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Morpheus Rising – Let the Sleeper Awake CD review
If you think the likes of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Saxon are dated then let me introduce you to Morpheus Rising, a York based traditional metal band with a 21st century kick to it. Combining upbeat power chord based riffs, powerful melodic vocals and catchy choruses. Morpheus Rising's debut album Let the Sleeper Awake is a brilliant example of the NWOBHM, blowing bands like White Wizzard, Enforcer and Wolf right out of the water. Morpheus Rising are a breath of life into metal, and if you ever think that metal is becoming impure or false, then you should definitely go out and buy their amazing debut album Let the Sleeper Awake.
Simon Wright is a hell of a vocalist and let's his vocals shine on every part on this album. He sounds like ex Iced Earth singer Matt Barlow mixed with a touch of Rob Halford's astonishing sonic power. He has such a powerful voice and whether it is the gritty shouts in the verses to the beautiful melodic choruses, he will have you eating out of the palm of his hands, making you sing along to tracks like 'Lord of the North', 'Fear of Nothing' and 'Shades of Gray', as his astonishing vocals mesmerise you like the Pied Piper luring in children.
The guitar riffs do reek of Judas Priest and that's not all that bad really because it takes you back to the good old days when Living After Midnight and Breaking the Law where huge metal anthems. In fact, the dual guitar lines on tracks like 'Let the Sleeper Awake', 'In the End' and 'Daylight' will have you bouncing up and down, shredding on the air guitar like Dave Murray on an energy shot. The solos are mind blowing, the riffs are jaw dropping and the licks will smash your ear drums like a train driving through them. Yes, the guitar lines are really that good!
There could be a few more heavier moments on this album because sometimes going into a slower, mellower chorus does ruin the heavy metal mood and makes some tracks on let the Sleeper Awake a bit boring. If Morpheus Rising could keep the pace, even speed it up in certain songs, then this album would be brilliant, making Let the Sleeper Awake a 10/10 album. There is little Morpheus Rising need to do to get their songs perfect, but by adding a few faster, heavier tracks to their repertoire will boost their set list a hell of a lot.
Remember, this is only Morpheus Rising's debut album, and they are already on top form. A couple of albums down the line and a successful UK tour in 2012, will push these York based metal heroes into the big league and Let the Sleep Awake is just a stepping stone on this bands epic journey. A must have for all metal diehards! [8/10]


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The Nike Sole was designed to fit on Össur's Flex-Run prosthetic running blade, which is used by competitive amputee athletes. That being said, I wonder if future robots will be using this technology to outrun their human prey?
Nike developed this with world-record holding amputee triathlete Sarah Reinertsen and Össur. The sole has a stacked design and uses a stretch rubber leash over a rubber waffle outsole. Nike used 'regrind' materials salvaged from reused shoes, a polyurethane foam midsole that was topped by a thermal plastic, which was made from recycled air bags.
Plastic tabs lock the sole in place. Reinertsen tested the prototypes and worked with the design team to develop this incredible high-performance running solution.
Seriously though, I wonder when, if not already, amputee runners will be able to run faster than able-bodied ones.
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USDA Rural Development State Director Bobby Goode joined local leaders from Tracy City and South Pittsburg at the Big Fiery Gizzard Reservoir today to announce funding for two regional projects to help meet these needs. "Safe, reliable drinking water and wastewater treatment are both vital to the future of every healthy community," said Goode.
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- Posted by bronwynsmom (My Page) on Sat, Sep 1, 12 at 10:15
Well done, you! Can you get permission from the Board of Realtors to use the photos for your portfolio? In case you haven't already made these plans, you'll want to collect a sheaf of before-and-after photos with the statistics on the cost and the offer times so that you can put together a proper book, and if you do them as you go along, all in the same format, you will make a fine professional impression when you call on clients. I like this one from Dick Blick - it's a flexible binder with black-backed envelope pages to put your things in, and looks very clean and professional. The 14 X 11 size is very useful - big enough, but not too big. If you are setting up a website, same thing. End of unsolicited advice from me! |
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- Posted by cooperbailey (My Page) on Sat, Sep 1, 12 at 10:37
- Posted by gsciencechick (My Page) on Sat, Sep 1, 12 at 10:48
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The photos should be hers. No permission from the Board of Realtors necessary. |
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- Posted by rtwilliams (My Page) on Sat, Sep 1, 12 at 11:40
Very nice! Doesn't look like the same place. Do you supply all the furniture and accessories? How do you go about having items in stock to use? Did you pick a name yet for the business? The home owners should be thrilled! |
Thanks Browny! That was so nice of you to share a great idea and product! RT... I had some furniture and some was my friend the realtors. We shopped for window treatments, lamps, wall hanging, art and other accessories. I think I have decided on Tillery Staging and Redesign. Quick and to the point. The owners liked it but surprisingly did not seem as overly happy as I would have expected. In fact, they went and added some really bad accessories to the rooms. So, I learned to tell the client going forward that they are paying me to add a neutral look not a personalized one or it will throw off what I am trying to accomplish plus it really does not represent me in my work as a stager. Thanks to everyone for the kind words!! |
Wow. They don't comprehend how lucky they were, if they weren't bowing down in thanks : ) Did you just paint the paneling? That in itself is a huge undertaking, to do it right, but in that case highly called for. |
- Posted by francypants (My Page) on Sat, Sep 1, 12 at 19:03
That was a fantastic job! Can't believe the owners wanted to tweak. |
Congratulations - job well done! |
Nicely done. I think the name you have chosen for the business is fine, and delineates what you do. But it seems much too long for a website name - what will you be using for that? |
Thanks! I did not paint the paneling the owner did that as a request from my friend/his agent. Les, I might just use Tillerystaging.com for my website. |
Amy...good for you! Happy it turned out so well! |
- Posted by bronwynsmom (My Page) on Sun, Sep 2, 12 at 12:57
I can tell you from years in the design trade that you must take all the photos for your book the very minute you are done, because the client will do all kinds of, shall we say, ill advised things to your scheme the minute your back is turned. You can include a couple of tweaks in your contract, and establish a set fee for any additional ones, so that the realtor can call you, say, twice, to come fix it back up before open houses while the place is on the market, but if you're asked to go back more than that, you'd get paid for those additional trips. Letting go of your perfect scheme the minute the job is done is one of the hardest disciplines to master, but you will save yourself a lot of energy and woe if you master it quickly! The client cares about selling their house, and even if they love and adore you (which I'm sure they all will!), selling your services isn't their goal or responsibility. I've seen stagers' cards put out during open houses, which I think is a big mistake. Prospective buyers don't like being told that this isn't a natural setting. The exception would be a brokers' open house, which not everyone does. And some brokers are notorious about not sharing their resources, including you. Oh, and about the photo rights - I was basing that thought on the copyright notice on the "after" photo, which I assume the realtor had taken to market the house. |
- Posted by beekeeperswife (My Page) on Sun, Sep 2, 12 at 14:23
Congrats Amy! Love the name for the business too. I think either you or the agent just needs to reinforce to future sellers that you are not fixing the home up for their taste, but you are decluttering and making it appeal to a buyer. And then maybe you can offer your restyling skills for when they get their new place and they can have more of their own input when they get there to make the new place more personal. I just think it's hard for sellers to let go of the idea that their personal taste isn't always the best choice for selling their house. |
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While the role of manager can be one of the most rewarding in the nursing and allied health professions, it pays to be aware of some of the ongoing challenges affecting leadership roles, writes Belinda Smart
Heather Buttigieg has worked in a wide number of roles ranging from floor worker in varied clinical arenas, to nurse unit manager (NUM), to educator and assistant director of nursing.
With a wealth of experience under her belt, she is well positioned to comment on numerous challenges faced by nurse managers and leaders. These, she notes, are vastly different from those of the days of the 'charge nurse,' when the bulk of the emphasis of the role was based around the clinical management of the ward or unit.
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A major issue for managers remains one of training, largely due to funding restrictions, she says. "Where is the line between paying staff for 'mandatory training,' and expecting staff to attend training programs in their own time? The majority of NUMs firmly believe that staff should be paid for their training days and that there should be 'backfill' to enable staff to be out of the unit. This can be a bone of contention between NUMs and those to whom they report. The various codes of ethics, professional standards and conduct all support the training and professional development of nurses and midwives, but it can be a logistical nightmare for managers to orchestrate this in an equitable and acceptable way as they are often locked into scaling down expenditure."
And despite the often aired discussions about the importance of nurse to patient ratios, she adds that staff are frequently cut or not replaced if they are off sick, as the constraints of budget take precedence. Similarly when one to one care is required for either staff or patient safety, the bureaucracy encountered in gaining appropriate staffing numbers can lead to frustration. The result is that a key challenge for managers is to control staff morale.
Meanwhile preceptor programs, which are designed to enable more experienced nurses to lead and mentor their juniors within a formal framework, are "great in theory but fraught with difficulty in practice," she says.
'Convenience preceptoring' that is not based on merit or experience, in other words the role of preceptor (or mentor) simply being given to the nurse who turns up to work first, is "sadly a fact of life that happens all too often, again due to inadequate funding," she says.
"In an ideal world only those who have undergone preceptor training should be preceptoring. They should also have a lighter clinical load as it is virtually impossible to provide full care to a full patient load and precept a junior staff member who also has a full patient load. In the real world this is not the case however, so it becomes a huge issue and strain on those undertaking the preceptor role. There are many situations where preceptees may have a different preceptor every shift they work."
Gilly Johnson concurs. A leading commentator on the subject of preceptoring, Gilly has been involved in education, mentoring and learning and development since 1993 and has designed and implemented national mentoring programs for tertiary nursing students across Australia. More recently she helped drive the creation of adult education and professional development centre, the Australian Mentor Centre.
She comments that good preceptoring is vital to the future success of the profession as the preceptor role is part of the public relations framework that promotes nursing both to new comers to the profession and ultimately the public.
"Nursing preceptors are the frontline Public Relations for the nursing profession, the healthcare organisation, the specific workplace, and most of all, for their own personal professional standing. The role has the power to exert a significant influence and impact, both positively and negatively, on nursing learners of all types."
However Heather believes that thanks to the current funding squeeze, the hurdles standing in the way of effective preceptor programs, along with the wider challenges faced by managers, do not look set to be resolved any time soon. Yet despite all that, while those entering management positions within the nursing and allied health sectors should be mindful of the trials affecting such roles, she maintains nurse management remains one of the profession's most rewarding spheres.
"It is exhilarating to be able to lead a team towards optimum care - to educate and encourage them in their professional development and then to see the level of knowledge and care they can achieve. The more you lead and face the challenges of the role head on, the more you grow as a professional."
Heather has now given up her nurse manager roles and returned 'to the floor' as a clinical midwife. While she says she sometimes misses the leadership role, she also says her experiences in management have made her "a much better clinician with much greater understanding of why things happen the way they do."
"I have every confidence I will return to a management or leadership role at some stage – I'm just enjoying some time out and a change of scenery!"
She agrees with Gilly Johnson that good leadership plays a key 'PR' role in promoting the growing stature of the profession.
"When I first started nursing it was an apprenticeship model of training, one that was thought of as bed pan attendants and something you did if you were either a 'born nurse' or didn't get enough marks to get into uni. We have now fought long and hard to promote our status as professionals, highly skilled professionals at that, and to be recognised for our academic achievements. We need to shed those prior images - I think we're getting there - and promote the profession for what it is. After all, how many careers are there where you can have multi career moves within the same profession, taking you in so many directions?"
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Custom Transitioning Backgrounds in KDE4
In this series of articles, we've gone over making custom transitioning slide-show backgrounds in different desktop environments. So far, we've gone over GNOME, KDE3, and XFCE. This time, we'll do the same task in KDE4. I think that it is easiest to do this KDE4 compared to all of the other desktop environments.
Right click on the desktop and select "Desktop Settings".
Change the wallpaper type from "Image" to slideshow.
Click on "Add Folder" to add the folder that your images are located. If you don't want to include the default /usr/share/backgrounds folder as well, remove that folder using the remove button.
Browse to the folder you wish to add, and click on "OK".
Select the image interval and image positioning, then select "OK" to start the wallpaper slideshow.
KDE4 appears to monitor the image directories that you choose, then selects at random from the wallpapers in those directories to establish your background. Enjoy!
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kde4-lj3.jpg | 51.49 KB |
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I have to ask
You show an OpenSuSE KDE install, but one of the transitioning wallpapers you use has the Kubuntu logo on it... :) What's the deal with that?
The deal with that is....
I used the same directory of wallpapers to for each article on transitioning backgrounds. The images happened to be Ubuntu wallpapers.
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The difference...
KDE, GNOME, and XFCE are different desktop managers. They control your desktop, your background, your program menus, and how the computer reacts when you click on things.
Linux allows you to choose which desktop manager you want to use.
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kde or gnome?
what is difference kde and gnome? i prefer gnome and i love it.
you don't know the difference, but you prefer gnome?
that makes sense.
try something with the new kde4, you can do more with it. it's very pretty and fun.
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