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When taking an online Spanish course, self discipline and motivation are very large factors. Most people embark on a journey with online learning because they think it will be more convenient and time efficient, than traveling to school to take a class.
In many ways they are right. With an online Spanish course, you get to avoid commutes that are sometimes long and frustrating. You also get to avoid face time with instructors and other people if you so choose. You save gas and lunch money because you are home and get to eat there! You … read more
By now you are probably searching for a Spanish language software to help you on your journey to speaking like the natives. This article will go over a few of the more popular versions of Spanish language software available.
JumpStart Spanish is the first on our list today. JumpStart Spanish CD-ROMS incorporate a fun aspect to learning. Geared more for youngsters, it is an excellent, fun choice to learn the basics.
Spanish Now! is the second product on our list of Spanish language software. Incorporates more of an emphasis on conversation, and less on … read more
Spanish language lessons can be tough for some people to grasp. Especially as an adult, it is much harder for our brain and language centers to "learn new tricks" than it is for a child to learn a new language. That is why, if you spend any length of time in a foreign country, your child ends up translating for you!
However it is not a lost cause for an adult, it just means that you must put in more effort with Spanish language lessons, and practice regularly. New neuro pathways must be forged in the language centers … read more
There are many options available to help you learn Spanish fast, one of the most popular is Rocket Spanish Premium . This is a course that has huge amounts of content, including audio lessons, interactive Spanish lessons, software games to help with vocabulary, with getting to grips with Spanish Verb tenses, pronouncing and understand Spanish words, a free forum to get any questions answered and lots more besides.
To obtain full information on Rocket Spanish, and what you can expect, we have reviewed it here. At the moment the full Rocket Spanish down-loadable program is available … read more
Welcome to part two of our 2 part series covering the top 10 mistakes to avoid to learn how to speak Spanish the right way. The last article, we covered the first 5, this article we will explore the final 5. I hope that you take these mistakes to heart and do your best to avoid them.
The sixth mistake to avoid to learn how to speak Spanish the right way, is taking for granted that Spanish words that look like English words, have the same meaning. Words like these, that are the same or similar are called … read more
If you want to learn Spanish fast, the best way to improve your chances is to assess your learning style, and plan your education accordingly. There are 3 major learning styles that people tend to fall under. Figuring out which one suits you will be a big step in successful education, regardless if it is learning a new language or learning a new skill.
The three main types of learners are visual learners, auditory learners, and kinesthetic learners. Visual learners think in terms of pictures. They prefer to see things written down, and find graphs, charts and … read more
When trying to learn Spanish, audio instruction can be vital in helping your grasp grammar and pronunciation, as well as inflection and syntax. There are tons of learn Spanish audio Cd's you can purchase, that you can listen to while traveling, or at night before bed time.
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If you want to learn how to speak Spanish the right way, there are a few pitfalls and mistakes you should avoid. This article will be a 2 part series detailing the top 10. Hopefully it will help guide you on your journey to becoming fluent in the Spanish tongue.
One mistake to avoid and learn how to speak Spanish the right way, is always following English sentence order. You can do it at times and be understood, but notice that at times the subject will come after the verb. Changing word order in this manner … read more
What's the best way to learn to speak Spanish? That's a question a lot of people are asking themselves these days, as America becomes more and more a global village. Tens of millions of people in America now speak Spanish, and many are more fluent in that language than in English. Experts say that this trend is only going to continue, and that eventually America will be a bilingual country sometime this century. So what's the best way to teach yourself Spanish? Well, there is no single method that's best for everyone but one of the best ways is to … read more
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Washing ourselves with our own voices, reminiscing of our naughty choices
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Oddly even, is our couple; four hands to carry, two lives to double
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I really like this because it is translucent and I can use it over my e/s to help the staying power. I also use it heavily under my eyes to prevent mascara smudging and it never looks cakey. A light dusting over my mu makes it look polished without looking chalky (using a VERY light hand) or powdery matte. This is the only BE product I will repurchase. I took off one lippie because it doesnt control oil.
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As much of a BareEscentuals fan that I am, I waited out before buying Mineral Veil because I really doubted that it could do everything it promised to do (shrink pore size, etc. etc. etc.) but I did end up getting it in a travel size version as part of a kit.
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By Regina Lee Blaszczyk

It was a spectacle that made people's eyes pop. The "dazzling colors" and "smart bodies" of the 1925 New York Automobile Show drew record crowds.

In the midst of a wicked Nor'easter, 8,000 motor enthusiasts flocked to the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, New York, on Jan. 3, 1925. An additional 6,000 men in the auto business -- dealers, salesmen, jobbers -- toured the show during special trade days.

Many people came to study the new engineering features -- and many came to gawk at the new colors.

Since the first national automobile show opened in 1900, at Madison Square Garden in New York, these expos had gotten bigger and more extravagant every year, as cars replaced buggies and automakers vied for a share of the growing consumer market.

By 1925, auto shows were a permanent part of American culture, with dozens of models being shown by dozens of automakers from coast to coast.

This was the year of the "closed car," a new type of body that had a metal roof and glass windows rather than a cloth cover and clear plastic windows. Large producers such as Buick, Cadillac, Essex, Hudson, Marmon, Nash, Overland, Paige and Willys-Knight all exhibited closed cars.

But the new models still looked like boxy carriages on rubber wheels. Coachbuilders tried to enliven the old-fashioned look by using camouflage tricks -- colored paint was their favorite tool.

For many years, show cars had been painted in bright, fancy colors with carriage varnishes. But painting by hand was expensive, and automakers couldn't afford to mass-produce models this way.

Henry Ford famously overcame this problem when he found an inexpensive black enamel for his Model T. Contrary to myth, the Model T didn't just come in black. Ford used several shades, including dark green and dark grey -- all durable and all somber.

In 1923, General Motors hooked up with the DuPont Company to create Duco automotive paint. Duco was a quick-drying enamel made from the same cellulosic material as DuPont hair brushes and Kodak camera film. It was durable, cheap and easy to apply.

Most important, it could be made in brilliant colors.

GM applied Duco to models made by one of its divisions, the Oakland Motor Car Company. The "True Blue" color was the sensation of the auto shows that year.

The magazine Motor Vehicle Monthly explained why colorful cars had become such a hit: "Milady is gaily marching into the field of color selection and her selective faculty must be catered to; she knows colors, and, for the most part, quite intimately enough to give her views in selection and designing authority."

GM head Alfred P. Sloan Jr. took note. In addition to being a brilliant organizational man, Sloan was a "clothes horse" who appreciated style. The fashion preferences of female consumers were not lost on him. Within a few years, all cars made by GM were painted with colorful Duco lacquers.

By mid-decade, rival paintmakers, such as the Ditzler Color Company, were taking note and capitalizing on color. "The closed-car shows being held in New York and elsewhere show the trend unmistakably -- a number of the big producers are getting away from somber blacks and are using color," said a Ditzler advertisement in the magazine Automotive Industries. "A car finished in suitable colors catches the eye of the man in the street and sets him talking among his acquaintances. Color reaches everyone -- makes an appeal to all."

American automakers realized that color might be a winning weapon in the battle for consumer dollars. Detroit advertising agencies offered art direction to auto manufacturers who needed color advice.

DuPont hired H. Ledyard Towle, an Army veteran who learned about visual chicanery from French camoufleurs on the Western Front, to direct its color-planning division. Every year, Towle sailed to Europe to study the artistic paint jobs on display at the Olympia Auto Show in London and the Auto Salon in Paris.

Back in the U.S., Towle tutored Duco customers in French tastes. He showed coachbuilders and automakers how paint could make a boxy car look longer and a fat car look slimmer.

By 1925, brilliant paint jobs were the rage. At the New York Automobile Show, there were two-color, three-color and four-color vehicles. Different colors were used on the bodies, the moldings, the stripes, the trims, the roofs and the wheels.

Unfortunately, none of this was documented for posterity by the camera. Extant black-and-white pictures suggest only funereal shades, like those on the Model T.

Color film was still in the experimental stages.

(Regina Lee Blaszczyk is a historian affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania and the author or editor of seven books, including the forthcoming "The Color Revolution." The opinions expressed are her own.)

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How to (re)associate audio/video files with Windows Media Player 12?
After unsolvable problems with VLC player (constant crash reports) I want to move back to Windows Media Player as my standard program to play audio & video files. But whatever I click and do, I cannot find a way to (re)associate the 'VLC'-files to WMP12.
If I rightclick a 'VLC'-file in a folder, I can select 'open with' and then select WMP. But only for one instance! If i want to make WMP the default opener, I get this error message: 'This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Please install a program or, if one is already installed, create an association in the default programs control panel' - Strange message, because this file HAS a default program already, I just want to change it!
I have desperately been looking for an option Windows had in the past, where you can (in explorer, I think) get a list of ALL file extensions, then select which program to use to open a specific extension, then check the box 'use this program by default for this file type'. Is this management tool gone?
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Hello WimYogya,
You could go into Default Programs and set Windows Media Player to have all of it's default associations set to open with it.
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But Windows Media Player is not in that list... although it HAS been installed and I can use it for playing back individual files...
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Check to see if the tutorial below may be able to add Windows Media Player back to Default Programs. If so, then try the above again.
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It is nearly universally agreed that the HTC One design is much better than the Galaxy S4, so if hardware quality is important to you, then take a look at the HTC One at your local AT&T store. However, the Samsung is still a solid smartphone and has refined its popular Galaxy S3 to come out with one of the top Android smartphones available today. Samsung offers incremental hardware improvements in the Galaxy S4 over the Galaxy S3, with a focus on adding in more software enhancements.
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Given that True Detective ends this coming Sunday, and that is 7 days away, and that there are 7 episodes of True Detective thus far, I've decided to finally begin watching. One episode a day (and two on finale day). I'm prone to binge watching (I finished House of Cards in less than 48 hours) so we'll see how well I'll stick to it.
Today's Episode: Episode 1 - The Long Bright Dark
Desire to watch next episode: 6/10
So, I watched the first episode today. I was told I may spend the first half of it wondering what the point of the conversations was. Quite the opposite, I caught on to these characters almost immediately. I enjoy the writing, as strange as it is thus far. I'm intrigued, but definitely not hooked yet. Desire to watch is a 6. If I had to wait a week for episode 2 I could with little issues.
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The relationships between teams and their minor league affiliates is pretty important. They have to be able to trust each other, and management between the two clubs has to get along. They have to be in sync in order for the organization to be successful.
This post season, the Lightning organization is just that: in sync. While the Lightning take on the Penguins in their first round series, the Norfolk Admirals have drawn the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in their first round of the Calder Cup Playoffs in the AHL.
The Baby Pens ran away with the regular season, racking up 117 points when the next closest team, the Portland Pirates, got just 103. The Admirals are 24 points behind with 93. The Ads are clear underdogs in this situation, as are the Lightning in their series with the Big Pens. The Baby Pens have dominated in just about every category this season, and it will take a lot of heart and guts for the Admirals to bring them down.
That series will start on Friday in Pennsylvania.
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1. Publishers must embrace digital, or risk losing a significant percentage of sales within 5 years. I think we can all agree digital media is going to begin to account for a significant amount of sales soon. Publishers need to have a strategy in place to make their content available where and…
For all its growth, the e-book market has been stillborn in one major way: monetizing itself. But recent news that a Spanish company called 24Symbols went into beta on a an e-book service, which includes both ad-supported and subscription options, shows that maybe digital publishing could truly be evolving from a one-trick pony into a showhorse.
Unlike online video, music and video games, e-books only really put money into the publisher's pocket through sell-through. The other content types offer many payment methods for consumers: rental, subscription, ad-supported and sales. Add in windowing, and the sophistication (and overall revenue opportunities) are much more ample in markets like video.
For the last year, however, some have started to think maybe e-books could start to emulate other content models. There's been talk of ad-supported e-books, while others have looked at subscription-based e-book plans, or what some have called Netflix for e-books.
Been reading mark cuban's blog and liking what I see. Was captivated by the thought of a netflix library for ebooks. Implications for libraries? Something to think about.
Well, it finally happened. Amazon released an ad-supported Kindle. We all knew it was coming. I didn't think I could really be disappointed in such a long-awaited change to the platform.
But I am. Seriously? $25 cheaper? For twenty-five bucks, I'll buy off the ads. Easily. Is Amazon expecting…
So, it may turn out that search engines — not Craigslist — are going to be the newpaper killers as we move into the tablet era. Damon Kiesow rhapsodizes about the new Bing iPad app, which is much more than a search tool, since it streams all sorts of news in a beautiful package:
Damon Kiesow,
(via stoweboyd)
This looks pretty cool.
Anyone want to try this with me?


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The story of little Xhesi who is selling clothes in Tirana
Written by Sabahet Peposhi
She is only eleven years old but she works a full twelve-hour day. Her name is Xhesi (her name has been changed to protect her privacy) and she lives, with the other six members of her family, in extreme poverty. Every day she can be seen selling second-hand clothes on the streets of Tirana. She has much to tell about suffering and misery. She experiences it every day.
'I have never been to school. It is not that I do not like to go to school, but because we do not have money,' Xhesi says in poor Albanian.
'I could not send any of my five children to school. What should I pay for first: the rent? the goods I buy? which one? And we all want to eat after all!' said the father of Xhesi, Xhevat, who was standing nearby.
I ask Xhesi how she spends her time. She replies 'Most of the day here, at work. It is not a very heavy job. But it is very boring.'
A lady stops alongside the clothes that Xhesi sells and starts going through them. But the young girl keeps talking to me. This is the first time that someone has asked her to talk about herself. She says that she has never celebrated her birthday, nor has anyone ever given her a present. While she is talking she also keeps an eye on the clothes; she is afraid someone might steal something, and it would not be the first time.
While other children regularly enjoy presents their parents give them, enjoy an afternoon's entertainment on the playgrounds with their friends, Xhesi has to sell second-hand clothes on the street corner. Her only happy moments are when she talks or jokes with her girlfriend selling second-hand shoes on the opposite pavement. Xhesi explains that she spends very little time with Fetije, her friend across the street, as she also has to keep an eye on her goods.
The lady has finished picking through the clothes Xhesi is trying to sell. She has taken more than 20 minutes. She leaves, without buying anything. Understanding my concern, Xhesi explains that usually only young women and girls buy anything. They sometimes also give her some extra money.
It is a few minutes after seven o'clock. Xhesi starts to collect her clothes. The sharp glowing colours of her sweater contrast starkly with her pale face. Even though I have some more questions, she has no more time for answering. I hope she will get some good sleep at least…


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by Life Anthem on March 21, 2014
The dreamers aren't a problem. They approach life with a bit of caution and are at least somewhat realistic and humble. It's the romantics that are insufferable. They are blind, and for them pragmatism is an alien way of thinking.
I'd say that years ago, I would have defended many ways of living as I went to new places. These days I'm a little less patient with ways of living, doing business and ways of thinking than I was before. By all means, if it works for a group, then may they enjoy it together, but if a place isn't working for me, well, I have to say goodbye, as time isn't on my side, and along with that, tide waits for no man as they say.
Oh, I've only been in Cambodia for less than a month, and I've just left Phnom Penh once for a village outside of town on a film trip. I'm not here on a holiday, but to work so I've been getting settled with the team on my new project and looking for an apartment. I've made a little group of friends luckily, and quickly. There are so many foreigners here working with embassies and NGOs and other developmental sorts of things that it's pretty easy to get in with a social group from the west. Am I just ready to settle down faster than I thought I ever would be? I think I'm just tired of settling for mediocre. People here try really hard, I think, but the effects of horrible government and dictatorships and genocide have really ruined this country to the core. The people here today are an example of how humans have really get through a lot. I haven't seen violence or meanness from people yet, but I have seen dis honestness. I also haven't been here long enough to judge. But I do feel that I can judge the people from places like Europe, Australia and New Zealand and the U.S. and Canada here. People that refuse to criticise anything because they're so in love with the idea of being in a rough country that they can't fathom it really becoming too "easy" to live in. I mean that's why they're here right? For the challenge. For the acknowledgement of others that they've done something outrageously on the edge. So do they really want it to get too "mainstream" here? Maybe, maybe not. There are the specifics on Phnom Penh that we could bring up, such as how foreigners living here to reinvigorate the country and try to fix it are just driving up the price of rent and goods, supply and demand and what people are willing to pay for things. It's causing people who're thinking of low S.E. Asia prices to low ball the locals while they get angry because they can't live on the salary offered because goods and rent prices are going up because of the foreigners who are here. That's one example of the oddity that is Cambodia.
I guess sometimes a person thinks they're up for a way of life, but the adventure really turns into a reality check; a discovery that the person may actually have a different set of goals than they originally thought. I enjoyed a nice year in New Zealand, land of the easy going lifestyle in many ways. Everything is just so easy there, except maybe finding a cool job. Coming here I find everyone wants to have someone with my experience on board their project, but they don't want to pay because so many here volunteer. I know that I'll most likely head back to the U.S. in the not-so-distant future, but do I really want to head back into media, or do I just want to find a job and make a paycheck so that I can save some more money up again and head back out into the world? There are so many things I've dreamed of doing, like writing a book and creating a film, projects that I'd be extremely proud of whether I was paid for them or not, but I really want to be able to relax in my home country again as well. I really yearn for a lifestyle that is easy going and relaxed to live out my days.
I want a simple life, and while people live with little in S.E. Asia often times, they also life a harsh life. In the U.S. I could find a simple way of life that is a quality life as well. That may be because I'm well versed in the ways of the U.S., but it's also because the country itself is set up that way for many immigrants as well, to find a way to make a dream come true. That's the idea at least.
So I write this little entry as a sort of journal passage of sorts. It's meant to remind myself that just because I envisioned a journey a certain way, doesn't mean I've failed if the journey takes me down a path I didn't plan for.
Stuck in the Small Picture
by Life Anthem on February 15, 2014
Just another idyllic Auckland summer day. The sky blue and the water as emerald as you've ever seen. I on the other hand wasn't having such a wonderful one. You know how it goes sometimes. You do what you can, but the day just doesn't seem to stick. So I decided to go for a little walk and clear my mind.
Walking around a little beachside community in the city's more upper-class east side I passed a park and sat down for a spell to just watch a group playing a game of cricket. It was nice.
I got up and walked around the corner to a little shop to buy a cold drink; walked inside this shop as I've done many times in the past. I passed by several refrigerators full of different sodas, flavored waters and juices. As I saw one that I wanted, up on one of the shelves at eye level, I opened the door gently and heard a "pop, bash" and felt cold sticky liquid soaking into my shoe and onto my foot.
A woman just to my left said: "oh my, it just fell out of there."
to which I responded: "yea, how annoying."
I heard the clerk at the counter taking money as a few customers stilled queued to pay for their items. What was I to do? He was the only one running the store.
These little stores are all over Auckland and New Zealand. Each one is called a "dairy". They are modest corner stores you go to for a little drink, bag of chips or even some cheese or pain reliever. They're there for when you don't feel like going to the big supermarket and don't mind paying about 1-4 dollars more than you should for an item. I suppose you save in gas money, but they usually sell to adults or school children just looking for a snack while passing by.
I went to another refrigerator and grabbed a bottle of juice, and then a shelf for a couple of small bags of chips for the house, then walked up to the shop keeper cautiously.
"So you're the one who dropped the bottle on the floor." he said to me. Like a father who hates his boss so he passes on the disdain to his child for committing the horror of a little accident (sarcasm).
I explained to him that I opened the door normally and the bottle just fell out from a bottom shelf.
"Customers open those doors all the time and a bottle has never fallen out." he responded.
Ok, so reason tells this guy that just because he's never seen this situation happen, it's impossible that it could happen.
I explained to him that the other woman, another customer, who was standing in front of him and to my left saw the whole thing and commented that she saw the bottle just fall out.
While we're having this conversation a man and his two sons are behind me pretending to pick out items from a shelf, yet I know the father is listening to this awkward interaction. I motioned for the shopkeeper to give me back my bank card, letting him know I was not going to buy anything from him for rudely implying without any proof that I had dropped a bottle on the floor and was trying to cover it up by lying and saying that it fell out of the refrigerator, when all I did was open the door.
Here's a situation that I've run into time after time in many countries, including the U.S., where I'm from. Business owners are constantly stuck in the small picture. Yes, this shop keeper was going to lose about 4-6 New Zealand dollars from the sale of this overpriced bottle of soda that fell out; but as he told me, this has never happened. So what he did was embarrass a kind and honest customer over 4-6 dollars.
After I explained to him again that the bottle fell out without me even touching it, he, again proceeded to let me know that he's never seen that happen before and wanted me to know that he didn't believe my story. Honestly, if he would have said not to worry about it and been kind, I would have certainly paid for the broken bottle in addition to the other items and gladly helped clean up the mess. There was no concern from him that I might have stepped on a broken piece of glass, or that my shoes were stained from the soda that splashed on them.
I was so angry after being treated like a lying child, I motioned for him to give me back my debit card for the last time and I took it as I proceeded to leave the store. I'll never go back.
I was so angry for hours after that. It's so frustrating that a business owner would be so small minded as to treat a customer like that instead of looking at the big picture. This is a small shop in the middle of a very affluent neighborhood. The shop keeper, probably a very nice man who I would venture to guess, educatedly, immigrated here from another country and worked hard to get where he is and was probably elated to be living in beautiful New Zealand and on top of that, having his shop located in one of the cleanest, quietest and nicest neighbourhoods in the city. The shops around him are always busy and the fish and chip shop next to his is a family operation with friendly staff and repeat customers. Why do people get so caught up in being angry at an honest happenstance instead of seeing that this encounter could be golden. That encounters are each chances to improve on a relationship instead of breaking it down because of little insignificant battles of pride or foolish anger.
Always look at the big picture and never get caught up in the small stuff. I reminded myself of this lesson as the hours after that moment passed. I thought about the lesson that I could learn from this in my own life instead of dwelling on how unnecessarily rude this man was over such a small incident.
The 1888 book Banking Under Difficulties uses the phrase:
"It was no use, however, crying over spilt milk."
Which seems fitting for the dairy industry conscious nation of New Zealand. Except in this case it was the shopkeeper crying over spilled soda, and forgetting his reputation along with his manners in the meantime.
Thailand and Vietnam
by Life Anthem on January 23, 2014
Paradise? Not quite.
Cheap? Not quite.
After spending about a month in "the land of smiles", I would return, but for a choice list of reasons. I had never been to Asia, and this was a great entry point. My journey started in Bangkok, where I had about 8 hours to grab dinner, take a walk and grab a few hours of sleep before I rushed to the bus station for the bus/ferry combo with Lomprayah which took me to Koh Tao (a small island in the Gulf of Thailand).
Coming from safe, easy, breezy, clean and sometimes boring New Zealand, it was a bit of a shock even for a traveler who has been to some bustling parts of the world. Especially in the South of Thailand, you feel like cargo with a wallet. This was the high season, to top it all off.
My path for the next few weeks looked like this:
Auckland-New Zealand to Bangkok via Sydney, One night in Bangkok then bus down to Chumporn, ferry to Koh Tao (for dive school), ferry to Koh Phangan (for New Years), ferry/bus combo to Krabi, bus/ferry combo to Koh Lanta, minibus/ferry combo to Koh Jum, ferry/bus combo to Phuket via Krabi, bus to Khao Sok National Forest, minibus to Surat Thani airport, plane to Bangkok, nice quick train ride to Ayutthaya, 10 hour train ride (that was fashionably and typically late) to Chiang Mai, plane back to Bangkok, plane to Hanoi-Vietnam.
The South, for the most part, sucks. The end, and I don't apologize for saying it. Somebody has to say it. The respect for the environment is largely thrown out the window in the all important pursuit of the BAHT. Plastic is used like you wouldn't believe. Plastic wraps every bottle top of every plastic bottle it seems, plastic wrapped plastic straws for every beverage at 7/11, automobile pollution abounds, fuel-leaking long tail boats and people who ruin the coral around the islands and the water itself. There is more concern that a tourist is going to take a drug than would ruin the country's irreplaceable environment. When I see sticky rice wrapped in an environmentally friendly banana leaf I get so happy.
I understand that the people working in the tourism industry go through a lot in this part of the country dealing with idiotic and rude short-term vacationers from all over the world who come for a cheap holiday, but there has to be a way to improve the system and make it safe, sustainable and friendly at the same time.
There are 3 places I visited in the south of Thailand that I would return to (keep in mind that I didn't have time or money this time to visit places like the Similan Islands or Koh Lipe which I found highly recommended. For nearly unspoiled I chose Koh Jum (below) which I found pretty lovely for the most part. :
#1: Koh Tao. The island's interesting part is walkable and most go there for open-water dive training. It was rewarding to overcome fears and get certified to be an open water diver. Dive Masters, recommended to me by a traveler in New Zealand, is most likely the only dive school worth going to on the Island, because for not much more the school is leaps and bounds better than the others from all indications. One indication is watching our school with only 1-4 people to each instructor while the other schools around us jumped off large long-tail style boats in the same bay crowded with around 8 students per instructor. No exaggeration. You pretty much stay in Koh Tao for the course and then it's a good idea to leave because, at least when I was there, the water wasn't very clear and the corals are badly damaged. Also the bays are so crowded with dangerous and polluting wooden boats with leaky old motors that you don't know if you're going to ingest fuel or get hit by a propeller. Thai-style.
#2: Koh Jum. After experiencing New Years on Koh Phangan, which was a nightmare, I needed to find some modicum of solitude. 50,000+ rude drunk foreigners nearly sunk the island as they hoarded it like ants on sugar. Faith in humanity lost. After that mess I was ready to go to the quietest place I could find. As I headed to Koh Lanta, off the bad advice of a few travel blogs, I was so exhausted from Koh Phangan that I left my bag on the ferry. I only realized after a confusing start to the bus ride across the Thai peninsula to Krabi. Faith in Thailand restored when the company booked me into a cheap room in Krabi for the night as I waited for my bag on the next bus over. With that error solved (luckily it seemed), I headed to Koh Lanta the next day. A travel agency in Krabi attached to the Pak-Up hostel booked me into an overpriced boring resort at the bottom of the island and seemingly snuck in an extra 300Baht for a one-way minibus/ferry ride that I didn't order and already had. When I arrived I realized just how "family-friendly" Koh Lanta is. More screaming kids than I could handle, unless you can find a bungalow on the hipper mid-western beaches. I rented a motorbike to try and salvage the couple of days I was there, but ended up using it to realize just how underwhelming Koh Lanta really is and to go to another travel agency to book a ticket and accommodation to go to the locally recommended Koh Jum. I'll sneak in this bit of advice with the trio:
The tiny island between Koh Lanta and Krabi (Koh Jum) was recommended to me by the taxi driver in Krabi. He said to go there to escape the tourists. When I arrived my first bungalow was at Andaman Beach Resort. PASS. The staff are rude, unreliable and cold and the beach there is mediocre. I arrived at 11am on a ferry/longtail trip because the island doesn't have a pier. The room wasn't ready until 2pm and the next morning I was woken up to a knock on the door at 8AM saying I needed to check out because many guests were arriving. What a joke. They were angry because I said I wasn't staying longer because I found a better and less expensive place at Golden Pearl bungalows up the road. I showered, packed my bags, tossed the key to reception and rode my motorbike up the road to Golden Pearl where my bungalow was ready and I spent a couple of days in a 350Baht cool place with a great beach, bar, restaurant and campus. While on Koh Jum go to Friendly Restaurant which is next to Andaman Resort. The people there are sweet and the food is wonderful. This is one of the few places in Thailand where you'll feel safe riding a motorbike, so rent one from Friendly Restaurant too at a fair price. You'll be able to ride to the little town centre to book a day trip to any of the nearby islands like Koh Phi Phi, or even check out some of the other little restaurants in the town or shops. I've heard that you shouldn't even bother going to this island in the off season though because everything will be closed and you'll be eating at the resort the whole time.
#3: Phuket. This was the most surprising. I even stayed in Patong Beach. It's so ironic that I liked it, but not for the trashy people and atmosphere, but for the nightly market on Soi Banzaan, the nice restaurants and Thai massages on some of the streets further away from the beach, and for Phuket Travel Company. They are on Soi Banzaan and run the Loveli Guest House above which is affordable and well kept. The staff at Phuket Travel Co. are super friendly, funny and helpful in many ways. They booked about 3 tours for us that were a great deal. I think. You just never know in Thailand. And you always have a portion of a trip where you want to do some tours instead of just wandering around. We toured some of Phuket, went to Coral Island for some snorkeling and left for Khao Sok National Forest for a 2 day tour on the way to Bangkok. I'll sneak in Khao Sok as an extra recommendation here for the south of the country. We went on this tour booked by the Phuket Travel Company that was pretty nice. I thought it felt very packaged, but my friend really enjoyed it because it was all so organized and easy. We went on this night canoe ride down a river where you could see the incredible limestone rocks in the moonlight and get up close by flashlight to some creepy night creatures and we thought it was pretty awesome. Sure most of it was touristy and packaged as hell, but we knew that before going and accepted the good parts. After that I was ready to get the HELL out of the South of Thailand, for christ sake.
The North
Ayutthaya was cool for a day or two. The guest houses there are hit or miss, but we liked Baan Lotus the best, and the sweet old lady that runs the place. She's a bit forgetful so be patient with her, it's worth it. Thailand really pisses me off with the guest house situation. It is highly likely that you will book a room ahead of time and they won't ask for any real details about who you are or any payment method for a deposit. When you arrive you have no idea if they are going to try and give you a more expensive room, or give your room away to someone who walked in right before you with cash in hand. There were a few times when we'd walk up to reception, tell them we had a booking and they would say they are full when I just got off the phone with them after they said they were reserving a room for us. It's pathetic. Then you have the all too common "I need to hold your passport for a deposit". How many passports can a person have and lend out? If you rent a motorbike and stay in a guest house, you're likely to have two or more people wanting your passport and I heard people asking if one could just make a photocopy to give to the other because his passport was being torn in so many directions. It should be against the law to hold someone's passport as a deposit. I had an expired one that I gave to one guest house as I couldn't leave my current one and the U.S. Passport Card I have wasn't going to be acceptable. Of course even my older expired passport was very important to me because it had all of my old visas and stamps from other trips. But the guest house worker got an attitude as if I was doing something unethical by giving him my expired passport. Well I think his method of potentially blackmailing someone into paying by saying he would hold their passport is unethical.
That last encounter happened in Chiang Mai which, besides some cool parts of Bangkok, I will say is incredibly worth a return visit. I loved Chiang Mai more than any other place in Thailand. Without question. It has all of the convenient appeals of the country, but with a great little character and charm coupled with great history and a slower less mind-boggling pace.
Next we spent a few more days in Bangkok, which could have been cut by 2 and went to insanely busy Hanoi. Wow, talk about a crazy way to end the trip. I was so tired of the hotel dance (changing hotels nearly every night) that I booked 7 nights into a nice hotel in Hanoi because the price was so good. The first two days and night were really cool, and then suddenly I was over it. So we booked yet another packaged tour to Ninh Binh Province (because Halong Bay seemed a little too far for one day) and went to Tam Cốc (The Three Caves). We booked at a little travel agency on Ma May street in Hanoi next to the 3b Hotel. The company we went with had a great guide who really warned us and helped us with the pushy tip-hungry locals. I tipped the boat rower anyway, and the guide was right there helping me give the right amount, because in Vietnam, you'll be amazed at how people with comfortably just reach right into your wallet to grab out the cash they want as you're trying to give it to them.
It was a relief to get back to Thailand for the journey back to New Zealand, and it was a total 1st world shock to be back in clean, tidy, amazingly easy Auckland, New Zealand. The U.S. was never this well put together.
Those are the tips and feelings I have on the Southeast Asian countries that I've been to so far.
I do have a bit of news. This blog will likely turn into a written journey on my time in Cambodia next. I've just gotten word that I'll be working with UNICEF based in Phnom Pehn and traveling around the country to advocate for children's rights and give children a safe and fair voice through video and pictures and interviews. It's going to be a rewarding experience and I look forward to sharing it all.
New Zealand
by Life Anthem on December 9, 2013
I've been in this country for 7 full months. Let me repeat that. I've been in this country for 7 full months.
There's no need for capitalized letters, exclamation points or yelling. Do you see where I'm headed with this? I won't bore you with hyperlinked articles to show you sources for the following information, but I've heard that New Zealand was just voted the safest, or at least one of the safest countries on the planet. Then in addition to that was all this talk of Auckland, New Zealand's sprawling metropolis, being just on the verge of the Earth's most liveable city. A friend and I were talking the other day and we came up with the conclusion that New Zealand is wonderful as long as you have the money to leave the country and get a nice break from it. By break I mean, find some excitement. When you return, you'll appreciate how pristine, cozy and easy it is. That is if you've got the money to live here.
I'm being a bit dramatic.
New Zealand is a unique place tucked away at the bottom of the earth. This country is beautiful, and with such a diverse melting pot of people in many places on the islands that make it up. You have everything you need here, yet something is missing. I don't know if it's the "hard-to-crack" ernest exterior that blankets so many in the clique known as the kiwi, or if it's the isolation you feel every time you can't do simple things like enjoy unlimited wifi or cell reception.
Things like the arts and entertainment can be of high quality and very impressive, yet at the same time, many times, it's a sort of remake of something seen somewhere else by a well traveled and cultured Kiwi who came back home; Of which there are heaps.
The plusses of this country are found in it's welcoming immigration policy. For numerous reasons, people from all over the world come to New Zealand to find a "new frontier" of sorts where people can find a somewhat libertarian lifestyle and enjoy success in small business or even corporate life. Often it seems, they stick to the main centers like Christchurch, Wellington and especially Auckland.
I came here to do something different, so I found work in PR. I learned a lot and was able to save money, but the kiwi welcoming open immigration policy which greeted me on all the forms I filled out, wasn't felt in person, and I got a sense that the professional kiwis around me were, at the same time, yearning to get out of Auckland and New Zealand all together. The grass is always greener.
The radio chatter constantly complains of housing prices for rentals and sales in the city of sails; of how the money-smart Chinese are buying everything up before the kiwis. Same for the country's second largest habitat, called Christchurch. Wellington keeps the politicians happy with low prices, in exchange for wind and clouds. It's as if everyday issues are magnified here, burning tempers faster than the sun's rays through that thin ozone layer. Maybe they should adopt the Thailand policy of requiring a foreigner to marry a citizen before he or she can buy land.
I have to say that on days when I feel really great and I've made the most of it all. When it's sunny and I am appreciating a beautiful view (of which New Zealand has an enormous amount of), I realize that the people who complain are the ones who need a place that guides them. New Zealand is a frontier culture. You have to make your life. You won't be given a thing. New Zealand is full of people who are largely self-sufficient and don't have that much time to really worry about your problems. I guess what I'm saying is, if you don't make an effort to explore, stay busy, make friends, prove your worth and really mold and carve out a life here, you will get angry and give up.
I don't fault New Zealand or kiwis at all. In fact I learned so much here in such a short time. I learned that it's ok to switch careers and find yourself. They're all doing it every day here. Every day you can meet someone who is on an incredible journey of self-discovery. It's quite incredible. I would recommend everyone do a stint in New Zealand and meet as many people as possible. You'll be quite surprised that even if you're really ready to get the hell out of here, you're so glad you came.
To Chill
by Life Anthem on September 7, 2013
I'm constantly asking myself to reassess why it is that I do what I do. Why am I so unhappy when someone else controls my schedule? In an office environment.
In life there is really, sometimes, only one thing that seems to lock me down, and that is the idea of a career and the obsession with the upkeep of one. In the culture I come from, having a career is equal to having an identity in too many ways. I think just like the obsession with going to university, the not-so-thought-out philosophy of labeling yourself with a field of work and building a life around the ideas behind a career and being "career-oriented" are just too constraining for me. Getting out of that mindset, once you've been in it for a while, is so hard.
I think a routine can be a good thing. The key is to have the ability to break free from that routine when you feel you need to. This is important because one should try to go through daily self-imposed lessons on how to live freely. Imagine the artist's lifestyle. The idea that inspiration can come from anywhere and one must live the life, live the idea, in order to be able to create it. One must always keep busy and be kinetic. Kinetic with a focus, and with a sustained focus on the task at hand, as an essentialist would preach. Just with activities of one's choosing. Activities that enrich life instead of the ones that come from outside pressure.
It's interesting that the biggest challenge is learning to chill. Learning to relax the mind and go with the flow. I used to be that way as a kid and a teenager (if memory serves me right) and even in my early 20s. I wasn't afraid of much and had dreams about cool adventures. For a while that all seemed stifled and somewhat frivolous. It was the daily grind of a career-focused life that sort of put water on the fire. You have to wonder if that system is in place as a way to make each of us just another worker bee, cogs churning out product to keep the system going for the few at the top. I don't know, but what I'm slowly figuring out is that if you turn off the fear for a bit and just jump, you'll find out your mindset changes so fast and so drastically, that you can't even remember the old you.
It's as if these daily meditations, these techniques for molding one's life into the bespoke shape that fits a personality, is like cleaning house. If your house has gotten messy, it's probably going to take a while to get it clean again.


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We report the presence of surface acoustic wave (SAW, a) band gap (b) on acoustic superlattice (ASL) in a single-crystal lithium niobate structure. The calculated band gap appears at a frequency twice the value expected from purely acoustic Bragg scattering. We have identified the band gap as originating from a polariton-based mechanism due to the coupling between the electromagnetic wave and the surface vibrations. We have examined the influence of the band gap on SAW generation with the ASL and have shown that the (c) calculated frequency resonance of the SAW lies in the vicinity of the upper stop-band edges. This results in the localization of the SAW in the ASL. Experimental confirmation is achieved through direct measurement of the SAW displacement by laser vibrometry on an actual ASL SAW transducer. Paper is here, from the Journal of Applied Physics, and here from my web site.
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We have designed and characterized a surface acoustic wave (SAW) fluid actuation platform that significantly improves the transmission of sound energy from the SAW device into the fluid in order to obtain enhanced performance. This is in distinct contrast to previous SAW microfluidic devices where the SAW substrate is simply interfaced with a microchannel without due consideration given to the direction at which the sound energy is transmitted into the fluid, thus resulting in considerable reflective and dissipative losses due to reflection and absorption at the channel walls. For the first time, we therefore demonstrate the ability for continuous fluid transfer between independent reservoirs driven by the SAW in a miniature device, and report the associated pressure–flow rate relationship, in which a maximum flowrate of 100 μl/min and pressure of 15 Pa was obtained. The pumping efficiency is observed to increase with input power, and, at peak performance, offers an order-of-magnitude improvement over that of existing SAW micropumps that have been reported to date. Paper here.
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Direct UV laser writing on chromium coated lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystals is found to produce spontaneous domain inversion associated with the exposed UV laser tracks. Experimental evidence suggests that this effect is attributed to local out-diffusion of oxygen, reducing the LiNbO3 crystal surface due to the presence of chromium. The thin chromium film becomes hot and reactive after absorbing the UV laser radiation thus acting as an oxygen getter. This very efficient process enables the inversion of domains at lower intensities as compared to other direct laser based poling methods practically eliminating the deleterious surface damage induced by the direct absorption of the UV laser radiation by the crystal. Furthermore, the versatility of this domain fabrication method, is demonstrated by the production of inverted domain structures on Z-, Y- and 128 deg YX-cut substrates. Paper here.
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It is now possible to control the morphogenesis and self-assembly of bismutite nanocrystals with fully tunable morphologies from square plates, octagonal sheets, and round disks into three-dimensional hierarchical nanostructures. The results show that the nucleation, growth and self-assembly of bismutite nanocrystals strongly depend on the synergistic effect between hydroxide and citrate ions. The three-dimensional hierarchical nanostructures are formed through an oriented-attachment of bismutite nanocrystals along the 〈001〉 directions. The bismutite hierarchical nanostructures can be utilized for efficient and selective adsorption and separation. A novel surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy platform based on a bismutite/gold nanoparticles core–shell structure has been developed for ultrasensitive detection of aromatic molecules with a detection limit down to 1 nM. Paper here.


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Godsmack: The Full Interview
There's a famous video where Ringo Starr claims his only hope for The Beatles is to raise enough money to open a hair salon. It seems audacious to watch now, but at the time it was a best case scenario. Pop stars had little to no hopes for a true career from music, so a fallback plan such as this was smart planning.
Forty years later, current Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin had similar thoughts for a secondary career. After flirting with success as a member of a number of bands, including Wrathchild, Souls At Zero, and Ugly Kid Joe, he decided to pack in his drum sticks. "I was around 25 or 26 years old. I had been on two major labels, and two independents, and had failed each time. I decided to quit the whole business."
Larkin says he had no second thoughts about this decision. "I had seen and toured the whole world, and had played stadiums on tours with Bon Jovi and Van Halen. I had been in pretty much every situation I had ever dreamed of. I just figured that I'm good, but it's not in the cards."
His new career choice? "My mom was a hairdresser, so I enrolled in the Santa Barbara Community College for Hair Dressing. I was going to be the rock 'n' roll hairdresser."
Larkin may have been ready to quit rock 'n' roll, but rock wasn't ready for him to quit. "Two weeks after going in and filling out the paper work to go to college, (Godsmack lead singer) Sully Erna called. That fateful call came, and the next thing I know I'm on a Billboard number one album. The gods of rock 'n' roll shined on me."
Larkin, who will appear with the rest of Godsmack at the Sioux Empire Fair on August 3, recently talked to Link about his lifelong passion for the drums.
Q: What came first, drums or rock 'n' roll?
A: It was the love of rock 'n' roll because of my parents. My parents were the type of people that after dinner they'd take my sister and I down into the basement…or the den, as they called it on the east coast…and listen to the stereo. My dad didn't want to sit in front of the "boob tube" all night. He would take us down and play all of this great music for us. My dad was a 50's guy with all of the Elvis and Johnny Cash. My mom was a rocker, so she turned us on to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. So I was constantly raised in this great atmosphere of no boob tube but lots of music.
Q: What were the bands that led to you taking up the drums?
A: My sister turned me onto Rush. The Hemisphere album. I was like nine or ten, and the drums spoke to me. I still didn't really entertain the thought of being a drummer, but I noticed as I was listening to these records that it was the drums that I was focusing on. I wore that record out, and asked her what else she had for me. She gave me Led Zeppelin II, and that was it. It was the drums I wanted for Christmas. When I heard John Bonhan, I said "that is what I want to be".
Q: Were you a natural at the instrument?
A: Yeah. I started really young, so there was never the "get rich, get drunk, get chicks" kind of vibe from me. It was more of the playing of Neal Peart and John Bonham became the catalyst of what I wanted to do with my life. I look at it like how kids play video games now. They keep playing the same game hoping to beat the game. For me, it was a game to try to learn the parts exactly like not only my idols, Peart and Bonham, but the songs I had grown up with. When the family would go downstairs, I would play along with these records by Creedence and The Beatles and all that. It was like a puzzle to me. I'd think to myself, "why doesn't this sound like that? There's something I'm missing." Then I'd realize I didn't have a high hat. As I started to learn, the pieces of the puzzle would come together. I never took a lesson, so there must have been something I inherited somewhere because my parents didn't play instruments. Who knows? Maybe my great, great grandfather in Ireland was a kickass drummer or something.
Q: Actually, you were kind of learning from the best by playing along to the records.
A: Absolutely. There's my teachers. Neal Peart and John Bonham taught me how to play. Ringo Starr, too.
Q: When your first band, Wratchchild, signed a major label deal did you think you had made it?
A: Oh yeah. We thought we were going to be the next Metallica, or whatever. And we were out there on tour with Pantera, and they were on the rise with the Cowboys From Hell tour. We were watching them make it, and we had nothing but confidence. The same four guys had been together for twelve years before we even got signed. We had been playing the clubs since I was thirteen, so by the time we got signed we were already honed professionals. We thought it was all going to happen for us. It didn't, but that's how this business is. But you know what, we had a lot of great tours. We toured the world. I got to see Europe before I was 21 years old. Looking back, those were the perks.
Q: You joined Godsmack in between two number one albums. How eye-opening is it to go from successful bands to mega-successful bands?
A: In this business, it takes as much luck as talent. Being in the right place at the right time when a particular song comes out that touches people, or the image touches people, takes a lot of luck. Of course, you have to also be talented. No matter how lucky, or how much push you have from the label at the right time, you had to be talented.
Q: It's been three years since the last Godsmack album. Anything coming up soon?
A: Yes. We realize it's been three years now, and we just had a meeting a couple of weeks ago to discuss our strategy on how to move forward. We always just cross our fingers and hope we still have a fanbase out there. We have two more albums to do for Universal, and while we didn't set an actual date we know that next year we're going to make a new album and tour. It may start this fall, or we may wait until next February to get together to write and record. In any event, we're going to make new music and we're going to tour our asses off!


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Ohhh noooo, not the yoghurt pots.... Anything but the yoghurt pots! :cry:
Also the network plug is finally the correct way round! Yay! Hoorah! Yay! Excellent!
Oh yeah and the BETT pot has gone from the side :)
Yes can see removed some content modules just to speed site up for us over bett :)
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Your starting to confuse me now Russ, you've moved the users and blogs about to the right now, I tell ye this coud get me confused :D
blogs has always been on right... the users module was on left but looked odd on left hand side as site was unbalanced ;)
Any chance you can switch the modules round so users at the top and blogs are back at the bottom instead please?
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The Henry County Fire Department Dive Team recently trained at Tussahaw Water Reservoir.
Divers performed various maneuvers used when conducting an underwater search-and-recovery mission.
"The skills are that of which the divers already possess, however to stay sharp they must train regularly in conditions they are likely to be faced with in a real situation," said Henry County Fire Capt. Sabrina Puckett in a written statement.
She added that newer and better techniques to mitigate situations are always on the horizon, in an effort to maintain sharp skills and to learn more effective ways to carry out search and recovery missions.
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