment will. That is a better solution for scoring rubato playing than quantizing, which actually removes the time variations.
The Warp Tool would be even more useful if there were a convenient way to copy and move tempo changes. If you Warp to an audio loop, for example, you would naturally like to be able to copy or move the tempo changes with the loop. The only way to do that is to select the related tempo events in the Tempo Track window and drag them to the new location — a process that becomes tedious with repetition.
A new Stacked Cycle Record mode greatly facilitates recording multiple takes. When enabled, each cycle of audio or MIDI being recorded is placed on its own lane on the record track. You can then edit the lanes individually as needed and invoke the Remove Overlaps option to collapse all lanes to a single take.
In the scoring department, you can now assign MIDI meaning to dynamics symbols, resulting in more accurate MIDI playback of scored parts. Other MIDI enhancements include drag-and-drop importing of Standard MIDI Files, chord recognition in the MIDI editors (select a chord and the appropriate chord symbol will appear in the Info display), and automatic scale correction during transposition.
Those are just a few of the many new features in Cubase SX 2.0. Taken together, they significantly improve the work flow. Beyond that, the new audio engine results in a noticeable improvement in performance. If you're a Cubase user, you need it.
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I had such high and hopeful intentions to post this weekend reading before today, so that everyone could bookmark the Super Bowl recipes I'd picked out. Work got in the way, and I'm the worst. But you should still bookmark them, because even if you don't have time to prepare them today, these vegan dishes are show-stopping, hearty, colorful, and absolutely delicious. And beneath them, you'll find the articles and posts that piqued my interest this past week.
If you ask me, dips are definitely the best part of Super Bowl noshing. Two in particular caught my eye this year. The first is Kristy's magnificent pizza dip, pictured above. I'm waiting for Steven to see this and freak out.
The next is Jackie's buffalo jackfruit spinach dip , which looks better than any spinach dip I've seen before. I still haven't tried jackfruit — what's wrong with me??
I agree with my friend Kathy that chips are overrated. I can happily eat most dips (especially cashew queso or hummus) with a spoon, and I could definitely dig into her layered BBQ bowl with a spoon! So much texture and color here.
I don't even know where to start with Katie's enchilada millet stuffed sweet potatoes with garlic cilantro cashew cream. OK, how about here: I love stumbling upon new millet recipes. It's an underutilized grain, and I'm always on the hunt for fresh ways to prepare it. Also, Katie, you had me at cashew cream. And sweet potato.
I've made all tempeh chilis before and found that they had almost too much umami and nuttiness for me. Steph's root vegetable and tempeh chili looks like a perfect balance between tempeh and warm, soft, sweet root vegetables–so delicious and filling!
1. I thought this article about the use of nanotechnology in medical applications–specifically, the creation of microscopic robots that may be able to deliver drugs with extreme precision–really cool. Even cooler that some of the nanobots mechanical power was modeled after the flagellum of E. Coli bacteria!
2. An interesting article about an MIT professor who wrote a blog post that touched upon his relationship with feminism, and the heated comments that ensued. This is not really an article about food or health or wellness, but it is an article about the kinds of dialogs that can happen within the comments section of blogs (or in response to blog posts), and for that reason it struck a chord. Regardless of how you feel about the debate that the professor, Scott Aaronson, began, or about the responses he got (including one compelling rejoinder from The New Statesman's Laurie Penny), the article invites us to think about the nature of putting ourselves out there online, instigating debate, and opening up about our histories and perspectives.
The author, Conor Friedersdorf, writes:
As I read these three essays, along with commentary by many other participants in the conversation (which is too sprawling, rich, and complicated to summarize here), I felt blessed to have stumbled on brilliant, earnest individuals willing to share their life experiences and insights, all in hopes of improving the world. Since we can live together more easily when we understand one another's perspectives, these exchanges alone brought real gains—for the individuals involved, to be sure, but I suspect that their readers will gain even more. The intensely painful effect that a strain of feminism had on Aaronson may render him unable to fully appreciate that movement's value to its members, and the degree to which it is intended to speak to and benefit a close-knit community, not to affect outsiders. Similarly, feminists who've suffered particularly intense sexism and found solace, insight or strength in that movement may never fully understand or empathize with the complicated, varied, at times negative effects it has on some outsiders. But readers without strong personal reactions to movement feminism can dispassionately glean insights about the communities that we build, communities that exclude us, and how to negotiate such boundaries.
Admittedly, understanding one another's viewpoints only takes us so far. Aaronson, Penny, and Alexander also have what are ultimately empirical disputes about whether women in society, and specifically in tech, face more overall obstacles, and if so, whether men in tech are to blame, generally speaking. Empathy won't resolve those disputes. But perhaps we needn't resolve them.
Blogging presents us with a particularly charged kind of debate, because many blogs aren't only dedicated to intellectual engagement with issues. They're also highly personal spaces, wherein bloggers channel personal experience into their writing. This intimacy can make blog dialogs uniquely intense, but it also enriches them and gives them complexity. I agree with Friedersdorf that resolution isn't always–or even frequently–the point; sometimes the point is for folks to have a safe and open space in which to speak out, and that the more of those we create, the better.
3. This isn't really an article, but Ecorazzi put this New Yorker cartoon by Farley Katz on my radar, and it's so great. Available for purchase in print form, too.
4. I guess it was only a matter of time: there's now a Skype translator that, according to this article in the MIT Technology Review, "is being widely compared to the "universal translator" that Captains Kirk and Picard used to effortlessly communicate with alien interlocutors." The article goes on to talk about the human subtleties that the program can't seem to capture, which is as worth reading about as the technology itself.
5. I don't know what I can say about this article in Modern Farmer, which is all about the potato, except that you should read it. It is a long, sprawling, fascinating narrative about one of our most maligned vegetables (the white ones are widely regarded as unhealthy, and as the author notes, a great many foodies also think of them as being blander and less interesting than other roots). I don't mistrust or look down upon the potato, exactly, but I do find myself choosing other tubers (rutabagas, parsnips, squashes) far more regularly, and almost always purchasing sweet potatoes over white. By the time I finished this article, I was ready to give potatoes a much closer second look.
On that note, friends, I'm signing off. I'll be returning with a vegan casserole that's destined to become a staple for me (and the boy!). Till soon.


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Like all the other parts of the house, a roof requires a lot of attention, too. It is a very important part of every building, and it must be in a perfect condition all the time. A roof provides us with the necessary protection, and it can make our house look really beautiful. So, its maintaining is very important.
Most people understand the importance of having a good and quality roof. When they want to restore their house, the first thing they renew is their roof. There are many reasons why the roof is so important. First of all, it provides the house with the necessary protection from the bad influences from the outside. It protects the house from the rain, the sun, animals, and many other things. Also, the roof can make the house look more beautiful and increase its value. People want to have a nice and solid roof at the same time, made of quality materials. For such roof, they must find the honest roofing contractor.
The roofing company must possess several necessary things. First of all, it must have a good reputation. That is the first sign that the company is doing a good job. Another thing is the experience. The experience is very important for you because the company with a lot of experience in the business knows how to choose the proper materials, it knows how to build the nice and solid roof, etc. Skilful and knowledgeable workers are also a very important thing, as much as the quality of the equipment they use. They must know how to deal with any roof installation or restoration in the proper way. Also, the equipment should help them do their job easier and with more effect and also protect them. When you find the company which possesses these main and most important things, then you should hire it. There are several other little details which can be important to you, such as price, warranty period, etc.
The company you hire will help you choose the roof style, materials for it, and many other necessary things. A serious company will try to save as much of your time and money as it is possible. So, do not hesitate to spend a little bit more money to hire the best company. It will do the best possible job on your roof, and that money will come back to you in the future. You will not have to pay for repairs after several years because your roof will be solid and resistant. It will remain nice and untouched for the dozens of years if you choose the best roofing company for that job.
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It's been awhile since I've done one of these, so here are some more YouTube favorites. As always, asterisks* mean NSFW/not suitable for prudes or small children.
I'm not sure whether this one is self-explanatory or simply inexplicable, so I guess I'll just let you watch.
William Shatner may well have been the greatest Unintentional Comedy Genius of all time. This version of "Rocket Man" might be his greatest work. (And yes, this performance is meant to be dead-serious. Oh, and the sound is kind of messed up, so you might want to turn it down a little before you play it.)
Americans isn't stoopid.
Masahiro Mori developed the theory of the "uncanny valley," which asserts that as robots become more humanlike, people relate to them more, until the robots reach the point of being too lifelike (but not lifelike enough), which repels people. I think this is a good example, because I find it creepy as hell.
Our Dead Comedian of the Month is Richard Jeni.*
The 80s were a strange time, so what could be stranger than an 80s novelty song? (I'm not sure that the weirdest thing in this very weird video isn't the guitar player's beard, BTW.)
Imagine yourself with no TV experience filling in for a sportscaster. Then imagine that the teleprompter is running so fast that it's impossible to read, and the pages of your backup paper copy are completely out of order. The results would probably look something like this.
Speaking of Shatner, I've seen this episode of Star Trek many times, but somehow the dialog here seems a little different than I remember it.
In the interest of equal time, here's Obi-Wan explaining a few things to Luke.
This is your spider. This is your spider on drugs.*
Thursday, March 22, 2007
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Pigeon Pot Two is found amongst a series of smaller potholes in a large rift in the East Cuilcagh region. It opens as a very nice daylight pitch which is then followed through a darkening horizontal passage to a further series of pots. It features more horizontal passage than many caves of the region and is a good fun all-round trip.
One interesting and little known fact about Pigeon Pot is that is the source of the mighty Shannon river, the longest river in Ireland and the UK. Traditional knowledge maintained that the Shannon originated from the Shannon Pot ten miles from Pigeon on the south-western flank of Cuilcagh mountain. However, water has been traced from the pot leading back to the Pigeon Series on that great mountain's eastern extreme.
A caver stands at the bottom of the 2nd pitch and another on the mid-pitch traverse
From Pigeon this subterranean 'juvenile' Shannon river flows underground through many regions unknown even to cavers. One section, appropriately known as Shannon Cave, is a particularly fine and well developed horizontal cave. I will soon add a post about this cave separately.
Ascending the second pitch
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Here are the dedicated members of our Great Lakes Trophies & Engraving team.
"Mr. Trophy"
Ray BoujoulianManager
"Mr. Trophy", Ray Boujoulian, is our Operations Manager. Ray brings decades of experience in the retail awards and engraving business. He was the former long-time owner of Contemporary Awards in Farmington, MI. Ray is responsible for the day-to-day running of the awards assembly and engraving side of Great Lakes Trophies. He lives with his wife Jean in Commerce MI.
Brian Gniewek
Sales Rep
Brian brings 38 years of retail awards experience as the past owner of Hank Gniewek's Trophy, Inc. on Michigan Ave in Dearborn. He excels at high quality customer service. Brian is highly capable of providing unique, creative and timely suggestions to assure your award recipient(s) is receiving the honor and recognition they deserve. Brian devotes his time, high energy and effort in getting the customer exactly what they need. He currently lives in Southgate, MI
Dick Eslinger
Production Assistant & Engraver
Ed Duprey
Ed has owned Great Lakes Trophies & Engraving since 1995 and you'll find him here working every day (including some weekends). Ed is your contact for orders, accounting and any other questions you may have. He currently resides in Brownstown MI and is most proud of his 2 children and 5 grandchildren.


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Gatefold Box Card - G&P
Hey everyone Monica here.. I want to share a different way to use the Little Traditional Oval frame. Normally I use these for frames or home decor pieces but I decided to make a gatefold box card with it from some recycled cardboard I picked up.
This is the front of the Gatefold Box card. I added an vintage image I got online but cant remember where exactly... I handmade the flowers using Spellbinders blossoms die.
It opens up - gatefold
This is a side view look I added some Prima flowers, feather and used my Spellbinders to add a borderTraditional Oval frames these can be used literally anywhere!
Step 1: Pick your paper and I put glue on the frame and laid it on top of the paper and used my exacto knife to trim off the excess
Step 2: I then added some micro-mini beads to the inside of the bubble for added flair. Here is a really closeup look where you can see the beads!
These are so versatile and they come in different shapes too! Totally love how the whole project turned out. Hope you enjoyed my post and head over to Globecraft and Piccolo and pick up some frames!!
Supplies Used:
Globecraft & Piccolo Traditional Frame
Spellbinders Dies
Bo Bunny Patterned Paper
CTMH Sentment Stamp
Prima Flowers


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The Characters
|Smithee is an intelligent, deliberate individual who can't remember what happened prior to meeting Billy and the Zombie Apocalypse that followed. However, the past does break through in occasional nightmares and intrusive flashbacks at the worst times.
Nobody knows how to detect and kill Zombies quite as well as he does. A skill that makes a deadly duo once he met Billy and they teamed up to fight the Zombie menace.
|Ex-Mercenary for hire and bounty hunter. Killing things and being compensated is the name of his game. A perfect match with Smithee who can sense a Zombie like nobody else!
Billy can be temperamental and hot-tempered as opposed to the quiet Smithee. They don't always agree on things, but Smithee knows how to home-brew soda to Billy's satisfaction, and that is good enough. For now.
|Rex makes for good pacing filler and an objective commentator. An orphaned dog that took a liking to the duo once he saw an opportunity for a free meal.


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Some Big and Little Cat Cousins
"P UMA the Panther," began Old Mother Nature, "is the largest member of the Cat family in this country, with the exception of one which is found only in the extreme Southwest. Puma is also called Mountain Lion, Cougar and Painter. You all know how Black Pussy looks. If Black Pussy could grow to be over eight feet long and be given a yellowish-brown coat, whitish underneath, she would look very much like Puma the Panther. Unlike Yowler the Bob Cat and Tufty the Lynx, Puma has a long tail—just such a round tail as Black Pussy has. Being so large, Puma is of great strength, and he has all the grace and quickness in movement of a true Cat. As I told you yesterday, there was a time when Puma lived in the East. In fact, he was once in nearly all parts of this great country where there were forests. But as the country became settled by man, Puma was driven out, and now his home is chiefly in the great mountains of the Far West.
"Being so big, he must have much food. Instead of depending for his living on small animals and birds, Puma hunts the large animals. He is so big and so strong that he can kill Lightfoot the Deer without trouble, and there is no one Lightfoot dreads more than Puma. He is especially fond of Horse flesh, and in certain sections where herds of Horses are pastured, he has killed so many young Horses that he has won the undying hate of man.
"Big as he is, he is a coward and will run from a barking Dog. When desperate with hunger, he has been known to attack man, but such occasions have been very, very rare. The fact is, he fears man and will slink sway at his approach. Like the true Cat that he is, he is wonderfully soft-footed and, despite his great size, moves silently. He makes his home among the ledges high up in the mountains. At night he goes forth to hunt. Once in a while he is seen hunting in daytime, but not often. Sometimes he may be seen basking in the sun, high up on the ledges. He is a good climber, like most Cats. He never shows himself boldly, but slinks about through the forest and among the rocks, the picture of stealth. This habit has won for him another name—that of Sneak Cat. Sometimes he sneaks up on his prey to within jumping distance. Again he lies in wait beside a path which certain animals are in the habit of using. He is capable of leaping a long distance, and when he strikes his prey his great weight, added to the force of his spring, is almost certain to knock it down, even though it be much bigger than Puma himself.
"Men hunt him with Dogs, for as I have already told you he will run from a barking Dog. Usually he doesn't run far before taking to a tree. The hunters follow and shoot him there. Were it not that he can be hunted in this way with Dogs, he would have little to fear from man, for he is so keen of sight and hearing and can move so swiftly and silently, that it is rarely man can surprise him. Sometimes he will follow a man just as Tufty the Lynx does, but usually for the same reason—curiosity. Despite the fact that he is a sneak and coward, he is so big and fierce-looking that he is feared by most men. Only those who really know him do not fear him.
"There is one other member of the Cat family in all this great land larger than Puma, and this is Jaguar, also called El Tigre. He is found only in a small part of the extreme Southwest, for he really belongs in the hot country to the south of this. Not only is he the largest, but he is the handsomest of all the Cat family. His coat is a beautiful deep yellow, covered with spots and rosettes of black. Beneath he is white with large black spots. He also has a fairly long tail. He is thick and heavy, and is not as long as Puma, but is stouter and heavier. He can kill Horses, Mules and Cattle with ease, but of course the principal part of his food consists of the wild animals about him. He is so savage in appearance that the mere sight of him always awakens fear. His method of hunting is much the same as that of the other members of the Cat family. Most of his hunting is done at night. While Puma the panther sometimes screams, Jaguar roars, and it is a very terrifying sound. All the little people and most of the big ones within hearing shiver when they hear it. Jaguar's head is large and he is tremendously strong in the jaws. Occasionally Jaguar is all black instead of being yellow and spotted.
"In this same part of the great Southwest lives a smaller cousin named Ocelot, often called Tiger Cat. Ocelot is only a little bigger than Black Pussy, whom you all know, and in shape is very like her. He also has a lovely coat. It is yellow, not a deep, rich yellow like Jaguar's, but a light yellow, thickly covered with black spots. On his cheeks and the back of his neck are black lines, and his tail is ringed with black. He likes best country where the brush is very thick and thorny, for there he can hunt in safety, with little fear of being hunted by man. Because of his smaller size, he lives chiefly on small animals, birds and reptiles. He sometimes kills and eats big Snakes. When he happens to live near man, he robs the Hen roosts just as Yowler does. In all his ways he is like the other members of the Cat family.
"A neighbor of his in that same country is the queerest looking member of the Cat family. He is called the Jaguarundi Cat or Eyra. Sometimes he is dressed in dull gray and sometimes in rusty red. His body is shaped more like that of Little Joe Otter than of any one else, and he has short legs and a long tail. He is a little larger than Little Joe, and his head is rather small and somewhat flattened, not so round as the heads of most of the other members of the Cat family. He likes to be in the vicinity of water and is a good swimmer. Not very much is known by man about his habits, but he is a true Cat, and the habits of all Cats are much the same."


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How are you? I hope you are doing well. Sorry that I didn't post yesterday. I went out for lunch with my mum, when I got home I fell asleep so by the time I woke up, it was way too late to produce and amazing quality post so I thought I would leave it until today.
In todays post I am going to share some tips for each month to become a better you. Now, I know January is pretty much over but it's better late then never, right? So go grab a notepad and pen and enjoy the rest of my post.
Create a vision board:
- Vision boards help you discover what you really want and who you really want to be. Create one and put it up somewhere you'll always see it, make multiple copies if you want too. This will be your daily motivation to hit them goals.
Commit to a budget:
- You have literally just spent last month on a money splurge for Christmas presents, so this month instead of breaking the bank, budget yourself. Set yourself a limit on how much money to spend and justify your reasoning as to why you should use that much.
Focus on the positives:
- Come on, cut yourself some slack! Yes, you may have set yourself some new year resolutions, does that mean you need to complete them within a week, no! Focus on yourself, get to know you and your body better.
Drink more water:
- I have lost count how many times I tell people to drink more water, It sounds so simple, so why don't you do it? Drinking water helps you lose weight, keeps you feeling full so you don't have to over eat and it flushes out all of your toxins. See, it's beneficial.
Make breakfast a priority:
- Did your mum ever tell you that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? She wasn't wrong! Mums are never wrong just to be clear. Breakfast is just as important as your five a day, so go grab some coco pops and tuck in.
Keep a food diary:
- See, this is tying in together. Tracking your meals is a great way to see how much crap you're consuming and what to change in order to be eating a balance diet.
Talking about saving:
- If you want to save, talk it out. Whether it's with your partner, mum or yourself, explain why you want to save and how you'll achieve it.
Start a new workout program:
- Workouts are my favourite. I love creating my own because they are super simple. I'll be posting a workout next month.
Cut out sugar:
- Fruit is good, like really good. You don't need sugar, let's be honest it doesn't do a lot of good for you, tooth decay, weight gain, diabetes, heart disease. The list goes on and on. There are always healthier options.
Set a goal:
- Money or not, you need to have a rough idea how long you want to take to achieve this goal, you can't have the same goal go on for years and years because you'll lose the motivation.
Get more sleep:
- The average person gets around 9 hours sleep, but let's be honest who here gets that? Sleep is the best ingredient to get the brain working. Sleep is also great from recovering from an illness, sleep really is your best friend.
Don't skip meals
- Who actually does this? I can't stop eating! In all seriousness, skipping meals isn't great, you should get yourself into a routine of what time you'll eat and stick to it, that way, you shouldn't skip a meal.
Unplug and unwind:
- I do this all the time, it's great to switch off and just chill. We are always so obsessed with our phones and social media that we don't actually take time to be in the moment. We need to be more in the moment.
Savour your meals:
- Guys, don't just eat it, well do eat it but don't rush your meal. It takes your brain 20 minutes to send out signals of fullness. Taking your time to chew your meals helps you to eat what your body is comfortable with, when you rush food, you tend to eat more and then you feel bloated afterwards.
Find a workout buddy:
- I know how intimidating it can be to head into a gym or to a workout session on your own and feel like everyone is staring at you. If you have a workout buddy, it's less intimidating and you end up motivating each other.
Go meatless:
- Now, I'm not telling you to never eat meat, I mean, I eat meat too so that would be hypocritical. Just go a month with trying different alternatives, if you like it, great, if not, that's great too at least you've tried. You don't have to be a vegan or vegetarian by the way, you can eat whatever you want too.
Downsize your plates:
- Eat the same amount of calories you are meant to but try doing it in six portions. Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, snack, dinner. Set them to a certain time and keep to the routine. It's not about starving yourself, it's little but often.
Eat your fruits and veg:
- Now, don't give me that crap that you don't like all fruit and veg because let's be real, you've probably not even tried half of the options out there. Try something new, it won't kill you (unless you're allergic then my bad!).
Go for a walk:
- My favourite thing ever! Walking gives you fresh oxygen, gets your blood pumping, gets your heart racing and you get to embrace everything around you too. There isn't anything wrong with walking, I love it!
Add meditation to your routine:
- All of us, whether we are at school, Uni or work, we all work ourselves to the max and end up overstressed. Meditation is a great way to relieve that stress. The best part is, you don't need a partner to do it with, you can just do it on your own.
Go junk food free:
- Tell me, who hasn't treated themselves to more than one bar of chocolate or headed to McDonalds just to have a binge day? Well no more, at least for this month. Stop putting crap into your body for just one month and you'll be surprised at the results.
Aim for 10,000 steps a day:
- Relax, it isn't as bad as it seems, once you've been doing it for a couple of weeks, you'll soon find it normal. It's time to start walking more, the shop is five minutes away, but you decide to take the car, well aren't you just a lazy ass, get up and walk.
Give to charity:
- There are always charities needing your help. Whether it be as little as a pound to donating a lot more, you're still making a difference. So go ahead, give some blood, give away some old clothes and toys or even cut your hair and send it off. Every little helps.
Practice gratitude:
- Counting your blessings not only helps your self esteem rise and reduce your stress, it also makes you feel more content with what you have already. You wont always be searching for something more, something better.
Holidays/weekend breaks:
- It's so important to treat yourself once in a while, you do so much day in day out that you deserve some time away. So take yourself for a spa weekend or head to a nice warm villa in Spain. Enjoy time to detox from everything and revamp your vibe.
Sign up for a 5k run:
- Use this as a motivation to keep that butt going forward. Use a personal trainer or teach yourself, you wont regret it.
- I am beyond annoyed at how many people who don't recycle, just throw it wherever, I don't know if its common knowledge but all that crap end up in the ocean, so carry on an say goodbye to the life living there/
Quit an expensive habit:
- Whether you smoke or decide to spend more then half your wages on designer outfits, cut back and spend that money elsewhere.
Pick up a book and read:
- Come on, turn the TV off, leave your phone and pick up a book and read it, who knows you might actually knows, you might actually enjoy it.
Photo everyday
- You see something you like the look off, take a snap and send it and wait. Try taking a picture of yourself everyday to see how much you changed.
No make-up:
- Isn't it great when you breath? Imagine how your face will feel once all the make-up and other products are gone. Try a no make-up day for everyday throughout the month.
- Isn't talking nice? Interact with one another, see how you get on. Sparking a conversation means the world to many homeless people. It's never hurt anyone to sit down and talk, to find out others stories.
Create a list:
- This is always the busiest month, so create little lists and leave them around the house to get you working through them while doing everything else.
Celebrate every victory, big and small:
- Be proud of what you achieved, whether you hit a blogging goal, a personal goal or whatever, shout from the rooftops, pat yourself on the back and relish in the happiness. Celebrate everyone's victories big ad small because they allowed you to be there in that moment with you, do not take that for granted.
- You made it through another year and again you came out bigger and better than the last, be happy that you've gotten to where you are, never forget the journey it took to get you there either.
Well lovelies, that is the end of my post, I hope you enjoyed reading it, if you did, leave a like and a comment, if you really enjoyed share with your friends and social media. Thank you so much for reading!
I'll see you tomorrow for my usual post.
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August 13, 2015
A new study by the Sunlight Foundation gives Wisconsin an "A" in transparency about lobbying.
The study placed Wisconsin in the top five states in the country.
This report card provides strong backing for the job that the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, currently under assault, has been doing.
The report judged the states on their performance in five areas, which it delineated as follows:
- Lobbyist Activity: Do lobbyists have to reveal which pieces of legislation or executive actions they are seeking to influence?
- Expenditure Transparency: Are lobbyists required to itemize all the expenses associated with their work, such as travel, holding an event, or buying gifts for lawmakers?
- Expenditure Reporting Thresholds: Does the state require lobbyists to include all expenses in reports, or only those above a certain amount?
- Document Accessibility: In order to know whether the state could be making more information publicly available, it's important to know what information they collect. Can the public access lobbyist registration and expenditure forms?
- Lobbyist Compensation: Does the state mandate that lobbyists disclose how much they receive from a client?
Massachusetts and South Carolina tied for first with the highest marks, followed by a three-way tie between New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin.
Gov. Scott Walker, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, and other powerful Republicans in the legislature have been waging a verbal war against the Government Accountability Board in recent months. The GAB is responsible for overseeing lobbying, ethics, elections, and campaign finance issues.
This report by the Sunlight Foundation bolsters the GAB's case that it is doing an excellent job.
The Sunlight Foundation defines itself as "a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the tools of civic tech, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all."


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Transitions in eLearning environments: the Australian Army moves from interactive CD-ROMs to web-based learning resources
Document Type
Conference publication
Publication details
Newton, D & Ellis, A 2004, 'Transitions in eLearning environments: the Australian Army moves from interactive CD-ROMs to web-based learning resources', in A Ellis & A Treloar (eds)Proceedings of AusWeb04 the Tenth Australian World Wide Web Conference, Gold Coast, Qld., 3-7 July, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW. ISBN: 0975164414
Organisations with established eLearning programs continue to experience the impact of internally and externally driven change. Sustaining effective eLearning through these changes requires planning that includes an understanding of the organisational culture and the learners' needs. A move to a new eLearning environment can challenge the organisation's communication channels and decision-making culture. Further, producing quality learning resources for technology based training in one eLearning environment does not guarantee an easy transition to another environment. This case study of the Australian Army presents the issues involved within an established eLearning development team that was dealing with rapid change in their work requirements.


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by Megan S.
Traveling by umbrella has got to be one of the most uncomfortable modes of transportation ever. Think about it: there's no back support, you'll have hand cramps on long flights, all of your tops will have to be custom made because you'll build up some serious muscles in your umbrella arm but none in the other, and strangers are bound to come to you all the time asking if it's started raining outside because you're carrying an umbrella. So, when I heard that professional extreme athlete Erik Roner attempted to skydive with his umbrella ala Mary Popppins, I wondered what classic film transportation I'd use instead.
Here's my list. Is your favorite on it?
A hoverboard, duh. I figured we'd get the most obvious one out of the way first. But the Back to the Future II floating skateboard isn't without it's downsides. It doesn't work over water.
It's a little hard to see from this photo but that's witch Mary Sanderson from Hocus Pocus riding a vacuum. Why go with that versus a broom? Comfort. Riding around a broom has got to be seriously painful. The splinters alone would have my poor backside stinging. The vacuum with it's puffy bag and ergonomic handle is definitely the way to go.
Ahhhh, the Neverending Story's luck dragon. There's no better way to see Fantasia than from Falcor's back. It's like seeing the world with your ginormous talking golden retriever.
The rug from Aladdin is also a pretty choice way to travel. Sure, it has a bit of an attitude sometimes and there's always the problem with fraying but it's a classic. When you travel on a rug, you travel in style.
Of course, when you want to travel with a larger group of people, you'll want to choose the minivan of flying objects - a bed like that of Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Just whisper the incantation over the bedknob of a queen sized bed and you're good to go.
Those modes of transportation aren't always feasible especially in
inclement weather. For times like these, I'd much rather have something
like the glass elevator from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Why? Because it can go anywhere and comes with an unlimited supply of chocolate. Duh.
OK. I probably should have listed the Millennium Falcon right after the hoverboard because this choice is pretty obvious. The Star Wars spaceship might be a hunk of junk but it's Han's hunk of junk and I adore it.
And finally, the phone booth from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The TARDIS doesn't qualify for this list as Doctor Who isn't a classic film, but this late 1980's ode to the traveling blue box certainly does. It may not be bigger on the inside, but those two nutty kids from San Dimas sure managed to shove enough people in there.
So, how about you? What mode of transportation from a classic movie would you go for over an umbrella?
Monday, March 4, 2013
8 Classic Modes of Transportation Better than Poppin's Umbrella
Posted by Megan S. at 10:46 AM
Labels: Disney, Lists, Star Wars, Willy Wonka
3 comments:
- Sarah O.March 12, 2013 at 9:01 PM
How about the car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? It flies, it floats, AND it rides on roads like normal car.ReplyDelete
and Speaking of normal cars with special powers, I would pick the Delorean from Back to the Future, because where we're going we don't need roads.
The splinters alone would have my poor backside stinging. The vacuum with it's puffy bag and ergonomic handle is definitely the way to go.umbrellaReplyDelete
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Vlogging about my Heart Function DECLINE. . .
I've known this information for a while . . . my heart function is lowering. We're doing tests – Cardiology in Kingston and Toronto. Quite a few stress tests and ECGs and checking my defibrillator – as it logs my … Continue reading →
Hashtag #wearenotwaiting . . .
Saw this hashtag maybe a month ago and was elated. It was being used by patients like me. Although I did not see this as giving me permission to advocate at a new level, I certainly felt good to know … Continue reading →
Opening a NEW CHAPTER . . .
In the past I've made videos for this blog but they were pretty rehearsed – not off-the-cuff. Now I am trying something new . . . in preparation for a new blog/vlog that I am developing. Doing something more candid. … Continue reading →
Open Letter to my Diseases . . .
Dear Kidney Disease, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Anemia and friends . . . We're cool, ultimately. Not because I am happy to live with you all but because I had to make peace with you, since we met (in my teenage … Continue reading →
What is PsychoNephrology? Interview with Kidney MD . . .
Had the opportunity to meet a kidney doctor, named Dr. Gavril Hercz. He is a staff nephrologist at Humber River Hospital. An Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. And a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. He's part of a … Continue reading →
Open Letter to NxStage Tech Support Guy . . .
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Downstream: Living with Pebble
A few thoughts, in no particular order.
- Forget 'smartwatch', Pebble is better described as a HUD on your wrist. You can ignore your phone, not worry about missing anything, not have to keep flicking the screen on in case you've got notifications. You can just get on with things — and that brings the 'smartphone' age into a more positive balance for me.
- Smartphones have created a swarm of new common habits, while simultaneously becoming overkill to perform them. Apps can surface their most important actions or information in a far more convenient way. And because there are often so many, the time saved adds up fast.
- I want more of this "spoke and hub" design to my gadgets. Why not have my iPad act as a central brain, with its solid processor and battery, powering all these little devices? Then my iPhone could just be a connected screen, my Pebble could be a dumb little eInk screen, Nest is a dumb sensor on the wall etc. I imagine the challenges are not insurmountable.
- The App Store is at once very exciting and very disappointing. Currently it's really hard to discover new apps and know which ones are worth trying. But the best ones are real gems.
- Should you get one? As much as you should buy yourself any toy you don't need. It's not in the realm of whether you could live without it, it's more about whether you're the kind of person who will get a kick out of what it lets you do.
Some of my favourite everyday uses:
- Checking items off my Evernote shopping list
- Bus/ train times in a click or two
- Multiple countdowns and timers for cooking
- Google Maps turn-by-turn directions on my wrist
- Controlling Chromecast, Netflix, Spotify remotely
May 22nd, 2014
May 8th, 2014
The diversity of life experience fuelling development of games today is great
The diversity of life experience fuelling development of games today is great: From Who is DayZ creator Dean Hall?:
Survival had been drummed into him for months as part of Singaporean army training. He'd survived for two weeks on 48 hours' worth of rations before; he'd been in the top 10 per cent of recruits. He wanted to go on to do paratrooper training, commando training. But when he was deployed to Brunei he misjudged how hungry he'd already be when the survival phase begun, and he "wolfed" his rations sooner than he should. The only reason he didn't steal food from a starving friend was because he didn't have the energy to.
April 2nd, 2014
Twitter Cards are becoming the smallest unit of 'web'
My thoughts on Econsultancy:
Furthermore, because Twitter Cards can be based on existing metadata of websites, they can be simply generated at scale. For example, Amazon can immediately translate any product listing into an accompanying Card.
At that stage, what's to stop you making a page of the cards, searching by its metadata and cutting out the middle man? Or creating a simple shopfront by creating a search filter of friends' "Buy" cards?
Read the rest: Twitter Cards are becoming the smallest unit of 'web'
April 2nd, 2014
Listen up Apple: build a smart EarPod or someone else will (Wired UK)
By me at Wired:
The idea would take a key element of Apple's heritage and sidestep the assumption that a wearable device has to rely on your sense of sight or touch. Apple has an opportunity to recall one of the strongest motifs of its iPod days and put the humble earphone back in the spotlight.
Read the rest at Listen up Apple: build a smart EarPod or someone else will
April 2nd, 2014
A thought on"What the Fox Knows"
A thought on"What the Fox Knows":
All of this takes time. That's why we've elected to sacrifice something else as opposed to accuracy or accessibility. The sacrifice is speed — we're rarely going to be the first organization to break news or to comment on a story.
This is an interesting choice. I think our ability to make a rapid but rough call on data can often give you 80% of the picture — which makes me question how often that extra 20% of insight is worth the delay.
I like data but I remain healthily suspicious of its fetishisation as more become possible with it.
March 18th, 2014
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.":
Every time a story comes up about the details of what is and isn't healthy for you, I come back to this article. Eating 80% healthily isn't insanely hard, but trying to nail down the details of the last mysterious and often contradictory 20% always seems a mess.
From the article:
That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning of a long essay, and I confess that I'm tempted to complicate matters in the interest of keeping things going for a few thousand more words. I'll try to resist but will go ahead and add a couple more details to flesh out the advice.
Like: A little meat won't kill you, though it's better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you're much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That's what I mean by the recommendation to eat "food."
Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you're concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it's not really food, and food is what you want to eat.
March 5th, 2014
"Blue sky thinking" to popularise the Year of Code with today's youth
The Government's Year of Code is off to a mixed start, to say the least. But it is possible that increasing the next generation's knowledge of these valuable tools could be key to increasing our country's future prosperity. So what are we to do?
Drawing on my own childhood computing interest and some classic 'blue sky thinking', here are a few suggestions to get things moving.
1. Turn off the App Stores
It can be done. Egypt has done it, Syria has done it — isn't it about time someone used filtering of communications as a force for good? With access to the exciting and useful array of apps now gone, the App Store home pages can be replaced with a guide to writing your first programme. Or the source code for Flappy Bird and Snapchat. Today's industrious youth will have hacked together an alternative in no time — I mean, what else are they going to do, read a book?
2. Give the project to Reddit to run instead
Loading up the home page and seeing George Osborne grinning back at you is enough to put anyone off. Seriously though, the Government is not cool, school is the biggest institution you ignore the advice of, and men in suits who work at Google are not aspirational figures. Reddit is an online community founded by young guys who had no idea what they were doing and smashed their way to success. And if nothing else, the community gets things done.
3. Bring back TV storylines where kids hack computers to change their grades
This used to happen in literally every children's TV show when I was young and they made it look easy enough to try. Given the state of most Government IT, they probably stand a good chance at success.
Joking aside, if you want to learn more about the Year of Code and get a more optimistic view on the subject, you could do worse than read this analysis by Benjamin Southworth. Ben was previously in the belly of the beast as Deputy CEO of the Tech City project so his perspective is not your average Joe's.
But hopefully, if all else fails, my suggestions above can remain a solid Plan B. Feel free to share your own ideas in the comments.
March 4th, 2014
"We fully expect that we when write a story about soccer, we're going to be referring to it as…"
""We fully expect that we when write a story about soccer, we're going to be referring to it as 'football' in the U.K. headline," Hansen said. "It's millions of decisions like that that will determine the success of this kind of expansion.""
Business Insider prepares to take the UK | Digiday
I hope they have their best men on the job.
February 28th, 2014


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Melbournian future-soul and r&b wizards, The Do Yo Thangs, dropped their new single 'Sucka' recently. 'Sucka' is the second cut from their long-awaited debut album Mind Full.
The blend of R&B and synth-funk in 'Sucka' immediately sucks you in (pun intended), teasing you with the last of the Melbourne lingering summer vibe and making you want to dance uncontrollably.
The song's everlasting catchiness comes from Audrey Powne's stunning lead vocal, while Hugh Rabinovici, the band's drummer, songwriter and producer, provides the smooth bass groove.
'Sucka' has a very different vibe to the band's first single 'Those Days', which was released in September 2017. Both, however, have that signature Do Yo Thangs style, which made the 2016 EP One Plus One so smooth.
The Do Yo Thangs are set to release Mind Full on 25th May via HopeStreetRecordings.
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