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A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's external crust, and finally of the origin and development of living organisms. These considerations naturally divide the physics of the earth into three essential parts, the first being a theory of the atmosphere, or Meteorology, the second, a theory of the earth's external crust, or Hydrogeology, and the third, a theory of living organisms, or Biology.
All admit that the mountains of the globe are situated mostly along the border regions of the continents (taking these regions as 300 to 1000 miles or more in width), and that over these same areas the sedimentary deposits have, as a general thing, their greatest thickness. At first thought, it would seem almost incredible that the upliftings of mountains, whatever their mode of origin, should have taken place just where the earths crust, through these sedimentary accumulations, was the thickest, and where, therefore, there was the greatest weight to be lifted. Earthquakes show that even now, in this last of the geological ages, the same border regions of the continents, although daily thickening from the sediments borne to the ocean by rivers, are the areas of the greatest and most frequent movements of the earths crust. (1866)
[Thus, the facts were known long ago; the explanation by tectonic activity came many decades later.]
[Thus, the facts were known long ago; the explanation by tectonic activity came many decades later.]
Daily it is forced home on the mind of the geologist that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this Earth.
Fouriers Theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics. To mention only sonorous vibrations, the propagation of electric signals along a telegraph wire, and the conduction of heat by the earths crust, as subjects in their generality intractable without it, is to give but a feeble idea of its importance.
If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water it is all wrong. Our business is with the thickening of this crust by extending our knowledge downward from above, as ice gets thicker while the frost lasts; we should not try to freeze upwards from the bottom.
It is curious to observe with what different degrees of architectonic skill Providence has endowed birds of the same genus, and so nearly correspondent in their general mode of life! for while the swallow and the house-martin discover the greatest address in raising and securely fixing crusts or shells of loam as cunabula for their young, the bank-martin terebrates a round and regular hole in the sand or earth, which is serpentine, horizontal, and about two feet deep. At the inner end of this burrow does this bird deposit, in a good degree of safety, her rude nest, consisting of fine grasses and feathers, usually goose-feathers, very inartificially laid together.
Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the oceanic nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been definitely established that in its deepest places, for instance, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the Earth's crust is devoid of granite stratum. The same may be said quite confidently about the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Could the interpretation of these data be that inland seas were the primary stage of the formation of oceanic basins?
Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earths volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for the origin of chains of high mountains and the rise of lava to the earths surface.
No collateral science had profited so much by palæontology as that which teaches the structure and mode of formation of the earths crust, with the relative position, time, and order of formation of its constituent stratified and unstratified parts. Geology has left her old hand-maiden mineralogy to rest almost wholly on the broad shoulders of her young and vigorous offspring, the science of organic remains.
Of all regions of the earth none invites speculation more than that which lies beneath our feet, and in none is speculation more dangerous; yet, apart from speculation, it is little that we can say regarding the constitution of the interior of the earth. We know, with sufficient accuracy for most purposes, its size and shape: we know that its mean density is about 5½ times that of water, that the density must increase towards the centre, and that the temperature must be high, but beyond these facts little can be said to be known. Many theories of the earth have been propounded at different times: the central substance of the earth has been supposed to be fiery, fluid, solid, and gaseous in turn, till geologists have turned in despair from the subject, and become inclined to confine their attention to the outermost crust of the earth, leaving its centre as a playground for mathematicians.
The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.
The crust of erosion is always linked to life.
The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth's crust. The theory that the earth acts as a great reservoir for electricity may be placed in the physicist's waste-paper basket, with phlogiston, the materiality of light, and other old-time hypotheses.
The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded, and then returned. For no two suc-cessive days is the shore line precisely the same. Not only do the tides advance and retreat in their eternal rhythms, but the level of the sea itself is never at rest. It rises or falls as the glaciers melt or grow, as the floor of the deep ocean basins shifts under its increasing load of sediments, or as the Earths crust along the continental margins warps up or down in adjustment to strain and tension. Today a little more land may belong to the sea, tomorrow a little less. Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary.
The investigator may be made to dwell in a garret, he may be forced to live on crusts and wear dilapidated clothes, he may be deprived of social recognition, but if he has time, he can steadfastly devote himself to research. Take away his free time and he is utterly destroyed as a contributor to knowledge.
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.
There are those who say that the human kidney was created to keep the blood pure, or more precisely, to keep our internal environment in an ideal balanced state. This I must deny. I grant that the human kidney is a marvelous organ, but I cannot grant that it was purposefully designed to excrete urine or to regulate the composition of the blood or to subserve the physiological welfare of Homo sapiens in any sense. Rather I contend that the human kidney manufactures the kind of urine that it does, and it maintains the blood in the composition which that fluid has, because this kidney has a certain functional architecture; and it owes that architecture not to design or foresight or to any plan, but to the fact that the earth is an unstable sphere with a fragile crust, to the geologic revolutions that for six hundred million years have raised and lowered continents and seas, to the predacious enemies, and heat and cold, and storms and droughts; to the unending succession of vicissitudes that have driven the mutant vertebrates from sea into fresh water, into desiccated swamps, out upon the dry land, from one habitation to another, perpetually in search of the free and independent life, perpetually failing, for one reason or another, to find it.
Therefore, these [geotectonic] models cannot be expected to assume that the deeper parts of the earths crust were put together and built in a simpler way. The myth about the increasing simplicity with depth results from a general pre-scientific trend according to which the unknown or little known has to be considered simpler than the known. Many examples of this myth occur in the history of geology as, for instance, the development of views on the nature of the seafloor from the past to the present.


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Sony CSL authors: François Pachet
The Continuator project concerns the study of interactive musical systems that are able to learn musical styles. The Continuator system was developed with the primary goal of designing new musical instruments in the context of improvised music. The strong subjective impressions created with the use of the system led us to consider its use in a pedagogical context. This article describes experiments conducted with the system and 3- to 5-year-old children. We highlight several dimensions of the study pertaining to music education, including attention span, spontaneous development of playing modes, and capacity to listen analytically. We describe very encouraging preliminary results and stress the importance of using reflective interactive systems for triggering musical interest in children and creating stimulating, nonsupervised music learning environments. We conclude by setting up our research in the context of the theory of flow as an optimal experience.
Type: article
Keywords: music, flow, education, Continuator
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@ARTICLE { pachet:03f, AUTHOR="Pachet, F., Addessi, Anna-Rita", JOURNAL="ACM Computers in Entertainment", NUMBER="2", TITLE="When Children Reflect on Their Playing Style: The Continuator", VOLUME="1", YEAR="2004", }
Sony CSL authors: Olivier Coenen
Type: inbook
Keywords: Brain, learning, stress, hippocampus, neurogenesis, education, physical exercise, long-term potentiation, long-term depression, long-term depression
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@INBOOK { coenen:02a, AUTHOR="Olivier J.-M. D. Coenen", BOOKTITLE="The Future of Learning", CHAPTER="9", EDITOR="Mario Tokoro and Luc Steels, Editors", PAGES="189-205", PUBLISHER="IOS Press, Amsterdam", TITLE="Neural Plasticity and the Environment", YEAR="2003", }

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Friday, May 1, 2009
Talking Boards.... To Use or not to Use...
I was having an interesting conversation with a coworker last week and it gave me some time to put my thoughts about ouija boards into perspective. I know a lot of people are against using them, claming "they don't work" or "they only attract bad, evil entities". I used to think so too.
When I was in junior high, a friend came over on Halloween night and we decided to try to ouija board. We were in my bedroom, sitting on the carpet, our anticipation rising as we asked, "Is anyone there?" Moments passed and there was nothing. The planchet never moved. The minutes ticked on and still there was nothing. Then, a wind up music box that I had bought BROKEN began to play! We were frozen in our positions as the tiny notes filled the room. I went white and my heart was beating a mile a minute! When it was finished playing, we immediately put the board away and she destroyed it the next day.
Now, I've been thinking a lot about whether to use a ouija board again or not. Truthfully, they really do scare the crap out of me! :P
But through all the reading I've been doing of Wicca books, the odd one touches on the very subject of spirit boards and I've changed my view of them. I believe that they are safe to use, so long as you know what you're doing and how to protect yourself.
The analogy I gave my coworker was that using a ouija board is like driving a car: You don't get behind the wheel of the car for the first time and drive into heavy traffic! You need to learn what you're doing first because it can be dangerous to you and those around you!
In the same way, learning to respect the spirits to whom you are trying to contact is a VERY useful thing! (And knowing a protection spell or two doesn't hurt one bit either!) :) The intent of your contact also helps to funnel the type of spirit you wish to contact.
But I invite those to share their own views about spirit boards and their experiences with them! :)
Blessed be! )o(
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Hi Krissy, interesting post! I have to be honest with you, I am scared of them.I am open minded about them, but I am scared of them. you will know why shortly. When I was over in America (years ago) they seemed to have a ouija board in every shop I went into, including Walmart. Is it the same in Canada? I got the impression that it was not really that way thought of as a "bad" thing. Of course, me having been a recovering catholic as they say, growing up in Ireland, The oujia board was somewhat frowned apon! haha! Nevertheless, good luck if you are going to do it, just be careful. I have too many stories of growing up, listening to friends who got sucked into mirrors and never came back and all that! (Can you tell im a recovering catholic?) Look forward to hearing what happens next!ReplyDelete
My best friend in from Columbia and she said that ouija boards were NEVER played with where she came from! She was astounded when she came to Canada and you could buy one right off the shelf! (They even have a "girlie" version that's pink that's currently selling in Toys R Us!) So, I guess to most Canadians - and probably most North Americans - the ouija board seems to be just a toy, something that groups of girls play with at slumber parties. Most adults I knew at the time thought it was just a bunch of BS, being able to conjure spirits and such through a piece of plastic and cardboard.ReplyDelete
I'd love to hear your stories concerning them though! :)
I'll keep you posted when I decide to use it again. I bought another one, but it's still in the box. The timing does feel "right" yet, so I'll just let it sit there until it does! :)
I used to have a glow-in-the-dark (LOL) Parker Bros. Ouija. I was always a little scared of it, I'm not even sure it ever got used! That was when I was a kid, though...the idea of it now as an adult intrigues me. I've often thought of picking one up, or making my own.ReplyDelete


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Rep. Bob Mead, a four-time legislator who resigned last term to take a legislative staff position, is running to represent one of the two seats from Hillsborough 5 (Mont Vernon and New Boston) in the N.H. House of Representatives. The Families First Pledge signer is running alongside Speaker William O'Brien, a longtime ally who is also from Mont Vernon.
According to a public letter Rep. Mead wrote to his potential constituents, his belief that "low taxes are the result of low spending," as Gov. Mel Thomson once said, is "a matter of public record since 2005." He said low taxes and low spending both result in smaller government, which protects individual liberty.
Rep. Mead also intends to fight for strong family values, parental rights, individual responsibility, personal freedom, fiscal restraint, smaller government, free enterprise and local control, he said in the letter.
"New Hampshire, which in pre-Revolutionary times was one of the first frontiers of opportunity, self-reliance and individual rights in America, now finds itself as one of the few remaining bastions of these ideals," he said in the letter. "We are the last New England state to stand strong on our right to bear arms, respect our citizens' choice to wear seat belts and helmets, and promote state sovereignty."
Upon re-election, Mead wrote that he would continue the work of the previous Legislature to reverse the direction of the big spending, tax raising liberals who were in power for the four years prior. Responsible fiscal management and freedom will guide his thinking, he wrote.


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Damon C. Matteo is currently Vice President and Chief Intellectual Property Officer of PARC, a Xerox company. In this capacity he is responsible for all aspects of PARC operations that touch innovation assets and Chairman of the US Patent & Trademark Office Advisory Board. With an emphasis on creating significant impact, Damon's career spans over twenty years across all aspects of the strategic creation, management, and commercialization/ monetization of high-value innovations and intellectual property assets – all in an international context.
On the innovation side, Damon focuses on creating advantageous technology positions that capture or create beneficial market positions. He regularly employs techniques such as new business creation, M&A, licensing and even develops novel business models to maximize returns from these assets. Damon has successfully completed transactions representing organizations in the US, Europe, and Asia, ranging from Fortune 500® companies to start-ups, as well as universities and national laboratories. He operates across industry and technology domains including mobile computing, social networking, energy and clean-tech and computer and consumer electronics.
In recognition of his professional standing, Mr. Matteo's awards and distinctions include being named one of the "Fifty Most Influential People in Intellectual Property" by both Intellectual Asset Magazine and Managing Intellectual Property Magazine, the National Technology Transfer Excellence Award given by the U.S. Federal Government and the "R&D 100 Award" by R&D Magazine.


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Posted: April 11th
Bale Des Iles is becoming all the rage amongst punters with jockey Katie Walsh looking to become the first ever female jockey to win the Grand National
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Gold Present pulled up at Cheltenham although Henderson expecting a better performance at Aintree
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Blaklion as short as 9/1 to improve on 2017 showing and win Grand National on Saturday
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All forty horses return home safely after Saturday's big race at Aintree, with Saint Are having fallen at The Chair
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Tiger Roll is the well-backed winner of the 2018 Grand National after narrowly beating Pleasant Company in the Aintree showdown
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The Manasota Track Team and the Manatee Sertoma Club helped Dollar Dynasty Inc. provide Christmas cheer to children and their parents.
The eighth annual Christmas Toy Giveaway for the community of North Sarasota was Dec. 15 at the Dollar Dynasty, 1922 Dr. Martin Luther King Way, Sarasota.
"Today only happened from their generosity and support," Dollar Dynasty CEO Victoria Brown said in a prepared statement. "They all should be blessed — being able to give to others, but receiving so much more back from happy, smiling children."
More than 150 red toiletry gift bags were given to the parents. Each child received two toys, cookies and apples.
Brown said the giveaway is one of her favorite events.
"I can remember growing up and not receiving a toy one Christmas," she said. "I was hurt, but the pain on my mother's face sticks with me to this day and I vowed to myself that this would never happen to another child that I can help."
For more information about Dollar Dynasty, call 955-8091 or visit www.dollardynasty.org.
Firefighters bring Santa to Community Haven
On Dec. 20, the Bradenton Firefighters Association brought holiday spirit to Community Haven for Adults and Children with Disabilities.
For 40 years, the association has provided the means for members of the Bradenton Fire Department to provide lunch for children and adult clients and staff at Community Haven, 4405 DeSoto Road, Sarasota.
In addition to serving hot dogs and hamburgers for more than 450 people, the firefighters also brought along Santa Claus, his Fire Elf and gifts aboard the department's Fire Engine No. 1, a 1926 American LaFrance.
More than 30 current and retired members of the fire department and their family members participated.
Community Haven has served children, teenagers and adults with disabilities for nearly 60 years. Services include the Selby Preschool, adult day training, transitions services, employment services, community living, Kaleidoscope, Whole Child Manatee and a plant nursery.
Among those organizing the event were Fire Marshal Kenny Langston, Fire Inspector Richard Findlay, Fire Chief Chuck Edwards, Capt. Dana Tindall, retiree Tom Woods and program administrator Rebecca Pilsbury.
For more information about Community Haven, including arranging a tour or learning how to help the nonprofit continue to provide services to its clients, call 355-8808 or visit www.communityhaven.com.
Dollar Dynasty's toys cause children to smile
The Manasota Track Team and the Manatee Sertoma Club helped Dollar Dynasty Inc. provide Christmas cheer to children and their parents.


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As the nation hedges its bets on how long he'll remain at the helm of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma has stepped out of the closed halls of the party's national policy conference to stroll through the stalls of courting businesses. GREG NICOLSON deciphers his stride.
Zuma must have started the day on the back foot. The perennial thorn in his side, Julius "now reformed" Malema, took a fresh swipe at him in the morning edition of The Star. Unfortunately for Zuma, Malema's expulsion from the ANC doesn't stop him from commenting as a South African citizen on his past as a powerbroker (or pawn) within the party.
"My only regret was to campaign for Zuma, and I apologise dearly," Malema told the Jo'burg based daily. Juju's comments are a slap in the face for the president just as he battles to defend the "second transition" document, perceived to be a symbol of the president's ambitions for a second term. Reports indicate the document has been slammed in the ANC policy commissions. It's been widely criticised for being theoretically unsound, illogical and, well, a useless platform for the Midrand debates.
But do not fear. Zuma donned his ANC centenary cap on Thursday morning for a stroll through the stalls of businesses sponsoring the Progressive Business Forum (PBF). The event is linked to the conference and marketing and sales staff have been manning their lurid tents all week, handing out business cards to anyone who's foolish enough to walk slowly past.
Photo: The morning star attraction, Jacob Zuma (Greg Nicolson/Daily Maverick)
Zuma smiled, shook hands, received gifts, and was received warmly. It was a rather strange phenomenon to watch. At least a handful of the assembled capitalists must have had issues with Zuma's leadership but as the president did the rounds, they fawned for him, and the cameras.
The press has been barred from lurking outside the commission halls. Starved of opportunities for quotes and comments, they were marched like a school group by ANC spokesman Keith Khoza to the PBF exhibition. They surrounded the president, cornering him against the business stalls and snapping pictures.
The frenzy was worse than most mosh pits. Zuma's bodyguards pushed photographers back as they pressed inwards, scared it might be their only time to feed all day.
In his stately manner, the president ignored the commotion he caused. Like his namesake, Jay-Z, our leader of government is well accustomed to the mayhem of celebrity. Zuma might not be Nelson Mandela, but he's exceptionally charming with the public – albeit a public linked to the ANC and business people who paid for the stalls.
The group swarmed from stall to stall, with Zuma posing for photos in front of each company banner, shaking hands and laughing heartily at frivolities. It had the feel of electioneering – an obligatory handshake, greeting potential party donors.
But as Zuma fronted the media to walk around and smile, the policy conference was discussing thorny issues such as nationalisation, issues the former youth league leader Malema has used as a proxy against the president.
Photo: ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe also toured the stalls (Greg Nicolson/Daily Maverick)
While delegates finished discussing the ANC's policy discussion document on strategy and tactics, which featured the hot topic of "second transition", one of Zuma's rivals in the ANC leadership race, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe started his own tour of the PBF.
As Motlanthe toured the stalls, delegates streamed out of the plenary singing for Zuma's second term and in support of the second transition. They held their accreditation tags for photographers and waved two fingers in the air.
It's a strong sign of support for Zuma, who started the day with criticism from Malema but in true Zuma style has managed to put a cheerful face to a nightmate. It's either that, or a sign of well-organised campaign that doesn't officially exist. And yet details of what is actually transpiring in the plenary trickle through, maybe, once again, Zuma has indeed been able to emerge relatively unhurt. DM
Main photo: Delegates streamed out of the plenary singing for Zuma's second term and in support of the second transition. (Greg Nicolson/Daily Maverick)
The filming of The Beach permanently damaged the ecosystem on the Thai island it was located on.


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Senior Point Value System
The New Jersey State Golf Association Men's Senior Amateur Player of the Year Award was created in 2014 to annually recognize the top senior amateur golfer from the State of New Jersey. The senior player of the year will be the player, age 55 or above, with the most points in the overall Player of the Year Standings. The Player of the Year Points System is structured to award points to players based on their finish in local, state, regional, national, and international golf championships. Before applying points, a player must meet the following requirements in order to be considered for Player of the Year standings:
1. A player must meet the standard tournament eligibility requirements to participate in NJSGA Championships,
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DESIGNATED NJSGA Championships
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I regret to inform you I will not b coming back to the U.S. on my leave...I will be here in Korea until it is time for me to come home in January. This is due to many reasons, not just the fact that I couldn't get the money together. I have been having a rough time the last week or so, even more so than my normal "Korea sucks" attitude. I have been thinking so much about how I don't live for myself anymore, I live and do things to make others happy all the time. I do things I don't like, or hate, just because I know it will make one other person happy or it will help them. I know this is not a horrible way to live your life, pleasing others, but I have come more and more to realize that this is MY life and I need to do what makes ME happy, at least more often.
On that note I started thinking about exactly what does make me happy. SO I am going to provide you a list of what makes me happy and ways I am going to take my life back to where I want it.
1. Books (that was a given)
This being said, I love books in all forms, shapes, sizes, and genres. I have not been branching out though. I am going to start branching out my reading tastes. I have found recently that I adore Ayn Rand, I love her writing, even if I don't understand the undertones. I have also learned I love travel memoirs; I used to be strictly a fiction reader but I definitely am falling in love with travel memoirs. I am going to keep finding new and different things to read and fall in love with more books than I ever have before.
I hate when stuff is messy, that being said, after work I am usually to lazy to clean up a mess that I make or wash my dishes but I am going to change that. I am going to completely clean and organize my current living space and keep it that way. I am also going to wash my linen more often I find that clean, soft, nice smelling linen makes me very happy. (not that I don't wash them regularly, just sayin)
There are many times that I used to sit around and just enjoy being in the moment of something. Of watching the people pass as I sip coffee, of listening (and singing along to) a favorite song, of eating delicious food with friends. I have let stress and the shadow of unahppiness I have been feeling cloud my off time. I am going to get back to it. I am going to take a little bit of time each and every day to turn off my brain and enjoy doing/eating/listening/watching/reading something.
As many of you know I have been living here in Korea. I have lived here before but never really got out. I am definitely not doing any better this time around. So it will be my new goal to do something cultural, or just get the heck out of my room and America saturated environment at least once or twice per month. I may never get to visit this side of the world again, I need to see more of it.
I am an adventuress at heart. I am spontaneous and I love trying new things, I haven't been at all lately. So I am going to try new places, meet new people, try new types of food, read new books (eh eh), and seriously try something new. I am going to try something new once a week.
I love yoga, adore it. I haven't done it in almost a year. I am going to start again.
I am going to blog more, read more, and post more things about me and what I enjoy. I am going to take my blog back to me (and Star, of course) and post whatever the heck we want to.
I have so many ideas bouncing around in my head. I am going to make them come out. I am going to write something every single day. A letter, a blog post, some of a book, a quote, whatever, just something...every day.
I also want to connect to you all more. So...please....make a blog post, tell me what makes you happy, or what you want to change in your life and how you will make it happen for yourself. Post a link in my comments and I will pick a winner on 1 November for a 25$ book giftcard. Anyone can enter.
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Holly is a PhD Candidate at Tulane University where she studies public folklore and musics of the American South. A public sector ethnomusicology and film scholar, she works as a consultant for the Tanzania Heritage Project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and on documentary film projects both in New Orleans and around the country. She founded the NOLA Hiphop Archive in 2012, a project that seeks to collect, present, and provide support for local New Orleans rap, bounce, and hiphop artists and their music.
Holly lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.


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Growth Performance, Carcass Traits and Meat Quality of Slower-growing and Fast-growing Chickens Raised with and without Outdoor Access
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Volume 24, Issue 10,
2011, pp.1407-1416
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Growth Performance, Carcass Traits and Meat Quality of Slower-growing and Fast-growing Chickens Raised with and without Outdoor Access
Mikulski, Dariusz; Celej, Joanna; Jankowski, Jan; Majewska, Teresa; Mikulska, Marzena;
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of genotype (slower-growing vs. fast-growing) and production system (access to outdoors vs. indoor) on the growth performance, carcass yield and meat quality (chemical composition, physicochemical and sensory properties) of chickens. The experiment was performed on 1,040 day-old hybrid male chickens of two genotypes. Slower-growing chickens (Hubbard JA957, certified) and fast-growing chickens (Hubbard F15) were fed identical diets until 65 days of age. Both genotypes (each represented by 520 birds) were divided into two subgroups and were raised in pens on litter with outdoor access or in indoor confinement without outdoor access (four replications per subgroup, each of 65 birds). Until day 21, the birds stayed in the indoor facility, in deep-litter pens. The birds could forage on pasture 12 h daily, commencing at three weeks of age. Stocking density was 0.13
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per bird in grassy yards. Compared with fast-growing, slower-growing chickens were significantly lighter (by 17%), had a lower breast and thigh muscle yield and a higher abdominal fat content, but they were characterized by higher survival rates at 65 days, a higher protein content and a lower fat content of breast meat. Outdoor access had no negative effects on the growth performance, muscle yield, the fatty acid profile and oxidative status of meat lipids. The meat of free-range chickens was darker in color, it had a higher protein content and a better water-holding capacity, but it was less juicy than the meat of birds raised indoors.
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Jazzin' on the River aboard the Riverboat Natchez
June 18, 2011 (the eve of Father's Day)
Aboard the Riverboat Natchez. Dinner, dancing and drinks are being provided gratis by the Riverboat Natchez. Suggested donation $100.00 for an evening of entertainment; raffle of ten $100.00 gift certificates to 10 of New Orleans' finest restaurants and a silent auction. For more information please contact:
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Going offline without your favourite Subversion repository?
UPDATE: useful
gitify command below.
All my client projects are hosted on Subversion repos. All my OSS projects are hosted on Rubyforge Subversion repos.
And tomorrow I head off for the 2nd "no internet" RailsCamp megafest, being held outside of Melbourne. From what I heard about the 1st one, it involved a lot of Guitar Hero II and beer. This weekend I'm promised that someone is bringing a Wii – dear God I do love the tennis game.
Like MacDonalds burgers and Veganism, if there are two things that don't go together its Subversion and "No Internet".
Fortunately, for all RailsCampers, there is a solution to your fears that you won't be able to hack on your favourite project, and will be forced into playing Guitar Hero II/III and/or the Wii for the whole weekend.
Specifically, the git-svn command.
More specifically, follow the following steps:
git-svn clone <your svn url> projectname.git
- Go camping for the weekend.
- Commit changes with
git commit -a -m "hahaha I'm camping and working - doh!"
- Come home from camping.
git-svn rebaseto re-import any SVN changes that might have been committed whilst you were away. If there are conflicts, just follow the instructions.
git-svn dcommitand your svn repository will be updated with all your fancy changes; no one will ever know you used Git.
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From source, get the tarball from the home page.
For Windows, use cygwin.
Gitify command
Want a utility cmd to create a Git repo in the parent folder of a Subversion project? That is, go to your Rails app that is checked out from a Subversion repo, and run
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NWS Aberdeen - Image of the Day
The 250-meter "false color" image was taken from the MODIS satellite imager on July 17th. Hopefully a few geographic features stand out - such as the Missouri River, glacial lakes region of South Dakota, City of Aberdeen, etc.
What are also interesting are the two areas of dull colors (brown/grey) amongst the green. These features are "hail scars" from two recent severe weather events - June 21st and July 9th. These swaths were produced by large, wind-driven hail which unfortunately damaged/destroyed the crops to the point where they are not as green as the surrounding healthy crops.
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Stuart Levine, the former political insider who masterminded illegal backroom deals before turning government informant to help take down the Blagojevich administration, was sentenced to about 5 ½ years today in prison.
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Mars in popular culture
The appearance of Mars, glowing like a red sentinel in the night sky, was enough to spread fear amongst ancient peoples. Set against the white stars of the heavens, Mars was often considered to be a bad omen that foreshadowed a bloodbath. In fact, legend has it that on the day Julius Caesar died, Mars lit up the night with its blood-red hue, as if, on that night, the Roman god of war had triumphed over the great emperor.
Many ancient civilizations associated Mars with war; the Babylonians, Greeks and Romans named Mars after their respective gods of war. The name "Mars" which we use today was inherited from the Romans. Though the name of the planet differs from culture to culture, the planet always seems to be named for its reddish colour. In South Asian cultures, Mars is known as the "star of fire," and in Hebrew, "that which blushes."
The notion of extraterrestrial creatures inhabiting Planet Mars arose towards the end of the 19th century when the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli discovered what he called canali on the surface of Mars. This word was incorrectly translated as "canals," which led to the belief that Mars was inhabited by intelligent beings who had built a network of canals.
The literature of the era reinforced this belief by presenting Martians as the enemies of Earthlings. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, arguably the most famous piece of literature about extraterrestrials and Martians, stirred panic in 1938 when its radio adaptation was broadcast in the form of a news bulletin. The terrified listeners mistakenly believed that their lives were being endangered by a Martian invasion.
While Wells depicted Martians as cold-blooded machines of war, twentieth-century cartoons offered a more comical—but still unsympathetic—portrait of Martians through the character of Looney Tunes' Marvin the Martian. The angry little alien dressed like a Roman gladiator struggles with Bugs Bunny in the hopes of blowing up the Earth, which inconveniently blocks his view of Venus. While he only appears in a limited number of episodes, Marvin the Martian quickly became a cult favourite among Looney Tunes' cast of crazy characters.
Today, space missions to Mars have shown that mercenary-like stories like Mars Attacks! are, in fact, highly improbable. Expeditions to Mars like Viking, Spirit and Opportunity showed that there are no little green men on the Red Planet. Rather, if life actually exists on Mars, it's more likely to be a microbial form.
Other facts about the Red Planet :
- The name of the month of March is also a remnant of the Roman Empire. The first month of the Roman year, March was named in honour of the god of war since many new battles began in March after the snow melted.
- The Babylonians divided the week into seven days, each one in honour of a celestial body. Sunday honoured the sun; Monday, the moon; Tuesday, Mars (more easily recognizable in the French word for Tuesday, "mardi"); Wednesday, Mercury; Thursday, Jupiter; Friday, Venus; and Saturday, Saturn. Tuesday was dedicated to Mars and ceremonies were organized to ward off the evil influence of the god of war. In English, the word "Tuesday" is derived from "Tyr," the Norse god of war, who is the equivalent of Mars.
- The symbol associated with the planet Mars is the same as that associated with the biological symbol for the male. The circle represents the warrior's shield and the arrow represents his sword.
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Remote Server Management
Applies To: Windows Storage Server 2008 R2
You can remotely manage a storage appliance running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 from virtually any computer on your network. Use any of the tools listed below to remotely connect to, log on, and administer your storage appliances:
Remote Desktop Connection (RDC)
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) (browser-based)
Windows PowerShell remoting
Local Administrators permissions are required to remotely manage the storage appliance.
Using Remote Desktop Connection
You can remotely manage a storage appliance running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 from a computer running the Windows operating system by using Remote Desktop Connection (formerly known as Terminal Services).
To use Remote Desktop Connection
Click Start and then click Run. In the Run dialog box, type MSTSC and then click OK. If you are performing this step from Windows Vista®, type MSTSC in the Search box, and then under Programs, click mstsc.exe.
In the Remote Desktop Connection dialog box, in Computer, type the computer name or IP address of the storage appliance.
In User name, type the domain user account credentials, and then click Options.
In Connection Settings, click Save As.
In the Save As dialog box, in File name, type the name you would like to use for the connection, and leave the extension as .rdp.
Click Save in, select Desktop, and then click Save.
For more information about how to configure Remote Desktop Connection, click Help in the Remote Desktop Connection dialog box.
For more information, see Remote Desktop Connection (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=137197), which is also available in Windows Server 2008 R2 Help.
Using Remote Desktop Protocol
You can remotely manage a storage appliance running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 from a client computer Web browser by using a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) website. However, you must create and configure the RDP website first.
For additional security, we recommend that you obtain a server certificate and that you use the HTTPS protocol to connect to a storage appliance running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2.
Setting up the RDP website
You must enable IIS on the storage appliance and configure it to support the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
To set up the RDP website, complete the following tasks:
Install Internet Information Services (IIS).
Configure the site certificate.
Configure authentication.
Create the RDP website.
To install IIS
On the storage appliance, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Server Manager.
In Server Manager, click Roles, click Add Roles, and then click Next.
Under Roles, click Web Server (IIS), and then click Next.
In the Add Roles Wizard, click Next.
Under Role Services, scroll down to Security. Select the Basic Authentication and Windows Authentication check boxes.
Scroll down to Management Tools, select IIS Management Scripts and Tools, and then click Next.
Click Install. After the features are installed, click Close.
To create the RDP website
On the storage appliance, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
Under Connections, click the name of the storage appliance.
If you plan to create a secure RDP website that uses HTTPS, you must create a certificate. Double-click Server Certificates. Under Actions, click Create Self-Signed Certificate. Type a name for the certificate (for example, WebRDP), and then click OK.
Under Connections, click the storage server name. Double-click Authentication. Enable each type of authentication that you plan to use.
Under Connections, expand the storage server node, and click Sites.
Click the Default Web Site, and then under Actions, click Remove. When prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.
Under Actions, click Add Web Site.
The following information for a normal site or a secured site will be the same except that the HTTPS site will be secured with the certificate:
Site name: The name for the site as it will appear in the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager console.
Physical path: Set the Web RDP folder to C:\Windows\WebRDP.
Binding: For an unsecured site, under Type, select HTTP. For a secured site, under Type, select HTTPS, and then under SSL certificate, select the name of the certificate you created in step 3.
Click OK to create the site.
Configuring Internet Explorer for the RDP website
If you use Internet Explorer, you may receive the following error message:
Internet Explorer has blocked this site from using an ActiveX control in an unsafe manner. As a result, this page may not display correctly.
To bypass this error, you must add the storage server to the Trusted Sites zone, and then configure Internet Explorer to either enable or prompt for permission to use ActiveX controls that are not marked as safe for scripting in the Trusted Sites zone.
To add the storage server to the Trusted Sites zone
In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
Click the Security tab.
Under Select a zone to view or change security settings, click Trusted sites.
Click Sites.
Under Add this website to the zone, type the URL for the storage appliance (for example, https://storage\_applianc).
Click Add, and then click Close.
To enable the use of ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer
Open Internet Explorer.
On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
On the Security tab, click Trusted sites, and then click Custom level.
Under Settings, scroll down to Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting, and then click either Enable or Prompt.
Click OK to save the change to the security policy.
Using RemoteApp
You can remotely manage a storage appliance running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 using RemoteApp. RemoteApp is installed as part of the Remote Desktop Services role in Windows Server 2008 R2. For more information on using RemoteApp, see RemoteApp Manager (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=200296).
Using Windows PowerShell Remoting
You can remotely manage a storage appliance running Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 using Windows PowerShell remoting. For more information on enabling and using Windows PowerShell remoting, see Windows PowerShell Remoting (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=2002967).


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Netflix has set the Underwood '16 campaign headquarters in Greenville, S.C., which happens to be the home state of the scheming politician played by Kevin Spacey.
In the real-life presidential campaign, the focus has shifted to the Feb. 20 Republican primary vote in South Carolina as a test for Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP pack among voters with very different demographics than those in Iowa and New Hampshire — the two states that have already logged caucus and primary votes, respectively. Democrats in South Carolina go to the polls on Feb. 27.
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Other types of food allergy
Peanut allergy is often thought of as the most dangerous allergy, and accurate diagnosis is very important. Although in many cases Peanut Allergy is relatively mild, and simply presents with usual Food Allergy Symptoms, it can be life threatening, causing Anaphylaxis, and so professional diagnosis and care is needed to determine your care plan. Unlike many allergies most children (80%) will not outgrow their Peanut allergy, and in some cases it will actually get worse with age. Many doctors automatically issue an Adrenaline Auto Injector Device as a precaution, in case a previously mild reaction becomes a severe one in the future. There is no test that can tell if someone will develop a severe response and having the medication with you if it happens can save your life. Peanut Allergy is classed differently to Tree Nut Allergy because the Peanut is actually a legume (part of the pea and bean family), which explains its other name – groundnut. Although many Peanut Allergy sufferers will be quite safe with other legumes such as soya beans or lentils, some specialists do recommend the removal of these from the diet too. Lots of Peanut Allergy sufferers have problems with Tree Nuts.
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Setting the time properties in our Data Sources lays the groundwork for Time Intelligence. Essentially, this is where we align our data sources' understanding of time, and our understanding of time. In this post, we will discuss how to set these time properties for Analysis Services data sources as well as tabular data sources, while sprinkling best practice tips along the way.
Analysis Services Data Sources
After creating our AS Data Source, we navigate to the Time tab where we are presented with the following page:
1) Time Dimension
This is where we select the time dimension that we want to base all our TI formulas and functions off of – perhaps a fiscal time dimension or a traditional calendar time dimension.
2) Reference Member
Here we indicate when our time dimension's year starts by choosing an instance of the year's start date. For example, if our time dimension uses fiscal years that start on July 1st, we choose an instance of July 1st in the member selector. Note that this could be titled as July 1st in the cube, or it might be represented as FY2010 H1 Q1 M1 D1, or perhaps some other format.
If we were using a traditional calendar year time dimension, we would select an instance of January 1st.
3) Hierarchy Level
This is where we enter the granularity of the reference member – whether the member represents a day, month, semester, etc. In the above case, we would select "Day" from the drop down menu.
4) Reference Date
We enter the date reflected by the reference member in the Reference Date section. This is to map the cube's time dimension to a traditional calendar. In our example, we would enter 7/1/2001.
5) Time Member Associations
Lastly, we map our time dimension hierarchies (listed under the "Member Level" column of the Time Member Associations section) to defined TI hierarchies (listed under the "Time Aggregation" column). Save the data source, and we're ready to create TI formulas, filters, and links.
TI Considerations for AS Data Sources
As a best practice, we should always have the time dimensions start at the beginning of their respective year – even if that means having empty members for the first half of the year. For example, if we have a fiscal time dimension whose year starts on July 1st, but only has data recorded for Jan 1st 2002 and on, we should backpopulate that fiscal time dimension to July 1st 2001. This is to ensure all TI functions for that initial fiscal year work fully and completely.
Tabular Data Sources
Tabular data sources, which include Excel Services, Excel Workbooks, SharePoint Lists, and SQL Server Tables, have a different set up page for their time properties compared to AS data sources. When we navigate to the time tab, we are presented with this view:
The Time Dimensions section lists the time columns that PPS has auto-detected in our tabular data source. After selecting the time dimension to base our time off of, we select the period levels that we would like to use for TI. Note that while AS data sources restricted us to time period levels inbuilt the cube's time dimension, TI for tabular data sources allows us to choose from, and thus use functions relating to, the gamut of levels.
Finally, we select the start month of our year in the Fiscal Calendar subsection. Note that this automatically assumes the first of the chosen month is the start date for the year – if I choose July, this means that July 1st is the start of our year.
We are now ready to use the full set of TI formulas, functions, filters, and links.
TI Considerations for Tabular Data Sources
If the time dimension we want to use is not listed in the Time Dimensions section, we navigate to the view tab to preview our tabular data source. Select the date column in the preview, and mark it as a "TimeDimension" column type in the Details pane.
Semesters, quarters, and weeks are relative based on the start month, while years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds are absolute and based off of the traditional calendar. With regards to the year nomenclature for the relative time periods, TI treats dates before the start month as occurring in the previous year, and dates occurring after the start month as occurring in the current year.
For example, if the date is June 25th, 2008 and the start month is July, the 'year' is 2008, the quarter is Q1 2007, the semester is H1 2007, the week is W1 2007, the month is July 2008, and the day is July 3rd, 2008.
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It's gonna get sappy up in here.
I am great at a lot of things in life. I'm a really good costume designer, if I do say so myself. I make a mean macaroni & cheese. I can run laundry circles around anyone. And if you need to buy a new car, you couldn't find anyone better to take to the dealer than me.
But I am no beauty writer. I couldn't do a proper cat-eye if my very life depended on it. Yes, I manage to somehow use ten different products every time I DO wear makeup, but the goal is to never look like I'm actually wearing any makeup. I usually subscribe to the bold lips + clean face school of beauty, both out of laziness and because I rub my eyes all day long -- making eye makeup almost impossible to wear.
But some lovely, misguided publicist (I literally know two of them in the whole country, and they are surely sorry about it) recently sent me some RIDICULOUSLY gorgeous things from Japonesque's brand new makeup line. The packaging alone makes the products worth it:
According to the press release, no two compacts are the same. (This means that each compact is, by default, one-of-a-kind.)
Japonesque has long been known for their professional grade brushes -- I personally own and use this angled eyeshadow one. It's an engineering marvel. It brought a stop to my habit of cramming my eyeshadow brush into my eyeball after bonking the end of it into the mirror every time I leaned in way close.
The brushes that came in my care package were of the same beautiful quality that Japonesque has become known for over the past 30 years. But the makeup line is their very first -- four years in the making -- and it utilizes very long wearing, high-intensity pigments that manage to go on your face just the way they look in the case. (The line is available exclusively at Ulta right now -- as if you needed another reason to darken their door!)
As I opened each compact, I got more and more excited by what I saw -- until I got to the blush.
Cue record scratch -- and cue my confession: I have never in my life worn blush. Ever. I don't know how I got this far in life without even trying it, but here I am. I started to put the blush compact into the pile of stuff to send to my mom, but then I decided to go out on a limb and try it, along with Japonesque's mascara -- yes, something other than my immortal beloved, Benefit's "They're Real!"
This is some serious outside-of-my-comfort-zone stuff, dudes.
But then I realized that not only had I never actually worn blush in my life, I didn't even have the slightest idea of how to apply it. So I used the same trick I always do when I don't know something -- I Googled it. I wish I were kidding.
I was about to slather it in little round circles on the apples of my cheeks like I remembered women in movies from the 1970s doing. But, luckily, it turns out that absolutely no question is too stupid to ask the Internet, because it taught me that I should actually apply my chosen blush sparingly up along the top of my cheekbone, using the center of my eye as a starting point.
This allegedly gives the illusion of pulling your face upward, slimming it. It was on the Internet so it has to be true, right?
I didn't hate it at all. I actually think it made me look a little brighter, a little fresher, and a little perkier than without. It went on very light and silky, almost veil-like. I didn't find that it creased or looked cakey as the day went on, something I'd feared.
Verdict? 9 out of a possible 10, would use again.
The mascara was a really pleasant surprise too. I love my usual mascara because it doesn't ever flake, clump, or smear, even though I am bad about rubbing my eyes while wearing it.
It turns out I like the Japonesque Lash-Lengthening mascara for the exact same reasons -- plus the fact that the applicator is super slim, allowing me to easily apply it to my lower and inside corner lashes without getting mascara all over my nose. Which happens to me regularly. Please delete that after reading, okay?
Verdict? 8/10, will definitely use on lower and innermost lashes for special occasions.
The Japonesque eyeshadows I tried all had some seriously foxy shimmer to them -- something I was for sure not mad at. There's a fine line between a quality shimmer and a cheap, glittery look. Their shadows had a rich creaminess to them that made the colors glide on without dragging or skipping.
The metallic green/gold and the shimmery pearly white were my favorites:
The larger Velvet Touch eyeshadow palette has some pretty great shimmery nudes in it:
But I'm not sure what that chalky dark brown in the top right corner is meant to be used for? I smeared it on my eyelids and there isn't enough cash on this EARTH for me to show you what it looked like. If you know its purpose, please do tell me. The shimmery mauve color in this palette (at the bottom of my hand) is crazy beautiful. Also: costume girls have old-looking hands. They get totally thrashed by hangers and safety pins.
Verdict? 9/10 for the classiest shimmer shadows I've seen in ages.
To me, the standout Japonesque product was the Velvet Touch Finishing Powder. It's a solid 10 across the board, and I've already bought an extra one to keep in my desk at work for touchups.
It's a silken, translucent powder that managed to give my skin a fresh finish and cover minor imperfections without settling into the crinkles around my eyes. (I've lived a hilarious life so far, okay? Don't weep too much for my early-onset laugh lines.)
In the two photos below, I'm wearing only the Velvet Touch powder, Lash Lengthening mascara and both lippys that came with my goodie box -- because it seemed adding blush to these intense lip colors would have looked crazy? (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
The red gloss on the bottom (shade 7) doesn't do much for my coloring, but the vampy purple up top -- shade 9? That's my goth-hearted lipstick soul mate. It's a more plummy shade of my fave matte burgundy lipstick ever, MAC's 'Diva'.
The gloss was too sticky and messy for me, but the Japonesque Pro Performance lipstick was intensely moisturizing, and felt like I was wearing a balm instead of a lipstick.
Verdict? 10/10, would spend my own money on other shades.
Let me tell you why I'm hella glad that I am not a real beauty writer: taking all those ding dang pictures is a NIGHTMARE. I'd get maybe one post a month up at that rate. Also, please entertain me by admitting to the dumbest/most embarrassing thing YOU'VE ever Googled!
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The Behringer XENYX Q502USB mixer is made to handle live gigs, and provide you with the required tools necessary to capture professional-quality recordings. Along with its built-in USB/audio interface, and "one-knob" mono channel compressor, the XENYX Q1002USB mixer comes with enough recording and editing software to turn your computer into a compl... Click To Read More About This Product
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The Behringer XENYX Q502USB mixer is made to handle live gigs, and provide you with the required tools necessary to capture professional-quality recordings. Along with its built-in USB/audio interface, and "one-knob" mono channel compressor, the XENYX Q1002USB mixer comes with enough recording and editing software to turn your computer into a complete recording studio. The smallest of the XENYX Q Series, the Q502USB is a 5-input, 2-bus mixer with a XENYX mic preamp and compressor, just the right size for smaller solo gigs. Thanks to onboard phantom power, Q502USB's XENYX mic preamp can handle dynamic, as well as a studio-grade condenser mic. Elegant in its simplicity, the British-style, 2-band EQ provides warm and musical tone correction. The Q502USB also sports RCA CD/Tape I/O, handy for playing break music or for recording your set.
XENYX Mic Preamps
All XENYX mixers have one thing in common; great-sounding, high headroom XENYX mic preamps. XENYX preamps offer 130dB of dynamic range with a bandwidth that extends from below 10Hz to well above 200kHz. As a result, XENYX mixers can reproduce a cleaner, transparent performance.
British EQ
The British consoles of the 1960s and ˜70s changed the sound of rock and roll. Without them, the British Invasion might not have even happened. Those legendary mixing desks soon became the envy of engineers and producers all over the world. The channel EQs on all XENYX mixers are based on that very same circuitry, allowing you to saturate signals with warmth and character. Even when applied generously, these equalizers exhibit forgiveness and superb audio quality.
USB Audio Interface
Modern technology has put personal recording well within the reach of virtually anyone with access to a computer. But how do you get all that music flying around your brain into a computer? Thanks to the built-in, bi-directional stereo USB audio interface, you can connect directly to your PC or Mac computer via a single USB cable. Now any signal source connected to the mixer can be recorded straight to your hard drive.
Included Software
Behringer has put together a massive software download that includes Audacity (the most popular open source audio editor), Podifier, Juice, Podnova and Golden Ear (a great selection of podcasting software). You're ready to go live on your PC or Mac right out of the box! You also get more than 100 virtual instruments and 50 FX plug-ins, turning your computer into a complete home-based or mobile recording studio.
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Comments about Behringer Xenyx Q502USB Mixer:
FEATURES: This product function is ideal for my use -- and I'm only using a small fraction of its capabilities. It has plenty of gain and control with very low noise, and the USB installation was effortless and flawless. It therefore fits my needs excellently. QUALITY AND RELIABILITY: Unfortunately, Behringer uses a mini-Din connector for power (from the power adapter to the back of the mixer), which has no mechanical retention whatsoever (unlike many other connectors they could have chosen). Therefore a small giggle from the very stiff power cord causes loss of power & crackles. I cannot imagine how this product would be acceptable for gigging (not my use) but is OK in a completely static environment. Guitar Center did a FANTASTIC job of shipping me a 2nd unit, which did work a little better -- so I'm exceptionally pleased with this my first purchase from Guitar Center. However, based on this experience I would not recommend any Behringer mixer product (and probablyl not Mackie, who also uses a Din-type connector) if a different competitive offering would fit your needs.
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Currently using in my home studio, great upgrade from my old Tascam. Huge improvement in latency reduction while moving some compression and EQ features to the mixer, freeing up CPU cycles and memory for actual processing the mix. Great plans for stage/live use in mind...
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Comments about Behringer Xenyx Q502USB Mixer:
Each input is crammed into pc audio, so if you attempt to record while listening to any other sounds happening in any program on your computer you will record that noise as well. Need a click track while you record a guitar riff? Now your guitar and click are married and their baby is disgusting and noisy and it's too late to put it down.
This is just a mixer that can mash stuff up and send it to your pc where it mashes up with the systems audio and then pours the combo out a 2 channel output and/or headphone jack. Ideal for podcasts, youtube tutorials, or making your friends listen to your game audio when you skype with them while playing Battlefield 1 so every footstep behind you sends them into a spiral of paranoia that drops their k/d ratio making you look like a better player than them. And you bought that Rode NT1-a so you'd better use it.
This defaults in Reason 9 to 512 samples at ~ 12 ms latency, which is impressive in the same way that it is impressive that Donald Trump won the presidency. In that you're already so disappointed by a system that could have been decent that your not surprised by the low quality of what it decides to spit out and the frequency with which it lets you down.
Anywho, at that price just bear in mind what it's designed for and there probably should have been more info on this "feature" somewhere in the specs absolutely anywhere.
Comments about Behringer Xenyx Q502USB Mixer:
I don't really think you can score something brand new that can do what this does, for this price. (Anything more expensive, though, and you're better off buying a used Focusrite Scarlett.)
Simple to use "audio interface", with an analog mixer on top. Behringer's documentation is awful, so you're going to have to play around with it to figure it out. The Xenyx preamp is actually decent, although it lacks gain on this model. Every other part of the signal path, however, is noisy--so you'll never realize the full potential of the preamps. When mixing, the noise is noticeable, and especially so with good cans on your ears. Use the on-board compressor sparingly, be close to your mic and use proper technique.
The unit runs hot when in use. It also lacks a power switch, which is bizarre.
Looks like a lot of folks are confused by the naming convention--even though it's followed by every other vendor. The '5' means five input channels; the '2' means two output channels. The two output channels can be for stereo, or I guess if you use the pan controls, they can be 2x mono. This is not 5-in, 5-out.
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Comments about Behringer Xenyx Q502USB Mixer:
I think this product is great for pros who need a small/portable mixer, or for amateurs who don't need all the bells and whistles of a large mixer board.
This is a basic 5 input (6 if you plug both an XLR and line into Channel 1) mixer that also includes an integrated USB sound card. You can either send the USB output from the computer into the headphones (monitor only) or the Main Mix (record). This functionality bridges a gap - not all software works well with multiple audio tracks. It allows you to send one stereo signal while the mixer manages all the external inputs.
HINT: The built-in Compressor/Limiter works excellent. It makes for crisp, clean audio from the microphone. You can have the gain very low, and still hear clearly out of the mic.
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I got this unit to add channels to my small PA and I am very happy with it! I just love Guitar Center...all the staff is so helpful, fast shipping and great in store shopping and assistance!! Just wish they were closer;-)
Comments about Behringer Xenyx Q502USB Mixer:
Works great. A little too small for what what I wanted to use it for. My bad. It does what it's supposed to.
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